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KE MIIBESSIS Mi Ml 53 rd vear Medford 16 Pages U.S. Diplomats, Families Huddle Amid Debris Apartment House Q)mes Under Attack Beirut, Lebanon (UPI) The heaviejt firing of the Lebanese revolt swept Beirut Tuesday night and early to day. Coming under concen trated attack was an apart ment house where two Am erican diplomats, their wives and children huddled amid shattering glass, chipped ma sonry and flying bullets. President Camille Cham- oun's oldest son, Dory, helped beat off the attack on the apartment house, o Huddle in Nighlclothes U. S. Embassy political counsellor Francis Boardman, Washington, his wife, Ann, and their daughter, Pamela, 2V2, huddled in their night clothes in a loer hallway during the battle. Three flights up where the firing wasomore concentrated, Point Four counsellor Steven P. Dorsey, Washington, his wife and their two daughters, Gwenn, 14, and Charlotte, 11, took refuge. , The steady chatter of rifle and ! automatic weapons fir was broken frequently by the heavier thud of exploding J rifle grenades and 75-millime ter shells from.' tank and armored car guns. There were no reliable re ports of casualties, although unofficial reports said 25 per sons were wounded. Fighting in Tripoli Heavy fighting was report ed meanwhile in the northern port city of Tripoli. Officials of the Ir5q Petrol eum company said the amy used tanks and armored cars to beat off a determined rebel attack on the company's pipe line terminus eight miles north of the center of Tripoli. They said it was the heav iest rebel assault on their in stallation to date, but they re ported no damage. 0 Evans Creek Area To Join Distric Residents of the Evans Creek drainage area yester day voted 109 to 17 to join the Rogue Soil Conservation Dis trict, according to C. W. Jen sen, Rogue River, chairman of the district. Jensen said it was one of the heaviest voter turnouts for such an election in recent years. , The area favoring inclusion in the district compres about 142,000 acres, bringing the total area in the Rogue Soil Conservation district to about 900,000 acres. The area approved for in clusion yesterday was the only area in Jackson County which was not in a soil conservation district. 7 railways Bus Service Not Affected Local bus service by Conti nental Trailways has not been affected by the strike of drivers in Los Angeles, San Francisco and other western cities, local company officials said today. The strike began Tuesday over wages and other con tractual issues, it was stated. WEATHER Forecast clear through Thursday except some chances oi thundershowers mostly over mountains Thursday afternoon and evening. Today's high 94. Low tomorrow 55.. High tomor row 97. TEMP. POur Skies Tonight Highes Yesterday 91 Lowest This Morning 52 Sunset today 7:50 p.m. Sunrise tomorrow 4:44 a.m. Moonrise tomorrow 12:16 a.m. New Moon July IS PROMINENT STAR . Mars, seen south of the Moon tonight, is now in Perihelion or at that point on its path through the heavens nearest to the Sun. MEDFORD, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, JULY 9, 1958 IF FORCED DOWN Eugene F. Burrill, 38, tude and one engine failed to start. He was Prospect, yesterday landed his Piper practicing flying with one engine. Burrill Apache on a field off Highway 62 in the and a passenger, J. M. Wright, Medford, White City area after it failed to gain alti- were uninjured. One-Engine Flying Forces Plane Down A twin-engine Piper Apache owned and piloted by Eugene F. Burrill, Prospect, made a forced landing yesterday aft ernoon in an open field near Highway 62 about four miles northeast of Medford airport. Both Burrill, 38, and his passenger, James M. Wright, 25, of 825 South" Central ave.", Medford, walked away from the damaged plane unhurt. State's Case Being Presented in Court Presenfation of the state's case against Roger Smith, 106 Crater Lake highway, charged with burglary is ex pected to continue through today's jury session here, it was reported. The circuit court jury was selected yesterday. City police officers testifying for the state were Roy Thompson, Keith Gildesgard and Ronald Clawson, all of the Medford city police. Expected to testify today are Police Chief Charles Champlin, Lt. Lyle Perkins, Jack Sanders, Robert Wright, Raymond Seely and Keith Van Horn, all of the Medford Lpolice force. Smith is charged with re moving a safe from Southern Oregon Distributors, 710 South Grape st., on March 30. Tax Commission Hearings Continue Salem (UPI) State Tax commission hearing on the valuation of timber in Ore gon continued herd today with representatives from Coos county appearing to tes tify. Coos County Assessor C. G. Caughell, Coquille, told