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Swite board IUI TeleDlione mi mil Echo Latin American Meeting OAS Session In Costa Rica Opens Tuesday Editor's Note: The foreign ministers of the United SUtes snd 2 f.atin American sister republics meet in San Jose, Costa Rica, Tuesday o grave promems confronting the western Hemisphere. This Is the first of a Lwo-part series on the background and expected outcome of the meetings. By DONALD MAY Y aSlllllI.UIl 1WI II 111 nil I- IJ 11 1 In Ci n mildie, U1U liicutci 111 iBii Jose, Costa Rica, Secretary of CUI. ni;.linn A UaWm qnil CiatC Will tailall n . llcilEi B"u the foreign ministers of 20 Latin American republics will meet Tuesday to "hold court on three governments - Cuba, the Dominican Republic and Russia - and, incidentally, to here a detective story The broad aims of week-long "consultative sion" of the Organization of AmArip&n Stnfps In Sa n Jose's Teatro Nacional will be to: - Give a damaging - some hope fatal - push to General Issimo Rafael Trujillo's die 1SS11I1U lldldCl 11UJI1IU 1 ... tatorship in the Dominican Republic, now shakier than at any time in its 30-year history. - Bring hemisphere pres sure to "isolate" Cuba's brand of pro-Communism in Latin America. - Resoundingly tell Soviet Premier Nikita S. Khrush chev to keep hands off Cuba and the hemisphere. Reports in Plot The detective story involves the attempted assassination in Caracas June 24 of Vene zuela's President Romulo Be tancourt. Betancourt and six others were wounded and his military aide was killed in a bomb explosion during a pa rade. Venezuela charges it was a Dominican Republic plot. The OAS Inter - American Peace committee has inves tigated the charge and will report at the Cost Rica meet ing. The meeting will begin as the sixth consultative session 'on Venezuela's charges of Dominican "intervention and aggression" culminating in the alleged assassination plot. Then it will reconvene as the seventh consultative meeting to consider Russia and Cuba. OAS consultative meetings were first proposed by Pres ident Roosevelt in 1936. The first three, in 1939, 1940 and 1941, dealt with the threat of World War II to the hem isphere. The fourth, in 1951, dealt with the Korean War. The fifth, last year in Santi ago, Chile, ordered the Inter American Peace committee to study Caribbean tensions. Its report will be made at the Costa Rica meeting. Unrest Grows As the ministers prepared to meet, the Dominican Re public was the scene of deep public unrest, intrigues and government counter-moves. Last January, after an ill organized "underground" was caught readying bombs to use against the aged Trujillo, the Dominican government Dominican g o v e r nmeni launched a massive roundup f a reported 2,000 or more political opponents. The Trujillo regime n-s never acknowledged tiiat arrests totaled more than 22i persons. WEATHER FORECAST: Pa"1 'dy night and Tuesday. Low tonight 4S-4S. High tomorrow S. T Highest Yesterday JJ Lowest This Morning 49 Our Skies Tonight Sunset today - :IJ J-JJ- sunrise iomui. .. - -; Moonrise tomorrow ....12:32 a.r New Moon DDnMIH'FN'T STAR ...Aug. Arcturus, in the west.. ...9:14 a.m. VISIBLE 1-LANt.io venus, low in r - . 7:32 p.m. Jupiter, due souui Saturn, due south :!7p.i Mars, rises 12:07 a.i 10 Appointments Made For Bloodmobile Visit r-ir.i tan annointments have been made so far with the Red Cross to donate blood for the Wednesday, Aug. 17, visit of the Bloodmobile to Med- ford. . u Mrs. J. W. Burba, chairman of the local blood program, reported the total today, and stressed that blood collections have been low this summer. A total of 290 pints is the quota for the visit of - the Bloodmobile this week. To ob tain this amount of blood 350 donors are needed, she said. The Bloodmobile will be at the Red Cross chapter house. 