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Newspaper Page Text52nd Year Medford United Press Full Leased Wire 16 Pages Hews Gathering Bepresentatives Will Meet Dulles Plans To Be Discussed At Thursday Meeting Wachinpinn flR ThA wav wil probably be cleared within the next two weeks or so lor Amer ica s newsmen to enter Hea China, authoritative sources sa todav. Planv fnr the lnntf awaited break-through of the Bamboo Curtain will be discussed at a meeting here Thursday of news media representatives with Sec retary of State John Foster Dulles and Assistant Secretary nf State Andrew Bcrdinz. The State Department, under heavy pressure from news or ganizations and members of Con gress, has gradually been soften ing its position on the newsmen ban. Dulles has said recently that a limited number of newsmen to go to China, something might be worked out. Suggestions Received Since then suggestions from various news organizations have oeen received by the State De partment. The majority of these proposals, it was said, favor en try into China of representatives of the 12 U.S. news organiza tions who had men in China prior to its seizure by the Com munists. The 12 news organizations. are the United Press, Associated Press, International News Serv ice, National Broadcasting Co., American Broadcasting Co., Co lumbia Broadcasting System, New York Times. New York Herald Tribune, Chicago Daily NevPs, Christian Science Moni tor and Time Magazine. While some of these organiza tion had more than one repre sentative in China previously, it was expected any new represen tation probably would be limited to one man apiece. 'Barbarian' Regime The chief State Department ar gument against letting U.S. tewsmen enter Red China is( that Othe Peiping regime is a bar barian" government that should not be accorded the recognition and respect due a civilized na tion. Administration officials said the arguments against letting newsmen go to Red China could not stand against the overriding right of the American people to know at first hand from their owe) reporters what is happen ing in the world's most populous The ban on travel by other Americans to Red China and on trade with and recognition of the Peiping regime are expected to continue for the foreseeable future. Amusement Device Tax Crackdown Told Salem (in The State Tax Commission has started an ex tensive crackdown on alt de linquent taxpayers in the wake of an alarming drop in revenues from the state's amusement de vice tax. Commission Chairman S. W Horn said revenues so far this year are far behind former col lections and immediate steps are being taken to bring in these funds that are earmarked for old age assistance. Estimates made on July 10 indicate that the tax has been paid on only two-thirds of the machines in operation, Horn said. Pinball machines, shuffle boards, mechanical music de vices and other similar machines are subject to Oregon's amuse ment device tax due July 1. A 20 per cent penalty is charged for late payment. Atomic Buildup Due Arfhy in South Korea O Washington W The Army announced todav it would begin immediately to reorganize the 7th division in Korea along atomic lines to help counter the heavy Red military buildup in the north. Powerful new jet bombers and fighters already are slated to go to South Korea, as well as modern equipment and tanks for the two U.S. divisions hold ing the armistice line. BAH jo n sr. o I Thought Yo., Said You Federal Agencies Begin Hypothetical Job of War Emergency News Headquar ters, Operation Alert IIP) More than 100,000 agencies of federal, state and local govern ments today began the hypo thetical job of putting the na tion back on its feet following a make-believe nuclear assault that took a staggering toll. Millions Affected Some 93,500,000 persons were affected by the imaginary nu clear bombardment of 155 Amer ican cities Friday in this year's Civil Defense test. About 41 million of these were "evacu ated" the rest presumably were killed or left behind. President Eisenhower went by helicopter to a secret Civil De fense command post from his 2 School Officials To Attend Meeting Jackson county schools will be represented by Alf B. Mek- vold, superintendent, and Bruce S Hitt Jr., elementary super visor, at the annual curriculum conference for county school superintendents July 22 to 26 in Portland. Theme of the conference is "Visioneering in Education." The four day session will cover all sections of school cur riculum. Television and radio broadcasting, automation, food, preservation and power from cosmic space will be subjects of general lectures and demonstra tions. July 23 delegates will be taken by airlift to the Boeing Aircraft Corporation in Seattle, Wash., to tour the plant and study automation and elec tronics. Mekvold will preside at an evening session on automation July 24. He is vice-president of the Oregon Association of Coun ty School Superintendents. The association is sponsoring the conference in cooperation with the state department of educa tion, the Oregon Education as sociation and the Oregon State system of higher education. N'ebraskan Elected Elks Exalted Ruler San Francisco IP Ne braska attorney Hobert L. Blackledge. 