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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 26, 1960)
ssue of feligion in Politics r't ' : 1 ,1 ST, 5 It I 1 , JLVWV, A ffJ: fret x r s-. l n v AX WOMAN RESCUED IN EXPLOSION Rescue workers 100 persons were injured in the blast. The explosion re help an injure;) woman to safety at the Metropolitan De- portedly was caused by gas leaking from a newly installed partment store in Windsor, Ont., after an explosion blew heating system. ' the store to bits. Eight dead have been counted and nearly (UPI Telephoto) ore Bodies Sought in Wreckage of Department Store in Windsor, Ont. Windsor, Ont. -AVPD- Rescue crews dug through the wreck age of a downtown depart ment store today searching for the bodies of two more persons believed buried by an explosion which left eight known dead and nearly 100 injured. The bodies of seven women were pulled from the rubble after the explosion Tuesday. Another woman died in a Windsor hospital more than seven hours after the blast, caused by gas leaking from a newly - installed beating sys tem. Rescuers Tuesday night re ported spotting two more bodies buried in the rubble. The explosion collapsed the front- and rear walls of the two-story nearly block-wide structure and dropped the floors into the basement. Children's dolls and gro tesque Halloween masks, part of the window display, were blown into Ouellette st., Windsor's main thoroughfare Pieces of shattered glass were picked up a block away at the customs office at the entrance of the tunnel 'under the Detroit river to downtown Detroit. Injured Flee Store The concrete in front of the store was stained with the blood of scores .of injured who, holding handkerchiefs to their lacerated faces, fled the Metropolitan Department MEDFORDf Tribune Roque Valley Edition Page 2A BULB PLANTER'S SPECIAL... INSURE AGAINST INSECTS AND DISEASE IUY10OZ. DUSTER (B3) SOIL ft ftULI DUST rcul" prlc $1 49 DUST I IP DUST x I mt di uriiif! t 1 A HOlf M A $2.98 VALUE FOR ONLY $1.49 I T M. OftTHO RtJ US PA.T. 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At one point, as firemen cut away a sagging portion of the roof with torch es, a second fire started and rescue efforts had to be sus pended momentarily. Store manager Joseph Hal- ford, 31, said he was in the sub-basement with a plumber and electrician working on the furnace moments before the explosion. "We decided to open the main gas line from the street and all we got was air. All of a sudden the gas came through," he said. "I turned to leave the basement when it exploded." Halford was hospitalized at Grace hospital with burns on the face and hands. At least 89 other persons were taken to the city's four hospitals for treatment. Some were injured seriously. Stock Prices Gain To Wipe Out Big Portion of Losses New York - tUPD - Stocks scored their best gains in near ly a month today to wipe out a substantial portion of the losses incurred on Monday and Tuesday. Electronics moved up strongly featuring gains of around 6 In Texas Instru ments and IBM and 2 or more In others of the group. Steels were ahead as much at 2'4 in Lukcns, Motors as much as 1 in Ford and Chemicals well over 2 In Eastman Kodak and Union Carbide. DOW-JONES AVERAGES New York - lUPII - Dow Jones final stock averages: 30 industrials 575.18, up 9.13; 20 railroads 124.61. up 1. 10; IS utilities 91.77, up 0.60; 65 stocks 192.22, up 2.3B. Sales today were about 3.02 million shares compared with 3.03 million hares Tuesday. Todny's prices on itMcctcd Allied Chemical Alum Co. Am American Can American Motori A T A T Anaconda Copper Armco Steel Bendlx Corp Bethlehem Steel Docing Air Caterpillar Corp Chrysler Corp Continental Can Crown Zellerbneh Cnrlls WrlRht Dow Chemical nu Pont Eastman Kodak Firestone General Electric ..... General Foods ... General Motors Georula Pacific Grahnm Palire Greyhound Gult Oil Homestake MlntnR Idaho Power I. B. M Int. 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No admittance will be charged but women attend ing are asked to take deco rated lunch boxes which will be auctioned. Coffee will be served by the auxiliary, with Mrs. Lind McBeth, president, in charge, assisted by Mrs. Russeil Berriman and Mrs. Robert Bohl. William Nickell is chairman of the social for the Legion and assisting him are Lcs Watts and Vaughn Beer. Doors will open about 6 p.m., and the auction is to be held between 8 and 9 p.m. Care for Alaska's Mentally III Agreed Portland - flJPD - Morning side hospital here has signed an agreement to cnntimio tn rnrp fnr Alrmlca'c montnllv 111 The agreement was signed hv Paul Wmsnr pnmmtccinn. er of health and welfare for the new state. The RSreement nrnvlrios fnr indefinite care for about 150 Picks Up Momentum in Oregon Portland flJPD The issue of religion in the current presl dential campaign was raging in Oregon today. The state region of the Na tional Conference of Chris tians and Jews said in a state ment, "We deplore the injec tion of religion as an is sue . . ." Leslie M. Scott, a former state treasurer, said he had signed a letter to 6,500 Ma sons urging them to vote against Sen. John F. Kennedy because he is a Catholic. "We are warning our mem bers against political designs of the Roman Catholic cler Extra Special Gilts Offered Dallas, Tex. -tUPD-The fea ture gift in the 1960 Christmas catalog mailed Tuesday by Neiman-Marcus, which op erates specialty stores in Dallas and Houston, is "His" and "Hers" private airplanes For a total price of $176,- 000, the store will deliver a seven-place Beechcraft super G18 for "Him" and a four- place Beechcraft Bonanza for "Her." The Bonanza is white, with red