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MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, APRIL 17, 1960
No. 23
23 Crewmen Safe
After Vessel Sinks
SO0VEBER OTSOL
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South Africa Police
Plan to Use Force
Johannesburg. South Africa
-fUPD-A police official warned
Saturday that all necessary
measures "including force re
sulting in death" may be used
to smash a Negro stay-home
strike called by the outlawed
African National Congress.
Reinforcements
Said Rushing to
Aid Fidel's Fight
Havana -IUPD- Troop rein
forcements Saturday were re
ported rushing to the moun
tains of Orients province to
help Fidel Castro flush out a
well-armed anti-Castro guer
rilla band which has outfoxed
him for six straight days.
Premier Castro shrouded
his activities in secrecy but
the government was cracking
down on opposition elements
across the island. Castro
agents were reported to be
rounding up "dangerous"
counter-revolutionaries.
Deadline Past
Castro was one day past his
deadline for smashing the up
rising led by a onetime aide,
Capt. Manuel Beaton, in the
Sierra Maestra, the mountain
range of O r i e n t e province
from which Castro launched
his own revolution two years
ago.
All indications pointed to a
long and possibly frustrating
chase. A Castro supporter ad
mitted Beaton "knows these
mountains like Davy Crock
ett." He also was reported to
know where Castro's 26th of
July revolutionary movement
had arms caches hidden in the
wild mountains.
5,000 in Mountains
Castro had a force of 5,000
men in the mountains and re
ports in Havana said more
troops were being rushed to
the scene from the Isle of
Pines off the Cuban coast.
The outburst of anti-government
activity was reported
bolstering Castro's determina
tion to get jet warplanes for
his air force.
Orchards Heated Again;
Temperature
General orchard heating oc
curred throughout the Rogue
valley from 2 to 8 a.m. Satur
day, an orchardist reported.
This was the third night of
heating.
In some places, particularly
in the area north of Modford,
J the temperature dropped to
) 25 degrees. It stayed that low
i almost up to 8 a.m. when the
sun started to warm the trees,
1 a pear orchardist said. Lowest
J temperature the pears will
if stand without damage, gener
i ally, is 32 degrees at the cur
It rent fruit development stages.
J This is the most critical stage
for the yoiing fruit, a pear
- J grower said. Unheated pear
orchards undoubtedly receiv
j cd at least some damage, he
tr.ild.
1 3osc and Cornice are at the
jr?ial fall stage. This occurs
'icr full bloom with from
, :..- per cent to practically all
'of the petals fallen and fruit
I no larger than a pea, County
Agont C. B. Cordy said. Thu
Thousands of pamphlets
urging Negroes to stay away
from their jobs for the week
beginning Monday have been
distributed in African town
ships and settlements in widely-separated
areas.
The leaflets were signed by
the "emergency committee" of
the ANC which went under
ground after the government
banned It and"" the Pan-Afri-canist
congress in the wake of
Negro demonstrations against
South Africa's strict racial
laws.
Appeal to Workers
Senior police officials in
Port Elizabeth on the Indian
ocean appealed to Negro work
ers to ignore the stay-home
call.
"If they do not, we will
meet the challenge," one offi
cer said. Force, including force
resulting in death, will be
used to prevent trouble if nec
essary." A similar work boycott to
protest the shooting of more
than 70 Negroes during dem
onstrations last month against
a law requiring Negroes to
carry passes was broken up by
police raids and the arrests of
"agitators" and "intimida
tors." Natives in some settle
ments complained that Negro
strong-arm squads were form
ed to enforce the work boy
cott. Schools May Clot
Police spokesmen in Pretor
ia said Saturday the utmost
protection would be provided
to Negroes who ignored the
new strike call and that
strong measures would be
taken against "intimidators."
A government spokesman
Friday warned that all Negro
schools may be closed down
permanently- if teachers or
pupils responded to the ANC'i
call.
South Africa was general
ly quiet Saturday with most
whites and some blacks ob
serving Easter services and
ceremonies.
