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0 Clue Believed Found in Disappearance off Portland's Martin Family Democrat Closes Vote Count Gap In North Rural Regions Increase Count For Rep. Burdick Party Leaders Hint at Recount Bismark, N.D.-IUPII - Demo cratic Rep. Quentin Burdick closed in on Republican Gov. John Davis today in a photo finish in North Dakota's spec ial senatorial election-weath-ervane to farm belt leanings in this presidential campaign year. Burdick fought back from an 11,000-veto deficit in early returns and turned the closely watched race into a neck and neck contest on a surge of votes from slow - reporting rural areas. Lead of 2.96S . With 1,170 of the stale's 2.310 precincts reporting, Davis led by a slim 2.965 votes. He had 86,662 to 83, 697 for Burdick. Burdick, after a sleepless night, said, "I'm certainly not making any predictions when it's this close." He said that he would have to average a gain of four votes from every unre ported precinct to win. Lead ers of both parties were hint ing they might ask for a re count. Wheat Belt Discontent Democrats predicted that Burdick, first Democratic congressman ever elected from North Dakota, would ride a tide of wheat belt dis content over administration farm policies to victory over Davis. Davis Insisted he could withstand the late trend to ward Burdick and emerge the winner. "I'm not ready to concede by any means," Davis said. With the race so close, ob servers said the outcome would not be decided until sometime this afternoon. Ashland Group Elects Officers Ashland - Mrs. R. H. West erfield was elected president of the Ashland Human Rights council at a board meeting here recently. Other officers include Mrs. Sam Davis, vice, president, Walter Arron, secretary, and Arthur Hamilton, treasurer. The new executive board Includes H. J. Burrow, Ed ward Harmon, Charles Fred rickson, the Rev. Edward Wulfekueler, Ken Jones, Jack Kelly, Mrs. Charles Forrest and Fred Roy Neal, outgoing president. A schedule of regular monthly board meetings was set and plans discussed for fall programs with a closer alliance with the Mcdford Human Rights council. WEATHER FORECAST: I. ate ifttrnonn and evening thunder itorms becom ing partly cloudy late tonight and Thursday. Low tonight 50; high tomorrow 85. TEMPERATURE Highest Yesterday SI Loueit this Morning 56 PRECIPITATION To 4:30 a m. Today T Our Skies Tonight Sunset today ..7.53 p.m. Sunrlie tomorrow . 4:37 a.m. Mooniet tonight 11:06 p.m. First Quarter July 1 PROMINENT STARS A returns, high In the outh at tunset, will be In the weit at midnight. Ablvc Arcturui and to the left i Ariadne Crown. Tri-State Observance Scheduled at Tunnel Groundbreaking Crescent City - A tri-stale observance is scheduled July 8 atop a mountain 41 miles northeast of here to mark the groundbreaking for the Ore gon mountain tunnel project. Participants in the cere monies on the crest of Hazel view summit will include delegates from California, Oregon and Nevada. The first phase of the 1,740-foot tunnel is expected to funnel close to I total of 1.600.000 tourists a year into Del Norte county, according to recent estimates. Reduce Curres The tunnel through Oregon mountain will reduce the present 134 curves on the Red wood highway in this area to 10 and will shorten the route by 2 8 miles. Completion date has been slated as some time In 1962. The tunnel is a key link in . Dakota WHMaHiaHaMBHaKwMHaacaaB " ... j m "v Aj GOV. JOHN DAVIS Margin Whittled Huge Hailstones, 115 MPH Winds Batter Midwest By United Press International A killer storm system struck the Middle West Tuesday night with tornadoes, winds up to 115 miles an hour and hailstones twice as big as ice cubes. At least one person died and several were injured. Damage was in the thousands of dollars. Mrs. Charles Gnuse, 70, was killed when the roof of her apartment building in Quin cy, 111., was blown off by 95 mile an hour winds. Her body was found under four tons of rubble. The wind knocked out all power in the Mississippi river city. Hospitals and police used emergency generators but oth erwise the community was in darkness. Stones Bruise Golfers In Rockford, Illinois' second largest city, police said the hail broke nearly 100 win dows, including almost every pane in the three-story senior high school. The stones were big they bruised 40 golfers caught on the links and 40 mile an hour winds dug up huge divots on Rockford's golf course. The storm saved its most damaging winds for Ottumwa, Iowa. Hurricane force winds of 115 miles an hour uproot ed 100-year-old trees, damag ed buildings and left Ottum wa streets littered with debris. Lithia Park Fishing Derby Set Thursday Ashland-Valley youngsters will get a chance Thursday to catch 1,000 legal sized trout which have been plant ed in the Lithia park creek Any youngster, 13 years of age or younger, is welcome to try his luck, Larkin Grubb, chairman of