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o ? a o o Weather to Price 10 Cents Subscribers To report imprnper or non delivery of the Mail Tribune In Medford. phone 772-6141; Ash land call at .'JIM Iowa it. or phone 482-3002: Montague and Yreka. phone Glohe 9-3171. be fore 6 43 p.m. daily and 10 30 a m Sunday 1 regular delivery arrives hortly atier you call please notify office, thus eliminating special messenger service. FORECAST: Cloudy thU morn ing, considerable tumhme In the lley Uitk afiernooD, but khow ers over hither mounutm. ln creainf cloudinesi 8 u n d a y night and ran Monday. Huh lodjy lo. Low tonight 40. Hlfh Monday i?9 Temp. Highrt,! Vesterdav 71 Lowest Yesterday 45 No preripiuuon. Tribune I'mied Prrs Intornfitinnal Full I Cffffl Wire 52 Pages Section A MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, MAY 27, 1962 Six Sections No. 57 'Man-Made Explosive9 Believed Cause of Fatal Airliner Crash l S7th Vrttr . MEDF'0Ri)si Uniiea Press lmernitional Full Laed Wire - "-" Sacred Heart Lay Board to Request Kill-Burton Funds Architects Told to Proceed With Plans The lay board of directors of Sacred Heart hospital Fri day voted to apply for Hill Burton funds for construction of a new 81 -bed hospital on Crater Lake ave. approxi mately 300 feet south of its intersection with McAnrirews rd. The directors said they wanted to qualify for the fed eral matching money this year to help finance the construc tion next year. "We feel there will be a tremendous incre ment of hospital building in Oregon in 1963. We must get going and establish priority in Hill-Burton funds in 1962," a spokesman said. The board authorized Med ford architects Edson and Pappas to proceed "immedi ately" on plans for the new building for the 18-acre site. Deadline for the building start is July 1, 1963. Spoki Briefly Edson and Pappas have been working with Medical.' Planning Associates, of Bev erly Hills, Calif., in laying the groundwork for the plans. James Moore, president of the planning firm, spoke briefly on what the firm hopes to ac complish here and what it has accomplished for other hospi tals throughout 'the United States. Approval for purchase of the property was received ear ly in March from the Sisters of Charity of Providence from Mother General Phillip de Cesaree in Montreal, the Or der's headquarters. The plan ning company representative selected the Crater Lake ave. site. In 1960 "it was announced that the hospital would close after nearly 50 years of opera tion. Following a re-study- ofc the hospital's situation and potential by the Order it was decided in November, 1960, to keep the hospital open. At that time the fourth floor and maternity department were rlosed and a foundation was set up to receive donations for the construction of a new building. Widespread Support After I h e announcement that the hospital would close, widespread support for the continuation of two hospitals in Medford was received from throughout t h e community, both from individuals and the medical profession. It was stated at that time that even with the Rogue Val ley hospital addition, if Sa cred Heart hospital were to close, the number of beds would not exceed those now available. Also cited was the continuing growth of the com munity as indicated by the census figures. The present hospital has an RO-bed capacity, according to Bert Thierolf. board chair man. In 1960 an inspection by the state tire marshal gave the hospital a "clean bill of health." The entire structure is covered by a sprinkler sys tem. Saturday Night Baseball National League: Cincinnati 11, Chicago S. St. Louis 4. Milwaukee 3. Houston 2. Pittsburgh 0. NEWS(iBRIEfS ITEMS FROM CABINET OFFICIALS SAID BRIBED Paris - IIPH - The former aide of ex-Gen. Raoul Salan charged through hit attorney Saturday that members of President Charles de Gaulle's cabinet took bribes totalling $158,000 lo support the anti-Gaulliit French Algeria more-ment. NIKE ZEUS MISSILE FIRED Pt. Mugu, Calif. - I PI1 - A three stage Nike Zeus anti missile missile was successfully fired Saturday in what Army officials termed a "high tltitude shot." OAS BOMBS SCHOOL Algiers - 'IP' - The Secret Army (OAS) Saturday bom'bed and burned schools and public buildings in what informed lourcei said was the start of a scorched earth policy to leave no public buildings intact when the Moilemi take oer an independent Algeria. ATTEMPTS MADE TO BLOW UP WALL Berlin - IPI - Anti-Communiit forces Saturday made the first widespread, organised rtfuget warned clnthei. wall In Barlin and the West that luch HOLDS REPLICA - Oregon's Governor Mark Hatfield, right, holds a replica of the plaque at the base of the Oregon Flag Pole in the Plaza of the States at the World's Fair in Seattle, Wash.; Saturday as Wash Oregon Honored at Seattle World's Fair; Gov. Hatfield Notes Tourist Traffic Jump Seattle-- IIIPII - The