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52nd Year Price 10 Subscribers To report Improper or non-delivery of the Mail Tribune in Med ford phone SP 2-6141, Ashland MU 2-1021. Yreka 841W before 6:45 p.m. daily and 10 JO a.m. Sunday If regular delivery arrives ahort Iv after you call please notify of fice thus eliminating special mes senger service. Medford Stories on a week-long cunp inc trip to the Three Slitert area by nine local Explorer Scouts and one about the recent ttomir denotation near Lac Vr.O. Nev appear on page 14 ?f today's Mall Tribune. RIBUNE United Press Full Leased Wir United Press Full Leased Wire 56 Pages MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, JULY 14, 1 No. 98 One Killed, Five Injured When Brakes On beaded Truck Fail Near Dunsmuir Dunsmuir. Calif. OP) One man was killed and five othen injured here Friday when the hraltes nf a truck loaded with plywood, failed about two mi!( north of here. The truck was descending a iiteep incline when the brakes failed and it sped through town at an estimated speed of 75 m.p.h. Killed was Jack Perry, 49, a passenger in a pickup truck driven by Wilbur Jordan. Jor dan is in a Dunsmuir hospital suffering from severe brain, chest and leg injuries. Pulls to Sid The truck had stopped at an intersection and pulled out. The driver, seeing the run away truck, pulled over to the side of the street but was struck anywa. The truck lost its load of plywood going through town STORMS Springfield Area Suffers Extensive Damage, Flooding Nine Reported Dead In Chicago Section By UNITED PRESS Torrential rain storms which poured a record 6.24 inches of ; water on the Chicago area and ' caused at least nine deaths swept into Springfield, III., last night. injuring at least two persons and causing extensive damage and flooding in downtown and resi dential areas. Winds up to 60 miles an hour shattered windows throughout the main business section of the Illinois capital city. A two-hour rain which dumped 1.50 inches of water on the area flooded streets and basements and knock ed out electrical power to 4,000 to 5,000 homes. Heavily Damaged The most heavily - damaged building appeared to be the of fice building of the Central Il linois Light company. A spokes man for the firm said only two windows were left intact. Traffic on main thoroughfares was blocked by high water or felled trees or telephone poles. The storms apparently were part of the same system that hit tne Chicago area Friday night and early Saturday, leaving a record 24-hour rainfall of 6.24 inches and forcing the evacua tion of an entire hospital. The heaviest downpour 5.49 inches fell In a six-hour per iod between 7 p.m. Friday and 1 a.m. Saturday, weathermen said. The deaths included at least three heart attacks suffered by persons bailing out their' homes and a similar number of electro cutions, i EmeraencT Action Ingalls Memorial hospital at s'iburban Harvey took emergen cy action to remove 152 patients when waters from giant electri cal storms seeped into its base ment, destroying medical sup plies and knocking off power. Several other hospitals also re ported water damage, not as se vere as Ingalls but enough to deal crippling blows to power and surgical facilities. Flood waters also gushed into the Air Terminal at Midway air port, shorting a transformer in the basement. The airport, busiest in the world, was closed to traffic shortly after the deluge inundat ed runways, but opened to lim ited service late Saturday. Storm Front Brings First Rain in Month storm front moved across southern Oregon Saturday from the Pacific coast resulting in an .08-inch rainfall in Med ford, the first in the city since June 14 when .01 inches of rain fall was reported. According to weather bureau officials the storm front is trav eling east. There is a chance of showers this morning with clear ing this afternoon, the bureau said. This summer's rainfall total is well below that of last June and Julv, bureau officials noted. Last June .80 inches of rain was reported compared to .03 this June. In July of 1956 .94 inches o: rain fell. Castiglione Delia P.e s c a i a Italy ilP A speeding car ran into a column of marching Boy Scouts here Friday night, killing ona and injuring five othen. and damaged eight cars, turn ing four of them over. Several businesses were damaged when 'flying" ply wood broke windows. The truck finally overturned in front of a hardware store, and the driver, Buel Knichloe, Tucson, Ariz., was critically injured. Authorities at Mt. Shasta hospital here said it is doubtful that Jordan would live through the night. Dr. Charles Stachling was cut severely about the hands and arms when a piece of ply wood went through a window in a medical clinic where he was sitting in the waiting room. Dunsmuir auxiliary firemen responded quickly with foam spray to prevent gasoline from exploding from the wrecked truck., STRIKE ILLINOIS Moslems Take Young Student as New Ruler Versoix, Switzerland UP Ten-million Ismaili Moslems Sat urday accepted a 20-year-old Harvard student as their spiritu al ruler in a ceremony that trans formed him from Prince Karim a nervous college boy, into the all-powerful Aga Khan IV. Two days of ceremony at the Democrals Prolesf New Economy Move Washington Wi Congression al Democrats protested Saturday against President Eisenhower's latest economy moves. 