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Family Found
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But iss Wood
Hadio Relay Planned
Between Valley, KF
Pacific Telephone and Tele
graph Company today an
nounced plans for construction
of a $1,300,000 microwave radio
relay system between Medford
and Klamath Falls
It will increase ti.e number of
long distance" telephone circuits
between the two cities and cer
tain points in California and
Oregon according to Manager
Jack Creager.
No plans are included in the
project for transmission of tele
vision network programs on the
' system at the present time.
Start in Early Fall
Work, is to start early in Au
gust and be completed by De
cember. It will include construc
ting one-story radio relay equip
ment buildings at Haymaker
mountain and Chestnut hill, and
an addition to the existing build
ing on Mt.'.Baldy.
The latter, 11 miles southeast
of Medford, will measure about
19 by 43 feet, the one at Chest
rut, 21 miles east of Ashland,
will be about 48 by 38 feet,
and the one at Haymaker, 17
miles west of Klamath Falls
will be some 44 by 68 feet.
Reinforced Concrete
All three will be reinforced
concrete frame and slabs with
block filler walls.
The contract, to be awarded
Auff. 8. also calls for access
roads to the site at Haymaker,
erection of 37' i foot steel
towers at Mt. Baldy and Chest-
rut, and fencing of the building
areas at Haymaker and Chest
nut. The system will tie-in with
the California-to-Oregon coaxial
cable and later with the San
Francisco-to-Portland radio re
lay system.
Long distance calls from. Kla
Bids Rejected for
Craler Lake Work
Both bids for construction of
apartment units at Crater Lake
National park were rejected to
day because of too great a vari
ant from engineer's estimates.
The bids were for two apartr
ment units, one at Annie Springs
and one at the park headquar
ters. They are part of the "Mis
sion 66" National park improve
ment program.
Park Superintendent Thomas
laid this morning the work
would b readvertised with con
struction planned to begin early
next spring.
Bids opened yesterday were
made on the basis of plans to be
immediately. Both bidders said this would
rgake their work ;un too far into
winter and raise costs, Williams
said.
Bids received for a four-duplex
unit were from Wiley com
pany of Ashland $243,500, and
n,n or construction of Eugene
$233,260. For a three-duplex
unit, Wiley company bid $185,
000, and Deilar construction
s.178.420.
: The park office did not list
the engineer s estimates.
textile Union
Officials Accused
Washington i The Senate
tickets Committee today ac
cused Secretary-Treasurer Lloyd
Klenert of using $101,963 of the
United Textile Workers' money
for his own purposes.
It accused Union President
Anthony Valente of doing the
same with $26,442.
Of these two sums, the com
mittee said, Klenert returned
"$33,000 and Valente $24,000 to
the union.
The committee concluded its
investigation of the union offi
cials with a demand by Sen.
Carl T. Curtis (R-Neb.) that
Klenert resign. Curtiss asserted
that the conduct of Klenert, Va
lente, and union attorney Joseph
Jacobs "goes far beyond care
lessness or slipshod practices . . .
to the very essence of honesty.
Two Men Arrested in
Burglary Connection
Wendell Franklin Holder, 21.
Valley Center Trailer court, and
Benjamin F. Bryant, 29. of 502
Kenwood ave., were placed in
the county jail today on charges
of burglary in connection with
the burglary of White's Cycle
Shop. 36 South Bartlett St., and
entering Jack s Sporting Goods
shop. 1232 Court St., Medford
police said.
An undetermined amount of
money was missing from the
cycle shop, according to investi
gating officers.
REPAINTING MARKERS
Central Point City street
crews are repainting crosswalk
markers on all downtown Cen
tral Point streets today. Police
Chief Wallace Bowen said the
job will be finished tomorrow.
math Falls will travel to the
haymaker relay site by cable.
The calls will be relayed
through the air from there to
Chestunt, to Mt. Baldy, and to
the central office at Medford.
From Medford the calls will be
routed to their destination at
first over the coaxial cable, and
lster over either the coaxial
cable or the San Francisco-to-Portland
radio relay system,
Creager said.
Transmission of calls from
Medford to Klamath Falls will
work in the reverse order.
Plans and specifications for
the preliminary work to be com
peted by December have been
sent to a selected list of con
tractors for purposes of bidding
on the contract.
Architects on the project are
Irving G. Smith and George C.
Kotchik of Portland,
Ground Assault
On Rebel Forces
In Oman Planned
Sharja, Trucial Oman (IT) A
high-ranking British officer said
today the way had been cleared
for a ground assault against
rebel forces who are providing
the sharpest threat to British
Mid-east prestige since the Suez
crisis.