neigh- boring slate of Oregon was honored Saturday at the Se-i The governor said Oregon's atlle World's Fair and the I Expo-lodging bureau tied in governor of the Beaver State I with the Fair's housing by invited Washingtonians and I direct telephone lines, has had visitors to the exposition to 1 business "far in excess of come to see the "Little World's what we anticipated." Fair" beginning June 2 in Da-; Hatfield made his comments mascus. Ore. 1 at a news conference before President Joe Gandy of the i he and Washington Gov. Al World's Fair asked Gov. Mark ! bert D. Rosellini proceeded Hatfield if the president of j to the Plaza of States to offi the Damascus Fair would re- ! cially open the Oregon Day turn the favor if Gandy would ! visit the Damascus Fair. "Well, they're pretty busy down there." Hatfield replied. "But I would make every ef fort." Increase in Tourism Turning to more serious matters, Hatfield said the im pact of the Seattle Fair had I already brought about a 50 to 150 per cent increase in Oregon's tourism so far this season. Hatfield joined Mayor Ter ry Shrunk of Portland. Sec retary of Stale Dean Rusk. Secretary of Labor Arthur Goldberg and thousands of Kennedy to Serve As Foundation Mead Washington - lUPD - The White House announced Sat urday that President Ken nedy has agreed to serve as honorary chairman of the Sam Rayburn Foundation na-: tional development program. The foundation, created in honor of the late speaker, will conduct a drive to raise money for fellowships and scholarships to be used in fur thering studies of political Iscicnce and emphasizing the.meansnf identification was a importance of the legislative branch of government, i Serving with Kennedy as co-chairman will be former ' Presidents Herbert Hoover, I Harry S. Truman and Dwight ;D. Eisenhower. AKOUND THI 01011 attempt to blow up I (it anti- tht bait German govtrnmam attempii could bring milltarf O 7 WW "--V V $ f JiOLi 1 (''. Civ ' ington's Governor Albert D. Roscllini also presents him with a desk calendar for the year 2001. The presentation took place at the end of ceremonies for Oregon Day at the World's Fair. (UP) Oregon residents observ-' ance of Oregon Day observance, Hatfield and Rosellini Body of Man, 60, Found in Box Car The body of i tied as William man identi- Steven Tay-- lor. about b'O of Bakersficld, : Calif., was found in a box car Friday afternoon in Ash- i land. An autopsy performed Fri-! day night bv Medford Palh- ologisl Dr. Robert Buck re vealed thai Taylor had been stabbed twice. The upper wound was four to six inches deep and penetrated the heart. Time of death was estimated 31 hours before the body was found. This would indicate the stab bing did not occur in the box car, a sheriff's deputy said. Brown Hair When found, the man was attired in neat, clean blue jeans He is described as 5 feet. 9 inches tall, weighing about 140 pounds and with grayish brown hair, the sher iff's office reported. Ashland police who first reported the body said there was no money on it and only Bank of America passbook Taylor has since been identi fied as a day laborer from Bakersficld area. A further invosligalion Is being made in cooperation with the Bakersficld and Ash land police, the sheriff's of fice reported. One clue being followed up was a scrap of paper nn the body hearing the name of A L. Futch. Sheriff's dep uties indicated that Bakers field police have a man nam ed Futch In custody on a drunk charge. He is being questioned in connection with the case. Goldberg to Deliver Commencement Speech Portland ITf. - Labor Sec- retary Goldberg took a break between Oregon appearances Saturday to tour the Seattle World's Fair, before returning here to receive an honorary degree. Goldberg will be awarded a degree at the University of Portland Sunday, where he also will deliver the com mencement address. Portland - IPI1 - Logging with helicopters will be among topics at the national meeting of the ForcM Prod ucts Research Society at Pnokanf June 17-21. flag lo at the a position of honor Plaza. The ceremonies included music by the Benson High school band of Portland and the Forest Grove, Ore., Glee men. Boy Scouts, raised the flags of the other 49 states in order of their admittance ' to the Union after the Rev.' Everett J. Jensen, pastor of the Gethsemanc church of Seattle the invocation. Unity of States Lutheran! delivered ' Then the symbolic fire! font was lighted to signify I the unity of the states. I I Other groups participating in the celebration included the Norlh Bend, Ore., High . school choir and William Specht of the Eugene, Ore., Junior Symphony, who pre- scnled a violin concert. American Indians made1 Hatfield their "head chief" during the program. Portland Rose Queen Linda Fuqua was introduced and the program ended at 4 p.m. with all Ore gon musical groups combin ing in a rendition of "The