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Fire Moses Us'ed 6ii larders w e aims PS- X4 S. HOTS 12cs fbro 11'"" ill sjl&i&l RESTORATION UNDER WAY Ex-miner Darn, 400 D St., Jacksonville, also scraping. J. O. Morgan, 1021 South Third st., Ash- paint, is another of the many volunteers land, was one of the first volunteers to be- expected to help with restoring the historic gin work Tuesday on restoration of the U.S. old building which was once the center of hotel in Jacksonville. He is shown scraping social events in the gold town of Jackson paint from the hotel main entrance. Ernie ville. LA Public Transportation Mechanics Go Out on Strike Extra Policemen On Freeway Duty ic Los Angeles '-'IUr - Digni fied . businessmen, brief cases in hand, stood on street corn ers thumbing rides like teen agers today as a strike of bus and streetcar mechanics left some 400,000 Southern Cali fornians without public trans portation. , Police reported traffic jams on freeways throughout the area but said there was "no great tie-up" as extra traffic : officers were dispatched to ' trouble spots by a helicopter. "Minor Altercations' But. there were police re ports of "minor altercations" among motorists fighting to get into downtown parking lots. Many of the extra cars on Itreets this morning were tmpty save for the driver, and whizzed by stranded commut ers standing on corners. Peputy Chief Commander Harold Sullivan of the Police Traffic Bureau directed oper ation "keep 'em moving" from a helicopter, quickly sighting traffic snarls and or dering extra-duty patrolmen into action. Emergency Procedures City officials and business leaders stepped up emergency procedures to provide trans portation for commuters. Mayor Norris Poulson said he would authorize a share the ride program ' which may legalize jitney buses, . and transportation authorities said overloading of taxis would be permitted. The mechanics called the strike against the Metropoli tan Transit Authority in de fiance of a court order. : CAN EXPLODES Firemen were dispatched to an oven fire at 1966 Ross lane at 12:20 a.m. today. Theyre ported that an aerosol can ex ploded in the oven of an elec tric stove. The can, they said, had been placed there by a three-year-old child. No dam age was reported. Oregon Art Alliance To Hold Conference Nearly 200 members of the Oregon Art Alliance are ex pected in Medford Friday and Saturday for their first state conference in southern Ore gon. Rogue Valley Al t associa tion will host the meeting. The alliance is an associa tion of organizations interest ed in development of art in Oregon. Registralion will be gin at 9 a.m. Saturday a: the Medford hotel. A meeting of the board of trustees Friday night will precede the annual conference. A Saturday morning break fast will be followed by a busi ness meeting at 10:15 a.m.; Monument Visitors Exceed 100,000 So Far During , Visitors at Oregon Caves National monument this year have exceeded 100,000 for the first time in the history of the monument, Otto M. Brown, superintendent of Crater Lake National park and the monument, has announced. The number of visitors at the monument as of Oct. 31 was 100,270, of whom 67,553 took the guided tour through the caves. The previous at tendance record was set in 1949, when 98,790 visited the monument. Brown said he expected about 1,000 more visitors at the national monument in the remaining two months this year. Russia Believed Marking Time United Nations, N.Y. -UJPD-Diplomatic observers said to day the Russians apparently are content to mark time on disarmament until President Eisenhower retires from office early next year. They said Soviet Ambassa dor Valerian A. Zorin tipped the Kremlin hand before the Main Political Committee Tuesday. Ho virtually wrote off negotiations with the Eis enhower government while opening the door a little wider to renewed U.S.