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if A Tl 54th Year Subscribers Price 10 Cents Recommended To report improper or non delivery of the Mail Tribune in Medford phone SP 2-6141. in Ashland MU 2-1021. before 6:45 pjn. daily and 10:30 a.m. Sunday If regular delivery arrives shortly after you call please notify office thus eliminating special messenger service. The Medford PAL club, which has been inactive since 1958, needs a place to hold their fights if they are to be reacti vated. Read about the club and the- problems it has in trying to get started again on page 10 of today's Mail Tribun. United Press International Full Leased Wire United Press International Full Leased Wire 58 Pages Section A MEDFORD OREGON, SUNDAY, MARCH 6, 1960 No. 294 "Greetings, February's Aid Water Above normal February precipitation has improved the water supply outlook in southwestern Oregon, accord ing to the March 1 water sup- by the weather bureau. ! Forecasts have been re vised upward from 3 to 10 per cent because of the precipita- , tion, the weather bureau said, f but even if maximum precipi- WUU11 ULLUIJ OlbCl lUOiVU Af runoff will not equal the 15- year average in most cases. It was the first time in five months that precipitation had been above normal in . the area, the bureau said, and monthly' totals ranged from School Building May Be Stopped Construction could be stop ped on the new Ashland jun ior high school if W. L. Reid company, of Portland, has its way, according to. a complaint filed in Jackson county cir cuit court. The Ashland school district, Graff and James, general con tractors for the school and the Schlage Lock company of San Francisco have been ordered into court at 1:30 p.m. Mon day, to show cause why work on the new building should not be stopped pending settle ment of a dispute over speci fications for door locks on the new building. The contract for locks was handled by the general con tractors on a sub-contract basis, according to a school district spokesman. Specifi cations called for installation of Schlage locks. The Reid company wants the specifica tions modified to eliminate mention of a trade name since the Reid firm handles Yale and Towne locks. The plans and specifications call for cylinder locks and Reid pro posed to furnish mortise locks. A) 1 ui , SWIMMING POOL SITE The $85,000 Jackson park swimming pool project, tentatively scheduled for comple tion by early May, is now 40 per cent complete. Workmen from the National Gunite company and Holiday Pool Con struction company, firms which are constructing the pool for fti city, ar shown completing tht txcavation for the- Occupant" Rains Supply from IV2 to 2 times normal throughout this part of the state. For the first time in several months, the weather bureau said, runoff during February was about equal to the 15-year average. The average is taken between 1943 and 1957. Rogue's Soulh Fork The water year flow on the Rogue river below south fork is 1,020,000 acre feet, which is 69 per cent of average, the bureau said. The residual flow (March through Septem ber) is forecast at 640,000 acre feet, or 72 per cent of normal. . At the Upper Klamath lake net inflowof 1,110,000 acre feet, or 76 per cent of normal, is forecast for the water year flow, while the residual flow is. forecast at 561,000 acre feet, or 69 per cent of normal. The water year flow on the North Umpqua below Lemolo reservoir is forecast at 260,000 acre feet, 77 per cent of norm al; on the" Williamson below Sprague river, 660,000 acre feet, or 76 per cent of normal; on the Sprague near Chilo quin; 346,000 acre feet, 70 per cent of normal; and on the Chewaucan near Paisley, 75, 000 acre feet, 60 per cent of normal. In south - central Oregon, February precipitation, for the second consecutive month, was well above normal, the weather bureau reported. Monthly precipitation totals at several stations in per cent of normal include Round Grove, 140 per cent; Paisley, 185 per cent; and Lakeview, 165 per cent. Improvement Results Considerable improvement in the water supply outlook has resulted from the abun dant February precipitation, and the forecast for the Che waucan river near Paisley has been revised upward 9 per cent. The weather bureau said forecasts in the south-central area still indicate well below average runoff. I1 CommDttee Grays 4 Dept. Budgets The county budget commit tee Friday approved four de partment budgets. Approved were the county clerk's office budget total of $109,389, the veterans service office budget of $9,831, dis trict court total of $6,915.32, and Circuit Courts 1 and 2, total $36,026. Next county budget session is set for March 