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Queen. Elizafoeffi f orually Lawrence Eisenhower, e'ana! veinrooir Lomig Released Fromm IHIpspitici Covington, L. HJPD Gov. Earl K. Long got himself re leased from a mental hospital today by firing the two men who ran the hospital. The case to keep Long in the Southeastern Louisiana Mental Hospital was quickly dropped ' and District Judge Robert D. Jones freed Long. An aide said Long was going to a hotel. Long sat quietly holding an Project Report on drogue KSver Basin To Ee Given Mere A report on .the Rogue Riv-1 er basin project by the U. S.l fish and wild life service is tentatively scheduled to be made at a meeting in the Jack son county courthouse July 13 according to County Commis sioner Ralph James. James was making arrange ments for the meeting today following a meeting in Grants Pass last night during which the U.S. Army corps of engi neers reported on its further studies of ' the Rogue basin project. Henry Stewart, corps of engineers, Portland, pre sented projectdata. A public hearing on the project is ten tatively scheduled this fall, James added. ', Cooperating Agencies Cooperating in the basin study were the Portland dist rict, U.S. corps of engineers, the bureau of sports fisheries and wild life, the bureau of reclamation, the U.S. public health service, and the nation al park service. The Oregon state water resources board and the fish and game com missions also have contrib uted. Study results will be in cluded in a report to Congress. No recommendations will be made until a public hearing Is held in the area to determ ine public opinion on project plans, Stewart stated. A pub lic notice summarizing the recommendations will be mailed to all known-interested parties after recommendations are drwn up and before the report is presented to Con gress. Project data sheets present ed to the approximately 150 persons attending the meeting in the Josephine county court house listed storage projects considered by Army engineers as Elk creek, Lake creek on Little Butte, Meadows . on Evans creek and Copper on the Applegate. Detailed infor mation was presented on ail atorage projects. If storage dams could have been used to control the 1955 flood, Stewart said, the Rogue river would have crested at 6.7 feet less at Grants Pass. Such storage projects would irrigate 41,740 acres of new land and furnish additional ir Tax Writers Air Fate of Proposals Washington - (UPD - Senate- House tax writers met behind closQd doors today to decide the fate of Senate-approved plans to raise ' income taxes on big stock "investors and repeal the 10 per cent travel tax. The bill must be signed into law by midnight Tuesday to avoid a treasury revenue loss of about $3 billion. Differences between the House and Senate versions must be reconciled before the legislation can go to the White House. Cowboys Write to Thank Residents For Cast your nop upon the waters and you'll find in Montana, at least cowboys. So it seems from a letter re ceived here yesterday. Apparently some unidenti fied Medf ord vacationers were traveling through Montana at an unidentified date' and were jso struck by the beau of their surroundings that they left some soda pop cooling in a creek as a token of appreci ation. Along with the pop they left a note, written in red ink on a piece of brown wrapping paper, saying, "Sure pretty here. Have fun. ''Catch fish. Your pop shoulc? be cold. Va cationers from Medford, Ore gon." Cowboys Find Letter Well, it wasn't fishermen who collected the gift, but some hard-working cowboys. A letter from Helena, Mont., addressed to "The local news paper, Medford, Oregon," wai unlighted cigarette while At torney General Jack Gremil lion joined a motion of Long's lawyers to drop the commit ment order which put Long into the hospital eight days ago. Judge Jones then said there was no case Long was free. Spectators jamming the sweltering courtroom, actual ly a junior high school gym nasium, broke into thunder rigation to 26,140 acres. Pow er from Lost creek and Cop per projects would' produce 197,976,000 kilowatt hours per year, Stewart reported. The bureau of sports fisher ies and wild life estimates ma terial benefits to fish life from increased low-water flows, Stewart said. The minimum dependable increase in sum mer flow at Gold Ray dam would be about 160 cubic feet per second, Stewart