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Newspaper Page Text55th Year Recommended Subscribers Medford Improvements under wav at ureeon cavn naUonal monti nieiil and Crater Lake national park by the U.S. national park tervlce under their Mission 66 proiram are reviewed on pare A ol today'i Mail Tribune. RIBUNE To report improper or non delivery of the Mall Tribune In Med lord phone SP 2-6141. in Ashland MU 2-1021. and In Yreka, VI 2-2807. btiore 6:45 p.m. dally and 10:30 a.m. Sunday If regular delivery arrive shortly alter you call please notify office thus eliminating ipecial messenger service United Press International Full Leased Wir United Press International Full Leased Wire 56 Pages Section A MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, AUGUST 14, 1960 No. 125 Price 10 Cents "La-deez And Gen-tul-men We Now Present The Greatest Judicial Trial On Earth" Nixon Admits That He Disagrees With Ike on Farm Policy Portland, Maine-fUPD - Vice President Richard M. Nixon admitted Saturday night that he and President Eisenhower have not seen eye to eye on arm policy for several years. "Now that I am a candidate In my own right, I will urge my own approach," Nixon laid in a televised news -conference. "T h e agricultural views I have been urging have not been adopted by the ad ministration." However, he said, "there are no differences once a pol- Medfordites See Echo Satellite Washington -IUP1I- America's new Echo satellite served for the first time Saturday as a 1.000-mile-high sounding board for a transcontinental telephone call. and for simul taneous transmission - recep tion of radio messages from coast to coast. The Civilian Space Agency renorted, meantime, that the 10-story-high "radio mirror' balloon is slightly closer to its projected circular orbit than scientists had originally sup posed. Echo I was spoiled by Medford residents Friday at about 9 p.m. Everett Lasher, one of the residents to spot the satel lite, said that it appeared about 20 or 25 degrees above the southern horizon traveling in a southwest to northeast direction. Lasher said that it didn't teem to be traveling as fast as Sputnik and shone brightly. Echo I, hailed by U. S. sci entists as a step toward global television and inflated bases in space, had these new mile stones to its credit: -The first simultaneous transmission-reception of re corded messages on a trans continental bounceback from California to New Jersey. -The first live telephone conversation carried on coast to coast by way of tne radio reflector 1,000 miles in space Exhibit Exchanges Slated for Monday Monday is the date set for exchange of exhibits for the hearings on television cnan npl in. according to Ray John son, manager of radio station KMED. The three applicants (TOT Industries, Inc., Radio ftiea ford. Inc. and Medford Tele casting) will present their ex hibits to the Federal Com munication commission in Washington, D.C., on Sept. 13. Johnson said literally "hun dreds hours of work" had gone into the exhibits. By ex amination of these exhibits through testimony given in Washington, the FCC will de termine the firm best quali fied to be awarded the new channel. icy has been adopted" and ad ded that he had not objected publicly to the President's de fense of agriculture secretary Ezra Taft Benson's policies. Nixon said it will be the same way if he is elected. Policy differences will be arg ued within the administration but a solid front will be pre sented once a policy is set. Won't Duck Responsibility Nixon also said he would not try to duck responsibility for major administration de cisions, both in foreign policy and otherwise, because, "I do not take the position that I am not a part of the adminis tration." . Nixon's press conference climaxed a one-day invasion of normally Republican Maine in his direct assault on the backyard bedrock strength of his Democratic opponent, Sen. John F. Kennedy of Massachu setts. A holiday-mood crowd of more than 100,000, described by police chief Leon T. Web ber as the biggest for any event in the history of this city of 80,f00, lined the sun warmed streets and crowded a big city stadium to see Nixon and his wife, Pat, and to hear the GOP presidential nominee speak briefly. Confers With Rocky Before leaving Washington at noon by chartered airliner. Nixon conferred for half an hour by telephone With New York Gov. Nelson A. Rocke feller, who is vacationing at Seal Harbor, Maine, a long drive from Portland. Rocke feller urged that both Nixon and his running mate, Henry Cabot Lodge, begin thei'r bids for New York's 45 electoral votes