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xpected To Tate Steps Stay Owt of Oregon .miliary Mm Hot By A. ROBERT SMITH Mail Tribune Washington Correspondent Washington - Adlai Steven son has indicated that he is resigned to being entered in Oregon's presidential prefer ence primary next spring - a consideration of no small moment to the younger hope fuls now making advance maneuvers for the Democratic nomination, Stevenson last week end in London invited Rep. Charles O. Porter to his hotel room for breakfast and a long talk cov ering a wide range of do PeatOD odd rrhi Is tine ltory, but not a pleasant one. It is told in the hope K may save some live, during the Fourth of July holiday by reminding ail drivers of the tragedy and horror that can lurk on the streets "d highway, for the unwary motorist Name, of the people in this dispatch hav been disguised, but the facts are as .tated.) Br United Press International John B won't be piling his wife and their five children into the family car this July 4th for a holiday trip, as he did last Memorial Day. Mrs. B and the children are all dead. It wasn't too long a trip the family was making that day five weeks ago-just across the state. It was a fine day to go visiting. Mr. B crossed several major highways and rode a short distance on a toll road, but most of the journey was along county roads. They were good, but included a number of sharp turns. cno Around one turn lay a railroad track, marked by a STOP sign, but no flashers, bells or other signals. A train and Mr. B's car reached that stretch of track at the same time. The story is taken up, now, by the deputy sheriff who took charge at the scene; ' ... . -j "The man was injured, lying in a dramage ditch beside the track. He kept crying out, 'Is my wife all right? How are the kids?' : "I have four children myself. I couldn t tell him. "His wife-she was 28-was smashed against an embank v,. ,,ih inst make out it was the body of a woman. A w fo.t farther awav She was 9, I learned laer. She was still alive, but only for a little while. ' ' ... "The car itself was unidentifiable as an auto. It was torn up like paper, and pieces of it scattered along lor aDoui iou ft mWsrf with narta of bodies. "The five children were months, and two boys, 10 and Wa rnnirf not tpll in each case "One of the children had been hit in the midsection by a piece of metal and the body was lipped apart. The face of one was gone. The infant was a pulp, lying in a crib of weeds. "It was some time before we could figure out how many had been in the car." John B, who is 30 years old, survived and is now out ot the hospital. He hasn't yet been able to return to his factory job. Friends say it will be a long time Deiore ne can. The deputy sheriff made no comment on why the acci dent happened. He simply said: . .. "It didn't have to happen!" Purchase of Site On Applegate For Recreation Assured Purchase of a 40-acre coun ty recreation site on the Ap plegate is assured, Ed Stroth er, Shady Cove, county parks and recreation- commission chairman, reported yesterday. Strother told members at tending the commission meet ing that the county court is sued a warrant ior o,uuu Tuesday for purchase of the Earl Gebhart mining claim on the property, a mile south of McKee bridge. The money will be held in escrow until final purchase arrangements can be , made, stroiner ex nlained. The commission chairman cairl the real estate agent act ing for Gebhart had received a letter stating tnat saie oi me property at the proposed price was satisfactory. Land Trade Discussing the acre-for-acre trade proposed for acquisition of the Peter N. Britt house and gardens in Jacksonville, Strother said County Commis sioner Ralph James told him he would follow any action taken by other county court members. James at first had opposed the swap of approxi mately 10 acres on tne How ard Prairie reservoir for the Britt property proposed park site. County Judge Earl Mil ler and James had stated that ! the county does not own prop erty on the reservoir. Medford Nazarene Minister Appointed To District Superintendency in Texas The Rev. Raymond w. Hum, pastor of First Church of the Nazarene for the past five years, has been appointed superintendent of the Abilene district in northwest Texas of the diurch. effective Aug. 3. The appointment was made this week by Dr. G. B. Wil