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MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, AUGUST 30, 1959
No. 133
11 i
Spectacular Fire
At Morton Milling
Levels Landmark
A $400,000 fire here Friday
night gutted the Morton Mill
ing company's plant at 10 West
Jackson st.
More than 40 firemen and
almost as many law officers
were called to the scene as
hordes of spectators gathered
to watch the spectacular
blaze.
A crew of firemen remained
at the site yesterday as hay,
grain and some timber con
tinued to smolder.
Oliver Morton, owner of the
three-story plant, estimated
the building loss at $100,000,
the loss in hay, grain and feed
at $200,000 and the machinery
and equipment loss, including
two trucks, at $100,000. ,
Pending investigation and
the computation of exact fig
ures, Morton estimated that
about one-third of the loss
was covered by insurance.
It was Medford's most seri
ous conflagration since Bruce
Typhoon Joan
Batters Formosa
Tairjei. Formosa (UPD Ty
phoon Joan's 100-mile-an-hour
winds battered densely popu
lated western Formosa today
'leaving seven persons dead
and ten inpured.
Telephone communications
between Taipei and the east
coast were knocked out. Most
power lines were down in this
capital city. All international
and domestic plane flights
were grounded for the second
straight day.
One person was killed
when a house collapsed in
Taipei's grass mountain resi
dential district.
The storm began abating
here around noon (7 p.m. Sat
urday PST).
Police said preliminary
casualty reports were "re
markably light" in view of
the fierceness of . the storm
The typhoon, with gusts of up
to 140 miles an hour, slammed
Into Formosa last night.
Police said 140,000 persons
were removed from flimsy
houses in flood - threatened
areas throughout the island
Six persons were killed and
seven others injured wnen
powerful winds crushed their
homes in ChinmeL four miles
from Taipei. Two dikes were
broken on the east coast by
jet-like winds.
Two Area Schools
Opening Tomorrow
Two schools in Jackson
county will open tomorrow,
the county school superintend
ent's office reminded patrons
this week end.
Butte Falls and Prospect
schools will open the 1959-60
school year tomorrow mora
ine. On Wednesday, Sept. 2, Ap-
plegate school is scheduled to
open,, and on Friday, Sept. 4,
Ashland schools will resume
classes.
Scheduled to start classes
Tuesday, Sept. 8, are Eagle
Point. Talent and Pinehurst
schools. Rogue River and
Evans Valley schools will
open Friday, Sept. 11.
Schools in Medford, Phoe-
i n:.i.: ...v. : nv in
nix anu xsisuici uv, wiuni .in
cludes Central Point, Gold
Hill and Sams Valley, will
open Monday, Sept. 14.
President Signs
Vets' Pension Bill
Washington - (UPD - Presi
dent Eisenhower signed into
law yesterday a liberalized
veterans pension bill that will
cost the taxpayers an extra
$10 billion over the next 40
years.
There had been some specu
lation he would veto the meas
ure, which benefits World
War I and II and Korean vet
erans with non-service con
nected disabilities and their
widows and orphans.
The President signed the
bill while at Chequers, the
residence of British Prime
Minister Harold Macmillan.
The new pension system be
comes effective next July 1.
Its main feature is that it sub
stitutes a sliding scale of pay
ments based on need and the
number of dependents for the
present flat pension rates.
Bauer Lumber company at
765 South Riverside ave. burn
ed Oct. 13, 1957.
Morton said he has no plans
to rebuild the plant, which
was mostly reduced to charred
and twisted wreckage. Some
machinery and equipment was
salvaged, as well as some feed
and grain, which Morton said
he would possibly dispose of
to hog raisers at a reduced
price.
Old Landmark
But gone in the blaze were a
three-generation-old landmark
and a large part of a brand
new building.
The t h r e e-story building
that burned like tinder dur
ing the height of the blaze was
built as a flour mill in Cen
tral Point in the 1890's, Mor
ton said. He transferred it to
its location here as part of his
plant in the mid-1920's, he
added. It was leveled Friday
night.
And the new timbers of a
pelleting unit, still under con
struction and not expected to
have been completed for an
other two months, poke in
congruously out of the de
bris today. Morton said that
his hay - pelleting operation
was the only one locally and
that the closest such plants
now are in Klamath Falls and
beyond Montague, Calif.
He said that he might con
tinue with the unit's construc
tion, although the building
was extensively damaged.
Like Burst Sausages
Ten grain - filled storage
tanks, 40 feet high, were also
destroyed in the fire. They lay
crumpled on the ground yes
terday morning like fat burst
sausages. , , ;
Fire Marshal Truman Nel
son said the fire may have
been touched off by sparks
from a stray piece of metal
that fell into a hay grinder.
