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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." .
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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