Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, April 22, 1962, Image 1

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Newspaper Page TextPrice 10 Cents Weather "h mmi huh clouitintu Hich i v TKMPKR ATL'RE HlRhrst rst?rday 71 Lowest Yrtterday 33 Subscribers Tribune To report improper or non delivery of Ihe Mail Tribune in Medtnrd and Ashland, phone SP2-H141 Mnntague and Yreka phone GLobe B3171 betore 6:45 p m daily and 10:30 a.m Sunday If regular delivery arrives ihortly after you call, pleahe nolity office thus eliminating special messenger service. MEDFORD Is in ten Press. International Full LcwM'd.Wire I'nitcd Pre! International Full l.ened Wire MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, APRIL 22, 1962 No. 27 eattle World' y Jet Gras 56th Year Section A Four Sections Fair; Event larre SEASON OPENS From the hoards of people at the lakes in southern Oregon Saturday morning it would seem that there wasn't a soul left in town. The opening of fishing season was the attraction. The picture above shows the resort area at Howard Prairie reservoir jammed with cars, and hundreds more were parked in other areas around the lake. Fish seemed to be taking most anything the anglers Fire Department Offers Free Home Safety Checkup Medford residents who live on streets extending east and west will be offered a free inspetcion of their home by the Medford Fire department Monday. The fire department is again offering this service in an effort to make city homes more fire safe. Last year 1,76!) home own ers were inspected by the de partment. A total of . l.gsa tit. Vichy quarter of tne west recommendations were made, em port city of Oran last on removal of fire hazards found in many of the homes. The department reported that there was a noticeable drop in the number of dwell ing house fires after these in spections. Due to the large number of residents in Medford, the de partment concentrates on one half of the city each year. This year, uniformed fire men with proper identifica tion will call on all residents on east-west streets and offer to point out fire hazards that aften are not recognized as such. Thcse hazards usually are of a minor nature but actual ly are responsible for a large number of house fires, fire department officials explain. Removal of common causes of fires should help to reduce the loss in lives and property that reached an all-time high in the United States last year, they believe. Voters Pamphlets Mailed Friday Salem -MP- The first of more than 900,000 voters pamphlets for the Oregon pri mary election May 18 went into the mail Friday. The mailing, to be completed in about 10 days, is being done by a Portland firm under con tract with the state. There are 60 various edi tions of the pamphlet this year. ITIMS FROM SECRET MANEUVERS HELD . ..mi.. i iv. u. ...... ...i oaniiation recently held secret maneuvers in Hungary, Ihe "U UUt in meatOra Communist party organ Nepuabadsag said Saturday. j The Medford fire depart- ment was called Friday and GROMYKO ENDS YUGOSLAV VISIT ! Saturday to put out a series Belgrade, Yugoilvia-W-Sovit Foreign Minister Andrei of small fires. No damage re rtrnmvko returned to Moscow Saturday at the end of a five- suited day visit that appears to have brought Russian-Yugoslav relations to their friendliest BORDER POLICE FIGHT DUEL Berlin-IPI'-Weil Berlin and Communiit police fought a nun duel across the border Saturday in full view of a group of tourists visiting Ihe divided city on the Easter week end. RUSSELL ISSUE APPEAL London-IPI-Bertrand Russell appealed to neutral coun tries Saturday to send their ihipt to Chmtma. island where the United Slatei it scheduled to resume nuclear testing. OAS Names Ga New Commander To Succeed Salan Algiers, Algeria - HOT - The secret army organization went on shooting rampages in Al giers and Oran Saturday and proclaimed ex-Gen. Paul Gar dy s its new commander in chief to succeed captured Ha oul Salan. An OAS commando force attacked a French mobile gendarmerie unit in the Pe night with hand grenades and sub machine guns. The bat tle lasted more than an hour. The casualty toll was not immediately determined. " In Algiers, OAS gunmen killed or wounded at least 35 persons during the day. Three of the 13 dead were Franch security men shot Kennedy Trip To Mexico Announced Palm Beach, Fla. - It'PIUThe White House announced Sat- urday that President and Mrs. Kennedy have accepted the invitation of President Lopez Mateos to visit Mexico June 29-July 1. The announcement of the