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Tugs Secure Heavy Tow Lines To Stricken Tanker Floundering in Pacific MBghway Funds From Pentagon tinted Rayburn Points To tack of Progress Made in Defense Washington - (UPD - Speaker Sam Rayburn said today "we have not made anywhere near the progress we should have" in military defense against Russia. He said he is not at all satisfied with what has been done. The veteran Democrat told reijorters he does not know what has gone wrong. But he commended to every American a warning Tuesday night by Rep. Carl Vinson (D- Ga.) that more money must te spent for defense and "drastic sacrifices" must be made now to overcome Russia's lead in missiles. Argument Over 'Leaks' Rayburn commented as an angry new political contro versy flared over Republican charees that Senate Demo crats had "leaked" national defense secrets in the current debate over whether U. S military strength is adequate. Vinson is chairman of the House Armed Services ComT mittee. . Rayburn continued: "He indicated - as I believe - that we have not made any where near the progress we should have in our defense. I don't know why. I don't know whether our engineers and scientists have not been turn ed loose or what." FDR JR. BACKS KENNEDY . Washington-UPD-Sen. John F. Kennedy (D-Mass.) won a declaration of presidential support Monday from Frank lin D. Roosevelt Jr.. son of the late president. Roosevelt' a former congressman, said Kennedy "is a winner." I ;IL j rlmrs . m.-tests II HIIHraraiMlMHW I"-' '"Tlf-T I Ml I WMlMil fiitrfifeii I1 TANKER DISABLED A Coast Guard heli copter, arrow, hovers over the fantail of the disabled wine-tanker Angelo Petri as she wallows in heavy seas near San Fran cisco. The whirlybirds took 20 of the ship's 40-man crew to land and safety before the Petri's anchors caught and held, preventing her from drifting inshore to the beach. Tugs are en route to aid the vessel. (UPI Telephoto) Finch Story of Shooting Target Of Prosecution . Vivian is the Latin word for an animated, lively girl. WE FILL ALL PRESCRIPTIONS with .ifailing I M accuracy from l1 . fresh stocks of JLjL, pure, (jotent m" drugs. Leave your Prescription here while you PARK & SHOP Open 8 a.m. to 9 p.m. daily Closed Sundays Green Stamps CENTRAL DRUG Main and Central FREE DELIVERY Los Angeles - (WD - The Drosecution climaxes its cross- eiramination of Dr. R. Ber nard Finch today when it tries to break down his story that he accidentally shot his wife in the back in a struggle over the death gun. The crew-cut "surgeon will wind up one week on the wit ness stand after prosecutor Fred N. Whichello tried to prove the "improbable odds" of Finch's tale that the gun went off as he. threw it away. Finch, 42, and his red- haired mistress, Carole ire goff, 23, are charged with murdering Mrs. Barbara Jean Finch, 36, at he West Covina, Calif., home last July 18. Bills Mentioned The state, which contends Finch killed his wife to pre vent her from getting $750, 000 in community property in a divorce settlement, sought to show Tuesday that the doc tor was having a tough time paying his bills. Whichello brought out that Finch allotted $2,000 monthly to cover general expenses, in cluding, the following items: -$395 for child support and house payments to his urst wife, $82 for a maid, $2o0 for a new Chrysler, $171 for a new Cadillac, $250 for gen eral household expenses, $171 for mortgage payments on his home and at least $34 for a slip in which to dock his boat. Also country club and tennis club dues, legal fees and expenses for trips to play in tennis tournaments. MEDF0RD Tribune Regional Edition Page 2 Market Rally of Tuesday Extended New York-flJPD - The stock Eastman Kodak DON'T GIVE THAT DOVE YOUR LOVE all he deserves is a pair of sox beautifully wrapped as a Valentine for you at BARKER'S 1 market extended Tuesday's rally during the first hour in generally routine trading to day. Fractional gains predomin ated in the list, with indus trials picking up well over a point in their average. Rails also firmed, while utilities favored the downside. An accumulation of buy ord ers delayed the opening in Electric Autolite, following news the company, has invited tenders of its stock at $54 a share. The issue closed Tues day at 50 up 1. DOW -JONES AVERAGES New York-tlPD-Dow-Jones final slock averages: 30 in dustrials 628.45, up 9.02; 20 railroads 150.80, up 1.06; 15 utilities 85.94, up 0.45, and 65 stocks 207.50, up 2.30. Sales Tuesday were about 2,860,000 shares compared with 3,350,000 shares Monday. Tuesday's prices on selected stocks: Allied Chemical 49 5a Alum Co. Am. 953i American Can . 