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Newspaper Page Textight CCillledl mi ire goo yig "You Think You Can Get My Bandwagon ; Going Again?" Reds Ordered Aerial Photos of Portland Portland lltPU-Sovlet agents ordered aertal photographs of Portland iind three o I li e r Writ Coast cities In IDS8 a a part of general program of obtaining aerial photos of critical U. S. cities, It was disclosed In a rrpnrl tent to Mayor Terry Schrunk here todny. The information wai re leased by the FBI in a ipe- Girl Injured in Boating Accident An 18-year-old Central Point firl wan injured during a water skiing accident Sunday near Savage Rapids dim on the Rogut river, Hale police reported. - The girl, Joanelta Peterann, J35 Maple t. Central Point, vnt reported In fair condition th is morning. She auffertd aeveral cut in her right leg, possibly from a boat propel ler, according to Rogue Val ley hospital attendant!. The girl apparently fell off her ikil, atnte police laid. Then the boat operator circled back in the boot to pick her up, and Jumped into the water to help her and the wind caused the boat to drift over, the propeller cutting her leg, investigating officer! were told. Miss Peterson was taken to the hospital in a private car. Slate police said they did not know the identity of the boat operator. Salem - IUPU - Gov. Mark Hatfield will attend the grand opening Tuesday evening in Portland of the Bush Japanese Garden and the next day he will make a National Forest visit on Mt. Hood. Bulletin Washlngton-Wli-Tha Or ganisation of American Stales council voted unani mously today to call an emergency foreign minis ters' mealing to consider "threats" lo democracy and unity in the hemisphere, The vote came after Cuba announced it would agree lo the meeting proposed by Peru. ! Cuban Ambassador Carlos' M. Ltchugt,, emphasised, however, thai his country's attendance at the meeting "necessity depend on its agenda and alte." Hit? VOLCANO ERUPTS Mount Etna erupted Sunday and again today with i fiery roar, spewing truck-sized incandescent boulders into the air like pebbles and sending panic- clal report to the U. S. At torney General for use by a subcommittee of the Senate committee on the Judiciary. Mayor Schrunk had asked for a copy of the report made in connection with the com mittee investigating t h c U-2 spy plane incident. It said that Kirill Sergce- vlch Uoronkin, a film editor for the department nl public Informations. United Nations, was given specially ordered photographs of Chicago at a clandestine meeting in a Scarsdale. N. Y. parking lot. The source, unidentified, also said he was asked to get aerial photographs of Port land, Seattle. San Diego and San Francisco. The FBI reports that Soviet agents began subverting American citizens after they were stopped from using le gal sources to purchase pho tos..' ..'".! ,. ., . 2nd Finch Trial . Ready To Start . Los Angeles -(UPD-A Jury has been selected and testimony is nearly ready lo begin in the second Flnch-Trcgoff murder trial today, one year after the physician's wife was slain. All that remains to be com pleted in the retrial's prelimi naries Is the choosing of four alternate Jurors, Eleven women and one man were selected Friday to hear the second trial of Dr. R. Ber nard Finch, 43. and his attrac tive mistress. Carole Tregoff, 23. on a charge of murdering his wife. Demo Nominee Starts Vacation HvannlspnM, Mass. (Urn Sen. John F. Kennedy settled down today to a relaxed vaca lion week with his wife and family In seaside setting re mote from the stresses and strains of last week's conven tion and next fall's campaign. The Democratic presiden tial nominee arrived at this picturesque Cape Cod resort Sunday night to a rousing welcome from airport and street crowds which police said totaled up lo 100,000. Los Angeles - (Urll - About 10,800 machinists have ended their strike against Lockheed Missile and Space Division and returned lo their Jobs to day for the first time since June IS. 4 V, " Rogue Valley Edition Medford 18 Pgi MEDFORD, Ikeda Succeeds Kishi As Japanese Leader Tokyo (DPI) - The Japanese parliament today elected Ha yato Ikeda, leading economist who has a long record of close cooperation with the United States, as the new prime min ister of Japan. Hp replaces Nobusukc Kishi, forced lo resign by a violent leftwing opposition against Japan's military tics with the United States. Ikeda, who served as min ister of international trade and industry In the outgoing Kishi cabinet, won easily, polling 279 votes of 438 cast In the lower chamber. He needed only 220, Ills closest opponent was Inejiro Asanuma, chairman of the opposition Socialist party. Asumima had 121 votes. There was little doubt that Ikeda would be named pre mier from the lime he was named successor to Kishi as president of the