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Newspaper Page Text0 Big Development in Atomic Explosives ftWWA -H"i '.'i? Vferi-s-tH DAMAGED HOME Workmen at Crater Lake National Park start removing a tree which was blown across the home of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Carlisle about 7:30 p.m. Sunday. The house was extensively damaged, but the Carlisles es UN Refuses Demand To Surrender Lumumba Law Stipulates Parliament Must Lift Immunity Leopold ville, The Congo -(UPD The United Nations re fused today to hand over de posed Premier Patrice Lu mumba to Congolese Army Chief of Staff Col. Joseph Mobutu. . In a formal statement, the UN said the Congolese funda mental law stipulates that deputies cannot be arrested unless their parliamentary immunity is lifted by Parlia ment. Protection of UN Guard The statement pointed out that the principal "political dignitaries of the central Con golese government have long enjoyed the protection of a United Nations guard." "As a neutral in the inter nal political crises, the United Nations cannot change the orders of the guard to facili tate the serving of a warrant of arrest," the UN statement added. The deadline of 3 p m. fixed by Mobutu passed without the Congolese army taking any action. Troop Movement Reported However, it was reported that an armed squadron of Congolese army troops was en route from Thysville on Mo butu's orders. The United Nations put more than 100 well-armed Ghanaian troops into a palm grove near Lumumba's resi dence this morning. But it evidently decided they could provoke trouble and with drew them after Mobutu or dered armored cars into posi tion facing the UN force. BULLETIN Point Arguello, Calif. -(ITU - The United Stales to day launched the first SAMOS "sky spy" satellite designed eventually to re place the U2 spy plane. Appling Says 'Stalling on Issues' Portland-(UPi) - Republican secretary of State Howell Ap jling Jr. today charged his Democratic opponent, Mon ! -oe Sweetland, with "stalling in the issues of this cam aign" and demanded that Sweetland "answer some im ortant questions for the peo lle of Oregon about your rec ! rd." Addressing the Northwest ortland Kiwanians, Appling aid Sweetland should account o the voters fosJl.) Opposing t "badly-needeS' 18 per cent ax cut in 1957, (2.) Fighting cgislation now protecting the ": i Politicians Differ On Meaning Behind Employment Figure .Washington - (UPD - Which way do the new 1 job figures Doint? x. Democrats and some Inde pendent economists are afraid that if a recession is coming this winter, the figures spell serious trouble in thp form of heavy unemployment. Republicans stress the rec ord number of people with jobs. This shows, according to a government expert, that a business recession is not oc curring. The situation is somewhat confused because employment is good but unemployment also is high. The latest figures, released 1,357 Students Are Enrolled at SOC Ashland Incomplete reg istration figures for the fall term enrollment at Southern Oregon college reveal that a total of 1,357 students had enrolled through Saturday, Oct. 8. This is an increase of more than 9 pel cent over the comparable enrollment figure for the preceding year of 1.240. Mrs. Mabel W. Winston, registrar, stressed the incom pleteness of the total, saying that a number of students were not as yet officially en rolled because of the failure of record transcripts to arrive, illness, or other reasons. Of the 1,357 reported, 787 were men and 570 were wom en students, Mrs. Winston said. Alan Missing as Barge Explodes at Dalles The Dalles - (UPII - One man was missing and feared drown ed and another was injured seriously today in an explo sion aboard a big barge here. Ward Warren, about 40, a welder, was injured seriously, and Ed Coburn, 54, who also was working on the barge, was missing and feared drowned. Sweetland people against a state proper ty tax increase, (3.) Opposing twice a law under which the state now gets more than $27, 000 a month in defrauded wel fare payments, and (4.) Voting to boost taxes by nine per cent this year "when the fact is that the sound management of this administration has helped to build up surplus of otf S30 million more than it needs." Taxes can be held down, Appling said, "but not if we permit big spenders with no management experience to take over the reins of government." caped without injury. After the tree damaged the home, the Carlisles and other residents of the park took refuge in the maintenance building until the storm subsided about 3'2 hours later. by the Labor Department Monday, show September en ployment at 67.8 million - s record for the month. But there were 3.4 million persons unemployed - or 5.7 per cent of the labor force. This is the second highest jobless rate of the year, below only August's 5.9- per cent. The rate has been above 5 per cent in every month but two this year. This is high for a non-recession year. In the three