Prime Minister Hendrik F.
Verwoerd was reported mak
ing "excellent" progress in his
recovery from an attempted
assassination last Saturday.
Tulsa, Okla.-OJPD-A voilent
ly destructive storm which
police called a tornado struck
Tulsa Saturday night, causing
widespread damage and at
least one death and some in
juries. Dips to 25
Is very critical stage and
damage can occur very quick
ly. Also, all the fruit has set
by this time and a moderate
amount of blossom damage
can result in fairly large crop
losses. For all varieties, fir
ing should begin at 31 de
grees. Temperatures should
be held there or a half degree
higher, Cordy advised.
D'Anjous and Bartlette are
in the small green fruit stage
when the fruit is larger than a
pea. At this stage both tem
perature and duration must
be considered, Cordy advised.
The larger the fruit, the long
er period below 32 degrees it
will stand. At this stage tem
peratures for all varieties
should be held above 30 de
grees. However, they will
stand 29 degrees If just at
sunrise and it has not been
below 32 degrees more than
two hours. The trees should
be held at approximately 31
degrees when heating.
Norfolk, Va. - (DPB - All 23
crewmen of a Lebanese tramp
steamer that sank early Sat
urday off the Virginia coast
were brought ashore Easter
eve and prepared to attend
midnight services to give
thanks.
Their ship, the 329-foot SS
Ethel C, went down after a
load of scrap iron she was
carrying apparently shifted
causing a leak which the ves
sel's pumps could not handle.
The weary crewmen were
led ashore by their youthful
captain, 37-year-old Dioman
dos Caravias, a naturalized
American. They had spent 14
hours bobbing in a lifeboat in
the Atlantic.
Caravias, who had two ships
shot from under him during
World War II, rushed for the
nearest telephone to call his
wife who is momentarily ex
pecting a baby.
'Mighty Mean'
"I'm glad to be on shoie and
safe and thankful to God that
nobody is missing," the young
captain said. "It was mighty
Fights Occur Near
Integration Confabs
By United Press International
A white youth punched and
broke the cheek bone of a
Negro demonstrator in Sa
vannah, Ga., Saturday and a
new scuffle occurred on pick
et lines in Raleigh, N.C.,
where a southwide meeting of
Negro integration leaders is
in progress.
When I get out of here I'll
be ready to go back and get
hit again," John "McMillan,
25, said from his Savannah
hospital bed. McMillan said
Agriculture Group
Holds Hearing
Salem OIPD The pros and
cons of an unfair, practices
law aimed at processors were
aired here Saturday before
the interim committee on agri
culture.
The committee has not tak
en a stand on the bill, drawn
up by the Oregon Fruit and
Vegetable Growers associa
tion. Herbert Hardy, Portland, of
the Oregon Canners, Packers,
Freezers and Cold Storage
council, said he doubted if the
proposed bill is necessary to
the formation of a growers
bargaining group. He said the
council, representing about 90
per cent of the processors in
Oregon, is violently opposed
to restrictions set out in the
measure.
Among other things, the bill
forbids processors to inter
fere in a growers' bargaining
group. It also outlaws so-
called discrimination by proc
essors in prices, grades, quo
tas, hauling terms, delivery
schedules and loans or credits.
About 50 persons attended
the hearing.
Walter Colett, Salem, of the
Fruit and Vegetable Growers
association, said processors
have discriminated against
growers in the past and such a
law is necessary.
Sports Bulletins
By United Press International
The Lot Angeles Dodgers
scored three runs in the
third inning Saturday night
to edge the St. Louit Cardi
nal! 3-2, and to ttay in a ti
with San Francitco for the
National League lead. Don
Drytdal wat the winning
pitcher, -
Portland's Beavers drop
ped the second gam of a
day-night double header
Saturday night to in Ta
coma Giants by an 11-0
cor. Earlier in th day th
Beavers won their opening
gam of th season from
Tacoma 7-2.
