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. -.) . DVD lilil '.'Imipcrs. Mtm ; . ; s o mi Wop i Mil TEST CRASHES: All Boord Pie; Too lister Ships SeHJew Records tfwmn Among (CrqX Victim .lioTir AFB, Mass. (Ufl) 4 Vitnt ' jet strato- tanger crashed end exploded on tgfctof early today, killing all 15 ma eboerti. Two' sister ships 8trakA across the At lantic ftnfl i new speed records. f Six ne9mn were among the victim aboard the S3 mil lion plan vhicA snapped two 115,w)0 - volt power lines. bounced or ekided across a superhigh vty end landed with a burst of flames m cornfield. . The other victims included seven crew members and two representatives of the Nation al Aeronautics Association. ' Chicopee Policeman Rich ard Haslam, one of the first persons on the scene, radioed his headquartershat "there is ho need for any ambulances. Nobody on - botrt had chance." j While tragedy mrred the start of the transatlantic flight triumph crowned the finish The other two strato-tankers sparmed thg ocean in record times. , ' The planes vera dubbed Alpha. Bravo. Cocoa and Delta for the mission designed to thump U. S. fir might. Cocoa crashed. A result of the accident, Delta never took off. Set New Record Alpha thundered across the Atlantic in five hours, 27 min utes and 42.8 seconds an average speed of 630.2 miles per hour. Bravo trailed Alpha by about two ojinutes,' making it in five hours, 29 minutes, 37.4 seconds an average speed of 626.5 m.p.h. Both planes broke the old record set in 1955 by a British Royal Air Force Canberra jet bomber. Within seconds after take off from this Air Force base at 12:30 a.m. (EDT), the third plane in the flight crashed and disintegrated in a brilliant ball of fire thaj turned dark ness into daylight? "It was brighter than day light. It was tha most awful thing I ever saw,' said farr Kazimierz F. Machowski, whose three-acre corn field was set ablaze by the flaming plane. , The only newsmen on one of the two planes that success fully completed the flight was Sam Kuczun, Springfield, Mass., bureau manager of United Press International. The Air Force opened an in vestigation into the crash but a spokesman said it probably would be "a week or. more" before the causg was known. Names of the air force per sonnel, newsmen and National Aeronautics Association men who were killed in the crash are listed on pige 9. SMOG ALARM 1 A report of smoke in the Medford downtown area was investigated by firemen about 10:25 pjn. yesterday. Firemen said that no blaze was found in the business district, and that smoke was drifting into the city from awmills. New Contusion Added To Nuclear Arms Conference London (UPI) The Soviet Union dited new con fusion to th Geneve scien tific conference today by an nouncing the nomination of a top Romanian expert to par tpate in the talks on con trol of nuclear weapons tests. Still Might Attend The announcement indicat ed the Communist bloc still might attend next week's con ference despite a previous threat to boycott the talks un less the United States agrees in advance to negotiate for mal suspension of all nuolear weapons tests. Moscow Radio Thursday T0WTO-TMI9RER HOWARD PRAIRIE Three members of the 70-member tour party are shown gazing out over the Howard Prairie reservoir site. Some of the water now in the site is shown below the cliff on which they are standing. The tour, sponsored by the county court, Administration of Recreation To Be Decided Soon The county court will meet in about two weeks with rep resentatives of various federal agencies to determine, whether Jackson county should admin ister possible future recrea tion sites in the Talent irriga tion project, it was decided this morning. , .. Following this morning's meeting, the choice of admin istering agencies seemed to narrow down to Jackson coun ty alone. , ' However, the Talent Irriga tion- district board of directors is to meet July 8 when the possibility of administration by the district will be dis cussed. Also, the county court will meet with Ashland city officials to see if Ashland could or would take over ad ministration of a future recre ation site on Emigrant reser voir near Ashland. But legal barriers apparently will pre vent either of these alterna tives. Dip .in Treasury Neal Butterfield, Portland National Park Service, said the Talent Irrigation district would probably have to dip into its treasury to pay ad ministration - costs on both Howard Prairie and Emigrant reservoirs recreation sites Butterfield said he doubted if any recreational pr o c e e d s would ever meet the admims tration costs for recreation sites on the two reservoirs. Walter Hoffbuhr, TID man- ager, said tne district wuum . . , i - j u not be allowed to use its irri gation proceeds for anything but irrigation maintenance and development. This, he said, is according to state law. Harry Skerry, Ashland city attorney, said this morning it is- a legal question whether the city parks commission could accept