-Russian talks under the administration of President-elect Kennedy. Midway Water District To Elect Commissioner Election for commissioner of the Midway Water district will be held between 2 and 5 p.m.. Friday, Dec. 16. at the home of William Breeden, 2640 Table Rock rd.. Medford, district officials have an nounced. Malcolm M c C a r t y, 2618 Table Rock rd., is seeking re election as commissioner. luncheon, 12:15 p.m.; round table discussion, 1:30 p.m.; a special event, 2:30 p.m.; and a reception at the Rogue Art gallery, 3-4 p.m. Taking part in the panel discussion on problems of the local art group will be Thom as O. Ballingor and Victoria A. Ross, school of architecture and allied arts, University of Oregon; Sylvia Seder, Eugene Art center; James R. Robert son, curator, Museum of Art, University of Oregon; Ben. J. Trowbridge Jr., Rogue Valley Art association; and James F. Colley, president of OAA, di rector of the Museum of Art, University of Oregon. Year Hot -drink and hamburger service for noontime custom ers will be provided by the monument's concessioner, the Oregon Caves company, for the first time this winter Brown announced. Guided tours will be available daily throughout the winter, as in the past. Overnight accommodations during the winter season may bo obtained at nearby Cave Junction. In the first year of regular guide service at the monu ment, in 1923, a total of 19,. 639 people visited the park. By 1933, when the Reorgani zation Act consolidated all national monuments, includ ing Oregon Caves, under the administration of the national park service, a total of 19,573 was recorded. Since then, visitation stead ily climbed to this year's rec ord, Brown said. ; Weed Man Found Dead in Home i ... Yreka-Gcorge Leroy Wes ton, 66, Weed, was found dead in his home Tuesday, Siskiyou county sheriff's officers re ported. County Coroner Al Cottar estimated Weston died Nov. 14. Cottar said that death ap parently was due to natural causes. However, an autopsy has been ordered. Weston had attended church services Sunday with Harold McGrath. At that time he told McGrath . that he wasn't feeling well. McGrath went to see how he was feel ing Tuesday and discovered him dead, Cottar said. Fire District Sets Election of Director Central Point - Central Point rural fire protection dis trict will conduct an election for one director post on Mon day, Dec. S. B. Sam Taylor seeks reelc- lion to the board for a five year term. Polls will be open from 2 to 8 p.m. in the rural fire station at Central Point. Bulletin Highway - 199 near Pit rick Creek, Calif., approxi mately 18 miles south of the Oregon state line Is now open to one-way traffic, Oregon state police reported today. The highway was blocked Tuesday afternoon by a slide. Regional Edition Medford 18 Pages Unfair Charge Is Filed by Union Against Safeway Outgrowth of Two Being Discharged The Retail Clerks Union, Local -265, Medford, has filed unfair charges against the Safeway company with the National Labor Relations Board in Portland, Dan K. Parker, international repre sentative of the union, said this morning. The charges, Parker said, are an outgrowth of two em ployees being discharged Sept. 17 from the Safeway store on West Main st., Medford. The Local filed alleging "il legal discharge of employees for union activity and for in terfering with operation of a union contract." Parker said the union, in its charges, "demands rein statement of all fired em ployees, and are demanding restitution for all lost time. Parker said that at a recent Local 265 meeting two Safe way employees discussed a re quest by store management that they work overtime with out pay. Soon after the meet ing, Parker said, the em ployees were discharged with out notice or warning. Local 265 has "tried every thing possible to settle this without filing unfair charges," Parker said. Safeway's Indus trial relations department, Portland, has declined to take anv action, he added. Parker said he and Leonard L. Smith, secretary-treasurer of Local 265, "feel the time has arrived to correct this sit uation." The state department of labor also will be notified of the situation, Parker said. J. N. Valentine, district manager for Safeway here, is out of town this week, and could riot be contacted about noon tbday. David Greenglass Home From Prison New York - (UPD - Atomic spy David Greenglass, who en abled Russia to develop an atom bomb years ahead of schedule, left prison today and rejoined his family to live as normal a life as possible among the countrymen he be trayed. Greenglass met his wife, Ruth, an unprosecuted mem ber of the Rosenberg espion age network, and their two children, aged 10 and 14, at a secret location after he walked out of the Federal House of Detention a free man follow ing nine years and four months of imprisonment. "We would like the Green glasses to live like a normal American family now," said the ex-spy's lawyer, former U.S. Assistant Attorney Gen eral O. John Rogge. "It has been carefully worked out so they will have the