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Newspaper Page Text3IU1 M 1 N MET The Beauties of Scenic Salt Creek Falls cascades out of the mountains along Highway 5f) southeast of Oak ridge on the Willamette pass. Tornadoes, Flash Floods Batter Midwest and South By United Press International Tornadoes raked the Great Plains and flash floods hit sections of the midwest and South during Sunday night. A 70 year - old woman drowned when her home was swept away b y rampaging Banklick creek in Kenton County. Kentucky. An Iowa City. Iowa, service station owner succumbed to burns received when week end floodwaters inundated Macmillan Fires More Ministers London - I0PD - Prime Min ister Harold Macmillan to night fired nine senior and junior ministers in his sec ond government shake-up in four days. Heading the list of those ousted today was Lord John Hope, 50, minister of work ers. Macmillan fired seven cab inet ministers Friday night in a sweeping move to bring new blood into his Conserva tive government. Among those promoted to night was Macmillan's son-in-law, Julian Amery, who was named minister of aviation. The changes hit the Home Office, and the ministries of Agriculture, Air, Education and works. The changes were believed to have been made for the same reason as Friday's switches - Macmillan's desire to inject vote getting "new blood'' into his government and to lay the basis for loosen ing the unpopular "little austerity" measures. newsoDbriefs ITIMS FROM fc Syr y AROUND THI OLOII CONGRESSMAN'S HOME ATTACKED BY MOB Washington-1 PMThe office (D-N.Y.) (aid today his new beach home outiidt San Juan, Puerto Rico, wat attacked by mob early today. A ipokei man for Powell taid several hundred dollari damage was done. RUSSIA REJECTS PROPOSAL FOR TALKS Moicow irl-The Soviet Union today rejected proposals by the United Stales, Britain and France thai four-power he held in Berlin to eate the crisis in that divided city. BRITISH DOCTORS IN SASKATCHEWAN Reqins, Sask.-'IPI-The Medical Care Insurance Commit - tion announced Sunday night that SO British doctors already have arrieed here for emergency service during the current doctors' strike now in its third week. PERU THREATENED BY MILITARY GROUP Lima, Peru-in-Political negotiations to end Peru's writ gorernmental crisis in yeeri eollepted Sunday nighl, creating the Ihreet of a military coup d'etat. V (Oregon State $9 pi r gasoline tanks, filling his es tablishments with fumes, which exploded. A tornado touched down 14 miles south of Pampa, Tex., demolishing a house trailer and seriously injuring the el derly couple who occupied it. Another touched down near Ponca City, Okla. Funnel clouds prowled the skies over Bismarck, N. D.. but there were no reports of damage. Wright. Kan., Elizabethville, Ohio, and Loraine. Tex., clear ed away rubble from earlier tornadoes. The Iowa river was falling at Marshalltown, Iowa, after chewing a 50-foot hole in the dike, inundating a park and sending picnickers scurrying to safety and threatening 400 homes. The day-long rain in nor thern Kentucky washed out highways and damaged homes and crops. Losses were csti- Duncan Addresses Townsend Clubs Medical care for the aged is "not special legislation" be cause problems of the aged af fect everyone. House Speak er Robert B. Duncan (D-Med-ford) said Sunday. The Democratic nominee for Congress spoke to a fourth congressional district meeting of Townsend Clubs here. Duncan said he is looking forward later in the campagin to a medicare debate with State Rep. Carl Fisher of Eu gene. Republican nominee for Congress in the fourth riiS' trict. of Rep. Adam Clayton Powell Oregon Highway Commission Photo) mated In excess of $250,000 Damage from Iowa City, Iowa's eight inches of rain over the week end was esti mated at $100,000. Ranloul, 111., had another 1.85 inches of rain and five families evacuated their homes when floodwaters rose. A flash flood east of Wichi ta Falls, Tex., stalled 2 0 0 cars on a highway. Cincinnati, Ohio, had three inches of rain. Columbus, Ohio, measured 1.22 inches. Charleston, W. Va., had 1.20 inches. Columbus, Ga., had 1.45 inches of rain in six hours. McAlester, Okla.. re ported 1.11 inches in a simil ar period. Fifty-mile winds and hail hit Fort Worth, Tex. New Jersey began its 20th day of drought, with no rain forecast for at least two more days. Campers were warned against