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t Medford Youth Among Traffic. Accident Victims Father of 13 Killed by Bullet United Press International Oregon today counted a tragic toll of 10 persons dead in weekend accidents. Twelve died in traffic, four were killed by trees blown down by a storm, two died in a plane crash and a hunter was lulled by a bullet. Two of the fatal traffic crashes claimed three lives and another took two lives. An off-duty Portland po liceman, his wife and their young son, Gregg, were killed late Sunday night in a collision between their sports car and a station wagon on SW Barbur blvd. The victims were Robert Pederson, 30, his wife, Marjorie, 26, and the son ,2V4. Two other Peder son children, Kathy, 7, and Barbara, 5, were hospitalized with possible skull fractures. Thomas Young, Dundee, and his son, John, about 10, who were in the station wagon, also were injured. Police said the station wagon jumped the center divider. Three Near Hood River The other triple-fatal crash occurred late Sunday on Highway 30, half a utile west of Hood River. Killed in the , accident were Paul N. Fisher, 30, and his brother, LeNoir, 29, both of Kellogg, Idaho, and Clarence M. , Rapp, 61, Fairfield, Mont. Sheriff's dep uties said . the Fisher car struck the Rapp vehicle after the latter apparently skidded on the highway. Earlier Sunday Eugene Bayford Ceal, 36, and his wife, -Mary, 32, were killed in a collision between then car and a truck near Spring field on Highway 58. Medford Youth Killed Terrance Lynn Hayes, 21, Medford, a student at Pacific University, was killed near Gobel, northwest of Portland Saturday afternoon when his car rolled down an embank ment after a two-car collision. Hayes was thrown from the car. His brother, Dorrance, and Royce Hateman, Chehal is, escaped injury. Other traffic victims were Mrs. Francis Schwartz, 48, Wedderburn, killed in a one ear accident Sunday three miles south of Port Orford; Milton R. Holloway, 29, Rogue River, who died from injuries suffered Friday in a truck-car crash near Rose burg, and Norman A. W. La Page, 26, Vancouver, B. C, killed when his car plunged into the Yamhill river near Valley Junction Saturday. - A rain and wind storm which blew in from the Pa cific resulted in four deaths in separate accidents, all the result of falling trees. Tree Crushes Cabin Pat Monahan, 60, a pros pector who lived about five miles west of Oakridge, was found dead in his cabin Sun day after two trees fell across his small cabin. Dean Pat Ryan, 41, Tigard, was killed in a hunting camp near Dale in the Umatilla na tional forest when wind knocked over a tree which crushed his tent. Enoch I. Maerz, 43, Salem, was killed near Mitchell when a big tree was snapped by the wind and fell on him as he was crawling out of his tent. John Rice, 13, Eugene, was killed in the Silver Lake area when a pine tree fell on to the car in which he was riding. The crash of a two-seat Na tional Guard plane at Port land International airport Sunday claimed the lives of Lt. Warren C. Hunter Jr., 27, of th. National Guard and Lt. Charles R. Hornecker, 26, of the Air Force reserve. Both were from Portland. Lawrence Vernon Stalford, 41 Toledo, the father of 13 children, was wounded fatal ly Saturday when struck by a bullet while hunting with two sons west of Dayville Junction. He died in a John Day hospital. Medford 16 Pages iil 'ft 4. PRESENTS AWARD Gov. l 'U. - - - tu plaque to Councilman and Acting Mayor James Dunlevy Fri day afternoon as national recognition of safety education achievements by Medford schools. The public and non-public school systems have a combined performance rating of 84 per cent. This is one of three awards presented throughout the nation. Berry Bigham, president of the Medford Safety council, presented National Safety council award certificates Friday in the YMCA building also to Medford district schools for "exceptional effort in safety.". These included Hedrick Junior High school, three years; Jackson, eight years; Jeffer son, three years; Lincoln, eight years; McLoughlin, four years; Oak Grove, two years; Roosevelt, eight years; Wash ington, eight years; and West Side elementary, two years. Peaceful Coup in Bangkok Puts Power In Military Bangkok (UPD A military junta, headed by Field Mar shal Sarit Thanarat staged a peaceful coup d'etat today, Bangkok Radio announced. The radio reported that army, navy, air force, police and civilian officials led by Sarit seized power "to main tain the institutions with the king at the head." It added the coup was stag ed with the understanding of the government and of the majority of the public because of pressures from internal and Police Report Battery Thefts A., new rash of battery thefts has