Battle Hymn of the Repub lic." Russian Experts Tour Area Dams Seattle - IIIPII- A dozen Rus- sian hydroelectric specialists, I on a tour of dams in the -na-i tion. visited the World's Fair I here Saturday. j iney iraveiea lo Seattle after spending the night in Portland. The Soviets, on a nation wide tour sponsored by the Interior Department, saw five more dams in the Pacific Northwest Friday. They saw The Dalles and the Bonneville dams on the Columbia river and toured the Merwin Swift and Yale dams on the Lewis river in south west Washington. The Russians are scheduled to leave Seattle Monday to see the huge Glen Canyon project in Utah. Neuberger Speaks On Price of Stamps Washington - l'Pfi - It is "ri diculous" for Congress to have to argue about whether it will com 4 cents or a nickel to ma"KI 8 maur.ne 1 B- Neuberger (D-Ore.) said Saturday night. Addressing the first annu al convention of the newly combined Unitarian and Uni vcrsahst church denomina tions Mrs. Neuberger said the question of raiding postal rates should be IcM up to the pot office department. She noted that many oth er government agencies have authority to take, on their own, appropriate actions to improve operations and naid the post office department fihoulrj hp empowprpH to H pntt) rates a needed. raised Oregon's state Kennedy Predicts Medical Care Bill Will Be Approved Remarks Made to Senior Citizens Washington -iUPP - President Kennedy predicted Saturday that his embattled medical care proposal would be voted into law next year for sure if Congress fails to approve it this year. Continuing h i s personal campaign to whip up public and congressional support, he said his plan to provide medi cal benefits for the elderly through the Social Security who Thave in other days oo-1 posed the ways of progress." Supports Proposal The Chief Executive made the remarks at the White House to a delegation from the National Council of Sen ior Citizens, a new group which supports his proposal. Dr. Arthur Larson, a for- i mer oflicial of the Eisenhow er administration, told the founding convention of the council later that the Ameri can Medical Association should "accept the inevitable" and throw its support behind Kennedy's program. "1 believe," the President said, "that we are going to be successful. We have very good prospects this year. But if not this year, then certainly next, year." The Chief Executive, who will be 45 years old next Wed nesday; voiced hope that w,,c" 1,,ul I 7.UII, WHICH K-L l.iUBCl HIKI closer, I have as worthy a cause to support." Hit Back Larson, who served former j President Dwight D. Eisen-1 hower as While House assist-1 ant and director of the U. S. : Information Agency, hit back at claims by the AMA that ' Kennedy's proposal was a first j step toward socialized modi-1 cine. He said the Social Security i concept was the "only truly I American approach to the j problem." ' Larson, now director of the. Duke University World Rule' of Law Center, conceded that the President's plan could cause "administrative compli cations" through friction be tween the need for maximum professional freedom and min imum federal standards. Coquifie Man Dead In One-Car Crash Bw Tlni.aJ D...i InUrnilinnal . ,7 . m u n. kill. h in ' nnnr a,.-irtnni nn .,, hihu,nv 49 ni.r fn. ,,ni cai,,r,iov Tne victim was Raymond E. Shii nf Conuille a passenger in a car driven by Elvon K. Tarns, also 27. of Coos Bay. Tarns suffered minor injuries. Lucinda A. Long. 7B. Eu gene, was killed Friday night in a car-train accident at Springfield. "Man ( o TT ,U-i'W-,9'C;.', Carpenter Erred, :Ran Qut of pue During Re-Entry Grand Turk Island. Baha mas - (UPli - Astronaut. Scott Carpenters Aurora-7 space ship ran out of fuel as it be- Ran its critical re-entry into the atmosphere at the end of a three-orbit flight around the earth Thursday because Car penter accidentally turned on two control systems at once, it was disclosed Saturday. Project Mercury officials said this mistake loft Carpen ter in a potentially perilous situation as he streaked throu8" 3'00-dcreete.m.?": ature upon re-entry. But they said this was not the reason for the capsule flying more Oregon Building Industry May Go On Strike Monday Portland - m - The Ore gon construction Industry Is threatened with a strike by Some 700 iron workers Mon day morning, following the breakdown of contract talks Saturday. Negotiators for Local 29, 1 International Association of j Bridge. Structural and Orna-I mental Iron Workers, demand ed a two-year contract rail ing for wage increases of 75 cents an hour for rodmen land fifl cents an hour for other workers during all thel talks here. Financial Burden Representatives of five em ployers groups said they could not act without a vole of their members because of the financial burden involved in the contract. Union spokesmen replied their members would nol show up for