60 Hawthorne ave., , from 1 to 6 pjn. Wednesday. Mrs. Burba said that the Pacific Northwest Regional Blood center, which processes ill Red Cross blood, is run i The Inter-American Peace I.WIIIIIII UCC POIM 111 Oil 1II1C11111 I Insl T. I U n t t icjjuii Jaai nunc kuai auinc vi (.the prisoners were subjected tin "inhuman Iraqlmant" Tf w iiiiiuiiinu iivbuiiui. charged "intimidation and terror" by the government as "political weapons. Diplomatic reports indi- cate the arrest compaign in- creased popular unrest - especially among the profes the sional classes - against the diclatorsmp ana mat tne un derground" is now better or- ganized and stronger. For months a growing series of atrocity stories, in- vol ving political prisoners be- inff heatpn. . eiven electric shocks and kept on hunger nvf. .. . .0 - - diets, have filtered out of the news-censored' country New Moves Studied Meanwhile. the Truiillo eovernment has taken a series of moves which some diplo mats reel were designed to take steam out of both the lo cal opposition and the OAS case. Truiillo bcean to talk of free elections in the future. Two weeks ago President Hec tor Trujillo, the generai isimo's brother, resigned and it was announced other mem bers of the Trujillo family in the government were taking overseas posts. Whether the Truiillo fami ly was fleeing a possible vi olent coup, was slipping into the background in the face of eenuine reform or was mere ly making a pretense to take steam out of the OAS .case was still a subject of debate among diplomats. In any case, the Costa Rica meeting is expected to pro duce a denunciation of the Trujillo regime, perhaps addr ing fuel to his growing trou bles at home. Venezuela is expected to press, either publicly or be hind the scenes, for even stronger measures, perhaps inrliidine an economic boy cott, ouster from inter-American bodies or token with drawal of all hemisphere am bassadors from Ciudad Tru jillo, . leaving only skeleton diplomatic staffs there. Boy Drowns in Diamond Lake Volunteer divers were still searching the waters of Dia mond lake in Douglas county today for the body of a Port land hov who reportedly drowned Saturday morning, the Roseburg office of tne state police said this morning. The youth, Gary L. Sturm 17 Portland, had been swim- and div, rom a boat 8 dd - - Uirred. He apparently had a . his motner cQuld reach Mm with cushion from the craft, according to reports. The boy and his parents were spending a two-weeks vacation at the lake, accord ing to reports. The names of his parents were not immedi ately available. Los Angeles -IUPU- The rock et ship X15 reached 136,500 feet in its record altitude flight last Friday, more than a mile higher than prelimi nary data indicated, the Na tional Aeronautics and Space Administration announced to day. ning some 600 pints short of being able to serve hospitals in Oregon. Appointments may be made to donate blood by telephon ing the chapter house, SPring 3-3813. Thirty pints of blood are needed for Sandra Calkins, 12, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. H. R. Calkins, 892 Stewart ave., who is scheduled to have open heart surgery in Port land In October. Residents may donate blood in her name during the Wed nesday visit of the Bloodmo bile. It was reported that Sandra, born with a heart de fect, will require about two months to convalesce follow ing the operation at the Uni versity of Oregon medical school. " i(lf 1 1 ' " Jtth . T"f URGE LEGISLATION A small group of pickets demon strate in front of the While House today urging passage of civil rights legislation before the national elections. The group was scheduled to march Two Commissioners Reply to Democratic Chairman's Letter ''I am disappointed in the appointment of Wilfred Davies, Eagle Point, (to the Jackson county home rule study committee)," County Commissioner Chester Wendt said this morning. His state ment was in reply to a letter from Jackson County Demo cratic Central Committee Chairman Harper Edwards. Both County Commissioner Wendt and County Judge Earl Miller accused Davies, a Dem ocrat and former Eagle Point Grange Master, of writing the Penny Samperl Tops Horse Show At 4-Hr FFAFair Penny Sampert, of the West Side 4-H club, was named champion horse showman Sunday at the end of the two. day horse show at the county fair grounds south of Med ford. . Penny won her title from among 130 4-H horsemen in cluding all classes. Both 4-H and FFA poultry and rabbit events were sched uled for all day today. The FFA fair participants include Eagle Point, Phoenix and Cra ter chapters in Jackson coun ty and chapters from Jose phine county,' Port Orford, and South Eugene. The coun ty 4-H'ers have 40 pens of poultry and 170 pens of rab bits. FFA poultry consists of six capons and 12 pullets. Only one rabbit pen is entered this year from the FFA. Both 4-H and FFA mem bers were busy moving their livestock into the various stalls yesterday and early this morning. The county . 