maximum of privacy." Airs. Chavis Is Former Citizen of England Mrs. Kathleen Esther Cha vis, 252 South Second st.. Cen tral . Point, who became a naturalized citizen of the United States Tuesday, Is a former citizen of England. Yesterday's report of the naturalization procee dings stated that she had been a Canadian citizen. Mrs. Chavis was one of 13 persons who took oaths of allegiance in circuit court yesterday. Burying The Hatchet MEDFORD, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1960 Several Boycott JOHN W. SNIDER Picked at Convention Medford Mayor Named President Of Cities League Salem-(UPD-John W. Snider, mayor of Medford, today was elected President of the League of Oregon Cities at the close of the league's four day convention here. He has been president since early this year, assuming the post when Loren McKinley, Tillamok mayor, resigned Terry Schrunk, mayor of Portland, was named vice president. The vice president normally steps up to ' pre6t' dent. " New members of the board of directors include Eugene Bauer, Gladstone mayor; Brewer Mills, mayor of Coos Bay; Richard Neill, mayor of Ashland, and Grant Rinehart, mayor of Nyssa. Officers Reelected Six officers were reelected. They are John Porter, Corval- lis city manager, treasurer, and Directors Russell F. Bone- steele, Salem mayor; M. O. Gardner, city manager of For est Grove; W. L. Jackson, mayor of Baker; Hugh Mc Kinley, city manager of Eu gene, and J. D. Puzey, mayor of Clatskanie. Portland was chosen as site of next year's convention. The league recommended a model merit personnel plan" for Oregon cities and urged its adoption in the 1961 legis lature. The plan is being drafted by the league staff. Speakers Warn Cities The league went on record against mandatory legislation governing city personnel poli cies and prescribing collective bargaining with city employ ees over wages. The conference, attended by about 800 persons, was pitched on the theme of Ore gon cities in the 1960s and several speakers warned that a mushrooming urban growth can be expected in Oregon in the next decade and that ade quate and immediate plan ning is needed to fight corpo rate chaos. The group made no recom mendation on a proposed 3- cent-a-pack state cigarette tax but. indicated that if this should be approved by the legislature, the cities want a 1-cent-per-pack city tobacco tax to accompany it. Democrats Expected To Salem Caucus Saturday ivin Backers Rumored To Fear Use of Unit Rule Straub Unable To Confirm Reports Salem - (UPD - The rumor here today was that several Democratic members of the legislature may boycott the Democratic caucus set for Salem Saturday. , State Party Chairman Rob ert Straub (D-Eugene), him self a state senator and the person who called the meet ing, said he had heard- the reports but could not confirm them. A Salem newspaper said it appeared that some Demo crats who favor Sen. Harry Boivin (D-Klamath Falls) for senate president may not show up for fear of efforts to enforce unit rule In choosing leaders of the two houses. The state Democratic con vention last January endorsed unit rule in choosing state senate and house leaders. This would mean that all party members would have to com mit themselves to the major ity s decision. No Plan To Enforce Rule Straub said he knew of no plans to enforce unit rule at the meeting. "We can't," he said. "The only power party leaders have is the power of persuasion and reasonable ness.". He said he felt, however, that in choosing officers of the legislature, the will of the ma jority should prevail. ' f -Boivin and State Sen. Al fred Corbett'(D-Portland) are competing for senate presi dent. . It is said that Corbett has the Democratic majority of senators behind him but Boivin has commitments from both Democrats and Republi cans to vote for him as presi dent. . Kennedy's Popular Vole Lead Drops Washlngton-flM - A higher percentage of Americans than ever before, voted for presi dent this year, and less than half voted for the winner. With no more than 1 per cent of the vote still to be counted, an unofficial tabula tion by United Press Interna tional today gave Sen. John F. Kennedy 49.93 per cent and Vice President Richard M. Nixon 49.74 per cent of the total vote. The remainder of the vote went to others. The tabulation showed: Kennedy 33,900,365. , Nixon 33,569,396 I Others 425,533 Thus, Kennedy's popular vote lead over Nixon has been whittled to 330,969, a drop of about 32,000 