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Town Rocked by
Titan Blast in
Underground Silo
Six Civilians
Taken to Hospital
Chico, Calif. - IIIPH - An ex
plosion today destroyed a Ti
tan intercontinental ballistics
missile and its underground
silo at a Titan complex near
Chico, the Air Force reported.
Twenty-four civilian work
ers suffered smoke inhalation
in the blast, but there were no
fatalities. Only six of the
workers were hospitalized.
The Titan was not equipped
with a nuclear warhead, the
spokesman said.
Town Rocked
Residents of this Sacramen
to Valley community said the
town was rocked by the blast
at 6:10 a.m. (PST) and a cloud
of white smoke arose from the
silo.
Cause of the explosion was
not immediately determined,
the spokesman said. The Titan
-one of three in the complex
-was undergoing a test by ci
vilian contractors before be
ing turned over to the Air
Force. The missile is 97 feet
long, weighs 110 tons and cost
S2 million.
Protected by Shield
Titan missiles, newest oper
ational addition to the Strate
gic Air Command's IBM ar
senal, are housed in 160-foot-deep
underground silos. They
are protected by a shield of
earth, concrete and 116-ton
steel doors so that if neces
sary they can ride out a nu
clear attack and still retaliate.
The missiles are designed to
carry nuclear warheads.
The Air Force spokesman
said today's blast did not dam
age the other two Titans in the
complex, nor did it damage
control facilities.
$131,785 Received
For County Schools
Jackson county has received
S131.785.76 from the state de
partment of education, school
finance and statistical services
section.
The money is for tax offset,
according to County Treasurer
Karl Janouch. He said the
money will be distributed to
the school districts after July
1.
The Medford school district
will receive S40.317.78. Other
districts and the amount they
will receive are Phoenix. S6.
492.44: Ashland, S37.082.19:
Central Point. S31.799.34;
Eagle Point. S6.036.71: Rogue
River. S6.693.76; Prospect, Sl.
399.19; Evans Valley. SI,
033.13: Butte Falls. S832.47:
and Pinchurst, S98 75.
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Kansas City 4 9 2
New York 9 8 3
Rakow, Wyatt (61. Grimm
(8) and Aicue; Daley,
Coatei (6) and Howard.
iissile Expl
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DUTCH ATTACK INDONESIAN INVADERS
Hollandia, Dutch New Guinea-lPI Dutch forcei with air
lupport hare attacked inTading Indoneiian paratroopt in
northwestern New Guinea for two successive days, head
quarters here announced today.
NEGOTIATIONS END IN STALEMATE
Spokane H-NtgotiBliont aimed at ending an eight-day-old
strike by Eastern Washington and Northern Idaho car
penters ended Wednesday in a stalemate.
FLIGHT SHOWS DETERMINATION'
Boulder. Colo.-IPI-Mrs. Florence Carptnter said today
her son's successful Jhree-orbil flight around the earth showed
the "courage, determination, dedication and the power of
the United States."
"THE TIGER IN THE SENATE" Sen. Wayne Morse, shown
above, is the subject of a biography entitled "The Tiger in
Senate." which will be published tomorrow. It was written
by A. Robert Smith. Washington correspondent for the Mail
Tribune and four other .Oregon newspapers. The picture of
the Senator was taken by Mail Tribune photographer Bob
Vroman during the 1958 Holmes-Hatfield campaign, when,
in the Esquire Theater in Medford, Morse attacked Hatfield
for statements made in court in reference to a fatal auto
mobile accident when Hatfield was a youth. The picture,
which first appeared in the Mail Tribune, is on the back of
the book's dust jacket, and also on one of the inside pages.
A review of "Tiger" appears in the editorial column on Page
4 or today's Mail Tribune.
Medford Budget Is
Approved by Group;
Changes Are Made
The 1962-63 fiscal year I Lee also told the committee
hnrinxt fnr dip citv nf Med-! his department plans a gen-
ford as amended in previous
meetings, was formally ap-
proved and adopted last night
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by the Medford citizen s midg
et committee.
The vote to approve the
budget came at the end of a
2''i-hour session, during
which the wator department
budget of SB20.480 was ap
proved, S4.606 was added to
the appropriation for the pub
lic library, and the fire de
partment was authorized to
hire eigM new men to imple
ment the new 64 hour work
week.
Water Superintendent Rob
ert L. Lee told the committee
that his department's budget
was "one of the largest in re
cent years." An appropriation
of S392.000 for construction of
a 24-inch water main, running
from the east side of the city
to the west side, accounted,
in general, for the unusual
size of the budget.
