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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
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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 :
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