WEATHER
FORECAST: Conilrferable rloud
Inena today with rhanre of
ihnwtri Ihii afternoon and eve
nlnt. Tartly cloudy Monday
wllh few iratlered ahnwerit.
High today CO. Low tonight 3S.
UI(H Monday SI.
Temp.
nllhrat Yeaterday 61
l.oweal Yeaterday , 2ft
Preclp. Yeaterday ..None
Our Skies Tonight
Snntet today 6:55 p.m.
Sunrlte tomorrow .5:Zl a.m.
Moonrlae tomorrow 1:19 a.m.
l-a.t Quarter tomorrow 4:57 a.m.
Jupiter and Saturn, the larceil
plai,eti, are now rlilnr A mlnutea
earlier earn -nIKht. They will he
prominent in the evening iky
UiU ummef.
mean out there and I'm glad
it's over."
After getting a hot meal at
the Coast Guard lifeboat sta
tion where they were taken.
the crew members, their
clothing dirty and all in need
of shaves, were taken to ho
tels where they planned to
clean up for midnight serv-
ices. In addition to Caravias,
tne crew was composed of 21
Greek nationals and one Brit
isher. The crew met the Rev.
Father Constantine Bithos of
the Greek Orthodox church in
Norfolk, who acted as an in
terpreter for the crewmen.
Anthanessics Dragoussnos,
j i, ione oi tne ureek crew
members told the minister:
"We almost went upstairs to
day. This is our life. This sort
of thing can be expected."
The Ethel C went down
some seven hours' after Cara
vias flashed a message that
his crew could not halt the
flooding and was abandoning
ship.
a white youth tapped him on
the shoulder while he was sit
ting at a dime store lunch
counter and -punched him
twice when he turned around.
McMillan, who underwent
surgery Saturday night to
have the broken cheek bone
wired, offered no resistance.
Several youths later were
picked up,, but McMillan was
unable to positively identify
any of the suspects as his
white attacker.
At the height of the Savan
nah demonstrations firemen
drove hook and ladder trucks
into the heart of the business
district and connected up
noses to the hydrants. Firo
hoses have been used in the
past to break up similar dem
onstrations in several south
ern cities.
The scuffle at Raleigh was
the second in as many days.
Andrew Maguire of Glenn
Rock, N. J., a white youth
who said he was attending
the southwide Negro confer
ence, told police he was slug
ged by a white man. He sign
ed a warrant charging Bill
Pleasants of Garner, N.C. with
assault and battery.
A white ministerial student
who joined the picket line
Friday was struck by another
white youth whom he was un
able to identify. John North
rup of Rochester, N.Y. suffer
ed a cut across his chin which
required seven stitches to
close.
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
leader of the Montgomery bus
boycott five years ago, told
the Negro conference that the
current wave of sitdown dem
onstrations constitutes "an as
sault on the whole system of
segregation." He said the
movement was not merely to
free 17,000,000 Negroes, but
"to free the soul of America.
It is not just something to
benefit the Negro, It will lift
Denem me r-iegro, u win mi
America's respect," he said.
Radio Moscow Ridicules Easter
But Message Falls on Deaf Ears
London - (UPB - Radio Mos
cow, the voice of Russia, Sat
urday ridiculed Easter in a
broadcast beamed to the free
world as one of the "wildest
and most stupid prejudices"
of humanity.
While Christians on the free
side of the iron curtain, and
many behind it, too, awaited
Easter morning and the peal
ing of the bells that will her
ald again the resurrection, Ra
dio Moscow campaigned for
the Marxist theory that "reli
gion is the opiate of the mass
es." The broadcast said Easter
prevents individuals from
"working for the good of the
people."
Communist Version
A member of the Soviet So
ciety for the Dissemination of
Political and Scientific
Knowledge gave the Commu
nist version of the meaning of
Easter.
"Docs the Feast of Easter
really strengthen the best feel
ings in the consciousness of
(Christian) believers?" he ask
ed. "Does It really tducate
1 V'H.-tJW
St.
