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Newspaper Page Texto ILebdcTioini fee Asks Medfokd 16 Pages 12 Mexicans Die, o 19 Injured as Fire Razes Bus Work Crew Killed In California Tragedy Soledad, Calif. (UPD Twelve Mexican nationals were burned to death and 19 others were hospitalized , to day when they were trapped in the back of a makeshift bus that caught fire as it took them to work ffpm a farm labor camp. The fire apparently broke out when a can of gasoline in the front of the bus over turned and sloshed into the back where 50 Mexicans were riding. The gasoline was ap parently ignited by a match or a cigarette and flames roared through the wood and metal top to a flatbed truck, which had only .two exits at the rear and both were barred by safety chains. There were benches on both sides of the truck bed and in the middle. Trapped Behind Chain A , paerby, Trino Romo, said he was able to get the chain off one exit but could not undo the other chain. He said those that died were trapped in that side of the bus behind the chain. "I could hear the men praying in Spanish as I strug eled with the chains," Homo said. , Mrs. Audrey Burns, who lived nearby, said she was rakened by the screams of the men and said she looked out to see the truck covered witbsmoke. 1 then burst into flames. Identification Impossible. The accident took place within the Soledad city limits and the Soledad Fire Depart ment extinguished the blaze seven minutes after it arriv ed.' However it took more than two hours to get the charred bodies out of the bus. Immediate identification was impossible. Festival Ticket Sales Are Mead Ashland Advance ticket sales for the 18th annual Ore gon Shakespearean Festival July 28 through Sept. 4 indi cate another record attend ance at the four plays this year, William W. Patton, gen eral manager, has announced. He said memberships are about equal with last year, but that individual ticket sales are running nearly twice as high aso!97 totals. aon pointed out that ex cellent seats remain for all performances, but urged Fes tival rjatrons to complete re servations as soon as possible. Plays this year are "Much Ado Aout Nothing," "King Lear," "The Merchant of Venice," and "Troilus and Cressida." Directors are Rob gt Loper and James Sandoe. Lookout f laced in Rogue National Forest T forest ervice said to day the fire danger is stead ly increasing due to the rapid drying conditions during the past few days. Higher areas are still comparatively damp, officials said. Lookouts have been placed at Sfluaw Peak, Whiskey Peak, Applegate, and Rustler back, Eugene; Khite Brothers stations. Thundershowers are construction company, Walla predicted for Medford and vi- Walla, Wash.; and Schutt Con cinity Iftis afternoon and eve- struction company, Spring ning field. Conference Sought on Land Exchange Proposal Congressman Charles O. Porter is seekgig a conference with department of agricul ture officials in regard to his proposal that land along the lower Rogue river be brought within the boundary of Sis kiyou National forest. Porter has proposed that scenic areas along the south bank of the Rogue below Ag ness, now in private owner ship, be exchanged for forest service land elsewhere. His objective is to retain the for ests for scenic and recreation al values, without spoiling them through timber cutting. He has introduced legisla tion to accomplish this, but the forest service has objected, because it is making a compre- r- ' J MEDFORD, OREGON, TUESDAY, JUNE 17, 1958 News at a Glance Jet. Bomber In Collision Edwards AFB, Calif. (UPI) The Air Force today inves tigated the collision of a jet fighter and a B-57' which sent the jet bomber crashing to earth, killing its two-man crew. Spokesman for the Air Force said the two planes were on training flights Monday, the jet fighter from George Air Force base and the bomber from this center, when they col lided at 32,000 feet over the desert. East Germany Tells Price Berlin (UPI) The East German Communists have stat ed their price for the release of nine "kidnaped" Ameri cans a U.S. signature on a paper acknowledging the "equal ity" of Soviet Germany's puppet government. Th'e United States, which has refused so far to submit to diplomatic blackmail by the Reds, is expected to reject the new demand. Strike Settlement Near New York (UPI) An early settlement was in sight to day in the two-day old strike of Marine Engineers which has partially