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M A Mil Sock, Starving Totts Found in .Portland Home Portland-fllPD-A sick an half-starved brood of six children, two of their sisters already dead, gained strength in a hospital today while authorities considered charging their parents with neglect. The children were committed temporarily to the Provi dence hospital nursery Monday after neighbors brought the case to public attention. Juvenile Court Judge Carl Dahl ordered the district attorney's office to investigate possible charges. The children, ranging in age from three months to nine years, were living in a three room shack on the outskirts of Portland. All were suffer ing from malnutrition and re sulting" ailments, including running sores. They slept on a soiled mat tress .. and a single blanket spreadon the floor. Neighbor Call Police The death of one-year-old Carol Ann a week ago and the refusal of the parents, Mr. and Mrs. Taylor Morris, to- allow the other children to be help ed, incensed the neighbors who called in police. The re- Jantzen Beach Fun House, Old Mill Destroyed Portland-UP&-A wind-whipped fire gutted the fun house and the Old Mill at Jantzen Beach amusement park in north Portlandtoday and for a time threatened other struc tures. The&laze, which sent flames more tha100 feet into the air, broke out about 9:30 a.m. and was not controlled for more than an hour. The fire was fanned by brisk southerly winds of up to 25-30 miles per hour. I Firemen said it was the equivalent of a four-alarmer. Equipment from Vancouver, Wash., located across the Co lumbia river, was the first on the scene awi it was joined by units' from Portland and Multnomah county. . . Light Globes Burst Heat from the fire wa3 so intense that light globes 50 yards away burst. Firemen managed to save midway buildings and nearby sheds. There was no immediate estimate of Qloss- and origin of the blaze was not deter mined. Jantzen Beach park is lo cated near the twin Inter state bridges in. north Port land. The fun house and the Old Mill are located at the western end cf the park, which opens for business in late spring. Off-duty personnel were called out at Vancouver to help protect the department's regular duties. Enumerators Start Course for Census Census enumerators for Medford and Jackson county started a three-day course in census taking today in prepa ration for the "nose count" which will get underway Fri day. The 19 persons who will be counting Medford residents are taking the course in the conference room at the city hall under the instruction of M. B. Caster. The rest of the enumerators, who have been divided into two groups, one for the north ern part of the county and one for the southern portion, are receiving their instructions in the Elk's lodge from Harold Sander and" John Morris. Private Plane Landed on Main Street of Wallowa Wallowa, Orc-IUTO-A trav ing salesman landed his . -vate plane on the main str -J-of Wallowa Monday night afteT being unable to land at Pendleton, Ore., about 125 miles southwest of here. Ralph Bird, 43, a clothing salesman from Los Angeles, landed his Piper Tri-pacer with about 15 minutes of fuel left. He was not injured and just brushed the branches of , a tree when he landed. Clouds Prevent Landing A layer of clouds prevent ed his landing at Pendleton and he" was forced to con tinue on towards Spokane. When he came over Wal lowa he made several low runs over the city in an at tempt to spot a landing strip. Birfc said several people maining children were taken from the parents last Friday but Nancy, 3V, was in criti cal condition and died Sun day. A ninth child died in Texas at the age of one year before the family moved to the Port land area In 1954. Morris, 31, and his wife, Loretta, 28, wept when Judge Dahl told them they would not be allowed to visit their chil dren. "Your honor, we've had a great tragedy," Morris said. "I don't know why people want to hurt us more." y Morris admitted he earns gross wages of $504 a month at a logging company and his wife claimed "we have a big grocery bill every week." Children Gaining The surviving children are Joyce, 9; Kenneth, 8; Thelma, 5; David, 4; Robert, 2V$; and Mary, three months. David has never gained enough strength in his four years to walk. Mary, the in fant, weighed only 6 pounds 10 ounces when she was taken to the hospital, but has gained four ounces since Friday. Rob ert weighed only 15 pounds. Mary, Thelma and Robert all are being treated for pneu monia. Sisters at the hospital, stun ned by the condition of the children, said they missed their parents but laughed and played with toys as strength began returning. Police said Morris, a log ging company employee, re fused to allow neighbors to come into the family's shack when he found they wanted to clean it and