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I Miiy, November SI, 193 MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, ORE. METFORDfTRIBniS "Everyone In Southern Oregon Readi The Mail Tribune" Published Dally except Saturday by 33 North Fir St. Ph. SP 2-6141 ROBERT W. RUHL Editor HERB GREY Advertisin Manager f c- r a " t . . . ucnA&Lf LninAi, ausiness aigr. IRIC W ALLEN JR, Managing Editor EARL H ADAMS, City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN. Teleg. Editor RICHARD JEWETT SdotU Editor OLIVE STARCHER, Women' Editor DALE ERICKSON, Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered aa second class matter at Meoford Oregon tinder Act of March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION FATES By Mail In Advance. Cony 10c Daily and Sunday I year $15.00 Daily and Sunday e mos. 8 00 Daily and Sunday 3 mos. 4.25 Sunday Only On year S4.20. By Carrier In Advance Medford. Ashland. Central Point. Eagle Point. Jacksonville. Gold Hill. Phoenix. Shady Cove. Rogue Riv er. Talent, and on motor routes Dally and Sunday 1 year (18.00 Daily and Sunday 1 mo. I SO Carrier and Dealers c op; 10c All Terms Cash in Advance Official Paper of City Medford Official Paper or J acKsan county "r! United Press International Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Advertising Representative: WEST-HOLIDAY CO.. INC, f fices in New York, Chicago. De Voit. San Francisco. Los Angeles, Seattle. Portland. St. Louis. Ate unta. Vancouver. B.C. NEWSPAPEt k PUSLISHEtS "ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITORIAL 3Z7 asocCatn Flight 'o Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10. 20. 30 and 40 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO Not. 28. 1948 (Sunday) The Jackson County Public Health association resumes its chest X-ray campaign today with a visit to Elk Lumber company. Paul Hatton, manager of the Domiciliary at Camp White, explains the functions of the institution to the Jack son County Chamber of Com merce. 20 YEARS AGO Nov. 28, 1938 (Monday) Jackson county's budget for the coming year has been signed and certified by the budget committee. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "It's all over now but the turkey croquettes (hash), and sewing back the vest buttons that popped-off on the feast day." SO YEARS AGO Not. 28, 1928 (Wednesday) Medford waits with baited breath for tomorrow's clash In Portland between Medford High school and Benson Tech for the state championship. Butte Falls plans to hold a dance celebrating the turning on of new electrical lines into the city, and a live-wire band is expected to provide the music. 40 YEARS AGO Not. 28. 1918 (Thursday) A new steamship being pui together in Portland for gov ernment service is to be named "The Medford." Boris Godowsky, piano vir tuoso, has arrived here for his concert tonight and his special piano tuner is work ing over the instrument on the Page stage. What's Your J.Q.? Nine er fen correct is superior; even er eight is excellent; five ei six is good. 1. Handling toads will cause warts on the hands; true or false? 2. Cleopatra was queen of which country? 3. Who succeeded to the Presidency when President Lincoln was assassinated? 4. In what month of what year did Harry S. Truman enter upon the office of Presi dent? 5. In the nursery rhyme, who was it who met the pie man? 6. The Battle of Waterloo, in which the Duke of Welling ton defeated Napoleon, was fought in which country? 7. What does "quo vadis" mean? 8. Name the capital of Ar gentina. 9. Name the patron Saint of Scotland. 10. In what ship did John Paul Jones sail for France in 1777? Answers: 1. False. 2. Egypt. 3. Andrew Johnson. 4. April, 1945. 5. Simple Simon. 6. Bel gium. 7. "Wither goest ihou." 8. Buenos Aires. 9. St. .An drew. 10. The Ranger. . REPORTS RED'S DEATH London (CPU The Soviet Tass pews agency has report ed the death of veteran Bul garian Communist leader Georgy Darayanov. Thar She Blows! One of the most highly specialized of conser vation groups the International Whaling Con ference is meeting in London to discuss ways of preventing excessive whaling while assuring each nation its fair share of the catch. One pro posal before the group, which lists representatives from the Soviet Union, Norway, Great Britain, Japan, and The Netherlands, would establish annual national quotas. At present the International Whaling Com mission, with headquarters at Sandefiord, Nor way, sets an overall total for all countries engaged in pelagic (sea-borne) whaling. The result is that each country tries to get as much of the catch as it can before the world limit is reached. Early in the past century the British arctic explorer, William Scoresby, noted with alarm the "appalling slaughter" of 44 whales by one ship. But it was the use of the so-called factory ship the first such expedition was made in 1903 that brought on formal conservation agreements. Companies engaged in pelagic whaling began cooperating to limit the annual catch in 1905. And in 1930 governments whose nations