long - awaited dates of Kennedy's Mexican trip came as the President and his family planned a quiet ob servance of Easter. The Chief Executive and his wife, instead of attending church today, will go to the home of his father, ailing for mer Ambassador Joseph P. Kennedy, where mass will be celebrated bv a visiting priest. I Kennedy and Lopez Ma- ! teoss have not met before, and j the White House said the; President was looking for-: ward to the visit. Press Sec-! retary Pierre Salinger said a complete itinerary had not been finished, but Kennedy j would visit Mexico Citv dtir- ! ing the course of the trip. AROUND THI OlOBI poini in dozen yean. had to offer, but single eggs were the best, at least for the bank fishermen. No information was available on the number of limits taken on the first day of the season, but fishing was reported to be "hotter than a two dollar pistol." Beautiful weather, prevailed throughout the day .... a switch from last year when a foot of snow fell the night before opening day. while riding in police ve hicles. At least four other French guards were among the 22 wounded. Shortly before the Oran battle broke out the OAS made a pirate broadcast over the state - owned television network. Captured Friday A speaker identifying him-! self as Gardy, the only OAS I general still at large, said he had succeeded ex-Gen. Sa- Ian, the No. 1 OAS chief who was captured Friday in Al giers. Gardy also confirmed that onetime French Premier George Bidault was now pres ident of the OAS' "national resistance committee." Both announcements had been expected. Gardy was in command of the Oran district during the abortive "generals' revolt" last year and he has been sentenced to death in France. The shootings in Oran and Algiers were the answer of the OAS to Satan's capture Friday. Accident Claims Medford Resident Robert Mason, 318 Garfield St., was killed instantly Satur day morning in a logging show near Galice when a ca ble from a steel spar struck him across the back. Robert Kline, of Kline Con tractors Inc., Mason's em ployer, said a crew was low ering a soar when .it gave way. The crew scattered, but ! the guy-line caught Mason. I The coroner reported Mason died of a broken neck Mason's bodv was taken to Hall Funeral home in Grants Pass Saturday and later trans ferred to Conger Morris Fun eral ho me in Medford. Mason is survived by a wife, hut no children. to George Bruse, chairman of! Elected student officials an- brief the seniors on local city The funeral has been set the Youth Activities commit-j nounced the appointment of j government after they have tentatively for Tuesday after- tec of the Medford Elks lodge. Carl Washburn as city manabcen registered and have tak noon. : A primary election and scv-igcr. Other appointive officers ' en the oath of office at city Kline noted this is the first fatal accident occurring in his operations in 10 years. Three Small Fires Friday night, firemen putlbcr. Katie Fitzpatnck, Ward out a flue fire at the home of 1 1. Other St. Mary's students Douglas H. Smith. 1301 Da-; selected for various offices in kota st. Later Friday night eluded Patricia Meeker, city they put out a flue fire at the I attorney; Jerome Higgins. po home of Oscar Rasmussen. I lice chief, and Patricia 2024 Pierre st . Medford. SaturdHy morning, a 220 volt wall socket for a portable heater ?hnrtrd nut at the home nf Gnldy Wilson, 604 South lvv st. Missing Youths . Located After , i Overnight Lark Two boys who were the object of a 24-hour search by sheriff's deputies and some 40 civilian volunteers have turned up safe. . . Kenneth Dowell.'H, and i Dennis Harper, 13," both of j whom live on Riley rd. in the (Antelope area, walked into a I residence on Antelope rd. at "L'J" J!:--. , ' .","1. 8 Creek-Antelope area north east of Roxy Ann butte since 5 p.m. Thursday. According to the county sheriff's department, t h e youths said they had planned to stay out overnight and then were afraid to return for fear of being punished by their parent. Saturday afternoon, signed statements from both boys contradicted their earlier re marks, according to the sher iff's office, saying they had not seen the searchers. They said they were not lost at any time. After sleeping m a nearby barn overnight, they entered the woods where they later saw a circling plane. "We thought they must be looking for us," young Dowell stated. Later they saw "a lot of cars going up and down the road," and an airplane circ ling overhead ahead again. The boys walked down Ante lope rd. and to a nearby resi dence. There they found a deputy and several men, and turned a .22 caliber rifle and .38 caliber pistol to the deputy. Mayor George Robertson to Head Up Student Government Day Doug Robertson, Medford High school senior, has been elected by high school seniors to serve as mayor of Medford during the fourteenth annual Student Government Day (Thursday, April 26, according era! days of campaigning pre- i ceded the regular election Thursday. Elected as student Announced Later cily council members were. Counterparts for county of 'Bill Dames, Ward I: Jim ' fices will be filled hy students Burke and Wally Huffman. 