Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, December 18, 1960, Image 1

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Newspaper Page TextRecommended JSmTmbune Subscribers Efforts ire under way to re. ttoro the United sutei hotel, erected In 1880, and the old Beekraao hank, both In Jack sonville. Money Is needed for the projects. Read about the history of these buildings on paje 10-A of today' Mall Trib une. EDFORD To report improper or non dell'ery of the Mail Tribune tn Medford phone SP 2-6141. In Ashland MU 2-1021 and In Yreka, VI 2-2807. beiore 6:45 p.m. daily and 10:30 a.m Sunday If regular delivery arrives shortly after you call pleas notify office thus eliminating ipecial messenger service United Press International Full Leased Wire United Press International Full Leased Wlra 60 PAGES Section A MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1960 No. 233 M Pro-West Laotian Army Drives Reds Out of Vientiane More Than 150 Killed, 500 Wounded in Fight Bangkok, Thailand - (DPI) -The Chinese Communist news agency announced Saturday the Communist-supported par NEXT POSTMASTER-GENEHAL J. Ed ward Day, President-elect John F. Kennedy's choice for postmaster general, is shown with Russia Accused Of Wanting End To United Nations United Nations, N. Y. -OIPD-U. N. Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold last night ac cused Russia and its friends of trying to wreck the United Nations with distortions and impossible demands.- Hammarskjold, in his sharp est rebuttal to a campaign launched last September with Soviet Premier Nikita. Khru shchev's demand lor his res ignation, held closely to dip lomatic usage and did not mention Russia by name. But he left no doubt about whom, he was talking. - , His statement came at the end of the day's debate on the Congo, the conclusion of which Assembly President Frederick H. Boland put off until Monday because of a reluctance' of- delegates ' to speak on a Saturday night. Civilian Government In yesterday's debate, Brit ain called for -creation of a parliament-approved civilian government for the Congo and prompt, fair, and open trials for Patrice Lumumba and other imprisoned leaders. U. S. Ambassador James J.. Wadsworth supported the British proposal and called Russia's Congo actions "a straight policy of rule or ruin." , . Hammarskjold said that al though the assembly was sup posed to be debating the Con go crisis, "I do not believe that anybody is in doubt that for some time the real issue might better have been called 'the situation in the United Nations.' "For reasons made clear to the members of the assembly In September, a concerted and consistent effort has been made in order to create condi tions for a radical change of the administrative structure of the organization, and, with that in view, to corrode what ever confidence there may be among members in the integ rity of its secretariat," he said. WEATHER FORECAST: Intermittent rain and patchv Tor Sunday morn Inc Rain Sunday afternoon and evening. Partial clearlnc .Mon day afternoon. Rain Monday night. High today 46. Low to night 38. Mich Monday 52. TFM PERATURE Highest Yesterday i.iiut This Morning - 41 Precip. To 5 p.m. Yesterday 36 Our Skies Tonight Sunset today 4:41 p.m. Sunrise tomorrow 7:36 a.m. The Moon sets 5:33 p.m. today, rides low and Is In Per- iRee. First Quarter Dec. 24 V1SIRI.E PLANKTS Saturn, sets 5:45 p.m. Venus, low in southwest .6:19 p.m. Mart, rises 6:00 p.m. shopping days left SE CHRISTMAS SEALS FIGHT TB the next president after Kennedy announced the appointment. The selection of Day com pleted Kennedy's cabinet. (UPI Telephoto) Kennedy Names Day Postmaster-General , Palm Beach, Fla.-IUPU-Presi-dent-elect John F. Kennedy Saturday completed his cab inet, the youngest cabinet of the 20th Century, by selecting J. Edward Day, Adlai E. Stev enson's former law partner and a California insurance ex ecutive, as postmaster general. Kennedy and the future postmaster general immediate ly promised to do something about the mail service in OSP Investigating GP Motel Robbery Grants Pass - Oregon state police are investigating the robbery of the Rod and Reel motel, 4751 South Pacific highway, Grants Pass, last night. Only $5 was taken, state police said. Mylo Frank Morey; owner of the motel, said a man enter ed the office and asked for a room;.' When Mrs. Morey reached for a. pencil the rob ber pulled out a gun, told her it was a sticktip and forced her into the living room whore Morey was watching tele vision. The stickup man asked for some money, received a five dollar bill, lore the