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Walsh, chulrmun of the Jackson County Republican Central coimniltre wrote Saturday In nawer to letter from the chairman of the Jnckion County Democratic crntrnl committee, ' " 1 "H U our feellrijf Uiiil to urite these appointments with restriction! to political par ty registration would bo pre sumptive and would prevent n Independently registered voter with high qunlltlea from serving," Walih laid In an open letter to Chairman Har per Edwurds. "Jnckion county Rcpubll cam echo fully the suntlmcnts of Democrats of Jackson county In desiring to see our county mulntuln a level of public services consistent with tho needs and withes of all our residents. We commend you for your Interest and con cern for the success of a char ter committee and we express like concern and desire for the success of this commit tee," Walsh wrote. Follows Meetings ' The letter followed a re cent executive board meeting of Jnek.ion county Republi cans and discussion concern ing rxiwurcis' proposal outlin ing the method for appoint ment of a committee to study county home rulo mid formu late a county charter under the homo rulo nmendment of tho 11)00 legislature, In on open letter to 'the county court Friday, July 10, Edwards hod proposed both parties bo represented on tho home rulo committee. . Mora Freedom Meanwhile, Friday after noon members of the Jackson county court discussed their recommendations to tho com mittee behind closed doors. Thoy hopo to nnme tho com mittee formally Wednesday during a regular county court agenda meeting day, Tho legislature adopted tho Chang's Party Election by Wide Margin Seoul, -Him- Dr. John M Chang's Democratic party to day won a landslide victory in national elections that de stroyed the lust political pow er of ousted President Syng Hum Rheo. lint election violence, in cluding one reported killing, rioting, and ballot-box burn ing, dimmed Chnng's victory celebration. With 201) of 233 districts re porting, Hhce's Liberal party followers had won only one lower house seat. The Demo crats had 1(11, more than a two-thirds majority of tho 233 ncal lower house. Indopcnd. nuts had 42 seals unci splinter parlies tho rest. , , Far In the Land Incomplolo returns showed tho Democrats far In tho lead in tho new SB-member upper IlOUSO. '';',' ' Chung, mindful thai elec tion fraud protests paved tho Time-Tc.ted Product Of Firm home rule amendment to give counties mora frocdom from tho present subordination to the stiito legislature, and to give counties legislative pow er locally. Should a home rule charter be adopted, it would mean the county would have legis lative powers similar to cities now being governed under a homo rule provision, ' The committee, made up of responsible county residents would study tho feasibility of adopting a home rule char lor her e, and formulate county charter. According to the law, the county court selects (our ap pointees, tho county legisla tive delegation four' and the commlttco as a whole names a ninth member. Crews Alerted For New Fires By United Press International Chances of a break In the Oregon fire situation lessened again Friday night, as fire fighters went on the alort for a possible new bout with an other scries of lightning caused fires. , Electrical sloims-but no rain struck some forest areas In eastern Oregon Friday eve ning, and more lightning strikes were predicted. Spot ters were placed on constant lookout so that fire crews could be moved quickly to any new areas that might de velop. The worst fires still burn ing In Oregon wcro the Spring Creek fire in the Snako River Canyon country, and the Cummins Creek fire. Six mountain climbers were moving across remote cliffs to block off portions of . the Spring Creek fire. Some 387 men, 16 tractors, and eight planes were attack ing the Cummins Creek fire, after several hot flare-ups Friday evening. Wins Korea way for Mice's ovcrtnrow and exile, warned tho demonstra tors who burned ballot boxes In 11 districts ngninsl further violence. "This cannot but be consid ered as an Infringement on tho sovereign rights of the people," he sulci. , May Call Out Troops The caretaker government; threatened to cull out troops to restore order. In most of tho districts fll Ipg lata returns, the tabula tion hnd boon halted because of disorders. Nine districts must hold now elections bo cause ballots wcro burned or stolon. . . A Korean newspaper re ported at least one death and scores of Injuries In n district south of Tangu. . Two unsuccessful i emu! I dales, Liberal Ha Tae Hwnn and SoclnllsL Pnk Kl Chool wore nrrcntod on charges Of Instigating violence. Third Polaris Fired From Sub Capo Canaveral, Flu. - IUPD - Tho atomic submarine U.S.S. George Washington sent tho Navy's most modern weupon, a Polaris ballistic missile, ranging