years before the 1958 recession, unemployment averaged 4.3 per cent. It did not hit 5.7 per cent until the 1958 recession was five months old. Problem Acknowledged The administration has ac knowledged that unemploy ment is high enough to be a problem. But some officials have argued that it is a special kind of problem and not symptomatic of a general weakening of business. These officials contend that that the unemployed consist heavily of young people, who always have more trouble finding jobs, and unskilled workers who are out of work for technological reasons. In this category are factory production workers who have been displaced by automa tion, and coal miners. Hunter Mistaken For Deer, Shot An Eagle Point hunter mis took another hunter for a deer yesterday afternoon and wounded him in the arm, state police said. The victim, Charles Eugene Taylor, 26, Fairchild Air Force base, Spokane, Wash., was reported in fair condition at Rogue Valley hospital this morning. The bullet entered just below the right elbow and came out just above the elbow. He was taken to the hospital by Medford Ambu lance Service, state police said. Lassedor Nelson, 52, Eagle foint, told state police the ac cident occurred one mile northeast of the Butte Falls junction. He said he saw what he thought was a deer and mistook the rifle Taylor was carrying as one point of a horn. Te said he fired as the object. Vofer Pamphlets To Be Mailed This Week Sa!cm-(UPD-Mailing of the November election Voter's Pamphlet to rcgisted voters will begin this week, Secre tary of State Howell Appling Jr. said today. The distribution is expected to be finished before . 23. Appling said 880. 000 pam phlets are being printed, using 88 tons rgpaper. I r National Park Homes Damaged By Freakish Wind Repair work has started on residences at Crater Lake Na tional park damaged in a lo calized, freakish wind storm about 7:30 p.m. Sunday. The storm lasted about 314 hours, and felled some 40 to 50 trees, some ranging in size up to five feet in diameter, in the three residential areas at park headquarters. Park Superintendent Otto Brown estimated damage to the residences was about sz 000. Repair work started im mediately because of the threat of snow at any time at the park. The cost of remov ing the trees from the areas was not estimated. One tree extensively dam aged the house of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Carlisle, who were in it at the time. They, and seven other park residents, moved to the reinforced con crete maintenance shop build ings some 300 yards from the homes, where they stayed un til the storm had subsided. Besides the Fred Carlisles, others moving into the main tenance shop were Mr. and Mrs. James Carlisle, Mr. and Mrs. George Woodley, Mr. and Mrs. Guy Hartell, Mr. and Mrs. Harold Norris, Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Gerald and Mr. and Mrs. Rex Truelode and their three children. Mr. and Mrs. Ellis Varnum did not move to the tempo rary refuge, Brown said, be cause one member of the fam ily was ill. After the residents had evacuated their homes, the residence of Hartell sustain ed a crushed back porch from a tree which also tore off the eaves and broke the water pipe of the adjoining Harold Norris home. In addition to the trees in the Sleepy Hollow residen tial area, some 11 large trees fell in the new William Steel circle residential area. No damage was reported to resi dences there. Other trees fell in the up per residential area, some narrowly missing the chief ranger's house. Brown said no one was in jured in the freakish storm, and estimated wind about 75 miles per hour to fell the size trees it did He said the storm probably originated from winds which whipped into the residential areas located in a canyon sid ed by steep slopes on both sides. There were no other locations in the park where felled trees have been noticed, he said. Frazier Listed in Fair Condition Joe R. Frazier, 25, of 7C4 West McAndrews rd.. was re ported in fair condition this morning at Rogue Valley hos pital suffering rom injuries rer-oiveH in an automobile acJ cident Sunday evening. The driver of the vehicle John Lyle Thatcher, 23, of 1100 East Main St., was ex amined and released by the hospital, it was reported. A story in the Mail Tribune Monday had listed Thatcher as hospitalized. I Bank Officer First To Take Stand in Trial of Bengfson Opening Statements Given This Morning Peter Ruef, operations offi cer for the First National Bank of Oregon here, was the first witness to testify this morning in the circuit court case involving embezzlement charges against O. H. Bengt son. Ruef testified as a state's witness on bank statements presented as evidence in the case. Stipulations were entered into by attorneys from the district attorney's office and lawyers representing Bengt son as to evidence to be pre sented. This is expected to shorten the time taken for arguments. It means that the attorneys agree on certain