British Royal Air Force jets
slashed at the rebel fortress of
Tanuf today with rockets and
cannon fire in the third day of
a softening up process against
the rebels who seek to over
throw pro-British Sultan Said
Bin Taimur.
Planned at Conference
Details of a ground assault
were planned at a three-way
conference Thursday between
the Sultan and Sir Bernard Bur
rows. British political represen
tative in the Persian Gulf, and
Air Vice Marshal L. F. Sin
clair, commander of British
forces in the Arabian peninsula.
British Foreign Secretary Sel-
wyn Lloyd announced Thursday
Britain was sending' "necessary
forces" into the Middle East to
check the Oman revolt. Some
1.200 British troops already are
in Oman ready for action in the
130-degree heat should Burrows
summon them.
Japanese Island
Hard Hit by Deluge
Tnkvn opi A deluee of 27
inches of rain in less than 24
hours hit Kyushu Island with
catastrnnhip force today, causing
floods and landslides. The known
dead and missing were in the
hundreds.
Official police figures said
there were 157 persons con
firmed dead and 249 missing.
The fjigures were expected to
rise when communications are
restored.
.Tananese nress reDOrts from
the scene said the death toll may
run as high as 3,000.
Police listed 47,998 persons
belonging to 9.682 families as
"affected" by the Hoods tneir
homes washed away or wrecked.
Pnlics rennrted 1.031 houses
damaged, 256 washed away and
29,117 tlooaea.
Portland Nightclub Man
Gets To Keep License
Portland (If) Nathan Zusman,
operator of the Desert Room, a
Portland nightspot, won a 4-1
vote of confidence from the city
council Thursday, allowing him
to keep the club's license.
Commissioner Stanley W. Earl
had insisted Zusman's place was
a "hangout" for undesirables.
"Too Bad You Ain't A
President Appeals
For Unity Against
Trial Amendment
Republican Conference
Informed of Attitude
Washington ftPl . President
Eisenhower appealed to Repub
lican senators through GOP
leader William F. Knowland
today to unite against a jury trial
amendment to the civil rights
bill.
Knowland reported Eisen
hower's attitude to a closed Re
publican conference after he had
breakfasted with the President.
Reads Statement
The California senator read an
Eisenhower statement of July 16
and announced that the chief ex
ecutive's position is "precisely
the same" now as it was then.
In the statement Eisenhower
urged that the bill include a
right to vote provision and said
"jury trial should not be inter
posed .in contempt of court
cases."
The administration bill, al
ready passed by the House,
would authorize the government
to seek injunctions against con
spiracies to deprive persons of
the right to vote. Violators would
be subject to contempt of court
penalties without trial by jury.
Southerners Agree
After one jolting defeat on an
amendment eliminating broad
civil rights guarantees, the ad
ministration is fighting Demo
cratic sponsored amendments to
assure a jury trial in criminal
contempt caseS under the right
to vote provision.
Southern opponents of the
bill agreed at a caucus today to
back the pending jury trial
amendment sponsored by Sen.
Joseph C. O'Mahoney (D-Wyo.)
even though it does not go as far
as they would like.
Life Magazine to
Coyer Festival
Life magazine will cover the
opening Oregon Shakespearean
Festival banquet. "The Festing
of the Tribe of Will," and open
ing" pla"y, "As You Like-' It,
Thursday, Aug. 1, festival of
ficials announced today.
Carl Ritchie, festival publicity
director, said he received notice
of the magazine coverage this
morning from Bob Stein, Port
land correspondent for Life. He
said Life plans to send Photog
rapher Matt Farbman to Ash
land from San Francisco.
The banquet will start at 6
p.m. Aug. 1, in Lithia park in
Ashland. Festival officials said
the deadline for tickets has been
extended to 5 p.m. Saturday,
July 28, with the hope that more
residents make reservations.
Among others who plan to at
tend the banquet is Darrell Ross,
of NBC television in Hollywood.
Ross is director of the "NBC
Matinee" series seen locally.
Gov. Robert D. Holmes and
other state officials also plan to
attend opening day ceremonies.
Sudden Strike Halts
Work at Portland Plant
Portland (in A sudden
strike halted work at the Ameri
can Can Company plant here
Thursday night after a foreman
was said to have shaken a wom
an employee who had talked
back to .him.
No immediate settlement was
reached today. Richard K. Fred
erick, plant manager, said pro
duction would start again "as
soon as we can get employees
on the job."
