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Portland Poo Mi mmlV Talk Noon Edition MedfordJK 18 PAGES Administration Boosts Efforts In Steel Strike Nixon, Mitchell To Resume Talks Washington - (UPD - The ad ministration is stepping up its behind-the-scenes efforts to settle the steel dispute and avert a resumption of the strike later this month. The new government stra tegy was disclosed Thursday when Vice President Richard M. Nixon and Labor Secre tary James P. Mitchell re ported they had met secretly with both sides in the lengthy controversy. Nixon and Mitchell were expected to resume their talks next week in an attempt to eet a settlement without the necessity of President Eisen hower reauesting new labor legislation from Congress. Other developments in the steel situation: -The United Steelworkers announced it would seek con tempt - of - court penalties against the "big 11" steel companies for alleged viola tion of a court order that halted the 116-day strike. They accused the companies of failing to turn over month ly reports required under the order. Hold Luncheon Meeting -Rocer M. Bloueh. chair man of U.S. Steel Corp., pre dicted that if there is no re sumptioaof the strike, the na tion's steel mills will operate at near capacity in the first six months of 1960 to restore strike-depleted inventories. Mitchell held ' an unan nounced luncheon meeting Thursday with Steelworkers President David J. McDonald and Union Attorney Arthur J. Goldberg. Neither Mitchell nor the union officials would say what they discussed. Two Airplanes Reported Missing By United Press International Two private planes carry ing a total of five persons were reported missing today In storm-swept areas of the west. One plane, carrying four persons, disappeared during a snow storm In the Sierra Nevada area between Oro- ville, Calif., and Reno, Nev The other, with one man aboard, was feared down be tween Rock Springs, Wyo., and Elko, Nev. The occupants of the first craft were identified as Mr and Mrs. Stanley Gardner and Mrs. and Mrs. Larry For ester, all of Seattle. They left Seattle in Gardner s Blue Bel lanca on a flight to Las Ve gas, Nev., and made their last stop at Oroville Wednesday night. They were en route to Pasa dena to attend the Rose Bowl game between Washington and Wisconsin. Robert E. Anderson of Sunnyvale was aboard the second plane. He failed to ar rive in Elko on schedule Thursday. First Baby in Area This Year Is Girl The first baby of the New Year in Jackson county was born to Mr. and Mrs. James G. House, 528 Bryant st., Medford. at 12:01 a.m. today. Sacred Heart hospital offi cials announced. The 8-pound, 5-ounce girl is the fourth child in the House family. Others are Polly Ann, 4; Jimmy Jr., 3; and Richard, 2. House is an employee of the Talent Irrigation district. Portland Web Pressmen File Unfair Charges Portland -(UPD- The Port land Web Pressmen's Union No. 17' Thursday filed an un fair labor charge against publishers of the Oregonian and Oregon Journal. Spokesmen for the pub lishers labeled the charge "ridiculous." The pressmen, whose con tract expires at midnight to n'ght, charged management the two newspapers with v raining in bad faith. The r-tion was filed with the Na tional Labor Relations Board office here. Managements of the two VTA JLT MEDFORD, OREGON, FRIDAY, JANUARY 1, 1960 SYNAGOGUE WALLS SMEARED - Pass erby glances at swastikas artd anti-Semitic slogans smeared on a wall of a synagogue in racially uneasy Notting Hill section of London. Scotland Yard ordered "urgent in quiries" to discover "those responsible for the outrage." Three swastikas measured a German Police Hold Man on Charges of Daubing Synagogues Frankfurt, Germany OJPD Police held a 22-year-old car penter on charges of painting swastikas on synagogues to day as reports of desecration of Jewish property continued to mount. The rash of anti-Jewish acts touched off by the daub ing of a Cologne synagogue Christmas Eve appeared to be continuing into 1960. Police in ScheinfekL in southern Germany, reported they had arrested Ludwigj Vogel, 22, on charges of paint-1 ing swastikas and the slogan down with the Jews, Ger many awake" on a synagogue Dec. 30. First Arrest Vogel was also charged with painting the front door of the home of Jewish tex tile merchant Bernard Elias. He was the first person to be arrested in the current flurry of anti-Semitic acts sinpe two young members of the Cologne branch of an ex t r e