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Newspaper Page Text- : r MfDfORD, OREGON Subscribers Price 10 Cents Recommended Medford TRIBUNE To report Improper or non delivery ot the Mall Tribune In Madrord phone WHWI, in Mhind Mu a-ioai mil i; Yreka, VI J-2H07, beiore $145 D.m. dally nd 10:30 em Sunday It regular delivery arrive! shorUy attar you dUmj noUfy ottlca (hut .ItmlnaUm ipeclal mauanfar service. A ilory tut lltr rorrvillmi arm it Union rrrrtt amivurt un I'agft IA Of lodiy'i MnII Ttihum. Hulled Praia international full Uunl Wire United Praia International Full Laaied Win Section A 40 Paget No. 89 MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, JULY 3, 1960 Two Indicted by Truman Declares Democratic Convention Fixed for Kennedy County Grand Jury On Embezzlement VUtaiyN. a ' Shakespearean ; Festival Patrons Criticize Article Time Magazine Story Protested Ashland - Irulo O r e g o i .5liukcpcarciin Festival, pu train across llio niilliin are re portedly tending protests In Time in ii u ii .I nr. Time magazine, liinu chldcd by It critics fur error of commission, It now being crit icized for mi error of omit lon. Time fulled to mention the Oregon Sliiikcspciirciin Fesllvul, Hie imtlon'i oklc.it Shakespearean festival, In the cover story of Its July 4 Issue. Mirny Ashlonders feel tlmt II la urifnlr for Time to criti cise modern Shakespearean production for tliclr luck of authenticity without mention' inn tlmt at leant one. the Ore jjon Keitivnl, makes thl one of It prlmnry iioal. Information Mada Known Nor wn It the Festival's fault by not making the In furmiitlon known to Time. A Time correspondent conferred with Carl Ritchie, Festival public rclutlons director, In Slay and attended the Fettlval tryout and casting tension, June 11 J "d 12. Apparently t h e magazine decided to limit the article away from the Ashland Festi val and the other seven un mentioned festivals. Instead of taking a positive stand to praise the work of any of the festivals, the magazine chuso to criticize the work of three Stratford theaters: Stratford-on-Avon In Great Britain; On tario, Canada's Stratford; and Stratford, Conn. The Festival staff was not bothered outwardly by the article. A letter wrltlon by Festival president Robert U. Rclnholdt said: . "May we congratulate you on your thoughtful Shakes pearean article In the July 4 Issue. Pertinent publications such as this do much to assist us In maintaining an authen tic Shakespearean tradition In America. ' . Not Surprised "We are aware of space problems In your miigazlno and were not at all surprised to find our organization omit ted. Bccnuso we are not guilty of tho production errors you have noted ' In our more spangled offspring, we could not have provided the effec tive frame you chose for tho tbry. "But our Internntionnl pa Irons (many of whom arc your readers) will be disappointed to find thai the first Shakes pearean Festival on this con tinent - and the only one that makes a creed of authentic Elizabethan staging - hns fail ed to reach your pages . . ." Not all Festival patrons oro being this generous. Many letters seem to bo In various stages of completion and at least one Southern Oregon college class is known to be planning a protest. Perhaps the most outspoken of Time's critics I the Ash land Dally Tidings. Jt I re printed on Pnge 5 of today's Mall Tribune. ' Holiday Traffic Fatalities Mount By United Press International Denth un tho nation's high way during the Fourth of July week end mounted to about five fntnlltlcs nn hour Saturday night and tho Na tional Safety council snld the rale could push the final toll beyond earlier predictions. Tho council had warned earlier that 370 persona could die on the nation's highways during the thrcc-dny week end which began officially at 6 p.m. Frldny and ends at midnight Monday. At II p.m. (cdt), United Press International had count ed 141 dead in traffic acci dents. In addition, 25 persons had drowned and 21 others liad died In miscellaneous ac cidents. The total was - 187 dead so far In the holiday period. WEATHER Foremrit Vnit mill warm today anil Monday. (Hah tmlny ft. Low toittiht A.1. lllili Mon ilny 03, TKMPKRATimtt - HUlirM yiu.tftrt1.ty .........HI Lowest yrntrrilfly 4H pRKmpiTATionf YentfriUy none Our Skies Tonight fhinaft today ItM p.m. NnnrlNfl tomorrow 4i40 a, in, Mooniifll tomorrow ... IiIK a.m. The enrth'i path around thai Run In nnl qui In n nnrfrrt nlrrtf ; tl In an c1Hnm Tho avnrnin rtts tfliicp hfttwnrn lltr rmrth and the Rim la n:afr,(41 mlUa: to day w nr niorr than 04,480,000 mllei from tha tun, rA : IL