4-H clubs have 200 beef, 170 dairy, 275 sheep and 120 pigs in this year's fair. The. FFA chapters have 34 head of beef, 40 sheep, (37 swine and 26 dairy. The FFA boys have entered shop and crop ex hibits, also. Congolese Lose Confidence in Dag Leopoldville, The Congo -(UPll-Congolese Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba told United Nations Secretary-general Dag Hammarskjold in a letter to day that "The Congolese gov ernment and people have lost their confidence in you." In an earlier letter, Lumum ba had warned Hammarskjold that unless he places U. N. military facilities at the dis posal of the central govern ment here, "we will take other measures." After a sharp exchange of missives, Hammarskjold told Lumumba he would leave for New York tonight to report to the Security Council unless the Congolese government modified its attitude. Bulletins Houston. Ttx. - - 0IPD Four workmen wer known dead today when a violent explosion ripped through a manufacturing plant r poriedly working on a se cret goTtrnmtnt project. Washington -'t PD - Prati d a n 1 Eisenhower today nominated Gan. Lyman L. Lamnitiar. Army chief of staff, to raplaca retiring Gan. Nathan F. Twining at chairman of tha Joint Chiefs ef Staff. at the capitol later. (UPI Telephoto) letter which was approved by the Democratic Central com mittee at its meeting last week and was signed by Edwards. Edwards criticized the ap pointment by the . county court of three Republicans and one Democrat. Both parties should be equally rep resented, he slated. The Jack son county legislative delega tion appointed four other committee members and the committee as a whole appoints a ninth member. County Commissioner Ralph James, who appointed Davies to the group, said he had no statement to make except one he had made pre viously, namely, "1 thought we had a good committee, but do feel Uiat both parties should be equally represent ed." Disgusted "I'm not mad," Wendt add ed, but I am disgusted with a few politicians in this county.- By. electing me to this office the voters put their connaence in me. I want Ed wards, whom I have never met, to know as long as I hold this office I will run the office and not him nor the Democratic party nor any other party!" I have known Davies for many years, but had no idea he was so party minded to take the position he has taken since his appointment," the commissioner said. "Never again as long as I'm in office will I ever vole for a man's appointment again when I don't feel that man is qualified, regardless ' of his affiliations," Wendt conclud ed. Threatening Calls Are Investigated District Attorney Thomas J. Reeder said today he is in vestigating reports of . anony mous and threatening tele phone calls made last week. The report was made by a Medford resident, author of a letter to the "Communica tions" column of the Mail Tribune recently, who said that since that time he has received many telephone calls, several of them of a threatening nature. Reeder pointed out that such an offense, the threaten ing of the commission of a felony, is in itself a crime, punishable by a term in the state penitentiary. "The telephone is not de signed as an instrument of terror," Reeder said emphati cally. "Any violations of this law will be diliiantly prosc c u t e d. Anonymity is b a d enough, but threats are actu ally criminal, and the use of obscene language over the telephone is in the area of doubtful legality." Investigation of the case is being conducted by the Ore gon state police, inasmuch as tne victim of the telephone threats, which reportedly in volved a threat of "a flog ging," lives just outside the Medford city limits. Smokejumper Hurt At Fire Near Agness Grants Pass -WPC- Willia G. Pay, 21, a smokejumper with the Siskiyou National Forest area oroiect at Cave Junction, suffered sprained ribs and possible back injuries while making a jump on a small fire in the Rie Bend Bend Country near Agness oaturaay. Pay landed on a tree and wnue climbing out of the tree got snaseed in the llmhs Ha was taken to a hospital. 