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Newspaper Page TextSubscribers ' To repor improper or non delivery of the Mail Tribune in Medford phone SP 2-6141 Ash land MU 2-1021, Trek VI 2-4077 before 6:45 pjn. daily and 12:30 pjn. Sunday. II regular delivery arrives shortly after you call please notify office thus eliminating special messenger service. Recommended An account of how u enter prising local resident Is well on the way to "itriking it rich" in a mining operation he has de veloped in the nearby hills ap pears on page 14 of today's Mail Tribune. 54th Year ' PriceCents f lTTvmrvTrTmr-iTi United Press Interactional full Leased Wire United Press International FuU Leased Wire 56 PAGES MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, AUGUST 16, 1959 No. 121 MEM VKDmm r Engipr delates Steps Necessary For Copper iam Actual construction of the i Copper dam on the Applegate river cannot be started until a water users association or irrigation district is formed, Henry Stewart, Portland, of the U. S. Army Corps of Engi neers told Applegate residents Friday night. Such an organization must be formed by Applegate citi zens so water users who do not have prior water rights can buy water from the gov ernment, Stewart told the ap proximately 100 persons at tending a meeting in the Up per Applegate Grange hall Those water users getting free water would continue to get it, he said. Construction of Copper dam would mean additional irrigation water for 9,400 acres, and 5,000 acres of land now dry would be irrigated as well, the en-. gineer said. The hearing date, original- Grandma Greets Wagon Cavalcade At End of Trail Independence - (UPD - The Oregon Centennial wagon train rolled to the end of the trail here Saturday amidst a gala welcome. A crowd which exceeded more than 30,000 persons was on hand to welcome the 59ers as they reached the end of their nearly four-month trek which covered inore 7 1 h a n 2,000 miles. - A square dance jamboree and a dramatization of the lives of Dr. and Mrs. Marcus "Whitman, early Oregon mis sionaries, was on the schedule of activities for Saturday night. Most of the wagoners are preparing to depart for their homes around the state and Monday the wagons will be shipped to the Centennial Ex position in Portland w h e r e they will remain on exhibit. On hand to greet the 59ers were Governor Mark Hatfield and Ohio's walking grand mother Emma Gatewood. ; The feature of the welcom ing celebration was a parade which lasted for more than two hours. The seven wagons brought up the rear of the 110-unit parade. Festival queens, marching units, bands, drum and bugle corps, clowns on motor scoot ers and civic groups made up the parade. Grading Planned For Road to Lake Bids for 4.464 miles of grad ing on the Lake of the Woods roaJ will be received by the Bureau of public roads, Port land, until 2 pjnn Sept. 3. The section to be graded will extend eastward from the west boundary of the Rogue Rogue River national forest, paralleling the north fork of Little Butte creek. ; " Plans and specifications may be obtained at the post office building, Medford. Reconstruction of this route is expected to increase recrea tional traffic to the Lake of the Woods area and to im prove access to timber stands in the section. , - Clothes Horse, 11, Lassoed by Police Ashland A 11-year-old Ashland girl who liked clothes too well was apprehended by Ashland police Saturday morning. Police said the girl ha'd tak en four dresses, two pairs f shoes and a gold wrist wach Wednesday from the home of a girl friend whose family had left for a short time. The girl has a size identical with that of the friend whose clothes she took, police said. This gave police their leading clue. A report was made to Jack son county juvenile authori ties, police said. ly set for Sept. 17 in Med ford, on Rogue basin project plans may be delayed, he said The directors of the Rogue River Basin Flood Control and Water Resources associa tion requested the delay Thursday night. Representa tives of the corps and the U.S fish and wild life service and the audience unanimously agreed that greater benefit' to the basin would result if further studies were made The request followed a pub lic meeting in Grants Pass of both agencies and representa tives of the water resources association. . ' , Public Notice Following the hearing the corps will study the testimony presented. Then a public notice would inform' the-pub lic of the corps recommenda tions on the project to Con gress, Stewart explained. If the public doesn't like the corps' recommendations they can appeal them. Following the corps' recom mendations, Congress