points concerning the evi dence. Deputy District Attorney Gerald Scannell, in his open ing statement this morning, advised the jury to "keep your eyes on the ball," the date, Oct. 21, 1959, and the amount $3,701.14. This is the amount with which Bengtson is charged with embezzling from the Medford Escrow company Oct. 21, 1959, while an officer of the company. Withdraws Money Scannell said Bengtson had withdrawn money from two personal accounts but needed $3,701.14 to settle a claim of $5,000. This he alleged was settled on Oct. 21, 1959. Scannell said he would show evidence of Bcngtson's financial condition, show in tent, show the date of all transactions and show that an application had been made for a cashier's check to be drawn on the $3,701.14 in question. Richard R. Carney. Port land lawyer, noted that his client, Bengtson, has been a lawyer in Medford "for close to 30 years." He had been a manager of the Jackson Coun ty Savings and' Loan associa tion for a long time. The Medford Escrow corn- pany . was founded when he was manager pf the savings and-loan" Carney safd., When Bengtson left the company, he took the escrow company with rum, Mrs. Rachel Peterson Car ter, Jacksonville, secretary of the Escrow company, soon took over all of the escrow company operation, Carney said. All checks were signed by her with the exception of a few personal checks from Bengtson, he alleged. Takes Over Company Mrs. Carter took over the escrow company operation since Bengtson was busy with his law practice, Carney ex plained. Mrs. Carter later be came company president, and has received $2,600 interest on her investments in the company, he added. Bengtson,, in effect, borrow ed $3,600 from a local woman who had left the money in the escrow company to be invest ed, the attorney explained. Mrs. Carter set up a loan ac count with an interest rate I and made a payment on the loan to the woman. Bengtson was also going to put up a mortgage, the attorney al leged. This was simply a debtor creditor relationship. No at tempts were made to cover up the transaction. There was no embezzlement, Carney empha sized. Candidates to Debate Issues Ashland Robert Dun can, Democratic candidate for reelection for state repre sentative, and Republican can diatc John Dcllcnback will debate controversial election issues in Ashland Wednesday night. Te debate is being sponsor ed by the American Associa tion of University Women. H will be held in Britt ballroom on the Southern Oregon col lege campus at 8 p.m. Each candidate will clarify his position regarding O and C timber funds, income and sales taxes and othfr issues of special interest to voters of Jackson county. Following the opSiing state ments by the candidates, a question and answer period will be held. Archie C. Fries, Jr., will act as moderator. FIRST NEGRO LAWYER Portland - (UPD - Mrs. Mer cedes F. Deiz today became the first practicing woman Ne- gro attorney in Oregon when she took the counsel table in the court of Circuit Judge Lyle Wolff. Mrs. Deiz recent ly completed legal studies at the Northwestern College of Law here and was admitted to the bar. May Expand Nuclear Arms Glut Washington - (UPU - Sen. Al bert Gore (D-Tenn.) said today "A tremendously important development" in methods of producing atomic explosives and fuels may bring 20 or more nations into the nuclear arms club in the next four years. - Other atomic sources said it was even conceivable that a small country like Cuba in time could use the new meth od to put together a crude nuclear weapon at a cost of not much more than $50 mil lion. They added, however, that Cuba would have to en list the help of Soviet or pos sibly Red Chinese technic ians. Atomic Energy Commission experts discounted the likeli hood of any immediate in- Regional Edition Medford 18 Pages Sailor hip Asks Asylum in U.S. Hatfield's On Boardman Trade Denied by Heppner, Ore. - (UPD - Rep. Al Ullman (D-Ore.) denied to day that an amendment of his to legislation providing for exchange of land for the Boardman Bombing Range jeopardized the measure. Ullman said Gov. Mark Hatfield in Pendleton last Saturday said that the Ullman amendment to the exchange amendment to the exchange legislation was "headed off and "jeopardized" the legisla tion. "The governor has demon strated flagrant irresponsibil ity by making the Boardman exenange a political iootoaii, Ullman said. The 2nd district congress- School Field Work To Start in Ashland Ashland - A low bid of $12,176 for grading and ex cavating playgrounds and ath letic fields of the new junior high school was accepted by the Ashland board of educa tion Monday night. The bid was submitted by Bostick and James, Medford. The contract calls for grading and excavating a physical edu cation class area, plus football and baseball fields. About 10 acres of land adjacent to the school will be improved. Stanley Jobe, superinten dent of schools, said work will start immediately. Hornbrook Man Killed in