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' MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, MARCH 29, 1959
No. 217
53rd Year
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Four Automobiles
Reported Stolen
From Lots in City
Occupants Sought
By Local Authorities
Jackson county law enforce
ment officers Saturday night
had crowded two stolen cars
off the road and were chasing
the occupants on foot while
other officers were searching
for one other stolen car.
City police said a 1957
Chevrolet station wagon was
stolen from Courtesy Chevro
let, 227 East Ninth st., earlier
last night. However, this car
did .not have any gas in it.
The thieves apparently park
ed it in front of the J. Allen
Company, used car dealer at
Court and Manzanita sts., then
burglarized the company of
fice, stealing car keys for 3
cars-a 1957 Chevrolet Nomad
station wagon, a 1958 Impalla
Chevrolet and a 1957 Ford
Fairlane 500.
City police said they spot
ted the parked car in front
of the used car company with
the keys in it. Further inves
tigation revealed it had been
stolen and the used car com
pany had been burglarized
and the three cars -:aken. Still
missing Saturday night was
the Impala.
Msnrubia Held
For Using Vehicle
Jose Manrubia-Martinez, 27,
who had lived at 722 West
Fourth St., Medford, is being
held in the Jackson county
jail on charges of unauthoriz
ed use of a motor vehicle,
state police said last night.
When arrested by state po-
lice early Saturday morning,
Manrubia claimed to be Jose
Fernandez Francisco, an il
legal entrant from Mexico.
Until arrested, the man first
said, he had been subsisting
on such things as apples and
dandelions and living in var
ious barns and shacks in the
Medford area.
Manrubia is charged with
using equipment belonging to
Southern Oregon Molding
Company, Camp White, with
out permission, police said.
Investigation by state po
lice revealed that the man
had been living in Medford,
is in this country legally -according
to a passport Man
rubia produced, and is mar
ried, although his wife does
not live with him.
Until he was observed,
Manrubia said, he had been
"practicing" driving the lum
ber yard equipment at night
so he could obtain employ
ment as a driver of such
equipment. However, a check
by state police revealed that
Manrubia is employed by the
Medford Plywood and Veneer
company in the Camp White
area.
Reason for the first account
apparently was that Man
rubia was afraid he would be
accused of stealing the equip
meat, officers guessed.
Nicaragua Invasion
Reported Imminent
. Ciudad Trujillo, Dominican
Republic -IUPD- The Dominican
military intelligence service
said yesterday that former
President Jose Figueres of
Costa Rica was massing men
and weapons for an invasion
of Nicaragua.
An official communique
said Jhat 35 Cuban "barbudos"
(bearded followers of Fidel
Castro) landed on the Costa
Rican coast near the Nicarag
uan frontier March 19 from
the Panamanian ship White
Shadow. It said arms for 500
men also were put ashore.
1958 Traffic Tally
In County Reported
Salem-A total of 23 deaths
and 756 injuries resulted from
traffic accidents in Jackson
county last year, the traffic
safety division of the state
department of motor vehicles
has announced.
There were 2,060 accidents
in the county, . with 38,923
motor vehicles registered and
" a population of 68,660.
Statewide there were 448
killed in traffic accidents.
Those injured in the 59,259
accidents totaled 18,055.
EMBRACE Mrs. Maxine A. Click, 46,
of Ashland, (left) is embraced by an un
identified member of the trial audience
in Circuit Court Judge Edward C. Kelly's
courtroom. Looking on are Otto J.
Jury's Verdict 9s Unanimous
Mrs. Maxine A. Click, 46,
of Ashland, was declared in
nocent of murder by unani
mous verdict of a Jackson
county circuit court jury Fri
day night following 2Vi hours
of deliberation.
Tears flooded her eyes as
the little woman stood up to
receive the embraces and
blessings of friends and spec
tators. The verdict was returned at
6:20 p.m.
' The Jackson county sher
iff's office reported Saturday
they had received numerous
calls from people offering
groceries and other aid to the
mother and her nine children.
