Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, October 19, 1958, Image 1

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Newspaper Page TextPrice 10 Cents Subscribers Recommended To report improper or non delivery of the Mail Tribune in Medford phone SP 2-6141 Ash land MU 2-1021, Yreka 841W before 6:45 p.m. daily and 12:30 ajn. Sunday. If regular delivery arrives shortly after you can please notify office thus eliminating special messenger service. A well-informed voter will want to read the discussion of the various- issues which wrll appear on the Nov. 4 general election ballot. The explanations of the various Issues appears on pa 12 of today's Mail Tribune. MEDFORD RIBOTE United Presa Full Leased Wir United Press Full Leased Wir 66 PAGES MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1958 No. 179 1MI E UVJ 53rd Year I fnKililHTjC f SSJ ssm0 . F ilm pjjjjjS asssss CURE CE - ' S& 4!p' i " ' Of ft' 0 ids. It .1 e fords city attorney and candidate for dis- second Circuit (trict court judge (left), joins Circuit Court District Court '.Judge Incumbent Edward C. Kelly (center) Fair. Voters And Candidates Eye Each Other An estimated 750 people, despite conflicting football games, attended the Candi dates' Fair sponsored Friday by Medford's League of Wom en Voters. The "fairgrounds" was the brightly-lit and balloon-bedecked gymnasium of Hedrick Junior High school on East Jackson st. The nearest thing to an animal husbandry dis play was a top G.O.P. ele phant, conscientiously blow ing bubbles throughout the evening.' Gov. Robert D. Holmes, Labor Commissioner Norman O. Nilsen and his oppbnent, Lyle McCauley, U. S. Rep. Charles O. Porter and his op ponent Paul E. Geddes, and James Hatfield, representing Porter Returns: More Speeches, Meetings Here Congressman Charles O. Porter, who returned to Jack- ion county today after spend ing Saturday in Josephine countv. will make several more public appearances here this week. ' Today, between 2:30 and 4:30 p.m. he will attend a Tjublic non-political gathering at Hanlylands to discuss phases of the Rogue Basin de velopment project m wnicn ne is interested, conservation, flood control, and associated problems. Tomorrow he is scheduled for coffee hours in Phoenix and Medford, and at 7:30 p.m. will speak at the Democratic headquarters in the Esquire theater building on "Renova tion of Latin American Pol icy," dealing with the Murphy case and its results on Am erican policy toward Latin American nations. Tuesday and Wednesday he will visit mills in the area and campaign on the streets, and at 10 a.m. Wednesday he will speak st a convocation at Southern Oregon college in Ashland. Later he will leave for the northern part of the district, but will return once more, for a dinner at the Phoenix Grange hall, Monday, Oct. 27, before the election Nov. 4. Make Medford Beautiful 4 HOW JOB? - Mov ing the lawn and getting rid of the tree trimmings "would certainly improve the appearance of this yard, situated on one of Medford's main traffic arteries. In dividual initiative in sucn cases tun greauy aasiit me ciij & campaign to "Make Medford "'" ff 7 his cousin, Gubernatorial i Candidate Mark Hatfield, were each introduced and spofre briefly. They and candidates for the state legislature ' and county offices shook hands and chat ted with voters at their , in dividual booths during the rest of the evening. Non-partisan candidatSs for city and judicial offices were "corralled" by white picket fences in the center of the floor. Those registering their party affiliation at the door totaled 361. Of these, 197 were Republicans and 164 were Democrats. Based on this tally, the GOP became eligible for- the Mail Tribune's gavel, present ed to the party best represent ed at the fair. The Democrats won in 1956. KMED conducted an unof ficial straw ballot, although some observers pointed out there was apparently nothing to prevent someone from vot ing more than once. The results, ,at any rate, showed Porter leading Ged des, 136-130, and Hatfield leading Holmes, 143-128. A 134-110 vote favored abolish ing the death penalty, and a whopping 211-31 majority ap proved