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o - o o C3 " f IV' ' Recommended Whit Cilr. urh, m ain't put on tht map unul kit than three month i ago but the com munity has an tncerettinc hiw tory. For a itory about iome of It, sec pa IA of today's Mall Tribune. 60 Pages Section A Venezuela Leader Says Trujillo Planned Bombing Caracas, Venezuela - (UPD -President Romulo Betancourt Saturday night accused Do minican Republic Dictator Rafael Trujillo of engineering Friday's bomb assassination attempt In which Betancourt was injured and three other persons were killed. "I do not have the slightest Merchants Heport Slow Retail Trade Retail business in Medford Is slower than usual, accord ing to many local retail mer chants. A few individual firms report that sales are compar able to or better than last year. The reasons for this alleged decline in retail sales are varied. John Patton of the Oregon State Employment service said sales may be off because the valley's economy is about two months behind its regu lar yearly schedule. Usually, he said, the un employment rate is high dur ing the winter months and remains high until March and April when the weather be gins to clear and woods oper ations begin to pick up. Employment did not follow this general pattern this year, he said. Due to the mild winter, unemployment stayed lower than last year and re mained lower until March and April. Weather Cooled Instead of warming, how ever, the weather cooled and the valley experienced a aeries of spring storms. This kept unemployment from de clining at its usual rate, he (aid. . At present, unemployment Is higher than at this time last year, but it is declining and he expects it to reach last year's level soon. Some merchants claimed the low sales are due to the growth in the number of retail businesses during the past year. There is only a certain amount of income being spent by valley residents, they said. This income is now being divided with the new shop ping center and other new stores. Therefore, they said, individual profits can be ex pected to be reduced. Other reasons mentioned in clude the present low lumber prices and the early spring trouble in the plywood indus try. Still others mentioned a fluctuating stock market as being connected with the problem. Another merchant felt au tomobile and motorboat sales J were high last year and now WEATHER FORECAST: Fair today and Monday. High today as. Low tonight 48. Hlih Monday 85. Temp. Highest Yesterday 8 Lowest Yesterday 49 Preclp. none. Our Skies Tonight Suniet today 7:53 p.m. Sunrise tomorrow 4:38 a.m. Moonset tonight 9:39 p.m. PROMINENT STAR Regulus, In west 9:02 p.m. One year from tonight the plan et, Mars, will be seen close to Regulus. Mars Is now brighter than Regulus: next June the star will be the brighter of the two. .,r,..jr 5 . CD Wi BLOWN-UP AUTO Volunteer firemen pre pare to remove a 1960 Plymouth which was blown up against the home of Mr. and Mrs. John Dickinson, near North Wales, Pa., by tornado which twirled through central Medford United Press International rull UiKd Wlr doubt that yesterday's assas sination attempt was the work of the bloody hand of the Dominican Republic's dicta torship," he told a nationwide radio audience. He said a clear link between Trujillo and ousted Ve nezue lan Dictator Marcos Perez Jiminez exists. He also called valley residents are having to pay these time payments and are spending less for retail goods Perhaps the most interest ing theory, accepted by some and openly scoffed at by oth ers, is an election year theory. One store manager said dur ing his years of experience in three different states, store sales had always been reduced during an election year. Tight Purse Stringi He explained that during an election year many of the community's affluent citizens are called upon to make cam paign donations and are some what worried about how a change in administration will affect their income. As a re sult, they tighten their purse strings. Still other merchants said they didn't know exactly what was causing any decline in sales-it could be some com bination of factors or just a naturally slack period. Retail business cannot have been influenced by the tourist trade since a sampling of mo tel owners sljows that motel use is the same or a bit better than last year. Medford Woman Appointed to Group Salem - (UPD - Gov. Mark Hatfield Saturday appointed Mrs. Kathleen Bash, Medford, to the state public welfare commission to succeed L. H. Luihn, Portland. She was named to a four-year term be ginning July 1. Luihn is retiring after near ly three decades on the com mission. He is its present chairman. Mrs. Bash is active in the American Field Service pro cram and in ihp Orpifnn R. publican party. Her husband is vice president ana treasur er