2 Men Scheduled In Court Action For Murders Here Arraignment' .Today; Grand Jury Tuesday Court-action is scheduled this afternoon and tomorrow for two men charged with first degree murder in Med ford, according to District At torney Thomas J. Reeder this morning. ' A transient worker, Pren tias Hilbert Alexander, 22, is scheduled to be arraigned this afternoon on charges of first degree murder. He is charged with the fatal beating of Wil liam Carley Campbell, 55, in a parking lot behind Robin son Brothers store, 114 East Main st., early Saturday morn ing. A grand jury hearine has been set for tomorrow on first degree murder charges against Keith Duane Adams, 32, who is accused of murder ing his ex-wife in her Med ford residence Thursday, Aug. 4. District Attorney Thomas J. Reeder said this morning mat. this is the first time he knows of that there have been two homicides within 10 days in the county. Material Witnesses Norman James Mclnnis and Virgil Payne Bennett, both listed as transients, are being held as material witnesses to the beating which occurred at 2:45 a.m. Saturday. Identifi, cation of the dead man was made by local law enforce ment agencies through finger prints and personal identifi cation. The two men told city po lice that they saw Alexander stomping on something in the parking lot, which they at first believed to be a tire. Alexander was arrested a short time later on Medford streets. Adams is accused of fatally beating and strangling Mrs. Hazel Jean Adams, 28, while she was sleeping at her resi dence at 1205 Withington St., about 1 a.m. Aug. 4. $2,549,345.14 Check Received A check for $2,549,345.14 for Jackson county's share of the O and C timber receipts was received this morning by the county court. The check is for the fiscal year 1959-60, County Judge Earl Miller explained. This represents an increase of $234,675.07 over the 1958-59 fiscal year O and C timber receipts of $2,314,670.07. County Treasurer Karl Janouch said receipt of the check will mean $456,102.87 may be carried over into the next fiscal year as excess funds. A balance on hand is needed, Janouch said for coun ty operating expenses. Some years the O and C money may not arrive until October. He said he will deposit the money from the check in 10 different accounts so it will earn daily interest of $107 from now until the end of the fiscal year, June 30, 1961. This brings the total daily interest being earned by coun ty money to $168. The Jackson county court signed an order today trans ferring $741,000 in basic school support money as al lowed in the current fiscal year budget to Jackson coun ty's various school districts. This is distributed based on $35 per school census child compared to $20 per census child allowed last year. Slate lew requires the county to al locate $10 per census child, Judge Miller explained. Timber Taxation Program Discussed Salem -IUPII- A timber tax ation program to be presented to the 1961 Legislature was under discussion by the Legis lative Interim Committee on Taxation here today. One of the bitterest Dames In ihp 11)59 Legislature was over limber taxation and after the defeat of the measure in the house in that session, the subject was made one of the major areas ol study tor the interim group. In its two-day session the interim committee will also come up with its proposals in other areas, including person al nrnnnrtv taxation, possible elimination of the inventory tax in the stale ana insurance taxation. Portland -JUPD- The 39th An nual meeting of the National Council of State Boards of Engineering Examiners will be held at Portland Thursday through Saturday. ' Regional Edition Medford No. 126 MEDFORD, Congress Asked f o Funds $100 Million Claimed Needed For Normal Life House Recesses Until Thursday Washington -IUN)- The State Department asked Congress today for an etxra $100 mil lion in foreign aid funds for the violence-torn Congo, and if it becomes necessary, other new African nations. Undersecretary of Slate Douglas Dillon told the Sen ate Foreign Relations Com mittee the new Congo repub lic "needs help urgently to . permit a more normal life to be resumed." He said The Congo has "a real potential" for achieving healthy economy but it would be possible only with aid, which he said would be channeled through the United States. Other developments: Session: The House was called into order today by Speaker Sam Rayburn to re sume its 1960 session but promptly recessed until