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Subscribers Recommended The training of smokejumpers by the U. S. foreit service at the Sikiyou base near Cave June tion is explained in a story in today's Mail Tribune. The story, which appears on page 12, tells of the variety of training; re quired before men qualify in the program. Price 10 Cents To report improper or non delivery of the Mail Tribune in Medford phone SP 2-6141. Ash land MU 2-1021, Yreka VI 2-407T before 6:45 pjn. daily and 1230 pjn. Sunday. If regular delivery arrives shortly after you call please notify office thus eliminating special messenger service. 1 ma U N L , United Press International Full Leased Wira United Press International Full Leased Wire 48 PAGES MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, JULY 5, 1959 No. 91 54th Year 1 f T T Gov. -Long Asks PeopI .to. Judge Hio'Ueiitar State Eunice, La. - (UPD Gov, Earl Long, who hai been in and out of three mental wards since May 30, opened a. cam' paign for re-election yesterday by inviting an estimated 4,000 persons to look him in the eye and judge for themselves whether he is "nuts." "And if I'm nuts, I've been nuts all my life,' 'he said. Long, 63, opened his cam paign to become governor a fourth time against the advice Local Fire Chief Says Delay Aided Blaze in Pentagon Washington-(UPD-The blaze in the "fire-proof" Pentagon Is out officially, but the entire embarrassing affair was ; re kindled yesterday with charges that defense officials dilly-dallied before calling in fire-fighting reinforcements. Arlington, Va., Fire Chief Joseph H. Clements complain ed bitterly of a delay of up to 34 minutes between the time the fire was discovered and the call that brought his forces into action Thursday. Clements' version was dis puted by at least one govern ment official. Estimate Down At the same time, Air Force officials revised . their estim ates of fire losses sharply downward. They said . the blaze, which first was be lieved to havt caused $30 mil lion damage, actually may have destroyed only . $8 mil lion dollars of electronic com puters, magnetic tapes and as sorted equipment. Structural damage in the burned-out super-secret Air Force hide-away in the build ing's basement was estim ated at no more than $200, 000. Clearly Put Out Clements clearly was put out about what he considered the undue delay in calling his department. He said the Pen tagon fire-fighting forces in attempting to put out the fire unaided had permitted the five-alarm blaze to make headway. Even then, he said, when his firemen reached the scene, "a guard had my boys hook their hoses to a standpipe lo cated a full half-mile from the site of the fire." This, de spite a prior agreement that a guard who knows the pre cise location of any fire to which his department is sum moned would be on hand to direct firemen. Capt. C. R. Byers of the Ft. Myer fire-fighting force dis puted ''Clements' version. He said the gong alarm was re ceived simultaneously at his post, and that as soon as he arrived and saw what the sit uation was he instructed the guard force to tell the GSA Control Center in Washington to send in Arlington. Algerian Rebels Ambush, Slay 25 Algiers- (UPD -Twenty-five French soldiers were killed Friday night in a rebel am bush near the village of Littre, about 75 miles south west of here, the Army an nounced yesterday. The dead included seven Europeans and 18 Moslem auxiliary troops. The ambush climaxed sev eral weeks of intensified rebel activity, much of it directed against Moslem farmers in Vi. aroa of the ambush. WEATHER FORECAST. Partly cloudy Sun dav and Monday. Cooler. High Snndav 80. Sunday nlfht 4S. High Monday 75. Temp. Highest Saturday ; 1 88 Lowest Saturday 45 Our Skies Tonight 7?S2 n m Sunrise tomorrow New moon today PROMINENT STAR . 4:41 a.m. . co p.m. . 