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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.