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o o O orii HE Favours Si Ota Medford tfgdferd Pilot Washington Scene of Crash d FS Cargo Plane Robert Cavanaugh Piloting Twin Beach Robert H. Cavanaugh, 36, of 901 King st, Medford, was one of four forest service men killed in the crash of t forest service plane about 20 miles northwest of winthrop, Wash., about 6:40 p.m. yester day. The Civil Aeronautics ad ministration today began an investigation into the crash the United Press International reported. Winthrop is north central Washington. Others killed were identi- fiedd as Robert Carlman of Winthrop, who was an ob server plotting additional for est fires, and Keith Hendrick son of Winthrop and Gerald Helmer, Sweet Home, Ore., who were cargo dropperrs. Drop Cargo The plane, piloted by Cav anaugh, was dispatched to Eight-Mile ridge to drop cargo to a 25-man firefighting crew in the Okanagon National for est. The fire was one of sev eral small blazes started by lightning. Forest service officials in Medford said the fire lookout at Sweet Grass mountain saw the plane crash. It burned im mediately after crashing, the lookout reported. Cavanaugh's regular job was pilot for the smokejump- er project in the Okanagon National forest. He lived in Medford during the off fire season. He was flying a twin Beach C18F at the time of the accident. He was a pilot for Mercy Flights, Inc., Medford, and a pilot with the rank of lieu tenant commander in the Naval reserve. He was to re ceive a certificate of cpllege and Navy credit tonight at ceremonies at Southern Ore gon college for completing a 40-week course at the Naval Reserve Officers' Training school. Cavanaugh is surwived by his wife and four children, who live in Medford. Funer al service s are tentatively .scheduled in Oakland, Calif., forest service officials here said. Russia Repairing German Embassy Moscow (UPI) Soviet Russia began repairs today on the West German Embassy in Moscow but failed to apolo gize for the damage done by 1,500 demonstrators who bom barded the building Monday with stones and ink bottles. West Germaa Chancellor Konrad Adenauer was so an noyed by the attack, carried out in reprisal for an anti Soviet demonstration in Bonn last week, that he requested 20 German industrialists to break off a tour of Russia and return home. The Bonn demonstration was one of a series of world wide protests by free nations against the Sovietaction in executing Hungarian freedom Premier Imre Nagy and other leaders of the October, 1956 anti-Communist revolution. Portland (UPI) Four Ca nadian destroyer-escorts are in Portland for a four-day goodwill visit. Hoffa found Of Wiretapping Charges New York (UPI) A fed eral jury Monday acquitted Teamsters President James R. Hofa and two other defend ants of charges they tapped the telephones of union sub ordinates in the teamsters' De troft headquarter. Jury Out en Hours The jury of eigth men and four women deliberated seven hours before clearing Hoffa and his codefendgnt, Owen Brennan, president of Detroit Teamsters LocfJ S3?; nd Ber nard Spindel, professional wiretap eei9rt. The fiv-weej trial was the second in gbich Hoffa, Brtn- MEDFORD, OREGON, TUESDAY, JUNE 24, 1958 Scanty Cover for (Herblock Is Power Knocked Out In Ashland Storm; Downtown Soaked A storm wlych hit Ashland Monday at 3:30 p.m. caused little damage in the area, ac cording to Ashland city police, but left .33 of an inch of rain in the downtown area during the hour and a half storm. Lightning struck a power pole at the corner of Third and C sts., according to Ash land city electric department officials, knocking down the line. The entire city was without power for an hour and a half, Negro Doctor's Home Vandalized Long Beach, Calif. (UPI) Dr. Charles. T. Terry was determined today, to live in the two-story, $45,000 house damaged by vandals who ob jected to Negroes moving into the exclusive ' Bixby Hills district. The 37-year-old physician, a lieutenant in World War II and veteran of Korea, bought the house a month ago, spent $10,000 redecorating it and was nreoarintr to move in when vandals struck. They poured bleach over the wall-to-wall carpeting, cut section of carpeting out of the front room, and flooded the house with water piped from a garden hose. Damage was estimated at between $10,000-515,000. Terry looked over the house Monday and said there were no words to express how he feels. He laid the violence to one or two intolerant persons. And added: "I'm going to stay. I don't think this repre sents the feeling of my neigh bors." , Reeder, Deputy to r Attend DA's Institute District Attorney Thomas Reeder and his deputy, John C. Anicker Jr. plan to attend the sixth annual Institute for District Attorneys in Salem Thursday and Friday,. Reeder said today. The annual session will be conducted by the state depart ment of justice in cooperation with the district attorneys of Oregon. Not Guilty an and Spindel had been tried on the same