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I? flfpf? fo)fo) (1 ARfo)Hn Regional Edition Medford 34 Pages Section A 3OMZ KITS HOMES An Air Force B-47 jet bomber AtMKfcrtf it "a residential section of Little Rock, Ark., short If'Ks fivii today, setting fire to houses and scattering Seaa-Year-Old Boy Killed by Cfen Highway A 7-year-old boy was killed Wednesday afternoon when he pn jnto the path of a pickup truck on Crater Lake highway at the intersection of Lotus lane, state police repo0ifl.o jjfcafi on arrival at Osteo 55 pa tMc Hospital was Charles idilrt Gilchrist, son of Mr. d Mrs. Charles W. Gil- chrfst, 2165 Lotus lane. Opera tor of the truck was Robert . Graham Gresham. 47, of 920 East Jackson St., Medford. G Gresham told police that he was southbound on Crater Lake ave., traveling at about 55 miles per hour, when he noticed three children stand ing near the Lotus lane inter section as he approached. Attempt To Cross Road The boy attempted to run across the highway and was " hit by the pickup, Gresham reported. Police said the pick up skidded for 105 feet be fore hitting the boy and an additional 22 feet before topping. Medford Ambulance Serv- ice tooft the boy to the hos pital. Assisting state police in f . the accident were several j ' "Medford city police officers y who were returning to Med ford irom me pistol range, and Jackson county sheriffs deputy. No citations were issued by police. The fatality is the seventh in Jackson county this year, the same dumber that had been killed in traffic accidents this tin last year. Funeral arrangements for Charles Gilchrist will be an Qnounced eby Perl , Funeral home. 0 Wt linn Woman Found Dead in Home West Linn-l?D-Mrs. Robert Williams, 26, mother of three children wa,s found dead in her-hone Wednesday. q An autopsy was t be per formed to determine cause of death. Union-Backed Medical Care Washington-UPD-The House ways and means committee turflbd down by a vote of 17-8 torJay an-AFL-CIO backed bill p provide paid-up medical in surance for 15 million old age pensioners. . . The action came on an at tempt to add the proposal, a bijj sponsored by Rep. Aime J.8F o r a n d (D-R. I.) as an amendment to pending catch all legislation on social se curtty.. Forand, whose bill would MEDFORD, OREGON, i' ABr Force ESomber Crashes Onto Monies at little Uock - Little Rock, Ark. - (UPD - An Air Force B47 bomber blew up in flight today with enough force almost to knock people on the ground out of their beds. Trailing streamers of flame, it crashed into a resi dential section and burned four homes. . ' . Police reported five persons known dead: . Three airmen and two civilians. Two civil ians were missing. One air man managed to bail out but was injured and in a hospital. Six homes were badly dam aged by lire, in addition to Absentee Ballots May Be Obtained Applications for absentee ballots will be received by the county clerk's office now and through May 14, E. M. Madden, county -clerk, an nounced today. The ballots will be for those registered voters who will be unable to vote in the . May 20 primary election. , Persons should apply to the county clerk in writing, sign the application card and an absentee voter's ballot will be mailed to them. . Persons eligible to apply for absentee ballots are per sons who will be outside the county on May 20, including service personnel, those who live more than 15 miles from a polling place by the nearest traveled road, or who, be cause of physical disability, cannot get to the polling place. In some cases, applications for absentee voter's ballots will be received after the'May 14 deadline. These cover emer gency illnesses and services. In such cases, an affidavit signed by a doctor or other authorized person must ac company the application. Service personnel may re ceive absentee- ballots once they have obtained a Form 76 at their, base and mailed it to the county clerk. Bill for Defeated provide free hospitaization, surgical and nursing care to the elderly, said after the committee vote that he hasn't given up hope. He said he still planned to file a peti tion to force his bill from the committee and bring it directly to the House floor. Today's committee action left open the possibility that some type of compromise might be worked out for a federal program of medical care for old people. THURSDAY, MARCH 31, wreckage over a wide area. the plane, believed to have ground. the four destroyed. The victims were Lt. Col. Reynolds N-Watsoiv.42, Atlu ens, Ga.; Capt. Herbert J. Aldridge, 37, San Antonio, Tex., S.Sgt. K. E. Brose, 26, K e w a n e e, 111., Mrs. Lois Clark, 62, and Jim Grove, 26. Lt- Thomas G. Smoak, 26, was injured. Talks lo Survivor ' ." Gen. John P. McConnell, commander of the 2nd Air Force, flew from Barksdale Air Force Base in Shreveport, La. After talking to Smoak, he said "Smoak told me all of a sudden he was in trouble and trying to get out of the airplane." That's all henew." "All I heard was one big noisei" David Elms, who lives next to one of the destroyed homes, said, "Every window in my house was