as soon as possible. " I III I Ill III mm I nun i iimiiiiiiimilhi,,,!, .Qaajmy, CRASH KILLS NINE Nine persons were Sheriff Harry Nackrud said one of the cars killed and one critically injured Saturday was "traveling as fast it could go" on the in a headon collision on a straight stretch wrong side of the highway when it hit the of highway near Reading, Minn. The dead other car. included six women who left 38 children. v ,upi Telephoto) Man Beaten to Death in Parking Lot; Transient Held on Murder Charge William Carley Campbell, 55, died early Saturday after suffering a brutal beating in the parking lot behind Robin son Brothers store, 114 East Main St., Medford. City police said they have arrested, on a charge of mur der, Prentias Hilbert Alexan der, 22, a transient worker believed to be from Portland. Judge Miller Irked At Edwards Letter; Promises County Judge Earl Miller angrily stated Friday that he would take some action in reply lo a letter from the Jackson County Democratic Central Committee Chairman Harper Edwards, but declined to say officially what it will be. Edwards had criticized the county court's appointment of three Republicans and one Democrat as its representation to the Jackson county home rule study committee. "With the county as equally divided in party registration as it is, and the committee be ing of such general public in terest and concern, the Re publican members of the coun ty court rhould have laid aside thiir partisan party pref erences long enough to name a bi-partisan home rule com mittee that would . be truly represenla tive of party strength in the county," the letter stated. Slapping the letter angrily, Judge Miller charged, "I know that a member of the group we appointed ' Wrote that letter and had the Demo cratic Central committee ap prove it. The only thing he can accomplish by such an action is to disrupt the com mittee since two of the mem bers we appointed said they wouldn't serve if the commit tee became involved in poli tics." "I'm serving all the county and not just one party," Mil ler snapped. "I will not be dictated lo by any political party including my own! This committee is to be an impor tant one. It's foolish to play politics at this time." Miller added that the Demo crats don't have a right to Washington - 0IPD - Chair man J. W. Fulbright (D-Ark.) of the Senate foreign relations committee urged Saturday that Henry Cabot Lodge re sign soon as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations. He suggested that Adlai E. Stev enson would be a good re- I placement. His local address was Riven as 520 North Front st. Identification of Hie dead man was made by local law enforcement agencies through finger printing and personal identification. The crime occurred at about 2:45 a.m. Saturday, according to police. Being held as mate rial witnesses are Norman to Reply demand anything from him. (The letter had stated that "Democrats expected and de manded equal representation on the committee.") Miller stated further that his intentions were honorable and he wanted lo do what was right. He said he was elected through politics but now feels he represents all the people. Smith Asks More Funds for Oregon Grants Pass - IWMI - Elmo Smith, Republican candidate for the U. S. Senate, said here Saturday thai industrial growth in Oregon can cluster and expand if the stale re ceives ils proportionate share of federal spending for new space-age projects. Smith made his remarks while speaking at a public luncheon sponsored by the women for Elmo Smith com mittee. , According lo Smith, Oregon would receive 18 times more than it currently receives if the stale received a propor tionate share of space-age spending. The former governor point ed out that large areas of space and competent techni cal personnel, the two re sources most needed for space age projects, are present in Oregon. Smith said there are blocks of thousands of uncommitted areas in central Oregon, in coastal areas and in eastern Oregon, to provide ample room for safe missile firing. He decried, however, that more than one-half of the competent personnel graduat ing from Oregon colleges and universities are leaving the state. Smithsaid "we urgent ly need to provide employ ment for these talented peo ple here in Oregon where our economy can profit from their abilities in order to receive ou natural potential of growth in the years ahead." James Mclnnis and Virgil Payne Bennett, both listed as transients. Mclnnis told police he and Bennett saw Alexan der stomping on something in the parking lot, which they at first believed to be a tire. Uses Cement Brick Alexander was said lo have left the lot, then returned with a cement brick and con tinued beating the object, lodged between two cars. It was only then, Mclnnis said, he saw the object was a man's body. Mclnnis reportedly hailed a passing motorist and had her call police. Officers contacted Elda Mae Burleigh. 