22. The county clerk's total Thieves Get Over $2,500 in One Of 5 Burglaries Burglars broke into five Medford business establish ments Friday night, including the O.K. Market, 102 North Riverside ave., where they removed a safe containing more than $2,500 in cash and numerous checks, according to city police. In addition to the market, offices of the Standard Insur ance company and Western States Insurance company in the Executive building, the Cal-Ore Ranches in the Cen tury building and the United Medford Crusade in the Leav erette building, were burglar ized. Police said $30 from the Standard Insurance office and $14 from the United Medford Crusade office were taken. Nothing was reported missing in the other burglaries. Entry to the O.K. Market was gained through a venti lator in the roof, police said, and the safe was apparently wheeled out a sliding door in the south side of the building. The burglary was discover ed by- a merchant patrolman who told police he checked the market at 1:05 a.m. When he came back at 3:05 a.m., he said the safe was gone. Martin Andrew Hayes, one of the store's owners, has warned customers who gave the store checks on Friday to stop payment on. them imme diately. Police said entry to the va rious offices was gained by jimmying the doors, probab ly with a screw driver. The office burglaries are apparent ly connected, they said. Finch's Testimony To Be Repeated Los Angeles - (DPD-The jury deliberating the fate of Dr. R Bernard Finch and Carole Tregoff returned to the courtr room Saturday to hear again the sureeon's testimony about the night his wife was killed. Five persons were injured, none of them critically, in a three-car smash-up at the in tersection of Stewart ave. and hiehwav 99 at 4:30 D.m. yes terday according to Medford city police. Police said the ac cident occurred when one of the drivers passed out at the wheel of his vehicle and nit the two other cars from the rear. pool. The bathouse, located to the right of the pool, is nearly completed. Carpenters are putting the finishing touches on the roof. Work on a wading pool, to be fi nanced by the Crater Lions as a club project, will begin next week. budget consists of $82,679 for the clerk's office and $26,710 for the elections department. Last year's budget total was $74,613.45. The election department re corded a slight decrease in expenses. An extra clerk was included in the clerk's budg et to assist the county court. Addition of. the clerk also re moved extra help allowance since the clerk will do other work such as part time tele phone relief operator. Salary was set at $1,440. The part-time help is paid on a basis of $1.25 an hour. Also included in the clerk's budget is a view printer at $924. Veterans Service The veterans service office budget increased from $9,523 to $9,831. The veterans officer was raised in salary from $371 to $390 a month and a slight increase in travel allowance and office supplies was in cluded. The district court budget is slightly down from the previ ous year. The allowance of $200 for a bailiff was elimi nated since a bailiff was sel dom used. The present clerks will be used instead. A new docket book is in cluded for changing over to the uniform traffic code which becomes effective July 1. This allowance is increased from $655.94 to $2,660.32. The circuit court budget al lowance dropped slightly this year since it had been raised last year to include purchase of new jury chairs for Cir cuit Court No. 1.. - . Hearing Slated On Riot Charges ? Seven men charged with the riot ;inthe Jackson county jail last week end will appear in district court weanesaay morning for a preliminary hearing. . Four men who appeared in district court Friday afternoon to request the preliminary hearing were Charles Calvin May Jr., 35, Wecoma, Ore., burglary "not in a dwelling; Ronald Elmore Dodson, Zb, Fairchild, Calif., receiving stolen property; Edward Ken neth ' Rogers, 21, Philomath, burglary not in a dwelling; and Donald Martin Thompson, 34, of, Klamath Falls, assault and robbery while armed with a dangerous weapon. - : Preliminary hearing'on the riot charge had been set pre viously 'for Wednesday morn ing for Robert Carl Mix, 41, of 215, C st.,- Phoenix, charged with assault with a danger ous weapon. John Dellenback, Medford attorney, requested and received a separate hear ing for May Wednesday mora ine. ThomDson said his attor ney has been notified of the new charges. .