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Ms De Ml m nji mi IK Roque Valley Edition Medford 18 Pages MEDFORD, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 16, 1960 No. 303 Ike Suggests Conferences on Racial Tensions 0 Washington - (UPD - Presi dent Eisenhower today advo cated the formation of biracial conferences in every southern community to help settle racial tensions locally rather depending on the federal gov ernment. Eisenhower, commenting on recent Negro demonstrations in the South against being banned from public lunch counters, said he thought that such demonstrations, if order ly and seeking to support the rights of equality, were con stitutional. Therefore, he said, they should be permitted. Judgment Reserved The president reserved Judgment, however, on dis order resulting from such demonstrations. He told his news conference he was not a lawyer and could not deter mine the extent to which the federal Constitution might ap ply. Furthermore, he said dis order was a matter for local handling. That, he said, was one principal reason why he thought there should be bi racial conferences in every southern community in an ef fort to reduce conflict be tween the races without turn ing to Washington for the answer. Arrests and Violence A chain of "sit in" strikes protesting racial discrimina tion at lunch counters has oc curred throughout the South. Negroes many of them col lege students - have filled lunch counter seats where, in most instances, they are re fused service while seated. White sympathizers have join ed them in some places. Other highlights of the President's first news confer ence since Feb. 17: -He said that, in requesting congressional changes in the $ugar quota act, there was no thought whatever of punish ing the people of Cuba or the Cuban government. He said because of conditions in Cuba, however, he wanted the au thority to turn to other sources of sugar supply should there be some interference with shipments of Cuban su gar to this country. Says Plan Preferable -He said he felt the U.S. disarmament plan submitted in Geneva with its provisions for gradual effectiveness and sure safeguards on compliance was vastly preferable to the Russian total disarmament, four-year program. -He deplored violence con nected with the recent elec tions in South Korea. -He restated this govern ment's position that there would be no change in policy toward Berlin at the summit conference in May. Ywfii Confesses Kidnaping Negro Houston, Tex. (UPD Police Lt. F. C. Crittenden said to day that an 18-year-old sus pect has confessed that he helped kidnap Felton Turner, 7, a Negro who was flogged, Inife- branded with "KKK" and hanged by his heels in an oak tree. He told police the first names of the others. Police identified the suspect m Ronald Gene Erickson, 18. Turner, an unemployed jwning worker, was forced into a car by four masked white men the night of March 7, taken to a lonely field, flog ged with a chain, knife-branded with the insignia of the Ku Klux Klan on his chest and stomach and hanged by his heels in an oak tree. He soon freed himself and called the sheriff. WEATHER FORECAST: Variable high cloudiness tonight and Thurs day. Low tonight 39. High Thursday 62. Temp. Highest Yesterday S4 Lowest this Morning 3S Prec. to 10 a.m. Today. Trace. Prec. to 5 p.m. Yesterday .03 Our Skies Tonight Sunset todav G:19 t m. I S'nrise ": morrow 6:20 a.m. ' "'-nrUs tonight 10:2 J p.m. i " --t ouarte- March 19 TPO'iXKXT STARS Al- ebiran. in the west 9:45 p.m. Sirius. in the south west 10:1J p.m. Prpcyon. high above Sirius. Vega, low in north east 11:1 p.m. -He rejected as untrue re ports from abroad that he had an agreement with boviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev to avoid "rocking the boat" pending the May summit meeting. Not About To Help -Asked to comment on de mands by some Democrats that their national chairman, Paul M. Butler, resign, Eisen hower said with a chuckle that if the Democrats were having trouble he was not about to help them out. -Told of the apprehension of some businessmen about the picture of future pros perity, Eisenhower said he thought the national economic outlook for the rest of this year was very healthy and very fine. He conceded that certain economic indicators were not advancing upward as rapidly as some business leaders would like. Ike Abandons Neutrality, Nixon Definite Choice Washington-IUPD - President Eisenhower today abandoned all pretense of neutrality and made it clear that Vice Presi dent Richard M. Nixon is his personal choice for the 1960 Republican presidential nomi nation. The President also said he would do anything he could to help the Republican ticket if he is asked to do so. . Asked About Remark Eisenhower was asked at his news conference about re marks attributed to him in an off the record talk at the Grid iron Club dinner here Satur day night. He was quoted as