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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.
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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.
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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.