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Civil Rights Platform Set For Democratic Convention Los Angeles - IUPD - The farthcat-reacliing civil rights plank In party history went before the Democratic Plat form Committee today for ratification. The proposed platform was tailored to the liberal pro gram of Sen. John F. Ken nedy. The civil rights planks, ana thema to Southern supporters of Sen. Lyndon B. Johnson, was certain to touch off a North-South battle - the ex tent depending on Johnson's exact standing in the presi dential race when the issue hits the convention floor Tuesday. Eight Point! . A sympathetic reference to sit-in demonstrations by Ne gro students at segregated lunch counters in the South was but one of eight points in the- civil rights program written by a 20-member plat form drafting subcommittee. Treasure Said Found in Lake Coeur D'Alene, Idaho (UP&- Two St. Louis deep sea divers said Sunday they have found Lake Coeur D'Alene s under water treasure. The divers, Jack Ross and Dick Green, have been search ing the north Idaho lake for the past week hoping to find the legendary silver reef which allegedly was deposit ed on the floor of the lake when a harge overturned many yea s ago. Ross said he and Greer found some flour-fine concen trated lead already milled ly ing in about a hundred feet of water above Sandy Foint -some 300 feet off shore. Ross brought up a handful of the lead and said while the deposit is worth about $100 a ton, recovery would be cost ly and there was not as much of the lead as the divers had hoped to find. This provision cited "the peaceful demonstrations for constitutional rights" as one evidence of need for vigorous federal civil rights action. Other points were under stood to include a "pledge" to eliminate the literacy test and poll tax requirement in elec tions. It calls for direct fed eral control and operation of registration and elections when necessary to bar dis crimination against Negroes. Doubt Expressed There was no doubt among liberal forces that they would win a convention floor fight if the South decided to wage an all-out battle against the plank. Some labor leaders were hoping the South would do just this, to sharpen up the issue for the 1960 campaign. But several Southern lead ers, while openly dismayed, insisted there would be no walkout even if the plank is approved. The plank was patterned along not only Kennedy's lines but also on a mandate laid down by AFL-CIO President George Meany and other of ficials of organized labor. They have been pressuring for a tough civil rights plank as "the key" to a strongly- liberal 1960 platform. Swipe at Johnson The platform draft took another implied swipe at Johnson by calling for closing of tax loopholes including the depletion allowance which benefits oilmen in his home state of Texas and elsewhere. Another provision echoed Kennedy's statements that taxes should be increased if necessary to pay for the wel fare programs supported by the Democratic party. This was in contrast to the party's 19S6 platform call for a tax cut for low income groups as well as increased spending for welfare programs. In foreign affairs, the docu ment was understood to criti c i z e President Eisenhower's handling of events connected with the U2 spy plane inci dent and the summit collapse and to call for modernization of the nation's overall de fenses to meet Russia's space age challenge. Student Drowns in North Umpqua River Roseburg -ATPD- Fannie Pau line Terry, junior at Roseburg High school, drowned Sunday in the North Umpqua river near Tyee. County Coroner C. H. Bab bitt said she was dead when he examined her after her re moval from the water. Her father, John. Terry, was a cus todian for the Roseburg school district. 