liams, general superintendent of the church in Kansas City, Mo. The northwest Texas dis trict, the largest in the de nomination, includes 92 churches and has its headquar ters at Lubbock. The Hums have lived in Medford since 1954, coming here from Norman, Okla., where he was pastor of the First Church of the Nazarene. Mr. Hum has also served as pastor of the First Church in Atlanta. Ga- and Central Church of Tulsa, Okla f Whiel in Medford he has assisted in many community mestic and world affairs, in cluding Oregon politics. . "Adlai seemed disconcerted and baffled by the Oregon primary law," Porter reported after returning from London, where he attended a world law conference. "He indicated he didn't want in the primary, but he took the attitude "of How can I get out of it?' " Congressman Porter said he told Stevenson that he could file an affadavit of no candidacy with the secretary of state, but he said Steven son showed no enthusiasm for that course of action. a Miidlay was the1 body of a, little girl. three girls, aged 9, 4 and 6 3. When we gathered them up which was which. Strother said it might be possible for Southern Oregon college, owner of the Britt estate, to obtain a special use permit from the bureau of land management which con trols the land around Howard Prairie reservoir. Strother said he understood from Dr. Elmo Stevenson, college presi dent, that if use of land on Howard Prairie is granted the college would then turn over the house and gardens of the Britt estate to the county for park development. Other com mission members pointed out that a number of civic organ izations have offered to reha bilitate the burned out home of the pioneer photographer to be used as a meeting and recreation hall. Also, one com pany has offered to donate lumber and garden clubs have offered to fix up the gardens. Agate Dam Commission member , Don Ashpole, Eagle Point, report ed on the Agrte dam planned by the Rogue River- Valley Irrigation district. This would orovide a recreation area eight miles from Medford and one mile from Antelope rd, The commission voted to hold a picnic at the Howard Prairie recreation site Sun day, July 12, when commis sion members will inspect the area. I think he's as hot as a pistol," Porter said of the Illinois statesman's presiden tial aspirations. "I don't think he wants to go so far as to declare himself out as a pos sible candidate." Porter, admittedly a Ste venson supporter of long standing, said he is confident Stevenson "will win in Ore gon if it is made clear that he is a live candidate, and I intend to make that clear to the voters before the elec tion." This forecast was bolstered, he said, by results of a poll Forest Fire Out of Contral South of Yreka About 400 Men Battling Flames i Yreka, Calif. -(DPD A forest fire roared out of control through second growth Doug las fir timber, slash and brush in mountains 10 miles south of here today. About 400 firefighters, trucks, tractors and a helicop ter were thrown into the fight to halt the blaze, which had already blackened 650 acres in the Trail Gulch area.. A. Roy Bengard. state . Di vision of Forestry ranger, said he feared there was less than a 10 per cent chance of con taining the fire today. Winds of 30 miles an hour were Dredicted in' the fire area, listed as very dry. Com mercial saw timber was threatened nearby, but no towns or ranches were in im mediate danger. Three planes dropped bor ate, a fire suppressor, into the heart of the flames. The fire scene is about 40 miles below the Oregon bor der and 150 miles from the coast. Fears grew that the blaze might become a repeat of the Havstack Burn forest fire here in 1955 which caused fringes of Yreka to be evac uated. Fire officials believed the blaze started when lightning struek-4he area-June r-19 An unidentified pilot reported a very small fire in the area June 30. and the fire area was only three acres Wednes day morning. But the flames got out '.of hand Wednesday afternoon. Log Truck Hit By Train Here A log truck operator, Rob ert Nevil Funk. 32. oi Siz Fairmont st., narrowly es caped with his life this morn ing when the loaded truck he was operating collided with a Southern Pacific engine. The truck, owned by Thom as W. McFadden, was cut in two by the engine when Funk apparently failed to see the train as it crossed Table Rock rd. near White City. The cab