must authorize the project, then vote money for it. The time lag between authorization and appropriation and construc tion might cover several years, the engineer explained. For in stance, he noted, the last of the reservoirs in the Willam ette basin was completed 16 years after basin project auth orization. "Then we'd better have the kids attend these meetings in stead of us old folks," one ruddy faced Applegate farmer shouted. Statements Accepted Both written and oral state ments of pplnionjvill be ac cepted at the hearing sched uled ' for Medford, " Stewart said. He suggested any further questions after Friday's meet ing on the proposed copper dam should be sent to Francis Krouse. Annleeate rancher and water resources . associa tion director. Stewart said the pool would be kept at a minimum eleva tion of 1,195 feet from about Nov. 15 to Jan. 31 to provide 55,000 acre-feef of storage sDace for flood control. In low- water years, the filling sched ule would be modified to nave 5,000 acre feet, in storage prior to Feb. 1, if possible. Even in low-water years a minimum stream flow of 50 cubic feet per second, would be kept from the dam to the mouth of the Little Applegate, he added. At least 120 cubic feet per. second stream-flow would be maintained during January and February and from July. 1 through October at Applegate and Wilderville gauges, Stewart said. At least 120 cubic feet pel second stream flow would be main tained from March 1 through June at Applegate and Wilder ville gauges. The engineer said both the fish and wild life service and the corps agreed Copper was a good dam site. Earth-Fill Dam An earth-fill dam with a rolled clay core and concrete spillway would be construct ed, Stewart said. A log boom across the reservoir in the winter would stop logs short of the , dam, he explained. Temperature of reservoir wa ter would not be higher than 60 degrees, n " There will be some recrea tional ficilities such as boat launching ramps, picnic and park facilities. If more facili ties are needed, local agencies would be urged to help pro vide them, Stewart said. Per imeter roads would be con structed on both sides of the reservoir. , ' No lands will be acquired for dam and reservoir con struction until Congress au thorizes the project and votes, the money the engineer said. Based on estimates by govern ment and local appraisers, the fair market value will be of fered for the land. If this is not satisfactory the issue will be turned over to the local federal court for settlement. Researcher Says Smog Cure. Found Westwood, Calif. (DPD-A UCLA research engineer yes terday reported he has discov ered a catalyst that effectively eliminates the two gases that contribute to the smog problem. Fain Festivities To Be Beefed Up By a Meaty Prize Horse Show Today Kicks Off Gay Week . The Kiwanis county fair Aug. 20-23 will be "beefed up" next Sunday with the award of a door prize a orize beef to be purchased at the 4-H, Future Farmers of America auction Friday. Kiwanis officials said that the prize would be given in an effort to stimulate interest in both the 4-H. FFA auction and the Kiwanis fair. Meanwhile, the week - long 4-H, FFA fair will get off to a colorful start at 10 a.m. to day with a horse show. Over 800 youngsters will take part in the annual fair. Exhibits will be at the fair grounds by 8 o'clock tonight and livestock will be in place by 10 p.m. -tomorrow. The public is invited to the show starting today, 4-H Agent Glenn Klein said. Exhibits and demonstra tions planned for the,- 4-H, FFA fair will include electric and forestry projects, beef, dairy and horsemanship, and projects in baking, home liv ing, food preservation and knitting, as well as a dress revue. Kiwanis officials have an nounced that the walking grandmother from Gallipolis, Ohio, Mrs. Emma Gatewood, will appear - Friday evening, Aug. 21, at the Kiwanis fair in the Armory- Also expected at the Kiwan is fair is Mrs. Dorothy Jean Chase of Eugene, Mrs. Oregon of 1959. ' ' Southern Oregon artists have been invited by Kiwanis officials to exhibit up to three pictures each at the Kiwanis fair. Exhibit entries must be brought to the armory by 7:30 p.mAug. 19 to be eligible fer j the judgmg. , Sam Richardson, chairman of the special events commit tee, said that entries may in clude oil, water , color, draw ing and mixed media. No en try fee will be charged. Judging the exhibit will be Eugene Bennett, Warren Wolf and JackDeeters, guest artists. Formosa Quake Follows Floods Taipei, Formosa - (UPD - A violent earthquake rumbled through Formosa yesterday in an area just south of the scene of Heavy rains and floods that recently took the lives of hun dreds of victims. At least 14 persons were counted dead in the earthquake disaster and another 43 were injured when the buildings in which they lived crumpled and fell. Officials said at least 513 houses in the Hemgchung area were completely destroy ed and 661 were heavily dam aged. Information on the quake's epicenter was not available, as instruments in the hardest hit areas were broken by its severity. . 