'in the House, Democrats an grily retaliated against the Presi dent's secret "cut spending"- di rective by threatening rougher treatment of his foreign aid and other budget requests. They also talked of out-doing the administration by setting a spending ceiling lower than the President's, thus clearing the way for a politically popular tax cut. In the Senate, former Air Force Secretary Stuart Syming ton (D-Mo.) said Eisenhower's incredible policies" scrap multi million dollar weapons programs but "refuse even to consider money-saving suggestions for greater efficiency m the armed services. He pointed out that the ad ministration recently scrapped the entire program to develop a new military cargo plane, the C-132, after spending S93,000,000 on it. Thursday, the government announced it was abandoning de velopment of the Navaho inter continental guided missile after an investment of $500,000,000. Soviet Leaders Take Separate Trips Prague, Czechoslovakia W Soviet Communist Party Boss Khrushchev Saturday urged Czech Communists to strengthen their ties with the Soviet Union and warned them to avoid anoth er Hungary by keeping in touch with the masses. Khrushchev spoke at a mass meeting at the Moravian coal mining center at Ostrava, near the Polish border. Khrushchev and Soviet Pre mier Bulganin divided forces on their fence-mending - tour of Czechoslovakia. While Khrush chev was stumping the coal min ing area. Bulganin toured a heavy machinery plant at Brno, capital of Moravia and home of the famous Bren gun. Corbin Named to Service Commission Mayor John Snider Friday night appointed Robert Corbin 400 North Keeneway dr., Med ford, to the Medford civil ser vice commission. He will fill the unexpired term of the late George Gates. The appointment was ratified by the council. The council also rezoned sev eral lots on North Pacific high way from single family to light industrial. No one opposed the change at a public hearing. Larry Juniper. 1020 South Peach St., Medford, requested the change, which was recom mended by the planning commission. The truck was owned by Payne-Allison, a Arizona-Nevada trucking firm. It was the third runaway truck in two weeks. The other two were escorted through here by alert highway patrol men and no one was injured. A meeting has been called for Monday by the board of elementary education to dis cuss postponing the start of school until the hazard is eli minated. The school crossing is just 100 feet from where the accident occured. A meeting has been called by J. Morgan Jones, Duns muir mayor, to discuss a rem edy for the situation. Last week, a proposal was made in the city council to have trucks stop at the top of the hill to have their brakes checked. family villa here were marred by an attempted burglary. Po lice seized three men trying to enter the villa Friday night only a few hours after it was an nounced that the late Aga Khan had chosen his elder grandson as his successor. A 43-member delegation from various branches of the Shiah Ismaili sect arrived to greet the slim, handsome son of Prince Aly Khan. Reads Sections of Will They were escorted to a salon n the villa and there heard the new Aga read "relevant" sec tions of the old Aga's will which proclaimed him as his heir. They heard the old Aga's words that the- Ismaili sect "needs a modern-minded young leader to cope with the problems of an atomic world." Then religious ceremonies con firming him were held privately. The group later assembled on the green villa lawn. The new Aga sat on a cream colored satin chair, nervous and tense, with the 43 Ismaili leaders and a group of 15 women as sembled around him. His father. Prince Aly, and his half-uncle. Prince Sadruddin, and his younger brother. Prince Amyn, were not present at the villa ceremonies. Trip to Prescott Park Slated Tuesday Mayor John Snider, City Man ager Robert Duff and the Jack son county court plan a trip to Prescott park on Roxy Ann hill east of Medford Tuesday at 1:30 p.m. County Judge Rodney Keat ing said the trip is being made to familiarize them with condi tions at the park. Last week the Medford Jun ior Chamber of Commerce an nounced plans to do improve ment work at the park, and also passed a resolution asking gov ernmental agencies to provide better development and mainte nance for the park. The Jaycees are holding a "work day" at the north slope picnic grounds today. Both city and county officials have expressed interest in de veloping and improving the area. The county court recently appropriated $3,000 for park purposes. Evacuee Facilities in County Said Jackson county has excellent facilities for taking care of evac uees during an Atomic attack or similar emergency, but there is a great need for strengthening radiological monitoring. Maj. Gen. J. H. Hicks, county Civil Defense director, made these remarks Saturday while evaluating local success of the nation-wide "Operation Alert", held Friday, Saturday and to day. Simulated Bombs Simulated bombs were drop ped on Portland. Grand Coulee dam, Klamath