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Mother, Father
Absent as Blaze
Destroys Home
Neighbors Battle
Flames With Hoses
v. Pendleton (U.R) Three
children Vied in the flaming
.ruins of their home at Rieth
about five miles from here to
day. The victims were Phyllis Jean
O'Neal, 8; her sister, Carol Jane,
7, and a brother, Richard Den
nis, 6.
v They died while their father,
Chester O'Neal, was taking two
older boys, Chester Jr., 13, and
'Stanley, 10, on their paper route.
The mother, Mrs. Ethelyn
O'Neal, 34, was in St. Anthony's
hospital here at the time after
giving birth to her 10th child,
a boy, Saturday night. A one-year-old
boy, David, also was
in the hospital at the time, re
covering from an attack of
pneumonia.
Olher Children Absent
Three other children, Peggy,
4; Connie, 3, and Leroy, 2, were
at 'Adams with their aunt, Mrs.
Donald Lusk. :-
Witnesses said the fire broke
out about 6 a.m. It's cause was
not determined immediately.
Raymond Long, a neighbor of
the O'Neals, said he was awak
ened shortly after 6 a.m. when
Betty Styles, who lives across
the street from the burned
house, pounded on the door and
shouted the home was burning.
Inside 'Explodes'
"The house was full of smoke
and flames when I got there,"
Long said. "You couldn't get in
the front door." He said he kick
ed in a front bedroom window
and the inside "seemed to ex
plode." The children's grandfa
ther, George Powers, who lives
a few houses away, was at the
scene a few minutes later. "The
fire was breaking out 'every
where," he said. "I tried to get
in the back door but couldn't.
When I opened the door the heat
hit me." His hair was ' badly
burned.
Neighbors strung garden hoses
to the house and poured small
streams of water on the house
but the home was a total loss.
Two Deaths Mar
Week End in State
By UNITED PRESS
' Two widely separated high
way fatalities marred the week
end picture in Oregon as motor
ists proceeded with caution over
the highways of the state made
dangerous by ice and snow.
George R. Hoff, 25, Nyssa, was
killed Saturday when his west
bound car collided with a freight
train at a county road crossing
an eighth of a mile north of
Nyssa.
The impact of the collision
demolished Hoffman's car and
dragged his body 147 feet.
The week end's other fatality
occurred about 20 miles east of
Springfield Sunday afternoon
when Mrs. Jesse Hutchens, 50,
was killed in a two-car accident
on the icy McKenzie highway.
Gale Roberts of Springfield,
driver of the other car, was hos
pitalized with undetermined in--iries.
Council Meet Called
To Consider Land Sale
A special meeting of the Med
ford city council has been called
for 12 noon tomorrow by Mayor
Earl Miller.
Purpose of the meeting is to
consider the sale of the old East
side Fire Station site, lots one
and two, block five, Euclid Park
addition.
RV Memorial Hospital Fund $90,000
Short of Goal; All-out Drive Beains
An all-out drive to raise api
proximately S9tJ,000 before
Monday, Feb. 6, to reach the
Rogue Valley Memorial hospital
fund drive objective of $850,000
has begun, campaign headquart
ers reported today.
"Yfg face a crisis," Walter G.
Garner, general organization
campaign chairman, stated at an
Elks club breakfast this morn
ing ."If the people of Jackson
count: who wish to take mem
orials and memberships sub
scribe within the next few days,
the hospital will be a certainty."
"Several hundred men have
been working for over a month
in order to make this hospital
possible," Garner said. "If each'
person now gives to the best of
his ability, Jackson county will
become a great medical center."
A jfrge number of clubs and
MEDFO
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Prime Minister
Lauds President's
Reply to Bulganin
Tension in World
Said 'About Normal'
V Washington U.R) Brii
ish Prime Minister Anthony
Eden and President Eisenhow
er joined in the first of a se
ries of White House confer
ences today in a 'constructive
effort" lo advance world
peace.'
