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in jl (Ul im mi nfamonk Prnhikitmn Mnfinnnlc Missile Carrying As Pickers Said To Be Erroneous Rules Depend on Citizens Available Prior lo Harvest Fruit Grower Cites Eleven Requirements Statements publicized in Oregon telling of a ruling by the Department of Labor that use of Mexican nationals would be prohibited in Ore gon in 1962 are erroneous and without foundation, according to Clinton A. Johnson of Se attle, regional director of the Department of Labor's Bu reau of Employment security. "No such ruling prohibit ing the use of foreign workers to harvest Oregon fruit crops has been made," said John son. "It is too early for such a determination to be made, because approval for use of foreign workers is determin ed only after it is clear that citizens of this country are not ivailable for the work." Officials of the Oregon De partment of Employment, the state agency that assists growers in obtaining the nec essary labor force, are fully aware that it always has been the policy of the Department of Labor that an earnest ef fort be made to recruit and employ U.S. citizens before foreign workers are brought info any area. The requirements which lo cal growers must meet before Mexican nationals may be brought into this area are so numerous and so impractical that it makes it difficult,, al most impossible, to employ them as pickers, a local fruit grower said this morning. J Representatives of the local pear industry have yet to meet with U.S. Labor De nartment officials in Wash ington." D.C. as arranged by Sen. Wayne Morse (Dem. Ore.) Morse conferred with grow ers here on April 14. The evi dence presented to him was referred to Labor Secretary Arthur Goldberg. The grow ers are protesting the SI an hour minimum wage, which is one of the prerequisites they must comply with before Mexican nationals will be brought in, according to labor department statements. They are also protesting indications that the Mexicans will not be brought in if they do not comply with the 11 stated re quirements. The Mexicans are especial ly needed during the winter pear harvest when transient labor is scarce, it was noted. The Mexicans are also needed to keep the pears moving from the orchards into the packing houses in a steady stream. The average transient picker is not dependable, it has been pointed out by growers. Funeral Wednesday For Veteran Newsman Salem OTPIt Funeral serv ices will be Wednesday at 10:30 a.m. in Barrick chapel for Wayne A. Pettit, veteran Oregon newspaperman who died Saturday. He was 77 and worked for newspapers in Michigan and Montana be fore coming to Oregon near the turn of the century. For 40 years beginning in 1919, Pettit was statchouse correspondent here for The Oregonian. He retired in 1959. Traffic Accident Fatal to Woman Portland -HJPH- Joan Jones, 25, formerly of the Molalla area, died in a hospital here Sunday night after being hurt in a traffic accident near Salem Friday night. She had 'oeen a patient at the state hospital in Salem and disap peared a week ago. Regional Edition Medford 57th Year Price 10 Cents! Tribune 18 Pages Two Sections MEDFORD, OREGON, MONDAY, JUNE 4, 1962 No. 64 The Beauties of Scenic Oregon - i KSLjr' --- JaZm Nuclear Device Destroyed in Air Malfunction of Tracker Blamed Honolulu-IVPD-A Tlior mis sile carrying a nuclear de vice was destroyed in flight today less than two minutes before the bomb was schedul ed to explode and launch a series of U.S. nuclear tests in the atmosphere. A safety officer blew up the Thor without setting off the nuclear device because of a tracking malfunction, accord ing to a government an nouncement. The Thor was destroyed minutes after it was launched at 1:47 a.m. (PST) and with 100 seconds remaining in the nuclear countdown. The scheduled detonation near Johnston Island was to have been the first in a con troversial scries of U.S. tests in the Pacific. Strong Objections Foreign scientists have ob jected strongly to the tests, largely on grounds that they would disturb the atmosphere. American scientists have de fended them as not being like ly to couse permanent disturb ances. In Washington, White House Press Secretary Pierre Sal ings said President Kennedy decided prior to today's test that any test failure would be announced to the world. Kennedy was called this morning in Middleburg, Va., where he spent the week end. The call came from the so called "situation room in the White House, a 24-hour in telligence nerve, center oper ated under direction of the National