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o o 1mA Blast- tows mi IKIST Sees Visit EChrmshchev As ISenetficoal By HARRY S. TRUMAN Norths American Newspaper Alliance. Inc. Copyright, 1959, ly Harry S. Truman (Reproduction of this article in whole or in part is forbidden without written authorization). J think the sooner Khrushchev comes to Washington-as I hear he wants to-the sooner we might clear the air and get down to a realistic approach on the critical issues that plague the world There are some who believe everything could be settled if only Khrushchev sat down with the President of the United States in a man-to-man talk. These are people who obviously have had no experienced in dealing with Soviet Russia or nave snori memories oi me long list of Soviet betrayals and failure to keep commitments. I believe, nevertheless, that no door should be closed even to the remotest chance in pursuit of peace. Must Give No Opportunity - We must not give the Communist propagandists any op portunities to raise false hopes about their peaceful inten tions by exploiting any failure of Khrushchev's realizing his wish to come here. . , I do not see why anyone should be afraidJo have Khru shchev come here at this time. Let Khrushchev see for him self what we are and how determined we are, as a people, to retain our freedom and resist any attempt to separate us from any of our allies and the free world. And when it comes to blandishments and the new grin, he will see that we are all from Missouri and have to be shown. If Khrushchev means business and genuinely wants peace, he will find the nations of the free world always ready to act and act swiftly. No Room Left for Appeasement Khrushchev will see here what Mikoyan saw, that the resoluteness of the United States to remain free and the might of the United States to back up its determination to be free leaves no room for appeasement or expedient compro mise at the expense of any people anywhere. But this reso luteness must not be misunderstood by the Communist world as the type of intransigence which the Russians have adopt ed in their program for world domination. We have never sought to dominate the world, or exploit any people, or force our will or our system of government on any nation, firm' and dedicated as we are in our democratic institutions. Russian intransigence and their abuse of theiQ membership in the Unitel Nations has made it almost impos sible to discuss any issue with them on a plane of reason and in an atmosphere of quiet and understanding. Forced to Look to Strength ' Because of this and the Communists' persistent plotting and trouble-making around the world, we have been forced to look to our strength, military and economic, as thj only practical recourse t6 protect our freedom and our security. And that is why we have had to make great sacrifices and set aside vast portions of our resources to help keep other nations of the free world free. And Khrushchev should re member that we will never falter nor tire-no matter what the cost nor how long it may take-in our efforts to remain free. (Continued on Page 14) - ; : yX3 P Nicaragua Invaders Said Pushed Back Managua, Nicaragua - (UPD President Luis Somoza said to day government troops were pushing back two small groups of; airborne invaders who landed in Nicaragua in an attempt to overthrow his regime. . " Fifty to sixty rebels were reported killed when their in vading plane was shot down by Nicaraguan fighters. Few Details There were few details of the fighting available. But So moza said in an announcement that the rebels were falling back under loyal attacks. He said the invaders were fleeing into the hills of cen tral Nncaragua, closely pur sued by government forces. "The situation is under con trol," Somoza said Monday night. , In Washington, informed sources said Nicaraguan Am bassador Guillermo Sevilla Sa casa will complain formally to the Organization of American States about the "foreign based" invasion later this week. ' They said Sevilla will de nounce the invaders' foreign WEATHER FORECAST: Considerable clou diness through Wednesday with chance of scattered showers in the mountains Wednesday afternoon. Low tonight 48. High tomorrow 75. Temp. Highest Yesterday S3 Lowest this Morning 49 , - - . . - , Our Skies Tonight Sunset today 7:42 p.m. Sunrise tomorrow 4:37 a.m. Moonrise tomorrow 3:13 am. New Moon . June S PROMINENT STAR Altair, low in east 9:50 p.m. VISIBLE PLANETS - - - Venus, sets 10:31 p.m. Mars, to the left of Venus. Saturn, rises 9:4S p.m. Jupiter, due south 10:59 p.m. Able, Space Flight Monkey, Dies on Operating Table in Army Laboratory Washington -(DPD Able, the seven-pound Rhesus monkey that made a 300-mile high space flight last week, died on the operating table Mon day night during removal of a recording Instrument, the Army announced today. , The Defense Department emphasized that the monkey's death had no relation to its historic flight through space. . Able died at the U. S. Army Medical Research Laboratory at .Ft. Knox, Ky., almost two hours after the operation' be friends as "disturbers of the peace in the Caribbean area," but will not ask the OAS to intervene directly , as it