disrupted shipping operations along the East and Gulf coasts. ' ' Kidnaped Tot Found Safe Montreal (UPI) Little Joel Reitman, 2Vz year-old heir to a clothing chain store fortune who was kidnaped Satur day, was found safe today in a taxicab in Ottawa. The youngster, only child of Dorothy, 25, and Cyril Reit man, 29, disappeared Saturday evening with his maid, Miss Greta Goede. France Talks A-Weapons Paris (UPI) Premier Charles de Gaulle will press an "offensive" to make France the, world's fourth producer of atomic weapons, sources close to the government said today. They said plans to expedite France's atomic program got top priority at today's meeting of the De Gaulle cabinet, which also discussed a variety of foreign policy questions. Major Shift in Soviet Diplomatic Tactics Awaited Washington (UPI) Amer ican officials braced today for a possible major shift in So viet diplomatic tactics. They anticipated new So viet maneuvers in the wake of top-level strategy confer ences apparently taking place in the Kremlin 'after Moscow called home for ''consulta tions" its ambassadors to Lon don, Wahington and Paris. The belief in diplomatic quarters here was that Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev wanted to get first-hand re ports from his key diplomats Washington Firm Low On Access Road Lewis River Logging com pany, Vancouver, Wash., was low bidder on construction of a timber accress road on the west fork of Evans creek, ac cording to the bureau of land management office here. Low bid was $409,253.50. The second and third lowest bidders were F. L. Somers company, Medford $425,113, and Homer corporation, Rose burg, $476,290. Nine bids were submitted. Other bidders were S. and H. Logging company, Foster; A. L. Harding Inc., Stayton; G. N. Rannells, Aurora; Zach- ary construction company, Everett, Wash., S. W. Groes- hensive survey of the forest's boundaries for possible revis ion, and wishes to await thel outcome of the survey before making definite proposals. Porter, however, said in a letter to Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson that the Pa cific Plywood company, which holds most of the non-governmental timber in the area, is anxious to make its own plans, supports his legislation, and hopes an agreement with the government can be worked out. The congressman requested Benson designate Assistant Secretary Ervin L. Peterson to confer with Porter to see if agreement on the exchange can be worked out during this session of congress. . , abroad before plotting his next move in the maneuver- king over a summit conference? nuclear test ban and other matters at issue between East and West. Prospects Dimmer Prospects for a summit meeting to be attended by President Eisenhower and the British, French and Russian chiefs of. state appeared some what dimmer after the United States denounced Moscow for a breach of diplomatic cour tesy and the Kremlin ques tioned whether the Western powers really wanted a top level meeting. The State Department Mon day night released hitherto secret documents detailing the Western proposals for a sum mit conference agenda be cause it had been informed the Soviet Union intended to publish the supposedly confi dential papers. Official said they regarded the Russian "threat" to pub lish as a breach of diplomat ic courtesy and wanted .to put forth the Western proposals before the Russians "garbled" them. At the same time the State Department denounced Khrushchev's long June 11 let ter to Eisenhower on the sum mit conference as propaganda and said it did not appear to advance matters. Time To Get Going The Khrushchev letter, broadcast Monday by Moscow Radio, said it was high time to get going on a summit meet ing and implied the Western powers were interested more in putting up roadblocks. Diplomatic authorities said they believed Khrushchev may be casting about for tac tics to get Russia's stalled "peace offensive" in high gear again. They said the Kremlin appears to have lost the diplomatic initiative in recent days in view of the solid front put up by the West in insisting a summit confer ence be held only after ade quate preparation. France To Withdraw Troops From Tunisia ' Paris (UPI) France to day agreed to withdraw its troops from garrisons in the Tunisian hinterlands and ne gotiate a new status for the huge French naval base at Bizerte, the French Foreign Ministry announced. TRIBUNE No. 75 Brand Inspector's Discharge Said