EGG SCRAMBLE-It was momentary bedlam when the gun
sounded at the start of the annual Kiwanis club Easter
egg hunt at Hawthorne park Saturday morning. An esti
mated 500 to 700 children poured into the roped-off areas
where the eggs were hidden, running as fast as little legs
would go and scooping the eggs up on the fly. It was all
Itinerary for Sen.
Kennedy Listed
Senator John F. Kennedy is
scheduled to speak at an as
sembly at Southern Oregon
college at 11 a.m. Saturday,
April 23. and to be honor
guest at a coffee hour at the
home of Dr. and Mrs. Arthur
Kreisman from 9:45 to 10:45
the same morning, according
to Robert A. Boyer, district
chairman of the Kennedy for
President committee. Both
events will be open to the
public, Boyer said.
From 1:15 to 2:15 that af
ternoon the Democratic presi
dential candidate will be hon
ored with a public reception
at the Medford Hotel Crater
room. All interested are in
vited. Sponsoring the recep
tion will be members of the
Kennedy for President com
mittee, assisted by the newly
organized Eleanor Roosevelt
League.
A large welcoming commit
tee is expected to greet the
Massachusetts senator when
he arrives at the Medford air
port at 9 o'clock Saturday
morning. Ashland events have
been arranged by Dr. Arthur
Kreisman, who says that fol
lowing Kennedy s address at
the assembly, there will be a
brief question and answer pe
riod. Senator Kennedy will
leave Medford promptly at
3:30, Boyer explained, thus
he will not be able to accept
evening engagements ai had
evening CuSa6n..vw .
I been formerly planned.
them In a spirit of elevated
morality?"
"A thousand times over -no,"
he answered his own
question,
Easter was denounced as "a
means of strengthening dark
ness and ignorance, for the
maintenance of slavish moral
ity." Celebrating It can only
"strengthen the wildest and
most stupid prejudices" of the
human mind, the radio said.
'Great Harm'
"The Easter sermons about
being meek and humble cause
great harm," the radio said.
The very idea hinders "the
construction of Communism."
The words fell mostly on
deaf ears as hundreds of thou
sands of Christians attended
Holy Saturday services. In ru
ral Austria and Germany
wooden rattles were shaken
to call the faithful to prayer.
Bells cannot be rung until
Sunday morning.
West German officials re
ported thousands of East Ger
man families crossing Into
Mi
Storms Belt Midwest, Plains;
Six States
By United Press International
A heavy squall line swept
across the midwest and plains
states Saturday night, spawn
ing tornadoes, pounding rain
and hail storms, powerful
winds and an Easter eve snow
storm. i
Twisters hit in Kansas, Mis-
so"riAj,ow?',,,I,nc,,ana: I1ilnois
and Ohio, klllinir at least one
person and causing extensive
damage.
Demos Set
To Fill Assignments
Washington-fUPD - Fourteen
Democratic National commit
tee members meet at Los An
geles next week to select men
to fill the toughest assign
ments at the Democratic Na
tional convention in July.
The assignments are for the
keynote speaker, permanent
chairman of the convention
and the chairmen of the res
olutions (platforms) and cre
dentials committees.
Party leaders reported un
der consideration for the stra
tegic posts include Reps. Hale
Boggs (La.) and Richard Boi
ling (Mo.), Sens. A. S. Mike
Monronely (Okla.), Albert
Gore (Tenn.), Frank Church
(Idaho) and Joseph S. Clark
(Pa.) and Gov. Gaylord Nel
son of Wisconsin.
The group meeting at Los
Angeles Monday through
free territory to observe the
holiday. At one checkpoint,
9,400 cars were lined up
awaiting Communist inspec
tion and approval. The line
stretched for eight miles.
Thousands of Britons set
out for a week end in the
country.
Thousands Attend
In Rome, the 500 Roman
Catholic churches were dim
and silent, their statues and
crosses draped in purple cloth
of mourning for Christ's
death.
