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In the Day's Hews ly FRANK JENKINS Louisiana's spectacular (to ay the least) Governor Earl Long is apparently "planning to resign, let somebody suc ceed him, then RUN AGAIN thus getting around the Lou- isiana law that forbids CON SECUTIVE multiple terms. A thought: IT LOUISIANA REACHES THE POINT WHERE SHE HAS ONLY ONE MAN FIT TO SERVE AS HER GOVER NOR, SHE WILL BE IN A BAD FIX. TUMFING from politics to V the economic state of our nation i The dispatches tell us that business groups, with qualified support from the administra tion, plan to open a drive in congress for a tax relief pro gram designed to SPUR PRIV ATE U. S. INVESTMENT ABROAD. v In three days of hearings by the , house of representa tives ways; and means com mittee, this group, will back a bill to postpone income taxes on earnings from over seas .investments as long as these earnings are reinvested abroad. HMMMMMMM. ! American private invest ments' abroad are admittedly better than manna-from-heav-en money showered down in discriminately in the form of foreign aid. But . Our BIG need it to keep conditions at home such that U.S: industry won't be driven to the need to build industrial plants ABROAD in order to meet the competition of for eign producers whose costs are lower. Viscount Airliner Claimed Flying Low Prior To Disaster .BEDS FREE PRISONERS m " I Tokyo (DPD Communist rjAAAl .UvMlwM M a UAMlFhAllVlHfl I China has released 12 Nation ULULU V9UUU X 1UXVUL1 O 1U1 lJJllJ U.1JLIAO WHAT would amount to EX PORTING JOBS. We need to export THINGS. If we re forced to start ex porting jobs in order to stay in business, ' our industrial goose will be cooked. CHICAGO goes all out to greet Queen Elizabeth II with "a spic-an'-span, spit-an'- polish cleanliness and tidiness. The dispatches tell us: It's doubtful that there was a speck of trash along any of the miles of streets the Queen - travelled; and even the pig eons on State Street seemed to have flown in from a bird bath. Forty horses of a Medinah Shrine troop that escorted her . majesty and Prince Philip on one leg of their procession were washed down in water and alcohol to eliminate of fensive odors . . . Cleanup crews, fitted out in fresh work clothes, were assigned to fol low the mounted procession - and scour the streets. Baltimore, Md.-BPB-A Civil Aeronautics board was told today that a Capital Airlines Viscount that disintegrated over Chase, Md., May 12 was flying at least 8,000 feet be low its assigned altitude.' Eyewitness accounts intro-. duced at the first day of pub lic hearing on the crash that killed all 31 aboard general ly agreed that -Disintegration took place at an altitude of about 6,000 feet. -The plane was in level flight just before the catas trophe occurred. Thunderstorm Moving A severe thunderstorm was moving in from the west at the time, but the plane ap parently was not in its center. There was no immediate explanation of " why the Brit ish-built airliner had dropped so far from its assigned alti tude of 14,000 feet. The CAB will question expert witnesses later ' on whether the plane couia nave been caugnt in a freak' downdraf t. Exhaustive chemical and metallurgical tests on 4 the wreckage already have elimi nated many theories about the cause of the crash. The preliminary evidence shows the airliner was not hit by lightning, did not explode, did not have a fire preceding its structural breakup, and was not a victim of sabotage, The CAB will not issue its official findings for weeks or even months. But with light ning, fire, explosion and sabo tage apparently eliminated as factors, abnormal turbulence of near-tornado violence ap peared to be the best based on these known facts: Detour Approved -The pilot of the New York to Atlanta flight 75 had asked fPHE Queen and her consort came down from Canada via Lake Michigan in the royal yacht, the Britannia. Ten workers toiled all day Sunday adjusting a floating landing dock so the Queen wouldn't have to step a frac tion of an inch up or down in debarking from her yacht.' The job cost $8,000. rpHE Windy City's general - cleanup is above reproach. Chicago can stand a little cleaning up and sprucing up. But I can't help thinking that $8,000 expended to keep the Queen from having to step up a quarter of an inch or down a quarter 6f an inch may have been overdoing it "painting the lily," to use an expressive phrase of our Eng lish literature. Queen Elizabeth II is an active, healthy young woman, according to all accounts. It wouldn't have hurt her to step up or down a fraction of an inch in order to save the taxpayers of Chicago some $8,000. x It was different when Sir Walter Raleigh spread his cloak to save Queen Elizabeth I from muddying her pretty shoes. In that case Sir Walter paid the bill and did right forhimself by coming thus into the . spotlight of Eliza beth's attention. for - permission to detour around a vicious-looking thun derstorm. Clearance was then granted. The last radio mes sage from the plane reported that airspeed had been re duced from about 250 to 170 knots because of .turbulence. Standard speed for a Viscount going through a thunderstorm is 170 knots. -Structural failure follow ed almost immediately after that message, apparently starting with the tail, then the left wing, followed by prog ressive disintegration of the entire plane. Five Persons Die As Cars Crash on Wyoming Road Gillette, Wyo.