telephone connection out and ran south on' the highway, Morey told state police. ' .. Road blocks were set up north and south on the "high way, but officers found no trace of the bandit. Sports Bulletins Eugene - South Eugene High school, with Bo Blair scoring 21 points, thumped Medford High school 59 to 40 in a basketball game here last night. The Eugene club held a halftime lead of 31 to 11. Port Orford - St. Mary's High school, Medford. lost to Pacific High school here last night 37 to 35. Mike Austin led the Crusaders with 11 points. Pacific led 26 to 25 at halftime. Winston Douglas High school downed Ashland High 47 to 43 last night. Douglas led at halftime 23 to 22. Coos Bay - Marshfield whipped Crater High school 75 to 52 here last night. Marshfield led after two periods 43 to 28. Plans Made To Improve Reservoir Area A Jackson county parks and recreation commission com mittee Friday afternoon made tentative plans to improve the services at the Howard Prai rie reservoir area. City-County Parks and Rec reation Director Robert Ha worth and Commissioners Lawrence V. Espey, Medford. and J. F. Eberhart, Ashland, met with concessionaire Rob ert Johnston of Johnston Stores, Medford. The commission originally had asked Johnston to give a report on his summer activi ties and make recommenda tions for improvements. The report, plus a survey of sim ilar recreation sites in Oregon, Washington and California, formed the basis for the ten tative proposals. These are to either ask the county court for a tax-supported operation for all serv which a regular letter takes eight days to get from Wash ington to Boston. Asked about the possibility of restoring twice-a-day mail delivery, Kennedy said wryly, naving mailed a letter (from Washington) to Boston and have it take eight days to get there ... I am hopeful we can improve the postal serv ice to at least once a day and maybe better." The average age of the Ken nedy cabinet at time of ap pointment was 47.3 years, ranging from 'Robert Ken nedy, 35, who will be attorney general, to Gov. Luther H. Hodges of North Carolina, 62, the new secretary of com merce. Brawley Named Deputy ;In addition to the Day ap pointment, Kennedy from the sunny patio of his oceanfront villa here, also announced the selection of H. W. (Bill) Braw ley, chief of staff director of the , Senate post1 office and Civil Service committee since. 1951, as deputy postmaster general. Brawley is a-native of Lockhart, S.C., but has re sided with his wife and two daughters in Alexandria, Va., for a number of years. Today the President-elect will name Mrs. Elizabeth Smith, Democratic national committeewoman from Cali fornia, as treasurer of the United States, to succeed Mrs. Ivy Baker Priest. With the cabinet appoint ments out of the way, Ken nedy can now devote atten tion to secondary appoint ments and , broader policy planning. He has been in fre quent touch with some of his cabinet members and plans to assemble the full cabinet for conferences prior to the Jan. 20 inauguration. Department Has Deficit Both Kennedy and Day stressed their hopes of getting the post office department back on its financial feet. The post office has an annual bud get of about $3.8 billion and the current deficit is running at an annual rate of nearly $800 million. "We are anxious that the post office be run in the most efficient way possible, that it have the best possible serv ice, that its employees enjoy the best possible working con ditions, Kennedy said. Day, vice president of the Prudential Insurance Com- of America in charge of wes tern operation, followed with a similar statement of pur pose. ices in the recreation area or I establish a straight fee plan in hopes the fees will cover the total operational costs, Ha worth explained. A proper amortization re serve for capital improve ments in the current budget which the. county may put into operation would be need ed, too, the recreation direc tor added. So far the county court has not decided to do anything further with recrea tion facilities, Haworth ex plained. . . County Judge Earl Miller emphasized Friday that the county court has done all it can under law and within present time limits. He point ed out that the Howard Prai rie recreation area was turned over to the county only re cently, and that the court had provided for recreation serv ices in the area months be fore that. atroopers of Capt. Kong Le were withdrawing from the Laotian capital of Vientiane, now in the hands of pro Western troops. It appeared the forces of Gen. Phoumi Nosavan had scored a major victory in the battle that