work Monday morning unless some agree - ment is reached by then. No further talks have been sched uled Jack Cullinan, chairman of the employers' negotiating group, said the union indi cated no pickets would be posted, and said employers would attempt lo keep con struction projects going "as long as practically possible." Groups Involved The employers groups in volved are the Associated General Contractors heavy and building divisions, the Willamette General Contrac tors Association of Salem, the Steel and Wire Fabricators association, and the Eugene Contractors association. In addition to their wage demands, the Iron Workers asked for a five-cent increase in health and welfare pay- mcms 10 in cenis nouriy, ia cents an hour for a pension fund to be started July 1 and increases in present travel costs, Cullinan said. Alive!'' 17 than 200 miles beyond planned landing area in Atlantic. Without fuel for control in these last critical seconds, i however, the exocrts said Aurora-7 could have started swinging back and forth like a pendulum, exposing the vul nerable sides of the bcll-shnp-eri capsule to the terrible heat of re-entry. A plastic heat shield on the blunt end of the capsule is supposed to protect the astronaut. This apparently did nol happen, officials said after more interviews with Carpen ter on this British tracking station island, and Carpenter made his sea landing safely. Manual Control The fuel ran out, however, after the retro rockets had i fired to slow down the cap-. Isulc, and Carpenter has said he is convinced he aligned the ii capsule properly by manual ontrol before the rockets red. I But he still needed- furl laflcr retro firing, and this apparently was wnen ne iuiniu lie nan no inei tun. The fuel is hydrogen pcrox ! ide, which produces steam to i control the capsule through 18 jet nozzles on the outside of the spacecraft. Carpenter, a 37 -year-old Navy lieutenant commander,! wound up his "de-briefing" l.talks with scientists Saturday j and planned to return to Cape i Canaveral this afternoon fori ,.,l,.,lr,u r,Drn nln ..." ' 'V V" ' " "" " land presenlallon of the Space j Agency's distinguished serv ice medal. Ex-Japanese Pilot Flies Over State 1 Brookings, Ore.-IUPIl-A for- i mer Japanese pilot flew over the area he twice bombed in j ed he suffered crushed ribs, World War II near here Sat- a brain concussion, and a frac urday and commented he re- tured skull, membered the terrain very Hcrrcra's son, six-year-old well. : Bobby, told state police his Nobuo Fujila, now a 51-'father became angry at the year-old Tokyo businessman and the only man to drop a bomb on the continental Unit ed States from a plane, view ed the heavily forested area from a private plane. He is here as a guest at the annual Brookings Azalea Festival. Kujita and his son, 25-year-old Yasuyoshi, took pictures from the aircrall as they were piloted over Mt. Emily, eight miles cast of here. Fujita's wife, Ayako,' did not go along nn the flighl. The plane trip was t h e highlight of the third day of i Fujita's week-long visit, The familv attended II,.. f. tfval.'s annual parade follow ing a hreakfast at a local church. They also attended the coronation of the festival queen and went to a luncheon. JFK Aides to Check Area Lumber Woes Washinglon - HOT ' Presl dent Kennedy has instructed a staff aide to look Into prob lems of the Pacific North west's lumber industry and determine whether it would be useful to set up an inter departmental committee on this matter. This was rpnnrteH hv Whit. House Press Secretary Pierre Salinger, who said the action I stemmed from a query sub mitted by a newsman who . had been unable to ask the President about the situation at his news conference. Salinger said he did not know which staff assistant was being assigned the task ur how extensive an inquiry would be needed. ERECT BUILDING Portland - OIPli - Portland General Electric Co., will i build a new office building in downtown Portland be- Iween in and 14 stories high, Frank Warren, PGE president laid Saturday. Pageant Finalist Ihcj uf -m ' - ' the i I 4 .. : r Beverly Kay Beverly Kay, one of the 1 1 finalists for the Miss Rogue Valley Pageant, will present a talk on philosophy for her segment of the talent compe- tion. Beverly is 5 feet 7 inches tall and weighs 125 pounds. She has had three years of dramatic training and is now studying humanities at South ern Oregon college. The Miss Rogue Valley pageant will be staged In the Oregon Shake spearian Festival theater, Ash land. ' . Murder Charged In Death of Child - - . 'M Klamath Falls -IIIPII- Robert E. Herrera, 26, of Klamath Falls, was charged with first ""'"'""J Inoon following the death of R two-year-old boy. ! .