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fo) Jti 1 0 fo) Ainnieiroeoini NEW PRESS One of three sections of the. newprinting press that will be used to print the Mail Tribune after May 1 was moved into the new press building on Grape st. yesterday, after arriving by freight truck from Plainsfield, N.J. Workmen above are shown as- they attached cables to the unit to lift it off the truck by means of a large Hatfield Denies Oath Violation In Lusk Choice Salem-OJPD-Gov. Mark Hat field denied today he violated his oath to uphold the Oregon constitution when he appoint ed Oregon Supreme Court Justice Hall S. Lusk to the U.S. Senate. The Coos Bay World in a story Wednesday by Manag ing Editor Robert W. Leedom said that he had, and that Justice Lusk violated his own judicial oath not to accept any non judicial appointments while a justice. Hatfield said, "of course I didn't violate my oath. Jus tice Lusk didn't violate his either." Attorney General Robert Y. Thornton said Hatfield's ap pointment was an "unenforce a b 1 e violation," explaining that in the matter of appoint ments of the judiciary to Con gress "the federal authority is supreme." Lusk said there is a case in point on the Oregon books. Nearly 30 years ago a circuit judge ran for Congress. "There was a dispute," he said, "and the State Supreme Court ruled that the judicial oath did not apply to federal offices." "I wouldn't have accepted the appointment," Lusk said, "if this weren't the case." RALLY PLANNED ' Ashland -A voter registra tion rally will be held tonight at 7:30 o'clock at the Wom en's club building,. Lithia park, Ashland. At the rally, sponsored by . the Jackson County Democratic Central committee, registration . rec ords for the southern county precincts will be available. Coffee Hour for State Treasurer Candidate Set A eoffee hour for Shirley .Fields, Portland, Republican candidate for state treasurer, will be held at 7 p.m. Sunday st Jackson County Republi can Central committee head quarters in the building for merly occupied by the Med ford Health club at 3 West Sixth -st.. Medford. Monday, Miss Fields is scheduled to speak before the Republican Women's club in the Girls Community club at noon. Air women who have not been contacted previous ly may obtain luncheon tick ets by calling Mrs. L. D. In skeep, at SPring 3-1547. A certified registrar will be present at Monday's meeting for residents who wish to reg ister at that time, the club announced. crane. This section alone weighs 152 tons. The new press, manufactured by Walter Scott and company, Plainsfield, will make it possible to print 48 pages at once, includ ing eight pages of spot color. Full color re production can also be more readily accom plished with the new press, according to Business Manager Gerald Latham. Purposes of Human Rights Council Are Explained Approximately 40 persons, , including, a man who identi fied himself as a segregation ist, last night attended a meetr ing of the Medlord Human Rights .Council at which the purposes of the Council were explained. Moderator for the meeting, the Rev. Thomas McCamant, stressed that the Council is not trying to get Negroes or whites in or out of Medford. "The Council attempts to see that people who do move into Medford are-, accepted as a part of the community as free people in a free country, he said. , Dr. Eugene G. Ray and Dr. John Dickson spoke as owners of the property In Medford which has been rented by a Negro family: Dr. Ray said that they had received as many as 30 telephone calls a day criticizing them for their action. He added that they felt that they were doing the right thing and were not standing alone since the Coun cil was present in the com munity. " Small Minority Council members declared that discrimination is prac ticed in Medford by a small minority. The professed segregation ist, Hubertus Dallwitz, 1005 West Main St., stated that the feelings of Medford residents regarding the arrival of Ne groes should not be sought from the "professional" group but from the man-on-the-street. He stressed his concern about interracial marriage and Miss Fields is a veteran of three sessions of the state legislature as representative from the west subdistrict of Multnomah county. Prior to Miss Fields' elec tion to the legislature in 1957, she served as alternate and secretary of the Oregon dele gation to the Republican Na tional convention in 1952. While in Salem, Miss Fields has been vice chairman of the interim education committee, a member of the education, judiciary and alcoholic con trol committees, and the in terim committee on criminal law. She has also served on the governor's committee on prisons and parole, and in May, 1959, was invited to at tend the White House confer ence on refugees in Washing ton, D.C. o) . . 