did recently in Panama. Two-Pronged Invasion A communique said the in vaders, arriving by air from Costa Rica, came' in two groups 50 men who landed Sunday near Los Mole j ones in Chontales Province, and 50 to 60 who landed Monday on the Plains of Olama in Matagalpa Province. In each case, the communi que said, the invasion force was scattered by loyal fighter planes which attacked within minutes of the landing and harried by loyal ground pa trols which arrived a few hours later. Macmillan Lends Support To Lloyd London - (IIPD - Massive sup port from Prime Minister Har old Macmillan and the British press appeared today to en trench Selwyn Lloyd more firmly than ever . as foreign minister despite one report he was on the way out. Informed sources said Mac millan' felt that his personal message of reassurance to Lloyd Monday closed the mat ter and there was no need for a formal investigation or fur ther comment from him. It still was possible that members of Parliament would bring it up when they recon vened today. The Times of London smart ed the furor Monday with a lead story saying Macmillan planned to replace Lloyd as foreign minister when and if the Conservatives win the next election. gan. The Army described the op eration as "minor"-removal of a tiny electrode implanted just under the monkey's skin to obtain biomedical informa tion during and after the space flight and said there was no indication that Able would not be able 'to sur vive it. When a light surgical anes thesia was administered, how ever, a rapid and convulsive heart movement . developed and the monkey died despite CONDUCT TESTS Chemical analysis of the amount of oxide pollutants in Medford air is being conducted Joday and will be continued tomorrow by a team of men from the state air pollution authority, the first .such tests to be made in Oregon outside of Portland. Smog producing potential, the amounts of oxides resulting from fuel burn ing and automobile exhausts are being measured with the special apparatus pic Officers Elected For Historical Society iji Area Miss 'gjaire Hanley, Jack sonville, was, reelected presi dent of the Southern Oregon Historical Society. Inc.. last Qj-1.1 A 1 1 i. 1 TT nigm. aisu execiea were Lj. xi. Hedrick, 503 Oakdale ave., Medford, vice president, and Edth Giff ord, Mgdford ac countant, as secretary-treas- urer. o - Nominated for three years on the board of directors were Ray Reter, Harry Barneburg and Frank Ross, all in the Medford district; nd R. J. T' Vault in the Jacksonville district - r - -wfrr v - Hedrick told the 65 persons attending the annual meeting in the Jacksonville Masonic hall that a historv of Jackson ville will be published shortly. The booklet will contain a number of photographs, he saidiHe said he had hoped to nave it ready for presentation last night. - Report on Museum Miss Mary Hanley, -Jacksonville museum curator, re ported that since the museum was opened July 10, 1950, it has been visited by 330,779 persons. Attendance statistics show in May, 1958, 4,086 per sons visited the museum com pared to 5,100 persons for May, 1959, a gain of 1,014 vis-5 itors. ' - i During the last 12 months the museum has had visitors from every state except Rhode Island, Delaware and West Virginia and froma? foreign countries. Recently, several old docu ments and records, Indian artifacts, fine clothing, min eral specimens and some showcases have been given the museum, Miss Hanley said. Robert Heffernan, Medford attorney, 5 traced the ill-fated attempt to set up a confeder acy (-pf Pacific coast states. One of theleaders was Gen eral Joseph Lane, after whom Lane county is named. Ashland Council to Meet Tonight ' Ashland-Three public hear ings and a Bancroft boCd ordi nance " are ' included on the Ashland city council's agenda for its meeting at 7:30 o'clock tonight at city hall. . The hearings concern vaca tion of Eureka st., vacation of a half-block s,ectiajj of Pros pect st.. and annexation of a four-acre tract on Highway 66. ffnrts trt rpviup it . f "The cause of death," the Army announcement Osaid, "was rapid and convulsive movement of the heart. . .and was unrelated to its recent fjight." Able, along with a squirrel monkey named Baker, was fired 1,500 miles in a 300-mile high space flight down the Cape Canaveral, Fla., . track ing range last Thursday. Both monkeys appeared to have withstood - the flight in good condition. 4-H Wagon Train to Corvallis to Leave From Jacksonville "Wagons Ho!" will signal thoostart of the Jackson coun ty 4-H covered wagon trek about 8:30 a.nO next Monday as wagons roll down the hill from the Jacksonville school. Pacific Slates Dnrflanrl (fan I VI IIUIIll JIVU Portland -(UPD-; Another air line has been authorized to serve Portland. Pacific Air Lines, formerly Southwest, has been jsued a certificate by ihe Civil Aero nautics Board to exlend Serv ice to Portland, an official of the line notified Mayor Terry Schrunk Monday. ' The California line has been flying to Medford, Ore., for 12 years. That has been its only stop in Oregon. From Medford it flies to San Fran cisco via Redding,-Red Bluff, Chico, Marysville and Sacra mento. The line also serves the Crescent City -Areata, Lfkiah