-:". Jack Grayson Gibson, 35, route 4, Medford, charged with obtaining money under false Dretenses: and Ray Dwane Hriskins 25. Talent, burglary not in a dwelling, appeared in district court Friday morn ing and at their request a pre liminary hearing also was ordered for Wednesday. Friend Rushes to Senator's Defense Washington (CPD Sen. J. William Fulbright ID Ark.) told the Senate Satur day that former President Harry S. Truman ones called him "an overedu caied SOB." The comment brought Sen. Hugh Scott (R-Pa.) lo his feet with a wide grin. "I don't think the senator is overeducaied at all." Scott said. Job Outlook for Next 60 Days in County Said Good The job outlook in Jackson county for the next 60 days is good and the number of job opportunities in. this area should increase steadily from now until the end of the har vest-season next fall, report ed John J. Patton, manager of the Oregon Employment serv ice here. iew changes occurred m local employment in February as total employment remained much the same as in January, A considerable n u m b e r of regular employees were call ed back to their jobs during the last week of the month, The employment service made nearly double the number of job placements compared to the previous February, Pat ton noted. Unemployment compensation claims were about the same as a year ago Retail trade was reported generally slow. However, there were no large layoffs of personnel. Most layoffs which did occur were in the lumber industry and were due to winter , w e a t h e r in the mountains. Few sawmills had to. curtail their operations, Patton said. ' - "Construction w o r k h a s held up well through the win ter," Patton noted. "The Rogue Valley Manor and oth er building projects are mak ing a showing in various parts of the Rogue Valley;" At the same time there was almost no hiring in agricul ture, he added. Orchards were on schedule or ahead of sched ule with pruning. Safeway Robber To Be Sentenced Convicted Safeway robber Donald Martin Thompson, 34, Klamath Falls, will be sen tenced Monday at 1:30 p.m by Circuit Judge Edward C. Kelly. - : Thompson, who was found guilty of assault and robbery while armed with a dangerous weapon by a jury last Decem ber, has been in county jail pending completion of a pre- sentencing report. Howard Rollin Brooks, 35, of 6302 Chaparral st., Central Point, was arraigned Friday afternoon on a grand jury, in dictment before Judge Kelly. Brooks, who was returned last week from Kodiak, Alaska, by Sheriff Joe Walsh, is charg ed with larceny by embezzle ment. His attorney, Stanley Jones, reauested additional time prior to Brooks' entering plea to the charge. The ex tension was granted by the court. Brooks, a former employee of Cascade Wood Products Inc., is charged with larceny by embezzlement, involving $14,256.48 . taken from that company between Jan. 1, 1955 and Nov. 30, 1959. Also appearing in circuit court was Edward Kenneth Rogers, 21, Philomath. s He was sentenced to four years in the state penitentiary for burglary not in a dwelling. Thompson and Brooks both face additional charges of par ticipating in a riot. They were two of the seven county jail prisoners who were involved in the riot Feb. 27 and 28. Operational Atlas Blows Up on Pad Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif. (DPD - An operational Atlas ICBM blew up. on the launch pad Saturday during a fuel transfer training exer cise. The Air Force refused to say whether the missile was nuclear armed and on war ready 15-minute alert. Portland (DPD Walter Pear son, Oregon Senate president in the 1959 session, said Sat urday he would file for re election to the upper chamber. Ha is a Democrat. aMoots9 Erypit m U iiileirace EXPLOSION AFTERMATH Smoke rises explosions of undetermined cause. Radio from the French ammunition ship La Cou- FIEL, a government radio and television bre (behind twisted girders) in Havana Fri- outlet, said between 75 and 100 persons had day after the vessel was rocked twice by been killed and 125 others injured. (UPI Telephoto) Medford Hatchet Killer Captured After Escape Salem - (DPD - Tracks in snow led to the capture .Sat urday of a - Jackson county hatchet, murderer and his companion who escaped from the criminal insane ward of the state hospital Friday night. The two were found in an abandoned barn east of Salem in the Pratum area. Caught without a struggle were James Norman Jensen, 31, who was once doomed to the gas chamber after his con viction for ' the first degree murder of a 30-year-old Med ford woman, and Jack Stan ley Amason, 29, ..ho was serv ing a 16-year term from Mor row county for , assault and battery. State police took them un der heavy, guard to state po lice headquarters here, Captain Roy Howard of the force said they got on the trail of the two after they burglar ized the home of Mrs. Helen Enlow, also in the Pratum area. The house was empty