Mrs. Click is now staying
with Mrs. Mildred Noe, 126
Bush st., Ashland, who has
been taking care of six of the
Click children since the shoot
ing on Jan. 6. An older boy is
married and living in Mis
souri and two teen-age boys
are staying with grandparents
in Missouri.
Mrs. Click will probably
stay with Mrs. Noe until the
Jackson county welfare com
mission reviews her case and
decides what aid can be given
her, a friend of the family
said. Ashland people have
donated money to give Mrs.
Click needed dental work.
Others have donated furni
ture and are looking for a
house for the now fatherless
family. "
In his closing argument
Friday afternoon, District At
torney Thomas J. Reeder
termed the trial "tragic, hard
Bids on Rogue Valley
A call for bids for construc
tion of Rogue Valley Manor
will be issued April 6, it was
announced lasl! week.
The decision to proceed was
made at a meeting of the build
ing committee of the non
profit organization erecting
the $5Vi million retirement
home. The site, on top of
Barneburg hill in southeast
Medford, has already been
leveled.
Plans and specifications, pre
pared by Seattle Architect
John W. Maloney, AIA, are
complete, and were inspected
at the committee's meeting
Thursday.
M. N. Hogan, president of
the manor organization, point
ed out that trustees decided
long ago to have plans com
plete to the last detail before
construction bids were called.
Hogan said: "It is rather
difficult for those not closely
associated with the planning
of a $5V2 million building
project such as Rogue Valley
Manor to understand why it
takes so long to reach the be
ginning of construction. How
ever a casual examination of
just one blueprint, with all
its details and specifications
spelled out, and one gets some
idea where the time goes.
There are 91 such prints,
sized 2Vz by 5 feet, and in ad
dition a book of specifications
as large as a New York City
telephone directory.
"The trustees took the posi
tion at the very beginning of
this project that they would
not spend any member's
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and sad," but asked the jury
of five women and seven men
to "come to grips with the
facts."
Defense Criticized
He declared that the de
fense "tells us that he (Hous
ton Click) was killed because
he deserved to be killed and
if he was not that kind of
man, then his killer was in
sane." ' '
Referring to the testimony
of Dr. James Luce, neurosur
geon, who said Mrs. Click had
a mental disease, psychomotor
epilepsy, Reeder recalled that
the physician saw her over
two months after she had kill
ed her husband.
Reeder stated that ' brain
damage is not uncommon,
adding that Luce's was "the
nicest, neatest theory to ex
plain a killing that I have
ever heard."
If she did not know what
she was doing and was in an
epileptic seizure, he asked,
"how could she have picked
(to shoot) a husband who abus
ed her?"
Picture of Stove
Reeder showed a picture of
the stove, lights from the fire
of which allegedly set off the
seizure, and declared that
there was little chance it
would have the frequency of
light Dr. Luce had testified
was necessary to trigger an
attack. .
' After reading from a state
ment of Mrs. Click's describ
ing the actual shooting, he re
peated that Dr. .Luce had a
"nicely built theory to ex
money for architectural plans
unless or until one-half of the
Manor apartments were sold.
This point was reached last
July, at which time Mr. Ma
loney was instructed to go
ahead ... It is obvious that
this cautious approach delay
ed the date by about nine
months when bids could be
MANOR CONSTRUCTION TO START
Bids for construction of Rogue Valley
Manor will be called April 6. Shown
here inspecting the detailed plans by
Architect John W. Maloney, Seattle, are,
left to right, Walter Higgins, executive
director of the manor; the Rt. Rev. James .
F. Carman, Portland, bishop of the Epis
Frohnmayer, extreme left, and another
member of the audience. A circuit court
jury unanimously returned a verdict of
innocent Friday night.
Hi
I IBM
plain the killing."
He repeated what Deputy
District Attorney Gerald
Scannell said earlier, that
references to Click's char
acter were not relevant to
Mrs. Click's guilt.
'In Lawful Manner'
Her problems "could have
been dealt with in a lawful
manner," Reeder declared. He
discounted testimony about
Mrs. Click's having been
beaten by her husband, since
only one witness saw such in
dications. "How likely is it that a
woman who had been beaten
three or four times a - week
for 20 years never told any
one about it?" he asked.