salary - increases for state legislators. Some other tallies showed: Nilsen leading McCauley, 126 124: for state senator, Dr. Ed win Durno over Gordon Hud son, 137-127; for state repre sentative, Robert Duncan leading Evelyn Nye, 162-12, and Marijane Duncan leading Melvin Lattie, 112-107. For county clerk, Bereth E. Hopkins over Errlest Marvin Madden, 140-127; for county commissioner, Chester Wendt over Frank Christian, 140-119; for county judge, Earl Miller over Scott Hamilton, 148-113; and for county sheriff, Joe Walsh leading Larry Sheehan, 153-109. An automatic voting ma chine, yet to be adopted of ficially here, was the feature attraction after the candi dates themselves. It broke down at one point,' causing considerable const ernation. But when its curtain was flip ped off the top of the booth it suddenly became automatic again Other displays included the Keeney Plan for a downtown parking platform in Medford, Beautiful." rfj A Court post and currently judge, at the Candidates At Fair a map of Emigrant reservoir, and layouts for the Southern Oregon Experimental station and the soil conservation pro gram. The League had its own booth crammed with voters' information. Signs urged those who approached, "Don't for get to vote for county home rule." Stars of the league's skit on this subject were also there. Mrs. Marie Bosworth offer ed United Nations information at another booth. Not far from the voting ma chine was an antique camera, perched on a tripod. A sign above it read, "Is this a pic ture of an informed voter?" Peering down , the bellows, curious spectators found them selves face to face with themselves. A voters' IQ booth challeng ed anyone to take a written test. W. E. Davis, Eagle Point, was announced as the honor student, having missed only one question. Atom Talk Heads Busy Schedule For U.N. Week Several activities are plan ned in the Medford area in connection with United Na tions week, which starts today and ends next Saturday, Moore Hamailton, president of the Medford chapter of the Oregon United Nations ..asso ciation, has announced. Highlighting the observance will be a talk on "The Peace ful Uses of Atomic Energy" by Dr. Joseph1 S. Buttes, for merly of the Atomic Energy commission and now at Ore gon State college. He will speak at a meeting in the Jackson county courthouse au ditorium at 8 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 21. Special observances are planned in Medford schools during the week, according to Elliott Becken, assistant su perintendent of Medford schools. , , . . , United Nations films and colored slides taken by Mrs. Bernie- Kunzman are planned by business women's guilds of the First Methodist church, and the Rev. George Rosebury of the First Methodist church has planned a special service for Sunday, Oct. 26. The Uni son Prayer for the United Na tions will be used at St. Mark's Episcopal church, Hamilton said. Speakers will be provided various groups by the UN speakers bureau here, he add ed. UN activities started ear lier this month with the UN chapter meeting at the Girls Community club, at which Mrs. Annalee Stewart spoke on the United States and the UN in the Formosa crisis. Soviet TIM 04 Jet Crashes Near Moscow London - (DPD A giant So viet TU-104 commercial jet airliner, which can carry up to. 75 persons, crashed east of Moscow on a flight from Com munist China Friday, killing all aboard. Radio Moscow an nounced last night. h 1 i-. Jli. sssl HUDDLE Medford city council candidates discuss municipal matters in a non-partisan "corral" at the fair. From left to right: Stanley Starke, Ward IV candidate; Wil GOODNIGHT LADIES - Gov. and Mrs. Robert D. Holmes bid adieu to Mrs. Thomas Rutter, chairman of the League of Women Football Scores EAST Pittsburg 15. West Vir ginia 8. Pennsylvania 21. Brown 20. Army 35. Virginia 6. Cornell 12, Yale 7. - Harvard 26. Columbia 0. Villanova 9. Wake Forest 7. ' Syracuse 38. Nebraska 0. Amherst 50, Coast Guard 6. Holy Cross 14, Dartmouth 8. Princeton 40, Colgae 13. Rutgers 57, Bucknell 12. Lafayette 35, Temple 0. SOUTH . . Tennessee 14, Alabama 7. Georgia Tech 7. Auburn 7. Tulane 14, Navy 6. ' Mississippi 