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Page 2A "fu. .-'". .X. Mebford. Tribune MEDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1960 Regional Edition aaslsaaraaaaaaaaaBaaaaaai Hps 4 . '.,1 It. i ' . r E w if ' ' J V. -S-- 4 4 '4 va GAS PLANT ROCKED Flames shoot sky- was believed dead, eight injured and 300 ward as a series of explosions rock the forced to evacuate homes in the area. Phillips Petroleum Company's propane gas plant at Bayonne, N.J. At least one person (UP! Telcpholo) Appling Would Abolish Secretary of State Office Salem - (UPD - Secretary of Stale Howell Appling Jr. said today if the Board of Control is abolished as Gov. Mark Hat field recommends, then Ap- Bodies of Two Miners Removed Morgantown, w. Va. - IUPII -The bodies of two miners were recovered late Wednes day night several hours after they were trapped about 1,600 feet from the surface by gas explosion. The victims were identified as Truman Burke, 22, and James Tarleton, 23, both of Newburg, W. Va. The men had entered the Sanford-Phil-lips-Parsons Coal Co. pit at S a.m. along with Sanford Phillips, operator of the mine 30 miles east of here. Rescue worlrers brought the bodies to the surface shortly before midnight after strug gling through clouds of dead ly gas fumes and digging through tons of rock and dirt. Rescue efforts were hampered as i crows continually were forced out of the pit to re plenish the oxygen supply for their gas masks. Preston County Sheriff C. S. Harriman said the explo sion happened about 8:30 a.m. Wednesday, shortly after Phil lips had moved a coal-laden buggy to the surface. Authorities said . the blast had not triggered a fire but that the men's hands and faces were burned badly, indicating that their burns resulted from the explosion flash. They said the men apparently were kill ed instantly. COMPOSER RECOVERING Moscow -IUPII- Soviet com poser Dmitri Shostakovitch was reported recovering to day from a broken leg In a sanitarium outside Moscow. The Soviet Composers' Union said Shostakovitch broke his leg -in an accident early this month. tiling will urge abolition of the job of Secretary of Stale. Appling said he opposes abolition of the board, and added that stale institutions should be in a separate de partment with the present control board secretary's job expanded and made a director of institutions. Hatfield declined immedi ale comment. Hatfield's government reor ganization plan calls for trans fer of the state institutions from the Board of Control to various new departments. Although the governor docs not specifically call for doing away with the board, this would be the effect. Inititutiom Main Job The board's main function is control of Oregon's 11 insti tutions. The board is made up of Hatfield, Appling and Slate Treasurer Howard C. Belton, all Republicans. One of the functions of sec retary of slate is responsibility for the state institutions. If the board of control is abolished," Appling said, "Ihen I will urge that secre tary of slate be abolished. This would require a consti tutional amendment." Appling, appointed In 1958 by Hatfield and elected to a four-year term last month, said if his job is abolished, post of chief auditor should be created, and the man ap pointed by the legislature. At present, Appling also 'serves as slate auditor, , i : Oppoial Auditor Control "Under no circumstances should the governor have con trol over the slate auditor, Appling said. Hatfield has not recom mended abolition of secretary of stale, Appling said other func tions of the secretary could be transferred to other agen cies. Elections, he said, could be shifted to a number of oth er agencies and responsibility for stale buildings and grounds could "well be under the Department of Finance and Administration." Appling said that basically he favors Hatfield's reorgan ization plans but he feels the slate institutions under vari ous departments instead of one agency will not make the instilutions more efficient. Cranberry Dispute Erupts Again inUO President Choice Portland - IUPII - The 1959 cranberry controversy was a topic of dispute in