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Recommended 54th Year Subscribers Price 10 Cents Pinto Colvig, a clown who formerly lived in Jacksonville, has expressed an interest in restoring the city to an old mining town. Excerpts from letters to friends here and what is being done as far as restora tion goes appears on page 14 of today's Mail Tribune. MEDFORD United Press International Full Leased Wire To report improper or non delivery of the Mail Tribune in Medford phone SP 2-6141. in Ashland MU 2-1021, before 6:45 p.m. daily and 1030 a.m. Sunday. If regular delivery arrives shortly after you call please notify office thus eliminating special messenger service. United Press International Full Leased Wire 56 PAGES MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, JANUARY 24, 196Q No. 258 .S. Abandons Efforts to Verify Russ Missile Claim "I Thought You Said Morse Seeks Entry To More Primaries By A. ROBERT SMITH Mail Tribune Washington Correspondent Washington - Sen. Wayne Morse would like to enter tome additional primary elec tions to test his strength against the other contenders for the Democratic presiden tial nomination. The criterion Morse has established for himself in de termining whether to enter other states is purely practical is there an organization in that state which will handle his campaign chores? The Oregon senator has re ceived some personal requests that he enter the primary in his native state of Wisconsin, but thus. far there is no or ganized effort underway there. Morse said in an inter view that he has told his friends in Wisconsin that if they want him, they must create a local organization that would set up speaking dates, collect expense funds, arrange itineraries, etc. Wants Organization "I have no intention of wasting my energy without n organization," ho explain ed. Morse has announced he will enter the District of Co lumbia primary May 3. He has already started his cam paign here with local speeches at night after sessions of the Senate are over. He will be matched against Sen. Hubert Humphrey for certain, and possibly a slate of delegates announced or identified as Adlai Stevenson supporters. Because of his popularity with residents of Washington, D.C., for his championship of home rule and other local causes often neglected by Con gress, Morse is expected by local political observers to run a strong race here. His campaign chairman is A. L. Wheeler, chairman of the local Democratic central com mittee. Explores Ohio Morse was in Ohio two weeks ago exploring the situ ation there while making a speech before a labor conven tion of the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen at Cleve land. He said he found resent ment at the decision of Gov. Mike DiSalle to ccmmit the Ohio delegation to Sen. John F. Kennedy. Tempted is he was to jump into the Ohio primary, Morse said practical problems pre vented serious consideration of it. To get on the ballot. Morse would have to have petitions from residents in a third of Ohio's counties, he said, consulting a booklet on primary elections handily placed it one side of his desk. "I have no organization on a nationwide basis," Morse said. "I have no funds. I don't propose to spend a dol-J-r. My only expense will be 5n Oregon, and I ought to go home anyway." Serious Candidate Morse doesn't like to be re garded as a stalking horse for ny other contender. Some in- i We Had Him Blocked' terpretations have been that he was trying to collect dele gates to be turned over to Stevenson. Perhaps to scotch this sentiment, Morse last Monday issued a formal state ment in which he declared, "I am a serious candidate for the presidential office." He said he wanted to em phasize the point that "I am willing to enter the presiden tial primary in any state from which there is an invitation based upon substantial back ing. It is my conviction that presidential primary states and thus give the people a chance to arrive at, clear-cut decisions as to who will best represent their interests. A sincere candidate has nothing to lose and everything to gain by taking his story to the people. I will therefore be a candidate in any state-North, East, South or West - when ever the people of that state call me. And I can assure them there'll be no evidence, no side-stepping, no double talk." But the Democratic party leaders obviously are happy to side-step Morse's candi dacy. They didn't invite him to be among the candidates addressing their big' dinner here Saturday night. KF WTesilersHelp Woman Alter Wreck Members of the Klamath Falls wrestling team helped a woman from her car Friday night as it teetered on a bank of the Rogue river north of Gold Hill. State police took the wom an, Louise Moulter Berg, 54, of Eagle Point, to Medford for treatment of scratches on her lip and leg. ADDRESSES DEMOS State Sen. Robert W. Straub, Eu gene, (right) talks with K. C. (Swede) Wernmark, Jackson county campaign organizing chairman for the Democratic party, after