New York (U.R) British
Prime- Minister Anthony Eden
arrived today for top level talks
with President Eisenhower and
said he believed the President's
week end reply to Soviet Pre
mier Nicolai Bulganin was "ad
mirable." Eden arrived aboard the
Queen Elizabeth with a party
of 25 for his conference, with
the President which will begin
in Washington with a lunch en
gagement. He was scheduled to
fly from La Guardia airport in
the Columbine III.
Asked if he thought the Bul
ganin - Eisenhower exchange
would improve international re
lations, Eden said he thought
world tension was about nor
mal.
Eisenhower Popular
"We think this is a timely mo
ment for a constructive effort
by our two countries," he said.
"Whenever we are together in
foreign policy and purpose that
is .the best contribution to the
peace."
Eden recalled that he had not
visited this country for 18
months. His last trip was with
Sir Winston Churchill, then
Prime Minister. He said he was
glad to be here to consult with
Mr. Eisenhower and Secretary of
State John Foster Dulles.
Eden remarked that no Am
erican had ever been more pop
ular in Britain than President
Eisenhower.
In a brief shipboard news con
ference attended by 100 report
ers and cameramen, Eden made
these quick points:
1. Middle-East: "I am anxious
to make progress on the Middle
Eastern problem ..." He said
Israel's request for American
arms was a matter for Wash
ington to decide.
Formosa Problem
2. Formosa: "Our policy and
position on Formosa was laid
down some time ago and it has
not changed.
3. H-bomb: "I don't want to
make an off-the-cuff policy on
H-bombs."
4. Germany: "We are in favor
of unification of Germany. We
have not changed our policy
nor I think have you."
5. Colonialism: Eden said it
would be a "good idea" if there
could be a joint Anglo-American
statement on colonialism af
ter the Washington talks.
The Prime Minister's meeting
with Mr. Eisenhower will be
their first since last summer's
Big Four summit meeting at Ge
neva. organizations are now consider
ing subscribing for memorials,
it was announced. Medford
Lions club recently subscribed
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Rogue Valley Memorial Hospital
Will Be Built With Your Help
O If you have not been visited by one of the 220 volunteer
workers and you wish to make a pledge to the community Me
morial Hospital, sign this blank and mail it or phone Campaign
Headquarters. A worker will visit you.
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SIR ANTHONY EDEN
Lunches with President
Baldock Seeking
$600,000 To Fix
Damaged Highways
. Salem (U.R) State Highway
Engineer R. H. Baldock said to
day he was applying to the U. S.
Bureau of Roads for $600,000 in
emergency relief funds to repair
highways damaged by recent
floods.-
In addition, he said he would
apply for slightly more than
$1,000,000 in federal emergency
relief funds to be used in recon
structing nine sections of roads
and raise the alignment of such
roads to a point, above the 1955
flood level.
Authority Granted
Authority to make the request
for the federal emergency funds
was granted by the State High
way Commission at its Portland
meeting last week.
Baldock said that the $10,000,
000 emergency relief funds grant
ed by Congress to the Bureau of
Roads now is "exhausted but a
bill is pending before Congress
providing for $30,000,000 for this
fund to cover flood damage to
roadways in the New England
states as well as in Oregon and
California.
In a survey made by state
highway engineers it was found
that flood damage in 124 loca
tions in Oregon would require an
expenditure of S85,200 to make
necessary repairs. Baldock said
it would be impractical to re
quest federal aid for these small
projects. The state will bear this
cost.
The nine projects include the
Sauer's flat section of the Red
wood high w y in . Josephine
county; riverbanks farm section
of the . Rogue River loop sec
ondary highway In Josephine
county: China gulch-Copper road
section of the Medford-Provolt
highway, Jackson county.
Moses Lake (U.R) Fire
last night destroyed the Western
Cold Storage Warehouse here,
and damage estimates ran as
high as $250,000.
for a room in the children's
ward, in keeping with their
policy of using money for. child
welfare. . , .
