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15) ERI1 OEF URGE r Uvll l!i tra e -Year- After Slaying of Companion at Roadblock Former Convict Killed by Police, Following Holdup Kidnap, Robbery Charges Faced Brookings, Ore. (IP) A 16-year-old California girl, wno traveled with an ex-con- vic gunman until he was killed in a gun duel at a police road block at Carpenterville Sat: urday night, was taking her experience ' pretty cool" to day, authorities said. Ddrothy Louise Decker, who set out last week with Henry Hill, 36, packing a bedroll and a .38 caliber pis tol, to "rob banks," was lodged in the Gold Beach, Ore., jail. Brookings police said she would be charged with robbery- and kidnap. They said under Oregon law she could be tried as an adult. Kill died in a hail of bullets from the guns of two officers late Saturday night after shoving the girl out of the line of fire and trying to shoot his way out of a road block that had been set up to get him. Took Four Hostages The five-foot-sevten ex-San Quentin inmate got off two shots before he went down under the fire of state troop er Kenneth Hemmerling and deputy sheriff Ross Bates. Neither of Hill's shots scored a hit. Hemmerling and Bates had ordered six occupants out of the auto in which Hill and the girl were riding. The four others were hostages taken at gunpoint by Hill a short time earlier. They were David Ram beck, 23, Chris Jansen, 23, George Sullivan, 22, and George Haines.. 23, all of Brookings. A manhunt for Hill and the girl began Friday night after they kidnaped and robbed Brookings policeman Pat Simms when he tried to ques tion them about pan-handling. Hll drew the .38 on Smms and forced him to drive a few miles out of town where he took the officer's revolver and billfold and fled into the brush with the Decker girl and their bedroll. San Quentin Alumnus Hill had served time in San Quentin for armed robbery in Stanislaus County, Calif. The Decker girl's home was orig inally Lynwood, Calif., but she had recently been living with relatives at Vallejo, Calif., and Reno, Nev. She told authorities she and Hill set out last week intend ing to "rob banks." She said they robbed a service station near Sacramento, Calif., of about $40 before coming into Oregon. Girl Talks of Threat The girl .said "I don't know why I ever left home." She said that she wanted to leave Hill, her cousin, "when he talked about shooting the first cop he met" but that he had threatened her. "I wasn't really afraid of him, how ever," she said. She said she "always want ed to be a policewoman." Haines, one of the four men who had been held as hos tages, said they "tipped off" officers at the roadblock by looking straight ' ahead and not talking. Sullivan said his hand was over the back of the seat with a rope on it. "That was a dead giveaway," he said. Portland OP) A flotilla of pleasure boats following the route of Lewis and Clark was due here this afternoon. Death Ray Seen Possible As Weapon of Tomorrow Washington P Roy W Johnson, head of the Defense Department's Advance Re search Projects Agency, said today the weapon of tomor row "might be a death ray." He told the House Space Committee that no death ray reaseaixh is being conducted at the present time, and no such propect is contemplated in the early future. But he said "we have to keep our mind open to everything." "The bomb today is con sidered the ultimate weapon," he said. "I suspect that 20 years from now the bomb will be passe." . G rl 53rd MEDFORD 20 Pages Dollies U. NAMES RECORDER The four young ladies in the picture above are among the first to be listed in Medford's new "memory book of trees," having been named for the honor .by someone who has planted a tree under the city's tree planting program. Their names will appear on a certificate containing the signature of the mayor and the city seal and the certificate, will be , placed in the, book and kept in the city vaults. All trees planted in the city must now be the type that is recommended by the landscape committee for the" particular Call For Bids Made On Emigrant Dam Enlargement Project Bids have been called for enlargement of the Emigrant dam 'near Ashland on the Talent division, Rogue River basin project, according to the Bureau of Reclamation. Work is to start in 30 days following the awarding of the contract and to be completed in approximately three years, High Court Rules On Strike Clause ..Washington (W The Su preme Court ruled today that an employer may not insist on a contract clause barring strikes unless they are voted by a majority of all, em ployees, both union and non union. The issue arose in 1953 col lective bargaining negotia tions between the United Auto Workers and the Wooster, Ohio, division