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A fo) Ira ui rajllfFn 1M HlfFi Rogue Valley Edition Medford 24 Pages STATE SENATOR Lyndel Newbry, left, newly-appointed state senator from Jackson county, is shown above with his father, Earl T. Newbry, who retired in 1957 after serving tome 20 years in Oregon politics, the last 10 as secretary of state. The picture was taken at the packing plant in Ashland which the two men operate. Young Newbry will assume office when the legislature convenes in January. He was appointed by the Jackson county court to serve the unexpired term of Congressman-elect Edwin R. Durno. Keating Opposes Administrator Type County Government Rodney . Keating, former. Jackson county judge, told the county home rule study , committee last-flight he op poses a trained bounty admin istrator or county manager,- a board of supervisors with dis ' trict representation, and cen tral purchasing and personnel departments. He offered some suggestions for county government, in cluding a county commission of three members and elim ination of the county judge position. . ' . At earlier meetings, a train ed county administrator, a board of supervisors with dis trict representation and cen tral purchasing and personnel departments have been sug gested. Not Necessary County government is so complex that it would be al most impossible to find one man qualified to direct all phases of it, Keating ex plained. Such an administrator would be expensive and would need so many assistants the county administration would be top heavy.- Keating said a board of Mackay Said Getting Unemployment Pay Portland (UPD An Oregon Department of Employment spokesman has confirmed that Hamish Scott Mackay, a 55-year-old Portland carpenter who was deported to Canada last month, is drawing $40 a week in unemployment bene fits from Oregon. Mackay, currently residing in Vancouver, B.C., is gaining the benefits under a reciprocal arrangement between Oregon and the Canadian Unemploy ment Insurance Commission. JUDGE RESIGNS Salem - (UPD - Gov. Mark Hatfield has accepted the resignation of Lane County Circuit Judge Frank Reid, ef fective today. Coos Bay - IUPD - About 175 employees of West Coast Tele phone Co. here went out on strike as scheduled at 12:15 p.m. today; Standard Insurance Company's Board Of Directors The first Medford meeting of the Standard Insurance company's board of directors is under way today. The di rectors also plan to tour the new building being completed by the company in Medford. Local member of the board of directors is Glenn Jack son. At noon today some 100 directors, policy holders, and representatives of investment j Main sts., was constructed 95 firms with which the com- per cent of materials which pany deals, attended a lunch- were either grown, processed, eon at the Rogue Valley Coun- milled or purchased in Jack rv .inh 'son county. The exterior is This morning the building committee of the company dis - MEDFORD, OREGON, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1960 supervisors with district rep resentation would be unneces sary since the county court or commission should repre sent all parts of the county. Central purchasing could be" handled by the county court which "is virtually be ing done now," the ex-county judge said. It would be almost impossible . to find a man qualified to. handle all the county purchasing, he said. A county counsel or an at torney to handle only the county's legal business is not needed, Keating said. It is the business of the county court to see that it gels a legal opinion from the district at torney as soon as it needs one. Keating proposed eliminat ing the county treasurer and combining the office with that of county clerk. He also would combine the county assessor and tax collector sec tion of the sheriff's office, and the county surveyor and engineer. . , One member of the county court could review personnel problems and should review job classifications from time to time. A monetary award sh'ould be given for sugges tions leading to improvement of county services. County employees should be required to retire at a certain age, he said. Suspected Dog Shows Negative Test What was - suspected last month , as a rabid dog has been reported as not rabid, County Health Officer Dr. A Erin Merkel said today. The dog's head was sent to the state department of health laboratory late last month by the Gitzen Veterinary clinic Tests for rabies proved nega tive, Dr. Merkel said. To date, four bat specimens, of 15. sent to the laboratory, have been reported positive. This makes seven bats in the state which