Security Council. The center receives top-sec ret intelligence reports from all over the world. It main tains' a constant status report on trouble spots around the globe, as well as on such U.S. operations as the current fa. cific nuclear test series. r w s "St I . Km M J Air France Plane Disaster Leaves 130 Persons Dead Many Georgia Residents Killed Paris -Urn- Authorities be Ran the grim task today of identifying the bodies of the 1110 victims of the flaming crash of a Boeing 707 jetlin er 121 of them Americans returning home from a Euro pean vacation - in the world's worst single airplane disaster. Most of the Americans were from the Atlanta, Ga., area, which was plunged into a state of shock and mourn ing by the tragedy. Cause Sought At the same time, French aviation experts, joined by an American colleague, took on the job of trying to find out why the giant chartered Air France Jet hurtled off an Orly Airport runway Sunday to a fiery end near a village decked out for carnival. MISS P.OGUE VALLEY Miss Marty Louise Wyatt, Jackson ville, was presented a bouquet of red roses Saturday even ing after she was named Miss Rogue Valley in ceremonies held in Ashland. She will represent the Rogue valley in the Miss Oregon pageant in Seaside next month, (Knacksledt photo) Freshman Named Miss Rogue Valley Life, a Christian youth group. She is majoring in sociology. Miss Wyatt will represent the Rogue valley at Seaside, Ore., in the Miss Oregon pageant July 18 through 22. Robert Ford was master of More than 300 Dorsons at-1 ceremonies for the Saturday tended the pageant held in event. Entertainment was by Miss Marty Louise Wyatt, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Floyd C. Wyatt, Jacksonville, a freshman at Southern Ore gon college, was selected Miss Rogue Valley at competition Saturday night in Ashland Riding the riffles of the Rogue river in a mail boat between Gold Beach and Agncss Counsel Not To Joe Walsh Resigns Appeal Decision As County Sheriff For McGahuey An attorney for condemned slayer Lceroy Sanford Mc Gahuey said today he is not going to ask the Oregon Su preme Court to grant a re hearing of its May 23 deci sion which affirmed McGah- uey's first degree murder con-1 vtction and sentence to vne gas chamber. But counsel G. W. Kelling ton. Medford, said an appeal on McGahuey's behalf will be made to Gov. Mark Hatfield, the only person that could save McGahuey. Wait Expires June 12 Sheriff Joe Walsh announc-. pany, a janitor supplies firm. de today he will resign effec- Walsh announced shortly tive June 30. His full term before the candidacy filing does not expire until Dec. 31, deadline this spring he would 1962. Walsh said he is seeking the additional time' to become established in his new job as Pacific Nortwest sales repre sentative for Lovinger com- Railroads Accept Recommendations Chicago 03P1I The nation's railroads said today they have accepted a presidential commission's recom m e n d a- . tion of a 10.2-ccnt an hour wane increase for 450,000 McGahuey, a forest laborer, I nonopcrating employees, was convicted last year of the i Railroad spokesman J. E. hammer slaying of 2-year-old Wolfe said the 11 brother- Rod Cameron Holt in Central j )100ds representing the non Point. I operating employees had in A 20-day waiting period fc"" dicatcd to the railroads that time to file a petition for a j u,cv aiso accepted the terms not seek reelection on the Re publican ticket. Walsh said he was sending a letter of resignation to the county court, possibly today, and will send a formal notice lo the county clerk's office as required by law. A possible appointee for the six month interim period is Chief Criminal Deputy Paul Bettiol, but it will be up to the county court to make the appointment. Bettiol gradu ates from the FBI police school in Washington, D.C., St. Mary's HS To Hold Graduation Tonight at Church St. Mary's High school will graduate 34 seniors at com mencement exercises this ev- Strike Shuts Down Freeway Job in Area Portland - IUPII - An Iron workers strike moved into its second week in Oregon and Southwest Washington today with no end in sight. The strike, which involves contractors and tiie 700 mem ber Local 29 of the Interna tional Association of Bridge Structural and Ornamental Iron Workers, befcan last Mon day. John J. O'Hai'.oran, secre tary and business representa tive of the local Mid there were no negotiations sched uled. The union said one Job was ening at 8 o'clock at Sacred j being picketed, a highway Heart church. The commence-1 bridge near the