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7 - Ihmm rn nn my mm m Price 10 Medford 16 Pages jvl n m Warden Refuses Demand for Food; Five Guards Held Home-Made Knives Used by Convicts Springfield, Mo-(CPD-A ' IS hour riot by 106 menial ly disturbed patients at the U.S. Prison Medical Center. . -was broken today by f eder " al officers using tear gas, a bulldozer and cutting torches. Two of the five guards received "severe 1 a c e r a tions." The other three were not believed to be in jured. Springfield, Mo. -UPD- More than 100 rioting mental pati ents held five guards hostage at the U.S. prison medical cen ter today, refusing to state their demands to Warden Rus sell O. Settle who apparently had plans to starve them out The 106 patients, persons sentenced to federal institu tions but needing medical attention, overpowered the guards with homemade knives five minutes before lights out Monday night. Authorities at first thought as many as 115 men might be involved, . but ; finally put the number at 106. The rebelling convicts made two 'calls for food today, but were turned down both times by Warden Settle. -Demanded Food In the second call, one of -'the hostage guards, William Fitch, was placed on the phone and allowed to tell au thorities that the five guards had not been harmed. At 6:30 a.m. the rioters boisteriously demanded that " food and coffee for all be sent in immediately. Settle made no reply and sent no food. At 6:35, they asked that . breakfast be sent in for the guards. Again no compliance by Settle. ' Just as they had done Mon day night, the convicts again in the second call today prom ised to write out their de mands or terms of capitula tion. But they were not forth coming. The men were cut off froin food, electric power and the outside world in the "north 10 wing" of the sprawling mental hospital. . Prison Country Club It is known as the "coun try club of the federal prison ' system" because of its com parative "pampering" of con vict patients and because of ? its beautiful grounds which today were dotted by strategi cally located armed guards. There were three rings of roadblocks on each of the four roads into the grounds. On the inside, guards arm , ed with riot and tear gas guns stood 20 feet apart to prevent possible break. Settle said the 106 rioters were considered the most dan gerous group of the some 1,000 inmates at the center. He described the rebels as : "homosexuals and neuro-psy-chotics." Farm Bureau m Enters Cheese Dispute Portland (UPD The Ore gon Farm Bureau Federation moved into the Tillamook cheese contrjyersy today in a counterattack against the Teamsters Union boycott of the product. Gerald Detering, president of the farm group, said the . 10,000 families who belong to it are being urged to fight the boycott by insisting that the stores where they trade sell Tillamook cheese. Boycott Successful The Teamsters have been successful, observers said, in getting the product off the shelves of most stores in the t Portland area and other areas of Oregon by sporadic picket ing, and have threatened to Cents MEDFORD, OREGON, TUESDAY, JUNE 23, 1959 cntal Patients lot n n n n n son mm mm mmm pfv l DISCUSS GENEVA CONFERENCE-Secretary of State Christian A. Herter (right) briefs President Eisenhower at the White House' on the deadlocked Geneva Big Four Foreign Ministers Conference on Berlin. Herter To Re pea t West's Willi ngness For Negotiations Washington -(UPD- Secretary of State Christian A. Herter will tell the American public tonight that the West still is willing to negotiate with Rus sia on the German question, but won't be blackmailed into giving up its right to remain in West Berlin. State Department : sources said the nationally televised speech will find Herter strik ing a hopeful but realistic Secretary of State Chris tian Herter's report on the Geneva Foreign Ministers' Conference will be carried by station KBES-TV at 8 o'clock tonight." stance in his report on the Geneva foreign ministers meeting. He also likely will give his views on the pros pects for success when the conference resumes July 13 after a three-week "cooling off recess. Congressional Appearances Herter's address to the na tion Was preceded by appear ances behind closed doors be fore the House Foreign Af fairs Committee this morning and the Senate Foreign Rela tions Committee in the after noon. No dramatic new proposals were anticipated in Herter's talk , tonight. The Western ministers already were report ed united in the belief they had given as much ground as they should in negotiating with the Soviets on the Ger man question. Herter was prepared to tell the nation that the West has tried to present the Soviets with reasonable proposals for solving the problems of a Ger man peace treaty and Western rights in Berlin. His speech will point