Fair, Equitable Stockmen Reach Their Decision After Study The recent discharge of Sterling Fryrear as brand in spector for this area was han dled in "a fair and equitable manner," according to the ex ecutive board of the Jackson County . Stockmen's associa tion. The board reached that de cision during its meeting last night in the county extension agent's o'ffice. It followed a report by Jim Miller, Medford, and Leon Offenbacher, Apple gate. They had been, directed to contact the Guy Hughes, Fryrear's superior and obtain the background on the back ground on the charges. They had also studied all documents pertaining to the case, the re port read. Fair, Equitable "The board of directors felt that the department of agri culture were handling the situation in a fair and equi table manner together with the fact that the department, in accordance with recent leg islative authority, are retir ing all employes who reach the age of 65 years," the re port stated. . 1 A state official in the brand ing service was present at last night's meeting to present the state's side of the issue. A member of the stockmen's association executive board said the group "is highly mif fed at the articles which ap peared in the paper since they feel they were premature." Also, the same board member said his group did not want the public to think the stock men were taking the law into their own hands. Fryrear had been firedjre centlyon charges of insubor dination, according to infor mation available. He had re portedly disobeyed a direc tive from state brand inspec tion headquarters stating any one not hired by the inspec tion service could not assist with brand inspections. Fry rear's wife had been helping him. Permission had been granted his wife as an assist ant by a previous district su pervisor, it was explained. Highway Inspectors Starf Second Leg Coos Bay (UPI) The Ore gon Highway Commission and its traveling party moved out of here today on the second leg of a 1000-mile inspection tour of the state's expanding new highway system. The party of 20 in a char tered bus Monday covered 320 miles from Portland to Tilla mook to Salem to Junction City to Florence to Coos Bay. The group lunches today at Grants Pass. . . Monday the tour passed through one of the largest highway construction projects rurrentlv under way in the state the relocation of High way 99 past Albany to a point near Coburg out of Eugene. That route will include a 32- mile straightaway, the longest such tangent in the Oregon highway system. Homes To Testify Before Committee CTTPT1 Gov. Robert D. Holmes will fly to Washing ton, D.U. XOnignx lo leauij uc- r 4Vi TTnucA Wavs and luxe Li-n- Means Committee Wednesday. 1 Hf. Both the governor ana mn. tj rialov chairman of L-CLCiJn a . , the Unemployment Compensa- M - nnria1. tion commission, axe st-ucv. uled to give statements at the hearing. The governor will return to Oregon late Thursday. Saturday morning Gov. and Mrs. Holmes will drive to Ft. Lewis, Wash., where they will join the governor of Washing ton in reviewing National Guard troops of the 41st in fantry division. - Senate President B o y d Overhulse will take over of ficial duties in the governor s absence. Portland (UPI) The Mult nomah County Central Labor Council has unanimously pass ed a resolution criticizing the Oregon Cancer Society in withdrawing from the United Fund. Forces Sought To Seal Frontier Against Syria Several Thousand Troops Requested Beirut (UPI) The gov ernment of rebellion-torn Leb anon said today it had asked the United Nations to move in a force of several thousand men and seal off its frontiers. The disclosure was made by Health Minister Albert Mok heber, named by President Camille Chamoun to act as liaison officer with U. N. ob server teams here. . Mokheber said Lebanon asked for land, sea and air force troops and that the re quest already is in the hands of U. N. Secretary - general Dag Hammarskjold. Hammarskj old leaves New York today and is expected in Beirut sometime during the night for an on the spot re port from the observer teams. Mokheber said the Security Council may be reconvened to consider the Lebanese request. He said the force would have to number more than 4,000 men and perhaps as many as 6,000 to 7,000 men to seal ef fectively Lebanon's 150-mile border with Syria. Lebanon itself was tense though quiet except for the occasional whine of a sniper's bullet and Maj. Gen. Fuad Chehab, the Lebanese chief of