administration as an independent agency.' An other question is if such ad ministration must be accepted jointly by the city of Ashland and citv narks commission, if it can be at all, he added. Not Administer Sites County Judge Rodney Keat ing said he was informed to- night broadcast a report from the official Soviet news agency Tass that the name of Romanian professor Horia Hulubei had been submitted to the United States for ap proval as a conference partici pant. No More Light Shed (The Tass report did 'not throw any more light on Mos cow's threat Wednesday night to pull out of the conference. The conditions set by the Kramlin at that time would virtually doom the talks since the United States has said re peatedly that it would not agree beforehand . to an end to nuclear tests. a Sites day that the' state parks com mission will definitely not take over . administration of any recreation sites in the Tal ent project. It has not been the policy of the bureau of reclamation or the "bureau of .land manage ment to administer recreation sites, representatives said this morning. Butterfield said the Howard Prairie recreation sites would draw many more people than Lake of the Woods does now. Official attendance figures for Lake of the Woods in 1955 show 14,000 used facilities there and 15,000 used them in 1956. Butterfield estimated each tourist spends $6V a day. He urged the county court to take over administration of the rec reation sites. Two Home Sites Howard Prairie, according to present plans, would have two home site areas one in the north central shore of the reservoir, and at the" west end of the lake. The bureau of land management would nan die home site leases. Two recreation sites would also be located on the reser voir. One park site would be located on the east shore. Cost of operating or administration of this area is estimated at $3,500 a year. The other site would be on the west side. This morning's meeting fol lowed a tour by approximate ly 70 people of the Talent project and possible recrea tion sites yesterday by repre sentatives of interested fed eral and state agencies, Port land and local chambers of commerce. Weather Observer Receives Award V. L. Quackenbush, weath er observer at the Talent Ex periment station, recently was presented a pin for 10 years service as a voluntary cooperative weather observer. Quackenbush became an observer Feb. 18, 1948, al though he cooperated in the program for several years prior to that time. The work includes taking daily maxi mum and minimum tepmera- tures and 24-hour amounts of rain and snow. There are between 250 and 275 voluntary observers in Oregon, and about 6,000 in the country. Church Membership Shows Rise Here ' Church -' membership in Medford has risen 5.18 per cent during the past year, according to a survey con ducted by the Mail Tribune. Details of the growth are given in a story by the Mail tribune's church editor,. Miss Peggyann Hutchinson, appearing on Page 6 of to day's paper. yesterday examined proposed recreation sites on Howard Prairie and Emigrant res ervoirs. Representatives of Portland and local chambers of .commerce, the county court and other interested agencies made the tour. Oregon Birth Rate Lowest in Nation; Deaths Set Record Portland (UPD Statisti cians for the State Board of Health today released some curious figures for 1957, show ing that in the year Oregon had the lowest birth rate in the nation and more deaths than in' any other- yea1rTnfgetM'y" -Salmonsony-Portland, its history The low birth rate was blamed on slow economic con ditions and the fact that Ore gon's population is "somewhat older than the national av erage." Highest in Multnomah The statisticians were also puzzled by figures which showed that Multnomah coun ty outside Portland had the highest Oregon birth rate last year while Portland residents had the lowest The' study showed 37,828 children were born in the state last year for a rate of 21.8 births per thousand popu lation. That was the smallest number since 1951 and the lowest rate since 1945. Esti mated .national birth rate for 1957 was) 25. The Oregon birth rate has declined stead ily since 1952 for a total drop of 12 per cent during the last five year's. 9,961 Weddings The marriage rate last year was 5.7 per thousand ' popu lation, lowest since 1940, with a total of 9,961 weddings. There were 5,261 divorces for a rate of 3 per thousand popu lation. That is" the lowest in 50 years. TJhe ratio of 52.8 divorces per 100 marriages was the lowest since the 52.6 per 100 in 1950. Slightly more than 20 per cent of the di vorces occurred prior to the second anniversary of the marriage and more than half the divorces involved families with one or more children. The 15,633 death in the state was the largest number ever reported but the rate of 9 per thousand was ,just a little higher than in 1956. Commonwealth for Alaska Defeated Washington (UPI) The Senate rejected today a pro posal to make Alaska a com monwealth instead of a state. In 'the first vote since the Alaska statehood bill was sent to the floor last Monday, the Senate turned down a sub stitute measure offered by Sens. A. S. Mike Monroney (D-Okla.), George Smathers (D-Fla.), and J. W. Fulbright (D-Ark.). The vote was 50 to 29. Acting Democratic Leader Mike Mansfield (Mont.) an nounced that the Senate would hold another late ses sion tonight and a Saturday session, too, in an effort to drain off surplus debate on the issue. Supporters had no hope of final vote before next week. Medford. 