engaged in whaling met at Sandefiord to draw up the first International Whaling Convention. This group, in which the United States was represented, established the International Whal ing Board, which sets apart certain ocean areas as whale sanctuaries, decides which species and sizes are to be protected, sets annual totals for the catch, and supervises what has been called an "incorruptible" inspection and enforcement system. Dr. Remington Kellogg of the National Museum is the U.S. representative on the board. A BRITISH physician who spent a season with a factory-ship expedition describes the fac tory ship as a "great hulking lummox . . . not much smaller than the Queen Mary, blunt at the front, and with a big hole at the back where the bump should be; and with funnels side by side instead of one in front of the other; and with sticks and chimneys and all sorts of gadgets sticking up everywhere except in the places they do on a proper ship." These ships carry a crew of 700 men, and process at sea the whales towed in by a fleet of a score or more of catcher ships. They have been called the "ugliest thing afloat" frequently they elicit the query from radio operators on other craft, "What in God's name are you?" Pelagic whaling can be extremely expensive an expedition costs extremely profitable. The net from one expedi tion often runs well over $6 million. Norway, far and away the leader in the indus try, floats nine factory ships. Japan'has five ; the United Kingdom three; -The Netherlands and Soviet Union one each. 1MOST world consumption of whale oil is in Europe. Particularly in Great Britain whale oil is the principal glyceridic oil for margarine. Sperm oil is still valuable as an additive in lubri cants and -for salves and the production of cetyl alcohol. Whales also furnish meat whale steaks helped alleviate the post-World War II meat shortage in this country fish meal for fertilizer. Most pelagic whaling arctic, where some 20,000 whales a year are taken. Other, whaling areas are found off Labra dor, Peru, and Australia, and in the Japanese Sea. The total catch for the 1957-58 season was 35,997 whales. Whaling was reestablished here in the sum mer of 1956. Last year two U.S. companies fished the Pacific; the catch is ground for mink food. E.R.R. - India and Communism It's India that gives the Western democracies the best chance, writes a thoughtful foreign affairs analyst, Walter Lippmann, to show the East that their system can relieve poverty at least as well as Communism can. The Indians, he says, are neither totalitarians nor economic determin ists. Any notion that they are "more than halfway along the road to being Communists" is simply unwarranted. . True,, in the Indian the Communists doubled their percentage of the vote from that of 1952. Even so, it came to only 10 per cent. They captured only 29 (6 per cent) of the 495 popularly contested seats in the parlia ment at New Delhi. True also, those 1957 elections produced a Communist government in the small state of Kerala, along the extreme southwest (Malabar) coast. Aside from tiny San Marino, this is the only state ever to' vote Communist freely. Yet the Kerala Communist party only one in the legislature even when supported by five pro-Communist "independents." ALL the evidence indicates that Keralans voted llU liUb OU All LAV. A A V,t UUV VAAV JF ITITJ A.lyVA.0 CIO to protest against maladministration of their over populated, under-developed state by Mr. Nehru's Congress party. And nothing indicates that the present government is taking orders from Moscow. The Nehru government accepts the Commu nist regime in Kerala inasmuch as it was demo cratically elected. At the same time New Delhi insists that it abide by the Indian constitution (tne Indian supreme Kerala education act). defensive because unemployment continues wide spread and anti-government demonstrators were fired on by the police Moscow when they act society. ii.K.K, about sa million ana ! as well as bone and is conducted in the Ant national elections of 1957 achieved a majority of ourt invalidated a new The, regime is now on the called "Cossacks" by that way in a capitalist - 1 Dennis the Menace ' YOU COME RIGHT UP HERE AND GET IN THIS BED! THE DOCTOR IS WAITING ! Washington Report By William S. White BASIC MATTERS Washington - Vice Presi dent Richard M. Nixon may. be expected to move soon on two basic mat ters that in volve his c h a nces for the 1960 Pres idential nomi nation. This is the word from his closest friends. The first of wffiiSs whST Mr. Nixo n's necessities is seen by these powerful backers to be in two parts: To present himself much more candidly than hereto fore for what he is in fact -the operating head now of the Republican party in succes sion to President Eisenhower. And to identify himself more openly, one way or the other, with the high policy decisions of the Administra tion of which he is a part. This might sometimes require frank and public disagree ment with Mr. Eisenhower. The "Nixon people" will urge