Crash Yreka-AIfred Amos Albers, 36, Hornbrook, was killed, and John William Jerry, Ft. Jones, was injured late Sun day when the car in which they were riding went off the Ft. Jones rd. California Highway patrol men said the car rolled over several times. Both men were thrown from the car, which Albers was driving. Police said the car was ap parently traveling at an ex cessive speed. There were no skidmarks on the pavement, they said, but there were marks and debris in the dirt along the south side of the mountain road for about 235 feet. Patrolmen said Albers died almost immediately, and Jerry was taken to Siskiyou Gen eral hospital here. 37,211 Registered To Vote in County Jackson county voter regis tration has hit an all-time high of 37,211, according to an official count made by the elections department here. This includes only part of Saturday's late registration, election department officials said. This is the highest num ber of voter registrations ever recorded in Jackson county. It gives the Democrats a lead of 894. The final official vote tabulation is expected Thurs day. Of the total, Democrats number 18,594, and the Re publicans 17,700. A crease In the number of na tions able to make nuclear materials in large quantities. They said the new system still is in the research and development stage and that it will be some time before its effectiveness is known. But according to Gore and others, it is at least far enough along to raise the threat of being a tremendous complica tion in international negoti ations for control of atomic weapons. The development cited by Gore is the revival in West Germany of the gas centrifuge method of separating explo sive uranium-235 from the far more plentiful inert uranium 238 with which it is mixed in nature. Theoretically, at least, the MEDFORD, OREGON, TUESDAY, OCTOBER U, 1960 From Khrushchev's Remarks Ullman man said "The fact is that my amendment passed unani mously in Congress. As a matter of fact, without the amendment; the legislation would have failed." The legislation enabled Oregon to trade land in Lake county for the 96,000 -acre Boardman range which the state; wants to develop as a space-age industrial park. Ullman said he took part in both meetings that brought the' governor s representa tives, the Defense Department and the Navy together. "Since December, 1858, I have been working almost continually on this problem. . Safeguards Included The safeguards for the peo ple of Oregon that were adopt ed in the final action, includ ing the public domain of the land, were included al my in sistence." Ullman also said he inter vened to delay the proposed permanent transfer of the bombing range from the Air Force to the Navy early in 1959, before Hatfield had ex pressed an interest In the land exchange, "The first official recognition of the Boardman range's 1 n dustrial potential came in August, 1959," Ull man said. U. S. May Quit UN f China Admitted United Nations, N.Y.-IUPD- The United States warned to day it might withdraw from the United Nations if a war like Red China were admit ted. The United States also rejected Premier Nikita Khrushchev's call for an emergency session of the General Assembly to discuss disarmament. U. S. Ambassador James J. Wadsworth told the assembly the United States was "pre pared to go back to the nego tiating table today" but did not want to turn dlsarma m e n t negotiations into a "table thumping, disarma ment spectablc." Wadsworth followed Khru shchev to the rostrum after the Soviet leader had pro posed a special summit con ference early next year in Europe to discuss disarma ment. BODY IDENTIFIED Portland-IUPI)-A man whose body was recovered from the Columbia River near Trout dale Monday has been identi fied by the Multnomah Coun ty Coroner's office here as Charles Augustus Miller, 88, a county farm resident who had been missing since Sept. 14, WEATHER FORKCAKT: Cloudy with fciit tprofl hotQ-r tonight and Wednesday, Low tonight 40. JUrh tomorrow $2. Temp. Ilteriest Yeitrrday 87 Lowest Thli Mornlnf 37 Our Skies Tonight timet today 3:36 p.m. Sunrise tomorrow .... 6:21 a.m. The Moon rtiei 10:3ft p.m. tonight and forms a triangle with the planet, Mart, and the star, Alhena In the constella tion Gemini. Mart li t tlmei ai bright a Alhena. Latt Quarter Oct. 1Z gas centrifuge system devel oped in West Germany would cost millions instead of bil lions. It has not been estab lished, however, that it could produce U-235 as cheaply in operation as the U.S. method does. Cheaper Per Kilogram "We can produce U-235 cheaper per kilogram than even the most optimistic esti mates for the centrifuge," one AEC spokesman said. The reason that the gas centrifuge is emerging again is that the postwar period has seen development of ma terials with extremely high tensile strength which were not available when this coun try was pioneering with the atom. Sen. John F. Kennedy (D- Tribune 3t . VICTOR JAANIMETS- -. Goes Ashore for Good LMC Campaign