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Defense Sertairy -Disputes Idea off ISussiam . Military .--'Advantage Medford Tribune Rogue Valley Edition Page 2 Japanese Rescue Workers Seek Men Trapped in Mine Yubari. JaDan -(UPD-Rescue workers braving fire and the threat of gas explosions today brought one of 43 miners trapped in a caved-in mine to the surface alive. They found 28 bodies. The bodies were entombed more than two miles from the mine entrance, leaving 14 of the trapped miners unac counted for. Mine officials said the bo dies were found 13,120 feet inside the mine. Some ap peared to have been killed outright by the early morning explosion which triggered the cave-in while others appeared to have burned to death or s.5 'located. Efforts Hampered The survivor was found "much closer to the entrance of the mine," the officials said. Rescue work was hampered by a raging fire which broke out underground soon after the explosion. Foul air also threatened the lives oi ine trsrinpr! men. and air was pumped into the shaft in hopes of saving lives. The explosion knocked out all lights and telephones in the mine, and no word from the trapped miners reached the surface. "We are seeking ways of getting food and water to the men. but it is impossible to do so at present," an official of the mine said. "We don't even know what success the men are having now in fighting the fire." Press reports said there was '"no hope' for the rescue of the miners, but this report was not confirmed immediate ly officials of the Hokkaido L 1 DICK HOUSE The House of Insurance I YOUR 1 1 Jdepe'tidenr I L I.wraJJJ AGENT J 113 EAST 8th Phone SP 3-6607 Tanko Kisen Co., operator of the mine. The pit ripped by the blast is the biggest coal mine on Japans northern island of Hokkaido, and one of the largest in the country. 22 Work War to Safely Reports from the scene said 65 miners originally were trapped by the explosion, but 22 had managed to work their way to safety. HTK officials said seven rescue teams were at work in the mine, trying to break through to miners 'who were still underground. Officials said it was "lucky" the accident occurred at a time when a reduced Sunday-night shift was at work. "If such an accident oc curred on a week day, more than 1.C00 miners probably would have been in the mine and the tragedy would have been much worse," one offi cial said. In 1938, 160 miners were killed in a similar accident at Yubari, Japan. Herblock Receives Award for Work New York Herbert L. Block, syndicated editorial cartoonist who signs his works as "Herblock", has been nam ed recipient of the 1960 Fior ina Lasker Civil Liberties award. The award was made by the New York Civil Lib erties Union, an affiliate of the American Civil Liberties Union, whis administers the award. Block, two-time Pulitzer prize winner and recipient of awards from journalistic and other groups, was selected be cause of his vigorous defense of the Bill of Rights, both in hi5 cartoons and his writings. Herblock's cartoons appear daily in the Medford Mail Tribune. Mikoyan Due in Havana Thursday Havana-fUPD-Soviet Deputy Premier Anastas Mikoyan is scheduled to arrive here Thursday, starting what is ex pected to be a parade of im portant foreign visitors to Cuba this year. Premier Fidel Casto's rev olutionary government is be lieved to be planning an en thusiastic welcome for Mik oyan, but few details of the program plaroied for him have been made public. The Kremlin official is com ing here specifically to open the Soviet exhibition which has been touring the Western Hemisphere. The exhibition open Friday. 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Either your child looks better, feels better after one bottle of Bexel, or your money will be fully refunded. kerfs the Sight Bcxel Vitamin Formula Far Every Member of Tour Family Bexel BETTER . bv cKESSON We Give GREEN STAMPS WAIflSCOTT'S No 'Deterrent Gapr in Strength, Gates Declares Washington IIPD Defense Secretary Thomas S. Gates to day disputed the idea that Russia has outdistanced or even overtaken the United States in military power. Gates, testifying for the first time as defense secretary before the Senate military ap propriations subcomm i 1 1 e e, said emphatically there - was no "deterrent gap" in Ameri can military strength. He conceded that the Rus sians "may enjoy at times a moderate numerical superi ority" of intercontinental bal listic and sea-launched mis siles during the next three years. ' But he said the "versatility and strength" of U. S. over-all retaliatory capability was much greater. As support of this claim, he cited powerful U. S. long - range bomber forces, a "clearly superior" navy and better air defense. U. S. Has Bombers Gates, testifying on the ad ministration's $39,335,000,000 defense budget request, warn ed that it was "dangerous to our national security and our position in the world to allow a false impression to gain is second to the Soviet Union." ground