have been found to have rabies. Dr. Merkel said: four in the Medford area two in Klamath Falls and one in The Dalles. Meeting in Medford Today cussed plans for the proposed Sl.000,000 headquarters build ing to be started in Portland in June. The building, to be known as the Standard-Plaza will.be built oiie block south of the new Hilton hotel and will also house the downtown branch of the First National Bank of Oregon. The local building, at the corner of Gencssee and East western red cedar and glass, 1 The building was designed Tribune $1 65,000 Ski Development Is Suggested Ashland-A preliminary re port on the feasibility of a $165,000 ski development on Mt. Ashland was presented to officials of the U.S. Forest service Thursday in Ashland. A 14-page report prepared by the Ashland Economic De velopment commission was presented by Jack Nichols, veteran skier serving the com- Pedestrian Dies After Being Hit By Car in City Mrs. Ingeborg Larum, 76, of 1005 West Main St., died last night from injuries re ceived when she was struck by a car yesterday afternoon while crossing 12th st. be tween Franquette and River side aves. Driver of the car, Frank Lee Rush, 67, of 122 Portland ave., told Medford police he was blinded by headlights of an oncoming car and did not see Mrs. Larum vintil it was too late to avoid striking her. The accident occurred about 4:50 p.m. Mrs. Larum died at 10:30 p.m. Police did not hold Rush, and said he is apparently not at fault as Mrs. Larum was crossing the street in the mid- ble of the block approximate ly 55 feet from the nearest intersection. Mrs. Larum apparently has no known relatives living in this area. Funeral, arrange ments will be announced by Conger-Morris, funeral direc tors. Yesterday's was the second traffic fatality in the city of Medford this year and the 24th in Jackson county. First City Fatality Recorded in July Medford's first, traffic fa tality of 1960 was recorded on July 8, when Mr. George A. Cummins, 62, of 3761 South Pacific highway, died of injuries received in a one car accident July 1, city police said today. Police said they did not at first think Mr. Cummins death would be attributed to the accident, since he apparently had been in poor health and it was first thought he died of natural causes. Police were not notified of the death until July 18. They said the man's physician de termined the cause of death. The accident itself occurred when a vehicle operated by Mr. Cummins crashed head-on into a utility pole at the in tersection of Court st. and Mc- Andrews rd. about 4:40 a.m. July 1. Mr. Cummins' injuries were not at that time believed to be serious, and he was cited for operating a vehicle on the wrong side of the street, city police said. RABIES REVIEW ORDERED Portland - IUPIi - The State Board of Health Thursday or dered a review of the rabies situation in Oregon as a basis for possible further steps to control the disease. by the architectural firm of Wilmsen, Endicott and Un thank, Eugene, and construct ed by Armin Richter and As sociates. Mrs. Maryl Lorish, Medford, was landscape archi tect. Off-street parking is pro; vided. A system of wooden screens and fences provide privacy and will control the sunlight in the offices. The building also includes an elevator. Offices for other valley businesses will be housed in the new structure along with the Standard Insurance com j pany offices. Local manager j is Gene Williams, 55th Year Price 10 Cents mission in an advisory ca pacity. Proposed plans include $56, 000 for a ski lodge, power plant shelter and ticket booth. A ski-lift would cost an esti mated $60,000. A power plant and auxiliary power facilities would cost about $10,000 and ski lodge equipment and fur nishings would be about $15,000. Water supply and a sewage disposal system would cost about $8,000, according to the report. Estimates of prepara tion of ski runways, excavat ing and clearing for the ski lodge and a parking lot site totaled $10,000. Packing Equipment Sno-Cat and snow-packing equipment would be an esti mated $6,000. Duane Baker, AEDC chair main, said in a written re port to the forest service: "Recently, a group of pri vate citizens in Ashland be came interested in making a large sum of money available for a development on the mountain, but have been hin dered by the lack of an ade quate road to the site of such a development. "It has come to our atten tion that a program recently adopted by the Association of Oregon and California coun ties makes funds available for recreational development Oregon's O and C counties of which Jackson county is one of the larger units." "If