Washington (W Presi
dent Eisenhower played golf
this afternoon at the Burning
Iree Club.
Power Company, Kid"
52nd Year
Wi ..ange Fires
In Eastern
Oregon
Believed Controlled
Conditions Said
To Be Hazardous
Vale IW Range fires
broke out again Thursday night
and today in scattered sections of
far eastern Oregon as more than
200 men fought four blazes total
ing more than 1900 acres.
The blazes generally were re
ported under control or being
circled. Conditions were de
scribed as hazardous.
Believed Under Control
One fire, 10 miles northwest
of Juncture near the Malheur
river, covered about 800 acres
and fresh men were sent in after
it broke out again about 9:30
a.m. today, according to Darrel
Fulwider. range manager for the
Vale-Jordan district. It was be
lieved under control unless a
sudden wind should spring up.
Another blaze 35 miles north
west of Drewsey was being
fought by a crew of 40 men who
were circling it this morning.
A 700-acre fire two miles
north of Malheur city was
brought under control at 4 a.m.
Fifty men, three bulldozers and
a pumper battled the blaze.
Fire On Cut Mountain
A blaze on Cut mountain
northeast of Vale covered 400
acres before it was controlled at
8 a.m. Forty men, three cater
pillars and one pumper battled
it.
Some 150 firefighters were
recruited from the Adrian, Vale
and Nyssa labor camps, Ful
wider said.
Meanwhile. Guy Johnson, re
gional fire dispatcher in Port
land, said nine lightning fires
were reported in th& Unity
ranger 'distrWW the Wallowa
Whitman national forest. He said
none of the blazes was serious.
Contracts Awarded
For County Machines
The Jackson county court
awarded contracts yesterday
afternoon for four pieces of
equipment and brought a fifth.
Contract for a power shovel
was awarded California-Oregon
Machinery company of Medford,
which bid $22,719.25 including
a trade-in. Nelson Equipment
company of Portland was award
ed a contract for the road roller
costing $7,103.
Loggers and Contractors com
pany of Portland was awarded
a contract for a grader costing
$14,316 including trade-in. How
ard Cooper corporation of Med
ford was awarded the contract
for a tractor v.ith blade for
$18,291.
A Jeep was purchased from
Stevens Auto service, Medford,
for $2,589. It will be used by
the county road department and
the assessor's office.
Nickerson Assigned
To Panama Canal
Washington KrV-Col. John C.
Nickerson Jr., the Army missile
expert convicted of leaking de
fense secrets, today was assigned
to the Panama Canal Zone.
The Army said he will be
barred from top secret and secret
information in his new engineer
ing post but will have access to
"confidential" matters.
In his new post he will not be
connected with guided missiles
or research and development "in
any way," the Army said.
Office Worker Denies
San Francisco Attack
San Francisco tin A slim
and dapper office clerk insisted
today he was not the buck
toothed sadist who kidnaped,
tortured and raped a pretty
nurse in Golden Gate Park last
week end.
The clerk, John A. Rexinger,
23, faced further questioning
from police despite his protesta
tions of innocence.
"I didn't do it," he said. "I was
home. I don't know how I can
prove it. I hope someone can
help me."
Roeburg IW Hill Solomon
Cheek, 67,- Roseburg, was killed
Thursday when his truck went
out of control and failed to ne
gotiate a turn 12 miles south of
Roseburg on a private road.
Washington W The White
House has announced that Presi
dent Eisenhower will nominate
William F. Quinn, Honolulu at
torney, as the new governor of
Hawaii.
MEDFORD, OREGON,
SOC DORMITORY Construction is to begin
this fall on a new dormitory for men at South
ern Oregon college. It will house 144 men,
and will be east of the present girls' dormi
tory, Susanne Homes hall. The main building
will have three stories with a partial base
ment, with a north wing of four stories and
south wing of one story. About 23,000 square
feet of floor space will be available. Two
tracts of property, one of two acres adjacent
Subcommittee Vote
Ends Long Debate
Over Hells Canyon
Washington (m Sen.
Wayne L. Morse (D-Ore.) to
day served notice that he will
carry the fight for a federal
high dam at Hells Canyon
"across the nation" on every
stump on which he can speak.
He challenged the administra
tion to "send out spokesmen to
attempt to reply."
Washington HPi The House
Reclamation Subcommittee vot
ed 19 -to 2 today to bar further
consideration this year of pro
posals for a federal dam in
Hells Canyon.
The full Interior Committee
killed one Hells Canyon bill
Wednesday. Today's action dealt
with identical legislation not
disposed of then.