Rogue Valley Memorial
, Hospital Campaign
left, Medford, or Phone 3-4579
United
ON, MONDAY, JANUARY 30, 1956
R TALKS
Students Schedule
Youth Government
Conference Feb. 4
Meet Paves Way for
Youth Legislature
; More than 120 high school
seniors from Klamath Falls;
Grants Pass, Ashland and Med
ford, are expected to take part
in a YMCA youth and govern
ment program here Saturday,
Feb. 4, Frank Van Dyke, district
chairman, announced today.
The conference is designed to
prepare students to "take over"
the state government at Salenq,
April 27-28, as part of the state
Youth Legislature program.
Students will nominate mem
bers of the group to fill positions
as chaplain and clerk of the sen
ate, sergeant at arms of the
house of representatives, two
legislative committeemen, two al
ternate committeemen and three
reporters who will represent the
Southern Oregon district in the
youth legislature. Elections will
be held at a 6:30 p.m. banquet
at the YMCA, 522 West Sixth st.
Marshall Wo dell, Southern
Oregon, will present an opening
address on the purpose of the
youth legislature following reg
istration at. the YMCA. at 9:30
a.m.
A panel of experts will out
line governmental problems and
procedures to students. Robert
Root, former legislator, will dis
cuss taxation problems; Ralph
Jones, superintendent of schools
at Grants Pass, will present a
panel on education; A. C. Pierce,
retired president of Pierce Auto
Freight lines, will speak on all
phases of transportation prob
lems; Diamond Flynn, former
mayor of Medford, will discuss
problems of state and local gov
ernment, and a panel will be
given on natural resources.
Before nomination of officers
at a noon luncheon, Dr. Clifford
Miller, SOC history department,
wiE speak on campaign proced
ures of the past.
Following the luncheon stu
dents will divide into five legis
lative groups, patterned after
the discussion panels held in
the morning. Van Dyke, former
speaker of the state house of
representatives, will outline
committee procedures to the
groups. . The students will meet
with adult leaders and decide
on bills they think should be
presented to the legislature in
areas where they feel the state
needs additional legislation.
Adult leaders for the discus
sions will include Allen Pierce
and the Y'smen of the Medford
YMCA, Robert Boyer, Robert
Duncan and Carl M. Brophy.
Dr. U. G. Dubach, state chair
man of the YMCA youth and
government program, will speak
at the evening banquet.
About 60 students, expected
to attend the conference from
Klamath Falls, will be guests
in the homes of Medford stu
dents. Anniversary of Ghandi
Death Threatens Rioting
Bombay, India (U.R) Heavy
police reinforcements took up
strategic positions throughout
Bombay today in fear of rioting
on the eighth anniversary of the
assassination of Mohandas K.
Gandhi.
A police patrol opened fire on
a milling crowd in the city's
steaming slums yesterday, injur
ing two persons, and authorities
feared more violence today.
DOW-JONES AVERAGES
New York U.R) Dow-Jones
final stock averages: 30 indus
trials 467.56, up 1.00; 20 rail
roads 155.15, off 0.04; 15 utili
ties 63.76," up 0.32, and 65 stocks
165.98, up 0.32, and 65 stocks
were about 1,830,000 shares
compared with 1,950,000 Friday.
Salem (U.R) Austin F. Flegel
of Portland, former chief of the
economic aid mission to Thai
land, has filed his candidacy
here for delegate to the Demo
cratic national convention from
the third congressional district,
Multnomah county.
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No. 266
ROK Intelligence
Chief Murdered
On Way to Work
Two Unidentified
Assassins Escape
Seoul U.R) Assassins
dressed in Army uniforms and
driving a Korean Army jeep to
day murdered the Republic of
Korea's Army counter-intelli
gence chief, Mai. Gen. Kim
Chang Yong. '
The 36-year-old Army officer
was killed as he rode in his jeep
to work from his home in Seoul
at 7:30 a.m.
Two unidentified men in Rok
Army uniforms rode up beside
him and pumped four bullets at
the general. Two struck his
chest, another ripped through
his chin. The fourth hit the left
foot of the driver. 1
The assailants escaped, but
police said they were on their
trail.