fairgrounds the Caesar room of the Mark Antony hotel after rain forced the ceremony to be changed from the Oregon Shakespear ean Festival theater. Miss Wyatt did an interpre- j tive dance entitled "Love Walked In" for her talent part of the competition. Run-ners-up were Miss Gay Sehweibert and Miss Mary Jo BatEer. The top five con tenders selected by the judges from the ten contestants also included Miss Diana Hunter and Miss Judy Head. Miss Wyatt was crowned by Mrs. Joanne Burg, the former Joanne Amorde, who was Miss Roseburg and the first Miss Oregon. She now lives in Medford. The new Miss Rogue Valley is a graduate of Medford High school and is active in Young Tht crash of an Air Franct airplane in Paris has plunged Atlanta, Ga., into 1 ital oi mourning, tinea many of that city's leading citiiens were aboard. The story i( on page 2A. the Populariers of Southern Oregon college. ment speaker will be the Rev. Willis Whelan, pastor of Christ the King parish in Port land and former principal of Central Catholic High school in Portland. Marilyn Guland is valedic torian and Susan Reavis, salu tatorian. Graduates are Barbara Lea Barnum, Frank Joseph Ber Wednesday. The county court tnk- Edit" A"" Betschart, may also receive recommen dations from the Republican Central committee. Walsh returned Saturday from a meeting of the Oregon Sheriff's association in Baker. The association rccommend- rehearing of the high court's decision will expire June 12. Then the court will send its mandate to Jackson County of tch commission recommen dation. Wolfe said final union ac ceptance appeared to hinge Circuit Court, and Judge on whether to accept the James Main, Medford. will is-' commission recommendations sue an order returning Mc- j m (,c form of a percentage Gahuey from death row to pay increase or a raise in Medford where his date of hourly pay. execution will be set. Both the railroads and the . ed strenuously to the com- ATTENDS CONFERENCE I unions originally had object- Salcm-iUPIi-Alty. Gen. Rob ert Y. Thornton left for Kla math Falls today and Oregon's ission recommend a t i o n s, The railronds said they pro posed too much and were in- first countv - wide citizen's ; flationary and the union: cricm prevention conference ! said they offered too little there tonight. Jean Margaret Boat, Stephen Harold Corliss, Cheryl Marie Dunn, Rita Jean Dupray, Paul Jay Elliott, Jennifer Lee Es- pey, Kathryn Knok Fitzpat- rick, Marilyn Grace Guldan, Jerome Donald Higgins, Jos eph Frank Kaiser, Andrea cd that a state committee be j Christine Lewandowski, Dav appointed to establish consist- jd Douglas Lowry, Carolyn cnt standards oi lax conec- in Medford. O'Halloran said the picket was placed because there was an attempt made to use other workers to do jobs normally done by iron workers. However, no pickets or workers could be located at the site this morning. More Arguments in Water Case Ordered- Washington -IUPII- The Su preme Court today ordered more arguments next term on the controversy between Ari zona and California over di vision of Colorado river water. tion procedures for the 36 Oregon counties. The commit tee would consist of repre sentatives from the sheriffs, Morning's Low Is New Record for Date Temperature at the Med ford station of the U.S. weath- bureau at the airport dropped to the predicted low of 34 degrees this morning. The reading was the lowest on record for June 4. Previ ous low reading for this day of the year was 35 in 1011. Freezing temperatures and frost were reported in some parts of the valley. A horti culturist here said that frost did no damage to fruit trees but probably did damage crops close to the ground such as tomatoes. Post Office Safe Is Burglarized Ashland-More than $1,000 in cash and checks was stol en from a safe in a U.S. Post Office substation here some time between 10:40 p.m. Sat urday and 8:30 a.m. Sunday. Ashland police reported that the safe was found with its front door pried open The substation is located in Ideal Drugs, a yhopv in the Uateway Shopping center. En try was made by forclna oien the front door of the estab lishment. The total amount taken was placed at approximately $1, 050. It was not Immediately known how much of thai amount was in cash, but Ash land police said the total In cluded a $200 postal money order and a check for approx imately $200. TO SIGN LEASES Salem - IUPII - The Ornaon Ann Lumsatn, Arnoio Lcc Land Board was to hold iosmaiKa. Patricia Ann spccial meeting late today to Meeker, Michael Dennis sjgn oil leases it has granted