ruling Liber al . Democratic party last week, a post he won after a bitter fight that almost split the party. Kishi, recuperating from slab wounds Inflicted last week by a disgruntled right ist, was unable to attend the election of his successor. Mt. Etna Erupts Again; Villages May Be Destroyed Catania, Sicily (UP -Mount Etna's mighty volcano erupt ed through a second crater with a roar today, spewing forth smoke, glowing rocks and ashes for an hour.v,0,i Volcano experts feared the 10,738-foot volcano, biggest In Europe, wa on the verge of spilling out a giant flow of lava that would destroy tillages and vineyards on its slope. The central crater of the man-killing volcano erupted Sunday with a violence un matched In modern times. The crater had been long dor mant. Today's explosion came from the more active north eastern crater. Three Earthquakes Three earthquakes rocked the Ternl area, 50 miles north of Tome and 330 miles from Etna, early today but there was no indication they were linked with the volcano's rumblings. . Sunday's explosion hurled huge chunks of lava into the air and a mushroom-shaped cloud shot up five miles with the speed of an express train. The slopes of the mountain trembled. Housing Agency Kicks Oft Program Washington - (UPI - The housing and home finance agency today kicked off a new program to boost housing con struction for elderly persons by establishing a special di vision and appointment of a man lo head it. The program became effec tive last week when President Eisenhower signed a $20 mil lion appropriation bill. stricken peasants fleeing down the moun tainside from their villages and vineyards. ' " (UPI Telepholo) OREGON, MONDAY, JULY HAYATO IKEDA New Prim Minister Damage Suit To Continue Tuesday Testimony in the $431,000 damage suit in Jackson coun ty circuit court against the Kline Logging company, Med ford. is expected to continue tomorrow. Testimony was not heard to day since the presiding Judge James M. Main had to be in Klamath Fells today to pass sentence as a result of a mur der trial there. The suit, which Carl O. Hillestad has brought against the logging company as a re sult of an accident, will con tinue tomorrow morning with Raymond Bowles, tree taller, taking the stand. .. - Bowles, who felled the tree causing Hillcstad's injuries, did not complete his testi mony Friday.- He testified as to the tree falling operation and his view of the accident. Much of Friday's testimony centered on Hillestad, who was under vigorous cross-examination by Medford attor ney George Roberts, of Rob e r t s. Kclllngton, Branchfild and Hcffcrnan, which is rep resenting the logging com pany. Hillestad testified as to his eyesight at the time he signed insurance papers while in the hospital and his under standing of what he was sign ing. He identified the papers and checks which he had en dorsed for payment of insur ance money for his Injuries. The testimony is expected (o continue to Wednesday. Commissioner Hired By Pennsylvania Harrisburg, Pa. - IUPU - The state fish commission today named Albert M. Day, of Port land, Ore., as executive di rector. Day, 63, was director of the federal fish and wildlife service for seven years from 1946 lo 1953. He retired from federal service in 1955 after serving for 36 years-most of them with the fish and wild life service. Day has served for the past two years as director of the Oregon State Fish commis sion, but had planned to leave that post when the fish and game commissions are merged by the Oregon Legislature. Rockefeller Drive Picks Up Steam Chlcago-lUPP-The drive to draft Gov. Nelson A. Rocke feller picked up steam today but lop Republican leaders said it would fall short of the party's presidential nomina tion. National Chairman Thrus- ton B. Morion, an early ar rival for the GOP convention opening next Monday, said a heavy majority of Republican leaders want Vice President Richard M. Nixon lo head the ticket. He added Rockefeller was "welcome" to make a ficlil for It. "This will be a free and oncn convention and Gov. Rockefeller, or any other candidate, is free to do what he wants," Morton said. Lebanon, Ore.