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Newspaper Page TextPrice 10 Cents Subscribers To report improper or non delivery of the Mail Tribune In Medlord. phone 772-6141; Aah land call at 1224 Iowa It. or phone 482-3002: Montague and Yreka, phone Globe 9-3171. be fore 6:43 pm. daily and 10:30 a.m. Sunday. If regular delivery arrlvea ahortly alter you call please notify office, thua eliminating pecial messenger service. Weather FORECAST: fair tnday and to. night. Partly cloudy Monday. Mild temperatures. Hlth today S5 to 90. Low tonicht 43 to SO. High Monday so to SS. Hlchest Yeaterday '""h LowcH Yesterday Mnrninr 50 No Precipitation to 1 pjn. Yea terday. Tribune Medford United Presi Internationa. Full Lened Wire United Prens International Full Leaied Wira 36 Pages Section A MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, AUGUST 26, 1962 Four Sections No. 134 57th Year The Beauties of Scenic iWS. Iff The gnarled Octopus Tree is one of many unusual attractions A S.Arn'.. nirlnnrl fieiasi "rVrt i Vane Eagle Point Man Hurt When Sewer Ditch Caves In Eagle Point - A 30-year-old construction worker from Eagle Point was hospitalized late this week following the cave-in of a sewer ditch here Thursday. Alvin Gerald Tucker, 30, of Eagle Point, remained in sat isfactory condition at Sacred Heart hospital Saturday suf fering from strained liga ments, external cuts and bruises and back injuries. Tucker was laying sewer tile about 2 p.m. Thursday when a portion of the ditch bank gave way, literally bury ing him alive. The pipe was located on East Main St., and it provided sewer lines to the new Eagle Point grade school and administration offices. At the time of the accident, David Hannaford. EP city sewer inspector, and Frank Dyball, of L. O. Pogue Ex cavation company, were near hy and rescued Tucker. Reports indicate that Tucker was at no time unconscious and, in fact, yelled "Get me out of here, it's hot." when he was covered with dirt. Chief of Police Orin Chastain called for an ambulance and Tucker was taken to the Med ford hospital. L. O. Pogue, Tucker's em ployer, said there was no ap parent reason for the cave-in since the ditch had been well secured. Another ditch had been dug close to the same spot and was evidently not hard enough to sustain the pressure put on it. IWSBRIEFS IT IMS FROM AKOUNO THI OlOtl OAS LEAFLETS THREATEN DE GAULLE Paris -in Leaflets laid to be tent by the Outlawed Secret Army (OAS) warned Saturday the OAS would keep trying to assassinate Charles De Gaulle and predicted he would be "struck down like a mad dog." JOHNSON VISITS SHAH'S PALACE Tehran -IPtu Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson visited the summer palace of the Shah of Iran in an elegant Persian garden Saturday and toured the teeming under-developed sections of the city in 90-degree heat. TYPHOON BATTERS CENTRAL JAPAN Tokyo 1 PI Typhoon Thelma battered central Japan today with winds of up to 100 miles per hour, leaving one dead and 10 others injured. U THANT ARRIVES FOR MOSCOW TALKS , Moscow -IPI United Nations Acting Secretary General U Than! arrived in Moscow Saturday night for talks with Premier Nikita Khrushchev and ether top Soviet leaders that could hold the key to his U.N. future. (Oregon State Ull WICUH a AWft&tu aai Fire at Poorman's Creek Controlled; 425 Acres Burned Mop-up operations on a large brush fire west of Jack sonville continued Saturday after the blaze was declared "under control" for a second time. The fire on Poorman's creek in the Applegate area, which broke out Thursday afternoon, was originally controlled early Friday morning, but an increase in wind about 1 p.m. Friday caused it to get out of hand again. Wind caused flames to Black Refuses to Block Election Washington -HIPP- Supreme Court Justice Hugo L. Black refused Saturday to block next Tuesday's Democratic primary in Alabama. Black had been asked to temporarily stay the effect of a lower court ruling under which the balloting will take place. Black, acting as an individ ual justice while the court is in recess, said: "All the prep arations for this primary ap pear to have been made. No facts are alleged or shown which in my judgment would support a stay that would so drastically disrupt the state's primary plans." This notation was made in Black's own handwriting on the margin of the applica tion for the stay from Dallas County Probate Judge B. A. Reynolds and Marion County Probate Judge Frank Pearce Oregon Highway Commission Photo jump fire lines on the south west corner of the fire area and burn back towards High way 238. No