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1 U. o? ,0. Library Sugono, Oregon m Til JUVI V7 A mm M.Y. Plane Disaster Probe Draws Record Group Of Experts NEW YORK (AP) An imposing day began meshing their findings in an intense eiiun ui uiiu uie cause of the world's worst plane The inquiry brought into action the largest group - or .uvu Aero nautics Board experts ever as- They met in the Federal Build ing at Idlewud Airporc to snare notes, after a night of labor comb- inn thi-mtah wi-onbn0p raHin. mm. munication records and other ma terial hunting a clue to Friday's double airliner tragedy. Two incoming planes, one a jet, xnllirlari killinff at least 136 Der- sons. 127 of them aboard the planes. The jet fell in Brooklyn, where emergency workers were digging through heaps of debris, both from the shattered plane and gouged buildings. The TWA craft broke apart in the air, its fragments scattered on eastern Staten Island. t The jet plane .crashed into a block of brownstone dwellings in 4Un Unt.f nt Urnnlrlvn edtfinP death and destruction in the neigh- Dornooa. tims on the ground. Forty-three bodies have been found in Staten Island out of the 44 on tnat plane known killed. ' This brought the over-all toll of death to 136. A brigade of 275 firemen and policemen worked at the scene, fearing that other victims may be found in the ruins. Of the 128 persons many holiday bound aboard the two planes, the sole survivor was Stephen Baltz, 11, of Chicago. He remain ed in a critical condition in a Brooklyn hospital. - Recording tapes and an automa tic jet flight recorder may tell why the Trans World Airlines Constel lation and the United Airlines jet rammed into one another, 5,000 fcet over Staten Island. The UAL DC8, with 84 aboard en route from ..: nn frtt" 11 miMH before crashing in tha parlL.slope section of biooMvn. ine in niana with 44 aboard en route from Dayton and Columbus, Ohio, landed in flaming sections on little Miller Army Airfield on Staten Is land. . Part of the jet wreckage smash ed into the Pilar of Fire Church. The structure was destroyed, and the caretaker was missing. It was the first time in aviation history that a pure jet with pas sengers aboard crashed in Amer- 'CNcither plane had reported any trouble. No one actually witnessed the crash at 10:34 a.m. EST as it; alternately snowed and driezled on a murky morning. In Friday's disaster, many oi the passengers were en route home for the Christmas holidays. In the debris were gaily wrapped pack , ages. Rescue workers also found passengers' bodies held in then seats by safety bells in anticipa tion of a landing that was only minutes away. , Residents in Brooklyn made homeless by the crash were fed and sheltered at a nearby public school and in the auditorium of St. Augustine's Roman Catholic Church. There were 1,700 pupils at classes inside. Brother Brendan of. the school staff commented: "It appeared the pilot made a deliberate effort to avoid striking the spire of t h e church." Savings Bonds' Sales In Douglas County Up Douglas County November sales of U. S. savings bonds jumped by almost $20,000 over November of 1959, but the total sales figure for the vear is still considerably be low "the 1959 total. rrl,A Viramhni calna tnlnl for this year was $80,743, reports state Savings Bonds Lnairman i nomas S. Pridcaux. In November 1959, the figure was $60,955. t!,a ola Ihmnfh the VPflr for 1960 now total S829.294. In 1959 by Nov. 30, the figure was $871,934. For the slate.i the November to tal was S2.571.504. For the first 11 months lt totals $31,325,634. This is about half a million dollars above the 11-month figure last year. - Prideaux said the holdings of bonds have now risen above the $43 billion mark lor the first time in bond program history. "This is $13 billion more than the $30 bil lion held by Americans at the end of World War II," he said. The Weather AIRPORT RECORDS Mostly cloudy with occasional rain tonight and Sunday. Hightit temp, last 24 hours ...... 53 Lowest temp, last 24 hours . 44 Highest temp, any Dec. C58) .. 