of California Oregon Power company. Hospital Study's Completion Nears An extensive study of Sac red Heart and Rogue Valley Memorial hospitals will be completed about July 15, ac cording to Otto J. Frohn mayer, secretary of the Rogue Valley Memorial hospital board. The report, which probab ly will run to SO or 60 pages, will discuss the community's need for hospital service as well as the needs of individ ual hospitals. Material for the study was gathered recently by James A. Hamilton associates, hos pital consultants located on the University of Minnesota campus. d" V"' Jss-WiX- Montgomery county Friday night. The Dick insons were unhurt although the roof of the residence was tossed some 800 feet away. Trees and power lines were felled. (UPI Teiephoto) 0 O upon the organization of Am erican states to set aside oth er problems and concentrate on Trujillo's alleged "practic ing of crimes beyond his own frontiers." Emergency Measures The government took emer gency defense measures after the abortive plot to avoid a possible coup d'etat by ele ments hostile to Betancourt, who was expected to be con valescing for about three weeks. Apparently fearing the at tack might be a prelude to revolution, the government suspended constitutional rights to freedom of assembly and movement and closed all the airports. Some air traffic was allowed to resume sched ules later Saturday. The sale of liquor was prohibited and a partial evening curfew was imposed here. The cabinet asked congress for a posthumous promotion to Brigadier General for the presidential military aide, Col. Ramon A. Armas Perez, who, with a policeman and Betancourt's chauffeur, was killed in the blast. At least six persons were injured when the bomb went off. Over 90, Park and Shop Tickets Issued Over 90,000 Park and Shop free parking tickets have been issued by Medford merchants since the Park and Shop pro gram started ten months ago. These figures were given by Fred E. Robinson, one of the three Park and Shop lot owners. Robinson also claims the difference in overtime parkin? tickets Issued during May of this year and May of last year is largely due to the Park and Shop lots. There were 4,448 overtime parking tickets given during May, 1959, when there were no Park and Shop lots oper ating. This year, with Park and Shop lots operating, there were only 2,295, a difference of 2,153 parking tickets or $1,076.50 in lines. Important Changes Robinson recently attended the National Parking associ ation conference, where he noticed some important changes in the parking busi ness. Hp said narkine lots rapidly are becoming more automatic. It is possible now, he saia, for a driver to park his car, receive a stamped time card, do his shopping, and return and pay for the use of the lot without ever meeting a hu man parking attendant. This rapid change in pant ing operation is making many parking garages built as late as seven years ago obsolete, he said. While at the conference, Robinson located a time clock stamp that can be used with Park and Shop tickets. These time clocks will be installed in his lots as soon as they are available, Robinson said. Portland - IUP1I - More than 1,200 airmen were present Saturday as Gov. Mark Hat field reviewed units of the Oregon Air National Guard at the Portland Air Base. Ike Heads Home Alter Six-Day Hawaii Vacation President to Address Nation on Radio, TV Honolulu - (UPD - President Eisenhower Saturday ended his six-day Hawaiian vacation and headed home to tell the nation by radio and television what he believes his Asia tour accomplished in goodwill for the United States. The President's plane de parted on schedule at 5:02 p.m. (h.s.t.) A crowd of sev eral thousand was assembled at the airport to see the Presi dent, dressed in a dark blue suit with a brown straw hat, leave the islands. He expressed the "heartiest aloha" to the people of Hawaii who "made my few days here in Hawaii a memorable visit and one I enjoyed very iiiui.ii. xie adiu lie wds suie the state of Hawaii was going to "fulfill the highest aspira tions of all the people who have done so much to bring about statehood." A lei of large red carnations was placed around the Presi dent's neck just before he took off. The President got full mili tary honors and a 21-gun send off by military and civilian dignitaries of the nation's newest state before he board ed his special military air transport service 707 Boeing jet. A handsome monkeypod calabash with a silver plaque was presented to the chief executive by Gov. William Quinn shortly before the President's departure. The calabash was made specially for the President. It is a traditional Hawaiian cala bash with rounded bottom and concave lip. It is 18 in ches in diameter and about 11 inches deep. The bowl was made by Charlie Chow, island