charges. The first trial ended in a hung jury last December when one juror held out for acquittal. Acquitted of Bribe It. also marked the second time in less than a year that Hoffa had been acquitted by a federal jury. In the early case, he was acquitted in Washington of charges that he attempted to bribe a Senate Labolr Rackets Committee staff investigator into letting him see committee files con taining information on its probe of the 1,300,000-mem-ber truck union. Killed the Charnel Cart on Vacation) it was reported, with the areas in which two transformers were knocked out without power for an additional three- quarters of an hour. Tree Blown Down One tree was reported blown down during a brief wind which accompanied the storm. California Oregon Power company officials in Medford reported today that power was restored to the majority of their Medford customers. by 5 p.m. Monday after the storm Sunday. Less than 10 houses along Biddle rd., where 13 poles were knocked down, were reported to be still with out power, they said. The homes included those where the wind tore meter boxes from the buildings. Copco . crews are reported to be "mopping up" today in the Biddle rd. area. Hail Damage Hail damage to pears west of Medford Sunday was esti mated in some orchards as running from 15 to 20 per cent. This was the area hard est hit by the storm. Orchard ists emphasized, however, that thorough checks of trees have yet to be made. More damage may show up later, they said. . The larger producing areas of Sams Valley and Table Rock and other areas north of town were reported touch ed "very lightly" by hail. The area south of Medford, in the Fem . Valley-Suncrest area, Was reported all in the clear. This area's pear crop should be about normal, about 2V2 million boxes, according to fruit industry spokesmen. Bartlett crop is estimated from "good" to "very, very good." Bosc are reported good, cornice and D Anjous both light. Spokesmen said the crop will run a little light er than last year. Two Commended For School Records Ft. Lewis, Wash. Two Medford National Guard offi cers have been commended by their regimental com mander for excellent records at basic infantry officer school, which they recently completed at Ft. Benning, Ga. Letters of commendation went to Second Lt. Paul J. Blair, 725 Beekman st.,- and First Lt. Richard A. Greer, 1003 West 13th st. They were signed by Col. Robert L. Irv ing, commander of the 186th infantry. He commended the men for attaining ratings of third and fourth, respective ly, in a class of 135 at Ft. Benning. Both officers are at Ft. Lewis, Wash., where Med ford units, along with the Oregon and Washington Na tional Guards are starting their second week of the two week camp period.. Lieutenant . Blair is with company A, 186th infantry, and Lieutenant Greer is with Headquarters company, first battalion, 186th infantry, both of Medford. . Tribune No. 81 Fireworks Blast In Bazil Kills 83; Injures 400 Doctors Appeal For Blood Plasma Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (UPI) Fireworks collected ior a religious noiiaay ex- ploded with a blinding flash m the market place of Santo Amaro in northeastern Brazil Monday, killing at least 83 persons and injuring 400. Twenty of the injured re ceived agonizing burns and were reported in critical con dition. Doctors and nurses on the scene- sent urgent radio appeals today for blood plas ma in an effort to prevent the death toll from rising toward the 100 mark. Another Explosion One person was killed and 50 were injured in a similar tragedy in the" village of Feira Santana, less than 20 miles away. There, too, color fully dressed Brazilians had poured into the market place to buy firecrackers for Tues day's celebration on the feast day of San Juan. Authorities blamed the Santo Amaro disaster on a short circuit in a high tension line that touched off explo sions in two fireworks booths. The crowded market place was ripped by the blast and witnesses said it resembled a battlefield. Not Uncommon A reporter said the market place looked like a "scene from Dante's Inferno." Fireworks accidents are not uncommon in Brazil, especial ly around this time, of the year. Last year 60 persons were killed and more than 100 injured when a fireworks factory blew up at Gramacho, near Riode Janeiro: 20 Displays Set For Fourth Show More than 20 displays will be featured in the Young Men's Christian associations annual Fourth of July Fire works show, Cliff McGinty, general chairman, has an nounced. The show will con tain 20 displays in addition to the innumerable bombs, spin ning wheels, flares, and sparklers. Dr. Frank Wilson, cochair- man of the event, said ' pre show will feature horses and riding skills. The show will start at 7 p.m. July rne norse snow will last until 9:00 p.m. Some of the fireworks displays will be Spirit of 76, fur trapper and Indians, pioneer mother, stage coach,' gold' panning logging wheels and oxen, Too- nerville