3 CDAU Timber P Company OREOON NOW TAKING ORDERS ON LIMITED SUPPLY OF GOOD, CURED AND SPLIT WHITE FIR PEELER CORE WOOD 1 Cord ...... . . . $13.00 Vi Cords .......... $18.50 (Medford City Delivery Prices) NOW Is The Time! Don't Delay Phone Today SP 2-8086 Increase Noted In City Traffic On 300 Streets Traffic on Medford's city streets is continuing to in crease at an average rate of about 5 per cent a year, City Engineer Vernon Thorpe said today. The city is now about half finished with a 1960 traffic count at some 300 different street locations in the city. Al though the count is not yet completed, Thorpe said, the figures indicate that the re sults will be about what was expected. Thorpe said a count is made about every two or three years to help the city plan for future street development. To get an average daily count at any one location a traffic counter is installed for about one week.1 Thorpe said the city has experienced diffi culty in getting an accurate count at several locations be cause of persons tampering with the tarffic counters. Thorpe listed the results of the traffic count at several key locations in the city, which, he said, are indicative of the over-all picture. Traffic Increases Traffic on Riverside ave. just north of Jackson St., has increased from 10,400 cars per day in 1957 to 12,970 in 1960. On Central ave., just south of Main St., traffic has increased from a 19S7 count of 8,500 cars per day to. a 1960 count of 10,418. On Main St., between Ge neva and Cottage sts., traffic increased from 9,283 to 9,699 cars per day between 1957 and 1960. On Crater Lake ave., at Jackson St., traffic this year averages 4,096 cars per day compared to 1957's average of 3,792. Results of the count on Jackson st. at Crater Lake ave., show that traffic has in creased from 3,818 cars to 5,081 cars a day during the three-year period. Thorpe said traffic on Main st. at Lincoln st. averages 3.664 cars per day and on Main st. at Quince st. it aver ages 9,958 a day. These figures cannot be compared to the 19a7 count, Thorpe said, be cause the Main - Eighth sts. couplet has been developed since then. lit l x,i,i BOY SAVED FROM FALLS A crewman pulls Roger Wood ward, 7, aboard the sightseeing boat Maid of Mist at the foot of Horseshoe Falls after the youngster became the first person ever to survive a 165-foot plunge over Niagara Fulls without a protective device. Roger was swept over the falls when the outboard motorboat in which he was riding cap sized. His sister, Deannc, 17, was rescued from the brink of the falls and a man riding with them disappeared in the water. (Exclusive UPI Telephoto) Medford JTribune Rogue Valley Edition Page 2A War Jitters Send Stock Prices Down Across Broad Front coming next week! VA Mail Tribune SUNDAY July 17th SPORTS: , Frank Howard ' The Dodger's $108,000 Problem Child ' HOME: Are Money Quarrels , Endangering , i Your Marriage? "FICTION: , To Angie With Love PERSONALITY: Lucille Ball- ' " Bachelor Girl FOOD: . Chilled Soups , HUMOR: - Quips and Quotes FUN FOR KIDS Junior Treasure Chest 1 ft New York IUPD - War jit ters hit the stock market to day driving prices lower across a broad front. Traders grew nervous aft er Moscow announced the shooting down of an Ameri can plane. Steels were under h' ivy pressure after holding s.ady to slightly higher most of the session. Electronics were among the heavy casualties. Losses here ran to more than 4 in Collins Radio, Texas Instruments and Motorola. IBM toppled around 6 points. In autos, Chrysler gave up around 2, Ford, American Mo tors and General Motors a half or more.,Du Pont drop ped more than a point in the chemicals. '"', DOW-JONES AVERAGES New York - IUPD - Dow Jones final stock averages: 30 industrials 640.44, off 6.47; 20 railroads 140.64. off 1.65; IS utilities 94.62, off 0.25, and 65 stocks 210.96, off 1.86. Sales today were about 2,920.000 shares com pared with 3,010,000 shares Friday. Today's prices on selected stocks: Allied Chemical 52 'i Alum Co. Am. 85 AT&T 90'.', Anaconda Cooper 49 American Can 39 'i American Motors n Armco Steel 67 V Bendix Aviation 63 ',i Bethlehem Steel 45i Boeine Air 27 '.i Caterpillar Corp - 27 U Chrysler Corp 45 Continental Can - 38 Crown Zellerbach n 44 U Curtiss Wright .. 