apparently broken out, according to reports re ceived by Medford police. Tru - Mix Concrete com pany, 248 West McAndrews rd., reported the theft Of two batteries valued at $40 over the week end from compres sors at the construction site of the Seventh Day Adventist church, Highland dr; and Crestbrook rd. Two batteries valued -at $18 each and two spotlights val ued at $20 each were report edly taken Saturday night from a truck parked at Em pire Transport company, 401 East McAndrews rd. Pearl Evaline Bailey, 122 East 13th St., reported the theft of a 6-volt battery val ued at $13.22 from a vehicle parked at that address last week. ' Make Medford Beautiful liipiiiiiKiiifii jsp - 1 IP-- 2r jl sfffl OUT OR GAS Out of commission, too, it would appear. But out of civic pride, the owner of this deserted filling station, and the cabins beside it, might spruce things up to help "Make Medford Beautiful." This is one of many eyesores on the city's main traffic routes. MEDFORD, OREGON, MONDAY, OCTOBER 20,-1958 j Robert D. Holmes presented' a Hands external forces, especially the Communists.. y ; ,'L'. The radio ? announcement did not explain what the pres sures, from: internal' and ex ternal forces were. ' ' It said Prime Minister Tha nom Kittikachorn had handed his resignation to King Phumi pul 'Adeldej earlier today be cause he "felt he could not conduct the affairs of the state with the desired results." The announcement ordered all military units to remain at their stations and accept no orders except with the sig nature of Supreme Command er Marshal Sarit. It said the King and his family, embassies and consul ates were pfotected by armed guards. The radio said the city was quiet with no signs of troops concentrations. Safeway Stores Take Out Permit A $131,725 Medford build ing permit for erection of the Safeway store building in the East Jackson, st. shopping cen ter has been issued at city hall. The applicant is listed as "Medford Shopping Center" on the building department log, but Buttress and McClel lan is known to be the con struction firm developing the site. The permit was issued Fri day, for a fee of $396. This is the first permit issued for building construction at the center. s 1dm 1 9 Um A TP Federal Prison Escapee Taken Near Mt. Shasta Car Rams Tree Near Black Butte .Yreka (UPD A 23-year-old fugitive from the federal pris on in Atlanta, Ga., was cap tured Sunday after a wild ride through' police road blocks that ended when ; his car crashed into a fallen tree near Black Butte in the Mt. Shasta area. , Carl E. McCraw and his 20-year-old wife, Shirlee, gave up without a struggle when Cali fornia state police cornered them, although he had a rifle. Escaped Oct. 4 McCraw, serving time in the Atlanta prison for violation of the Dyer act, broke out of prison Oct. 4, police said. , Of ficers said the couple aband oned, a car in Ashland, Ore., and that a new car was stolen from a Ford dealer. He got -past road blocks at Yreka and Weed, Calif.j then took . the Everett Memorial highway at Mt. Shasta, appar ently mistaking it for a through highway. Instead, it was a diversionary route, and he rah into the fallen tree while trying to get back to the main highway, ... i . . m FBI t men ; were ; called., to Yreka and planned-4aJutJJife Craw and' his wife to Redding, Calif., to appear before a fed eral judge this afternoon. Couple in Jail; Stolen Car Found A 1959 Ford, stolen from the show-windows of . Bush Motors, A s h 1 a n d, Sunday morning was recovered the same afternoon in California, following a series of incidents in which the vehicle ran a road block and Siskiyou coun ty sheriffs deputies fired sev eral shots. The vehicls was reported stolen to Ashland police at 11 a.m. Sunday, according - to Jackson county sheriffs depu ties. County authorities here notified California officers who set up the road block on Highway 99. Arrested and lodged in Sis kiyou county jail, Yreka, Calif., were Carl Ernest Mc Craw, 23, and his wife, Shir ley McCraw. ' McCraw told sheriffs deputies that they had left a 1957 Chevrolet with Georgia license plates near Ashland earlier in the day. The vehicle has not been lo cated, local authorities said. A grand larceny complaint has been signed in Jackson county against the couple, it was reported. Federal Bureau of Investigation agents are investigating the case with prosecution expected in Cali fornia. The Ashland firm was en tered by forcing several doors, officers said. Recreation Man To Meet Group Dr. Lynn Rodney, Univer sity of Oregon authority on recreation, has accepted an invitation to attend a meeting of the Medford Park and Rec reation commission Wednes day evening, City Manager Robert A. Duff said today. He is expected to arrive that afternoon in time