the event said. To enter the derby a child must obtain a special fishing license at the police station or Ashland stores handling fish ing tackle. Proof of age must be given. The youngsters are asked to meet at 9 a.m. at the Lithia Park Butler bandshell for in structions. Various prizes will be given. Public Hearing Set On Ashland Budget Ashland - Final public hearing for the 1960-61 Ash land city budget will be held at 8 o'clock tonight in the city council chambers. Little opposition to budget items is expected. the much discussed "Winne- mucca-to-the-Sea highway." Ultimate cost of the project will be about $30 million. An drew Flynn. cochairman of the tunnel celebration com mittee, predicted that some 2.000 persons will attend the groundbrcak i n g ceremonies. The metal part of the shovel to be used, he added, will be plated with minerals found in Del Norte county. The myr tlewood handle will be pro vided by Josephine county. Turning the first shovelful of earth will be Randolph Collier, California state sen ator who has worked toward the project for many years. One Phase of Work The tunnel project is one phase of reconstruction of about 23 miles of the Red wood highway between the Oregon-California lint and I Lightning Strikes Reported in Area; No Hail Damage Medford Airport Has Trace of Rain Thunderstorms late yester day caused at least eight lightning strikes in southern Oregon, and resulted in spotty rains throughout the area. The storms were accompa nied by hail and strong winds, but no major damage was re ported from either, although a tree was blown across tele phone lines on Bush St., Ash land. Jud Parsons, hail survey di rector for the Medford Pear Shippers association, said some hail was reported in the Applegate area and in the Siskiyous. Cliff Cordy, county horti culture agent, said he had re ceived no reports of damage to fruit. Trace of Rain Only a trace of rain was reported at the Medford air port weather bureau station, but heavier amounts fell in several other areas. Crews were on their way this morning to investigate seven lightning strikes on the Rogue River National forest. A borate mixing crew, pilot and plane were on standby alert and a forest service re connaissance plane out of Cave Junction flew over the Siski you and Cascade mountain areas of the forest. Robert H. Torheim, Rogue forest fire control officer, re ported three lightning strikes in the Ashland district at the end of the Little Applegate and in the Wagner butte areas. Three strikes were in the Butte Falls district near Rustler peak and the other was in the Klamath district east of Crater lake, he said. Not At Scenes Crews had not reached the scenes of the strikes by late this morning. The borate crew was stand ing by at Rosenbalm Aviation. The state department of for estry reported that a crew was en route to the only lightning strike so far report ed in the distict. That was in the Siskiyous, and no report from the crew had been re ceived late this morning. Fuses Bruned Out Lightning burned out sev eral transformer fuses in the Medford vicinity Tuesday evening and momentarily blacked out the Medford area at 8:43 p.m., according to California Oregon Power company officials today. Two two-man crews were reported out during the storm replacing transformer fuses. When lightning struck the 220,000 volt transmission line to Klamath Falls automatic switching prevented any ex tensive power outage. Small areas were affected by burned out fuses, it was explained. Portland To Lose Region Post Office Portland - lUPD-Opposition developed rapidly today to an announced plan to shift north west regional post office head quarters from Portland to Se attle. A. J. Tonsing, acting region al director, said he received word of the move from Post master General Arthur Sum merficld. "It has taken six years to prove our point that increased efficiency and better opera tional control of the mails would be effected if the reg ional headquarters were lo cated in Seattle," officials said. Rep. Charles O. Porter (D Ore.) said he would have the House post office committee staff make an immediate in quiry into the background of the change. on July 8 point just south of Gasquet, Calif, plans call for a two lane highway with provision for expanding it to four lanes eventually. The terrain at the dedica tion site will accommodate only about 30 automobiles, Flynn pointed out. It is there fore necessary to construct parking places in six other areas, from one to three miles away. Buses will operate be tween the distant parking areas and the dedication site at Hazclview summit. Boring of the passageway is expected to begin late this year, according to the Cali fornia state highway depart ment. First work on the proj ect will be on the north ap proach to the tunnel, about a mile from the Oregon boundary. Gas iio Move Follows Refusal To Refine Soviet Petroleum Militia Occupies Santiago Plant