estimated. The minimum dependable in crease downstream from the mouth of the Applegate would be 335 cubic feet per second. Recreational potential for Lost creek would be as great as if a 2,150 acre pool existed with a shore line of 19.2 miles. In most years this pool would remain full until Sept. 1, Stewart said. Lost creek with 860 surface acres and Copper with 945 surface acres would contribute significantly to re creation uses, Stewart added. An estimated 20,000 acre feet will be stored in Lost creek and Elk creek for municipal and industrial use, he said. Commilteewoman To Attend Dinner Mrs. Margaret Price, Demo cratic national committee woman for Michigan, will at tend the i'honor .Bob Duncan" dinner to be held Saturday, June 27, at the Rogue Valley Country club. Mrs. Price recently attend ed-the western regional con ference of the Democratic na tional committee in uenver. Also planning to attend the dinner is Jack Churchill, edi tor of the Oregon Democrat. The reception for Bob Dun can, speaker of the House at the last legislative session, will start at 6:30 P.m. with the dinner at 7:30 p.m. Reservations may be made by contacting Pat Redmond, SPring 3-1371 or Gerald S Scannell Jr., SPring 3-3582. Two Bodies Found In Railroad Car ' Oakridge, Ore. (UPD The bodies of two unidentified men were found Thursday night in the ruins of a burned Southern Pacific railroad re frigerator car near the sum mit of the Cascade mountains. The engineer of the freight train, thinking he saw a smok ing "hot box" on one of the cars, stopped the train be tween McCredie Springs and Crescent lake, and found the empty refrigerator car on fire. After the blaze was out the bodies of two men, ap parently transients, were found in the debris, along with several scorched tins of canned heat. Authorities be lieved the men had lighted the canned heat to keep warm, and ignited straw in which watermelons had been packed. Soda Pop received here yesterday. The letter said: "A few days ago, when we were moving steers to the summer range, we stopped for lunch at a camping spot on Beaver Creek, a small stream that runs through our neck of the woods. "While filling a can with water to brew some coffee over the campfire, we found three bottles of pop cooling in the creek, with this note near by. Both were enjoyed by some thirsty cowboys. 'Thanks, Medford vacation ers, and come again soon - to Helena, Montana. From Jan, Dave, Kathy, Curly, Howdy, Margo, and Charley, from the Bowers Ranch Inc." The note was returned with the letter and it's in the news paper office as proof that in Medford, even the litterbugs axe nice. ous applause. Long leaped up and waved his hands triumphantly above his head. There was no doubt that he was once more in control of the state. He personally signed the papers that fired Jesse Bankston, state director of hospitals, and Dr. Charles Belcher, superintendent of the hospital where he had been held. Price 10 MEDFORD 20 Pages Mr- firasti Kamikaze Pilot 0 Wf ' I f Ttm wmHtWi Port- Chamber Tells of Expansion About 40 local, business, civic, and professional leaders were asked to give their sup port to the Jackson County Chamber of Commerce "Keep Pace With Tomorrow" . pro gram yesterday at a luncheon meeting at the Rogue Valley Country club. Mayor John Snider presid ed at the meeting. As chair man of the citizens advisory committee, he said the city and the chamber of commerce shared mutual concerns and problems. Governing Principles Don McNeil, chamber man ager, announced the principles governing the Keep Pace With Tomorrow program. The prin ciples, basically, are aimed at fostering a more vigorous civic spirit among Jackson county citizens and establish ing the chamber of commerce as a central clearing house for thought and action in solv ing Medford's problems. Yesterday's meeting was the first in a series of eight sched uled sessions with 900 local Casualties Given In Mock Attack Washington - (UPD - Balti more Boston, and New York today emerged from a make- believe H-bomb war as the worst hurt American cities. The office of civil defense mobilization gave these cas ualty estimates: Baltimore area: '- 1,057,000 killed or fatally injured, or 79 per cent of the 1,338,000 population. Boston: 2,136,000 dead, or 75 per cent of the 2,875,000 population. New York: 6,098,000 dead, or 47 per cent of the area's 12,904,000 