Enemy of Communism
General Kim was one of the
most vigorous enemies of Com
munism in the notably anti
Communist government of Pres
ident Syngman Rhee.
Last October he arrested nine
men accused of plotting the as
sassination of Rhee.
Since 1949 he has been chief
ly responsible, for purging Com
munist and leftist elements from
the ROK Army. His methods
have been harsh and efficient
Although Kim was among the
strongest anti - Communists in
this bitterly anti-Red nation,
high Army sources said they did
not believe the killers were
-Communists. .-, .-. ,i '
" -They" believe" he Ss'TheTvie
tim of disgruntled South Ko
reans who were caught up in
his highly successful investiga
tions. Three Men Jailed
On Injury Charge
Three Medford men were held
in county jail under $1,500 bond
each today following hearing in
district court on charges of ma
licious injury to personal prop
erty. Jailed were Jesse M. Chan
cellor Jr., 21, 510 Marie st.;
Richard Dean Randall, 20, and
Ben j amen V. Sanford Shearer,
19, both of 927 Brookdale rd.
The three were arrested by
sheriff's officers Saturday for al
legedly breaking two aerials and
two mirrors off cars parked near
Central Point Thursday night.
They were bound over to the
grand jury.
Sheriff's officers also arrested
three Gold Hill youths, aged 15,
16, and 17, Saturday, in connec
tion with the burglary of Beck
er's drug store, Gold' Hill, and of
the Gold Hill and Rogue River
grade schools. They were re
manded to juvenile authorities.
Burglary Thursday night of
the West Side school was re
ported to the sheriff's office Fri
day. Nothing was reported miss
ing. David Oullette Puts
Hard-Earned Dime
Into Polio Battle
David Oullette, five-year-old
son of Mr. and Mrs. Cliff Oul
lette, 1532 Terrace dr., be
lieves in doing his share for
the March of Dimes.
Saturday David pursued
Mailman Larry Rose down the
street lo give him a dime and
instructions to deliver it to
"Doodyville," an imaginary
city -on a television program
which had asked children io
send a dime which they had
earned to help in the fight
against polio.
David had earned his dime
by gathering acorns from his
father's yard.
While the dime won't get
to Doodyville, it did find its
way into local March of Dimes
coffers.
Weather
FORECAST: Fair tonight. In
creasing nigh cloudiness Tues
day. A few patches valley fog
morning hours. Low tonight
25. High Tuesday 45.
Temp.
Highest yesterday 45
Lowest this morning 27
TULLED A BONER' Agriculture Secy. Ezra Benson ad
mitted in Washington that "we pulled a boner" and said
Tm sorry about a letter praising a critical farm article
in Harper's Magazine." Miller F. Shurtleff (left) and assist
ant to Benson, received the letter from another Benson
assistant, R. D. McMillen (right), and signed Benson's name
to it. McMillen said Shurtleff had not. read the article
. which the letter praised The article, in the nprernhpr ic.
. sue, was titled "The Country
Northwest Role in
Atomic Energy Seen
By A. ROBERT SMITH
Mail Trbiune Correspondent
Washington ' The Pacific
Northwest is taking on increas
ing importance in the nation's
efforts to explore and develop
the new field of atomic energy,
the Atomic Energy Commission
indicated guardedly in its semi
annual report Monday.
In Idaho, the AEC is planning
to build up its reactor testing
station at Arco with a $20,000,
000 construction program this
coming year.
Uranium in Oregon
In Oregon, the AEC thinks the
discovery of uranium holds out
the prospect of new sources of
this vital ore upon which all
atomic material production de
pends. -
l In.,Washington,i-in addition,io.uranium--processing-ipoM,its.-AEG
the continuing production, of Plu
tonium at the Hanford works,
there is the possibility of atomic-r
powered warships being built at
Puget Sound naval shipyard..-
The Arco testing station near
Idaho Falls is now the scene of
much experimentation on va
rious materials and is the . fa
cility which tested the prototype
submarine r.eactor (or ' atomic
powerplant) for the Nautilus.