to "have a look around town." Dr. Rodney previously has said he was "very interested" in providing expert advice to .the newly-formed commission and "would be very happy" to work with it. Birth of Quad Surprises Father , Of Six Daughters. Richmond, VaffjrD-Quad-ruplats . ware Worn this morning to Mrs. Laura Ea gelharx, 34. already a moth r of six daughters. Mrs. Englehart and the quads two tons and two daughters-war reported "doing fine" at tha Johnston-Willis . hospital. Tha quads were bora within a 25-minute ' period starting cat 1:05 a.m. (p.s.t.). Tha two girls' weighed 4 pounds a c h, ' tha boys weighed 2 pounds 11 ounces 'and 3 pounds 7 ounces, re spectively. . Tha father. Edward G. Englehart, 32, of suburban Sandston. a $65 a waak dri ver of a street sweeping ma chine for Richmond's De partment of Street Sanita tion, said twins had been expected. "It was "quit a surprise when four arrived," ha 'said. .: Court Decision Favors Negroes In New Orleans Washington -(CPU -The Su preme Court today upheld a lower, court, .ruling that Ne groes must be admitted to the The court struck its newest anti-segregation blow by af firming a U.S. District Court decision which declared un constitutional' a Louisiana state law requiring separate public recreational facilities for whites and Negroes. -To Hear Appeal In. another area of con stroversy, the Supreme Court agreed to hear an appeal by three Ohioans who were con victed of contempt six years ago for refusing to answer questions asked by a state Un American Activities Commis sion. Arguments will be heard later; this term, paving the way for another court opinion on the powers of legislative investigating groups and state anti-subversive authority. The three Ohioans were Talmadge Raley, Joseph Stern and Emmett Calvin. : Convicted in the Hamilton County Court of Common Pleas, they were jailed brief ly and fined $500. It marked the second time the case has been - before the Supreme Court. Other Cases . In other actions today, the court: -Agreeded to hear a Balti more case involving the ques tion -whether a city health officer may inspect a private dwelling without a warrant if the occupant objects. -Refused to review a court of claims decision turning down an $8899,547 claim for excise tax refunds by the Ford Motor Co. - Pendleton (UPD Sheriff Roy Johnson of Umatilla county said today that his deputies have confiscated . 19 slot machines found in a small stone pumphouse on property near here. WEATHER Forecast: Fair tonight. Patch ei et valley log early Tnecday. In creasing and thickening cloudi ness Tuesday. Rain Tuesday evening. Low tonight 33. High Tuesday S. TEMP. Highest Yesterday Si Lowest This Morning 3S Prec. to 4 a.ra. Today .14 Our Skies Tonight Sunset today : 5:23 pjn. Sunrise tomorrow S:31 a.m. Moonset tomorrow 12:51 a.m. Full Moon (Hunter's Moon) Oct. 27. The shooting stars now seen are mosUy of the Orlonld meteor shower. VISIBLE PLANETS . Saturn, low in - southwest :53 p.m. Mars, in the east S:4t-pjn. No. 180 Renewed Shelling - 'i Forces President Chief Executive Talks With Dulles . Denver -flJPD- President Eis enhower left here today for a political campaigning tour in California concerned with the renewed Communist shell ing of Quemoy.V The President had decided to continue his campaign trip to the West Coast after a pre-dawn long distance tele phone conversation with Sec retary of State John Foster Dulles. Dulles called from Fair banks, Alaska, where he stopped en route from London to Formosa. 'Shortly after the conversa tion White- House Press Sec retary James C. Hagerty an nounced "as the result of their conversation,', it was de cided that the -secretary of state should continue his planned trip to Taiwan." Extensive Speech Revisions ine president s concern over the new Communist shelling of Quemoy ompli- cated his trip to California where he faced thetasks of creating enthusiasm within the Republican party and of achieving some, sort of public unity between the state's two top GOP candidates. ; Resumption of the Communist-firing caused exten sive, speech- revision for. Eis enhower, but Hagerty said his political tour to Los Ang eles, San Francisco and Chi cago would continue as sched uled "at the present." -' The President was sched uled to deliver a major po litical speech at Los Angeles at 8:30 p.m. (PST) tonight. Shooting Changes Plans Resumption of the shelling ef Quemoy dashed the Presi dent's plans to continue point ing with pride during his cur rent speaking trip to the fact that no shooting war was in progress, this due in part to the foreign policy of his ad ministration. The renewed attack on Quemoy meant that the Pres ident would have to redraft portions of his : scheduled speech tonight. Asked how extensive