Thurs. day. Only a few lawmakers were on hand for the opening session. They had been put on notice earlier that no business would be transacted this week as the House waited for the Senate to dispose of pending legislBtioni"-r;- - - - Farm: Rayburn said he doubted Congress could passnicians and advisers were re. any general farm legislation during this session which Ag ricultural Secretary Ezra T. Benson would recommend President Eisenhower should sign Television: Rayburn said a bill to suspend the broadcasl- ng "equal time" law between the two top contenders would be called up next Monday under a "no amendment" pro cedure requiring two - thirds majority for passage. 11 has already been passed by the Senate. Medical aid: Senate Demo cratic Leader Lyndon B. John son labeled a medical aid to the aged program approved by the Senate Finance Com mittee as "inadequate" and thus opened the possibility of a floor fight on the issue. The committee bill junks the social security approach and calls for a program of increased federal and state matching aid to finance it. Ashland Fire Burns Office, Storage Area Ashland-An office and stor age room adjoining a green house at 50 Nevada st. was heavily damaged during a fire of unknown cause early Sun day. Ashland firemen said the greenhouse, owned by Jack W. Williams, was not dam aged and the crops were not believed hurt. ' Firemen answered the alarm at 12:55 a.m. and fin ished mopping up at 5:13 a.m. Williams was unable to esti mate the extent of damage. Wendt to Meet With nferim Tax Group County Commissioner Ches ter Wendt flew to Salem this morning to meet with the state legislature's Interim tax committee on a proposed state constitution change on county tax bases. This would eliminate the need to set a county tax levy every third year to save the county's tax base as the con stitution now requires, Wendt explained. Jackson c o u n t y does not now have a tax base. Heaviest base levied for Jack son county was approximate ly $697,000, he added. Wendt said this proposed legislation is vital to all coun ties who receive enough tim ber receipts from O and C tim ber receipts so a tax base docs not have to be used very of ten for a county levy. OREGON, MONDAY, AUGUST 15, 196018 Pages To Aid Exporting T)W-A4eaIaii0C Russ Technicians Reported Leaving Communist China London - (UPIf-Soviet tech ported : today to be leaving Communist., China : "by the. trainload" apparently' as the result of worsening relations between Moscow and Pelping. The reports came . from Yugoslav correspondents in the Red Chinese capital' and obviously passed strict cen sorship. French sources said they had received similar re ports. No official confirmation of such an exodus had reached Driver States Truck Wasn't Over-Height John Davis,' 818 Falrview dr., Grants Pass, operator of the log truck Friday morning which fell into Evans creek along with the Upper Evans Creek rd. bridge across the creek, stated today that his truck was not an overhelgnt load at the time of the inci dent. Davis, driving for the Jant- zer Logging company, Grants Pass, said that his truck had been measured in the woods prior to crossing the bridge and did not exceed 12 feet in height. He added that the log truck did not hit the cross braces prior to the accident. Bob'Carstensen, county en gineer, told the Mail Tribune today that the department had retained the end of one of the logs on the truck at the time of the accident which had markings of having been hit and also paint similar to that on the bridge. Carslensen add ed that the lower brace on the bridge at a height of 13 feet, 6 inches above the deck of the bridge had markings which showed that it was struck by one of the top logs on the truck. Eisenhower Hails Accomplishment Washington-OlPO - President Eisenhower today got a first hand look at the Discoverer III satellite capsule and hailed it as new evidence that the United States has "forged far ahead" in space exploration. The President also was pre sented with a small 50-star Hag which the 98-pound cap sule carried along with its scientific instruments. Eisenhower waS shown the capsule, recovered from the Pacific last Thursday night, at a White House ceremony attended by Defense Secretary Thomas S. Gates, Secretary of the Air Force Dudley C Sharp, and high Air Force officers. Price 