of the truck con taining the driver was dragged over 45 feet along the track, according to sheriffs depu ties who were called to the scene along with state police The engine traveled over 300 feet before coming to a stop. Fireman Roy M. Smith, 49, of J1000 Henry st., Ash land, who was at the controls on the right side of the engine, said he did not see the truck as it approached from the left. Funk was taken by Medford Ambulance service to Sacred Heart hospital where he was confined for observation. McFadden's truck was a total loss. president and president of the Medford Ministerial associa tion and currently is chairman of the radio-television commit tee of the association. For three years he has held an office with the Jackson Coun ty Board of Christian Educa tion and is now president of the board. He was one of the founders of the Medford Gospel Mis sion, and was a member of the board of the Medford School of Hope.- He has served the Oregon Pacific district of his denom ination as a member of the church school board, commit tee member for the youth camps, and on the board of orders and relations, which deals with the ordaining of Nazarene ministers. Mr. Hum's father is a Naza rene minister at Burns, Ore., and a brother is pastor of the First Church of the Nazarene, ing of opinion taken by Porter 4 r I do of residents of his 4th con gressional district. Asked to name their choice for presi dent in 1960, those who re plied gave more votes to Ste venson than to Sens. John F. Kennedy and Hubert Hum phrey combined. Porter said he thought Stevenson would Price 10 Cents Medford 18 Pages MEDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY, JULY mm BASEBALL AMERICAN LEAGUE 10 innings) Boston Washington ..... 6 9 1 9 1 and Sullivan. Kiely (9) Daley; Fischer, Clevenger (9). Siobbs (9) and Courtney, J. W. Porter (10). Swimming Pool Estimated to Cost $90,000 A tentative estimate of $90,000 for constructing fa cilities at the proposed West Jackson st. swimming pool has been received this week from Loren Thompson, con sulting engineer, Medford city oincials reported toaay. Meanwhile, according to Citv Manager Robert A. Duff, a . formal statement of the amount of the grant from the Jackson County Housing au thority for financing most of the project can be expected i 4axr lavs " The $90,000 figure in effect confirms an estimate Thomp son made at a city council meeting last month. Accord ing to his letter this wees, the surh would cover costs of a 42 by 75 .foot swimming pool, a 30 by 40 'foot diving oool. two diving boards, a bathhouse with benches, me; chanical facilities and tenc- ing. It would not include, of ficials noted, overhead light-' ine for the pool and otner equipment for the bathhouse interior. A proposed wading pool has been excluded from the estimates as a pusio subiect. for private financing. Duff, himself a housing au thority member, reported that final accounting of the a thority's assets is now in pro gress. The group's announced plan is to dissolve itself and turn over its assets, estimated at. between $70,000 and $75,- 000 to the city to finance the pool project. Mayor John W. Snider and the city council are reported in the process of seeking the other $15,000 or more from private donors. Bids To Be Called On Sheriff's Cars All bids recently submitted to the county court for pur- nhnw of five cars for the sheriffs office will be reject ed the court announced to day. A new call for bids tor tne controversial five cars will be made within the next tew days,' this time with more de tailed specifications. The court's announcement followed receipt of an opin ion from the district attor- ... A , X XI X.. ney s onice xnai uie tuumj court did not advertise tne earlier bids for the required week in advance of bid open-frg- . ... All three members oi xne court, including Judge Earl Mil lie r and Commissioners Chester Wendt and Ralph James, agreed with the plan to call for new bids. James last week expressed his disagreement , with the other two court members in their desire to purchase a variety of cars for the sheriff, instead of selecting five cars of the same make from the lowest bidder. The new specifications will include requirements for wheel base and horespower, as well as for brakes, special speedometer, siren and other items, the court said. ASHLAND FIRES Crews of the state depart ment