57. today was elect ed Grand Exalted Ruler of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. The Kearney, Neb., lawyer has been an Elk for 30 years. He was nominated by Federal Judge John W. Delehant, Lin coln, Neb., and the nomination was seconded by Nebraska Gov. Victor E. Anderson. The new grand exalted ruler succeeds Fred L. Bohn. who de livered the keynote speech as the BPOE opened its 93rd Grand Lodge convention at Civic Auditorium Sunday night. MEDFORD, OREGON, 'MEN GOING TO i-f kA 7 IU I 1 II II II II II II "1 Finished Him This Time" Mop-Up Gettsyburgh, Pa., farm to check on activities in this post-attack phase of "Operation Alert 1957." The "attack" by supersonic enemy bombers hit all parts of the United States except Louisi ana and Arkansas. Civil De fense officials in those states were too busy with real devasta tion left in the wake of hurri cane Audrey and recent floods to participate in the test. Job of Rehabilitation The new phase of the drill was called the "government mobili zation action period", the massive job of national . reha bilitation. Civil Defense officials assum ed they were facing a situation that would develop 15 days after an attack. During this final week-long phase of Operation Alert, the exercise will put emphasis on actions required to meet the survival needs of the nation; to maintain continuity of govern ment; to put the nation's indus try on "an emergency footing; and to expand the nation's de fense forces for emergency ac tion. New Grand Jury Selected Here Today Three men and four women were selected in circuit court this morning to compose the Jackson county grand jury for the term ending Oct 21. The seven member jury was appointed by the court from a list of 40 citizens called to the chambers this morning. Jury members are Leland P. Lovejoy, Central Point, fore man; Martha Larimer, 925 Mt. Pitt ave.; Robert A. Naumes, 620 Oakdale dr.; . Grace Stafford, Trail; Wilma R. Dunlap, 3891 Jacksonville highway; Ken Pat terson, 207 North Peach St.; and Wilma H. Simmons, 2210 Capi tol ave. Wind, Rain Cause Power Outage Here Power was out in' a Medford downtown area for about three hours early Sunday morning. California Oregon Power com pany reported that wind and rain caused tree limbs to short out a distribution circuit along Ivy st. between Main and Sixth Firemen were summoned about 12:30 a.m. and stood by until Copco repairmen arrived. The circuit was back in opera tion about 3:30 p.m. Baseball NATIONAL LEAGUE Chicago 3 10 1 New Yok 5 7 1 Elston. Poholsky (3). Little field (7) and Silvera. Neeman (7); Antonelli, Worthington (B) and Thomas. MONDAY, JULY 15, 1957 Eisenhower Tours Headquarters for Operation Alert Secret Quarters For Atomic War Washington (IB Presi dent Eisenhower completed to day a helicopter tour of the secret headquarters he and mo bilization officials would use if the nation suffered an atomic "Pearl Harbor." A bubble-nosed blue and white helicopter deposited him on the White House lawn -after a short flight from the mountain guarded "Highpoint" headquar ters of the Federal Civil De fense and Mobilibation agencies. Receives Briefing Eisenhower flew to the secret relocation center this morning from his Gettysburgh, Pa., farm and received a briefing on the theoretical work of a skeleton government staff in putting the nation back together after Fri day's mock atomic assault. Among the theoretical prob lems immediately presented to Eisenhower by Defense Mobili zation Director Gordon Gray was the pall of radioactive par ticles which would spread over most of the nation following atomic bombardment of 155 cities. Lewis E. Eberry, acting chief of the Federal Civil Defense Ad ministration, joined the confer ence in the well-guarded emer gency headquarters. Phase Three of Alert The President's visit coincided with the opening of a week long "phase three" of Operation Alert. Friday night he stayed at the emergency "White House" relocation center somewhere north of Washington, then flew to Gettysburg for a week end of golf and relaxation. Security precautions barred disclosure of the distance of the headquarters from either Wash ington or Gettysburg. Eugene Fisherman Snags Rattlesnake In Willamette River Eugene (in . Wendell Koufman of Eugene went fly fishing Sunday and caught a rattlesnake. Koufman, his wife, Betty Lou; Herb Kill and Sally Crawford were in a boat fly fishing in the middle fork of the Willamette liver between Lowell and Jasper. Koufman ' noticed a large snake in the water which . he thought at first was a bull snake. Then he saw its rattles. Koufmann had Nill tow the boat away from the snake and then snagged it with a boomer caddis fly. He held it at the and of the rod and hauled it ashore where they killed it with rocks and sticks. ' The big timber rattler was three feet long and had 14 rattles. Herb Nill is the son