Oregon again today. A pair of farm leaders stirred it up over whether Arthur S. Flemming secretary of health, education and welfare, should become the next president of the Uni versity of Oregon. Flemming has been con sidercd as a possible successor lo Dr. O. Meredith Wilson who resigned to become head of the University of Minnesota. Gerald Dctering, president of the Oregon Farm Bureau Federation, said he would op pose Flemming for the uni versity post because of the health secretary s "ill-advised action against cranberries" last year. Elmer McClure, master of the Oregon State Grange, re plied that Flemming's cran berry announcement showed Stocks in Attempt At Year-End Rally New York - IUPII - Stocks were making an lllh hour at tempt to come across with a year-end rally today. Prices In many of the major industrial categories, especial ly steels and chemicals, were in a rising price trend during the first hour. Jones & Laughiin ran up more than a point in the steels where Bethlehem was up around a half. U.S. Steel, .-..i.i.UU i rr: SAVINGS ACCOUNT Ull'iit'" Hatfield Approves Agriculture Plan Salem-(UPll-Gov. Mark Hat field has approved reorgani zation of the Oregon Agricul ture Department, Director James F. Short said Wednes day. I ; Short, who proposed Ihe re organization, said it will be done gradually and will not add to the department's budget. The plan calls for creation of two assistant directors, one for livestock industries and the other for consumer and trade activities. Other changes include: Redcsignalion of (lie mar ket development division as the division of agricultural development, with expanded operations. Creation of a department audit service. Elevation of business management service to divi sion status. Addition of an adminis trative assistant to handle sta tistics and program analysis for state veterinarian activities. Youngstown and Republic were steady lo slightly higher. American Telephone, which closed at a new all-time high Wednesday, was up more than a half again today. DOW-JONES AVERAGES N w Y o r k IUPII Dow Jones final slock averages: 30 industrials 615.75, up 2.37; 20 railroads 131.01, up 1.17; 15 utilities 99.38, up 0.32 and 65 slocks 205.61. up 0.96. Sales Wednesday were about 3.62 million shares compared with 3.27 million hares Tuesday. Make your dream vacation come true ! Nearly everyone looks forward to a glorious vacation-sometime! And by saving with us regularly, your money will earn excellent re turns and you can be ready for that trip before you know it! This emblem assures you that your savings with us are insured by the FSL1C, a United States Government agency. Investment! mide by the tenth of the month eern at of the first. CURRENT DIVIDEND RATE 4 PER ANNUM FIRST FEDERAL Savings & Loan Assn. of Medford 24 North Ivy Street Robert F. Kyle, Manager Nixon's Secretary Will Resume Post Wnshington-IUPli-Herbcrt G. Klein, press secretary lo Richard M. Nixon, will return to his former post as editor of the San Dieifo Union when the vice president becomes a private citizen Jan. 20, James S. Copley, publisher of the newspaper, announced today Klein was known to have received several offers to re main in the East. He said he would make a decision in Feb ruary on proposals to do spe cial television shows and also to write a semi-weekly politi cal column. Copley announced Klein's return Wednesday night. Klein has been on leave of absence as editor of the Cali fornia paper since May, 1959. Wednesday"! Drlces on stocks: Allied Chemical Alum Co. Am, American Can American Motort A T A T Anaconda Cupper Armco sieei Hcndix Corp .. Bethlehem Steel Duoing Air Caterpillar Corp Chrysler Cprp Continental Can Crown Zellerbach , Curttss Wright Dow Chemical Du Pont . Eastman Kodak - Firestone General Electric ; General Foods General Motors Georgin Pnclflc Graham Paige Greyhound uuir oil . lomestake Mininc Idaho Power I. B. M. . Int. Paper Johns Manvlllc Kennccott Conner Lockheed Aircrait Montana Power (xd) Montgomery Ward Nat'I Biscuit New York Central Pnc Gus Si fclcc Penny. .1. C Penn HR Itadio Corporation Richfield Oil Safeway Sears