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PICKET LINE Above is Page Stauffer,
Butte Falls, one of three independent truck
ers strik.'ng against Austin L. King, Medford
trucking contractor, who has been hauling
logs for Medco from the woods to the firm's
reload point above Butte Falls. Stauffer,
along with two other truckers, John Zimmer-
No Settlement Signs
Reported in Strike
Against Austin King
No signs of settlement were jand he wanted them to use his
reported today in the strike i equipment which has been
against Austin L. King, Medford standing idle. He said they re
trucking contractor, by local fused his job offer unless he
6-221, International Woodwork-Irented their trucks,
crs of America, AFL-CIO. Both Medford Corporation
The strike has caused the shut iand King have filed unfair labor
down of woods and railroad (practice charges with the.Na
operations of Medford Corpora-j tional Labor Relations board.
tiun and approximately Hit em-1
pioyees 01 Meaco are on me jod.
King has been hauling logs for
Medco from the woods to the
firm's railroad reload above
Butte Falls.
King said today that the strike
started as a result of a dispute
over rehiring equipment of three
truckers. King said they have
previously used their own equip
ment which they rented to him.
Camp White Man
Faces Grand Jury
Martin Dave Wilkinson, 56, of
Camp White, was bound over to
the grand jury yesterday after
appearing in district court on a
charge of assault with a danger
ous weapon.
Wilkinson is accused of stab
bing Roger Walter Moreland, 56,
of 520 North Front St., on Thurs
day. Moreland was released from
a local hospital after treatment
for his injuries yesterday.
Wilkinson is being held on
$2,500 bail.
Fred T. Johnson, Los Angeles,
Calif., was bound over to the
grand jury today on a charge of
emblczzlcment by employee., He
is accused of taking cotton seed
cattle feed frum his employer,
Henry Pingle, and selling it on
Dec. 7, 1956.
Bail for Johnston has been set
at $1,500.
School Conference
Scheduled at Eugene
Salem HP A combined con
ference of the Oregon Associa
tion of School Administrators
and a curriculum study confer
ence for school superintendents
will be held in Eugene starting
Siuiday.
The study conference is set for
Julv 14-19 and the association
meets July 18-19.
Congress Moving Toward
Mild Study of Girard Case
Washington (IB Congress Iments issue were proposed,
appeared today to be moving One by Rep. Kenneth B. Keat
toward a mild study of the con- jing (R-N.Y.) calls for setting up
troversial Girard case instead a special committee to study the
of drastic action to scrap this j entire question of trying U.S.
nation's status - of - forces agree-:
mcnts with allies.
Calculated Risk
In the House, leaders said
they have a "good chance'' to
defeat attempts to revoke the
agreements which govern
whether the United States or a
foreign government tries GIs
for crimes committed abroad.
They have decided to take a cal
culated risk on rounding up
enough votes to kill such at
tempts.
At the same time, two major!
investigations of the Girard case
and the status-of-forces agree-1
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Khrushchev Proposes
Mutual Existence
Prague, Czechoslovakia HP
Soviet party leader Nikita Khru
shchev likened co-existence
Thursday night to a "marriage
of convenience" between the
capitalist and Communist worlds
and said there is "no other way."
"There are many cases of peo
ple not in love marrying and
after they get married they
build happy lives," he said at
a gala reception while looking
straight at the Western diplo
mats present. "Let us do it. Let
us compete and see which sys
tem is superior."
"We know you don't like our
system," he said. "We were not
born with bells ringing but
under gunshots. We are con
vinced we will win. Let us try.
Let us stop seeing each other as
enemies. I believe there is no
other way.
Grand Jury Selects
New Foreman Today
Members of the Jackson
county grand jury went into ses
sion this morning without the
foreman who was originally
selected.
The grand jury session was to
have started yesterday but was
postponed when it was learned
the jury foreman was out of
town. Today, however, a new
foreman was selected.
Term for the current grand
jury ends Monday, July 15, and
it was indicated there were too
many items for the group to con
sider to allow further delay of
the session.
Salem Wi Normal W. Hydcr,
Madras, has been appointed to
the Oregon Potato Commission.
servicemen and their dependents
for crimes committed overseas.
Joint Investigation
The other by Rep. William H.