NEW CLUE A imsslble new clue in the disappearance of Avlatrix Amelia Earhart 23 years ago was turned up Friday. A CBS correspondent of the San Mateo (Calif.) Times, Fred Coerncr, reported an airplane , generator fdund on the bottom of Salpan bay In the South Pacific may be the one that was on Miss Earhart' plane wnen her rouiid-thc'wurld flight failed In 1937. At Parts of Amelia Earhart's Plane Said San Francisco - UPB - The man who outfitted Amelia Earluirl's airplane for the trip on which she disappeared searched his records Saturday for data that may prove she crashed in Saipan harbor. Paul Mantz, Santa Ana, Calif., air service operator, said il may lake him several days, however, to run down the number of the special generator he Installed on her plane in 11)37 before she van ished In the Pacific on a rounri-llic-world flight. Radio newsman Fred Coer Ashland, Eagle Point Slate 4th Celebrations Shop and offices will be closed Monduy for tho anni versary of United States' In dependence. Celebration will be held Monday In Ashland and Eagle Point. Tonight the Lake of the Woods home owners associa tion will hold Us annual July 4 fireworks display at, the lake. News Briefs . Washlnglon-ilil'H-Congres-slonaly leaders shortly alter 1) p.m. (edt) abandoned hope of recasting the 86th Congress' Saturday night. They agreed to quit work instead until Monday. Washlngton-lllPll-The San ate early today tentatively approved, SO to 7. alcom-' promise aimed at unlocking a stubborn House-Senate stalemate over sugar leg islation and giving ' Presl don Eisenhower an econom ic weapon against Cuban Premier Fidel Castro. . . Los Angolei-'III'II - Ewold Turner, a crafts teacher and director of students at Pend leton, Ore,, Junior High school, . has been named president-elect of , the Na tional Education , associa tion. Turner won a close victory over Forrest Rot tell, Little' Rock, Ark. . , Miami-IUPIl - Francisco J. Csjigas, wealthy Cuban cattleman and land owner In exile, announced Satur day the formation of the Cuban Liberation Union to overthrow the ' "Commun ist" tagime of Fidel Cattro. Found at ncr said Friday he had cor roborated the story published recently in the San Matoo, Calif., Times that tho famous avlatrix crashed on Saipan July 2. 1937, and was execut ed by the Japanese. Testimony Recorded Coerncr. accompanied by an interpreter, spent two weeks on Saipan and record ed several hours of testimony from natives who "remember seeing the American lady cra.sh." Coerncr also brought up from the bottom of . Saipan The Medford Mall Tribune Is planning a . noon edition Monday. Ashland's celebration will begin at 10 a.m. with a pa rade. Carnival booths will op erate and a band concert will be held in Ashland's Lithia park. Competitive games for the children are scheduled for. 1 p.m. at the park playground area, A barbecue, sponsored by the Presbyterian men, will be held at 3:30 p.m. at the site of their new church at Walker avc. and Siskiyou blvd. . , . Climax of the day will be the fireworks- display at the Southern Oregon college field starting at 7:30 p.m. Pro-show and Intermission entertain ment are planned. Breakfast Scheduled Holiday activities will start at Eagle Point with a break fast on the lawn between the Englc Point Grange and the Community Bible church from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. Concessions will open at 10 a.m. and continue through out the day. A parade will begin at 12:45 p.m. Coronation of the parade queen, naming and dedication of the park, and awarding of prizes will take place at 1:15 p.m. In front of the high school, ' 'I A play day Is being spon sored by the Desert Pegasus horse club at 2 p.m. with awards being given to tho best riders. Climax of the Eagle Point celebration will bo tho; inurdl yms ball at 9 a.m. on tho high school tennis courts, Cos tume are encouraged, but not required, left Is Paul Mantz, the flier who outfitted Mis Earhart's plane, who says the genera tor (on table) may be the one he installed. At right is Coerncr, who went to Saipan to check the evidence. Mantz plans to make more extorsive check on the numbers on the generator to verify his clalmr"'-r i,"- '., ! ',' t , - (UP! Teicpholo) Saipan harbor about 500 pounds of airplane parts, which he said were identified by Navy ex perts as "definitely from an American-made plane of pre World War Two type." Most important of these parts was a heavy duty gener ator with the serial number readable despite 23 years under the water. "Fortunately the number is clear,'! Matz said. "It is the size I purchased when I re placed the