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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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