2689 Howard ave., Medford, who told police a man then stand ing in front of Weeks and Orr furniture store, 114 West Main si., had just killed a man in the downtown area. Alexander admitted the crime and told police he and the victim had been drinking and an argument ensued. He told police the victim used ob scene language regarding two women, resulting in the beat ing. Shoes on Roof Police said Saturday that the victim's trousers and shoes were found on the roof of the Robinson hotel, adja cent to the parking lot. It is believed that they were thrown to the three-story-high location. When found downtown, the suspect seemed to be in "a daze and acted "unconcern ed," according lo witnesses Police reports indicate that he was not overly intoxicated when arrested, but appeared scared. A 1958 address for the vic tim was said to be 14 South Bartlett st. Police said he was a resident of the area "for several years," and reportedly has a brother In Eugene and sister somewhere in Cali fornia. Police are also looking for a well-dressed man of stocky build who was seen by both Mclnnis and Alexander in the fight area. He is wanted as a witness. Horse Shows Open 4-H and FFA Fair Horses' hooves pounded around the make-shift arena in front of Ihe Jackson coun ty tair buildings Saturday af ternoon as 42 juniors and in termediate 4-H horsemen put their mounts through their paces. The horsemanship event started the' annual Jackson County 4-H and FFA fair. Ob servers estimated over 100 horses were on hand for Sat urday's and today's senior events. There are 200 4-H horse club members in Jack son county, a judge said. Saturday's events started with halter showmanship classes for juniors and inter mediates. The horsemanship event later in the afternoon showed the 4-H'ers skill as their mounts went through such tests as walking, trotting, cantering, reversing, figure eight, backing, standing dis mounting and mounting on or der. Stocky little trail horses clopped through and over ob stacles as the 4-H members tried to demonstrate that each had the best horse for the southern Oregon mountain trails. The colorful events of pole bending, Texas Barrel and ba ton relay concluded the day's horse activities. Pole bending is on the same idea as the sla lom ski events. Horses weave around spaced poles, racing against the stop-watch second hand. The barrel race is simi lar. Livestock started arriving by truck and trailer early this morning as the 4-H club mem bers prepared for the week long activities. Rabbits and poultry plus home economics judging contest and style re vue headline the day. Vientiane, Laos - (UPIi - Reb el forces who seized this capi tal in a military coup and de clared their "strict neutrality" in the cold war indicated Sat urday they were ready to com promise with the pro-Western royal regime. Congo Premier Demands Removal Of White Troops Eiisabethville - HIPD Swe dish soldiers of the United Nations forces began reliev ing the Belgian army in re bellious Katanga province Saturday and Premier Patrice Lumumba of the Congo imme diately threatened another crisis by demanding that all white troops leave the Congo at once. The agreements lo relieve Belgian troops was worked out by U.N. Secretary Gen eral Dag Hammarskjold and Patanga President Moisc Tshombe in two days of talks in this tense city while Ka tanga police broke up anli Tshombe demonstrations. Others to Arrive A series of announcements by Hammarskjold and Tshom be said the Swedes took over guard posts at the airport and that other U.N. troops would arrive on Monday and Tues day to complete the takeover ordered by the Security Coun cil. The new contingents will be Irish and Ethiopian - half white and half Negro. Defiant statements b y Tshombe here and by Lumum ba, in Lcopoldville, showed that the Congolese crisis was far from ended. Tshombe said the actions made it clear that Katanga province, which "se- i ceded" from the Congo on July 11, would be able to maintain its independence. Scathing Attack Lumumba, speakine In Leo- poldville, renewed his threat lo send in his own troops to win back the rebellious prov ince and delivered a scathing attack on Hammarskjold for his use of while Swedish troops.