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Subscribers 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 pjn. daily and 12 JO pjn. Sunday If regular delivery arrives shortly after you call please notify office thus eliminating special messenger service. Recommended A ' itory about the general program of Future Farmers of America and Its activities as carried out by Crater, Eagle Point and Phoenix chapters ap pears on page 14 of today's Mail Tribune. 54th Year Price 10 Cents MEDFOKD RIBUNE United Press International Full Leased Wire United Press International Full Leased Wire 56 Pages MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, APRIL 26, 1959 No. 31 J rxT Negro Prisoner Seized by Mob; Lynching Feared Mississippi Town Scene of Abduction Poplarville, Miss. (UPD A lynch mob of masked men seized a young negro charged with raping a white woman from the unguarded Pearl Riv er county jail early yesterday, whipped him with pistol butts and dragged the screaming captive away. Authorities feared the slim, 23 - year - old Negro, Mack Charles Parker, was slain. But his fate was unknown. About 10 white men - all of them masked and wearing gloves broke into the jail about 12:30 a.m. They found a key to the upstairs cellblock and opened Parker's cell. Screaming for help, he was clubbed until he bled, then dragged feet first down the stairs An automobile carried him away. FBI agents took charge of the investigation. Between 20 and 30 agents huddled in the office of County Attorney William Stewart, a block from the jail, with R. L. Bachman, special agent at New Orleans, their supervisor. Bachman would not discuss the investi gation with newsmen.. The FBI questioned the oth er prisoners in the jail one by one. The prisoners told news men that' noise on the floor below their cells indicated there were other with the mob They said there were at least two to five automobiles out side. Despite the violence, there seemed to be the usual Satur day night activity in this small town. Scores of persons came downtown, most of them to sit on benches and wait for something to happen. It was the first lynching in the south in several years, and touched -off international reaction. There were sugges tions in Congress that the in cident would give impetus to a drive for stronger civil rights legislation. By definition, a lynching is the inflicting of punishment by mob violence, without due process of law. Mississippi leads the nation in number of lynchings, most of them against Negroes. A posse of up to 100 law en forcement officers including six , units of state highway patrolmen and state police acting on orders of Gov. J. P, Coleman sought to follow the lynch trail. The abduction of Parker occurred on a night of fes tivity in Poplarville. A gay springtime dance was in pro gress at nearby Pearl River Junior college, and the lynch ers drove away in four or five cars unnoticed by towns people on the streets. Attend ants at a. nearby hospital gave the alarm. .Coal Plant Burns; Kentucky Guard Ready for Action Hazard, Ky. (UPD- A $500 thousand fire believed set by arsonists destroyed the Ashlo Coal co. plant near Combs, Ky., early yesterday, as battle ready National Guard troops sent by Gov. A. B. Chandler moved into the strike-bound coal fields. A tower of black smoke from the burning tipple greet ed a convoy of incoming guardsmen as they crossed a Kentucky river bridge several hundred yards away. Other guard troops arrived here Fri day night but had not been sent to the mines. Kentucky Adjutant General J. J. B. Williams said after a conference yesterday with bat talion commanders that the guard units would remain "generally concentrated and highly mobile," and would be sent to trouble spots onl when requested by state po lice. The 48-day-old United Mine Workers union contract re newal strike already has re sulted in two slayings and hundreds of thousands of dol lars in property damage. State Police Detective Wal ter E. Woods said yesterday's tipple burning apparently was arson as an empty five-gallon gasoline can was found on nearby railroad tracks. The tipple was the site of mass picketing Friday which led the governor to send in two thousand guardsmen. , ait ON SLIDE - C. F. Galberath, state highway department employee from Chemult, looks over an earth slide on Highway 230, the Diamond lake highway, Saturday. Tons of earth slid across the highway about 8 a.m. Saturday, after the highway had been opened for about 24 hours. It had been closed all winter because of snow. The pic EARTH SLIDE - This view gives an idea of the. extent of the earth slide which blocked Highway 230 about miles north of the Highway 62 junction Saturday morn ing. The picture was taken on the . north side looking south. Several fishermen from the Medford area had to travel around Crater Lake National park to Teturn from Diamond lake because of the slide. State County's iSudget