The AEC disclosed Monday that
by spring it will begin work on
a prototype reactor for a surface
vessel; and informed sources say
this will be the powerplant for
an atomic cruiser which the navy
plans to build this coming year.
Sen. Henry M. Jackson CD
Wash.) has urged that the Brem
erton shipyard be selected for
construction of an atomic cruiser
and the navy's atomic expert,
Rear Adm. Hyman Rickover, has
tentatively scheduled a visit to
inspect the yard.
Atomic Aircraft Engine
In addition AEC is pushing
ahead with construction of . an
atomic, engine for aircraft use,
and the Air Force has asked Con
gress for funds to build runways
and other .facilities at 'Arco
where this project is to be con
ducted. Oregon has begun to contrib
ute to uranium ore production in
the past six months from . two
mines near Lakeview, which
have shipped' small amounts of
ore to government processing
stations in Utah.
AEC said this helped bring the
number of producing mines up
to 925, compared with 850 last
June. Also, it said, the produc-
H. L. Mencken, Noted
Critic, Dies in Sleep
Baltimore (U.R) -H. L.
Mencken, the caustic critic of
"Boobus Americanus," a cele
brated newspaperman and . a
noted language scholar, died
early Sunday of a heart seizure.
He was 75.
Mencken was stricken in his
sleep and died peacefully at the
Baltimore home he shared with
his brother, August.
The manner of his death con
trasted sharply with his life as
a literary "disturber of the
peace." From his pen as news
paperman, essayist and maga
zine editor flowed for more than
a quarter of a century a stream
of vitriolic comment about both
sacred and profane aspects of
U.S. life that both delighted and
enraged readers.
He spared nothing even re
ligion and democracy. But his
favorite targets were bigots,
prudes, misguided idealists, and
mediocrity.
Slickers Take Us Again."
tion rate from existing mines '
continued its sharp increase.
Although winter has tempor
arily stopped other prospecting
in Oregon, the AEC has had
ground reconnaissance crews in
Eastern 'Oregon because explor
ations in te area in recent months
have been considered promising.
Still Too Early
An AEC spokesman said the
government still considers it too
early to be able to characterize
the importance of the ore dis
coveries to date in Oregon. .
But it is. of sufficient import
ance for AEC to have negotiated
with western railroads for a low
er scale of freight rates from
Oregon, California and Nevada
to . JCaluriite, Utah, and other
reported that this has resulted in
rate reductions of from 10 to 33
per cent,
"Negotiated in the interest of
increasing uranium ore supply,"
said AEC, "such reductions are
normally an incentive to ore pro
duction in the areas involved."
Western Europe
Praises Ike's Action
London (U.R) Western Eu
rope today praised President
Eisenhower's gentle rejection of
Soviet Premier Nikolai Bul
ganin's offer, for a 20-year peace
treaty with - the United States.
Moscow remained silent. .'
Though little official comment
was forthcoming from the capi
tals of Free Europe, there was
unconcealed satisfaction with the
manner in which the President
dealt with a maneuver most
Europeans thought was designed
to split the Anglo-American al
liance. Diplomatic observers in Mos
cow said Russia probably real
ized in- advance that Mr. Eisen
hower would reject the pact.
The Bulganin letter appeared in
the Soviet press, but the Presi
dent's reply had not yet been
published.
Moscow diplomats thought the
Russian offer was a shrewd
move to win more friendship in
the more impressionable Asian
countries at expense of the Unit
ed States to make it appear
the United States was rejecting
a bona fide peace offer.
AEC Developing Several
New Weapons, Report Says
Washington-r-U.R) The Atom
ic Energy Commission said to
day it is , developing . several
brand new weapons which "will
strengthen materially the de
fenses of this nation and the free
world-."
It also disclosed for the first
time that -tests have started in
Idaho on a stationary forerun
ner of atomic engines, for air
craft And construction of a test
power plant big enough for air
craft carriers will start in the
spring.