- He said some of the Sewedes were disguised Bel gians. The official Soviet news paper Izvestia, in a commen tary broadcast by Moscow ra dio, followed up this with an attack on Hammarskjold and accused him of conspiring with Tshombe against the legal government of the Congo." It said Hammarskjold was not carrying out the Council resolutions. Ex-Governor Smith Arrives Tomorrow Former Governor Elmo Smith, candidate for the U.S. Senate, will arrive in Med ford Monday at 10 a.m. At noon he will sneak at a luncheon meeting of the Jack son County club, Oregon Fed eration of Republican Women at the Red Cross building. His topic will be "Oregon's Stake in the Future." Following his arrival he will visit in Central Point and during the afternoon will tour the valley and several lumber mills. He also is sched uled to appear ort television. Tuesday he will speak to a small group at an 8 a.m. breakfast at Omar's in Ash land prior lo touring the downtown business districts, Smith's visit lo Jackson county is part of an eight county tour this week. Mrs. Neuberger to Speak Here Friday Mrs. Maurine Neuberger, candidate for the U.S. Senate and widow of the late Senator Richard L. Neuberger, will ar rive in Medford this week. Friday, Aug. 19, will be the gucsl speaker at a no-host noon luncheon at the Med ford hotel sponsored by the Jackson County Democratic Central committee. WEATHER FORECAST: Fair and wirrn through Monday. High today S5 and low tontghl 47. High Monday 85. Temp. Highest Saturday 7 Lowest Saturday S3 Precipitation 0. Our Skies Tonight Sunirt today 7:H p.m. Sunrise tomorrow 5:18 a.m. Moonrtie tonight 11:31 p.m. New Moon Aug. 22 lonlght the Moon fnrmi a tri angle with the planet, Man and the ttarf Aldeharan. Mart ! now tbout 123 million mllei from the Earth. ! i 1 V, 11 IN Vv f vv :i ) mm. m vsssi-.. if. x 1 . I . Vfj. If V ' " Sste" ' f P l I f !m ' - 1I 'I I 'A iKi vl'.y V) III n -ITl , , MHJ ffaXrik .. -a BACK ON EARTH The "lucky 13" Discoverer satellite capsule, the first man-built orbit, arrived at Andrews Air Force base, Md., Saturday. 11 will be shown to President Eisenhower Monday. Shown looking at the capsule after it was unloaded are (from ica) n . n. t n ... . n. n . . uoi. Clarence u. name jr., Discoverer projects otiicer; uen. Thomas White, Air Force chief of staff, and Col. Charles G. Mathison, Air Force frogman who retrieved the capsule. U.S. Boots Soviet Embassy Official Washington-IUPII-The United Slates Saturday ordered a So viet embassy first secretary out of the country on charges he paid a young American cit izen now a self-styled Nazi to try for a federal job. The state department said the official, Valentin M. Iva- nov, "grossly violated the es tablished norms of diplomatic behavior. The department did not elaborate on its charges re garding Ivanov's relationship with the American, Roger C. Foss. But Foss said in a pub lished interview he under stood thai Ivanov wanted him lo act as a "sleeper agent" in a government post. City's Objections Said Ironed Out' ' Robert Lec, city water su perintendent, said last week that objections by the city re garding water lines to be re located for the new Pacinc freeway through Medford were "pretty well squared away." At lhe last city council meeting an agreement be tween Medford and the state was not approved because the water department wanted "to make sure that the state will pay for relocation of two wa ter lines located on Table Rock id., where it crosses Bear creek, and the one now located on the approximate site of Hie Barnett rd. inter change. Lee said objections by city administrators to the contract as it was written have been "ironed out," and the items will come before the council Thursday, Aug. 18, at its reg ular meeting. Sports Bulletin Portland - Metro beat Stata 27-13 in ihair annual gridiron battlt her Satur day night baton a crowd of 19.634. Metro mad ils icorts in iha second and fourth pariodi and Slat (corad in the last two quar ltrs. Bob Scobey of Lincoln garnered two touchdowns for Metro and his teammate, Mike Walsh, alto eoored. Jefferson's Mel Renfrs scor ed tha other TD. Crossing ih goal line for Stat war Dennis Tyler of Pendleton and Bill Whit of Roieburg. r. object retrieved from a space (UPI Telephoto) Information against Ivanov did not come from Foss only. U. S. counter - intelligence agencies, it was learned, have a long dossier on the Russian diplomat, including independ ent verification of his meet ings with Foss. . ' He was under observation for suspicious activities even when he was a member of the U.N. secretariat in New York, prior lo his Washington as signment. Sources here would not dis cuss Ivanov's