of forestry extinguished three grass fires in the Ash land area yesterday. Largest was a 10-acre blaze on Dead Indian rd. Spot fires were put out on Ashland Mine rd. and on Wilson rd. in the Valley even better when it be comes clear that he x is not really aloof from taking a third presidential nomination. This must be counted as bad news by the Kennedy .and Humphrey forces, both of whom place great stress now on the significance of the Ore gon primary. Both senators Governor Long Suffers Slight Heart Failure i . Medical Staff Deeply Concerned Covington, La. (UPB - Gov. Earl K. Long, laboring under the strain of a nervous break down and a stroke, suffered a "slight heart failure" Wednesday night. His medical staff, augment ed by a heart specialist and a new psychiatrist, was deep ly concerned, especially be cause it is difficult to keep the 63-year-old governor from exerting himself. "We are concerned about his condition," Dr. Victor Leif announced after an oxy gen tank had been wheeled into Long's room. Long said Wednesday his estranged wife Blanche had been reported trying to hire a man to kill him because she suspected he was cavorting around with another woman. To Reopen Campaign She denied it "categorical ly" and Long later said he didn't put much stock in the report anyway. He announced that he was going to reopen his campaign for reelection Saturday by making four speeches and going to a beauty contest. . He went out for a drive and a "good old-fashioned country dinner" - actually lunch - and returned to his "capitol" in a motel about 6 P-m. Long apparently suffered the heart attack later in the evening. His heart has not recovered completely from an attack he suffered in 1950 while chasing a pig near his farm in north Louisana. Ashland Loop Road Now Open for Travel Both the Ashland loop road and Highway v 230, the Dia mond Lake cut-off, will be open to traffic during the Fourth of July week end, it was reported today. The Ashland loop road, from Ashland to McKee bridge on the Applegate river, is now open and maintained, Rogue River National forest personnel reported. " ( The scenic route along the summit of the Siskiyou moun tains is aDDroximately 40 miles in length. State police reported that Highway 230 will be open to two-way traffic about noon Friday through Sunday. The road will again be closed Monday, it was explained, for further work. A slide closed the road for the third time this summer June 25. re "By a Coincidence, Our Group Has Arrived at the Same Conclusions" and their strategists have been counting on Stevenson staying out of all primaries, and in this case of submitting an af fidavit to Secretary of State Howell Appling, swearing he is not and will not become a candidate. Another factor the Kennedy and Humphrey camps are 54th Year Tribune 2, 1959 No. 89 DOWN TO EARTH Work progressed this week on the widening and paving of East Jackson st. from Bear creek to Genessee st. This view, westward from Genessee, shows a grader working in front of the B and G Oil Pipeline Blast Wipes Out Mexican Hamlet Coatzacoalcos, Vera Cruz, Mexico-(DPD-A csude oil pipe line under repair exploded Wednesday night into a square mile of flame that wiped out the tiny hamlet of Monte Largo with heavy loss of life. Autorities said 12 persons were killed and 100 injured, 16 of them so seriously they x-J x u were not expeciea , io uve. Many were ranchers and their wives and children who lived in ranch houses near the scene. ; : Seen 60 Miles Away Firemen brought the flames under control at 4 a.m., after they blazed so high through the night they could be seen 60 miles away;' Authorities of Pemex, the nationalized petroleum com pany, said the leak from the pipeline spread crude ou over a huge area. It went up in stantly when a spark caused gas to explode, they reported. WEATHER FORECAST: Partly cloudy to night and Friday. Warmer Fri day. Low tonight 50. High Fri day 90. Outlook Saturday fair and warm. Temp. Highest Yesterday 90 Lowest this Morning 51 Our Skies Jonight Sunset today - :52 p.m. Sunrise tomorrow 4:39 a.m. Moonrise tomorrow .. 3:04 a.m. New Moon -. .'