1 fo r Gro u p preservation ... of the white race. Bob Church, chief meteor ologist at the U. S. weather bureau office here, was asked how it happened that a Ne gro was assigned to the local bureau. Church said the man in question wanted to advance in the weather bureau. While assigned to the Denver, Colo., office he volunteered for a bureau weather project on a floating ice floe near the North Pole and was there for 22 months. Available Posts Listed Following the termination of the Polar operation, the personnel were returned to the United States. Each was given a list of available posts in their respective pay grades. Church added that the new man here had heard about the Northwest and likes to ski, so requested transfer to Med ford. He thanked the people in Medford who had been help ful in getting the family lo cated. The Council elected 12 per- ! sons to its board of directors. Elected to two-year terms were Mrs. Everett Faber, Charles P. Champlin, Mrs. Lester Harris, Donald Walters, Mrs. Richard Schuchard, Mr. McCamant; one - year terms, Mrs. Robert Duncan, Mrs. Roy Gilbertson, Dr. George G. Roseberry, Mrs. Wilbur D. Pearson, Mrs. Gaylord Hay, and John Lusk. Rogue River School Asks Building Bids Rogue River-Rogue River school district 35 is calling for sealed bids for the purchase of a three-story brick school building on the elementary school grounds. Superintend ent John B. Harr announced today. The building, which was condemned by the state fire marshal, is to be demolished and removed from the grounds between June 1 and Aug. 15. The site is to be filled and graded by the successful bid der to the school's specifica tions. " Potential bidders may in spect the structure on any school day between 8 a.m. and 4 p.m. by "contacting the superintendent. A perform ance bond of $10,000, to in sure satisfactory completion of the project within the time specified, is to accompany each bid. hp New Yorker Said Spy Head Under Vatican Orders 20 Years Meted on Espionage Charges Tokyo (UPD - Communist China announced today it had sentenced American Bishop James E. Walsh to prison for 20 years on spy charges. It said he headed a spy ring he and Francis Cardinal Spell man of New York set up un der Vatican orders. The Peiping broadcast fol lowed announcement that the bishop of Shanghai had been sentenced' to life imprison ment and that 13 other Roman Catholics were jailed for al leged crimes against Com munism. It said three other foreign priests were impli cated in the "spy ring." In 'People's Court' . Peiping said Bishop Wakh, 68, of the Maryknoll Fathers, Ossining, N. Y., and a native of Cumberland, Md., was tried Friday in Shanghai by a "people's court" He had been arrested in October, 1958, and held incommunicado ever since. Bishop Walsh was first ar rested by the Chinese Com munists in 1951 and held un der house arrest for years, with only vague charges men tioned against him. When re leased he elected to remain in Red China and continue his church work. Five Americans Held Peiping said that instead he plotted to overthrow the Chinese government and had visited -Japan - in-1940 and 1941 to confer with "Japan ese Imperialists" to divide China. Today's charges c h i efly concerned his alleged master minding of a spy ring and said he "persisted in . . . ef forts to sabotage (the Red re gime) with the anti-Imperialists and patriotic movements of Catholics all over the coun try." One of Five Bishop Walsh is one of five Americans held by the Com munist Chinese. The U. S. State Department has protest ed that he was being held as a political hostage but Peip ing never replied and Walsh simply disappeared in Shang hai 17 months ago. The other Americans are John Downey, New Britain, Conn.; Richard Fecteau, Lynn, Mass., Hugh Redmond Jr., Yonkers, N.. Y. and Robert McCann, Altadena, Calif. Most were being held on spy charges and sentences ranging from 15 years to life. McAllister Hopes Lusk Will Return Salem-fllPD-Oregon Supreme Court Chief Justice William McAllister said today he hopes Hall S. Lusk will re turn to the State Supreme court when he completes his term in the U.S. Senate next November. Lusk resigned after 23 years on the Supreme court to succeed Sen. Richard L. Neu- berger (D-Ore.) who. died last week. 'Washington WRECKAGE STREWN Wreckage of a Northwest Airlines Lockheed Electra is shown after the airliner disintegrated in the sky near Tell City, Ind., Thursday. The plane was en route from Minneapolis to Miami. A 20-square-mile area Regional Edition Medford 22 Pages Orchard Heating Conditions To Be Studied in Area A request for $500 to erect a tower to study orchard heat ing conditions will be made to the Jackson County Fruit Growers League this after noon. W. J. Rogers, of the fruit frost forecast warning serv ice, said he hopes to erect an 88-foot telescopic tower with instruments . on the Scott Hamilton orchard, northwest of the Medford airport, to make a profile study of air inversion. An orchard such as Hamilton's, which is not heat ed during the frost period, is needed for the study, he said. Inversion occurs during stable conditions when cold air lies beneath a warm air layer. Since heat rises, warm air will not replace the colder air. Inversion Measure Rogers explained that such a study will give an inversion measure throughout the Rogue valley. A weather balloon may be used later as an auxiliary measuring device he said. This study will also have some relation to air pollution, Rogers noted. The worst in versions often occur follow ing a night of no orchard heating, Rogers said. At this time, an accumulation results from refuse burning, fire places and other means. A cold air mass which moves in during an orchard heating period tends to carry the ac cumulation away, he explain ed. The study also will deter mine how orchard heating re acts during an inversion, how to obtain more efficient or chard heating, and what con ditions occur just before an inversion. . Washington (UPD The na tion's major airports averaged a takeoff and landing almost every second last year, the Federal Aviation Agency re ported today. ' Slept Here" i I ' r '? :"' v " MEDFORD, OREGON, FRIDAY, MARCH 18, 1960 bate for Election On Bond Issue Here Changed to March 31 The election on a $750,000 named 20 days prior to a bond bond issue to finance a two year building program in School District 549C will be held Thursday, March 31, in stead of March 29, as original ly planned. .