Expansion Reported
With' production of nuclear
weapons at the highest level in
history, the AEC reported "sev
eral important" expansions of
the far flung plants where atom
ic and hydrogen bombs and war
heads are developed and manu
factured. The commission made these
disclosures in a semi-annual re-.
227 Injured as
Flames Break Up
Supper Gathering
Men Became Beasts,
Eyewitnesses Declare
Baltimore U.R) Eyewit
nesses told today how "men be
came beasts" when fire set off
a wild trampling panic at a
church supper. At least 10 per
sons died in the flaming melee.
- Police reported at least 227
injured. Of these, 14 were still
hospitalized today end one, . a
man whose name was not given,
was reported in critical condi
tion. Authorities checked nu
merous reports of missing per
spns but said they were reason
ably satisfied that all those who
were in the building had been
accounted for. 4
The flash fire broke out
about 5 p.m. yesterday in the
quonset-roofed community hall
of suburban Brooklyn, Md., as
1100 men, women and children
were attending a festive oyster
roast sponsored by the Catholic
church of St. Rose of Lima. '-
Crowd Terrified ;
Lawrence O'Brien, chairman
of the arrangement committee
for the ill-fated, dinner, told of
the horrible stampede for safety'
thaf ensued.
"Men became beasts. I saw
men beating women to get to a
door or window. Men and wom
en shrieked and screamed and
cried."
O'Brien leaped to a table and
yelled to the terrified crowd to
keep calm, but his voice was
drowned out in the frenzied bab
ble of the crowd.
The Rev. Francis Wills, assist
ant rector of St. Rose of Lima
also made a futile effort to calm
the crowd. But the terror that
stalked the hall would not be
stayed. Many were" trampled in
the crush for exits. Others jump
ed, were pushed or were thrown
through windows as flames sud
denly enveloped the roof.
'; Rescue workers at the scene
told reporters early this morn
ing that 12 bodies had been
found, but Sgt. Thomas Smith
of the state police said later that
an official recount showed 10
bodies in the building. -
I "Trip . 1 ft HnHipc wurfl frtn1. .in
the r building near the 12-foot
wide door. The crowd apparent
ly rushed for the main door, ig
noring to a large extent six
smaller exits in the building.
The dead were burned beyond
recognition in- what one witness
called a "terrible nightmare."
"I'm still not exactly sure how
it happened," said Father Wills.
"But it was the most terrible
thing I have ever seen.
"I calmed as many people as
I could and helped them to safe
ty. I don't know how many I
talked to before I got out my
self. "I prayed for the dead and
their loved ones and for the in
jured." Working under the glare of
searchlights, police and firemen
probed and sifted the debris for
other . possible bodies. Ankle
deep water hampered the search
among the blackened timbers.
Two small wings off the main
rectangular hall were carefully
searched as possible other fire
traps.
Date Changed for Local
Talk by Mrs. Roosevelt
The Medford talk by Mrs.
Franklin D. Roosevelt will be
on April 23, instead of April 28,
it was announced today.
Mrs. Roosevelt wired friends
here today to say that she would
be unable to fill the April 28
date because of other committ
ments, but that she could appear
here on the 23rd. The sixth an
nual Roosevelt memorial dinner
will be changed to that date to
permit her to be here, spon
sors of the event said.
port to Congress on the gigantic
project for which taxpayers have
put up $14,400,000,000 since its
birth in World War II. The AEC
said output , is up all along the
line from ore to finished weap
ons. Civilian and military power
projects are booming. .
Speeding Stockpile
With new H-bombs scheduled
for this spring in the Pacific,
the AEC said it is speeding the
stockpiling of weapons made
possible by previous tests.
It said last spring's tests in
Nevada "opened several new and
promising avenues for weapons
research and development"
which are being followed up "on
an expedited basis."
The AEC did not identify the
new weapon types which it said
will "strengthen materially the
defenses" of the free world. But
they are believed to include
atomic warheads of anti-aircraft
and other special purpose guided
missiles.