9:43 run. Regulus, seis Venns. now directly to the right of Regulus. wUl pass in front of that star Tuesday morning. Jupiter, due south 8:39 p.m. Saturn, due south 11:38 pjn. of six New Orleans physi cians. They were concerned more with his weak heart than with the state of his mind. Nevertheless, Long hit a campaign trail that included Ville Plate, Eunice, Cameron and Lake Arthur, in south west Louisiana's Cajun coun ty. He planned to visit a bath ing beauty contest last night in Lake Providence, diagonal ly across the state. But not to speak, lest he disqualify the winner from entering the "Miss America contest" on the ground that she was selected at a political gathering. Weak, Poor Appetite Long confessed that he is weak and has a poor appetite, but he appeared to gather strength after a first, five- minute speech at Ville Platte and got up to speak a second time. "The governor is tired. Lis ten to him closely; give him that courtesy," Curt Seigelin, director of the state depart ment of commerce and indus try, said as he introduced Long at Ville Platte. I m making no deals, no trades," Long said. "I want to be governor on the up and up and I don't want to be gover nor if I can't. I want to help the poor man and I want to help the rich man if he'll be have himself. 'Good He Can Do' "Uncle Earl is running for the good he can do for the state. I'm the best friend the colored man ever had. I'm go ing to turn you back over to Mr. Seigelin, because I'm talk ing against the advice of my doctors. "I'm going to take a vaca tion next week." ; . (A reliable informant said Long is going to Arizona, probably Tucson, and expeots to be away from Louisiana three weeks.) , " Long had trouble with his false teeth, which were slip ping. They became complete ly dislodged while he was de nouncing State Auditor Wil liam Dodd,. who also will run for governor, and he had to clap a hand over his mouth and shove them back mto place. w - Red Deputy Premier A Man of Many Hats San Francisco - (DPD - Soviet First Deputy Premier Frol R. Kozlov yesterday tasted the pleasures of a capitalist Fourth of July week end in sunny California. - First event was a sightsee ing cruise on San Francisco bay aboard the luxurious yacht Adventuress owned by Dan London, managing direc tor of the St. Francis hotel. Weather was perfect. The bay, often fog-covered at this season, rippled under warm sunshine and a light breeze. Kozlov again wore a hat ap propriate to the occasion. He borrowed L o n d o n's white yachting cap while taking a turn at the wheel of the Ad venturess. Friday he wore a 10-gallon cowboy straw hat presented by Gov. Edmund G. Brown in sweltering Sacra mento. Earlier in the tour, while visiting a toy factory, he was photographed in a crash helmet. Politics' apparently were forgotten as the Russians gazed at the usual tourist at-tractions-the federal peniten tiary on Alcatraz island, the San Francisco skyline and the Golden Gate and San Francisco-Oakland bay bridges. For Hunch the Russians went 30 miles down the San Francisco-San Mateo county peninsula in a parade - of Cadillacs for a barbecue at the home of Cyril Magnin, San Francisco merchant, in swank Hillsborough. Magnin, who also is chair man of the San Francisco Port Authority, presided over a Nixon Says Nikita -Undermines fCozov : Los Angeles - (UPD - Vice President Richard M. Nixon said yesterday Russian Prem ier Khrushchev was "pulling the rug out from under" Dep uty Frol R. Kozlov even as the, No. 3 Soviet leader called for world peace. Leveled-Off Toll In Highway Deaths Brings New Hope Safety Officials Are Encouraged By United Press International The nation's July 4th high way death toll spurted rapidly at mid-morning Saturday, then appeared to level off. The national safety council said the pre-dark decrease was "encouraging." Earlier, the council warned that' unless all precautions were taken, this 49-star July 4th could become the most disastrous Independence Day two-day week end in history. The council had predicted 350 would die. In record 1953, the death toll reached 271. A late evening United Press International count showed that at least 122 had died on the nation's highways since the holiday began at 6 p.m. local time Friday. In addition, there were at least 49 drown ings, and 16 persons died in other accidents for an over all total of 187. New York and Pennsyl vania each had 10 roadway fatalities, while Illinois had eight, Texas six and Georgia five. "We are somewhat encour aged by the slow way in which the toll is rising," a safety council ' spokesman said. "We had expected a larger figure. Our only hope is that motorists will remem ber to have fun on the fourth-but be alive on the fifth." , Radio stations