the commission he accepted most tax commission recommenda tions on valuing timber, but changed the recommended 20-year depletion allowance by splitting the county into 15-year and 40-year depletion areas. Caughell said he did not consider who owned the (land when he divided the county into areas. He added that most smaller operators would cut their timber in 15 years or less. Medford Woman Hurt When Jars Explode Mrs. Helen Graves, 806 North Riverside ave., suffered burns and lacerations Monday night when nine jars of rasp berries being canned in her oven exploded. Glass and hot raspberries spewed from the oven door, striking ' Mrs. Graves and covering the kitchen walls. . She said she had taken the proper precautions, but that the oven must have been hot ter than indicated. 5 cphftoiniep Dim raft . - ' , Burrill, owner of a White City lumber company, and Wright, charter pilot who used to fly. bombers for the U.S. Air Force, had been in the air about an hour and a half. Shortly after noonr Bur rill said, he feathered one en gine in order, to practice one engine' flying. Main Proficiency He said pilots with licenses for twin-engine planes did this regularly to maintain their proficiency in case of emergency, and that he him self had done it often. This time it turned into a real emergency. . Powered by one engine, the plane began losing altitude. Normally, Burrill said, there should have been enough power to stay up. He blamed high temperatures for thin ning the atmosphere, thus causing the plane to descend. - When the plane went be low 3,500 feet he tried to start the other engine again, Burrill continued. He was un able to get it started. He headed for Medford airport, but, realizing he could not make it, decided to land in the field instead. . ' Lowers Landing Gear He started lowering the landing gear, he said, and guided . the . plane below a power line. The Apache touched ground, going about 70-75 miles per hour, before the gear had fully descended. It bumped across the field about 100 yards, hit a ditch and went over forward. "I've been flying for "20 years," Burrill said, "and this is the first time anything's happened." B o th ' he and Wright had flown for Mercy Flights, Inc. ". ' Both the plane's engines were damaged, and one pro peller was knocked off. A rock the size of a softball was imbedded in the right wing, and the left wing was twisted out of line. The lower part of the nose was buckled. Burrill said the plane was fully insured. Use of Military Planes by Ike's Draws Fire From Top Wisconsin Wausau, Wis. (UPI) A top Wisconsin Democrat said today he wants to know who ordered the. three military planes that picked up vaca tioning Dr. Milton Eisenhow er, the President's brother. Suggests Tourist Methods Former Wisconsin Demo cratic Party Chairman Philleo Nash said he hoped the next time Eisenhower visited Wis consin he'd "use the same means of transportation as thousands of other tourists." Two of the three planes, single-engined Army craft, flew from Ft. Sheridan, 111., Price 10 cents Tribune No. 94 Smith River Lady Dies of Injuries Suffered in Crash Oregon has lost its death free Fourth of July holiday week end on the highways. Mrs. Sophie McClung, 78, Smith River, - Calif., died in Ashland General hospital Tuesday from injuries suf fered in a one-car accident Sunday evening on Highway 66, near Lincoln on the Green Springs., - State police said it1 would be counted as a holiday traf fic death. ' v Mrs. McClung was a pas senger in a car of her daugh ter and son-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Ed Wilcher, Klamath Falls, when it crashed into a utility pole, police said. Mrs. McClung is the sev enth traffic fatality in Jack son county this year. At this time last year 12 persons had been killed in .traffic acci dents. According to Ashland hos pital officials, Mr. and Mrs. Wilcher were released from the hospital Monday. Conference With Airmen Postponed Wiesbaden, German y (UPI) The U.S. Air Force to day postponed indefinitely a scheduled press conference for nine airmen whose un armed transport plane was shot down in flames by two Russian MIG jet fighters. Officials said the confer ence was postponed "on ad vice of medical .officials and for additional debriefing op portunities." The men had been ' described as extremely fatigued and exhausted when they arrived here Tuesday. Washington (UPI) The State Department has charged Russian airmen with "inhu man attacks" and the Soviet foreign minister with not tell ing the truth in the shooting down of an unarmed U. S. Air Force transport over Sov iet Armenia June '27. to pick up Eisenhower and his daughter, Ruth, at Land O'Lakes, Wis., Tuesday. One plane took the