a part of these funds could be used to develop a good all-weather road to the site of the proposed develop ment, it is our belief that a first-rate facility could be established here." "We are aware that approv al of a road project by the forest service would not guar antee the private local group rights to develop such a proj ect," Baker said. The AEDC report pointed out that presently the forest service's Tolman creek road is under construction to Bull Gap. "It is our understanding that an extension is planned from Bull Gap to the Mt. Ash land saddle adjoining the Ash land Loop road in 1961," it continued. According to surveys made by the Jackson county en gineer, the Tolman creek road and extension, if surfaced, would serve as an excellent access road to the proposed development. Since the base of the road is good, it is esti mated that surfacing would cost less than $10,000 per mile, the commission's report revealed. "Members of the commis sion have discussed the proj ect thoroughly with the Jack son county court, and it is our belief that the court would be willing to keep the road clear of snow if it were surfaced and permission for snow clearance Were granted by the forest service," it con tinued. Demurrers Filed In Bengtson Case Eight demurrers were filed in circuit court today regard ing eight indictments returned last month by the Jackson county grand jury against O. H. Bengtson, Medford lawyer. The demurrers charge that the indictments are not direct and certain as to the crime charged and the particular cir cumstances to the crime, that more than one crime is charg ed in the indictments, and that the indictments do not state facts that would constitute a crime. Deputy District Attorney Gerald Scannel said that either a memorandum in oppo sition would be filed andor arguments held in open court regarding the demurrers. Bengtson was convicted earlier this year on one charge of embezzling funds of the Medford Escrow company, of which he was an officer. A trial on a second indictment has been scheduled in Jose phine county circuit court Jan, 3. PLANE CRASH STARTS FIRE-The tail section of a United Airlines DC8 jet is shown after the plane crashed in Brook lyn. N.Y.. today after colliding with a TWA Constellation. Is,? STAND BY WRECKAGE stand beside the wreckage Forces Patrol South China Sea - - Washington MDP1I- V. S; Ma-; rlneand naval forces patrolled the South . China Sea today ready to back up America's pledge to protect the pro Western government . of Laos against any aggression by, its Communist neighbors.' At the same time, the Stale Department is preparing one of the stiffest notes ever sent to Russia, rejecting Soviet charges that the United States is intervening in the battle be twen pro-Communist and pro- American forces in the strife- torn Asian nation. Thet United States already has denounced the Russian protest as a mere covcr-up for a continuing Soviet airlift of artillery and ammunition to the pro-Communist Pathet Lao guerrillas and the para troopers of leftist Capt. Kong Le. These Communist - armed troops are battling the forces of pro-American Gen. Phoumi Nosavan for control or uie Laotian capital of Vientiane. New Office for Chamber Authorized Construction of a new office building for the Medford Chamber of Commerce is ex pected to start " in the near future at the corner of 10th st. and Central ave. The board yesterday auth orized chamber officers to pro ceed with final plans for fi nancing construction. It also authorized negotiation of building contract. Bob Taylor, president-elect and chairman of the building finance committee, said 90 per cent of the financing is complete, and the other 10 per cent probably will be avail able in the near future. The building will house chamber offices, which are now located In the D'Anjou building on South Central ave. An old wooden house at the site of the new building was torn down recently. The board directed that of ficers proceed at a cost not to exceed $33,000 for property and building over a 10-ycar period. Monthly payments arc not to exceed $350, the board said. Minimum Prison Sentences Discussed Portland-IUPD-Circuit judges from Oregon today discussed whether all penitentiary sen tences should be for a mini mum five-year term. The minimum five - year term was recommended by the Legislative Interim Commit tee on Criminal Law to re place the present one-year minimum term. Rescue workers and firemen of the TWA airliner which ore Cabinet Jobs Washington n.im . Prcsl dent-elect John r. Kennedy; today, named his brother, Rob ert, as attorney general and selected a Republican, Doug