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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.
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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 . Directors of Inveitore
Mutual hot declared a quarterly divi
dend of sixteen cents per share payable
on April 22, 1955, to shareholders of
record as of March 31, 1955.
H. K. Bradford, PrmUt
J. W. Ambler
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Driver Hospitalized
After One-Car Crash
Clarence Betz, Camp Baker
rd., was hospitalized early Sat--urday
after the car he was
driving left Highway 99 near the
Evershady Auto court, Phoenix,
and struck a telephone pole, ac
cording to state, police and Med
ford Ambulance service drivers.
He was taken to Community
hospital for treatment of hip injuries.
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