has raged for a week and left the adminis trative capital of Laos with burned out and splintered buildings. Peiping said the Kong Le forces had "decided to with draw government organiza tions and headquarters of the royal Laotian army from Vien tians" so they could "wage protracted struggles" in the future against the Phoumi forces. Flushing Snipers A dispatch from Vientiane said anti - Communist patrols were flushing snipers and loot ers out of shops and homes in Vientiane and that refugees were beginning to filter hesi tantly back into the capital. Officials in Vientiane esti mated casualties in the fight ing at more than 150 dead and 500 wounded but said there was no official count. Army officials here said the road was clear three miles be yond the Vientiane airport, used by the rebels to bring in Soviet supplies. One rebel broadcast intercepted in Vien- tians said the leftist forces had been ordered to withdraw 200 miles to the north. 900 Prisoners Taken The right wing Laotian ra dio in Savannakhet reported that Phoumi's troops had cap tured 900 prisoners and seized 1,105 guns, including two heavy mortars .in.. .Vientiane, the broadcast said King Sa vang Vattana had approved the cabinet formed by pro- American Prince Bon Oum Champassak as the legal gov ernment of Laos. The broadcast said Prince Boun flew Friday to the Royal capital of Luang Prabang which the New China news agency yesterday said was under attack by Red Pathet Lao guerrillas. The official Communist radio reported Luang Prabang in northern Laos was encircled by Pathet Lao forces. Freeway Discussion Scheduled by Group Victor Wolfe, of the state highway department, will ex plain freeway construction through Jackson county as part of the planning advisory group meeting Wednesday, at 8 p.m., in the county court house auditorium. Wolfe, as administrative as sistant to the state engineer, will explain freeway locations in relation lo the various com munities and interchange sys tems to serve the cities. Medford, Ashland, and Jack son county planning commis sion representatives are sched uled to show maps of their areas in relation to the free way. Salem, Ore. - OlPb - Gov. Mark Hatfield said Saturday the New York air tragedy is cause to accellerate Oregon's planning for a second major airport to serve the heavily populated northern Willam ette valley. He also pointed oul that he. personally, had asked the county budget committee for the last two years for a great er recreation allocation and had seen the request wh itlled down. Haworlh faid a third possi bility is a combination of fees and charges plus some free service. "We will recommend to the county court that it approach Johnston stores and ask that the concessionaire take on the responsibility over and above the stipulations in the present 18-month contract," Haworth said. "These are services which the committee now feels will be necessary to properly handle the opera tion." The committee feels the following services will be ncc- essary to properly handle the operation: (1) a proper gar - I -.-y.i-.ir, -v t,i , w v s t- W ' n . v-n v.. r-.r If : :$J- 44 TRAGEDY IN GERMANY A U.S. Air Force plane, carry ing American students to England for the holidays, crash ed into the streets of Munich, Germany Saturday, killing Airliner Possibly Off Course Prior To Air Collision New York - OJPI) - A Civil Aeronautics Board (CAB) snokeman said Saturday1 one, of the two giant airliners which collided over New York may have been off Its assigned course.- .- Philip Goldstein,. ' chief , of the accident investigation di vision of the CAB and coord!' nator of the intensive investi gation of Friday's crash, said one of the planes was being tracked on radar and, on .the basis of information at hand, the other was not. Goldstein said that if both the Trans World Constellation and the United Air Lines DC-8 jetliner had been under "posi tive control of their respec tive control lowers for their landing approaches, it meant one of the planes was off course. Doesn't Know He was asked specificially if both were under "positive control." Goldstein replied: "I don't know that." Federal Aviation Agency (FAA) Administrator Elwood R. Quesada said earlier that it appeared both were under the positive control of the con tral towers. The Trans World plane was bound for Laguard ia airport and the United jet liner was to land at Idlewild International airport. Goldstein said preliminary investigation revealed that the TWA plane was being tracked on radar at the Laguardia air port control tower as it began its approach to the field. He was