las Dillon, as his secretary of treasury. Kennedy also announced that Byron R. (Whizzer) Six Persons Still Are Hospitalized Six persons who were In jured in automobile accidents last, week end.' which kiuca three persons, were still re ported hospitalized today. Still in critical condition, but reported to be improved, at Sacred Heart hospital arc Julian A. Marks, 53, of Vet erans Administration domi ciliary, White City, and Carl Richard Harrison, 32, of 56 Perrydale ave., Medford. In good condition at the same hospital are Mrs. Ken neth Dean (Mildred) Gorman, 2722 Mcrriman rd., and John James Beaman, 53, of 32 Myrtle st. In fair condition at Rogue Valley hospital is Frank Frederick Ewald, 305 Laurel st., and in good condi tion is his wife, Orvella Ada. A seventh person, Annie F, Paige, 87, of Kentfield, Calif., who was injured in an Oct. 7 accident south of Phoenix, was transferred yesterday to the Ft. Miley Veterans Ad ministration hospital near San Francisco. She was a retired Army nurse. Boivin Receives Assignment Requests Salom-IUPII-Sen. Harry Boi vin, (D-Klamath Falls), said today he has received letters from seven backers of Sen. Alfred Corbett, (D-Portland), for Senate president asking Boivin for various committee assignments in the 1961 Sen ate. One of the letters, Boivin said, came from Corbelt's ma jor supporter, Sen. Robert Straub, (D-Eugenc), also state Democratic chairman. Suspect Questioned In Killing of Girl Delano, Calif. -IUPD- An cx convict was arrested by po lice here Thursday for ques tioning in the murder of Alice Louise Lee, 7, near Eugene, Ore., on Aug. 29. Donald Orrie Northcy, 35, a transient, was taken into custody at the request of Ore son Slate police. The little girl's body was discovered in a bcanpatch east of Eugene several days later, There was only one survivor two planes. . lhe crash set houses on fire. crashed on Staten Island, New York, today alter, a mid-air collision with a United Airlines DC8 jet. (UPI Telephoto) - , White, Denver .lawyer - and former All-Ameriean, football player, will serve as deputy attorney general. One Job Left - . :" .' The president-elect an nounccd that Harry Ansling- er will remain in his present post as head of the narcotics division in the Justice De partment. ; - ; . . That left only the job of postmaster general to be filled for the Kennedy, cabinet and J. Edward Day, vice president of Prudential Insurance Com pany, was reported to have been selected for that post, Kennedy said his brother, in every assignment that he had been given, had "demon strated himself to be a man of intellectual energy, intel lectual courage and organiz ing ability." He noted that his brother had served as an attorney in the Justice Department, as an aide to the Hoover Commis sion and, more recently, as chief counsel of the Senate Rackets Committee. County Receives Funds from Forest Jackson county has re ceived $431,311.21 as its share of national forest timber cut ting receipts, according to Karl Janouch, county treasur er. . Of this total, $323,483.41 will go to -the general roads fund and $107,827.80 to the county schools. According to law, 75 per cent of the forest receipts go to the roads fund and 25 per cent to the schools, Janouch explained. Last year national forest re ceipts totalled $466,556.28. Officials of the Rogue River forest had no Im explanation of the USE CHRISTMAS SEALS FIGHT TB National mediate decrease. I shopping days left of the 127 persons aboard the an entire block of tenement tUPI Telopholo) MP- Nongkhai, Thniland-fflPI)- Th ballla for lhe Laotian capital of Vientiane raged into its fourth day today and Communist supported troops were reported ' io have seized five Americans as hostages, . United Nations, N. Y.-flOT -Russia demanded today thai Secretary-general Dag Hammarikjold be stripped of his authority over the lorces of the U.N. Com mand in the Congo. ' London - IIP1I - The Addis Ababa Radio said today the rebellion against Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie had been crushed and the rebels were fleeing the country. The broadcast was heard in Nairobi, Kenya. Los Angeles -lll'IU A plea for freedom on the basis of double jeopardy today was denied Dr. R. Bernard Finch and his red-haired mistress Carole Tregoff and they were ordered to face their third murder trial, set for Jan, 3. i : ' - Council Meets Last Time This Year 'Last night's Medford city council meeting, the final meeting of the year, was also the last meeting ever for Coun oilman Ed Hall from Ward 1. Councilman Hall, after serv ing one four-year term, did not run for reelection in November. His