wood craftsman associated with the House of Kalai. Chow said it was an'honor and a pleasure to make the bowl for Eisen hower. Next stop on the President's itinerary was Travis Air Force base, Calif., where the plane was due at 12:45 a.m. (p.d.t.) for a 45 minute re fueling stop before heading for Andrews Air Force base outside Washington. He was due there sometime between 8:15 and 9 a.m (e.d.t.) Sunday. Phoenix Water To Be 0(1 Monday ' Phoenix - Housewives In Phoenix should do their wash ing early Monday and collect buckets and tubfulls of water since the city water will be shut off at 2 p.m., according to Mayor Arthur H. MacKin losh. The water will be off for about five hours Monday to allow for starting part of the new water system, he ex plained. The mayor suggested that enough water be drawn to cover the five hour period. It will take only a few min utes after 5 p.m. to restore the service, he added. The new system will be in operation July 1 or shortly thereafter. Since the city is now pumping out of the smaller of the two city wells it can draw only 50 gallons a minute consistently. Therefore, water rationing will continue until announced. "Previous to the water ra tioning and cutting in the new system, Phoenix was getting 75 gallons a minute in consist ent pumping," the mayor said. "Under the new system 200 gallons per minute will be pumped consistently." GoldSMaT. Injured in Crash A 47-year-old Gold Hill man was taken to the Rogue Valley hospital last night with serious injuries resulting from a one-car crash on the Old Stage rd., just west of the Rocky Point bridge. Injured was Thomas Charles Rigsby. Slate police said he was apaprcntly alone in the vehicle which ran off the road about S p.m. Hospital attend ants said Rigsby sustained serious head injuries and laceration'. - Leopoidville, delgian Con go - lUPIi - Rival political groups battled In the streets with machetes and clubs Sat urday over the election of a president for the new Congo natioi. MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, EMISTJAT OF U - MEDFORD'S SISTER CITY Pictured above Is a pano ramic view of Alba, Italy, which just last week became Medford's sister city. The city has a population of ap proximately' 17,000 and is located on the Tanaro river in northwest Italy. It is principally an agricultural communi ty with truffles, fruits, candies, nuts and textiles being some of its leading products. The city has often been re ferred to as the "city of towers" and some of these towers can be seen in the picture above. These towers are red Five Bids Taken UnderAdvisement By School Board The Medford school board Friday took under advisement five bids submitted for con struction of a classroom ad dition to Oak Grove school. The contract is expected to be awarded this week. Don L. Jacobs Construction company, Medford, submitted the apparent low bid of $64, 173.94, which includes the basic bid and three alternates. Other bidders were Blink enstaff Construction c o m -pany, Medford, $67,779; Myers Jones, Medford, $66, 780; Rogue Valley Construc tion company, Medford, $67, 752; and Harold W. Salter, Rogue River, $67,667. Three Alternates The basic bid was for the classroom addition only, while alternates were specified for plumbing, healing and elec trical facilities oulside the new classrooms. Earlier this year, the board rejected bids submitted for the Oak Grove work. The work is part of a two year building program which is being financed by a $750, 000 bond issue approved by district patrons. Medford Scouts On 8-Day Excursion Gold Beach-About 24 Boy Scouts and three advisors are scheduled to arrive here to day after hiking some 54 miles down the Rogue river from near Galicc. The Scouts, all from Med ford Troop 7, left last Sunday on the hike starling at the be ginning of the Rogue river trail west of Grants Pass. At Agnus, the Scouts were to have a chicken dinner then board a mail boat for Gold Beach. After the eight-day ex cursion they will be met here by their parents, according to Scout officials The group, sponsored by the Methodist church, is headed by Robert Hawkins, scout master, and Leo Taylor Sports Bulletin Memorial Stadium, While City - Rogue Valley Dairy Maids defeated Port Ange les, Wash., Eagles 3 to 2 and S to 4 here last night in a Northweit Women's Major Softball league double-header. Tribune JUNE 26, 1960 2 Truffles I Medford's Truffles are to Alba as pears are to Medford. Alba, Italy, Medford's new sister city, takes great pride in her truffles and once each fall, during October, it holds a week-long truffle festival, similar to Medford's pear fes tival. Alba also boasts the only truffle dog training school in the world. The truffle dogs of Alba have become so well known, in fact, that they were featured in the Sept. 