building fires in the woods. Corn crops were turn ing brown and grain harvest in Ocean county was only half normal. Rep. William B. Widnall (R-N.J.) appealed to the governor to press for dis aster area classification for five counties in the northern part of the state. Southern Iowa reported a dangerously high infestation of grasshoppers with as many as 100 per square yard count ed in some areas. Chamber Renews Tax Cul Proposals Washington -fllPI'- The U.S. Chamber of Commerce has renewed its recommendation that income taxes be cut this year as a move to spur the nation's economy. Chamber President H. Ladd Plumley said that "indi cations are good that we will get an immediate tax cut this year." Plumley said that there was a "growing realization that a tax cut is necessary in 'order that our economic ma- ! chii.r be invigorated. Chamber Vice President Edwin P. Ncilan said that the government could combine a tax reduction with a cut in federal spending. cebergs Sighted Off Oregon Coast i Occanside - in - inree ice- j bergs were spotted today 1 drifting off the Oregon coast near here, i A pair of linemea fr the I Tillamook public utifity i trict - Doe. fel ;r.ii j William - t i were rtirt iWl t . coat,l nv9 T.'iW I wrtt. , . ' 23 Persons Die In Latest of Plane Accidents Helicopter Shot Down by Guerrillas Saigon - 0IPD - A Viet Na mese air force C47 transport with 27 parsons aboard crash ed shortly after takeoff today from Kontum Airfield about 240 miles north of Saigon. A U.S. Military spokesman said 23 persons were killed, includ ing an American Air Force officer. The U.S. spokesman said the Air Force officer was the only American aboard the plane. The others presumably were Viet Nam military per sonnel, he said. The crash was the latest in a series of aircraft acci dents in this embattled South east Asian nation. Search parties earlier today found three Americans dead and a fourth missing in the crash of a helicopter shot down by Viet Cong Commu nists. Four other Americans were missing and presumed down in a C123 transport plane. Shortly After Takeoff A spokesman said the crash of the twin-engined C47 oc curred shortly after the plane left the Kontum runway on a flight back to Saigon. It crash ed while attempting to return to the airfield after fire broke out in its port engine, he said. The U.S. Air Force officer killed in the crash has been serving as an adviser to the Viet Namese air force, the spokesman said. His name with withheld un til next of kin were notified. A radio message from Pleiku said a ground search party that hacked its way through the jungle of South Viet Nam's central highlands found the bodies of two Amer ican officers and one enlisted man in the helicopter wreck age. One of the helicopter's five American occupants an of ficer was rescued alive Sun day a few miles from the crash site, the message said. Another U.S. enlisted man and two Vietnamese soldiers were missing. Combat Support Mission The downed H21 helicopter was on a combat support mis sion over the Communist-infested highlands when it was shot down Sunday near the village of Dak Rode, about 15 miles from the Laotian border and 275 miles north of Saigon. A companion helicop ter returned to Saigon and re ported the crash. The search party pushed through the jungle at night to reach the wreckage before the Communist guerrillas could kill or capture any sur vivors. The search party was forced to travel on foot because bad weather prevented helicopters from reaching the mountain side site. The C123 transport with four American crewmen was reported missing over the cen tral highlands on a supply flight from Saigon to Ban Mo Thuot, 156 miles north of here. Bartlett Picking To Start Aug. 15 The later pear picking starts, the better chance for the fruit to gain needed size. County Horticultural Agent Clifford B. Cordy said this morning. He estimated picking of Bartlett pears would start on a small scale Aug. 15, and picking would be more gen eral Aug. 20. The longer picking can be delayed beyond Aug. 15, the better chance for larger size pears. Bartletts are plentiful, but do not seem to be sizing as desired, Cordy noted. Gener ally, the Bosc pear crop will be good, but there will be some poor crops in local or ochards due to a heavy drop. Cornice, another winter pear variety, nave aroppea heavy, but growers normally thin heavily so this should be a fair crop. Cordy said. D'An Jons, the third winter variety, should be a good crop. WEATHER ronrcART: fair tnnlfht md partly rlmidy Ttiliv iflrr nrton: wind nnrth(Urlv IS mph; Inw tonlfht 47, high to morrow tl, Trtnp. HithMt YMtrrdar . its Lowrit This Morning . 