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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 12, 1960)
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 12, I960 6 A MEDFOHD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, ORE. -V Non-Controversial Change in Voter Qualification Lav on Ballot rTsEAMSOW JtfPpUING BOOTH V y VOTING BOOTH AT SEA - When the American President Lines' SS President Hoover sails for the Orient Nov. 3 she 'will be equipped with "polling booths" for election day Nov. 8 The Mid-Pacific election won t count In the national .returns but APL is providing the "straw poll" so the pas sengers won t miss out on the fun and excitement. Here, Fred Dupont prepares posters and signs for the event. On -election day, the Hoover will be en route to Yokohama at the approximate position indicated on the sign which is . hear Marcus Island. (UPI Telephoto) Body Sought in Barge Explosion The Dalles - IUPI) - Skindlv ers today, sought the body of 'Ed Cobiirn, . S4, believed drowned after an explosion ripped a fuel barge and in flicted fatal injuries on an ' other man. ' - , j. Coburn, an electrician, was ilown Into the water when a spark from a welder's torch apparently touched off the blast. Ward Warren, 45, a Milwaukie Express Closure Rejected i Salem -WPOf Railway Ex press Agency, inc., nas Deen denied permission to with' draw its agent at Milwaukie, Ore, ;.'.!. ; Public Utility Commission er Jonel C. Hill said the agent . was withdrawn a year : ago ''but without authority from the PUC. Since then the agen , cy has been serving downtown Milwaukie by truck and this ; amounted to half its former service, the commissioner said. Hill said the abandonment was "Inappropriate," and that Railway Express did not show ..valid reasons for withdraw ing the agent. welder, died In a hospital from injuries. The explosion burst one of two compartments in the 206 foot barge and also started a fire on which firemen poured water for two hours. Firemen said that apparent ly welder's sparks reached a hidden fume pocket. The two victims were working for ward above decks. About 15 men In all were working on the barge but firemen said none of the others was hurt, The blast broke windows in the offices and recreation building on the nearby pier. The barge had been under going repairs at the Pacific Inland Navigation Co. termin al. . Partial Waving Of Residential Requirements Kditor'i note: There Are 15 state measures on the Nov. 8 Oregon general election ballot. This Is the third of five articles describing ineir background and enect. By DOUGLAS GRIPP Salem - lUPD - The seventh Issue on this fall's ballot a non-controversial change in the Oregon voter qualifica tion law. Oregon now requires that a person live six months in the state before he can vote Measure No. 7 would allow partial waiving of .this re striction and permit newcom ers to vote for president and vice president. The requirement for voting for other offices would still be six months' residency, plus the existing regulations. Measure No. 8 calls for au thority to increase the limit of the state's bonded indebt edness. The legislature would have more leeway in planning construction of state buildings during the next decade. State buildings now are fi nanced by the legislature from general funds. Anti- credit enthusiasts are against the measure,, but "there ap pears to be no organized op position. Judg Retirement' Sought Proposition No. 9 would force Oregon judges to retire at the age of 75. Some elderly judges slow up to the point of delaying the work of the courts, but under present law they cannot be required to retire. State Sen. Carl Francis (R- Dayton), chairman of last year's Senate Judiciary com mittee, says :"voluntary ' re tirement seems to be an un satisfactory situation. It ' has been truthfully said that jus tice delayed is justice denied." An escape hatch section provides that those who are 75 but still qualified may be recalled to active service in the same court. Slot Confiscated Woodburn (UPII M a r 1 o n County Sheriff Denver Young Tuesday night arrest ed a service station operator here and charged him with possession of a slot machine. Being held in the Marion county jail in Salem was Ver nle Harold Jackson, 27. The device, which was in operat ing condition, was found in the rear of the station and was confiscated, Young said. Thursday: Vacancy of elec tive offices, financing im provements in home rule counties, and government con tinuity In enemy attack. ' Supreme Knight To Speak , on Radio Today Luke E. Hart, supreme knight, Knights of Columbus, will give a Columbus day ad dress . over KYJC at 8:15 o'clock tonight according to Thomas W. Dugan, '.grand knight of Rogue Riyer coun cil, Knights of Columbus. Hart, who has been a mem ber of the Supreme board of directors since 1918 and has held the office of supreme knight since 1953, will speak oh "Christopher Columbus, Man of Yesterday - Man of Today."