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Rebellion tarirag Da Medford . 14 Pages MEDFORD, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 22, 1958 No. '234 5 Xfi jtrfv l TERROR IN THE STREET scene in Arequipa, Peru, as an earthquake at the right. With dust clouds rising in the that killed 24 persons struck. A commercial backgrounds, residents mill about in appre sign at upper left underscores the grim hension. Cache of Liquor, Rifle Are Taken From Area Youths A large cache of liquor, some cigarettes, a .22 caliber rifle and ammunition were discovered by Jackson county sheriffs officers yesterday afternoon, according to Joe Walsh, chief deputy. Three youths, a 16-ycar-old Medford youth and two Jack sonville youths, aged 15 and 16. were apprehended and are being held in the Jackson county juvenile detention home, Walsh said. The items were taken from Coleman's hardware and liquor store in "Jacksonville about a month ago, Walsh said. Now on display at the sheriff's office are 22 bottles of whiskey, 10 bottles of vodka, about six boxes of cigars, a few packages of cig arettes and the gun and am munition. The youths told officers they sold approximately half the stolen liquor. Total amount reported stolen was one case of vodka and two cases of whiskey. Liquor Buried Walsh said the liquor was found buried in two different locations near Jacksonville and the remainder was found in the home of one of the youths. Apprehension of the trio also cleared up other small crimes, Welsh said. They ad miited entering the Moose hall in Medford twice and taking about S40 from the cash register there. The youths also admitted entering the premises of the bca-Cola Bottling company, 600 North Grape St., Medford, and taking dispensing ma chine keys from various com pany trucks. They used the keys to rob 10 machines around Medford, they said. Officers found a map of the city with numbers where the machines were located. About $90 was accumulated from the machines. The youths told officers a key to the Moose hall was found at the Coca Cola plant. The trio also admitted to entering a jewelry store in Jacksonville and taking about six eigarette lighters one time and about 12 another time. Portland OF) Three men were injured Tuesday when a bulldozer struck, a small frame shack which then fell on them during demolition work at the Brooklyn yards of Southern Pacific here. Truck Rams At Weed; 6 Weed, Calif. (IP! Lou Sbarbaro, operator of Lou's Lounge in the Genova hotel here, told police he walked into his establishment from the kitchen Tuesday night to find a truck two-thirds of the way into the building and six patrons lying injured on the floor. B. E. Bacon, 33, Portland, driver of the truck, told offic ers lie had parked the truck in front of a service station and entered a restaurant to eat. J3onald Bergstedy, Port land," was asleep in the sleep ing compartment of the semi truck, and trailer rig. v Th truck then: Broke out r - , r: fCj f This is a street story, as cracks Investigation of Licensing of Auto Parts Firm Asked A group of residents in the Hilton rd. area near Highway 62 in the northern part of Medford plans to continue ef forts to eliminate an auto parts business in the neigh borhood, a spokesman said to day. Organized under the slo gan "S. T. O. P. S. L. U. M. S." (meaning "Save Those Old Places Still Loved by U, Me and Several), they are plan ning meetings in the future to determine what course of ac- Court Considers Zoning Request Request for establishing a residential zone in the Oak Grove area west of Medford was taken under advisement by the Jackson county court this morning following a pub lic hearing. About 32 residents of the area were present. There were no objections expressed. The area includes about 103 homes and has an estimated value of . $2Vi million. At torney Ben Day represented the petitioners. Commissioner Chester Wendt said the boundaries will have to be approved by the court and an election held in not less than 30 days after the order is signed. The order approving the bound aries will probably be signed tomorrow, Wendt said. A full court was not pres ent today since County Judge Rodney Keating was in Salem on business for the county board of equalization. The area proposed for zon ing is south of Jacksonville highway, . along Janney lane and Perrydale ave., extends west from Perrydale ave. and a quarter of a mile south of the Jacksonville highway A majority vote is all that is required to establish the zone, Wendt explained. Stolen Portland Safe Found Near Mulino Oregon City IP A safe stolen! from the Babies and Children's Medical building in Portland early last Satur day was found in a field near Mulino Tuesday. Sheriff's of ficers said it contained checks and papers but more than S1200 in currency was miss ing. Into Lounge Persons Hurt of gear, rolled over a curb, through a six-foot metal fence, went through the ser vice station lot onto another street, rolled 500 yards down the street, crossed the main intersection, knocked down a flood light pole at another service station, knocked down an eight-foot retaining'wall at the Genova hotel and finally came