O'Brien, Kerry Ann O'Hara.lto Humble and Superior Oil i-airicia jean u nara, r.iicnaci companies. The firms are county assessors and state tax ! Eugene O'Neill, Rose Ellcnlamong those whose applica- commission. Powers, Donald Raymond j Pruitt, Virginia Rose Rausch, I Susan Elizabeth Reavis. Ger j aid Robert Rcneau, Thomas William Rouhicr, David Wil liams Rhoor, Douglas Shan- I non Snider, Lester Patrick 8 iStinson, Robert Gregory 3 Wright, Robert Michael I tS(BRIEFS Connay Wins S Texas Nomination Russia Urges U. S. To Call Off Tests Moscow - TO - The Soviet union urEca mc u m i i c u ,,.. , , i States to call off its high alti- j A LUle rhlH,?,'y0Uh" I Presiding will be the Very; held and warned it would i ' Rev. Carl Mai, pastor of Sac- ITIMJ HOM AROUND THI OtOII I Connallv will face Democrat , turned-Republican Jack Cox in Texas' November guberna torial election in what prom- ! ises to be a bitter, no-holds- WALTER ULBRICHT ARRIVES IN MOSCOW ! barred battle. Moscow-IPh-EMt German Communist chief Walter Ul-' Former Navy Secretary brichl arrived from Berlin today, the tint of the Soviet Connallv. who has been asso bloc leaders coming to Moicow for Tuesday's summit meeting, cialcd with Vice President . Lyndon B. Johnson since the rannst nrrtlPY PUERTO CAbELLO late 1930r, won the Dcmocra- Puerto Cibello. Zeneiuele-'IPI'-Government troops lodey tic nomination for the govcr completed occupation of Puerto Cabello and captured hun-lnorship Saturday in a close dredi of civilians fleeing the mop-up campaign against the runoff election with Houston latest unsuccessful revolt. j attorney Dor, Yarborough. Latest unofficial returns red Heart church. Music for the orrinn will be sung by : the Marian choir. Procession-' uaiiB-Ur,--,,iUwi """" take 'appropriate measures" to safeguard its security. liic ....... ...s -'" ,, u , j u.. A in an official government " statement broadcast over- - "d 1 ,c recessional by Moscow Radio Sunday night, j ,nRd . Bergstrom. "Pav he.H In the lawful dp- " - wa aunH mands of the people and give Father Mai to solemnize the HOUSE VOTES TARIFF AUTHORITY I gave Connally 564.652 -votes clear arms race Weshington-lPlThe House Ways and Mean Committee to 538.5 18 lor Yarborough. space, by a 20-5 vote todiy gave ill final endorsement to President ! Those totals included returns The statement said U.S. Kennedy's request for broad pew eulhorlly to cut or elimi- from all 254 counties, includ-lhigh altitude tests could have nale import duties in relurnTtor trade concessions abroad. '? 231 complete. f fatal consequences.' .. .,H..r(in0 ipci. , hiah : oaccaiaureaic mr tno graau- altitudes. ' the statement said. 3t r St- Mary s High school The Soviet government said Sunday, it deemed it necessary to I In speaking to the gradu draw the attention of allies, their parent!, and countries and peoples to the friends. Father Mai emphasiz intcntions of the U.S.A. to led the need for holding to take extremely dangerous ac- spiritual ideals in a material iinn hv transferrin the nu- i'Uc world, and the responsi- to outer oiiny oi eacn to use inc unique gifts he possess to bring the world closer to the I plan God envisioned at crea- tions for certain Western Ore gon lands have been approved. OCE Officials Embarrassed at f Baccalaureate Monmouth -HIPP- There was a gathering of 900 persons Sunday at bac calaureate services of Oregon College of Edu cation here. But embar rassingly enough, there wasn't any speaker. The scheduled speaker - Rev. Martin Thiclen of Portland - thought the ceremonies were next Sunday. He is education direction of the Catholic Diocese of Portland. The OCE choir plug ged the gap by singing various number. Ellis Stcbbins, OCE adminis trator, said that next year baccalaureate serv ices will be combined with regular commence ment ceremonies. Canvass of Votes Is Now Complete The official canvass of election results shows that 57.8 per cent of the Jackson county citizens voted in the primary election, according to the elections department to day. The canvass was com pleted this morning. In number of voters who turned out the Republicans led the Democrats. The Re publicans totalled 11,130 vot ers at the polls and the Demo crats 9,838. Total vote was 21.180 compared to the pro primary election registration of 36.591. BEATING CHARGED Portland - HOT - Nick M. Dohr, 40, a pressman employ ed by the Oregonian, told po lice two men beat and kicked him Sunday night. Highway 99 Traffic Increase Is Noted Horn'jiook-A total of 1,008 cars were checked on High way 99 at the California State