of Mr. and Mrs. E. E. Nill. 25 Myers st. He graduated from Med ford high school where he participated in track and foot ball. Visitor From Seed Production in County Rene Rosati, seed production and pasture management spe cialist from Chile, is in the coun ty today studying seed crops. W. B. Tucker, county agricul tural agent, is accompanying the visitor on a tour of valley farms. Rosati is employed by the Chilean government as chief of "Plan Chillon," an agricultural project in three provinces of central Chile. The plan is spon sored by Chile and the Interna tional Cooperation administra tion. It involves irrigation and tidelands work over 4 million acres of land. Initiated in 1952 , Rosati said "Plan Chillon" was initiated in 1952. His main interest lies in the field of soil conservation, specifically man agement of pasture land and seed production. Today Rosati was to visit the Southern Oregon Experiment 1RIBUNE Use of Israel Tanks Against Syria Revealed Warning Issued Syrian Chief Jerusalem, Israel (IP) The Israeli army used tanks last Tuesday to silence Syrian artil lery and mortars in a 10-hour border battle, it was disclosed today. The tanks were purchased from France several months be fore the Sinai campaign where they distinguished themselves in battles with Soviet-built T34 tanks. Government sources said Is rael sent the tanks into action in the Gonen sector of the Israeli Syrian frontier because Syria had refused United Nations cease-fire orders. The Israeli sources said this development may be the source of rumors broadcast by Jordan's Radio Ramallah Sunday that U.N. investigators found "French troops" massing on the border. In Damascus, Syria's army chief of staff warned that the nation must be increasingly alert to face Israel's "treacher ous intentions.". Gen. Tewfik Nizameddin told newsmen that Syria dealt Israel a hard blow in last week's fighting. But this does not mean the battle is ended," he said. "There may now be an increase in Is rael's treacherous intentions. Therefore we should increase our alert." He said Syrian border forces were "sufficient to face any further emergency." Premier David Ben-Gurion re ported to the cabinet Sunday on the recent border incidents, and political observers believed the cabinet gave him a free hand to initiate strong retaliatory ac tion should new border incidents flare. It was recalled that Maj. Gen. Moshe Dayan, the Israeli army chief of staff, declared, on Fri day night the policy of retalia tion had worked in the past and would be continued. Hearing on Train Speeds Postponed The public hearing on fixing and regulating railway train speeds within the city of Med ford has been postponed until Aug. 30 by the Public Utilities commission. It has been scheduled pre viously for July 30. Principal witnesses will not be available until after Aug. 18,-according to a letter received by City At torney E. R. Bashaw. A statement received June 17 by the Public Utilities commis sion from the Southern Pacific railroad company stated that the maximum speed of trains within Medford city limits had been re duced voluntarily in May of 1956. The present speeds used by the company, according to the statement, are Stewart ave., 25 miles per hour, Eleventh st. 15 miles per hour. Main and Sixth sts., 10 miles per hour. Fourth and Third sts., 15 miles per hour, and Jackson, Clark and McAndrews rd., 25 miles per hour. The Southern Pacific company stated that the speed of 10 miles per hour at Main and Tenth sts., is the lowest possible speed for the practical operation of trains. Salem (IP) Gearhart will be the scene of the 11th annual con vention of the National Associa tion of State Directors of Vet erans Affairs July 21-24. Chile Studies station and the Otto Bohnert farm. At the Bohnert farm he was to inspect seed crops of merion blue grass, penlawn fes cue, polycross bent grass, gran ger lotus. Talent alfalfa and sugar beet. Tours Planned ' Tomorrow Tucker will take him to the Earl Peffley farm in Sams Valley to look at breeder's ladino clover seed, Albert Straus of Straus brothers, the William Walch farm on Bear creek to look at a 50 acre field of ladino clover, the John and Otto Nie dermeyer farm near Jackson ville, and the Frank Kuoni farm on Upton rd. Rosati is in the United States for eight months and has been studying the past five months at Washington State college. He is now at Oregon State college at Corvallis for three weeks, and will be going to Denver, then Mississippi State college. Price 10( United Press Full Leased Wire No. 99 D. FORD McCORMICK Mining Career Ends D. F. McCormick Dies Here Sunday After Long Illness David Ford McCormick, 69, Eagle Point, well-known South ern Oregon mining consultant engineer and civic worker, died Sunday at a local hospital after an illness of several months. Mr. McCormick was born Nov. 17, 1887, at Del Rio, Tex., and moved to San Antonio at the age of 6. He was graduated from San Antonio High school in 1905 and received his civil engineering degree at the Uni versity of Texas