Committee IPasses Frefliminary Outlays Thirteen preliminary de partmental budgets were pass ed by the Jackson county bud get committee by the end of Friday's session. The committee is tentative ly scheduled to meet again on April 29 and May 8 to con clude its business. Budgets approved so far are: circuit courts, $36,930.40 (salaries of bailiff and secre tary excepted); district court, $11,990.19; justice court, Ash land district, $8,398 (secre tary s salary excepted); jus tice court, Gold Hill, $2,540; sheriff's office, $159,142; coun ty clerk, $74,613.45; election department, $29,460; treasur er, $11,515; and county court and commissioners, $25,534 with the exception of the coun ty judge's salary. Other major items accepted were court house expense, $38,688.20; 'care of poor not at county farm, $336,873 (ten tative); county farm home, $119,461.56, with total of sup plies changed from $17,500 to $16,110; county compensation, $360; Jackson County Red Cross, $1,500; indigent veter ans, $2,000;' coroner, $1,200; mosquito control, 8,500; sur veyor, $10,116;. fruit inspec tion, $1,675; county agent, $23,645 (tentatively); veterans service officer. $9,523: board of equalization, $400; and civil defense fund, $7,548. The one change in the coun ty court budget is the salary of the county judge, which had been set at 6,204 but has been reduced to $6,092 at the judges own suggestion. Declined lo Allow In the sheriffs budget, the budget committee declined to allow for addition of three new criminal deputies to the staff. However, a raise in sal aries was granted totalling $13,232 and another deputy was permitted in the tax divi sion at an additional cost of $4,452. Purchase of five new cars was allowed, also, at a total cost of $13,000. To help pay for this capital expendi ture $8,000 was removed from travel expenses allowed. A tentative plan calls for replac ing all personal can now used police said they tnought it would be closed until early next week, and estimated about 1,000 cubic yards of material would have to.be removed before one-way traffic is re sumed. The arrow points to C. F. Galbreath, state highway department employee from Chemult. Barriers were installed at each end of the highway slide area. by the deputies with county cars. The sheriff's budget to tal of $159,142 is an increase of $30,756 over the current year's total of $128,386 The county clerk's budget total of $74,613.45 is approxi mately $1,484.25 less than the previous year since no new Castro Defends Mass Executions Boston -(UPD- Premier Fidel Castro, answering criticism of the mass executions in Cuba, said last night the United States would have "punished them worse than we have." : "The world did not know that thousands of persons were tortured, killed and as sassinated by the Cuban dic tatorship," Castro said in an address to 10,000 persons at an outdoor Harvard law school forum. The speech, the only scheduled one of his overnight visit to Boston, was given at Dillon field house adjacent to Harvard stadium. "You did not know of this. Now you know and now you know that we punish our war criminals. We have no censor ship now. We don't hide any thing," Castro said. "We are sure that you would punish by death, your war criminals. You would have punished them worse than we have. "There were thousands in volved in the dictatorship (of ousted President Fulgencio Batista). We have punished only a few," Castro said. Americans Lose Hour As DST Commences Millions of clocks across the nation were turned ahead last night as Americans lost an hour of sleep to daylight saving time. The change - over came at 2 a.m. local time this morning, in all or part of 24 states - not including Oregon. ture above is looking north. Galbreath said the highway department would start mov ing in equipment to clear the slide today. Large trees and boulders were taken with the earth. The slide occurred in a construc tion area where the department was widen ing highway cut-throughs in an attempt to avoid such slides, according to reports. equipment had to be pur chased. The ' election department's budget was .accepted as pre sented at a total of $29,460, slightly less than the $31,031. The election department's bud get reduction is due to the same reason as the county clerk's office. The county treasurer's bud get alolwance of $11,515 is slightly less than $11,995.60 for the current year. Marked as an exception is the salary of the chief deputy-administrative assistant at $4,452 com pared to the previous salary of $4,236. (Continued on Page 15) Welfare Administrator Tells V Slashed Funds' Effects Here - The-Jackson county welfare department is short $89,222 in needed funds for the cur rent quarter, James Pullman, department a d m i n i strator said Friday. "Our allocation is $319,878 and approximately $409,100 is needed to keep the program at last . month's level," Pull man said. "The county wel fare