- ' The change in dates was made because of a variance in state law in the number of days . elapsing . between the time election board members are named and the election date. Dr. Leonard B. Mayfield, superintendent, said state law specifies board members be Special Phoenix Election Slated Phoenix A special city election will be held from noon to 8 p.m. Wednesday, March 23, at the Phoenix city hall on the proposed city wa ter bond issue, according to Mayor Arthur MacKintosh. The bonds, which would not exceed $25,000, would be used to finance engineering serv ices, pumps, pipe lines, chlor inator and electrical equip ment, MacKintosh explained. This would be used to fully utilize water from two wells recently drilled)by the city. "An increased water sup ply is mandatory since the ex isting wells did not, even un der severe rationing, produce sufficient water to supply the demand," MacKintosh stated. "It became necessary to find a new source of water, which was done by drilling the ad ditional wells. These with the present system will produce what we hope will be suffic ient water for Phoenix for a number of years," the mayor added. "It is most urgent, in order for the community to prosper and sustain an economic growth that this bond issue re ceive an affirmative vote." Eugene Attorney Succeeds Goodwin Salem-(UPD-Gov. Mark Hat field today named Eugene at torney Roland Rodman, 40, to the Lane county Circuit bench to succeed Judge Al fred T. Goodwin. Goodwin assumed state Su preme Court duties today. WEATHER FORECAST: Clear tonight with variable high cloudiness Satur day. Low tonight 35. High Sat urday 35. Temp. Highest Yesterday : ,1 Lowest this Morning 35 Our Skies Tonight ., Sunset today ; 6:22 p.m. Sunrise tomorrow 6:17 a.mr. Moonrise tomorrow ..12.35 a.m. In Perigee, the Moon is 229.800 miles from the Earth tonight. Last Quarter ..: March 19 VISIBLE PLANETS Jupiter, low in south. x east ; 3:15 a.m. Saturn, low in south east 4:23 sum. Mars, rises 5:18 a.m. Venus, rises .. 5:47 a.m. was being scouted for parts fuselage of which dug a huge election, and in the same para graph it specifies 22 days as the time lapse. Consult Legal Counsel School officials consulted legal counsel, and were ad vised to take the longer time, or 22 days, between the date election boards are named and the election to be legally safe, The $750,000 ' bOffd "issue" would finance 29 new class rooms in the district, some of which would be new con struction with others made available through renovation; completion of a boys physical education plant at Medford High school; administration facilities at West Side school; construction of a stage at Ruch school; renovation of the Jacksonville multi - purpose room; and an addition to the cafeteria-kitchen at McLough lin Junior High. The work will be done over a two-year period, starting with next school year. The two-year program is based on a review of projected enroll ments in the district. Bus Service to Jacksonville Set - Jacksonville-Henry J. Hu ber, president and owner of Evergreen Bus lines, has an nounced that the firm is work ing on a plan to run a small bus to Jacksonville at least three times a day starting April 1. Huber emphasized that the final decision on whether to start the service has not been made, but that his firm will announce its plans within the next few days. If the service is started, he added, continuance of it will depend upon cooperation and support by Jacksonville resi dents. Moscow (UPD The Soviet Union today named land marks on the hidden side of the moon for Thomas Edison, Louis Pasteur, and other great discoverers. Traffic Engineering Department Plans Changes in East Main St. Medford's traffic engineer ing department plans a num ber of adjustments on Main St., east of the new Eighth st. bridge, which they hope will solve several traffic conges tion problems that have arisen since the new bridge , was opened. The proposals were pre sented to the city council last night. The council had no ob jections and the department will proceed. One of the changes is the relocation of the center line on Main st., from Tripp st. to the bridge, to five feet north of its present location. Three Moving Lanes According to City Manager Robert Duff, this relocation of the wrecked airliner, the crater in a field where it fell. (UPI Telephoto) 54th Year Price 10 Cents Tribune No. 305 Investigation of Ashland Shooting Is Continuing Investigation of the shoot ing of Mrs. Marian Stella Hamilton, 40, at her home at 2700 East Main rd., Ashland, is continuing. Sheriff Joseph D. Walsh said today. Walsh said his office and Oregon state police are inves tigating along several lines He said robbery is still I vague motive for the .shootr ing. The house was under ob servation by a ' number of