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Price 10 Cents MEDFORD United Press International TvSl Leased Win United Press International Full Leased Wire 56 PAGES MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, JULY 19, 1959 No. 103 54th Year 11 i mmmmi mo u jn.js i tv-bs-i i - f ttAA im aw mm mm i i mm mi Caitro's -'Reslgiiatldh lmjgeiii by iabinet Urrutia Replaced As President by Osvaldo Torrado Ministers Make ' Public Appeal Havana -(DPD- Fidel Castro's revolutionary govenufienf cab inet last . night rejected his resignation as premier and left him in supreme command of Cuba after the first major political . crisis of his regime. Announcement of the re jection came waiter cabinet ministers pleaded with the bearded Castro , to withdraw the resignation he tendered Friday in a move that jchased President Manuel ' Urrutia Llea out of office and into seclusion behind armed guards. v In rejecting the resignation the ministers made a public appeal for Castro to continue his official functions. They addressed the- appeal to "the indisputable leader of the revolution," and asked him to continue as the "chief political leader" of the state. Presides at Meeting . The cabinet meeting was presided over by Df. Osvajdo Dorticos Torrado. who re placed Urrutia as president. i: , Urrutia resigned early Sat urday while Castro was on television accusing him of in dulging in near treason for needlessly attacking Commu nism in the Cuban revolution ary movement. He also charged that . Urrutiat once, a close friend of Castro's, bought a big house too soon after the government took power.,' -: Another major complaint was that Urrutia blocked revolutionary legislation that Castro wanted passed quickly. (Dr. Osvaldo Dorticos Tor rado, a longtime member of Castro's 26 July movement and a onetime exile with Cas tro in Mexico,, . assumed the presidency as a loyal"Fidel ista." The country wa-quiet.r-No disturbances were reported Schedules Meetins The cabinet scheduled ' meeting and it was believed Castro's resignation. as prime minister would : be 1 formally withdrawn. ' : Government ministers vow ed loyalty to Castro and de nounced Urrutia. The press. including the. Communist newspaper Hoy, spread the news of Castro's.: victory over .Urrutia. ' '-, . . 1 " The bearded rebel v chief, who ousted 'ex-dictator Ful- gencio Batista Jan. 1, won the battle ia a four-hour radio and TV broadcast Friday night in which he charged that Urru tia had tried to "make a Pearl Harbor" in Cuba. . ' Denies Communism -. - He denied that he was a Communist and he accused Urrutia, a former judge, of de- lavine the revolutionary re forms Castro had proposed Urrutia resigned in the midst of the speech. On ad vice of Raul Castro, Fidel's brother and corrrmander-in- chief of the armed forces, Urrutia and rug iamily re mained at the presidental pal ace overnight." Thirty extra soldiers were assigned to the building. Saturday morning, the Ur rutia family drove off to his brother-in-law's home.. Dor tico moved into the palace ; Castro said he and Urrutia began to split two months ago when, the president bought a private home. . - Welfare to Watch Policy for Aid " Portland (DPD The State Welfare commission Friday announced a major tightening policy in eligibility require ments particularly, in ' $id to dependent children! The commission , said the new policy would mean closer checking on parental respon sibility and on the individual's financial and work resources. Friday's action . came at a regular meeting- of the com mission here and followed closely recommendations of the. welfare department staff as made in a study report, de veloped after action of the 1959 legislature. 'Goodness, She's Practically Showing Her Limbs' e i iiiihiiiiii m Port lander Elected Secretary to State Carpenters George Harm, business agent for the Portland district council of carpenters, was elected executive secretary of the Oregon Council of Car penters Friday afternoon. The three-day convention i ended with the'conclusion of I business" Saturday. Harm won , the executive post over a number of candi dates, : ' including incumbent Ivor T. Jones, Salem. It was the only, contested office. , Robert C a 1 e y, .Roseburg, was elected nrst vice presi dent and Joseph O'Neal, Coos Bay, second vice president. Duncan Speaks . ' . . Robert Duncan,' Medford at torney and speaker 'of the Ore gon House of Representatives, spoke to The convention - Fri day. - He urged the council "to spend some time helping" the labor - management : interim committee appointed !-by the last legislature. "The most pressing need," Duncan declared, "is to set up an election procedure for unions attempting to organize a plant." , . . He asked ?fbr 'a bonafide election where employees can express their desires, and through which results would No Car Shortage Seen This Year - Portland-(DPD-No freight car shortage this year is a forecast of the West Coast Lunrber- man'sassociation.; . Oregon shippers are, report ed to have a surplus of cars in mid-summer to carry their loads. ' ' - , K. C. Batchelder, traffic manager of the Lumberman's association was optimistic, but at the same time, warned the nation's railroads that have been reportedly" retiring freight ars faster than they build them, that such a policy is dangerpus. ' There 'has been a shortage of wide door boxcars, Batch elder said,- but generally speaking, supplies of cars have been ample. 