population. The estimates were based on an assumption that Russia hit 224 U.S. targets with 263 H-bombs totaling 1,446 mega tons. Hatfield Asks Cut , In Welfare Roles - Salem-tDPD-Gov.' Mark Hat field today said he had asked the State Welfare Commission to "make every effort to as sure that all able-bodied per sons be eliminated from the general assistance rolls during the period that agricultural labor is in shortage." Since May 30, Long had been in three hospitals. His wife, who fled Louisiana, .had him drugged, tied to a stretch er and flown to John Sealy Hospital in Galveston, Tex. He got out of John Sealy in a little more than two weeks by promising to enter Ochsner Foundation . Clinic in New Orleans if he were released. He was, and he kept his promise for less than 24 hours. Cents MEDFORD, OREGON, FRIDAY, JUNE 26, 1959 Program leaders. The one-hour sessions will be devoted to getting the ideas of local people about local problems. McNeil also announced the expansion program adopted by the chamber's board of di rectors on June 18. The pro gram calls for a pledged and dependable annual income of at least $40,000 and an active membership .of 600 The chamber currently has 436 members and an income of $27,000 McNeil said that at least 200 volunteers will be enlisted for the expansion campaign, which will be conducted July 10 to July 23. Program Cdnsultant Gene Emunson, consultant for the program, challenged the luncheon guests to "men tally take off the community's coat and shirt" and give it an examination. Complacency," he said, "is like a cancer. We can't afford to be satisfied with the status quo He said that the chamber of - commerce in the last five years has been under-capital ized and unable to keep pace with the community. Emunson said that the prob lems facing Medford, as growing community, are those of traffic, schools, and water, The question industrialists will ask before they move to Medford is, "Have you solved your problems?" The goal of the Keep Pace With Tomorrow is orderly planning and progress for the community. An important aspect of the program, Emunson said, is publicity. It is important that we tell the Medford story He said this would be accom plished largely through bro chures, advertising, and the communication media. (See Story on Page 3) WEATHER FORECAST: Mostly cloudy to night and Saturday morning with a few light showers. Par tial clearing Saturday afternoon with scattered showers in mountains. Low tonight 52. High- Saturday 75. Temp. Highest Yesterday 65 Lowest this Morning 55 Free, to 10 aon. Today 09 Our Skies Tonight Sunset today 7:53 pan. Sunrise tomorrow 4:36 a-m Moonrise tonight 11.44 p.m. Last Quarter -. Tomorrow PROMINENT STAB Antares, due south 10:17 p.m. WeU to the right of Antares is the planet, Jupiter, and well to the left of the star is Saturn. Next yer at this time Jupiter wUl also be to the left of Antares. He left the hospital and roared to Baton Rouge June 18 in a state police squad car to take over. His wife anticipated his move, beat him to Baton Rogue, the state capital, had commitment papers made out and a crew waiting to take Long to the hospital. To prevent his wife from filing commitment papers against him again, Long sued K MDetiin New York-(UPD-David J. McDonald, president of the steelworkers union, today refused to hold further ne gotiations with an industry wide learn. He asked the 12 major steel company heads involved in the nationwide strike threat, to meet with him tonight. McDonald described a two hour session with the indus try's main negotiators this morning as a "farcial fili buster." Two Men Escape Injury in Slide On Highway 230 Two men escaped injury Thursday afternoon when the diesel shovel they were op erating in the slide area on the Diamond Lake cut-off highway was hit by a third slide and nearly knocked into the Rogue river, 40 feet below. The slide blocked Highway 230 for the third time this year about 8 V2 miles from the junction with Highway 62. The state highway department reported that the highway will.be blocked for an in definite period. The slide is estimated at 30,000 cubic yards of rocks and trees, approximately the same size as the second slide which blocked the road June 4. The 2'i-cubic yard shovel was brought to the slide area following the second earth fall which had buried a bull dozer tractor. The bulldozer was recovered last