Thousands of Romans went
silently to pray at the tradi
tional Easter vigil which will
end with midnight masses and
the chant "Gloria in Excelsls"
-the signal for all the church
belli In Rome to peal the tld
ings that "he is risen."
Similar services were being
held in the old city of Jcru
salem at the scenes of Christ's
suffering, death and resurrec
tion.
Thousands of Christian pll
grlms, Catholic, Protestant
and Eastern Orthodox, attend.
d th solemn ceremonies.
1 . )(v
Tw .
over in less than a minute. Some of the youngsters left
without claiming their prize for finding the specially
marked eggs, and the prizes are being saved for them,
according to Chairman Larry Horton. That is, if they
haven't already eaten them . . ,
Hit by Tornadoes
One tornado raked a high
way truck stop in Washburn,
Iowa, killing a man in a car
,. ... . ... ...
trailer
mown, over dv .iue
winds.
At Traer, Iowa, about 32
miles southwest of Washburn,
a tornado hurled 41 cars of
a Chicago and North Weitern
freight train from the tracks.
Officials said the twister
plucked the cars "right out
LA Meet
Wednesday Is headed by Dem
ocratic National Chairman
Paul M. Butler. Convention
officials are normally elected
without contest by the del
egates.
Rayburn Bowed Out
Speaker Sam Rayburn and
House Democratic Leader
John W. McCormack have
served at recent conventions
convention chairman and
platform committee chairman,
respectively, but both bowed
out this year. Rayburn wants
to be free to manage the cam
paign of Senate Democratic
Leader Lyndon B. Johnson
for the presidential nomina
tion. '
Boggs is Rayburn's candi
date for the convention chair
manship. He is understood to
be facing some opposition,
however, because he is a
southern and a Catholic.
Because a Catholic, Sen.
John F. Kennedy (Mass.) is
seeking the presidential nom
ination, Democratic party
managers are concerned this
year about "religious balance"
as well as a balance among
regions and viewpoints in
choosing convention officials.
Burglar's Case
Returned Here
Salem - (UPB - Circuit Judge
Val D. Sloocr Friday . set
aside the 25-year state prison
sentence of Delbert Lee Crow
and ordered the case returned
to Jackson county for further
action.
Crow claimed in court here
that his trial judge had false
information about previous
convictions in determining his
prison term. Crow wat
sentenced Aug. 3, 1955 from
Jackson county for burglary
Involving explosives.
Crow and his brother,
Glenn Eugene Crow, both of
Carthage, Mo., were arrested
July 20, 1955, on the roof of
the Mason and Ehrman Co
warehouse. They admitted
blowing a s a f e and taking
nearly $1,000.
Glenn Crow also drew a 25-
year prison term. Presiding
was Circuit Judge H. K,
Hanna.
- . of the middle" of a 78 car
1 train.
cMiQV,if
I tafetv . natrol warned eainst
-
highway travel in the state'
snow-swept . panhandle. ,
snowstorm, powered by 'SS'
mlJe-an-hour winds, oiled up
hugs drifts and cut visibility
to a few feet.
Golf-ball size hail was re
ported from Iowa eastward to
Ohio, and the weather bureau
said wind gusts of hurricane
force whipped up blinding
clouds of dust in Denver,
Colo., and Garden City, Kan.
Four tornadoes were sight-
ed In the northwest corner
of
Missouri. The only one
known to have struck ground
leveled buildings, destroyed
telephone service and knock
ed out electricity in the Gen
try, Mo., area.
Tuesday Last Day
For Registration
An estimated 12,000 per
sons In Jackson county win
be unable to vote in the May
20 primary election unless
they register soon, Joseph D.
Walsh, chairman of the Jack
son County Republican Cen
tral committee, noted Friday.
Tuesday, April 19, is the
deadline for registering to
vote in the primary, Walsh
reminded those who have
not yet registered.