-. .".v'. city police about air hour aft er little Franklin E. Long was pronounced dead on arrival at Klamath Valley hospital. Stale police said the-child's mother. Mrs. Lorraine Long, who resides at the same, ad dress as Herrera, ran sobbing to a neighbor's house and told them her son was dead. Attempts to revive the child failed. An autopsy later show- child's whining and Jumped on him.' . ' Mrs. Long said she was not in the room at the time. ' Herrera left the scene be-' fore police arrived. He was picked up about an hour later and charged first with drunk en driving. District Attorney Dale Crabtree added the mur der charge after the autopsy. Historic Beekman House To Be, Opened The home of C. C. Bcek man. Jacksonville's pioneer I banker, will be officially opened lo the public at 10 a.m., Wednesday, May 30, ac cording to the Siskiyou Pio neer Sites Foundation, t h e sponsoring county agency. Brief dedication ceremonies will he held on the grounds of the historic yellow wood frame home on California St. A local minister will be ask ed to give the invocation, and a member of the Jackson county rourt will give a brief address. The public in groups of six will he guided through the home by hostesses dressed In pioneer costume. Since the costs of daily maintenance and supervision will be cov- ercd receipts received from j viewers, a small entrance fee win ne cnargea, an oniciai 01 t h e Sites Foundation ex plained. ; i Served Under Roof , Refreshments will be serv ed under the trees In back' of the house by members of the Sites Foundation. In case of rain, the refreshments will be served under the woodshed root. Local law enforcement officials will direct the traf- ! fic. I County crews have made I the necessary preliminary re pairs to the house. The Sltts i foundation m e m b e r s arc j maintaining the groids and house. 1 he furniture aifH con- FBI Checking on Travel Patterns 01 Passengers Insurance Policies . Being Looked Into Centerville, Iowa - fllPD -Federal and airline investi gators said Saturday night there is mounting evidence that a bomb tore apart a Continental Airlines jet liner, sending 45 persons crashing to their deaths. The FBI joined air detec tives from the Civil Aero nautics Board (CAB) and Continental in a painstaking search for the evidence which could determine why the $5 million Boeing 707 jet ex ploded in the skies over southern Iowa Tuesday night and spun into a valley in northern Missouri. The FBI investigation cen tered immediately on the trav el patterns of the 37 passen gers who boarded the "Gold en jet" at Chicago's O'Hare field on a flight to Los An- ' geles. . Within Aircraft Continental spokesmen at airlines headquarters in Den ver said investigation by their experts Indicated "a man made explosive had been set off within the aircraft." A highly-placed source at Centerville, where the federal Investigation was headquar tered, told United Press In ternational "as practical peo ple we can only assume it was a bomb." W. Mark Felt, agent in charge of the Kansas City, Mo., FBI bureau said "a sub stantial ; number of agents" had" gathered in this southern Iowa community to help Din down the cause-of the crash and to identify the perpetra tors' of any sabotage. It appered the FBI inves tigation might stretch from one end of the nation' to the other before the case finally Is closed. Both the CAB and the FBI said they would have no fur ther word last night on what touched off the explosion which ripped the "Golden Jet." .. Following the Continental and CAB announcements, in terest and Investigation cen tered immediately on the pas senger list of the doomed air liner and on the insurance policies which the passengers had taken out before the flight began. A Chicago newspaper, Chi cago American, said it had learned that a murder or su icide plot . Involving a man and woman might have been responsible for the disaster. to Public tents of the house formerly removed by the , University of Oregon have been re turned. ... ( . . Jackson County Judge Earl M. Miller made arrangements to lease the house ;oh a trial basis for one year from the University of Oregon for $400. . : .. Public Tours The lease of the pioneer banker's home complements the openin; cf ;i,e C. C. Beck man bank In Jacksonville on June 5, 1901 after being clos ed for almost' a half century. The lease also ends a year long campaign by the Sites Foundation to have the coun ty take, over the Beekman home and make it available for public tours. Originally, the" university had removed most of the con tents of the home and plan ned to put It up for public auction to finance a profes sorship of northwest history at the university. The house and property had been deeded to the university in the will of the . late Miss Carrie Beck man, daughter of the pioneer banker. Th'rough intervention of the county court upon re quest of the Sites Foundd tlon, the sale was postponed. The Beekman home, like the bank has been rehabili tated and preserved as cUvi to its original appearance as possible. 1 0