week by the owner who has the bureau of public roads contract for the earth removal project. Slide at 3 p.m. According to reports the shovel was working at the site when the slide occurred, about 3 p.m. The shovel was partly pushed over the high way edge. Both men. escaped and work is currently under way to pull the shovel back onto the highway. Identity of the two men was not learned The first slide was April 25, less than 24 hours after the highway was opened this season. That slide was esti mated at 1,000 cubic yards and closed the highway for five days. The second slide closed the road until June 20 when it was opened to one way traffic. Yesterday morn ing the road was again opened to two-way traffic just prior to the third slide. Boy's Body Found Near Junction City Junction City-(DPD-The body of a 4-year-old boy missing since Thursday afternoon was found this morning in a slough north of here. The body of Gary Lee Tracer, son of Mr. and Mrs. Roy Dan Tracer Jr., of Junc tion City, was found in a slough on the Dan Tracer ranch on Noraton rd. about 9:30 a.m. More than 70 volunteers had joined in the search for the boy who had been last seen playing near a creek be hind his home. Skin divers from the Ben ton County Sheriff's office searched creeks and sloughs in the area. The boy's body was found on his grandfather's ranch, adjacent to his home. Salem 0IP&- State -flower growers have been reminded to start planning their ex hibits for the floral show of the Oregon State Fair Sept. 5-12. Thursday for legal separation from her. The hearing, when it fin ally started, lasted less than five minutes. As soon as Long climbed into the waiting black limousine, the driver slammed the door and it roared away. Doctors who examined Long just before he was rushed off to the hospital at Mandeville said he was a schizophrenic paranoiac. 54th Year Tribune No. 84 Constellation Disintegrates in Thunderstorm Milan, Italy (UPD A Trans World Airlines jetstream Con stellation bound for Chicago with probably 71 persons aboard disintegrated in a thunderstorm tonight, killing all aboard. "There are no survivors," a TWA spokesman said in Rome. First reports indicated that the jetstream airliner was split apart by lightning just moments after taking off from Milan for Paris and then non stop to Chicago. Worst Disaster , TWA spokesmen said the plane carried 59 passengers, "probably" three TWA of ficials and a crew of nine. It was the worst civil avia tion disaster of the year. It topped the death tollin the Feb. 2 New York crash of a Lockheed Electra, flying from Chicaeo to New York's La Guardia airport, in which 65 were killed. A TWA spokesman in Lon don said the plane , that crashed today near Milan was the first accident since 1949 in TWA's international serv ice. , First rescue workers on the scene confirmed tnat mere were no survivors, iney re ported charred bodies scatter ed around the wreckage. 'Enormous Flash' The names and nationalities of the passengers were not im mediately known. A TWA spokesman, said 12 passengers, including one American, had boarded the plane in Rome. ' Mrs. Rino Bruno of Leg- nano, one of the firSt persons to report the crash, said she and her husband saw an enormous flash" and then heard the noise of the crash The plane's body and tail crashed far apart, rescue squads said. Medford Guardsmen To Return Saturday Medford's National Guards men are due to arrive here from Ft. Lewis, Wash., about noon tomorrow, according to word received from Southern Pacific officials. The train is scheduled to leave the fort some time this evening. The guardsmen, members of company E, Second battle group, 186th infantry, 41st di vision, have completed their first encampment under their new "pentomic" organization The pentomic training in cluded work with the Honest John rocket and with 8-inch howitzers. Movement of some 5,600 troops of the division begins late today with trains to east ern and southern "Oregon points, followed by motor con voys early tomorrow. Only rear details will re main in the Guard's tent city at the fort. Wheat's Condition Is Reported Improved Frank B. Wheat, 42, of 801 North Central ave., was re ported in satisfactory condi tion at Sacred Heart hospital today, by hospital officials. Wheat was injured June 19 in a three-story fall at the Shakespearean Festival thea ter. Ashland. He is an auto matic sprinkler