homes were en dangered, however. The fire was brought under control again late Friday night. The area burneo included 425 acres, state forestry de partment officials said. Department officials are not certain of the cause of the fire, but it is assumed to have been smoker-caused. The fire started along Highway 238 at the foot of Jacksonville hill on the Applegate side. . A 60-man crew was mop ping up in the fire area Sat urday. Used at various times in the fire fighting were a 20-man crew from Portland, a 20-man crew from Buck Springs, a 10-man arboretum crew from Corvallis and the 25-man U.S. Forest service re gional fire suppression crew stationed at Star Ranger sta tion in the Applegate valley. (See itory and pictures on page 3A) Miners' Strike in Spain Continues Oviedo, Spain -tIPIu A min ers' strike involving more than 14.000 workers in Spain's northern Asturias province was a week old Saturday with no sign of solution ap parent. A total of 894 workers at three mines in the Langreo region near Oviedo were lock ed out on government orders Saturday morning after they started sitdown strikes. The current number nf shut mines is 24. There was no indication the strike would spread to other regions. The strikers seek a five - day week. Strikes in Spain are illegal. Ashland Councilmen File for Reelection Ashland - Two members of the Athland city council, Ar thur M. Peters and David Kerr, have filed for reelec tion, while three park board members have filed to suc ceed themselves. Archie Fries Jr., John Cotton and Jean Eberhart will run again. Also filing for reelection are City Recorder W. E. Bar. lelt and E. E. McLaughlin, i city treasurer. McLaughlin ' was appointed last year to fill , the unexpired term of the ', late Paul Finnell. Deadline for filing petitions j is 5 p m. Aug. 28. Algerian Election Cancelled; Civil War Feared Near Algiers -IUPH- Strong man Ahmed Ben Bella's ruling po litical bureau cancelled na tional elections scheduled for Sept. 2 because of new con flict between political and military leaders, raising anew the possibility of civil war in Algeria. A spokesman for Ben Bella, announcing the decision, open ly accused military officers of the Algiers region of staging "open rebellion" against the political bureau which regards itself as sole authority in Al geria at present. As a result, spokesman Mo- Scientists Hold Record-Breaking Meet at Corvallis Corvallis-A record-making meeting of the American Institute of Biological Sci ences and the Pacific Divi sion, American Association for the Advancement of Sci ence opened today at Oregon State university. More than 4,000 biological scientists from all 50 states, eight Canadian provinces and 18 foreign countries will pre sent 2,190 papers during the concurrent meetings of 37 dif ferent scientific societies. It will be the largest scien tific meeting in Northwest his tory and the largest in history for AIBS. OSU is only the second western school selected to host the giant conference. Stanford university was host earlier. More than 2,000 wives and children of the scientists are scheduled to come to OSU for the sessions also, setting new family record for the meetings, which will continue through Aug. 31. Formal Meetings ' Field trips are planned across Oregon by several of the groups before or after the formal meetings for studies of native plants and animals in their natural settings. The Oregon coast will draw sev eral groups for studies. The 2,190 research papers that will be presented are ex pected to mark significant new advances in the various fields of biology. Keynote speaker will be Dr. Melvin Calvin, Nobel prize winning chemist from Univer sity of California who is pres ident of the Pacific Division, American Association for the Advancement of Science. He will discuss possibilities of life on other planets Aug. 28 at 9 p.m. in the OSU Col iseum. All of the scientists will be together for his talk, the only "general session" of the week. Goldwater Denies Seeking Nomination Oklahoma City -(UPD- Sen. Barry Goldwater (R-Ariz.) said Saturday he is neither seek ing nor running for his party's nomination for President in 19R4. "I am not seeking It," he said. "I don't know where all this talk is coming from. Ev ery news conference I go to, they ask this, and I have said I am not running. "I haven't the organization, money or desire," he ssid, and it takes a lot of all three. I want to stay where I am if I can." Glenn Gibson, Republican nominee for Congress from Oklahoma's Bth district, had introduced Goldwater in Clin ton. Okla., earlier Saturday as "a