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Five-Story Apartment Building Collapses in New York mm01 Heroic Effort Saves Terrorized Elderly Woman New York -IUPI)- Workers aided by a giant crane today dug through the wreckage of a five-story apartment build ing that collapsed with a roar into a huge excavation on Manhattan's East Side. Police said that all nine residents of the building at 34th st. and Lexington ave. In the shadow of the Empire State Building either managed to get out before the collapse or were not at home when the structure toppled shortly before midnight Thursday. One aged woman was saved by a heroic bartender. - Police said the foundation of the building that disinte grated apparently had been weakened by excavation in the area. The 25-foot deep , hole next door had been scooped out for construction of a new apartment building. Bartender Joe Granah, 29, uihn ivn littinff in a nearby bar, said he felt a tremor like an earthquake when tne uuua ing began to come apart. "I ran out and saw the ' hnilHInff nhaklnir. " he said. As dust spurted from the sides of the building, Oranan ran to the front door, found it jammed, and kicked it open. He dashed up the stairs to the fourth floor where he found an 83-year-old widow cowering in terror. He carried her down the stairs and reached the street just as the building fell in a shower of flying brick, glass and wood. V ? r. ffU.4 r - V ft Stock Market Firms; Specials Score Gains New York -TOPI)- The stock market firmed by a narrow margin today with chemicals, electronics and scattered spe cials scoring the better gains. Gains of a point in Du Pont and small fractions in General Electric, Westlnghouse, Jersey , Standard and Allied Chemical enabled the industrial average to show a gain of slightly more than a point during the first hour, DOW JONES AVERAGES New York-fllPU-DowJonas final stock average! 30 In dustrials 602.11, off 2.61) 20 tallroads 120.39, unchanged) IS utilities 93.14, off 0.26, and 63 stocks 199.53, off 0.63. ' Sales Thursday w I about 2.45 million shares compared with 3.11 million shares Wednesday. 1ft. . FY . ' ' ' , BUILDING COLLAPSES A partly crushed car stands in after a five-story residential building collapsed In New the background while firemen search through the rubble York late Thursday. (UPI Telephoto) Khrushchev Said To Have New Formula for Summit Thursday's prlcti on selecttd siocki: Allied Chemical 92H Alum Cor Am 66 American Can 334 American Motori 10H AT&T 3H Anaconda Copper 44 Armco Steel i 63 Bendlx Corp 63 Bethlehem Steel 3711 Bnaln Air 34i Caterpillar Corp 28 V Chrysler Corp 44' ConUnental Can 33 1 Crown Zellerbach .... .... 46i Curtln Wright 161, Dow Chemical 761b Du Pont lSdli Eailman Kodak 1061, Firestone 371, General Electric W, General Food! 66 J General Motori . . 41H Graham Palae Ilk Greyhound 30',', Gulf Oil - - ' Homeitaka Mtnlnf 491i Idaho Power 43ft I.B.M oi Int. Paper - B6 Johm Manvllle 34 KKiinpntU Coooer 76 Lockheed Aircraft 26U Montana Power , 28 H Montgomery ward al Nat'l Blicult 704 New York Central 13',', Pac Gai & Elec 64 1, Penney. J. C 43 V, Penn RR WJa Radio Corporation 8 v, Richfield Oil - 86'', Safeway 361', Sean M'k Shell Oil 41 Ji, Socony Mobil Oil 38!, Rmithnrn Ca 4A'k Southern Pacific 20V, Standard California , Standard Indiana 44 Bt.nrtnrri N. J 40 Sun Minea sly Texaa Co 70J. Texaa Gulf Sulfur 17'', Texin Pac Land Trual I61i Transamerlca 241, Train World Air Trl-Contlnenlal 3611 tlnlnn Tirhlria .121 Union Pacific J7U United Aircraft ! United Air Llnei u. b. fluouir U. S. Steel ... J7lk 33 it 44',; 74 't BUD'S TIRE EXCHANGE 12 Price Sals Continues! Buy lit Retread at Regular Price GET 2ND ONE AT i2 PRICE Elimination of Disarmament Issue Reported London-OIPD-An Iron Cur tain diplomat reported today that Soviet Premier Nikita S Khrushchev has a new sum mit formula which would eliminate the disarmament issue from the next meeting of the Big Four. The source said Khrushchev has in mind a "two-tier" strat egy which would call for: -A meeting of the United States, Britain, , France and Russia to discuss the' Berlin Issue and the problem of Ger many In general. -A much wider meeting, in cluding neutrals and the new nations that are emerging, to negotiate on global disarma ment. Unwillingness Seen Behind the strategy lies Khrushchev's apparent un willingness to limit disarma ment talks to the Big Four powers. It also is considered a con ciliatory gesture toward Red China. It is understood Khruslv chev would try to gel Pciping included In the disarmament conference but would not In sist on it. The Soviet leader won equal representation for the Conv munlst world in the 10-nation disarmament conference last summer. The Communists fin ally broke up the conference by walking out, i Expects Belter Forum Now Khrushchev expects to get still a better forum for himself by packing it with neutrals and representatives from Africa, Asia and Latin America. The sources said this was the real reason for Khrush chev's proposal In New York this fall that the General As sembly hold a special session on disarmament early next year. But, the source Indicated, Khrushchev Is likely to settle for a smaller forum than the entire assembly. He presum ably would agree to a special disarmament summit of lead ers from East and West plus a selected number of neutrals, Washington -(UPI)- Secretary I lishing Individual contact of State Christian A. Herter with the incoming administra tes ordered State Department tion of President-elect John F. officials to refrain from estab- Kennedy. Charters Should Be In General Terms Aik Your Favorite Service Srition Herter Orders Restraint in Contact With Kennedy Group County Home Rule Ashland Couple To Attend Convention ' Ashland-Mr. and Mrs. Rob ert Lytle, Ashland, plan to attend the National Farm Bu reau convention in Denver, Colo., Dec. 10 through 14 Lytle Is president of the Jack son County Farm Bureau, Officers from the Jackson County Farm Bureau attended the annual conference in Eu gene Nov. 13 through 16. Besides the Lytlcs, others attending were W. R. Baglcy, Talent, voting delegate; Ernest Rodomske, Sams Valley, vice president; Mrs. Grover T. Mul key, Gold Hill, secretary treasurer; David Blair, legis lative chairman and Mrs. Blair, women's chairman, both of Rogue River. Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Lcmley, .shland. attended the insur ance session. (Continued from Page 1) The Santa Clara county of ficial Baid the California con stitution was amended in 19H to provide for home rule. Eleven of 58 California coun ties adopted charters. Some of the 11 counties which have charters had to try twice at the polls before they were enacted. Santa Clara county, at the south end of San Fran cisco bay, was the last county to successfully adopt a charter and has had 10 years experi ence with it, Siegcl noted that once a charter is enacted it is hard to amend. In California, char ters presented as parts of gen eral reform programs were usually successful. County charters should be written in broad terms, he said. Setting forth detailed government operation under charter tends to freeze county government In an obsolete mould, Siegcl Indicated. Favors Cod Sicgel favored an adminis trative code which would be coupled with the charter. This is a county ordinance spelling out the duties of county of ficers and the functions of their offices. It can be more easily amended than the char ter, the attorney Indicated. Any county with the power to create ordinances can adopt such a code, he said. Orvnl Etter, staff attorney, Oregon bureau of municipal research and service, Eugene, noted that the -constitutional home rule amendment Is short. He said he originally under stood it could be voted on at any legally called election. Lately, however, the attorney general has ruled this could be done only at a general elec tion. "The key sentence In the home rule amendment is that the county churtcr may pro vide execution by the county of authority ovpr matters of county concern," Etter said. "It gives broad authority." May B Latl He emphasized that the home rule amendment pro vides that the existing struc ture of county government may 1 be left In its present form. CARDS 217 East Main The slate still has consider able power over county gov ernment in spite of the home rule amendment, the attorney pointed out. And the county's citizens have initiative and referendum powers. Louis J. Kroeger, executive vice president, Griffenhagcn- Kroeger, Inc., Son Francisco, consulting firm on govern ment, emphasized that a coun ty charter committee should do extensive studying on the background of the county charter and investigate what other counties have done. Then a committee should make its own decisions and present a charter written in the members' own words, not copied. Attending the clinic from Jackson county were County Judge Earl Miller, County Commissioners Chester Wendt and Ralph James, Mrs. Ogden Kellogg, Gold Hill, chairman of the League of Women Vot ers home rule committee, and county home rule committee members Mrs. Thomas Rutter, MacLeod Maurice, and Mrs. Lester Adams. MedfordlVTribune Regional Edition Page 2A Castro Angrily Charges America With Intervention Herter has instructed offi cials to channel any informa tion for the new administra tion through the office of the assistant secretary of state for congressional relations, Wil liam B. Macomber Jr., until formal liaison arrangements have been set up. State Department officials also have been told to report to the secretary on any ap proaches to them for informa tion by members of Kennedy's staff or persons representing themselves to be such. Herter's order, according to his aides, is designed to eliml n a t e "confusion" resulting from information contacts and "regularize" the flow of infor mation to the new administra tion. They acknowledged, how ever, that it also would have the effect of stopping frustrat ed career officials from try ing to peddle pet theories to the new administration or seek the inside track for bet ter lobs when Kennedy as sumes office. Reported Concerned Herter was reported con cerned by the fact that a num ber of his aides have been talking with Democratic con gressmen and others concern ing possible new policies. The secretary has gone to considerable trouble to pre pare for the orderly transition of the department to his suc cessor. He hopes Kennedy soon will designate the next secretary so that the work of briefing him on current poli cies and conditions can begin. By United Press International , Cuban Premier Fidel Cas tro's propaganda machine charged angrily today that U.S. assignment of warships to guard Guatemala and Nica rague against Communist in vasion was "Yankee interven tion" in the Caribbean. The naval peace patrol was welcomed by the two central American nations, threatened this week by uprisings which their governments said were fostered by the Castro regime, but Cuba's official press and radio said there was no threat of invasion. Radio announcers on Cas tro's government stations charged that President Eisen hower, by posting an invasion guard on the eastern ap proaches to Guatemala and Nicaragua, was "trying to crush the fight for freedom going on in those countries." From Moscow, the Soviet Union's Tass news agency charged the U.S. action was "one more link in the provo cative policy of the U.S. rul ing circles against Cuba." It claimed an attack on Cuba was being prepared at bases in Guatemala and Nicaragua. The last major rebel resist ance in Guatemala and Nica ragua was crushed Wednes day, when loyal Guatemalan troops recaptured the Caribbean-coast city of Puerta Bar rios and chased the surviving insurgents toward Honduras. Guatemalan President Mi guel Ydigoras Fuentes said 3 minutes reading this new booklet Liu. ini i. . iii - u inn ..i i .i t .t - ..'4 vl t k W Wiaiiinil i can FREE you forever from wearing glasses! This booklet gives you the answers to all of your questions about Contact Lenses in a brief, easy-to-understand manner. No obligation no purchase required. Come in to any of our ten conveniently located offices In Oregon and pick up your copy while they are still available. t 5 5 (A COLUMBIAN OPTICAL CO. 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