707 Has Landi ng Gear New York -(DPD- An Ameri can Airlines transcontinental jet airliner carrying 120 per sons made a perfect landing on Idlewild International air port's runway 13 Saturday after temporary failure of its landing gear sent a fleet of emergency crash equipment to the. scene. . - The fifth case of landing gear trouble encountered by a Boeing 707 jex ana tne sec ond in eight days brought an immediate demand by a con gressman' for grounding all the huge craft until , they could b t thoroughly re- Council be binding on both manage ment and labor for a specified length of time. Expresses Opposition The legislator, a Democrat, also expressed .extreme oppo sition; t? the : movement to re fer to the voters 'House Bill 670, the income tax bill passed by the last session. He pointed out that it raises $12,000,000 in ' additional -t revenue, , "a goodly portion of which was paid by the ' federal govern ment and all of .- which was necessary to pay for services during the next bienniurri." Duncan explained that if the referral is successful, it would suspend collections un der the new tax, and if the tax commission's estimates of revenue production are accu rate, "Oregon would be oper ating in a deficit for the next twp years." Another Democrat, 1 Fred Manash, executive secretary of the AFL-CIO Portland Building Trades council, prais ed Gov. Mark Hatfield, who was recently, under attack from organized labor for .ve toing a number of bills. Criticise Hatfield Manash declared that some people in the labor field have been criticizing Hatfield "just because he is a Republican." , He, conceded that Hatfield "has done some things wrong," but said "that young fellow made a very good im pression on me and I think we of labor should go to him and let him . know what .our pro gram iS." - Another speaker was Bert Sleeman, international repre sentative and member of the Portland carpenters union, who warned against splitting the union into little closed districts. . . J. D. 1 McDonald, Oregon AFL-CIO president, announc ed that the union has begun a new campaign 'aimed at get ting every Pinion member reg istered to vote. One person in each local is being assigned the job of making sure regis tration is fully effective in his organization. " . One hundred delegates at tended the convention. checked. Vice President Richard M. Nixon is due to fly to Moscow Wednesday on;-one of - the three versions of the 707 bought by the Air Force for use by President Eisenhower and other key officials. .The American airliner, flight No." 2, flying' non-stop from Los Angeles to New York, touched down' at 6:03 p.m. EDT, only eight minutes late, to the cheers of waiting rescue teams and , newsmen. All 10 wheels were in place. "What's all the fuss about?" Capt Byron Warner, of Loi Western Allies Agree to Plan For Commission Would Counter .Russian Demands Geneva - (DPI) - The Western allies have agreed on a plan for a big-four commission on Germany to counter unaccept able Russian demands for a Berlin truce, authoritative sources said last night. , The sources at the big four foreign ministers conference said the plan probably will be presented to Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei A. Gromyko Monday, after the week end recess. ". Secretary of State Christian A. Herter and the British and French foreign ministers agreed on their own plan aft er rejecting a Russian propos al for an alT-German commit tee to discuss reunification ofj Germany. - . . May Pave Way - The West held that the Rus sian plan, giving East Ger many e q u a 1 representation with West Germany, might pave the way for a- commu nist grab of the entire coun try. . , ' Russia has made acceptance of its proposal a condition of a Berlin truce. ; The Western ministers ap proved their own plan : at a private meeting Saturday morning with West German Foreign Minister Heinrich von Brentano present. Western Plan The Western plan would have the commission compos ed of the United States, Bri tain, France and Russia, with the West and East Germans sitting in only as advisors. The Germans could sit as a subcommittee but would haveJ no final say on any decisions. The commission would: lead the way to reunification of divided Germany;' increase East and West German con tacts through trade,, travel and cultural relations; and prepare an all-German peace treaty. Major Western differences of opinion on how to organize the commission were ironed out, the sources said. Klamath Man Drowns at Hyatt Walter Harvey Knapp, 33, of 1145 East st., Klamath Falls, drowned about 7 o'clock Sat urday night while fishing on Hyatt lake with his two sons, according to state police. State police, Sheriff Joe Walsh and deputies were searching the lake for - the man's body Saturday night. According to reports, Knapp was fishing with his two boys, one 11 years old . and? one 8 years old when he fell out of the boat.