Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, July 25, 1957, Image 1

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Newspaper Page Textmm 1 0 ll LAME mm 52nd Year Ml nnltad Praa FuU 32 Pages BRITISH Sultan Said To Be Seeking Troops To Oppose Rebellion Religious War Declared by Rebels Bahrein, Persian Gulf Royal Air Force jets were or dered into action again today against rebel tribesmen in the Sultanate of Muscat and Oman. The Sultan was reported de manding the use of British troops as well. Sir Bernard Burrows, British political resident in the Persian Gulf, flew today from his head quarters here to the capital city of Muscat to confer with Sultan Said-Bin Taimur on his reported request for British soldiers to put down the rebellion. Soldien oi Fortune The Sultan has an army of about 2,000 men led by 10 Brit ish officers former members of the British army who are on leave and call themselves Sol diers of Fortune. The rebel forces are smaller but so well dug in it would take a major .force to dislodge them. The rebels are led by the Imam (religious leader) of Oman, Ghaled Bin Ali, and his strong man brother Talib. They have declared a "jihad" or religious war against the pro-British Sul tan and have captured strategic mountainous ground around the provincial capital of ' Nizwa which was once the capital of Oman. -Major Strike The RAF announced a major strike today against the rebel center of Nizwa where leaflets were dropped Tuesday giving the insurgents 48 hours warning. The ultimatum expires today. Wednesday's single strike con sisted of 12 rocket attacks by Venom jets on Fort Izki, 20 miles east of Nizwa, a massive structure with walls five feet thick. Reconnaissance planes re ported the roof gutted and signs of severe damage to the ram parts. 17-Year-0ld Arresfed For Burglaries Here A 17-year-old Medford boy was detained in the county jail today for questioning in connec tion with the burglaries of five Medford business houses. City police arrested the youth this morning. Officers said he admitted entering Trowbridge and Flynn warehouse, Sherwin Williams company. Westing house Electric company and Schmidt Distributing company Tuesday night and Padgham's Glass and Millwork company July 17. An estimated $22 was missing from Padgham's and about $23 from Trowbridge and Flynn, ac cording to police. Of 82-Year-Old Medford Woman in Court Police Capt. Clyde C. Ficht ner was appointed guardian of Mrs. Ora Lee Adams, 82-year-old Medford woman, at the final session yesterday of the two-day hearing in Jackson county cir cuit court. Giving the reasons for his de cision Circuit Judge O. J. Mil lard said former guardians, Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Adams, did not have control over Mrs. Ora Lee Adams, according to evi dence presented. He stated also that the in ventory should have been made rot later than 60 days after their appointment. Though prevented by doing so by the ward, they should have requested a court order if necessary, the judge pointed out The inventory of her possessions when made should have been prepared in more detail, he added. Judge Millard concluded by ssying that the Change appears . best for the personal interest and mental happiness of Mrs. Adams. "Mrs. Adams may become antansonistic toward her new guardian as she is against the Adamses, but the court feels the new appointment is to her best i:erests," the judse said. Auvuan o jo n '- )RD, JETS SENT AGAINST OMAN Sailor 'Scared' During In Airplane Stolen in Ukiah, Calif. UK A 17-year-old sailor admitted today he was "scared" when he looked out the window of. his stolen plane and found he was making his first solo flight over the Pacific Ocean. Moreover, he was flying at night and his compass wasn't working. Clips Couple of Trees But the sailor, Charles High smith, made it back to land and eventually brought his plane safely down at Ukiah airport. He clipped a couple of trees in landing. A reception committee, in cluding the Mendocino County sheriff, was on hand to greet him. He was taken to county jail. It r'sSfe-j'. "H I 1 U fri.v ' - fhS :'v r I, PATROLMEN ATTEND CLASS Four pa ,trolmen of the Medford police department are shown above attending recruit training classes conducted by the department. Shown from left to right are Patrolmen Bruce Long, Elvin Renfro, Garnet Stoltenburg and Charles Chisum, with