smashed. I looked outside and saw a fire and got out." Collision Reported Lee Jackman, who runs a service station at Mayflower, Ark., 15 miles northwest of Little Rock, thought he saw a plane collide with the bomber. Fire Started in Brooder Section Pattern of the fire definite ly establishes that it started from a chicken brooder house, City Fire Marshal - Truman Nelson reported today con cerning the blaze which de stroyed the Faber's Farmers Supply company building Tuesday night at South Fir and West 11th sts. The brooder was located in a room on the Fir street side of the structure. It appeared that the fire had been in progress for a considerable time before ex plosions were heard and the flames billowed out of the building, the marshall said. Nelson stated that the ex plosions first heard might have come from tires on the truck which burned and from a container of brake fluid. Firemen were called to the blaze at 7:50 pm. Tuesday and reported the frame and masonry building completely involved in flames when they arrived. They said that the building and its contents were a total loss. Everett A. and Donald E. Faber are . continuing their farmers supply and fuel busi ness from 609 South Fir sts. Leadbeffer Mansion Will Be Demoishecf Portland -tm- The historic Frederick W. Leadbetter man sion in southwest Portland, once estimated to cost $300, 000 to replace, will be de 55th Year Price 1 0 Cents ! TRIBUNE 1960 No. 9 Above is a scene near where exploded in flight, struck the (UPI Telephoto) The federal aviation agency at Little Rock got reports that another-plane-had crashed. Jn. the Mayflower area and Sher iff Mannon Bankson of Hot Springs county got a report of ' a flaming poane. crashing near a mine 35 miles south west of Little Rock.- Searching parties set out at once to look for .wreckage at Mayflower and in Hot Springs county, but at last report, had found nothing. It was possible persons who reported seeing other planes - saw falling wreckage from the .bomber. Watches Plane Fall One of the victims in Little Rock was killed at least a mile and one-half from ' the other four. There was.no nuclear warhead on the plane. "I stood out maybe two minutes and watched the plane '(B47) go. down,'! .John Haslam, manager of the UPI bureau in Little Rock, said. "It left a trail of smoke and started down at a sharp angle. There were alternate flashes, big, red flashes, out of the wreckage as it was going down. "There was a big hump of brown smoke in the air, ap parently where the explosion took place." Children Driving Go-Carts Opposed Salem (UPD The Oregon Traffic Safety Commission is on the record against children driving go-carts, small ve hicles powered by engines. "Dick, You Think We Can Keep Holding? Dick?" - Acf Pas tic .. ke-Choked Dynamite Used In Attempt To Dislodge Ice Sandbags Placed . ' On Top of Dikes By United Press International Ice - choked rivers which drove thousands from their homes threatened new floods today from the plains states to the East Coast. Water-logged Nebraska, the worst - afflicted state, fought the raging rivers with sand bags and dynamite. Helicop ters plucked stranded families from roof tops and dropped food and medicine to towns isolated by miles of water. Crews toiled through the night placing thousands upon thousands of sand bags on dikes holding back the mar auding streams. Demolition experts set off charge after charge of dynamite in an ef fort to smash mountainous ice jams. -But the danger mounted as officials said the runoff from the spring thaw was by no means over in the prairie belt. The death toll climbed to 10 - four in Missouri, three in Nebraska and one each in Illi nois, Kansas and Michigan. Iowa and Nebraska made appeals for immediate federal disaster aid. The American Red Cross estimated more than 4,000 persons had been affected by floods in Nebras ka, Iowa, South Dakota, Kans as, Missouri and Illinois. Entire communities had been submerged and tens of thousands of acres of rich farmland ' were under water at a time when farmers begin spring planting. - Damage from the rampag ing rivers, triggered into flood stage by a spring thaw, mount ed into the millions and mil lions of dollars. The floods made new con quests in the Great Lakes area and ' the mountains of Pennsylvania and West Vir ginia. . Mayor to Return From Conferences Mayor John W. Snider re turns to Medford tomorrow following his attendance at a four-day series of meetings held for city" officials in the northern part of the state by a delegation from the League of Oregon Cities. Snider, who recently as sumed the League presidency, headed the delegation which met this week in St.. Helens, West Linn, Forest Grove and McMinnville. He said that it is the pur pose of the meetings to bring city officials up to date on activities and functions of the League and to discuss various municipal problems they might have. r This trip is the second for the group which will have held similar meetings in all sections of the state by the end of April. Earlier this month, meetings were held in Astoria and Tillamook. . EST . S5"sS58 TRANSFER CARGO Workmen are shown lifting above transferring cargo from a Los Angeles Motor Express truck, which overturned in the ditch along Highway 99 near Phoenix Wednesday to another truck. A crane is (Ghana Asks U.S., Britain To (intercede in South Africa United Nations, N.Y. - (UPD -Ghana asked the ; Security Council today to delegate the United States and Britain to appear to South Africa to come to. terms with leaders of the country's anti-segregationist movement. If South Africa refuses to respond to the appeal,- Ghani an Ambassador Alex Quaison Sackey told the council, economic or diplomatic sanc tions should be levied against it by the United Nations. Sanctions Out ' But six of the 29 Afro-Asian countries ' which signed the complaint against South Afri ca agreed in a meeting called to draft a resolution ; this morning that sanctions of any type were out.' They believed the seven votes required for council action could not be mustered, for any sanctions move. : Instead, informed sources said, the resolution planned would turn the situation over to Secretary general Dag Hammarskjold to establish in South Africa a U. N. pres ence" of the type he set up in Jordan and Laos by send ing a personal representative to the country. Latin Support Sought - The draft resolution was to be submitted to the full Afro- Asian group later today for endorsement. Real reason for Rains Pose Threat To Valley Pears Current rains pose some threat to the Rogue River val ley pear trees from scab and blight, County Horticultural Agent Clifford B. Cordy said today. - Sunday's rains contained some hail which fell oyer part of the Medford area. However, the small, comparatively soft hail did not harm the pear trees although it might have caused some rusetting to the fruit, Cordy explained. D'Anjou and some Baretlett varieties - have had a good chance to become pollinized before the rain, he added. Fire Season Starts In District April 1 State forest fire season reg ulations go into effect Friday, the southwest district office of the state department of forestry reminded residents today. ...... t Permits are necessary for burning, including incinerat ors, on or within one-eighth mile of forest land. These per mits can be obtained from the district office on Table Rock rd., from the state forestry of fice at Grants Pass or from any - forest warden. Giveir Mew IFldls a. rack the delay, however, informed diplomats ; said,-was-; to woo the support of the two Latin American countries on the couacil Equador and Agren tina whose votes: were need ed to assure the -resolution's sponsors. ' The six countries that draft ed the measure Ceylon, Tu nisia, India, Pakistan, Sudan and Ghana hoped to get at least one of the Latin Amer ican countries as a sponsor. Second Day of Debate The suggestion from Ghana, the former British Gold Coast colony in West Africa, came as the Security Council start ed its second day's debate on race . killings which took 70 to 80 lives 10 days ago when Polls Open Until 8 o'Clock Tonight Polls will be open until 8 olclock tonight for. Medford school district patrons to vote on a $750,000 bond issue to finance '. a two-year construc tion program for needed class rooms. Polling places are McLough lin and Hedrick Junior High schools, Griffin Creek, Jack sonville, Ruch, Howard and Lone Pine schools. ' Registered voters' living within the city and the Oak Grove, West Side, Dewey and Kenwood areas will vote at the junior high schools. Per sons living in those areas west of Bear Creek will vote at McLoughlin Junior High and those living east of Bear creek will vote at Hedrick. Two election boards will be available at each junior high s'chool to help relieve delays in voting. Such delays at the junior high school' polling places have been noted when there was one election board in past elections. Residents living in the areas of Griffin Creek, Jack sonville, Ruch, Howard and Lone Pine will vote at the schools in those areas. WEATHER FORECAST: Showers and occa sional partial clearing tonight. Generally cloudy Friday with rain again in afternoon and evening. LitUe change in tem perature, low tonight 34 de grees; high Friday 52. , Temp. Highest Yesterday SO Lowest this Morning i 38 Prec .to 10 ajn. Today , .33 Our Skies Tonight Sunset today .1.. 6:36 p.m. Sunrise tomorrow -5:54 a.tn. Moonset tonight . 11:08 p.m. First Quarter . - April 3 PROMINENT STAR Aldebaran, close to the Moon. Over Asia Aldebaran is hidden by the Moon for a time tonight. This - will happen here next month and again in July and August. full of supplies for loading into the second truck. The truck went off the highway as it rounded a curve on High way 99, Phoenix police said. The pavement was wet at the time of the mishap. police fired on mass demon strators against the 4 segrega tion, or-apartheid, policy in South Africa. - South Africa maintained its boycott ' of the debate, al though its delegation took seats in a far corner of the Security Council chamber. Art Gallery to Open Saturday The Rogue Valley Art as- sociation has announced that the Rogue Gallery, 220 West Main., st., Medford, will open for the public Saturday. Paint ings brought here through the Oregon Art Alliance, of which the local association is a mem ber,' and works of sculpture, will constitute the opening show.