1 The earthquake hit Formo sa only a few days after flood water raged through the cen tral part of the nation, leav ing hundreds dead and miss ing. - The earthquake reached an intensity 6 on a scale of 9. It rocked the island for 40 minutes. Evergreen Bus Lines to Start Route Tomorrow for East, West i i i Evergreen Bus Lines' local east-west service for Medford is to begin Monday at 25 cents full-fare and 15 cents half fare, according to Larry Pil cher, manager of f the com pany. The half-fare would apply to children under 12 and to students. Pilcher explained. The bus is to run on an hourly basis each day except Sundays and holidays. The driver is to set out from the west end of his route at 7:15 ajn., and is scheduled to take an hour starting at 11:35 a.in. for lunch. The . runs "are to continue to 6 pan. ; A single, 11 - passenger Volkswagen bus is to be used at first with others to be add ed later if the demand is sufficient, Pilcher stated. He said there was ample space in tht rear of the bus for "Boy, The Fallout Is Terrific' Food Poison Attack At Drug Firm Picnic Makes Hundreds III Angola, Ind. (UPD Acute food poisoning broke up a pic nic of 3,000 pharmaceutical company employees yester day, dropping many where they stood and sending at least 670 to hospitals. Police, civil defense and Red Cross officials loaded the victims in ambulances, trucks, buses and commandeered sta tion wagons, and took them to the town's two hospitals, the National Guard armory and a public school. Others, felled as they drove homeward, were taken to hos- Mothersilesgue Of Central High Alleges 'Brutality' ' Little Rock, Ark.-(UPD-The Central High school mother's league yesterday accused po lice" chief Gene Smith of us ing "police brutality" in breaking up an anti-integration demonstration. . Segregationists are angry because Smith and his police men used billy clubs and fire hoses to break up the dem onstration when Central High school opened integrated Wed nesday. Mrs. Margaret Jackson,', president of the league, ' sent a telegram to Mayor Werner Knoop asking that Smith and the city's board of directors appear at a public hearing to answer charges of brutality. She asked that the meeting be called immediately. "We want to ask who gave Gene Smith the right to use such brutal force against such unarmed - people " who were peaceably assembled in pro test of the integration of Cen tral High," Mrs. Jackson said. "He want too far in clubbing two men over the head with out any provocation." Mayor Knoop said he would have to take the request up with the city directors. He said there was a meeting Mon day night, and it "might be brought up then. Smith said he had "no com ment" on the charges. carrying packages or shop ping bags. Pilcher gave this run-down on the bus routes: Eastbound: from West Main s t. (Jacksonville high way) near Perrydale ave. east to Lozier lane, south to Stewart ave., east to Peach st., north to Dakota ave., east to Oak dale ave., north to Eighth st., east to Front st., north to the Trail ways depot at Front and Fifth sts.; east to Central ave., south to the U.S. Nation al bank building, Central and Main, on south to Eighth st., east to South Riverside ave., north to East Main st., east to Valley View dr., north to Hill crest rd., east to the Rogue Valley country club (east terminus). Westbound: generally the same route, except that down town the bus would proceed west on East Main st. to the pitals at Elkhart and La Grange, Ind. "We have them lying on floors and doubled, up two-to-a-bed," Elmhurst hospital resi dent physician Dr. John Hart man said. "It definitely was acute food poisoning. Every stomach pump within reach was used in almost perpetual motion." Elmhurst said it treated 150 persons. Cameron hospital said it received 200. An addi tional 100-150 were at the armory, 50 at the Henry pub lic school, 100 at Elkhart gen eral ; hospital and 70 at La Grange. Most of those affected were sent home "following hospital treatment. Involved were the em ployees of Miles Laboratories, Elkhart, who were holding their annual outing at Buck Lake ranch, a private pre serve. " Food was provided by an outside caterer. ' "It's obvious what happen ed," Harry Smythe, proprie tor of Buck Lake, said. "That food came here from" an Elk hart caterer at six in the morning. It stayed inside the truck until noon. The temper ature outside all that time was 95. You could fry an egg in the sun." Ham or Chicken ' Hartman said it appeared that either ham orx chicken served had been responsible for the poisoning. He diagnos ed it as "acute food poisoning."