the Vice President not to hesitate to dissent from the President out in the open - as he has sometimes done here tofore, but only in private. And Mr. Nixon from here on out probably will indeed not be behindhand in doing so, whenever he thinks the Presi dent is adopting a line that is politically unrealistic. The second of the Vice President's strategic require ments is described as an ur gent rebuilding of the GOP with the lessons of the recent Congressional elections pain fully uppermost in mind. NIXON advisers of high sta tion are advising him to take the initiative in this, with special emphasis on what for the Republicans is an acutely inflamed "labor prob lem." Some Nixon associates will themselves shortly begin, in dependent of the machinery of the party's national com mittee, an effort of persuasion among small and medium large businessmen. The pur pose will be to convince these businessmen, all over the country, that they cannot afford to continue to insist en "right to work" legislation lest they defeat in advance the Republican ticket of 1960. The issue was punishing to many GOP Senatorial and House candidates on Nov. 4. Labor generally persisted in looking on "right to work" Try and -By BENNETT CERF- "VflDDLE-AGED COUPLE at a rirgside table in Las Vegas A Sands Hotel staged a spectacular battle the other night ihat almost overshadowed the floor show. It began when she said, "I feel like a young colt this evening," and he retorted, "Hmphh! You look like an old .45." f "What do you man, psy chiatry hasn't helped me?" an indignant believer snapped at his skeptical wife. "A year ago when the phone rang, I wouldn't an swer it Today I answer it whether it rings or not." Ted Dealey tells about a gentleman who was born around 1850 and therefore was too young to fight in the Civil War. When the Spanish American War came he was too old, and then he died just three months before the 1929 crash in the stock market the lucky so-and-so! Paul Gibson says you can sum up most of the new TV series in a single sentence: "Girls with 38 sweaters and men with 45 guns." C im. by Btt&ttt Cert. Sistributti by Ktof features SysiUcate. tri only as a softer term for "union busting." Some Republicans very close to Mr. Nixon will tell business that a clamor for "right to work" carried into 1960 would be an intolerable luxury. It will be argued that it is vain anyhow to suppose that any forseeable Congress would adopt such a program. And it will be contended that the only result of an obstinate businessman's stand for such legislation would be to ex pand the already large Demo cratic party and ultimately to produce government labor policies that would "really" terrify management. Finally, it will be succinct ly pointed out that most pf very-big businesses never was on the "right to work" side a fact that was easily discern ible before this year's Con gressional campaign ever opened to any visitor to the clubs of the. very rich on either coast. A S THIS campaign of point- ' ed political education progresses among the not-so- terribly rich, the Vice Presi dent will be required to do what he has not yet clearly done - strongly align himself against -"right to work." This he could do without any break with the Eisenhower Administration. The Secre tary of Labor,; James P. Mit chell, has long since made it plain that he is certainly no "right to work" man. The Nixon people are by no means in panic at the possi bility of a strong rivalry from Gov.-elect Nelson Rockefeller of New York for the 1960 Presidential nomination. Equally, however, they are not wildly happy with the recent provisional , endorse ment of Mr. Nixon's 1960 candidacy by the right-wing Republican Senator from Arizona, Barry Goldwater. They see and frankly ac knowledge a need to reduce and dim, rather than in any way to enlarge and light up, all public pictures of the Vice President as the very model of the orthodox Republican. They believe, indeed, that the only real danger posed by the Rockefeller forces is the pos sibility of maneuvering Mr. Nixon into the position of a hero to the Old Guard. And one way to avoid that would be to disassociate the Vice President thoroughly and soon from any position that could reasonably be seen as "anti-labor." (Copyright, 1958, by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.) Stop Me Communications Letters, to the .Editor must bear the name and address of the writer although under cer tain circumstances the use of a pen name or initial for publica tion is permissible The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with an eye to clarification and condensation Letters submitted for publica tion must not exceed 400 words. The letters printed in this :olumn do not necessarily repre sent the views of the paper, in fact the contrary is often the case. On Dark Hollow Rd. To the Editor This is an open letter to our county commissioners. . The residents on Dark Hollow rd. have been informed there are no funds in the budget for widening Dark Hollow rd. I wonder if it is