at Memphis Tenn., and Troy, Ala., offered to pay the funeral expenses of anyone killed while driv ing either drunk or reckless ly during the holiday week end. All that was needed was for the driver to sign up with the stations in advance of his trip saying he would like this offer. At Memphis, 10 per sons, signed up.. At xroy, .one did. . . - I The worst single accident of the holiday, however, only indirectly, affected cars. At Muskegon, Mich., a Lake Mi chigan car ferry collided with a 24-foot private cabin cruiser out for a moonlight spin. Killed were six of the eight persons aboard the yacht, which had just left the" Mus kegan Yacht Club for a brief ride in the channel.; The car ferry only suffered scratched paint. barbecue featuring filet steak and corn on the cob. A varie ty of liquors was available including vodka. A string quartet played Russian music. Friday night Kozlov had dinner at the Pacific Union club, a stronghold of conserv atism. Menu of the ' hour dinner included caviar, turtle soup and salmon, with a main course of lamb. Kozlov reiterated his ap peals for co-existence and world peace. He said there should be more trade between the United States and Russia. In Sacramento Friday Gov ernor Brown, a Catholic, showed Kozlov a newspaper headline, "Pope Calls for Peace." Kozlov commented: "Well even support the Pope if he's for peace." "Ah, Ye We Have Many Things in Common" NEW FLAGS-Members of the Junior Cham ber of Commerce in Medford early Satur day morning placed new 49 star United States flags in front of 29 downtown busi nesses. Distributing the latest in flag fash ions are (left to right) Al Carpenter, C. C. Mew Dm (Guam, WashUngton-OIFD-The maid en 49-star flag of the United States was unfurled with col orful pageantry yesterday to wave o'er the land from Guam to the heart of Man hattan. At precisely 12:01 a.m., the spanking new banner with the star of the 49th state, Alaska, New Proceedings For Mrs. McCurdy To Start Next Week Grants Pass (UPD - Arrange ments will begin July 13 for another mental hearing for Frances McCurdy, who has spent 10 years in the Ore gon State hospital, it was de cided in Josephine county cir cuit courl; Friday. Mrs. McCurdy was indicted in 1948 for the murder of her son Paul, but was adjudged insane and never tried. The Friday ruling is in accord with a court -order that she would be returned to the juris diction of the court when re leased from the hospital. Circuit Court Judge Ed ward C. Kelly of Medford pre viously stated that he had re ceived no official word from the properly constituted au thority at the Oregon State hospital saying Mrs. McCurdy was able to understand pro ceedings against her and as sist in her own defense. In court Friday Judge Kelly said he had received a letter from Dr. D. K. Brooks that in Brooks' opinion she was re covered sufficiently to assist in her own defense and un derstand the case against her. Two separate indictments filed against her by the grand jury in May for the murders of her son Paul and daughter Pamela have been quashed and the 1948 indictment still stands. 49-Star (Flag Aflaska, Manhattan was hoisted to the top of a flagpole on the west front of the national's Capitol over looking Washington monu ment. ' ' At the same moment stars and stripes unfurled in the dawn's early light at Fort Mc- Henry, Md., birth-place of the national anthem. Fireworks simulating "bombs bursting in air" pro vided a claring backdrop to the historic Fort McHenry ceremony where Francis Scott Key 145 years ago started writing the "Star Spangled Banner" (which did not of ficially become the national anthem until 1933). The 809th Engineer Batta lion at the Island of Guam claimed the honor of raising the first 49-star banner, hoist ing it at 6:15. ajn. Guam day light saving time. Meanwhile, back on the Capitol roof, an eight-man builiding guard raised and lowered 1,072 new flags to be given away as souenirs to congressmen's const ituents who requested 49-star banners Nuclear Detection Accord Disclosed . Geneva-flJPD-U. S., Russian and British scientists have reached agreement in princi ple on ways of detecting high altitude nuclear explosions, informed sources said yester day. The sources said the sci entists, meeting secretly here since ' June 