Ay res (R-Ohio) calls for a joint
House-Senate investigation of
the Girard case. He said the
public is entitled to know all
about handling of the jurisdic
tional squabble.
The Supreme Court Tuesday
unanimously upheld the admini
stration's decision to surrender
Army Specialist 3-c William S
Girard to Japan for manslaugh-
Iter trial on charges of fatally
shooting a Japanese woman.
Tribune
United Press Full Lcaud Wire
1957
No. 97
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lee, Eagle Point, and Norm Caldwell, White
City, have established a picket line at the re
load point, which about 130 Medco employ
ees, members of Local 6-221, International
Woodworkers of America, AFL-CIO, have re
fused to cross. The strike began over rental of
equipment of the three truckers.
Eisenhower Signs
$1,990,000,000
Housing Program
Washington HP! President
Eisenhower signed the $1,990,
000,000 housing bill today even
though he said it has "a number
of serious defects."
The new law permits the Fed
eral Housing Administration to
slash to an all-time low the mini
mum down . payment require
ments on new and old homes
under its mortgage insurance
program.
More Mortgage Money
It also authorizes $1,900,000,
000 in additional mortgage
money, federal loans for college
housing, and federal grants for
urban renewal and slum clear
ance.
The President said he is
'most concerned" that the act
authorizes more home building
aids than he requested.
He said "painstaking efforts"
had been made by the adminis
tration to balance the needs of
federal programs while keeping
over-all spending to a minimum.
The $1,990,000,000 in new obli
gational authority authorized in
the bill, he said, more than
doubles his request.
He said he has instructed fed
eral agencies to limit use of the
new authority to "amounts con
sistent with the over-all budget
program." Since there is no re
quirement to obligate the
amounts in this fiscal year, he
said, there would be "no serious
setback" to budget efforts and
he thus could sign the bill.
Navy Attack Plane
Crashes in Mountains
Alameda, Calif. (HI A Navy
AD7 attack carrier today
crashel and burned in the rugged
mountains of the Feather River's
Middle Fork Canyon, an Ala
meda Naval Air Station spokes
man reported. The fate of the
pilot was unknown.
Paramedics from the air sta
tion were flown to the area and
jumped to the edge of a brush
fire at 1 p.m.
The Navy said the plane, ac
companied by at least two others
of a similar type, was on a
routine navigational training
flight and not participating in
today's mock civil defense atomic
attack.
Forest rangers in lookout
towers reported they saw the
craft crash about 30 air miles
southwest of Quincy.
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civilian crew of 1,500 eneeriiis experts. She is 1,046 feet in length. ilnterruuional)
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Hong Kong Wl Donald
Jackson Blackwood, 24, whose
disappearance two months ago
became a cold war mystery, said
today he went into Red China
out of "curiosity" but was "dis
appointed" with what he saw.
Blackwood, of Cincinnati, O.,
returned by ferry boat to Hong
Kong this morning with his
North Korean-born wife and
small child.
Air Force to Build
Radar Station on
King Mountain Site
An Air Force communication
and radar tower are scheduled
for construction at Placer Air
Force station, located on King
Mountain on the Josephine-
Jackson county line.
lhe project is called a gap
filler facility and is believed to
be the first Air Force radar in
stallation to be built in southern
Oregon.
Date of construction has not
been established, according to
Gilbert R. Bean, technical liai
son officer, Seattle district
corps of Army engineers. Bid
opening was previously sched
uled for July 26, but the project
has been deferred for construc
tion and bid opening indefinitely
postponed.
Facilities Explained
Bean explained gap filler fa
cilities are part of the nation's
chain of defense. They are
placed at intermediate locations
between Air Force stations
which are a great distance apart.
The fillers are generally un
manned and information picked
up is automatically relayed to
the- stations.
The communication building
will have approximately 1.240
square feet of floors pace, con
crete foundation and iioor slab,
concrete block, walls, open web
steel roof joists and metal deck
with insulated and built up roof.
Also included in the project
will be a heating and ventilating
system, perimeter chain link
fence, concrete walks, reinforced
concrete tower foundation and
tower erection.
Areas of National
Forest Are Closed
A few small areas in the
Rogue River National forest
having unusually high fire haz
ards have been closed to entry
by Governor's proclamation.