Construction Planned
Lee said construction of the
main is cxnected to start in
i September this year, and ;
nlans call for it to be in serv-,
ice by the summer of 1963. I areas ol the library.
Operating expenses have;. ... ,
zn." i5 i Local Merchants
tins ycoi, 1.11: ii.t
due principally to the meter
installation program, which
i will be completed this win
' ter. and which will enable the
department to eliminate all
flat water rates by next April.
AROUND THI OlOlt
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MEDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY, MAY 24, 1962
odes
eral increase in water rates,
which will go into effect
around August. The increases
...:n , ..i 1 .oe nnn
will amount to about $25,000
annually from water custom
ers within the city, and about
S41.000 from water users out
side the city.
Fire Chief Gordon Barker
told the committee the 64
hour work week for firemen
was unusual, but that while
it would create some serious
administrative problems, it
was workable. With the addi
tion of eight new men to the
department, Barker said, the
present level of service to the
city would be maintained.
Adoption of th-: 64-hour
work week reduces the fire
department budget by about
S9.800 this year.
The addition of S4.606 was
made to the public library
budget after Head Librarian
Omar Bacon told the group
the library "was in desperate
need of new help."
With the aid of the extra
funds. Bacon said, needed re-
brary building and heaters
could be installed in certain
Set Friday Meeting
A special meeting of the
Downtown Medford Mer
chants association has been
scheduled at 10 a.m. Friday
in the Jackson House, accord
ing to Mrs. Phil Braincrd,
chairman of the group.
Plans of the association for
development nf the downtown
area will be discussed. Mrs.
Braincrd said.
Details of a grand Friday
night onening June 1 in the
downtown business district
also will be discussed
TAXES COLLECTED
Salem - H'rT - The Oregon
Tax Commission said today
that collections through the
end of April totaled S101.4
million.
RODEO ON TV
Pendleton-VP! - The Pendle
ton Round-Up Association said
today it has signed a contract
to televise nationally its final
day of tins year's rodeo.
Tribune
McGahuey Shows
No Emotion When
Told of Decision
Warden Delivers ,
Ruling of Court
Sale m WPP Leeroy San
ford McGahuey, 44, was told
today in his death row cell
that the Oregon Supreme
Court has affirmed his con
viction of first degree murder
and that he faces the gas
chamber. He displayed no
emotion.
McGahuey took the news
calmly and quietly, telling
Warden Clarence T. Gladden:
"If I have to go, I'll have to
go."
Although the high court an
nounced its decision Wednes
day, McGahuey was not in
formed of the ruling until to
day at 8:15 a.m.
Listening To News
When Gladden entered the
cell, McGahuey who killed
a 23-month-old boy with a
hammer in Central Point last
year was listening to the
news of the orbital flight of
astronaut Scott Carpenter.
After Gladden broke the
news that his appeal had been
rejected, McGahuey and Glad
den chatted for a while, and
commenting on Carpenter's
flight, McGahuey joked that
he would like to volunteer
"for a one way trip to the
moon."
It has not been determined
when McGahuey will be re
turned to Medford where an
execution date will be set.
The last execution in Ore
gon was in 1953 when Salem
ax slayer Albert W. Karnes
was gassed.
Leader of OAS
Sentenced To Life
Paris-WPIi-A high military
tribunal Wednesday night
spared the life of Raoul Salan,
leader of the terrorist Secret
Army Organization (OAS) in
Algeria. It sentenced him to
life imprisonment on grounds
of "extenuating c i r c u in
stances" in his treason case.
The verdict was a surprise,
because few observers here
expected Salan to escape the
death penalty which the same
court last month gave his No.
2 man in the OAS, Edmund
Jouhaud.
After the ruling was an
nounced in a hushed court
room, former General Salan,
France's most decorated sol
dier, said quietly:
"Thank you. Thank you for
France."
The usual penalty for trea
son in France is death.
Agencies Discuss
Fire Control
An interagency fire control
meeting was being conducted
today at the southwest district
office of the state department
of forestry on Table Rock rd.
Federal and state agencies
of southern Oregon and north
ern California and one indus
trial agency were represented.
The state forestry depart
ment and Rogue River Nation
al forest were hosts.
Also represented were the
bureau of land management,
the California division of for
estry, the civil defense and
disaster office of Yreka, Calif.,
Crater Lake National park,
Fremont. Klamath, Modoc,
Shasta-Trinity and Winema
National forests, Klamath
Forest Protective association,
Tule lake national wildlife
refuge and Lava Beds Nation
al monument.
