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' " ? , "i ' ' 4 - ' 4 FLAMES Four Medford city firemen are sil houetted against the flames from the fire wh.ch destroyed the Eruce Bauer Lumber company early Sunday morning. Stock was A spectacular fire early Sun d a y morning destroyed the Bruce Bauer Lumber company, 765 South Riverside ave., and damaged stock at the S-W Floor Covering store, next door. The extreme south wing of the lumber company, containing the retail store, and a frame storage building in the southeast corner of the lot were not damaged, ac cording to Fire Chief Gordon Barkpr. Th fire was reported to city police by Henry Courtney at 12:44 a.m. City police dispatched a patrol car which reported a trash fire at the lumber com pany yard to firemen. Send All Equipment Barker said that one pumper was sent to the scene which ra dioed for all general alarm equipment at 12:52 a.m. It was reported that the majority of the building was on fire by that time. City police shot the lock off the cate of the lumber yard so firemen could get to the fire. A high southeast wind, Barker said, caused the fire to spread. The south wall of the S-W Floor Covering store was badly scorched and fire burned throush the roof in the rear of the building into a store room. Although firemen extinguished the fire before the front part of the building was damaged, about one half of the stock was report ed destroyed. Heat from the flames made it necessary for firemen to be covered by a fog spray when they moved in close to the fire. Barker said a quantity of dy namite and caps owned by the California Oregon Power com pany stored in a nearby shed Eisenhower Observes Birthday With Work Washington ? Presi dent Eisenhower observes his 67th birthday today in apparent good health and spirits despite the continuing stress of domes tic and world problems. It was slated to be mostly a day of work for the Chief Ex ecutive. He had a busy schedule of appointments before a mid afternoon birthday visit by a group of Republicans including Vice President Richard M. Nixon. Queen Elizabeth Presides Over Canadian Parliament Ottawa. Ont. OP Queen Elizabeth II wears her corona tion gown today for the most important occasion of her visit to Canada the opening of Par liaments It will be the first time a reigning monarch has presided over Canada's governing body. For the solemn event the blue eyed Queen brought along her coronation gown a fabulously jewelled and embroidered white satin with sweeping skirt and slight train. It was designed by one of her favorite dressmakers, Norman Hartnell of London. Privy Council Meets The historic day for the Queen and her 16 million Cana dian subjects began with a meet ing of her Privy Council, or Cabinet. Among them was Prince Philip, who was appoint ee. Sunday by the Canadian prime minister. Sunday night. Elizabeth made her first "'live'' television speech, an informal chat in which she confessed that life, even for a were removed through the rear of the lumber yard by employ ees of the company. It was moved to the power company magazine near Camp White and the Pierce Freight lines ware house. The fighting of the lumber company fire was complicated by an additional supply of dyna mite caps in the office which ex ploded as well as several drums of oil, cans of paint, and other explosive materials, Barker said. Spot Fires Halted One spot fire was reported on the roof of Anderson Thrift Market, south of the lumber yard, which was put out imme diatelv bv firemen. Power and Three Arraianed On License Charge Hearings were set for three Medford businessmen this morn ing by Municipal Judge Noreen Kelly after they were arranged and chargged with conducting business without a city license. Two other businessmen told the court they would Kay the license fee after talking with the city attorney. The fees have been overdue since Sept. 1, ac cording to City Treasurer Darell Huson. The city council voted adoption of the license ordinance cn August 15. A hearing was set on Nov. 5 for Ray's Barber Shop, 139 North Central ave.. owned by Ray DeMarrs, 708 West Second st. Hearings for Richard G. Shafer, 60 North Quince st., owner of the Shafer Electric, 142 North Front st., and for the Tic-Tok Time Shop, 34 North Bartlett st., owned by M. J. Olson, Arnold lane, were set on Nov. 7 and 12. All three men posted 25 bail. City Attorney E. R. Bashaw said that each