24, Hardin-Sim-mons 0. V.M.I. 13 Tampa 12. Louisiana St. 32, Kentucky 7. SOUTHWEST Texas Christian 24. Texas A&M 8. Baylor 26, Texas Tech 7. Tulsa 59, Drake 0. Rice 13, Southern Metho-' dist 7. Texas 24, Arkansas 6. New Mexico 33, Arizona 13. MIDWEST - Notre Dame 9. Duke 7. ' Northwestern 55, Michigan 24. Ohio Slate 49, Indiana 8. Iowa 20, Wisconsin 9. Colorado 20, Iowa Slate 0. Purdue 14, Michigan Slate 6- Illinois 20. Minnesota 8. Oklahoma 43, Kansas 0. ' Missouri 32. Kansas Stale 8. WEST Utah Stale 27, Montana 14. Wyoming 7. . Colorado. Stale 6. Washington Slate 6, Ore gon 0. , Montana . State 17. Idaho Stale 6. Ulah 20, Denver 16. UCLA 20, Washington 0. Oregon Stale 20, Idaho 6. Air Force Academy 16, Stanford 0. California 14, Southern California 12. NORTHWEST Oregon College 22, Port land (Ore.) St. 6. Westminster (Ulah) 20, Eastern Oregon 12.' . OTI 40. SOC 0. College of Idaho 28. Pa cific University 14. Central , Washington 20. Eastern Washington 6. i ' liam Doernbach, Ward I candidate; George Stacey,-opposing Starke; and Fred Robin son, Ward I incumbent. P Bomb Death Facts 'Point To Wichita, Kan. -tUPDr Police and the FBI piled up evidence yesterday that Forrest Don McCuiston lugged a bomb about with him on perhaps five airlines over thousands of miles but couldn't bring him self to set t off and kill the unsuspecting passengers he was riding with. The bomb, probably packed with dynamite, exploded Fri day in his hands in a corridor of Wichita airport 10 minutes after he had gotten off a Bran iff International Airlines plane from Kansas City. It killed McCuiston, a 36-year-old Tulsa', Okla., unem ployed aircraft design en gineer with a bad heart and failing eyesight. But it did not hurt anyone else. ' - ' "The evidence that has come in to date continues to point ,to suicide," Police Chief Eugene Pond said. - As for the theory that he first intended to blow up an airplane so his wife could col lect a $25,000 insurance pol icy, Pond said: "We are keep ing that in mind. It is borne out by the bizarre methods." Pond also disclosed that he ordered extra security mea sures for the arrival yesterday of Army Secretary Wilber Brucker and the visit late this month of Vice President Rich ard Nixon. "This kind of bomb thing stimulates the minds of crack pots," he said. McCuiston first arrived in Wichita from Tulsa early Wednesday. At 2 p.m., he left for Denver on a Continental Airlines plane. He flew to Salt Lake City and Las Vegas, Nev.. on a Western Airlines plane. At Las Vesas, he boarded a WEATHER FORECAST: Mostly cloudy with occasional showers this morn ins. Partial clearnins this afternoon. Partly cloudy and cooler tonight and Monday. High today 65; low tonight 38; high Monday 60. TEMP. Highest Yesterday "1 Lowest Yesterday 47 PRECIP. To S p.m. Yesterday . 02 Our Skies Tonight -Sunset today 5:24 p.m. Sunrise tomorrow 6:29 a.m. Moonset tonight 11:50 p.m. First Quarter today .... 6:07 a.m. PROMINENT STARS The triangle of Vega, Deneb and Altair, high in the west :757p.m. VISIBLE PLANETS Saturn, sets . 7:4-p.m. Mars, rises 7:30 p.m. Voters fair, near the exit to Hedrick Junior High school's gymnasium, where the fair was held. .- . ' - . ; ' Suici Bonanza Airlines plane and flew to Phoenix, Ariz. Thurs day night he flew on a Trans World Airlines plane from Phoenix to Kansas City. He flew from Kansas City to Wichita Friday morning. Authorities - said he prob ably got the bomb at Wichita, when he first . arrived, or at Las Vegas. There wasn't time at the other stops. A coroner's jury viewed the body yesterday so it could be sent to Jenks, Okla., for burial. The jury recessed un til after the investigation is completed.'