Bill Robert Smith, an em
ployee of the plant who was
working on a loading dock at
the rear of the building, said
he smelled smoke about 6:30
pjn. Friday, but found no fire
when he searched the build
ing. Noticed Flames
He said he later started to
grind some hay and noticed
flames on the floor near the
grinder. After spraying the
flames with a fire extin
guisher, he said he was sure
the fire was out. But he went
to get a hose to spray the sur
rounding area and found the
building in flames when he
returned.
The blaze was reported well
under way when the fire de
partment arrived after being
called at 6:45 p.m.
Nelson said when the grind
er was started sparks from a
small piece of metal or wire
could have touched off the
fire. He said such happenings
are "not uncommon.
Three trucks and an aerial
ladder from the Medford fire
department were at the fire,
as well as 28 regular firemen,
11 volunteers, Chief Gordon
Barker and Nelson.
For Stand-By .
The Central Point rural fire
department sent a 1,000-gal-lon
pumper and a crew of
six men for stand-by duty.
The Medford fire depart
ment began reducing crews
about 10 pjn. Friday, but a
four-man crew remained on
duty at the fire during the
night.
About 25 city policemen
and about six sheriffs offi
cers were on hand to direct
traffic and try to keep spec
tators back.
Starting about a half-hour
before sundown, the blaze
sent a pillar of black smoke
gushing upward and attracted
spectators from all over the
valley.
Fearing Explosion
Police, fearing an explos
ion, fcept bystanders well
away from the fire area. More
than a ton of ammonium ni
trate, the potentially explos
ive chemical involved in the
recent Roseburg blast, was
stored in the mill, Morton
said.
Morton said he had been
apprehensive in regard to
storing the chemical, but that
after reading literature about
it he was convinced it was
not dangerous when stored
by itself.
The nitrate was in the heat
of the flames Friday night
but lacking a "trigger" de
vice, it burned but did not
explode. ,
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HOSE CREW Jackson
railroad tracks was a maze
night as firefighters braved
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TANKS ABLAZE Flaming storage tanks
flared like torches while below, the fire
r burrowed its way through stacked bales of
hay, which continued smouldering hours
Morse, Neuberger
Hit Works Bill Veto
Washington-flJPD-Leaders of
both parties began an inten
sive round-up of out-of-town
members this week end in
preparation for, a show down
this week on overriding Presi
dent Eisenhower's veto of the
$1,206,784,549 public works
money bill.
Republican and Democratic
party .whips in the House
were summoning members
back to Washington both from
their home' districts and
abroad.
The House vote is scheduled
Wednesday. At stake in the
fight is the fact that Congress
has never been able to over
ride an Eisenhower veto.
Both sides need all the
votes they can muster. It
takes a two-thirds vote of
those present in both the
House and Senate to enact a
law over a veto.
Senator Wayne Morse CD
Ore.) said yesterday Presi
dent Eisenhower's veto of the
appropriation bill is "unwar-
Foresters Report
Three Local Fires
Three grass and brush fires
were fought Friday and Sat
urday bv the state forest pa
trol, the state department of
forestry said.
Friday afternoon some 250
acres of grass and brush burn
ed at Murphy, about 5 miles
south of Grants Pass. The
fire was under control in six
hours, according' to foresters.
A smoker fire occurred Sat
urday just off Foothill rd.
near Big Boulder orchard.
Nine acres of grass and brush
were burned due to careless
flipping of a cigarette, it was
reported.
Late Saturday afternoon 20
acres of brush and grass were
burned at McMullin creek, 5
miles west of Selma. A spark
from a logging caterpillar
type tractor ignited some old
slash, foresters said.
A REMINDER
Medford's parking meters
begin operating at 9 a.m. in
stead of 8 as heretofore, ef
fective tomorrow. They will
continue operation until 6
pjn., and rates are unchanged.
st. west of the
of hoses Friday
heat and smoke
ranted" and "places a po
litical slogan of balancing the
budget above the facts as to
the public need of projects
included in the bill."
The President vetoed the
bill before he left for Europe,
saying it "ignores the neces
sity for an orderly develop
ment of America's water re
sources within the nation's
fiscal ability."
His principal reason for ve
toing the bill, according to
reports, was because several
new starts were included in
the measure. "These projects
should not be started this
year if we are to have a
responsible federal fiscal pol
icy," the President said.