trolley, circus scene and the Niagara Falls. Tickets are now on sale by ticket salesman or can be pur chased at the YMCA. Medford, Ashland Men Elected by Accountants Pendleton (UPI) to ward n (Ted) Sommers ol Ashland has been named presi dent of the Oregon Associa tion of Public Accountants at the group's 12th , annual con vention here. ' Garl H. Hasenkamp, Port land,, was elected vice presi dent. Five district governors were elected. kThey were William White, Medford; Keith E. Bil lings, Portland; Samuel K. Dobbs, Milton-Freewater; A. Lenhart, Eugene and Wal ter Fleet, Klamath Falls. Washington (UPI) Pres ident Eisenhower has named Federal Civil Defense Admin istrator Leo A. Hoegh to be head of the new Office of De fense and Civilian Mobiliza tion. WEATHER , FORECAST: Partly cloudy to night and Wednesday! Scattered showers in the mountains. Low tonight 58. High tomorrow 89. ... - Temp. Highest Yesterday ' 80 Lowest this Morning 59 Our Skies Tonight . Sunset today 7:53 p.m. Sunrise tomorrow. 4:35 a-m. Moonset tomorrow' .12:29 a.m. Full Moon June 30 VISIBLE PLANETS ' Jupiter, to the left of the Moon. Saturn, in the southeast. in the evening twilight. Mars, low in east .... 1:04 a.m. Venus, rises i : 2:57 a.m. FIRE SCHOOL At a special "mock" look out tower near Butte Falls, District Assist ant Douglas Finch of the U.S. forest service at Butte Falls (at left in the foreground) explains to two lookout trainees the func Living Costs Set Another Time Washington '(UPI) The government reported today that, living costs hit another all-time high in May. - Food prices held steady aft er a five-month climb, but in creases in other prices pushed the average to a new record. The consumer price index advanced one-tenth of 1 per cent to 123.6 per cent of the 1947-49 average. It was the smallest one-month rise' since last December, the Labor De partment' said.. Reasons Cited The department's Bureau of Labor Statistics attributed the rise to higher prices for gaso line and used cars, increased physicians' fees, and a rise in premiums for group hospital ization plans in four cities. It was the 19th time in 21 months that the cost of living has set a record. The last time it dropped was in August, 1956. The report meant that some 850,000 workers whose pay is tied by contract to the cost of living will get wage boosts. In steel, aluminum, and can ning about 750,000 workers will get four cents an hour more. For the remaining 100,000 workers the pay boost will range from two cents an hour in some . aircraft manufactur ing and local transit to nine cents an hour. The May price . index was 3.3 per cent higher than in May, 1957. A Labor Department offi cial said he expected food prices might be coming down this month. But he declined to predict what the over-all cost of living would do. Food prices averaged 6.1 per cent higher man a year ago. The ' department reported that rents rose one-tenth of 1 per cent, about the same in crease as in other recent months. The cost of home re pairs, maintenance, gas, and electricity also went up. Medical care costs rose seven-tenths of 1 per cent mainly ' because of higher charges by physicians, hos Committee OKs Rivers-Harbors Bill Washington-KUPD-A Senate-House conference commit tee today reached agreement on a $1,556,600 rivers and harbors authorization bill to replace a measure vetoed three months ago by President Eisenhower. Vi The bill brought out after the 90-minute conference was the Senate measure passed last week with some technical changes adopted from the House bill. ' The authorization measure, sometimes dubbed the "pork barrel bill," gives congression al approval, but no funds, to about. 150 navigation, flood control,' beach erosion, irriga tion and power projects. Portland (UPI The Rev. James K. Egly,' Pilot Rock, has been elected moderator of the Presbyterian Synod of Oregon. - Ale MA 'Record During May pitals, and two group hospital ization plans. ' Government economists meanwhile predicted that un employment will climb to a 17-year high in June. If unemployment in June climbs to between 5,400,000 and 5,500,000 it would be more than a half-million in Bomb Explodes Near Auto of American Envoy in Lebanon Beirut, Lebanon (UPI) A bomb exploded 30 yards from U.S. Ambassador Robert Mc Clintock's automobile today as he was driving along a crowded street in the heart of strife-torn Beirut. He was not hurt. , The bomb caused no dam age, but shook the ambassa dor's car. It was not known immedi ately whether the bomb had been planted with a time fuse or deliberately thrown at Mc- Clintock's automobile The bomb was the second to shake the Lebanese capital today. The other exploded outside a story 500 yards from a hotel where U.N Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold has set up temporary head quarters. It went off 15 min utes after Hammarskjold en tered the building and appar ently was not meant for him $45,000 Added to VA Payroll at CW Camp White More than $45,000 will be added to the annual payroll of the Yeter ans administration here by the 10 per cent increase for federal employees, according to estimates of the fiscal divi sion at the VA Domiciliary. Out of the 211 civil service positions listed, only 105 will benefit by the increase, ac cording to Acting Manager Banks Paul. Of the 335 employees,. 