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52nd Year Price 10 Subscribers To report Imprqr Atfrabefc- rv of tbi Mail vribii at iWJ ford phone SP 2-6141. Alan1 MU 3-1021. YrekB 841W fcitfnre :45 p.m. daily and 10 30 a.m. Si day. If regular dfllvnr arrived thort !y after you rail please notify of fice thus eliminating ipecial mes senger service. Recommended Medford Tribune A ftjirv altnut s ral mut wetertl rulraari cnmpiniM op ening officer In Mlfnr4 p Pat on ftt iz of today's Mall Tnban. United P'- Full LcJ Wir United Pret Full Ltd Wire MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, JUNE 23, 1957 No. 80 66 PAGES t- ; Af wk-r ? i fe1nt i rilMit inM :m -.-v artL -MHrtyrWMii 1i r i urn LlOg1 08 THC PIPE Members of the Mc intosh Girls' Pipe Band from Vernon, B.C., fj short lfsson on the bagpipe to Nick Tiier, Jleciford Lions club. The girls entertain Lior her Pridy and Saturday during U33rO annua! Lions convention. From Girl i Bagpipe Band Pfays During Parade At Lions Convention An attractive bit of ScotfSnd urprised Medford in the sun yesterday. A girls' pipe band, complete with feathered cap, kilt, bagpipe and drum staged an impromptu parade at 11:30 am. with members of state LionJ clubs who were here for their 33rd annual convention. The 22 girls and leader H. G Foote, a straight, grey-haired rarpenler. marched at the head of a block long pack of Lions through downtown streets. The bagpipes squealed and drums ranped awake the busi ness section. From office win dows and sidewalks stares fol lowed the colorful unit. From Apple CoShlry O It was the Mcintosh Girls' Tip Band, from the apple coun try around Okanagan lake, Vernon, British Columbia. The 15 pipers marched ahead in green doublets and Mcintosh tartan plaid kilts, the seven drummers behind in red doub lets and kills. From botiom to top, the girls were dressed in black leatSer fhnes with silver buckles, Mc intosh Tartan hose, kill, doublet, a cloth shoulder sash called a "plaid." and Balmoral caps with black cock feather. Foote. a carpenter now but a veteran of 2 years in the gro cery business, started the band with his daughter 12 years ago. Thedaughter is in Scotland tak insHadvanccd piping and danc ing. The girls in the band, pre dominantly blue-eyed, and pre dominantly pretty, are aged from 13 to 18. They came here on a Greyhound bus with Foote. his wife, and a chaperone. "My wife handles the busi ness end. I lr the band, and 3;'e chaperone sres they're in niIir," Foote explained. Leave for San Francisco They left for San Francisco last nigrit)wncre ,nc" w'" Per" form at the annual Lions Inter national convention. they'll b the "ambassadors" for Lions dis trict 19-D in British Columbia, which helped send them to Med ford. The leader said he had 22 girl beginners at Vernon, in addi tion to the travelling troupe. It takes about one and a half years to Team 4,he bagpipe. foote nd his pipe major, 17-yftir-old brunette Bette Apsey. wfm will enter her 12th year at Vernon High school this fall, said the band has a recertoire w Waiter roRFCS C int-:' fir Ok arm rhmuh .Mifli.v. Put Mundav S6. Mithrvf lt;flav I,M thu rnlpfl J3 o Our kief too'shf (tiTt?.?) n ' m -rni :i fn f 1 MM. ,n-i. (in :, '8 '' Jm 'iir ii in 11'ti vii'H((! tiirn is ti-s von'ftvivt. T0, m- of Gtml. o tmi of about 35 numbers "If they concentrate." They practice twice week, and the older girls, like Bette; spend an average of three nights a week instrucing the beginners. In Band Seven Yean Bette has been in the band seven years. She hopes to be still with it when the whole unit visits Scotland in 1959. There, Foote stated, they will "see the country, and by all means at tend the Highland Games." The trip will take $25,000, Foote estimated. But he is con fident they can raise it. They re ceive donations for their per formances, put on cooking sales and such to raise funds. Hie San Francisco tour is about the last they can make until afler Scotland as a non profit venture, Foote said. Gold Hill Woman Drcwns in River Gold Hill Mrs. Lavern D. Smith 47. of route 1, box 204. Gold Hill, apparently drowned in the Rogue river at Gold Hill about 11:50 a.m. Saturday. State police said Mrs. Smith's husband. Nelson Leroy Smith, reporter! he left her standing on the boat dock at the Edgewater Motel and Cafe. He said he re turned a short time later and could not find her. Smith and another man, whose name was not reported, got a small boat and found the body downstream near the Kock-a-Bye motel. Medford Ambulance service and L. B. Hall Ambulance