provide food for the children. Authorities were notified after the death of Car ol Ann at Emmanuel hospital March 22, from acute malnu trition and pneumonia. Petitions Filed For Dog Control Petitions for county-wide dog control containing about 130 signatures were being checked today by the county elections department. . The petitions were turned in by A. M. Gleason, 2910 Madrona lane, Medford. For county-wide dog con trol to go on the primary elec tion ballot, at least 100 signa tures of registered voters must be on petitions. A petition applying to Med ford has .already been filed and contains more than the re quired 20 signatures. Fifteen signatures are required for placing on the ballot a dog control measure which applies only to a precinct, according to Deputy District Attorney Gerald W. ScannelL A petition or petitions re portedly being circulated in Rigue River to establish a dog control ordinance there have not yet been filed in the coun ty elections department. Aberdeen, Wash. BP - Fun eral services will be -held at 11 a. m. Saturday for Rep. Russell V. Mack, Third Dis trict congressman who died following a heart attack in the House Chamber Monday. spotted the plane and real ised his situation. He said they attempted to line a for est service runway with their cars but at the time he could not guess this from the air. He said he spotted the de serted street which was well lighted and decided to land on it. "There were no cars on the street and I couldn't see any one walking on it, so I thought it was safe," he said. Trip Not Total Loss He said he wasn't scared because he didn't have time. Bird's plane stopped in front of the residence of Wayne Johnson who owns a store which sells clothes. "My trip wasn't a total loss." Bird said. "I sold some sport coats to this man." Regional Edition Medford 18 Pages Section A STALEMATE Stagnant water in a drainage ditch along Berrydale ave., Medford, where sewer work has recently been done, has become the object of some controversy between residents of the area and the city street depart men. Someone in the neighborhood put up this somewhat humorous sign along the road last week to show their in dignation. The ditch has been in use there for some 20 Castro Declares War on Cuba's i-Communists Havana-IUPD-Premier Fidel Castro declared war today on Cuba's- anti Communists, charging that they "weaken faith". in his - revolutionary regime. In his third telethon in two days Castro lashed out spe cifically at Luis Conte Ague ro, a college friend whose daily television commentary has become the nation's lead ing anti-red forum. Castro's appearance on the Telemundo Pregunta TV show was presented in the form of a press conference, but the newsmen on the panel had an opportunity to ask only one question: "What is your opinion of the current controversy over Communism in Cuba?" The Premier's reply took four hours, ending at 1:25 a.m. Conte, '-ho has not been heard from : ince- a Communist-led mob barred him from the studio Friday, was ex pected to seek asylum in one of the foreign embassies here. Castro also took a 'back hand slap at the United States, saying he welcomes U. S. Am bassador Philip W. Bonsai's return to Havana but that Cuba "won't bother" to -send an ambassador to Washing ton until America "demon strates better faith." "We are ready to discuss pending issues (such as Cuba's demand for a trade treaty which would guarantee its share of -the U.S. sugar mar ket) . . . but we want deeds, not words," Castro said. Rates, Weights for Cement Hauling OK'd Salem IDPD - The public util ity commissioner Monday ap proved rates and minimum weights on motor freight transportation of cement and allied commodities in bulk and sacks from Oswego, Port land and Gold Hill. The . proposed minimum weight of 50,000 pounds was reduced to 45,000 and rates were ordered to be assessed in cents per 100 pounds instead of by the barrel. - WEATHER FORECAST:' Frequent showers tonight. Occasional sowers and partial clearing Wednesday. Continued mild. Low tonight 40. High Wednesday 55. . Temp. Highesi Yesterday 51 Lowest this Morning 44 Our Skies Tonight Sunset today 8:34 p.m. Sunrise tomorrow 5:58 a.m. Moonset tonight 9:15 p.m. First Quarter April 3 Sirius, the brightest star, in the south at sunset, will be the first star seen in the evening twilight and it sets at 11:0 pjn. TV4LAXT MEDFORD, OREGON, TUESDAY, MARCH 29, Few People Attend Discussion Meeting On School Bond Plan The second public, meeting at which the $750,000 bond is sue to finance a - two - year building program in Medford school district will be discuss ed is scheduled at. 8 o'clock tonight in the speech room at Hedrick Junior High school. An election on the bond is sue will be held Thursday, March 31. The first public discussion meeting on the proposal was held last