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Abandoned Mine Shafts earched f oir Three Missing Youths Police Checking Possibility Boys Fled From Homes Pittsburgh-fllPD-A search lor three teen-aged boyi feared lost In the depths of the No. 2 shaft of the old Castle Shannon Coal Co. mine near here was "temporarily suspended" early today by Thomas MacDonald of the Pittsburgh office of the U. S. Bureau of Mines. ' "We have temporarily sus- , pended the search until 2 p. m.," MacDonald said. "If nothing is heard from the boys by that time we will attempt to push further into the mine. Meanwhile, Castle Shannon Police Chief Andrew Orr said a nationwide alert was out for Daniel O'Kane and Billy Burke, both 13, of nearby Baldwin Borough and Robert Abbott, 14, of Pittsburgh May Have Struck Out Orr said authorities were checking the possibility that the youngsters, reported miss ing Thursday after their bicycles were discovered near the mine entrance, "may have struck out on their own." He said the Abbott boy had moved here recently from Florida. MacDonald said after the last rescue units surfaced early today that the searchers nad "examined every inch that was humanly possible to examine." His later statement that the volunteers may press further into the mine this af ternoon indicated the rescue teams could encounter physi' cal dangers If they continue the search. Barricade Torn Down Authorities found that a brick and concrete seal placed over the auxiliary entrance to the mine for safety purposes years ago had been torn down sometime in the past. Nearby residents said they saw the Burke and O'Kane boys play ing near the shaft entrance several days ago. Mrs. Florence Burke, Billy's mother, reported the boys missing Thursday evening. She said they had been miss ing all day. At the head of the shaft, last worked about 25 years ago, rescue workers said they found a firecracker which had been set oft and some twigs apparently set to Indicate a path. But Everett Turner a mine inspector from the U. S. Bureau of Mines, said the res cue units, who went nearly 2,000 feet into the mine, failed to find any trace of the boys. Turner said the searchers discovered several minor rockfalls. Mrs. Lois O'Kane, mother of Danny, said her missing son and his younger brother, Kenny, told her about two months ago they had gone into the saft. "I told them. I told them, I told them not to go near that mine", she said. Mother Breaks Down Mrs. Burke, a widow, was led away from the mine en trance when she broke down after leading Billy's pet mon grel dog, Nellie Bell, up the hillside to the shaft. The dog whined continuously. ' About 200 persons gathered on a hillside across from the shaft to watch the rescue work under the glare of flood' lights. Regional Edition Medford Page 2A iWtribune MEDFORD, OREGON, FRIDAY, JULY 12, 1963 Foreign Briefs CHESTER BOWLES CALLS ON SUKARNO Jakarta, Indonesia-tlPli-U.S. Ambassador to India Chester Bowles called on Indonesian Preiidanl Sukarno today to exchange views on world issues, Bowles was accompanied by iht ambassador to Indonesia, Howard P. Jones. Goldwater Sees Kennedy as Determined To Live With International Communism RUSSIA SAYS ARREST STIRS PASSIONS Moscow-tUPU-Government newspapers charged Thursday night that the arrest of Soviet United Nations Employee Ivan Egorov on spy charges has stirred cold war passions on the eve of the Big Three nuclear talks here. RUSSIAN VISIT EXCITING, DANNY KAYE SAYS Paris-lUPN-American Comedian Danny Kaya said Thursday his Russian visit was "absolutely the most exciting thing I ve done. Kaye recently attended the Moscow Film festival MONGOLIA CELEBRATES 42ND ANNIVERSARY Tokyo-ttlPD-Mongolia celebrated its 42nd anniversary at an independent republic Thursday with a military parade and a mass demonstration in the capital city of Ulan Baior, according to the Communist New China News agency. The parade was reviewed by Communist party leaders. Electronics Move Irregularly Up as Stocks Hold Firm : New York-IUPII-Stocks held firm today. Electronics moved irregu larly higher featuring IBM up more than 2 and L o r e 1, Minneapolis-Honey- well, Electronic Specialty and RCA up at least a point Schlumbcrgcr, Beckman and Motorola declined large frac tions to a point. Chrysler lost close to a point in a mixed auto group. Eastman Kodak and Du Pont were up fractions to a point in the chemicals. Steels were narrow mixed. Some metals, oils and drugs improved. DOW JONES AVERAGES New York - IUPII - Dow Jones final stock averages: 30 industrials 709.78, off 2.36t 20 railroads 174.87. off 0.13i IS utilities 139.39, up 0.28, and 65 stocks 256.24, oil 0.41. . Sales Wednesday were about 4.1 m i 1 lion shares compared with 3.73 , million shares Wednesday. ' Thursday's prices on selected stocks: Allied Chemical ink Alum Co Am ... 