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1r uifp'fir Mfo) o)f SI L J 0A Venezuela Police Revolt Fails To Oust Government 23 Killed; More Than 100 Injured Caracas, Venezuela l?D -The second attempt in six weeks to overthrow the Vene zuelan government killed 23 persons and wounded more than 100 in hours-long street fighting here Sunday. A government communique said the revolt, led by a small group of officers of the mili tary police, was brousht quickly under "absolute con trol." Refuse To Join An aide to Provisional President Wolfgang Larraza- bal said a "confused" situa tion and the aneer of a loyal throng of civilians gathered outside the Presidential Pal ace contributed to the large number of casualties. The army, naw and air force refused to join the re volt and it soon began to col lapse. The police marched back into their barracks and the revolt was just about over when civilians, summoned into the streets by govern ment officials, gathered in front of the palace. Fire on Crowd . There thev taunted the rebels and shouted "traitors' at the barricaded police. The rebels replied with gunfire, felling many. The antjry civil ians, some of whom had been armed with machetes, finally swarmed into the barracks and the police surrendered. Rebel Leader Lt. Col. Juan de Dios Doncada was grant ed asylum in the Mexican Embassy. Military Police Chief Maj. Vivav Ramirez and a third mutinous officer escaped to another foreign embassy. Junta member Ar turo Sosa said the No. 2 rebel, Maj. Jose Hely Mendoza, had been arrested. Rebels Displeased The rebels were reported displeased with Larrazabal's recent moves granting more freedom to leftist political parties. He came to power in a military coup that over threw dictator Marcos Perez Jimenez last January. Vochatzer Cleared Of Charges Here Frank Harrison Vochatzer, 72, of 349 Black Oak dr., was found innocent in circuit court last week of using a mo tor vehicle without permission of the owner. The cleared man had been charged with taking a 1956 DickuD truck belonging to Charles E. Bennett, 820 Mar shall ave., without his permis sion, on June 19. Following a hearing in district court on June 23, he was ordered held to answer to the charge. He way freed after a jury trial before Judge Edward Kelly. Phoenix - (WD - Arizona Democrats will decide Tuesday's primary election if Gov. Ernest McFarland will face Sen. Barry Goldwater (R-Ariz.) in the November general election. CONTEST WINNER Loyal -D. McCay, 3334 Forest st., Med forH was the winner in the Mail Tribune's third photo quiz contest. He is shown above receiving his year's free subscrip tion from carrier Hazel Jack. The contest is being conducted as part of the Mail Tribune"s annual Bargain Days, which concludes faept. ia. . State Dnterim Tax Committee Votes Benefits Depoe Bay, Ore. - (UPD - The Legislative Interim Tax Com mittee said today it has voted to give some tax benefits to foreign corporations doing business in Oregon. The committee is holding a three-day meeting here. Lower Filing Fee The committee voted 7-3 to recommend that the 1959 Leg islature lower the filing fee from $200 to $100 for outside corporations doing business in the state. The filing fee for domestic corporations aver ages about $28. It also agreed to authorize the State Tax Commission to advise the corporation com missioner which corporations pay income excise taxes. This is to check up on foreign cor porations doing business which do not register. The committee approved an Crowd Expected For Rogue Flood Control Meeting Tonight's meeting of the Rogue Basin Flood Control and Water Resources associ ation is expected to have a large representation from both Jackson and Josephine counties, according to Bill Jess, Eagle Point, association president. Cave Junction and Merlin will be represented also, Jess said. All available details on proposed water resource de velopment of the Rogue Bas in are expected to be given during the meeting, which starts at 8 pjn. in the Jack son county courtnouse audi torium. Expected to attend are Ross Hatch, U. S. Army Corp of Engineers, Portland office, and O. M. Browne, regional project . development engin eer, bureau of reclamation, Boise, Idaho. Hatch will answer ques tions sent to him earlier by Jess on development plans for the basin. Browne is expect ed to discuss the new study of the Lost Creek site by bur eau of reclamation geologists. The new study of the Lost Creek site started last week, Jess said. Following an earlier study, the bureau stated the Lost Creek site was capable of supporting a dam of only 50,000 acre feet of