of the Borg Warner Corp., manufacturers of fuel and hydraulic pumps. Today's opinion was by a five-man majority. He made the statement in advising that the nation's space program should be pri marily oriented toward de velopment of military weap ons rather than the interests of civilian science. Bomb Wouldn't Drop "The scientist has said it is ridiculous to put a man in a satellite tor drop a bomb be cause a bomb wouldn't drop," he said. "But our work might lead to a death ray. That would be the weapon of tomorrow and obviously a man up above in a satellite would be in the position to use it." LoigeiQ Year MEDFORD, Te s Desires street, Mayor John Snider said, and any person who plants a tree may dedicate it to someone by applying for a certificate. The girls above are, left to right, Robin Adams, . daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Adams; Wilma Young, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. H. B. Young; Danae Patella, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Joe Patella and Betsy Dun levy, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James Dun levy, Medford. The book and certificates were donated by a Medford tree lover to encourage the planting of trees. Bureau of Reclamation of ficials here said. Bids are due June 3, at 10 a.m. The project consists of con struction of an earth, and rock-fill dam over an exist ing arch dam, construction of the tunnel outlet works, and construction of three earth dikes. The dam on Emigrant creek will be built to a height of about 79 feet above the existing crest. Estimated quantities in clude diversion and care of the stream, removing 320 cubic yards existing concrete, 66,000 cubic yards excavation furnishing and placing 120,000 furnishing and plaing 120,000 pounds permanent structural steel supports, furnishing and installing 6,800 pounds chain link fabric for tunnel roof bolts, 1,500 square yards pro tective' coating, 22,000 cubic yards excavation for outlet works discharge channel, 11, 000 cubic yards excavation for spillway. Other quantities include 150,000 cubic yards excava tion for foundation of dam and dikes, 120,000 cubic yards excavation from borrow pits, 155 cubic yards concrete backfill in existing tunnel. The contractor is to install high pressure gates and con trol equipment, furnish and install metalwork, steel outlet pipe, trashracks, and 1,000 linear feet chain link fence. Bids will be opened at 10 a.m. Thursday on the clear ing of the Howard Prairie reservoir area, according to the Camp White office of the Bureau of Reclamation. The bid opening is sched uled for the Camp White of fice, a spokesman added. This includes clearing a gross area, 20 miles east of Ashland, of 990 acres of brush, a few sheds and any existing buildings in the dam site. Completion deadline is 180 calendar days from the time notice is given the contractor to proceed, officials said. in. Brookings Jail OREGON, MONDAY, MAY NAT Allies Conference Starkweather on Trial for Murder Lincoln, Neb. (IP) Charles Starkweather, the red-haired garbage man who has con fessed killing 11 persons n a rampage of terror in two states, went on trial today with the prosecution seeking his execution in the1 electric chair. Immediately upon the opening of the trial, Stark weather's attorneys amended their previous plea of inno cent to a plea of innocent by reason of insanity.. ' . The scene at the Lancaster county courthouse was sur prisingly quiet in view of the outrage provoked by the mass slayings last January.' More than two dozen armed deputies were in the corri dors and at the doors. But the public numbered less than 100. A panel of 147 prospective jurors was called. Sites Foundation To Meet Tonight The annual meeting of the Siskiyou Pioneer Sites foun dation will be held at 8 o'clock tonight in the high school cafeteria, a spokesman announced. Dr. Elmo Stevenson, presi dent of Southern Oregon col lege, will speak on the aims and purposes of the organiza tion. Jack Sutton. Grants Pass junior high school his tory teacher, will give an il lustrated talk on historic sites in southern Oregon. Colored slides will be shown. Officers will be selected and annual reports made, the spokesman said. All those interested in the preservation of historical sites in southern Oregon and north ern California are invited to attend. ' - MfletSsi Montreal (IP) Police today seized a suspect and recovered most of the $2 million worth of securities stolen from a bank in Can ada's biggest robbery. Tribune 5, 1958 Prior Preparation Claimed Needed For Summit Talks Similar Assurances By Britain, France Copenhagen (IP) The Unit ed States told its North Atlan tic Treaty Organization allies today that it is willing to take part in an East-West summit conference but only if it is properly prepared before hand. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles gave this assur ance . in a report to the 15 foreign ministers of the alli ance meeting here. Informed sources said sim ilar assurances were given oh behalf of the other two major western powers by British Foreign Secretary S e 1 w y n Lloyd and Lameduck French Foreign Minister Christian Pineau. , The NATO council, meet ing for the . first time in the Danish capital, discussed the West's efforts to get the Rus sians to the summit confer ence table." Conference sources said that Dulles, speaking for all mem bers of theBig Three, gave a detailed report on the recent exchanges of notes and diplo matic messages between Mos cow and the West. The NATO conference plunged jnto discussion of the summit problem when it met for its second working session. Meeting in Copenhagen's massive granite Christians borg Palace, seat of the Dan ish Parliament, the 15-nation gathering heard Danish Pre mier and Foreign Minister K. C. Hansen open the talks with a warning that there must be an East-West settlement if "the world is to avoid a third world war. Jacksonville Girl Wins Scholarship Salem (Special) Romelle Inez Fossen, Jacksonville high school student, has been awarded a $1,000 Max D. Tucker scholarship to the Uni versity of Oregon, Dr. G. Her bert Smith, chairman of the scholarship selection commit tee and president of Willam ette university, announced to day. Miss Fossen is top student in her graduating class of 30. She has been a leader in her high school, editor of the school paper, a member of the National Honor society; sec retary of the student body, was named outstanding chem istry student and won the Betty Crocker "Homemaker of Tomorrow" award. She plans to major in mathemat ics at Oregon. The scholarships are fi nanced by a $100,000 trust fund created by the late Max D. Tucker, fdrmer president of the Cascades Plywood cor poration, Lebanon. The awards are made to students who plan to attend Oregon, Willamette university, Ore gon State College School of Forestry or Lewis and Clark college. -' Crime Meet Gets 1 00 Reservations About 100 advance reserva tions for the Western States Crime Conference have been received," according to Lyle Perkins, Medford detective lieutenant and manager ,for the conference. " He said the event will be held in Medford on May 19, 20 and 21. The conference is held annually for the 11 west ern states to discuss safe burg lars, their methods and cars they use, he said. Price 10 Cents No. 38 Oregon Heavy Construction Workers Strike 3,000 Laborers Walk Off Jobs Portland (IP) Three thou sand laborers went on strike against the heavy construc tion industry in Oregon to--day. The workers, members of the AFL-CIO Oregon District Council of Laborers, had asked a 30-cent hourly pack age wage increase. Present pay scale runs from $2.25 to $2.70 an hour. Negotiations were broken off last Friday. Pickets appeared on the new Morrison st. bridge, which has been scheduled for opening May 24. It was not known immediately if the strike would halt the sched uled opening. Several Jobs Affected The walkout was expected to affect road, bridge and dam building jobs. Union officials said work on the big Lloyd shopping center project -here probably would not be affected. A union official said the local on the project could strike but that he did not think it would. - One of the projects affected was the Baldock . Freeway construction on Southwest Barbur blvd. here. Members working in pipe yards, brick and block mills were not affected. The strike halted work on a Portland General Electric company $24 million hydro electric project five miles east of Estacada. Eugene Next Site For Jaycee Meet Oregon State Junior Cham ber of Commerce wound up its 19th annual convention here yesterday after naming Eugene as site for its 1959 meeting. The conclave probably will be in May. Fall meeting of the state board of directors was set for Tillamook in October and the 1959 spring session of the board will be at Bend, prob ably in March.. Prineville will be site for the" 1959 Oregon Junior Chamber of Commerce junior golf tournament. Jaycees endorsed the Sad-lak-Herlong. bill now before Congress (HR 6452) and urged support of the measure by clubs in the state. The House resolution is designed to mod-, erate the tax impact on small businesses and to partially re duce the tax barrier to the start of new businesses. Vice-presidents named Sat urday were Jim Anderson, Hillsboro, District 1; Frank Kiercher, Sherwood, District 2; Loyd Hammell, Salem,' Dis trict 3; Don Jackson, New berg, District 4; Fred Lang ton, Corvallis; District 5; Bob Raffensberger, Roseburg, Dis trict 6; Ralph May, Bend, District 7; Vern Weiss, Pilot Rock, District 8; Harlan Hies, Ontario, District 9; John Heilbronner, Klamath reser vation, District 10. The convention opened on Saturday after district cau cuses and committee meetings on Friday. Washington Senate Republican leader William F. Knowland urges approval of a "moderate" labor bill. WEATHER FORECAST: Partly cloudy to night and Tuesday. Cooler to night with, low 38. High Tuesday 78. TEMP. Highest Yesterday .. 