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VL'R lUl Ift EN r " Z fill T.. . Jf - 1 & ' 4' ?'. ' ' 'J if' 2 St "2 Hi nun mi ii o (Jrftl BLAST The picture above was taken fr tl thud Tribune last Friday at the ex ('oo (t Intra Flats, Nev., of the largest atoitt: kom& ever detonated in this country. The fgrtKTOs taken from a number of miles away, ww narppe4 by Fred E. Chez, son of Mr. and I&ra. feci L. Chez of 812 Palm St., Medford, yrin ui in Las Vegas and was authorized bjr tha newspaper to take the pic- Holiday Traffic Death Toil Below Estimates by Council By UNITED PRESS The National Safety Council today took a look at the number of traffic ddHiim during the July 4 holiday jteriod, and said that motorists aid law enforcement agencies had done well. "The 4thfcf iulf toll not only was held far below the pre- holiday estimate of S35 but be low the 465 that a non-holiday period of the aaraa number of .hours would be expected to bring," said Ned H. Dearborn, president of tlfc council Dearborn itfi4 bis statement at mid-morning- With only Htattcred accident reports still to be counted, a United Pre. auxTey showed that between 6 .m. Wednesday and midnight Sunday, 418 persons died in h i n m a y accidents. Drownings took 206 lives, fire works accident 3, plane crashes 16, and niiJf llnneous mishaps 69, r an ovtrail tpt4l of 712. California Tarrf California had more than one-tcntl-of th holiday deaths with 50. New York had 32, Pennsyl vania 29, Ohio 28, Texas 24, Michigan If, Mississippi 18, and Illinois l. The dMh in the period of a little (n ore than three days were mora than were suffered Medford Boy Held On Check Charges A 17-jrf-old Medford boy has admitted in a statement to city police that he cashed eight fictitious checks in the county between 4a oe 23 and July 5. The y(jith was arrested by sheriff's aficers Saturday in Grants Pats on a district court warrant charging obtaining money ran falae pretences. He was arraigned in district court this morotns and given until 2 p.m. today to obtain counsel. In'i statement before a city poliys, detective Saturday, the boy "said he cashed checks at various places of business in cluding Groceteria, Safeway, Piggly Wies'y. Mallack's and Fast Sioe market in Medford, and two Phoenix stores. Total value ofthe checks was $246.80. He is bring held on a com plaint b Walter B. Hanby of the Drive-ion market in Ash land. Hanby'c complaint was filed July e. and claims the boy cashed a check at the mar ket withoat signing an account check. St. Paul, Minn. OP Ted R. Gaflible. Portland, Ore., ra dio and telavieioa executive has been elected a director of North west Airlinps. Inc. Japanese Demonstrators Protest Field Expansion Tokyo HP1 A mob of angry demonstrators attempting to block expansion of the Tachi kawa U. S. Air Force Base smashed through a barbed wire fence surrounding the field to day and forcad. American au thorities to oBnccl flights for more than six hours. Survey Tnm Tioishes The mob of abeut 1.000 per sons moot of them students sullenl -withdrew when 1.600 Jrpancse pulk-e rushed to the scene and threatened to eject them erf fitfeo. A Jpanei.- government sur vey team planning extension of runways at the giant air field completed their work and re turned to Tokyo a fear minutes befor Ih demonstrators rash- 1 by American forces in some of the battles which helped win the independence that Ameri cans were celebrating. But, com paratively, the figure encourag ed the Safety Council and law enforcement agencies who have been trying to stem a holiday surge in the annual toll of death. "Motorists and traffic offi cers," said Dearborn, "deserve Long Week 14 Lives in By UNITED PRESS Oregon today counted at least 14 persons dead from drownings and traffic accidents since the long Fourth of July week end started last Wednesday night. Ten of the victims drowned. Two of the traffic deaths occur red in motorcycle accidents. Donald Leroy Wolff, 2, Cen tral Point, drowned Sunday eye ing in an irrigation ditch about two miles east of Central Point, state police said. Earl Booth, 25, Tillamook, drowned Sunday at Terra Del Mar beach near Pacific City when a large wave swept him into deep water. Lester Burleson, 16, Turner, drowned while swimming in the Santiam river about 15 miles south of Salem. William C. Saville. 