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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.
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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.
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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
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j bergs were spotted today
1 drifting off the Oregon coast
near here,
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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.
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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.
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Regional Edition
Medford
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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
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Two Sections MEDFORD, OREGON, MONDAY, JULY 16,
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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
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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
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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.