-lUPD-Kenneth Morgan, 19, Lebanon, ran away so fast from a hornet's neat Sunday that a pistol in his holsler went off, wound ing him in the leg. Price 10 Cents tribune 18, 1960 No. 102 U2 Pilot's Trial To Start Aug. 17, Says Tass Report Moscow - IUPU - The Soviet Tass news agency announced today that the trial of Ameri can U2 pilot Francis Gary Powers will begin Aug. 17. Tass said the case would be "an open, court session" of the Military College of the na tion's Supreme Court. Powers, 31, Albany, Ga., was shot down by a Soviet rocket May 1 near Sverdlovsk while making what the Rus sians called a spy flight from Pakistan to Norway. Espionage Charge Powers was charged offic ially with espionage a week ago. The decision to try him was made by Military College of the Supreme Court, Tass said. The American is charged under Article 2 of the Soviet law on criminal responsibility for state crimes. The charge carries a maxi mum sentence of death and a minimum of seven years im prisonment. $80 Million Spent; Navy Kills Project Washlnglon-flJPD-The Navy today killed i project for de veloping a plane-launched guided missile called Corvus after spending $80 million on it. An announcement said the Navy had learned "much" from the project, but had dis covered the weapon would have too limited use to pur sue further development. The Corvus was to be rocket-powered guided missile launched against enemy targets from naval airplanes and was to have a range of more than 100 miles. Attorney Raps Hoff a Lieutenants Washington-rtlPD - A New York attorney charged today that lieutenants of Teamster President James R. Hoffa of fered to accept any settlement of the big union's snarled legal status as long as Hoffa is retained as president. Godfrey P. Schmidt, form er attorney for 13 rank and file teamsters who challenged Hoffa's right to the presi dency, said two men close to the controversial teamster leader offered to let Schmidt write his own terms to settle the dispute. Albany - IUPD - Linn County Circuit Judge Victor Olliver today gave 25-year prison sen tences to two Walla Walla, Wash, men for last Thursday's $17,000 holdup of the Bank of Lebanon's Halscy branch. Sen tenced were Charles Lee Lor aine, 33, and Leo Eldon Har ris, 19. Woodlands Group Opposes Tax Plan Salem - IUPU - The Small Woodlands association took is sue today with timber tax pro posals of the state tax com mission and the industrial for estry association. Addressing a session of the legislative tax committee's sub-committee on timber and transportation taxes, W o o d- lands Secretary Verne D Bronson, Eugene, said that neither plan is equitable with other classes of property. Bronson said both would ap ply 100 per cent of true cash value to timber land but then proceed to effect "double tax ation by assessing the growing crop after it becomes mer chantable but long before ma turity, and then taxing again as a severance tax under dif ferent names at the time of harvest." 'Cut-Throat' Sets Frog Jumping Mark Jefferson, Ore. -IUPU-A frog named "Cut -Throat" Jumped 13 feet, 6Vi Inches hart Sunday afternoon to win the Mint Festival Frog Jumping contest. The frog, owned by Leigh ton Waddle, defeated a field of 71 and shattered the ex isting frog leap record here of 11 fast, 11 'i Inches set In 1951. HOSTILE OBSERVERS Under hostile here between the Belgians and Congolese gaze of natives, Belgian paratroopers on soldiers as a small but growing army of patrol keep in touch with headquarters in U.N. troops spread through the Congo. Leopoldville, during the week end. Forces from Tunisia and Ghana took up positions (UPI Tcicphoto) Belgium, Congolese Senate Reject By United Press International Belgium and a rebellious Congolese Senate today re jected Premier Patrice Lu mumba s ultimatum that Bel gium withdraw its troops from the Congo by Tuesday or face Soviet military Intervention. The Congolese Senate learn ed of the Lumumba ultimatum a few hours later and rejected it unanimously. It adopted a resolution demanding the im mediate withdrawal of Bel gian troops, approving the use of U.N. troops and condemn ing the Lumumba ultimatum. It said it "energetically re jected" any attempts at Soviet interference. The Belgian Cabinet met in Youths Boast About Crime; Police Called Two Medford youths were arrested by police on charges of burglarizing a service sta tion Sunday after they were overheard boasting about the crime.! , ..,.. One of the youths, age 15 was charged with burglary not in a dwelling and con fined in the juvenile deten tion home. The other, age 17, was charged with being an accessory to burglary and was lodged in the county jail. Medford police arrested the two youths after a waitress at a local restaurant reported that one of the boys had said to her that he just burglarized service station. Investigation by police re vealed that the two youths had broken into Jim's Signal station, 3000 Crater Lake highway, where one of the boys was employed, and tak en an estimated $101. Only $65 of the money was recov ered. Firemen Battle Blaze Near Sisters Sisters - IUPD - Firefighters Sunday night threw a line around a blaze, that burned about 100 acres in the Round Lake area near Sisters. Fifty men remained on the fire lines Sunday night and 100 men were expected- today in an effort to bring the fire under control. Six planes dropped borate on the fire Sunday. The fire had burned 10 acres when it was first report ed about 3 p.m. Sunday and had grown lo 100 acres by