0 Drilling Due
East of Lebanon
Portland HPli The Oregon
Department of Geology and
Mineral Industries has issued
a permit to the Reserve Oil
and Gas Co. of California to
start drilling for oil near
Lebanon.
Hollis Dole, director of the
department, said the well will
be two miles east of Lebanon
on property owned by Walter
Esmond. He sid a drilling rig
was expected at the site in a
week to 10 days.
PLAN APPROVED
Salem - 'tPIi - A plan ap
proved by a subcommittee of
the Oregon Commission on
Constitution Revision today
would allow the governor to
go out ol state without an act
ing governor taking over.
57th Year Price 10 Cents!
No. 55
Pageant
Finalist
Judith Head
Judith Head, who plans a
career in elementary educa
tion, is one of the 11 finalists
chosen for the Miss Rogue
Valley pageant. Judy is 5 feet
7 inches tall, weighs 125
pounds. She plans a series of
dances including waltz,
Charleston, modern dance.
twist and the fire baton, for
the talent division. She re
sides at 519 Liberty St., Ash
land.
Mrs. Hanna Dies
In Local Hospital
Mrs. Leona Hanna, 74, of
205 First st., Jacksonville,
wife of former Jackson Coun
ty Circuit Court Judge H. K.
Hanna, died in a local hospital
yesterday afternoon. She en
tered the hospital earlier this
month.
Mrs. Hanna was born in
Jacksonville April 7, 1888, the
daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Chris Ulrick, pioneer resi
dents of southern Oregon. She
was married to Judge Hanna
in Jacksonville March 20,
1912.
She was active in the Jack
sonville Presbyterian church,
and was a life member of a
Presbyterian mission. She also
was interested in and active
in historical societies in this
area, including the Southern
Oregon Pioneer Society.
Survivors, in addition to
her husband, include a foster
daughter. Mrs. Anita Dang,
San Francisco, Calif.; a neph
ew, Lewis Buckley, Apple
gate; a niece, Mrs. Helen Bur
gess, El Cajon, Calif; and four
grandchildren.
Funeral services will be
held at 2 p.m. Monday, May
28, at Perl Funeral home.
The Rev. King Jones, pastor
of the Jacksonville Presby
terian church, will officiate.
Interment will be in Jackson
ville cemetery.
Bronze Plaques to
Honor Donors
Bronze plaques commemor
ating donations of play appa
ratus and a bench to city
parks have been received, and
dedication ceremonies are
being planned for the near
future, according to the Med
ford parks and recreation
commission.
A 26 by 10-inch plaque will
be mounted on the steam en
gine donated to the city by
Medford Corporation. Six oth
er 10 by 6-inch plaques will
be mounted on or adjacent to
five pieces of play apparatus,
donated by various civic
groups in Medford. and on a
bench given to the city by
Jessie W. Miles in memory
of the late T. W. Miles.
Seven separate dedication
ceremonies are planned in
connection with the plaques,
according to Robert L. Ha
worth, city parks and recrea
tion director.
Organizations which have
donated various items of play
apparatus include Medford Ki
wanis and Rotary clubs. Elks
and Moose lodges. Kogap has
also made a donation to the
city parks
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Oregon Expansion
Involves $7.2 Million
Salem - I'Pt - Gov. Mark
Hatfield said today that in
AprJ. projects of industrial
expansion in Oreaon involved
an investment of S7 2 million.
This expHnrliiiKO'-'ill add 720
new jobs in the ftate. he said.
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Britain To Send
Jet Squadron
To Thailand
House of Commons
Told of Request
I By United Press International
Britain announced today
1 that it was sending a squadron
of jet fighter planes lo Thai
land, thus becoming the fourth
member of the Southeast Asia
Treaty Organization to con
tribute armed forces to that
nation's defense against pos
i sible Communist invasion.
Prime Minister Harold Mac
millan told the House of Com
i mons in London that Thailand
had made a formal request
for a squadron of British
Hunter jet fighters and that
Britain would comply.
"The arrangements for the
reception of the squadron are
now being discussed with the
I Thai government," Macmillan
said.
Invitations Accepted
New Zealand and Australia
already had accepted invil.i
tions to dispatch military
help - as yet unspecified - to
join the 5.000 American sol
diers. Marines and airmen
guarding Thailand's borders !
against Communist encroach
ment. UPI foreign news analyst
Phil Newsom reported from
Bangkok that the approach of
the monsoon season rains will
hall most major military ac
tion throughout Southeast
Asia for the next three
months.