Shell Oil Socony Mobil OH Southern Pacific Southern Co Standard California Standard Indiana Standard N. J Sun Mines Texas Co Texas Gulf Sulfur Texas Pac Land, Trust Transamerica Tri-continental Union Carbide Union Pacific United Aircraft United Air Lines U. S. Rubber U. S. Ste 1 Chief of NASA Resigns Position Washington -IUPII- T. Keith Glcnnan. chief of the Nation al Aeronautics and Space Ad ministration, submitted his resignation today and said the United States is again "pre eminent in the conduct of research and develop mcnt. Glennan's resignation Is ef fective Jan. 21), the date President-elect John F. Ken nedy enters office. Glcnnan will return lo the presidency of Ihe Case Institute of Tech nology at Cleveland. In a letter accepting the resignation, President Eisen hower said that NASA In its 27 months of CNistence had "compiled a record of achieve ment of which every Ameri- can can be Justly proud." nJi .. 707k It'll ... ...wv, ... 43 'a ... 67 ... 7 ... 3R4 ... 304 ... 30 V. ... 38 ... 35 Vi S3, ... 15!i ... 7.V!j inn ...H2; ... 34 i ... 74'k .. 70 .. 40i ... 53 ; ... I'; ... 20!i ... aa-'i ... 4(li ... 531, ...5!17 ... Itl ... S7H ... 74 ... 27 'i :.. 30 '1 n W ... 7S ... ... 73 '1 ... 40'. a ... Il'i Si '.! ... 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"I think this would add to, rather than detract from, his qualifications for the presi dency of the University of Oregon," McClure said. Both men referred to a warning, issued by Flemming just before Thanksgiving in 1959, that a cranberry weed killer had caused cancer in rats. Detering said the announce ment had caused a "tremen dous loss" to Oregon cran berry growers, by provoking a severe cutback in Thanks giving and Christmas cran berry sales. "We feel . Flemming has alienated farmers of Oregon," Dctering said. McClure said Detering rep resented "a minority group of agricultural people in this state," and added he consider ed criticism founded on the cranberry scare to be "wholly unwarranted." He said Flemming must have expected protest to fol low his cranberry announce ment. "It must have taken no little courage to take the ac tion he did," McClure added. Course in Japanese Planned at College Ashland - Southern Oregon college will offer a course in beginning Japanese for the first lime winter term, 1961, according lo the registrar's of fice. Chosen to instruct (he course is Mrs: Richard Doi, a native of Japan, who holds a bachelor's degree from the Notre Dame Girls college in Japan and a second bachelor's degree from the College of the Pacific at Stockton, Calif. Mrs. Doi said that the course has been coordinated with a course offered by the University of Oregon so that students who wish to con tinue their studies of Japanese at the U. of O. will have ade quate preparation. Students will be instructed how to read and write the language but emphasis will be placed on conversational Japanese. Two credit hours will be granted for this class which will meet Monday evenings from 7 to 8:45. Registration will be held at the first class meeting, Jan. 9, in Library 101. If interest warrants, the class may be continued spring term, according to Mrs. Doi. Additional information may be obtained from the regis trar's office at the college. VACANT HOUSE STILL Bankston, Ala. - IUPII - Mrs. Agatha Dick arrived here Tuesday from her Fayette home to inspect an unoccu pied house she owns in Bank ston. She found two 1,000-gal-lon moonshine whiskey stills in the basement. Police are investigating. Go-Cart Driver Runs Down Principal Birmingham, Ala. -lUPD Po lice in suburban Homcwood announced today they will prosecute any youths who drive gasoline-powered "go carls" on public streets. School principal John R. Slaughter received a fractured skull Tuesday when he was hit from behind by one of the low-slung cars powered by a lawn mover engine. A 15-year-old girl was driving it. HELP V US! W ntcd clothing, shoes, dishts, furniture, and bedding. Wa Pick Up. HELP OTHERS! The Salvation Army 30 N. Holly SPring 3-7335 SHOULD YOU GIVE YOUR CHILD AN ALLOWANCE? 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