-; . i-.-.r V . . - "None . of them that I've seen, however, appear' in ser ious conditio n," he said. "They're just mighty sick at this moment. Of course, those with other ailments, such as heart cases, have to be watched awful closely." - Boaters Warned Rogue Waters Low The Jackson county sheriff's boat patrol -warned all pleas ure boaters this week end that Rogue river waters are dang erously low near Savage dam. Several boats were damaged last week on the large rocks and snags exposed by the low water, the patrol warned. Medtord i tt e tvt4-:.a1 t...i ' U. S. National bank, then con tinue west. to Oakdale aye. without stopping at the Trail ways depot. i ' .... The bus schedule includes leaving.: from ' West ; Main at Perrydale eastbound at ,15 minutes past the hour, from the Trailways depot east bound at 35 minutes past the hour, from the Rogue Valley country club westbound at 45 minutes past the hour, and from the U. S. National bank building westbound on the hour. Pilcher said that establish ed stops downtown, besides the Trailways' depot and the bank, include Central Rexall drug store, southwest corner of Main and Central, and Fluhrer bakery, Main and Holly sts. Aside from these, he said, the bus will stop at any corner where the driver sees someone waiting for it. JET M Group at Latin Parley Approves Conciliation in Caribbean Crisis Santiago, Chile - (UPD - A working group at - the San tiago conference of foreign ministers last night unani mously approved a resolution enpowering the Inter - Ameri can Peace Commission to act as conciliator in the Carib bean crisis. Approval of the full con ference of American states ministers was expected today. Roseburg Guard Relieved of Duty; Death Toll Hits 13 Roseburg - (UPD - Members of the Oregon National Guard were to be ; dismissed from the week-long vigil here last night. . Lt. Col. Harold Heiser, com mander of the detachment which has patrolled this blast shattered city since Aug. 7, said guardsmen from Cottage Grove, Grants Pass, and Eu gene were to be. relieved of their duty. . Mayor Arlo ; Jacklin said the downtown business ' dis trict was reopened on a limit ed basis yesterday for the first time" since a truck loaded with 6 V2 tons of , explosives blew up in the early morning hours of Aug. 7. Saturday the death toll from the blast and resultant fire rose to 13 known dead. The latest victim was Mrs. Lela Belle Kuykeridall, 41,'a Rose burg resident. She died early yesterday in Douglas Community hospital where she had been in criti cal condition since the blast, v Her 4. - year - old daughter died of injuries the day after the explosion. ; ' Most local residents were able to view the disaster area for the first time yesterday. Oak street, through the heart of the blast and fire area, was reopened to traffic at the same time the business district was reopened. .More than 350 buildings were damaged or destroyed by the powerful explosion. . Metro Wins 19-13 Over All-Stars Portland - Terry Baker ' led th Metro" All - Star squad 1 a 19-13 win over the stale all-star squad last night in the annual Shrine All -Star football-gam in Multnomah stadium here. A crowd of 14,674 waich ed Baker, of Jefferson high in Portland, score on touchdown and pass for th other two in th Metro win. Baker threw both scoring tosses to Slev Pauly of Beaverion. Ladd Horn of Pendleton led th stale ai ' lack scoring both loueh- downs. Horn rambled 26 yards in th final minutes of th first period to score' and reeled- off a scoring jaunt of 25 yards in lh final period. Baker,- who was named outstanding player of th - gam, opened th M 1 r o scoring with 56 seconds left -in th first half by crashing off tackle for th last yard of a 79-yard Metro march. In lh lhird period Baker uncorked a 37-yard pass lo Pauly to cap a 50-yard drive and giv Metro a 12-6 third quarter lead. Early in th final period Horn scored his second touchdown on a 25 yard sweep around left end. ; .Mike : Murray, of Medford kicked lh conversion. Met ro trailing 13-12 came roar ing back. Climaxing a 73-yard drive in 13 plays Baker fired a five-yard scoring pass lo - Pauly lo giv Metro lh lad. Baker then kicked th xtri point. The conference, which began last Wednesday; is scheduled to end Monday. The working group acted amid