Department of Agriculture quarantine station Memorial day. This is an increase of 520 vehicles over the same day in 1BB1. A much heavier flow of traffic through the ptatlon also w?s reported on the Sun day prior to the holiday. This year 2,058 vehicles were checked on May 27 compared lo 1,211 on the Sunday prior to the holiday in 1961. Of the totals Ihis year's Me morial day showed 1.766 cars, 129 trucks and 13 buses. On May 27 there were 1,035 pri vate cars, 110 trucks and 13 buses. American sources said George W. Haldeman of the Civil Aeronautics Board ar rived during the night and immediately joined nil French opposite numbers at the scene of Sunday's crash. While the aviation detec tives probed the wreckage. Atlanta s mayor Ivan Allen Jr. flew in to help in arrange ments for shipping back the bodies of the Atlanta victims, many of them his personal friends. Survivors Questioned Air France officials disclos ed thai the only two surviv ors of the crash were ques tioned Sunday night and to day lit hopes of finding some clue to the disaster. The two are airline hostesses Jacque line Gille, -25, and Francoise Authie, 24, both of whom are hospitalized. Because of their injuries Miss Gille suffered burns and Miss Authie suf fered shock their question ing was held to a minimum at doctors' orders. Officials declined to say what the two young French women told them. French experts called Sun day's disaster to the chartered Air France plane "the crash that could not have happen ed." But it did. The plane had been check ed and rechecked before take off. The weather was clear with few clouds in the sky. The pilot was expert. Officials said sabotage could not be entirely ruled out, but they said It was be ing discounted until the wreckage had been thorough ly examined. Plane Listed Sharply A government official in Washington stated that early reports indicated "some simil arity" to the crash of an Am erical Airlines Boeing 707 Jet In New York last March 1 in which 95 persons were killed. He noted that the Air France plane was reported to have listed sharply to slarboard just before the crash. The American Airlines plane also listed to starboard shortly af ter leaving the ground. CLAIMS RECORD Ellcnsburg, Wash. - (Ml -Toney Ballengcr, 18, Ellens burg, a senior at Kittitas High school claimed a world go cart endurance record after going nonstop around the go cart track here for 22 hours and 52 minutes. Ccilifornians Await Trek To Polls Tuesday ffllllllnlHlmlHllwe 't -TT'-TiiTiniiTin iv'iujto. pee WEATHER FORECAST: Inrrftilnf rlutl nr thli rvrnlnf. Orrailnnal Itcht rain tonight. Virliblf rloiidlnrii with a lew llrhl ihow.r. Tiirfldtv. I.nw tnnlghl 39. Illih Turkday near SR. Temp. Iltttiril Vriitfrdav S3 Lowell Thli Morning . . 31 Our Skies Tonight Knnft today 7:43 p.m. Htinrlkp tomorrow 4:3a a.m. Tht Moon, rldtni htih tuntfhi. al I:.M P-tri. Mm quarter June I Vfntia, tern near the Moon to night. It now the llrl "tar" vlilhle after innaet. And Jupi ter, In the anlitheakt, ll now the laat "iitar" lo fade out before nrlte. San Francisco - IUPD - Cali fornia's three major candi dates for governor fired their closing campaign shots today on the eve of Tuesday's pri mary election. Future at Stake Richard M. Nixon, who al most W3 president but now is staking his political future on winning the Republican nomination for governor, claimed Democratic Gov. Ed- imund G. Brown has been a "costly embarrassment" to the people of the state during i Brown's 3',i years in office. Assemblyman Joseph C. Shell of Los Angeles, a con servative who hopes to climax a long-shot bid by wresting the GOP nomination from Nixon, said Sunday night in an hour-long statewide tele vision show that if elected he would tend to the state's business "and not gaze out the window al the White Ionise." Brown, who has only token opposition in his bid for the Democratic nomination at Tuesday's primary, belabored both Nixon and Shell in his closing pitch to the state's 7 million voters. Nixon Favored "Republicans won't have much choice In this primary," he said. "They will have to choose between an assembly man whose philosophy is a century behind the times and a loser from Washington who is running for governor only to position himself for an other crack at the presidency in 1964." Brown is certain to be his party's nominee against the winner of the Nixon-Shell clash. Nixon is rated the fa vorite for the GOP nomina tion although even some of his closest supporters concede that Shell may get between 35 and 40 per cent of the l GOP vote. f
