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Chiang's Forces
Warn of Possible
Mainland Attack
Quemoy Shelling
Enters Sixth Day
Taipeh, Formosa -UPD- The
United States and Nationalist
China carried out joint air de
fense exercises over the For
mosa Strait today, the U. S.
Taiwan (Formosa) Defense
Command announced.
The aerial maneuvers across
the Communist-threatened wa
ters came soon after the Na
tionalists warned that they
may be forced to bomb the
Washington -41P&- U. S.
officials today kept an
open mind on the possible
us of American military
forces in the Quemoy-Mal-u
crisis despite reinforce
ment of the Seventh Fleet.
They said the reassign
ment of the aircraft carrier
Essex, with about 80 planes
board, from the Mediter
ranean to Formosan area
duty, was a matter of get
ting prepared for action in
case that were necessary.
They cautioned that no
decision on direct use of U.
8. military forces' has yet
been made.
Chinese mainland if the Com
munists do not halt their at
tacks on the Quemoy Islands.
The islands were bombarded
today for the sixth straight
day.
Number Not Told
The American announce
ment gave no indication of
how many U. S. Air Force and
Navy warplanes were involv
ed in the defense exercises.
The U.S. has only about 10
F100 Super Sabres based on
Formosa and the Navy has
some 300 planes with the 7th
fleet.
"Ranking military officials
of the United States and Chi
nese governments expressed
satisfaction with the results
demonstrated during the exer
cise," the announcement said.
Gen. (Tiger) Wang Shu
nting, chief of the Chinese
general staff, made the state
ment, the first by a ranking
government official although
there have been other hints of
drastic action1 The incessant
shelling went into the sixth
straight day today.
There have been predictions
of an early invasion attempt
of the offshore islands by the
Communists possible within
the week.
Conditions Favorable
The official Central News
Agency said the conditions
were favorable now for an
attack-a full moon, high tide
and a concentration of Com
raunst navy assault boats and
marine amphibious forces at
the north end of the Formosa
Strait.
Where might the Commu
nists strike was the big ques
tion. Red Artillery pounded
the Quemoy area without let
tip for a 16-hour stretch end
ing at 1 p.m. today. There also
was sporadic shelling of Kao
teng in the Matsu offshore is
land group 120 miles to the
north.
The Central News Agency
said the Communists had
moved in two marine divisions
from Chusan, where they re
cently held amphibious exer
cises, to Shan Tu so, a coastal
village just north of the Matsu
group. Wednesday the Defense
Ministry said the Reds had
4,000 to 5,000 assault boats
converging on the Quemoy
group.
Margaret O'Brien's
Mother Taken By Death
Santa Monica, Calif. - (UPD -The
mother of actress Mar
garet O'Brien, who guided her
daughter's career to movie
stardom, died today at St.
John's Hospital.
Mrs. Gladys O'Brien, 52,
had been ill for seven months
with severe heart trouble, her
doctor said.
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Leaxed Wire
Inflow
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CLEAN-UP STARTS-Members of the 50
Plus club started cleaning up an unused
building at the corner of Jackson and
Hawthorne sts. this morning. Above, some
50 to 100 Pickers
Being Placed in
Orchards Daily
Between 50 and 100 pear
pickers are being placed in
local orchards each day
through the Oregon state em
ployment service's farm labor
office at the Armory, John
Patton, OSES manager here,
said today.
He added that on most days,
the office is unable to fill
all the orders for pickers.
By mid-morning today, he
said, there were 44 unfilled
orders for pickers, and similar
situations are noted most days
during the picking week. Pat
tion declared that there are
picking jobs available for vir
tually anyone able and will
ing to do the job, particularly
if they can provide their own
transportation.
And, with a heavy D'Anjou
harvest just starting, job open
ings probably will be even
more difficult to fill, Patton
stated. Some 2,200 pickers in
all are needed.
He said many transients
have been referred to tne
farm labor camp where liv
ing space, and transportation,
to jobs, are available. "
Base wage for D'Anjous is
14 cents per box, he said,
with a slightly higher rate in
some "difficult" orchards, or
where added duties are re
quested. Patton reported that a num
ber of young people, 16 to 18
years of age, are at work in
the orchards, but that em
ployment for them is a bit
more difficult than for older
workers. He said a few or
chards specify younger work
ers, but that many of them do
not like the teen agers be
cause of unfortunate experi
ences with some of them in
the past.
Patton emphasized that pear
picking is hard work, suitable
for adults who are used to it,
but that there is no shortage
of work for those who are
able to do it and willing to
work at it.
New Administrator
Named For Hospital
Sister Luke of the Savior
has been named new administrator-superior
of Sacred
H e a x t hospital, replacing
Sister Reine.