in the last 36 hours. ( Klamath Falls Boy t '. In Detention Home A 17-year-old Klamath Falls boy was placed in the Jack son county Juvenile detention home Tuesday in connection with thefts of dynamite and blasting caps from the White City area. The youth was the 14th questioned by local authori ties since Medford police, Jackson county sheriff's depu ties and Oregon state police found stolen dynamite or caps in a number of locations dur ing the past few weeks. He was brought to Medford by his parents after sheriff's dep uties notified Klamath Falls authorities that the boy had been linked with the thefts in Interrogations of other youths involved. WEATHER FORECAST: Partial clfirlnj thii tvrnlnf. Incrcailni cloudl ncii tonight. Rain litt tonight no inurioay, iieannf Tniiri day night. Low tonljbt 40. Hlfb Friday it. Temp. High nt Vraurday 44 Lowcit this Moraine 43 Prec, to 10 a.m. Today .01" Our Skies Tonight ftiinitt today 4:41 p.m. Snnrlip tomorrow .... T:05 a.m. The Moon rlsei 3:23 a.m. tomorrow. Right htlow It It tht planet, Mercury, which will be ten low In the loutheait a little, before aunrlie for the next aeveral dayi. Mercury (oea around tht San every III davi. 55th Tribune f fc ,7, ail WINSTON Small Bone Winston Churchill Injured in Fall London - (DPI) - Sir Winston Churchill, who will be 86 years old Nov. 30, suffered a fall In his London home Tues day night and broke a small bono- In hit back. He will nave 10 remain in oea ror a time,: but the injury, was de scribed as not serious. News of the injury to the venerable statesman, Britain's World War II prime minister and one of the greatest men of the century, was disclosed in a terse, formal announce ment issued today. The statement said Church- Ill, who In recent years has been unsteady on his feet and supported himself in public with a cane, fell at his home at Hyde Park Gate in Lon don's fashionable West End. Examined by Doctors After the fall, he was ex amined at his home by Her bert J. Scddon, an orthopedic surgeon from the famed Har- ley Street medical area, and by Lord Moran, his physician. His last public appearance was Tuesday when he put in one of his occasional appear ances in the House of Com mons. He seemed his normal self. Last Thursday, for the 20th time, Churchill attended the annual Harrow School Angry Guatemalans Ponder Retaliation Guatemala C!ty-UPD-Angry Guatemalan leaders are threatening retaliation - per haps including a declaration of war-agalnst Cuba for its al leged support of this week's uprising in Guatemala. "We know the rebels are receiving . aid, including planes, from Cuba," President Miguel Ydigoras Fuentes said in a speech Tuesday In the re captured town of Zacapa. "We are ready to defend ourselves, and to attack anyone who at tacks us." Manuel Orellana, whose anti-Communist party holds about one-sixth of the scats in congress, said he and his sup porters would call for a dec laration of war on Cuba if its support of the anti-government attack can be proved. Whooping Crane Population on Rise; 36 Counted Washington - (UPD - The Whooping Crane population is on the rise. The Interior Department re ported today a new record for Whooping Crane numbers was established Tuesday when 36 of the almost extinct birds were counted on and in the vicinity of the Aransas Nation al Wild Life Refuge on the Texas Gulf Coast. There were 25 adult and 5 Juvenile whoopers counted on Year Price 10 Cents No. 206 1' f CHURCHILL in Back Broken "songs" where the students at! his boyhood school again dedi cated their performance to the wartime leader. . ; At Harrow he looked well, although ha '. walked tlowly wun ine am of a cane, tn nis speech of thanks, Churchill said he as looking forward to attending the annual school songfest for the 21st time next year.- . . ,. How Churchill fell was not Immediately learned. But for some years he has had ob vious difficulties in getting about. California Agents Study Problem Here Four horticultural agents from California rnnnllps yesterday and today in the Rogue valley studying local pear decline and treatment. ' The agents, en route to a meetlntf of th Orionn stnlo Horticultural society at Ore gon State college, are James OeTar, Solano county; Rich ard Bcthcll, El Dorado; Joe Osgood, Placer; 'and Russell Gripp, Lake. Jackson Countv Hnrf lenl. tural Agent C. B. Cordy talk ed with the ffroun and InH n tour of valley orchards which have been hit by the decline. Gripp. said they were opti mistic about conauerlns the complex decline and had touna some "good circumven tion methods" In Jackson county. Cordv and a numhor nf local orchardlsta also are traveling to Corvallis for the horticultural society's dia mond jubilee meeting. NAMED DIRECTOR . Salem -(UPD- The superin tendent of Chcmawa Indian School near here, Victor Hill, has been named director of Indian schools for Oregon, Idaho and Washington. INVITED TO OREGON . Indianapolis, Ind.