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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.
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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
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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.
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