To Wind lip Oct. 27 The United Medford Cru sade campaign will, officially end Thursday, Oct. 27, Hal Gardner, chairman, announced at the Monday report luncheon. Following next Monday's luncheon, he said, the Over the Top" committee headed by Jerry Gastinc .u, president of the Rogue Valley Life Un derwriters association, will give- special attention to re port material not turned in. The association Is sponsoring the "Over the Top commit tee. The Home Crusade, under direction of Mrs. James Row an and Mrs. R. B. Thleroff, will start next Monday, Bids Called for Freeway Projects The Oregon State Highway commission will open bids for work along the Highway 99 Freeway north of Medford at 9 a.m. Nov. 3. Bids have been called for 29 miles of grading and 78 miles of paving, erection of nine structures and sign ing on the Scvcn-Oaks-Jack- son st. section of the freeway. Many of the structures from the Seven Oaks junction southward have been com pleted, or started. Grading as been completed to near the freeway's junction with Table Rock rd. Washington -(UPD- The Agri culture Department has esti mated the 1060 corn crop at 4,258,511,000 bushels. Pauling Again Refuses To Disclose Petitioners Washington -(UPD- Dr. Linus Pauling again refused today to tell the Senate Internal se curity subcommittee who col lected signatures of scientists in SO natioiis to a petition call ing for a ban on nuclear weap ons tests. Reprisals Feared Pauling, Nobel Prize win ning chemist, told the subcom mittee he would not reveal the names for fear "reprisals will be visited on them by this subcommittee." Pauling was subpoenaed to appear before the Senate group, headed by Acting Chairman Sen, Thomas J. Dodd, (D-Conn). and to bring certain records with. him. Us Mass.), the Democratic candi date for president, referred to the gas centrifuge in his recent statement on the East West atomic test ban negoti ations. He said an agreement is extremely important be cause "new advances in tech-, nology have brought atomic weapons within reach of sev eral additional nations." Kennedy Adviser Gore, a member of the House-Senate Atomic Energy Committee, is one of Ken nedy's campaign advisers. He said "it is possible, if not probable, that within the ten ure of the next president of the United States the capabil ity of producing nuclear weapons will be within the reach of as many as 20 or more nations." 55th Year Price 10 Cents No. 175 Seaman Quoted As 'Having Fill' Of Soviet Premier New York - IDP1) - A seaman from Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev's liner Baltika who sought asylum in the United States today" said "practically everybody" In his native Estonia wants to flea to the West. Victor Jaanimets was being questioned, by U.S. immlgra- lion authorities about his plea tor asylum following his dra matic escape from fellow Baltika crewmen while on a shorelcave shopping tour. Fill of Khrushchev "I've had my fill of Khrush chev," the New York Journal American quoted the stocky, blond seaman as saying. "He's a tyrant - another Hitler," Jaanimets told officials of the International Rescue Com mittee he would do "any thing" to stay in the United States. ' .. " Protected From Russians Immigration officials kept Jaanimets under wraps and said the Russians would not be allowed to see him if they tried. So far, the Russians have not acknowledged Jaani mets' escape. In Washington, the Justice Department said immigration officials would keep Jaani mets in custody for five to ' ten days to complete their in vestigation before ruling on his plea for asylum. "There are others on the ship who will try to get away now that I have escaped," the Journal American quoted Jaanimets as saying. "Half the crew would walk off right now if they could." 'Russians Told Lies' The Baltika arrived here three weeks ago with Khrush chev and Iron Curtain leaders aboard for the General Assem bly of the United Nations. It has been docked at an East river pier under heavy police guard. . "I have been In America only a short time but I have seen enough to know that all the bad things said about your country in the Soviet Union" are propaganda," the Journal American said Jaanimets said. "The Russian people are told nothing but lies, lies, lies ..." Salem-(UPD-Gov. Mark Hat field today came out for meas ure No. 4 on the November ballot, permitting prosecution . for a crime by information signed by a district attorney as an alternative to a grand jury indictment. told a news conference Mon day he would refuse to ap pear but later changed his mind. The scientist supplied the subcommittee with three bound volumes of petitions carrying the signatures o ( ' 11,-021 scientists from 50 countries. The petitions, in cluding names of Soviet sci entists, were presented to the United Nations in 1958. List Provided He handed over a list of 1,200 names of those he con tacted forhelp in collecting signatures, but refused to dis close which ones actually did the work.