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MEDFORD, OREGON, TUESDAY, JULY 5, 1960
No. 91
Official
Race
Health Issue
Into Democra t
FIA - s v. vv y -mp
ROSEBURG CRASH KILLS 4 Oregon'!
wont highway accident of the holiday week
and occurred nenr Roscburg when two cart
Daylight Burglar
Finds Going Not
So Easy; In Jail
An eaiy-gning burglar found
the going not 10 easy Mondny
and was lodged in the county
Jail, charged with the dnyllghl
burglary of a downtown Med
ford Jewelry store.
Harry llownrd Gray. 51),
White City Domiciliary, ad
mitted to Medford police (his
morning Hint he broke the
front display window of Bro
phy'l Jewelers. 209 East Main
at., about 1 o'clock Monday
afternoon, and took a wrist
watch valued at about $150.
Police were assisted In
fhclr apprehension of Gray by
James Albert Lile, a Louis
ville, Ky., transient, who saw
Cray take the watch.
Lite told police tluil Gmy
did not run alter taking tho
watch, but walked away "as
If nothing hnd happened."
Followad Sararal Blocks
Lile said he followed dray
for several blocks until Gray
picked up n newspaper nl the
corner of Sixth and Bartlctt
its., then sal down on a nearby
planter box to rend It. Lile
then went back to the Jewelry
(tore and wnited for police.
When police arrived Lile
. Jed thein to where Grny hnd
been sitting and, sure enough,
he was still-there.
Police have not yet located
tho stolen watch,' Gray told
them he threw It away short
ly before his arrest.
Gray also admitted to po
lice that ho broko a window
in Welsflcld'i Jewelers, 122
East Main si., about noon, but
(aid he did not lake anything.
Welfare Committee
To Review Program
Portland - IUPH - The Legis
lative Interim Committee on
Public Welfare, which mecls
here Thursday and Friday
will review Washington
ulntc's program for reducing
welfare costs by giving voca
tional training In welfare re
ciplcnta.
21-Months-Old Child
Lost Near Kam loops, B. C.
Knmloops, B.C..-ilirii-A 30
man hand-picked team of vol
unteers loft hero today lo Join
a search for a 21-month-oId
baby missing in rough coun
try. Belly Juan Masters toddled
away Sunday evening and
Hoyal Canadian Mounted Po
lice, Iheir tracking dog and
residents of the Red Lake area
;
Hiwmmmmmimm:
collided, killing four membera ot a Rcdonda
Beach, Calif., family In ont car and critical
ly injuring two occupants of the other auto.
(UPI Telcphoto)
Oregon Accidents
Account for 13
Dead on Week End
By United Preas International
uregon counted 13 persons
dead from accidental causes
during the long Fourth of July
week end. Seven of them
died In traffic accidents, five
drowned and one man was
killed at his . home while
working on his car.
Three drownings added to
the toll Monday,
Glen W. Slsco, 45-year-old
Rainier longshoreman, drown
ed In the Columbia river near
Rainier In an effort to save
Nation's Highway '
Crashes Kill 437
A United Press Interna
tional tally showed at least
437 persons were killed In
traffic accidents between 6
p.m. Friday and midnight
Monday. Another 161
drowned and, .125 died in'
rnlscellanoout accidents for
a violent death total of 723.
California led the nation
In traffic deaths with 38 and
Ohio had 30. New York re
ported 27, Texas 23, Wis
consin 21, North Carolina
IB, Georgia and Michigan
16, Pennsylvania 15, New
Mexico 14, and Arltona.
Colorado and Missouri 13.
his son, Roger, 11. The boy,
who had stepped off a. ledge
into deep-water, was reseiud
by Stanley Zaske, Portland.
Slsco's body was recovered
late Monday.
Child Drowns
William Warren Boone, 4,
Portland, drowned In a fam
ily swimming pool Bt Gresh
am. the sheriff's office said
he fell Into the pool while
playing.
Mrs, Clara DuBols, 58, Jo
seph, drowned while fishing
In (he Lostlne river after after
falling into swift water,
Enrlior downing Saturday
claimed the lives of Steve D.
Groves, 17, Eugene, In .Odell
hike, and Robert Rustom, 20,
Tncoma, In tho Pnclflc ocean
near Gcnrharl.
The worst traffic accident
look the lives of four mem-
could find no trace of her.
The baby Is the daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Maurice Mas
ters of Copper Creek, who
wero vlsltina friends at Red
Lake,' 30 miles north of here.