Sgt Keith Gildesgard, one of FPC Permit 'Astonishes' Morgan Salem m Public Utilities Commissioner Howard Morgan today wired" the Federal Power Commission asking that hearings on Pacific Northwest Power Company's application for a per mit to build two dams on the Snake river be reopened. Morgan protested as "aston ishing" the FPC examiner's rec ommendation that upstream stor age on the Snake was not urg ently needed. The FPC examiner recom None of the allegations Mr. and Mrs. Allison Adams, Los An geles, Calif., and relatives of the ward's late husband, are true according to the evidence presented, the judge said. No evidence- has been produced to show that the former guardians procurred any advantage or benefit from the estate. Also, commitment in the state hospital at Salem was "ab solutely necessary," the judge stated. Mrs. Adams is consider ably improved over her former condition, he added. The case of Mrs. Adams originally came to public at tention in 1955. Then, the Rev. G. H. Hillerman, a resident in Mrs. Adams' neighborhood, told Walter Nunley, who was then district attorney, that he was concerned over the octa genarian's welfare. Nunley sug guested that the elderly woman come to see him. Following a discussion with her, he prepared, at her request, a petition to appoint Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Adams, her friends for 25 years, as guard ians. A hearing in circuit court was scheduled for July 13, 1355. but was set over to Aug. OREGON, THURSDAY, JULY Highsmith, whose home towngan to wonder if he'd done the is Forth Worth, Tex., went AWOL from the carrier Ben nington stationed in San Fran cisco last Sunday. He hitch hiked to Medford, Ore., and then decided he'd better be getting back. Learned To Fly in CAP Highsmith had learned to fly while a member of the Civil Air Patrol but he had never soloed before. He figured Tuesday night was as good a time as any to start. He looked over a few Rogue Flying- Service planes at Med ford airport and soon settled on a single engine Cessna 170. He kicked over the engine and took off in the darkness. Then he be- for Dams mended that the power company be granted a 50-year license to build Mountain Sheep and Pleas ant Valley dams. ' "The conclusion of your examiner that upstream storage is not urgently needed Is direct ly contrary to massive and well known facts," Morgan wired. "Neither the private power com panies nor the general public can sustain much longer the failure to develop the largest possible amount of, upstream storage in the Columbia Basin." 2, 1955. Oral directions were issued by the then presiding judge for the parties involved and witnesses to appear in August. Judge Mil lard has since ruled that such a citation required by statute is not sufficient to confer jurisdic tion on the court for a hearing to be held on the guardianship appointment. During the testimony of the recent two-day ' hearing it was revealed that Captain Fichtner had declined responsibility for Mrs. Adams when asked by Pub lic Health Officer Dr. A. Erin Merkel during the March 1 committment hearing. Fichtner had opposed commitment to the state hospital at that time. During an inventory of Mrs. Ora Lee Adams' household pos sessions a small metal box was discovered containing approxi mately $17,600 in small bills. Papers found about that time also revealed the address of the Los Angeles relatives. They were asked by letter to contact the appointed guardians, but ac cording to court testimony did not. Later they filed the peti tion to have Fichtner appointed as guardian. Fichtner later agreed to the proposal. Tribune 25, 1957 right thing. "About a hundred miles out of Medford, I got caught "in a lot of mountains," he said. "Everywhere I looked, a moun tain was coming at me' Radio Goes Out Soon after, his radio went out. "By then I didn't know where I was. So I dropped down low, to take a good look. The ocean was beneath me. That's when I really got seared. So I headed in a di rection I hoped was land." By then, his compass had gone out. After four hours of flying in darkness, Highsmith soon saw lights below. Circling around, the instructors. Classroom training four hours a day is combined with observation four hours a day during the two week session which ends July 31. Another recruit, Patrol man Roy Thompson, is not shown. Some old er members of the force also