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1 3, .1 Neglected Cigarette Blamed in Hotel Fire; One Room Is Damaged A cigarette left burning in an ash tray Friday evening touched off a fire in Room 417 of the Medford hotel, resulting in a general alarm that brought four fire trucks, 32 regular and vol New Law on Prison Hostages Awaiting Governor's Okay Salem (U.R) A new crime will be put on Oregon's statute books if the governor signs a senate-passed bill approved Fri day by the House. Despite a move by Rep. Pat Dooley (D-Portland) challenging the ruling of the speaker, the House approved the measure set ting up penalties for the crime of taking, holding or killing of a hostage by convicts in the state penitentiary. Separate Coda Dooley objected to the bill be cause it would set up a separate criminal code applying only to persons in the penitentiary and would duplicate the law for crimes committed on the outside. He cited rules of the House in his claim that the bill was not properly before the House. He said the House Judiciary Com mittee had once passed the bill out with an adverse report and that it was then taken back to committee from the clerk's duty without motion of the House. Rules No Violation Speaker Ed Geary ruled that the procedure was not a viola tion of the rules because all the committee members agreed to take the bill back for reconside ration and that the adverse re port, had not been read to the : House. Dooley appealed from the speaker's ruling and was defeat- I ed by a voice vote, j The House was adjourned Sat urday for the Easter week end. HONEY GROWS quickly when Invested here . . . where INSURED SAFETY and LIBERAL EARNINGS await your savings. Open an account . tomorrow and get these worthwhile savings from now on. FIRST FEDERAL SAVINGS & LOAN ASS'N of Medford 27 North Holly An Institution Dedicated Te Those Who Save unteer firemen and hundreds of spectators to the scene. The blaze was controlled by firemen before it spread out of the room where it started. The room's interior was scorched and charred, and the chair on which the ashtray had been left, and which was set ablaze by the cig arette, was destroyed. Heat Intense The heat generated by the blaze was intense hot enough to blis ter paint on the opposite wall, 14 or 16 feet away. Occupants of the room, Lake view band members here for the Southern Oregon Music festival, were not around during or after the fire. Hotel Manager Harry Watson was bemoaning the blaze, not so much for the cost of redecorat ing the room as because of the "bad publicity" from the fire, fourth which has hit the hotel within the past year. Others were due to wiring defects, but according to Fire Chief Gordon Barker this one was clearly the responsibility of the occupant of the room. The hotel was checked for fire hazards earlier in the week by Fire, Marshall Truman Nelson and given a clean bill of health. Alarm During Meeting The alarm, which was given because of smoke which filled corridors and rooms of the fourth, fifth and sixth floors, was sounded at 8:27 p. m. during a meeting of firemen from all three stations at the main station. The fire was extinguished by the first fireman at the scene with a hotel fire hose. , Friday at 1:20 p. m. the rural pumper responded to an alarm at 2076 Table Rock rd., where a mattress in a vacant house was discovered on fire. It was ex tinguished without other loss. KING SIZE SMOKE RING The fireball (top) over Nevada testing ground at Yucca Flat as seen from the official con trol point about 10 miles away. It was dropped from a B-36 and detonated at an altitude of over 30,000 feet. Its cloud (bottom) takes on the shape of a giant donuk Smoke trails were made by jets. Andersen Disagrees With His Attorney About Appeal Klamath Falls (M P) Tamps i fiO-dav rirnnk term on the se Klamath Milk Industry Okays Additional Fund Klamath 'Falls U.R) In creased voluntary assessments for additional advertising and promotion of the milk industry had the approval Saturday of the Klamath Basin Grade A Pro ducers Association. The group started an adver tising campaign at the area level three years ago and reported a steady increase in milk con sumption. Members tax themselves 10 eents per hundredweight on milk produced to support a $10, 000 advertising and promotidn budget each year. In May and June they will add an extra one cent to go to support of the Ore gon Dairy Products Commission and another cent to go to the American Dairy Association's national program. Klamath Falls (U.R) James Quinton Anderson, who con ducted two hunger strikes in the county jail here this week, Sat urday was reported in disagree ment with his attorney over carrying out an appeal to his second degree murder convic tion, which is before the Oregon Supreme Court. Klamath County Sheriff Mur ray Britton said Herbert Welch, Burns attorney, rushed here Friday when informed that An derson, who had vowed he would rather die than go to prison again, planned to drop his appeal and begin his sen tence at the state prison at Salem. Hope To Convince Client The defense attorney, who conferred with Anderson in his cell