22 PAGES cubaRebeisSeizeiFox Claims GoDdKFoime ill M M A UtmlHa mne Hiiienidiij, Two Canadians Food, Medical , Stores Stolen Havana, Cuba (UPI) Cuban rebels" kidnaped nine Americans and two Canadians today from a small American construction colony on the isolated north coast of Oriente Province. " The heavily armed band of 200 rebels invaded, the Moa Bay mining properties Thurs day night after fighting in the nearby village of Moa during which they killed three Cuban soldiers. They spent the night in the Moa Bay mining properties con struction colony, occupied by less than a score of American supervisory workers and some of their families, and left this morning with their hostages and all the colony's food and medical stores. Word Telephoned Word of the raid was tele phoned to the outside world by Clinton Breads, engineer tor a construction contractor, who managed to reach the project's tugboat communica tions center after the rebels departed. The Moa Bay Company, a subsidiary of Freeport Sul phur Company of New York, is constructing a nickel and cobalt concentration plant. Asked To Secure Release The American Embassy in Havana ordered Consul Park verse of prosperity," Congres Wollom to so to Mna im. hsional Candidate Paul E. mediately from his post at Geddes said here Thursday Santiago de Cuba. In .Wash- evening. ington, the State Department "If there is a recession, and said it 'had asked the Cuban there probably , is, it should government "to make every go by its true name Demo effort" to secure release of cratic recession. The Demo the prisoners crats have a way of taking The kidnaped men included credit for good things the Re- ure. balmonson was said to be 40 to 45 and to have a wife, believed in Portland. Four Persons Hurt in Accident on Butte Falls Road Four persons were injured in one of two one-vehicle acci dents reported to state police yesterday. . Robert Randell Lanham, 38, and Dennis Lee Lanham, 13, both of Whittier, Calif., were taken to Ashland General hos- pital by Medford ambulance service. Police said Lanham suffered facial lacerations, and young Lanham suffered possible back injuries. Others injured were Patn- "Q "ai"""' Delap 44, of 749 Eagle Mill loM a-; nirknn wk invnlvpH who re. ceived a possible broken nose and facial lacerations. Not Injured Another passenger, Gloria Hi. uuuva, xo9 ui. u yo& i Ashland, was not injured, po- lice said. The accident happened about three miles east of High- way 62 on the Butte Falls highway about 7:55 pjn. yes- terday. Police said a tie rod on the pickup truck broke loose the truck went out of control and struck an em- bankment. An accident involving a loaded log truck operated by William Franklin Allen, 27, of 350 Avery st,. Medford, was reported to state police about 10:35 a.m. yesterday. The truck, owned by C. J. Bean, 902 Mary Jane ave., Medford. was traveling east on Highway 238 about a mile viCe chairman; Otto Ewald 7t of Jacksonville. - The con Mpdfnrd. alternate to driver swerved to avoid hit- ting an approaching pickup truck and went out of control. The truck crossed the high way" and went, into a ditch, spilling its load of 10 logs. The truck received extensive dam age, they said. The driver was not injured. Judicial Council OKs New Members . Portland (UPI) A pro posal to add two members to Oregon's Supreme . Court was approved today by the judicial council composed of Supreme Court and other jurists. The , State Supreme Court presently has seven members. MEDFORD, OREGON, p Isn't It Time To Untie (Herblock Is G Stop to Business Driven From State Urged By Geddes We must quit driving busi ness from the state. Anti-business is anti-labor . . . the re- f pobrieans do and shoving onto tne Republican snouiders the bad things that they do," he charged Geddes, . a Roseburg attor ney who is the Republican Congressional, candidate from the fourth district, was ad dressing the Jackson County Republican Central commit tee. "You," he said, "are the most important persons in Jackson county." Start Down Road He suggested that with the 1956 election the state started down the road of regression, "down the hill to the poor house. In your hands lies the decision of whether we turn up or continue down that roa(j ne warned, The state senate is irretriev- abl Democratic for the next two years Geddes admitted, but nhe house couid go Re. publican and it is highly im- ortant that we unseat the