having said that those at the lead table needed only to move two seats over from where he was sitting to greet the next president at its din ner next year. Nixon was sit ting two seats away. Eisenhower laughed and re plied to his questioner that reporters were never present at Gridiron dinners and that certainly no guest had been guilty of reporting what he said. Definite Preferance But he went on to say that if anyone wondered whether he had a preference, or even a bias about the choice of his successor, the answer was yes very definitely. He later was asked if he specifically referred to the vice president He answered by asking the reporter if there was any doubt in his mind. Eisenhower also was asked about reports that he might give the keynote speech at the Republican convention next July. He said he had not been invited to do so. Washington -OIPD- The pres ident of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America urged Congress today to boost the federal minimum wage to $1.25 an hour to wipe out "poverty in the midst of plenty." Sail On! O Ship Price 10 Cents Tribune Russia Proposes Red China Join In Troop Cuts Peiping Not Asked To Participate Geneva - (UPD - The Soviet Union proposed today that Communist China join the United States and Russia in trimming their armed forces to 1,750,000 men each in a 12- to 18-month period to get disarmament underway. Soviet Delegate Valerian Zorin presented the proposal in a three-stage Communist blueprint at the second session of the 10 -power East -West disarmament conference and later read it to newsmen. It asked France and Britain to cut their armed forces to 650,000 each. Peiping Not Invited Zorin thus introduced Red China at the beginning of the conference although the Pei ping regime was not invited to participate. Red China has said it would not go along with any disarmament agree ment it does not help write. Zorin said the troop reduc tions would comprise the first stage of the Soviet plan for "complete and general dis armament in four years," pro posed by Soviet Premier Ni kita Khrushchev last Sep tember. Proposal Attacked The West already has at tacked Khrushchev's proposal as thoroughly impract i c a 1. And the Russians lost no time in attacking a rival western plan as meaningless even be fore they received it offi cially. The western plan calls for a step by step disarmament program. In the first step an international disarmament or ganization would be set up and the Soviet Union and the United States would cut their troop strength to 2,500,000 men each, later to two mil lion each. Albany Church Gutted by Flames Albany, Ore. rtlPD Fire to day gutted the historic 60 year - old First Christian church in downtown Albany. The, blaze broke out short ly after 10 a.m. and all avail able equipment was sent to the scene. Two firemen narrowly escaped being thrown into the flames when a truck-mounted ladder buckled but they man aged to climb to safety. The church building was described as a total loss. There was no immediate estimate of loss. The church has a new building planned. The fire was believed to have started in the kitchen or furnace. Political Debate Scheduled in Salem Salem-(DPD-The state chair men of the Oregon Republi can and Democratic parties will square off Friday, March 25, at Willamette University for a political debate. Democrat Robert S t r a u b and Republican Peter Gun nar will debate issues of the coming campaign. It will be open to the public. Salem-(UPD-Sale of 214 acres in north Portland to the city of Portland has been approved by the Oregon Land Board. Price is $29,700. Of Stale . . . IVc :M?J7' -5c : j f! "V CHECK FINGERPRINTS Sheriff's Depu ties Kaye Vaughn, right, and Lee Rice check fingerprints on the front door of the Lester G. Hamilton home .at 2700 East Main rd., Snow Strands Basketball Fans In Middle West By United Press International A driving snowstorm strand ed thousands of basketball fans, stalled hundreds' of cars on snow-blockaded highways and closed schools throughout the Midwest today. The storm, striking with blizzard-like fury, bowled out of the Central Plains, pow ered eastward through the heart of the Iowa-Illinois corn belt and aimed heavy punches at the heavily populated low er Great Lakes area. Crowds Caught The storm caught crowds of Illinois and Iowa basketball fans away from home attend ing annual state high school basketball tournaments. An estimated 1,400 Mon mouth, 111., fans were strand ed between Springfield, 111., and their homes. Some 200 players and fans holed up overnight at the Wenona, 111., High school when they were unable to get home from a cage game at Peoria. Scores of Galesburg and De Kalb, 111., residents spent the night in Rock Island and Moline and 25 boys were put up in the two cities' jails. 