-flJPH-A station wagon carrying a Wisconsin man and his wife and five children collided head-on with a convertible near this north eastern Wyoming town Tues day night', killing all five oc cupants of the convertible. The dead were identified as Richard Kauffman, about 20, of Dix, Neb., Bill Kizzair, about 20, of Kimball, Neb.; David Dean Rohrer, 21, of Dayton, Ohio; Pat Chew, 18, and Wilma Strong, 16, both of Upton, Wyo. r Injured Identified The injured from the sta tion wagon were Charles Ul rich Jr., 31, and his wife, Jane, 31, and their five children-Charles in, 7; Dorothy, 5; Nancy, 4; Mark, 3, and Betsy, 18 months, all of Ke nosha, Wis. They are hospitalized in Campbell County Memorial Hospital in Gillette. Doctors at the hospital said early this morning that Mrs. Ulrich was the only member of the family critically injur ed and that she was in "ex tremely serious condition." Badly Smashed Witnesses at the scene said the 1957 Ford convertible was so badly smashed it was im possible at first to identify its make. , Two occupants of the Ne braska car were thrown into the ditch beside the road and were dead when officers ar rived. . Three others, trapped in the back seat and crushed, died shortly thereafter. The accident occurred about 100 yards east of the Gillette city limits on U.S. Highway 14-16. Tin feilowim, it a condensation of a mot or lot which appeared Mi the Sunday Ortf onian, on of a sarin sponsored an ually br Th Oresonia and the Ore ea Stata Motor Assa. Thcsa travtl arti cles describe vacation trips and vaca tion spots of particular interest to out-of-state visiters comina to Oreaoa for the Centennial Cdebratiea. By VIRGIL SMITH Assistant City Editor, The Oresonian Object: To find where to, go and what to do in case some relatives, yours or mine, com ing to the Centennial should turn out to be rock collectors. After talking with some local collectors, we loaded, pick, hammer, sack and hiking boots into the back of the Oregon State Motor Assn. white sta tion wagon, and set out. You can go in any direction and find pretty rocks, if you know where and how to look. Oregon is full of them. They are on the beach, in. the streams and mountains and on the plains. Of course after they are collected most of them need to be cut and polished to bring' out the real beauty, but that's another story. Our goal was to find them in the rough. Agates Abound We elected to try the Madras and Prineville areas. I read in a book that Oregon's pretty rocks are mostly agates and jaspers and petrified wood. There are more agates than anything. Cut and polished they are translucent, even transparent in thin slices. They look something like colored glass but have a slicker smoother feel and waxy lustre and infinitely varied designs. They are valued and classi fied for design and color, such as moss, eye, polka dot, plume, fortification, red, blue, purple and so on. Permit Costs tt Our first stop wai Priday's Agate Beds. You drive out around lit Hood toward Madras, but just before you get there you turn left on the road to The Dalles. After you go through a pass with red rimrock prominent on both sides, you turn right on a dirt road. A sign points the way. , When we made the trip, there was a car stopped beside the sign with two women making ineffectual efforts at changing . a tire. And were they glad to see the big white AAA on our . car! Skinned my knuckles working the jack. Six miles up the dirt road is a shack with a platform scales -tvmi VMVtmxvrz -yr-yz,Iry-elfvC7i sillf if miim Lsvdr ''Sun j..ir ft i J - --V-". ' " '-.N-iUJl Rockhounds, members of the Tualatin Valley Gem Society, look for agates ia aa outcrop ping beside a forest road a few miles eat of Prineville. Oregoniaa-Oregoa State Motor Ana. ear accompanied Tualatin Valley group oa this organised quest for hidden reek treasure. in a few minutes if you are 1 ing location and how to reach content to take the rejects of these and other fruitful areas. previous diggers, ur you can and just beyond are the dig gings. P r i d a y's is commercial. Costs you three dollars to dig. For that you can take out 30 pounds. There are agates and petri fied wood to be found all the way from Mt Hood to Mt. Jef ferson and beyond, and mostly it doesn't cost anything to hunt. Advantage of going to a commercial bed is certainty of finding something, conven ience, help and advice. Herb Vibbert, who has. the mineral concession ' on .14,000 acres, uses dynamite and a bulldozer to strip off the overlay and ex pose the agate-bearing veins. Without this preparation dig ging there would be hard in deed. This area is just a three hour drive from Portland. What you look for is thun dereggs knobby stones, usual ly round, which look like hard ened mud balls. They are un mistakable. The pretty part is inside. Much of the fun is breaking them open with a hammer to see what's inside. No two are alike. The full brilliance of color is not re vealed until the mineral is polished, but collectors get a fair idea by wetting the rough specimen. They lick it If you are not particular you can dig out 30 pounds in less than an hour; get your quota go prospecting, perhaps find a new deposit The agates were originally formed in pockets or bubble holes in rock. They are more resistant to weathering than