in 1908. In 1910 he received a degree in mining and metallurgy at the Colorado School of Mines. Married in 1912 He was married to Miss An nette Tanne Powers, who sur vives, in 1912 at Denver, Colo. Between 1912 and 1915 he oper ated Aquacate Mines near San Jose, Costa Rica, and from 1915 to 1922 he managed Matahambre Copper mines at Cuba. The fol lowing year he managed Kaolin mines in Cold Springs. Va., and Macon, Ga. He moved to Med ford in 1933 to manage Sterling mines and Yara Engineering company. From 1941 to 1945 Mr. McCor mick managed quicksilver mines near Winnemucca, Nev., and served as mining consultant here from 1946 until his death. Active in YMCA He was active in the forma tion, planning and construction of the Medford YMCA and was president of . the Y board for two terms. He was an enthusias tice supporter of the Y's sum mer camp. He also was active in the United Medford Crusade and was a member of the state board of engineering examiners. He .was a member of the Elks lodge, Phi Gamma Delta frater nity, Roman Catholic church. Professional Engineers of Ore gon and was a past president of the Rotary club in Medford. Survivors include . Mrs. Mc Cormick, Eagle Point; three daughters, Mrs. Robert Spalding, Menlo Park, Calif., Mrs. Joe Naumes, Medford, and Mrs. Wil liam Spangler, Reno, Nev.; his mother, Mrs. D. R. McCormick, Houston, Texas; a brother, A. W. McCormick, Central Point; two sisters, Mrs. R. H. Fonville, Houston, Texas, and Mrs. G. M. Kilcarr, Hillside, N.J.; three grandson ands ix granddaugh ters. . Requiem Mast - Requiem mass will be conduct ed at 9 a.m. Wendesday, July 17, at the Sacred Heart Catholic church. The Rev. Nicholas Deis will officiate. Rosary will be said at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, July 16, at Perl's Funeral home. Honorary pallbearers will be Seth Bullis, Dr. W. P. Holt, Dr. Charles Paske, William J. War ner; Earl Day, Henry Andrews, John Winton, Col. Paul Weiland and Dr. Ralph Dippel. Active pallbearers will be Ward Ham mond, Leonard Mayfield, James Dunlevy, Otto Frohnmayer, El wood Hedberg, A. C. Pierce, John Boyle, and Robert Jones. Interment will be at Siskiyou Memorial park. Weather FORECAST: Fair tonicht and Tuesday. Warmer Tuesday. Low tonight 50. High Tuei Uy 88. Temp. Highest 5trrlay 11 Lowest this Morning . 48 Our Skies Tonight ' Sunset 7:47 p.m. Sunrise 4:4 J a.m. The Moon rises 9:31 p.m. oil Apotee. it is zi.9oo mues from, the Earth tonight. ' Last Quarter July It VISIBLE PLANETS Venus, low in west 8:411 p.m. Saturn, due south . 9:04 p.m. lupiter, low in West. 19:07 p.m. 'Diablo' Fired; Windows Broken At Carson City -Atomic Test Site, Nev. OPl Dud bomb "Diablo, which fail-' ed to fire June 28 when -it was triggered on top of its 500-foot platform, was fired today at 3:30 a.m. (PST) at the Atomic Energy commission's proving ground. The blast developed the usual characteristics of nuclear devices as it disintegrated its "tower and sent a cloud mushrooming into the pre-dawn darkness. A faint glow silhouetted the mountain backdrop. Scientists at a pre-shot brief ing announced they expected the device to have a yield of some 10,000 tons of TNT. The AEC said weather reports indicated the atomic cloud would be blown apart quickly and dispersed over a large area with fallout confined mainly to the test site. Windows Broken E. K. Butner, of the "Carson City. Nev., police department, telephoned the AEC to report broken windows in that city as a result of the test. He said the windows were broken or crack ed in several homes and that the damage occurred on the op posite side of the homes from the direction of the blast some 250 miles away. The AEC said if the damage is confirmed it will be the first from blast waves propagated through the ozonosphere and the first blast damage at any such distance. Ozonosphere blast waves us ually are softer than those, pro pagated through the higher trop osphere, the AEC said. Seen Over Big Area Various segments of the cloud were expected to be blown north and east across Nevada into southeast Utah and then swing in a northerly direction toward Wyoming. The blast was plainly visible in Los Angeles and San Fran cisco. Immediately after the firing observers described the fireball as having a thick stem with a weird-looking purple glow hang ing around its entire edge. The fireball was not visible Second Man Dies in Dunsmuir Accident Dunsmuir, Calif. IP Wilbur Jordan, 45, Dunsmuir, died at 12:55 a.m. today as a result of injuries suffered Friday when the . brakes of a truck loaded with plywood failed and it ca reened six city blocks before overturning at an intersection. Jordan was the driver of a pickup truck that was struck by the truck operated by Buel Knichloe, Tuscon, Ariz. On Friday a passenger in the pickup truck, Jack Perry, 49, was killed instantly as the trucks collided. Knichloe was reported recov ering rapidly. Howard O. Gaston, district su pervisor of the Interstate Com merce Commission, is here and will start Tuesday with around-the-clock' operations