19, Eugene, died in a hospital from injuries suffered Sunday when his motor cycle collided with a car near Disston. southeast of Cottage Grove. The other motorcycle vic tim was John Malo, 60, Trout dale, who was killed Thursday in an accident east of Troutdale. Other traffic victims included Swan Dahlin, Klamath Falls, McDonald Returns From Meetings Jim McDonald, route 2, box 246, Medford, recently elected president of the National Stu dent Education association, re turned to the county school superintendent's office Satur day. McDonald had been gone since June 19 to attend three student education meetings in the east. He is director of audio visual aids and public relations for the county schools. He attended the work confer ence of the NSEA and the con vention of the National Commis sion for Teachers Education and Prof essionar Standards in Wash ington, D. C. and the central committee meeting of the Na tional Education association in Philadelphia. McDonald will be a junior at Southern Oregon college this fall. ed through the fence. Crowds protesting plans to an nex private land adjoining the U.S. base began arriving here Sunday. They set up tents set off strongs of firecrackers and chanted anti-American slogans throughout the night. Poles Stuck in Mud Youths stuck long bamboo poles in the mud at the end of the runways, causing U.S. au thorities to reroute incoming military planes to other fields. They threw rocks at U.S. Air Force planes on the ground and set fire to gasoline which they poured on one runway. The mob slowly backed off the field when Japanese police ar rived on the scene and told them to go home. '1 1W 4 ii 4 ' 4 1 0 ture. The bomb was larger than those dropped on Japan- during World War II. The photog rapher, a graduate of Medford High school and a sports star there, was vacationing with his bride, the former Jonita Stith, prior to starting teaching at San Jose High school this fall. He is a graduate of Stanford, and has free-lanced in photography with considerable success. a big pat on the back for a splen did job of effective teamwork Such an achievement cannot help but make things safer on the highways the year around.' In 1950, the all-time high for the 4th of July holiday was set at 501. Thus far in 1957, motor ists on two successive holidays. this one and Memorial Day, have been below estimates. End Takes Oregon who was struck by a car, and Mrs. Gerald Benton, Seattle killed in a collision near Baker Portland police said the death of Mrs. Lucille Nancy Parsons. Portland, also mav be counted as a traffic fatality. She died Satur day after being injured Friday night when she fell from a mov ing car. The worst drowning tragedy occurred Thursday when two air men and a young woman died in the water near Sauvies island north of Portland The victims ere Joseph Bradley, James Good rich and Rosemary Brown. Other drowning victims in eluded Lawrence Patrick John son, 19, a Baker county soldier; Lester Keith, 10, Riddle; An thony Markowski, 20, Portland and Vernon Womack, 13, Wal lowa. Medford Girl Wins State Essay Award The Medford school district has received word that Miss Jacque Colton, 1957 graduate of Medford High school, has placed fourth in state judging of essays on Americanism. Miss Colton is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Sam Colton, 1619 East Main St., Medford. Her essay won first place in the Med ford area. The annual contests for essays about Americanism written by. high school students are sponsored by the Veterans of Foreign Wars auxiliary. Fourth prize in the state con test consists of a $10 cash award and certificate. Khrushchev, Bulganin Off To Visit Czechs Moscow (IP Soviet Com munist party boss Nikita Khru shchev and Premier Nikolai Bulganin leave today for Czech oslovakia to explain to East Eur opeans the ouster of three "old guard" Communist leaders and their links with the mass purges of the 1930s. Khrushchev and Bulganin, the indefatigable globetrotters of Communism, were leaving by plane for their postponed visit. They were to have left last week but postponed the trip because of the shake-up of the top Sov iet leadership. The two leaders were fresh from a visit to Leningrad where Khrushchev leveled the grave new charges Saturday against Georgi Malenkov, Vyacheslav M. Molotov and Lazar Kagano voch charges played up in the Moscow press. Roseburg Youth Pleads Innocent To Charge Rcseburg (W Gerald Wayne Anderson, 16, Roseburg, has pleaded innocent in Douglas County Circuit Court to a charge of manslaughter. . Circuit Judge Charles ' S. Woodrich set trial for July 18. Anderson was indicted by a Douglas County grand jury fol lowing the death of Ted Shirt cliff, 49, Myrtle Creek, in an automobile accident. 