Falls, San Fran cisco and Seattle during the Pa cific Northwest segment of the exercise. Jackson's county's participa tion ended at noon Saturday be cause of lack of personnel to man the Civil Defense control center after that. Hicks said. Communications and radio active fallout monitoring in the valley perimeter wre emphasiz ed locally this year. Monitoring U.S. Could Survive Real Atomic Attack, CD Leaders Report Friday's Mock Assault Killed Millions Emergency National Head quarters D Civil Defense leaders said Saturday the United States could survive a real atom ic attack such as Fridy's mock assault which theoretically laid waste a hundred cities and kill ed millions. But they were not prepared to say whether the test of Civil Defense and Mobilization in "Operation Alert 1957" was a success. "We can't say whether it was a success or a flop," Defense Mobilization Chief Gordon Gray said. Lewis E. Berry, acting Fed eral Civil Defense Administrat or, said the operation would con tinue this week but that it is too early to say what plans need overhauling. Hypothetical enemy aircraft flew across the top of the world Friday and dropped a mythical 175 nuclear bombs on 162 targ ets. A holocaust of unimaginable horror would have been created by their combined 451.7 mega tion atomic bomb load equal to 451.700,000 (M) tons of TNT. They struck at cities where more than 55 per cent of the U.S. population, or about 95 million persons, were living be fore the alert sounded. If the attack had been real a pall of deadly radioactive particles would have blanketed vast sections, following Ameri icans as they fled the target cities, air bases and atomic in stallations. Officials said the government and its armed forces would have continued operating. No attempt has been made yet to estimate on a national scale exactly how much of the nation's industrial machine, utilities, health and sanitation services would be left to carry the burden of survival and fighting the war. Lumber Market Still In Doldrums Upstate The upstate lumber market continues in the doldrums, ac cording to industry - sources in reports made Saturday. Random Lengths, Eugene lum ber market news letter, report ed "no new signs of life" after the July 4 shutdowns, with prices unchanged or slightly lower. Crow's Lumber Market news service, Portland, said Crow's lumber price index continued a gradual decline during the past two weeks. A building trades strike in southern Cali fornia curtailed demand, it add ed. Southern Oregon lumber mar keting generally has followed the pattern of the Willamette valley, although some local in dustry sources indicate the supply-demand situation here has been somewhat better than in the northern part of the state. Most major mills in this area continue operation, although ex tra shifts have not been put on in many cases, as is usually done at this time of year, Twenty Wounded in Two Algerian Bombings Algier Wl Twenty persons were wounded in two rebel bombings Saturday on the eve of the French celebration of Bastile Day. The attacks came in spite of stepped up French security mea sures to prevent rebel violence during independence day festivi- ties last night and today. teams were on duty at Rogue River, under the direction of Le Roy Webb, and near Trail, un der the direction of Ken Oliver. A team at the Camp White dom iciliary also made a simulated reading of fallout on Siskiyou summit. Experience Fallout Hicks said Medford would not have experienced fallout from the Portland attack because of prevailing winds. However, he commented that the San Fran cisco bomb would have brought some fallout to southern Oregon. Although the special Civil De fense radio station, Conelrad, was not used locally, officials kept in hourly touch with sta tion KMED from which regular broadcasts were made. The com munications network between here and Salem was kept open during the exercise and steady contact was maintained with ham operators in all parts of the Rogue valley. Jackson county wai asked to Co1 In Medford Council Adopts Budget for Fiscal Year '57-58 Off-Street Parking Item Is Criticized The Medford city council Fri day night adopted the budget for fiscal year 1957-58 as pro posed by the budget committee after a public hearing at which an item of $50,000 for an off street parking fund was both criticized and supported. The general fund budget is $810,912, an increase of $88,947 more than last year's budget. Much of the increase is repre sented in a $50,000 off-street parking fund, which is to pur chase land for, and to install, operate and maintain, off-street parking facilities. Councilman Stanley Jones cast the only vote against adopting the budget. He said he was not sure the city should operate an off-street parking facility since indications were that residents do not favor it. The off-street parking fund was the only item in the budget which met opposition, and much of that centered around a pro posal submitted to voters last November. That proposal, which would have authorized selling general obligation bonds to finance off street parking, was defeated. Under it, interest and bond prin ciple would be paid off through revenue from off-street parking