nresent governor. Referring to a tour of the Talent project which he made Thursday, Geddes remarked, "I saw a living example and lliusuauun ui wild i. tmo tuuu' try can be if we work with government agencies. The Federal government in the fourth district owns more lt . . tnan au per ceni w -i and resources. We must co- operate witn u. Assisls in project Senator Wayne Morse did assist, a little, with the pro- ject the speaker conceded, but he charged, now the Democrats, Hiciuaing xvepic- sentative Charles O. gorier, are "maKing doiq assei uui that they are responsiDie ior the Talent project." Donald Stathos, Medford, was reelected chairman of the Jackson County Republican Central committee during tne business meeting.. Other ot- ficers elected include ivirs. Marina Gardner, Medford, chairman: Mrs. Mary Rag WEATHER .snvACT flmiriv t n n I r h t. ParUy cloudy Saturday with widely scattered light showers, low tonight 50. Highs Saturday 78-8i. Temp. Highest Yesterday 9 Lowest this Morning 51 Our Skies Tonight Pree. to 10 a.m. Today, Trace Sunset today 7 :53 p.m. Sunrise tomorrow 4:36 a.m. Moonset tomorrow ..2:32 a.m. Full Moon June 30 PROMINENT CONSTELLATION Scorpio, follows the Moon. VISIBLE PLANETS Jupiter, in the south west 9:5 p.m. Saturn, due south 11:11 p.m. Venus, rises 2:56 a.m. Mars, high in southeast at sun rise. ' FRIDAY, JUNE 27, 1958 A J the Apron Strings, Ma? on Vacation) land, Medford, alternate to vice chairman; Edwin Sing- master, Ashland, secretary; Gene Piazza, Medford, treas urer; D. H. Barber, Trail, con gressional committeeman; and Mrs. Eleanor Bolt, Gold Hill; congressional committeewom an. $5 Million in Taxes Collected A total of $5,497,765.84 in taxes has been collected in Jackson county during fiscal year 1957-58, completing tax collections for the year, Karl Janouch, Jackson county treasurer, said today. Of the total, $624,520.43 was from delinquent taxes for fiscal years 1949 through 1957, he said. ' Of the current taxes, 84.6 per cent was collected. Add ing delinquent tax collections to the current taxes brings the total collected to an amount equal to 95.4 per cent of the total 1957-58 levy, Janouch said. , Delinquent tax collections include interest paid, which amounted to 7.13 per cent of the taxes due, he noted The high interest rate results from several months interest , paid by taxpayers at the rate of 23 of 1 per cent per month, Janouch explained. The bulk of the taxes col lected was for city, school dis trict and special district use. The county has had no gen eral tax levy for two years, and will have none during the coming year. Contract Awarded for Table Rock rd. Paving Salem Rogue River Pav ing company, Medford, was awarded a $45,533 contract for 1.95 miles of paving on Table Rock rd. about six miles north of Medford, the state highway commission an nounced today. There was one higher bid, the commission said. Sig Anderson,' North Bend, was awarded a contract .for a bridge over the north fork of the Coquille river near Myrtle Point. Wage Demand by Seattle Could Idle Western Truck Seattle (UPI) In a move which could result in the shutdown of common carrier freight operations throughout the West, rep resentatives of local pickup and delivery drivers of the Teamsters Union Thursday voted to press for wage de mands. Want Escalator Clause The drivers are demanding a cost-oi-iiving escalator elause and elimination of wage differentials in addition to wage increases already of fered by employers. Tentative agreements made last, month between Western Conferenijs Teamsters and Tribune No. 84 n n Cash and Checks Said Regularly Sent To Adams Presidential Aide Denies Statements Washington . (UPI) John Fox swore today that millionaire Bernard Goldfine told him he had "bought a house in Washington" for Presidential Assistant Sher man Adams. Adams denied the statement immediately. Fox also testified Adams' friend Goldfine, a New Eng land textile manufacturer, once offered a vicuna coat to the late Sen. Joseph R. Mc Carthy (R-Wis.) and told Mc Carthy, "I buy vicuna coats for all the senators." Often Talked Big But he added that "Mr. Goldfine often talked a good bit Trigger than the facts war ranted." The witness said Goldfine claimed to have sent ' "cash and checks regularly" to Adams to help his children before the family came to Washington. Fox had given similar testimony Thursday, and Adams denounced it as untrue. It was Fox's second day of testimony before a House subcommittee investigating the relations between Gold fine and Adams. Adams has conceded he ac cepted a vicuna coat and other favors from Goldfine He has denied allegations that in return he helped Goldfine in his numerous difficulties with regulatory agencies of the federal government. Tells of Purchase The new charge by Fox, former Boston investment broker and promoter, came as nouse investigators cross- examinied him on accusations he made Thursday that Adams had "taken care of his friend Goldfine's troubles