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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.
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