at the time. The woman had left on a trip at 1:30 p.m. Friday and returned home at 7:30 a.m. She notified police that three of her coats were miss ing, plus a wallet and a knife. Officers found a red bandana in the house that had been left by the escapees. It had the imprint "ward 38" on it, the criminal insane ward. Hiding in Barn Officers converged on the area and picked up the tracks on the J. G. Long property. Sports Bulletins Central Point Crater high defeated Ashland 58 to 43 here Saturday night in' the final basketball game of the season for both teams. Chuck Turner had 16 points for Crater and Bob Hardy 13 for the Grizzlies. Klamath Falls Klamath Union high bounced Grants Pass 82 to 68 here Satur day night in a Southern Oregon conference basket ball eoncluder. Rex Benner put in 25 points and Jim Purkett 19 for Grants Pass and Paul Bishop 21 and Bruce Brickner 16 for Kla math. Grants Pass and Klamath Falls scored 153 points each to tie for the championship in the District 6 A-l high school wrestling tournament which concluded here Sat urday night. Medford had 126 points. Crater 79 and Ashland 4. - Roseburg - Myrtle Creek high won the District 6 A-2 basketball title here last night with a 63 lo 54 decis ion OTer Glide. Glendale beat Phoenix 58 lo 39 in the consolation game. Oregon 67, Oregon Slate 63 Cold Wave Persists Throughout Country Bv United Press International Temperatures plummeted to new records in the south, mid west and Ohio valley Satur day and two-thirds of the na tion remained under the heel oi the winter-mad March hare SSSiS'!S ' The two were found hiding in Long's barn." Roadblocks were establish ed over western Oregon when it was learned a car was stolen shortly after the escape but the inmates were not involved as was first thought. A third maximum security hospital inmate who escaped with them was William Mitch ell, 23, Salem. But he separ ated from the others and was returned to the hospital two hours later by his family,. An employee of the hospital was arrested and charged with aiding in the escape, which occurred about 8 p.m. in dark ness and rain. ' The inmates sawed through bars on a third floor window and slid to the ground using tied - together sheets. The hospital aide, Harry D. Symons, 29, Salem, was taken into custody after he told offi cers he purchased hacksaw blades at Jensen's request, with $5 Jensen gave him. The blades were passed to Jensen in breakfast rolls. Sy mons. who gave no motive, was charged with aiding and abetting the escape of a pris oner. Return to Prison I Authorities said Jensen and Amason, who were transferred from the state penitentiary to the hospital only a few months ago, would be returned to the prison. . Jensen was sentenced to die after his conviction of the first degree murder of Mrs. Fern Hile, mother of five, on April 24, 1954. Mrs. Hile was slain with a hatchet as she lay asleep in bed when Jen sen and a companion burglar ized, the house. The compan ion, Donald Chessley, is serv ing a life term after a second degree murder conviction. Former Gov. Robert Holmes commuted Jensen's death sen tence to 99 years in 1957. Be fore that, Jensen was a' three termer in California's Whit tier School for Boys, a two termer in San Quentin pris on and was an inmate of sev eral state hospitals in : Cali fornia. ' :. Castro Hints at Sabotage by U.S. Havana -DPD- Premier Fidel Castro charged Saturday night that the munitions ship which exploded in Havana harbor Friday was sabotaged and made it clear he held the United States responsible. WEATHER FORECAST: Mostly cloudy and showery weather through Mon day. Mild temperatures today but cooler tomorrow with show ers turning to snow flurries in surrounding hills. High today 52. Low tonight 38. High Mon day 45. Temp. Highest Yesterday i 54 Lowest Yesterday 43 Precip. to 4 p.m. Yesterday .45 Our Skies Tonight Sunset today . K7 p.m. Sunrise tomorrow , 6:37 a.m. The Moon, riding high tonight, sets tomorrow 2:55 a.m. Full Moon (and Total Eclipse of the Moon) Saturday night In this eclipse the Moon will take three hours and forty min utes to pass through the Earth's shadow and will be totally eclipsed one hour ana thirty five mlnuta. SiiS'KSiS! Senate Debaters Rest Today Alter Record Talkathon Washington (DPD A dog- tired and still deadlocked Senate broke off its marathon civil rights fight Saturday for a Sunday of rest after 125 hours and 31 minutes of rec ord - breaking around - the clock debate. ' .. A recess until Monday noon was declared at 5:31 p.m EST - the first meaningful halt in the struggle that began six days ago. The recess had been agreed to in advance by botn civil rights advocates and filibus tering southerners so that the Senate would not be in the po sition of meeting on the Sab bath. The Senate historically has avoided Sunday sessions. The recess was not a forced maneuver and therefore was not viewed as a parliamentary victory for either side. Both camps will benefit from the time-out the southerners by being able to rest from their talkathon; the civil rights ad vocates by getting a break from being available around the clock to answer quorum calls. Portland-flM - More state support for schools and high er pay for teachers were urged Friday by the representative council of the Oregon Educa tion association. i . - , ........ News By United Press International Moscow Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev returned from a three-week tour of South. Asia Saturday and cau tioned the Western Powers against raising "any new dif ficulties" before the Paris summit conference. San Francisco The Santa Fe railroad and a trucking company were sued for one million dollars Friday by 10 children of an Arkansas couple killed in the Baker sfield. Calif., train wreck Tuesday. Agadir, Morocco The earthquake-shattered city of Agadir will be rebuilt v on solid rock just south of the present ruins of the once-gay seaside resort, Moroccan government authorities announced Saturday. - Jupiter, Fla. Miami's gas station killer-bandit abduct ed a woman from a suburban parking lot and killed "her early Saturday but police, following a trail of footprints from her bludgeoned body, captured him in a south' Florida canal. Mussoorie, India The Dalai Lama revealed Saturday that he smuggled a king's ransom in silver from red-ruled Tibet when he fled Chinese Communist persecution last March. Evansville, Ind. Five brothers and their sister, none older than nine, were trapped and burned to death Satur day when a flash fire roared through their home. - Ramey Air Force Base, Puerto Rico President Eisen hower worked on a report to the nation on his Latin American tour Saturday and got in a game of golf after ward despite a nagging throat irritation that has left him hoarse. - Nashua, N.H. Sen. John F. Kennedy Saturday began the final phase of his campaign to win Tuesday's first-in-Ihe-nation New Hampshire presidential primary with re newed attacks on the Eisenhower administration's foreign policy. Costa Mesa, Calif. The klayer of a young mother of two shot to death Wednesday in front of her 3-year-old daughter was returned here from Phoenix, Ariz., Satur day after confessing the crime. Robert Elton Edwards, 20. . of Modesto, Calif., confessed to Phoenix authorities earlier in the day that he shot Mrs. Nancy Haas, 29, six timet while her daughter. HaidL watched. ' - . Negro Stabbed by White Man Near Market in Texas Demonstrations In Several Cities By United Press International A ' lunch counter sitdown protest erupted in violence late Saturday at a Houston, Tex. supermarket. Earlier in the day, angry Negro students swinging clubs and hurling bricks attacked cars of pa trons of a white drive-in res taurant at Columbia, S.C. ' 1 Tnnr-t ' ' Hem nm-fra'iinna occurred in New York, Wash ington, Boston, Los Angeles, Seattle and in Ohio. At Youngstown, O. the NAACP said it would begin one week of demonstrations outside the local F. W. Woolworth store next Monday. . At Xenia, O. one of the best restaurants in the southwest ern Ohio community closed when 30 Negro students marched in and demanded service. In Montgomery, Ala., police served notice late Saturday they would not permit a huge prayer meeting scheduled Sunday on the grounds of the white - columned Alabama state capitol. Warning Issued Police Commissioner L. B. Sullivan warned the meeting. expected to draw some 2,000 Negroes, would be broken up. "We are not going to have any further demonstrations by whites or Negroes . . that would tend to 'create further racial tensions," he declared. He charged the Negroes "are intent upon inciting further trouble by arranging a mass meeting at the capitol under the guise of religious service. Negro Stabbed Trouble broke out at Wein garten's supermarket in Hous ton when a white youth, iden tified as T. H. Wade, 19, and a former Mississippian chal lenged a group of Negroes staging a sitdown demonstra- " tion. None of the Negroes took up the challenge and -Wade was ushered outside by police, but returned a short time later. He was roughed up and two front teeth knock ed out. Moments later, a Negro identified as James Gates, 24, was stabbed "by a white man in a parking lot outside the store. Police said as nearly as they could determine the stab bing incident was not connect ed with the sitdown demon stration. (Briefs