attend. Humphrey To Quit Post Next Monday Washington ID! George Magoffin Humphrey will hang up him homberg next Monday as Treasury secretary. Behind him he leaves the prospect of a third straight bal anced budget the first time this three-in-a-row feat has been accomplished since the great de pression of the 1930s. During his regime the na tional debt was reduced by $2 billion to $272 billion. He also leaves some hot con troversies over his policies notably the celebrated "tight money" situation and the high interest rate the government has been paying lately on its own se curities. Ahead of the Cleveland in dustrialist is another tour of duty in big business, this time ar. board chairman of National Steel Corp., Pittsburgh. The White House announced that Humphrey will depart next Monday. His resignation was an nounced in May. His successor, former Deputy Defense Director Robert B. Anderson, will be sworn in the same day at 7 a.m. (P.S.T.) in President Eisen hower's office. GEORGE HUMPHREY Another Balanced Budget Price 10c United Presi Full Leased Wfce No. 108 REBELS Flight Medford he soon found the outlines of Ukiah airport. By then it was dawn. "I saw a row of trees right in front of me. I tried for altitude, but I couldn't pull over them. Then I saw two trees with some space between them. They just seemed to part for me. I could feel the leaves brushing under the fuselage. And then I set her down." . Not Direct Route He had 45 minutes of gasoline left. The' airline distance between Ukiah and Medford is 221 miles, but authorities figured High- smith's first solo flight was con siderably more. Fourth Trial Due For Sherry Fong Early Next Fall Portland (IP) Sherry Fong faced trial for the fourth time today for the 1954 slaying of Diane Hanks, a 16-year-old girl whose body was found wrapped in blankets near Washougal, Wash. r ''District Attorney Leo Smith said Wednesday he would move officially to request a trial date early next fall as soon as a man date from the State Supreme Court arrives. The court recent ly reversed the second degree murder conviction of Mrs. Fong and ordered the case remanded to Multnomah county. In Jail Since 1SS5 Mrs. Fong has been in the Rocky Butte jail here since early 1955. At her first trial she. and her husband, Wey Him Fong, were convicted of first-degree murder, but the ver "ict was set aside. Her second trial was' de clared a mistrial and her third trial resulted in the second de gree murder conviction. Mearwhile, her husband was found innocent in a directed ver dict of acquittal at a separate trial. Mrs. Fong's attorney, Irvin Goodman, said he had "hoped that with reversal of her convic tion by the Oregon Supreme Court she would be given her freedom." Heart Attack Fatal To Central Point Man Homer Arthur Denman, ,71, died of an apparent heart at tack about 10:30 ajn. in a down town parking lot, city police re ported. ,. v A driver's license and other identification indicated his home address as route 1, box 356, Cen tral Point. Police said Denman suffered the heart attack while discuss ing where he had parked his car vith another motorist parked on the lot. Funeral arrangements will be announced by Conger Morris Funeral home. CALLED TO WRECK . City firemen were called to a truck wreck at Midway and Merriman rds. about 10:30 today to flush away gasoline spilled from the truck. Details of the accident were not available from city police since they did not have the information as sembled. Firemen stood by until the truck was uprighted. Weather FORECAST: Fair ton i clit xn& Friday but occasional cloudi ness and a little cooler Fri day. Low tonight 55. Hlsh Friday 85-88. Temp. Richest Yesterday ' 99 Lowest this Morning- . 54 Our Skies Tonight Sunrise Sunset , 4:57 a.m. 7:39 ; Moonrfse Friday 4:33 a.m. New Moon Friday night Venus, low in west at 8:33 p.m., Is now near the star, Regulus. This planet continues, to move eastward on its orbit and In a few weeks will be seen near Jupiter. Mysterious Hole Made in Airliner; Passenger Missing Possible Bullet Holes Eyed by Investigators George AFB, Calif. IW A four by seven foot chunk of fuselage was mysteriously ripped early today from a Western Air Lines Convair carrying 13 pas sengers, one of whom was miss ing when the aisliner made a successful emergency landing minutes later. No other injuries were report ed among the passengers or the