- , A preview is scheduled Fri day, April 1, between 8 and 10 p.m. for association mem bers and their guests. Starting Saturday, and con tinuing through Saturday, April 23, the show will be open daily, including Sundays, between noon and 4 p.m.. A gallery tour will be conduct ed by Warren Wolf and Betty Allen between 8 and 9:30 p.m. Wednesday, April 6. . The opening show will in clude sculptures by students from the University of Ore gon, and an Oregon Art Al liance exhibition organized by Demetrious Jameson with oils and watercolors by Paul Gunn, Robert Huck, Shepherd Levine, . : Imanuel ' Piladakis, Richard Trojan, Josephine Wasson and Jameson. i Monday night, the associa tion board of directors elected officers. They include Dr. Richard Porto, president; Jack Teeters, vice president; Mrs. Fred C. Lorish, secretary; and Dunbar Carpenter, treasurer. Fire Destroys Anderson Home in Talent The one time home of the pioneer Anderson family, one of Southern Oregon's historic landmarks, on Colver rd., near Talent, burned to the ground last night. , Occupants of the big three- story residence, Mr. and Mrs. Richard K. (Die) Walsh and five daughters,' escaped with only the night clothing they were wearing. The blaze broke out shortly before midnight and was thought to .have originated from electrical wiringi Mrs. Walsh reported that she and her husband were awakened by one of their, youngsters, Suzy, 7, who, with another daughter, Terry, 9, occupied a back bedroom. The iri re Demonstrators Test Policies Of Government Police Fire Over Heads of Crowd 9 Johannesburg, South Africa (UPD Batonswinging police charged into crowds of Ne groes in four native South African townships today and fired over one group that dared them to make arrests. Equipped with new emer gency powers from the gov ernment, police waded into . native gatherings with their club-like batons at Jabavu, Natalspruit, Somerset West, and a village near Stellen bosch. The first two are south of Johannesburg, the latter two near Capetown. Police Challenged At Somerset West police fired over the heads of the Negro crowd when demon strators protesting the govern ment's racial policies chal lenged police to arrest them. The crowd ignored orders to disperse and police charged with their batons. At the native township near Stellenbosch, Africans were reported to have set fire to several buildings.. Whites Buy Guns There were reports from from throughout the country -that whites were rushing to buy guns and ammunition. Re tail dealers in such cities as Johannesburg and Capetown reported they were almost sold out of weapons. It is rela tively easy for whites to get a permit to buy a gun but blacks are forbidden to have them. , Heavily armed soldiers -and 0 sailors threw cordons around two other native towns near Capetown, Langa and Nyanga, permitting Africans to enter but allowing no one to leave. Tension at New Peak Army trucks rumbled through Johnnnesburg itself as tension over the white gov ernment'.s racial policies rosg to a new peak. The ring of troops around Langa and Nyanga prevented a repeat of Wednesday's po- test march in which 30,000 Africans moved, en masse to ward Parliament in .C a p e town, some shouting "Africa for Africans" and others "Give us liberty, or give us death." Parliament Guarded Spotter helicopters hovered over the two townships today q and in Capetown itself a heavy guard of police and troops was thrown around the building where Parliament was. meeting to complete ac tion on an "unlawful coni zation bill." The bill wouM permit the government to ban the Afri can National Congress, Pa'n Africanists and "other politi cal organizations" opposing apartheid. Redwood Highway Crash Hurls Two Cave Junction - Miss Margo Hill, 19, Selma, and Phil Kel lar Jr., 19, Cave Junction, were injured about 7:45 a.m. today when cars they were driving collided head-on on the Redwood highway near Cave Junction. e Miss Hill was taken to Jose phine General hospital for treatment of a brokeneg and pelvis and other injuries and Kellar was treated by a Cave Junction physician, state po lice reported. Both cars were demolished. Officers said the accident oc curred when Kellar attempt ed to . pass a log truck and struck the on-coming Hill ve hicle. Pioneer ported smoke and crackling in her room. It was thought that the family dog, Bill, had awakened her. Fire burst out shortly after the family got out of the resi dence and the house was a mass of flames when Talent firemen arrived. Crater Lions club today was seeking donations -of clothing for the daughters, ages 2 through 9, and loan of bedding and other household items for the family. Lion said that the clothing may be left at Walsh's studio, 522 North Riverside ave. Med ford. The Walshs are staying at the' O. D Day residence, 85 Arnold lane, Medford. i 9 0 0