52nd Year Medford United Press Full Leased Wire 18 Pages Russia 1 10-Monti On Nuclear tests First Big Soviet 'No' at Conference London HP) Russia today re jected the new western proposal for a 10-month suspension of nu clear tests linked to halting atomic and hydrogen bomb pro duction. It was the first big Soviet "no" to the new American dis armament plan now being de bated at the five-power London Disarmament conference. Deputy Foreign Minister Val erian Zorin told tne disarma ment conference there was no point to linking the test suspen sions with nuclear bomb produc tion, a proposal which is one of the West s basic demands. . Wants No Condition! He reiterated Russia's demand for a two or three years suspen sion without conditions. He also rejected Western pro posals to set experts to work at once on details of an inspection system to enforce the suspen sion of tests. Zorin's 90-minute speech fol lowed a Radio Moscow broad cast that warned the West against expecting concessions on disarmament as a result of the Kremlin shakeup last week. British Foreign Secretary Sel wyn Lloyd immediately termed Zorin's address "disappointing." Stassen Wants Tima U.S. chief delegate Harold E Stassen, however, told the con ference that the speech was too long and important to be dealt with summarily and he wanted more time to study it. It was not immediately clear, officials said, whether Zorin was flatly rejecting the western pro posal- of last-week or restating an adamant Russian position. At any rate, his reiteration of Soviet desire for immediate sus pension of tests offered no con cession to the West. 2-Year-0ld Boy Drowns in Ditch ' Donald Leroy Wolff, 2-year- old son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert O. Wolff, route 1, box 540, Cen tral Point, drowned in an irri gation ditch 2V miles west of Scenic ave., about 7 p.m. Sun day. State police said the victim's father and two brothers were digging fish worms on their property near the ditch and Don ald was with them. Wolff told police he looked for the boy about 7 p.m. and when he failed to find his son, he went to a neighbor's house for help. Wolff and the neighbor, Wil iam L. Smith, route 1, box 542, Central Point, found Donald's body about 7:30 p.m. It had float ed about 1.000 feet down the ditch from the point where the boy apparently fell in. In addition to his parents, Donald is survived by three brothers. Dean, Dale and David, all at home; grandmother, Mrs. Anna Wolff. Central Point; and several uncles and aunts. The Rev. G. H. Hillerman of the Zion Lutheran church will officiate at the funeral services, which will be held Wednesday, July 10, at 2 p.m. at the Perl Funeral home. Interment will be at Siskiyou Memorial park. The family has requested that in lieu of flowers donations be made to the Sparrow Memorial clinic in care of Mrs. Lewis Ulrich, 839 Minnesota ave., Medford. Those wishing to pay their re spects may call at the funeral home Tuesday evening. Water Resources Group Directors to Meet Directors of the Rogue Basin Flood Control and Water Re sources association will meet at 8 p.m. today in the county court room at -the Jackson county courthouse. Business of the group will in clude establishing a liaison with the Jackson County Chamber of Commerce, which is forming a committee to investigate flood control in the Rogue valley, ac cording to Jennings Pierce, an association director. Ephrata. Wajh. (IPl Fire men worked for nearly five hours Sunday before bringing under control a roaring 1000 acre fire which threatened the town of Ephrata. EGON, Luxury Vessel Stuck Between Two Coral Reefs 700 Passengers Aboard En Route To Liverpool Hamilton, Bermuda HP) The luxury liner Rcina del Pacifico went hard aground between two coral reefs in Bermuda's north channel at high tide today. It had a 15 degree list to star board, which increased as the tide went out. Liverpool reports said the Reina del Pacifico, a 17,872-ton vessel owned by the Pacific Steam Navigation Company, was bound for Liverpool from Chile with about 700 passengers aboard. It left Havana, Cuba, July 4 and was due in the Eng lish port July 18. On Way to Liverpool The luxury ship grounded in the narrow, twisting channel at the northern end of this island colony early today. It sailed from Hamilton a half hour earlier on its outward trip for Liverpool. The vessel went aground at high tide about the same spot in which the U.S. submarine Grenadier grounded Aug. 13, 1956. Tugs were attempting to pull off the vessel from the reefs, but there was little hope they would be successful until high tide late this afternoon. The headquarters of the Pa cmc Navigation .Company in Liverpool reported that a brief radio report there from the ship's captain did not indicate there was any major damage. Assistance Asked U.S. Coast Guard headquar ters in New York said the Reina del Pacifico's captain had asked assistance from the Coast Guard cutter Castlerock which was at the scene. The Coast Guard said the liner's skipper asked help from the Castlerock because he did not think the one commer cial tug at hand was powerful enough to pull his ship free. The Reina del Pacifico Queen of the Pacific was built in 1931 at Belfast, Northern Ireland, and has been one of the main British ships in the South American trade. It is powered by four die'sel engines. Girard Lawyer Argues Before Supreme Court Washington API GI William S. Girard's counsel told the Su preme Court