Closing the hour-long argu
ment, he said to the jury,
"You have got to decide in
that room whether in Jackson
county a man who- does not
measure up ... a man like
Houston Click ... deserves
to be put to death in his
sleep."
The seven possible verdicts
in the case" were explained by
Judge Edward Kelly in his
lengthy instructions to the
jury. They ".were: guilty of
first degree murder or guilty
of first degree murder with
recommendation of life im
prisonment, both requiring a
unanimous verdict; guilty of
second degree murder, 10
members or more; guilty of
manslaughter or involuntary
manslaughter, 10 or more;
not guilty, not less than 10;
and not guilty by reason of
insanity, not less than 10.
Manor to
called. Now, as far as is fore
seeable, there appears to be
no reason for further delay."
Walter Higgins, executive
director for the manor, re
ported that more than 2,000
inquiries have been received
in the last several, weeks, and
that they are 'now being re
ceived at the rate of more
New Clues Lead
Search for Hunt
To Eugene Area
Truck Believed Stolen
Is Found Abandoned
. Eugene-flfffi-A pickup truck
believed stolen by an armed
fugitive Friday at nearby
Junction City was found
abandoned yesterday after
noon in front of an apartment
building in downtown Eu
gene, touching off a search
in the city last night.
The search for Richard A.
Hunt, 26, began Tuesday
when the gunman shot and
wounded the police chief of
the community of Browns
ville near here and briefly
abducted the police chief of
Harrisburg who stopped Hunt
for questioning about the car
he was driving. Hunt is an
ex-Montana state prison in
mate wanted in several states
by local authorities' and the
FBI.
Loaded Rifle Found
State police said a loaded
M-l rifle was found on the
seat of the truck. Officers
said Hunt had been armed
with an M-l but was also be
lieved to have at least one
revolver and ammunition
with him.
Earlier yesterday the search
for the man centered in the
western Oregon counties of
Benton and Linn where
searchers were aided by
three bloodhounds and two
helicopters. Two earlier leads
proved futile.
Bloodhounds were taken to
the Van Buren street bridge
over the Willamette river at
the east end of Corvallis in
Benton county after a mem
ber of a posse, Dick Eisen
brandt, reported seeing a
man answering Hunt's des
cription in the area. The
hounds worked the bridge
area and the east section of
Corvallis with no success. ,
Early yesterday afternoon
the dogs were taken to a
ranch ( near-. Peoria near a
ranch "where Hunt had been
employed, and authorities
said the bloodhounds picked
up what appeared to be a
"fresh scent" along the river.
The dogs led searchers about
two and a half miles along
the river and then to a county
road north of Harrisburg,
near Eugene, where the scent
ended.
More Timber Receipts
Anticipated This Year
Jackson county will re
ceive an estimated $421,784
for the fiscal year 1959-60
from the Rogue National For
est timber receipts, Super
visor Carroll Brown reported
to the county court Friday. 1
Receipts for the previous
year were $314,874, he said.
This, he said, is due mainly
to more timber sold, 177 mil
lion board feet during the
current calendar year com
pared to 107 million board
feet during the 1957 calendar
year.
be Called
than 300 each day, as the re
sult of information in current
issues of two church publica
tions. He said that life-occupancy
rights in the big apartment
type manor will apparently
all be sold long before con
struction Is completed.
copal diocese of Oregon, a member of the
board of trustees; Maloney; M. N. Hogan,
president of the manor organization; the
Rev. George R. V. Bolster, rector of St.
Marks Episcopal church, Medford, and
George Flanagan, Medford lumber ex
executive, other members of the trustees',
building committee.
(Kenn Knackstedt photo.)
REDS
OVER
HELPING HAND Children swarmed
across the Hawthorne park greensward
yesterday morning in the quest for some
10,000 candy Easter eggs. Adults, anxious
Commission May
Reduce Payments
To State's Needy
Portland-(UPD-The state wel
fare commission indicated yes
terday it would cut payments
for old age assistance, aid to
dependent children, the blind
and the disabled as well as
general assistance in order to
stay within available funds.
The decision came Friday at
the regular meeting of the
commission here.