night at McLoughlin Junior High school with only seven interested citizens at tending." Others at the meet ing were Dr. Leonard B. May field, superintendent, Russell Acheson, assistant superinten dent, and School Board Mem bers Otto Ewaldsen and Frank C. Bash. Keith Hockersmith, a mem ber of the board, appeared, but because of other commit ments could not. remain dur ing the discussion. . The discussion : last night centered around, a. brochure with information compiled by district : officials concerning the bond issue, the building program itself, and financing the program. A revision in plans for Ruch school was reviewed by Dr. Mayfield for Ruch area resi dents attending. Since seventh and eighth graders will be transported to one of the junior high schools next year, work planned at Ruch will be limited to com pleting the stage - and boys dressing rooms, he said. The 'We're Gonna' Accomplish Something Here If It Takes 40 Centuries . . . !" - years, and, according to City Manager Robert Duff, the reason it has now backed up . along the road is because a property owner there has dammed up the ditch at the lower end to keep it from dissipating on his land. It would be extremely expensive to put in a proper-drainage system at this time, Duff said, and he added that the city may have to resort to law suit to get the ditch to flow again. present multi - purpose room does not have these facilities. Estimated cost for the work has been reduced from $38,000 to $28,000,' Dr. Mayfield no ted, pointing-out that the new addition is planned for future rooms and facilities as need ed. - -. Also : revised since initial estimates are plans for includ ing completion of two extra classrooms at Medford High school . to handle anticipated enrollment. This, Dr. May field said, can be done by in creasing the wall - height of the present shop and music rooms to provide one addition al teacher ' station, and reno vation in the present build ing to provide another teacher station. : A. minor revision in plans for the addition at Hedrick Junior High school . is that utility lines will be stubbed in' so additional classrooms may be connected to the ad dition, if and when . the need arises. Hatfield Would Back Neuberger Park Idea Salem-fUPD-Gov. Mark Hat field said if Congress decided to name the proposed Oregon dunes national park after the late Sen. Richard L. Neuberg er (D-Ore.), he would go along with the idea. Salem-UPD-A proposal for a Marion-Polk : county library system has been rejected by the Marion county court. 55th Year Price 10 Cents 1960 No. 7 Three Arrested State police said today they arrested three young men and one 17-year-old juvenile yes terday, and charged them with poisoning Keene creek in the Ashland area- in order to catch fish. . Arrested were Vernon Free- mont Birdsong, 18, Gold Hill; Sidney Stellingwerf 19, of 1024 Ninth st., Medford; and John Aaron Andrews, 18, of route 1, box 13, Gold Hill; and a 17-year-old boy of route 1, Central Point. ' Andrews has been cited by state police to appear in Gold Hill justice court at 10 a.m. March 31, and Birdsong and Stellingwerf at 10 a.m. April 11. To Juvenile Department The juvenile was turned over to the Jackson county juvenile department, but state police said they understood he will be remanded to the Gold Hill justice court. A game violation officer and one from the traffic sec tion of the state police work ed on the case, it was report ed.. They said that they found some sort of chemical had been used to stun or kill steel head fish as they came up stream to spawn. Teh steelhead were , found at the home of Stellingwerf, four at the Birdsong residence and two at Andrews' home, and three at the 17 year olds home, state police said. Maximum penalty for this game law violation is a $500 fine or six months in the coun ty jail, or both. - Nikita Dwells on Anti-German Theme . Rhemis, France-(UPD-Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev said today he does not want to set the French against the Germans but when it comas to history "you can't separate the words from the song." He explained that the phrase about the words and the song was a Russian prov erb. Khrushchev mentioned it as he resumed the anti-German theme song of his visit to France. ; He drove to Rheims from Verdun after a solemn morn ing visiting the World War I battlefields where 400,000 French and Allied soldiers died fighting the Germans. Verdun also was a bastion against the German invasion of 1870. Ike, Akacmillan In Agreement On Soviet Plan Gettysburg, Pa.