out that Soviet refusal to accept the Western proposals as a Federation extend the boycott to other western states. Detering said: "This be comes a strike of workers against farmers, and we feel that farmers will stand be hind the farmers of Tilla mook county in their attempt to keep from raising the price of fluid milk and adding to fluid milk surpluses." Example of Pressure The Farm Bureau leader said: "The store boycott is an example of the pressure tactics employed by the Team sters leaders in forcing their demands. Somewhere we must draw a line on increas ing prices, and the stand of the Tillamook farmers should be of interest to farmers and consumers all over Oregon." basis for; discussion brought negotiations' to a. halt after six weeks." ' Despite this Soviet stub bornness, however, Herter was ready to reiterate the West's willingness to engage in mean ingful negotiations in Geneva. The dominant theme of the Western position so far-that there can be no compromise that would remove guarantees of U.S., French and British rights to remain in West Berlin. This theme has been empha sized in statements and talks throughout the conference and especially in recent days, fol lowing Soviet demands that a time-limit be placed on West ern occupation rights in the former German capital. Durno Speaks at GOP Meeting Here Much that was accom plished by the 1959 Oregon legislature was the result of coalition between Republicans and conservative Democrats, according to State Sen. Edwin R Durno, who addressed a meeting of Jackson County Republican Women's club yes terday noon. He was intro duced by Rep. Evelyn Nye. Senator Durno, stressing the importance of party ma chinery, said "it starts with one individual in a commun ity working with other indi viduals" and added' "it grows into 'county, states and na tional work in supporting the high caliber men and women we choose to represent us in our law-making bodies." The speaker explained that one person's idea might germ inate into a law by chanelling to one representative, thence to the House and Senate, to a committee and finally back to these bodies , for ratifica tion and becoming law. Senator Durno was assign ed to the joint ways and means committee, the only one of this type, the building committee and the newly formed fiscal committee. He spoke of the new fiscal offic er hired for the state and said the, new employee, Kenneth Bragg, "is an economic an alyst who will do a fair, im partial non-partisan job in co ordinating the requests of all the interim committees." Control Board OKs Capitol Mall Building Salem-UPD-The State Board of Control today approved fi nal plans and specifications for the new $3,800,000 labor and industries building in the capitol mall. The plans will be released for bid Friday and contrac tors will have until July 23 to bid. 54th Year, Tribune No. 81 Settlement of Civil Suit Made Out of Court A damage suit against Elk Lumber ' compan"y;MelIford, which resulted froni a fatal logging truck unloading acci dent, was settled out of court yesterday in excess of $55, 000, according to court, house sources. This,. is was reported, is the largest amount of damages paid in Jackson county so far in a civil suit settlement.. The suit was brought by Fawn L. Cox 24, of 2999 Diane st., Ashland, mother and guardian of three chil dren, Franklin Cox, 6, Alesa Cox, 5, and Carl Richard Cox, 2. Mrs. Cox was seeking $200,562 in damages as a re sult of the accident which killed her husband, Richard Ray Cox, 29, on May 15, 1957, while unloading logs from a truck at . Elk Lumber com pany, according to the com plaint. After the binder chains had been removed, Cox was -walking along the side of the truck opposite the log dump when logs rolled off the truck and crushed him, the complaint noted. In her complaint, Mrs. Cox alleges that the Elk Lumber company was negligent and careless in its unloading oper ation, in failing to provide a means to prevent the logs from rolling, and failing to provide a safe place to work. In its answer, Elk Lumber company stated that Cox was contributorily negligent in failing to follow the usual un loading practices established at the log dump. Ashland Board Sells Bonds for School Ashland-The Ashland school district board last night ac cepted a joint bid of four firms for the $1,275,000 bond issue to finance a new junior high school. Two bids were received. The joint bid, offering an effective interest rate of 4.3952 per cent, was by Blyth and Co., San Francisco, Com merce Trust Co., Kansas City, Kalman and Co., Minneapolis St. Paul, and the Ashland branch of the U.S. National Bank of Portland. The First National Bank of Oregon was the other bidder, offering a rate of 4.4939 per cent; . The bonding was approved by Ashland school patrons April 22, after a floor of the present