program covers 3,000 persons and an estimated 1, 500 cases." Pullman explained the dif ference between the number of persons and cases by say ing that general assistance and aid to dependent children ap plies to families, for instance. The curtailed funds to wel fare departments throughout the state have had some bene fit since welfare problems have been brought to the at tentions of the Legislature and the doctors who feel the cuts in medical funds for var ious categories of welfare aid, Pullman said. Medical Program Medical programs in par ticular have been sharply cut, with no funds available in Jackson county for medical aid to dependent children, to the disabled and to the blind. Old ags assistance probably Labor Reform Measure Passed By U.S. Senate Vote Overwhelming; Goldwater Dissents Washington-(UPD-The Senate by an overwhelming 90 to 1 vote passed and sent to the House yesterday a labor re form bill which contains a compromise "bill of rights" for rank and file union mem bers. The lone dissenter on the final vote was Sen. Barry M. Goldwater (R-Ariz.), who has demanded much tougher leg islation to deal with labor corruption and racketeering, The measure is aimed at curbing union abuses and guaranteeing democratic rights for rank and file mem bers. Adoption of the compro mise "bill of rights" by a 77 to 14 margin ended a parlia mentary snarl which had forc ed the Senate to meet on Sat urday. The amendment, spon sored by Sen. Thomas H. Kuchel (R-Calif.) was accept ed by both labor advocates and southern Senators. Tougher Amendment It replaced a tougher amendment by Sen. John L. McClellan (D-Ark.) which was adopted by a one-vote margin earlier in the week. McClel lan himself voted for the Kuchel substitute. Sen. John F. Kennedy (D Mass.), who co-sponsored the legislation with Sen. Sam J. Ervin, Jr., (D-N.C.) said changes written into the bill on the floor "strengthened" it. McClellan said: "It is a much better bill today than the way the Senate took it up, notwithstanding the fact that it is still very deficient." The "bill of rights" pro vision guarantees union mem bers freedom of speech and assembly, freedom to sue, and other democratic processes. Extensive Reports As approved, the bill would also require extension reports of the financial operations of unions and the financial hold ings of union officers. It would set standards for the conduct of union elections and guarantee equal treat ment to all candidates. The measure would give the secretary of labor broad investigatory powers, includ ing the power of subpoena, to investigate complaints of union members. It would establish fines and prison pen alties for failure to comply with the bill's procedures and provide' special penalties for embezzlement and conversion of union funds. ; Labor would get some long sought changes in the Taft Hartley law under the terms of the bill. In addition, em ployers would be required to report on ' their payments to so-called middle-men and on money spent advising work ers about unions. Montreal-OIPD - The 500-mil-lion-dollar St. Lawrence ' sea way 'went into operation yes terday, opening a frontier for world trade. has sufficient funds for the remainder of the quarter, Pullman said. Seme money is still available in the general assistance program but only in cases involving ''life and limb," he added. "One reason we are out of money in our medical pro grams is this," Pullman point ed out, "A person under the welfare program breaks a hip. She is in the hospital for 10 days less than three months at a total expense of $2,700. Insurance pays for $1,000 of it and welfare $1, 100. The patient pays the rest. A private patient is out in a month at a total cost of $1,000. Both bills include both medical and hospital ex penses." "Meanwhile, one welfare patient is dying of cancer but no funds are available for her medical and hospital ex penses," Pullman said. "Another patient is suffering an acute bladder condition. A 'child is suffering from acute appendicitis and the welfare department has no money to pay for their treatment and care." The local welfare depart ment is able to buy drugs only for those coming under old Ton Program AAeefts IHIoyse India Reportedly Builds Up Forces On Red Frontier New Delhi, India -1IPD- The India government, jolted by Peiping's bitter propaganda attacks over the Tibetan re volt, is strengthening military forces along its 2,000 -mile border with Communist China, it was disclosed yester day. An official government source confirmed the buildup and said it was being carried out for obvious reasons." No details were available officially but it was under stood the reinforcements con sist mainly of ground troops, Travelers reaching New Delhi from Tibet reported new violence had broken out in Lhasa recently after the Chinese communists said their troops had the situation well in hand. They said Tibetan freedom fighters clashed with