When the youngster had not
neon found by Monday morn
ing, two lumber mills In the
area shut down and workers
Joined the search,
Finds Way
Campaigns
bers of a Redondo Beach,
Calif., family Just north of
Roscburg Sun day irorning.
The victims were Harold K.
Peterson, 46; his son, Harold
K. Jr., 18; and daughters Ann
Ruth, 12. and Sharon, 5. The
mother, Mrs. Ruth Peterson,
41. remained in a hospital in
serious condition.
California Girl Diet
Mary Chamberlain, 18,
Ross, Calif., a student at Lew
is and Clark college, was kill
ed near Portland early on the
Yourth of July In a two-car
collision.
Other traffic accidents
claimed the lives of Kenneth
G. Gocdl, 17, Powers, cast of
Roscburg on Saturday, and
Mrs. Hazel Snook, 60, Oregon
City, killed Friday night.
Clyde Comstock, 46, Pen
dleton, was killed Sunday
when his propped-up car fell
on him while he was working
under the front end of the
vehicle.
Two Taken Home
By Mercy Flights
Two young California men,
Injured near Dunsmulr In an
automobile accident Saturday
night, were flown to their
home late Sunday by a Mercv
Flights, Inc., plane from Med
ford. Robert Coulter and Charles
Llndstadt, both 19, of Sun
land, Calif., near Burbank,
were driving north when their
car collided head-on with a
truck south of Dunsmulr, and
plunged over a 123-foot em
bankment, It was reported
Both suffered severe head In
juries. They were picked up by
the Mercy Flights plane about
midnight Sunday Bt Mott
field, near Mt. Shasta, and
flown to Burbank. '
They were the 1140th and
1141st patients flown by the
non-profit air ambulance cor
poration. WEATHER '
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Kennedyjohnson
Backers Discuss
Health of Rivals
Kennedy's Office
Issues Report
Los Angeles -flJPO- Political
agonU of Sen. John F. Ken
nedy and Lyndon B. Johnson
dragged the health Issue to
day into the pre-convention
contest of these two rivals for
t h e Democratic presidential
nomination.
Kennedy's convention head
quarters issued a medical re
port to back up Its statement
that the Massachusetts sen
ator's physicians has found
him "in excellent health and
with a normal life expec
tancy." By its action, the Kennedy
camp in effect Invited John
son to do the same.
Kennedy and Johnson are
rated In that order In early
ballot strength among Demo
crats contesting for the presi
dential nomination at the na
tional convention open lng
here next Monday.
John B. Connally, chair
man, and India Edwards, vice
chnirman of the Johnson for
President Committee, held a
news conference here soon
thereafter. They were asked
if they regarded Kennedy's re
marks as an oblique Jab at
Johnson, 51-ycar-old Senate
majority leader, who fluttered
a heart attack 'In 1955. - "-'.-;
Accept Medical Challenge
They replied they would be
glad to match Johnson's medi
cal record against Kennedy's
history of Addison's disease.
Connally also referred to Ken
nedy's long absence from the
Senate in 1954 when the
Massachusetts senator under
went operations for a back
Injury.
Mrs. Edwards said it was no
disgrace to have Addison's
disease but that she was wary
of Kennedy's "muscle flcxinR"
to show that "he is in better
health than anyone else."
Robert F. Kennedy, brother
and campaign adviser of the
senator, called another news
conference four hours later.
He said the senator never
had an ailment described
classically as Addison's dis
ease, which is a tuberculous
destruction .of the adrenal
gland."
Salom-(UP!)-The state sca
bies quarantine on Baker
county was lifted Tuesday by
the State Agriculture Depart
ment, effective immediately.
Baseball
NATIONAL LEAGUE
St. Louis 3 5 1
Chicago 2 5 0
Simmons, McDanitl (7)
and Smith: Cardwell. Schaf
fernoth (9) and T a p p e,
Averlll (8).
"Boy, What
NOT PLANNING TO QUIT Sen. John F. Kennedy (D-Mass.)
told a press conference In New York Monday that he does
not intend to step aside at anyone's request in his bid for
the Democratic presidential nomination. (UPI Telephoto)
Sen. Kennedy Not
To Step Aside at
'Anyone's
New York - (ITU - Sen. John
F. Kennedy told the nation in
general and former President
Truman in particular Monday
he would not quit the race as
a presidential candidate be
cause youthful (trength,
health and vigor is needed in
the White House.