'Ward II; Dave Elmgren and i Bruce Niedcrmeyor, Ward III; Paul Bauer and DcEtta Law son, Ward IV. Elected One St. Mary's High school ! rlnrtpd nnp ritv council mem- O'Hara, assistant school su perintendent. Student officials will "take the reins" of city government Thursday during the Student Government Day sponsored Centaur Rocket Launch Attempt Fizzles on Pad Trouble Found in Release System Cape Canaveral -HIPP- An attempt to launch America's revolutionary hydrogen-powered Centaur rocket on its maiden flight failed Saturday when a giant Atlas booster that was to have carried it aloft fizzled on its launching pad. Scientists said the cause of the difficulty was trouble in the umbilical release system the system that feeds power into the rocket. The malfunc tion caused an automatic shut down in the Atlas booster. The engines of the powerful Atlas booster ignited at 3:36 p.m. EST and roared furious ly for 3'2 seconds but auto matic sensing devices detect ed some sort of trouble and ! refused to release clamps : which held the rocket fast to ! the ground, i Twice Ihe Thrust U. S. scientists had planned to rocket the second stage Centaur about 300 miles in space and then ignite its pair of 15,000 pound thrut engines. The tydrogen fuel that the new rocket burns delivers about twice the thrust of con ventional rocket fuels. No new launching dale was i scheduled immediately for the maiden flight. Hydrogen - fueled engines will be heavily used later this decade to launch teams ot men and tons of machinery to i the moon and into deep space. But scientists have been plagued by a string of fail ures reaching back for over a year in their attempts to test this prototype of the hy- drogcn-fueled engines. Draft of Dog Law Given to Council Yrcka-A rough draft of a , dog leash law has been pre sented to the : Yreka city coun-; cil by City Attorney Joe Cor-. rcla' Councilmon, after receiving copies of thch ordinance ft their Thursday meeting, took it under study. The proposed law would provide for keeping dogs off the streets. In considering a dog leash law, the council is following directive from the voters, who overwhelmingly approv ed a proposition April 10 ask ing the council to consider such a law. In other action, the council voted to have removed a jagged-edged city park fence along Miner st. which has been responsible for cuts to several children recently. j by Medford B.P.O.E. lodge ; No. 1168. Because this date is not a regular city council meeting night, the elected stu dent officials attended the council meeting Thursday, Feb. 19, after their election. for Medford city government j will be made later. from other high schools in the area. Schools included arc : Crater, Phoenix, Eagle Point, Prospect, and Butte Falls. Re sults of these elections for county officials will be an nounced later. The purpose of the Elk sponsored Student Govern ment Day is to give the stu- dents a laboratory experience in election procedure and the j and their parents will be held j A birth occurs every 7' operation of local government. ! at Hedrick Junior High school seconds. Elections in the schools arc at 8 p.m. Highlighting the eve-1 Someone dies every Ifl sec conducted as nearly as possi- i ning's activities will be thelonds. hie in an "official" manner. ; Thr program was initiated 14, years ago hy Mrs. JoAnne Smith, social studies rirpart- j mrnl head at Medford Senior President Guido's Compromise Ends Threatened Clash Buenos Aircs - IIPH - Presi dent Jose M. Guido worked out a last-minute compromise with armed forces leaders Saturday that blocked a clash between opposing army troops in Buenos Aires and saved his fledgling g o v e r nmen,t from almost certain over throw. Pilgrims in Holy Land Mark End of Lent With Rites Jerusalem fUPD Thousands of pilgrims marked the end of the penitential season of Lent Saturday with solemn ceremonies commemorat i n g the