midnight. Religious Sect Still Hiding Out Benson, Ariz. - IUPD - Mem bers of a small religious sect started their third week coop ed up in bomb shelters today. They are awaiting either tor a nuclear attack on the United States or word from the "Lord to tell us to come out." The approximately 120 members of the Full Gospel Assembly burrowed Into their shelters July 4 and have re mained there since devouring huge stores of food they took underground with them. Thornton Issues Ruling for Judges Salem -0IPD- Oregon district judges serving before July 1 of this year ore barred from membership in the Public Em ployes' Retirement system, ac cording to Attorney Robert Y Thornton, ' All district judges appointed and serving after July 1 are required to be members of th retirement system, Lumumba Ultimatum emergency session in Brussels to discuss Congolese Premier Patrice Lumumba's demand that Belgium pull out by Tues day or face the possibility of Soviet intervention. Government spo k e s m a n Paul Meyers, tne minister of health, announced afterwards: 'There are no new elements. Our position remains un changed." That meant Belgian troops would continue confronting mutinous Congolese troops in the former Belgian colony until the safety of tens of thousands of Europeans is as sured by building of the United Nations peace force. Mobile Strike Force Already heavily armed Bel gian infantry units were pour ing into Elisabethville by air while paratroop units there were regrouping to be used as a mobile strike force where ever they may be needed. The situation of Europeans - and some Americans - was reported desperate in scatter ed areas of the Congo where Mercury Rises But Doesn't Beat 1 959 Those sweltering 'in the current hot spell here can take some consolation in the fact that the weather is not quite as sizzling as it was at this time one year ago. The mercury at the Med ford station on the weather bureau was expected to rise to 102 degrees today, making this the third straight day of 100-degree-plus temperatures. Near 100 is forecast for to morrow. Last year at this time the Medford vicinity cooked in temperatures of 102 degrees or better for seven straight days. The spell began with 102 on July 16. On the follow ing day-the reading was 104. A year ago 106 was regis tered, the highest temperature on July 16 on - record. Then followed days of 103, 104, 106 and 103. On July 23 the ther mometer dropped to a "cool" 98. The five-day forecast for the current period calls for temperatures much above nor mal ' with a cooling trend about Friday. The weather station had readings of 100 even on both Saturday and Sunday. WEATHER FORECAST: Fair and hot throush Tuesday. Low lnniht 60. Htsn Tuesday near 100. TEMPERATURE HUhest Yesterday 100 Lowest this Mornlni........ SI Our Skies Tonight Sunset today ......7:45 p.m. Sunrise tomorrow 4:31a.m. Moonrlse tomorrow 1:33 a.m. New Moon July 23 Tomorrow morning- the Moon will pass In front of Aldebaran, completely hldlnr that star (or a Ume. This occultaUon will be visible over all of North Amer ica. Anti-Castro Airplane; Seeks Asylum Kingston, Jamaica -OIPU-The anti-Castro pilot of a Miami bound Cuban airliner forced the copilot at gunpoint lo land here Sunday with 52 passen gers. He Immediately asked for political asylum. The pilot, Capt, Jose Perez Mencndez, 41, said he was a member of an organization called t h e "Movement for Revolutionary Recovery" ded icated to overthrowing Pre mier Fidel Castro and ridding Cuba of Communism. The plane had Just left Ha vana airport when Menendez drew a gun on copilot Guedo the mutinous troops have car ried out rape, murder and pil lage. Several hundred U.N. troops from other African na tions were trying to restore order but there were far too few of them tn cope with the disorders. Troops from the African nations of Tunisia, Ghana Morocco and Ethiopia were on hand. It was reported in New York UJJ. secretary-general Dag Hammarskjold was appealing for forces from non African nations - Yugoslavia, Ireland, Sweden, Burma and Haiti. Irrigation Lowers Storage Water With heavy orchard irriga tion just started this week. 41 nar nui nr in, ttnran waier I at Fish lake and 27 per cent ot that at Four Mile has been An drawn, Medford Irrigation District Manager Jack Holt buhr reported today.. ....;,: The district started on stor age supplies on June 18. The district then had 6,188 acre feet in the reservoir and Four Mile 10,946. Fish' lake has been drawn down to 3,645 acre feet and Four Mile down to 7,484 acre feet. Hoffbuhr said this is the last irrigating for the major ity of the Bartlett pear crop before picking starts. Last week the district had the advantage of some cooler weather. However, the week end's hot weather made up for it, the MID manager said. If August weather is cooler the district