22, probably would have their report com pleted and give it to the three power nuclear test ban con ference tomorrow. BULLETIN Memorial Stadium, Camp White - Ellen Callaghan homered with two out in the bottom of the seventh inning to " give the Rogue Valley Dairy Maids a 4 to 3 decision over the Vancou ver, B. C, South Hill Queens in the Northwest Women's Major Softball league here last night. Membership, For Shakespeare Fete Setting Record Membership ticket sales to the Oregon Shakespearean Festival are selling 23.2 per cent ahead of last year, festi val officials report. Individual ticket reserva tions, meanwhile, reportedly have soared to 62.8 per cent over the 1958 total for the same period. The theater's new stage and the influx of Centennial visi tors are considered major reasons- for the unprecedented gains. Although the festival has continued to attract in creasing audiences since, its 1935 inception, all-time highs are expected this: season. Work on the new $275,000 theater is nearing completion. The production company, ainet U assembled June 11, McKibben, and W. Wf Nelson. Also assist ing with the placing of flags was Kenn Knackstedt. The project was started re cently by the Jaycees to promote displaying the United States flag on holidays. (Knack stedt photo.) tlnifurDed flown over the Capitol on the Fourth of July. , From Shemya in the Aleu tians to Point Barrow 3,000 miles away in the far north, Alaskans proudly raised the 49-star flag yesterday to cele brate their first Fourth of July as a state Permanent residents and swarms of would-be residents and tourists joined in noisy celebration.; The biggest state in the union found itself al most on a standing room on ly basis in some areas. Chinese Down Five Red Jets ' Taipei-(DPD - Badly-outnumbered Nationalist Sabrejets shot down five Communist MIGs Saturday in the first Formosa Strait aerial battle since last October, the Nation alist Air Force announced. No Nationalist planes were re ported lost. An Air Force spokesman said that ack-ack ground crews on Matsu island also re ported the destruction of a strafing MIG but that it was not immediately possible to determine if this was a sixth kill or a hit made simultane ously on one of the five MIGs downed by air fire. The spokesman said four Nationalist F-86's on a rou tine patrol encountered 12 Soviet-built MIG-17's south of the Matsu island group at 8:25 a.m. (3:25 p.m. Saturday EDT). The Red jets opened fire first, the spokesman said. Informed sources said the Nationalist Sabrejets did not use deadly Sidewinder mis siles in ' making their MIG kills during the 10 minute air battle about four miles off the Matsus. During last year's Quemoy fighting, from August to Octo ber, the Nationalists claimed destruction of 31 MIGs against a loss of only one Nationalist Sabre jet. The last previous Formosa strait dogfight occur red Oct. 10. Individual Ticket Sales has been sharing the theater with construction crews. Workers have been on a 6 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. shift, with rehearsals and technical prep arations from 2:30 p.m. on. Success of the group's inter national fund raising cam paign has made possible a completely new theater and extensive revamping in the audience bowl area. The light towers have been removed, the rear seat rows have been elevated, and new stadium seats are being installed in all price ranges. . The Tudor Fair area has had new landscaping, new serving booths and a coffee patio. The dancers this year will perform on an elevated platform. n ltd Thiree FroorSs Saffe, Sane fourth Reported ddii County Jackson county's July Fourth celebration generally seemed a safe and sane one as of last night, according to reports from area law enforce ment offices. State police reported one non-injury accident in Talent. In spite of large numbers of people swimming and boating on lakes and on the Rogue riv er Saturday, only one minor mishap was reported. Sheriff's Deputy Veryl Van oose said a home-made boat loaded with too many people and pulling a water skier tipped over on Emigrant res ervoir Saturday afternoon. Two adults and a 19-months-old baby were spilled into the water. Vanoose, on boat patrol there, quickly fished everyone out. The deputy noted that the life-preserver