m e right wing political party were charged with the desecration of the synagogue there Dec. 26 Police reported more cases of the daubing of Jewish property today, despite a stringent all night watch to prevent New Years revellers getting into the painting act. Scrawled on Walls At Burgdorf, near Luene- Man Tells Police Oi Ride, Robbery Ronald Joe Frazier, 719A Bennett st., told city police that two men forced their way into his car about 12:45 o'clock this morning in Med ford and drove him to near Jacksonville, where they beat and robbed him. Frazier told police that dur ing the ride he tried to grab a gun that was under the seat and in the struggle the car went into a ditch approxi mately a mile east of Jackson ville. He said the two men beat j him and took about $5 from him before fleeing, according to police records. Frazier got his car out of the ditch and re turned to Medford, where he reported the incident to po lice. newspapers said earlier they felt members of the union had abandoned their jobs. There are 110 pressmen here. The Stereotypers Union struck the two newspapers Nov. 10. Members of other craft unions, including the pressmen, observed picket lines. Although the pressmen's contract contains a no strike clause, the union contends that under the Taft-Hartley law members may individual ly decide not to cross picket lines out of fear of violence or social repugnance. .TRIBUNE yard wide. Between two of the Nazi em blems was the message "Jude raus" (Jews get out). The synagogue is in a Jewish, neighborhood in a tenement-packed area where Negro and white residents staged race riots last year. -(UPI Radiotelephoto) burg, and at Nienburg in Lower - Saxony anti - Jewish slogans and swastikas were scrawled on walls during the night. In Nienburg eye-witnesses said they saw the painters drive up to the Jewish cem etery and daub the walls with three giant red swastik as before speeding off. The Interior Ministry of the state of Lower-Saxony offered a 5,000 mark ($1,190) reward today for information leading to the arrest of the culprits in the Nienburg and Burg dorf cases. Portland Man First Fatality Woodburn, Ore. - (UPD - A man who had stopped at the scene of another accident to dav became Oregon's first 1960 highway fatality. George Wolfe, 61, Portland, was struck and killed by a car on icy Highway 99 near Mac Laren school at 1:35 a.m. A comDanion. Edward J. Barth- olick. about 60, Portland, also was struck and was hospital ized in Salem with arm and leg fractures. State police reconstructed the accident this way: A car driven by James Bell, Woodburn, started to pass another while going south and skidded on the ice, turning over in the middle of the highway. Bell was not seriously hurt. The car con taining Wolfe and Bartholick came along and they got out to look at the wreck along with another man. While they were looking at the accident a southbound car operated by Charles Lynn Foland, Hubbard, struck the two men and the overturned vehicle. Court Reverses False Arrest Case Salem -(UPD- The Oregon Supreme court Thursday re versed a judgment for $40,000 general damages and $20,000 punitive damages recovered against Montgomery Ward & Company, Portland, in an ac tion for false arrest and im prisonment and malicious prosecution. The court also directed dis missal of the case, reversing Circuit Judge James W. Craw ford of Multnomah county. The court said that "on the strength of a night . watch man's identification" of An ton Kraft as being the man the watchman encountered on his rounds of the store during the middle of a night, Kraft was arrested without a warrant by a policeman on a charge of burglary. Oregon City -0IPD- Oregon City Mayor Pete Laurs is re signing effective Jan. 7" be cause of ill health. 54th Year Price 10 Cents No. 239 Highway Crashes Leave 83 Dead In Early Hours By United Press International The highway death toll mounted steadily today as mil lions of Americans welcomed the New Year. The tempo of the death count stepped up as celebrants headed home after a night of revelry. A United Press Internation al check at 8:30 a.m. (PST) showed 83 persons had been killed in traffic accidents since 6 p.m. Thursday.. Eleven persons died in fires and one miscellaneous violent death was reoorded for an overall holiday death toll of 95. By far the heaviest traffic toll was in Michigan, where 16 persons had died since the start of the holiday week end. Indiana, Ohio, Florida and