The Joint Ways and Means
committee of the State Leg
islature has approved an ap
propriation of $1,200,000 for
the remaining three months of
the present biennium. The
commission has asked for $1,-
900,000.
The approved cuts would
include at least a 5 per cent
reduction beginning May 1 for
old age assistance, aid to de
pendent children, aid to dis
abled and aid to the blind.
A series of cutbacks begin
ning April 1 was approved by
the commission.
Senator Criticizes
Opposition to Park
Portland-(UPD-Sen. Richard
L. Neuberger (D-Ore.) said
yesterday he planned to go
ahead with plans for a na
tional park on the Oregon
coast respite opposition in
the Florence area.
Neuberger, home for the
Easter recess, said: "It would
be tragic if we allowed a few
short-sighted commercial in
terests to block this oppor
tunity to establish a park on
our coast that would be a
highly valuable tourist attrac
tion and of great benefit to
all the state."
The Oregon lawmaker ad
ded: "The opposition is from a
highly vocal minority that
wants to exploit the area for
commercial purposes."
There never has been a na
tional park established which
did not meet with strenuous
opposition from local inter
ests, Neuberger added. He
said he had asked Neal But
terfield, director of . the na
tional park service in Port
land, to go to Florence to ex
plain the advantages of the
type of park planned.
WEATHER
FORECAST: Cloudy this morn
ing becoming partly sunny this
afternoon. Increasing and thick
ening cloudiness tonight. Rain-beginning-
late tonight. Partial
clearing with a few showers
Monday afternoon. High today
58. Low tonight 40- High Mon
day 55.
TEMP.
Highest Saturday 57
Lowest Saturday 40
' PRECIP.
To 11 p.m. Saturday .06
Our Skies Tonight
Sunset today 6:33 p.m.
Sunrise tomorrow 5:59 a.m.
The Moon rises 12:31 a.m.
tomorrow and rides low.
Elnath is the second magnitude
star now seen a few degrees to
the right of the planet. Mars.
Bluish white In color, this star
Is about 300 light years from the
Earth.
mil
TilETM R
Leaders in Germany
Given Secret Orders
Washlngton-(DPD-U.S. mili
tary commanders in West
Germany have been given se
cret orders on what to do if
Russia or East German com
munists try to blockade allied
traffic to West Berlin, in
formed sources said yester
day. The sources. , also said the
United States probably would
be willing to let East Ger
mans control access to West
Berlin if it was understood
they were doing so as agents
of the Russians. This was
viewed as an interim solution
to the Berlin crisis stemming
from Soviet threats to give
the East Germans full au
thority and control.
Any final solution to the
situation may have to await a
possible summit conference
this summer.
Soviet Premier Nikita
Khrushchev has. demanded
that allied troops get out of
the free sector of Berlin,
which is encircled by the
Reds, by May 27. President
Eisenhower has declared the
United States "will not yield
an inch."
The dispute tops the agen
da for a big four foreign min
isters meeting May 11, in
Geneva. The United . States,
Britain and France have noti
fied Khruschchev they would
be willing to attend a summit
conference if the foreign min
isters reach "constructive"
agreements on Berlin and a
German peace treaty.
U.S. officials appeared to
be increasingly optimistic
yesterday that no early
blockade attempt will be
made. This was based large
ly on recent public statements
by Khrushchev who . has ex
pressed a willingness to start
negotiations at the foreign
minister's level. Khrushchev
also said recently that he
didn't intend May 27 as a
rigid deadline for allied with
The White
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to assist the toddlers or perhaps just un
able to resist, joined in the search. The
hunt was sponsored by the Medford Ki
wanis club.
drawal from Berlin.
West German Foreign Min
ister Heinrich Von Brentano,
arriving in Washington for
allied conferences this week,
said the German people fully
support President Eisenhow
er in his stand in the crisis.
However, he said, "there
is no other .way but free elec
tions" to achieve German
unification although he ack
nowledged the west might
"take psychological measures
in order to "reduce interna
tional tensions."
American officials refused
to discuss details of the or
ders to military commanders.