1956 is sue of the National Geogra phic magazine. For those who might not already know, a truffle is a flavorful fungus which is popular the world over in sauces, stuffings and garnish es. It has probably been best described as an inverted mush room, as it grows from three inches to a foot beneath the ground. Because truffles are not vis ible from the surface they are located by their scent. Pigs are probably the best truffle hunters but Alba has been able to train dogs to sniff them out. Truffles High Priced Both the truffles and truf fle hunting dogs are among Alba's world exports. A 18 ouncc can of truffles can sell for as high as $20 in the U.S. Alba is also known for its famous nuts and specialty candies. Other products of Alba are silk and textiles, cheese, peaches, table grapes and wines, among which Bar olo wine is probably the best known. ' . Nestled on the left bank of the Tanaro river in north west Italy, Alba is one of the most ancient cities in that country, Its recorded history dates back to pre-Roman times. In 115 B.C. it was over run by the Roman tribes and allied to Rome. The city was held in high esteem by the Romans and in 89 B.C. was given its citizen ship in the Roman empire. It was surrounded by a high wall, parts of which still re main. Progressive Cilr But Alba docs not dwell on its colorful past and It has moved forward to become a modern and progressive city. It now has an estimated pop ulation of 17,000. Most of the homes are serv ed with running water, tele vision sets are common and there is a Fiat dealer In town. The city is (interspersed with both ancient and modern buildings. ' Alba is the educational, cul tural and religious center of Price United Presa International Full Leased Wira ION'S HANDLING ENT BLASTED in color and are of gothic design. They are topped with Roman bcllfrics and a symbolic gold rooster that salutes the city. The city is one of the oldest in Italy, dating from pre-Roman limes, and both ancient and modern buildings ran be seen intcrspread thoughtout the downtown area. Medford's Town Affiliation committee is putting together a volunteer organization to promote the sister city pro gram and Is encouraging all interested persons to par ticipate. important to Alba. New Sister City I the province of Cuneo. The city has a motto, which is, "Omnes dies melios," or "Al ways better everyday." The city was selccied as Medford's choice of a sister city because of the similarity of size and the agricultural basis on which both cities rest. When the affiliation pro gram gets rolling there will be an exchange of everything from visitors to pears and truffles. Alba formally ac cepted Medford's offer of af filiation just last week and Medford's Town Affiliation committee is in the process of putting together an organiza tion of all interested citizens which will foster and promote this program. Participants Wanted The committee, comprised of Mayor John Snider, City Councilman Robert Baccus, Omar Bacon, Bill Barker, Bill Singlcr, Dick Woodcock and Mrs. JoAnnc Smith, is en couraging everybody to parti cipate. There will be a place in the affiliation organiza tion for every interested per son. Medford is the second Ore gon city to have a sister city abroad, the other being Pnrt- 'Bohemian' Music Teacher FBI as Murderer of Family Memphis, Tenn. - (UPD - A young music teacher from Washington's "Bohemian" set was named by the FBI Satur day as the elusive kidnap slayer who wiped out an en tire Virginia family of four In a fiendish crime 18 months ago. The FBI charged the sus pect with two of the kidnap killlngs - those of Mrs. Car roll Vernon Jackson Jr. and her five-year-old daughter, Susan Ann - and arraigned him immediately on the fed eral charges. State charges of murder and kidnaping were being drawn at Richmond, Va., against the suspect, tall, dark haired Melvln Davis (Dave) Rccs, 31, who was arrested and held here. Maryland also held a mur dcr warrant against Rees In the similar slaying three years ago of a woman in a Washing ton suburb and authorities planned to quesi-on Rees about other unsolved crimes In the metropolitan area. Other Slaylngs . These included the ilayings 10 Cents .land and Sapporo, Japan, and one of nearly a hundred other U.S. cities to join in this pro gram of international under standing. Some of these cities are New York and Tokyo; Everett, Wash., and C e 1 1 e, Germany; Sioux City, Iowa and Indorc, India; Santa Ana, Calil., and Santa Ana, El Sal vador and Louisville, Ky., and Montpellcr, France. President Eisenhower stated the reason for sister city pro grams in a special White House conference in 1956, when he said: "If we are go ing to take advantage of the assumption that all people want peace, then the problem Is for people to get together and to leap