man most people would like to see elected President in 1964." mm SATURDAY NIGHT BASEBALL National League San Francisco 6. Philadel phia 1. Pittsburgh 4, St. Louis 0. American Leagues Baltimore 4, New York 3. EXHIBITION FOOTBALL Cleveland 34, San Francis co 27. New York 31, Los Angeles 24. hammed Khider said, the po- litbureau is "no longer in a position to assume its respon sibilities," and the parliamen tary elections had to be post poned until conditions of "real" peace returned to Al geria. Ben Bella's chief political rival, Mohammed Boudiaf, im mediately quit the six man political bureau. He accused the Ben Bella forces of going back on their recent agree ments which had temporarily patched over a post independ ence leadership struggle in Al geria. The ntw political crisis flared after leaders of two of the strongest military regions in the country Willaya (district) three and Willaya four issued a communique virtually refusing to accept the authority of the political bureau. In announcing cancellation of the elections, Khider said the politbureau had also de cided to withdraw its backing for the official electoral list of 196 candidates which had been drawn up in collabora tion with military leaders. Of the 180 Algerian candi dates on the list, 72 were mili tary men. Boudiaf presented his resig nation in a letter to Khider, who is secretary general of the politbureau. "In view of the worsening of the situation and the posi tions which the political bu reau believed and believes it has the right to take, I resign from this body whose work I agreed to join solely in the hope of avoiding new trials for Algeria whose gravity can not be avoided." Soviets Explode 10-Megaton Bomb In Test Series Uppsala, Sweden - (UPI) -The Soviet Union Saturday ex ploded a 10-megaton nuclear device in the atmosphere in the fifth blast of its current tests series in the Soviet Arc tic, the Uppsala University Seismological Institution an nounced. Seismologists here said the bomb was set off at 5 a.m. EDT in the Russian testing area about 1,348 miles north east of here. The first shock wave of the blast was regis tered here four minutes later. In Stockholm, the geodetic institution of the Royal Insti tute of Technology said the blast power of the Russian bomb was registered at 11 megatons - a force equivalent to 11 million tons of TNT. . The difference in estimates of the force of the Russian blast was believed due to the fact that the Uppsala Institute measures the earthshocks by seismograph while the Stock holm institute measures the air pressure waves with a gravimcter. Second Biggest Saturday's Soviet test blast was about one-fourth the size of the mammoth explosion that touched off the current Russian test series in a No vaya Zemlyu area. The first Russian blast earlier this month was about 40 megaton force and was believed to be the second biggest explosion set off by man. The Uppsala Seismological Institution today also an nounced it had registered five underwater explosions In the Baltic Sea. These explosions, it said, were set off by the Swedish navy firing depth bombs and anti-submarine grenades at an unknown submarine, obvious ly spying on Swedish naval exercises well inside the ter ritorial limit. Men Force Door of Pinehurst Lodge Four or five men pushed in the door to Pinehurst lodge on the Green Springs highway Friday night and fled when they discovered someone wbs living there, the Jackson countv sheriffs office re ported. Jack Desmond, Green Springs highway. Pinehurst, reported the Incident to the sheriff's office Friday night Desmond reported the men drove off in a late model car Cuban Shelling of Havana Harb : - 5 . tiuiKiirtssuuiie KUIKU II PLANNED TRAJECTORY - This newsmap shows the planned trajectory of the forth coming Venus probe shot by a combined rocket. The 447-pound vehicle (shown in lower left corner) is packed with instru ments officials hope will send back the first . close-up observations of the planet whose secrets are concealed behind a man Venus Space Shot Postponed Due to Technical Trouble Cape Canaveral - (UPD -Eleventh-hour technical trou bles forced U.S. scientists to postpone a planned attempt to shoot a payload of instru ments 181-milllon miles short ly after midnight Sunday morning to probe the secrets of the planet Venus. The difficulties cropped up during the last part of the long, final - day countdown. The delay will be for at least 24 hours. The problems were cen tered in the 10-story Atlas Agcna space rocket which car ries the gold-and silver-plated instrument package an electronic explorer