scat will be filled by Bill Singler, the only candidate for Hall's seat at the November election. ' The council honored Hall publicly at the meeting last night with a standing round of applause, and permitting him to make the final motion of the year - the motion for adjournment. Following the meeting the council and other ci;y officials met informally in the coffee room on the city hall third floor. There, Mayor John W. Snider presented Hall with a plaque denoting his tenure as a city councilman. A cake had also been prepared, honoring both outgoing Hall and Incom ing Singler. Hall will not be officially out of office until Jan. 5. Portland - IUPII - Services will be held Monday for Will T. Peters, 77, well known in aviation circles, who died Wednesday. 1 s , v H t, ' v hi Briefs United Plane Fires Tenements In Brooklyn TWA Craft Lands On Staten Island New York-dlPII-A giant United Air Lines DCS jet and a TWA Super Constellation with a total of 127 persons aboard collided in a snow storm over New York City today and plummeted to tha ground 12 miles apart. One boy, Stephen Bahz, 1 1, Chicago, appeared to be the only survivor. The huge DC8 on which ha was one of the 77 passengers and seven crew members thundered in flames into a row of brownstone tenements in Brooklyn, setting an en tire block on fire. Victims killed in their homes added to the apparent death toll of 127 on the planes. The TWA Constellation was bound from Dayton, Ohio, and Columbus to New York and fell on Staten Island 12 miles southwest of the Brooklyn crash. It carried 39 passen gers, including two infants, and a crew of five. Six Survivors Die Six survivors were carried from the TWA wreckage to hospitals but all six died shortly after arrival. The United jet was bound from Chicago to Idlewild In ternational Airport. It was cir cling over Long Island for a landing when it collided with the prop-driven Constellation heading in toward La Guardia Airport, about 10 miles from Idlewild on the other side o Long Island. Ten buildings and the Meth odist Pillar of Fire Church were set on fire in the Brook lyn residential area -when the tail section, and part of the fuselage . of the UAL plane khit.; Residents ran screaming irito"tne snow-clogged street. !. Louis Vlnick, 60, Brooklyn, crawlect into the -wreckage and carried but the Baltz boy. He was taken ' to Methodist Hospital where his condition was reported critical.' Stephen had been put aboard the plane in Chicago this morning by his father, vice president and general counsel W. S. Baltz of Admiral Corp. The boy was flying to Join his mother and other children of the family who had gone east for the holidays a few days ago. Stephen stayed at home then to recuperate from throat infection. , The fire in the Brooklyn street, which looked like a battle scene with a small army of firemen, doctors, priests and police ministering to hysterical residents and carrying off bodies, was not brought under control until two hours after the crash at 10:37 a.m. , TWA Plane Explodes The TWA plane was ex ploding and breaking apart as it fell from the snowclouds. One wing separated from the fuselage just before it crashed near Miller field, a small air port on Staten island. It was the first fatal crash in the United States of a pure jet carrying commercial pas sengers since the jets went into operation in October, 1958. By grim coincidence, planes of the same airline were pre viously involved in the worst , commercial crash of all tho collision of TWA and United craft over the Grand Canyon, June 30, 1956, when 128 per sons were killed. Hits Residential Section The DC8 hit a residential section between downtown, Brooklyn and Prospect Park. Bits of the plane and portions of human bodies were scat tered up and down Sterling Place for one block. . More than 15 injured Brook- lynites were taken to hospi tals. There was one known fa tality among those in the street-a sanitation worker. The screams of panic-strick en residents filled the neigh borhood. Six of the buildings with roofs on fire were four story tenements. Scores o( doctors, priests and nuns knelt over victims on the slushy street. WEATHER FORECAST: Considerable cloud iness tonight and Saturday with a lew Unfit showers mostly over mountains. Low tonight 33-38. men Saturday near 50. Temp. HlKhist Yesterday ., jr Lowest This Morning 41 I'reclp, to 10 a.m. Today 01 Our Skies Tonight Sunset today . 4:40 n.m. Sunrise tomorrow 1:35 a.m. tinonnse tomorrow .... 6:27 a.m. New Moon Dec. IS ine piane i, man, in tne east tonight at 9:41 p.m. will be In the west at 5:17 a.m. Mars Is now about 51 million away. .