to rest inside the lounge of the establishment. Bergstedy was not injured. Mr$. Neal Evans, 24, of Ft. Jones, Calif., was taken to Mt. Shasta hospital with a broken leg. Other patrons injured were treated at the hospital and released. Tribune begin to appear in the walls tion to take, and plan to in vite other interested residents of their area and elsewhere in Medford. Members of the group are among those who protested when the city- council recent ly voted to recommend that the parts business be licensed for operation in 1958. Their views were set forth in a tele gram sent to the state depart ment of motor vehicles re: cently, . the agency which is charged by law with issuing such licenses. f The telegram said: , . , Request Investigation "Request investigation and hearing with representatives your department regarding 1958 licensing Speedway Auto Parts, 1395 Hilton rd., Medford. Approximately 300 acres fine residential proper ty here, and 96 ' per cent of residents object to this opera tion. Petitions in hand signed by over 85 neighborhood resi dents objecting to noise, burnr ing, street congestion, drive way blocking and devaluation- of property. Residential restrictions on surrounding properties made public rec ord in April, 1952. Consistent protests to licensing this operation since 1952. We feel your department should be apprised of history of area." The reply pointed out that the department has no choice but to issue such a license after a recommendation has been issued by a local gov ernmental body. Earlier this was the county court, but fol lowing last year's annexation jurisdiction went to the city of Medford. The area is one now being studied by the city planning technician and planning com mission, which hopes to have a comprehensive land - use study and overall plan for the area prepared, probably this year. Teamsters Charged With Bogus Records Washington HP) Senate investigators f charged today that union officials in San Francisco tried to cover up withdrawals of $26,500 in union funds by planting bo gus records in the files. They made the charge after Patrick William Clancy,. pres ident of Local 3 of the Oper ating Engineers Union, testi fied that he piloted the local's plane on a cross-country junk et to cash $10,000 in union checks. Clancy told the Senate Rackets committee that he and Local Treasurer Porter E. Vanderwark turned over about $9,500 of the proceeds of their check-cashing junket to Victor E. Swanson, the local's business agent and one-time member of the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission. Clancy said he was told Swanson used the money to campaign for several candi dates running for union of fice. Portland (W Funeral ar rangements are pending here for Clarence E. Francis, pro minent Portlanda utomobile dealer who died Tuesday at Palm Springs, Calif. He was 69. Heavy fisHf m GEi AOS Washington (IP) Secre tary of State John Foster Dul les today warned the Middle East that Russia is trying to add that area to the Com munist bloc. Dulles' warning came after a conference with President Eisenhower. The secretary of state leaves this afternoon for Ankara, Turkey, to attend a meeting of the anti-Communist Middle East nations in the Baghdad pact. Earlier today the State De partment branded as "totally false" Soviet charges that the U. S. is going to force the Baghdad nations Iran, Tur key, Iraq and Pakistan, plus Britain to accept American missile bases. The official statement ac cused Russia of "incredible" arrogance and warned of Rus sia's "imperialistic aggressive designs" in the Middle East. Dulles Supports Pact Dulles said "the President has authorized me to express the deep concern of the Un ited States for the security and economic development of this part of the Free World, and our constant and unwav ering support for the princi ples of collective security sym bolized by the Baghdad pact. "The United States is fully conscious of the threat to the area which comes from the north," he said. "Formerly it was the threat of Czarist im perialism. Now it is the threat of Communist imperialism, again expressed only yester day . by the Soviet Union," Dulles'said. ;- Russia Tuesday had warn ed that acceptance by Bagh dad pact nations of American missile bases could drag them into the horrors of nuclear war. That warning was coupled with a call forTrea tion of a missile-free "zone of peace" in the Middle East. Western diplomats consid ered that proposal a propa ganda move aimed at upset ting the Baghdad pact meet ing. The U. S. is not a mem ber of the pact but partici pates in several of its com mittees. ' ' ' ; Border on Russia The Baghdad nations are pledged to resist aggression and to strengthen their mutu- Eagles to Discuss Pians for Building Plans for construction of a new lodge hall will be dis cussed at a meeting of the Fraternal Order of Eagles, Crater Lake Aerie 2093, here during its Thursday meeting, according to Louis Parker, secretary. The lodge owns about five acres on Biddle rd., near Jack son st., part pf which will be used for; the site of the new lodge building, Parker ex plained. The property was purchased in January, 