serv ice from Grants Pass were call ed to the scene. Efforts to revive the woman with a resuscitator were abandoned after about 30 minutes. Mrs. Smith and her husband were co-owners of the Edgewa ter Motel and Cafe. They have one daughter, Sandra, a student : Crater Hign school. The body was taken to Conger Morris Funeral home, where in vestigation of the accident is peiding, according to Coroner Carlos Morris. Rodeo Star Injured in Roseburg Show Koseburg IP Casey Tibbs. r.ationally-known Roder. champion, was injured Saturday while riding a bucking horse in the 13th annual Douglas County Rodeo here, and was taken to a Roseburg hospital. The 28-year-old Tibbs said he pulled a muscle on the inside of his leg whiie riding the horse, and grabbed the rodeo ground's fence and pulled himself out of the saddle. It appeared to the spectators that the horse crushed him up ainst the fence, but he said the inury occurred when the horse went into violent twists '.tfitre Tibbs grabbed the fence. M"cow if Official Soviet rewspapers have opened an at tack on the Xw American dis armament plan. left to right: Carol Watson, drum major; Ma rion Lee, drum sergeant; Gier; H. G. Foote, band leader, and Bette Apsey, pipe major. The band was on its way to the convention of Lioni International at San Francisco. Four Killed, 13 Injured When Shell Explodes in Troops Ft. Sill, Okla. npi Four men were killed and 13 injured Saturday when a mortar shell fell short and exploded in the midst of a company of ground troops during a public firing demonstration at the Ft. Sill artillery base. Approximately 300 soldiers and civilians witnessed the ac cident from bleacher seats about a mile from the blast. A Board of Investigation im mediately began an inquiry to determine who, or what, was responsible. The Base Public In formation office said the 4.2 inch mortar shell was fired from Battery C of the 522nd Infantry batallion. Don SI ires, Albuquerque, N.M., a civilian who saw the ac cident through field glasses, said he was "watching this platoon move forward when a blast hit the vicinity." Mock Attack All of the injured were mem bers of Company B of the 622nd Infantry battalion. The foot sol diers were making a mock at tack on Adam's hill under cover of artillery and mortar fire when the shell exploded among the men, instead of ahead of them. The mishap occurred on the Fort Sill east range in the Wichita mountains. Names of casualties were withheld until their families had been notified. Of those hurt, two were class ed as serious. Twelve remained hospitalized and two were treat cd and released. The public had been invited to the demonstration by the Army. Such demonstrations arc held here about once each quar ter. Las Vegas (in The fifth experimental atomic explosion in a 20-shot series was scheduled by the Atomic Energy commis- slon 'or tne after-dawn hours of Sunday. Large Tent City at Ft. Lewis Serves As Base of Operations for Guardsmen ft. Lewis. Wash. A large tent city on the rocky terrain at Ft. Lewis, is serving as the base of operations for more than 9.000 Oregon and Washington National Guard troops stationed at northeast Ft. Lewis during the Guard's annua! summer camp. Medford units. Company A and Headquarters company, 1st battalion, 186th infantry regi ment. Oregon National Guard, stsrted the "active duty" period last Sunday with a series of "re frrher classes." Troops attending the courses were member? of the commun ications, pioneer and ammuni tion and intelligence sections. Later they attended orientation ceremonies at a large training field, conducted by Col. Robert L. Irving, regimental command er. Earl last week tactical train ing, field maneuvers and class room instruction began for Com pany A i 110 enlisted men and U.S. Troops Wir Start Withdraw From Japan ' Pull-Out Sche In 'Easy Stac Washington can combat tro through 12 year and alliance, w their bases and p--month, informed sources sw Saturday. The pull-out will be sched uiea in easy stages, movin? some 15,000 troops of the First Cavalry division and about 8,000 Leathernecks of the 3rd Marine Division to new posts in the United States or the Pacific. American-equipped troops of the new Japanese army will move into the honky-tonk circl ed bases where GI slang has be come part of the Japanese lang uage. First Result The withdrawal appeared tc be the first concrete result ol a world-wide review of U. S military dispositions overseas promised by Secretary of State John Foster Dulles and Defense Secretary Charles E. Wilson af ter the