Eisen howers to Wausau. The other took their baggage. At Wausau, they were met by an Air-Force C-131 Convair for the trip to Washington. Requested by Aide Col. T. J. Ryan, 5th Army public relations officer, said the two planes were sent from Ft. Sheridan at the request of a presidential aide when the Eisenhowers' car broke down. "It's a simple matter of courtesy to provide transpor Architect Asked To Prepare Plans For Valley Manor Trustees Authorize Action Last Night The board of trustees of Rogue Valley Manor last night authorized John W. Ma loney, architect of Seattle, to complete plans and specifica tions for the $5V$ million re tirement home here. . Bids will be called after plans and specifications have been completed, Manor offi cials said. Walter Higgins, executive director, told trustees that half the apartments . in the Manor have been sold.' The structure will be built . on Barneburg hill southeast of Medford. Plans for the retirement home were first started "here in September, 1955, and re ceived endorsement by local churches. Trustees were ap pointed, and officers elected later in 1955. The Manor was. incorporated as a non-profit corporation in November, 1955. ' Apartment Sales Start Apartment sales started in March last year under the di rection of Higgins, M. N. Ho gan, president of the Manor, and other Manor officials. Members of the Manor who have purchased apartments came from 15 states, and Ha waii. Of the total, 50 per cent of the members now live in the Rogue valley, Higgins pointed out, and another 10 per cent are Oregon residents. Hogan noted that it took 15 months to sell enough apartments to crocked with plans and specifications for the local Manor, compared to several years for similar type retirement homes in other lo cations. , Higgins, prior to moving here, was assistant adminis trator of the Willamette View Manor of Portland. He was there during the- latter, part of its construction and during the first year, of operation. : - " -' ' --: v County Heads to Submit Petition A petition signed by county department heads will be pre sented the county budget committee tonight requesting that it create a budget item to make adjustments in job reclassifications, an adminis trative committee said today. The petition will be present ed during the budget hearing at 8 p.m. in the courthouse auditorium, it was announced. "We request- that your committee create a , budget item to handle adjustments in equity on employees request i n g reclassification and granted them by a review board (to be set up in the fu ture). Any adjustments made to be retroactive for the 1958 1959 budget. "Many of the employees are dissatisfied with their new job classifications and if some consideration is not given now we face the possibility of losing these trained persons and the cost to the taxpayers of training new employees would be in excess of salary adjustments due them," the petition pointed out. Beaverton's Lady Justice To Marry Salem (UPI) Beaverton's lady justice of the peace is resigning for the same reason a good many people have ap peared before her to get married. Gov. Robert D. Holmes an nounced today appointment of James W. Taggart, Beaver ton, to succeed Mrs. Frances Cook as justice of the peace for the Beaverton Justice court in Washington county. tation for . a member of the President's . official household any time he happens to be in an Army area," Ryan said. "We didn't think - the re quest, out of order at all," he added. Asked Secrecy Lloyd Arnold, chief of the Civil Aeronautics Administra tion's Wausau office, said the Convair pilot told him the flight was "not for public in formation." . The flight eventually was revealed by a newspaper pho tographer who happened to be at the airport when the Eisenhowers left. i - -I'll ? JJIl E. GEORGE SIEDLE Banquet Speaker 200 Registered For Postmasters Convention Here E. George Siedle, assistant postmaster general in charge of transportation, Washington, D. C, will arrive in Medford tonight to attend the 24th an nual convention Thursday eve ning at the Medford hotel. ' ' Siedle, member of many in dustrial groups dealing with transportation, was general traffic manager for Armstrong Cork company, Lancaster, Pa., for 37 years. Registration for the conven tion is nearly 200 as the group continues its second day of the three-day meeting. Mrs. Hope Brader, Chemult, state president, has been presiding at the meetings. , Election of officers will be held Thursday morning. Ses sions so far have consisted of morning meetings at Medford High school auditorium and classes at the high school. Con ducting the classes are field officers of the post office de partment. Postmaster Thomas Palmer, Albany, is