today that this gov ernment's effort to turn him over to Japan for trial is a "sell out" of his constitutional rights. Girard's attorney. Joseph S. Robinson of New York, stated the case for the young soldier after the government argued that the United States "doesn't have any right" under interna tional law to keep Japan from trying Girard for killing a Jap anese woman scavenger. Government and defense law yers took "directly opposite vjews on -whether troops stationed 'in a foreign country are immune from the laws of that country. Girard's lawyers said he has "ab solute immunity" from Japanese law. Solicitor General J. Lee Rankin argued that there is no international law "that recog nizes the power to withhold" Girard from prosecution by Japan. Pendleton (IPl The Sixth Army pipe band of Presidio, Calif., has accepted an invita tion from the Main Street Cow boys to attend the Pendleion Round-Up Sept. 11-14. Weather FORECAST: Fair with occa sional hich cloudiness tonight and Tuesday. Low tonifht 50. Hieh Tuesday 85-88. temperature: Highest Yesterday 8 Lowest this Morning 51 Our Skies Tonight Sunrise 4:42 a.m. Sunset 7:50 p.m. The Moon, moving eastward among the stars, today passes close to Saturn and tonight ap pears to be following that planet through, the southern sky. Mnnns't Tuesday 2:52 a.m. Full Moon July 11 On MONDAY, JULY 8, 1957 renins Aground ermuda "Well, That'. The Argentina, Break Over Of Activity Buenos Aires (IPl Argentina and Venezuela "interrupted" dip lomatic relations Sunday in dispute over charges that former dictator Juan D. Peron is using Venezuela as a base for efforts to overthrow the Argentine gov ernment. Gen. Carlos Toranzo Montero, the Argentine ambassador to Venezula, was scheduled to fly here from Panama, where he ar rived from Caracas Sunday after the Venezuelan government or dered him out of the country. Declared Persona Non Grata Venezuela declared Toranzo Montero persona non grata two days after ordering Dr. Atuano Carnevali, its ambassador to Ar gentina, to return to Caracas. Argentine Foreign Minister Alfonso de la Ferre said diplo matic relations with Venezuela had been "interrupted." Diplo matic observers here said inter ruption is just a step short of a complete break. Toranzo Montero delivered a note to Venezuelan authorities July 4 in which he charged Peron violated his asylum in Venezuela by planning a coup against the Argentine provision al government. However. Venezuelan presi dent Marcos Perez Jiminez told newsmen in Caracas the note had nothing to do with Toranzo Applications Asked For Range Camp The Jackson County 4-H of fice in the courthouse is asking for applications from any county boy 14 years of age or older to attend a range camp in Morrow county July 29 to Aug. 3. Four all-expense paid scholar ships are available, according to Glenn Klein, 4-H agent. 'Ihe scholarships are sponsored by Crater Lake Motors. All applications must be in by Wednesday, July 10. -At the camp, youths will study plants and animals under range type conditions. It is held at Tupper guard station in Morrow county, eastern Oregon. The camp is an annual affair, sponsored by the Northwest sec tion, American Society of Range Management. Children in Transient Camp React To TB Tests Nyssa, Ore. rtfl Mrs. tdna Blaloch, Malheur county health nurse, said today that 17 per cent of children at a transient labor camp here who took a recent tuberculosis patch test showed a positive, reaction. She said the patch tests were given to 135 children under 14 years of age. She said that the tests do not show if the cases are particularly active but that they indicated the children had been exposed to the disease. Price 10c Tribune United Press Full Leased Wire No. 93 Reeh Way The Ax Bounces" Venezuela Charges of Peron Montero s ouster. He said the diplomat was ordered to leave the country because his actions were "offensive to the dignity oi the nation. ' Toranzo Montero told United Press in Panama Sunday night he presented documents to the Venezuelan Foreign Ministry containing "overwhelming proof Peron is leading sabotage and subversive acts from Caracas for which the Argentine people may cost Diood. ' Italian Heat Wave Toll Near 100 Mark Rome (IPl The heat wave toll in sweltering Italy soared near the 100 mark in three days to day, and scores more were in hospital with sunstroke or men tal trouble caused by the merci less sun. The known dead from Satur day morning to this afternoon totaled 94. Sunstrokes account ed directly for 62 cases. The re mainder included 22 drownings, three men who committed sui cide because of the heat, and seven miscellaneous accide.