last hours before Jesus Christ rose from the dead on Easier Sunday. ! A cool summery day "wfth blue skies and white clouds added a festive aura to this ovcrswise somber holy Satur day. Officials estimated that at least 17,000 visitors thronged this city where Christ was scourged and crucified nearly 2.000 years ago. Pope John Notes Great Reawakening Vatican City -HIM- Pope John XXIII- said Saturday that a "great reawakening" of Christianity promises to bring "a new Easter morn ing" of faith and hope to a troubled world. At the end of his tradi tional Easter message which was broadcast to both the free and the Communist world by powerful Vatican radio transmitters, the pope took pains to impart a spe cial blessing to "all men without exception." Tim nilv'o hnlrilc urnrn 1am. and h tongues of many wprc heard jn the crnwdcd churcnes nd ho)y I places as the Christian world !bcRan to Ulrn 1(s attention ! from tho mourning of the cru- I cif ixion to tne joy 0f Easter. Roman Catholics held the ceremony of the "blessing of the holy fire" in the church ' ol the holy sepulchre, where i the deputy Latin patriarch I changed from purple to white vestments as a prelude to the day of the resurrection. The deputy replaced Msgr. Albert Mori, who was indis posed. He blessed the candle on the holy tomb and then officiated at a pontifical high mass. After that, he led worship pers in procession to all the shrines in the hold sepulchre. Activities High school, and the late Dia mond Flynn, former Medford mayor. Oath of Office On Student Government Day Mayor John Snider will : hall, At the same time, Judge Earl Miller will brief county student officials after their oath of office at the Court house. During the morning hours the students will work with their counterparts in the re spective offices. At noon the students will be guests of the Elks lodge at North's Chuck Wagon for lunch. They will return to their respective of fices in the afternoon. As a climax to the day, a banquet for officials, students official presentation of the Elks lodge leadership and scholarship awards and an ad dress by William McAllister Jr., the guest speaker. The president, in office only three weeks, apparently won a victory for his so-called "constitutional" approach in how to deal with the prob lem of Peronist viotories in last month's elections. Reliable quarters said mil itary chiefs lifted previous de mands for the cancellation of all congressional election re sults after Guido agreed to the appointment of federal commissioners to head all of Argentina's 22 -provinces. The heart of the compro mise, worked out as rival army troops, tanks and artil lery units massed for bat tle in the capital, was the removal of two top army chiefs who disagreed over Guido's continuance in the presidency. Named War Secretary One was Maj. Gen. Enrique Bauch, pro-Guido military leader who was named war secretary at 3 a.m. to succeed Gen. Marino Carreras. The other was Lt. Gen. Raul Poggi, anti-Guido army chief of staff who sought to overthrow the president. Rauch, who was never sworn inlb the job he held less than 12 hours, was re placed Saturday afternoon by Gen. Juan Bautista Loza, As war minister Loza was em- powered to appoint a new i ;Ah rtr,;rn;m:n ' ' w ........ w . .v.. v.... Foreign minister Mariano Drago resigned "to facilitate reorganization of the cabi net." Earlier this week inter! or minister, Roberto Martinez Jr. resigned under military pressure. Until mid-day it appeared almost inevitable that oppos ing army forces commanded by Rauch and Poggi would clash and plunge the nation into new strife. Former Medford Resident Killed Jerry Turre, 28, Fresno, Calif., was killed in an acci dent Friday night, according to word received Saturday by his aunt, Mrs. H. V. Elliott, 2520 Stewart ave., Medford. He was a son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles J. Turre, Yreka, Calif., former Medford resi dents. He was born and lived most of his life in Yreka, Calif., and attended schools there. , Mr. Turre, a California state highway patrolman, was set ting up flares by a serious highway accident near. Fres no, when he was struck by a hit and run driver, according to reports. In addition to his parents and his aunt, he is survived by his wife, Candy, a daugh ter, Deanna, and a son, David; and a stepbrother, Byron Han na. of the Bay area. His funeral will be held in Yreka, Calif. Arrangcm e n t s are pending. U.S. Population Hits 185 Million Washington - 0JPI) - The na lion's constantly increasing population