10 Cents Tribune Congo Country ".Tim j " t 7 " il , - switching office. The space allied capitals from their own borne telephone call then wa scanty sources In Red China, relayed back to the Holmdel but the Yugoslavs, who have inhnriinrw .,. in , bee:i among the closest ob Tc!? ."d b,tlerest- cr' or Red China gave too manv details to be ignored. . The development travel weight to reports that ail is not well between Moscow and helping. Their ideological differ ences have been public nowledge . for some time. Latest allied diplomatic dis patches from behind the Iron Curtain reported that differ ences have flared up again after a temporary truce sign ed at the Communist party meeting in Bucharest last June.; Official Reason Peipine correspondents of Yugosalvia's official newspa per Borba and of the official news agency Tanjug reported Soviet experts were leaving Red China dally from Pei- ping by special "long train- loads." The official reason given for their departure is expira tion of their contracts. But the reports said "other versions" were circulating in Pciping throwing a more se rious light on the move. The developments coincid ed with a sharp week end attack by Moscow's party or gan, Pravda, on "dogmatists" who favor the principle of the inevitability of war. The Red Chinese have been the chief supporters of this principle. AN ELEPHANT RIDE Dr. Edwin R. Durno of Medford, candidate for U.S. Congressman from the 4th district, left, and Emlo Smith, candidate for U.S. Senator, enjoy a ride on the back of a baby elephant at the Josephine county fair at Grants Pass. Since both are Republicans, a ride on a real live symbol of their party provided them with extra fun at the fair, IUPI Telephoto) Communication Proves Worth of Satellite System Transcontinental Conversation Held Holmdci, N. J. - lUPB-Echo satellite researchers early to day combined the 10-story tall communications satellite with the prosaic wires of tha regular telephone network for Ihe first true transcontinen lal phone call via space. Earlier voice conversations bounced off the Echo satel lite had been made directly Echo I. the aluminum coated balloon may be ob served in the Pacific North west tonight at 7:57 o'clock, low in ihe southeast sky and at 10:10 o'clock in tha southeast sky. Tuesday it may bo view, ed in Medford at 12:06 a.m., north sky: 2:12 a.m., south west; and 4:16 a.m., south west. between Iwo receivinir sta. tions. But today's 54-min- ute call was placed and re ceived through t e 1 ephone switchboards. "This, we feel, proves the compatibility of a satellite communications system with the regular Bell System tele phone network." a spokesman for the Bell Telephone Lab oratories here said. The scientists Sunday sent a tape recording of "Ameri ca the Beautiful" from the Bell Laboratoriles to the jet propulsion laboratories in Goldstone, Calif. "It came in very well," a Bell spokesman said, but he added is wasn't high fidelity. Today's phone call was placed by Waller Victor, a Bell research consultant. Vic- ' tor wai at the Goldstone Lab oratory, but he was hooked up to the transmitting facili ties through, the regular area telephone switchboard. Con tact with Holmdel was made via the satellite, and Holm del relayed the signal to the Middletown, N. J ., central - lnhnn . ,ir. .. ,h , connection was made William .TDk -i uai i.i . j ,u. conversation. "tui. i. nm .fab.. m- ho anlrt "A rf roW me?" ' "I'm reading you fine," Vlc1- lor replied. In fact, the connection was so good that Victor asked: "Are we really connected by the satellite, or are wa talking over a land line?" Jakes assured him they were speaking via the satel lite. Jakes told United Press In ternational the long conver sation dealt ; entirely with technical matters. The 137-pound satellite was launched Friday, and the first message bounced off it was. a tape-recorded statement by President Eisenhower. Central Committee ' To Make Appointment Jackson County Democratic Central committee will meet . tonight at 8 o'clock at the Labor temple, 24 V4 South. Grape st., to appoint a candi date for tho'office of state rep resentative. The appointment '..will be made to fill the vacancy crem ated by the recent withdraw al of Miss Inez Holcomb, who received one of the two Demo-, cratic nominations in the May .: primary election. . ., i . 1