07 American Air Lines 26 American Can 4(1 American Motors l IB AT&T . 12Hi American Tobacco 283. Anaconda Copper 4M. Armco Mi American Standard - 17 Bendlx Corp . . 91 'j Bethlehem Steel'... 30' t Boeing Air 3.V. Caterpillar. Corp 45'a Chrysler Corp SIM Coca Cola .1 C.B.S Columbia 2BV continental Can 47- Crown Zellerbach so Crucible Steel 211k Curtlss Wrlsht 21i uow i-ncmicai Du Pont 243 Eastman Kodak 108 Vi Flrestune ; ... 34 Ford : 91 :, General Electric 79Ji Gcncml Foods Rl?. General Motors . 70',. General Portland Cement 2034 GcorRla Pacific 3;,4 Greyhound 4U'. Gulf Oil 47. Homestake 31?. innno rower A'.l i.u.m .. ... Int Paper ... Johns Manvlllc Kcnnccott Copper Lockheed Alrcralt Martin Merck Montana Power Montgomery Ward National Biscuit New York Central Northern Natural Gas Northern Paclllc Pac Gas Elcc Penney J.C. .. Penn RR ...... Permanente Cement ... Phllllns Procter Gamhle Radio Corporation ,. Richfield Oil Snfoway ...v. Snnta re Scara . Shell OH Socony Mobil Oil Southern Co. , Southern Pacific 41.1 . 20 . 17 i . 72', . 55 'i . 11114 . ait, . 31 , . 37 '. . 53 J, . . SOS, . 4(1 'i . 32 , 41 ' . IB'ii , 1'4 5i 4 77 a (10 42'', , SOU GOP Possibility Says Naiion Sent 'Too Far To Lett' Sparry Rand Standard California Standard Indiana Standard N. J Sun Mines Texas Co. Texas Gulf Sulfur Texas Pacific Land Trust . Thiokol . Trans America Trans World Air Tri-Contlnental Union Carbide Union Pacific United Alrcralt United Air Uncs U.S. Plywood . U S. Rubber . U.S. Steel ... United Utilities West Bank Corn Weatinghouse ... BIH. ... 44'. ,.. (111-74 H a .. 33 .. 14 i .. 651, .. anrs, .. lit) 4 .. tn .. 72 .. 14 4 .. 22H . M .. ini .. 4ti, ..1114', .. 4(1', .. 47i, .. 37'. .. .. 45', - 4(1', .. 3n .. sins . 3(1 NEW COMPUTER St. Louls-MPD-In a new iys- tern for locating trains in transit demonstrated here re cently, an electronic computer and a teletype network were linked to permit railroads to inquire about the location of individual cars or shipments. A single inquiry into the com putcr (Honeywell 400) takes about four seconds to process, according to ralldoad officials. 'Quiet Revolution' Under Way in State Forests, Book Notes Portland A "quiet revolu tion" is taking place in Ore gon's forests as the Beaver State shifts into an age of tree farming, according to a new Oregon forest facts books rclascd this week by the Ore gon Committee of American Forest Products Industries. "Oregon Is In the midst of a vast transition from an economy based on logging old-growth forests to one bas ed on growing, harvesting and re-growing continuous crops of timber," the book notes. The booklet ciics prelimin ary figures from new govern ment surveys which indicate that the stale's "storehouse" California Assembly Not 'Rubber Stamp' Sac ra men to-AIPt-Ca I i fornl a assembly speaker Jesse M. Unruh served notice today that the lower chamber was not going to be a "rubber stamp" for the senate during the current special legislative session. But he declined to say pre cisely what course the Assem bly might take. "We'll lake a look at what the Senate passes." said Un ruh, one of the state's most powerful political figures. He apparently was not entirely happy with the first four days of action on Gov. Ed mund G. Brown's lax reform and budget augmentation pro grams. For example, leaders of the 40-member upper chamber In dicated after a special secret caucus Wednesday that Brown's plan to adopt a state withholding plan for personal income lax, effective Jan. 1 1065, did not have sufficient support. Asked his present position on the pay-as-you-go plan, Unruh answered: "I'm in favor of It as much now as I ever was and maybe even more." Is there a possibility with holding may be amended by the assembly into (he Gover nor's bill to eliminate income tax Installment payments, a privilege now used by profes sional persons for the most part? "I can't say what we'll do," the Assembly speaker replied. "But I'll say this: we're not going to bo a rubber stamp for the senate." He said that was not only his feeling but that of "79 other guys'' in the 80-member assembly. Both houses were In recess today. of standing sawtimbcr on commercial forest land now exceeds 409 billion board feet, up from the 1952 government figure which showed a net volume of about 434 billion board feet. Due to Changing Standards The facls book points out that significant increase in Oregon's timber reserve is due primarily to chancing standards of merchantability brought about by the forest industries' advancing tech nology. "The quiet revolution in Oregon's