-flJPD-President Eisenhower and British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan reached substantial agree ment to day on a counter-proposal to Russia's suggested moratorium on smaller nuclear tests. The President and the Prime Minister planned to issue a joint statement on their test ban conversations before the afternoon was over. White House Press Secre tary James C. Hagerty said both principals were "very satisfied" with the progress of their discussions. Leslie Glass, the British spokesman, said Macmillan might fly back to London sometime Wednesday. Vice President Richard M. Nixon joined Eisenhower and Macmillan this morning in their talks on efforts to devise a test moratorium without handcuffing the next Presi dent. Soviets Seek Treaty Nixon, Secretary of State Christian A. Herter and a group of U.S. experts flew by helicopter from Washington to nearby Camp David, Md., where Eisenhower and Mac millan have been conferring since Monday on a counter proposal to Russia's test ban plan. Russia has called for a treaty ending all major nu clear testing indefinitely, plus a moratorium of four or five years on smaller, harder to detect underground blasts. Eisenhower and Macmillan were working out some way of limiting the moratorium to the extent of Eisenhower's term which ends next Jan.. 20 with the inauguration of a new president. No Guarantee Seen The President has been re ported to be reluctant to imply a continuing commitment be yond his term because he would have no . guarantee of what his successor would do. By midafternoon, the .west ern leaders and their chief ad visers expected to button up the subject of the test ban moratorium- for ihe time be Manor Sells 60 Per Cent of Apis. Sixty per cent of the apart ments in Rogue Valley Manor have been "sold," members of the Manor's board of trustees were told yesterday. The big retirement home, now under construction on top of Barneburg hill in south west Medford, sells "life oc cupancy rights" to its apart ments. Within the past month, nine additional individuals have purchased apartment rights, according to Walter Higgins, executive director of the non-profit Manor organ ization. He said construction is on or ahead of schedule. The Manor is slated to open this fall. .Concrete pouring on the ninth . floor has started, he said, and it is planned to have the top. (10th) floor, and the penthouse, poured by the mid dle of April. The board also voted to award a contract for storm sewer excavation and con struction to Clave & Co., Medford, on its low basic bid of $18,140; and voted to enter into an agreement with Meier and Frank Co., Portland, for the acquisition of furnishing for apartments and public areas of the manor. Meier and Frank already has the contract for Manor carpeting. 851 Enroffor SOC Spring Term Ashland - Southern Oregon college announced today that 851 students,' including 4!3 men and 358 women, enrolled for spring term classes at the college yesterday, the first day of enrollment. Yesterday's . figure is a 5 per cent increase over the first day of the 1959 spring term, according to Registrar Mrs. Mabel Winston. Enrollment this term Mrs. Winston added, is ' expected to top last spring's final en rollment of 983. Classes at SOC started to day but students will be al lowed to register throughout the remainder of this week and next. State Unemployment Declines by 1,337 " Salem-OIPD-The biggest one week drop in insured un employment in Oregon so far this year occurred week. The total " was 25,446, down 1,337 from. the previous week. ing and in a joint statement, present a united front to Rus sia. The statement will be fol lowed by- more detailed rec ommendations at the Nuclear Test Ban Conference in Geneva. Russia Offered Agreement To Slash Troops Geneva (DPD The United States offered Russia an agree ment today to slash American and Russian troop strength to 2,100,000 men each provided the Soviets accept controls against cheating. But Russia's Valerian Zorin demanded agreement first on general and complete dis- armamament. Let's not tie ourselves up here with a paper measure," Zorin said. Attempts Sidestepped The U. S. offer was made by Fredrick M. Eaton at the end of another three-hour ses sion of the 10-nation Disarma ment Conference, almost in exasperation after Zorin con tinuously sidestepped all west ern attempts to get him to dis cuss guarantees against cheat ing. Eaton reminded Zorin that the U. S. already had offered to freeze U.S. and Russian armed forces at 2,500,000 each and then reduce them to 2, 100,000 men. we are -prepared to ac cept these measures immedi ateiy, fcaton declared, so long as they are accompanied by the verification machinery we consider essential." No Further Reply - .but the session broke up without any further reply from Zorin. Zorin went to lunch with French delegate Jules Moch, continuing the informal diplo matic conversation begun last week by the representatives of the major powers partici pating in the talks here. r Moch had also tried to get the conference off center by proposing that experts get to work to