Friday, said he hoped to convince his client to let the ap peal stand'. Attorney Welch said troubles were plaguing Anderson. His client's wife, 19-year-old Marcia, planned to file for a divorce, and Anderson had complained ! of a numbness on the side of his head. Anderson went on a 43-hour hunger strike, which ended Wednesday morning, because he was refused permission to pass notes from his first floor isola tion cell to his wife, serving a 60-day drunk term on the sec ond floor. Starts Again The hunger strike was started again Friday, according to jailer Fred Calfee, who said Ander son told him he was accepting prison food and then throwing it down the toilet in his cell. Anderson was convicted last 1 February of the slaying of Rich ard David Miller, wealthy Beat ty show horse breeder. The kill ing occurred in November, sev .eral months after Anderson was discharged from the peniten tiary on an armed assault sentence. Sunday, April 10, 1953 MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE THREE King of Portland Gypsies Succumbs Portland U.R) Miller Ris tick, 70 - year - old uncrowned king of Portland's gypsies, died at Physicians and Surgeons Hos pital here Friday. More than 150 persons waited outside the hospital after Ris tick was taken there about noon Friday. Police were called to disperse the gypsies because of the commotion and wailing they caused when told of their lead er's death. State Democratic Chairman To Be Master of Ceremonies At Roosevelt Dinner Here Howard Morgan, Monmouth, chairman of the State Demo cratic Central committee, will be master of ceremonies at the fifth annual Roosevelt Memorial din ner to be held here Saturday, April 23, according to Bob Boyer, chairman of the Jackson County Democratic committee. The gathering will be in the Medford Junior High school boys' gymnasium, and Stephen A. Mitchell, Chicago, former na tional Democratic chairman, will be the speaker. Mrs. Mitchell will be with him. National Democratic Commit teeman Monroe Sweetland and Charles O. Porter, Eugene, 1954 Democratic nominee as congress man for. this district, also plan to attend. Others yet to be heard from are State Vice-Chairman Edna Scales, State Rep. Maurine Neuberger, State Sen. Joseph K. Carson, Attorney Gen eral Robert Y. Thornton and other state Democratic leaders who have been invited. Committeemen Named Among local committee mem bers working on plans for this year's event are Mrs. Edward C. Kelly, general chairman; Wil liam Deatherage, ticket chair man, assisted by Marcus Norton, Doris Boothby, L. Peers Wil meth, Robert Duncan, Sidney Ainsworth. Dr. Arthur Kreis man, Alvin York, Larry Shee han and Mrs. Albert Straus. James M. Main and Mrs. Moore Hamilton are co-chairmen for arrangements, assisted by Tom Reeder, Arthur Lusk, Bill Rozzell, Cecil Norris and Mrs. William Deatherage; Mrs. Neva I. Clark is decorations chairman, assisted by John E. Gribble, Mrs. Albert Johnson, Mrs. Robert Boyer, and Mrs. Harlan Bos worth; Mrs. Thomas Higgins and Frank DeSouza, reception co chairmen assisted by Larry Shee han, Robert Boyer, Mrs. Harvey Nichols; Mrs. W. G. Werner, foods committee chairman, as sisted by Mrs. George Watson, Mrs. W. H. McGuire, Mrs. Scott Hamilton, Mrs: Jess- Wagner, Mrs. Frank Parke, Mrs. John Bowdish and Mrs. H. W. Crocker. Two Portland Firms Tell Merger Plans Portland (U.R) Plans were disclosed Saturday for combina tion of two major Portland re tail firms, Pacific Department Store and Powers Furniture Company. The joint operation will be called Pacific-Powers. The plan leaves the two com panies as separate corporate en tities but with co-ordinated ope rations under one roof. The present Pacific store building is expected to be a casualty of the new Morrison street bridge approaches. George R.-Walker, president of Powers, and Harry Pederson, vice-president of Pacific, made the announcement. Walker will continue as manager of furniture operations and Pederson of ap parel and related merchandise. Tlie plan calls for Pacific to use the basement, main and sec ond floors and half the third floor of the main Powers building. Elementary Music Fete Plans Readied Ashland Plans are shaping up for the Jackson County Ele mentary School Music Festival to be held at Southern Oregon college on Wednesday, April 27. Assistant Professor of Music Helen Robinson said that tape recordings of six of the most difficult songs vo be sung in the festival have been prepared by the college and are ready for distribution to schools that re quest them. "Singing Time," the series of musical radio programs to help the children prepare songs for the music festival will continue to be broadcast by KMED each Tuesday at 9:45 a.m. until after the festival is over. Registrations have already been reported from several schools, Miss Robinson said. The deadline for registrations is April 16. The school with the lar gest number of entrants regist ered to date is Griffin Creek with 150 children. Gold Hill has entered the second largest group, with 100. MUTUAL Inc. Notice of 58ffi Consecutive DirHmtS. The Board of . 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