10 Inches Reported At Red Oak, Iowa, hundreds of Southern Iowa basketball fans were snowbound in the high- school gymnasium, and 200 girl volleyball players and their coaches were strand ed at a tournament in Peru, Neb. The giant storm dumped 10 inches of snow on Mon mouth, in northwestern Illi nois, 8 inches in southern Iowa. It left Kansas City crip pled under a 20-inch snow pack -most of its industrial plants shut down-and raised Omaha's snow accumulation to 27 inches, topping the Ne braska's metropolis' all-time record by 5 inches. Oregon Education Convention Slated Portland (UPD Upwards of 5,000 school teachers are ex pected here Thursday and Friday for the Oregon Educa tion Association's 50th annual convention. Sports Bulletin Eugene UPD - Klamath Falls put on a strong sec ond half finish today to knock over Sandy 67-46 in a first-round game at the stale class A-l" high school basketball tourney. Klamath Falls will meet Lake Oswego Thursday at 4:15 p.m. in a quarter-final game. Oswego upset La Grande 65-61 earlier today. Klamath Falls, fifth-ranked team in the final UPI poll, led only 28-27 at the half. Sritt Mome Again amaged Jacksonville" The once damaged Peter Britt home here was again heavily dam aged by fire and water about noon today. t . The fire, believed to have started near a fuse box, dam aged the first floor and roof of the structure. A fire in 1957 burned the building's third floor and did extensive dam age elsewhere in the struc ture. Members of the Jackson ville volunteer fire depart ment brought the fire under control within 30 minutes, it was reported. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Jones, caretakers of the Beulah Hand Raps Hatfield 'Attitude' Portland-IUPD-Beulah Hand, vice chairman of the Oregon Democratic party in Oregon, today called Gov. Mark Hat field's decision not to name Mrs. Richard Neuberger as successor- to her late hus band's Senate seat "another manifestation of Gov. Hat field's 18th century attitude toward women." "In these critical times," she said, "the Republican govern or denies to the state and na tion an experienced legislator who is the obvious choice of rank and file Democrats and Republicans simply because she's an intelligent woman." Silverton Group Rifle Champions Salem (UPD Oregon Adju tant General Alfred Hintz an nounced today that a Silver ton group, headquarters troop of the 1st Reconnais s a n c e Squadron, 82nd Armor, won the state National Guard rifle championship in a recent match at McMinnville. The .22 caliber rifle contest included the seven top nation al guard rifle teams in the state. A Corvallis group, Com bat Support Company, 2nd Brigade, 186th Infantry, was second. Top individual honors went to Master Sergeant Grover Mock of Clackamas and Mas ter Sergeant Robert Knotts, Milton - Freewater, who tied with 279. City Hauling Rock To Bear Creek Bank City street crews are haul ing rock, taken from an exca vation on Crestbrook rd. dur ing construction of the Seventh-day Adventist church, to the fill at the east end of the proposed Tenth st. bridge, city officials reported today. The rock will form a pro tection for the upstream side of the fill, they said. Ashland. Hamilton found his wife, Mrs. Marion Hamilton shot to death just inside the door yesterday afternoon. (Knackstedt Photo) by Fire building, were said to be in Ashland at the time of the blaze. Most of the . damage from today's fire was in their living quarters. Lyle Petty, 207 West D st., Jacksonville, said he noticed the fire about noon and noti fied the fire department from a nearby house. He said he went to the Britt house to see Jones when he heard the sound of fire from the Jones' living quarters. ' A small black dog, locked inside the building, was res cued by several high school students and taken to a local veterinarian. ' Britt, pioneer photographer, started building the house in 1860. it is currently owned by Southern Oregon college, which became owner of the property as a residuary lega tee to the estate of Miss Mollie Britt, daughter of Britt. Miss Britt died Oct. 14, 1954. Fire gutted the top floor of the structure April 29, 1957. It had been used by Britt as his photography studio. The building at that time was bad ly damaged by fire, water and smoke. Last year some attempts were made by the college for the county to acquire and maintain the property. 