water. Truck Driver Dies At Dam Work Troy Johnson, 48, of 305 Portland ave., Medford, died at 9:15 a.m. today while driv ing a truck for the Ephrata Pre-mix company on the How are Prairie dam construction job. Death was attributed to a heart attack. The body was taken to Lit willer's Funeral home in Ashland. ad velorem tax on special mo bile equipment, or equipment which is moveable but does not use the highways regular ly. Examples are cranes, con crete mixers which are moved from one place to another. State Sen. Phil Lowry of Med ford sought to get the tax set on a proportionate basis. He said he wanted some pro tection for people who kept their property in the state all year as against those who use it only part of the year and escape taxatron. A bill to defer property taxes on homesteads for older persons with small incomes was approved. The bill would not give direct tax relief, but would postpone taxes. Another bill approved would -strengthen the law re quiring filing of personal property tax returns. Corps of Engineers geologists later determined a dam could be built holding three times that amount of water. During tonight's meeting a successor to a former direc tor, Harold Gebhardt, Central Point, will be elected. Geb hardt died this spring. He had IV2 years left to serve, Jess said. Third V.D. Case Reported Locally A third case of venereal disease resulting from sexual promiscuity in a local group apparently composed mostly of juveniles was reported to day by Dr. A. Erin Merkel, Jackson county health officer. But Dr. Merkel said most of the approximately 29 in dividuals on his list of pos sible exposures had been ex amined with no other cases turning up. The third case was de scribed as a girl under 21, who lives in Medford. The two previous cases, a boy 19 and a girl 15, were re ported to Medford police Aug. 24. They told authorities of parties involving liquor and sexual relations, and furn ished lists implicating a num ber of local youths. "Examination of the real contacts is almost completed," Dr. Merkel said. He explained that some of those on his list had apparently not been in volved in sexual contact. Dr. Merkel reported that a fourth case had been discov ered, but he said it was not related. Local authorities, mean while, continue their investi gation of other aspects of the case. Loyal McCay Winner of MT Photo Quiz Contest The third winner in the Mail Tribune photo quiz was Loyal D. McCay, 334 Forest st., Medford, who received his one year's free subscription to the Mail Tribune from car rier Hazel Jack. McCay, co-owner of the Rogue Valley Construction co., has lived in Medford since 1915, when he moved with his parents from Idaho to the Central Point area. He has always had an in terest in the history of south ern Oregon and reading arti cles and books on the area has become a hobby with him in recent years. To answer the questions in the quiz, he admits, he had to. make sev eral trips to the Jacksonville museum and to various towns to study the layout of the buildings. McCay credits his success in the Mail Tribune quiz to the many books he has read on southern Oregon, which gave him a good background on the early-day history of the. area. His other hobbies include hunting, fishing and Red -CHiDese Artillery feiiiis inniMimg Ummny . 1 ' Planes Engage In Battle Over Formosa Strait Peiping Irate Oyer Violation of Limits Taipeh, Formosa-UPD-Com-munist artillery opened a massive bombardment of the Quemoy Islands today and de stroyed a Nationalist ammuni tion ship which had reached the offshore islands under protection of the U. S. 7th Fleet. The Defense Ministry said U. S. Navy escort ships con voyed the ammunition ship Tokyo - (UPD - Communist Party Chairman Mao Tse tung laid today he hoped renewed ambassadorial level talks on Formosa would bring "some results." Mao thus joined Red Chi nese Premier Chou En-lai in pushing for a negotiated settlement of the Formosa crisis. and several others to the three-mile limit today but stood offshore and Communist artillery did not fire at them. U. S. convoy vessels also stood offshore Sunday when the Nationalists landed supplies. 