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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
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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
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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
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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.
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