The vote was on a technical
motion to postpone further con
sideration of the issue until Feb.
1, 1958.
Job Said Finished
Republicans said the action
finished the job of killing off
the long debated proposal for
a government dam on the Snake
river.
Democrats, however, claimed
"there is still some life left" in
the propect. One Republican
said the 19-2 vote put the Hells
Canyon issue in a "twilight
sleep zone."
The Senate had approved a
bill authorizing the government
to build a high dam in the same
reach of the Snake river where
the Idaho Power Co. is licensed
to build three smaller private
dams, two of which are under
construction.
Hoffa Kicks Off Bid
For Teamster Position
Chicago OP) James R. Hoffa
today kicked off a campaign for
the $50,000 a year presidency of
the AFL-CIO Interna tional
Brotherhood of Teamsters.
Hoffa, 44, tossed his hat in the
ring as an estimated 5,00
'friends" from the central,
southern and eastern teamsters
conferences whooped it up for
for him at a special caucus.
The boom for Hoffa, ninth
vice president of the teamsters
and long the heir apparent to
Dave Beck s throne, got under
way in earnest a week after, he
was found innocent of conspir
ing to plant a spy on the Senate
Rackets Committee.
BIDS CALLED
Bids to paint buildings at the
Butte Falls Ranger station have
been called by the Rogue River
National forest. They will be
opened in the local office in the
post office building Aug. 7.
Weather
FORECAST: Fair tonight and
Saturday. Xow tonight 48.
High Saturday tS-IS.
Temp.
Hirhst Yesterday
Lowest this Morning S3
Our Skies Tonight
Sunrise
4:57
7:3S
S:2S
a.m.
p.m.
p.m.
Sunset
New Moon
PROMINENT STAR
Spira. seta
VISIBLE PLANETS
1Q:09 pjn.
Saturn, due south S:19
Venus, low in west .... S:32
Jupiter, low in west at 9:29
will he seen near Spica
summer.
p.m.
P-m.
p.m.,
next
FRIDAY, JULY 26, 1957
Fire Destroys Home,
Other Buildings on
Willow Springs Road
Central Point Fire fanned by
a strong wind leveled a house,
a barn, a pump house, two trail
er houses and three sheds yes
terday on the N Bill Nelson
place on Willow Springs rd.
northwest of here, Central Point
rural firemen reported.
Flames also burned over some
seven acres of dry grass in the
vicinity.
Firemen reported that the
blaze, originated from a trash or
grass fire'and that sheds on the
north side of the property were
engulfed when they arrived.
Soon afterward the fire spread
to the barn and trailer houses
and in turn the residence broke
out in flames.
Box Factory Operator
The Nelsons lost almost every
thing, according to firemen. Nel
son had a box factory operation
at his place. The barn-end sheds
reportedly contained boxes and
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RING OF DEFENSE A deadly mushroom looking like
a doughnut more than 15,000 feet over the Nevada Test
Site marks the first air-to-air atomic rocket fired from
an F-89 at an imaginary target Defense officials said
the successful experiment marked the first strong step
since radar in the defense of the United States against
enemy aircraft
Beauty Contest Loser
Seeks $30,000 Damages
Baltimore, Md. Ml The run
nerup in the Miss Maryland
Beauty contest sought $30,000
in damages today from the win
ner who became Miss U.S.A. for
a day.
Mary Callie Hill, 19, charged
in Superior court that Leona
Gage Ennis and the Walters
Academy and Fashion Guild
fraudulently schemed to con
ceal the marital status of Mrs.
Ennis- and this caused Miss Hill
to lose prizes and a trip' to Cali
fornia in the Miss Universe con
test. Mrs. Ennis was disqualified as
Miss U.S.A. in the contest when
her marital status and mother
hood were revealed.
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Tribune
-Full Leased Wire
No. 109,
. to the Klamath Falls highway; and the other
in front of the new physical education plant
on Webster St.. have been purchased by the
college. A resolution is before the state board
of higher education for condemnation and
possible future purchase of two more tracts
near the library-classroom building of the
new science building, construction of which
will begin this fall.
box shook
The alarm was turned in about
5:10 p.m. Six rural fire vehicles
were sent to the scene and one
city of Central Point fire truck
reported. From 20 to 25 fire
men answered the alarm and
were, assisted by neighbors of
the Nelsons.
Main force of firemen were
on the scene until about 9.30
p.m. and one truck Bnd'"1wo
men stayed there until - about
3 a.m. today.