- If the jury rules his death suicide, his wife cannot col lect the $25,000 insurance policy. In case of accidental death, it is good whether the insured person was killed in a crash or in an airport. Gold Hill Plans To Meet Aspirants -. Gold Hill A "meet the candidate's night" will be held at the Gold Hill Grange hall, in Gold Hill on Wednesday evening, Oct., 22, at 8 o'clock All candidates regardless of party, seeking state, county and local offices in the city of Gold Hill have been invited to talk. The public is welcome to attend this political rally, which is being sponsored by the Gold Hill Grange. Ar rangements are being made to secure a speaker from the State Grange to serve as mas ter of ceremonies for the event. Refreshments will be served Fleming To Report On 0 and C Funds Elmer Fleming, superin tendent of Josephine County schools, will report on a study being made of distribution of O and C funds at a meeting of school boards of district 13 Oregon School Boards associa tion, at 8 p.m. Tuesday at Hed rick Junior High school. ' Jerry Latham, chairman of the Jackson County Chamber of Commerce tax study com mittee, will report on the group's observations regard ing school financing and budgeting. irr J UV DYHJOT Atlanta -(UPD- Police arrest ed the so - called "central figure" in a Synagogue dyna miting yesterday just as he was 'reported ready to flee town. But anonymous, tele phone threats indicated some conspirators were still at large. Detectives B. Compton and R. W. Davidson seized Rich ard Bolilng, 25, near his home in the southwest section at 1:10 am. est. They said he went quietly with them to the county jail to be questioned first by sheriff's officers and later by the FBI. Boiling, one of five men in dicted for the Sunday bomb ing of the Jewish Temple here on charges that could bring the death penalty, is the brother of one of those ar rested earlier and indicted. 'Central Figure' Called a "central figure" in the case, Richard Boiling was the' only one not in custody GOP, Democrats Both Greet Dke Denver (DPD President Eisenhower came here yester day to visit old friends and spread joy among the Repub licans, but the manner in which his welcome ceremony was dominated by a Demo cratic governor brought dis may to assembled GOP candidates.- . . . The President attempted to soothe the ruffled Republi can feelings later at his hotel when he posed for pictures with the candidates and held a brief private conference on GOP prospects . in Colorado this fall. . What drew, angry protests at Stapleton airport, where the President and Mrs. Eisen hower landed from Abilene, Kan., was the White House refusal to set up a picture of the President and'the five top Republican candidates on the state ticket. ' The President, by the time the picture request was put to press secretary James Hag erty, was engulfed in friends as he climbed into a bronze convertible to. ride to the home of Mrs. Eisenhower's mother, Mrs. Elvira Doud. The circumstances, how ever, did not dissuade state October Normally Dry Month Here The first real sign of fall weather started moving across southern Oregon Fri day, and squally weather this week end is expected to greatly reduce the forest fire danger in southwestern Ore gon. Much of the fire danger was lessened by late Satur day, when some areas re ceived sufficient .amounts of rain. Precipitation in . other sections, however, was hard ly noticeable, state depart ment of forestry officials said. The weather . bureau re ported only a trace of rain between ' Friday and Satur day afternoons, but more sub stantial amounts were fore cast for late Saturday. Un settled weather is . expected to prevail in this area through the week end. Friday and Saturday's pre cipitation was the first since Sept. 22 when .01 was record ed at the weather bureau sta tion at the Medford airport. Since Sept. 1, there had been only .28 up to the approach of the stormy weather. The total was 1.29 inches short of the average for this, time of the agricultural year, weath er bureau officials said. Weather bureau officials nredict October will" be "about normal." October, 1917 had no precipitation, October, 1936 had a trace and the wetter month -in .1953 had .14 precipitation. I; IV when the indictments were returned yesterday by a spe cial grand - jury. Police re ceived a tip that he was pre paring to leave town and in tercepted him. In a car found at Boiling's home police discovered anti Jewish literature, signed by a man who identified himself as national commander of the Knight of the White Camillia, an outgrowth of the Ku Klux Klan. " The two-page letter called the