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t Htotow, d JACKSON COUNU NIXON PICKS LOB TOUGH CAMPAIBH i 9 Rogue Valley Edition 55th Year Price 10 Cents V. P. Nominee Medford Tribune V Predicts That 'We Will Win' 36 Page MEDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY, JULY 28, 1960 No. Ill BOTH PROMISE l: i . ' wan j0PJjr MMLJJ ; STORM DAMAGE Limbs were ripped from trees, pnllo coven were torn away, frmrcs, lifni were blown over and much general damage done when "double-header" rain and wind storm hit the Medford area yesterday evening The picture above how a large limb thai waa broken off In Forests Checked for Fires; Minor Damage Is Reported Reconnaissance planes to day checked southern Ore gon's forested areas for fires and orchnrdists and farmers checked crops for damage, In the wake of thunderstorms which Inle yesterday brought varying amounts of rain, hall and wind to the Rogue valley. About 20 lightning strikes were reported nn Jtogue River National forest and slate de partment of forestry protected lands, and officials of both agencies said they expected reconnaissance, planes to spot more smouldering strikes to day. Rogue River National for est listed H strikes, all "go ing" tires. Four each were In the Applcgnte and Butte Kails district. Three were In the Prospect district of the forest, two in the Union Creek district and one in the Ashland district. Seven Known Strikes Southwest district of the state department of forestry reported seven known light ning strikes. Patrolmen were on the strikes or had been on them this morning. One in the Dead Indian area was sending up the most smoke. Two strikes were in the Sterling creek vicinity, two on Poole hill and one each on Hcppsle mountain and on the ridge botween Grizzly peak and Roxy Ann buttc. The Poole and lleppsle sites arc near the south fork of Little Butte creek. Both agencies sent planes Into the air about B o'clock this morning. Rnln fell In varying amounts, ranging from .07 of an Inch nl llic weather bu reau's Medford station In 1 11 inches at the fruit experiment farm on Kings highway. It was spolly in the forests, . Halnfall Little Help ; , Rnlnfnll in most areas was of Utile help to the overall irrigation picture, irrigation district officials said. In some areas, rain fell so hard it ran off without soaking Into the ground as much as an inch. In orchards where tho ground had been worked, rain was beneficial, officials said. Flow In Ihe Medford Irriga tion district Medford canal, according In MID Manager Milk Producers Meeting in Ashland Ashland - Bolwoen, 30 and B0 milk producer rcpresenta llvos were scheduled lo arrive In Ashland today for Ihe Woslorn Slides Milk confer ence. The men, arriving from 10 western slides, will discuss mutual problems and methods of doing business, Dick West erbtirg, manager of the Jack aon County Milk Producers league, said this morning. The three-day conference will be held at (he stlU-un-flnlshed Mnrk Antony hotel here. Free on-slroet parking privileges have been grnnlod lo the group by the clly coun cil. Delegates cars may be rec ognized by special Shake spearean Festival stickers. front of a residence at the' corner of I2th and Front streets during the first "blow." A second front moved In about an hour luler, but appeared to veer away from Med ford toward the west side of the valley, where hail damage was reported by or-chardlst. Jack lloffbuhr, will be re duced for a few days until debris carried down from higher elevations can be cleared. Hail and strong winds, which caused some damage during the storm, was spotty In western sections of the val ley and foothills. Hail In the Coleman creek area was reported soft.' and damage was not expected to bo extensive. Most of the hall damage was concentrated in one orchard west of Medford, according to County Horticul ture Agent Clifford B. Cordy. Oilier crops In Oie valley apparently suffered only minor damage from Ihe wind, hail and rain, sources Indi cated. Hall Reported Jud Parsons, hail research supervisor here, said hall, some of it ranging up to three fourths of an inch In diameter, was reported In the west side. He asked residents lo report hall storms lo him, and lo col lect stones and put them in a freezer for the research project. Parsons may be reach ed at SPrlng 3-4088. Strong winds blew some fruit off trees, but Cordy said damage from blowdown gen erally was minor. In many cases, fruit blown down will serve as a thinning process for some orchardists, he added. Eisenhower Visits Scouts' Jamboree Colorado Springs, Colo.