80 Lowest This Morning 49 Our Skies Tonight Sunrise 5:02 a.m. Sunset 7:15 p.m. The Moon rises 9:58 p.m. and rides low. Last Quarter May 10 Saturn, the planet seen near the Moon tonight, has a diameter of 71,500 miles. It is now about 860 million miles from the Earth. , "You'll Be Glad To Know I Found Your Lost Cat" Arkansas Newspaper Pulitzer Winner; Lippmann New York (IP) The Pulit zer prize for meritorius pub lic service was awarded to day to the Arkansas . Gazette of Little Rock. Its executive editor, Harry S. Ashmore, re ceived the Pulitzer prize for editorial writing. Bids Total $4,350 From Lions Sale Crater Lions club of Med ford received a total of $4,350 in bids from its TV auction last night. Proceeds will be evenly di vided between the new Rogue Valley hospital and Sacred Heart hospital, a club spokes man said. The money has been designated for purchase of emergency or life-saving equipment, he added. (Collec tions on the bids are expected to be completed by the end of the month and the money will be presented then.) . The $4,350 in total cash value of bids compares to ap proximately $5,000 received the previous year, a spokes man said. However, then 147 items were auctioned off dur ing five hours covering two nights compared to 127 items in 2V2 hours Sunday night, he explained. Over 90 per cent of the items brought retail or higher price. Articles receiving the highest bids were a Laundry Mat from Trowbridge and Flynn, portable television set from Home Appliance, two portable typewriters, one from Office Stationery and one from Medford Stationery. The Crater Lions club has netted over $10,000 on va rious projects during the last 10 months, a club spokesman said. All of this money is being spent for local commu nity needs, he added. School Elections Set for Tonight Polls in all Jackson county school districts' will remain open until 8 o'clock this eve ning in the annual school elec tions. Voters in each district will vote for one school board member, and in those districts where vacancies have occur red, will vote to fill them. Also, all school voters will pass on the rural school dis trict tax levy, to authorize levying "$334,377 in excess of the 6 per cent limitation, for the purpose of equalizing school income in various dis tricts. In addition, candidates for the rural school board will be named. In the nine districts which form the non-high district, voters will pass on a $212,650 levy to cover costs of trans portation and tuition for high school. students. Four districts also will pass on budgets for the coming year. City Firemen Start Annual Inspection 1 Medford city firemen be gan their annual inspection of homes today. They are calling at homes on streets running east and west and in all the area an nexed to the city within the past year. Three trucks with crews of three men each are on inspec tion duty. Each truck is in constant radio contact with the main iire station. Honored The newspaper was cited for "demonstrating the high est qualities of civic leader ship, journalistic responsibil ity and moral courage in the face of mounting public ten sion during the school inte gration crisis." Ashmore was cited for "the forcefulness, dispassionate an alysis and clarity of his edito rials" during the crisis. Other awards in journalism announced by the trustees of Columbia university went -to the Fargo, N.D., Forum; Geirgge Beveridge of the Washington Eveng Star; Rel man Morin of the Associated Press; Clark Mollenhoff of the Des Moines Register and Tribune; the New York Times; Bruce M. Shanks of the Buffalo Evening News, and William C. Beal of the Washington (D.C.) Daily News. A special citation was awarded to Walter Lippman of the New York Herald Tribune. The Pulitzer prize for an American play was awarded "Look Homeward, Angel," by Ketti Fringe. The novel award went to "A Death in the Family" by the late James Agee. The award in biogra phy went to "George Wash ton," vols. 1 to 6 of which were written by the late Douglas Southall Freeman, and vol. 7 by John Alexander Carroll and Mary Wells Ash worth after Freeman's death in 1953. ' ' ' ' Medford Driver Involved in Crash Yreka, Calif. (IP) Wayne Gibbs, 21, and Harold Moore, 23, both of Happy Camp, Calif., were in Siskiyou