'Most Dangerous Act' However, Peiping Radio re ported eight more U. S. war ships entered Chinese Com munist territorial waters to day and said "this is obviously a most dangerous act of de liberate provocation" and that the Red Chinese Foreign Min istry was issuing a second "serious warning." An official spokesman for the Nationalist Defense Min istry said today's shelling might justify Nationalist re taliation against the main land. The Nationalists warned this week end that bombers would attack Red artillery positions if the bombardment resumed. Nationalist Sabre jets escort ing supply vessels to Quemoy shot down seven Communist MIGs and damaged two others in the biggest aerial battle of the Formosa Strait "little war." Only three MIGs of a flight of 12 escaped undam aged. A Nationalist announce ment said 12 MIG-17s ap proached an equal number of Nationalist Sabres from the rear. The Sabre jet flight leader barked over his radio: "Let's turn around and get them," and the battle was on. The jets fought a series of diving battles for eight min utes about 16 miles off the China coast. photography. Because the second winner was not available for a pic ture, the third, winner was announced today. This win ner of the second contest will appear in tomorrow's paper. Below are listed the 22 cor rect answers to the Mail Trib une Photo-Quiz contest which appeared in the paper for Tuesday, Sept. 2. Picture No. I-Jacksonville; United States Hotel; France; Madam Holt. Picture No. 2-Jacksonville; President Rutherford D. Hayes; Madam Holt. Picture No. 3-General John England Ross; The second marriage in Jackson county; Modoc war. ... Picture No. 4-The Siskiyou mountains; State coach; 1887. Picture No. 5-The Plaza; Woolen mills; All three. Picture No. 6-Steinman and Cole stations in the Siskiyous; Baggage and express; Oregon California Stage" Co. Picture No. 7- Central Point; Pine street; Central Point Hotel. Medford 16 Pages Showers Forecast Through Tuesday Weatherman Says Light showers which cover ed much of state-protected and federal forest lands in the Rogue valley last night and this morning were not enough to end fire danger, according to spokesmen. In the Rogue River Na tional forest .31 inch of rain fell in the Applegate area and smaller , amounts elsewhere. Rain covered most of the state forest area with an esti mated .10 inch-falling, spokes men said. No lightning strikes were reported in either state or federal forest lands of the area. At the Weather Bureau, only .15 of an inch of rain was recored up to 11 a.m. to day. The rain ended a warm spell which brought tempera tures of 102 degrees Saturday and 95 degrees Sunday. Showers are forecast through Tuesday. Halts Operations Rain momentarily halted fruit harvest operations this -mornin&4aaxious-orchards,- according to Clifford B. Cor dy, . county horticulture agent. Fruit growers of the area are uneasy over the possibility of continued rainy weather. Idlesness of pickers due to weather conditions may cause them to leave for other areas, one pear shipper said. The pear harvest is expect ed to continue through to the end of September, Cordy said. The few apples raised in this area will be picked into Octo ber, he added. The peach har vest is pretty well along with this week expected to see the windup. Crop estimates are medium to light. The wet weather has further increased the blight problem in pear orchards, the county agent said. The hot humid weather this year has made it more serious than other years, he explained. Cordy urged growers to cut out all blight infection in trees as soon as harvesting operations permit. Some Area Schools Start Up Today A number of schools in the county opened their doors this morning for the 1958-59 year, and by next Monday all of the schools in the coun ty will be in operation, ac cording to the county school superintendent's office. Griffin Creek, Talent, Ap plegate, Pinehurst, and How ard schools opened today, and Phoenix schools are set to open Thursday for all stu dents except those working in the fruit. They will begin school Monday, Sept. 15, the same day that Medford and district 6C schools will open. This- Friday district 9C schools, including Eagle Point, Elk-Trail, and Shady Cove schools, will begin classes. Schools already in opera tion include those at Ruch, Evans Valley, Butte Falls, Lone Pine, Jacksonville, Ash land, Rogue River, and Pros pect. BULLETIN Newport, R. I. - (CPU - The White House today called upon Russia to restrain Red China from invading the Nationalist-held islands off the Chinese mainland. MEDFORD, OREGON,. MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1958 "You Look Absolutely Stunning' Maine Voters Going To Polls for Last Of Early Elections Portland, Maine-flJPD-Maine voters balloted today and gave the old saying "As Maine goes, so goes the na tion" one final fling. This is the last of the early Maine elections. After this year Maine junks its famous early voting date, the second Monday in September, and votes with the other states in November. No one who