- .j F$ lY'Un KtU--3 SI , -a- yl I f v a"" "5". ..w v int. . . fcjrti nxm -SWT .3 I wr Mk m "&. -""Tat I WRECKAGE REASSEMBLED - Parts of the- Eastern Air lines Electra that crashed in Boston harbor Oct. 4 are being brought to a huge building' at the Hingham Indus- trial Center at Hingham, Mass., and laid out in their original relationship to the plane. In this way investi gators will seek answers to the crash which cost 62 lives. (UPI Telephoto) No Favoritism For Ike's Brother Washington-IUPl) - An Agri culture Department official says no special treatment ever was given a grain storage company that lists Edgar Ei senhower the President's old est brother, as one of its 'di rectors. . ..'.' ..-."' The statement Was made by Farnum White, an officer in the Portland office of the Commodity Credit Corpora tion. He testified Tuesday be fore a House government op erational subcommittee study ing government grain storage practices. Mclvin N. Stewart, vice president and general man ager of the storage firm, testi fied that Eisenhower had noth ing to do with the company's operations. ' '. In New York City, Eisen hower said he notified the subcommittee last week that he, had nothing to contribute to the hearing and would not Uappear. He made the same statement in a tciepnone con versation with Subcommittee Chairman L, H. Fountain, (D-N.C). The subcommittee conclud ed its inquiry Tuesday and announced no further hear ings. The panel had said the hearings were concerned with "situations involving possible Soviet Ship Under Tig h t Sec u rity To Avoid Defections New York-HJPD-fSoviet Pre mier Nikita Khrushchev's liner , Baltlka was clamped under full security today to prevent any of the 190 sea men aboard from following the example ' of shipmate Viktor Jaanimets, who de fected to freedom. Late Tuesday the 29-year- old Estonian, who called Khrushchev a "tyrant" and condemned Communist en slavement of -his homeland, turned his back on two Rus sian Embassy officials when they sought to persuade him to return to his ship. Said Not Forced "I. will hot talk to you," Jaahimets- said. Later, at a news conference, he said the Russian officials "asked me whether I was forced to de fect and I told them no I had made my decision a long time ago." ' ' The Russian officials from the Embassy in Washington, Viktor Ossitov and Valeri conflicts of interests, waste and favoritism, primarily in connection with the shipment of grain to the West Coast for storage in substandard facili ties. Kravchenko, flew here Tues day after it was revealed Jaa nimets eluded four other sea men from the ship that brought Khrushchev here and sought political asylum Monday afternoon.- The rest of the crew was under tight security today, to keep others from defecting before the Baltika leaves its berth Friday for Russia. Khrushchev is flying home to Moscow Thursday night. . Jaanimets gave four of his comrades the slip in down town Manhattan and contact ed an Estonian refugee orga nization, which in turn put him in touch with the Inter national Rescue and Relief Committee and the U.S. Im migration and Naturalization -Service. Status Considered His status here was be lieved to be under top-level consideration in Washington because of its nature. It in ef fect involved the defection of a member of Khrushchev's of ficial party - Jaanimets could be allowed to remain here under a parolee" status, the same classification given about 42, 000 Hungarian freedom fight er refugees who came to the United States in late 1956. More recently, Cubans flee ing Premier Fidel Castro's re gime have been admitted as "parolees." Motorists Warned of Increased Danger in Early Darkness Hours Longer hours of darkness mean increased danger both to drivers and to pedestrians Medford Police Chief Charles P. Champlin warned today. Nation-wide, he said, the mileage death rate is estimat ed to be three times as great at night as in daylight. About 26 per cent of the fatal acci dents occurring in Oregon cities happen in the evening between the hours of 4 and 8, he added. . "This is the time of day When most people are going home from work," Champlin pointed out, "and during the fall and winter months many drivers and pedestrians fail to adjust their driving and walk ing habits to the poor visibil ity of dusk and darkness." Drivers, he said, should turn on their headlights at the first sign of dusk. Pedestrians should always wear something light-colored at night to make it easier for them to be seen by the headlights of oncoming cars, he suggested. Also, pedestrians should never cross streets except at crosswalks and the need to follow this rule is doubly Im portant during the winter when driver vision is limited. A pedestrian crossing in mid- WSU JUDGES WIN , Portland, Ore. -(UPI)- Wash ington State University won the first annual college meat judging contest sponsored by the Pacific International Live stock Exposition here. ' block where drivers do not expect him is "just asking for injury," he added. 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