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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
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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. -