4 Lowest temp, any Dec. .. u Precis, leit 24 hours .21 Prtcip from Dee. 1 1.1 Prtcip. from Sept. 1 11.75 Excess from Sept. 1 44 Sunset tonight, 4:3 p.m. Sunrise tomorrow, 7:40 .m Wright Bros Flight Anniversary Only Day Behind N.Y. Disaster j KITTY HAWK, N. C. (AP) Fifty-seven years ago today, at 10:37 a.m., Orville Wright made man's first flight in a heavier-than-air machine. It was a 12-sec-ond venture into the air just a few feet above the sand. That flight was to be commemor ated in ceremonies here today, and ironically, the observance takes place just 24 hours, almost to the minute, after the worst air disaster since that first powered flight. It was at 10:34 a.m. Friday that two airliners collided over New York, killing at least 136 persons aboard the two planes, and seven on the ground. The Trans World Airlines plane involved in' the crash originated its flight in Day ton, Ohio, hometown of the Wright Brothers. North Carolina Gov. Luther Hodges and other state and feder al officials were here to pay trib ute to the Wright brothers Wilbur and Orville and to dedicate a S275.000 visitors' center and admin istration building at the Wright Brothers National Memorial. In 1927 Congress authorized con struction of the Wright Brothers Memorial atop Kill Devil Hills, a large dune the brothers used in their glider experiments preceding the powered flight. Bombing Plotter Against Kennedy Confesses Mania FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) "It's hard to say if I'd do it again," said a New Hampshire man, 73, awaiting in jail today prosecution for a plan he admit ted to bomb President-elect John F. Kennedy. Richard Paul Pavlick was the opposite of reticent in .interviews after police and Secret Service men pounced on him and a supply ot dynamite at raim Beach, where Kennedy spends weekends The stocky, white-haired retired postal clerk even diagnosed his own behavior. "I have what vou call a de pressive mania psychosis," he told newsmen. 'I feel melancho1 at. times. This evidently wasn't one of the times, despite f avlicK s predica- mcnt. He smiled frequently, cnucKiea ana cnatterea in cneery tones to newsmen and police. He said that in melancholy intervals he has several times "turned him self in. so I won't hurt anyone." Pavlick said he planned to blow up himself and Kennedy with homemade bomb because, he said Kennedy's millions had won him the nresidencv. Pavlick didn't ac tually assemble the bomb. Police said they found seven dynamite sticks in his car and three more sticks, a battery, wire and a det onator in his motel room. The motel was only 50 feet from one where recret service agents slay during their Palm Beach as signment of guarding Kennedy. Kennedy himself arrived at Palm Beach by air a day after Pavlick was seized. Newsmen were unable to learn whether Kennedy had any reaction to the oldster s bomb plot. Home Lighting Contest Judging Date Fixed Judging date for the annual Jay cee and Copco-sponsored Christ mas Home Lighting contest has been set for Dec. 21, according to Ken Clark, committee publicity chairman. , Judging will start at 8 p.m., and will continue for two hours, he said. Only individuals who have sub milted enlry blanks or post cards lo post office box 39 by Dec. 20. will be eligible for judging, and each category will be judged on the basis of cost of decorations and one grand sweepstakes winner. Winners will be announced Dec. 23. Boy,. 11, Sole Survivor Of Tragic Air Crash, Battles For His Life Against Burns, Shattered Body BULLETIN NEW YORK (AP) Stephen Belti, 11-year-old Ion survivor of the double plane crash over New York Friday, ditd today of his injuries. Methodist Hospital said the main cause of his death was ex tentivt flamt damage in his lungs. , By HAL MCCLURE NEW YORK (AP) A small red-haired noy, nis body ourned and broken, lies in a critical con- dition in a Brooklyn Hospital to - dav. His parents stand by in pray - erf nt vigil. The lad Is the iflje survivor of Friday's tragic airline collision "We're grateful to the Almighty for this miraculous thing. ' said the boy's father, William S. Baltz. Doctors believe that the youth. Stephen Baltz, 11, has a good chance for recovery, despite ser - I ions burns, a fracture of his left! leg, and the possibility he may Established 1873 10 J. E. Day Selected Postmaster Appointee Ex-Partner Of Stevenson PALM BEACH. Fla. (AP) - President-elect John F. Kennedy today completed his Cabinet bv announcing the selection of J. Ed ward Day, Los Angeles insurance executive, as postmaster general. As with the other nine members of the new administration Cabi net, Day was at Kennedy's side when the president-elect made the announcement at his ocean-front home. Day, 46, is a Democrat and once was a law partner of Adlai atevenson, wno will be ambassa dor to the united nations in the Kennedy