Sen. Richard L. Neuberger
(D-Ore.) said the veto has
"crippled" Oregon projects,
and he indicated he would
vote to override the veto, if
the move to do so is made
as scheduled.
Neuberger stated: "Because
of Oregon's abundance of wat
er resources, our state has
been crippled particularly, by
Presidential veto of funds for
public works."
GOP's Gunnar Charges Rep. Porter
With 'Irresponsibility' on Capitol Hill
Republican State Chairman
Peter M. Gunnar, Salem, ad
dressing a GOP gathering here
Friday noon, said that "the
brash irresponsibility of Rep
Charles O. Porter has disturb
ed our nation's relations
abroad, and has left Oregon's
Fourth Congressional district
without any real representa
tion in Congress at a time
when the district urgently
needs effective, responsible
representation in Washing
ton." Speaking before a Jackson
County party finance lunch
eon, Gunnar said, "Porter's ir
responsibility is common
knowledge in Congress, where
the press reports he has been
passed over three times for
responsible committee assign
ments. "Porter's lack of interest in
domestic matters and his em
barrassing connivance in the
affairs of Spain, Nicaragua,
Cuba and other countries indi
to check the rampaging flames at Morton
Milling company.
after the main fire was controlled. The two
trucks, and much valuable equipment, were
destroyed. (Photo by Simonson)
(Other pictures on Page 10)
Hunt Suspect
To Be Quizzed
Wihtehall, Mont. -(UPD- The
lone remaining suspect in the
murder of Dr. John Hunt Jr.,
Portland forest pathologist,
was being held here for ques
tioning by Idaho authorities.
Samuel McGuffee, 40, of
Lodi, Calif., was arrested
Thursday by Montana state
patrolmen on a drunk driving
charge. McGuffee was turned
over to sheriff's officers here
when bloodstains were found
in his car. The car matched
the description of a vehicle
seen Monday midnight near
the scene of Hunt's murder
near Bliss, Idaho.
Police here said officers
from Gooding, Idaho, will ar
rive Monday to grill McGuf
fee in connection with the
death qf the 37-year-old Port-lander.-
Hunt was en route to
New Haven, Conn., to take a
position as assistant professor
of forestry at Yale university.
Earlier yesterday police in
Memphis, Texas, released
three suspects after the trio
had passed a lie detector test.
The three had been picked up
on a charge of stealing gas.
cates that Porter never did in
tend to represent the fourth
district in Congress. Instead,
his purpose in being elected
was and is to promote his pe
culiar, one-man foreign pol
icy," Gunnar said.
"Porter will not and cannot
provide proper Congressional
representation of the fourth
Oregon district. In Porter's
place we need a man of stature
and effectiveness in Washing
ton, and this man will be pre
sented to the voters of this
district by the Republican
party in 1960," Gunnar said.
Gunnar appeared here at
a luncheon meeting of the
Jackson county Republican
executive board and finance
committee at the Medford
hotel.
The committee, in the midst
of a fund-raising drive, an
nounced that it would issue a
challenge to Lane county Re
publicans on a percentage-of-goal
basis. Jackson county's,
COBflBflUE3IS7
MIS,
Outpost 16 Miles
From Capital Hit
By Cagey Rebels
'Slipper Methods
Prove to Be Effective
Vientiane, Laos - (UPD-Com
munist rebels in Laos yester
day struck at an outpost 16
miles from the capital city of
Vientiane and vanished in the
jungles with the slippery tac
tics that won them a vast area
of Indochina in 1954.
Against the Red's hit-and
run attacks, the Royal Army
of Laos trained by French
officers is manning fixed
positions. And many here re
member that it was this watcn-and-wait
style of warfare
which led to the disaster of
Dienbienphu in 1954 and the
winning of North Viet Nam by
the Communists.
The brief skirmish south of
Vientiane yesterday w a
bloodless. Only a few shots
were fired. But it showed the
Reds are there, and that they
remain a threat.
Thp Communists are able
a roam the jungles, occupy
ing villages long enough to
indoctrinate the illiterate, poverty-stricken
residents with
Marxism and then drift on.
The Roval Armv remains in
fortresses awaiting assaults
that rarelv come.
The government claims it
will launch an oftensive in
Spntemher when the Monsoon
rains end. Whether it succeeds
probably will depend on
whether the army fights fire
with fire and goes out to hunt
the Pathet Lao 1 (free Laos
In terms of manpower, the
army is far superior. Its men
are well armed ana weu
trained. The rebels are esti
mated to have less than 2,000
regular troops. It is lairiy
certain that there are no
Vietminh (North' Nietnamese)
troops or Red Chinese soldiers
actually in Laos. But some
of the rebels are Chinese
trained and saw service at
Dienbienphu.