-IUPH -Piesident Eisenhower gave 55,600 thrilled Boy Scouts something lo tell the folks at home about today when he paid lliem a surprise visit at their Fifth National Jamboree encampment northeast of here. ' All the boys, including scouts from 50 strtcs and 27 foreign countries, were able to see and cheer the Presi dent as he motored through their colorful lent city In an open car for 35 minutes this morning. The Scouts, , who learned only this morning that Elsenhower Would visit them, stood beside their tents and waved to the smiling, bare headed President as he passed. Postoffice Switch Delay Granted Porlland-IUPIi-Foimer Gov. Klmo Smith, Republican can rildiito for the U. S. Senate, said today he had arranged a dclny of at least several months in the postoffice de partment's proposed move of the Northwest regional post office headquarters from Portland to Seattle. He told a news conference after his return from the Re publican national convention in Chicago that Postmaster General Arthur E. Summer field had agreed to postpone aetlon until a thorough sur vey of economic factors could be carried out. Winds apparently were strongest In Griffin Creek area and in the downtown area of Medford. One Griffin Creek resident reported that Ihe wind blew a section out of a wooden fence, and Pierce Freight Lines, Inc., 795 South Riverside ave., Medford, said one of its empty freight trail ers on the lot was blown over on Its side. . - : Yesterday's preciplt a 1 1 o n was the second consecutive day measurable rain has fallen at the weather bureau's air port station, One-hundrclh of an Inch was reported Tuesday, the first measurable rain in fll days. Outages Reported Several transformer fuse outages were reported and at least two najor areas In down town Medford were without power about three hours as a result of the storm. California Oregon Power company officialt said trees fell across lines in an alley south of 12th st. between Fir and Grape sts., and south of Main st. between Willamette st. and Bear creek. Minor outages were report ed In other areas, Copco of ficials said. Firemen were called out lo standby when trees and limbs fell across lines. Medford police within 15 minutes received about 10 calls reporting various amounts of storm damage. mostly concerning trees and limbs being blown down In Ihe downtown Medford area. Pear boxes were blown across South Cenlral ave. and block' cd traffic for a while, police said. The weather bureau fore cast continued hot and humid weather through tomorrow with afternoon and evening thunderstorms. High tempera tures are expected to be about 100 degrees. "A Little Closer Not That's Big Helicopter Crashes, Killing All 13 Aboard Crash Is Nation's Worst on Record Chicago (IJI'I) - A big Sikor sky S-58 helicopter, flying a shuttle service between two of the world's busiest airports, crashed flaming in a suburban cemclcry Wednesday night, killing all 13 aboard. The crash was the first for regularly scheduled U. 8. passenger helicopter service. It also was the worst ncll- copter accident on record in this country, according to Leon Tanguary, assistant di rector of public safety for Ihe Civil Aeronautics board in Washington. Cook County Coroner Wal ter E. McCarron scheduled an inquest for next Wednesday and subpenaed service rec ords of the helicopter firm. Two From Wtsi Die Two of the persons aboard the helicopter were Identified as residents of the For West. They were William Klulhc. Portland, and a Mr. Gchrke, San Francisco. The craft, operated by Chi cago Helicopter airways, car ried 1 1 passengers, a pilot and co-pilot. It left Midway Airport on Chicago's southwest side about 11:30 p.m. (e.d.t.) for its scheduled 11-minutc, 18-milc shuttle to O'Hare Internation al airport on the far northwest side. Some six miles and five minutes later it lay shattered and flaming amid the tomb stones. Ik Flaw Rout . Similar helicopters had been used throughout the week to ferry dignitaries at tending the Republican Na tional convention. Only hours earlier President Eisenhower had flown by helicopter from downtown Meigs Field lo O'Hare. The downed helicopter crashed so violently that one body was found one-quarter mile from the major portion of the wreckage. 