crew of three of the twin-engined plane. An unofficial FBI report to WAL after a preliminary check of the plane said there appeared to be four holes similar to bul let holes" surrounding the tear in the fuselage in the lavatory section of the plane where the missing passenger last was seen entering. Missing and presumed dead somewhere in the rugged and unpopulated terrain of the big California Mojave desert was S. F. Binstock, 62, a jeweler of Canoga Park, near Los An geles. FBI agents, admittedly seek ing clues to a possible suicide, theorized that bullet holes "or whatever caused the holes" so weakened the skin of the plane that the slipstream of the 250- mph Convair tore it lose. A WAL spokesman said the FBI reported initially that there appeared to be no powder or burn marks in the lavatory sec tion such as a dynamite blast would make. WAL said the plane was fly ing at 10,000 feet en route from Minneapolis to Los Angeles aft er a stop at Las Vegas. A com pany spokesman said the cabin was pressurized to 3,000 feet "but it wouldn't seem likely under normal circumstances that such a minor difference in pres sure would account for a de compression blast." Pilot Capt. Milt Shirk, Los Angeles, said the pressure was rtwo" -pounds per square foot. Decompression fractures usual ly leave only a small hole 8 or 10 inches across," he said. "In my opinion bullets would not cause that much structural dam age. Thought of Collision But it was an explosive com pression," he told reporters In Los Angeles. "I felt it as a bang and I thought somebody had run into me. It wasn't like a normal decompression. Some thing else, something explosive, caused it, I believe." Passenger Samuel Gilbert, 43, Los Angeles, said he was asleep when suddenly he heard a sharp, loud single shot . . . and a gush of air rushed through the plane." Dee Sharon, 25, blonde Holly wood model, said she told Gil bert when the incident occurred and preparations for an emer gency landing were made: "I thought this is it . . . we're not going to make it. I shook hands with Gilbert and blessed myself. I thought we were going down." .' "It looked like an explosion." Capt. Shirk first radioed at 2.37 a.m. (p.s.t.) that he believed a window in the rear of his air craft had blown out. He request ed permssion to land at this Mohave desert; base. They were 47 minutes out of Las Vegas, where Binstock had boarded the plane not long after telling his wife by telephone that he was coming in on Flight 39, Shirk's plane. Dr. Sidney Binstock, Beverly Hills, son of the missing man, told reporters his father had been "under considerable busi ness pressure" lately. , Baseball AMERICAN LEAGUE (10 innings) Clereland " " 2 8 1 Washington 3 10 1 Carcia. Dalay (10) and Heg an: Kemmerer and Courtney. Chicago : S 8 0 New York 2 4 2 Donovan, Moti (9) and Bat tey;Shntj, Ditmar (9) and Bcrra. Kansas City- , 3 6 1 Boston ; 5 10 0 Gorman, Burnett (2), Cox (3), Urban (7) and Smith; Port crfield and Whit. Detroit 0 5 3 8 Baltimore Lary, Sleater (6), Gromelc (8) and House: Johnson and Triandos. NATIONAL LEAGUE Philadelphia 5 8 2 Milwaukee 3 9 1 Roberts, Farrell (9) and Lo pata; Spahn. Trowbridge (6), McMahon (8) and Craja.ll. "Now Let'. See Tenth Nuclear Blast Set Off From Balloon Angels' Peak, Nev. IB) The Atomic Energy Commission touched off the 10th nuclear ex plosion of its 1SS7 summer vest series at 5:30 ajnl (P.S.T.) to day from a captive balloon anchored S00 feet above the Ne vada Proving Grounds. The blast was so bright it made the morning sun appear to dim by comparison. Its fireball lasted for approximately 10 sec onds and the familiar mushroom pattern following the blast rose quickly. Some 15 seconds after the Stores to Open Monday Nights Medford retail stores will be open Monday nights until 9 pjn. beginning Aug. 12, "Eugene Orr, chairman of the Retail Mer chants association of the Jack son County Chamber of Com merce, announced today. He said merchants voted to change the day from the Wednes day night openings of past years partly because of a request from the Medford Ministerial associ ation. Almost 100 per cent coopera tion was voiced by the busi nesses, Orr said. Night openings are planned at least until Christ mas, with the possibility that stores may remain open Mon day nights the year around, ac cording to the chairman. Couple Appears in Municipal Court A Medford couple