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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)