- He could, not swim, state police learned. 4 ' Queen Said Tired From Traveling Whitehorse, Yukon Terri tory - (DPD - Queen Elizabeth's physician issued a medical re port last nVght saying the 33-year-old royal traveler was run. down physically by the strain of her function-packed trip across Canada. Surgeon Capt. G.. D. D. Steele-Perkins said in the brief bulletin that the queen was "tired but otherwise well." He refused to elaborate. There was no indication whether the physician's report meant that Elizabeth planned to cut short her 45-day ,15,000 mile tour which is scheduled to end Aug. 1. Angeles, pilot of the $5,000, 000 airplane, radioed when he was ordered to delay his land ing a few minutes beyond the scheduled arrival time of 5:55 pin. EDT. Warner was reported by an American Airlines spokesman to be "mad as hell" for all the stir his emergency caused. He was said to have feared another" "Roman holiday" would develop on the ground such as the mob scene that hampered the emergency landing last Saturday of a Pan American World" Airways Boeing 707 that had 'lost two Ld FT Governor Hatfield Orders Sections Open to Permits Federal Closure Noted in Forest . Several sections of the Rogue River National f oresl in southern Oregon and north ern California have been clos ed because of the fire danger, the forest service announced late Friday. v The closuresf directed by Gov. Mark O. Hatfield, are effective immediately, forest service personnel said. Above-90 temperatures dur ing the past 10 days, andtem- peraxures 01 more xnaniuu degrees in the -lower eleva tions the past three days have resulted in high fire danger in the forests. Temperatures are expected to remain warm during the next few days. The only federal closure in the Rogue River National for est is in the Elliott creek sec tion of the Applegate district, the forest service said. Elliott creek extends east and west just south of the California state line in Rogue National forest. Areas Closed Areas closed by Governor Hatfield in the Rogue forest include: . . Applegate district - Baldy, Kinney, Carberry and Yellow- jacket ;areas;' Ashland Ash land canyon area; Klamath district Sevenmile, and Threemile areas; Union Creek district National,' Rabbit- ears, B y b e e, Huckleberry, Woodruff and Ginko areas. The forest service said per mits to enter closed areas may be obtained from the Star Ranger station in the Apple- gate .district; Ashland ranger station in the Ashland dis trict; Sevenmile guard station, Lake of the Woods ranger station and the Klamath Falls ranger station in the Klamath district; and the Union Creek ranger station in the Union Creek district. The closure will remain in effect until Dec. 31, Governor Hatfield said. Prospect Youth Falls Over Clitf Paul Rogers, 17, of Prospect, state forest department crew member, was reported in crit ical condition in Sacred Heart hospital Saturday afternoon following a 70-foot fall over a cliff. . - Rogers was a member of a forest fire fighting crew which was returning from fighting a fire in. the Prospect dump. He apparently stepped on loose rock and fell backwards for 30 feet, hit a ledge then fell another 40 feet, according to reports. The youth was brought out on a stretcher and taken to Sacred Heart hospital by mem bers of the state forestry de partment. Rogers is suffering from head injuries, pulled vertebrae and three or four broken ribs, department per sonnel said. The dump fire was probably caused by someone dumping hot ashes, according to the department. The iire did not spread to timber. - . Trou b I e of its. 10 wheels The New York City fire de partment reported at 5:05 p. m. EDT that a jet airliner had suffered a complete hydraulic breakdown'and might have to make a crash landing. That alarm sent fire en g i n e s, emergency helicop ters, police emergency squads, boats, ambulances and other equipment rushing to the air port. Police acted hastily to shut off the main routes to the airport to all but essential traffic, so jams such as those that clogged the roads last Saturday would not be repeated. HB, Moef 1 ri?" VISITORS WELCOMED -' The 10,000th visitor to register at the Centennial stock ade on Siskiyou summit was Stephan Piskur from Alexandria, Va., who, with his family, arrived in Oregon yesterday to visit rela tives. The family was greeted by County Judge Earl Miller (who is shown above pre senting Piskur with the key to the stock-, ade), Jack Creagqr, president of the Jackson County Centennial association, and Cen- : : - Layoffs in Steel Related Industries Gain Momentum Pittsburgh -(UPD- Mass lay offs in steel-related industries are ..gaining .momentum al though-the "nation's rsteel fur naces have been shut down for only four days. Coal mines, a railroad and a manufacturing company were the latest to lay off