1957, he said. No definite plans or cost estimates have been ! made. Construction of the pro posed lodge building would probably be financed from sale of the present building owned by the lodge at 217, 219 and 221 West Main st. Any other expenses would be met by sale of part of the property on Biddle rd. and from club funds, he said. A full initiation also is planned for Thursday night, Parker said. Gaiiher Report Said Refused by Ike Washington (IP) Senate Democratic leader Lyndon B. Johnson said today that Pres ident Eisenhower has refused flatly to give Senate prepar edness investigators the sec ret Gaither report on the na tion's defenses. . Johnson, chairman of the Senate Preparedness Subcom mittee, made public aletter from the President saying that "I cannot properly" fur nish the so-called Killian and Gaither reports to the sena tors or release them for publi cation. ' The Gaither report is un derstood to have warned that the U.S. is in the gravest dan ger in its history. Smws n AO 0 1! al defense. All of them except Britain lie along Russia's southern boundary. Besides attending the pact meeting, Dulles will hold "sol idarity" meetings in Morocco, Iran and Turkey before re turning here Feb. 1. Russia's warning to the Mid-East allies about allowing U. S. missile bases on their soil followed reports from London that the Soviets themselves are building seven missile bases in Bulgaria and Albania. Donald S.Clark, Rancher, Dies of Heart Attack Donald Stewart Clark, 71, one Ox the early arrivals in the historic Big Red Apple migration of half a century ago, died at his ranch home on ,fThe 401 Road," from a sudden heart attack early todays-He had been an active ran cher ' ever since his arrival in 1909 until a few years ago when he retired, and with Mrs. Clark has lived since then on a portion of the orig inal Clark 'property. As he had enjoyed .robust health practically all his life and there was no illness or warn ing preceding the seizure,, his death came as a severe shock to his" family " and" - many friends. Mr. Clark was born Aug. 26, 1886, jn Evanston, 111. and at the age of 23 came to the Rogue .' River valley with many others of the "college" generation' of the , Chicago area, "to enter what was then so commonly called the "fruit game." From that time until only a few years ago he was both a ranch owner and a ranch worker, directing oper ations but doing a major share of the manual work himself. . Active Competitor He was for many years a member of the board of direc tors of the Rogue River Irri gation company. He was also a charter member of and ac tive competitor in both the original and the present Val ley Golf and Country clubs, as well as one of the charter members of the Medford Uni versity club. In 1916 he married Mabel Burke, whose family had also joined that Big"Apple migra tion from . the Chicago area. Mrs. Clark . survives, as well as their daughter, Mrs. George Martin of Bronxville,N.Y.,and the latter's two daughters, Virginia and Katharine Mar tin. The only other survivor is Marshall Clark, an older brother, 1 iv i n g in Winter Park, Fla. Funeral arrangements await the arrival of Mrs. Mar tin which is expected tomor row. The services, however, will be private. - 1 Ashland Schedules United Fund Parade Ashland Ashland will hold a United Fund victory parade starting at 6:30 p.m. today in celebration of going "over the top" with more than $20,000 in contributions to the Ash-land-Talent United Fund. Participating in the noise parade will be boys and girls from member agencies and Ashland and Talent High school bands. The parade will form at the Plaza, go south on East Main st. to the fire sta tion, then north along Lithia way to the Plaza. WEATHER FORECAST: Gyierally cloudy through Thursday. Some fog in valley again to night. Chance of light rain Thursdav afternoon and night. Low tonight 32. High Thursday 48. Temp. Highest Yesterday ' 4S Lowest this Morning 28 Our Skies Tonight Sunrise 7:35 a.m. Sunset 5:12 p.m. The Moon sets at 8:25 p.m. and at that time Castor and Pollux (the Twins) will be well np in the east. Castor is the higher of the two stars; Pollux is the brighter. First Quarter Jan. 27 New England, New York State Get Freezing Rain 49 Deaths Blamed Directly on Storm By UNITED PRESS The worst storm of the win ter continued its march east ward today, bringing freezing rain and gale-force winds to New England and New York State after dumping up to 18 inches of snow in the. Mid west. The death toll from trie three-day midwestern storm rose to 49. Kansas City, Mo., was caught in a 15-inch snowfall. Seven deaths in the Kansas City area were attributed to the storm, the worst in near ly 50 years. Traffic Snarled The snow, piling 18 inches deep at Odessa, Mo., snarled air and ground traffic in many midwestern cities. Some schools and businesses closed. With the shift of the storm center northeastward, the Weather Bureau warned in terior New England and Up per New York State of freez ing rains that would coat some areas with a dangerous glaze. -Heavy Rains Arrive A rush of warm air lifted warnings of eight-inch snows in New England. Boston ex pected a 50-degree