facilities. If that was not suf ficient, funds would be made available from the general fund. The $50,000 in the off-street parking fund will come from two sources. An estimated $15, 000 will come from revenue from changes in parking meter times and rates, and $35,000 from present meter revenues. This will be offset by revisions in the city's business license fee. to make an estimated $35,000 or more. George Goodman, 212 Valley View dr., who operates the Free Enterprise Parking ' company, which has several downtown lots, said parking should be left to private enterprise, and indi cated that if a municipal facility were established it would not solve the problem. He said municipal off-street parking did not work in Coos Bay, and did not know of any place in the country where such a facility "paid off." Otto Ewaldson, 20 Ross court, pointed out that Whittier, Calif., paid off off-street parking bonds within five years after the facil ity was established. (Continued on page 5) Weather FORF-CAST; Cloudy and show ery thi morning becominr partly cloudy this afternoon through . Monday morning. High today 80. low tonight 53, high Monday 82. TEMP. HUhest Yeiterday 75 Loweit Yesterday 59 Our Skies Tonight Sunrise 4:47 a.m. 7:48 D.m. sunset , Moonriie 9:04 p.m. VISIBLE PLANETS (their approximate distances from the Earth tonf rht) Venus 141 million miles lupiter 539 million mile Saturn 860 million miles send a team to Portland to as sist with debris clearance. Heavy earth moving equipment would have been available from the the county road department for this mission, Hicks said. He ad ded that local officials determin ed they could have used back roads and traveled between Med ford and Salem in 10 hours. Transportation Team A local transportation team with busses was also summoned to bring Portland area casualties here for care. Hicks said hos pitals in the county would have been alerted to discharge pa tients who were not seriouslly ill in order to make room for the injured evacuees. Physicians and nurses were also assigned to var ious stations in the valley. The county "Red Cross organ ization was asked to check its ability to handle feeding and bedding of evacuees. Hicks said the chapter reported it could have provided lodging for about 35,000 people and fed double jinniDse Proposed lights Issue "It's foot That We Injuries Are Fatal To Crescent City Man Herald Louis Hamann. 20. Crescent City, Calif., died at Sacred Heart hospital Friday night of injuries sustained in a logging truck accident Thursday about five miles east of Ash land on the Dead Indian rd. Hamann's death brought Jackson county's traffic fatality total to 13 since Jan. 1 According to state police, the logging truck Hamann was driv- ing went out of control and plunged into Frog creek. Brakes of the turck apparently failed on a sharp curve, and the veh icle went down a 10-foot bank into the creek bed and turned over. The logs slid over the cab pinning Hamann inside. The wreckage was not discovered for about a half-hour after the ac cident. Another 2'2 hours were required to extricate him from the cab, police said. Blood was taken to the scene and administered by an Ashland physician while logs were being removed from the wreckage. Hamann was first taken to Ash- Two Men Jump from Moving Log Truck Two Medford men jumped to safety Friday as the left rear tires of their log truck blew out and the vehicle turned over in a ditch off Highway 62 near Air port rd. State and city police identified the men as Donald Bruce Dug ger, 33, of 505 Alice St., Med ford, driver of the truck, and Frank Lee Burch, 502 South Riverside ave., a passenger and owner of the truck. No other vehicle was involved in the accident and extent of damage to the truck was not re ported. Long Beach, Calif. W) The 6th annual Miss Universe pag eant to select the most beautiful girl from among 78 entrants rep resenting the cream of the world's beauty opened official ly, last night. Excellent that amount "Medford is certainly in a vulnerable position for radio logical fallout," Hicks stated. "We need to have a lot of inter est in the community if we are to do a good job of checking fall out." Monitoring Teams ' The Civil Defense director said 30 . radiological monitoring teams are needed here to check water supplies and other vital community points. At the pres ent time, the county has 15 train ed monitoring teams, but most of them are not equipped with the necessary instruments and radios. Hicks also commented, "It is practically impossible to get working people to participate in Civil Defense exercises and with out overall interest we are not able to conduct a really good test." He indicated more coop eration in this respect is needed from employers. Like You Less- land General hospital and was iater transferred to Sacred Heart hospital where physicians ampu tated his left arm. He died Fri day night of head Injuries, it was reported. The body was sent by Conger- Morris Funeral home to Cres cent City Saturday and funeral arrangements are pending there Survivors include his wife, Carol- a son, Wesley.,Todd; and his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Dennis Hamann, State Department, Press to