forests has been tin d e r way most noticeably since the end of World War II," according to I lie booklet. "It is producing a translor- million In the timber that has profound meaning for those concerned with using Iho re source wisely so that future generations may enjoy its benefits. Intensified forest management will increase the ability of forest lands to meet the sharply growing demands being put on litem for timber, water, recreation, grazing and othor uses by a growing pop. ulatlon," the report continues. The book was designed as a shelf reference on forests and forestry in the slate, and is being distributed to educators and others. AFPl's Oregon Committee, which conducts forestry education programs for the forest industries, in vites persons interested in conservation of the forest re source to write for a copy at 847 Pittock Block, Portland. Washington-IUPO-Sen. Barry Goldwater (R-Ariz.) said to day that President Kennedy appears "determined to co exist with international com munism wherever it thrives - even in the Western Hemi sphere." The 1964 GOP presidential possibility coupled his attack on Kennedy with a charge that the nation's liberals suf fer a "craven fear" of the future and have taken the country "too far to the left Goldwater said that U.S Communist party leader Gus Hall was urging defeat of GOP candidates next year and support of "people s political movements" that Hall said operated within the orbit of the Democratic party. However, Goldwater added that he was not suggesting that Democrats or New Fron tiersmen were Communists or that the Communists had cap tured control of the Demo cratic parly. Addresses Conference In a speech prepared for delivery before the Human Events Conference, Goldwa ter said today's conservative was "standing where history once placed the true liberal." He said the conservative stands for freedom, individ ual rights, justice, order and honor. "I believe today's liberal is so irigmcncd of the future that he is incapable of acting in Ihe present," Goldwater said. "Why else are we con fronted today with a virtual paralysis of policy? Why else does Cuba remain a festering, Soviet power base on our very doorstep? Why else are we trying to pretend that inter national communism is mel lowing and not out to enslave the entire world?" ' , Deep-Rooted Fear Goldwater said that the "cause for our indecision and Inaction is a deep-rooted fear on the part of the liberal establishment which fore closes the possibility of any action at all that may contain a slight clement of risk. Such craven fear Is com pletely out of character with the American spirit," he declared. Goldwater said "liberals have taken us too far to the left for the good of the na tion, particularly when we find ourselves in a worldwide struggle with the forces of the extreme left. Hits Kennedy Speech His criticism of Kennedy was based on the President's recent speech at American University in which he refer red to a Soviet interest in a "Just and genuine peace" and urged an effort to "make the world safe for diversity." Goldwater said Soviet di versity means "slavery and oppression and tyranny and bigotry" ns well as "Godless- ness," mass murder and ag gression. " I suggest that the Presi dent's plea is just another way of saying that the New Frontier is determined to co exist with international com munism wherever it thrives- even in the Western Hemis phere,'' he said. "This is merely nn exten sion of the liberal fallacy which can never seem to real ize that there can be a serious threat to the security of the United States and the free dom of the world coming from the left of the political spectrum." HEALLY DRY Austin, Tcx.-IPMn arid parts of Texas. Texas Pa rade magazine reports tnngue-in-check, a five-inch rain is one in which the few meager drops fall five Inches apart. Powder Puff Derby To Start Saturday ItHkorsfield - WD - Eighty women pilots and copilots from across the nation made final preparation! today (or the 17th annual Powder Puff Derby which starts at 8 a. m. Saturday when the first of 43 planes takes off on a 2.400- mile (light to Atlantic City. N.J- The race ends officially at noon, July 17. but most of the planes are expected to cross the ocean front at Atlantic City and land at the National Aviation Facilities Experi mental Center well before the deadline. The planes have been im pounded since Tuesday when derby and Federal Aviation Agency officials went over each plane carefully to make sure each met ill race qualifications. 