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o) UVIU II If torace Pint art RfflarkeK GDestroyed imi Regional Edition Medford 18 Pages MEDFORD, OREGON, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 29, 1960 No. 289 irl Rescued From Flaming Cabin Sunday Cave Junction - A 17-year- old girl narrowly escaped death in a fire near here Sun day morning when a neighbor carried her to safety just as the flaming cabin in which she was sleeping began to col lapse. The girl, Ruth Tibbs, was rescued by Joe Lewis, who had run to awaken the Tibbs family after his wife, Flora, aw the fire breaking through the cabin's roof. The girl was sleeping in one cabin while her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Cy Tibbs, and her twin brother, Rudy, were sleeping in an adjacent cabin. The dwellings are located on Rocky dale rd. about five miles southeast of Cave Junc tion. Fire Chief V. Kirk told Margaret Eichler, Mail Trib une Cave Junction correspon dent, that his department re ceived the alarm at 8:50 a.m. Sunday. Firemen reached the scene a few minutes later, he said, but the blaze was out of control. Kirk said the fire .was caus ed by a faulty flue, . The girl's bed, according to Lewis, already was aflame when he entered the cabin. The building's kitchen, he said, caved in just as he drag ged the girl to safety. Kirk said most of the fam ily's clothing and other be longings were destroyed. Very little was salvaged. Hatfield Draft as GOP Keynoter Seen Portland-iUFD - Peter Gun nar, Oregon Republican chair man, today listed six "key states giving strong support" to draft Gov. Mark Hatfield as keynote speaker for the Republican national conven tion. In an address prepared for delivery this afternoon to Gop workers here, Gunnar said that the states, along with Oregon, include New York, Washington, California, Iowa and Massachusetts. The GOP national conven tion is set for July 25 in Chi cago. Several weeks ago the Republican National Commit tee confirmed that Hatfield's name was being considered along with others. Gunnar said , that George Milias, California Republican state chairman, has "actively joined in the drive" for Hat field as keynoter. Albany Displays New Newspaper Plant Albany - (UPD - The Albany Democrat-Herald showed its new $200,000 publishing plant to some 1,200 persons at an open house here Sunday after noon. Secretary of State Howell Appling cut the rib bon to begin the fete. Redmond Man Dies Of Traffic Injuries Redmond, Ore. (UPD Ada Gibson, 61, Redmond, died Sunday afternoon of traffic injuries suffered Saturday. No Tough Civil Rights Law This Year Morse Chicago rtJPD Sen. Wayne Morse, en route back to Wash ington after a one-day cam paign visit to three Oregon cities, said Sunday the coun try would not get a tough civil rights law this year. Morse said there was urgent need for such legislation be cause of competition with Rus s'a in Asia, Africa and Latin America. But he said any leg islation enacted this year will be "nice, but toothless," pat 'Off We Southern Officials Fea r Another Week Of Demonstrations Nashville, Tenn.-dJPD-Down- town five and dime stores re opened today for what offic ials fear will be another week of demonstrations in protest of segregated eating facilities in the South. "W'll keep coming back un til they fill the jail," one Ne gro threatened after a wild, fist - swinging outburst here Saturday that led to the arrest Police Arrest Man On Burglary Charge Medford city police arrest ed a 49-year-old Camp White man on a charge of burglary Sunday afternoon after they allegedly observed him break ing into the Reter Fruit com pany building, 323 South Fir St. A city policeman, who was driving by in a patrol car, said he observed the man, Al vin Earl Strunk, removing glass from a broken window in the door of the building. When he parked the patrol car, he said, the man reached inside the door, apparently unlocking it, then ran inside! The officer gave chase and caught the man inside of the building where he reportedly put up a struggle before be ing subdued by the officer and another policeman who was summoned to the scene. Strunk was lodged in the city jail. Chehalis Training Escapees Captured Salem (UPD Police Sun day took into custody three training school escapees from Chehalis, Wash. They said the truck the youths were driving had been stolen from the Pa cific Dairymen's association in Chehalis. Tools and other items taken from the associa tion also were recovered. terned after the 1957 civil rights law. "I see no change in the Sen ate from 1957," he said. "They had a good civil rights