staff, declared "the situation under control." But official circles ex pressed concern that the well armed and well organized rebel troop units might se verely strain the security forces if an all-out attack is ordered across the nation. Hammarskjold's greatest worry; was believed to ' be that another' flare-up of the fighting might embroil the United States, Britain and Russia. New Attendance Record Set at Pool .,. The Hawthorne Park -swim-fmng'"poorToasts a new at tendance record. A total of 984 persons showed up yesterday to swim, splash, shout and sunbathe as the temeprature rose to 97 de grees. ' The previous record, 960, was set July 19, 1956 when the mercury hit 104 degrees. Attendance for the first ten days this year is 4,343, an in crease of 400 over last year. Youngsters dominated the scene. There were 476 under 12, 470 between 12 and 18 and 38 adults. Only 365 clothing baskets are available at the pool but some children double up, ac cording to City Recorder Da rell Huson. As many as 450 may have been in the pool area at one time yesterday, he said. Others, he added, waited 30 or 40 minutes for their turn. . Fire Destroys Lodge Near Happy Camp Happy Camp An unex plained fire early Sunday morning destroyed the Rox bury lodge on the Scott river rd.- near Happy Camp.. No in juries were reported, although more than a dozen persons were in the building when the fire was noticed about 1:30 a.m., according to U. S. For est Service reports. Loss of the structure, which was first built as an office building and dwelling for the Roxbury mine in the 1920s and converted to a resort in the 1940s, has been estimated as high as $200,000. Mr. and Mrs. Steve Sher man were tending bar when flames burst through the ceil ing. Up to that time, Mrs. Sherman reported, nobody was aware of the blaze. The forest service received the alarm at 1:37 a.m. and re sponded with three firefight ing units. However, by the time the units arrived, " the most they could do was to con tain the blaze within the main lodge structure. WEATHER 'FORECAST: Partly cloudy through Wednesday with aft ernoon and evening thunder showers. Low tonight 50. High Wednesday near 90. Temp. Highest Yesterday 97 Lowest this Morning 60 Our Skies Tonight Sunrise 4:34 a.m. Sunset 7:51 p.m.. Moonset 8:07 p.m. First Quarter June 24 PROMINENT STAR Altair, low in east .... 8:51 p.m. VISIBLE PLANETS Saturn, low in south east 8:40 pjn. Jupiter, In the south west 10:23 p.m. Mars, low In east . 1:20 a.m. Venus, rises 2:59 a.m. II FTC Ex-Hungarian Premier Nagy, Others Executed High Treason in Revolt Charged Budapest (UPI) For mer Hungarian Premier Imre Nagy, a liberal Communist who lead the October 1956 revolt against the Soviet Un ion, has been executed for high treason, the government announced today. Executed with him were Gen. Pal Maleter, leader of the revolutionary military forces which held out for days against Soviet troops and armor, and journalists Miklos Gimes and Jozsef Szilagyi whose writings help ed raise what the government called "the pirate flag of na tional Communism." Others , Imprisoned Five others identified by the Hungarian justice depart ment as leading figures in the "anti-state conspiracy," were imprisoned for terms ranging from life to five years. A communique, carried in the official Hungarian press, said Nagy and his accomplic es were tried and found guilty of attempting to overthrow the Hungarian People's Re public." In addition, Nagy was charged with high treason and Maleter and Sandor Klpacsy, former Budapest po lice chief imprisoned for life, with mutiny. Others who joined the con spirators in the months pre ceding the revolt were Fer enc Janosi, Nagy's minister of culture, who received an eight year sentence, and newspaper .editor Miklos Vas arhelyi, sentenced ' to five years. Ex-President Sentenced . Former president Zoltan Tildy, a non-Communist who joined Nagy's cabinet during the revolt, was sentenced to five years. , Nagy, Szilagyi and Malet er went to their deaths with out admitting their guilt, the communique said. Neither the trial nor exe cution dates were given. As evidence that Nagy and the others conspired with "foreign imperialists," the long communique accused the United States, Yugoslav ia, Britain and West Germany of aiding the revolution. Forest Service Conducting School The forest service started its annual four-day firefight- ing school today. About 50 volunteers were expected to meet near