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MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, ORE. TOEtltJjnr, J)hV . 1W 8 B. GOP CHAIRMAN - Republican National Chairman. Sen. Thruston B. Morton of Kentucky, now in Chicago for next week's party convention, has attacked several phases of the recent Democratic convention during the past few days. He referred to the Kennedy-Johnson ticket as the "most incompatible in the history of either party." Morton is shown at a press conference shortly after arriving in Chicago. (UPI f elephoto) Father Opposes Bible Readings, Prayers in School Miami -(UPD- Agnostic Har low Chamberlain, testifying in a lawsuit attacking reli gious practices in Dade coun ty public schools, said Monday a teacher's talk "about angels end the devil" disturbed his 7-year-old daughter emotion ally. - Chamberlain is one of five persons who have - brought suit in circuit court to halt nuch practices as reading the Bible, reciting the Lord's Prayer, and singing hymns in the public schools. Whether children are com pelled to take part in such ac tivities is expected to be a key issue in the trial, which opened Monday and is expect ed to last one week Father of Three -. Chamberlain, father of two daughters and a son, said his children would be "set apart" from other pupils if they were to ask to be excused from the observances. In the schools,- Chamberlain said, "I object to the Bible being read; I object to the Lord's Prayer; I object to the prayers before lunch and in short, I object to everything I have had included in my complaint." Courtroom Packed The courtroom overflow with a group of Bible-carrying boys from a local Baptist church among the' estimated 200 persons finding space in side. Outside another 100 were unable to get seats. Bailiff Frank Gottwald fol lowed a policy of admitting one person any time someone inside left. Outside the courtroom, 30 young people at Shandoah Presbyterian church an nounced the beginning of a 24-hour-a-day "prayer vigil" for the duration of the trial. Hefty Wife, Little Hubby; Case Closed Fort Worth. Tox. - UTt -County Criminal Judge J. C. Duvall it a firm believer in prosecution but not per secution. . ' That's what Mrs. Betty Hanshaw. who weighs over 200 pounds, found out Mon day when she brought her husband before the judge charging that he slapped and bit her. Benjamin Hanshaw, 43. a carpenter, looked like he weighs about 135. His wife waits on tables in a restaur ant that advertises it has the huskiest waitresses in the world. "Do you mean your hus band actually slapped you?" Duvall asked. "I was lying down, judge." Mrs. Hanshaw said. "It wouldn't have happened if I had been on my feet." "Well, you are on your feet now and I am not going to let a big woman like you prosecute a little man like your husband for slapping her," Duvall said. "Case dismissed." Sinatra Asked To Appear on Charge Los Angeles-IIIPIV-A deputy city attorney wants to see Frank Sinatra before determ ining whether the skinny sing er should be charged with as sault and battery. Deputy City Attorney Edward- Li Davenport Monday said after a five-hour hearing he would file charges against Sinatra's friend, John Hop kins, as the result of a scuffle May 14 with a Hollywood parking lot attendant. Sinatra failed to show at the hearing, and Davenport said he would have to make his decision on evidence now available if the singer did not appear soon. Kennedy Attempts to End Religion Issue By LOUIS CASSELS United Press International Los Angeles- OIPD -In his spceoh accepting the Demo cratic presidential nomina tion, Sen. John F. Kennedy did two things to reassure Protestants who entertain misgivings about a Catholic for president. First, he pleded himself un equivocally "to reject any kind of religious pressure or obligation that might directly or indirectly interfere with my conduct of the presidency in the national interest." Second, he quoted scripture -including a passage from the Old Testament both of Isaiah that is particularly dear to Safety of Green Is Confirmed A letter and a telephone call during the week end have confirmed the safety of Lee A. Green, a teacher in a mis sion primary school in the Congo area, Africa, accord ing to his mother, Mrs. W. L. Green, Medford. She reported that Satur day evening she received a long distance telephone call from a Mrs. Adeline in Penn sylvania. She,' also believed to be associated with mission ary work, had reportedly seen and talked with Green while on a trip to the Congo about a week ago. She added that the local man had taken his family to another area called Ruanda, northeast of the Con go. A special-delivery letter Saturday night further con firmed her son's security. The letter, dated July 4, was writ ten by Mrs. Green's son, but mailed by Henry Sonnevelt in the United States. Sonne velt, president of the mission ary board in Chicago, 111., had talked to Green several days earlier, and offered to mail his letter after his return home. According to the letter from Green, no mail was be ing dispatched since planes were being loaded with pas sengers to be evacuated. As of earlier this month, how ever, he wrote that they were "all fine" and they were to stay at the other locality un til things quieted down. Bodies of Lightning Victims Discovered Boulder, Colo. - (UPD - The body of a Colorado university graduate student was found today, a few hours after his wife and a companion were found dead near the summit of South Arapahoe peak, ap parently the victims of a lightning bolt. A rescue party with pack horses set out to bring the three bodies down from the 13,500-foot mountain, on the Continental Divide 35 miles west of here. The victims were David Knox Cowperwaite, 22, his wife, Karen, 19 and Richard Raymond, 21, Denver, a sum mer school student at the university. JIMMY BOYD TO WED Hollywood - (UPD - Actress Yvonne Craig and singer Jimmy Boyd, who became an overnight sensation at the age of 11 with "I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus," plan to wed. the hearts of Evangelical Pro testants. By displaying a fumlllurlty with Uie Bible, Kennedy prob ably surprised and pleased some Protestants. Part of the folklore of American Protes tantism Is a notion Uiat Cath olics never read the Bible. May be Criticised While Protestants and oth ers also will applaud Ken nedy's pledge to resist "re ligious pressure," he may in cur some criticism from mem bers of his own church for the way he phrased it. Several Catholics at this convention remarked, after hearing the speech, that it would be easy to draw an in ference that Kennedy expect ed an attempt by the Cath olic hierarchy to bring "pres sure" on him. A close reading of Ken nedy's text shows no actual implication that he anticipates any ecclesiastical pressures. Catholics Sensitive But American Catholics have become sensitive about Kennedy's efforts to allay Protestant suspicions. In March, 1959. Kennedy drew a chorus of rebukes from the Catholic press for stating in a Look Magazine Interview: "Whatever one's religion in his private life may be, for the officeholder nothing takes precedence over his oath to uphold the Constitution and and all its parts-including the First Amendment and the strict separation of church and state." Catholic publications said Kennedy seemed to be bend ing over backwards to "ap pease bigots." Some Protes tant clergymen joined them in deploring Kennedy's sug gestion that a President's re ligious convictions are irrele vent to the great decisions a President must make. Mountain Grows After Eruptions Catania, Sicily -(UPD- Scien tists reported today that Mt. Etna has added about 25 feet to its height since being racked by the first of a con tinuing series of explosions Sunday. Farmers remained away from their homes on the slopes of the trembling vol cano. Experts who inspected its smoking craters Monday said there was still chance of a major eruption, although only small amounts of lava were being emitted. In the past 2,400 years the volcano has erupted 500 times, taking the lives of a million persons. Sputnik IV Rocket Burns in Space Bedford, Mass. - (UPD - The rocket that carried Sputnik IV into space last May 15 burned up in the earth's at mosphere Sunday, the Air Force's National Space Sur veillance Control center said today. The rocket as destroyed over the Pacific ocean, accord ing to reports from satellite observing stations, the center said. The death of the Russian rocket leaves 28 objects orbit ing in space, 17 of which were put into space by the United States and 11 by the Soviet Union. LOOK GALS Here Is the Answer to Parking Problems Now w can shop down town in ease and comfort. No mora wasted time hunt ing for a meter and rush ing out to plug it. IT'S FREE AND EASY . . . Shop and Park where you sea the PARK I SHOP Sign. 57H5X- jnpoiH bt'it ST. jLJOgBBl MAIN St Quotes From the News BY UNITED PRESSNtERNATIONAL United Nations U.S. Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge, replying to Cuban Foreign Minister Raul Roa's rcquosl for assurance that the United States has no aggressive Intent against Cuba: "Unnecessary- though It most certainly teems to me, 11 me her and now give him that aiiuranc. heaped up and overflowing ..." Aston Rowaul, England The son of British radar pioneer Sir Raymund Hart, telling how his father was killed when he picked up the live end of an electrical connection while barefooted: "It was the sort of mistake even a chap who could not change a fuse would be unlikely to make." Fort Worth, Tex Judge J. C. Duvull dismissing assault charges brought by Mrs. Betty Hanshaw against her husband: "I am not going to let a big woman Ilka you prosecute a little man Ilka your husband lor slapping her." St. Paul, Minn. Gospel singer Mahal la Jackson, who es caped unhurt when tho Milwaukee Road Hiawatha crashed into a semi-trailer truck, deruiling 12 cors and injuring at least 33 persons: "The Lord took care o( me." Utah Mother, Son Killed in Crash Haines, Ore. - (UPD - A two car, head-on collision look the lives of a young Salt Luke City, Utah, mother and her eight -month -old son three miles southeast of hero Mon day. The woman was Identified as Mrs. Luann Virginia Shim mon, 20. Driver of the vehicle in which the woman and boy were riding was Patrick Alan Shimmin, 19, husband of the dead woman. Medford Girl Signs For Show at Dunes Las Vegas, Nev. - Margaret Ann McCoy, daughter of Mrs. Louise A. McCoy, 804 East Main St., Medford, has recent ly signed a $15,000-o-year con tract with the Dunes hotel here, it was reported today. A 1959 graduate of Med ford High school. Miss McCoy is to appear with the Dlauu Dors show, and beginning Aug. 5 will participate on the Frank le Lane show. She reportedly turned down another offer to appear on a show in Rome, Italy. While with the Dunes, she will sing and dance on the show. Insanity Plea Entered by Accused Killer Salem - llll'll - James Bird Borden pleaded Innocent by reason of Insanity to u first degree nturdnr cliurgo In Marlon county circuit court hero Monday. Circuit Judgo George K. Duncan held over until today a decision on u request by Borden's court-appointed ut lorncy for a speedy trial. Borden, a 35-yeur-old pa rolee from the Oregon Slate hospital, was accused t( strangling his girl friend, Maxlnc Sprutt, because she changed her mind about their proposed marriage. Since the slaying nine days 11141 Borden has been confined nt the state hospital in the ward for the criminally Insane. TO ENTER POLITICS Athens, Greece lUI'U Con. George Grlvas, the former Greek Cyprlol underground leader, announced Monday night that he will enter Greek politics. Tho Greek born soldier who led the EOKA underground a r m y during tho four years of the Cyprlot Independence war against Britain said he In tends to form a "new national political m o v e m e n t" to achieve a political change for Greece. 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