original generator with a heavy duty one. It definitely is from a . pre-war American plane. Strong Winds in Area Mantz said It would prob ably be Tuesday at the earli est before he could find any documents that might record the number of the generator he Installed for Miss Earhart. Miss Earhart and her navi gator, Fred Noonan, disap peared on a flight from Lae, New Guinea, to Howlond is land. There were strong winds in the area et the timo and Goerner theorized that they may have been blown off course and forced to land at Saipan when their gasoline supply was exhausted Saipan, one of the Mnri- anna group In the Central Pacific, was heavily fortified by the Japanese prior to World War II and It is be lieved Miss Earhart. and Noonan were killed to keep them from disclosing to the U.S. government the extent of the mllitar;' buildup by the Japanese, The Japanese government denied in 1945 that cither flyer had cveV been in their custody Aneurin Bevan Suffers Relapse - London IDPIl - Deputy Labor Party Leader Aneurin (Nye) Bevan suffered a relapse Sat- urday and party chief Hugh Gaitskell said "We are all de. pcratcly worried about him." Although his doctors de clined to comment on the 62-year-old veteran British So cialist leader's condition, ' it was believed to be critical. Bevan underwent major ab domlnal surgery last Dec. 29 for an unspecified ailment Later he suffered a serious re lapse but he recovered and had been recuperating at his farm home In Aslibrldge since. Medford Escrow Affairs Studied Two officials of the Med ford Escrow company, now insolvent and in receivership, have been Indicted by the Jackson county grand jury on a charge of embezzlement. They are O. Hilding Bcngt- son, 55, Medford lawyer for 30 years and a former mem ber of the state legislature, and Mrs. Rachel Peterson Carter, Jacksonville. Bcngtson is free on $2,500 property bond. Mrs. Carter Is In jail with ball also set at $2,500. The two were indicted by the Jury late Friday afternoon after the jury spent four days investigating t h e affairs of the escrow firm. Deputy Dis trict Attorney Gerald Scan- ncll said the Jury will recon vene on July 12 to continue its investigation. The indictment alleges em bezzlement of $3,701.14 in trust funds of the Medford Es crow company. Both BcngU son and Mrs. Carter testified before the grand jury last week. Bcngtson will be represent ed by the Medford firm of Boyer and Holmes, and the Portland law firm of Maguire, Shields, Morrison, Bailey and Kestcr. The court appointed William Duhaime, of the firm of Duncan, Wilson, Brophy and Duhaime, to represent Mrs. Carter. The Medford Escrow com pany was placed in receiver ship late in May, on Bcngt son s petition. Leland Knox, certified public accountant. was named receiver. In his petition for appoint ment of a receiver, filed in circuit court May 21 and ap proved May 23, Bcngtson al leged "That the management and majority - ownership ot (Medford -Escrow company) Is also known as Rachel Carter, and that said managing offi cer has conducted and opcr atcd the business of (the com pany) for the past several years, but since the first day of May, 1960, and continu ing to the present time, has not attended to the affairs of (the company), is absent from the principal office of (the company), has abandoned her duties, and her present where abouts are unknown to plain tiff." His suit was filed, Bengtson said, for the benefit of the creditors and all persons who are parties to contracts held by the company, and in his petition asking for the ap pointment of Knox as receiv er, he also asked that Knox be authorized to temporarily continue the collections and disbursements, and to arrange for the transfer of the ac counts and files to other es crow agents, to institute suits to recover assets, and to sell and liquidate the liabilities of the corporation. His petition said the escrow firm had about 300 active files. In the order appointing Knox as receiver,. Circuit Judge James M. Main found the company insolvent, with less than $4,000 in cash and property on hand. Bengtson, who was Jack son county representative In the legislature for two terms, in 1945 and 1947, has since run for other offices without success. "Well, You Ought To Know About 'Growthmaruhip' " Pt ' US &Z' ' EXPLAINS RESIGNATION is a general view of a press Independence, Mo., during Tag V ' S -' I960 Political Conventions Will Face Washington, (CQ) - Hold onto your hats-or they might be blown Into the ring! The political winds gath ering next week with the first nominating convention will carry with them more