18 Dow Chemical 89 ',i Du Pont - 209 U Eastman Kodak 12514 Firestone - 36 General Electric 89 '.i General Foods 130 li Teen-agers Arrested For Authorities Medford police arrested a 17-year-old Medford boy and took his 13-year-old wife into custody Friday night at the request of Lebanon, Ore., au thorities. The Lebanon police depart ment had informed city police that the boy had escaped from their custody on July 3 and they wanted him arrested on a charge of escape: They also said the boy had married his teen-age Lebanon bride illegally and wanted her taken Into custody as a run away. Police took the couple into custody at the home of the boy's parents. They were con fined in the county juvenile detention home pending arriv al of Lebanon authorities. Ailing Casfro Lashes at U.S. Havana IUPD - An ailing and exhausted Premier Fidel Cas tro brought television cam eras Into his bedroom Sunday night to hail the Soviet Un ion as a friend of Cuba and accuse the United States of plotting new "aggression." The bearded revolutionary leader, so weakened by lung congestion and overwork that he missed a giant anti-U. S. rally earlier in the day, spoke in a rasping voice that at times was barely audible. A medical bulletin Sunday said he had "a small pneu monic core" which started causing him chest pains last Friday. General Motors Georgia Pacific Graham Paine Greyhound Gulf Oil liomestake Mining Idaho Power I. B. M Int. Paper - Johns Manville - Katy Kcnnecott Copper Lockheed Aircraft Montana Power - Montgomery Ward - Nat l Biscuit New York Central Pac Gas & Elcc Pennev. J, C - Perm RR Radio Corporation Richfield Oil Safeway - Sears Shell Oil bocony Mobil Oil Southern Co. Southern Pacific - Standard California Standard Indiana Standard NJ Sun Mines Texas Co. j... , Texas Gulf Sulfur Li Texas Pac Land Trust Transamerica .. - Tri-Continental i. - Union Carbide Union Pacific United Aircraft - United Airlines V. S. Rubber U. S. Steel Youngstown S Ac T - ... 441, ... 5.V, ... 2, 32 ... 28 ... 38' ; ... 54 ...510 . 100 .. Ull'k ... 4", ... w., ... 20 H ... 211 1 i .. 4.1', .. t3-i4 .. 21 , .. 115 ' ... 43, .. 13', .. B-P, .. 71 'i .. 37 ' , .. 53 ; .. 34 1, .. 37', .. 48'', - 111'. .. 411. 17 , .. 41 .. 5''. ... IS . 15 ... 25', .. 371, ,.129?, .. 27'J .. 3!)', .. 30-. .. 53'', .. 81', .104 ', Stolen Car Recovered By Police Saturday A car stolen from Ashland Saturday was found Saturday night one and three-tenths of a mile west on the Ashland loop rd., state police said to day. The sedan, owned by Jim Busch Ford Sales, Ashland, was found with the front dam aged and stuck on a portion of the road. Deer hair on the hood indicated the car had struck a deer after it was stolen, officers said. Apparently the right wing window was broken to gain entrance and the ignition "hot-wired," state police said. Woman Dies in North Bend Fire North Bend (UPD - Mrs. Vern Hayes, 55, died in a fire that gutted the family home here early today. Mrs. Hayes has been In poor health for some time and was alone when the fire started. Her husband, a longshore man, discovered the fire short ly after 3 a.m. when he ar rived home from work. Two other longshoremen, Vern and Dean Poitra, who were also just off shift, joined Hayes in trying to get into the house but the flames drove them back. Cause of the fire was not Immediately determined. U.S. Polishing Aid Program To Woo Latin American Nations From Reds Washington llll'l) - Tho Unit ed Slates, eyeing Cuba's tight ening oinht'iico with Commu nism, today put tho finish ing touches on n bold new aid pi'ogriim to woo otlirr Latin Amei lam nuliims. This country hopes lis out pouring of rash fur hind re form, housing and education will convince neighbors to llio smith that the United Slates Is boiler equipped than Com munist countries to help thorn raise living standards. Belgian Troops Rescue Whites In Congo Riots l.eopoldvllle, The Congo -' lUl'D - Tough Belgian para troopers armed with auto matic weapons herded streams of white Europeans nway from n native troop rebellion to the safety of countries sur rounding the Congo today. Tho Europeans scattered north, south, east und west from African anarchy that threatened to Inflame this newly-Independent nation and collapse the government of Premier Patrice Lumumba. Top officials Of the new government were bickering over how to save tho nation. Rape, Murder