2 Major Airlines Plan To Merge Washlngton-fflPH-The presi dents of United Air Lines and Capital Airlines announced to day that the two firms plan to merge. The Joint statement by Unit ed President W. A. Patterson and Capital President T. D. Neclands Jr. said the agree ment was approved by the Vickcrs - Armstrong, Ltd., which holds $34 million in mortgages on Capital equip ment. The merger argcemcnt was subject to approval of the Civil Aeronautics board and United and Capital stockhold ers, the announcement said. United is the nation's fourth biggest airline and Capital the fifth largest. Capital current ly Is trying to slave off fore closures of a $34. million mortgage on its fleet held by Vickers-Armslrong, the Brit ish aircraft manufacturer which sold Capital 60 prop, jet Viscounts. Too Close Smile It" O Girl From Yreka Drowns in Shasta River at Grenada Yrcka Mary Anne Wcin- zinger, 9-ycar-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Philip Wcin zinger, 505 Discovery St., Yrcka, drowned yesterday afternoon in the Shasta river about a half mile east of Grenada. According to Siskiyou coun ty sheriff deputies, the child was swimming with a friend, Maureen TeVogt, also 9. With them was Mary Anne's father who, it was reported, had momentarily turned his atten tion from the children swim ming in the river. ; About 5 p.m. the girls ap parently got into deep water and cried f6r help'. Maureen was pulled out ol the water, but Mary Anne had already none under, Undersherlff Jim Berrian said this morning. Two skin divers, one from the sheriff's office and a vol untecr diver, Harry Layfield, searched for almost an hour until they recovered the body of the child. Mail Tribune Correspond ent Bessie Boyd Frascr said today that Wcinzingcr had been in a cast due to an injury before Christmas. De spite the injury to his back, the father dived in time after time in futile attempts to fo late his daughter. Mrs. Wcinzingcr had not been with the swimming party, but had remained in town, according to reports. Anderson Starts Work With County Lloyd Anderson, planning consultant of the bureau of municipal research, Eugene, started working with the Jackson county planning com mission and its staff today. Planning commission mem bers and the county court met with Anderson yesterday af ternoon to discuss how he could best help the county. His chief job will be to work out a county-wide lai.d use plan, according to Commission President C. O. Lovejoy. The planning consultant was scheduled' to spend most of today in Grants Pass. Later he will be . re-introduced to the planning commission staff in its new office, recently va cated by the county school superintendent. Anderson will first learn what the planning commission staff has been doing, and Its progress. He will meet with the planning commission nt its regular meeting Wednes day, Aug. 10, to work 'out further details of the program. Nixon Selects 5 For Strategy Board Chicago - (UPll - Richard M, Nixon has selected a five-man hnnrri of slratecv to help mas termind his fight for the presidency, informed sources disclosed today. The board Includes GOP National Chairman Thruslon B. Morion and three former Republican chairmen - Leon ard W. Hall of Now York, Meade H. Alcorn of Connecti cut, and Sen. Hugh Scott of Pennsylvania. The fifth member, an in formant aald, Is Undersecre tary of the Treasury Fred Scribner. 3 HENRY CABOT LODGE K ND RICHARD M. NIXON Republican Running Mates Against Kennedy-Johnson Ticket Hatfield Speech Hails Nixon As 'A Fighter for Freedom' Chicago - (UPD - Gov. Mark O. Hatfield of Oregon placed the name of Richard M. Nixon in nomination for the presi dency Wednesday night in a 287-word speech hailing the vice president as "a fighter for freedom, a pilgrim for peace." Hatfield assured -the GOP National convention that its choice was "a man to match the momentous need" of these troubled times.. 