precedent-shattering possibili ties than ever before. Democrats, holding the first convention - ever staged in Los Angeles, and Republicans. meeting in Chicago on the 100th anniversary of Abra ham Lincoln's first nomina tion lor, the presidency, will face a unique political situe tion: : . : 50 states will participate in the election for the first time in our history. Alaska and Hivaii became states in 1959. More votes will be cast than ever before. More elec toral votes - 269 of 537 - will be needed for victory In the election. Operation of the 22nd Amendment will make this the first election which must produce a new President. A President cannot run for more than two terms. The President chosen this year probably will be the first born in the 20th Century. If Richard M. Nixon reaches his goal, he will be the first vice president nomi nated or elected President since Martin Van Huren in 1836. If one of the three Dem ocratic Senators makes it he'll be the only man elected to the presidency from the Senate besides Warren G. Harding in 1920. If nominated, Adlai Ste venson would be the fourth man In history to be given a third chance for the presi dency after failing twice. The others were Thomas Jeffer son, Henry Clay and William Jennings Bryan. Only Jeiier- son succeeded on the third try. f !6 his i is r -v i a e it f i .l it lka ' t t 1 " . M f Shown above conference in which former President Harry S. Truman explained why he has resigned as a delegate to the Demo cratic National Convention. (UPI Telephoto) Unique Situations If nominated, Sen. Lyn don B. Johnson (D - Texas) would be the first candidate from a Confederate state nom inated by either party since the Civil War and, if elected the first Texan ever to be President. - Sen. John F. Kennedy (D-Mass.) would be the first Catholic nominee since Alfred E. Smith in 192B, and, if elec ted,' the first Catholic. Presi dent of the United States (However, the first Catholic to be nominated was Charles O'Conor, choice In 1872 by a faction of the Democratic par ty that refused to accept Ho race GreelyJ : Kennedy also would be the wealthiest man ever elect ed President. The political setting for the I9b0 election is unique also. Never before has the party opposed to the incumbent President won control of the Congress in three successive elections, as the Democrats did in 1954, 1956 and 1958. President Eisenhower, a Re publican,- has had only one Congress controlled by his own party, the 83rd in 1953- 5- f Convention Sites The Democrats meet in Los Angeles July 11. the first time for a national conven tion in that city and the third on the. West Coast. The first two were in San Francisco, in 1920 (Democrats nominated James M. Cox) and 1956 (Re publicans nominated Dwight u. tisenhower). The Republican convention will meet July 25 in Chicago, a popular convention city. Na Atlantic Scoured For Missing Plane Wiesbaden, Germany MUPD American, British and Nor wegian pianes ranged over thousands of miles of the At lantic and Arctic oceans Sat urday in a massive search for a missing U.S. reconnaissance plane which a spokesman ac knowledged could have gone down in northernmost Rus sia. : The missing six-jet RB-47 disappeared with six men aboard on a mapping flight over Northern Europe Friday. A Dutch marine radio sta tion was reported to have picked up signals from six men afloat in a dinghy in the North Sea, between Norway and Scotland, but officials said later the report v "exaggerated." Congress Completes -Highway Action Washlngton-IUPII - Congress, Ignoring an administration economy pleas, completed ac tion on and sent to the iVhite House Saturday bill auth orizing federal outlays of $2.09 billion to maintain the nation's highway construction at high .levels during fiscal 1962 and 1963.. . -, -, .... Londpn IUPII -Archaeologists will dig under the Kremlin In search of a library referred to In ancient chronicles, radio Moscow reported Saturday, tional conventions have been held in Chicago 22 times in the last 100 years. Lincoln was first nominated there. Of the 13 times the Republicans met in Chicago, their nomi nee became President nine times. . The first time the national convention was used as a means of putting candidates .t.4 T ... 