that the United States Gates said manned bombers "are still, for both ourselves and the U.S.S.R., the primary means of delivery of heavy nuclear weapons in the vol ume and with the accuracy needed to strike a decisive blow." "In this category," he said, "the United States far excels the U.S.S.R." Gates said the Russians would be inviting their "own destruction" if they attacked. Chairman Dennis Chavez (D-N.M.) said in opening the hearings that the country's defense was of "far greater" importance than a balanced budget. ' New Soviet Estimates Gates, who was called to testify today along with Gene Nathan F. Twining, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, faced questioning on reports that intelligence experts have modified estimates on which he based his appraisal of U.S. military needs. One of his sharpest critics, Sen. Stuart Symington (D Mo.), was expected to join in the questioning. The reports of revised in telligence estimates began to criculate last Friday after Central Intelligence Director Allen W. Dulles briefed the combined Senate Space Com mittee and Preparedness sub committee. Sen. Henry M. Jackson (D Wash.) said that the briefing disclosed a "substantial" change in the estimates which Gates had been using to paint a "rosy" picture of U.S. de fenses. Accuracy- Upgraded From other sources it was learned that the modified esti mates, in part at least, up graded the accuracy of Rus sian missiles. The revisions were said, to have been based on new information. In a filmed TV interview with Sen. Prescott Bush (R Conn.) made public Sunday, Gates said Russia's advantage in missiles would be greatest about 1962 "after which the numbers will close." LEADER GIVES UP Pierre Lagillarde, 29, left, commander of the eight-day insurrection, evacuated his stronghold at Algiers in a bloodless end to the anti-Gaullist uprising. Lagillarde, followed by 500 of his armed men, passed through Army lines ringing the entrenched camp and boarded a 20 truck column for an unknown destination. (UPI Telephoto) Two Rescued from Clackamas Island Oregon City-(UPD-Two Port land men, Kenneth N. Mills, 28, and Wayne Wilbur Rudy, 26, were rescued from a small island in the Clackamas river Sunday about 13 miles east of here. The men had crossed over to the island Sunday morning during low water to fish. In the late afternoon when they attempted to get back to shore the river was too high. Another fisherman, Doyle Barnes, Portland, saw the men and notified authorities. County authorities along with state police managed to get a rubber life raft to the men on the end of 100 feet of rope to allow them to get back to safety. LUMBER USE Spokane-Lumber comprises 80 per cent of the construction material in the U.S. January Losers Top Stock List Advance New York -(UPD- Stocks met support today, starting off a month traders hope will be just the opposite of January. The list last month made the sharpest decline for any January on record. Motors, electronics, steels and chemicals, Hhe biggest losers last month, led the ad vance today. A good January production report helped lift Chrysler more than a point. Ford and Studebaker-P a c k a r d rose around 1 each. Youngstown rose about 2 and Republic more than 1 in a firm steel section. Union Carbide paced chemi cals with a rise of more than 3. DuPont tacked on about a point. DOW-JONES AVERAGES New York - TPD - Dow Jones final stock averages: 30 industrials 626.20, up 3.58; 30 railroads 151.27. off . 0.33; 15 uliliiies 85.99. up 0.43, and 65 stocks 207.23, up . 0.81. Sales today . were about 2,820,000 shares com pared with 3,060,000 shares Friday. Today's prices on selected stocks: Allied Chemical 51 Alum Co. Am. 92,i American Can 41i American Motors 78 3 AT&T Anaconda Copper Armco Steel (xd) Bendix Aviation Bethlehem Steel Boeing Air Caterpillar Corp Chrysler Corp. Continental Can 801 60 5i 66 5i 68 1 j 504 29', 305, 633 42 47' 26 i 92 3 Crown Zellerbach Curtiss Wright Dow Chemical Du Pont .237 Eastman Kodak 95 '4 Firestone 124 , General Electric 87 5 General Motors 48 Georgia Pacific 45 is Japanese Accused Of Reckless Fishing Tokyo-flJPD - Radio Moscow accused the Japanese Sunday night of reckless ' fishing which threatens salmon, trout, crab and herring resources in the North Pacific. The Russian radio made the attack in a broadcast beamed to Japanese listeners on the eve of the opening in Moscow of talks intended to .set Jap anese salmon, crab and her ring quotas for 1960 in waters of Soviet Kamchatka. Graham Paige 2'B Greyhound 20 58 Gulf Oil 32 ;B Homestake Mining . 41 Idaho Power .. 47 I. B. M. .419 Int. Paper 116 Johns Manville .'. ... 46 1 92 n 27 V4 22'8 45 ' 54 28'4 62 Kennecott Conner Lockheed Aircraft Montana Power Co. . Montgomery Ward Natl Biscuit New York Central Pac Gas & Elec Penney. J. C. 120 Penn RR 1534 Radio Corporation . 