Sen. Straub spoke before a group of party work ers in the Medford Labor Temple Thursday. Straub is state chairman of the Democratic party, and is currently visiting parts of the state to get ideas on how the state organization may become more efficient. I Washington-flJPD - The de fense department has aband oned efforts to determine the actual accuracy achieved by the Russian missile hurled 7,762 miles into the Pacific this week, it was learned Sat urday. The Soviets claimed the nose cone of the missile crash ed into the Pacific only 1.24 miles from the bull's eye. Navy and Air Force experts have been attempting to de termine whether American information would dispute or verify this. Officials said Saturday that, despite an effort that involved thousands of men in tracking and observing the Soviet mis sile, U.S. information is not sufficient to dispute the Rus sian claim. These officials said they could make no determin ation of the point at which the Russians were shooting within the 44,800-square mile area they reserved as a prov ing ground, 1,100 miles south west of Honolulu, on Jan. 8. They said the bull's eye was not necessarily in the center of the rectangle the Russians described. The rectangle would normally be determin ed on the basis of "possible error," they said, and the pos sible error would probably not be the same in any two directions. In addition, it was learned, American information so far has failed to establish with certainty the exact point at which the Russian nose cone struck the sea. 9 County Demos To Attend Meet Nine delegates from Jack son county will attend the Democratic state convention Jan. 29 and 30 in Salem. The convention, first of its kind held by the party on the state level, will formulate the par ty's platform. Attending from the county and the committees to which they are assigned are Mrs Robert Duncan, education; Gerald J. Scannell Jr., tax ation; Larry Sheehan, Rogue River, and Mrs. Gordon Hud' son, economic development; Mrs. George Rode and K. C. Wernmark, Central Point, power; State Representative Robert Duncan, speaker of the house, governmental reorga nization; and M. E. Norton, Phoenix, and Frank Christian, Talent, natural resources. Keynote speaker for the convention will be Senator Wayne Morse who will speak Friday afternoon. Immedi ately following his talk the various committees will meet individually. Saturday morn ing a convention meeting will be held with the remainder of the the day devoted to com mittee sessions. A banquet will conclude the convention Saturday night. All events will be held at the Marion hotel, it was reported. The number of county dele gates is three times the num ber of county state legislature members. A bogus Civil Defense sur vey has been made in other Oregon counties and may be made in Jackson county, Sher iff Joe Walsh warned Friday. Hunters Outfoxed by Foxes - Who Else? York, England - (CPD-Jusx as members of the Bedale hunt were cornering a fox. they found another fox had been chasing them. In the confusion both foxes got away. Manned Rocket Ship Completes 4th Powered Test Edwards Air Force Base, Calif.-flJPD - The experimental manned rocket ship X-15 suc cessfully completed its fourth powered flight Saturday furthering America's know ledge in returning man from the fringes of space. North American Aviation test pilot Scott Crossfield again was at the controls as the 50-foot missile-plane was carried aloft tucked beneath the wing of a giant B-52 bomber. Flight Delayed The eight-jet mother ship rumbled down the Edwards AFB runway and lifted at 3:43 p.m. A scheduled morn ing flight was delayed be cause of telemetry troubles between the ships. After a rapid climb to ap proximately 50,000 feet and a final checkout, the B-52 re leased its exeprimental pay load at 4:17 p.m. and Cross field ignited his rocket en gines. The X-15 then spurted up ward to more than 60,000 feet at a speed in excess of 1,300 miles an hour. The pow ered flight lasted only a few minutes and Crossfield then glided to a landing on near by Rogers Dry lake. News Briefs By United Press International New York - Philip W. Bon sal, U.S. Ambassador to Cuba, returned to the United States Saturday for consultations on relations between the two na tions which he said had "de teriorated seriously." Charleston, S.C.