Havana, Cuba - IUPH - Pre mier Fidel Castro seized the American-owned Texas Com pany (Texaco) oil refinery in Santiago de Cuba today be cause the company refused to refine Soviet petroleum. Government radio and press dispatches reported that Cas tro signed a decree Tuesday night threatening such a move unless Texaco knuckled under 'immediately" and started processing crude oil from the Soviet Union. Refinery Occupied Clifford Darke Jr., Texaco general manager in Cuba, said this afternoon that he had been informed that members of the workers militia had oc cupied the Santiago refinery. But he said no company of ficial there or here had re ceived a copy of Castro's or der. Meanwhile, the government radio warned that "any other American company which re fuses to accept directives of the revolutionary government will be intervened (taken over)." The refinery is located in Santiago de Cuba, site of the U.S. Navy's big Guantanamo Base. Pressure on Company Texaco and other American companies have refused to re fine Soviet petroluem, despite growing pressure from the government which has signed a sugar for oil trade agree ment with Moscow. Earlier, Castro had threat enend to seize American-owned sugar mills in Cuba on a "pound for pound" basis if the United States cuts the Cuban sugar quota. Shady Cove Man Shot in Chest Leon Patrick Parks, 19, Shady Cove, was reported in serious condition today in Rogue Valley hospital, follow ing an accidental shooting in Shady Cove yesterday after noon, hospital attendants re ported. Parks, on leave from the U.S. Marine Corps, evidently was holding a .22 caliber fron tier model pistol by the bar rel when it discharged and sent a bullet through his right lung, Jackson county sheriff's deputy said. Parks was visiting in a Shady Cove home when the incident occurred. He was alone at the time, deputies said. Parks telephoned his mother at home immediately after the shooting, and was still sitting conscious by the telephone when his mother, Mrs. Olive C. Parks, arrived, He was taken to the hospi tal where he underwent sur gery yesterday afternoon. Deputies said the bullet was fired from a low angle, indi cating either that Parks was sitting on the bedroom floor when the pistol fired or it was fired by someone else. The bullet entered the right side of his chest. Parks is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Arthur Parks. The youth was to have been married this week end to Carol Ann Chappell. The wed ding has been postponed. Witnesses Refuse Dynamiting Answers Oregon City Two striking newspaper workers invoked the fifth amendment today in the trial of Levi S. McDonald, Portland, on charges arising from the dynamiting Jan. 31 of six trucks serving the Ore gon Journal and the Oregon- lan. Robert F. Burgess, former Oregonlan printer, and Don ald E. Bailey, former Oregon ian sterotyper, declined to an swer whether they saw Mc Donald last Jan. 31. Defense Attorney Richard Carney Tuesday successfuly blocked prosecution efforts to introduce In evidence pictures taken of places where dyna mite not used in the destruc tion of trucks here and in Portland was dumped or ex ploded. Multnomah GO Reelects Chmirtfian Portland-IUPIl-Robert Pack wood was K-electcd chairman of the Multnomah County Re publican tentral Committee Tuesday niafit. grabs U. S. Regional Edition Medford 32 Pages Baseball AMERICAN LEAGUE Detroit 2 8 0 Boston 4 7 0 Bunning, Sisler (6), La bine (7) and Wilson; Mon bouquette and Nixon, Kansas City 0 3 2 New York 10 10 2 Herbert, Johnson (8), Kucks (8) and Kravits; Coats and Berra, W. Shanti (9). NATIONAL LEAGUE (1st game) Milwaukee 2 5 1 Chicago 3 6 0 Buhl, Piche (8) and Cran dall; Ellsworth and Tappe. Local Man Killed In Highway 199 Accident Tuesday Wallace Wong, 54, of 825 North Central ave., Medford, was killed in a one-car acci dent about three miles south of Cave Junction Tuesday night. Virgil Hull, Josephine coun ty coroner, said the accident occurred about 9:37 p.m. on Highway 199. It was wit nessed by unidentified Cana dian tourists en route home. The Canadian car was follow ing Wong when the accident happened, Hull said. Wong, travelling north, ap parently veered into the left lane and went over a left em bankment. He was thrown about 34 feet from the car, according to Josephine county sheriff deputies. Wong, who owned restau rants in Brookings and Med ford, was born in 1906 in Can ton, China. He had been a U.S. citizen for 40 years, and lived in the valley for some 14 years. He is survived by his wife, Fay Wong, of Medford; a daughter, Mrs. Frank Lime, Medford; and a son, Tony Wong, Helendale, Miss. Funeral arrangements will be announced by Conger-Morris, funeral directors, Med ford. Cal-Pac Tariff Changes Approved Salem -IUP1I- Public Utility Commissioner Jonel C. Hill today approved, effective July 24, tariff changes applying to the eastern and southern Ore gon district of California-Pacific Utility Company. A new rate schedule for seasonal industrial gas serv ice at La Grande is included. The new rates are applicable only during a nine-month pe riod from March to Novem ber. The utility also is raising its industrial tariff on gas to include large commercial users in Klamath, Dalles, Ash land, Medford, Grants Pass and Roscburg. 