administration. Kennedy's Cabinet is described by his aides as the youngest in the 20th Century. The average age of the 10 members is 47. The aides said they had done no research on the age of Cabinets prior to 1SUO. Standing in warm sunshine on the patio of his home, Kennedy spoke of Day as a map who has had a distinguished career in both government and business. Day now is executive vice presi dent of the Prudential Insurance Co., in charge of Western opera tions. He was a Stevenson law partner In 1945-49. When Stevenson be came governor of Illinois, iay served as Illinois insurance com missioner -from 1950 to 1953. Another Post Filled Kennedy also announced an- DOintment of W. H. Brawley. chief clerk of tne senate fost Of fice and Civil Service Committee, as deputy postmaster general. Brawley, 43, is a native of Ches ter, S. C. He came to Washington in 1941 to work with the Office of Price Administration. He later worked in the office of Sen. Olin D. Johnslon, D-S.C, chairman of the Senate Post Office Committee. On the committee since 1949, Brawley has worked under both Republican and Democratic chair men. But he has been active in Democratic party affairs, serving as assistant campaign manager in 1956 for Democratic , presidential candidate Stevenson. Kennedy said he would have a statement Sunday on the appoint ment of the treasurer of the unit ed Slates, a job below Cabinet level. This appointment is expected to go to Mrs. Elizabeth Smith, Dem ocratic national committeewoman for California. .', County Receives More Timber Sales Revenue A check for $24,577.82 has been added to other. funds received by the county as refunds from timber sales in lieu of taxes. It was presented to Douglas County Judge V. T. Jackson this week for timber sales on the Coos Bay Wagon Road grant lands. The navment was based on a timber harvest of 2.944.000 board feet in the last year valued at $99,208.65. have been iniured internally bv! breathing flames. For vnun? Stenhen the iet flicht from Chicago had been his first airplane trip alone. He wai fly- ing to New York to join his moth er and sitter on a holiday visit with relatives. . And, miraculously, little Ste phen was thrown clear of the plane's tail section. He landed about 30 feet from the wreckage. Two New York policemen, mov ing into the area in their patrol car, saw mm. "We saw lhe child thrown from 1 the plane right after the crash," i said Patrolman Joseph Manino. "His clothing was on fire. We took our coats off and bet;anjthe night there hoping, praying. heating the fire out. We man- aged to get the boy onto a side- bank and rolled him around to make ure the fire was out be cause his clothes were still imijD denng. ' Hosptial Choice Fits Pits . the boy ii the They rushed i Methodist Hospital in Brooklyn, Death Paget ROSEBURG, Overpaid Taxes Refunded To Meet Court Decision By DAVE LORTIE Naws-Review Staff Writer Checks totaling $235,703.30 have been issued by the Douglas Coun ty Treasurer's office to 16 South ern Oregon wood products firms. The checks are for over , pay ment in taxes made by lumber men owning timber in Douglas County, on their 1958-59 tax bills. The overpayment came about when a Supreme Court decision overruled a 50 per cent increase set in 1955 on the assessed valua tion placed on standing timber in the county by the Oregon State Tax Commission. The Tax Commission is resDon- sible for setting the value of tim- Der per thousand board feet. The county assessors then use the fig ure set by the Commission as a basis for figurine tax bills. In this case however, the Oregon Supreme Court upheld a decision made by the late Douglas County Circuit Judge Carl E. Wimberly, who ruled that the decision to make a 50 per cent increase in valuation of timber in the county was --nasty ana arpnrary. Special Tax Overruling of the Tax Commls- sion caused -considerable controv ersy among county governmental agencies as welt as tne general public. In order to pay the timber men their overpayments, every property owner In the county wt, assessed 'v-rniectaV'tRx nwr aut above the regular propertyUx this year. The total overpayment bin due tne lumbermen was saw, 126.17, according to Treasurer Bert Laurence. Thus far. with $44,422.87 in pay ments still to be made. Weyer haeuser Co. has received the big gest check, $131,362.80. Next in line is International Paper Co. which received three checks to taling $44,227.66. Third highest thus far is Roseburg Lumber Co., $21,462.34. United Males Plywood Corp. re ceived a check for $15,810.30 while Cascade Plywood Co. got $5,754. 