and Santa Rosa areas. '. Ted Mitchell, executive vice president of the airline, said he would come here next week to start making arrange ments for local operations. He said it was planned to offer two flights daily starting July 27 with service from San Francisco to Portland inrtod ing a stop at Eureka-Areata. Group Inspects, Winnemucca Route Klamath Falls - (UPD - Mem bers of the Oregon Highway Commission today were- in specting state routes east of here, o The Commission and top staff members Monday cover ed Highway 99 from Portland to Ashland and the Green SpringsO route to Klamath Falls on a tour of state proj ects. Members today were to look over a proposed Winne-mucca-to-the-Sea route. This would call for Nevada and Oregon to build highways, in their respective states which would lead to Lakeview in eastern Oregon andprovide a direct route to the sea. Wallets, Personal Papers Found in City A cache of stolen wallets and personal papers was found beneath the McAn drews rd. bridge across Bear creek yesterday by two boys, 12 and 14, Medford poliqe re ported. Police said some articles be longed to Drs. Richard Schwahn and Theodore Barss, whose billfolds were stolen last Wednesday from a Sacred Heart hospital locker room. Others belonged to Edwin Bruce Stuart, 2650 Beall lane, Central Point, whose billfold was tafen from the pocket of his trousers in the locker room of the YMCA, 522 West Sixth st., according to the report. Portland (DPD An opening price of 12 cents a pound for strawberries has been posted by one of the state's largest freezing firms. The price is the same as last year. O ' tured above, which was set up this morning on top of the Medical Center building. The results of the tests will help complete data being compiled by the city over a measured period. Left to right above are Chemist Ed Taylor and Sanitary Engineer Jim Agee of Portland, ind T. M. Gerow, southern Ore gon district engineer, all of the state air pollution authority. Similar tests will be made again in the fall, Gerow said. The trek, which will be joined en route by awagon load of Roseburg 4-H club members, is expected to take about two weeks, according to Glenn Klein and Marilou Garner, Jackson county 4-H agents. Destination is 4-H sum mer school in Corvallis. Jackson county's five wag ons, eight saddle horses and 10 workhorses and team of mules will be assembled Sun day afternoon on the school grounds. Nine adults, includ ing the two 4-H agents, will chaperone the 41 4-H club members from Jackson countjz. ..Sunday,.night .wagons wni be circled and teams tied to them as the wagon train bivouacs for the night. Some form of entertainment is planned for around the camp fires that night, Klein said. The donated wagons have been rehabilitated by Eagle Point, Crater and Phoenix vo cational agriculture shop classes. ' Another team of horses or mules is still needed, the 4-H agents said. Also needed are old-fashioned cooking pots, pans and various other arti cles which could be tied onto the wagons pioneer-style. Buckaroo Breakfast A buckaroo breakfast has been scheduled for 7 a.m., Monday by the Jacksonville Lions club. Following this, there will be short talks by civic dignitaries, including Medford Mayor , John Snider who will represent the Ore gon Centennial 'commission. Vic Stewart, Ashland, will be in charge of the teams. The wagonmaster will be elected by the 4-H club memtiers. Fringed skirts will be worn by the girls while riding horses or in the wagons and the boys will wear cowboy hats and boots and levis. The girls will change into long Centennial-type dresses when the train stops at the various bivouac areas. " Some folk- dancing and songs have : been planned to entertain any persons from nearby towns who may drop in to inspect the tfltin, Miss Garner said. 'Nobody Ever Got 54th Year Medford 14 Pages MEDFORDr Gromyko Warned To Drop Charges Of Subversion West Threatens Recording Playbacks Geneva (UPD The West warned Russia's Andrei Gro myko today to drop charges of "subversion" in We st Berlin or face a grim playback of tape recordings exposing East German Communist intrigues. Authoritative sources re ported new recordings of in f lamatory broadcasts -by a dis guised East German "under ground station" had just reached Geneva and might be brought to the Big Four For eign Ministers' Conference table to refute Gromyko's charges against the West. Radio Silence Demanded The Soviet foreign minister demanded Saturday that the Radio of the American Sector transmitter in'jWest Berlin be silenced as one of the prices for any interim Berlin settle ment. Secretary of State Christian Herter flatly rejected this proposed at Monday's secret meeting. High U. S. officials said Herter plans to sit tight indefinitely until the Russians either guarantee western rights in Berlin or break up3 the present conference. The decision was made in the face of Gromyko's propo sal made at another secret meeting last . Saturday in which he, said the western powers must "sooner or later" get their troops out of Berlin. Own. Evidence Herter and the other west ern ministers went into ttis afternoon's plenary session ready to counter-attack Gro myko's . allegations