60 Va Richfield Oil 79 'i Safeway 36V Sears 45 "4 Shell Oil 38 'B Soconv Mobil Oil 39 g bouinern uo 40 Southern Pacific Standard California Standard Indiana Standard NJ Sun Mines Texas Co Texas Gulf Sulfur Tex Pac Land Trust Transamerica Trans World Air Tri-Continental Union Carbide Union Pacific United Aircraft United Air Lines : I U. S. Rubber U. S. Steel Youngstown S & T 22 'i . 47?i - 41 ',4 47 . 6H - 75 38 , 17i,2 - 153, - 26 - 15 .- 36i, 293, 37U - 311, - 555, .. 90'i -121 1,4 Creation off Missile 'Czar' Likely Washington - .(UPD - A new move for creation of a mis sile "czar" appeared likely today in the wake of state ments by two military lead ers . on the short and long term dangers to the United States. The short-term danger, ac cording to Air Force Gen. Thomas S. Power, is that in two years Russia may have enough intercontinental mis siles to launch a massive nu clear attack on this country. The long-term hazard, re tiring Army Mai. Gen. John B. Medaris said, is that at the present rates of progress Russia may completely domi nate space within 10 years. Brooks Disagrees Medaris, whose retirement from the Army became effec tive Sunday, said in a fare well statement that all missile and space activities should be placed under a joint military commana. Chairman Overton Brooks (D-La.) of the House Space Committee disagreed with Me daris, but said: "We''-e got to have more one-man con trol. I don't want dictatorship -but something's got to be done about this bickering and back-biting that is still going on." Rep. Chet Holifield CD Calif.), chairman of the con gressional subcommittee on radiation, said figures devel oped by his group last year take on a new significance in the present situation. Views Striking Power Holifield said that if Rus sia launched 260 missiles with H-bomb warheads at 224 American targets, 50 million Americans would be killed and 20 million injured. Democrats Proclaim State Convention 'Very Successful' The 260 missiles is approxi mately the number that Pow er, chief of the Strategic Air Command, believes the Rus sians could have sometime in 1962. By coincidence, 260, is also the number of intercontinen tal ballistic missiles that America has "programmed" so far. But there is no chance that they could all be era placed before late 1963 or 1964. Salem - (UPD - Democratic party officials proclaimed the two-day state convention here which ended Saturday har monious and very successful. More than 500 attended. It was the first full - scale Oregon Democratic 'conven tion in state history. One was attempted 66 years ago. The 297 official delegates from 29 counties adopted a resolution calling for another state-wide conclave in 1962, the date and site to be chosen later. "It was a tremendous suc cess," according to Chairman Robert Straub, Springfield. "It's going to give depth to politics in 1960." National Democratic Chair man Paul Butler addressed the ' convention twice, once briefly Saturday afternoon and at the Saturday night ban quet. He termed it a "wonderful demonstration of Democracy at work in the grassroots." Keynoter Sen. Wayne Morse hailed it as healthy. Oregon Democratic Nation al Committeeman C. Girard Davidson challenged the state GOP to have a convention of its own, "to see if the Republi cans will debate the issues publicly as the Democrats have done." Hot Debate on Some The convention adopted a liberal and broad platform built on planks of taxes, la bor, power, agriculture, gov ernmental reorgani z a t i o n, civil rights, education, natur al resources, economic de velopment, health and wel fare and veterans affairs. Receiving hot debate be fore passage were abolishment of the Board of Control and death penalty, and trade with Red China - except for stra tegic goods. Recommendations which failed, after hot debate in cluded electing Oreeon house members on the basis of popu lation rather than the Dresent district system, and a thorough rewrite of the state constitu tion. Repeal of the Taft-Hartley law was called for, along with repeal of "any anti-labor pro visions passed by the 1959 Congress." Traditionally, a sales tax was opposed. Among resolutions, one was passed unanimously on the Portland newspaper strike. Abhor Strikebreakers It said "the Democratic party of Oregon strongly recommends that a fact-find ing committee be accepted by both labor and management . . . in order to settle the strike in an honorable and equitable manner, fair to both the publishers and the union involved." It said the party "abhors professional strikebreakers to work in plants that are under strike conditions . . . we also strongly disapprove the re fusal of the publishers of the Oregonian and the Oregon Journal to submit to an im partial public body the issues in this unfortunate situation." Convention officials at the outset thought all of Oregon's 36 counties were represented. The final tally showed that counties without delegations were Crook, Gilliam, Grant, Harney, Lake, Wallowa and Wheeler. The largest delega tion, 77, came from Multno mah county. 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