in the budget of the par ents of the children to have them maimed, bruised and their blood spilled on the Toad, because of your ignor ance of the hazard that exists on the road? Or is it that you and your political cronies don't give a hoot? How can you and your county engineers have the un mentionable gall to tell us we must continue to tolerate the hazard and put the lives of small children in serious jeopardy? It is hard for clear thinking Americans to under stand why funds can't be made available. These are children, financed by state and local taxes, traveling roads (pardon me, single lane paths) built by county and state. Why in the name of com mon sense must we subject them to danger of being kill ed, maimed and crippled be cause somewhere you can't find the funds and time to re build the road. You have wasted enough money turning weeds and gravel over in the last four years to rebuild the road back right. If , you had there wouldn't be some 30 odd bruised children in this district. Any more blood spilled on Dark Hollow rd., as well as in the past, is definitely on your hands. And we hope it weighs on your conscience until you fix the road. The next funds that "won't be able." will be your salaries from the public trough, because irate and justified voters of the district will see to your removal. Gordon and Elou'ise Logan Route 4, Box 421 A, Medford. In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS " Let's take a look at the na tion's corn farmers and what thev have iust done. In a special referendum held on Tuesday in 26 corn erowine states, they voted nearly three to one for the END OF ACREAGE CON TROLS and in favor of lower rjrice suonorts. By a decisive vote, they said they'd rather grow MORE corn and get less per bushel for it. rpHAT is to say: A After a dozen years of trial, they prefer an economy of plenty to an economy of scarcity. The expected results: Feed will be cheaper. So MEAT WILL BE CHEAP ER. II7HY? ' Because, feed being cheaper, more corn belt farm ers will feed more hogs and more cattle and more lambs That will tend to make meat cheaper. "DUT, you may say L Won't that be BAD for the corn farmer? Not necessarily. If feed is cheaper, the fin ished product (which is meat) can be cheaper and the pro cessor (a farmer who is a live stock feeder is also a PRO CESSOR) can make the same profit as before. It's the old story that the price of the finished product is governed by the price of the raw ma terials. , Any way one looks at it (it seems to me) it is better to feed surplus corn to meat animals to make meat for the people to eat than to stash it away in storage cribs to rot, CHARLES F. Kettering (known among his associ ates as Boss Ket) dies. He was one of our GREATS, with a keen and inquiring mind and endowed with boundless en ergy to carry out the projects his active mind conceived. In his whole long life, Boss Ket never considered how he could work less and play more. His overriding thought was always to GET AS MUCH DONE AS HE COULD. The days were always too short for him. His BIG achievement was the invention and perfection of the self starter for auto mobiles. The self starter revolution ized the automobile. Among other things, it MADE IT POS SIBLE FOR WOMEN TO DRIVE. No longer was it nec essary to CRANK UP before Republican Conservatives Are Down, But- C T VI C f XI7TT Cnn I By LYLE C. WILSON United Press International Washington - (CPD - It just is possible that the tears and obituaries shed and uttered for Republi can conserva tives after this months Con g r e s s i o nal elections may have been pre mature. The Repub lican conserv atives are t.vi. r. Wilson a o w n rigm enough, but not quite out. Consider, for example: -Rep. Joseph W. Martin Jr., of Massachusetts, will be a candidate again for reelection Matter of Fact THE CATALEPTIC STATE Beirut, Lebanon - There is no remaining vestige of a co herent American policy in the, vital, troubled Middle East. As far as this region of the world is con cerned, hav ing no policy at all now s e e m s to be the aim in Washington. There are two obvious reasons, in turn, for this i .. lit: Joseph Alsop sirange jriuu cal catalepsy. The next great crisis here are only being pre pared (though rather rapidly prepared); and America's one man foreign office, Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, has no time for volcanoes that have not reached the state of active eruption. Meanwhile, last summer s powerful volcano eruptions in the Middle East altogether de stroyed the bases for what then passed for an American policy here. Nothing was left, and nothing has peen con structed to replace what was destroyed. THE characteristics of the old situation, before last summer's eruptions, were rel atively simple. The Middle East was crudely divided into the friends of Gamal Abdel Nasser and the friends of the West. After Suez, Secretary of State Dulles belatedly re sponded to this division by adopting what Sir Anthony Eden used to call the "good Arabs" policy, t In other words, the