-Blonde Jan et Frank, widow of the central figure in the investigation of the mystery crash of a Miami bound airliner Jan. 6, suffer ed a miscarriage Friday while en route to Florida by train. Her attorney blamed shock and worry. Los Angeles The prosecu tion, most of its big guns al ready fired, is expected to conclude its case next week in the murder trial of Dr. R. Bernard Finch and Carole Tregoff. Marion, Ind. - A bakery truck driver Saturday found the bodies of a family of eight who believed for days that they were ill with a "flu bug" but who actually were being slowly poisoned by gas fumes from their heating stove. Algiers-An estimated 2,000 European demonstrators shouting "We Want Massu" blocked traffic in Algiers Sat urday in angry protest against President Charles de Gaulle's firing of Para troop Maj. Gen. Jacques Massu. Protest strikes also closed European - owned shops and halted bus traffic. New York - Weeping, near ly hysterical 19-year-old heir ess Gamble Benedict was brought home to her socialite dowager grandmother Satur day night, nearly a month af ter eloping with a married Romanian-born chauffeur al most twice her age. Manila Forty school chil dren were reported buried alive Friday when a landslide struck their school in a re mo t e southern Philippines mountain town. Tokyo - Shouts of "Banzai" from 12.000 persons greeted JaDanese Prime Minister No- busuke Kishi when he arrived home Sunday after signing a new mutual defense treaty with the United States. Chicago - The wife of a former Chicago policeman who was Roger Touhy's body guard the night he was gunned down died Saturday of what hospital authorities called "unknown causes" but what her husband said were "injuries from a beating by the mob." Rains Sweep Mine Disaster Area; 440 Still Trapped Rescue Operations May Be Given Up Coalbrook, South Africa - (UPD-Torrential rains swept the Clydesdale coal mine disaster area Saturday night, bringing the danger of massive new cave-ins that would turn the site into a permanent grave yard for 440 trapped miners. Company officials expressed fears that rescue operations would have to given up en tirely and the pithead forever sealed because of the unstable condition of the surrounding rock strata. Flood Threatened This condition worsened ev ery moment because of the heavy rains that churned the ground above the Clydesdale pithead into a sea of mud and threatened to flood the shaft beneath. Even before the rains, a new rockslide forced rescue workers to flee for their lives, bringing a halt to their des perate operations. The miners, together with 70 work horses, have been entombed for more than two days in a gallery 600 feet be low ground without water and with air befouled by deadly fire damp (methane) poison gas. Group Says Labor Control 'Biased' Washington -0IPD- A Labor Department Farmers' Advis ory committee has unanimous ly condemned a consultant s report urging tighter controls over Mexican farm workers. The Committee, in a reso lution referred to Labor Sec retary James P. Mitchell, said the consultants' recom mendations were "biased, in accurate and should be junk ed." The condemnation by the 48-man special farm - labor group reflected the resent- ment of farmers and farm la bor employers at Mitchell's campaign to cut down the number of braceros imported for farm work while improv ing wages and working condi tions of domestic workers. The Labor Secretary last October released a compre hensive report by a four-man commission headed by former Minnesota Senator Edward Thye. The Commission, acting as consultants to Mitchell, re ported the use of Mexicans tended to drive down the pay of migrant American work ers and to take some of their jobs away. Grey Leaves Today On Antarctic Trip Herb Grey, advertising manager of the Mail Tribune, will leave here today for An tarctica. He will be the guest of the U.S. Navy on a trip which will include an airplane flight to New Zealand, and a cruise to an unexplored segment of the southern continent in the ice breaker, the U.S.S. Glacier. Grey expects to be gone about two months. Arrangements for the trip were made through Capt. Ed win A. McDonald, formerly of Medford, now commanding the present expedition. The trip is in line with Navy policy to take selected news papermen on expeditions so they can see at first hand how the Navy operates. Grey will write a series of articles for the Mail Tribune about his trip after returning. Washington -4UPD- The Navy plunged its 2-man Bathyscaph "Trieste" to a record depth of more than seven miles Satur day in a Pacific Ocean trench off the island of Guam. BASKETBALL Colorado State University 77, University of New Mexico 63 Idaho State 78, Western (Colo.) Slate, 52 Idaho 62, Oregon State 56 (OT). Stanford 54, Washington 42 Seattle University 102, Montana State 93 Willamette 67, Lewis and Clark 65 Linfield 101, Pacific 62 Portland Stat 37, South era Oregon 31 Truman STRIKERS GET VIOLENT-An estimated 36 police officers were called on Saturday to break up a mass demonstration against non Violence Erupts In Paper Strike Portland, Ore.