The rebels work in the fer
tile field provided by two
million tribesmen in the
northern jungles, who grow
their own food, weave their
own clothing and use bows
and arrows and hand - made
muzzle loading rifles. The
tribesmen, whose racial strain
is mostly Thai (Siamese) know
little of civilization.
The $200 -million in Ameri
can aid to Laos in the last
five years has done little for
them, although it has helped
the government arm its sol
diers.
What is hobbling the gov
ernment is not the shortage
of arms and trained men to
use them but the lack of sage
advice.
Two decades ago. Chinese
Communist party leader Mao
Tse-Tung drew up the now
classic Communist strategy of
mobilizing the countryside.
surrounding the cities, and
suffocating the enemy.
goal has been set at $30,000
Medford lawyer Frank Van
Dyke, finance chairman of
the Fourth Congressional dis
trict, which includes both
Jackson and Lane counties,
said that he would furnish
the prize, probably a trophy.
The fund-raising drive here
is part of a state-wide Re
publican campaign to raise
$500,000 to finance Oregon
Republican activities through
the 1960 election.
Gunnar said that 1960
would be the "crucial year"
for the GOP in Oregon and
that Multnomah, Marion,
Lane and Jackson counties
are the ones that "must do
the job."
The drive for funds here be
gan on June 16. Clif Ouellette,
finance chairman, said he
was going to call for all re
ports to be turned in this
week and that a possible re
organization of the finance
committee might be made. 1
INBIAGa FRONTIER
"Why, That Crazy
Labor Bill Deadlock
Break Held Possible
By GOP Strategists
Washington (DPD - Senate
Republican strategists claimed
yesterday they have the votes
to break the deadlock on the
labor reform bill in favor of
the drastic house provisions.
A source close to the Demo
cratic leadership agreed that
senators in both parties will
be under heavy pressure to
accept the house approach on
three disputed points which
wrecked efforts of senate
house conferees to draft a
compromise bill.
Republicans were counting
on public support for the
house-passed Landrum-Griffin
bill to bolster their position
when the issue comes to a
vote on the senate floor Mon
day.
Since the senate passed its
bill earlier this year, they
said, public opinion has been
aroused for tighter union con
trols. Some lawmakers said
they have received more mail
on this issue than at any time
since former President Tru
man fired Gen. Douglas Mac
Arthur. Senate GOP Leader Everett
M. Dirksen (111.) brought the
controversy back to the sen
ate floor Friday night after a
stalemate developed in the
conference committee.
He asked the senate to in
struct its Democratic-controlled
conferees to accept the
house provisions on the three
sections which had blocked
agreement secondary boy
cotts, organizational picketing
and federal-state jurisdiction
in labor disputes.
'Absurd to Quit'
Rep. Frank Thompson Jr.,
(D-N.J.), a House conferee who
opposed the Landrum-Griffin
bill, charged the move was
dictated by politics," He said
it was "absurd to quit when
you're 99 per cent finished."
Sen. Barry Goldwater (R-
Ariz.), who supports the House
bill, said "dilatory practices"
in the conference made it nec
essary to force a showdown
on the Senate floor.
There was some speculation
that the Republicans hoped
their maneuver could cause
the Democratic conference to
retreat before the Dirksen
resolution is called up for ac
tion Monday afternoon. The
conference is scheduled to
meet again Monday morning.
Sen. John F. Kennedy (D-
Mass.), head of the Senate
conferees and chief sponsor!
of the Senate bill, was expect
ed to stand firm. He has of
fered a substitute resolution'
which would have the Senate
accept most of the House bill
language but would include
safeguards he insists are nec
essary to protect small unions.
A Roaring Fight
It thus appeared the Senate
was headed tor a roaring
fight that may match the rec
ent emotion-packed House
battle over the Landrum-Griffin
bill.
Asked -for a prediction;
Thing Is a Hybrid!"
Goldwater said the vote would
be very close. He said some
GOP tacticians figured they
had at least 55 of the 100
senators on their side. But
he said " I can't count more
than 50" at th.'s time.
une important tigure was
Chairman John L. McClellan
(D-Ark.) of the Senate Rackets
committee, whose investiga
tions of labor-management
corruption touched off the
drive for reform legislation.
McClellan told newsmen he
favored the Landrum-Griffin
proposals in the disputed area.
His support of the Dirksen
resolution could bring other
southern Democrats into the
camp.