with federal agencies. "After July, 1955," Fox said, "in a heated discussion with Goldfine, he told me he bought a house in Washington for Adams to live in." The investigating subcom mittee obviously had advance warning of Fox's new charge against Adams. Reads Two Record Rep. Joseph P. O'Hara (R- Minn.) immediately inter rupted to read two letters into the record. One was from O'Hara to Adams saying that witness from Boston was going to testify that "Goldfine bought a house" for .him and also purchased securities for the presidential aide. The second letter was a vigorous denial by Adams of both accusations. Adams wrote that Goldfine neither directly nor in directly purchased a house of mine." Adams Rents House 'The house I live in," Adams wrote, "I rent." REMOVE WEATHER VANE Firemen were dispatched with the aerial ladder truck to Rogue Valley Memorial hos pital about 2:30 p.m. yester day to remove the weather vane from the flagpole. The flag; was being damaged by contact with the vane during high winds. 'employers called for a 10- cent an hour wage . boost. Pickup and delivery drivers in Washington and at least three other bargaining areas voted rejection on the 11 state master agreement. Over-the-road t r u c k e rs, voting as a unit accepted the 11-state contract. To Propose Strike Vote Homer L.' Woxberg, Los Angeles, chairman of the con ference's negotiating commit tee, said a strike vote would be proposed among the pick up and delivery' drivers if employers did not include the cost-of-living and differential demands. Armored Cars, Tanks Brought Up By Lebanon Army , Fighting Follows Thursday Outburst Beirut (UPI) Snoradi. ! firing broke out in Beirut and Tripoli today and the Leb anese army brought armored cars and- tanks into action against rebel snipers. The new outburst of vio lence followed a. night of heavy fighting inboth cities, timed by the rebels to coin cide with the Moslem feast of Aid AI Adha. Six persons were killed in Tripoli Thurs day. . Reports from Merjeyoun.' in bouth Lebanon, said shells fired from the Syrian fortress at Banias fell inside the town Thursday night and seriously wounded four persons. Shoot From Rooftops Rebels started sniping at mid-morning in Beirut behind the Defense Ministry. A few. minutes later they opened up. from nearby rooftops on army positions. The government soldiers answered with rifle fire and big armored car and tank guns. There was no immediate report on casualties. Government troops re mained at sand-bagged barri cades in Beirut all day. . A rebel spokesman report ed three hours of heavy fight ing in Tripoli during the night when loyal troops attacked the section of the city where opposition leader Rashid Kara has his headquarters. He said the army had been forced te withdraw from its initial foot hold in the area. Heaviest in Two Weeks The fighting in Beirut was the heaviest in two weeks. Government sources ex pressed apprehension that it signaled the beginning of an all-out rebel attempt to oust the pro-Western government of President " Camille ' Cha moun before the United Na tions could act. The U. S. Embassy warned all Americans in Beirut to stay off the streets today be cause of "possible adverse, de velopments . . ." This morning the streets of the capital city were deserted. Stop Signs Being . -Installed on Eighth Stop signs are being erect ed on West Eighth st. between Elm and Fir sts. by the state highway department, accord ing to the city manager's of fice. When the project is com pleted' all traffic entering Eighth between Elm and Fir will be required to stop, and four-way stops will be in ef fect at Eighth and Holly and Eighth and Grape. Several of the signs, including those at Eighth and Hamilton, Orange, Oakdale and Grapej will be superseded later by traffic signals now - being erected. - According to information received this morning, the traffic signals being placed on Eighth and on West Main are expected to be in operation soemtiem after Aug. 1. At that time, the previously an nounced one-way. traffic pat tern on the two streets will go into effect. v Traffic will travel west on Main be.tween Riverside and Elm, and east on Eighth be tween Elm and Riverside. 5P To Consolidate Locomotive Shops Portland (UPI) South ern Pacific Railroad said to day it planned to gradually consolidate in Eugene the heavy locomotive repair shops now located in both Portland and Eugene. Drivers Operations Woxberg said the over-the- road drivers would not take a strike vote but would ask for a cost-of-living escalator clause if it is obtained by the pickup and delivery' drivers. Supported by Hoffa He said the demands have the support of Teamster Presi dent James Hoffa as well as the over-the-road and general hauling divisions of the West ern Conference, Woxberg explained that a strike in any local ara would result in a shutdown of pick up and delivery operations throughout the West and would in effect also shut down over-the-road having. 0