-flJPD-Violence broke out on the picket lines around the Oregonian build ing here Saturday. An estimated 200 strikers and union sympathizers at tacked non-union workers en tering the Oregonian building about 7:30 a.m., police said. A line of officers broke up the disturbance and made sev eral arrests, police said. An officer called in to help break up the fray said he did know what started it. "They started bumping people off the sidewalks, and pretty soon it was a riot," he said. County to Buy Orchard Heaters Jackson county will buy 100 return-stack orchard heat ers soon for the Southern Ore gon Branch Experiment sta tion, County Judge Earl Mil er said Friday. Dean F. E. Price, head of the Oregon State college ex periment station, has accepted the county's offer, according to his letter to the county court. Estimated heater cost is $700. Dean Price orginally asked the county to buy 400 return stack heaters for the experi ment station orchards. Sports Bulletins Eagle Point - Guard Bob Berryman scored 20 points to lead the Eagle Point Eagles to a 54-48 upset win over Glendale Saturday night. Medford's whirling Black Tornado added the seventh victory to its unbeaten Southern Oregon confer ence basketball string last night by smothering Ash land high 92-32. The Tor nado led 17-4. 46-8 and 67 15 at the quarters. Booth Deakins and Bob Quinney had 15 points each for Med ford. Yreka, Calif.-Yreka high defeated St. Mary's of Med ford 57-34 Saturday night in a non - league basketball game here. Rogue River Phoenix high trimmed Rogue River high 49-41 Saturday night to knot with Eagle Point and Glendale for top spot in Rogue league basketball. Klamath Falls - Klamath Falls set a new school hoop scoring record by downing Crater high 97-61 Saturday night. Ashland Portland State college utilized a ball con trol offense to beat South ern Oregon college 37-31 here Saturday night and maintain first place in the Oregon Collegiate confer ence. Halftime score was 18 to 7 in favor of Port land State, which held a 10 to 1 lead midway though the first half. Don Bridges of PSC was high point man with 12 while Gordon Car rigan and Dick Smith had t each in the losing cause. laps 'Administration Bill Proposed to Protect Airlines Washington-IUPB-Rep. Tor bert H. MacDonald called Saturday for speed congres sional action on a bill to pro tect airlines from would-be bombers. The Massacusetts Democrat, a member of the House com merce subcomittee on trans portation, said that "all pos- Hospital Payment Plan Established A new hospital payment plan has been established by the Oregon State Public Wel fare commission effective Jan 1, James Pullman, Jackson county welfare administrator, reported Friday. The county welfare com mission now has a monthly allowance of $7,083 allocated to hospital expenses for wel fare patients and $13,008 for nursing home expenses. Prior authorization is not required for minimum adequate care. A similar budget may be set up for doctors' bills and drug expenses, Pullman said. The state welfare department is trying this latter type of budget in Umatilla county. If the experiment is successful there it will be applied throughout the state. "The way this works is if total welfare patients' hos pital expenses stay within the allocation the local hospitals will receive all the money due them for each patient. Otherwise they will receive only a portion of the money for which each patient is billed on a pro-rated basis such as 50 cents on a dollar," the administrator explained. Pullman explained the wel fare hospitalization plan is based on minimum adequate care. This includes hospitali zation "to save a life, to re lieve significant suffering, to prevent significant deterior ation in patient's health or range of function, to achieve significant improvement in patient's health, particularly when the result will be lower ed cost of care and living cost." Minimum adeauate care does not include elective sur gery or restorative procedures such as suDDlyins artificial limbs, Pullman added. Honolulu niPD Molten lava broke through an earth dike Saturday and engulfed two houses, a churcn and a social hall at Kapoho on the island of Hawaii. No one was in jured. WEATHER FORECAST: Cloudy and mild through Monday. Occasional rain this morning becoming heavier this afternoon and early tonight. Showery Mon day. Gusty southerly winds to day. Snow in the mountains above 4,000 feet. - Temp. Highest Yesterday 54 Lowest This Morning 41 Our Skies Tonight Precip. to 5 p.m. Yesterday .01 Sunset today 5:13 p.m. Sunrise tomorrow 7:33 a.m. The Moon, rising at 4:54 a.m. tomorrow, rides low, and forms a small triangle in the south eastern sky with two planets, Venus and Jupiter. Venus is the brighter of the two and it is also much nearer the Earth than Juipter. union employees hired by strike-bound Port land newspaper publishers. About 200 union members and sympathizers participated. sible attempts must be made to meet this problem." He said he had introduced a bill to direct the federal aviation agency to make a thorough study of means of giving the public "adequate protection from personal in jury and property damage aboard airplanes," and report to Congress by Dec. 31. He said he has asked that the transportation subcommit tee hold hearings on the bill "at the earliest opssible mo ment." MacDonald said that since 1948, eight bombs have been placed , in planes, and sabo tage "may have been the cause of the two recent air disasters." "Persons seeking to mur der someone, to commit sui cide, to collect