Gen eral hospital here today under treatment for injuries suffer ed Sunday morning when their car and a truck driven by Robert Stacy, 215 Van couver ave.1, Medford, Ore., collided on the Klamath river road. Stacy, a mechanic for the Haupert Tractor Company of Medford, was westbound when his truck and the car collided. The car rolled into a ditch and Gibbs was pinned in it. He was reported the more seriously hurt of the two. California State patrol men said Stacy apparently was uninjured. Albany Excited Over Base; Farmers Unhappy Albany (IP) Albany businessmen Monday were talking excitedly about the prospect of the proposed $10 million Bomarc missiles base at Camp Adair, but the farm ers in the area who will be directly' affected " were far from happy about losing their land to the military project. Bad Deal for Farmers "I think, it will be a bad deal for us farmers out here," said George Dannen, one of the four farmers in the Camp Adair area who have been ap proached by government of ficials concerning sale of their land for the missiles base. Dannen said: "I'm afraid they won't pay us what our land is worth and we won't be able to buy equally good . land with our money." Dannen said the govern ment snrvpv rrpur wantpH 111 I acres of his land. His neigh Unquestioned Authority Need Seen by Bradley Ban on Defense Staff 'Doubted' Washington OP) General of the Army Omar N. Bradley said today it is "essential" that Congress assign more power to the secretary of de fense as proposed in Presi dent Eisenhower's military reorganization plan. Bradley told the House Armed Services committee the defense secretary should have "unquestioned author ity" to go along with the "tremendous responsibility" he bears. In General Agreement Bradley said he was in "general agreement" with the President's reorganiza tion proposal but declined to be drawn into a discussion of the specific language of ihe bill. Bradley, one of the na tion's military leaders of World War II and first chair man of its Joint Chiefs of Staff, is now a business exec-, utive but still holds five-star fank. He told the committee he always ' has had "doubts" about the ban on giving the defense secretary a military staff. "Here we have a man charged with the defense of our country, yet we theoreti cally depriva him of the pro fessional advice of men who have spent their adult Hvps in studying these very sub jects," he said. He endorsed provisions in the Eisenhower plan to per mit the chiefs to delegate more of their work and to lift the 210-man ceiling on the size of the joint staff. Moves Endorsed He also strongly endorsed moves to put virtually all combat forces into unified ground-sea-air commands and to remove the civilian service secretaries from the chain of command over these forces. The present chairman of the Joint Chiefs, -y Gen. Na than F. Twining, warned Sunday that Soviet industry is expanding twice as fast as America's and that this na tion could lose its military and productive lead. Twining said the U. S. still is militarialy and industrially superior. But he said Russia has made "remarkable" ad vances recently and could "conceivably" take the lead in a few years "if we elected to stand still." Neslin Nominated At Kiwanis Event Abe M. Neslin, Ashland, was nominated for 1959 Division 15A lieutenant-governor yesterday at a spring con ference workshop for Kiwan is clubs held at the Jackson hotel. Seventeen out of the 18 clubs in Divisions 15 and 15A of the Pacific Northwest dist rict of Kiwanis International were represented at the work shop. Some 60 men attended. Among those present were Jack Murton, Portland, dist rict governor; Jack Hudson, Coos Bay, District 15 lieutenant-governor and Ben Fan ning, Bend, 15 A lieutenant governor. Approximately 150 Kiwan ians and wives were present for a dinner-dance Saturday night at Rogue Valley Country club.- Medford Senior High School choir provided special entertainment. The women al so attended a luncheon at the hotel yesterday following the workshop. , bor Ed Ivers, said the crew wanted 135 acres of his land, which would . include his house, barn and other build ings Iver said: ; "This is the second time they've kicked me off this farm. When I was here with my father during World War II, they bought it and turned it into the Camp Adair train ing grounds. We bought it back after the war and now they come back again and want it." He added: Kicked Off Twice "I'll bet I'm the only gUy in the nation who's been kicked off the same land twice by the government be-, cause the land was needed for military use." , All of the land now in question is located on the former Camp Adair site. Af fected also are smaller acre ages now owned by A. G. Senders and A. L. Hi-tt