anti-American riots in Formosa. It had long been considered, however, as a step to meet re duced Army budgets, improve relations with Japan, and spur Japan's own rearmament on the side of the free world. American officials said they hoped the pull-out would make Japan take more seriously its own defense responsibilities The Japanese officials said it would reduce the incidents and friction between GI's and Japanese that frequently have strained Wash ington Tokyo relations. The decision to withdraw the troops was announced in a joint communique Friday by Presi dent Eisenhower and Japanese Prime Minister Nobusuke Kishi Orders to start the withdraw al were ready and were issued immediately. Air Force, Navy and Army logistical forces based in Japan estimated to total about 50. 000 men were not affected But a simultaneous Air Force withdrawal is expected. Under the Allied decision to abrogate part of the Korean armistice and match the Communist build-up in North Korea one or more modernized U. S. Air Force wings will return to their old bases in South Korea. Matsonia Arrives in San Francisco San Francisco W The Luxury Liner Matsonia, newest member of Matson's Pacific fleet of passenger liners, was shower ed with orchids dropped from helicopters Saturday as she steamed through the Golden Gate. The 22 - million - dollar liner was escorted to pier 35 by a Flotilla of pleasure craft. The municipal band and a crowd of San Franciscans were on the dock to greet the ship, her cap tain, Hans O. Matthieson, Good will ambassadors Hilo Hattie, and the others aboard. Ten Miners Trapped In Coal Mine Explosion Sapporo, Japan (W Ten miners were trapped and killed when a gas explosion ripped through a coal mine in the vil lage of Izumi Friday night, it was reported Saturday. Twenty miners escaped the cave-in on the shaft 1,000 feet below the surface. One was hos pitalized with first-degree burns. six officers and 90 enlisted men and 10 officers of Headquarters company. Company A riflemen partici pated in an all-day "firing" prob lem Wednesday, held at the Continental A r rrry command range. Range activities included repelling simulated enemy at tacks, concealed firing, squad tactical training and a series of assaults on stationary and bob bing tragets. Capt. Bert Reibe is company commander. Intelligence section personnel, communications and P and A troops have been undergoing field problem assignments and practice in mine warfare. Intell igence members have completed several compass courses through thickly vegetated areas, one at nighttime. The unit is command ed by Capt. S. J. Fagone. Pistol Team Wins Meanw-hile. the first batallion's .45 caliber pistol team won for the second consecutive year the ouse Trying to ction Autopsy Reveals Eureka Man Slain While Aboard Boat Santa Rosa, Calif. IP) Fish ermen Saturday hauled from the sea the badly decomposed body of a Eureka man who apparently was murdered while aboard his boat off the Sonoma county coast. The crew of the fishing boat "Sonny Mike" hauled in the body of Elwood V. Rost, 39 when it was found floating about a mile off the coast near Bodega Bay. Sheriff's deputies said the body had been in the water for about a week. Autopsy Ordered A coroner's autopsy, ordered after Rost's wife, Arvilla, said she feared foul play, revealed that the victim had died from an eight-inch knife wound in the back of his neck. He had been missing since June 11. Authorities were investigating a radio call presumably sent by the dead man on June 11, ap parently only a short time be fore he was murdered. It was the last word of the man. His wife, however, did not report him missing until June 16. Sheriff's deputies said that Rost left for Stockton on June 1 1 to repossess the 46-foot fish ing boat, "the Judy-Ann," own ed by an unidentified woman of Field's Landing, Calif., who was reported to have sold it to two other men, also unident ified. No word was heard from Rost until his body was found Saturday. No trace of the boat has been found. Litwiller's Funeral home In Ashland is in charge of arrange ments. Three Witnesses Called by Defense Portland 1P Three witness es were called by the defense Friday to testify in the perjury trail of Mayor Terry D. Schrunk after the state rested its case and Judge James W. Crawford turned down a defense move for outright dismissal of the per jury charges. The owner of a private club Howard Merle Eastman and two sheriff's deputies. Edward G rohs and Gordon Neumann, declared under oath they did not see Schrunk pick up anything