the surrounding rock. In some places this rock is weathered to sand; in others you need to swing a pick hard to get them out At Prineville the Chamber of Commerce, alert to the mushroom growth of rock col lecting, has taken mineral claims on 280, acres of agate beds to assure their remaining free. Ivan Chappell, chamber secretary, when we were there, was making a map show- both free and commercial, in the Prineville' environs. That map will be all you'll need to find the diggings. We joined a group of veteran rock hounds on a guided hunt We went out the John Day road, turned off left on a dirt road at the Ochoco reservoir. About nine miles up this forest road, past Steins Pillar, a huge finger of stone sticking out from the side of the mountains, is a vein of mineral which literally spills thundereggs on to the road. It is well picked over, but a' few minutes work with pick and shovel at the top of the out crop will uncover more. The yield here is purple. , (PORTLAND . if l WASCO; x a y alist Chinese officers captured on the Fukien front, the new China News Agency reported today. The agency said the 12 were released Monday in ac cordance with Red China's "policy of leniency towards prisoners." It did not say when the Nationalists were captured. MAIL TRIBUNE, Merit!, Or. C Wednesday, July f, 1959 MUSIC CRITIC DIES Tadworth, England IUPD Ernest Newman, 90... one of the music world's most re spected critics, died Tuesday. He was a former music critic of the Sunday Times of London. Belgium's coast line is 40 miles long. WARDS M O H T O m THUBSOAITS KM I I Save 50. on Helanca nylon girdles -w. S)S)c 1.9ft S S i n Choose from two styles wqwIcit of Tummy slmimina Hekwica stretch . itvio out your figure oh-so-nkely. And fU price low! White only. S-M-L Thursday, Mr 9. ear. I 3 EX-TRIAL CHIEF DIES Bethesda, Md. - (DPD - Capt. Abram Claude, U.S.N. (Ret.) 78, former director of the di vision of trials '. and services of the Maritime Administra tion, died Monday after a short illness. GOOD NEIGHBOR POLICY Buffalo, N. Y.-IUPD-Local firefighters were on the job at a general alarm blaze in near by Lackawanna, but Raymond J. Schafer, , 40, decided that Buffalo firemen should also get in the act. His appeal for a neighbor's help got Schafer arrested on a charge of sound ing a false alarm. But the judge dismissed the case on grounds that Schafer didn't mean to commit a criminal act. Lord Rodney, the English admiral who died in 1792, was a captain at the age of 24. - svs TO s " - AND SECURITY His savings are earning money at our Insured Savings and Loan A hot sun ... the day off . . . and nothing to do but enjoy the contentment of loafing on the 1 beach with his grandson. But even as he does, his savings are working for him at our Insured Savings and Loan. Here your money works hard earning' excellent returns, insured up to $10,000 by the Federal Savings and Loan Insur ance Corporation, a government agency. Why not join the millions of families who are getting the most out of their savings the Insured Sav- . ingrf and Loan way? You, too, can find content ment and security when you save with us. UHtY ' 09 YOUR V Nl?HIMJ?) tiw to Current Dividend 3 Per Annum - - - - AH EXTRA DIVIDEND OF tt PER ANNUM WAS PAID ON JUNE 30 FIRST FEDERAL SAVINGS & LOAN ASSOCIATION OF MEDFORD 29 North Ivy Street Robert F. Kyle, Manager State Centennial Exposition Said To Be in 'Black' Portland-flJPD-Oregon's Cen tennial Exposition is operat ing in the black, officials said today. Centennial commission members met Tuesday and1 were informed that the expo sition during its first month of operation made money de spite large capital outlay in opening the show. . A total of $393,000 has been taken in. Outlay has amounted to $334,000, leav ing -a cash balance of $59,000. However, William Gaaren- stroom, Centennial fiscal offi cer, said: "If is too early to forecast with any degree of accuracy the ultimate finan cial condition 'of the exposi tion and International Trade Fair. Ane income for the first three weeks, if maintained for the balance of the 100 days, will be sufficient to meet budgeted expenses. Biggest financial blow to the operation came from the Country America show. It brought in only $7149 in rev enues while costing more than $50,000. On the other hand, the Ice Capades grossed $160,432 while costing $100, 000 plus expenses. Box office evidence that many parents are leaving their children at home has prompted the commission Tuesday to approve admit tance to the grounds free to children 15 years and under accompanied by adults, from July 10 through July 16, the dates the Roy Rogers show will be here. CLUB NEWS Rabbit Club The Valley Experimenters 4-H Rabbit club held a meet ing June 21. We talked about the picnic we had planned. We are going to visit some commercial rabbitries to get an idea of how they operate. A motion was made to have a practice session of judging rabbits each Thursday. Clifton Mitchell, our presi dent, made a detail report on rabbit diseases. Our next regu lar meeting will be July 16. Tony Glidden, Reporter. We Give d&l GREEN STAMPS CENTRAL REXALL DRUG Main and Central 1 GPfilG Now In. Progress Johnston rid Stewart's Of Famous Name Ul im Hundreds of Pairs Reduced! OES DALSON'S TROYLING NATURALIZERS TWEEDIES . o PARADISE PENAUO ADORES WESTPORT The Corner Shoe Store CENTRAL AT MAIN MEDFORD