the com- .munists and burned the bank of China, causing extensive property damage. There was no report on casualties. Peiping radio kept up its almost incessant attack against India. It quoted Pei ping People's Daily as saying U.S. and British officials act ing behind the scene were urging Indians to push their relations with China "to the brink of a precipice." Reports reaching Calcutta said 30,000 Red Chinese sold iers who had fought in Korea had been imported into Lhasa and adjoining areas to inject new life into the communist offensive. The reports said this brings the total number of soldiers in the area to 60,000 to take care of a population which does not exceed 50,000 in the area. t Contributing to the increas ingly strained relations be tween Peiping and New Delhi are Communist Chinese maps showing large sections of In dia as Chinese territory. Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru recently told parlia ment Peiping had failed to give an adequate explanation of the maps. IWA Negotiators Seek Strike Vote Portland - (UPD - Authority for a strike vote against Northwest lumber employers will be sought by negotiators for the International Wood workers of America. The vote will be aimed at clearing the way for a strike June 1 if no satisfactory agreement is reached. The Northwest Negotiating committee has been meeting recently with employer groups. age assistance. Local doctors, however, are doing a wonder full job in cooperating under this difficult situation, Pull man pointed out. All in all, he said, the med ical care program has been cut about 50 per cent. Other cuts include old age assist ance, 5 per cent, nursing homes 10 per cent, hospital expenses 20 per cent after a five day stay and 25 per cent after 15 days, general assist ance 10 per cent. A good example of how it will affect the average pa tient is this, Pullman said A welfare patient qualifying under aid to disabled has been getting $100 a month for board and room. As of May 1 he will receive $95. The commission is unable to buy drugs which are regarded nec essary. No hospitaliziation or emergency treatment can be provided, even if the welfare patient should be acutely ill. "There is no answer as to what can be done," Pullman said. There is no way of spending money not there. However, we are better off thn many neighboring count ties. Josephine county, for in stance, has no money for drugs." "I Don't Want To Seem Like An Alarmist, But " Khrushchev Praises Macmillan's Attitude Moscow (UPD Premier Ni- kita S. Khrushchev last night endorsed a hitherto - secret British proposal for breaking the deadlock on agreement for a ban on nuclear weapons tests. He rejected proposals from President Eisenhower becausei Orchard Heating Smoke Inspires Letters to Court Some 35 letters and peti tions containing about 100 signatures have been sent to the Jackson county court ob jecting to the smoke from or chard heating, the court re ported Friday. One petition requested that the Medford city council and the county court take imme diate action to prohibit burn ing open orchard heaters, old style heaters and others creat ing excessive smoke and air pollution. Other letters and petitions asked for enforcement of any existing air pollution ordi nances or, if no such regula tions exist, creation of such an ordinance. Understood Necessity A number of letter writers stated they understood the ne cessity for orchard heating but thought immediate meas ures could be taken by the orchardists to reduce the smoke. One boy wrote that his mother could not take him swimming this summer be cause she had to paint the house after it had been dirt ied by the smoke from or chard heaters. A number of people com plained that the smoke seep ed into their houses leaving ruinous oily, black film on their furniture. Newcomer Complained A newcomer from Iowa complained that she had seen plenty of dirt where she came from but "this dirty black smudge is the worst." The county court has taken not action on the complaints pending a meeting on the problem with city officials. Fisherman Suffers Fatal Heart Attack Martin Owens Childers, 63, of Klamath Falls, suffered a fatal heart attack Saturday afternoon while fishing on Jenny Creek near Pinehurst, state police reported. His fishing partner, Carl Tomlin. Klamath . Falls, re ported it to state police there. An officer was sent to in vestigate with a Jackson county deputy coroner. Ihe body was taken to the Ward funeral home in Klamath Falls. he said they "would not solve the problem. In separate notes he praised the "positive attitude" dis played by British Prime Min ister Harold Macmillan during his recent visit to Moscow. He said Macmillan s pro posals for "determining in ad vance for each country the number of annual trips by in- spectipn,teams . . . might pro vide a sound agreement for success ... in reaching a com prehensive agreement." Eisenhower in a