from tho ocean's depths on another ncur-por-feet 1,150-mllo shot Saturday. Tho missile, fired from tho submurlno submerged off tho Florida const, streaked to Its Logging Company Seeks New Trial 01 Damage Suit Kline Logging company Is seeking a new trial of a dam ago suit involving it and Carl O. Illllestiid, Ashland logger, according to a motion filed in Jackson county circuit court Friday by tho Mcdford legal firm of Roberts, Kcllington, Branchflold and Heffcrnan. On July 2o a circuit court Jury of seven women and five men returned a verdict fav oring Jllllcstad. Damages wore set at $100,000 for gen eral damages and $10,100 for special damages from the log ging company for Injuries suf fered in a logging accident in July, 19S8. HlllcJtnd originally h a d sought $431,000 in damages from Robert Kline ond his logging compony. He had charged the company and Kline with negligence at the time of the accident. The motion filed by Ed Branchflold request the court to set aside the Judgment en tered July 21 and asks for an order, that the Judgment be entered In favor of Robert F. Kline. ,'Panlon er Prejudice' Y "Cho motion charges that the damages were excessive and "appear to have been given under Influence of passion or prejudice.. "There was an Insufficiency ot , evidence to Justify tho verdict and Judgment," the motion stated. "Tho plaintiff (Hillcstad) admitted to sign ing release agreements and accepting - substantial pay ments and did not prove fraud or other legal excuse or offer any substantial evi dence pertaining thereto." Plaintiff s counsel mode an Improper remark before the Jury. The court committed an error since It denied the de fendant's motion for a mis trial, nor was the Jury in structed to disregard the re mark, Kline's attorneys allege In their motion. Nixon Back Home Alter Busy Week Woshlnglon-flirD-Vlce Pres ident Richard M. Nixon re turned to Washington Satur day night after a whirlwind week in which he won the GOP Presidential nomination, announced his preliminary campaign plans and held a half-day conference with mid west farm leaders. Nixon's chartered airliner landed at 7:40 p.m. EDT after a two hour and 44 minute flight from Chicago. He and his wife Pat and their two daughters drovo im mediately to their home and planned to spend the even ing and most of Sunday rest ing from their strenuous or deal. Nixon hits the campaign trail early Tuesday with a bnckbrcnklng swing which will take him lo Nevada, Cali fornia, Hawaii and Washing ton state In only four days, Typhoon Located Near Formosa Tokyo - IUPD - Th United States Fifth Air Force weath erman located typhoon Shir ley 150 miles southeast of Taipei at 0 a.m: today mov ing northwest at 10 miles per hour'. ., . Winds within tho typhoon were 127 miles per hour. The cento.' of tho typhoon Is oxpected to be 75 miles northwest of Taipei at 6 a.m. tomorrow. Los Angeles -HOT - Defense Attorney Grant Cooper pro- pared Saturday for r major attempt to shako tho toitl rhony of n key state witness against Dr. R. Bernard Finch and Carole Tregoff when the murder retrial resumes man-doy. target down range In tho At lantic In tho third undcrwutcr launching success in as many tries. "I t looked exceptionally good," a spokesman said. ' The Navy fired its first and second Polaris IRBMs from the Gcorga Washington lurk ing bencuth tho waves 11 days ago. Both prior shots went approximately the same dis tance - 1,100 miles - to their targets. Saturday s shot was equally good. The booster section of the two-stage rocket separated and fell away high Hove the ocean 55 seconds al'ei the 14- ton, bottled -shaped missile sprang from the submarine's firing tube to the surface. A n almost simultaneous claim by Admiral A. G. Go- lovko, deputy commander of the Russian navy, said Soviet submarines are able to blast rcmoto land targets. Sources hero doubted that Russia has anything to equal the Polaris system. "We have suspected for somo time that the Russians might have an operational missile-firing submarine," one high source told United Press International. "But their submarine mis siles apparently are surface- launched and ol relatively short range. "We have no reason to be lieve Hint the Soviets can launch missiles from sub merged submarines," he add ed. Golovko himself did not say specifically that Russian sub marines are able to tire mis siles from underwater. Fires Reported; No Fruit Damage - Numerous spot fires were reported by forestry agencies from' iriday night; 'thunder storms. No fruit damage was reported, according to local pear growers Saturday. The U. S. Forest Service re ported 10 .'Ires of not more than a quarter acre all in the mop-up stage. Sixteen previous spot fires caused by lightning strikes- were either in the mop up stage or out Saturday, according to Rogue National Forest officials. The