Forest Supervisor Carroll E.
Brown, announced today.
The closure, effective at mid
night last night, prohibits entry
except under permit, and per
mits will be issued only to per
sons having business in the
areas'.
Ashland canyon is closed each
year as a special protective mea
sure for the city watersHed.
The other areas are where
timber is being cut near Big
Elk, Sevenmile Creek, Three
mile Creek, Crater-W i z a r d
Creek, Ginko Creek, Huckle
berry Mountain, Thousand
Springs, Needle Creek Ridge and
Woodruff Creek. None have any
special recreation attractions
and it is not believed that forest
users will be inconvenienced,
Brown said.
Weather
FORECAST: Variable fetch
cloudiness, otherwise fair
through Saturday. Low to
night 55. High Saturday S5-88.
Temo.
Hirhest Yesterday SS
Lowest this Morning 54
Our Skies Tonight
Sunrise
4:45
Sunset , ....
Moon rise .
Last Quarter
PROMINENT STARS
Spica. in the southwest
R-eeulus. sets
VISIBLE PLANETS
Jupiter, between Spica
Reeulus
Venus, sets
Saturn, due south
7:4)1 p.m.
S:n4 p.m.
. July 19
X:S3 p.m.
9:11 p.m.
8:45 p.m.
9:16 p-m.
American
After
or Red China
The Chinese Communists ex
pelled them Thursday across the
border into the Portuguese
colony of Macao.
"I was curious to see China
and learn all about it," Black
wood told newsmen. "Now that
I've made the trip I am disap
pointed and sorry." He called
the trip an "irresponsible ges
ture on my part" and admitted
quietly he had disobeyed a State
Department man on travel to
Red China.
"Although I made the trip I
consider myself a loyal Ameri
can," he said. "I am sorry I
went and I am sorry I disobeyed
the State Department ruling."
Blackwood, a former enlisted
man in the Air Force, said he
met his wife while in the serv
ice. He married her after he
returned from the United States
in the spring of 1955 as a
civilian. He said she strongly op
posed the trip to Red China.
Asked how he entered China
without a visa he replied, "A
rickshaw boy, a sampan man
and 100 U.S. dollars. He said
he was ferried to the Chinese
shore opposite Macao in the
early hours of April 28.
He said the Chinese read him
a statement charging him with
illegal entry and "we then left
within five minutes." But he
said if it hadn't been for the
expulsion order he would have
stayed longer, "I was planning
to see Peiping, Shanghai and
North Korea."
"My personal desire to see
China was stronger than my
will to abide by the State De
partment ruling," he said.
Blackwood said he planned
to return to the United States
and work for his father, a drive
in restaurant owner who flew
to Hong Kong to search for his
missing son. But he wasn't sure
when he would return because
ef "State Department techni
calities." Local Resources
Group Is Planned
Two representatives of the
Oregon Water Resources board
from Salem will be in Jackson
county Monday to attend a meet
ing with the county court con
cerning formation of a local
water resources committee.
The representatives are Don
Lane and Quentin Bowman. The
meeting will be held at 2 p.m.
in the county courtroom and
interested individuals are invited
to attend, members of the court
said.
Members of the local commit
tee will study unappropriated
water in the valley to aid the
state board in formulating a
water usage program. Local
committee members will include
representatives of various water
control and use interests such
as domestic, municipal, irriga
tion, power development, indus
trial, mining, recreation, wild
life and fish life uses, as well as
pollution abatement.
The state board will provide
the local group with available
basic vater resource informa
tion. Selection of Jackson county
committee members will be
made in the near future, accord
ing to the county court. There
will be 10 subcommittees in ad
dition to the general committee.
William Tugman Out
Of North Bend Hospital
Reedsport (If) William Tug-
man, publisher of the Port Ump-
qua Courier here who was hos
pitalized at North Bend follow
ing a heart attack last month
has returned to his home here.
Portland OB F. L. Somers of
Medford will construct two
rubble-mound jetties at. the
mouth of the Chetco river near
Brookings on the southern Ore
gon coast starting Monday. The
river bar will be closed until
Nov. 1. Cost of the project will
be $332,000, according to the
Army engineers. .