people who were in the prox imity about the time officers estimate the . shooting oc curred, ' the sheriff said. Ap proximately 12 persons were on or near, the premises in one 30-minule period about noon, he added. Suspect Not Located Authorities have not yet lo cated a man for questioning about the" slaying, it was re ported. He . was described about 25 to 30 years old, short, stocky, in need of a haircut and was seen near the Hamilton farm about noon Tuesday, according to sher iff's deputies. Mrs. Hamilton's body was found about 2:30 p.m. Tues day by her husband, Lester G. Hamilton. She had been shot nine times with a .22 caliber weapon which officers now believe to be a revolver. Walsh said several items have been sent to the state crime laboratory for examina tion. ? HoquiamttlPD-Funeral serv ices for Anton Anderson, for mer mayor of Anchorage, Alaska, were to be held here Saturday. . Sports Bulletin: Eugene-(UPI)-Jefferson de feated Hermiston 57-44 and David Douglas ousted - La Grande 44-40 today to ad vance to . the consolation finals in the class A-l high school basketball tourna ment here. Jefferson and David Douglas play at 1:30 p.m. Saturday for fifth place. will provide for three moving lanes of traffic at all times, two east bound and one west bound and still permit park ing on both sides of Main st. As a result, the traffic lanes will each be narrowed from 12 to .10 feet wide. . Parking strips will be 7V& feet wide. This plan will also require that there be no parking on the north side of Main st., from Genessee st. to the point where the pavement widens. There will also be no park ing restrictions on the south side of Main st., from Myrtle, st. approximately 75 feet to the east to provide a clear eastbound passing lane at Crater Lake ave. Duff said the city will re Passenger Plane Disintegrates in Air; 63 Perish Metal Fatigue, Bomb Scare Eyed Tell City, Ind. -UPD- Civil Aeronautics Board experts and the FBI dug into a black ened 50-foot crater today to learn whether a bomb or some other instrument of sabotage sent 63 persons falling 18. 000 feet to their deaths aboard a new Northwest Airlines passenger plane. A CAB spokesman said the $2,400,000 turbo - prop jet, carrying 57 passengers and six crewmen from Minneapo lis and Chicago to Florida, "obviously broke up in the air." He said searchers would "investigate all possibilities, including a bomb." To Check 'Fatigue' Edward Slattery, informa tion chief of the CAB, said the agency's men also would check whether "metal fatigue or some other undue stress in the plane" caused the craft to disintegrate over the Ohio River Valley and plunge into a soybean field Thursday afternoon. FBI Agent in Charge Ed ward Powers, heading nearly a score of G-men at the scene, said the FBI was there "to determine whether there were any violations within our jurisdiction, principally the possibility of sabotage." Check Insurance Policies State troopers still were gathering up bodies in bags today and carting them away to a high school gymnasium in nearby Cannelton. FBI men prepared to take fingerprints or otherwise establish identity. Continental Casualty Co., underwriter for airport sales, started checking carbons to day of flight insurance poli cies sold at Chicago's Midway Airport Thursday and for sev eral ' previous days. f ' Mutual of Omaha, another underwriter, said it had not started a check to determine whether any suspiciously large ' policies had "been 'taken out on the lives of persons aboard the flight. Bomb Reported The chance of bomb sabo tage was raised originally after a man telephoned Chi cago police a bomb was aboard a plane at Midway Airport. The call came a few hours after the airliner, which originated in Minneapolis, left Midway on a non-stop flight to Miami. Police were unable to trace the call. The airliner was a new plane. It had been in service only a few weeks. The stricken four-engined plane came down in pieces. Wreckage was strewn for five miles. The fuselage of the plane plunged ' through a 13-inch snow blanket and dug a 25- foot crater in the rich Indi ana bottomland. "The plane is so deep in the ground it's almost out of sight," a coroner's official said. The crash was the world's 10th air disaster of 1960 and raised the death to 401. It was the third crash of an Electra turbo-prop in little more than a year. (See Pictures. Story, Page 5A) Republicans Open Office in Medford The Jackson County Re- publican Central committee office will be open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., six days a week at' the old Medford Health club location at 3 West Sixth st., Medford, Joe Walsh, committee chairman, has an nounced. Office hours will be extend ed as the campaign progresses, Traffic Flow move 7:30 a.m. to 9 a.m. park ing restrictions on the north side of East Main st., from Riverside ave. to the Main st. bridge. He said there is no longer any necessity for this restriction. Parking Restriction However, another no park- : ing restriction, between 4:30 p.m. and 6 pjn.,' will be effected by the city on the south side of Main st. from Tripp to Willamette sts., which will permit traffic to move more freely, the city manager said. Duff said the city will have to wait until the weather will permit the extensive amount of painting needed, before the changes will become effective. 4
