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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.
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