Butte Falls to study how to detect a fire from lookout posts, how to find it on the ground by pacing the distance from known check points and how to, extinguish it. - A practice fire, Friday will be the final examination. T. (Tenny) Moore, fire, con trol officer, is in charge of the school. District rangers and staff members are serv ing as instructors. Cooler Weather Seen for Oregon Portland (UPI) The wea ther man said today Oregon would "cool off" slightly Wednesday but it'll still be hot. Temperatures soared into the 90s for the second straight day today. The Dalles and Medford had 97s Monday and Portland had 95, hottest since July 19, 1956. , ' The weather man said the mercury would approach the 100 degree mark in southern Oregon today. Temperatures were forecast about five de grees cooler in most areas for Wednesday.- Thundershowers were predicted in mountain areas for Wednesday. There was moderately high forest fire danger with the humidity dropping below the 30 per cent level in many parts of western Oregon. Powers, Ore. (UPI) Frank Byrus Northriip, v36, Broad bent, was killed Monday when he was struck by a log in Eden Valley about 35 miles south east of here. 'The Advertising v JyNFOR HOUND'S "TObTHK U.S. Might Send Troops To Lebanon, Dulles Declares Washington (UPI) Secre tary of State . John Foster Dulles said today the United States might send troops into Lebanon if developments there should call for it. He told a news conference the U.S. was prepared to con tribute to a United Nations force there but also might act on its own if certain contin gencies, which he declined to explain, should arise. At the same time, Dulles charged the Soviet Union with Payne To Face Muskie in Maine Portland, Maine UPI) Republican Sen. Frederick G. Payne, a man in a vicuna coat, and Edmund S. Muskie, who became Maine's first Demo-, cratic governor in 20 years, will fight it out for Payne's Senate seat in September.. Payne easily won renomina tion in Monday's "early bird" primaries, whipping business man Herman D. Sahagian of Belgrade. Muskie was unopposed for the Democratic nomination. The showdown battle be tween the two veteran politi cians, considered two of the state's best vote getters in re cent years, will come Sept. 8 id the last of Maine's "first-in-the-nation" elections. The state is abandoning its famous "weathervane" election after this year. Payne- swept to an over whelming victory although his recent disclosure that he had accepted an expensiye vi cuna coat from Boston indus trialist Bernard Goldfine, who is under fire from a congres sional committee investigat i n g government regulatory agencies, became a last minute campaign issue. Presidential Assistant Sherman Adams re ceived similar gifts from Gold fine, according to the commit tee. Extensive Damage Reported in Fire Extensive . damage to the second floor and roof of a home at 1911 Hazel st. result ed from an early morning fire today. Mrs. Marion Bean, the only occupant of the house, was rescued by neighbors who placed a ladder against a sec ond story window. Mrs. Bean told firemen she was awak ened by the fire in the hall way and that she then called for help from the window. Firemen received the call at 12:54 aon. but by the time they arrived Jit the scene the entire second floor of the house was involved. It is believed that the fire originated in the stairway from an undetermined cause. The only damage to the lower unoccupied floor was caused by water, firemen said. Sots mil Sounded Great' apparently trying to break off preparations for a carefully organized summit conference and force the West directly into a top level meeting on the Kremlin's terms.. Dulles asserted that Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev apparently has adopted the brutal terroristic methods of the late Josef Stalin which he once denounced That was Dulles' reaction to the news that the Communists have exe cuted . former Premier . Imre Nagy and other freedom fight ers who led the 1956 Hungar ian revolt. The secretary said the situa tion in Lebanon is a matter of considerable anxiety to the U.S., which has special inter est in affairs in that area be cause of the so-called Eisen hower Middle East doctrine. Watching Situation He said that the trouble in Lebanon, which appeared to be at least partly civil in character, was well within the competence of the U.N. be cause it is empowered to step into such disputes when they threaten the