alarming invasion re ports from Cuba and Haiti. Haitian Foreign Minister Louis Mars said his govern ment may ask the Peace Com mission to act if further in vestigation warrants such a move. - He said Haiti still did not know the origin of the 30 man invading force that land ed in the southwestern part of the country Friday. Re ports from Port-au-Prince identified the invaders as Cubans. U. S. Secretary of State Christian A. Herter conferred secretly for 45 minutes last night with Cuban Foreign Minister Raul Roa. Herter in vited Roa to the U.S. embassy after Cuban Prime Minister Fidel Castro charged in Ha vana that the meeting of 21 foreign ministers of the or ganization of American states here was a "farce." The Cuban and Haitian for eign ministers here asked their governments for more details of the invasion at tempts., Cuban foreign minister Roa said he was communicating wun navana ior otticial re- 1 ports on Fidel Castro's an nouncement that a Ddtninican based plot had been smashed. Haiti's foreign minister Mars expressed surprise at the an nouncement from Port-Au-Prince that some 30 invaders in "Cuban-style" uniforms had Pentagon Space Cap Washington - (UPD The De fense department has aban doned virtually all hope of finding the capsule ejected from this country's latest sat ellite, it reported yesterday. A spokesman said two ships still were searching a ' 10,000 square mile area of the Pacif ic 700 miles southwest of Ha waii but that operations would be halted this afternoon. Planes joined in the hunt earlier. . Although the recovery ef fort failed, the satellite went Pear Picking Pay Higher This Year i The base rate for all Bart lett pear pickers from the lab or camp is 14 cents a box this season, the labor commit tee of the Jackson County Fruit Growers' league , an nounced Friday. This new base rate . com pares to 12 cents a box last year, according to Bob Minear, committee member. Growers who have two pickings of fruit per tree to get uniform sizes may adjust their own rates ac cording to the base rate, Min ear said. Usually growers pay a little higher than the base rate "when their pickers are picking for size, he explained. : Many growers won't start picking until Monday, Minear said. By the middle of the week they should be "clean picking" or . stripping their trees, he remarked. The peak of the Bartlett harvest is ex pected about Aug. 24. I Although the Medford pear district growers who are pick ing now have plenty of pick ers, a shortage is expected with full scale picking. Grater Cubs Make Finals Eugene - The Crater Cubs of Central Point took -a 3-1 win from the Albany Recs here last night to gain the fi nals of the Oregon junior base ball tournament. - They meet the Eugene I.O.O.F. team here tonight for the championship. CRAS CRENfBfl arrived in Haiti. ' Reports circulating at the conference said Premier Cas tro was expected to arrive from Havana by today to de nounce Dominican Dictator Gen. Rafael Leonidas' Tru- jillo as the instigator of Ca ribbean uprisings. Redefinition, Respected Latin ministers warned the principle of non-intervention by one country against anoth er would have to be re-defined and respected if the American system of collective security was to survive. Venezuelan Foreign Minis ter Ignacio Luis Arcaya de manded an anti-dictatorship declaration stressing Oas sup port for democratic govern ments an obvious blow against Trujillo. Several speakers endorsed Brazil's proposal for massive economic development of such areas as the Caribbean to hlp eliminate causes mat ieaa to bloodshed. The speakers generally agreed that Caribbean tension was due at least in part to poverty and. under-develop- ment. The agreement to begin sec ret sessions was believed aim ed at avoiding verbal clashes between rival nations. Officials felt that private meetings without newsmen present would . prevent a re petition of the outburst Thurs day night between Roa of Cuba and Porfirio Herrera Baez of the Dominican Repub lic, who hurled insults at each other and forced abrupt ad journament of the session. Abandons sule Hope into a successful orbit and con tinues to circle the earth, the spokesman said. The 300-pound capsule was ejected Friday from the Dis coverer V, satellite, which was sent into orbit from Van denberg Air Force base, Calif. Nine big C-19 planes cruised the target area in an attempt to catch the device as it para chuted down, but its radio signal was never picked up. The experiment was part of the groundwork for Project Mercury, in which missilemen hope to put a man into orbit around the earth and bring him back safely. Officials ex pect to make the big try in 