14th Body Found In Damaged Mine Logan, W. Va. (UPD Work ers recovered the 14th body today from the depths of Holden No. 22 coal mine near here where 18 miners were trapped eight days ago by a cave-in and fire. The search continued for the four missing miners, but there was virtually no hope they would be found alive. Thirteen bodies had . been found Tuesday, huddled to gether in a partially-fallen, crumbling tunnel three miles from the pithead. Planes Collide On Runway in Japan Nagoya, Japan-UPD-A Japa nese F86 fighter plane crashed into a loaded Japanese pass enger plane on the Komaki Airfield runway today, killing three of the 30 passengers aboard and injuring five criti cally. Washington-(UPD - Defense Secretary Thomas S. Gates Jr. testified today that the United States outstrips Rus sia "by several times" in pow er of nuclear weapons and in long-range ability to deliver them. -Hollywood - (UPD - Cheryl Crane, daughter . of actress Lana Turner, today was con fined in a county school for problem girls by order of the juvenile court. . Mrs. Hamilton Shot Nine Times; Motive Is Vague ' Body Found by Returning Husband Ashland Mrs. Marion Stel la Hamilton, 40, of 2700 East Main rd., Ashland, was found shot to death at her home here yesterday afternoon. Jackson County Sheriff Joseph Walsh said Mrs. Ham ilton was shot nine times with a .22 caliber weapon. There were wounds in the head, body and legs, he said. Reason for the shooting has not been, determined, Walsh said, but he indicated there was a vague possibility of robbery as a motive. He ad ded that the house had not been disturbed, although a wallet may be missing. Found by Husband Mrs. Hamilton's body was found about 2:30 p.m. by her husband, Lester G. Hamilton, who returned from working in a field. The body was in the living room just inside the front door, Walsh said. The shooting' apparently occurred between 11:30 a.m. and the time Hamilton return ed home, sheriff's deputies said. Mrs. Hamilton was seen in the yard about 11:30 a.m. by a neighbor, they said. Walsh said the shooting "was typical revenge or a' mad-type killing." No weapon has been found, and as yet there are no suspects. ' Fingerprints Taken Walsh and sheriff's deputies took fingerprints at the scene, and searched the house, but found nothing disturbed. They said they found a roast in the oven, and laundry stacked by an electric dryer. Mrs. Hamilton was the only one home at the time of the shooting, deputies said. One son is in the Air Force in Germany, and two other sons, ages 14 and 19, were at tending school. Hamilton and the children are staying with relatives, deputies said. The Hamilton home is about two miles south and east of Ashland. Mrs. Hamilton's body was taken to Ashland Mortuary, Orchard Heating Meeting Scheduled An orchard heating meet ing has been scheduled in the Jackson county courthouse au ditorium at 7:30 p.m. Friday, according to Clifford B. Cordy, county horticultural agent. Cordy and W. J. Rogers, of the fruit frost forecast warn ing service of the U. S. wea ther bureau, will discuss the most efficient heating pro cedures and weather factors involved. Orchard thermometers have been tested and will be ready for distribution Thursday aft ernoon, Cordy said. McAllister Lauds Choice of Lusk Salem -(UPD- State Supreme Court Chief Justice William McAllister said Tuesday that Associate Justice Hall Lusk is "a man of great wisdom, tolerance and sympathy" and that Lusk's appointment to the U. S. senate was "excel lent." Justice McAllister said Judge Lusk "is a man of great ability, one of the outstand ing appellate judges in the na tion." "We in the court," the chief justice said, "regret we will not have the benefit of his help but we are happy that he has received this hon or and wish him the best of everything." Cuba Studies U.. (Protest; 'Death To Ike' Shouts IHleard Havana (UPD Leaders of Premier Fidel Castro's revo lutionary regime studied a new U.S. protest today in an atmosphere of anti-Americanism aggravated by shouts of "death to Eisenhower!" over government loudspeakers. Text Not Revealed Foreign Minister Raul Roa was said to have taken the U.S. protest note to President Osvaldo Dorticos last night, a few hours after it was deliver ed by Charge D'affaires Dan iel Braddock. The text was not made pub lie immediately. Hatfield Names Lame Judge To Lusk Kearney .' Salem-(UPD-Gov. Mark Hat field today appointed Lane County Circuit Judge Alfred T. Goodwin, 36, Eugene, to succeed Justice Hall S. Lusk on the Oregon Supreme Court. Judge Goodwin said he will seek election to the post in November. Hatfield said "it is a plea sure to appoint" Judge Good win an associate justice of the State Supreme Court and to commend him to tfie voters for relection in November." The governor said the high court's make-up after the ap pointment of Lusk to the U.S. Senate was that of two form er circuit judges, three from Lusk Selection Said To Violate Constitution Salem -(UPD Attorney Gen eral Robert Y. . Thornton con- ceded today that Gov. Mark Hatfield's appointment of As sociate Justice Hall S. Lusk to the U.S. Senate violated the state constitution, but said nothing could be done about it. He was commenting on a story printed today in the Coos Bay World and written by Robert W. Leedom, man aging editor. Leedom said the appointment violated the con stitution because Lusk "took an oath when he first attain ed the Supreme Court bench in 1937 in which he said he would not accept any non judicial office during his term of office." Not Enforceable Thornton said today "the violation ... is not