educa tional director for the asso ciation. Tuesday afternoon the group toured Bear Creek or chards packing plant and the Shakespearean . theatre and Lithia park in Ashland. Robert Karr, Portland, post al installation manager, was Tuesday evening speaker at the dinner at the Medford ho tel. Scheduled this afternoon was a tea and tour of the gar dens at Hanleylands with hostesses, Mrs. E. B. Hanley and Mrs. Katherine Hanley Heffernan. A. J. Tonsing, Portland, or ganizations management offi cer, will be principal speaker at a dinner tonight at the Rogue Valley Country club. New officers will be in stalled at the Thursday night banquet with Harold Prestel, Grants Pass, postmaster, as master of ceremonies. Samuel G. Schwartz, Portland, region al operations manager, will also speak at the final dinner. Social Security Boost Proposed Washington (UPI) Sen. Clifford P. Case (RJNT.J.) pro posed a 10 per cent boost 'in Social Security benefits today as a fair shake for the aged and an effective anti-recession measure. But his bill and similar leg islation were given only a slim chance of enactment at this session of Congress. The Senate Finance com mittee, now considering the House-passed reciprocal trade bill, was seen as the key stum bling block to fast action on Social Security. Finance Chairman Harry F. Byrd (D Va.) has made it clear he would expect thorough hear ings on any "comprehensive" bill. n Washington (UPI) Allen T. Ettinger has been nomi nated as postmaster at Brook ings, Ore. The nomination has been sent to the Senate. Brother Democrat In Washington, an aide to Eisenhower said the Presi dent's brother was flown back on government aircraft be cause his delayed trip to Cen tral America had been re scheduled at "a slightly ear lier date" than originally planned. Not Acceptable "We won't accept that ex planation. We doubt if it will stand up," Nash said. On June 24, officials in Washington had said Eisen hower would leave for Central America on July 12. The latest announcement listed the same date. Goldfine Tells Iff -''Requesting; Buy Washipgton UPI) Bernard Goldfine and his son, H. Maxwell, told House in vestigators today . that they turned to Presidential Assist ant Sherman Adams for help in a tangle with the Federal Trade Commission, because they did not trust the commis sion. Goldfine and son were du bious, however, about what good their friend Adams did them. : Third Time on Stand The morning session of the House influence-investigating subcommittee brought Gold fine to the witness stand for the third time. Committee counsel Robert W. Lishman took up most of the session asked the Boston textile tycoon and his son about their mislabeling troubles with the Federal Trade Commission and about technical problems in operat ing the family's woolen mills. Goldfine was ready with what his aides said were the complete records on $776,000 in uncashed checks, held by Goldfine firms since 1941. The subcommittee had threat ened him with contempt if he failed to produce them. The subcommittee did not get to this phase of the inquiry before it recessed for lunch. The - subcommittee counsel has suggested some of the bank checks might have gone to federal officials who were too timid to cash them but were willing to use them for collateral in business deals. Goldfine has denied that any thing like that ever happen ed. Another Hotel Bill Lishman brought up at one point a previously undisclos ed instance in which Adams stayed at the Sheraton Plaza hotel in Boston and his bill was paid By Goldfine's Strath more Woolen company. This occurred Dec. 23-24, 1953, when the FTC was investigat ing nylon labels used by 266 Registered for Swimming Classes Swimming class registra tions at the Hawthorne ,Park pool for the second series now in progress totaled 266, ac cording to Bob Sutherland, head instructor. There were -225 registered in the first series, including 162 beginners and 63 inter mediates, Sutherland report ed. Of these ,he said, 39 be ginners and 32 intermediates passed their courses. He ex plained that many more begin ners had made good progress but were unable to fulfill the distance requirement. Sutherland said there were' 200 registered in the current beginners course, about one third of them trying a second time for their certificates. There were 52 intermediates and 14 accomplished swim mers, he added. "We really appreciate adults coming down here to ob serve," he said. "It gives the kids a chance to show off what they've, learned." ' "I Thought Men Adants Northfield Mills, another Goldfine firm. The elder Goldfine said he had dinner with Adams during that Bos ton visit but didn't recall what they discussed. . Goldfine, on leaving the crowded hearing