to check brakes of all interstate trucks. Dunsmuir is located at. the bot tom of a steep two mile grade and has had two similar acci dents in the past two weeks. Mystery of Body in Trunk Said Solved New York (IPl Police said to day they have solved the trunk murder of James Malloy, 52. "We have arrested an indi vidual, recovered a gun, learned where the trunk was purchased and have recovered a watch, a ring and other property of the deceased," Deputy Chief Inspec tor Edward W. Byrnes an nounced. The individual, under arrest was a handsome blond between 25 and 35 years, who appeared to match the description of one of the two men who delivered the tin trunk containing Mal loy's body to a Railway Express Office for shipment to Los An geles. Byrnes refused to identify him immediately. (See Story on Pag S) Prineville Boy, 7, Found Alter 9 Hours - Prineville Wl Brick Wood ward, 7, was found about mid night Sunday after a group of about 100 volunteers had search ed for him for nine hours. The youngster became lost about 3 p.m. while on a fishing picnic with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Van Woodward, Frinevine. He became separated from his parents in the Fox Creek area 35 miles east of here.' He was found by Bob Holgate asleep in a thicket on the edge of Summit prairie three miles from where he became lost. He was unharmed except for being cold and hungry. 15 seconds later but the glow resembline Durnle -Dhosphores- ence continued to encircle the mass as it rose to some 15,000 feet within two minutes. At ground zero a small fire was visible from the observa tion point. Helicopters and cloud-tracking planes swarmed into the area from such distant bases as Or lando, Fla., and Wright-Patter son Field, Ohio., in addition to western air bases. "Diablo," an experimental de vice designed by the University of California Radiation labora tory at Livermore, Calif., had an audience of some 500 military observers, including 100 Can adians. Khrushchev Says Unify To Defeat West's Blockade Prague, Czechoslovakia HB Soviet Communist party chief Nikita Khrushchev said today the unity of the Iron Curtain countries will defeat the West's attempt to cut off shipment of strategic goods to them. Referring to the western-imposed blockade of strategic items to the Soviet Union, Red , China and the Eastern Eropean satellites, he said: "We must rationally utilize our own limitless possibilities so we can say to the capitalists, ' 'Your blockade is a myth. You cannot stop us.' " Labor To Decide Battle Khrushchev also told 100,000 cheering and chanting workers in Republic square in Pilsen that the battle between capital ism and socialism will be decid ed by whichever labor force pro duces the most goods. "We say to the capitalists we must coexist and compete," he said. "We think our system will win because it is superior and can produce a higher productiv ity of labor. We must accumu late reserves. We cannot expect any help from the capitalists. We must rely on our own strength." Report on Tour Khrushchev's speech was, in ef fect, a report on the current tour of Czechoslovakia by him and Soviet Premier Nikolai Bulga nin in advance of a formal com munique which is expected to be released before they leave this week. The traveling Soviet leaders spent their last full day in Czechoslovakia traveling in sep arate groups. Khrushchev went' to Pilsen, the largest industrial city in this country, noted for its beer and metallurgical works. Bulganin went -to Most, a min ing town near the East German border. Western newsmen were not permitted to accompany eith er group. They also were barred from a reception for the Rus sians in Prague tonight. Portland Couple Held Up by Bandit Portland (If) A young ban dit held up a couple parked on Skyline boulevard here early Sunday, kissed the girl, stole $4 from the man and fled. The sheriff's office said the description of the bandit was the same as that of a man who held up another couple near the same location a week ago Sun day. The couple, not identified by the sheriffs office, said the young man drove up to their car and, at gunpoint, ordered the woman into his car. They said he had six garters lined across the sun visor of the car. He ordered the woman to put one on, and then took a picture. After kissing the woman, the holdup man fled. In the holdup on July 7 the bandit did not molest the wom an but took her purse and her escort's wallet. Outstanding Oregon Scout To Get Medal Washington W A replica of the Thomas Jefferson peace and friendship medal will be pre sented to the outstanding Oregon Boy Scout at the national jam boree at Valley Forge, Pa. The replica was sent by Sen. Richard L. Neuberger (D-Ore.), who visited the Oregon Scouts during the week end. Typhoon Wendy Heading For China Mainland Manila (IP) Typhoon Wendy packing winds of 90 miles an hour, sped toward the China mainland today, leaving behind a trail of destruction in the Philippines. No casualties were reported but damage was expected to reach the millions.