trim, and there is a Rus sian white ermine jacket to match. The jacket adds 52,975 to the bill. Last year, the store, which is patronized by many Texas millionaires; featured a 1,500 pound steer, available on the hoof or dressed, with a sil ver beef cart for outdoor bar becues for $3,500. There were three sold. Two years before that, the featured item in the Christ mas catalog was a stuffed tiger draped in diamonds with a price tag of $1 million. None was sold for that price, but some customers liked the idea and had smaller tigers made up with fewer dia monds on them. Tax Collections Down $733,218 Salem -IUPD- State tax col lections for the first quarter of the current fiscal year were $20,109,260, down $733,218 from the comparable period last year. Receipts were down one per cent from State Tax Commis sion estimates. Slate personal income tax revenues were down 6.6 per cent from last year but cor porate excise taxes were 23.9 ahead, or $2,597,248. First quarter personal in come taxes were $17,260,383 compared to $18,486,040 last year. Frenchman Awarded Literature Prize Stockholm, Sweden - (UPD -French poet-diplomat Alexis Saint-Leger Leger won tne 1960 Nobel Prize for litera ture today. The 73-year-old Frenchman, a longtime resident of the United States and better known under his pen name of St.-John Perse, was awarded the distinguished prize by the Swedish Academy of Letters for the "soaring flight and evocative imagination of his poetry, which in a visionary fashion reflects the condition of our time." Hollywood - IUP11 - Movie actor Tab Hunter was free to day, having been acquitted of charges of beating and kick ing his dog "Fritz," a Weim-araner. WHAT DOES THE BIBLE SAY? In Gen. 17:8 God promised to give Abraham the land of Can nan as a permanent possession. The first promise that God gave Abraham, to make of him a great nation was fulfilled at Mt. Horeb where Moses received the law and Commandments. This was after Israel had been in slavery in Egype for 400 years. They had witnessed the ten plagues, had observed the first feast of the passover, and by the mighty hand of God had been delivered out of Egypt, across the Red Sea into the wilderness. It was completed when Israel entered into Can aan, the land of promise. It surely was a great nation of millions of people. Like the other promises, Abraham did not live to see its fulfillment. He trusted God and lived by faith. The second promise to bless alt nations through this one na tion was fulfilled in Christ. This promise was spiritual and therefore referred ultimately to Christ. Gal. 3:14-17. Continued Each Wednesday by The Church of Christ Third & Oak St., Ctntral Point gy," Scott said. "It is an effort to prevent engagement of the Roman Catholic hierarchy in American politics." The committee on fair cam paign practices of the National Conference of Christians and Jews said: "We deplore the injection of religion as an is sue in the current presidential campaign. Such a qualifica tion is contrary to both the letter and spirit of the Consti tution." The statement was made by Dr. William B. Cate, Paul B. Bender, Lloyd Rosen feld, Richard M. Brown and John Richard. Nothing Personal Meant - Scott, grand chancellor of the Masonic Lodge's southern jurisdiction and who was elected state treasurer in 1940 and 1944, said the lodge does not attack Kennedy personal ly. Richard said some Southern Baptist Church leaders and some other religious organiza tions have publicly declared that they intend to "flood the country" in these last days before the election with anti Catholic literature. He said that next Sunday - Reforma tion Sunday - has been chosen by many ministers to preach anti-Catholiq sermons. Scott's letter, under the heading, "Election Call to Citizens," starts: "The Roman Catholic priesthood seeks po litical power in America.", It said, "Kennedy is a loyal sub ject of the Vatican, bound to its mandates, to its designs of annulling American free doms." Bernard B. Cantor, member of the Oregon Scottish Rite Lodge and secretary of the Portland Furniture Dealers Association, disclosed exist ence of the letter. "I resent very much this intrusion by the Scottish Rite in a matter of my personal choice," he said. , Slate Sen. Walter Pearson, (D-Portland), a Mason and a Shriner, criticized the letter. 'Not Public Matter' Scott was unhappy about his letter being made public. Kennedy Winner In Crook Ballot Prineville - (UPD - A straw ballot at Crook County High school here, which in past years' has followed the nation al trend, gave Sen. John F. Kennedy 187 votes and Vice President Richard Nixon 179 votes for president, Principal Lloyd Lewis said today. In Oregon races Democrats led for the U.S. Senate, 2nd district Congress, state treas urer and attorney general. The Republican candidate led in the secretary of state race. 'It's not a public matter it's our own. affair," he told United Press International. He admitted that he had written the letter and said one of the reasons was that the "whole attitude of the Ro man Catholic church is hostile to our public school system." He said material published by the Catholic clergy had re ferred to American public schools as "godless." Scott said he had received a number of telephone calls, most of them from women members of the Catholic church, objecting to his letter, but that he had received no complaints from Scottish Rite lodge members. He said his order has no Roman Catholic members that he knows of, but added that it is the church, not the lodge, that bars such membership. have you ordered CHINESE FOOD delivered to '' your home . 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