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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.
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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.
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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. '
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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.
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