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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
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I S'nrise ": morrow 6:20 a.m.
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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 . . .
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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. -