4t Our Skies ToMjkt AuntM tollmr 1:47 p.m. unrlte' tomorrow ... 1:49 a m, Mono flip today 1:1Spm. Full Moon ... Turta n Ji5 3. i nmlitl - . tui kr. J iJiX?m FOREST FIRE DANGER TOMORROW x A KEEP OREGON GREEN Russia Rejects West's Proposal For Inspection Chances Blocked For Compromise Geneva - IUPH - The Soviet Union today rejected a West ern proposal on inspection of nuclear tests, blocking chanc es of an East-West compro mise on the issue. Hop for agreement were dashed in the first session of the 17-nation Disarmament Conference after a one-month recess. The United States and Bri tain proposed that previous Western demands for control posts on Soviet territory be abandoned in exchange for Russians' acceptance of com pulsory Inspection of their nuclear test sites to make sure the test ban was en forced. Neutral Plan Proposed Soviet Deputy Foreign Min ister Valerian Zorin rejected this and proposed in its place acceptance of the eight neu tral nations' plan for control ing the test ban. - Western source said that while they welcome any movement on the part of Rus sians, Zorin's proposals "do not deal with basic differences and are therefore no major concession on the Soviet part." U. S. Ambassador Arthur H. Dean urged the Russians to submit "substantially revis ed" proposals to the confer ence "based on a reasonable degree of realism." Western sources said the Soviets, in accepting the neu tral nations' plan last April, interpreted it to suit their own ends. Wilt Compromise Zorin said In reply to the Western nroposal that the ttussians will compromise In their turn and thus bring agreement on a treaty nearer. When the disarmament con ference resumed plenary ses. sions this morning after a month's summer vacation, Zorin had offered to "meet the Americans half way" by compromising on Americm proposals for reducing con ventional armaments in the first stage of the disarmament process and on measures for reducing the risk of war. But he refused to budge from the Soviet stand that all nuclear delivery vehicles and foreign bases must be abolished in the first stage a position the United States has already rejected. Medford Man Found Dead Near Railroad A preliminary autopsy on a body discovered Sunday near me southern Pacific railroad tracks between Third st. and Jackson st. has indicated death was due to natural causes, according to Medford city police. The body of Leslie Allen Richards, 62, of 310 North Bartlett st., was discovered about 10:50 a.m. by a passer by. Police officers, who were summoned to the scene. In vestigated the possibility of homicide at first due to some slight lacerations on Rich ard's head and shoulder. An autopsy was ordered by the district attorney. It was determined, how ever, the cuts were due to some broken glass near the body, but were not related to the cause of death. Autopsy to Check Cause of Death An autopsy is expected to be performed today to deter mine the cause of death of William B. Radcy, 51, of route 4, box 42f, Medford, who died Saturday evening while swimming. The Medford chemical firm executive sank in five feet of water in a pond while swim ming with two boys. The pond is about half a mile off Pioneer rd. west of Phoenix. State police investigated the accident. The district at torney ordered the autopsy to determine whether ehe man drowned ' suffered a srt ettsicle. Itue tea HiUfsmt tt Regional Edition Medford 18 Pages Iron Workers, AGO To Session in COLLISION FATAL A head-on collision south of Salem Sunday took the lives of Mrs. Mabel Fairchild and her daughter. Norma, 11, of Dallas. Mr. and Mrs. LeRoy 12 Oregonians Lose Lives In Accidents on Week End By United Prei International Twelve Oregon persons were klUcd In accidents dur ing the week end. Eight died Sunday. Seven lost their lives in traffic accidents, two were killed in a plane crash and three drowned The victims were Mrs. Ma- Forest Fire on Klamath River Burns 400 Acres Yreka A forest fire, started by a fisherman burn ing paper about noon yester day, was still partially out of control today just north of the Klamath river near Horse Creek, about 27 miles west of