'Never before, has a vice president been such a full participant in' the making of national p o 1 1 c y. ' Hatfield said. "Never before has a vice president, io intimately shared in the shaping ol,. major' in ternational decisions, "He has known what it is to bear the full executive burden." . . , . ... ;. Short Speech . Hatfield's nominating speech was the shortest in GOP his tory since Norman Judd placed the name of Abraham Lincoln before the GOP con vention in this same city 100 years ago. Hatfield told the delegates they weru choosing as their standard-bearer a man "who knows the awesome responsi bility" of serving in the presi dency in times parallelling Lincoln s. "At this hour when the world itself is half-slave and half-free," l.e said, "the lead ership in the White House is the beacon for free men and all who would be free." Jibes at Kennedy Hatfield levelled two In direct jibes at the Democratic nominee, Sen. John F. Ken nedy, in what might have been a preview of some GOP campaign charges against the youthful Massachusetts Sen ator, -. The governor opened his speech with the blunt com ment: "The White House is not for sale - it's lease is .tip for renewal." . "The American people are the landloi-ds who will deter mine the tenants for the next four years," he added. This comment was an ob vious reforence lo Kennedy's wealtli and to charges that he spent excessive sums in win. ning Democratic preferential primaries. 'Will Not Surrender' Hatfield praised Nixon as one who "will not surrender the hopes, the ambitions, the achievements of this nation. Nor will he apologize or ex press regrets for Uiis coum try s policies of self-preserva tion.". ' This referred lo Kennedy's statement, that President Ei senhower might have saved the Summit Conference by apologizing . to Soviet Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev over the Ill-falcJ U-2 spy plane inci dent. WEATHER FOIlK.CAST: contlnutd hot and humid with iftrmoon and eve ning thiinrierMarmn thrnnsh Krld.iv. Low tonlflil SO, llllh Friday too. Temp. Illshrsl Yeilerdny lnl Lowest this Mornlnr. S3 Prec. to 4:30 a.m. Today .07 Our Skies Tonight Snniet today 7:J p.m. Sunrise tomorrow .... .VfM a.m. Moonset tonlfht 10:11 p.m. First Quarter July 31 PROMINENT STAR Antares, low In south west 11:3 p.m. VISIHLE PLANETS Saturn, due south .. 10:42 p.m. Jupiter, between Saturn and Antares. Marl, dna east t:s a.m. ( "'1 fi'iVrt: f I . V I V.ll aV V - I V O II OREGON GOVERNOR MARK HATFIELD Hails Nixon As 'A Fighter for Frdom' Lightning 15-20 More Fires By United Press International Forest service officials said today that lighting storms started 15 to 20 more fires in the Wallowa - Whitman Na tional forest in eastern Ore gon Wednesday, but scattered rainfall had lessened the fire threat. . The forest service said Tankers Collide In Columbia Fog I Astoria UPD - Two tankers collided off the mouth of the Columbia river in dense fog t 8 a.m. today, but neither ship was disabled and no in juries were reported. Lt. J. M. Santee, executive officer of the Coast Guard se curity office here, said the vessels were the Point Reyes and the Flying-A Washington. ! The Point Reyes, which was outbound into the Pacific, suf fered damage lo her bow, and the Flying-A Washington was damaged slightly on her star board side. The damage to both vessels was above the water line and crewmen were not in danger. ' GP Woman Dies In House Fire , Grants Pass - (UPD - The body of Miss Pearl Lillian Forrest, 84, was found this morning in the ruins of her home near Provolt. The house was destroyed by fire Wednes day night, authorities said. : George William Learned, 70, who lived in the same house, was out looking for some cows when he saw the flames. By the time he reach ed the house, the flames drove him away. He notified the Josephine county sheriff's of fice, and deputies found the body this morning. Miss Forrest was born In New York state in 1876, and had no known relatives. Ori gin of the fire had not yet been determined, It. Starts most fires, including the one in the Anthony Lakes area that covered over 20,000 acres, were under control. In western Oregon, U.S. Forest officials said 11 small fires had been, started by lightning in the. Willamette National forest east of Salem, but- all had been 'contained. Smoke jumpers were para chuted in and quickly con trolled the fires. Quickly Controlled The Mill City district re ported three of ' the blazes. and farther east of the Cas cade foothills, the Cascadia and Detroit districts reported four each, all quickly con. trolled. About 15 fires were ignited in the Umatilla Forest by the lightning strikes and 21 near Pnneville in the Ochoco Na tional forest. The Spring Creek fire near Ihe Snake river was consid ered the most critical fire still burning and 375 men were on the fire lines. 