lightning strikes oc curred all over, some in the Ashland area, some in Butte Falls, Prospect and Union cre't aroos. . "Rain helped some since it raised the Humidity causing the fires to burn a little slow er," a forest service official said. Land protected by the slate forest pntrol had 25 reported fires. The largest one was 10 acres on top of Nugget Butte behind Gold Hill, according to Curtis Nesheim, district warden for the state 'depart ment of forestry. All state forest patrol crews were reported out with all' of the 25 tires reported under control by Saturday night, London-OIPD-T h e Kremlin Saturday was reported look ing for a new diplomatic post abroad for Vyacheslav. M. Molotov to put more distance between the old Stalinist and his Chinese Communist friends HATFIELD AND CLOWNS Oregon Gov ernor Mark , O. Hatfield talks with the famous ARtoria, Ore., clowns at the Seattle Seafalr Grand Parade Saturday, The gov trnor, who nominated Richard M. Nixon Salvage Crews Find Wreckage Of Space Capsule Cupc Canavoral-flJPD-Wrock-agc of a project Mercury mun-into-space capsule which plunged Into the Atlantic ocean off Cape Canaveral Frldoy was recovered Satur day night by salvage crews, the Federal Space Agency said. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration said several large pieces of the bell-shaped capsule were found about five miles off shore in approximately 50 feet of water. The sections were returned to Cape Canaveral for ex amination and analysis. Lot Better Shape . "This leaves us in a helluva lot better shape than we were this time this morning," one source close to the Mercury program said. The Mercury capsule, which will carry an astronaut to the edge of space early next year and into orbit sometime in late 1961, was launched aboard an Atlas missile in a driving rain Friday morning in its most Important test to date. However, the experiment failed when the Atlas booster blew up about 65 seconds after blast off. Officials said it had not been determined what caused the explosion. An intensive search for the wreckage was immediately launched. NASA said 3Vi minutes of in-flight telemetry data and preliminary examination ol the wreckage indicated the capsule probably hit the wa ter intact, and then was torn apart. The telemtry Included the time from blast off through the capsule's plunge into the ocean. It was reported the recov ered wreckage included "sev eral large pieces" such as the heavy heat shield a the base 61 the capsule.-' -v " "They were pretty good, seated "chunks, and they give us someuiing w gu uu uuw, a source said. Officials declined to say when a repeat of the shot might be - attempted. How ever, there was speculation it might come about September. At least six shots with Mer cury capsules-remain on the mari-in-space program's sched ule for the remainder of this year-three aboard an Atlas and three aboard the Army's short range Redstone rocket. Dalles, T e x.-fflPD-Constltii- tion party delegates vote Saturday to ask the radio net works for equal time to coun ter "liberal" ideas in the forthcoming debate between John Kennedy and Kicnara Nixon. WEATHER FORKCAST: Fair imi less humid throuKh Sunday. SMshtly cool er, chance of a few widely srattered showers or thunder showers In the mountains. With today 93. Low tonight AS. High Monday 93. ! . Temp. 11 1 unfit Yesterday , :. 94 Lowest Yesterday. 65 Prerlp. To S p.m. Yesterday -.01 Our Skies Tonight Sunset todav 7:33 p.m. Sunrise tomorrow 5:03 a.m. Mnonset tonight 11:54 p.m. Full Moon Aug. 6 In the Moon's Background to nteht are the stars of the con stellation, Libra; the unseen stars In the Sun's background are now those of Cancer. AST More Than 3,000 See Festival's First Four Plays Ashland - Attendance fig ures total 3,217 after the first full round of shows at the Oregon Shakespearean festi val here. Each of the four major pro ductions has now opened, and the regular rotation schedule is under way. An overflow house of near ly 1.200 attended the July 25 performance of "The Taming of the Shrew;" there were 814 at the staging of "Julius Caesar;" 615 for "The Temp est;" and 634 at "Richard II." Threatening weather has reduced the first round total at the open air Elizabethan playhouse from 3,459 last year. Even though the cur rent receipts are 242 admis sions behind 1959, advance sales indicate that this year might set a new all-time at tendance record, according to the Festival. Rehearsals for John Web ster's "The Duchess of Malfi" have resumed, and the cos tume' and technical depart ments are directing their "full attention" to the mounting of the first non - Shakespearean play to be staged by the Ash land association. Director lor the Aug. 23 and 31 show is James Sandoe. Performances for the four productions continue nightly from now through Sept. 3, with tickets priced at $2.40, $1.80 and $120. Reservations may be m a d e by writing "Shakespeare, Ashland, or in the Medford area tickets may be purchased at Mann's department - store. 