the changes would have to be, Hagerty said noth ing more than that the Presi dent and his ' advisers would "take another look at it." Rainfall Totals .36 Inch Locally Rainfall totaling .36 of an inch pelted the Medford vicin ity Sunday, mostly during the early morning hours. W h i 1 e the precipitation helped ease fire danger and heralded the return of the rainy season, only moderately wet weather is foreseen in the next few days. . ' The U.S. weather bureau station at the Medford airport predicted rain . Tuesday eve ning while the five-day fore cast for ... western Oregon forecast moderate precipita tion with most of it in the first half of this week. Yesterday's rain followed 02 of an inch on Saturday and a trace on Friday. Of the 36 yesterday .22 fell before 4 a.m. Saturday's rainfall was the first measurable precipi tation at the airport weather station since .01 fell Sept. 22. North Entrance To Crater Park Closed Klamath Falls - (UPD - The north entrance to Crater Lake national park - was closed, probably for the season, be cause of 9Vi inches of new snow which fell Sunday night and today. ... 'Now, Doc Everybody Understand Our Position?" Prompt Inquiry Promised By Porter On Report Congressman Charles O Porter has promised a "prompt investigation" of re ports that the U..S. fish and wildlife is causing a delay in a report on the Rogue River basin development project. The congressman, now on a campaign . visit in Jackson county, spoke at "Hanlylands" to a non-partisan gathering Sunday, regarding the basin development project, . flood control and associated proj ects. Tonight, at 8 o'clock, he will speak at Democratic party headquarters in the Esquire theatre on foreign policy. The public is -invited. Today he explained that the Corps of Army Engineers is nearing. completion', on a re port of the feasibility of over all basin development. The re port had been expected in De cember.' , But, Porter ' said, other government agencies al so are interested, and their re ports are to be incorporated in the overall engineers' re port. Porter added that the fish and wildlife segment of the re port may be delayed. His Washington office told him Saturday that. the agency is aiming for'j'early fiscal 1960" (that is, late in 1959) to com plete its report, and that it has stated it is scheduling it to conform with the timing of the engineers report. ; However, Porter, who con ferred last week with Col. Herbert Winegar, district en gineer for the Corps, said he has been ' told the engineers could have their report com pleted this fall, and that any delay would be due to the fish and wildlife service. Porter promised to investigate this apparent misunderstanding. ( Porter has already intro Fall Enrollment Hits All Time High at SOC Ashland Fall enrollment figures for Southern Oregon college show an increase over the previous all-time record enrollment reached last win ter term of 138 students, ac cording to Mrs. Mabel W. Winston, registrar. Last win ter the college t o p p e d .the thousand mark for the first time, with 1,002' students reg istered against the . startling 1,140 tallied this term. In comparing the present term's enrollment to that for the previous fall term, Mrs. Winston commented, "It is a surprise to see . us enroll . 22 per cent more students than last year 1,140 in contrast to 93 It as the latter figure was only a 2 per cent increase over the year preceding." It is gratifying," she con tinued "to see a 30 per cent in crease ' in returning women, students as compared to last year's drop of 5 per cent in women registrants. The junior class shows the largest per centage of increase, more than 33 per cent. Thus we have reached an all-time high not only in total enrollment, but Delay duced a bill calling for au thorization of the basin proj ect, but has explained that he filed it simply to expedite the report and to crystalize pub lic opinion. New legislation will be based on the engineers' report, he said; He added that he hopes it can be in cluded in an omnibus rivers and harbors bill in the 86th congress, with authorization in 1960 and the first appro priation for pre-construction planning in 1961, with con struction to follow. Porter's visit here will con tinue through Wednesday morning. At 10 a.m: that day he. will speak at a Southern Oregon college assembly. Small Change Taken From Local Tavern Approximately $65 in small change was stolen from Hunt er's Tavern, Highway 62 and Four Corners, early Sunday morning, according to Jack son county sheriff s deputies. The change, mostly in hick els, was taken from a juke box and several other coin ma chines in the building, it was reported. A series of holes were drilled in the roof to gain entrance to the building, officers said. Attempts