personal note to Khrushchev had pro posed a graduated ban on nu clear weapons tests, beginning with agreement to prohibit all tests below a height of 30 miles. Replies lo Notes The Khrushchev notes re plied to communications from the Western leaders on the deadlocked Geneva nuclear test ban talks. The Western notes were dispatched April 13 and disclosed last Monday. Eisenhower personally ap pealed to Khrushchey to help get the Geneva talks moving again. Macmillan endorsed Eisenhower's appeal. Khrushchev, in the note to Macmillan, said the British prime minister expressed' a "positive attitude" on his Mos cow visit designed to "elimi nate one of the principle diffi culties . . . the procedure for on - the spot inspections of phenomena suspected of being nuclear explosions." Expresses Confidence He expressed confidence that Macmillan will instruct the British delegation at Geneva "to exert the neces sary efforts for a solution of this question in line with the considerations set forth by him in Moscow." It was the first public dis closure thta Macmillan had made any such suggestion. In the note to Eisenhower, Khrushchev said the Soviets had "given most careful and detailed consideration" of his proposals but decided it 'would not solve the prob lem." Washington (UPD The Western Allies were reported yesterday to have reached firm agreement on a set of specific counter-proposals on Berlin to be presented to Russia at the May 11 Big Four foreign ministers meet ing in Geneva. WEATHER FORECAST: Mostly cloudy and showery today and Monday. High today 58. Low tonight 42. High Monday 56. TEMP. Highest Saturday 55 Lowest Saturday 45 PRECIP. To 11 p.m. Saturday .22 Our Skies Tonight Sunset today 7:05 p.m. Sunrise tomorrow 5:13 a.m. The Moon rises 11:18 p.m. tonight and rides low. Saturn, the ringed planet, is slowly growing brighter at this time and it will be prominent in the evening sky throughout the coming summer. Three Measures Cover Cigarettes, Income, Business Fireworks Expected On Floor of Senate Salem-(UPD-Three bills, rep resenting a new tax package for Oregon, passed the House yesterday. Fireworks were expected in the Senate, which has vowed to take a "hard look" at the program when it reconvenes Tuesday. The key bill (HB 670) was the last to be passed by the House with only two repre sentatives commenting on it -Rep. Clarence Barton (D-Co-quille), chairman of the House Tax committee, who favored the bill and Rep. Douglas Heider (R-Salem), also a tax committee member, who op posed it. 4 Vote on the major income tax measure was 37-23. Barton carried the bill on the floor, explaining that it was "not a patch work but a comprehensive tax program for the state of Oregon." Provided Rates He said the bill provided rates of from 2 per cent on the first thousand dollars of taxable income to 7 per cent on income above $10,000. Present rates are from 3 per cent to 9.5 per cent. However, the bill excludes exemptions for federal income tax and many other exemp-tions-which. will have the ef fect of raising most people's income taxes. Hardest hit will be those in the brackets above $4,000. The bill leaves personal ex emptions and dependency credits at the present $600 level. It permits medical de ductions above 5 per cent of income with no upper limits, and deductions for education, charitable and religious con tributions from 3 to 20 per cent of income. Earlier in the day, the House passed and sent to the Senate two other bills to com plete the package. They were: A bill putting a 3 cents-a-pack tax on pigarettes and a 15 per cent tax on other to bacco products; "A bill taxing businesses IV2 per cent on net business income and repealing inven tories taxes above $25,000 and including a reduction in cap ital gains. The cigarette measure pas sed 37-23 and the business bill. 50-20. Rebels Invading . Coast of Panama, Source Discloses Panama -(UPD- A group of rebels landed at the tiny Pan amanian village of Mandinga near a former U.S. fighter plane landing strip, a reliable source said last night. Mandinga, on the Atlantic coast of this strategic coun try, serves as embarkation port for boats carrying tour ists to the offshore island of San Bias. Origin of the invasion, its exact size and the military equipment it carried were not disclosed. Invasion-jittery Panama some time ago alerted its Na tional Guard for possible land ings by rebels from Cuba or Costa Rica. Top officials of Panama's National Guard met with President Ernesto De La Guarida Jr. and his cabinet at the National Palace to dis cuss the situation. The new development came a few hours after it was re ported that Panama was will ing to give Arias safe conduct out of the country in return for what was believed to be a large quantity of hidden rebel arms. Los Angeles - (UPD - Los An geles is not alone in its smog problem - it just gets more publicity, according to Dr. Gordon V. Pefley of Portland.