system inspec tor and apparently slipped and fell to a concrete side walk. His condition had previ ously been listed critical, Waterway Called Monument To Long Friendship Work Said Example Of Cooperation . Montreal - (UPD, Queen Eli zabeth and President . Eisen hower formally opened the St. Lawrence Seaway to shipping today. They hailed it as a new wonder of the world and an example of international co operation. The waterway is "a mag nificent monument to the en during friendship of our two nations and to their partner ship in the development of North America," Canada's queen told the President in a speech carried throughout the world by radio and into mil lions of homes by television. "That partnership is most agreeably symbolized, . Mr. President, in the fact that you and I have joined together to perform this ceremony today." Example of Cooperation The President said the Sea way which he described as a 2,300-mile waterway of locks, lakes and man-made channels from the Atlantic Ocean to the Great Lakes, was an ex ample of the way other na tions should work together. 'But the Seaway is far more than a technical and a commercial triumph," he said in a speech heard by an esti mated 50,000 persons by pub lic address system. "It is, above all, a magnifi cent symbol to the entire world of the achievements possible to Democratic nations peacefully workmg together for the common good." Tremendous Cheer The Queen and her hus band, Prince Philip, arrived by car from Montreal 15 min utes before Eisenhower's plane landed at St. Hubert, Quebec. Eisenhower, hat in hand and Mrs. Eisenhower holding his arm, received a tre mendous cheer from, assem bled thousands. The Queen and the Presi dent then . left by car for a five mile drive to St. Lam bert, Quebec, for the formal opening --of - the half -billion dollar seaway. When Eisenhower met the Queen, he said "this is a very great honor." - California Musicians To Play in Ashland Ashland-Highlighting the Fourth, of July celebration here next week end will be the appearance of the Weldon- ian band from Oakland, Calif., composed of 200 young musi cians. The and, directed by Weldc:i Leonardson, will head a parade starting at 10 a.m. on the Fourth. The band will present a formal concert at 2 p.m. in Lithia park and will make its final appearance when it plays just before the 8:30 p.m. fireworks display. The band members will ar rive here July 3 by chartered bus. Accompanying the musi cians will be nearly 200 par ents and friends. The visitors will be housed on the South ern Oregon college campus and will be fed at a school cafeteria. An all-day program is planned here for the Fourth, starting with the parade at 10 a.m. Farm Act Hearings Scheduled in July Salem (UPD State Labor Commissioner Norman Nilsen today announced preliminary public hearings on administra tion of the Farm Labor Con tractor License Act will begin in Ontario July 6. Hearings are also scheduled at Redmond July 7 and at Klamath Falls July 8, and the State Library building in Sa lem July 9. , State GOP Chairman Asks Accounting By Neuberger for Magazine Articles John Day, Ore.-(UPD-Repub- lican State Chairman Peter Gunnar said today the fact that Senators Wayne L. Morse and Richard L. Neuberger voted against confirming Lewis Strauss as Secretary of Commerce proved the two "share the same political philosophy." Feud Claimed 'Phony' Gunnar had charged in Lakeview Thursday that the Morse-Neuberger feud was "phony" and demanded in Burns Thursday night that Neuberger give a full account ing of income. He told Republican workers at a dinner in Burns that such a disclosure would enable the I Jl 4 ft " 1 - -$.N? - J v ALL ABOARD?-Shown here checking his timetable is "hot orary engineer" Verl Walker, member of the Medford gar$ and recreation commission who has represented the city in arranging lor the Medco railroad excursion scheduled for tomorrow. Steam Locomofivo To Make Final Run to Medford Medford corporation's "Old No. 4" logging locomotive is scheduled to make Its last trip from the high timber to morrow hauling local digni taries instead of logs. The 70-ton steam stallion, a gift from Medco for the City of Medford's recreation pro gram, is expected to bring some 90 passengers from Butte Falls to a Medco siding here. Its ultimate destination, ac cording to present plans, is the city's West Jackson st. park site. ' The