has studied the tables of Maine and national elections returns over the years takes the old adage se- Sawmill Strike Spread Continues Portland (UPD A strike of AFL-CIO Lumber and Saw mill Workers Union members spread to more mills in 'Ore gon and Washington today. Earl Hartley, executive sec retary of the union, sayi the latest firms hit by the walk out were Hines Lumber com pany operations at Baker, Seneca and Hines in Oregon, the International Paper com pany plywood mill near Eu gene and the St. Regis Paper company at Klickitat, Wash. The strike, which started last Thursday, now has idled some 5,000 men. Hartley said that any settle ment reached in the walkout would have to be ftecided on by striking members of the union, not non-striking mem bers. The LSWU asked a 31-cent hourly package wage hike. The strike came after the union rejected an increase of from 2 to 10 cents an hour. WEATHER FORECAST: Showeri through Tuesday. Mild temperatures. Low tonight 58. High Tues day 80. TEMPERATURE Highest yesterday 95 Lowest this morning . 60 PRECIPITATION To 10 a.m. today 06 Our Skies Tonight Sunset today 6:34 p.m. Sunrise tomorrow 5:45 a.m. Moonrise tomorrow: 1:27 a.m. New Moon .-. Sept. 13 Venus, the brightest planet, is now passing to the east of the star, Regulusr In a few weeks this planet will leave the morning sky. Late in Decem ber we will again see it low in the southwest in the early evening twilight. '-.v;-t-:-r.-- riously. It has been discredit ed much too often. However, national election observers are looking to the Maine voting for one princi pal clue-will light be shed upon voters' reactions to the charges of influence, peddling in Washington? GOP 1 Sen. Frederick G. Payne is a candidate for re election. His opponent is the popular two-term Democratic governor, Edmund S. Muskie. Accepted Favors . Payne, like Presidential Assistant Sherman Adams, has admitted accepting favors from Boston industralist Ber nard Goldfine. Payne received a vicuna coat, hotel accommodations and a $3,500 interest free loan when he was buying a house in Washington. Another question is wheth er the Democratic trend in normally Republican Maine will continue. The key, again, is the Mus-kie-Payne contest. Muskie, 44, is the symbol of the Demo cratic resurgence. Payne, 58, is calling for party solidarity behind his candidacy. Muskie became Maine's first Democratic governor in 20 years in 1954 with the larg est, vote ever given a candi date for governor in the state. Seats at Stake If Muskie wins today he will be the first Maine Demo crat to sit in the U.S. Senate since 1911. A Republican ex-governor and former ambassador to Pakistan, Horace A. Hildreth, is trying again for election as governor. His opponent is a former Internal Revenue col lector for Maine, Democrat Clinton A. Clauson. . Main's three congressional seats are at stake, two held by Republicans, one by a Democrat. Any change in that alignment might be interpret ed as a national trend. Registration Booth To Operate Tonight A mobile voter registration booth will operate in front of Mann's department store on Central ave. in Medford from 6 to 9 p.m. today, a spokesman for the Jackson County.Demo- cratic Central committee said. The booth is operated on a non-partisan basis. Tribune No. 144' Virginia Delays Integration of Public Schools By United Press International The schedule of court-ord ered integration in Virginia was delayed, at least tempor arily, today by two federal judges and the NAACP asked another U. S. court to break up a protest strike of white pupils in Arkansas. Four different federal court cases in Virginia, some involving a showdown be tween state and federal law, were in progress. Order Refused In Alexandria, District Judge Albert V. Bryan re fused to issue an immediate order to admit 14 Negro pu pils to all-white schools. In stead, he advised the Negroes to enroll at segregated Negro schools until their request for an order against the city school board can be tried in his court. At Harrisonburg, Va., U. S. Judge John Paul asked NAACP attorneys to rewrite a desegregation injunction that, if granted, would order integration of schools there. Paul's request was expect ed to delay things only brief ly and he was expected to sign the order later today after technical points are cleared up in the rewrite. To Review Applications Paul also was expected to begin reviewing rejected Ne gro applications for white schools in Charlottesville, an other Virginia city ordered to integrate. A strike by white pupils over the continued integration of the Van Buren, Ark., High school appeared