The new administrator as
sumed her duties Monday,
coming here from Portland
where she was administrator
for two years at St. Vincents
hospital.
Sister Francis Ignatius re
placed Sister Luke in the
Portland position.
Washington - (UPD - Presi
dent Eisenhower has accepted
the resignation of Internal
Revenue Commissioner Rus
sell C. Harrington, effective
Sept. 30. .
MEDFORD,
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(BBaze in Eastern
Oregon Unchecked
By United Press International
Two big brush and range
fires, one of which was still
reported out of control, had
covered-Tie'arly 20,000" acres
of land in eastern Oregon to
day. ' '
The blazes were the latest
in a series to plague the re
gion during the dry summer.
The weather man saw little
hope of much-needed rain.
One fire covered from 12,
000 to 16,000 acres near Vale.
It was reported contained this
morning. But another fire,
covering some 4000 acres
about 25 miles south of Baker;
was reported out of control
on three sides, according to
John C. Hunt, Bureau of Land
Management fire control of
ficer. Winds Feared
The Vale-area fire, which
broke out about eight miles
south of the eastern Oregon
town, was reported under con
trol three or four times but
whirlwinds created by the
blaze itself carried it over,
fire lines. By this morning it
spread over a 16-mile front
and wasn't stopped until it
was almost to Vale.
Hunt said some 125 men
were fighting the Baker-area
blaze with help flown in from
Coos Bay. It was planned to
drop a borate solution on the
fire today.
Detroit Blaze Battled
As weary "firefighters kept
an eye on these trouble spots,
some 800 men were on the
lines in two blazes in the Wil
lamette national forest in the
Detroit area. One which cov
ered about 1000 acres in the
Canyon creek area still had
not been controlled but the
smaller Dry creek fire was re
ported in check.
Guy Johnson, regional U.S.
Forest Service fire dispatcher,
said other blazes on national
forest land were reported in
check this morning. These in
cluded the Bunker Hill fire in
the Siskiyou national forest
which spread to 460 acres
Wednesday.
It rained in scattered parts
of Oregon Wednesday but not
enough to minimize the fire
danger. The weather bureau
said another storm was pro
ducing heavy rain 300 miles
west of, Vancouver, B.C. but
that here was only a slight
WEATHER
FORECAST: Considerable
cloudiness tonight and Friday.
Mild temperatures. Low tonight
53. High Friday 88.
Temp.
Highest Yesterday j 90
Lowest this Morning 57
Our Skies Tonight
unset today
6:53 p.m.
Sunset tomorrow
5:33 a.m.
6:25 p.m.
Moonrise today
Full Moon Tonight .... 9:53 p.m
Sirius, the brighest star, rises
tomorrow at 3:49 a.m.
Between it and Mars, high
above it, appears the constel
lation of Orion, whose bright
est stars are Rigel and Betel-geuse.
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OREGON, THURSDAY,
members of the club are shown with equip
ment. The club was given permission to
use the building by the city.
-(Knackstedt Photo).
chance of it causing rain in
Oregon.. -.
Logging Reopened
' However, the humidity was
tip in western"" Oregon and
some forest lands were opened
to logging. The State Forestry
Department said the coastal
strip from Astoria to Curry
county, was reopened to regu
lar logging. Also opened to
"hoot owl" operations-from
midnight to noon-were Polk,
Benton, Lincoln and the
western half of Lane counties.
County Courts to
Meet in Klamath
Members of the Jackson
county court will meet with
the Klamath county court in
Klamath Falls Friday hop
ing to get further paving
done on the Dead Indian rd.
to the Lake of the Woods,
County Judge Rodney Keat
ing said today.
Jackson county has paved
the road to the Jackson coun
ty line. . .
Petitions with approximate
ly 800 signatures of Jackson
county residents will be pre
sented the Klamath county
court requesting further pav
ing on the road. Klamath
county has already paved ap
proximately two miles of the
road.' i
E. H. Singmaster and Henry
Enders, botii of Ashland, who
have led the campaign to ob
tain the signatures also will
make the trip to Klamath
Falls.
Klamath county is report
ed to have road, building
equipment at the north end
of Lake of the Woods after
paving the two miles of road
from the end of paving in
Klamath county to the lodge
at the lake.
Petitioners are asking that
a definite paving schedule be
set up to pave the balance of
the road down the east side
of the lake to the Jackson
county line.
Country Faces Higher Taxes To Pay
For. Defense Budget, Neuberger Says
Portland-UPD-Sen. Richard
L. Neuberger (D-Ore.) said to
day this country faced higher
taxes to pay for an expected
defense budget increase.