Texas each recorded six fatali ties. Illinois and Oklahoma had five apiece. A father, his 6-year-old daughter and 3-year-old son perished at Waterbury, Conn., when a fire which started on a dried out Christmas tree flashed through a three-family house. The National Safety Coun cil forecast 320 persons would not live through the first week end of 1960. Police around the country mobilized their forces in an effort to save lives over the I 78-hour holiday which began I at 6 p.m. New Year's Eve and ends at midnight Sunday. Salem-IUPD-Clinton P. Haight Jr., Baker, has filed as a can didate for reelection to the Oregon House of Representa tives from Baker county. He is a Democrat. Salem (UPD - Washington County Judge Joseph A. Jar oss has filed as a Democratic candidate for state treasurer. "Just The Hat Will i .d&&$ Thompson Found Guilty by Jury; , Sentencing Set Four-Day Trial Ends For Klamath Man A jury of seven women and five men Thursday found Donald Martin Thompson, 36, of Klamath Falls, guilty of the armed robbery holdup Sept. 7 of the Safeway store in the Medford Shopping Center. Following seven hours of deliberation, the jury return ed the unanimous verdict at 9:25 p.m. Thursday. The jury had retired to the jury room at 2:25 p.m. following instruc tions by Judge Edward C. Kelly. . , The jury had three choices as to verdict, according to the judge's instruction, guilty as charged, guilty of larceny from a person, or innocent. Sentencing has been sched uled for Wednesday, Jan. 6, at 1:30 p.m. Maximum sen tence on the charge is life imprisonment. Trial Ends The trial ended in circuit court here following four days of testimony. Final arguments by the state were presented by District Attorney Thomas J. Reeder early Thursday aft ernoon. Attorneys for the de fendant were Richard C. Bees ley, Klamath Falls, and A. E. Piazza, Medford. Thompson was arrested at his $47,000 Klamath Falls home last November on a San Pablo, Calif., warrant charg ing him with armed robbery. He was later accused of the robbing of the Safeway store here of $2,700. Although he had not been employed for nearly two years, Thompson was formerly production man ager of the Oregon Food Stores and was an efficiency expert for chain markets. Boy Injured by Blasting Cap A dynamite cap exploded in an alley behind the Eagles hall last night and injured a 13-year-old boy who was trying to put it out. City police said the fuse and cap were apperently ignit ed by someone who felt the explosion would be a practi cal joke and the boy wander ed by at an inopportune mo ment. The boy, Ralph Edward Southard, 228 South Ivy st., was taken to Rogue Valley hospital by Medford Ambu lance Service where he was treated for minor punctures of the skin. Southard told police he was going into the alley to look for bottles, which he collects, about 11:15 p.m. and noticed something burning on a wall near the Eagles hall. As he went to investigate, he told police, a car came from the alley and nearly struck him. He said he went to the burning object and found it to be a fuse. When he tried to out it out with his hands, the blasting cap fell off the wall and exploded just above his hand, causing pieces to hit him in the face and hand. Portland (UPD Pacific Northwest Pipeline Corpora tion said it wants to complete its Willamette valley natural gas pipeline by May 1. Be Sufficient, Senator" GREETINGS, CHUM - Nine - month - old ever, for he was sound asleep when the Randi Merrill gives a fitting greeting to the bells rang and whistles tooted to welcome New Year in New York. Randi bid farewell 1960. -(UPI Telephoto) to the frantic fifties early yesterday, how- City of Long Beach Float Wins Tod Prize in Pasadena Parade Pasadena, Calif. (UPD The City of Long Beach with its orchid - bedecked "Venus de Milo" float today won the sweepstakes award for . the most beautiful floral entry in the 71st annual Tournament of Roses. Winners were announced as the floats moved majes tically before an estimated one million persons lining the parade route in crisp but clear weather. i The grand prize went to the Occidental Life Insurance Co. float depicting the ballet, "Swan Lake." A huge swan occupied the forefront of this entry against a background of chrysanthemums and roses. The Long Beach sweep stakes winner was a breath taking spectacle fashioned from 100,000 orchids and 6,- 000 roses. A replica of the Venus de Milo statue was un der a canopy of vanda or chids. Theme