The 43-ycar-old Massachu
setts Democrat, front runner
for ..his ..party's presidential
nomination, Tcplied point by"
point Jn a televised newt con
ference to the challenge
thrown at him Saturday by
Truman.
Haiardi Surveyed '-
To Truman's suggos 1 1 o n
that he step aside as a candi
date, Kennedy said, "I do not
intend to step aside at any
one's request."
The senator said he was the
only candidate to enter all the
primaries and had "encount-
Symington Sees
'Battle Royal'
Los Angelcs-flJPD-A spokes
man for Sen. Stuart Syming
ton (D-Mo.) predicted today
that a Kennedy-Johnson "bat
tle royal" will result In either
Symington or Adlai E. Steven
son winning the Democratic
presidential nomination.
The forecast was made by
Rep. Charles H. Brown (D
Mo.), Symington's campaign
chairman. He announced he
had telegraphed all Syming
ton delegates to "stand firm"
In the face of what will be a
"r e a 1 Democratic Donney
brook" at the Los Angeles
convention opening next Mon
day. ' Washington tUPD Sen. Hall
S. Lusk (D-Ore.) says presi
dential approval is expected
of an extension for another
year of the Korean orphan
immigration program. .
Leadership!"
Request'
ered and surveyed every kind
of hazard and opposition.
To Truman s assertion that
the convention was "pre-arranged"
to favor him, Ken
nedy said, "to the extent that
I have anything to do with it,
it will be an open convention
- as every convention of our
broadly-based party is open.
First Ballot Nominations
.The senator pointed out that
me democratic . presidential
nominee had been chosen on
the first ballot in all but one
convention since 1932, includ
ing Truman In 1948. -
Mr. Truman regards an
open convention as one which
studies all -the candidates -
reviews their records - and
then takes his advice," he
said.
Kennedy said he hoped the
convention would consider all
prospective nominees, includ
ing those Truman named and
some he did not name. He did
not mention Senate Majority
Leader Lyndon B. Johnson of
Texas by name.
To Trumans charge that
Kennedy supporters used im
proper "pressure" on conven
tion delegates, Kennedy said,
"Not one concrete example
has ever been namcd-I do not
want any votes that have
been pressured."
Recalls Primary Victories
Kennedy said his votes
came from the open primaries
that he entered and from
rank-and-file Democrats who
voted for him in state con
ventions.
The senator said Trumans
prospective candidates did not
enter one primary on their
own. He said these candidates
had been "properly sized up,"
as Truman recommended,
"and they have their own
backers who are not,. I am
told, without influence and
the opportunity to pressure
delegates."
Finally, Kennedy dealt
with Truman's suggestion
l.iat the young congressman
was not ready for the country
and the country not ready for
him.
The senator cited his 18
years in the service of the
United States-four as a naval
officer in World War II and
14 as a member of Congress.
Selective Service
Office Notes Hours
Selective service officials
have announced a change in
office hours effective immedi
ately until Sept. 1.
! New hours will be from
7:30 a.m. to 4 P.m., Monday
through Friday. The Medford
office will be closed Satur
days and Sundays. ;
The local office also re
minded young men becoming
18 years old that they must
rea slcr at the selective serv
ice office within five days of
their birthday.
Los Angeles (UPI Louisiana
National Democratic Commit
teeman Camllle F. Gravel to
day pleaded iimocent lo ' a
drunk charge based on accu
satlona he imbibed too freely
of martinis during an airplane
trip.
For Khrushchev
Jovial Premier
Greets Villagers
Imlau, Austria-flJPU-A play
ful Soviet Premier Nikita
Khrushchev, sticking out his
tongue at children and Jovi
ally handing out Sputnik
pins, dropped in on this pic
turesque village today.
It was an unscheduled slop
In a tour marked by a notice
able increase in warmth for
the visiting Russian leader.
Here in tills Salzach Valley
village, Khruuhchev turned
on the jovial Uncle Nikita
charm, shaking hands with
the villagers, kissing babies
and inviting everybody to
visit Russia.
Reaction' Becomes Warmer
The popular reaction has
become increasingly warmer
iiince Khrushchev was in
Vienna, repeating the experi
ence of other western coun
tries during . Khrushchev'i
tour. In many villages there
were small groups of people
waving flags and posters.
Khrushchev and his wife
went to bed early Monday
night while the other mem
bers of the party sat around
and sang Russian songs.
Studies Request
Earlier today in Salzburg,
Khrushchev studied a request
for the pardon and release of
former Nazi youth leader Bal
dur von Schriach.