140 are excluded from the raise under their rating as member employees. Also excluded from the. 10 per cent increase are "107 wage board employ ees, whose pay is determined by a scale arrangement. In addition to the regular ciassmea workers, the in crease will include doctors, nurses and other medical per sonnel. The raise averages $468 per annum per em ployee. .' . Hearing Slated for Eastern Oregon Man Canyon City, Ore. (UPI) A preliminary hearing was scheduled today for Robert E. Sproul, 43, charged with the slaying of Harlin H. Williams, 47, his brother-in-law, Satur day. ' Sproul, a Mt. Vernon ranch er, was being held without bail in the Grant county jail. He and" Williams had argued over a road. tions of a fire finder. The fire control school, which ended Friday, is held each year to brief the men on operating a look out tower and methods of fighting forest fires, before lookouts are manned. crease over the 4,904,000 un employment figure for May. But it was less than the six million Labor Secretary James P. Mitchell warned Congress to expect for the month. Exact figures will be released during the first week of July by the Labor and Commerce Departments. ine secretary-general was working in the hotel on plans which he hoped would end the crisis which threatens to provoke another war. Informed Lebanese sources said Hammarskjold is con vinced that the "moral pres sure" of UN observers sta tioned in Lebanon will halt rebel infiltration of men and arms from the neighbboring Syrian province of the United Arab Republic. Big Wind Storm; Lashes Pasco Area Pasco, Wash. (UPI) Winds up to 72 miles per hour lashed the Tri-City area Mon day causing several auto ac cidents, toppling trees, touch ing off several fires and knocking out electrical pow er in some sections. Dust whipped by the high gusts reduced visibility to al most zero severely hamper ing the traffic flow in the Richland - Pasco - Kennewick area. No fatalities were reported during the four-hour storm. However, at least eight per sons were injured in auto ac cidents and a 10-year-old Pasco boy suffered a head gash when he was struck by a pumice block which had been torn loose from a block wind break. . Fires ignited by the storm destroyed several buildings on a sheep ranch near Ken newick and wiped out wheat and rye crops on the George Austin' ranch three miles south of Kennewick. Council Sets Date For Public Hearing The Medford City council will hold a special meeting in the court house auditorium at 7:30 p.m. Friday for a con tinued hearing on ' the Ken- wood-Grandview sanitary sew er district The original hearing, held Thursday evening, June 19, was: continued because accom modations in the council chambers were not adequate for the large number of per sons attending. Many property owners and other persons interested in the district crowded the cham bers and overflowed into the hallway where they could not hear the proceedings. Action Would Be 'Aggression Statement Says . Forces of Peace Would Be Challenged Moscow (UPI) The So viet Union charged tonight that any attempt to send a United National police force into Lebanon would amount to "aggression" and warned it would be the "duty" of peace loving states to stop it. A formal statement issued by the official Tass News Agency attacked Secretary of State John Foster Dulles and other western leaders for sug gesting extension of the U. N. force in Lebanon. Would Be Challenge - "... Foreign armed inter vention in Lebanon would constitute a challenge not only to the peoples of the Arab East who are defending their independence, but also to the forces of peace the world over," it said. "Therefore, it is the duty of every state" and every gov ernment genuinely concerned with peace 4o do everything possible to prevent aggression against Lebanon." It was the firmest Soviet declaration on Lebanon since a Moscow newspaper last week raised the possibility of "volunteers" joining the rebel forces attacking the regime of pro-western Lebanese Presid dent Camille Chamoun. Seen Attempt To Scare Western experts said after a ..first reading of the long declaration that it appeared to be a major attempt to scare off any support for expansion of the U.N. observer forces already in existence in Leba non. - U.N. Secretary-general Dag Hammarskjold was winding up his on the spot peace mis sion in Beirut tonight and his recommendations on" police force proposals were expected shortly. PTT Rate Increase Request Suspended Salem (UPI) Public Util ity Commissioner Howard Morgan today suspended for a period not to exceed six months rate increases asked by Pacific