'Seeds of Hate In Civil Riahts and Field Violence' Barnett Washington-IUPD-Mississippl Gov. Ross R. Barnett told Con gress today that President Kennedy and Atty . G e n. Robert F. Kennedy are "sew ing seeds of hate and violence" in the civil rights field which could lead to a "bloody har vest." Barnett, who is under a contempt of court charge for defying a federal court order, testified before the Senate Commerce Committee in op position to the administra tion's civil rights bill to ban discrimination in hotels, res taurants, theaters, and other businesses. About 400 persons, predom inantly white youths, packed the hearing room to hear the first of a series of opposition I witnesses called by Sen. J. Strom Thurmond (D-S.C), the only Deep South senator on the committee. Thurmond repeatedly called for order as the audi ence moaned or tittered in obvious sympathy with the proposed legislation. Barnett, almost an hour late for his appearance, slow ly picked his way through the crowd to the witness table. He told the committee passage of the bill would "put hundreds of thousands of white businessmen in the streets." Barnett said the President and his brother "are sowing the seeds of hate and vio lence." "A nation could reap a bloody harvest" Barnett, who defied a fed eral court order to integrate the University of Mississippi last September, said it was all a Communist plot. "It's the same old Commu nist offensive of attack with a hammer and then with draw," he declared. Barnett warned the com mittee that it was about to hear from "that great, silent, substantial white majority back home." "If you think 500.000 Ne groes marching on Washing ton is something, pass this legislation and you'll find what 100 million angry white Americans will do." Barnett's reference was to a planned mass demonstra tion in Washington Aug. 28 by Negroes and other civil rights advocates from all parts of the nation. A leader of the demonstration said Thursday that about 100,000 demonstrators wero expect ed, rather than 500,000 as mentioned by Barnett. Barnett repeatedly blamed the President and the attor- Sown Says INSURANCE SAVINGS New York-tUPli-Americans added $1.45 to their accumu lated long-term savings last year for every dollar of in crease in their personal debt, one ofthe best such showings on record, says the Institute of Life insurance. Savings in life insurance and other long-term thrift media rose by 531.5 bil lion, nearl ya third more than the year before. ney general for the racial ' violence which has raked the nation in recent weeks. "The attorney general has been personally responsible for helping to put mobs in the street," he said. mi Far Fast, Efficient Service Ship h LASME er from Oakland, San Francisco, Los Angeles and Other California Faints Call Jack FitieeraM 771-771 Danger! Fire Hlert! The moods are tinder dry! This summer warm weather and fast-drying fallen timber have cre ated an extreme fire hazard throughout Pacific Northwest forest lands. Right now the danger is greater than ever before. Columbus Day windstorms left some 11 billion board feet of blow down stacked like kindling on the forest floor. That's almost enough wood to supply our nation with new homes for a whole year. By now this windfall has reached the tinder-dry condition foresters call "red slash" with needles and branches powder dry and red in appearance, ready to explode into flame with the touch of a spark. More Closures Necessary Co .la nisi Z ft Fire prevention experts say that if a big fire gets started this summer in any part of last year's blowdown, it may be impossible to slop. For this reason, many of the lands - both public and private previously open to the general public have been closed. These seasonal clos ures usually run from early July through September and longer if necessary. Please respect them. Whenever possible, access corridors will be kept open to lakes and other recreation areas, but only if they are reasonably clear of slash and blowdown. Your Responsibility Whenever you go into the woods, you are responsible for fire prevention in Ihe areas you use. The fire that never slarts is the fire that's easiest to control. When building fires, stick to eslablished ramping areas. Build fires only in facili ties provided for them or where there is no chance they can spread. Make doubly sure this year that your fires are never left unattended, that they are completely extinguished when -you leave them, and bury Ihe embers witli several shovelfuls of earth. Watch mutches and cigarettes carefully and make sure they are out really out If you observe all the rules of fire prevention, you can help pro vent a major fire disaster this year and continue to enjoy the benefits of our natural forest resources wood, water, wildlife, Tecfettttaa benefits and payrolls. " 1; I 4L A publio service message from A Weyerhaeuser Company