junior high school building was closed as a fire hazard. Salem - (UPD An in-service training school for county as sessors and deputies will be conducted by the State Tax commission here Thursday ad Friday, Flames Destroy 4 Buildings in Heart of Toledo Lincoln County ' Scene of Blaze Toledo-UPD- Four buildings in the heart of the Toledo business district were de stroyed by a fast-spreading fire this morning. Unofficial estimates place the damage at $80,000. Fire equipment from Tole do, Newport, Lincoln county fire patrol and the Georgia Pacific company plant in To ledo battled the flames for nearly 2J hours before con trolling the blaze. Frame Buildings , Destroyed by the fire were Thompson's Drug store; Irene's Sport shop, a women's apparel store; Sunnyside cafe and adjoining bar; and a cold storage locker plant. All were two and three story wooden frame buildings. Also damaged was Farring ton's department store, where severe smoke and water dam age was recorded. Started Upstairs The fire, which broke into the open about 6:30 a.m., ap parently started in the up stairs portion of the cafe, fire department officials said. - More than a dozen streams of water were played on the flaming structures in a "hold ing" effort by firemen. At the height of the blaze the front wall of the Thompson Drug firm collapsed into the main street of Toledo. A short time later the facade of the cold storage plant also tumbled into the street. Smelled Smoke Mrs.. Florence Connally, cook at the Sunnyside cafe, said she had smelled smoke about 6 a.m. and searched for its source, but failed to find anything burning. About 6:30 with six early morning customers in the cafe a gust of smoke' and flame came down the stairs from the second'- floor. - The entrre4 building" was in flames five minutes later. ; ' - Mrs. Connally said she and a waitress, Virginia Crider, were able to save only , their purses, the cash register and a small safe. Firemen began to mop-up the fire scene about 9:30 a.m. ina Bill Sent to President Washington-HJPD-The House approved by a 64 vote margin and sent to President Eisen hower today a $1,375,400,000 housing bill which he is ex pected to veto. .The roll call vote on final passage was 241 to 177. Administration officials and GOP leaders said the measure still was far too costly despite concessions by Democrats who trimmed the bill's original size to induce the President to sign it. . The House in passing the bill defeated a last ditch ef fort by administration - led economy forces to block final congressional approval. The Senate passed it Monday night 56 to 31. 5,179 Register at Summit Stockade ' A total of 5,179 visitors have registered at the Siski you summit welcome booth stockade, Ernie Hood, Jack son county Centennial coord inator, said today. He said the percentage of out-of-state visitors has in creased to between 60 and 70 per cent of those register ing on week days. The per centage is less on week ends, when many area residents visit the stockade. Last Sun day, a total of 380 people reg istered, 147 of them from .out of state. Visitors recently have in cluded residents of Finland and England. WEATHER FORECAST: Increasing high cloudiness tonight. Partly cloudy Wednesday with a slight chance of a few showers in the mountains. High today 88: low tonight about 58. High Wednes day about 80. Temp. Highest Yesterday 88 Lowest this Morning" 54 Our Skies Tonight Sunset today 7:52 p.m. Sunrise tomorrow 4:35 a.m. Moonrise toninght .10:06 p.m. Last Quarter June 27 PROMINENT STARS Spica, in the south west . 10:08 p.m. Arcturus, high above Spica. VISIBLE PLANETS Jupiter, due south 9:29 p.m. Venus and Mars, set 10:01 p.m. Saturn, due south 12:21 a.m. WA72nn -a. XXUui Teams Bargain Without Progress As Deadline Nears 13,000 Men Idle In Three Cities New York - (UPD - Steel con tract negotiations resumed here today in the face of wild cat strikes at three steel pro ducers a week before the cur rent steelworkers contract ex pires. The four man industry and union teams have been bar gaining without progress since May 5. . Strikes broke out today in three cities idling more than 13,000 men. The Pittsburgh works . of Jones & Laughlin Steel corporation, the nation's fourth ranking producer, was shut down. ' Furnaces Banked Jones & Laughlin began banking furnaces preparing to close its Pittsburgh works, and a -company spokesman said the two plants were "virtual ly shut down." Two other early-bird strikes hit the industry. About 1,000 steelworkers walked out at the United Engineering and Foundry eompany plant in Vandergift,; near Pittsburgh, and a Republic Steel corpora-' tion mill in Cleveland was shut down by a wildcat strike today. - ' : : Joseph F. Finnegan, chief of -the federal Mediation Serv ice, niet 'with industry negoti ators in Washington Monday but said