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Medford
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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. .