Float The float best typifying the theme of the tournament, Tall Tales and True" was judged to be the entry of Los Angeles county, Jack ana the Beanstalk." . Jack was Belton Seen Ahead For Treasurer Post Salem-(UPD-Howard Belton, 66, Canby businessman and farmer and former president of the Oregon Senate, was re ported today to be a front runner as the appointee to succeed Sig Unander as state treasurer. Unander is resigning to take a position on the Federal Maritime Board. A Salem newspaper said Thursday that Belton "now appears to have the inside track." The article said Belton "seems to be the best bet of the possibilities who have been mentioned." In 1948 Belton campaigned for state treasurer and defeat ed Unander in the primary but lost in the general election to Democrat Walter Pearson of Portland, now president of the State Senate. ! Portland Rose Parade Entry Named Winner Pasadena - (UPD - The city of Portland's entry in the 71st annual Tournament of Roses parade today was named a winner in the class A-2 divis ion along with St. PauL Minn., and San Antonio, Tex. The division was for cities outside of California with a population of between 150,000 and 500,000. shown chopping down the beanstalk as the giant de scended from a floral cloud. Orchids, chrysanthemums, carnations and stocks decor-: ated the float. ...... The President's trophy was won by the Union Oil Co. of California with its float 'An thony and Cleopatra" show ing a barge carrying the Egyptian queen on a lake dec orated with orchids and hun dreds of roses. The Queen's trophy went to the City of Santa Monica, Calif., for its floral version of "The Little Mermaid," a fairy tale by Hans Christian Ander son. Mexico won the Interna tional trophy with its float depicting stages in the history of the nation from the days of the Aztec Indians to the present. Other Trophies The National trophy was won by the City of Chicago with its amusing portrayal of Mrs. O'Leary's cow which, ac cording to legend, started the great fire of 1871 by kicking over a lantern. "Tales of the '49ers," the entry of the City of Glendale, Calif., won the Governor's trophy with its portrayal of a prospector panning for gold against a mountain back ground. The Mayor's trophy was won by tne btanaard Jii Company of California with "Tales of Audubon," a float depicting a wild life scene with western birds. Helms Bakeries won the Judges Special prize with a float called "Firebird" show ing a floral figure with the face and arms of a girl taper ing into the body cf a bird in bright shades of red and orange. Cold weather failed to dis courage the crowds from voic- 80 Per Cent of Tax Levy Collected Funds representing approx imately 80 per cent of the to tal Jackson county 1959-60 tax levy were collected and pro cessed by Dec. 29, according to Sheriff Joe Walsh. Collected during November for the first payment of the 1959-60 tax levy was $5,507,- 303.46, or nearly half a mil lion dollars more than for the same period last year. Total lew is S6.950.576.29. The money was received from 38,- 261 accounts, an increase of 1,326 for the same period last year, Walsh said. Once col lected, the money must be processed according to taxing unit and percentages. Walsh said the accounts paid in November, 1958, were not completely processed un til Jan. 7. iag their enthusiasm as the floats moved before them The spectators were bundled in blantets and heavy cloth ing against sub-freezing tem peratures early in the morn ing. The mercury plummeted to 31 degrees at 1 a.m. as crowds already were moving into po sition lining Colorado blvd. shoulder to shoulder on the parade route. Small fires were built against curbings, in garbage cans carried along for the oc casion or in other metal con tainers by the throng that braved the chilly weather to view the show billed as the world's most colorful floral spectacle. Hundreds of persons curled in sleeping bags on lawns bor dering the route or slept in folding cots and chairs at curbside. Parents and chil dren "were wrapped in all manner of brightly colored blankets. The crowd was quiet and orderly, patiently waiting in the cold weather. Christmas Tree Pick-Up Sunday The annual Christmas tree pick-up by the Medford Moose lodge will begin at 1 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 3. Trees gather ed will be burned at a site on Antelope rd. about 3A mile off Crater Lake highway. Medford residents who wish the lodge to pick