asked if the United plane was being tracked at Idlewild. "I don't believe that the United Airlines plane was be ing identified on that (radar) scope, as of the information we have now," he said. He said the investigators had not determined if either plane experienced mechanical failure. bage collection system to lake care of the daily collection of trash and garbage in the de veloped recreation area; (2) maintenance of rcstrooms in a proper manner; (3) county or concessionaire lo be re sponsible for operation of the diesel pump for the water system; (4) daily cleaning of all' campsites and the picnic area; (5) cleaning out camp stoves and generally policing the camp area; and (8) proper traffic control at boat launch ing and parking areas during peak load days as on holidays and week days. "We recognize these five services are needed now, Ha worth said. "We have to de termine if we would be out of line assigning certain fees and charges for services. We are trying to come up with reasonable answer on now lo handle these needed addi- 1 tlonal services." New York Crash Toll Reaches 140 As Survivor Dies .: New York - (UPD - The col lision of a jetliner and a Con stellation over New York ,in histqry's wors); aviation, disas ter self off a massive five-way investigation. Saturday as tne 11-vear-old 1 sole survivor of the tragedy, lost a manful 27- hour fight for his life. The death toll stood at 14U and authorities feared it might rise. : The basic problem posed by the crash of the United Air Lines DC-8 jet and a Trans World Airline Super-Constellation in a snowstorm was how to control ever-increasing air traffic over cities in the jet age. ,'-. New Drama At the same lime, the poig nant death of little Stephen Baltz, of Wilmette, 111., brought new drama to the Ashland Hospital Work on Schedule Ashland - Construction of Ashland's new $375,888 hos pital is progressing on sched ule, according lof.il. (scoi ty) Fairweather, contractor for the project. Only one working day has been lost due to bad weather, Fairweather said. Completion of the 34-bed hospital is sched uled for November, 1961. Fair- weather and city officials sign ed the contract for the proj ect Sept. 28. It calls for com pletion of the hospital within 270 working days. The hos pital site Is on the corner of Maple and Chestnut sis, All coment footings in the excavated and unexcavated portions have been completed. Walls in the excavated sec tion arc in plaue, according to Fairweather. He said that one wall in the excavated area is in place. Plumbing pipes in the un excavated area have been in stalled and convenience tun nels are completed. When completed, Ihe hos pital will have 20,845 square feet of floor space. Appointments Few For Boodmobie Only 20 appointments have been received by the Red Cross for the Wednesday, Dec, 21, visit of the Bloodmobile to the local chapter house, 60 Hawthorne ave. The Bloodmobile will be here from 1 to 5 p.m. and 350 donors arc needed to ob tain the 290 pint quota. Ap pointments for the Wednes day visit are now peing ac- ceptcd by the Red Cross by 'telephoning SPring 3-3813. an estimated 70 persons. Wreckage of a streetcar and part of the plane can be seen in the above picture. (UPI Radiotelephoto) first U. S. commercial Jet dis aster involving passengers. All 84 persons on the je bound from Chicago, to- Idle wild, airport.' and all 44 per sons on the TWA plane, bound from Columbus and Dayton Ohio, to La Guardia airport, wore lost. Many, like Stevle Baltz, were en route to Christ mas celebrations. At least 12 persons, one a Christmas tree vendor, -were killed on the ground, and au thorities said more might be found when the remains of the huge DC-8, half as long as a football field, wore clear ed away. At least 12 more persons on the ground wers injured, two critically. ' Pictures' on Page 4D When the DC-8 screamed lo earth like a missile, the tail section ripped off, throw ing little Stephen, son of Wil liam S. Baltz, general counsel of the Admiral Corp., into the snow-coated street, i The boy was on fire, but the flames were beaten out by rescuers. Stephen fought for his life throughout the night despite burns over much of his body, scared lungs and a fractured leg. . ' The end came at 1 p.m., EST.. It was announced by Slovic's father, who thanked people across the nation and around the world for tele grams of good wishes and the hospital staff for their efforts to save his son. State Department Red Carpet ft . V 4 ; . ' New Order Issued To Halt Purchase 01 Foreign Goods Washineton-niPII - The de-1 tense department Saturday is-1 sued a new. buy American"! order , which will bring nearly $350 million annually mo total cxpecioa 10 De say in the current drive to trim uinnuijr . sHtuiuuiis ..uvciamsi.to make an emergency Iandine o,irl C0ri,iA rh flnw Fit rlnllnral 1 it.