408 American Motors -. 813i AT&T 82i Anaconda Copper .... 60 Armco Steel .: . 631b Bendix Aviation 70 V Bethlehem Steel 50 Boeing Air . 29 i Caterpillar Corp 30 7 Chrysler Corp 61 5i Continental Can 453i Crown Zellerbach 471s Curtiss Wright 26 Dow Chemical 90 '4 Du Pont 235 li Firestone - 98 r, ..124 General Electric 8914 General Foods (xd) 1024 General Motors 47 Vs Georgia Pacific 45 "4 Graham Paige 2a Greyhound 20 '4 Gulf Oil ' 311J Homestake Mining 41 ',i Idaho Power 46 'i I. B. M 420 Int. Paper 116 Johns Manville 47?a Katy 53a Kennecott Copper 903,i Lockheed Aircraft 28 is Montana Power Co. 23 Montgomery Ward 48 Nat'l Biscuit 551J New York Central 28 Pac Gas & Elec 63 Penney. J. C. .116'i Penn RR 155 Radio Corporation . 62 3i Richfield Oil 78 Safeway 37 Sears 4534 Shell Oil 35','s Socony Mobil Oil 39 Southern Co 403i Southern Pacific 21 2 Standard California 45 Standard Indiana 43 Vx Standard N. J 48',2 Sun Mines 63i Texas Co 773. Texas Gulf Sulfur 1... Tex Pac Land Trust Transamerica Trans World Air Tri-Continental Union Carbide Union Pacific 173i 153; 27a 15a 36? 137 29 4 Search Pressed for Colorado Executive Morrison, Col. -(UPD- An Air Force helicopter joined the search today for brewery executive Adolph Coors III, whose mysterious disappear ance continued to' baffle au thorities. Coors, 44, board chairman of one of the nation's largest independent breweries and a porcelain plant which manu factures ceramic nose cones for missiles, disappeared Tues day morning. -The search was concentrated in the nearby rugged Rocky Mountain foot hills, where Coors may have been lost overnight and per haps was seriously ill or injured. A new gas range has been developed in which there is no exposed flame. The gas is burned in a central burner and air at 1,000 degrees F. is conducted to plates on top of the range or to the oven. United Aircraft 38 unneu rtirunes (xa) : oU','4 U. S. Rubber 56 '4 U. S. Steel 87 li Youngstown S & T (xd) 117'.i i Efforts To Save Vessel Resumed At Daybreak San Francisco (UPD T w o tugs secured heavy tow lines to the stricken Angelo Petri today, raising hopes that the world's largest wine tanker would be saved from destruc tion by pounding waves. A fleet of three tugs and the Coast Guard cutter Taney resumed at daybreak the grim fight to save the 21,800-ton vessel anchored within sight of San Francisco.' The operation had been temporarily called off several hours earlier today to rest the crew of the stricken vessel, which is carrying a cargo of 2,500,000 gallons of wine, 1,500,000 gallons of cotton seed oil and 1,500 tons of mis sile fuel. ' Visibility in the area was good and the waves were re ported slightly smaller than the 25-foot waves that ham pered operations thus far. Twenty six men of the Fc tri's 40-man crew remained aboard in an attempt to save her, although only one anchor kept the tanker from being pounded to pieces in the surf. The tanker left San Fran cisco Tuesday en route for the East Coast. As it pushed through heavy seas outside the Golden Gate, a high wave suddenly smashed over the bow, flooding the engine room and disabiling the rudder. The vessel, drifting without power, flashed an "S-O-S" and dropped two anchors with the hope that at least one would catch and hold. The Petri drifted helplessly for two miles toward destruc tion before the anchors caught. Coast Guard helicop ters then picked up 20 of the crewmen and flew them to Ocean Beach, just 3 13 miles to the east. Tugs were able to get two lines aboard the tanker Tues. dav night, but both were snapped by the force of the sea. The Petri raised enough Dower to pull one of its anchors up part way, but the captain. Edward A. Lehm Jr of San Mateo, Calif., kept the other anchor fast because he had feared that the lines might not hold. Time was an important fac tor in the battle. Although the heavy seas continued, a break was expected in the violent storm that ripped the coastal areas during the past three days. Winter Pear Crop most Cleaned Up, ureau Report Shows The 1959 crop of D'Anjous, Bosc and Cornice pears from the Rogue River valley and other winter pear growing districts of the West Coast will be pretty well cleaned up by April, since 74.6 per cent of the crop was sold Jan. 1. This would be considerably earlier than last year and re flects the success of two con centrated advertising and sales promotion campaigns di rected by the Oregon-Wash- mgton-California Pear Bu reau, according to R. A. (Dick) Patterson, general manager of the bureau at