case would be separate because, "the ordinance should be determined to each individual that raises the ques tion." According to Huson. the aver age city license fee is S19.50 per business. This is slightly less than last year, he said. All three men questioning the tax are as sessed less than the average, he added. queen, has its dull side. It was a slightly nervous queen who made her debut, but before her informal, eight-minute talk was over, she again was poised royalty. Speaking part-time in English, part in French, she told Cana dians she hopes to return to America in 1959 to open the St. Lawrence Seaway and that she will make a trans-Canada tour at the time. The Queen added that "one day'' she would like to bring her two children. Prince Charles, and Princess Anne, to North America. Looks Forward to Parliament Looking to the historic appear ance before Parliament today, she observed: "There are long periods when life seems a small dull round, a petty business w-ith no point and then suddenly we are caught up in some great event which gives a glimpse of the solid and durable foundations of our existence. I hope that tomor row will be such an occasion." also damaged at the S-W Floor Covering store and spot fires were reported in the area. A crew ot 40 men and four trucks fought the blaze foi the majority of the night which was reported at 12:44 a.m. telephone poles on both sides of the street were set afire by the heat and were reported to have been extinguished several times by firemen. A 60,000 volt circuit in the area also caused a proble,m to firefighters before power com pany officials cut off power. Four trucks, including two 1,000 gallon per minute pump ers, one 750 gallon and one 500 gallon, were dispatched to the scene of the blaze. Reserve equipment and six men were left on duty at the fire station, Barker said. Fighting the blaze were 14 on-duty firemen, 15 off duty firemen, and 11 volunteers plus the chief and his assistant. Stock Destroyed A large lumber stock was de stroyed in the fire and three trucks and a passenger car were also badly damaged. No estimate was available today as to the amount of damage caused by the fire. Lumber company owners, Paul Bauer, Medford. and Bruce Bauer, San Carlos, Calif., were reported hunting in eastern Ore gon over the week end. They are expected to return to Medford this evening. City police routed northbound traffic onto Barnett rd., Keene Way dr., and down Main st., po lice spokesman said. A crowd of some 1500 people gathered at the scene of the blaze in spite of the high wind. Police officials said that the crowd was orderly and did not interfere with the equipment in any way. Approxi mately 12k police officers were at the scene. Remains at Fire Fire equipment remained at the fire until 4 a.m. Sunday when a small utility unit with a four man crew and two hose lines checked throughout the day for sparks. A, few spot fires were reported in the area Mon day morning. Part of the area in which the blaze was fought was inside the city limits, and part was out side. Unattended fires are not allowed within the city limits nor is the storage of dynamite, City Manager Robert Duff said. Planning Group To Hold Hearing A Medford Planning Commis sion Rearing will be held tonight at 7:30 p.m. in the city council chambers, according to City Manger Robert A. Duff. Hearings will be held on re quest to change property from zone class IA, single family to IIIA, limited commerical. The property is located on Crater Lake highway and Delta Waters rd. It is owned by L. P. Older who plans a service station on the site. A hearing will be called for a petition on change of zone from class IA, single family to class II. multiple family. The location of the property is on Berrydale ave. at the Big Y Market. A tentative sketch of the West wood subdivision extention will be submitted to the commission at tonight's meeting. The com mission will also report on Laur-sen-Gregg subdivision request. The commission will give their report on vacation of an alley in the Consolidated addi tion and present the proposi tion for a sanitary sewer in the South Riverside ave. area. , The Meeting is open to all interested people. Duff said. i -f::: - - P- AjjV't -r? j.v- .........-g ..