But they made clear the west
ern powers are determined to
maintain their access rights
gy land as well as air.
Vote Slated May 4
For School Budgets
The Jackson county school
superintendent's office has
tentatively scheduled the vote
on the rural school budget
and non-high school budget
for the annual school meeting
May 4, according to Alf Mek
vold, county school superin
tendent. The non-high budget now
includes seven existing non
high school districts. If con
solidation removes any of
these districts prior to July 1
the non-high board will ad
just the budget downward ac
cording to the number -of high
school students removed, Mek
vold explained.
The rural school levy is not
affected the same way, he
said. It covers the entire
county. County school offi
cials are assuming each of the
districts involved in consoli
dation will still get the esti
mated share of the equalized
county levy. However, Mek
vold's office is awaiting legal
clarification on this point.
Man's Burden
Other Dispatches
Claim Tribesmen
Still Fighting Back
Chinese Communists
Establish Puppet Rule
New Delhi, India-flJPD-Com-munist
China said yesterday
it has "completely smashed"
the freedom revolt in Tibet
and has installed a puppet gov
ernment under the pro-Communist
Panchen Lama. But
rebel tribesmen were report
ed still fighting on.
A communique and state
ments by the Peiping govern
ment indicated a blood purge
was in the making in the re
mote Himalayan country seiz
ed by the Reds in 1950. The
broadcast statements indirect
ly confirmed that the Dalai
Lama, god-king of the nation,
had escaped Communist wrath
in the capital of Lhasa and
was safe with rebel forces in
the countryside.
The Reds claimed prisoners
in the thousands in crushing
this "Hungary in the Hima
layas" and vowed that those
who persist in fighting "will
be punished strictly." They
promised leniency to any de
serters from the rebel cause.
Martial law was imposed in
all but the apparently loyal
province of Houtsang (Tseng).
An "order of the state coun
cile" signed by Chinese Pre
mier Chou En-Lai in Peiping
toppled the old government
headed by . the 25-year-old
Dalai Lama and replaced it
with a new "preparatory com
mittee" head by the rival
Panchen Lama, 22, who wa
chosen as spiritual leader by
Chinese Buddhists over Tibet
an protests in 1949 and assert
ed authority under Red Chin
ese control.
Fighting Still
Dispatches from the inde
pendent border state of Sik
kim and reports from traders
reaching the Indian frontier
said fighting still was going
on in outlying areas. The
rebels, led by tough Khamba
tribesmen who have been up
in arms for three years, were
said to hold as much as a
quarter of the 475,000-square
mile country.
Apparently, the rebels were
well - armed. The Chinese
boasted that their forces be
tween March 19, and March
23 had taken 4,000 prisoners
in Lhasa as well . as "8,000
small arms of different kinds,
81 light and heavy machine
guns, 27 81-millimeter caliber
mortars, 6 mountain guns and
10 million bullets."
The communique broadcast
by the new China news
agency specified that the re
volt was "completely smash- .
ed" in Lhasa, apparently with
heavy casualties since it was
there that the 4,000 Tibetans
allegedly surrendered.
Reds Claim Control
The Reds claimed control
of numerous cities west of,
Lhasa. They specified tha -they
held Gyantse, a trading
center which the rebels were
said to have seized after the
heavy fighting in Lhasa last
week.
The Communists charged
that the "Chiang Kai-shek
clique" air-dropped arms to
the rebels and that the free
dom fighters had set up a
"'commanding center" in the
Indian border town of Kalim
pong. The rebels, in a handbill
carried over the border to
India, boasted that in their
hit-and-run attacks on the
Chinese last August and Sep
tember they killed 2,350 Reds
including "two lady officers."
Thorpe Is Reported
Doing 'Quite Well'
Medford Public Works Di
rector Vernon Thorpe was re
ported doing "quite well" at
Sacred Heart hospital last
night, but one hospital attend
ant said he would remain
there "for at least a week."
His physician said a definite
report on his ailment could
be expected tomorrow. Thorpe
was taken to the hospital by
ambulance Friday morning,
and has been under observa
tion" since that time. He was
placed in an oxygen tent at
the hospital, attendants reported.