97. The Robert Dollar Co. at Glen dale received $4,781.08 and Slomar Lumber Co. got $4,751.29. Others receiving checks for over payments were: Georgia-Pacific Timber Co., $3,569.05; Menasha Wooden ware corp., $2,187.25; Sun Studs Inc., $1,217.88; Snellstrom Lumber Co., $357.60; L & H Lum ber Co., $109.15; Monroe Lumber Co., $105.29; and W.B. Garrett, $6.64. Delake Duck Hunter Drowns, Pal Rescued DELAKE (AP) One man is missing and presumed drowned after a boat capsized on Devil's Lake and spilled two duck hunters into the water today. Costj Bianco, 27, Newport, was thought to be drowned. His com panion, Kenneth Beck, 18, New port, was pulled out of the chilling waters by Jess Utter and Andy Rhode, lake shore residents. Utter said he saw the two men row to the middle of the lake to place decoys when the boat cap sized. He and Knode rusnea 10 the scene in a rowboat and dragged Beck into the boat. They could find no sign ot Bianco. Before he lansed Into unenn I sciousness, ho sobbed: "Mother I . . . she' waiting for me And she was. At ldlewild. with his sister, Randee, 9, Phyllis Baltz wailed for what seemed like hours before (hey told her Ste phen was alive. Mie Durst into tears ana rusnea to lhe hospital, where she was joined later by her husband, who had flown in from Chicago. Once when Stephen regained consciousness, a minister told him he was in the Alcthodist Hospital. "Good." said the boy, "because I'm a Methodist." Bslti and his wife were given a room at the hospital and spent Ballz said his son had told him j during the long vigil that he want ed to he a pilot. But he tdded that the boy was only kidding, that he really wanted to be a sci I "Ne'vtMime I flv. I want prl - vate piSne," he said Stephen told entist him Count OREGON SATURDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1960 Profit From Yule Tree Harvest J: h 2 .1. -v CHRISTMAS TREES FOR PORTLAND homes are loaded on their truck by Kellogg rancher Eugene Holcumb, left and ..Tom Porter, Portland minister, from th tree farm of Eugene -OTidiY. K. Hokjmb. FTr, spruce, and pine are picked for their shape and color and har vested each' year os a crop by the Kellogg men, They have seven, acres' planted, in tree seedlings and are seeking perpetual harvest by replanting each yearcs frees -die or are removed. . ' . ' By DAVID McNABB News-Review Staff Writer with an eye toward the demand for more and more Christmas trees throughout the country. V. K. Holcumb and his son, Eugene Holcumb. of Kellogg planted a little over seven acres of their land in tree seedlings in 1955. lhis year, their first big har vest year, they have already re moved 300 trees for sale in Port land. They hope 16 net from 40 to 50 cents a foot for the trees. Of the more than 6.000 trees that are now approaching com mercial size on their land, about one half are pine. The others are Uougias iir. spruce and a few concolor (a type of white fir). New trees are planted each year to replace those that die or are removed. According to Kobert Bradley. county extension agent in forestry, planting of seedlings on acreage that is unsuitable for good grazing or planting of other crops, such as sleeper canyon slopes, offers ranchers an excellent extra in come source. Poor Soil- Best Areas with poor soils, in which trees grow slowly, produce the best Christmas trees, he explained. This is because slow growth re sults in limbs being closer togelh- thus giving the tree a dense. bushy appearance in contrast to the lanky shape of fasl-growing trees on good soil. nne. the fastest growing young Drain Girl Competing In State's Pie Contest A Douglas County girl, Evelyn Cole of Drain, is competing today in the Oregon State Cherry fie Contest at Salem. She is one of 25 high school seniors from 12 western Oregon counties participating in the 11th annual baking contest. lhe contestant wnose pie re ceives the highest individual score will receive an all-expense trip lo Chicago for herself and her chap- erone. in Chicago in hebruary, uie Oregon champion will participate in the national cherry pie baking contest. The top prize there is a $500 scholarship in home econom ics and a new electric range. At Salem, tho winner will re ceive a 52.1 cash prize and a certi orate entitling her and her chapcr one to the trip to Chicago, Assault Charge Hits Two