bill then, but provided no enforce ment to make it work. It was a shell of a bill, a sham and hoax." Morse Saturday visited Eu gene, Portland and Pendle ton in Oregon in his quest for votes as a favorite son can didate for the Democratic presidential nomination. Mornm Tribune Go" of 76 Negroesc and whites. Extra Close Watch: With trials of many of those arrested set for today, police kept an extra close watch for signs of a new demonstration. They had instructions against permitting crowds to form in the downtown area. Tennessee Gov. Buford El lington took notice of the pro tests, as did Alabama Gov. John Patterson. Ellington called the Nash ville demonstration "unfortu nate" and hinted he would take action against the Ten nessee Agricultural and Indus trial University if there were further outbursts. Many of the demonstrators Saturday were identified as university stu dents. Meeting Called Similarly Gov. Patterson called for a meeting of the Alabama Board of Education Wednesday, presumably for the purpose of dealing with Negro students who took part in a demonstration Saturday. President H. C. Trenholm of Alabama State College was to report to Patterson today on an attempt by 35 students of the Negro institution to obtain lunch counter service at the Montgomery county court house cafeteria. London - (UPD -More than 2,000 persons battled police and each other with fists and feet in downtown London Sunday in one of the worst outbreaks of racist rioting ever seen here. A number of persons re ceived minor injuries in the melee, and 50 were arrested. The fighting began when paraders headed by Sir Os wald Mosley, leader of Brit ain's prewar Fascists, tried to break up an anti-segregationist mass meeting in Trafalgar Square. Nehru Willing To Meef With Chou New Delhi-flJPD-Premier Ja waharlal Nehru said today he is willing to accept Premier Chou En-lai's demand for a meeting in April to discuss the border dispute between In dia and Red China. But Nehru's finance minis ter announced a $57 million increase in defense spending for the coming year "against the background of the present threat to our borders." Morar ji Desai got an ovation when he called for support "for in suring the security of the country." The increase puts the de fense outlay at $554. million, about 27 per cent of the na tional budget. Fire Threatened Two of Town's Oldest Buildings Insulation and Cold Hamper Fire Fighters Jacksonville Fire last night and early this morning caused an estimated $40,000 to $50,000 damage to the Jacksonville Cold Storage and Meat market and threat ened two of the town's oldest buildings, the Odd Fellows' hall and the Masonic hall. The alarm was answered at about 11:30 last night by 16 Jacksonville firemen in two trucks, and firemen and one truck each from the Medford and Central Point Rural Fire departments. The blaze was brought under control at about 5:30 this morning. Jacksonville Fire Chief Lewis Applebaker said the fire started in electrical equip ment housed in the basement of the cold storage firm. The two lodge halls, located on either side of the building, received minor smoke dam age. The storage firm is owned by Richard R. Hein. The building was locked, Apple baker reported, and firemen were unable to enter through the windows as they were so hot they could not touch them. They attempted to enter through a trapdoor in the sidewalk but that also failed because of the dense smoke. An exhaust fan in the base ment was fanning the smoke constantly, creating addition al entry problems. Firemen Wailed Firemen were forced to wait until the fire had burned through the roof of the one story building. They then fought the blaze with hoses directed from the roof of the two-story IOOF hall. Firemen also had trouble with their equipment, Apple baker said, as the cold temp erature stopped the hoses from operating properly. Wa ter from the hoses also was freezing on the sidewalk, mak ing it difficult for the fire men to walk. It was necessary to wait until the fire had burned through the roof, the chief said, because the roof is a double one and firemen were unable to chop a hole through it. Well Insulated The building was so well insulated, in fact, that meats stored in basement lockers maintained their 30 - degree temperatures throughout the blaze. Medford firemen brought smoke masks and other smoke equipment as entry without this equipment would have been impossible, Applebaker said. When firemen first arrived at the blaze they had to con tact Copco crewmen to turn off the power in the building. Members of the Masonic lodge came to the scene and made coffee for the firemen but there were few other by standers since only smoke, not flames, was visible from other spots in Jacksonville. Head of Dillinger Trackdown Kills Self Florence, S. C.