study concrete tech niques for various disarma ment measures. The Russians withheld a reply. Reappraisal Phase Completed in Area County Assessor Ray Schu macher said today that his of fice has completed the second phase of a county-wide reap praisal program for property taxes, and this property reap praisal is now on the 1960-61 tax rolle. This phase of the reapprai sal program covered all of the areas within the Ashland school district, he explained. Reappraisals now are done within school taxing district boundaries. This year the assessor's of fice is starting a reappraisal of property within School Dis trict 6C, which will be on the tax rolls for the 1961-62 fiscal year, Schumacher said. : Seattle (DPD - The Coast Guard has called off its search for two Seattle Boy Scouts missing since Saturday near Deception Pass at the north end of Whidbey Island. Oregon Coast Lashed by Heavy Rain, By United Press International An early-spring storm pack ing a windy punch lashed the Oregon coast ' today and brought heavy rain to some areas. Astoria reported gusts from the south up to 62 miles an hour this morning and the weather man said "very high winds" were reported at Til lamook, further south on the coast. Rain Heavy Rain was heavy at times over parts of northwest Ore gon. The weather man said the wind would decrease slow ly today but that rainy con Residents, Stock In Platte River Valley Removed Highway, Railroad Tracks Under Water By United Press International The Nebraska National Guard today ordered evacua tion of all residents and all livestock in lowlands of the Platte River Valley of east ern Nebraska, flooded by the ice-jammed river. Nebraska rapidly was be coming the worst hit of the belt of Plains States, extend ing from the Dakotas to Mis souri and Kansas, where the heavy snow of late winter was melting, backing up streams and rivers. Some Refusing To Move Col. Don Penterman, as sistant adjutant general of Nebraska, said all residents and all livestock should be moved to clear the low-lying areas ahead of the rapidly rising flood waters. He admitted some residents were refusing to move. He said that if authorities be lieved loss of life would result from such refusals, he would seek authority to force them out.. One of the worst-hit towns was North Bend, where water up to two feet deep flowed over two-thirds of the town of 1,200. Several families were taken from their homes. Highway Flooded Others were urged to leave as the icy water surrounded homes and filled basements. U. S. 30, and the Union Pa cific rail tracks were under water. At Valley, a town near North Bend, helicopters were dispatched to evacuate six families from a lake area because ice chunks made boat travel too hazardous. A telephone company offic ial said the flooding at North Bend was the worst in 48 years. .The list of dead or missing in the flood areas mounted to seven, four in Missouri, .two in -Nebraska, and one in Kansas. ' ! Tens of thousands of acres of farmland were under water in an eight-state area. Proper ty damage was not estimated. Stores Sandbagged - At Sioux City, Iowa, offic ials removed 200 residents from the Springdale district in advance of an expected major flood crest on the Fleyd river. Volunteers sandbagged en trances to stores and offices in the Springfield district which was hit by a wall of water 10 feet deep in a 1953 flood. Weather observers did not expect today's flood to be as bad as the one seven years ago. Sandbag Dike But forecasters predicted the Big Blue river would crest 16 feet above flood stage . at Blue Rapids, Kan., and Barneston, Neb., which would equal the highest flood stages since 1941. National Guardsmen and volunteers feverishly piled sandbags on a dike holding' the Big Blue river at Beatrice. But despite the dike, some 20 city blocks were under water. Rogue River Paving Bids on Road Work Salem Rogue R"iver Pav ing company, Medford, was apparent low bidder at $76, 709 for '4.51 miles of paving on the Sams Valley junction Modoc rd. section at the Table Rock rd.i" the state highway commission said today. The project is located about seven miles east of Gold Hill. Bids on the project, along with bids on $2,300,000 worth of highway construction proj ects, were opened by the com mission here this morning. Strong Wind ditions would continue through Wednesday. Most of the precipitation had fallen as . rain in the mountain pass areas, although Timberline Lodge had fcir inches of new snow with plowing operations underway. The freezing level was vary ing between 4,000 and 6,000 feet, meaning wet snow was a possibility in the mountains. Winds To Decrease Gale warnings were up along both the Oregon and Washington coasts for south erly winds 35 to 55 miles per hour. The forecast said winds should decrease to 15-30 to night and 12-25 Wednesday.