The letter was written by
von Schriach's wife, and was
one of several the Premier
received in the early mail
from Austrian citizens plead
ing for reunions with relatives
behind the Iron Curtain,
20 Per Cent of
MID Water Used
Approximately 20 per cent
ot available storage water
in Medford Irrigation district
has been used with 80 per
cent of the irrigation season
remaining, according to MID
Manager Jack Holfbuhr.
The district has been on
storage for two weeks and has
about 10 weeks left, it win ir;
rlgate to Scpt. l5K' Hoffbuhr
said.
Hoffbuhr noted that irriga
tion has been exceptionally
heavy during the last 10 days.
The next six weeks, mainly of
orchard irrigation, will be the
heaviest, he predicted. This is
the period just before the pear
harvest when orchardists irri
gate heavily before crews
move in and start picking.
The last four weeks in the
season will be mainly for pas
ture irrigation, the MID man
ager said. As of today. Fish
lake has 4.343 acre feet in
available storage, and Four
Mile lake has 9,946 acre feet.
Equipment Lost
In Ashland Fire
Ashland - Fire of unde
termined origin swept through
a combination shop and tack
room here early this morn
ing, destroying about $1,300
worth of cquesterian equip
ment and power tools.
The building was owned by
Alvin C. Athanas, 780 North
Mountain ave. and was situ
ated at the rear of his home.
The house received no dam
age. Ashland firemen, who an
swered the alarm at 12:01
a.m., said the shop was almost
destroyed when Atnanas dis
covered the fire.
Athanas said the building
contained four saddles, bri
dles, buggy harnesses and
shop tools. He had used some
of the equestrian equipment
In yesterday's Fourth of July
parade here.
Water Main Being
Installed in City
Medford city water depart
ment crews today started in
stallation- of a 6-inch water
main on Harrison ave., which
will serve residents on the
south side of Harrison ave.
Water Superintendent Rob
ert Lee said the project w(U
take about 10 days to com
plete and should not Interrupt
the flow of traffic in this area.
The main will extend on Har
rison ave., from Valley View
dr., to Sunrise ave., and then
continue on Sunrise ave. to
Aloha si.
Governor To Start
Vacation on Friday
Salem-IUPI)-Gov. Mark Hat
field has no speaking engage
ments this week and on Fri
day he starts a vacation.
Wednesday he will greet
(he annual convention of the
National Association of Slate
Budget Officers In Salem,
i- ' -V;
LYNDON JOHNSON '
Backers Predict Victory
Bard's Heyday Is
Scheduled Sunday
At Ashland Site
Ashland - The Bard's Hey
day, annual event sponsored
by the Tudor Guild, is. sched
uled Sunday, July 10, at the
Oregon Shakespearean Festi
val Theater grounds. Tne Hey
day, in the nature of an old
English Fair, will start at 5
and last until 8 p.m. A nomi
nal admission : fee will , be
charged
. As has been done in past
years, the Guild will set up
booths, schedule entertain
ment, sell various articles, and
provide an air of Elizabethan
merry-making.
The Tudor Guild Booth will
be open, Belling an assortment
of articles. Beta Sigma Phi
will have a soft drink booth.
An assortment of food will
be available, including saffron
bread, pasties, different types
of sandwiches, fruit, cole slaw,
cold punch, ice tea arid coffee.
Gamts Planned
Thee will be games for
children, according to Mrs,
C. H. Putney, publicity chair
man for the event, and the
hobby horse and fishpond will
be operating. There will be a
magician, . John Eads, Med-
ford, , and photographs . ol
Shakespearean figures will be
available."' - - '
."' Entertainment will be pro
vided by Festival musicians
and dancers, and there will
be a pantomime contest
between the Festival com
pany actors.
The festival box office will
be open that day from 1:30
to 5 p.m. to accommodate
those who wish to purchase
tickets to the plays.
The Festival season opens
July 25 and will continue into
September.
Fire Destroys Home
Of Talent Family
Talent-A Talent area fam
ily which was burned out of
its home Sunday morning has
received considerable amounts
of clothing and some house
hold items, according to Tal
ent Police Chief Bill Young.
Donations for the James
Huff family, including . four
children, have included cloth
ing, beds and mattresses, stove
and an iron. However, dishes
and cooking utensils are need
ed now, Young said All such
items may be left at the Tal
ent city hall.