U. O. Students CORVAI.I.IS fAP) Two L'nl- versify of Oregon students are free on $1,500 hail each alter prelim - inary appearances on a charge that they assaulted an Oregon State College student at the Oro-gon-OSC football game Nov. 19. Nick J. Roberl'on, 20, Eugene, and Thomas E. Bryant, 20, Scat tie, were given until Jan. 6 tn enter npax Earlier thrv had said 'they werPinnocent of an assault j that knocked tiary Butler, 20, oi Hillsboro, unconscious, Reaches 136 1 m . w. V.Y.TI .tv tree on the Holcumb ranch, netted the two partners about $1.15 last year, iney were sine to Harvest 135 trees to get a dollar apiece for them. This, although not a Jot of return, at least did more than pay taxes on the land that other wise might not have netted them anything. Tom Porter, a Portland minister and well known in the Kellogg area for his prowess as a sheep shearer, is selling the trees in Portland on a consignment basis for the ranchers. Plot Planted The two men had originally Mental Patient Found A Walking Junk Yard CHICAGO (AP) Surgeons who made a medical checkup on a mental patient because he was suffering from swollen ankles re covered 2iS objecls from his stom ach. Their report, published Friday in the Journal of the American Med ical Association, listed these among items recovered:, Twenty-six keys, 39 nail files, 3 sets of rosary beads, 18 religious medals, a bracelet, a necklace, 3 metal chains, a beer can opener, a knife blade, 4 nail clippers, 3 pairs of tweezers and 88 assorted coins. An "amorphous mass of eroded metal sludge" weighing more than three pounds also was removed by surgery. The man was a patient in a Brooklyn, N.Y., hospital. The op eration was reported by Drs. Alan A. Kane, Benjamin Gum and Ber nardo A. Mora Jr. Despite the large amount of iron material oxidizing in the man's stomach he was suffering a mod erate anemia, a condition some times due to Iron deficiency. Italian Luxury Train Wreck Leaves 7 Dead BRESCIA. Italy (AP)-The lo comotive of an Italian luxury train slewed off Its rails today into the path of an oncoming ex press train. Passenger coaches were slammed helter-skelter and there were seven known dead and about 40 injured. Involved were the fast "Artec chino" train, which connecls Ven ire and Milan, and the Trieste Milan Rapido Express. Police said I broken wheel ap- narently caused the locomotive of i the Arlecchino to hurtle off its track and onto lhe rails of the approaching Rapido, The Arlec chino was traveling at about 80 miles an hour and the Rapido at 55. Many of the Injured were Ital ian immigrant laborers from Switzerland, France and Germany returning home for the Christmas ' holidays. About SO0 of them were ; aboard the Milan trsin, which was 'speeding toward Trieste. fa r:i-;x.:. 1 s PRICE 5c General 0 v machine planted the seven-acre plot with 14,000 seedlings. Of these. about half died, and some were lost when a mud slido inundated aoout an acre of the plot. This follows the natural pattern one generally expects in any for estation project. A fullv-stocked siana ot mature timber may con tain considerably less than 100 trees per acre these being the survivors of as many as 10,000 seedlings, according to W. D. linn enstein, an industry tree farm- association otlicial. "Since the time when Hessian soldiers trimmed the first Christ mas tree on American soil during the Revolutionary War, the tradi tional use of 'evergreen trees during the Yule season has pro vided a lime wnen an Americans are brought into close contact with the fragrance and freshness of the forest," Hagenstein said. Two Persons Perish In Traffic Accidents By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Two persons died in traffic a c cidenta in Oregon Friday night, raising the state's traffic toll for the year to 447 in the Associated Press tabulation. Jerry Lee Mehrlich. 14. son of Mr. and Mrs, H. H. Mehrlich. Portland, was killed and four per sons were injured in an intersec tion collision at llalsey Blvd., and 148th avenue in the Northeast Portland suburbs. He was a pav scnger in a car driven by his brother, Robert, 18. The driver of the olhcr car, Mrs. Marjory Roberts. 42. and two of her chil dren, also were Iniured. Jean francos Loganhill, 37, Sa lem. was fatally iniured when the car in which she was riding rolled over and hit a power pole beside Highway uu-r, a nine soutn ot Woodbiirn shortly before mid night, She was alone in the car. LOW BID ANNOUNCED Angcll Bros, of Portland was low bidder this week on a proposal of SI 1 .027 for installation of a multi plate arch culvert on the North Ford of Steamboat Creek Rd. in fhe Umpqua National 1'orest in Lane County, the Forest Service: reports. SHOPPING DAYS TO CHRISTMAS 293-60 V?.'