Neuberger, arriving home
by train from Washington,
D.C., said the defense budgetl
for next year was estimated
to be $10 billion more than
today. He said the higher na
tional debt costs add up to
more taxes. '
He also said standby con
trols to battle increases in
profits, wages, rents and
AUGUST 28, 1958
Big Craft Falls
Moments After
Leaving Runway
Passengers Flee
Through Holes, Exits
Minneapolis -(UPD- A North
west Arlines DC6B with 60
persons aboard crashed and
burned today just after take
off. All aboard escaped death.
The airlines said 49 per
sons were taken to hospitals
for examination and treat
ment, and 12 were injured
seriously enough to require
hospitalization. "The plane
carried 56 passengers and a
crew of four.
Among those hospitalized
were the pilot, Capt. James
Wilkinson, co - pilot Verner
McGinnis, both of Seattle,
and Stewardess Marge Gal
lagher, Minneapolis.
In Poor Condition
Most seriously injured was
Albert Conrad, Wahasha,
Wis. He was reported in poor
condition with fractures.
Other, hospitalized were:
Mrs. Albert Conrad, Wakasha;
L u d w i g Neth, Vancouver,
Wash.; Mariettas McDaniels,
Arlington, Va.; Edith Lind,
Seattle; Miss G. Holcombe,
Seattle; Joseph J. Gerrich,
West Albs, Wis.; Alfred T.
Kowalewski, Hamtramck,
Mich., and Freddy Russell,
Clairton, Pa.
The crash came only mo
ments after the big plane had
arisen from the runways at
Wold - Chamberlain Airport.
Breaking up as it crashed to
earth in the misty predawn
gloom of a farm field, it
caught fire as the passengers
fled through gaps in the brok
en fuselage or through emer-
gency exists. Flames from the
burning gas tanks destroyed
a farm outbuilding.
First to reach the scene
were cab drivers, then fire
men and police. Some house
holders living nearby hurried
to dress and get to the scene,
lending their cars to take in
jured to hospitals.
Wilkinson radioed the con
trol tower just before impact
that everything was normal.
Cause of the crash was not
immediately known.
Cut on Jagged Metal
The plane plowed into the
Gerald Christian farm short
ly before dawn, grinding to a
stop only a few yards irom
the house. It burst into flames
touching off a fire which de
stroyed Christian's garage.
A number of the passen
gers suffered cuts from jag
ged pieces of metal when they
squeezed through the cracks
as flames licked about them.
The plane, Flight 537, or
iginated in Washington and
was bound for Seattle and
Portland.
(Continued on Page 11)
Two Fruit Pickers
Injured in Falls
Two, fruit .pickers sustained
back injuries in falls from
ladders yesterday morning
and were taken to valley hos
pitals by Medford Ambulance
service. s
Mrs. Vida Filey, 57, of Tal
ent, was taken to Rogue Val
ley hospital and Richard Cox,
14, of Klamath Falls was tak
en to Sacred Heart hospital.
Both patients are listed in
good condition.
Mrs. Filey was picking for
Golden Crest orchards on
Fern Valley rd., Phoenix.
Cox, who had begun picking
only a short time before, was
working for the Reter Fruit
company in their orchards
south of Medford.
prices should , be enacted to
"keep inflation from ruining
us."
The Oregon Democrat said
he planned to take a short
rest before making any re
ports to the people in the
form of speeches
Asked about differences
with Sen. Wayne Morse (D
Ore.) on some legislation,
Neuberger said' he would
work "with anyone who will
work with me." He said
"there are tremendous legis
lative needs of Oregon and it
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This Sure Beats Cleaning Up After A War"
Terrorists (Blamed
Dn (Bombing Scares
Indianapolis (WD Police I said he doubted if the unex-
today blamed terrorists for
an attempted bombing at the
home of Maurice Hutcheson,
president of the Carpenters
Union, and a blast which shat
tered windows at another un
ion officer's home.
Police Chief Frank Mueller
ordered special guards to pa
trol Hutcheson's home and the
homes of other officials of the
Carpenters Union.
Death Try Doubted
Police Lt. Richard 'Caine
Registration Drive
Started in County
The Jackson county Demo
cratic party has launched an
all-out drive to reach all un
registered, eligible voters be
fore Oct. 4, the deadline for
registering for the November
general election, James A.
Redden, county chairman,
said today. ,
The Democratic registra
tion committee has accepted
a general invitation for place
ment of registrars in several
local stores, Redden said, and
will sponsor the service alter
nately as certified registrars
are available.