Telephone and Telegraph company. The new rates would have become effective June 30 and would have cost Oregon users about $5. million a year. In filing for the new rates May 28, the company cited higher state and local taxes, wages and construction costs as reasons for the increase. Public hearings will be scheduled on the increase at a later date, Morgan said. Bean Picking Price Set at 2 Cents Pound Salem (UPI) The State Labor commission has set the 1958 bean picking price . at 2V cents per pound with a quarter cent bonus for pick ing through the season. The price, for pole beans only, is the same as last year. Moving Portland SP Shops Draw Opposition Portland (UPI) Members of the Multnomah County Central Labor Council Mon day night-unanimously voted to oppose moving the Brook lyn yard diesel repair shops of Southern " Pacific from Portland to Eugene. Senator Raises Questions In Alaska Statehood Bill Washington (UPI) Chair man James O. Eastland of the Senate Judiciary Committee today challenged the constitu tionality of the Alaska state hood bill under debate in the Senate. Three Points of Order The "Mississippi Democrat raised three points of order against the measure. He warned that if his objections were not sustained he would move to send the legislation to his committee for further study. Eastland protested specifi cally that Section 10, which provides for turning over No Evidence of Adams Influence, Committee Told Prosecution laid e To le lmprti Washington (UPI) The head of the Securities & Ex change Commission said to day there is "no shred of evi dence" that Sherman Adams ever got SEC favors for indus trialist Bernard Goldfine. Chairman Edward N. Gads by told the House .influence investigating subcomm i 1 1 e e that his agency has prosecuted two Goldfine companies for failure to file financial r ports. . This prosecution, Gadsby as serted, was carried out "vig orously and effectively,"" and with something approaching impartiality and detachment." Inquiries Had No Effect Gadsby said the record shows that mfluiries from theQ White House and from Con- -gress "had absolutely no ef fect" upon SEC actions against Goldfine companies. . "To put it bluntly the com mission could hardly have done more if Mr. Adams were Mr. Goldfine's worst enemy," Gadsby said. The subcommittee has charg ed that Adams, President Eis- ..... enhower's chief assistant, got preferred treatment for his generous friend Goldfine from the Federal Trade Commis sion and also interceded for the New England mill owner with the SEC. Adams strong ly denies he ever got any. fed eral favors for Goldfine or anyone else. Statements Not Filed Gadsby was called to testify about SEC action against the East Boston Co.- and the Bos ton Port Development Co., two Goldfine firms which, failed to file required SEC reports for eight years. Adams testified last week that, at his ftquest, Gerald D. , Morgan, special counsel to the President, inquired about the , status of the case two years ago. Adams said Morgan ob tained a report but nothing further was done. Gadsby testified that after the White House inquiry Feb. 17, 1956, the SEC took these "affirmative actions" against Goldfine: Opposed delay in its' ac tion to collect a $20,000 fine from Goldfine, and quickly appealed a court order vacat ing the fine. Filed a petition charg ing criminal contempt of the court's order, which e ventu ally was dropped as part of a "final, enforceable stipula tion." - Pursued the case and got a court order requiring East Boston to pay $3,000 for civil contempt and to file correct ed reports. Stated a private investi gation "looking toward the possibility of additional action against the company." Petitioned for a civil con tempt charge against East Boston for failing to file its 1956 report. "I cannot believe that any fair and objective appraisal of this record can lead to any other conclusion but that the commission and its staff per formed their duties in this case in a commendable fash- ion," Gadsby said. Banker Kidnaped; Released Unharmed Newport Center, Vjt. (UPI) A banker was reported kid naped from his office here to day but several hours later he .telephoned his wife that he - had been released un harmed. He was identified as Ran- some Willis Adams Jr., 41, manager and assistant vice president of the North Troy Bank. Washington (UPI) Pres ident Eisenhower will, not hold" a news conference Wednesday. ... large area of Northwest Alas ka to the Defense Department, is unconstitutional. . He also said that Section 9 of the Alaskan Constitution is in "direct violation" of the U.S. Constitution in fixing the "manner and terms for the election of U.S. Senators." Judiciary Consideration g Eastland asserted the legis lation should have been con sidered by the House and Sen ate Judiciary committees be cause "much of the substance" in it falls within the province of those two groups. The bill was cleared by the House and Senate Interior Committees. T. V i