-WPD-Mer-rill E. Johnson of Oregon City, Oregon's American Le gion state commander has asked that Portland, Ore., be considered as the site for the 1966 national convention. on Texas Coast Refuge the refuge and five adults and one Juvenile on nearby Mata gorda and St. Joseph islands. This Is the largest number re ported since systematic counts of the crane population were started in 1938, The previous record was 34 in 1949. The department said three birds from last spring's flock still are unaccounted for. Ample time remains tor these birds to put In their appear ance, as straggleri hava check- Mothers, Youths Scream at Police; Streets Littered Newly Integrated Schools Guarded New Orleans-iUPD-More than 5,000 mothers and teen-agers, urged to "civil disobedience" by segregation leaders, ran screaming through the streets of New Orleans today and po lice turned fire hoses on them. "On with Ihe water, on with Ihe waler," the mob screamed as it advanced on the offices of the Orleans Par ish School Board, which open ed two integrated elementary schools for the third straight day. Crowds Kept Going Fire trucks were lined up in front of the offices after the crowd broke away from encircling motorcycle police. The firemen turned on tho hoses and the crowd surged into the stinging water and kept going. The crowd ad vanced into the full flow of the water and stood there wav ing Confederate flags and shrieking "two, four, six, eight, we don't wanna inte grate." Every time firemen turned down the water pressure the crowd surged forward again. Crowd Breaks Up After nearly an hour of drenching, the crowd slowly began to break up and the police at the schools braced up lest it march on the schools. Eggs thrown by the mob littered the streets and soggy Citizens' Council pamphlets floated in the gutter. Police threw heavy guards up around two newly inte grated schools and rushed fire trucks to McDonogh 19, where a bomb hoax was reported. School Nearly Empty Three Negro girls are at tending McDonogh and one is attending William Frantz Ele mentary school. They started classes In the formerly all white schools Monday and at tended today for the third day.V ( ; .... The two integrated schools were almost deserted by white pupils today. Normally, a total of 1,043 pupils attend the two schools. Today, there was a , total et 21 in both schools. . Castro's Sunday Talk Made Public Havana - (UPD - Cuban Pre mier Fidel Castro warned that the United States "has no way of preventing the triumph of the Cuban revolution" but said that his 'government would do nothing to provoke U.S. "aggression" from tho Guantanamo Naval Base, it was reported today. He made the declaration In a speech delivered Sunday night but made public only today by , the government press. 'Our fight is hard but we are going to win it," the bearded premier told Cubans employed by the U.S. naval . Installation. "The question of Guantanamo is a problem of right, not force." But he said that his govern. ment would adopt a "wait and see" attitude in order not to provoke American "a g gression." - French People To Vote on Algeria Paris (UPH President Char les de Gaulle has decided to let the French people vote on his controversial plan to make - Algeria a semi independent republic, it was announced to day. ' A government spokesman ' said de Gaulle told the cabi- ' net of his decision this morn ing. He said the referendum would be held at "an appro priate time" but gave no date. De Gaulle told the nation ; 11 days ago that if he felt the ordinary course of his pow ers were not enough to put his plans for Algeria into ef fect he would go to the people for support. ed in as late as mid-December. There wcr 31 of the big birds in spring flights to Northern Canada tor the cum mer nesting season. Two whoopers spent the summer at the refuge. With the new wild pipula tion at 38. the number ot known whoopers in the world now is 42. There are six in captivity - five In New Or leans and one In San Antonio, Texas. V A