A registration booth will be
set up at the Big Y super
market between 10 a.m. and
closing time tomorrow, he
said. The party also will spon
sor a mobile unit in the down
town Medford area. The unit
will be at Rexall Drue on
Main st. between 10 a.m. un
til 2 p.m. and in front of
Medford Pharmacy from 2
p.m. until 6 p.m.
Pointing out that registra
tion is non-partisan and must
be handled on such a basis,
Redden said there will be no
party symbols, signs or litera
ture on either the mobile unit
Or facilities furnished in
stores. '
'Pafrolmasfer'
Radar Set Received
A "Patrolmaster" radar
set, Medford's first, has arriv
ed at city hall.
It will be used by Medford
police for. traffic control and
by city engineers for traffic
counting. . -
Signs informing motorists
of its use are to be placed on
all major roads entering the
city. Next on the schedule is
official instruction on how to
operate it. The set costs ap
proximately $1,800, accord
ing to Richard Hogan, city
purchasing agent.
is my intention to work with
any senator, be he independ
ent, Democrat or Republican,
to get support for the things
we need."
Neuberger said he got help
of Agriculture Secretary Exra
Taft Benson in the final con
ference on the Klasnath In
dian bill which passed Con
gress and was signed by Presi
dent Eisenhower last week.
He said a public hearing
would be held here Dec. 8 on
a proposal for a regional
power corporation.
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No. 136
ploded bomb found at Hutch
eson's home or the one which
damaged the home of interna
tional vice president John R.
Stevenson Tuesday night were
intended to kill anyone.
"I do not consider this an
attempt on Hutcheson's life,"
Caine said. "It is more of a
scare than a serious try to
kill somebody." -
Hutcheson's wife, Ethel, 51,
found the bomb with a partly
burned fuse Wednesday be
neath the bedroom window of
their home located, in a fash
ionable North Side section of
the city. The bomb consisted
of three sticks of dynamite.
Caine said if the bomb had
gone off "the worst it would
have done is smash windows."
Knows Of No Reaion
. Hutcheson said he knew of
no reason for the attempted
bombing.
"I can't imagine' anyone try
ing to do this to me," he said.
The International Brother
hood of Carpenters and Join
ers, which has its headquar
ters here, has been investigat
ed by Congress and the AFL
CIO in connection with Indi
ana highway scandals.
Hutcheson and two other
officers of the union have
been . indicted on bribery
charges for alleged profiteer
ing in the sale of about $80,
000 in land and lots for high
way right of way.
Job Review Board
Named by Court
The Jackson county court
today named Walter G. Garn
er and Kenneth Pickens, both
of Medford, and Andrew E.
Stevens, Phoenix, to the new
ly created appeal, review and
job classification board. -
The board, promised t o
county employees when the
budget was set up this spring,
will review job classifications
and, make recommendations
to the county court and the
budget committee. It will
grant county employees an
opportunity to request a re
view of their positions and is
designed to establish a basis
for equal pay for equal work,
the court said.
Garner, a partner in the
Cal-Ore Machinery company,
was appointed to a three
year term and was ..named
chairman of the board.
Judge Kodney Keating ex
plained that Garner was
named chairman because he
has had experience in the job
classification field. r
Stevens, a certified public
accountant for Medford cor
poration, was named to a two-
year term, and Pickens, a
truck farmer, was named to
a one-year term.
Mail Tribune Not to
Publish Labor Day
The Mail Tribune will
not publish Monday, Sept.
1. in observance of Labor
Day.,
Medford city offices, as
well as county, state and
federal offices, also will be
closed.
Merchants and banks re
port they will not conduct
business on that date either.
Court' Hoars ;
Arguments on
Integration
Negroes Supported in
Brief by Government
Washington (UPD
today deferred action on
tion case pending a full
Washington -(UPD- The government and a Negro attorney
asked the Supreme Court today to send seven Negro children
back to Little Rock's Central High school this fall without
delay.
The Negro attorney, Thurgood Marshall, urged the court
not to "surrender to obstructions and mob action." He said
it must hand down a ruling that makes it clear to Arkansas
"that the orders of the courts (on integration) cannot be in
terfered with."
The government backed up the Negroes in a brief filed
shortly before the court met in extraordinary session to
hear arguments on the legally complex Little Rock integra
tion case. .
. The Little Rock School Board argued that integration at
Central High, where federal troops were stationed during
the last school year, should be postponed for 2V years.
The School Board has said that emotions in Little Rock
are at such a pitch that troops would have to be called out
again if an attempt were made to resume integration this
fall. -Pleas
for Definitive Decision
But the government, .accusing the School Board of ask
ing the court to relieve it of its obligations, said that to
delay integration would deprive Negro children "of their
constitutional rights."