type seat cush ions were all in the bow of the boat and only one could be reached by the capsized party. He cautioned all boat ing and water-skiing enthusi- 21 Cars Involved In SP Derailment Friday at Worden Klamath Falls-OJPD-Twenty- one cars of a northbound Southern Pacific freight train derailed on the main line at Worden, about 15 miles south west of here Friday night. There were no injuries. About 500 feet of track was torn up. The derailed cars were part of a 100-car freight. They jumped the track as the train was passing the Tulana farm grain elevators about 8 p.m. A preliminary investigation led to the belief that a hot journal box might have caus ed the wreck. Portions of one wheel were found, with con siderable damage to an axle, leading to the speculation. The freight pulled both loaded and empty cars. Some of the loaded cars which tumbled from the track con tained cement and other building supplies. Two cars, derailed but upright, carried truck trailers. Rail traffic resumed at 8:30 a.m. yesterday on a tem porary spur line around the wreckage. A special crew con structed the sepur, using por tions of the existing track. The northbound Cascade from San Francisco and the southbound streamliner from Portland were both delayed. But an SP spokesman . said the Shasta Daylight coach was expected to be on time. Damage Estimate The spokesman said it might be several days before an estimate of damage could be made. The last big Southern Pa cific derailment was on March 15, 1958, when the Cascade, carrying 19 7 passengers, jumped the track near the summit of the Cascade moun tain range. There were no deaths but many were in jured. Oregon foods will be fea the The tured at the Feast of Tribe of Will July 28. traditional opening night ban quet is scheduled for 6 p.m. in Lithia park, adjacent to the theater. At 8:30 p.m. the sea son will open with the pre miere performance of the original "Masque of the New World," followed immediately by "Twelfth Night." The other three plays which will rotate with "Twelfth Night" throughout the season include "King John," "Meas ure for Measure," and "An tony and Cleopatra." Banquet tickets will be available until July 15. Tick ets to the plays are available at 28 branch box offices in Oregon and California. CP Ad mice asts to have life-preservers on or within easy reach. Sheriff Joe Walsh also warned against discarding bottles in water recreation areas. Broken glass is one of the biggest problems on Emigrant reservoir, ne said. I Fourth of July activities started with 600. persons at tending a hotcake breakfast at Eagle Pomt starting at -5:30 a.m. in the city park there. This was followed m Ash land by a parade at 10:30 a.m. watched by an estimated 3,000 to 4,000 persons. The Weldon ian drum majorettes in bright blue spangled uniforms high stepped to the blare of band music played by the 200-piece Weldonian band from Oak land, Calif. Other units includ ed a covered wagon float by the Ashland Garden clubs made of millions of white flowers, a huge Oregon Cen tennial birthday cake with tall candles, numerous horses, a covered wagon from the Jack son county 4-H wagon trek to Corvallis. a surrey "witn fringe on top,"Keltie band, Ashland high school band, brightly - colored balloon-bedecked float, a string of "Old Timer" cars, and children rid ing and marching as pioneers or Indians. Eagle Point had many of the same units in their parade at 1 p.m.. Saturday. A crown ing of Queen Norma Noble preceded the parade. Bright ening the parade were i number of garden club flow er floats. The Medford 40 et 8 locomotive led the parade followed by Rogue River's giant rooster on a float. The old-fashioned Eagle Point Fourth of July celebra tion included a horseshoe contest, horse show and a softball game, also. The dinner at the Eagle Point Grange park ran out of food, it was reported. Main fare was barbecued beef, mashed potatoes, French bread and coffee or milk. ' Evening events in the coun ty included a street dance at Eagle Point and a fireworks display in Ashland, following a band concert in Lithia park by the Weldonian band in the afternoon. A big event in the county, also, was the five-day convenr tion of the Northwest Sun bathing association which ex tended over the week end. The annual event is being held in the Trail area. Be sides numerous people from Jackson county, the conven tion included representatives from other parts of the state, Washington, Idaho and Mon tana. Dog Pack Kills Missouri Child Novinger, Mo.