Walsh urged unregistered
voters to use facilities at the
county courthouse or at vari
ous locations downtown in
cluding Republican headquar
ters at 3 West Sixth St., open
from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. Mon
day, besides the six days a
week daytime hours.
Two Held in
Questioning
Two men are being held by
Redding, Calif, authorities on
armed robbery charges and
for questioning In connection
with the shooting of Mrs.
Marian Stella Hamilton, 40-year-old
Ashland rancher's
wife, Sheriff Joe Walsh re
ported Friday.
Both men had .22 clibcr
revolvers with them and an
swered the general descrip
tion of the bulletin Issued to
all points on the Pacific Coast
by Jackson county authori
ties, Walsh said.
Pictures of the two men
were received Saturday by
the sheriff's office and one
witness so far has failed to
Identify either of the two men
in Redding as a murder su
spect. Walsh said Friday bal
listic samples from the pistols
the two men had with them
will be compared to bullets
Air Force Misses
Pi
ickup; Capsule
Won't Come Down
Rocket Failure May
Have Caused Miscue
Vandenberg Air Force Base.
alif. - IUPII The Air Force
Saturday failed to recover a
300-pound space capsule from
the Discoverer XI satellite
because it stayed in orbit, the
Air Force announced.
An Air Force announce
ment said the bell-shaped cap
sule apparently was ejected
from the 17-foot long satellite
at about the richt time and
place - over the North Pole
its 17th pass around the
world, '
But the capsule did not fall
back Into the atmosphere and
plunge to earth in the Pacific
as was planned, the military
ia. tjiiicers rtidn t sav. but
might have been a failure
of the small rockets on the
capsule that are supposed to
slow it down enough to force
it out of its path around the
earth.
Mott Successful'
Despite the failure of the
specially trained recovery
teams to get a chance to
snatch the parachuting car
sule high in the sky, the Air
rorce termed Discoverer XI
the most successful Discover
er to date."
A two-stage rocket boosted
the satellite into orbit over '
the poles of the earth Friday.
irom tnis seaside base. The
second stage an , Agena -
made up the satellite.
On Discoverer V; the cap
sule also was ejected and
stayed In orbit, several weeks
after Its launch, to become a
mystery satellite. . Scientists
finally generally agreed that
the mystery satellite - when
later located in space was
the capsule of Discoverer V
still circling the earth.
Hearing Slated on
roposed Budget
A public hearing on the
Family Counseling and Child
Guidance proposed budget of
$4,000 for fiscal 1960-61 will
be" held in the Jackson Coun
ty Courthouse auditorium at
30 p.m. this Wednesday.
The Family Counseling
committee is asking the Coun
ty Budget committee to sup
port the expansion of . the
present Child Guidance clin
ic to include family counsel,
ing service by contributing
$2,000 in. addition to the
$2,000 now allowed for the
Child Guidance clinic.
This will be an open meet
ing sponsored by the counsel
ing committee of the Child
Guidance association for the
purprre of giving hose who
are in opposition to family
counseling service an oppor
tunity to speak, according to
the association president, Har
old Snodgrass.
Discussion panel for the
public hearing will include
Ben Day, moderator; Dr. Tom
Rutter; Jim Pullman; the Rev.
Tom McCamant; Judge Ed
ward Kelly; Dr. John Water
man and Harold Snodgrass.
Redding for
on Murder
from the scene of the shoot
ing. Mrs. Hamilton, wife of Les
ter Hamilton, of 2700 East
Main rd., Ashland, was found
murdered in their ranch home
about two miles southeast of
Ashland March 15. Deputies
said she was killed by .22
caliber bullets fired from two
different guns.
Sheriff's deputies have
found a while leather three
quarter length woman's jack
et missing from the Hamilton
home. It was at the clean
er's. They are still looking for
a thin green leather wallet
with a gold design with the
snap on one end broken, for
a man's brown dress hat, size
6, and a Dancraft Sterling
silver bracelet with seven or
eight Jensen charms with
matching set of clamp on car
rings with a sterling silver
beetle design.