near an afterhours joint, the 8212 Club, in north Portland in 1955. Eastman, operator of "Merle's Club." testified he and his wife talked to the former Multnomah county sheriff the night of the alleged S500 pay-of, and that he did not see Schrunk with Clifford O. Bennett, operator of the 8212 the man who is ac cused of Instigating the bribe. Grohs, who had gone with Schrunk to raid the club; said he was with Schrunk all the time. The mayor is charged with perjuring himself before a grand jury by denying he received the bribe. regiment's pistol team trophy, defeating several other bat talions in the regiment. Individual medals were pre sented to three Medford Guards men participating in the pistol match. The 10-man team includ ed Capt. Horace Pendergrass. who fired the best score. He is battalion intelligence officer. Others were 2nd It. Paul Blair and S '3c Bobby Lyons, both of Headquarters company. Guard troops were issued week end passes following Saturday's Governor's Day Review, honor ing both Oregon and Washing ton governors and Maj. Gen. George S. Cook, division com mander. They will return to dutv about 6 a.m. Monday. This week a two-day two night bivouac, held in a wooded area several miles from tent city, will climax this year's sum mer camp program. Troops will return to Medford by train about noon Saturday, June 29. oo C "Boy, Am I Burning Up" ? 1 wmLJKLy 1 Heavy Rains Swell Minnesota Rivers; Flood Warnings Out By UNITED PRESS Emergency flood warnings were posted Saturday on sec tions of the Minnesota and Red wood rivers in Minnesota." and temperatures over much of the east shot upward. Meanwhile, residents of Far go, N.D., and Hutchison, Kan., cleaned up damage caused by tornadoes which caused death and heavy damage. Heavy rains Friday night and early Saturday swelled Minne sota rivers. Weathermen issued a flood warning for the Minne sota river from Mankato to St. Paul, and for Marshal on the Redwood. The Minnesota was expec ted to crest at Mankato around 22.5 or 23 Saturday night or early Sunday, about four feet above flood stage. Crests Expected Crests were expected to 'be four, to seven feet over natural banks of the Minnesota, and weathermen warned that high water and flooding would pro gress along the river until pos sibly around Thursday. At Marshall, heavy rain con- EP Officials lo Discuss Sewer Plant Eagle Point Formulation of plans for a sewage system disposal plant for Eagle Point will be discussed at a city coun cil meeting at 8 p.m. Tuesday. City Attorney B. Kent Black hurst will be present. Some type sewer system has been discussed off and on in Eagle Point for several years. The last legislature made it pos sible for smaller cities to ob tain funds for construction of disposal plants. A bill was passed authorizing cities to make sewer service charges on water bills to be used in a sinking fund for fu ture construction of a disposal plant. A minimum and maxi mum sewer service charge also will be discussed at Tuesday's meeting. Sports Bulletins Camp White Medford Cheney Studs chalked up win number 5 in the Rogue Val ley Baseball league by whip ping Camp White 12 to 3 at Ricker field here last night. Vancouver IIP) Charlie Beamon got his third vic tory over the Seattle Rainiers and his fifth of the season with a six hit 4-0 shutout for the Vancouver Mouniies at Capil ano Stadium last night. Portland HP The Port land Beavers dumped the Hol lywood Stars 4-1 before 4.828 fans in a Pacific Coast league baseball game in Multnomah stadium here last night, the Bevos' fifth consecutive vic tory over the harrsssed twinkt. coimyoini )7 linued to swell the Redwood river, and a crest of nine feet, two feel above flood stage, was expected Saturday night. The Mississippi river at St. Paul was inching slowly upward from the run-off of other swol len streams. A crest of abotu 14.5 feet, six inches above flood stage, would probably occur on Tuesday or Wednesday, weath ermen said. Scattered thunderstorms in terrupted fair weather about the eastern half of the nation, as temperatures and humidity climbed. Similar conditions pre vailed west of the Rockies. Sheehan Elected 36-E Governor Larry Sheehan, Rogue River, was elected district governor of southern Oregon district 36-E at the Saturday morning busi ness meeting of the 33rd annual state Lions convention here. The meeting was held in the Craterian theatre. Other district governors elec ted were district 36-0, Robert Scherer, Wellington Park; dis trict 36-R, Gerald Murray, Eu gene; district 36-G, Keith Park