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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,
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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
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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-
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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.
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