-its all blamed on the torrid tempera tures. It was so hot that in Grado, a north Italian beach resort, a heat swelled turning bridge refused to turn and dozens of boats had to take long detours through lagoon canals to get around it. The day's highest reported temperature came in the north ern Alpine town of Trento with 99.6 degrees. Washington (IPl Presi dent Eisenhower has announced the nomination for re-appointment of George F. Jamesson, as collector of customs for Port land, Ore. Emergency Board Approves State Salary Increases Salem i-flPi The State Em ergency Board today approved salary increases of $4,550,000 for many of the state's em ployees. The board accepted the civil service compensation plan for both classified and unclassi fied workers after hearing an explanation of the plan from Civil Service Director Stanley Terry. State Finance Director John Richardson explained financing of the raises which were voted by the 1957 Legislature. The raises are effective July 1 of this year. , $198 Low Salary Under the new plan, the low est starting salary will now be $198 a month instead of $156. Some 70 per cent of the raises will be for state workers in the lowest 10 pay, grades. Terry told the . emergency Knowland Moves For Consideration Of House Measure Motion Expected To Bring Long Debate Washington W The civil rights "battle of the century" began in the Senate today. Republican leader William F. Knowland of California obtained the floor and made a five-minute speech which he ended by formally moving that the Sen ate consider the administration's bill as passed by the House. That motion will be debated for a week or more. If it is adopted, there promises to be weeks more of debate and filibuster before the late of the civil rights proposals is determined. Knowland made his motion as scheduled despite a southern move in the House to recall the measure because of a printing errur in the copy originally sent to the Senate. Sen. Richard B. Russell (D Ga.), leader of the southern bloc opposing the bill, immediately raised the point on the Senate floor when Knowland put into the record a copy of the House till as corrected. Russell contended that it was not the bill which the Senate put on the calendar last month by 45-39 votes. In answer to Russell's question as to who had prepared the cor rected copy, Knowland said that it was done "under normal pro cedure." Knowland told newsmen as the session opened that he "hoped" for a vote on the mo tion by the end of the week. but he would make no flat pre diction. And he predicted It would take "six weeks, maybe longer" to get a vote on final passage. The motion was expected to signal the start of a "discussion" by southern Democrats that promises to become a filibuster that will keep the Senate tied up four to eight weeks and toss on the scrap heap much of Presi dent Eisenhower's remaining leg islative program. However, there were signs the real, round-the-clock phase of the talkathon might be delayed for days or weeks. Southerners hava indicated they may not stage an all-out filibuster against the mere motion to take up the bill. City Planners To Convene Tonight The city planning commission tonight will hold a public hear ing on a proposed sub-division ordinace. The meeting will be held at 7:0 p.m. in the city hall council chamber. A hearing also will be held on the proposed change of zone re quested by the Associated Oil company for property at Crater Lake highway and Spring st. from "single family" to "limited commercial," and on the pro posed Set back of property own ed by Alvin C. Lucas, 317 West Clark St., Medford. In other business the commis sion will hear a report by City Manager Robert Duff on the an nexation to the city of property on South Peach st. Planners Paul Selby and Hugh Coleman will report on a request for a zone change on Crater Lake highway between Stevens st. and Buckshot Hill rd. Cape Cod Vacation Possibility for Ike' Osterville, Mass. -i-(IP) The possibility of a Cape Cod vaca tion for President Eispnhowr grew stronger today after the owner of a large resort here reported negotiations with the White House.. Joseph W. Monahan Jr., pres ident of the exclusive Osterville Manor, said Sunday he had been n touch with Washington but 'nothing is definite." boardt he raises generally would put both the state in a position to compete both with private industry and other government al agencies for the first time since World War II. . Little opposition to the plan was voiced by the board except that Sen. Walter Pearson, Port land Democrat, felt that a start ing salary of $210 for a clerk typist might be too high when compared with private industry. Terry said his studies showed that in no category would the state be leading private industry in pay. Result of Study House Speaker Pat Dooley, Portland Democrat, aid the state was obliged to pay its workers a living wage. The civil service plan was the result of a two-year interim . study of state salaries asked for by the 1955 Legislature. o