governments - if necessary to evade govern ments - to work out not one method : but thousands of methods by which people can gradually learn a little bit more of each other." Panmunjom, Korea - (UPD -The Communists called a meeting of the Korean Mili tary Armistice commission on the 10th anniversary of the start of the Korean War Sat urday to demand again that the United Nations forces clear out of the country. of two young girls in a Hyatts- ville, Md., park in June, 1955, and the deaths of two Laurel, Md., teen-age girls a year lat er. The Laurel girls were picked up by an unidentified motorist and their bodies dumped in a shallow grave in Virginia. . Formal charges by the FBI, announced by Director J. Ed gar Hoover, were the first to be filed In the baffling Car roll Jackson family case al though Hoover said the FBI had checked nearly 1,500 sus pects. Rees, a former metropolitan Washington area dance band sideman and Instructor in guitar, clarinet, saxophone and piano, was living in West Memphis, Ark., with a wom an identified by the FBI as a showgirl. The girl, claiming to be Rees' wife, insisted Rees was implicated by a "jealous acquaintance. Hoover said Rccs' parents, wife and child by a 1B54 mar iage live In Hyattsvllle. He formerly attended the Univer sity of Maryland. Family Vanished The FBI kldnep rjurder Subscribers To report Improper or non delivery of the. Mat) Tribune In Medford phone SP 26141. In Ashland MU 2-1021 and in Yreka. VI 2-2807. beiore 0:45 p.m. dailv and 10:30 a m Sunday If regular delivery arrivea shortly alter you call please notify office thus eliminatinf ipeciaJ messenger service. No. 83 Coordination Broke Down, Says Senate Committee Government Rapped In Group's Report Washington -UPD- The Sen ate Foreign Relations com mittee charged Saturday that the Eisenhower administra- ion's handling of the ill-fated American U2 spy plane inci. dent was "most lacking" in direction and that "at crucial points coordination broke down." The committee said, how ever, that failure of the May 1 flight deep over Russia's in dustrial heartland was "just plain bad luck" and that there is "no reason to believe" that captured pilot Francis G. Powers was "unreliable." In a report signed by 14 of its 17 members, the commit tee also rapped administration officials for refusing to dis- close why the flight was ot such importance that it had to be made despite the ap proaching Paris summit con ference. "In the absence of compelling reasons to the con trary, there is good reason to conclude that the flight should not have gone, it said. Summit Wrecked Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev used the flight as a pretext for wrecking the conference, and in nn embit tered tirade against President Eisenhower, demanded the Chief Executive publicly apol ogize and punish those respon sible. In the furore that followed, Eisenhower shouldered full blame for the incident al though the flight - one of many over the past several years - was arranged by Cen tral Intelligence agency. As to the effect of the flight on the summit collapse, the commitlee said it was "with out doubt ... a contributing factor to the breakup ... so far as the Soviet government was concerned." But, it add ed, "This is not to say that the conference would have been a success if the U2 Inci dent had not occurred." No Recommendations The committee pin-pointed no specific recommendations and its findings were set forth as general conclusions drawn from hearings rather than spelled - out remedies or courses of action. The report was signed by 10 of the committee's H Democrats and four of the six Republicans. Sen. Alexander Wiley (Wis.), top-ranking Re publican, and Sen. Frank J. Lausche (D-Ohio), submitted a separate report defending the administration in effect but agreeing with some parts of the majority report. Named by of Four charges were filed In the deaths of the two members of the Jackson family whose bodies were found in Anne Arundel county, Md., March 21, 195S. The bodies of Jackson, an Apple Grove, Va., feed store clerk and his one-year old daughter, Carol, were found March 4, 1959, in a sawdust pile at Fredericksburg, Va. The entire family vanished the night of Jan. 11, 1959, from their car along a rural road near Mineral, Va., and the disappearance started the most mr.ssive investigation ef fort in Virginia crime annals. Rees was arrested In West Memphis Friday by FBI agents on a warrant naming him as a fugitive from prose cution in the June 28, 1957, slaying of Mrs. Margaret Har old, 36, a clerk-typist at Fort Meade. Md. She was shot in a on narlrfWl nn a lovers' Bt9 and her body was found In a shack a few miles from the spot where, nearly two yeara iii thm hnrilpa nf Mrs. Jack- son 'and her daughter were found. o o 0 o o ft q' O rW 0