33 Bodies Removed In Mine Explosion Six Bells, Wales - (UPfl - A gas pocket explosion in the Arrael Griffin Colliery Tues day endangered the lives of 700 men working in the pit. Forty-five of the men were killed by the blast. The warning alarm sound ed after the men had been working In the pit for about two hours. Several hundred of the men were working 1,000 feet be low ground when the pocket exploded. By early today, rescue workers had brought out a total of 33 bodies of the 45 known dead. The mine has had no simi lar mishaps for about 60 years. N. Y. Central Seeks Control of 60 New York -UPTI- The New York Central Railroad today plunged Into an all-out battle for control of the Baltimore & Ohio line in power bid that may lead to the biggest struggle In the industry's his tory. Corvallis - il'Pli - The Ben ton county fair will run four MEDFORD, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 29, 1960 1 W tos fc fcfci.?, y.V'.3 y ; f3l C -2 ROAD CONSTRUCTION Work on the completion In 1(162. Huge cuts and fills, secuon of hignway 62 ociow Cascaae gorge, ime me one in tne picture above, will elim which represents one of the worst stretches inale the dangerous curves. The work is of highway between Medford and Crater being done through the bureau of public lake, got under way this week after a major roads. Further downriver, between Trail and portion of the rightaway had been cleared McLeod, the state highway department is the week before. The section of road which currently engaged in a project of straight twists along the wall of Rogue river canyon cning and widening of Highway 62. will become a gently curving highway upon Bomarc Missile Funds Whittled Washington -IIIPII- Senate- House conferees Tuesday night knocked out $75 million which the Senate had ap proved to fully equip two partially completed Bomarc anti-aircraft missile bases in the Pacific Northwest. The bases are located at Camp Adair, Ore., and Paine AFB, Wash. The conferees took the ac tion in approving a compro mise $40 billion defense ap propriations bill, which prob ably will be considered by the House Thursday and then go to the Senate for final ac tion. The measure contained $244 million for the Bomarc mis sile which figures heavily in Canadian air defense plan ning. Six Young Campers Plunge Info River Mauston, Wis OJPIl Six boy campers, 12 to 14 years old, plunged into the rain-swollen Wisconsin river while attempt ing a crossing on a rope Tues day night and were missing and feared drowned today. Camp personnel told of a wild scene of shouting and confusion in darkness as 14 other youths, in a group of 20 under direction of a camp supervisor, also plunged into the water in an attempt to rescue those who first went into the swift-running stream. Some of the would-be res cuers were saved only after they In turn had been forced to cling to stumps or find refuge on sandbars to keep themselves from being swept away by the current. Rockefeller Plans To Continue Talking Glacier Park, Mont. - IUPI) - Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller, who has been throwing hay makers at the Elsenhower ad ministration, defended h I right to speak out on national issues today and said he would keep talking. Hollywood Plans Stevenson Rally Hollywood - IUPI1 - Plans are under way for many of movictown's top stars to take part in i televised "draft Adlai Stevenson" rally on con vention eve, it was announced today. Portland (UPB Federal Judge William East of Port land has been assigned to lit on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals In San Francisco July 1112. Oil Refinery ? was JFf,&'i 4 t V. WW-" w Activities Set in Ashland for Fourth Ashland-Final preparations are being made by the Ash land Lions Club for the an nual Southern Oregon Fourth of July celebration. Festivities will begin with a parade at 10 a.m., according to Dr. G. E. Thomas, chairman for the Lions. Howard Sanborn, parade chairman, said that parade en tries will assemble at 9:15 a.m. The parade will start at Beach st. and travel down the southbound lane of Siskiyou blvd. through the Plaza area and will disperse in Lithia park. Immediately following the parade, carnival concessions will open in the park. As soon as the Ashland City Band, which is marching in the parade, has a chance to catch Its breath, a concert will be given in the Liahia Park Butler Memorial bandshell. Conductor will be Dr. Herbert Cecil of Southern Oregon col lege. About 1 p.m., competitive games for the children will be directed by Dan Bulkley in the Lithia Park playground area. The