insurance, have used these common carriers as a means of carrying out their work," he said in a state ment, "Not only have they killed themselves or their en emies, but also innocent trav elers." Ciudad Trujillo-Former Ar gentine Dictator Juan D. Pe ron confirmed Saturday night that he will leave soon for Europe but flatly denied he was giving up his 5-year-long exile in the Dominican Re public. Witnesses Combining Agencies Grants Pass-Not one of the dozen witnesses who testified before the legislative interim committee on natural resourc es here Friday night is in favor of any extensive consol idation of those state agencies dealing with natural re sources. Over 50 people attended the meeting held in the old library. The Grants Pass meeting was but one oi a series oi meetings the committee is holding throughout the state in order to sound out people's attitudes towards a proposed consolidation of the many state boards and commissions, possibly even under one head, a proposed department of nat ural resources. The interim committee is comprised of nine members, three from the state senate, four from the house and two appointed by the governor. Reception Mixed Committee chairman, Sen. Andrew J. Naterlin, New port, said the reception of the 'committee in communi ties around the state has been mixed, some entirely opposed to the consolidation as Grants Pass seemed to be, and some very much in favor. He said it is yet too early to tell just what recommenda tions the committee will take back to the legislature, but that the committee is simply gathering as much informa tion as it possibly can. Two of the proposed merg ers which aroused the most opposition at Friday night's meeting were possible consol idation of the state fish com mission with the gam com Ike's Government 'Worst Since Grant He Says 'Gives 'Em Hell' At Demo Banquet Washington -rtlPH- Former President Harry S. Truman Saturday night denounced the Eisenhower Administration as the "worst government we have had since General Grant." In a "give 'em hell" speech before some 2500 Democrats at a campaign kickoff din ner here, the former Presi dent said the Democrats should elect the next presi dent and he should be a man "who must know what to do besides run around the golf course." He challenged President Eisenhower's claim that he knows more about defense than almost anyone else in the country. "He hasn't shown it," Tru man said. Cites Missile Shot Truman said the Russians dropped a long range missile into the Pacific "where they have no business to be at all." "And it we had anybody with guts they wouldn't be there," he added. Truman told the Democrats that he is uncommitted to any candidate at this time, although he does have "cer tain inclinations." He fre quently has been reported as favoring the candidacy of his fellow Missourian, Sen. Stu art Symington. He also assailed President Eisenhower for "indecision and neglect" in dealing with crucial problems such as space achievements and na tional defense. Committeemen Rapped ' And in an appeal for party unity, he criticized, without mentioning names, "one or two national committeemen for making personal attacks on prominent party leaders because of policy differences. Seven presidential pros pects were on the speaker's rostrum with Truman as he said: "I have at this time no commitment to any candi date. It is only natural, of course, that I would have cer tain inclinations to some of the candidates." Cleveland, Ohio -40PD- The Scripps - Howard newspapers, publishers of the Cleveland Press, Saturday purchased the Cleveland News. Beginning Monday the newspaper will be published as the Cleveland Press and the Cleveland News. Oppose mission, and the state water resources board with other water agencies. Glen Grover, manager of the Grants Pass Chamber of Commerce, told the commit tee his group is opposed to a fish and game commission consolidation because the di vergent interests of the com mercial fishermen, represent ed by the fish commission, and those of the sports fisher men, represented by the game commission, would cause a combined group to lost its ef fectiveness. Opposes Combination Grover said the Chamber feels both commissions are very successful in their indi vidual operations and to com bine them would jeopardize the state's fishing interests, especially those of the sports men. Representatives of the Jack son and Josephine county chapters of the Izaac Walton league opposed the consoli dation of the two commis sions for essentially the same reasons. Sherman Smith, represent ing the Josephine county chapter, expressed that group's opinion that because the state game commission is financed by sportsmen's li censes and the fish commis sion is financed by other rev enues, including some federal assistance, the mixing of these funds would possibly be detri mental, especially to the sportsmen of the state who might not get as much worth out of their license fees as they do at present. (Continued on page 13)