peace of the area. The U.S. is watching the situation closely, Dulles said, and he knows that the Ameri can 6th Fleet 'in the Eastern Mediterranean has Marine landing parties which could go ashore in Lebanon if .they were asked. If U.N. Secretary-general Dag Hammerskjold, now en route to strife-torn Lebanon, decides that U.N. forces there should be beefed up, Dulles said the U. S. would be dis posed to support that action by making any contribution of troops called for. Ten Mayors Named' At 22nd Boys State Corvallis (UPI) Ten mayors were named Monday for the various "cities" at the 22nd annual Beaver Boys State here. They included Jeff Ward, Bend; Bernie Conaster, Elgin; Dell Smith, Klamath Falls; Joe McCray, Portland; Dave Nelson, Pendleton; Mike Ba con, Portland; Jerry Marton, Eugene; Loyd Porter, Port land; Marvin Terry, Grants Pass, and Mike Farra, Portland: Committee Approves New Rivers and Harbors Bill Washington (UPI) The House Public Works Commit tee today approved a new $1,555,746,000 rivers and har bors bill. It is a substitute for the $1,577,379,800 bill vetoed by President Eisenhower two months ago. The new measure, which Democrats said may be called up for House action Wednes day, carries over all but three of the 30 projects against which Eisenhower raised ob jections in vetoing the previ ous bill. However, the administra Long-Standing Friendship With Goldfine Upheld Would Act 'More Prudently' Next Time Washington (UPI) The White Houte said today , that Sherman Adams will continue as assistant lo President Eisenhower. Washington (UPI) Sher man Adams admitted today that he made a mistake in calling the Federal Trade Commission for his friend Bernard Goldfine and said that if he had it to do over again, he would act "more prudently." ' Adams, winding u) a more than two-hour defense of his relations with the Boston mil lionaire industrialist conced ed that on hindsight he would have done differently. However, Adams staunchly defended his long-standing friendship with the wealthy New England manufacturer and said he saw nothing wrong in exchanging gifts with him. Said Not Aware But the chief presidential assistant testified that he was not aware that he sought FTC h-formaion for Goldfine that there were strict federal regu lations against disclosing such data. As he left the witness chair, a reporter asked if it would be correct to assume that Adams intended to remain in his White House job. "I have nothing more to .say than what I have already 'said," Adams replied. Subcommittee members varied in the conclusions the? drew from Adams' testimony. Rep. John E. Moss (D-Calif.) said "I am of the firm opin ion that regardless of Adams' intent, the result was prefer ential treatment for Goldfine. Reading the record, I think anyone coming to a different conclusion could only be , somewhat naive." Draws Praise Rep. Charles A. Wolvertgn (R-N.J.) praised Adams Wr giving what Wolverton called a fair, honest account. He said grounds possibly exist for some criticism, but that "you have to look at the man's in tent." At one point in his testi mony Adams said "I think there are some lessons we all learn, no matter how far along we get." O Under questioning by Har ris he conceded that an agency official might get a wrong im pression from a White House call as to what was desired. Legislators To Take Advantage of Law Portland (UPI) Sev en members of the Multno mah county legislative dele gation met Monday and de cided to recommend the en tire 24-member group take advantage of an old law to get free tuition for students at Oregon State college. Under the law, not used since 1894, each state repre sentative and senator m$y se lect a student each year . to be given free tuition to Ore gon State. State Rep. Norman Howard said, theri still were some questions! about the law such as whether it was good for all four years and whether it would limit the number of girls. "But it probably will be made workable by the next Legislature," he said. tion has since dropped its op position to many of the dis puted projects, and has agreed to compromises on some of the other projects. . Committee aides said the new bill contains only about four projects to which the ad ministration is still opposed! Retained in the new bill -was authorization for all of the projects in the original bill against which the Presi dent raised no objections. They total more than 100 and included the Yaquina Bay project in Oregon.