chance of rain will not affect tomorrow's schedule, according to City Parks and Recreation Director Robert L. Haworth. The one remaining hurdle was to be, met at 4 o'clock this afternoon when the Medford city council was slated to meet to consider ex ecuting an indemnity agree ment with Medco. City Liable ' Under the terms of this agreement, according to city officials, Medford rather than Medco would be liable for any damage claims arising from accidents in the course of the excursion. In connection with this liability the city has taken out a $1 million insurance pol icy. The premium, estimated at $150, would be a city budg et expense, the officials said: One city official said previ ously that no taxpayers' money would be involved. Train passengers, it was also reported, will sign indivi Senate Defeats Gas Tax Boost ! Washington - (UPD The Sen ate, in a torrent of legisla tion, voted today to keep gas taxes down and beer, wine, liquor, auto, cigarette and cor poration taxes ud. The chamber acted on these and a number of other important matters in a mara thon 15-hour session. The law makers then took the day off. They'll come back to work Monday. In the key decision, the Senate rejected President Ei senhower's appeal to hike the federal gasoline tax IY2 cents, from 3 to 4V& cents a gallon. Eisenhower said work on the interstate superhighway net work would all but stop un less the tax was increased to replenish the dwindling high way trust fund. voters "to judge whether his 'moonlight' magazine writing or his job as U. S. Senator is his principal occupation." Neuberger, one of the na tion's top free lance writers before he entered the senate, has had pieces in scores of magazines lately, most of them keyed to the Oregon Centennial. Many Don't Understand "Many Oregonians do not understand this "moonlight ing' and want to know how the senator can find time to fake a feud with Sen. Morse, write all those magazine ar ticles and still be an effective senator," Gunnar said. Gunnar asked for an ac dual waivers of right fetfor departure. OtfixUls uifl thegfe waivers, whereby h plun ger agrees not to mt tot im ages in eas of eeldra ftnf considered conatUtf de0 signed t encourage m$ofu and might not b fcta4& igi court. The train i to 3tv ti siding just belofr vittt fglfe at 10:30 a.m., teeorfing) o the current timetablt. A. lunc stop is scheduled gt Dferby, and a rest stop, at Eaglt Poingt The train, which will in clude a passenger car, fdialf open "Mulligan" car and a caboose, is scheduled to chug across North Pacific highway and into the Medco yd about 4:30 p.m. There, Medco General Man. ager "Bud" Nutting is to pre sent the locomotive to -thg city, represented . by Jameg, Dunlevy, Medford city coun cil president, in a brief cere mony. A chartered bus taking th specially-invited passengers up to Butte Falls will leave at a.m. from the Medco office in Medford. Men Charged With Assault and Robbery Joseph George Mattey, 54, of 1234 Court st., and John Lewis Cox, 41, of the Crater hotel, were -in Medford and Jackson county jails respec tively today on charges of as sault and robbery. Police said their arrest wag in connection with the takinf yesterday of an unspecified amount of cash, a sum under $100, from-Enine John Hay field, box 592, Jenny creek. Hayfield, jailed on a drunk in public charge following thf incident, forfeited $10 bail in Medford municipal court thifc morning. According to a witness, Ar thur Winston Moore, 60$ Glenwood rd., Hayfield was approached about 4:15 p.m. yesterday on the Front st. sidewalk south of Main st. by two men who removed cash and a wallet from his pockets. Police said both Moore and Hayfield identified Cox and Mattey as the pair involved. Mattey was arrested in a Front st.. tavern and Cox, Ln his hotel room later that after noon, according to the police report. counting of all articles pub lished by Neuberger since 1954 when he was elected and the money received from such work. The GOP chairman charged that both of Oregon's Demo cratic senators were spending too much time on "lucerative speaking engagements or writ ing articles to give that serv ice." No Surprise At a luncheon sponsored by the Grant County Republican. Central Committee today, Gunnar said that Morse and Neuberger should vote the same "in this shameful inci dent rejecting Strauss sHoult come as no surprise to Oregon-ians