to be on the wane. More than half the strikers - went back to class today, .with only 28 boys re maining out. None of the 13 Negroes who started classes at the Van Buren school last week were on hand today, however, and the'NAACP entered the pic ture in an effort to break the strike entirely. The NAACP filed suit ask ing U. S. District Judge John Miller to require the Van Bur en School Board to show cause why it should not en force the order and "help preserve the constitutional rights" of Negro pupils. The effect of such an injunction would be to end the white strike. Nashville, Tenn., extended its gradual integration pro gram to the second grade to day and one teacher describ ed as being "just like a Sun day school class". This was in marked contrast to disord ers that greeted the beginning of mixed classes in 1957. Portland (UPD An autopsy showed today that Dorothy Balfour, 48, Portland service station operator, died of suf focation last week. 105 Students Pass Oregon State Bar Examinations Salem-UPD-A total of 105 students passed the Oregon State Bar examinations this year, the State Supreme court said today. Some 55 students failed the examinations. Two attorneys also passed their examinations to practice law in Oregon while two failed. Willamette university here had the best percentage rec ord for successful ' passage with better than 85, per cent of its students making the grade. Mack on China1 Will Be Attack Against Soviets Note of Warning Handed To Embassy Moscow (UPD Soviet Pre mier Nikita Khrushchev warned President Eisenhower today that an "attack" on Communist China would be considered "an attack on the Soviet Union." Khrushchev issued the war ning in a note handed to the U. S. Embassy here today. The Soviet Premier called on Eisenhower, to whom the communication' was personal ly addressed, to withdraw U. S. forces from the Formosa area in the interests of a "stable peace." 'Open Provocation' He said the .U. S. 7th Fleet and American forces on For mosa were committing an "open provocation" and in dulging in "blackmail and in timidation." Khrushchev declared in this regard that world pow ers should be "prohibited" from sending "fleets and air force units" to different parts of the world for such purposes. "These armed forces must be kept within the national boundaries," the Russian leader asserted. He said "this question should be consider ed by the United Nations." Stable Peace Unthinkable Khrushchev's first message to Eisenhower since they ex changed a long series on a summit meeting and the Mid east crisis declared that "U.S. actions in the Far East are an open provocation . . . " "The Soviet Union will re gard an attack on the Peo ple's Republic of China as an attack on the Soviet Union, Khrushchev said. . He said " a stable peace is unthinkable in the Far East until the American Navy is withdrawn from the Taiwan (Formosa) Strait and until the American soldiers are with drawn from the Chinese is land of Taiwan." 'Legitimate Question' "The powers should be pro hibited from rushing fleets and air force units from one end of the world to the other for purposes of blackmail and' intimidatio n," Khrush chev said. "These forces must be kept within national boun daries." The Soviet Premier then suggested that the question be raised in the United Na tions. "There arises a legitimate question" he went on. "Should this not be discussed in the United Nations and a decis ion be adopted forbidding powers from employing the movements of naval and air forces for purposes of black mail and intimidation?" Mrs. FDR Accuses Proposal Backers Washington-flJPD-Mrs. Elea nor Roosevelt has accused California backers of "right- to-work" proposals with us ing "weasel words" to imply that her late husband favored such laws. The former first lady de scribed the action as a "shameful fraud on the pub lic." . But she declared in a state ment released Sunday that the American public "under stands very well that Frank lin Delano Roosevelt would never have supported such a reactionary doctrine." Mrs. Roosevelt's statement was prepared before her de parture for Moscow, where she arrived Sunday. The University of Oregon law school had a record of almost 80 per cent successful applicants. Fifty-eight percent of the Northwestern College of Law students in Portland passed the bar. Admission ceremonies for the new attorneys will be held in the Supreme court room here Friday at 11 a.m. Those successful in their examinations included Robert Daniel Heffernan Jr., and Joel Bruce Reeder, both of Medford. ' ' peim Uracil 9 QmklmgM AAedlfeirdI Stores Wd X le