against Free World activities in Ber linThey were ready . with their own evidence of Com munist intrigues staged from East Berlin and East Ger- many. Invitations Issued fFor cPower Line Invitations to bid on the construction of a tree-hung power line at Oregon Caves have been issued by the Na tional Park service. The line will extend from the California Oregon Power company's transmission line on Cave creek to the site of a new residence adjacent to Lake creek on State Highway 46. The line is estimated to be 4,000 feet long and will be aerial cable, 2,400 volt, single- phase capacity. Plans and specifications are available at the National Park service office, post office building, Medford, and at Park Headquarters, Crater Lake National park. Bids are to beopened 3 p.m., June 23. Police Investigate Theft from School Medford police today inves tigated the reported theft yes terday afternoon of a black leather bag containing an esti mated $100 in change from the text book room at Med ford High school. The theft was rertedjhis morning by Naomi Irene Mi rick, route 4, box 358G, Lucky lane, a school employee. Hit By A Planet" & c "MLAJLT OREGON, TUESDAY, JUNE $2,747,788 for Talent Project Given , Washington-The House appropriations committee today approved a public works money bill which contained $2,747. 788 for the Talent division of the Rogue River irrigation project. This was the exact amount requested by the Eisenhower administration for the coming fiscal year. The committee also approved $1,500,000 for harbor con struction at the mouth of the Rogue river at Gold Beach. The committee made no reductions in the budget for Ore gon reclamation work. While it rapped the administration's "no new starts" policy, the committee did not recommend starting any new projects in Oregon. Washington-(UPD-The House Appropriations Committee in a sharp rebuff to President Eisenhower voted funds today to start construction of seven new reclamation projects. It said it was merely giving expression to Congress' "over whelming bipartisan rejec tion" of .the administration's "unrealistic" policy of no new starts. Planning Funds Voted The committee also approv ed funds- for planning and construction of 41 flood con trol and navigation projects for the Army Engineers for which President Eisenhower refused to budget funds. : The committee approved and sent to the House floor for action Fridayla $1,176,677, 000 appropriation bill to fi nance public works in the new fiscal year starting July 1. The committee allotted $863,440,500 to the Army En gineers for flood control and navigation work, an increase of $260,500 over the budget estimate. It also approved $253,409,500 for the Bureau of Reclamation, an increase of $2,213,500 over the budget. It allotted $32,582,000 for the Bonneville Power Admin istration,- trimming requested construction funds by $2,- 668,000. Amounts allotted by the committee for army engineers construction work on flood control and navigation proj ects include: Oregon Projects Oregon: Columbia river be tween Vancouver, Wash., and The Dalles, Ore.: 27-foot chan nel, $1,611,000; Cougar reser voir. $9 million: Hills creek reservoir, $8,300,000; Inter Bids Calling for Resurfacing Work Bids will be opened June 15 for resurfacing some 2,600 feet of taxiway at Medford airport, city officials reported today. . Sections involved include the taxiway along the north west hangar area to a point in front of the terminal build ing and two short taxiways in front of that building. The federal aviation agency recently approved plans and specifications for the project, according to Airport Mana ger Richard Hogan. Federal funds are to partially finance it. Two Man-Caused Fires Extinguished Two man-caused fires along roads in the Applegate area were extinguished by forest service crews with tank trucks last week end. Less than one-tenth of an acre was burned in each spot. The Medford office of the forest service reported today that one blaze was probably caused by a cigarette and the other possibly by an automo bile exhaust. Both fires were reported to the Star ranger station by passersby., Forest sevice personnel warned that forests are drying out rapidly and fire danger is increasing. Gold Hill Hearing Scheduled for SP Salem-(UPD-Hearing has seen set by the Public Utility Com mission for Thursday, July 9, at Gold Hill city hall on the application of Southern Paci fic, Pacific Motor Trucking Company and Railway Ex press to withdraw their joint agent at Gold Hill. If approved by the PUC, ap plicants would handle busi ness through the agent at Med ford. Price 10 Cents Tribune 2, 1959 No. 63 Approval state bridge, Oregon and Washington, $1,130,000; John Day lock and dam, Oregon and Washington, $20 million; lower Columbia river im provement to existing works: Multnomah county drainage district, $203,000; Rogue riv er harbor at Gold Beach, $1,500,000; The Dalles lock and dam, Oregon and Wash ington, $7 million; Willamette River Basin bank protection. $500,000. Here, are the amounts al lotted by the committee for work on reclamation bureau projects: Oregon: Crooked River project, $2,833,000; Klamath project, $522,000; Rogue Riv er Basin project, Talent