reading during the day.. Rains were heavy and widespread. At Nashua, N.H., flooded streets forced schools to close. In the Midwest, a pulse of cold air followed the snow storm. The temperature drop set off light snows from Michigan and Illinois through the1' Ohio - Valley into - Ken tucky. The mercury fell below zero in snow-covered Iowa and Nebraska. Another surge of cold air also spread light snow near the Canadian border from North Dakota to Michigan. Many Heart Attacks A United Press count since the start of the storm Monday showed many deaths resulted from heart attacks induced by exertion and stress during the storm. Illinois reported 11 weather connected deaths; Indiana 6; Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and Missouri 5 each; Kansas, Iowa and Nebraska 4 each; New York and Oklahoma 2 each, and Michigan 1. BLM Forester Gets Transfer, Promotion Wilson Bioree. 843 West Jackson St., unit forester with the local district of the bureau of land management, was no tified this week of his appoint ment as district forester for BLM in Ukiah, Calif. The appointment will be come effective Jan. 25, accord ing to Ross Youngblood, dis trict forester. Bioree has been employed by . the' BLM since 1948 and was with the uena district prior to his transfer to Medford three years ago. Youngblood said a replace ment has not heen named but hoped that a promotion would be made within the local dis trict. He left for Portland to day where he will meet with the regional forester regard ing the vacancy. Youngblood will return to Medford Mon day. Rep. Smith of Wisconsin Dies Washington OP) Rep. Lawrence H. Smith, 65, (R Wis.), died of a heart ettack today after collapsing in the House restaurant. The congressman, who ap parently had recovered from a heart ailment suffered a year or so ago, fell across an empty table in the restaurant as he reached for a chair to sit down. Doctors worked over him immediately, but Dr. George Calver, Capitol physician, re ported there was no heart beat. ' Adrenalin was injected and artificial - respiration was tried. With an oxygen mask fit ted over his face, he was tak en to the Walter Tippd Armv Medical center where he was pronounced dead on arrival. "Think There's Been Minds Russia Will Settle Only for Larger Meetings London fW : Communist diplomats said today Russia will settle for nothing less than a "broad summit" con ference, representing lessen nations as well as the Big Four powers, in any future international negotiations. The authoritative Red sources said this attitude ap plies to further- talks on the deadlocked disarmament is sue as well as ' to any other question of world importance The statement apparently was inspired today by the Krem lin. In Numerical Minority . "Russia is tired of pro tracted negotiations in which it finds itself in a numerical minority," they said. "It wants a wider international forum for future discussions." The Kremlin's minimum demand for a conference, these sources said, would be a meeting of leaders of the Big Four, plus the member nations of the Atlantic and Warsaw pacts and such "neu trals" as India, Egypt, Yugo slavia and Afghanistan. For disarmanipent in par ticular, the Communists said, the Russians favor a confer ence representing many more nations something on the order of the proposed 82-na-tion meeting rejected by the last U. N. General Assembly. The diplomats said Russia is mobilizing the entire re sources of its massive, world wide propaganda machine for Russian Submarine Warning Issued Washington (IP) Sen. Henry M. Jackson said today that missile-firing Russian sub marines could devastate much of America. ' The Washington Democrat said the administration is "virtually ignoring" the need for a radar network to give warning of such an attack. Jackson issued his state ment as the House debated President Eisenhower's emer gency request for $1,260,000, 000 in additional cash for mis sile development and defense measures. Passage ,of the appropria tion measure is expected Thursday. Warehouse Destroyed In Fire at Portland Portland Wi Fire early today destroyed a warehouse and its contents at the Carl M. Halvorson Construction Com pany plant at 10626 South west Pacific highway with loss to the building estimated at $12,000. DOW-JONES AVERAGES New York IIP) Dow Jones final stocky averages: 30 industrials 445.70. off 0.94; 20 railroads 106.23. off 0.29; 15 utilities 71.54, off 0.11; and 65 stocks 151. 