14 North Central. , Lodge Welcomed By; Huge Crowd Beverly, Mass. TPB Henry Cabot Lodge returned home late Saturday to the cheers of ire than 8,000 persons drenched by rain from a tropical storm that was spawn ed in the Democratic south. "If I live to be 100, 1 11 never forget this homecom ing," the grinning Republican vice presidential candidate said when he stepped on to the canvas-covered speaking platform on Beverly Com mon. The throng cheered as he said, several times, "you peo ple don't seem to realize that you're standing in the rain." Lodge's 100-car motorcade arrived here after an hour's drive from Boston where he landed at Logan airport on a special flight from Chicago where he was nominated by the GOP National convention Thursday night. Lodge, noting that he recog nized persons from through out Massachusetts and out of state in the crowd, said, "I'm campaigning on the national ticket now, not like the days when I used to ring doorbells in Beverly." This was a refer ence to his campaign for the state legislature. for tho Presidency at last week s Republican National Convention, In Chicago, participat ed In 'Seafalr '-activities yesterdoy and' re. turned to Oregon last nightt' , tUPI Telephoto) I ASM BY 0 " "J Wmrmu,mmm, JZ r:n; - RAUL COMES HOME Cuban Armed Forces Minister Raul Castro speeds off from Havana airport after hurried arrival from Cairo Saturday morning. Raul, who spent five weeks touring Prague, Moscow and Cairo, reportedly cut short his trip to see bis ailing brother, Cuban Prime Minister Fidel Castro. (UPI Telephoto) 2 Americans Freed, 1 Arrested in Cuba Havana - (UP0 - Two Ameri cans were released Saturday by Premier Fidel Castro's In telligence agents but another U. S. citizen was arrested without explanation as hel stepped oil a plana bom Miami. - Mort Dean,, correspondent for radio station WVOX of New Rochelle, N. Y., a mem ber of the New York Herald Tribune network, and tourist Anatole France Conn, of Venice, Calif.,-' were freed after being detained since Thursday night Terry Cloth salesman Ches ter Gray, of Miami Beach, U.S. 'Satisfied'; By Belgian Move Washington - (UPD -The state department said Satur day it was "satisfied" that the Belgian government sent its troops back into the strife torn Congo only to protect lives and "had no aggressive intent. ;. Official sources said this statement was being issued to make it clear that the United States did not endorse charges by Congo Premier Patrice Lumumba who charged while he was in Washington that Belgium was risking a new world war by "shady maneu vers" in the Congo. The statement was issued upon special instructions from acting Secretary of State Douglas Dillon. It cited Bel gium's announcement that it was withdrawing 1,500- of .its 10,000-man force in the Congo as evidence that the country's intervention "to protect. '"'he lives which were in dagger had no ulterior purp056 " The state department said Belgium's actions in ' com pliance with the U.W. Security Council's resolution along "with the evident jjucvess of the U.N. operation," appeared to be "stabilizing" 'the situ ation in the Congo. 'We hope that tnese Bel gian step.-, will lear- to the re-establishment of s. climate of cooperation and confidence between Belgium an the Congo in which-., UslSians, working side by side with the Congolese in cooperation with the U.N., can coi tiinic to i'l'iy. a role -in the s icccssfii1 de- veloDment of the new Congo lese state." the U.S. statffueiit said. East Germans Riot for Food Berlln-IUPIl - Reports leach- Ing West Berlin said Sa rilay food riots have flared thVom- munist Eostc Germany inifl growing unrest over a l'ort age of everything fromx'fad to meat, v .. .. .... ', -r;- Fla., was arrested on his ar rival at Havana airport -Conn, an employee of the city of Los Angeles, came here with- hit wife and' two children July 25. Dean is I from Fall River, Mass. They were both, picked up at the international ,youth rally Thursday. Laura Bergquist. a senior editor of Look magazine, and her photographer, Paul Fus- co, were detained at the same time but released Fri'Jay night. Chari?s Wiley, cor respondent for New York ra dio station WCR, still was be ing held since his arrest Thursday. I was sitting in the front row of the youth congress with a tape recorder on the floor next to . the Conn-.. ' Dean said- -"A very neatly dressed gentleman with a mus tache appeared and asked it. bad been invited. "I said yes but the jmxl thing I knew . we were en route to jail. Mrs, Cenn was allowed to return W her hotel to take care of, 'the two in fants but the rtoom was kept under guardy' .