Whiles Two Belgian cabinet min isters, Auguste do Schrljver and Ganshof van der Mecrsch, rushed to the Belgian air base at Knmina. Belgium grunted the Congo its independence only 12 days ago. From various points throughout the nation came reports of-paratroopers clash ing with rebel African mem bers of the "Force Ptiblique," of natives pillaging European houses left vacant by the exo dus, of rape and murder of whites by Africans. Belgium defied a protest by Premier Patrice Lumumba and ordered Its troops to do whatever they could to help Europeans flee the country. Planes of a half dozen na tions were diverted to Iliazia villc, capital of the neighbor ing Congo Republic of the French community, und other strategic points to help ferry refugees home. Believe Bosiegod Whites Belgian paratroopers drop ped on Elisabcthvillc, in the mineral rich Katanga Prov ince to the southeast of Leo- poldville, and Luluabt-urg, to the northeast, Sunday and rescued 1,60(1 besieged whites. They shot their way Into centnilly-loeiitcd buildings In the two cities where the whites had taken refuge from attacking African rebels. Casualty reports varied. At least 10 whiles were killing at Elisabethville, inoludina Itali an Consul Tito Spoglia, who was dragged from his auto mobile and machine-gunned before the Belgian paratroop ers came out of the skies. President lilsonhower and Scei'ulai'y of Statu Clirlsllau Willamette University Gets Building Loan Washington. IITO-Tlio Hous ing and Home Finance Agency of the Community Facilities Administration has granted Wlllnmi'lto University of S.i leni a $1)50,000 loan for in struction of housing nnd din ing facilities for 240 men students. A. Hortot' were expoctud to work uul final details of tho 11 1 (I plnn In n meting nt (lie Newport, It. 1 vacation White House. U. S. officials disclosed tliut u high level flniuiclul study mission loft Sunday for Col ombia, Peru nnd Clillu to do tcrmlno how thoNo countries could use the new Amerlcun aid. There wort) those other do velopineuls us U. S.-Cubun ro liilloiw continued to worsen: -Assistant Senate Demo cratic leader Mike Miinsflold (Mont.) proposed (hut small group of uulsliiiKlliig Wt'slei'n llt'inlKpht'i'n Inudnt'H try In patch llilngs up between Ilia Unllt'd S lilies and l'ltlol Cas tro's Cuba. -Tlicru was specula lion Unit Phillip llnnsul, U. S. iiinbus sudor In 1 1 ii viinii, might bo rn called unless Castro disavow, t'd Soviet I'reiiili'i' Nlkllu S. Khrushchev's llircnl to hit llio United States with rockets If this country Intervened In Culm. oooooo o o ESUBUSHID 18 Ptaaly wiggly-M I GREEN I o O I- I Vf llMMIHI -Ti"1 -4l I i OPEN EVERY DAY UNTIL 9 P.M. HOT WEATHER SPECIAL! G mm Carnation Reg. 26c FLAKES (): ItS Til 0 0 jABtlSHtD 8 1 I GREEN STAMPS, o o Dill Pickles Steinfeld's Plain or Kosher Jumbo 48-ox. Jar Hatfield Will Be 38 on Tuesday Salem-IUPII-Gov. Mark Hat field will be 38 years old Tues day and ho Is on vacation the first three days of this week. Back at his desk Thursday, he will receive Mnhomedull Gurrin Chagla, Indian Ambas sador to the U.S. Friday Hatfield will attend a breakfast for Sen. Hugh Scott (D-Pa.) and that eve ning he will make an address at the SAGE Installation near Corvallls. Saturday at 10:30 a.m., he will dedicate the Village Green Motor Hotel in Cottnce Grove and that night he ad dresses the Oregon Boiler Festival in Springfield. NURSES ON DUTY Los Angeles IUPII - A spe cial staff of interns and nurses is set to administer to the hoarse throats and swollen hands that come during tho convention when enthusiastic delegates greet ench other with strong handshakes or make over-long speeches. REPUBLICAN LUAU ! . Friday SMt night J PrJ. Pol, Adv., Rep. Central Com., Joe Walsh, Chrm. P.O. Box 923, Modford, Ore). M ashed Potatoes ORE-IDA Instant Flakes 3l29c o o ESI6tlS)lQ 1896 I GREEN LSTAMPS, 0 O Plymouth Reg. 20c lb in $1100 SEEDLESS GRAPES Sweet Thompson 1H U V 0)c lb. 0 O tSIABHSIItO IS96 WM I GREEN I UtampsJ o Stewing Hens Bridgeman Bros. Fresh Frosted Cut-Up CI'AiiimkI' hhJ Iimim P'' affective Monday, Tuesday, Wedner day, July T1, 12, 13, Limit rights reserved l