room, told newsmen that "Adams didn't give us any help. . Lishman had taken a much different view. He said the records show that Goldfine received preferential treat ment from the. FTC after his appeal to" Adams. Hungarian Boss Joins Khrushchev In East Berlin By JOSEPH B. FLEMING United Press International , Berlin (UPI) Hungarian Communist boss Janos Kadar joined Soviet Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev in East Berlin today, apparently for top level satellite talks about the Stalinist crackdown on Yugo slavia and Poland. Kadar's unexpected arrival Was announced by the . East German radio. Ostensibly he headed the Hungarian dele gation to Thursday's East German Communist Party congress. -Atomic Weapons ; It also was disclosed that Marshall Rodion Malinovsky, Soviet defense minister, had joined Krushchev here. There were reports Khrushchev was planning1 to offer atomic weapons to the East German army: ' The reports tied in with a speech by Krushchev Tuesday night in which he derided West Germany and Chancel lor Konrad Adenauer for re fusal to recognize the East German government. .' Krushchev also stated -in his speech at Halle that Ade nauer was counting on a pol icy of strength that existed only in his imagination. Informed sources in Ber lin said ' Krushchev brought plans to arm East Germany in retaliation for American plans to gjve atomic weapons to the West German army. Cubans Indicate Captive Release Havana (UPI) The Cuban rebels, indicated they would begin releasing 30 kid naped American sailors and Marines today but a U.S. Em bassy spokesman warned the operation may take soma time.. The Cuban government said the rebels are stalling to hold off an army offensive. One more American civil ian captive was flown out of the rebel mountain stronghold in Oriente Province to the U. S. Naval Base at Guan tanamo Tuesday night. He. was Raymond Elmore, of Haynes ville, La., assistant manager of the Ermita Sugar mill. El more was kidnaped June 26. Didn't Go For That Sack Style'1 (Herblock Is on Vocation J Warning Against Losing Sight off Cooperation Told Russia Termed Main Problem ' Ottawa, Ont. (UPI) Presi dent Eisenhower said today Canada and the United States must never let their differ-. ences result in ' their losing sight of the imDortance of Free World cooperation in, winning the global struggle)1 against Communist imperial ism. ' . In an address before a joint meeting of the Canadian Par-, liament, the President said he was sure Canada and his na- ' tion could settle their relative ly minor differences in a friendly spirit.- The main problem of th two'neighbor nations was Rus sia s "military threat and po litical attacks, he said. "Our system of free enter prise is challenged throughout the world by a state-directed, state-controlled economic sys tem," he said. 1 "Indeed this could well be the area in which the comDeti- tion will be most bitter and most decisive between the Free World and Communist imperialism." Occasional Differences For this reason, he said, the two North American nations must not let bilateral economic problems dominate their rela tions. , The President saw no rea son "to be surprised or dis turbed to discover that occa sionally differences arise . be tween us." "The distinguishing charac ter of the peoples of the Free WorM lies in the fact that dif ferences between them can de velop, be expressed and ami cably resolved," he said. "We in the United States, have no more desire than you to seek in our relations with others the silent, sullen unity that elsewhere has been'piuv chased or imposed." Public Highlight : Eisenhower's address before the Parliament was the public highlight of his three-day in formal visit here in an effort to improve Canadian-U.S. re lations which have deterior ated sharply over economic differences. Before making the speech. he laid a wreath at the Na tional War Memorial honoring Canada's dead in the two world wars. He met with the Canadian Cabinet before leav ing the Parliament building. The President and Prime Minister John Diefenbaker held their first discussion late Tuesday five hours after Ei senhower arrived here on the presidential plane Columbine III. Arctic Inspection Zone . Eisenhower saw in Cana dian-U.S. cooperation on de fense and projects such as the St. Lawrence Seaway a les son "that by mutual respect, understanding and with good will we can find acceptable solutions to -any " problems which exist or may arise be tween us." He noted both nations were trying to get the Kremlin to agree to an Arctic inspection zone against surprise attack. He expressed cautious opti mism that Russia's latest note to him indicated they will eventually agree to such a. plan. I I t I i