-; v. A .. ; "They gptve no reason lor the jailipig. we were in a crmrafxy cell with 15 to 17 they prisoners sna siepr. in , triplf'' tiered- bu nks.;. We wer.'en t allowed .to maxe tele-. ipiiiona calls. We. just:sat and rctad and reread, a back issue oil t"t American magazines. Dean said the guards were fflendly and the food gener ally good. Most of the Cuban prisoners, he said, were out spoken in their opposition to communism and to Castro. "When we- were .'released, a young lieutenant said 'sor ry, "you kno'V how conditions are,' and that was It,'.' Dean added. -' ' - Lumumba Denies Secret Talk With Russ Official New York-ltlPO-Coiigo Pre mier. Patrice Lumumba Sat urday night angrily denied that -he met secretly in an Ottawa hotel room. with the Soviet ambassador to Canada. The breakfast meeting had been reported to have taken place earlier Saturday before Lumumba flew here from Canada. Lumumba announced he was cutting short his Can adian visit after the reported meeting and returning to New York. ' . '.- At the airport here, Lu mumba erupted into a finger shaking lecture at newsmen who asked him about the meeting. . i 'Ha. Made Lies'. "You had better check your Information if I were you," he said through an Interpreter. "I would fire the newsman who said that, because he made ies.T- z:,.,,. .:'V .'.. ;.., ''I didn't have' any break storm 'Brenda': Strikes Holiday Havens . On East Coast High Winds Reach Near-Hurricane Force New York - (UPD - Tropical storm Brenda lashed the east coast with . near - hurricane fury Saturday, flooding sou thern tobacco crops, snarling New York City transportation, and forcing President Elsen hower to delay Ills return to Newport.' ' The storm spawned In the Gulf of Mexico zipped across Florida and up the east coast, unleashing winds of up to 72 miles an hour - two miles an hour short of hurricane force. Brenda struck hardest at coastal holiday havens as it skipped Washington,- D. C, and bore down on New York City on a course leading to. the New England shore. Losing Her Punch Brenda appeared to be rap- Idly losing her punch as aha swept ' into New England. Scores of- small boats were smashed off the Connecticut coast and tides were abnorm ally high but the Boston wea ther bureau, in an 8 p.m. ad visory, said the storm was losing its tropical character istics" as it moved through- New England. - Hours before the storm cen ter reached the metropolitan New York area, sheets of rain put La Guardia airport's run ways under eight Inches water. The flooding and v irr gusts of -tip to 61 miles vet hour halted all operatlo:,f at the field. Flights to from wuier. luajur airyvr' . .Ml ' uw J area -were limited severely; f An inch, of rain, poind the metropolis -between 8 and . g ajn.j flooding ,aom. rnUftroad and subway tracks., eieverai subway stations wenls dosed and the East River.- drive and other niajor lrf,'j'tic arteries were lmpaMabl' a : in places. -Eisenfrowti, 'to .Denver for a visit wifh'-.'AIrs. ' Eispnhnw. erV" I"' mlee,,- had been sorcduled ta? return ' to his Newport rumfmci- White House Saturday.' HKe postponed the flight unti Sunday after Col. 'raper, the White t, warned him of ' of heavy storm and rains. e the rest of the coast was ut by the storm, New voyit harbor remained calm, tanks to sheltering land areas, but coastal areas were severely Mattered by waves. The Navy put all its vessels in the area on alert. What was to have been a triumphant homecoming of newly nominated Republican vice presidential candidate Henry Cabot Lodge was near ly rained out. Lodge's arrival in Boston was delayed 45 min utes by the storm. Motorist Killed The death of Edward W. Oakley, 38, of Valley Cottage. N.Y., was blamed on the storm. He was killed near Ny- aclc, N.Y., when his car skid ded on the slippery Tappan Zee bridge and crashed into an oncoming vehicle. Oakley was thrown frori his car and run over by another. . Two 28-foot boats that set out from New Haven, Conn., for Montauk Point, on the tip of Long Island, Saturday. were unreported. The number aboard was not known. fast this morning and, as for lunch, I had it with a mem ber of the Canadian govern ment. This report must bo the Work of a specialist in false propaganda. I have tho right to eat with whom I like but I did not have breakfast with any gentleman. I am vexed at the attitude of the Amer ican press asking me non sense questions and giving me false Information." Lumumba also doubted the validity of a state department announcement earlier Satur day In Washington in which the department said it was "satisfied" thot Belgian gov ernment sent Its troops back Into the strife-torn Congo only to protect lives and "had no aggressive Intent." "Give mo the name of the man' In ' the state department who said this, Lumumba said. "I. do not want or like the state department to be slandered." t