-(UPD-Melvin Purvis, famed G-man who di rected the FBI trackdown of John Dillinger, shot himself to death today at his home here, police reported. Purvis was agent-in-charge of the FBI squad which kill ed Dillinger, the nation's pub lic enemy No. 1 as he emerged from Chicago's Biograph The ater, in the company of a girl friend and a police informer, known as the "Lady in Red." WEATHER FORECAST: Fair tonight and Tuesday. Low tonight. 22-25. High Tuesday 57. TEMPERATURE Highest Yesterday 54 Lowest This Morning 20 Our Skies Tonight Sunset today 6:00 p.m. 6:47 a.m. 9:28 p.m. March S Sunrise tomorrow Moonset tonight First Quarter PROMINENT STARS Castor and Pollux, (the Twins) high in south 9:12 p.m. Castor, the most northerly Twin, is also the first star in the heavens that was found (in 167S) to be a double star. West To Propose International Police Force . Disarmament Would Come First London - (UPD - The Western powers plan to propose to Russia the creation of an in ternational police force charged with keeping the peace anywhere in the world. The plan is part of a three stage global disarmament pro gram now bemg prepared for presentation at the Geneva disarmament conference March 15, diplomatic sources said today. Would Disarm First The international police force would, come into opera tion under the plan when the leading world powers have totally disarmed. Both the western and the Soviet plans envisage total dis armament as their ultimate aim. But the western allies feel that this cannot safely be done without providing an ade quate international force to police the peace in a dis armed world. Under the allied disarma ment plan, now in preparation for the Geneva arms cut ne gotiations, the world powers would disarm totally under foolproof international con trols. Would Maintain Order In the eventual absence of national forces, the projected international force would be responsible for maintaining order and policing the peace world-wide. Details of the plan are still under consideration by the West. U.S., British, French, Canadian and Italian experts currently are consulting on a joint blueprint for global dis armament. The plan provides three stages for disarmament. The first two phases envisage ini tial arms cuts of conventional forces, and studies of effective control mechanism. The third stage calls for major disarma ment moves leading to ulti mate total and global disarma ment. Ike, Frondizi Sign Declaration San Carlos De Bariloche, Argentina-(UPD-President Eis enhower and Argentine Presi dent Arturo Frondizi Sunday night pledged a concerted ef fort to bolster living stand ards among Latin states with out meddling in their internal affairs. The joint statement, hailed as the "Declaration of Bari loche," climaxed a week end of secluded talks between the two leaders which covered the outstanding problems of the hemisphere. It was expected to set the stage for a dramatic new pro gram of U.S. aid to the poorer areas of Latin America. Fron dizi hinted at such a program when he told newsmen before the signing of the declaration that the United States would have to extend broader as sistance to its southern neigh bors if it hopes to block Com munist economic penetration. He made it clear, however, that Latin American nations would have to shoulder much of the burden of econo mic development themselves. Thor 'Hot Rod' On Test Flight Cape Canaveral, Fla.-flJPD- America's Thor "hot rod" space rocket booster took off today on its third test flight- a planned 1,700-mile journey over the Atlantic. The slender rocket is one sixth aeain as powerful as the standard Thor now on de fense duty in England. The missile was scheduled to send its nose cone into a target area near Antigua Is land. The nose cone was one of General Electric's Mark II models which became opera tion aboard the Atlas ICBM. There were no plans to recov er either the cone or a data capsule. This was the last of a se ries of three tests of the "hot rod," which may blaze an earlv nath to the moon and planets for the U.S. The modi fied Thor chalked up successes Jan. 14 and Feb. 9. Dallas, Ore.