Prayer
Portland, Klamath
Receive Simulated
Warning of Bombers
Salem (IP) Portland was theoretically struck by two atomic
bombs at 10:22 a.m. (PST) today at the climax of the nation-wide
civil defense exercise Operation Alert 1957.
Salem HP Operation Alert
1957, the nation-wide civil de
fense exercise, was progressing
satisfactorily at mid-morning to
day, according to Oregon civil
defense officials.
Both Portland and Klamath
Falls received simulated warn
ings of the approach of enemy
bombers at 8:02 a.m.
Portland started a mock evac
uation at 8:25 a.m. and Klamath
Falls at 8:10 a.m. Enemy bomb
ers were theoretically over
Portland at 10:02 a.m. but it was
not to be known until later
whether any nuclear "bombs"
were dropped in Oregon.
Declares Emergency
Gov. Robert D. Holmes signed
a proclamation giving himself
emergency powers at 9:07 a.m.
and then told county CD leaders
on a special radio hookup: "As
a part of operation alert I have
just signed a proclamation de
claring a general emergency in
the stale of Oregon and desig
nating the entire state as an
emergency disaster area."
The governor went on to com
mend counties of the state for
their effort and interest in de
veloping a sound civil defense
program.
Fallout in Southern Oregon
Col. Arthur Sheets, state CD
director, said that should nu
clear weapons be "detonated"
at Portland or Klamath Falls to
day the state would be relative
ly free of radioactive fallout.
Sheets added, however, that
southern Oregon might receive
some fallout from a nuclear ex
plosion at San Francisco should
one be planned as part of the
exercise.
The general public did not
participate directly. .
Recording Fees to Be
Increased in County
Fees for recording documents
in the county clerk's office, will
be increased after Saturday,
July 20. it was .reported today.
The increase was authorized
at the last session of the state
legislature. Fees will increase
from $1 to $1.50 for the first
page and from 75 cents to $1
for each succeeding page. Re
cording fees for other types of
papers and certificates will be
increased correspondingly.
Dinard, France HB Holly
wood movie actor Tony Curtis
was hit in the eye by an arrow
today during the filming of a
scene for the film "The Vikings.".
County Civil Defense Units
In Nation-Wide 'Operation
Civil Defense authorities in
Jackson county participated this
morning in nation-wide "Opera
tion Alert" scheduled today, to
morrow and Sunday.
The county civil defense
agency will emphasize radio
active fallout monitoring and
communications during the
three-day practice period.
Maj. Gen. J. H. Hicks, county
civil defense director, said radio
active fallout monitoring teams
are covering the perimeter of the
valley to check for simulated
fallout. The teams are from
Rogue River, Central Point,
Shady Cove, Medford and Ash
land.
Communications teams are to
run a test with Salem. Monitor
ing teams also report their find
ings by radio or telephone to the
Civil Defense control center near
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Crescent City Man
Injured in Crash
Gerald Louis Hamman, 20, of
Crescent City, Calif., was crit
ically injured early last night
when the logging truck he was
operating went out of control
and into a creek bed about five
miles east of Ashland on the
Dead Indian rd., according to
state police.
Hamman. who was pinned
the cab of the truck for several
hours, was transferred from Ash
land General hospital to Sacred
Heart hospital in Medford. -His
condition was listed as critical
by hospital officials this morn
ing.
Police said the truck's brakes
apparently failed on a sharp
curve. The truck went down a
10-foot bank into the creek bed
and turned over. The logs slid
over the cab, pinning the driver
in, police said.
Blood was taken to the scene
by police from Rogue Valley
hospital, and an Ashland doctor,
called to the scene, administered
the blood to keep Hamman alive,
according to officers. Logs had
to be removed from the cab be
fore the driver was removed,
police said.
Dave Beck Indicted
For Grand Larceny
Seattle OPl Teamsters Presi
dent Dave Beck today was in
dicted by the King County
Grand Jury on one count of
grand larceny.
The amount of money involved
in the indictment was not imme
diately available.
Beck was booked by Sheriff
Tim McCullough and released
after posting $3,000 bond.
Beck told newsmen he had no
immediate comments to make on
the indictment but would hold
a news conference in his office
here at 4 p.m. (p.s.t.)