workers in the . nationwide strike of the United Steel workers Union. In Uniontown, Pa., the Frick , Coal district of U.S. Steel announced Friday that it will close down five more coal mines in the district be ginning Monday. The Norfolk and Western Railway a major coal hauler, cut 615 men from the work force Friday at its Roanoke, Va., shops because of the steel strike and the conse quent, drop in our traffic vol ume." This layoff followed by three weeks the idling of 237 men because of what was termed the steel situation's uncertainty. The newest lay offs are effective Monday. Sharon Tube Closes " In Sharon, Pa., the Sharon Tube Co., announced that it was closing this week as a result of the strike. More than 170 production workers will lose their jobs temporarily be cause of the equipment-makers' shutdown. And in the Chicago area, 4,000 members of the AFL- CIO Construction Workers Union refused to cross USW picket lines thrown up around plants in the South Chicago Calumet - Gary area, where 90,000 Steelworkers are on strike. A construction" union offi cial said refusal to cross the picket lines, which has halted 200 million dollars worth of construction projects, was not ordered by the .union but is traditionally left to the indi vidual. The - policy of the tradesmen is not to cross picket lines. A dispute within the strike itself resulted Friday at the Columbia - Geneva Steel Di vision of U.S. Steel Corp., near Provo, Utah. Mainten ance crews, kept on the job to keep equipment in good work ing order, were ordered off the job by W. A. Biggs, presi dent of USW Local 2701 in Geneva. He said the crews had been working from 8 a.m. until 4 p.m., but were told by company officials they must now work from 8 a.m. until 4:30 p.m. Lane County Sheriff In. Congressman Race Eugene - (DPD - Lane county Sheriff El Elder said Friday he would be a GOP candidate from the 4th district for U. S. congressman next May. Joe and Thelma' Fowler, were named co-chairmen of his campaign committee. El der, 39, was elected sheriff in 1952. (5 tennial Coordinator Ernie Hood, left above. Among gifts presented to the family were a dinner at Rogue Riviera, a boat trip on the Rogue river and a variety of souvenirs from the Ashland Chamber of Commerce, Bear Creek Orchards, Foster's Pharmacy, ' Jacksonville, and Nina's cafe on Siskiyou summit. The two Piskur .children, Fran, 15, and Steve, 13, are standing behind their father in the picture above. 2,000 See Wagon Train Arrive in Boise Saturday Boise-(UPD-More than 2.000 Boiseans turned out on a hot summer's morning to welcome the On-to-Oregon wagon train into Idaho's capital Saturday. The milling crowd roundly applauded the seven wagons as they rolled up in front of the massive state capitol build ing, and youngsters and old sters alike surged forward to engulf the train when it . stop ped. Led by Wagonmaster Tex Serpa, the cavalcade arrived Festival Ticket Sales Increase Ashland - Ticket sales for the 1959 Oregon Shakespear ean Festival continue to show a remarkable increase over the same period last year, Fes tival officials said Saturday. William Patton, general manager, said , membership sales are now leading last sea son by 19.5 per cent, while individual ticket reservations are holding a 59.8 per cent gaing over the same time last year. Patton suggested that Rogue valley patrons make their res ervations as soon as possible, even though elevation of rear seating rows and the removal of light poles has made every seat a good one both for view ing and hearing. Festival officials said the $17.50 1 membership is the 'best bo office buy." The mem bership entitles the holder to eight transferable $2.40 ad missions. Membership sales close at midnight July 27. The 1959 Festival opens July 28 with the Feast of the Trible ef Will at Lithia park. At 8:30 p.m. that night, "The Maske of the New World," a special Oregon Centennial pro gram, and "Twelth Night," will sart. Other plays sched uled are "King John," "Mea sure for Measure," and "An tony and Cleopatra." The sea son ends Sept. 5. Sports Bulletins Portland - (UPD - Frank Howard and Tommy Davis each belted two home runs here last night to pace the Spokane Indians to a 10 to 6 Pacific Coast League win over Portland. Vancouver. B.C-0!Pn-The last place Seattle Rainiers last night prevented the Vancouver Mounties from moving into sole possession of first rlace in the Pacific Coast - league by defeating Vancouver 5-1 before 5.702 fans. Phoenix. Ariz.