Marshall, representing the National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People, led off the oral arguments
with a plea for "a definitive decision so that in Arkansas
there will be no doubt that the orders of the courts cannot
be interfered with." ,
All nine justices were present for the unusual special
term. Many had hastened back from distant vacation places.
From today's proceedings may come clarification of "the
court's order of May, 31, 1955, that integration in public
schools should proceed "with all deliberate speed."
Last year's integration step at Central High stemmed
from a 1957 federal court order. "In June, U. S. District Judge
Harry J. Lemley ordered integration postponed to January,
1961. This month the U. S. 8th Circuit Court of Appeals at
St. Louis overruled Lemley, then stayed its decision 30 days
to permit the Supreme Court review.
Attorney Goes Beyond Petition
The NAACP petitioned the court to throw out the 30
day stay order and vacate Judge Lemley's delay order. But
in presenting his arguments Marshall went beyond th peti
tion. .
He said the-court should rule on the entire issue, rather
than the technicalities of the petition, and reinstate the 1957
District Court order at once.
"Conditions in Arkansas," Marshall said, "would impell
this court to order that it (the case) be heard on its merits."
, He said "it is necessary to give these children (the Negro
students at Central High) the protection they need and de
serve." His voice rising in intensity, Marshall said that "sur
render to obstructionists and mob action" would be even,
more destructive to democratic government than of the chil
dren's rights.
When a bank-is robbed, Marshall said, "you don't close
the bank you put the bank robbers in jail."
Marshall completed his argument at 8:50 a.m. (PST).
He was followed by Richard C. Butler, attorney for the
Little Rock School Board. Solicitor General J. Lee Rankin
was to wind up the hearing with arguments for the govern
ment.
Justices Ask Questions
Chief Justice Earl Warren asked Butler if the School
Board had decided what it would do about school desegrega
tion "in the event this court
"No," Butler replied, adding that the board was "almost
compelled" to wait and see
Arkansas Legislature now in
today passed a bill to close
ordered.
The justices asked Butler
Marshall, but there appeared
tone.
Justices Harold H. Burton,
Frankfurter showed particular interest in finding whether
Negro pupils could be transferred to Central High later in
the year if it began the term in September on a segregated
basis.
At the government bench.
nvpr his own brief, which had
one-half hours before the court convened. In this brief the
government supported the NAACP plea for an immediate go
ahead on Little Rock integration.
Thp eovernment brief was
court to remove all legal barriers to return of the Negro
children to Central High Sept.
Two Ashland Fires
Start at Same Time
Ashland-Fire struck twice
at the same time in Ashland
yesterday afternoon, injuring
a 16-month-old child and two
others, according to the Ash
land Fire department.
Michael Wertz, 16 months,
and his mother. Mrs. Stanley
Wertz, suffered second-degree
burns when a gas cook stove
Three Man-Caused
Fires Reported
- Fire burned five acres of
grass and brush on the 401
ranch northeast of Medford
yesterday afternoon, the state
department of forestry dist
rict office here reported.
Forest patrolmen were
called about 1:25 p.m. and 15
men were dispatched to the
blaze. Youngsters playing
with matches were said to be
the cause.
Children also were blamed
for a small grass and brush
fire near Lincoln, patrolmen
said. A third grass and brush
fire yesterday afternoon in
the Galls creek district also
was listed as "man-caused."
Th.
the Little Rrwlr ;ni.rr..
hearing on Sept. 11.
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declines to grant this stay."
what laws are passed by the
special session. The Legislature
the school if integration is
more questions than they put to
to be no difference in their
y
John M. Harlan and Felix
' "
Solicitor General Rankin porea
been made public two and
a hard-hitting plea to tne
8.
blew up iu their five-room
house in the Lithia Park Auto
court shortly after 5 p.m.',
firemen reported.
Mother and son spent the
night in Ashland General hos
pital, and were released to
day, the hospital said. Fire
men said the house suffered
heavily from flames and
smoke damage.
Second Time
The second fire occurred si
multaneously in a truck ga
rage on Water st. between
Hersey and Van Ness sts.'
when gasoline being poured
into a truck by a mechanic
spilled on a lighted electric
bulb and exploded into
flames, ' firemen said. Roy
Rogers, 42, of 175 Wightman
st., Ashland, the mechanic,
was reported in "good" condi
tion today at the Ashland hos
pital where he was treated
for burns.
The garage itself, plus two
trucks and hand and power
tools, was described by fire
men as a "total loss." A pick
up truck in front of the ga
rage was also seriously dam
aged. The building was leased
by Jack Pierson, 438 A st,
Ashland.