charged with six counts of furnishing alcoholic beverages to minors and allowing minors to loiter on tavern premises appeared in municipal court Wednesday. George William Smith, 67, and his wife, Elsie M. Smith, 56, operators of Smitty's Tavern, were released on $300 bail each following their arrest by city police Tuesday. Their attorney, Warren Les- seg, was given until Friday to file a motion concerning who has jurisdiction in the case. The couple appeared in city court under a new city ordinance af fecting sale of liquor to minors. Such cases previously had been taken to district court. Also to appear In city court Friday i Benjamin F. Bryant, 29, Salem, who was arrested by Medford officer? last nighj on. a charge of vagrancy. He plead ed innocent in court today and trial was set for Friday morning. Improper Storage Listed As Cause of Building Fire Cause of the blaze which ex tensively damaged the Palm building, 16 South Fir St., Tues day evening, will be listed as "improper storage of combust ible material," City Fire Chief Gordon Barker said today. Barker pointed out that ,the fire originated in a small store room in the rear of Tri-County Office Machines and that the frame enclosed storeroom, and the mezzanine above were filled with combustible storage such as cardboard cartons. There was a gas hot water heater in the storeroom under a narrow steep stairway leading to the mezza nine, according to the chief. On the floor of the storeroom, in addition to the cartons, were various containers of combust ible materials, including alcohol in a one gallon can and an open paint can with a small quantity You Bring Him In"' VVWIIMWMlMfMT 7 blast the mushroom's top be came obscured at about 20,000 feet by a driving cloud. Dust stirred and tumbled on the floor of the desert. The mushroom rose above the cloud within two minutes and still was rising at the 30,000 foot level. At this level It appeared to lean slightly eastward as it drifted slowly higher. The explosion was seen by reporters at this unofficial van tage point some 8,900 feet above sea level. The test was closed to news media. Owens, today's test nam designation, was a design of the University of California Radia tion Laboratory at Llvermore. Calif. It had a yield estimated by the AEC at "below nominal,'' possibly equal to more than 10, 000 tons of TNT. i The device, named for a mountain peak in California, had been slated for detonation eight days ago but was postponed by adverse weather and incon sistent wind patterns. local Man Uninjured In Light Plane Crash Jack William Lewis, 136 Highland dr., was apparently uninjured when his light plane crashed in a farmer's field near Junction City yesterday. The United Press reported that Lewis' plane crashed about 10:30 p.m. yesterday. Lewis was alone in the plane. His wife at home here receiving word that he was in Eugene this .morning, and was not injured, she said; According to an employee at Lewis' firm, Lewis Manufactur ing company, 916 South Central ave., the Medford man left here at 1 p.m. Tuesday for a business trip to Portland. He was expect ed home last night, Mrs. Lewis said.' The landing gear, propellor and left wing of the plane were reported damaged. Permits for Three New Firms Issued by City Permits to erect three new businesses in downtown Med ford were issued yesterday by the city building department. Hugh Coleman of Crater Lak9 motors received a permit to con struct a $20,000 sales and serv ice building at West Sixth and Fir sts. Myron Corcoran re ceived a permit to erect an $18, 000 service station at 836 Crater Lake ave., and V. N. Smith to erect a $6,500 dairy drive-in at 703 East Main st of paint it in, Barker reported. One can, burned out, was found about six inches from the bur ner of the water heater, he said. "It seems very obvious," the Chief stated, "that the fire ori ginated right here in the store room." The fire was first seen coming out a skylight above the mezza nine. Pacific Telephone and Telegraph company service trucks were stored in a part of the Palm building. A power wagon for transporting person nel was extensively damaged and glass in three service trucks was broken, paint scorched and ladders charred. Four trucks were removed with minor dam age. Thirty-nine firemen fought the fire about two hours. Four trucks, including the aerial lad der vehicle, answered the alani.