- . . -T,fi)iffrtritf-ilrit W'BjVirfifci---'fiTrf": 'iftTfrJl afrttHttim i BLAZING UPRIGHTS A lone fireman sends a stream of water on some of the blazing uprigh-s, all that remains of the Bruce Bauer Lumber company, at the early Sunday morn MedfordTribune MEDFORD, Hitchhiker Dies In 3-Car Pileup On Highway 66 One person was killed and six were injured, but none criti cally, in three separate auto ac cidents Sunday in the Medford area. ' Killed at' approximately 3 p.m. Sunday was a hitchhiker tentatively identified as Willard Ratliff,. Los Angeles. He , was involved in a three-car collision on Highway 66 near Emigrant lake, five miles southeast of Ash land, state police said. His age is yet unknown. Injured in the same accident, but not critically, were: Donald G. Stewart, 28, of 210 Laurel st., Medford, driver of the car in which Ratliff was riding; Haskell Lee Stewart, 22, of route 2, Med ford, also a passenger in the Stewart car; Milo G. Barnes, 55, of 626 Catherine st., Medford, driver of another car; William Deward Jennings, 38, of 340 High st., Ashland. Driver of the third car in volved was Louis Marsillius Westby, 64, of 646 Pine st.. Cen tral Point. He was reported not injured. Car Careens State police reported the Stew art car spun oa the wet highway, struck the westbound Westby car, then careened across the highway, hitting another west bound car driven by Barnes. Stewart, Barnes and Jennings were all taken to Sacred Heart hospital and were described in fair condition today. State police said all three cars were badly damaged. Mrs. Clara A. Harris, 64, of Central Point, was reported in fair condition in Sacred Heart hospital, following a collision with a Southern Pacific engine about 3:35 p.m. Sunday at the Scenic ave. crossing north of Central Point. State police said Mrs. Harris had pulled up and stopped her Volkswagen, then pulled out onto the track. The front of the train hit the car in the left side, between door and' fender, and shoved it 13 feet up the track, officers said. The attending physician said she has a broken bone in her hand,- bruised leg and possibly a broken rib. Six Car Accident A six-car accident at the inter section of Main st. and Central ave. on Sunday about 1:30 p.m. caused a traffic jam that lasted about 30 minutes, according to city police. Police said only one man was injured in the large accident, Liburn Victor Peterson, 821 West 10th ave., who told police he was making a turn at the intersection when he suffered a epileptic attack and blacked out. He said he remembers nothing until awakening at the hospital where he was treated for head lacerations, police said. Police said Peterson's car col lided on the side with one driv en by David Bruce Shaffer, 932 Stewart ave. Shaffer's car hit the rear of a car driven by Dean Harold DeBerry, 56 Bigham rd., No. 149 OREGON 1 .VUG-IT O au Hoffa, Others Barred From Taking Office In Teamster Union Washington On A federal judge today temporarily barred James R. Hoffa and other newly elected officers of the Teamsters union from tak ing office. Hoffa was elected president of the union to succeed Dave Beck at the recent Teamsters convention in Miami Beach, Fla. Federal Judge F. Dickinson Letts signed a temporary re straining order, in effect sus pending the convention's deci sion and set Monday, Oct. 21 for a hearing. The judge acted on a plea by 13 rank-and-file Teamsters who charged that 80 per cent of the convention delegates were illegally selected to in sure victory for Hoffa and his slate. Merrill Man Slays Middle-Aged Couple Merrill, Ore. (IP) Baxter Hig nite, 27, Merrill, was to be ar raigned in Klamath Falls today for the slaying of a middle-aged Merrill couple Saturday night. The couple had been shot with a .32-caliber rifle. Dead were James E. Flaugh, about 54 and his wife Pearl, about 51. Merril Chief of Police Dal Reed said Hignite admitted shooting the- Flaughs after they refused to let him take his daughter, Cheryl Ann, 2. Hignite and his wife, Oeta Rae, about 25, are reportedly estranged. Reed said Mrs. Hignite and the child had been living with the Flaughs. The woman was not at home when the shooting occurred. Central Point. DeBerry's car was pushed into a car driven by Ron ald Lavon Glazier, 602 North Riverside ave., by the impact of Shaffer's car. Police said that Peterson's car, still traveling after hitting Shaf fer's car, then collided w-ith a car driven by Elgan Eugene Amidon, box 136, 112 Ajax st., Camp White. Amidon's car was hurled into the sixth car in volved in the collison, driven by Joe Whipple, 