Ameri can policy was to strengthen and to unite the Arab friends of the West and to resist and weaken the influence of Nasser. The execution of the policy was often remarkably clumsy. Infinite harm was done, for instance, by the State Department's fondness for exacting what amounted to public loyalty oaths from the West's friends. But the "good Arabs" policy was at least a policy of some sort. During last spring and sum mer, however,, the power of one Western friend, King Saud of Saudi Arabia, was quite sharply reduced, in fa vor of his more pro-Nasser brother, Crown Prince Faisal. Another Western friend, Nuri Pasha of Iraq, was literally torn to pieces by the Baghdad street mob. And a third West ern friend, President Camille Chamoun, was driven from power here in the Lebanon, and a carefully neutral gov ernment took power in Cha moun's place. That left the "good Arabs" policy in ruins. CONTRARY to the expecta tions of both Washington and Cairo, however, last sum mer's shattering Western de feats by no means produced comparable triumphs for Egypt and Nasser. The key event was the Baghdad coup d'etat. If the terrible convul sion in Iraq had followed the script, producing a govern ment of Nasserite puppets, then Nasser's triumph would surely have been total, at least for the time being. But in the outcome, the script was thrown away in Iraq. The Communist under ground there proved - to be stronger than the Nasserite underground. In Syria, a few months earlier, the Kremlin had already shown it was abandoning its former policy of using the Arab Communist parties as mere auxiliary forces under Gamal Abdel starting. You just-stepped in, slammed the door, turned on the switch, stepped on the starter and you were OFF. That made everybody want a new automobile not just because it was prettier than the old one. Not just because it impressed the neighbors. Because it was immeasurably better and more useful. BOSS Ket came out of it all a multi-millionaire. But By making life better and easirer and pleasanter for mil lions of people, he EARNED every dollar of his millions. Wa need mora Boss KeU. Not Out, Wilson Says Umics Ccnnklimn logitar atixrn Son William V VniW. as House Republican leader, Rep. Charles A. Halleck (R Ind.) is talking of opposing Martin for that post. Martin is a conservative. Halleck stands much closer to Eisen hower Modern Republicanism than he does to Martin. The word on Capitol HilL how ever, is that Martin will be reelected. Senate Battle Modern Republicans in the Senate want a share -in the party leadership there and more than a share if they can get it. They are likely to put one of their own in a new post of assistant leader to be created for their convenience. But the new Senate Republi can leader to succeed conserv- By Joseph Alsop Nasser's command. Now in Iraq, the local Communists be came the strongest advocates of "Iraqi independence." For quite different reasons, an in dependent policy was also adopted by the non-Communist leader of the Baghdad coup. Gen. Karim Kassem. Thus Nasser was cheated of his triumph. Thus Nasser and Western powers, too, were suddenly confronted with the possibility that Iraq would become a powerful center for direct Kremlin influence in the Arab world. Thus a new magnetism began to be felt, as can be seen in Damascus, in Nasser's own "Syrian reg ion," where portraits of Gen. Kassem are now replacing the familiar Nasser-ikons in the bazaars. Thus far, Nasser has reacted to the new situation by quiet ly forgetting all his former oaths never to tolerate any sort of foreign influence among the Arabs. Where any pro-Western gesture by any Arab was always attacked by Cairo with really fantastic virulence, the new pro-Soviet trend has been passively ac cepted. THERE are some who would put the case more strong ly, and there is some evidence to support their view. After Syria joined Egypt, for in stance, the chief of the Syrian Communist party, Khalid Baqdash. fled to Czechoslo vakia with his family and his whole party committee. The devious Kremlin agent in Syria, the ambitious Khalid Azm, also took a hurried va cation in Prague. But now both Baqdash and Azm are back in Damascus, doing busi ness at the old stand, and de spite Nasser's strict press con- trols, the newspaper ot me Syrian Communist party, El Nour," is coming out daily Thus far, in short, Nasser has submitted to the great change in the Arab- world Increasing reports are heard that some of those around Nasser are actively pro-Soviet, and positively like and wish to promote the Communist trend. But although Nasser has submitted, there is no doubt at all that he does not like it. Hence, an attempt to work out a viable, hard-head ed new attitude towards Nas ser ought to be the first order of business. But no such attempt has even befun. Instead, in the great defeats of last spring and summer, the Americans and the British, too, have been reduced to a mere des perate rearguard action. Even the rearguard action is plan less and incoherent, more over. In Jordan, for