Presbyterian men will Campaign Offices at Convention Opening Los Angeles - IUPI) - Cam paign offices for three major presidential candidates were open for business today at Democratic National Conven tion headquarters in the Bill more Hotel here. The tempo for the conven tion beginning July 11 has picked up. One hotel suite was occupied by aides of Sen. John F. Kennedy (D-Mass.), Offices for the two other Democratic senators who will not turn their backs on the president's job are scattered throughout the hotel. Aides of Sen. Stuart Symington (D Mo.) have offices on the first and sixth floors an dcampaign workers for Sen. Lyndon B. Johnson (D-Tex.) are on the fifth floor. The big Influx of Democrats is expected to start over the July 4th week end. New York Wildcat Bus Strike Continues New York - UPI - A back to work movement among bus drivers engaged In a wildcat strike fizzled today. Flying squads of strikers in autos turned back the few buses put In operation. The strike for the second day forced some 550,000 dally riders to seek alternate means of transportation. 55th Year Price 10 Cents Tribune No. 86 1 Lib' f i t . ' 3- sponsor a barbecue at the site of their new church on the corner of Walker ave. and Siskiyou blvd., according to Ralph W. Wood, chairman Climax of the day's events will be a fireworks display sponsored by the Ashland Jay cees. fcxtcnsive ground and aerial displays are planned. An added feature will be 12-inch mortar skyrockets. Other entertainment is sched uled'both before the display and during intermission. Nominal fees will be charged for both the barbecue and the fireworks display. Postmaster Job To Get Confirmation The nomination of L. Hous ton Valentine for postmaster at Jacksonville was sent to the Senate Tuesday for con firmation. Valentine was one of two who took the five-hour test for the position. The other was Mrs. Dorland Matheny, acting postmaster. Mrs. Ma theny was appointed to the position July 24, 195.1, follow ing the death of her husband, the former postmaster. She was formerly employed in the county assessors office. Valentine, who is retired, is a disabled veteran, it was re ported. "Who Hat Who In The Bag?" Fisherman Snags Lead Sinker in Columbia River Appearance of Cut Arouses Curiosity Hood River fUPfl The Hood River county sheriff thought today he might have a clue to the missing five-member Ken Martin family of Portland -the first new angle brought up in the strange disappear ance case In many months. Sheriff Rupert Gillmouthe said a fisherman snagged a lead sinker about one mile east ef here that appeared to have been cut on some glass or metal material. Two Bodies Found The family disappeared In their car which may have plunged into the Columbia river. They had left home to gather Christmas greens. La ter, the bodies of the two youngest Martin children were recovered upstream from here. Two crews are working in the hopes that the cut lead sinker might lead to the still missing car, according to the sheriff. Snags Something Else Gillmouthe said he snagged something else while investi gating the 120 -foot swirling water but could not come up with ihing. Although a road , j;.ed close to the water at the point of discovery, Gill mouthe said it was more probable the car may have left the highway at the coun ty line. The sheriff will try to press into service a crane working in the area in hopes of com ing up with the car and pos sibly the bodies of the remain ing Martins. In Whirlpool Area The family included the father, Ken, his wife, Barbara Jean, and three children aged 14, 13, and 11. The body of the oldest child, Barbara, re mains lost with the parents. Exact scene of the new clue was at Stanley Rock in a whirlpool area of deep water. Phoenix Man Tells Deputies of Robbery Phoenix - Robert N. Mc Commbn, owner of the Phoe-' nix Richfield station, reported he was robbed of $110 last night by a man with a hand kerchief over his face. McCommon told investigat ing sheriff's deputies that he started to climb into his pick up truck after closing the station when the man came up behind him and ordered. "Give me the money. Where's the bag?" McCommon said the man took his wallet. He had no change bag. The service sta tion owner said he thought he saw a pistol from the corner of his eye. The Incident oc curred about 9:55 p.m., he said. Russell A. Burk, route 1, box 128, Eagle Point, report ed to deputies yesterday that someone had entered his Phoenix residence recently, but nothing was taken. Bear Creek Being Cleaned Out Today The annual cleaning of the Bear creek channel between Cottage and Jackson sts. in Medford started this morning, according to City Manager Robert Duff. Duff said that the primary purpose of the cleaning is flood control, but it also cov ers debris and digs out the channel, narrowing it. One bulldozer is expected to com plete the project today, Duff said. ' days Uiis year. O 0 0