- mi .... P ine jaiesE. oraer pronioiisi is held. ' . . - purchase of foreign goods or services wnn L - ongress - appro pruveu euujioiiuu cuuujiiuiif, mi where U. S. prices or bids are more than 25 per cent above (hose of foreign firms. This is expected to save $65 million a year. An equal or larger amount may be saved by "buy American" , policies lready Instituted in overseas military stores where 'no ap propriated funds are used be cause the money is obtained from sales to scrvicomen. The slops are being taken to slow down the outflow of U.S. gold which has' been running at a rate of nearly $4 billion a year. Biggest Savings - Still bigger savings will come later from the fenta gon's "gold dollar widow" order, which - was- modified this week to reduce the hum ber of military wives and chil dren overseas to 265,000 from the present 484,000,' " -, That reduction will be ac complished in two years. It is expected to save $215 mil lion annually. On the average it costs $1,000 a year In gold to maintain a dependent over seas. Dolako, Ore. (UPD Conslan zo Blanco, 27, a Newport duck hunter, drowned Saturday in Devil's lake here. Plane Hits Atop Streetcar; All Passengers Dead 1 1 U.S. Students On Holiday Outing Munich, Germany - IUP1I - A U.S. Air Force plane taking American students on Christ mas vacations crashed in flames Saturday atop a crowd, ed streetcar, killing all 10 per sons aboard and an estimated 40 to 50 streetcar passengers and pedestrians. The twin-engined plane clip ped a church spire In thick fog, apparently while trying for an emergency landing shortly after takeoff for Eng land. Seven crewmen and 12 students, one of them the son of (he pilot, were killed. Mayor Hans Vogel reported 16 other persons on the ground were injured. The crash came one day af ter a plane collision over New York killed at least 140 per sons. Many of the circum stances were similar to Ilia New York crash - Christmas travel, foul weather, and fiery acntn raining from a leaden sky. More Killed on Ground It was the first time in his tory that a commercial plana wreck killed more persons on the ground than aboard tho plane and it pushed the year's , toll in air tragedies to mora than 1,200 Jdead. ' The pilot of the twin-engine C-131 Convair plane took off tolfrnm Muriirh -Tihoim 9irnnr arld radlnpri almost mm'i eo. My that he was in trouble. He appeared to have been trying , The plane was' fakfnr hi. - i dents from the University of Maryland overseas college at McGraw barracks to Northolt Alrport.JSngland, for the holi days. ' " Thousands Shopping In Martin Greif street, form ing part of the oblong square) outside St. Paul's Roman Catholic church, thousands of Bavarians shopped on "Gold en Saturday," the last Satur day before the Christmas holi days. Fog was so thick, motorists were groping through streets with headlights ablaze. At 2:05 p.m. (8:05 a.m. EST), residents of the city 40 per cent bombed out In World War II thought they had been bombed again. The olane snapped a cross from the spire of -St. Paul's and copper roofing hurtled through the . air. The main ' piece of wreck age smashed into the second section of a tandem streetcar. The car went up like a torch, and screaming men, women and children poured out, most of them to die in flames on the street. Almost all' aboard were killed. Front Not Touched The front section of tho trolley was not touched. Pedestrians waiting for a traffic light were wrapped in in sheets of flame. that killed them on the sopt. ' A passing auto was caught in the flames, and all in it died. At least two houses wera burned out. The streets were slippery with slush from a snow last week. In the fog the flames rose bright and eerie. The wreckage was so hot no one could go near it unlll tha flames subsided and the twist ed metal cooled. Badly mutilated bodies lay around the wreckage, those of pedestrians as well as of those who had been aboard the plane and the streetcar. Police estimated 10 to 15 of the victims were pedestrians, many of them carrying Christ mas packages. Medford Post Office Remains Open Today , The Medford post office will have one window open for business today from noon un til 5 o'clock, Post master Moore Hamilton, announced. Persons wishing to mail and pick up packages and general delivery mail, as well as pur chase stamps will be accommo dated, he said.