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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
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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.
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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. ' '
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