. J!y 5 PROMINENT CONSTELLATION Cassiopeia, in the north east at midnight. , VISIBLE PLANETS Venus, sets 9:5 P-m- Saturn, due south ....11.43 p.m. Jupiter, low in south west : ...11:52 p.m. ' ' ' : ' counting on is that Sen. Wayne Morse will nof be on the ballot for favorite son. Morse himself pooh-poohs the idea of his contending for fa vorite son, now that the Ore gon Democratic forces are divided due to the feud be tween Morse and Sen. Rich ard L. Neuberger. But the current issue of the Oregon Democrat newspaper, whose editor is partial to Morse, says the senator's supporters are likely to place him on the ballot by petition. If Morse gets into it, the Kennedy and Humphrey Ju business properties. The project contract was awarded by the city council in April to Tru-Mix Concrete company for a sum of $25,254.85. Many Activities Planned for July A Throughout Valley Many opportunities for Fourth of July- celebration and recreation will be avail able to southern Oregon resi dents this week end. An all-day Centennial cele bration at Eagle Point will begin with a hotcake break fast from 5:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. in the city park. An antique show, tours through Putman's flour mill, beard contest, "saloon booth and carnival attractions will continue throughout the day. ' Coronation of. the queen will be at 12 noon; horseshoe contest, 11 a.m.; parade, 1 p.m.; horse show, 1:30 p.m.; softball game, 2:30 p.m.; and barbecue dinner at the Grange park from 3 to 8 p.m. Members of the Eagle Point and Central Point Junior Chambers of Commerce will compete in a tug of war across Little Butte creek Saturday afternoon. Ashland activities will begin with a 10 a.m. parade fol lowed by a city band concert in Lithia park.! A carnival sponsored by the Ashland Lions club will be held in the park at 5 p.m. Weldonian Band The 200-piece Weldonian band from Oakland, Calif., will give a concert at 1:30 p.m. in the park. The group, composed of youngsters from pre-school through teen-age, will include John Ray Chap man, nine-year-old trombonist who was born in Ashland Ashland Jaycees will hold Budget Hearing to Head Council Meet A public hearing on Med- ford's proposed 1959-60 mu nicipal budget, heads the agen da for tonight's city council meeting at 7:30 o'clock at city hall. The budget proposes a gen eral fund tax levy of $352,846 and a total tax levy of $871,- 394. City officials anticipate that the over-all assessed value of property in the city will be sufficiently higher this year to accommodate the levy increases without resort to raising millage rates. Since the proposed levy is within the statutory 6 per cent increase limit, a citywide plpption has not been re- auired. Other public hearings slated for tonight concern an alley vacation and a change of zone from single and two family residential to limited commer cial, both requested for the B and G business properties on East Jackson st. between Hawthorne ave. and Genessee st. forces feel thiswill r.uin any national significance the out come might otherwise have. They would, by virtue of po litical custom, have to defer to the local favorite son candi date and not contest his priv ilege of wish to represent Ore gon at the convention. The Humphrey people, par ticularly, prefer to think in terms of Humphrey being matched against the less lib eral or more moderate con tenders, Kennedy, Stuart Symington and Lyndon B. Johnson, in Oregon. They feel a tireworKs display at a:u p.m. at Southern Oregon col lege stadium. Selections by the Weldonian. band and Shakespearean dancers and appearance'of the Old Timers Car club will precede the dis play. Dances Ashland Elks lodge will have a dance and a public square dance is scheduled at Britt Memorial hall in the evening. A street dance will be held on Eagle Point Main st. from 8 to 12 p.m. Oregon Gold Gulch, a psuedo frontier mining town, will hold its grand opening July 4. The little community, on Hidden Valley ranch property off Highway 99 northwest of Central Point, will be open to visitors from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. daily. Moon Mountain Indian dancers will perform and the Quick Draw club will have a "shoot out" each 30 minutes during the day. A gold pan ning contest also will be held. A wooden walk has been constructed into a quartz mine where a vein of gold can be seen, according to owner LaRue Morris. Boat Patrol , One of the precautions county law enforcement agencies plan for the holiday is a boat patrol at water recre ation spots Pamphlets containing water safety regulations will be issued by sheriff's deputies when