But, he added, the United
States has given the Com
munists an impressvie demon
stration of its ability to de
liver effective military aid to
any area in that part of the
world.
Open House Today
At Highway Office
A scale model of the Crater
Lake interchange in north
Medford along Interstate 5
freeway will be among the
displays at an open house at
the Oregon state highway de
partment office on Highway
99 north of Medford today.
The open house, part of a
state-wide observance of Na
tional Highway Week, will be
held until 9 o'clock tonight,
according to R. L. Lammcrl,
district maintenance superin
tendent for the Medford area.
The scale model of the in
terchange, he said, is exact in
detail, showing the freeway
and Crater Lake highway in
three dimensions.
Area residents have been
invited to the open house to
meet department representa
tives and learn of highway de
partment operations in the
Medford area.
Also on display will be art
ist's sketches of highways, an
earth sample core taken from
a lest hole drilled in the Sis
kiyous near the summit of the
proposed freeway, a group of
aerial photographs used in lo
cating the freeway through
the valley, photographs of
various highway construction
phases, and a display of some
of the surveying instruments
and equipment used in high
way engineering.
Official Canvass of
Primary Continues
The official canvass of the
May 18 primary election is
continuing in the election de
partment, and is expected to
be completed in about two
weeks.
Most of the vole for pre
cinct committeemen and wom
en has been counted and cer -
titicates ol election are
pectcd to be mailed soon.
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BLAST OFF! The mighty
its tail as it starts to lift from
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blasting astronaut Scott Carpenter and his Mercury capsule
Aurora Seven into an orbit
Investigators Study
Airplane Wreckage
In Hunt for Clues,
Unionville, Mo. - (UPI) - Fed
eral investigators and Conti
nental Airlines officials today
studied the scattered wreck
age of a big jet liner that ap
parently disintegrated in a
high level storm, plunging the
45 persons aboard to their
deaths.
Government officials Indi
cated the Continental Boeing
707 flew into severe air tur
bulence at 39.000 feet Tues
day night and came apart.
Pieces of the "Golden Jet"
were strewn for at least 60
miles along a path that strad
dled the Missouri-Iowa state
line north of here.
Cause Undetermined
An FBI special disaster
squad, 15 Civil Aeronautics
Board officials and represen
tatives of the Federal Avia
tion Agency joined the search
over the rugged, hilly terrain
for remains of Continental's
Flight 11 bound from Chicago
to Los Angeles.
FAA chief Najecb Halaby
told a news conference the
cause of the crash was unde
termined but "there was se
vere turbulence due to a line
squall."
When asked if the plane fell
apart in the air, Halaby said,
"well, it scattered over an
area of at least 60 miles. You
can tell as well as I can."
Another FAA spokesman
said there were indications
the plane, carrying 37 passcn-
lgers and a crew of eight,
dis
integrated" while trying to
dodge the line squall of severe
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Atlas rocket spurts flame from
Pad 14 at Cape Canaveral, Fla.,
around the earth. (UPI)
- ! thunderstorms en route to
- 1 Kansas City, Mo., an interme-
(diatc stop 25 minutes away.
The plane took off from
Chicago's O'Hare Airport and
apparently cruised Into a
lightning storm with winds up
lo 75 miles an hour, which I
broke it to pieces.
Investigators discounted ru
mors that the airliner collided
with another plane or the pos
sibility that it met a tornado.
The plane was the same one
involved in a hijacking inci
dent at El Paso, Tex., last Au
gust .
Odd Fellows Elect
Officers for Year
The 106th session of the
Grand Lodge of Oregon,
IOOF, is scheduled to end this
afternoon with the closing
business session and seating of
the 1962-63 officers who were
elected yesterday.
New officers are Walter
Murphy, Recdsport, grand
master; Orval E. Mathews,
Fossil, deputy grand master;
Chester Robinson, Tlgard,
grand warden; and Earl H.
Shank, Portland, grand secre
tary, and Roy H. Gibbs, Am
ity, grand treasurer, both of
whom were reelected.
Roy Terney, Pendleton, was
elected solvent representative
elected solvent representative,
and Harold Patterson, Canyon
City, and Elmer Olson, were
elected trustees at the Odd
Fellows home in Portland.
Officers were installed at a
joint public ceremony last
night at the National Guard
Armory in Medford. The cere
mony was followed by the
grand march and ball.