-TOPB-A group of vicious dogs, believed pets of an elderly neighbor wom an, chewed a youngster to death yesterday, the state's second child killing by dog packs in a brush-grown alley way in this partly-deserted mining town. On 'May 23, a pack of wild dogs killed Mark D. Draper, also 2, in an area only 75 yards " behind his home in suburban St. Louis county. Police believed Kevin was struck by the dogs Friday night. He died after dawn in a Kirksville, Mo., hospital. Adair county sheriff Olin E. Johnson said there were no witnesses to the attack but it was "evident he was badly torn by dogs." Johnson said the dogs ap parently involved were a group of four kept as pets by an elderly woman who owned the place where the Shockeys lived. Johnson said that .since there were no witnesses, iden tify of the dogs was "a mat ter of presumption based mostly on location of the at tack." Novinger, the sheriff said, has no dog licensing proce dure and no provision for picking up strays. But Nearby Town Apparently Safe From Destruction Flames Believed Started by Camper Sierraville, Calif.-flJPD-The forest fire near the mountain town of Loyalton was on the loose on three fronts again last night after sharp eve ning winds rose to 20 to 30 miles per hour. Forest service officials said that although the firefighters lost some of their gains, they were not discouraged. The fire, believed to have been started by a careless camper, was threatening Loyalton homes earlier. But it appear ed that the town has been saved. Authorities last night be lieved their real gains would be made this morning. Fire dispatcher John Big- ley of Sierraville said 1,467 men and six planes were on the fire line. "It's a mighty expensive campfire," he said, "but it's 85 per cent controlled and he expect to have it controlled this evening if the wind doesn't come up like it did last night." There was still some dan ger .to the 1,000 residents of Loyalton but the fire was two miles away. Unless the wind increases, Bigley said, the home owners were expected to be able to cope with fly ing embers. The fire was believed start ed by a careless camper. It had burned about 10,000 acres of timber land and damaged the watershed. Planes were dumping bor ate on the fire. They includ ed four converted Navy tor pedo planes from Stead Air Force base in Nevada, about eight minutes flying time from the fire. Bigley, who had spent. two nearly sleepless nights quar terbacking the battle against the fire, said it covered an area of 70 square miles, al though some of the area in cluded green i mountain val leys that were not actually on fire. Firefighters Included . in mates from San Quentin and Soledad State Prisons and air men from Stead AFB. Bigley reported that Loyal ton was about two miles from the nearest finger of fire (the blaze burned like a giant oc topus with fingers of fire stretching from the center) and appeared to endangered only from flying embers. He said the community's 1,000 residents could be evac uated if the need came but they appeared to be in no im minent danger. The fire surrounded Camp bell Hot Springs on every side but rangers said the resort was in no apparent danger. No homes lay in the path of the fire. Bigley, who made the origi nal report that 30 Girl Scouts had been evacuated from a Marin County (Calif.) camp ii the area, said this report prov ed untrue. During Thursday night, he received a report that the girls were in the camp and ordered their evacuation. But he dis covered last night that the youngsters were not due at the camp until July 13. Oregon City Man Dies in Auto Crash Oregon City (UPD One person was killed and three youths injured in a one-car crash on Leland road seven miles south of here yesterday. The victim was Gary San chez, 22, of Oregon City. In jured were Jack Joyner, 19, of Jennings Lodge; Larry Mo Comas, 18, address not known, and Jerry Blackman 15, of Wallowa. The Clackamas county sher iffs office said the converti ble, apparently driven by Mc Comas, careened into v small canyon and bunt into Came.