he had no plans to intervene in .negotiations be fore the strike deadline unless his services are requested. He said both parties had indicat ed that they prefer to bargain down to the wire without me diation. - ' ' Cooper Spurns Proposal . R. Conrad Cooper, execu tive vice president of United States Steel corporation, and head of the four-man industry bargaining team, Monday scotched a "non-inflationary" wage compromise which was reported to have been suggest ed to both sides by govern ment officials. Cooper said it had not been suggested to him. But he said he didn't think the proposal as reported-to put most of any money settlement into supple mentary benefits rather than immediate wage increase was any less inflationary than a direct wage boost. Fire Conditions Critical in Area Local forest fire conditions are critical, according to re ports from the state depart ment of forestry and the U.S. forest service. Recent 'winds and high temperatures have combined to dry out the local forest areas. The state forestry depart ment said the local situation is about a month ahead of schedule. The department yesterday sent three new crews, totaling 15 men, to the Lincoln, Applegate, and Mc Leod districts. According to the U.S. forest service, 14 out of 17 lookouts are now up in the Rogue River National forest. The re maining three lookouts are in the high areas where there is still some snow. Eight guard stations are manned and 16 suppression crews are in the forest. The forest service said about 54 men whose primary duty is fire-fighting are now in the forest. Vandenberg Delays Satellite Launching Vandenberg AFB, Calif.-flJPD -The Air Force announced to day that launching of the Dis coverer IV satellite was post poned because of technical problems involving range communications. Preparations for launching will be resumed as soon as . readiness of the vehicle permits, the Air Force said. - Salem (DPD Trial of State Sen. Richard Groener, sched uled in district court today, has been postponed. ay 'Think He'll Thaw Out June 30 Selected As 'Clean-Up' Day For City Residents June 30 has been selected as a "Make Medford Beauti ful" day, according to Robert Van Sickle, Ward IIi city councilman and member of the mayor's "Make Medford Beautiful" committee. "It has been determined," County Not to Exchange Land Jackson county will not swap property for the Peter N. Britt house and gardens in Jacksonville, County Com missioner Ralph James said today. Dr. Elmo N. Stevenson, president of Southern Oregon college, asked the Jackson county parks and recreation commission if - the county would be willing to swap from 5 to 10 acres on the Howard Prairie reservoir site for the three-quarters of an acre on which the pioneer photographer's house and gar dens are located. James said the county does not own any of the area around the Howard Prairie Reservoir and "we are not in the real estate exchange busi ness." Discussing the 40-acre pro posed park and recreation site on the Applegate, one mile south of the McKee bridge, James said the district attor ney's office is ' still studying the legal feasibility of the county taking over and devel oping the area. Live Virus Polio Vaccine Tested Washington-(UPD-A Russian scientist said today live virus polio vaccine has been used to innoculate more than 1,500, 000 people in the Soviet Un ion "with very good results." Dr. M. P. Chumakov, direc tor of the Moscow Institute for Polio Research, reported on the Soviet experiment be fore a 20-nation conference sponsored by the World Health Organization. The Russians used live virus vaccine developed by Dr. Al fred Sabin of Cincinnati, Ohio. The U.S. Public Health Serv ice and some British scien tists have been skeptical about live virus vaccines and have insisted that much more test ing is necessary to determine whether they are safe and effective. Dominican Republic Invaders Repulsed Ciudad Trujillo, Dominican Republic -(UPD Authoritative military sources said today that an invasion attempt against the Dominican govern ment has been crushed and all the invaders killed. tats! Fre and Come to Life Again?' Van Sickle said in a letter, "that the council is in favor of a certain, period of time be ing set; aside for a concerted effort by all residents taking steps to 'clean up' individual pieces of neglected property, "A number of specific cases have been brought to the at tention of. the. committee and those interested persons have been written directly. We feel certain that we can count on full cooperation on the part of these individuals." 