1961. - Defense officials estimated the planes had only one chance in a thousand of making the catch in the air ,even if every thing had gone as scheduled. , The Pentagon blamed the failure on "a malfunction of the sequencing ' or telemetry signals." These are complex radio signals used to control and track space vehicles. : The capsule ejected on schedule as the satellite' made its 17th trip around the globe, officials said. But it apparent ly failed to emit the signal by which the planes were to have "homed in" on it. A previous recovery attempt in the Discoverer series also failed. In that one, the cap sule was ejected too soon and was lost somewhere: in the Arctic wastes. ' - ' ' Two of the previous Discov erers,' one of them carrying four mice, failed to go into orbit. Discoverer I orbited but no attempt was made to re cover its capsule. " . WEATHER FORECAST: Fair, hot and dry Sunday. A little cooler Monday. High Sunday near 100: low Sun day night near 52 and high Mon day 94. TEMP. Highest Saturday 96 Lowest Saturday morning 52 Our Skies. Tonight Sunset today 7:12 n.m. Sunrise tomorrow . 5:26 a.m. 5:53 p.m. Moonnse todays Moonspt? tftnnrrnw 4:27 a.m. The trianrle of .Vera. Dncfe and Altair is high in the western sky at midnight. Deneb, now the highest of these three stars, is also the furthest away, being about 1,600 light years from the Earth. Boeing 707 Falls Into Potato Field On Training Flight Congressman Calls For Grounding Craft Calverton, N. Y. -flIPD- An, American Airlines Boeing 707 Jetliner on a framing flight crashed and exploded in a Long Island potato field yes terday, killing the five crew men aboard. It was the first U.S. disaster of the commer cial jet air age. The five-million dollar swept-wing airliner, which can carry 165 passengers on a commercial flight, was mak ing an approach for a prac tice landing at Grumman Air craft corporation's Peconic airfield 70 miles east of New York when it faltered and nosed into the field. American Airlines said the crewmen on the training flight all were veteran flyers. There were no passengers aboard. The dead were identified as Capts. Harry Job, 45, . of Ridgewood, N.Jn W. T. Swain, 49, of Los Altos, Calif., and Fred Jebejohn, 50, of Palo Verdes Estates, Calif.; and Flight Engineers Andrew An derson, 40, of Jericho, N.Y., and E. A. Freeman, 36, of San ta Clara Calif. The explosion shattered the plane so completely that it took four and a half hours to recover the bodies. Fire con sumed most of the wreckage. Only the tail assembly of the plane remained intact. Civil Aeronautics Board In spector Arnold Holstein said the cause of the accident could not be determined immediate ly. Checking Out . American Airlines said Job and Anderson were checking out the other three crewmen on handling of the big Boeing 707. ; Two potato farmers said two of the plane's four engines began smoking when the plane was only 100 feet in the air and then one of them caught fire. The plane dipped first to the left and then to the right and fell like a wounded bird they said. The plane's wheels and flaps were down as it prepar ed to land at the Grumman Aircraft corporation's airfield 2 to 3 miles away. The airline has been using the airfield as a training base for its jet crews. Appeal Renewed Rep. Steven B. Derounian (R-N.Y.) immediately renew ed an earlier appeal for grounding of all Boeing 707 jetliners until they could be rechecked. He sent a telegram to the Federal Aviation agency repeating the demand he made after two recent 707 emergencies at Idlewild Inter national airport in New York City. , He said he "must insist"1 all 707's be grounded "pending detailed reexamination of the plane's airworthiness. "It is getting too close for comfort." he said. An official of the Boeing Airplane Co., which has de livered 52 707's to the air lines, said that "anything can happen in a training - flight, because that's why we have training flights." He said pilots are put through all sorts of emergency paces, including flying on one or two engines, and that pos sibly one of these procedures preceded the crash. The first crash of the na tion's "most-tested" commerc-t ial airliner since it went into passenger service last fall oc curred at 4:41 p.m. An hour later, the wreck age still was burning, hamp ering emergency crews in their efforts to remove the bodies. A large crowd began gath ering at the crash site soon after word of the accident was carried on radio and television newscasts. People drove from towns and resorts in the area to see the wreck age. The crash followed a series of 707 emergencies that had occurred in recent weeks dur ing passenger flights.