.i?VS I J-MJ ft. l-rvl-fl j Ifjif ra Craft Falls In Germany, City Torn MUNICH, Germany (API A U.S. Air Force Convair transport plan plunged into th heart of Munich today killing an estimated 60 persons, by police count: The two-engined piano p'uflged into tho busy downtown section of this Bavarian capital which was crowded with Christmas shoppers four minutes after take off from Munich-Riom Airport with 20 pel- . angers and crow aboard. Flying at low altitude and al ready burnine. it knocked off a church steeple and then crashed into a packed streetcar. Air Force headquarters In Lon don said American students from the U.S. Lniversity of Maryland at Munich were believed among those killed. A spokesman said the students ou Id have been dependents of U.S. military personnel stationed in England. The plane carried sev en crew members and 13 passen gers. An Air rorce spokesman in Washington said the plane was at tached to the 3rd Air Force and had just taken off for home base at Nordholt, England. mere wa no immediate word from the scene lo indicate anv survivors among those aboard the plane, which officials said crashed near St. Paul's church, corner of Bayer Street. Dense fog covered Munich at the time about 2 p.m. The parish priest of St. Paul's, Father Karl Froeligh. 54. said: "It was terrible. The burning plane flew very low. It was visi- oiy losing neignt. u shaved off the steeple and then plunged into a streetcar jammed with passen gers." Other witnesses said they saw the plane disintegrate upon im pact. "lhe fuselage burst like an ex ploding shell," said Miss Maria Tauher, 32, who saw the tragedy from St. Paul's main gate. ine nearby bpatcnbraeu beer hall, where the U.S. Army stores furniture, caught fire. Windows were smashed and doors ripped from their hingeB by tne plane s explosion. Two Accidents In Traffic Send Five To Hospital Five persons were hosnftalirl Friday aa a result of two seDar. ale automobile accidents which oc curred north and south of Bose burg, accordine to Orecon Stain Police. Three persons suffered their in juries in a two-car accident on IT. S. Highway 89 just north of the Winchester interchange. Unable to Past In that accident, a pickup driv en by Darrel Leonard South, 21, of Roseburg and the U. S. Coast Guard, is said by police to have at tempted to pass another vehicle as they were both traveling south. With Soulli was his wife, Leora M.. 19. He was unable to pass in time and was attempting to get back into his own lane when the second vehicle involved in the collision, traveling north, struck the pickup at the left rear, according lo po lice. Skids Broadside The Dickon was snift tn hav been skidding broadside in the mid- mo oi tne road when the two col lided. Driver of the second vehicle was Douglas H. Leedy, 22, of Berkeley, Calif., the passenger in his ve hicle was Robert Allan Leedy, Jr., 18, of Portland. South was uninjured. However, his wife suffered shuck and bruis es. Leedy, Jr suffered a concus sion and cuts. Douglas Leedy suf fered two broken legs and numer ous cuts and a concussion. Both vehicles were total wrecks. . '42' Wreck Earlier the same evening, two men were injured as their vehicles collided on Highway 42, just north of the Winston city limits. Robert Wheeler, 52, of Camas Valley, was said by police to have been traveling south and then crossed into the northbound lane of traffic, striking a pickup diiven by Raymond Holdcn Sacher, 43, of Roseburg, headon, police said. Wheeler was taken tn Forest Glen hospital In Ctnyonville where ha has been treated for injuries, the nature of which are unknown. Sacher was taken to Winston Emergency hospital and later re leased. His injuries were said to be minor cuts and bruises. H c n l I I avifu Ifirt limit I By L. F. Reizenstein I Teamsters Union President James R, Hoffa and two assoc iates oro charged by a Federal grand ury with misuse of $500,000 of Union fund in connection with an alleged land fraud operation. It teems, to skeptics especially, that the courts waste a lot of val uable time ond public money annoying Union heads for trif ling misdemeanors that ac complish nothing aside from encroachment on newspaper sptoce, o