-UPD-Fire broke out Sunday night at Willam ette Valley Lumber company here. Firemen said damage was minor and confined to a conveyor belt. mtmmsxmiMmmiumm i u .,iMiii.,alM.MM . I - 0 , jtM jf ' f a - ? v it ' 1 5 ! i SUPPLIES FOR SENATE-Extra provisions nourishment for Senators during the for the Senate restaurant are unloaded at around-the-clock sessions on the Southern the nation's capitol. The restaurant will re- filibuster over the civil rights bill. See main open on a 24-hour basis to provide story on page 2. (UPI Telephoto) Large Airport Crowd Greets Eisenhower on ChoHe Arrival Santiago, Chile -(UPD- Presi dent , Eisenhower flew the Andean', hump -today:-.to- be greeted here by a large, cheer ing airport crowd in perfect 80-degree weather. Just be fore his arrival the govern ment arrested five Commu nists for painting pro-Castro slogans along his route to the city. " E i s e n h o wer's propeller driven Columbine III airliner landed at the Santiago Air port after a smooth 2-hour Fuel Firm Building Damaged by Vehicle A car ran into the side of the Medford Fuel company building, 235 East McAn- drews rd., sometime Saturday night or Sunday morning do ing an estimated $400 worth of damage to the structure, ac cording to Medford , city po lice. Police have not yet located either the car or driver. They said the car should have ex tensive damage to the front bumper and grill because of the apparent 'force of impact with which the car hit the building. Judging from skid marks at tiie scene of the accident, po lice said the car was attempt ing to make a left turn from Court st.. onto McAndrews rd., but was going too fast to make the turn and went out of control. ' The car veered toward the building, hit a supporting post for the roof, ran over a large box of Presto-logs and crashed into the side of the concrete block structure, they said. . ' , A fairly large portion of the wall was pushed in, they said, and several other concrete blocks were badly cracked. Missing Plane Search Continues San Francisco-(DPD-An Air search still continued today for a light Air Force plane believed down in Northern California or Oregon. The plane has been missing since Friday night with two men aboard. ' The craft, a low-winged T34, left Klamath Falls, Ore., for Crissey Army Field, San Francisco, carrying Capt. Nor man Morgan Jr., Larson Air Force Base, - Wash., and Air man 1C Robert E. Brown, 31, Spokane, Wash. An Air Force spokesman said 27 sorties were flown Sunday, and the search would probably continue for a week if the plane was no.t found. and 16-minute flight from the Argentme Andean resort- city of San Carlos' de Bariloche. Triumphal Parade The U.S. chief executive stepped from his plane and was greeted by Chilean Presi dent Jorge Alessandri Rodri guez at a festive scene. A few minutes later, the two presidents walked to Eisenhower's bubble - topped car for a triumphal parade through Santiago to the offic ial residence of the U.S. am bassador. Eisenhower, who left Ar-gentine-U.S. relations at their highest point in this century when he departed Chile's neighbors to the east earlier this morning, had been pre- Kennedy Calls for Defense Spending Washington-flJPD-Sen. John F. Kennedy (D-Mass.) called today for increased defense spending financed by high er taxes "if necessary to avoid what he called the ad ministration's election - year "gamble with our survival." The Democratic presiden tial hopeful made the state ments in a speech prepared for Senate delievery. His re marks placed him among the sharpest critics of President Eisenhower's defense budget. Kennedy urged-an "emer gency" program for an air borne bomber alert, a step-up in missile spending, and ac clerated modernization of the Army and Marines. He called his program "an investment in peace that we can afford and cannot avoid." Explosion Rocks Russ Military Area Helsinki, Finland-(UPD-A tre mendous explosion believed to be that of a Soviet missile base blasted a Russian mili tary area near the Finnish border on Feb. 2, reliable sources said today. The sources, who cannot be identified publicly, said they had no information on the ex tent of the blast or what caused it but that it was not believed to be a nuclear ex plosion. - The explosion . appeared to have taken place very close to the Soviet military installa tion of Alakurtti, just north of the Arctic Circle and only a short distance from the Fin nish border. . Portland-flJPD-City Commis sioner Ormond R. Bean has announced his candidacr for mayor of Portland this year.KLeague Earlier, Mayor Terry Schrunk said he would seek reelection.. ceded here by sharply-differ- I ing reactions. - Right-wingers regarded Ms r visit as something of which cnue snouia De proua. xne i ce i u. center regarded it as belated S. recognition of Chile's im portance in the scheme of things. The Communists de clared nothing of benefit would