ison, Redmond. The group voted to hold next year's slate convention in Eu gene, and the 1959 convention in Corvallis. The Lions attended a break fast at Hedrick Junior High school yesterday morning, and an award luncheoji at the same place in the afternoon. A variety show was scheduled for 7:30 p.m. and ending the three day con vention, a governor's ball at 9:30 p.m. The Vernon, B.C., Mcintosh Girls' Pipe Band, en route to San Francisco for the Interna tional convention, led the Lions in a parade downtown at 11:30 a.m. after the business meeting and elections. About 850 men and women registered for the convention which began here on Thursday. Ashland Loop Road May Open This Week The Ashland'loop road should be open for traffic some time this week, according to the Rogue River National forest of fice. The road, which leaves from Ashland and runs along the sum mit of the Siskiyous on the south side of Ashland, Wagner and Dutchman peaks, into the Applegate area, is usually one of the last in the county to be opened because of drifts of snow which are slow in melting. Some of the route can be trav eled now, but forest service of ficials cautioned that conditions are not yet good enough for easy driving. Get Senate Approves High Dam on Snake River, 45 to 38 Committee Action 0 Sought by Sponsors 'j Washington (ID Hous sponsors of the Senate-approvect' Hells Canyon bill tried to change committee schedules Sat urday to pave the way foirva house vote on the bill befcije Congress adjourns for the 'Sum mer. A Hep. Al Ullman (D-Ore.).oa0 sponsor of the plan to authorize construction of a "high" dam at Hells Canyon on the Snake riv er in the Pacific Northwest, said Slat Democratic Chairman Robert Boyer of Medford said Saturday "The people of Oregon can bS extremely proud of Senator! Wayne Morse and Richard Neuberger for the valiant fight they have led and won in the U.S. Sen ate to bring about passage of the Hell's Canyon bill. "The leadership of these two senators was a great fac tor in our tremendous victory in the battle for our natural resources. I know I speak for the people of Oregon in ex pressing our congratulation! to Morse and Neuberger on this Joyous occasion." the "biggest hurdle at the mo ment" was arranging a time table for committee action on it. Passes Senate The bill passed the Senate by a 45-38 vote Friday and next will be considered by a House Interior subcommittee headed by Rep. Wayne N. Aspinall ID Colo.). Aspinall said . the first open dates on his crowded calendar are July 18 and 19. But he said he would "trade" with sponsors of other bills for earlier dates if he can. Ullman said the July 18-19 dates would "virtually elimin ate" chances of a House vote this session and that the spon sors were trying to arrange ear lier hearings. "We're certainly going to do everything possible to get a vote this session," he added. Pledge Bitter Fight Administration leaders pledg ed a bitter fight to head off the bill. And even if it does get through it is likely to be vetoed by President Eisenhower. The measure would authorize 500 million dollars to build one high dam in the canyon. The ad ministration already has autho rized Idaho Power company to build thfee privately-owned low dams. A major factor in Senate de bate on the bill was a rapid tax write-off benefit granted Idaho Power company, and then can celled by the company in a sur prise move on the eve of the Senate vole. House Republican Whip Les lie C. Arends said "we intend to do everything possible" to de feat the bill. "If the economy attitude of the House means anything it should show itself in the con sideration of this multi-million-dollar project," Arends said. "There is no sense in the fed eral government doing what pri vate enterprise itself can do." Curtain of Secrecy Remains on Cargo New York IP) A curtain of secrecy remained Saturday around cargo shifting operations of a "mystery ship" flying the Israeli flag at a U.S. Navy am munition depot. The whitish-grey vessel dock ed at the Navy depot at Earle, N.J, late Friday. An unofficial source told the United Press that it was flying the Israeli flag. Efforts to identify the ship and (he nature of its cargo dre,w evasive or non-committal ans wers, yet the cargo shift was be ing made under strictest security measures. The extraordinary secrecy sur rounding the ship recalled a dis closure by the United Press in February. 1956, of a shipment of 18 M41 Walker Bulldog tanks which was being loaded aboard a Liberian freighter for transport to Saudi Arabia. o O -