reached 186 mil lion Saturday. The Census Bureau's popu lation "clock"-a device which resembles the mileage meter in an auto dashboard -hit 186 million at about 2 p.m. EST. Officials said that the read ing was symbolically accurate but not scientifically precise. The "clock" shows a gain of one person every lO'-S seconds of the day. It is shut off at night and corrected in the morning on the basis of the ' following averages: An immigrant arrives In the United States every 1V4 min utes. Someone Iraves this coun try every 23 minutes. COMING TO U. S. Soviet Spaceman Gherman Titov will visit the United States in May to attend the Washington meeting of the Committee on Space Research, the Tass News agency announced Sat urday. (UP1) SAC General Says U.S. Power Rules Out Nuclear War Omaha, Neb. - IUPH - Gen. Thomas S. Power, who com mands more than 80 per cent of the free world's mllitnry fire power, said Saturday that nuclear war can be ruled out indefinitely because of Amer ica's deterrent strength. The strategic air command' cr said 1,500 jet bombers and expanding missile forces in his global command exist to ?rve. V "uss,a lne lmm v, , i v ni sinrTlTiB B Ufllr - int.i ia iiu Tiny ni. viet Union could destroy the strategic air command (SAC) by surprise onslaught today and avoid its own destruction from the retaliatory blows, he added. Challenged Claims neierren ha. worked no ( n, n, l nrrlnAn ,M With continuing fantastic de velopments, which "inevita bly"", will Include manned nd maneuverable space crafts for SAC, "we can con tinue deterrence indefinitely." The general also challenged claims by some that "atomic idiots out here in Omaha are ready to blow up the world." Power discussed U.S. deter rent power with newsmen who have been visiting un derground missile bases in Colorado and Montant. They re seeing the almost impos sible task that would con front the Soviet Union In try ing to knock out America's ability to retaliate. Rapidly taking shape in a Montana area that is as big as the state of Maryland is a force of Minutemen inter continental ballistic missiles that by mid-1963 will be able tosalvo 150 rockets In a few seconds. Eich launcher is far enough away from its neigh bors so that a single Soviet missile could not knock out more than one. And that would have to be a direct hit. "How About Kennedy Punches Golden Telegraph Key from Florida Jet Crashes Into Homes, Kills Two Seattle, Wash - (UPB - The Seattle World's Fair, Ameri ca's first since 1940, official ly was opened Saturday when President Kennedy punched a golden telegraph key 3,000 miles away at Palm Beach, Fla. The opening of the spark ling fair grounds was marred by tragedy. An Air Force jet participating in precision drills as part of the ceremo nies swept over Memorial sta dium and crashed into a clus ter of homes not far from the fair. At least two persons were killed, but the pilot, CapL Joseph Wildt, 33, of Cincin nati, bailed out and was res cued from Lake Washington. Era of Peace Few of the 10,000 persons gathered for the fair opening were' aware of the tragedy. They heard President Ken nedy on a special telephone hookup say "By closing this key, may we open ont only a great world's fair, but may we open an era of peace and understanding among all man kind ... let the fair begin." And so it did, right on schedule, and with plenty ot fanfare, nln-v inn l;., e queued up at the elevators to - the BOO.foot space needle, cen. terpiece of the fairgrounds, and two monorail trains brought capacity loads from the center of the city a mil away on each trip which takes about SO second. I Fireworks Diiplay ' I The exposition was official- V opened when Kennedy ! P"ncnea a golden telegraph n i-kuii smuie rever berated across Puget Sound and a tremendous fireworks display flashed In the sky. The jets swooped down barely 400 feet above the top of the needle. They made one pass in V formations, but the second pass looked ragged. Moments alter the crash, a trio of German highwire aer iallsls performed unperturbed about 200 feet above Memo rial Stadium, scene of the opening ceremonies, on a 1, 200 foot cable stretched be tween the stadium and the space needle. Fisher Schedules Two Area Speeches Congressional cand i d a t e Carl Fisher will make two speaking appearances in the Rogue Valley this week. He will be at the farm bu reau candidates night in Med ford Tuesday at 8 p.m. On Thursday Fisher will be the principal speaker at the noon meeting of the GOP Women's Federation in Grants Pass. An Egg Hunt?"