instance, brave young King Hussein surely deserves generous and active support. But the Amer ican government has not yet said whether such support will be forthcoming next year, or even bothered to fill the gap in the Amman Embassy with a new Ambassador. Thus we are simply drift ing, in a new Middle Eastern situation which is much more dangerous, at bottom, than the old, post-Suez situation. Copyright 1958 New York Herald Tribune Inc. Argentina Conscripts All Railroad Workers Buenos Aires - (UPD - The government, seeking to head off the threat of a nation-wide rail strike, has ordered all railway workers drafted into the army. The conscription decree, drawn up at an emergency cabinet meeting, means that any railwayman who refuses to work could be courtmartial ed as a deserter. Family Cat Blamed For Death of Baby Hendon, England - (WD -The family cat was blamed Thursday for the death of a six months old baby. tMrs. Joyce Evans said at her infant son's inquest she found the baby dead in his crib with the cat lying across his face. Coroner A. P. Cogs well recorded a verdict of ac cidental death apparently caused by suffocation. v ative Sen. William F. Know- land of California most like ly will be the conservative choice, Sen. Everett Dirksen of Illinois. -Senate Republicans have another important spot to fill. the chairmanship of the Sen ate Republican . Campaign committee. The man most dis cussed now for that job is Sen. Barry Goldwater (R- Ariz.). Goldwater is a con servative. He is aggressive and he is smart. More signifi cantly, perhaps Goldwater is the chief surviving conserva tive elements of the party who believe they must meet the political challenge of organ ized labor head-on. Goldwater regards the auto workers' Walter P. Reuther as a political menace and saya so, right out in public. Re publican policy makers have been strangely reluctant to stand up and be counted be hind Goldwater in his ruckus with Reuther. Reuther is smart, courageous, articulate and a master of political tech nique. He's no patsy and Re publicans know that whoso ever tangles with him is likely to be hurt. Reuther Linked to Violence Goldwater's charge against Reuther is, basically, that he condones violence for politi cal purposes. In a speech last spring, the senator cited a document in support of charges that Reuther had di rected the use of force and funds in obtaining power in Michigan's Democratic party. This document," said Gold- water, "written by a CIO ex pert named Calkins, tells the story of the growth of CIO union power within the Demo cratic party of Michigan and how the seizure of the party machinery first was decided upon and carried out. "In 1950, I understand the traditional Democrats made a test vain attempt to take back their party from the CIO poli ticians of Michigan. The Cal kins investigation shows how ' this last attempt was smashed by equipping each of the Wayne county (Detroit) dis trict conventions with small squads of men ready to use force to prevent regular Democrats from regaining power. "The leader of the armed squad which took over the Democratic convention in the 15th district told Calkins he was equipped with six men, 20 clubs and two pistols. By 1950 the treasuries of the CIO unions were supplying about two-thirds of all campaign costs of state-wide Democratic candidates in Michigan That is the nub of Gold- water's story. As campaign chairman he would enjoy a very wide audience for such speeches as that. Cause of Plane Explosion Sought Lake . Charles, La. (UPD A military board of Inquiry sought today to determine the cause of an explosion on a parked B47 jet bomber that killed the pilot and severly burned the navigator. A jet assisted takeoff bottle (JATO) exploded, setting the plane afire. The JATO bottle is a rocket-like device used to assist the big- stratojet bombers' take off. The stratojet was under a 15-minute alert on a flight line at Chennault Air Force Base near here Wednesday when the rocket-like device went off. The pilot, Capt. Joseph T. Lyles, Bossier City, La., died instantly. The navigator, 1st Lt. Robert R. Simpson, Sacra mento, ' Calif., was dragged from the plane by a ground crew, his clothing in flames. He was rushed by air to Fort Sam Houston's Brooke Army hospital in San An tonio, Tex., for treatment of severe burns. Firefighters doused the flames shortly after the ex plosive set fire to the plane and as the air base was eva cuated. Other aircraft in the area were removed as a pre cautionary measure. Motorist Near Mount Shasta Mt. Shasta, Calif.-UH-Gus T. Helm, 64, Seattle, was kill ed and two persons injured when his car failed to nego tiate a curve on Highway 99 south of here late Wednesday. The Highway Patrol said the vehicle turned over sev eral times, and snapped off seven reflector posts and sev eral snow poles before com ing to rest in the brush. Helm's wife, Eva, 62, was hospitalized with broken bones and other injuries. Ru dolph Helm, 47, another pas senger, also was hospitalized with less serious injuries. -
