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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.
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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 . . . !"
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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.