Salem Voters Approve
Tax Levy of $330,000
Salem (lfl Salem voters,
going to the polls in "fairly
heavy numbers," Thursday ap
proved a $180,000 tax levy to
repair two city swimming pools
and a $150,000 bond issue to im
prove city parks. t
Camp White. Radios are manned
Rogue Valley and Sacred Heart
hospitals.
On duty at the control center
is Dwight J. Albright, civil de
fense communications chief, and
Lt. Col. Arthur M. Savard, chief
of the Red Cross mass care sec
tion. ,
When a fire siren at Central
Point gives eight to 10 blasts to
announce lhe alert. Civil De
fense groups there will hold a-
full-scale mobilization.
A police car will patrol the
streets warning motorists and
pedestrians via a pubic address
system to get off the streets and
seek shelter.
"We want the people to get
inside nearby buildings where,
in case of real emergency, they
would be protected from radio
active fallout," E. R. Yocum,
Central Point civil defense di-
Civil Defense
Organizations
Called To Crisis
Eisenhower Whisked
Out of Washington
Emergency News Center, Op
eration Alert (IB The nation
underwent a mock nuclear at
tack today with government and
civil defense organizations de
ploying their forces to meet the
imaginary crisis.
President Eisenhower was
whisked out of Washington by
helicopter as more than 100
American cities were subject to
a theoretical nuclear pummeling
in Operation Alert 1957.
The simulated attack kicked
off the second phase of the alert
designed to test the ability of
civilian defense workers to cope
with the havoc that would be
caused by nuclear bombings.
Government Operations Moved
The training exercise also gave
government agencies experience
in manning emergency centers
to evaluate "plans for the mo
bilization and allocation of man
power and material resources in
a post-attack situation."
Government departments were
relocated at sites in a wide
radius away from Washington.
The White House said Eisenhow
er's flight this afternoon was not
directly connected with the alert
but only to test helicopter travel
and White House emergency
communication.
First Phase Ends
The first phase of Operation
Alert ended this morning. That
phase began more than a month
ago with the assumption of a
"heightened international ten
sion and deteriorating interna
tional relations."
The Emergency News Head
quarters from which this is writ
ten will not come into being of
ficially until the imaginary nu
clear attack begins on the con
tinental United States. Many
government workers have
flocked to this secret relocation
center to test communications
and transportation facilities.
After the hypothetical attack,
news will flow into this center
from affected areas, simulating
a reporting system as it would
actually be used in an emer
gency, t '
Hearing on Budget
Scheduled Tonight
a nnhlir hearincf on a gen
eral fund budget of $810,912 for
fiscal year 1957-58 for Medford
.fin ka hM hv the citv council
at 7:30 p.m. today in the council
chambers.
Thu hnH0pf is within the 6
per cent allowable increase. Esti
mated receipts are $453,699, ana
the estimated balance is $52,365.
The amount allowable under the
6 per cent limitation is $304,
848. Also on the agenda tonight I
miblir hearing on change of
zone from single family to light
industrial for four lots on North
Pacific highway. The property
is nwnort hv T.arrv Juniner. 1020
South Peach St., who requested
the change.
Count Commissioner
Gets Locked in Jail
County Comisiioner Chester
Wendt spent a short time in
the county jail today but it
was all by accident. .
According to reports, Wendt
(who it courthouse building
superintendent) and a group
of plumbers went to the jail
to examine a water leak.
When they prepared to leave
the detention .quarters, they
discovered they had been
locked in.
After a brief delay, the
jailer appeared on the scene
to . ulock the heavy door.
Wendt and his companions
were happy to be free, and
generally none-the-worse for
their experience.
Taking Part
Alert7 Today
at Central Point, Shady Cove,
rector, said.
Besides monitoring teams.
Central Point will also mobilize
first aid and transportation
teams. All groups will meet at
the fire hall.
All clear signal will be a one
minute blast of the fire siren.
Portland and Klamath Falls
have been named as Oregon's
targets during the theoretical
nuclear attack. This is due to
military installations built or be
ing built, population and in
dustrial factors.
On the state level, problems
connected with the alert include
hypothetical evacuation of Port
land, feeding and housing of the
hypothetical evacuees, police,
security and traffic control,
emergency medical services,
communications, emergency in
formation services, fire, en
gineering and rescue services.