named Mariner-2. Early indications were the problems were not serious, and that the shot could pos sibly be rescheduled for early Monday morning. Answer Mysteries As planned, the 447-pound payload would arrive in the vicinity of Venus Dec. 14 and then perhaps answer one of the oldest and deepest mys teries of the universe. Can life, as we know it on earth, exist beneath the thick clouds that perpetually hide the surface of earth's nearest planetary neighbor? If Mariner-2 travels a true course it will swing to with in about 10,000 miles of Ve nus and try to peer through the planet's baffling cloud cover with its electronic eye. What Mariner-2 finds out won't tell definitely whether there is life on Venus, but the information will help scien tists make a reasonable guess about it. Fre Damages Empty Medford Dwelling Considerable heat and smoke damage occurred In an empty house at 725 Beck man st. Friday night after a fire apparently broke out on the back porch, Medford fire men said. The fire extended through the kitchen to the living room and damaged the whole house, firemen reported. The house is owned ny Paul J. Blair, 507 Fairmont st. Sports Bulletin Pendleton East defeated West 25 to 0 here last night in the Shrine high school all-star football game, Steve Geren, Eegle Point, most valuable player in the game, cored twice for East on three-yard run and on pass from Gary Cox, Drain. Mike Consbruck, Phoe nix, named the East's out standing back, tallied on a one-yard plunge and Cox alto on a one-yard buck. A. J. Demarls. Sisters, pass ed to Peul Elliott, St. Ma ry's of Medford. for the Ion extra point. Exile Groups i 1 1 men I f rli' -a -- Armed Bandit Holds Up Ashland Service Station, Takes S63 Ashland - The first holdup in Ashland since a bank rob bery in 1929 occurred here Friday night when a man held up Art Nelson's Texaco Ser vice Station, 41(1 North Main st. The lone robber forced the attendant at gun point to hand him all the paper currency from the cash register, which totalled $63, Ashland police said. The attendant, Larry Bru baker, 28, 1419 South College Way, Ashland, said he heard someone about 9:20 p.m. in one of the restrooms. He looked for a car In front, but didn't see one. Then a man walked through the front East German Guard Escapes to Freedom Berlin -IUPD- An East Ger man soldier patrolling the Ber lin wall bolted for freedom Saturday and escaped through barbed wire while his comrades-in-arms tried to shoot him down. Unhurt bv the fusillade the soldier fled through the wire under the cover of pre-dawn darkness in the vicinity of Kiefholz street at the hnrrier of the American sector's Ncu- koelln district, West Berlin police reported. He was the first refugee to get through the wall since Aug. 14, when the Communists shot down Peter Fechter and lefi him in bleed to death In the Incident that touched off the current tension in. Berlin. Another East German failed early Saturday in his attempt to reach the West. As he tried to I w I m arrnKK tha Rluor Spree In downtown Berlin he was spouca oy a communist pairoi noai mat opened fire and picked him nut of the water. The scene of the at tempted escape was not far from the point where the sol dier fled. Heavy Tourist Traffic This Sets New Record at Crater Consistently heavy traffic through Crater Lake National park this year has resulted in a record high travel total, ac cording to Park Superintend ent W. Ward Yeager. On Aug. 19, the 1962 visitor figure reached 418,201, com pared to the old record of 415.567 established for all of 1961. This leaves more than four months this year to In crease the totals. Visitation is up almost 50 per cent over the same date last year, Yeager noted. Sunday's travel established a new one-day record as well, with 8.896 visitors entering the park in 2,551 vehicles t 'iW',,viVi tle of clouds. The shot represents the United States' last opportunity to launch a probe until early 1964, because the planet only comes within shooting range once every fifteen months. A similar shot on July 22 failed because of mechanical difficulties. (UPI) door with his right hand in his pocket and a quarter in his left hand. . - Brubaker, an Ashland school teacher, unlocked the cash register to get the change requested. As he reached in to get the money he felt some thing pushed Into his back and was ordered to hand over all the bills. . Saw Truck . After the robber had taken the money, Brubaker, follow ing Instructions, went Into the rcstroom and closed the door, but he opened It again In time to see a green pickup truck drive off. The bandit is described as five feet, 10 inches tall, of slender built, about 40, with receding hair, and wearing a sport shirt and dark pants. Police were checking a lead late Saturday. 