they give warning to boaters on valley waters. The Medford Safety council has agreed to post bulletins at all boat landings. The fireworks display which has been held in Medford the past three years will not be held this year. Kozlov Says Come To End Washington (UPD Soviet First Deputy Premier Frol R. Kozlov said today "tiie time has come to abolish once and for all the suspicion and dis trust" between the United States and Russia. "The destiny of peace de pends to no small extent on relations between the Soviet Union and the United States," Kozlov said in an address at a luncheon meeting of the Na tional Press Club and the Overseas Writers. Grounds for Trust The 50-year-old Soviet En gineer,' considered a likely successor to Premier Nikita Khrushchev, said Russian leaders and the Soviet people "believe there are grounds on which to build relations of trust." this will go well for the Min nesota senator if Morse, Ste venson and Gov. G. Mennan Williams of Michigan stay out -but that if any of these men are entered, the liberal vote in Oregon will be splintered. The Kennedy people are quite confident their man can take the honors in Oregon. They are anxious to have Ken nedy show his strength against Lyndon Johnson and Syming ton, who they are sure won't file affidavites of no candi dacy. Adlai's entry would change this picture completely. Ml TennesseeDispute Threatens Layoff For 25,000 Men Shipments To Mills Halted New York-(CPD-A strike of steel union crewmen halted Great Lakes iron ore ship ments to some of the nation's largest steel mills today and shut down a million - ton - a -week mining operation de spite union orders to continue work during a two-week con tract extension. Another 25,000 steelwork- ers were threatened with lay off in a Tennessee Coal and Iron Co. dispute with a small railroad union which refused to accept the two-week truce agreed to by the United Steel workers of America. Two Strikes Ended Two Pennsylvania steel walkouts were ended Wed nesday night after delaying the resumption of contract talks here between four-man teams representing the union and the nation's 12 major steel producers. Negotiations finally met for two hours Wednesday afternoon but made no public report on their talks. Bargaining was scheduled to resume this morning. Th ore shutdown was caus ed fcy the walkout of members of the USWs Local 5000, who man the Great Lakes ore ships. The local's negotiating committee was said to have refused unanimously to ac cede to the truce agreement Closes Largest Mia The tie-up affecting more that 100 ships caused United States Steel Corp. to close down mining operations in the Minnesota Mesabi Range, in cluding its Hibbing, Minn mine, which is the largest in the nation. An estimated 4,000 miners were told not to report back until Monday and the com pany said there would be no work for them then if the ore boats were still tied up. Inland Steel Company said it would keep its mining oper ations going, stockpiling the ore, for the time being. At Cleveland, 2,900 work ers remained off their jobs at a Republic Steel Corp. plant pending a vote sched uled for this afternoon on the back-to-work order of USW President David J. McDonald. They and about 21,000 workers at Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp.'s Aliquippa, Pa., plant and U.S. Steel's Fair less Works at Morrisville, Pa., had set up picket lines at the original strike deadline, Tues day midnight, in defiance of the truce proposed by Presi dent Eisenhower and agreed to by union and industry of ficials. ' . The Dalles (UPD New ad ministrator of the Oregon Wheat Commission is Clancy Jean of Pendleton. Time Has Suspicions To the Russian people, who have seen their land devastat ed by conflict, "there is no other word as hateful as war, Kozlov said. He spoke of Soviet-American relations as the "focal point" of international de velopments. He said world peace depended upon good re lations between the two coun tries. Ike Meets With Council President Eisenhower, who conferred with Kozlov Wednesday, meanwhile met with his National Security council, presumably to dis cuss Russia's stand on Berlin and report what Kozlov had to say. Kozlov flies to the West Coast Friday to continue his two-week U. S. tour. THE REV. R. W. HURN Minister Htie Fire Year projects. He has served as vice Fairbanks, Alaska. View district. .