Young said he is pleased
with the public response in
aiding the family. Meanwhile,
the family is moving into a
rented home on Anderson
Creek rd.
The farm house in Yankee
Gulch which the Huffs were
renting burned Sunday morn
ing as the family was haying
in a nearby field. The Talent
rural fire department respond
ed to the call from neighbors,
but the house was engulfed
in flames when firemen ar
rived. Cause was given as defec
tive wiring in the attic. The
family was able to save only
its deep freeze.-
Moscow - ll'PI) - The- Soviet
news agency, Tass reported to
day that the Soviet Union has
launched a rocket from Rus
sia to a target in the Pacific
ocean. , ,
Mystery of Russian
Flag at Roseburg Solved
Roscburg (UPI) - The mystery
of the home-made Russian flag
atop Ml, Hebo in Roseburg
was solved today with the ar
rest of five teen-agers, thrco
boys and two girls, police said.
They said it was just a
prank, but aroused citizens
who offered more than $900
for their arrest and conviction
didn't think so, And neither
did police, who held one of
the girls, 18, for the Douglas
county grand jury and turned
the other tour, all 17, over
, & ' '
Need for 'Seasoned' i
Leadershia NotarJ
Washington fuTD - Senate -
Democratic Leader Lyndon
Johnson formally announced
today he will actively seek the
presidential nomination at the
uemocrauc national conven
tion next week.
The Texan told a news con
ference: "My name will be
placed in nomination at the
Democratic convention In Los
Angeles." , ,
He added some of his sup
porters predict a third ballot
victory for him at the Lot
Angeles voting.
Johnson, the leader of the
Senate Democrats since 1933,
became the chief rival of Sen.
John F. Kennedy . (D-Mass.)
whom Johnson slapped at re
peatedly. Although Johnson
had not officially entered the
race, his supporters have been
active for weeks. ... . , f
He cited his Senate record
and the need for "seasoned'1
leadership as his qualifications
for the White House. He dwelt
at length on the problems face
ing the next occupant ot the
White House. ' .
Dig at Kennedy ' .
"All the forces of evil In
this world will stand poised,
ready to strike at freedom
through whatever weakness
we m a v a h a w." h aalrl
"These forces will have no
mercy for innocence, no gal
lantry toward inexperience,
no patience toward errors." -
This was considered a dig
at the youthful Kennedy.
Johnson said he had been
unable up to now to jump
into the race because his posL
tion as majority leader re
quired him to be in Washing
ton.
Someone had to tend the
store," he said.
Cites Soviet Threat
Now that Congress is In
recess, "I am now a Demo
cratic candidate for the presi
dency of the United States."
I Johnson formally entered
the Tace three days after for
mer President Harry S. Tru
man cnarged tnat the conven
tion was rigged for Sen. John
F. Kennedy (Mass.) the front
running candidate. '
Statement Read
Reading a prepared 1,500-
word statement to the crowd-'
ed televised news conference,
Johnson stressed the chal
lenges that will face the next
President from Soviet Pre
mier Nikita Khrushchev.
The next President is not
going to be a talking presi
dent or a travelling presi
dent," Johnson asserted. "He
must be a working Presi
dent." He -said the Communists
are "moving in to kill on
American leadership and to
destroy the Free World itself.
Explosion Reported
Off Ashland Road ;
Ashland - City police, fire
men and local forest rangers
yesterday answered several
calls reporting an explosion
off the Mt. Ashland loop road
about three quarters of a mil
beyond Crowson reservoir.,:
Police, who received the
first call at 4:30 p.m., said
the explosion had occured in
a wooded area about 30 feet
down a hill from the road. ;
The report said the. "odor
of dynamite was heavy in the
air." and added . that those
responsible . apparently had
tossed the explosives from
the road and th;n fled in a
vehicle.
The dynamite, the polica
report added, may have been
part of that stolen from, a
powder house in the canyon
more than a year ago.
Two minor fires started In
the area shortly after officials
arrived on the scene, but both
were extinguished.
Havana, .Cuba-IUPD -Britain
has , lodged a strong protest
with Cuba over seizure of the
Anglo-Dutch Shell Oil refin
ery in Havana, it was dis
closed today.
to juvenile authorities. The
five were not Identified by
police. . .
Police said the fathers of
the boys learned of the Inci
dent and were about to turn
them over to the authorities
when they were contacted by
police, who received tip
from an' unidentified source.
Police said the five teen
agers all graduated from Rose
burg area high schools this
year, and all five had high
scholastic records, ' ;