divi sion, $2,747,788; Wapinitia project, Juniper division, $39,- 7UO. Pool Completion Set in October The proposed West Jackson st.' swimming pool will not be ready for use this summer, according to the present ten tative schedule. The Medford park and rec reation commission met last night to consider preliminary plans submitted by Stevens and Thompson, consulting en gineers for the project. Revisions are expected with in two weeks, according to Robert L. Haworth, city parks and recreation director. The tentative schedule, ac cording to Haworth, calls for advertising for bids about July 15, with construction to start as soon thereafteP as possible and completion ex pected in October. The commission last night agreed to eliminate permanent spectator facilities and to inte grate the proposed , wading pool with a children's play area. Also decided was to set the pool facility further back from the intersection of Sum mit ave. and Clark st., to per mit landscaping for reducing noise from the pool. Commission President Russ Jamison reported today that June 24 and 27 are tentative alternate dates for the logging locomotive being given the city of Medford corporation to be taken on its "last run" along the Medco railroad from Butte Falls to Medford. Plans for transporting the iron horse to its proposed new home in the West Jackson st. park area are being studied. Louisiana Governor Put Into Hospital by Force Galveston, Tex. (UPD Gov. Earl K. Long of Louisiana fought plans to put him in a mental hospital so hard his family had to have him knocked out, it was reported today. But authorities at John Sealy Hospital in Galveston, where the colorful chief exec utive of the Bayous was flown secretly Saturday, denied re ports Long has been violent since his arrival. Dr. John Truslow, adminis trator at the hospital, said the 63-year-old Long was "stub bornly resisting attempts to give him psychiatric treat ment." He said a diagnosis might be completed by Wednesday. Ataton Rouge, where Lt. Gov. Lether Frazer has taken over - as governor d u ring Long's absence, a source close to the administration told United Press International Long "raised holy ned" about the decision to take him to Texas for psychiatric treat ment. "They had to have him knocked out and wheel him to the plane unconscious," the Explosion Follows Collision; Bodies Cover Wide Area i Loaded School Buses Speed To Safety Pottsville, Pa.-(UPD-A burn ing tank truck loaded with propane gas exploded on highway today, hurling fire men and spectators hundreds of feet. Deputy Coronej: Dr. Henry Wagner said 10 persons defi nitely have been listed as dead and at least 15 others were injured. Bodies were scattered in fragments over a wide area. The drivers of two school buses, carrying a total of 85 children, managed to speed their vehicles away from the scene before the blast. All available ambulances and hearses from numerous communities in the area were pressed into service, to take the dead and injured to hos pitals. School Children Saved Ronald Kramer, 39, Au burn, Pa., driver of a Blue Mountain Jointure School bus carrying 40 pupils to classes, said he was driving south in a light rain on the Pottsville Reading Highway behind a trailer truck owned by the Branch Transportation Co. of Pottsville. Kramer said the truck-trailer skidded when it tried to slow down and crashed into the rear of the tank truck owned by the Sun Gas Pro pane Co. The bus driver said flames shot up from the rear of the tank. Fearing an ex plosion, Kramer turned his bus off the highway and drove through a field to get away from the scene. He said another school bus was going south in front of the tank truck when the acci dent occurred. Russell Klahr, Schuylkill Haven, the driver of the other school bus, said he saw flames and stepped on the accelerator to get away from the fire. o Truck Blows Up The tank truck continued to burn and firemen and fire police were summoned from nearby Orwigsburg. A crowd gathered to watch them fight the fire but police kept the curious behind ropes 125 feet awayl About a half hour after the collision, the blast blew out the rear of the tank truck. Witnesses said the force thrust the entire trailer like a rocket into the air. The trailer, spew ing flames, soared about 75 feet before it landed in the field. State Trooper Earl Klinger who was sitting in his patrol car 300 feet away when the explosion burst in a "tornado like ball of fire." He said flames shot 300 feet in the air and enveloped firemen and spectators. Two bodies hurled from the scene crashed into his patrol car, shattering the windshield, Klinger said. The trooper said he saved himself from injury by "ducking under the dash board." Salem - (DPD Public Utility Commissioner Jonel C. Hill has suspended proposed revi sions in time schedules of Greyhound lines which would leave one daily schedule in each direction over the Co lumbia river route between St. Helens and Astoria. GOV. EARL LONG Violence Denied source said. "He thought it was a plot by his political ene mies to get him out of the way." A Galveston newspaper re ported Long underwent two violent outbursts and has been guarded by a pair of husky male nurses. , "'