Ike, Macmillan
Talk at Chequers
Chequers, England (UPD
President Eisenhower told
Prime Minister Harold Mac
millan yesterday at the open
ing of their private talks that
he will make no go-it-alone at
tempt to reach a settlement of
the cold war during his meet
ings with Nikita S. Khrush
chev next month.
The two heads of govern
ment held a two-hour meeting
at Chequers, the ancient es
tate 40 miles from -London
that is the official country
mansion of British prime min
isters and discussed a report
drawn up by Secretary of
State Christian A. Herter and
British Foreign Secretary
Selwyn Lloyd.
After that they had "just a
general talk on the world
situation," according to White
House Press Secretary James
C. Hagerty.
They did not discuss the
situation on the Indian border
where thousands of Red Chi
nese troops are reported
massed along the northern
frontier.
But Hagerty, reporting lat
er on their initial meeting,
said Eisenhower and Macmil
lan delved into the issues in
volved in the forthcoming ex
change of visits between Eis
enhower and the Soviet Pre
mier - the primary reason for
Eisenhower's European trip.
WEATHER
FORECAST: Fair and mild
through Monday. High today 87;
low tonight 48. High Monday
85. , . ; .
TEMP.
Highest Saturday 85
Lowest Saturday . 48
Our Skies. Tonight
Sunset today 6:50 p.m.
Sunrise tomorrow 5:35 a.m.
Moonrisae tomorrow 3:06 a.m.
The Milky Way now can be
traced from the constellations,
Scorpio and Sagittarius in the
south, up through Aquila and
Cygnus in the east and down
Into Cassiopeia in the northeast.
Nehru's Cabinet
Orders New Men
To North Border
Red Troops Reported '
Massed in Thousands
New Delhi (UPD The cabi
net yesterday ordered Indian
army troops rushed to the
northern frontier where thous
ands of Chinese Communist
soldiers were massed along
the border, authoritative
-ources reported.
The troops had orders to
loot if necessary and to re
eve the auxiliary forces
hich have faced assaults by
robing Chinese units during
ie last two months. Army au
horities were said to have ar
anged to set up a field head
luarters near Jorhat to direct
the defense of the 1,500-mile
northern frontier.
Estimates of the number of
Red troops deployed along
Communist-held Tibet's south
ern borders with India, Nepal,
Bhutan and Sikkim, from
Kashmir to the northeast fron
tier agency, ranged up to 40,
000 men.
Authoritative sources ' said
the Indian cabinet had order
ed the army to take over bor
der patrol duties in view of
the reports of Red troop con
centrations. Ordered lo Shoot
The sources said Indian sol
diers have been ordered to
shoot any Chinese "trespass
ers" if they ignored warnings
to withdraw. .
Prime Minister Jawaharlal
Nehru already has warned
Peiping that India would re
gard aggression against . the
tiny Himalayan buffer states
as an attack on herself.
Nehru was reported to have
ordered the defense ministry
to set up an operational com
mand with full authority to
take any action necessary to
oust Chinese Communists
from occupied areas in the
northeast frontier agency
(NEFA). The reports said
about a dozen of the country's
top army experts were drafted
to direct all operations.
There were conflicting re
ports, meantime, that Chinese
Reds had crossed into Nefa at
two more places and planted
the Communist flag.
Unable lo Cop
Previously, border patrol
duties were carried' out by
armed police under control of
the border states. But the
poorly-trained and armed po
lice have been unable to cope
with the increasing number of
Red Chinese encroachments
on Indian territory.
(There has been no official
comment from the United
States and Great Britain on
the reported Chinese actions.
American and British spokes
men said their governments
were waiting detailed reports.
(White House Press Secre
tary James C. Hagerty con
firmed reports that President
Eisenhower would meet Tues
day with Mme. Vijaya Lak
shmi Pandit, India's high com
missioner in London. He indi
cated however that the bor
der situation would not be
discussed. Hagerty said the
meeting was arranged some
time ago and that several oth
er persons also were invited.)
Considerable Increase
There were reports of a
considerable increase in com
munist aerial activities over
the border areas during the
past three days.
Porfer Explains
Money No Object
Washington - (UPD - Rep.
Charles O. Porter (D-Ore.) de
nied yesterday that he actu
ally is seeking $10,000 dam
ages in his suit against the
state department for a pass
port to travel to Red China.
He conceded that his peti
tion, filed in federal court
here Thursday, alleged that
$10,000 is involved in the
passport controversy. As a re
sult of this, he said, some
news stories stated that he
was seeking $10,000 damages.
Porter said the court could
not hear the case unless a
claim of at least $10,000 was
involved. He added that he is
asking for just the passport.