Today's activities started
with a breakfast for secre
taries, scribes and clerks, fol
lowed by a business session.
Carpenter Spotted
Glenn's 'Fireflies'
Cape Canaveral, Fla. - (UPI) -Astronaut
Scott Carpenter re
ported from orbit today that
lie. loo. saw the "fireflies"
which John Glenn observed
on his flight around the earth
Feb. 20.
Carpenter spotted the my
riad blobs of light at sunrise
on his first pass over the West
Coast of the United States,
just as Glenn did.
PLEAD GUILTY
Portland - OTH - Robert A.
grazier. 21, entered a guilty
plea Wednesday to the i,otu
holdup of the Eastport Plaza
branch of the Equitable Sav
ings and Loan Association.
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Recovery Forces
Anxious Moments
Airplane Follows
Beam To Spacecraft
Cape Canaveral, Fla.
(UPI) Astronaut
Scott Carpenter has
been picked up from the
Atlantic by a helicopter,
space officials an
nounced at 12:40 p.m.
(pst). The initial an
nouncement said the
astronaut's "condition is
good."
Cape Canaveral, Fla. - HIPP -
Scott Carpenter, 37, rode three
times in orbit around the earth
today but overshot his planned
Atlantic landing area and
gave recovery forces an anx
ious 40 minutes before they
found him.
Space officials lost radio
contact with the astronaut
shortly after 9:30 a.m. (PST)
and said it appeared he had
overshot by 200 miles the
scheduled landing area 809
miles southeast of here.
But a Navy search aircraft
subsequently picked up the
spacecraft's radio landing bea
con and followed it to find
Carpenter perched in a life
raft.
The spacecraft, Aurora 7,
was riding the waves near the
raft.
At 10:32 a.m., the Navy
plane reported after a close
look that Carpenter was "ap
parently sitting comfortably
In his raft.
Carpenter had embarked on
his space fact-finding mission
atop an Atlas rocket at 4:45
a.m. (PST) after the smooth
est countdown in the history
of the Mercury man-in-orbit
program.
Suspense at Finish
The overshot brought his
flight to a suspenseful con
clusion which had officials
and reporters biting their
nails.
An Air Force search plane
arrived over Carpenter's raft
at 10:39 a.m.
Two paramedics, met with
parachutes, leaped into the
sea to attach a large flotation
bag to Aurora-7 to keep it
afloat and to give Carpenter
any help he needed while
waiting for surface craft to
recover him.
I The National Aeronautics
and Space Administration
estimated that Carpenter's
Aurora-7 space craft touched
down about 9:41 a.m. (PST)
about 1,000 miles southeast
of here.
At 9:18 a.m., braking
rockets to bring his craft
down from orbit were fired as
he approached the southwest
coast of the United States.
Carpenter had reported
everything aboard the craft
in good condition for the
fiery descent through the at
mosphere to splash-down in
the Atlantic.
As expected, radio contact
was lost during the descent
because of ionization of the
atmosphere by the 3,000
degrce heat generated by air
friction.
Overshoots Landing
Officials concluded when
contact was not quickly re
gained that Carpenter's craft
had come in at an angle
which meant he had overshot
the mark.
Carpenter had completed
his first orbit at about 6:19
a.m. (PST) and his second at
about 7:47 a.m.
There was a moment during
his second obit when ground
monitors feared it might be
necessary to limit his flight to
two orbits.
This fear was caused by
indications that the fuel sup
ply for the spacecraft's jet
controls was being used up
too rapidly. Officials ordered
Carpenter by radio to switch
to hand control of the jets to
conserve the supply.
They decided after looking
at the information transmit
ted from spacecraft instru
ments that enough fuel wus
left to keep the cabin pointed
right for another and final
orbit.
WEATHER
FORECAST: Mostly cloudy
with a few light showen to
night. Partly cloudy and a lit
tle warmer with a chance of
icattcrcd ihoweri over moun
tains Friday. Low tonight 42.
High Friday 12.
Temp.
Highest Yesterday 63
l.owett This Morning 4?
Prc. to 10 a.m. Today 01
Our Skies Tonight
Unmet today 1:35 D.m.
sunrise tomorrow .... 4:42 a.m.
Mnonrlse tomorrow.. 12:15 a.m.
Last Quarter May 26
The bright "lUr" teen nearest
to the Moon tonight la the
planet, Saturn. And the dim
mer real stars In Saturn'a dis
tant background are In the
constellation, Caprlcorav.
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