56, off 0.33. Sales today were about 2,390,000 shares compared with 2,160,000 shares Tuesday. V. flfaast Enough Meeting Of Yet?" in Future an all-out effort to impose its terms on the West. The Russians will accept nothing less than unqualified acceptance of their demand for a "broad summit" meeting as the first step toward new talks, the Communist sources said.. After that, they said, the Kremlin might be willing to consent to negotiations by experts, acting through diplo matic channels, to work out formal agenda for the meet ing'. Under no circumstances, the Reds said, would the Russians agree to the foreign ministers' conference proposed by the West as a preliminary to any summit meeting. Democrats Jump on Money Relaxation Washington (IP) Demo crats jumped on the govern ment's newest relaxation in its "tight money" policy to day as showing the business recession is "more serious" than the administration ad mits. . Some members of Congress said the Federal Reserve Board's reduction of the in terest rate on loans to mem ber banks from 3 to 23A per cent should1 be followed up by more anti-recession moves. The new rate went into effect today in Philadelphia and other Federal Reserve banks were expected to follow suit. Gold Hill Man Is Sentenced in Court David Regan, route 2, box 517, Gold Hill, received a suspended sentence of five years in the state penitentiary after pleading guilty in cir cuit court yesterday to charges of grand larceny. Sentencing of William Kay mond Dyer, of the same ad dress, and on similar cnarges was postponed pending addi tional information. . Both men were charged in connection with the theft of two wheels and tires from Parsons Motors, 315 East Fifth st., Medford,: Nov. 23. Fourteen Directors Are Elected to YMCA Board Fourteen ' directors were elected to the Medford YMCA board at the organization's annual meeting last night. Thev are Girna Stanley, Glenn Jennings, Dr. laurel Case, C. E. Chamberlain, Woody Morse, Larry Clark, Walter Garner, Ray Reter, Bill Williams, Cliff McGinty, Ray Offord, E. B. Devoe, Mar shall Bessonette, and Lowell Chamberlain. Directors will elect officers at a meeting next month. Carl BroDhy, president oi the Y, called attention to the nppris of the Y movement in Medford. and stressed the im portance of persons joining to receive the organization s benefits and giving assistance to an expanding youth pro gram. Reports covering activities Police Patrols Control Riots; Spread Indicated Automobile, Bus Traffic Picking Up By UNITED PRESS A nationwide rebellion against the regime of Presi dent Marcos Perez Jimenez of Venezuela appeared to be coming to en end today but not until savage street fight ing killed 30 persons in the capital city of Caracas alone. United Press Correspond ent Joseph Taylor reported from Caracas today that radio and television stations had re sumed their regular broad casting. This meant the govr ernment - imposed "network" in force during an emergency had ended. Traffic Picks Up A nightlong curfew ended at 5 a.m. and it was not an nounced whether it would be continued. Automobile and bus traffic was light in the early hours but was picking up rapidly. It was believed in ternational airlines would land in Caracas as usual to day. However a communique broadcast by Radio Maracai- bo and heard in Willemstadt, N.W.I., warned the population of Zulia State to "ignore false rumors." It instructed all in habitants to preserve- peace and order there by carrying out their normal duties, an indication the strike might still be in effect there. Maracaibo, 325 miles west of Caracas, is Venezuela's sec ond largest city. Spread Indicated A government communique issued in Caracas Tuesday night said armed police pa trols, secret police and nation al guardsmen had brought the riots under control, but other sources indicated trouble was spreading throughout the country. Reports received in Wash ington said more than 100 persons were . injured and approximately 1,000 arrested in the Caracas street fighting. They said the disorders were still underway Tuesday night. Rigid Censorship Imposed A rigid censorship imposed by the Venezuelan govern ment masked most details of the disorders, but a direct dis patch from Caracas reported 30 dead in the fighting. A Caracas dispatch also re ported disorders in the cities of Valencia, Valera, Valle de la Pascua, Los Tigres, Los Teques, Fijo and Pueblo Nuevo. The disturbances were described as "minor." Some of these are import ant oil towns on which Vene zuela relies for one of the highest federal incomes-in the world. Rogue River Man Is Fined in Klamath Klamath Falls Harold Raymond Van Hoy, 37, of Rogue River, was fined $100 by U.S. Commissiojier Bert C. Thomas Friday after he pleaded guilty for illegally shooting swans in southern Oregon and northern Cali fornia. Tom Garrett, federal game management agent here, said Hoy was the third person ar rested for illegally shooting swans. He estimated that 40 swans have been shot this sea son, about the same number as last year. 403,258 Jobs Filled By Employment Service Salem BP) A record 403, 258 persons were placed on jobs by the State Employ ment Service during 1957, Di rector Earl R. Lovell an nounced today. in the YMCA last year were given. The memorials com mittee announced that a pro posed swimming pool specta tors gallery at the west end of the pool will be named on behalf of the late D. Ford McCormick, who served 12 years on the board of direc tors. Friends of the family have donated funds for the gallery. Awards for outstanding ser vice were presented to Mrs. Ray Wilkes, "Lucky" Heuer, Don Dixon of Ashland, Wilson Gilinsky, Don Gray, and Heuer. Three - year service awards were presented Dr. William Roberts, S. V. Mc Queen, Ray Offord, A. C Pierce and Brophy. Dr. Clifford Miller and Wil liam Warren, representative! of the Ashland YMCA, also were present.