up their trees should leave the tree in front yards on porches where they can be easily seen. Dona tions may be placed in enve lopes and tied to the trees. Proceeds from the pick-up will be given to the Junior Service League kindergarten for the hard of hearing. Any one wishing further informa tion as to use of funds may call Mrs. B. Brandt Bartels or Mrs. Ray Casterline. New March Open campaign aturaay The New March of Dimes campaign in Jackson county will begin Saturday, Jan. 2, it was announced today by Clarence Gossage, county cam paign director. . He said the 1960 campaign seeks to raise funds for a fight against birth defects, ar thritis and polio, major crip plers which affect one in every four U. S. families. The . drive will continue through January, reaching its climax with the traditional Mothers' March on Jan. 28. "The National Foundation has become the leader in the fight against crippling dis Stereotypers Suggest Meeting Of Top Figures Negotiations To Be on Local Level Portland - (UPD - A proposed "summit meeting" to try to settle Portland's newspaper strike was rejected by publish ers of the Oregonian and Ore gon Journal today. The Stereotypers Union, which went on strike against the newspapers Nov. 10, sug gested a meeting here between James Sampson, Chicago, in ternational president of the union, and Samuel I. New house, New York, owner of the Oregonian. M. J. Frey, publisher of the Oregonian, and Wm. W. Knight publisher of the Jour nal, issued statements turning down the suggestion. Not Party To Talks Frey said: "Mr. Newhouse has at no time been a party to the negotiations related to the present Stereotypers strike. He has authorized me to say that all negotiations on behalf of the Oregonian are and will continue to be in the hands of the local manage ment." Knight's statement said: "The Stereotypers strike is against both the Oregonian and the Oregon Journal. Only the management of the Jour nal has spoken or will speak for the Journal in any nego tiation with the Stereotypers or any other employee repre sentatives." Portland -(UPD- Police today continued, an investigation into a fight at the Hungerf ord hotel bar here lata Wednes day night. Officers said four employees of the Oregonian-Oregon Jour nal were involved in the me lee with four other men. Po lice said the newspaper work ers told them they were at tacked by the others. One, Steve Moore, 28, was hos pitalized with possible inter nal injuries. Blizzard Baiters Plains States By United Press International The new year was ushered in today by a howling blizzard that lashed the country's mid section after handing tne Southwest its third crippling blow from winter in the past 16 days. The storm, packing nign winds and heavy snow, hit the Central Plains early today, snarling holiday travel. By early morning, up to six inches of snow had falleji in sections of South Dakota and Ne braska. The storm hit New Mexico and Arizona in near record proportions. Many roads were closed and travelers stranded in western New Mexico. Elsewhere, rain was fore cast in the Mississippi Valley and Gulf states, freezing rain or snow in Illinois and Mis souri and fair weather along the Eastern Seabord and most of the West Coast. WEATHER FORECAST Fair this afternoon and tonight. A few snow flur ries in vicinity of mountains this afternoon. Patches of valley fog Saturday morning. Increas ing cloudiness Saturday with snow likely by late afternoon or night. High today 35. Low to night 15. High Saturday 37. TEMPERATURE Highest Yesterday 40 Lowest This Morning 20 Prec. to 10 a.m. Today 10 Our Skies Tonight Sunset today 4:48 p.m. Sunrise tomorrow . . 7:41 a.m. Moonset tonight 8:44 p.m. First Quarter Jan. 5 Among the highlights of the phenomena in the skies above in 1960 will be two partial eclipses of the Sun and two total eclipses of the Moon. Both eclipses of the Moon and one of the eclipses of the Sun will be visible over North America. of Dimes To eases, Crossage said, but to get the job done it needs the support of the entire commu nity. "The Foundation hopes to provide patient aid, as funds permit, to children under 19 stricken by arthritis and cer- Lain Dirui aeieuus. Aia uj yai a- lyzed polio patients will con tinue," he pointed out. A vigorous program of pro fessional education and medi cal research also is being un dertaken with health scholar ships to high school graduates and college students playing an important role, Gossage Mid.
