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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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