1946 Delta Waters rd., city police, said. Police said no citations were issued. Weather FORECAST: Partly cloudy this evening, becoming low over cast or fog in valleys tonight. Clearing by noon Tuesday. Fair Tuesday afternoon. Low tonight 33. High Tuesday fi5. Temp. Highest Yesterdav 60 Lowest This Morning 46 Prec. to 4:30 a.m. Today 14 Our Skies Tonight Sunrise 6:23 a.m. Sunset 5:32 p.m. Moonrise 9:45 p.m. Last Quarter Oct. 16 Venus, low in southwest at 6:06 p.m.. continues to move east ward among the stars of Scor pio and now forms a triangle with Antares. its brightest star and Saturn, the planet above it. mm ing fire. A high southeast wind fanned the fire causing it to spread throughout the lum beryard and into nearby buildings. A crowd estimated at 1500 persons gathered at the scene. ER 14, 1957 18 Pages rashes re Fresh Tracks Spur Search for Killer In Paisley Holdup Paisley (IP) A report of fresh tracks today spurred the search in the rimrock country north of here for the man who gunned down John Troy Law son, 65, during a post office rob bery here last Thursday. "We intend to keep search ing until we are sure one way or the other whether he is or isn't in there," Lake County Sheriff Thomas Elliott said. Object of the search is a man identified as Jesse Thurman Hibdon, 30, Marced, Calif. El liott said Hibdon is believed to be carrying a rifle and possib ly a German luger. He said the fugitive, a former Paisley mill worker, probably is familiar with the rugged area into which he escaped. Partner Captured Donald Lee Ferguson, 32, Hibdon's partner in the holdup and slaying, was wounded and captured shortly after the pair abandoned their getaway car on Thursday. He was being held in the Lake County jail in Lake view. Elliott said tracks were found Sunday which had been set since it rained Saturday night. The tracks were located near the top of the 7,000-foot ridge, where nights have been cold. Hibdon was believed to be dres sed only in a light shirt and slacks. Douglas Fir Sawmill Production in Decline Portland (W Douglas fir sawmill production, orders and shipments for last month were approximately 17 per cent below the 1952-56 average, Secretary Harris E. Smith of the West Coast Lumbermen's Association said today. "It's a Nice Trick But By UNITED PRESS Some of the Egyptian troops and tanks which landed in Sy ria were reported moving up to the tense Turkish border today in a development that heighten ed fears of an explosion in the Middle East. Egyptian sources in Cairo warned that Egypt "will take military action if necessary to defend Arab nationalism against big power moves" a warning that caused new uneasiness in Israel and Jordan. Cairo news paper pictures showed tanks ac companying the troops. King Feisal of Iraq met with King Hussein of Jordan Sunday, and there were reports in Am man that Iraq, a Baghdad Pact all of Turkey, might send troops into Jordan to defend it against any threat. Danger Termed Serious Israeli Foreign Minister Gol da Meir said in New York the Syrian build-up was a "serious and grave danger to Israel." And official sources in Jerusa lem said the Egyptian "publicity stunt" could provoke the Arab states into some new action. But Israeli sources said the Egyptian move may alert the United States and NATO once more to the military threat to Turkey. The Egyptian troop movement came against a background of Syrian and Soviet charges that Turkey and the United States planned aggression against Sy ria, and a solemn warning by the United States that it stood by its commitments to help de fend Turkey. Jets Fly Overhead The initial group of Egyp tians landed in Syria at Port Satakia, only 20 miles from the Turkish border, while Sy I Scout Fund Drive Kicks Off Tonight Central Point First Boy Scout finance campaign in over three years will be kicked off at 7:30 p.m. today in the Cen tral Point Junior Chamber of Commerce building, according to Jerry Gastineau, district fi nance committee chairman. Gastineau pointed out this campaign is one of several to be conducted in Jackson county outside the Medford and Ash land United Fund campaign areas. Approximately $6,000 is the total goal for the outside area, it was explained. This will affect 650 Boy Scouts, Cub Scouts and Explorers, in the areas outside of Ashland and Medford. Central Point has 125 members. The 56,000 is part of the over-all goal of $40,000 for Josephine, Jackson