Highway 99. Forester James Newton of the Klamath National forest headquarters In Yreka said about 400 acres had been burned so fur, causing an es timated $15,500 damage. As of 11 o'clock this morn ing the fire was still burning out of control on lta cast flank. The west and north flanks were controlled, New ton said, and the Klamath river itself formed a barrier on the south flank. Borate planes were being used again today in an effort to control the cast flank. Sup pression forces included 3ti5 men, five bulldozers, two ground tankers, two recon naisancc planes, two helicop ters and seven borate tank ers. The fire started near the home of Les Applegarth at the Juncture of the Scott riv er with the Klamath river. Cause was attributed to a fisherman burning paper, but Klamath National forest of ficials declined to identify the man, saying he probably will be taken to court later. The fire was visible from the Klamath River rd, and Sunday motorists were at tracted to it yesterday after noon. Smoke was visible from the Siskiyou summit. The fire is on the north side of (he Klamath river, and did not lump the river. It h.id burned about one mile cast from Its starting point b y late this morning. llaiel Davis. Mail Tribune correspondent in Happy Camp reported that several men from that rommunily had been called in to fight the blaze. Newton estimated that $100,000 will have to be spent ei'forc the , Wly ex .twiaeisfeeel. . JwtjG.$Mgr W ( Two Sections MEDFORD, OREGON, MONDAY, JULY 16, .ft.' Biddle of Portland were in the other car. They were not injured, and were using seat belts, police said. (UPI) i bcl Fairchild, 40, Dallas, and het daughter. Norma, 12; WW Item Wright, 27, Kiamatn Falls', Mrs. Topsy McDaniels, 81,. Sweet Home; Pvt. William Pouch, 17, Portland; John Green and Robert DcGroff, both of Gold Beach; Kennctt Birman, 10, Sweet Home; Robert Hargrove, 30, Port land; William Radey, 51, Med ford; John Champion, 21, Pendleton, and Clarence Bar rett, 24, Florence. Mrs. Fairchild and her daughter were killed In a two car, head-on collision near Sa lem. Wright and Mrs. McDan iels died when the sports car in which they were passen gers struck , a large oak tree near Lebanon on Sunday. Pouch, member of the Ore- National Guard's 41st di"i sion, was killed in a jeep ac cident at the Yakima, Wash., Firing Range Sunday. The Jeep in which he was riding overturned. Green and DeGroff died when their light plane crash ed and burned about five miles northeast of Taylors vllle, Calif. They were on a flight from Reno, Nev., to Gold Beach Sunday. The crash was discovered when California forestry lookouts sighted a small fire burning at the scene. The Birman boy drowned in the South Santiam river near Sweet Home Sunday. He Talent Police Hire Charles H. Roberts Talent Charles H. Rob erts, Grants Pass, today went on duty as Talent city police officer. Roberts was" employed by the Talent police commission Friday night after it had in terviewed four applicants. Formerly assistant police chief at Cottage Grove, Rob erts hae been relief chief at Rogue River until his recent appointment. He Is 42, is mar ried and has three children. He plans to move his family to Talent as soon as he can locate housing. Smo Fires Reported On State Forest Lands Salem - HOT - Seven small fires broke out on state pro tected forest lands Sunday, and all were put out, the Ore gon Forestry department said today. All scycii were confined to less than'unc third of an acre. One was incendiary - on Little river above Glide, in the Douglas forest protection district. Eastern Lane had a railroad ani a smoker fire, Northwest Wwe had two smoker fires, ivj Vr t)feoan fled Ceif- rsi one blare A cbi jet 41s mlscel- I Tribune Washingto i was swimming with a group ot boys when the accident oc curred. Hargrove drowned in boating, accident in Tillamook Bay and Radey drowned in an irrigation pond near his home at Medford Saturday. Hargrove's body was not re covered. Champion was killed In a two-truck collision near King City, Calif., and Barrett was fntally injured in a one-car crash near Woodbine, Iowa, Friday night. Move Against 'Tax Havens' Voted Washington -lUPft- The Sen ate Finance committee today approved amove aimed at making "tax havens" In for eign countries less lucrative for U.S. movie stars. The committee approved a tax bill provision which pro vides that all earnings in ex cess of $35,000 a year by ac tors, business executives, pro fessional people and other Americans living abroad five or more years, would be sub jected to U.S. Income taxes. Under present law, foreign earnings of U.S. citizens liv ing abroad are exempt from U.S. taxes. The committee also approv ed a provision of the adminis tration tax bill to increase taxes on U.S.