'Sleeper' Fire Dangerous Most of the fires started by lightning in eastern Oregon were in the Baker and Unity districts. Forest service offi cials said the danger lies In undetected "sleeper" fires. The showers were the first break in the weather. They came in the wake of a new se ries of electrical storms that left more than 100 new fires burning In eastern Oregon Wednesday. Fire control centers said the light rain although not sufficient to quench flames had decreased the fire danger in some areas. Carload of Furniture Arrives for School Ashland - Another carload of furniture for the Ashland Junior High school has ar rived, Stanley Jobe, superin tendent of schools, said today. The school, about 90,000 square feet of space, will pro vide facilities for more than 800 students, although only about 875 will be moved lit this fall. Nixon Nominated By Runaway Vote Chicago - (UPD - Richard M. Nixon picked Henry Cabot Lodge as his running mat today, and both men promised to give the Democrats the fight of ihcl. lives In the I960 presidential campaign. . Nixon, nominated for thst White House by tho Republl can National convention Wed nesday nieht. aald thl. "mav be the toughest campaign In our history." In New York, where he re ceived the news of his choice by telephone from Nixon, Lodge predicted that "it will be a fichtine eamnaivn anH one that we will win." , Ratification Tonight The U.N. ambassador will fly. here late todav to be on . hand when the convention ratifies his selection tonight for the vice presidential post. . At Hvannis Port. Mas.. lh Democratic presidential nomi . nee. Sen. John F. Kennedy, congratulated Nixon and agreed with them that "this u going to be a hard fought campaign." " Nixon, after a busy night of conferences, moved today to cement his convention alliance with a former . GOP critic, ' New York Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller. He promised if elected to clear with Rocke- . feller "appointments and ev erything that Involves the state of New York." Introduction by Rocky Nixon also announced that ' Rockefeller will Introduce ' him to the convention for. his acceptance speech tonight. He said Rep. Walter H. Judd ol Minnesota, convention k e y - v noter and once a dark horse possibility for the vice presi- dential nomination, will pre sent Lodge to' the delegates. Nixon announced his choice of Lodge,. America's United ' Nations envoy, three action packed hours- alter he himself lhad won '.the Republican pres idential; nomination by a run away voteLlJZl to 10. The vote .then.', was made; unanl mous by the; climactic session ' of the GOP national conven tion. - v ' ' ". - The 7-year-oId vice presi dent, who has served through both Eisenhower adminlstra- tions in that post, became the Republican candidate - to op pose Sen.. John F. Kennedy, i the Democratic nominee, -.in the Nov. 8 elections.. Nixon . announced that Lodge was his choice for the vice presidential nomination, after a post-midnight confer ence lasting more than two '. hours with 35 other Republi can leaders. Grange Prepares For Festival Local Grange members are preparing for "one of the big gest events in Jackson county Grange history, the Jackson County Grange Festival," Sat urday, July 30, at the Elk'l picnic grounds oil Rogue riv er. A barbecue beef dinner, prepared by L. G. (Shy) Morthland. will be accompa nied by other dishes furnish ed by valley merchants and caterers. The affair opens at 10 a.m. with games, music and contests. The meal will be served at 12:30 p.m. Competitive skits at the Eagle Point gymnasium by several subordinate Granges with prizes being awarded will provide evening enter tainment. Dancing also ii scheduled, and light refresh ments will be furnished by the Eagle Point Grange. - Tickets for Grangers and their friends are available from Bob Biterling, Eagle Point; Charles Moorehouse, Central Point, and at the pic nic grounds. Victor Croxton, lecturer oi the Oregon State Grange, If chairman of the event, ' Petition Filed To ; Repeal Dog Control A petition containing 15 certified signatures has been received by tho county elec tions department to have a proposal "for and against per mitting dogs to run at large" placed on the November bal lot in Precinct 63. The' precinct Is northeast of Talent. This petition Is the first re ceived and certified by the county elections department of a number rumored to be circulating in the county In an attempt to repeal the dog control ordinance which was approved county wide 'by voters in the May 20 primary, IS 71