had been made to jimmy a safe and doors, reports showed. The burglary was reported at 8:05 a.m. Sunday. ERROR CORRECTED The Mail Tribune regrets a typographical error in Sun day's article on the Candi date's Fair. Evelyn Nye re ceived 129 votes for state rep resentative on the unofficial straw ballot, not 12 as stated in the article. in freshman enrollment as well; The expected drop in veteran enrollees has not de terred -the increase." On Oct. 11, the last day of registration, tabulations dis closed that out of 714 men and 426 women students," 417 were first year, 312 second year, 191 third year, 9 grad uate, 41 special graduate, and 45 special undergraduate. Spe cial students are those attend ing on a less than full-time basis. ' " " .. Elementary " and - secondary education students showed marked increases: 356 com pared to 296 in elementary teaching and 287 over 195 in the secondary program. The general studies degree is be ing sought by 158 students this year in contrast to the 134 students enrolled in the same program last year, it was re ported. Increasing numbers of stu dents are availing themselves of the pre-professional pro grams offered at the college, it was pointed out, as 304 are now attending . this category varsus 283 on the preceding year. ' . . . Shelling Renewed As Dulles Starts On Peace Mission Hopes for Success Declared Reduced Taipeh, Formosa - (UPD - The Chinese Communists broke the ceasefire in the Quemoy Islands today with a three hour bombardment while Sec retary of State John. Foster Dulles flew here for talks timed at a short-of-war solu tion to the Formosa Strait crisis. Dulles conferred by tele phone with President Eisen hower in Denver, during a stopover at Fairbanks, Alaska. He announced afterwards that he was continuing his trip to Formosa, although the new Red shelling had reduced some of the hopes for success of the talks. Only Temporary Diplomatic sources in Hong Kong said tonight Red China's ending of the ceasefire was only temporary. They said it was almost certainly connect ed with Dulles' arrival in Taipeh to show that Peiping is "master of its own house." They said they believed Pei ping will throw its weight around for a few days while Dulles is in Formosa and then gradually taper off the shell ing. . The Nationalists announced that the Reds' shelling of Quemoy was followed by a bombardment of tiny Tatan Island, perched in the mouth of Red-held Amoy Harbor on the mainland. ' Not Very Heavy A U.S. Taiwan Defense Command spokesman said "the Communist shelling was not very heavy and was re turned by light Nationalist counterfire." He was not able to give any more specific information. ' ' Dulles was to confer with President Chiang ' Kai-shek and other Nationalist leaders on Formosa. In his statement at Fair banks, Dulles said he had "embarked upon what I be lieved and hoped was a mis sion of peace." He-added that "I shall persist in that pur pose." Dulles said he began his trip to Formosa as a result of the previously announced Communist Chinese ceasefire extension for another two weeks. . ' Direct Slap at Dulles "It seemed to President Chiang Kai-shek and Presi dent Eisenhower that under these circumstances it would be useful for me to go to Taiwan for consultations," Dulles said. "It is a tragedy that the Chinese Communists have dis played their warlike disposi tions. All who love peace must hope that the present resump tion of fighting will be of short duration and that the world may be spared the grave consequences of Com munist persistence in aggres sion." . , The Communist action ap peared to be a direct slap at Dulles. The order of the day by Communist Defense Minis ter Peng Teh-huai ending 15 days of quiet in the Formosa Strait noted Dulles' impend ing arrival and accused him of interfering in internal Chi nese affairs. Peng's announcement over Peiping. Radio was monitored here an hour before the b,eavy red shelling resumed. But there apparently was not time to warn the Quemoy garrison and the intense shelling came as a deadly surprise, catching a number of landing ships on the yellow sand beaches. Closed Areas Lifted In Rogue Forest All closed areas in the Rogue River. National Forest will be opened as of midnight tonight, according to Carroll Brown, forest supervisor. Forest fire dangers have abated because of the week end rains, it was reported. All protective stations and look outs have been closed, Brown said. Burning permits are still re quired,' however, and the no smoking while traveling reg ulation is still in force. New York OTPD Actress Myrna Loy and "her husband, Howland Sargeant, have an nounced they . had separated after eight years of marriage and were planning a divorce. peon Unti totres U ODD He 'Clbelk n WD