-owncd subsid iaries operating as so-called "tax havens" in foreign coun tries. Burglars Take Guns From Store in Salem Salem -JUPIt Burglars made off with about 70 guns from a sporting goods store here Sunday, plus a quantity of ammunition. Harvey Fox, manager of Anderson's Sporting Goods store, said the loss was in the thousands of dollars. Most of the weapons taken were revolvers or pistols, but also stolen were about 10 shot guns and rifles. Fox said. Hatfield Issues Bulletin On Effects of Salem-WPIt-Gov. Mark Hal field today Issued the first in a series of bulletins to Oregon citizens on the effect o( the iron workers strike on "Im portant public projects such as those in education, public health, highways, the econo my, and individual worker In come." "The people are entitled to know the facts," Hatfield said. "This dispute, however and whenever settled, has serious Implications, for the pockeN 1 I ... tn..ni nn " MntUnM aali $23 mllliSn public elementary ind sccon - f 57th Year Price 10 Cents 1962 No. 100 Agr Both Sides Agree To Resume Talks On Wednesday Hatfield Accused Of Grandstanding Portland UPI) Amid charg es of "a political grandstand play" aimed at the governor, striking iron workers and contractors prepared today to meet In Washington, D.C., Wednesday. The session on the other side of the country was ar ranged after a vain effort by Gov. Mark Hatfield to get the two sides together in his Sa lem office Friday. That meet- . ing fizzled out when the iron workers refused to show up. John J. O Halloran, busi ness agent for Iron Workers Local 29 of Portland, Sunday termed Hatfield's invitation a political grandstand maneuv er. Impossibility Said Known O'Halloran sa 1 d Hatfield knew "such a meeting could not possibly result in a set tlement of a regional dis- , pute." Iron workers also are out in the Seattle and Spok ane areas. Both sides agreed over the week end to resume talks in the nation's capital Wednes day with John Dunlop, chair- man of the National Joint Ap peals board. : The strike has tied up mil lions of dollars worth of con struction in Oregon, Washing ton and northern Idaho. The strike began in Oregon and southwest Washington May 28. It is the longest con struction dispute in the his tory of Oregon. Federal mediators from Portland and Seattle also will attend the meeting, which is ret to begin at 6 a.m. (PSD. Special Representative Dunlop, a professor at Har- ' vard university, will preside at the talks as a special -rep- ' resentative of the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service. Earlier, the iron workers turned down a request to have the strike turned over to the National Joint Appeals board, which is composed of officials of seven internation al unions and seven contract representatives to arbitrate disputes. The two sides were inviled to Washington by William E. Slmkln, the national director of the mediation service. In Salem, Hatfield's exe cutive aide Warnc Nunn re plied Sunday night to O'Hfl loran's charges. Nunn said Hatfield was encouraged by the U.S. Labor department, Sen. Wayne Morse (D-Oro.), Washington Gov. Albert Ros cllini, and federal mediator George V. Walker of Port land. O'Halloran added the union "appreciates" Hatfield's ef forts. But he said he felt Hat field's "intemperate public critic'sm" of the union for failing to go to Salem was un fair. CHILD DROWNS Portland - UPI - A four-year-old girl playing with friends on a boat ramp here drowned about noon today in the Willamette river. Her body was recovered shortly afterward. Strike dary school construction In cluding 600 classrooms was under way in Oregon when the strike-lockout occurred. The governor listed five projects: the $2.1 million Beaverton Junior High, the $2.1 million Albany Junior High, a $935,346 project at Corvallls High, $713.713 at Wilbur Rowe Junior High In Milwaukie, and $540,775 at Seth Lcwelllng School in Mil waukie.. Hatfield noted Ahat the muffle 'off school days next Inivear Is to".-be curtailed at l Hormlston'High.