Fire was spread by sparks and
by radiant heat which was inten
sified by the wind, firemen said
A. number of spot grass fires
were ignited, threatening a barn
about a quarter of a mile away.
The fire reportedly jumped into
grass across the road,
Firemen said that a suit was
the only clothing saved other
than that which the family was
wearing.
CAB, FBI Seek
Mystery Blast
George Air Force Base, Calif.
W Civil Aeronautics Board
officials and the FBI today took
charge of an investigation into
a mysterious explosion that
ripped a large hole in the side
of an airliner, hurtling a heavily
insured passenger 10,000 feet to
his death.
Search for Powder Marks
The CAB planned .to make an
"inch by inch" search for pow
der marks in the shattered rear
section of the Western airliner.
At the same time searchers
combed the desolate desert area
in an attempt to find the body
of the missing passenger, S. F.
Frank Morgans Are
Located on Road in
Butte Falls Area
Extensive Search
Combs Rugged Region
Three members of the Frank
Morgan family of Medford were
found late this morning in the
Butte Falls-McLeod area after
they were reported missing since
6 p.m. yesterday.
Jess Rogers, in a Medford.
corporation mobile logging unit,
radioed in that he found the
family walking down a road 20
miles from Butte Falls.
He had found a note In their
car and followed the tracks to
where the family was found.
Tired, Hungry
Tired and hungry, the family
said a hole was knocked in
the transmission of their car
when it bounced over a rock.
They slept in the car last night
and started walking at sunrise
this morning, they said.
A ground and aerial search
had been combing the Butte
Falls-McLeod area since 11 p.m.
yesterday looking for the Med
ford family.
The family consisting of Mr.
and Mrs. Frank Morgan and
their teenage son, Phillip, were
expected home about 6 p.m. yes
terday, Harold Snodgrass, Mor
gan's partner in the Chapel
Mortuary, told sheriff's officers
last night.
Only clue earlier this morning
was a report by a Butte Falls
fish hatchery attendant that the
family was seen there about
noon yesterday according to
sheriffs deputies.
Heavily Wooded Area
Joe Walsh, chief sheriffs
deputy, said he had been told
that the Morgans planned to visit
the heavily wooded, hilly area
only for the hours of fishing.
Morgan had been in that area
many times before, Walsh said
he was told.
Planes searching the area in
cluded one from the Haupert
Tractor company, a Civil Air
Patrol plane, and one owned
and flown by Max Terzenbach
of Medford. . . ;
' The sheriffs office had 15
mobile radic-equipped units out
patrolling the area, plus many
of the Morgan family's friends
and three ground search units
of the CAP. The latter consisted
of mostly teenagers.
All mobile logging units
equipped with radios had been
alerted as had state police.
Snodgrass became worried
when the trio failed to return
at 6 p.m., when they told Snod
grass they would be back. He
notified the sheriffs office which
waited, thinking the family
might return later that night.
When no word was received by
11 p.m. yesterday a search was
started.
Inaccuracies Alleged
In Mail Tribune Story
The Mail Tribune story yester
day reporting a court hearing
regarding the guardianship of
Mrs. Ora Lee Adams this week
was grossly innacurate, accord
ing to a number of individuals '
who attended the hearing.
The newspaper's story was
based on reports from a source
which was considered to be
wholly reliable.
Because of the allegations of
inaccuracy, the Mail Tribune is
making arrangements to obtain
a copy of the transcript of the
summation ' and opinion of pre
siding Judge Orval J. Millard,
pertinent portions of which will
be published in Sunday's edition.
Valley Man Injured
In Logging Accident
Omar Ritter, 58, of Camp U
Rest, Highway 99 south of Med
ford, was injured in a logging ac
cident about 10 a.m. today on
Dead Indian rd. Medford Ambu
lance service took him to Rogue
Valley hospital.
Attendants at the hospital said
his condition was "not good."
Ritter is employed by Fir
Milling and Planing company of
Ashland. Details on the accident
were not available at press time.
Solution To
on Airliner
Binstock, 62, of Canoga Park,
Calif.
FBI agents also stepped into
the investigation to determine
if the explosion might have been
a suicide plot. The FBI disclosed
that Binstock, who boarded the
plane at Las Vegas, Nev., had
taken out $125,000 in flight in
surance Wednesday, naming his
wife, Eva, as beneficiary.
Emergency Landing
The two-engine Convair made
an emergency landing here fol
lowing the explosion high over
the California desert early Thurs
day. Twelve other passengers
and a crew of three escaped
injury.
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