and Siski you counties. "This campaign, and the oth ers, will go toward the total budget of the Crater Lake Coun cil, and is not to be miscon strued as a fund campaign for local Scout units," Gastineau said. A. D. VanHorn, chairman of Central Point's Cub Pack 40 of Central Point is serving as cam paign chairman locally. Local campaign workers in clude Richard Stratton, William Colley, Leo Cellura, Dr. Bruce Turner, George Evans, Wallace Bowen, John Croskell, Don Fa ber, Rick Taylor, Robert Suth erland, George Evans, Kenneth Toner, Gay Hallett, and Chet Ayres. Any other persons interested in the scouting program are in vited to the kickoff tonight for campaign workers, VanHorn said. It Has No Significance" rian and Egyptian Soviet-made jets flew overhead. One battal ion was reported to have land ed for immediate deployment. Damascus Radio disclosed that some Egyptian troops were be ing deployed along the Turk ish border when it said "the arrival of Egyptian troops bol sters Syria's defenses in both the north (Turkey) and the south (Israel)." Informed sources in Cairo said the Egyptian troops would be deployed along the Turkish border where the Syrians are undermanned. Most of the Sy rian army is concentrated on the Israel border. Supreme Court Refuses To Reviev Kaspen Sentence Washington 1") The Su preme Court today refused to review the one-year jail sen tence imposed on segregationist John Kasper for interferring with integration of the Clinton, Tenn., High school last year. Rejection of Kasper's appeal means he must serve the one year in prison meted out by a federal district court in Tennes see which found him guilty of criminal contempt. Kasper has been free on $10,000 bond pend ing high court action on his ap peal. Intervention Refused Disposing of scores of cases at its first working session of the new term, the high court also refused to intervene direct ly in the eight-year-old effort of Virgil D. Hawkins, a Negro, to gain admission to the University of Florida Law school. However it did tell Hawkins to apply to "an appropriate U. S. district court" for help. The court took these other major actions today: Agreed to examine the va lidity of so-called "hot cargo" labor contracts in the transpor tation and building industries. Reversed the convictions of Communist leaders Claude M. Lightfoot of Chicago and Junius Scales of Greensboro. N.C. The action was taken with the con sent of the Justice Department. It was based on the Jencks de cision which the court handed down last spring. Camp Owner Cleared Set aside the contempt con viction of Willard Uphaus, op erator of a summer camp at Al bany, N.H., who refused to give state subversive hunters the names of guests at his camp in 1954 and 1955.. Agreed to take another look at the eight-year-old legal battle of a Swiss holding company to recover stock control of Gener al Aniline and Film corp. Dismissed a challenge to the constitutionality of a Connec ticut law which permits anyone who is injured by a drunk to sue the person who sold the liquor. Upheld the right of the Fed eral Trade Commission to sub poena books of the Fireman's Fund Indemnity Co. of San Fran cisco, in connection with inves tigation of charges that the firm has put out "false and mislead ing advertising" on health insur ance contracts. Ail-Night Search Locales Lost Hunter A. C. Brisbine, 76, of 1847 Stewart ave., Medford, was lo cated this morning in the Lake Creek area following an all night search by Oregon state police, sheriffs officers, county highway employees and friends and relatives of Brisbine. Brisbine was hunting Sunday with a friend, Claude Rector, 1220 Morrow rd., when they became separated during the af ternoon. After a search of the area by Rector failed to locate Brisbine, authorities were noti fied. The lost man told officers that he camped over night in an old mill above the Lake Creek store. He was tired when found, but in good condition. Brisbine was the second hun ter to be lost during the week end. Earl Lenz, 203 West Main st., Talent, was reported lost near Klamath Falls Friday mor ning. He was located Saturday mor ning by Klamath county sher iff'.; officers and was reported to be in good condition. Washington opt Son. Henry M. Jackson (D.-Wash.) said in a statement released by his office that budget cutbacks ordered by the administration caused delays in the U.S. missile program. for 'clock T might
