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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."
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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
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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
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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.