'Somewhat Ineffective' Van Sickle explained that the committee itself has be come "somewhat ineffective" since members have been di verted by other responsibili ties. "Activity has bogged down to a point where further developments, so far as the committee is concerned, are unlikely," he stated. "We are hopeful that a new lead by city authorities will spark individual efforts by property owners," he added. City Manager . Robert A. Duff has already been author ized, Van Sickle reported, "to take steps to initiate cleaning of banks along Bear creek." Creek Cleaning ' Duff himself said today that arrangements are being made for a tractor to clean out the creek channel "some time this week." He explained that while this is a periodic meas ure designed primarily for flood control, "it does help improve the appearance." "It is possible," Van Sickle said of the June 30 plan, "that the effort will prove success ful and probably a specific day can be set aside each year. In this instance, we desire co operation . by residents inas much as we are celebrating our Centennial year. In the future, the need will be as great for certainly we do de sire the city to continue at tractive." Los Angeles-(UPD-Two large sharks were killed in south ern California coastal waters Monday. One had a man's watch in its stomach. Vanguard Satellite Failo To Orbit Around Earth Cape Canaveral, Fla.-UPD-A Vanguard satellite might have been gathering weather data from an orbit around the earth today if a single part in its carrier rocket had not failed. The dark skies over this vast missle launching center, open ed just in time for the three stage Vanguard rocket to blast off Monday afternoon. Luck Not Along As in seven previous satel lite launching attempts, how ever, luck did not ride with the Vanguard. It was the tenth fired in a $100 million project. After a good performance 7 Bodies Found; More Than ft Others Missing . Police Fear Deott . Toll May Exceed SQ Vossestrand, Norway -UI- Fire destroyed the BtcteC Stalheim Hotel today ant Vef reported to have killefi Ma$ of the 130 American touetff) visiting there. Police feared the death to9 would exceed . 32 and thgt most of the victims woulf fce Americans. They said they hfjf recovered seven bodies gnd that more than 25 othe per sons were missing nd &&rS dead. Trapped in Rooms There were 147 jueW& aSb) about 50 Norwegian employ ees in the 50-year-old hotfg) when fire flashed through the building at 3 a.m. tnd tragge) q many persons in their roorr At least 35 persong wer taken to hospitals, many of) them men and women betweeft the ages of 50 and 60 whf had come to this resort frta 50 miles northeast of Bergea to view the country's famous fjords. Police hoped that some of the missing had left the four . story, wooden hotel and had merely failed to report their absence. But they could not be sure until they searched the remains of the tourist inn. that was built at the turn of the century. Search Difficult The search for more victims was extremely difficult and dangerous in the still smoul dering ruins. The U.S. Embassy in Oslo announced it had sent one of - its- representatives, Karl Akerman, to the scene by plane to represent the inter ests of American victims gnd offer whatever hIg ha can : American survivora . Vossestrand jf onf of Nor way's most renowned tourist resorts. It is about 90 miles northeast of Bergen and 20 miles north of Voss. From Vossestrand, regular tourist parties fan . out- on visits to the fjords which cut into the west, coast. . i Forest Senice Men Dispatched to Fire FoUr forest service emnlnv. u ees from the Rogue River Na- -tional forest were dispatched last night to the Burns area to help supervise fire control operations on a 400-acre fii$ in Mameur National forest, fc cording to Fire Control Offl- cer S. T. (Tenny) Moor. Shortly before noon today borate drop plane oDeratefl Jiff) Medford Air service vu make a pass over the lire n continue to operate out ef) Burns. Forest service proe.tJ) said the fire vae t 4lkyK from a lightnin j farm tfrtfaf night. The four men froin Jtfff who are assisting in tfte aupeJ vision are Dale Ffrley, ftt Smith, Doug lcLellal aa& Bob Drell. Verboort THCmt Dies of Injuries Forest Grove, 6ra.-L-tS!fc bie Booth, 3-year-olf Hufph ter of Mr. and Mr. illjfr8 G. Booth of Verbooffe it) today in a Hillsboro ftos$itg) as the result of injufiel 94$ fered late Monday ejrf)n was hit by a pickup true;. The vehicle driven by 1 bert F. McLeod of fjoresf) Grove struck the girl when she ran from behind !fc gaE car, police said. of the rocket's first stage, ( compression regulator in the second stage failed. Informed sources said the upper s0ctior) of the rocket carrying th sat ellite then blew to bilSi IS Passes Daily If it had orbited, the) le)tes) Vanguard moonlet would ha$ made 12 passes around the earth every day and would have beeped back information on how heat in the atmospher causes the earth's weather. The satellite, equipped with four electronic thermometer to carry out its mission, pre sumably fell somewherSin tfce)f) North Atlantic : O