enforce able because it involves a senator." ' He said that although Lusk had : taken the oath not to accept a non-judicial office during his term, there was no way "of enforcing this oath in connection with appoint ments of justices to Congress or the Senate." The attorney general added that in making the appoint ment, Hatfield "violated his own oath to uphold the con stitution, but there is no way of enforcing that either." The latter point also was made by Leedom. Oregon Gas Death Rate Cut To Zero Salem -(UPD- Oregon's acci dental and suicide gas death rate has been reduced to zero due to use of natural gas im ported from out - of - state sources, the public utility commissioner's office said to day. The PUC said no deaths were attributed directly to natural gas in 1957 or 1959 although two resulted in 1958 from "incomplete combustion due to faulty appliances." Natural gas replaced man ufactured oil gas in Septem ber, 1956 in the Portland-Sa-lem-Lebanon area. It does not have the toxic properties of the old gas. Salem Duns Eugene For Parking Fines Salem (UPD The Salem po lice department said today it has written a polite letter to the Eugene police department asking the latter to fork over $6 for overtime parking fines. Salem police said the fines were issued Feb. 27 while Eugene police cars were here. Washington reports indicat ed that the note formally ex pressed the verbal charge of "irresponsibility" hurled at Cuba earlier this month by Secretary of State Christian A. Herter. Statement Rejected Herter's statement, denying Cuban hints that the United States was to blame for the explosion of the French muni tions ship La Coubre in Ha vana harbor, was rejected by Roa. Informants in Camaguey Province reported a crack down on workers and ranch private practice and one from a law faculty. "Therefore, it seems both appropriate and imperative that the present vacancy be filled by a member of the circuit bench. "In conferring with his su periors on the Supreme Court, with lawyers who have prac ticed before him, and the pub lic he has served it became abundantly clear Judge A. T. (Ted) Goodwin enjoys their respect." Goodwin said "I am tre mendously honored by thi appointment. It will be a chal lenge to try to carry on in the footsteps of Justice Lusk, who probably has as distin guished a record as a jurist s can be found." Goodwin said it would take some time to clean up Circuit Court matters in Eugene be-, fore he could assume the Su preme Court duties but added this should be "soon." Hatfield said he has asked the State Bar for a Lane coun ty poll to recommend a suc cessor to Goodwin on the Cir cuit bench. Goodwin received a journal ism degree in 1947 from the University of Oregon and his law degree at the same school four years later. He is a former city editor of the Eugene Register-Guard. He was born in Bellingham, Wash., June 29, 1923 and graduated from Crook county high school in Prineville. He was an Army major in World War II and saw action in the Pacific. He is married and the fa ther of four children. Goodwin was appointed to the Lane circuit bench July i; 1955 by the late former Gov. Paul Patterson. Goodwin is a Republican. UMC Dinner b Slaied March 74 The United Medford Cru sade dinner will be held at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, March 3, at the Hedrick Junior Hieft school cafeteria. All contributors to the USC campaign last winter May vote for new director;, anA the annual report will be pre sented, accounting for incoma and expenditures of the UM-C through its last fiscal year. The program will incluJte presenting awards to outstand ing campaign volunteers, musical portion and a speaker, according to Dr. Richard D. Nelson, chairman of the din ner committee. Between 200 and 250 per sons are expected to attend the annual event, which has been well-attended in the past, Dr. Nelson said. Reservations may be made by contacting the United Med ford Crusade office in the Ley- -erette building, or by tele phoning SPring 3-4287. Reser vations must be made by Fri day, March 18. Argentina Police Hunt for Terrorists Buenos Aires (UPD A joint force of police and national" gendarmerie raided 1,600 homes Tuesday night in a search for suspected terrorist supporters of ousted Dictator Juan D. Peron, it was an nounced today. St. Louis-(UPD-Teddy Nad- ler, the all-time champion money winner of television quiz shows, will take a civil service test Thursday in hopes of landing a $13 a day job as a census taker. ers alike that appeared to have tightened the govern ment 'grip on the economic life of the province. Workers Surrendered Unconfirmed reports said a bus-load of sugar workers who protested the 4 per cent wage assessment imposed on them by their union to help finance Castro's industrial i z a t i o n plans were delivered to a po lice station in Camaguey City Tuesday. It was not certain what action was planned in their cases. -