may come out even on its water supplies, he added. The lower 20 per cent of the reservoir water flows more slowly through the grav ity flow system, Hoffbuhr ex plained. Molalla Man Killed in Fire Molalla -IUPD- Sheriff's depu ties and firemen ' from the Molalla' fire department re covered the body of Matt Hoikk, 65, of Molalla, Sunday night after responding to a fire alarm at Hoikk's home. A Clackamas county deputy sheriff reported that Hoikk was seen alive about half an hour before the blaze and it is believed he suffocated try ing to escape from his burn ing home. " - The fire apparently started in an overstuffed chair. Long Beach, Calif. - IUPD State Sen. Monroe Sweetland of Oregon, Democrat, has challenged the Republican Na tional Convention to include a plank in its platform to in crease federal benefits for veterans of World War I. Pilot Seizes Control of Colli, 35, and forced him to fly to Palisadoes airport. He slammed the door between the pilot's section and the passen gers who did not know what was happening until they reached Jamaica. In seeking asylum, Menen dez said "Castro wants to rule all of the Caribbean and Latin America and all of these conn tries should wake up to the grim Communist threat." He surrendered his gun to authorities upon landing. . "I had to flee Cuba because the Communists have taken over my country," he said. "Fidel Castro, Raul Castro, Accidents Claim. Five Saturday, Three on Sunday Latest Fatality Is Cottage Grove Man By United Press International The Oregon traffic death toll for the week end rose to eight with report today ot the death of a Cottage Grove resident on highway 99 at th Creswell junction late Sun" day. The victim was Mel- Ed ward Moore, 37. Police said his car skidded In a turn and struck a metal power pole. His wife, Lois, 28, was re-' ported In satisfactory condi tion at a Eugene hospital. Five fatalities occurred Sat' urday and three Sunday. Victims were Otto C. Kel aid Lloyd Murray, 21, Mc- Minnville; Helen T. mmitt, 44, Marcella Marie Schmitt, 37, Michael Edwin Talbert, 25, all of Portland; Robcrl Thomas Cobb, 36, Oakridge, and Otto E. Ballhorn, 55, Yachats. : - A man identified as Otto C. Keller was killed in a one La Grande on highway 237 Sunday evening. According to- state police, a car registered to Keller went off the road, travelled 211 feet, turned over and caught fire. Murray was killed Sunday about 3 a.m. In a one-car ac cident on the highway 18 by pass and 12 miles southwest of McMinnville. The Schmitt sisters and Ballhorn died in a two-car col lision near McMinnville. State police said the Schmitt vehicle swerved off the road and into the path of-a car driven by Ballhorn. - Cobb was killed early Sat urday morning when his car failed to negotiate a turn at the south Oakland junction on highway 99, 17 miles north of Roseburg, and plunged down an embankment. "' r"" nu I wrtjti: tuiuueu iicdu-un wivn a car driven by Herman Kauf man, 54, Sherwood; at Scholia on highway 2l0.v- - ' -j -.; ata -' m b ' ' mm a a ..." iiiikh ifiiK mm i Reported in Area Three safe robberies were reported in the Rogue valley last night. Hudson's Pharmacy, , 613 East Main st. was entered and the safe robbed sometime last night. No details were avail able at press time. ' In addition, a safe was kid napped in Grants Pass and one was 'peeled' open in Ash land last night. No definite link between the three rob beries has been established. The door, of the Ashland Lumber Company office was forced sometime before 5:15 a.m., Ashland police said. The thieves then peeled the door of the safe and ransacked the) office. About $29.15 was tak en.. In Grants Pass, a window of the Mobile Gas bulk plant warehouse office was forced by the burglars. They then forced the office door and rolled the safe to a waiting vehicle, Josephine county Sheriff's officers said. ' . The safe contained about $100 in cash and two checks worth $700. Greatest loss to the company, officials said,' was the ledgers which th safe contained.. , Ashland Speedway Minus Beer, Candy Approximately $40 worth ot beer and candy was taken' during a burglary of the Ash land Speedway on Valley View rd., Ashland, Sunday, Jackson county sheriff's depu ties said todav. Thieves entered through a window of the concession stand, deputies said. in Jamaica Che Guevarra and all the olh er top people are Communists, Thousands are rotting in Cu ban jails while many foreign ers arc In Cuba in the guisa of technicians but in reality they are Communists from Po land, Czechoslovakia, China and Russia." Menendez Is the nephew of Mrs. Esther Menendez, owner of the daily newspaper Av ance which recently was tak en over by the Castro regime. She fled to the United States. Menendez's wife and two children also left Cuba about two months ago and are now living In Miami.