Jew "the sworn enemy of white Christian America . . . this is a life and death strug gle which we must win legal ly if; possible but violently if necessary." Threatening Meanwhile, threatening and harassing telephone calls were made to at least two members of the 22-man grand jury that indicted the five suspects Fri day. Assistant jury foreman Rob ert C. Van Camp said a caller GOP . Chairman Richard Shaw from swearing at the White House staff and shout ing at Hagerty, , "we're try ing to get some help out here and make this a real occa sion." It was difficult to count all the pictures made, but in the center, of many of them was Democratic Gov. Steve Mc- Nichols plus his wife and their .five photogenic chil dren. There was even a Dem ocratic Congressman, Rep. Byron Rogers of Denver, in the welcome party. -' It was supposed to be primarily a Republican affair. 'Official Welcome Gov. McNichols had an nounced some days ago he would interrupt his own campaign for reelection and return to Denver to extend to the President the state's official welcome. Hagerty did his best to make things right with the miffed GOP candidates.. He saw to it they had a private audience with the chief ex ecutive before the President had lunch. Some Republicans, how ever, continued to voice dis appointment ' that the' Presi dent did not have a i few words of public endorsement at the airport. Some of them said ' they had expected a speech. The somewhat aggrieved GOP, candidates were Palmer Burch, running for govern or; John Macki'e and John Harpel, seeking congressional seats; Frank Hayes, the in cumbent lieutenant governor, and Duke Dunbar, incumbent attorney general. In the calmer precmcts of the eighth floor in the Brown Palace hotel, the candidates seemed to feel , better after posing for ' separate photo graphs with Eisenhower. 'Of Course, If I Had The Top Job I'd Act . Differently" - - EfLIT roll! threatened to "kill all of you who indicted those innocent men . . . this is the Confeder ate underground." There has been no confir mation of the existence of any such organization and South ern Confederate patriot groups have denounced the bombers. 'Going To Pay' Jury Foreman J. Ben Moore said a caller told him it ap peared that Mayor William B. Hartsfield could "set any thing he wants" out of the grand jury and that the jury members "are going to pay for it." ' , ' Assistant Foreman" Van Camp is music director of Ra dio Station WSB, owned by the Atlanta Newspapers, Inc., which also have been the tar-: get of threatening calls. A rumor spread yesterday that a crowd was gathering around the afternoon Atlanta Journal building but a check showed nothing unusual. Rabbi Jacob N. Rothschild held the first religious serv ices at the Temple Friday night since the Sunday blast knocked an eighteen - foot hole in the rear area, doing $200,000 damage- Rothschild said the blame fo rsuch acts rests not only on the lawless but on "good, de cent people who sat idly by and failed to speak and prac tice the ideals of their reli gious faith." But out of the bombing, he said, has emerged "an aroused people dedicated to righteous ness." 300 Appointments Still Are Needed For Bloodmobile More than 300 appoint ments still are needed for the visit of the Red Cross Blood mobile here Wednesday, Oct. 22, Red Cross officials have announced. By late last week only 25 appointments had been made, and 350 donors are needed to assure a quota of 290 pints, Red Cross officials noted. The Bloodmobile will be at the Red Cross building, 60 Haw thorne ave., between 1 and 6 p.m. Wednesday. Appointments may be made by telephoning the Red Cross office at SPring 3-3813. ' A special appeal for blood donations in behalf of Miss ' Golda N. Boone, a former val ley resident now a patient in Stanford University hospital in California, has been made. Those wishing to aid Miss Boone are asked to designate that their blood donation be credited to her name at the Stanford University hospital in care of her physician. Dr. Donald R. Hales. Miss Boone, member of a pioneer Jacksonville family, now makes her home in San Francisco but visited in the valley from time to time.