activities while he was in the secretarial. The FBI declined any comment on the case. The justice department ear ly this week asked Foss lo register as a "foreign agent." The foreign agents registra tion act requires disclosure of all funds received from a for eign government. In response lo a letter, Foss showed up at the department Thursday but left without completing the registration form. He still has several days in which lo register. Failure lo register is a crime subject lo fine and jail sentence. There were appar ently no plans to prosecute him under other laws. Young Navy Officer Dies Attempting to Save Lives Of Four Men Savannah, Ga. - IUPD - The Navy minesweeper Exultant, her aft engine room swept by an oil fire that killed five crewmen, reached port Satur day and her skipper, fighting tears, told a story of heroism of a young ensign. The shocked and weary crew of the vessel, towed to port by another minesweeper and a commercial tug, lined the rail and pallbearers quiet ly took off the bodies of the dead, one by one, and placed them in waiting hearses. Then gray-haired Lt. Cmdr. G. E. McPadden, the Exult ant's commanding officer, came to dockside to meet re porters. "Gentlemen, I'm sorry I couldn't meet you under dif ferent conditions," he began, showing great strain. "All I can say is that we had an oil fire and we lost five good men who died In this fire. "Thanks to our executive Senate Committee Asks Legislation Affecting Millions Retirement Age for Men Would Be 62 Washington fUPP The Sen ate finance committee Satur day approved legislation call ing for sweeping changes in the social security law affect ing millions of elderly men and women. It voted to let men collect retirement benefits at age 62 instead of 65 and also to raise from $1,200 lo $1,800 a year lhe nmount ot Personal in- cme both men and women re- .0lclal sccurity bcne' iiia iciii v;rti II. But the committee refused lo put a politically-hot medi cal care for the aged program under social security. Instead it offered a compromise closer to a more modest program al ready approved by the house. Entirely Voluntary Tile lower retirement aga for men, like the present sys tem for women, would be en tirely voluntary and would not increase the social secur ity tax for either employers r employees. mn c5?u'cl chpse a re- mc,ums l...aB,c. or w' unU1 .h, B5th birthday and draw a full ll-ipiipflt. M f hIrd r-nnlfl roure I ..v; ,, . wllh.a smaller benefit cut, at any , ,e J??.92 and P3 . i.uu'uuu ",ctl "u UUbWUUll .L11C Clgua til 04.CU10.V 65 would become eligible for benefits immediately it Con gress approved the lower re tirement age. The committee's action is subject- to approval by the Senate, where a full-scale bat tle is in store over the medi cal aid issue. There were no immediate indications of gen eral Senate sentiment over the age change, or whether the House would go along with this and other revisions of the social security bill. Cut to 80 Por Cent Benefits for men retiring on their 62nd birthday would be cut to 80 per cent of the amount they would receive at 65. The benefit would be in creased five-ninths of one per cent for each month between 62 and 65 that they wait to begin drawing payments. : Congress lowered the retire- ment age for women to 62 in 1956 but only about half uf those eligible have decided to take the reduced benefits. While'going along with the -House provisions for federal state medical aid to needy persons over 65, the commit tee bill also would provide in creased federal payments lo states for health care for an estimated 2.4 million persons on old age assistance. Washington - (UPD - Russia ; has told the United States that U.S. Embassy officials in Mos cow will not. be allowed to interview U2 pilot Francis G. Powers until after his trial.' in Ship Fire officer, to a damn good chief named Gaignard, and to tha U.S.S. Nimble and to all of our crew aboard the Exult ant, we are here today." The "chief" McPadden re- .' fcrred to was Ens. David J. Gaignard, of Shrcvcport, La., who was the top-ranking offi cer assigned to the engineer ing department and thus was referred to as chief engineer, or chief. Gaignard, whom McPadden described as an "alert, mighty fine boy with a wonderful future," was on his way t the engine room when tn alarm warning of the ftra sounded. , "He rushed right in and joined the four men on duty," Capt. McPadden said. "He) died trying to reach the car bon rlioxide that would have snuffed out the flames." - McPadden said Gaignard, about 23, had just joined tha Exultant a few days before it sailed from Charleston.