Meet Washington OP) The State Department disclosed Saturday it will meet with press, radio and television representatives this week to discuss lifting its ban against American newsmen visiting Red China. The development came soon after Sen. Mike Mansfield (D- Mont.) declared in a Senate speech that the prohibition has placed United States policy to ward Red China in a "straitjack et of government-enforced ig norance." ' He took note of the State De partment's action, however, and said it was a "welcome step and the department should be commended for it. The Department said repre sentatives of the various news media had been invited to meet Thursday with Andrew Burding, Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs, and Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, in Dulles' office. BLM Opens Land To Mineral Entry Portland (in The bureau of land management announced Saturday that 37.5 acres of pub lic lands near Grants Pass, with drawn for an air navigation site, will be restored to mineral entry. The land is revested Oregon and California Railroad grant lands lying approximately 1V4 miles northeast of Grants Pass. The land is rough and moun tainous, supporting a stand of generally immature timber. The land has been classified for re tention in federal ownership for the permanent production of timber under the principle of sustained yield management. Robert Duncan to Speak To Roundtable Monday State Rep. Robert Duncan will report on the recent session of the Oregon legislature Monday at the noon luncheon of the Jackson County Chamber of Commerce Roundtable at the Jackson hotel in the Pioneer room. Duncan's talk will conclude the Roundtable's recent series of reports on the legislature. In preceding weeks State Sen. Phil Lowry and State Rep. E. A. (Al) Littrell have reviewed legislation enacted during the session. The luncheon will be open to the public, according to Bob Balk, Roundtable chairman. Sen. Carl Mundl's Plan Could Meet Southern Protests Comes In Saturday Session of Senate Washington IW Sen. Karl S. Mundt, (R-S.D.) "From a neutral corner" proposed a Civil Rights compromise last night which would go far to ward meeting the protests of Southern Democrats. His plan, the first overall compromise formally offered since the Senate began debat ing the issue on Monday, came at the end of a 9 hour, 20 min ute Saturday session marked by Southern demands for elimina tion of a provision they fear could be used to send federal troops into the South. Would Strike Section Mundt's proposal would strike that section from the bill with its provisions to allow the Jus tice Department to seek injunc tions against violations of Civil Rights and have offenders tried without a jury. His plan would retain a simi lar section aimed only at pro tection of Negro voting rights but would add an amendment to require trial by jury in all cases when facts were in dis pute. The Mundt compromise was in line with much of the compro mise talk being heard in the Senate. The Senate is prepared to vote about 6 p.m. (EDT) Tues day on the motion to take up the House-approved administra tion bill. Would Limit Powers Another Mundt proposal would limit powers of a propos ed commission to investigate vio lations of Civil Rights. Ha would give the commission pow er only to investigate violations of voting rights but would let it hear volunteer witnesses and re port on other fields of civil rights. The South Dakota Senator, whose state contains less than 1,000 Negroes by census figures. opened his speech by saying he was a voice from a neutral corner" because the Civil Rights question was not a political is sue in South Dakota. He said he had been looking for a compro mise plan which Southerners might not like but with which, the South could live. He said he had drafted his plan after consulting many mem bers of the Senate and expected to offer it as a substitute for the pending bill. Concern Expressed In Report Delay Salem iw Oregon Civil Defense leaders here expressed concern Saturday over the de lay experienced during Opera tion Alert Friday in receiving reports of the hypothetical bombing of Grand CoOlee dam. Authorities said the report from Moses Lake was slow in reaching Salem but that destruc tion of the giant dam would have flooded the Portland area with some 65 feet of water in isome sections. It also would have meant destruction of near ly all dams 'and powerhouses on the main stem of the Columbia below Grand Coulee as well as flooding of the Hanford atomic works. The exercise in Oregon was hampered by failure of radio communications during part of the day Friday but at least the weather would have been favor able of the attack had actually occurred. It would have mini mized fallout hazards over pop ulated areas. Dublin an Police hus tled 15 struggling Irish Nation alists off to a detention camp Saturday minutes after they completed jail terms for politi cal offenses. Sports Bulletin Vancouver, B.C. (W Right-hander Joe Stanka al lowed only four hits, two of them home runt, last night as Sacramento Solont scored a 5-4 Pacific Coast League baseball win over the Van couver Mounties before 3,173 fans at Vancouver's Capilano stadium. 1