1 , .1 . , ers was in 1832 - the Demo- crafic convention' In Balti more that nominated Andrew Jackson. The Republican par ty held its first national con vention in Philadelphia ' In 1856, nominating John C. Fre mont. ' The May 1860 convention which nominated Lincoln was the first which admitted large numbers of people. Acceptance speeches, how ever, did not become the vogue until 1932, when Franklin D. Roosevelt made one. The pattern changes slight ly from time to time, but the convention continues to be what Will Rogers once called the Fourth of July celjbra- tion of national politics," (Copyright 1960. Congressional Quarterly Inc.) SEN. HUGH SCOTT , '1 Republican , Speaker Sen. Scott To ' ' Speak Here July 15 Senator Hugh Scott (R Penn.) is slated to be the main speaker at a Republican fund raising dinner July 15 to be held at the Medford armory, Joseph D. Walsh, Jackson county Republican Central Committee chairman, has an nounced. ,- Scott was elected to the U. S.' Senate In Nov., 1958, and is a member of commit tees on interstate and foreign commerce, public works, small business, national water resources and a special com mittee on unemployment problems. " 1 ; The senator has served 'as general counsel of the' Repub lican National committee and national chairman of the Re publican party In 1948-49. He has been chairman of a re gional i organization for the Eisenhower campaign during the January-July 1992 period. a--., Readiness of Massachusetts Man Questioned Other Prospective Candidates Boomed Independence, Mo. - (UPI)-. Former President Harry S. Truman, in "give 'cm hell" ; form he usually reserves for Republicans, charged Satur day that the Democratic Na tional convention has been "fixed" to guarantee nomina tion of Sen. John F. Kennedy. Truman's bombshell, which he exploded at a nationally televised news conference here, reverberated from coast to coast. Kennedy's office in Wash ington promptly demanded equal time from the television networks that carried Tru man's explanation of why he quit as a Missouri delegate to the convention. -Questions Readiness Truman used the occasion to question whether Kenney is "quite ready' for the White House and to boom other pros pective candidates, primarily Sen. Stuart Symington (Mo.). Truman did not say how he mougnt the convention was being rigged, except to say many delegates "have been stampeded or pressured into pre-convention commitments against . their bettei1 Judg ments," He said ."there is yet time before the convention opens July 11" for , them to change their minds. ' , He also did not specifically accuse Democratic National 5ha,'man P?ul, M- B,of doing. rw-,riczin2. somethlnz Butler denied two days ago in anticipation of such a charge. But Truman made it obvious he considered Butler among those responsible. Urged To Be Patient . , ' In questioning the 43-year- old Kennedy's maturity and qualifications, Truman urged the Massachusetts senator to "be patient" because there is no doubt he is "destined to rise" to political heights. Truman said he had sug gested to Kennedy in a recent meeting here "that all person al ambitions be put aside and that we all join forces to seek out" a nominee "with the greatest possible maturity and experience . . . who could unite us in purpose and ac tion. Truman said Symington Is that man. But he also named nine other Democrats he con sidered "qualified to be presi dent," heading his list with Senate Democratic Leader Lyndon B. Johnson (Texas). His "qualified" list did not include Adlai E. Steven- nominated for a second time in 1956 at a convention which Triimarr said was a "closed" one despite his warn ings. - ; Other Possibilities Others listed by Truman as worthy of consideration were: Rep. Chester Bowies Of Connecticut, chairman of the convention's platform com mittee, who "combines to an exceptional degree the experi ence and maturity of a well rounded public servant." Gov. Robert B. Meyner of New Jersey "whose record as governor and whose nntlnnol reputation entitled him to at tcntion , beypnd that of a fav orite ion." ' ' ;. ' ' , Others were Sen. Joseph Clark of Pennsylvania, Sen. Eugene J. McCarthy of Min nesota, Sen. Henry M. Jack Son, Washington; Sen. Albert Gore, Tennessee; Gov. Orvllle E. Freeman of Minnesota, and Gov. LeRoy Collins of Flori da, permanent chairman of the convention. , Truman also said he "shall support the ticket" if 'Ken nedy is nominated. But he said the Democratic National committee would have to de cide how much active cam paigning he would do. -. Sulom (UPU - Governor Mark Hatfield's advisory committee on government reorganization will meet Thursday to take up reorganization of Oregon' government In the fields of labor, commerce, industry and transportation. Gettysburg, Pa. HIPD - Presl. dent Elsenhower took full ad. vantage ot a sunny break in roccnt rainy weather Satur day and played 36 holes ot golf, at the Gettysburg Coun try club. ism rmf Mat ...,, , , . IS: ?