come of it for the peo ple. It was the Communists who took the most aggressive anti Eisenhower tack. The five young Communists arrested before his arrival were pick ed up for painting pro-Castro signs on walls of buildings which Eisenhower passed en route to the embassy. Chile was the third of the four countries he is visiting during his 10 - day Latin American tour. Brazil and Argentina were first, with Uruguay to follow the end of the Chilean phase. It was obvious the crowd here was not as dense or as enthusiastic as the throng? in Rio de Janeiro, Buenos Aires or Mar del Plata. (See Story on Pag 2) STORY CORRECTED The old Beekman bank in Jacksonville is owned by the Oregon Historical Society, not the Southern Oregon Histori cal Society, it was pointed out today. A feature story about the bank in Sunday's issue of the Mail Tribune incorrectly attributed ownership to the local organization, whereas it was left to the state society by the late Miss Carrie Beekman. Medford Mayor President Of Oregon Cities League Mayor John W. Snider of eMdford has succeeded Loren D. McKinley, former mayor of Tillamook, as president of the League of Oregon Cities. Mayor Snider was elected vice president of the League at the convention last year. He is chairman of the League's committee on state highway relationship and a member of the American Mu nicipal association highway committee. McKinley resigned from the president's post and as mayor after accepting an appoint ment as full-time director of the Oregon Museum of Sci ence aiid Industry in Port land. Snider was elected to the League's executive board in the fall of 1957, following his election to the local office. He has been a member of the Medford city council since 1950. , Medford men have been presidents twice in recent years. The late Dia mond Flynn was president of Violence Started Saturday by Safeway Robber Charges May Be Filed DA Checks Reports; Rioting Jackson county prisoners grappled with a deputy and did considerable damage in the felony section of the county jail during the week end, sheriffs deputies reported today. Deputy Bjarne Bjornsen was guarding the jail alone Saturday night when the first incident occurred. Donald M. Thompson, conficted Safeway robber, called the deputy to the bars, passed a telegram through and asked him to look at it. As the deputy took it Thompson grabbed him by the shirt, looking toward the jail keys in the deputy's hand. However, Bjornsen broke away, as four other prisoners attempted to reach him through the bars. "I balled up my fist and held on to the keys tight," the deputy said. "Then, I held my right forearm up and used it to knock their hands back as I ran down the length of the cell block." Other deputies were called, and the prisoners were put on a restricted privilege basis. Sunday Violence Sunday morning and after noon violence broke out again as the 11 prisoners broke a porcelain toilet bowl, broke out several windows in the common cell area, and badly damaged the plumbing. As a deputy stood guard with a tear gas gun this morning. the prisoners were busy mop ping up the damage done. County Commissioner Ches ter Wendt, who examined the debris this morning, could not estimate the cost of the damage done, but said repairs would be "very expensive." Thompson is awaiting sen tencing for the Safeway rob bery here last Labor day. A jury convicted him, but he is awaiting the results" of a pre sentencing report. Possible Charges . Sheriff Joe Walsh said the district attorney may be able to charge the rioters with riot, assaulting a deputy, and possibly for attempted jail break. District Attorney Thomas J. Reeder said this morning he would have to study the sheriff's reports be fore making any charges. The prisoners were fed this morning but went without supper Saturday night follow ing the incident with the dep uty. Sunday their privileges, including coffee breaks, were taken away. This may have led to the rioting Sunday, the sheriff said. Cave Junction Home Damaged in Blaze Cave Junction - Fire origi nating from an overheated wood stove caused an esti mated $1,200 to $1,500 dam age this morning to the Char les Reese home located near the Rough 'n Ready mill about four miles south of here. Fire Chief V. Kirk said the stove pipe burst, igniting the roof of the house. Firemen received the alarm at 10 a.m. and brought the blaze under control quickly. The home is located only about two blocks from the fire hall. MAYOR JOHIT W. SNIDER Succeeds Tillamook Mayor the statewide organization just following his second term as mayor. 9 '' ' ' S r f : ( I - Fv - -