15 Die in Oregon Traffic Accidents By United Press International Oregon's traffic death toll climbed to 15 for the past two days Saturday with nine fa- talitles. Four persons were killed in a two-car, head-on collision 10 miles north of Klamath Falls The victims were Dan John son, 20, and Robert Elliott, 20, both of Klamath Falls, and Robert Harris, 57, and his wife, Laura Anne, 43, Red' wood City, Calif. Other Saturday victims were Howard Hubbard, 21 Eugene; Janis Cranford, 10, Myrtle Creek: Byron Johnson, 18, Klamath Falls; Jack Hild rcth, 30, Lucerne, Calif., and Leo Edwards, 83, Salem. George Hoss, 21, Portland, was killed Saturday afternoon when his sportscar crashed on Highway 99W, 12 miles south of Corvallis. This influx put a strain on overnight facilities, as 1,224 campers made use of the park's four campgrounds and another 254 persons were ac commodated at Crater Lake lodge. The 50 new sites at Ma zama campground, built un der the Mission 68 improve ment and expansion program, have been a great help In handling the record influx of campers, according to Yeager. Other facilities attracting heavy use include the Clcet wood trail and the new mu seum at Watchman lookout. Despite the increased trav Admit U. S. Checks for Violation of ity Act Exiles' Launches Seized in Florida Miami - IUPD - Cuban Pre mier Fidel Castro, blaming the United States for a "treach erous surprise attack," charg ed Saturday in Havana that "armed ships" had shelled the Havana waterfront Friday night. Cuban exile groups in Mi ami, Fla., said later, however, that they were responsible for the attack by two launches that escaped from pursuing Cuban patrol boats. They ex onerated the United States from any responsibility. The student revolutionary directorate said in Miami that a theater near the Ha vana water front was shelled with a 20 millimeter cannon while a meeting of "techni cians" was in progress, pre sumably presided over by Castro. The Justice department in Washington announced Satur day that it was investigating to determine whether the U.S. neutrality act had been vio lated by the Cuban raiders. The act makes it a crime to mount an invasion of anoth er country from U.S. soil. The two, launches used by the exiles were impounded by the U.S. Coast Guard late Saturday at Marathon Key, off the tip 'of. Florida. A spokesman ' said the boats were Impounded for "possi ble violation of federal laws." ' Castro's statement on the raid was published in Havana morning newspapers Satur day. The premier said that public buildings and private homes in the swank Miramar suburb were damaged by off shore gunfire. Castro blamed the attack on the "U.S. government and the mercenary agents It has recruited and armed." "The Cuban revolution," ha said, "which has withstood economic blockade and re peated . . . indirect attacks organized in the United States . , . can also resist and reject a direct attack , . . "We warn the President of the United States that our people have taken all the nec essary steps to confront the danger." A spokesman for the revo lutionary directorate in Mi ami said that the United States had "nothing to do with our mission." Juan Manuel Salvat. member of the directorate and coordinator of the raid, said it was planned and car ried out by the Cuban exiles. He said two launches were used and that the main tar gets were the Charlie Chap lin theater and the leap ho tel. The theater has been the site of many of Castro's long television speeches while the hotel houses East European "technicians." Tefephone Company Announces Dividend A quarterly dividend of 22 cents per share on Pacific Northwest Bell's common stock was declared by the company's board of directors at a meeting here Friday. The dividend, which will go to 31,500 shareholders, is payable Sept. 28 to share holders of record at the close of business Sept. 7. Summer Lake Park el, park personnel are helping to find accommodations for everyone. Yeager anticipates continued heavy visitation un til the Seattle World's fair closes in October. Prevailing sunny, dry weather has helped to lure additional travelers, Yeager believes, with less than three inches of precipi tation recorded In the nation al park for June, July and August. Resurfacing of the park road between the Annie Spring entrance station and Rim village should be com pleted by Labor Day, further Improving facilities for han dling the record travel.