-dPD - The Phoenix Giants parlayed six home runs and the five hit pitching of Bud Watkins in to an 18-0 Pacific Coast league win over the San Diege Padres last night. Am Cllsdl in Boise right on the dot-9:45 a.m. . It was led into the city by red-sbirted Ada county sher iffs mounted posse members and police. Although no state dignitaries were on hand to extend a, welcome, the crowd did its share with an enthus iastic cheer as the train came clanking down the street. Boise residents started ar riving an hour early and found respite from the sun by seek ing shady spots on the capitol lawn, but children of all sizes and cameramen crowded around to talk to the travelers Munch on Grass Meanwhile, saddle horses from the train munched plac idly away on the green capitol lawn grass waiting for the train to roll on, having found the first cool spot of the -day. The wagon train remained in Boise a little more than an hour before starting a winding trip to the Earl Coffey ranch on the south side of the Boise river about 12 miles from the city for a week end camp. It was hot for the Centen nial wagon train Friday as the temperature hit 121 de gress at one point, forcing the train to stop frequently to water horses. Overhead, National Guard jet fighters buzzed the train and a special helicopter brought the Boise mayor out to the camp at Black Creek armed with a two-foot long key to the city to give to the train leaders. Independence - (DPD Final plans were being made Satur day for the Aug. 15 arrival of the On-to-Oregon wagon train which is scheduled to cross the border into Oregon Tues day. There are already more than 60 entries in the big parade scheduled for 11 a.m. Aug. 15. Parade chairman Alan Op pliger said there was still a need for more bands and that every type of float would be welcomed. A crowd of 40,000 is ex pected for the Wagon Train Days celebration Aug 14-16. The Polk County Fryer as sociation will have 22 barbe cue pits, operating to chicken dinners. serve WEATHER FORECAST: Continued fair, hot and dry through Sunday; except some afternoon thundershower activity over surrounding moun tains late in the afternoon and early evening. ParUy cloudy Mounday. High Sunday near 100. Low Sunday night near 62. High Monday near 95. TEMP. Highest Saturday 106 Lowest Saturday 65 Our Skies Tonight Sunset today 7:44 p.m. Sunrise tomorrow 4:51 a.m. Moonrise today 7:15 p.m. Full Moon tonight 7:33 p.m. Venus, setting earlier and a bit further south each night, is now only about 47 million miles from the Earth. It will reach it greatest brilliance next Sunday. BBW Mercury Climbs - To 106 Degrees In City Saturday Thundershowers Forecast in Area Little relief from southern Oregon's 100-degree temper-" atures is forecast by the Med ford weather bureau station until tomorrow, the weather bureau reported yesterday. Officials said some thunder storms, which may increase in rumbers over the Cascades later today, may provide some relief, but temperatures . are expected to eo near or moro than 100 degrees for the fourth consecutive day today. Saturday was the third straight day in which the mer cury went over the 100-mark. Thursday, the high was 102. Friday it was 104 and, and yesieraay it was 106. The temperature today is expect ed to be near or more than 100 degrees, the bureau said. L.OW Humidity Low humidity in southern Oregon has ranged from 17 to 22 per cent during the past week, according to the weath er bureau. Late yesterday and earlv last night thunderstorms were reported in Montague, Calif.. moving northeastward into the Klamath Falls area. Thunder heads were visible southeast of Medford, but were not ex pected to approach the valley area, i Lirhning - was visible south of here last night. No forest fires were report ed ia the Rogue valley area yesterday, and the state de partment of forestry said the fire which burned over 2,600 acres of brush and pine lands northeast of Klamath Falls ap peared to be controlled yester day. Temperatures thro ughout the state soared yesterday with The Dalles reporting a high of 106. It was 105 there Friday. Other temperatures at 4 p.m. Ssturday included 93 at Portland, 98 Eugene, and 100 at Roseburg. Pony Express Run Set Today Members of the Ashland Sage Riders will leave the Siskiyou summit stockade at 8 o'clock this morning car rying the mail for the third and last pony express run this summer. About 20 riders are expect ed to carry the mail to the Josephine county line where it will be met by other riders in the journey to Portland. An auxiliary run is planned again from Jacksonville to Medford where the mail will be picked up by the main run going north. The auxiliary run will come into the Jack son County Centennial asso ciation headquarters south of Medford. Members of the Jacksonville Riders will carry this section of the mail. Stops to pick up mail will be made in Ashland, Med ford, Central Point and Rogue River. Oregon Employment Shows Increase Salem-DPD-The Oregon Em ployment department has re ported that state total employ ment spiraled in June to 12, 800, giving Oregon a bigger employment percentage than the national average. The department also said last month's figure was the greatest increase for June since June, 1950. Of all workers covered by Oregon unemployment com pensation, only 2.2 per cent were idle last month. Nation ally the average for June was 3.3 per cent. Richland - (DPD - R. W. Schaffer, business agent for Electrical Workers Union Lo cal 77 here said Friday the union would picket the Han-' ford Atomic Works plant as long as there was a non-union contractor performing work in the area. y