Portland. He said an equally impor tant factor was the coopera tion of Medford area shippers and those in other growing districts. He pointed out that it was the desire of the indus try this year to move the en tire crop when pears had their top eating quality. This meant, then, that a majority had to be sold and delivered before Jan. 1. The bureau reported that DEALER SMS ARE HERE! Your Used Car is worth more as a trade-in in Medford Now! Don't waint any longer to get behind the wheel of a '60 See Page 5 winter pears sold and deliv ered totaled 6.7 per cent, with another 10.9 per cent sold and stored in the west for future deliveries. This showed that 74 per cent of the total crop was sold, Patterson said. The 63.7 per cent of winter pears sold and delivered on Jan. 1 compared with only 50.7 sold and delivered Jan. 1. 1959. The 1959 crop pack-out was the equivalent of 4,550,226 boxes, compared to 4,423,181 in 1958. As usual, D'Anjous packed out the most. 3,282.- 658 boxes, compared to 3,098, 265 in the previous year. Co mice and Nelis were gainers' in 1959 over 1958. Cornice packed out 225,493 boxes as compared with 150,126 and Nelis 302,458 boxes as com pared with 92,684 in 1958. Patterson said the first pro motion started in November and the second began nation ally Jan. 25. Efforts of adver tising and sales promotion were concentrated in two campaigns for the 1959-60 marketing year rather than three projects as in the past. Patterson said the move ment of West Coast winter pears starved "real slow after Jan. 1 and it wasn't until the second promotion started that pears really began to sell again." He believes that spe cial effort for promoting the 1960-61 crop should also be concentrated in December. 'If we don't," he explains, 'winter pears are shoved aside while the retailer is busy sSelling Christmas trees and other holiday goods." 4,000 Restaurants Prove it Every Day Washington - (DPB House highway investigators, critical of added defense costs in the inter-state road-building pro gram, might recommend that the Pentagon pick up part of the tab. Rep. Gordon H. Scherer (R Ohio), a member of the sub committee investigating the superhighway program, told United Press International to day that he believed such a recommendation was one of the major aims of the inquiry. Scherer said he would be "inclined to go along with" any proposal that the Defense Department pay at least a por tion of the cost of the planned 41,000-mile interstate road network. Scherer made the statement as the subcommittee recalled D. K. Chacey, assistant chief of Army transportation, for further questioning. He was the first witness at the open ing of the investigation Tues day. The subcommittee also heard Armlon Leonard, vice president of the Heavy Spe cialized Truckers Conference of the American Trucking as sociation, state Tuesday that the 16-foot underpass clear ance recommended by the De fense Department was not adequate. . Thousands of bridges on the superhighway system were built with clearances between 13 and 15 feet. Some law makers have charged that this happened because the Defense Department took two years to come up with, its recommendations. Meanwhile a group of House Democrats planned to introduce their "Brannan Plan" farm proposal under which farmers could vote for production curbs designed to Frogmen May Seek Sub in Argentina Buenos Aires-flJPD-The Ar gentine navy was reported preparing today to send "frog men" into the Neuvo Gulf off southeastern Argentina to de termine ' once and for all whether a foreign submarine is lurking in its depths. . Skin-diver suits whose wear ers could plunge as deep as 200 feet beneath the surface less than half the estimated 450-foot maximum depth of the gulf-were said to be on the way to the naval task force in the area. The navy closed the ap proaches to the gulf to com mercial shipping Tuesday for unexplained "tactical reas ons." The only other official word about the sub which has been reported in or near the gulf intermittently for the past 10 days was that seven Argen tine warships and half a doz en planes are "continuing pa trols in the area." keep supply in line with de-jment subsidies if prices fell mand and for direct govern-1 below a certain level. yT MAR YOU In the Eighteen Nineties the United Kingdom launched more than 80 per cent of the world's merchant shipping tonnage. APPEARANCE WITH BIFOCAL SHADOW! Youthful NOLES BLEND-VUE lenses eliminate th objectionable tattle-tale age line caused by old fashioned bifocal lenses! 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