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DEAD IN mi fWfF! rmWWM iyjwij II W Project Over Atlantic Successful ft JT . il". CARRIER BLAZES Workmen look on as report that at least 20 persons were killed fire sweeps the aircraft carrier Constellation in the fire. (See story in column 9.) at trie Brooklyn Navy Yard today. Police (UPI Telepholo) Report Expected On Howard Prairie Area Operation A report on operational pro posals for the Howard Prairie reservoir area will be present ed the county court, saonj-ac fTV-iif- n.li' L: and Recreation Director. Rob ert Haworth. v. A discussion between Ha worth and the county court this morning indicated . the court is faced with these al ternatives: to spend tax mon ey for the operation of the reservoir recreation area, or finance it through fees charg ed users of the area. ' Robert Johnston, of John ston Stores, Medford, Howard Prairie concessionaire, has asked the commission to con sider three suggestions: no fees, with the county taking over maintenance of the area completely; some free services provided by the concessionaire with fees charged for other services; or a fee system to cover costs of operating the improved recreation area com pletely. Haworth said this morning that the commission seems to "lean toward" the partial fee plan. This would funnel recre ation traffic through the im proved area where recreation ists would be required to use fireplaces for cooking". This would tend to eliminate the fire hazard problem caused by "helter skelter" fires around the reservoir and most of the garbage collection problem. Johnston has asked the com mission to consider the possi bility of terminating his pres ent contract and putting the concession up for bid. He would then hope he could be the winning bidder and get the concession on a long term basis. His present contract ends Dec. 31, 1961. Haworth said . this morning that it would be difficult. to base next year's operation on the de mand for services last sum mer. "We expect a greatly ex panded use and may find next summer's operation to be en tirely different," he explained. Kennedy Opens Meetings On Legislative Program Palm Beach. Fla. - (UPn - President- elect John F. Ken nedy today opened confer ences with the Democratic leadership on the new admin istration's legislative program for Congress next year by meeting with1' Vice President elect Lyndon B. Johnson. Overnight Guests Johnson and his wife. Lady Bird, arrived from Aiiston, Tex., aboard their private Con vair. They motored to the Kennedy ocean-front villa, where they will be overnight guests. " '! House Speaker Sam Ray burn was flying - from Texas "aboard Kennedy's private Many - .. v . High Court Holds Witness Immunity In States Legal Washington -0IPII- The Su preme Court ruled today that a federal grand jury can promise a witness immunity from state as well as federal prosecution in order to get n ejected information abouj nar cotics violations. Minister's House Is Burglarized A large quantity of house hold items and Christmas presents wore taken during a burglary at the home of the Rev. Robert Edward - Cull, 1409 West Main St., sometime Sunday evening. While Mr. Cull, minister ot First Assembly of God church and his wife were away for the evening on church busi ness, someone 'went through the house, taking a television set, a movie camera, jewelry, and a large number of Christ mas presents. Investigating police said the burglars apparently en tered the home between 7 and 9 p.m. through an unlocked door leading from the garage to the house. Police are looking - for a 1955 or 1956 light blue Ford that was seen parked in front of the house during the time of the burglary. Police Chief Charles P. Champlin said this morning that he wants to emphasize to area residents the importance of keeping homes locked dur ing the holiday season. Be cause it is the Christmas sea son, and because nearly every home contains v a lu a b 1 e Christmas presents, there are more house burglaries during the holidays than at any other time during the year. ' In addition to keeping the homes locked, Champlin also pointed out the necessity of keping liomes lighted when the occupants are away. plane and due to arrive In the late afternoon. Sen. Mike Mansfield of Montana, Demo cratic whip of the Senate and expected to be the new ma jority leader, also was flying here today. Mansfield and Rayburn were to join the Kennedys and Johnsons for dinner to night. " ' . Begin Business Talks Kennedy had breakfast with Johnson and his wife, then the two men settled down to business. Press Secretary Pierre Salinger announced that the conferees and Kennedy would hold a joint press conference Tuesday Medford Stores Will ercury Test ' f A provision in the 1956 Narcotic Control Act permits .the Justice Department to get a court order requiring such testimony if it is thought necessary In the public inter est. In return, the witness sets a guarantee that what he says u,wiii not be used against him ' The argument- in today's case locused on whether' the guarantee applies to, state as well as federal courts. i The 7-2 decision held that it does and that the law is con stitutional. Thus the witness has no need for invoking his consti tutional privilege against self incrimination. In other actions today, the court: , -Agreed to hear arguments and decide Whether an inac curate Federal Housing Ad ministration appraisal gives a home buyer the right to sue the government. The case in volves an Alexandria, Va home owner who won an $8, 000 settlement in a lower court against the government. The Justice Department ap pealed the decision. Complaint Declined -Declined to hear argu ments on a complaint by the Westinghouse Broadcas ting Co. that the National Broad casting Company's plan to ac quire a Boston television sta tion would violate a consent judgment against NBC. , ; Bridge Gang Foreman Drowns Near Shedd Albany, Ore. - (IIPD - Tony Senger, about 45, foreman of a bridge gang for Spokane, Portland and Seattle Railway, fell from a bridge into Muddy creek near Shedd today and drowned, the sheriff's office reported. Senger lived at Harrisburg. Officers were searching for the body. Vandenberg AFB, Calif.-IUPD -Launch of a Discoverer XIX satellite equipped to help per fect detection of missile firing was canceled today because of technical difficulties. shopping days left USE CHRISTMAS SEALS FIGHT TB III! Forerunner of Manned Space Flight Fired Astronauts Watch Canaveral Shot Cape Canaveral, Fla.- (UPD The United States fired an empty Project Mercury cap sule 235 miles over the Atlan tic ocean in the first success ful test of plans to put a man into space early next year. The seven U.S. astronauts, bidding for the first man-into space assignment, watched the 83-foot combination of capsule, escape tower and Kedstone missile Dlast from a launching pad. The National Aeronautics and Space administration said the capsule floated by para chute into the ocean about 16 minutes after firing-a success that marked a milestone in the oft-delayed Mercury pro gram. Recovery ships sped toward the floating capsule within minutes. Scientists expected to re turn the capsule and its con tents to the cape and later to laboratories at Langley field, Va., for study. If Project Mercury, the na tion's top-priority $350 mil lion dream for manned con quest of space, can escape further serious delays, one of the , astronauts may ride into history books of the future by April on a similar suborbi tal" flight by the Redstone capsule machine. - This technically would be the Free World's first manned space shot. The "big one"- sending an astronaut into an earth 1 orbit - in a I capsule aboard an Atlas missile-is ex pected late next year. The pressure is on the Unit ed States. Russia already has orbited three unmanned mod els of a five-ton space cabin for its "cosmonauts." One was brought back to earth intact in August, giving rise to spec ulation that a Soviet manned flight might be "imminent." The one-ton capsule launch ed today had no living crea tures on board. But it carried some of the most complex in struments involved in any U.S. space shot, including a camera to view the cockpit panel by which an astronaut would "feel" his way through space. Bloodmobile Visit Set for Wednesday Jackson county residents have been encouraged to give "the gift of a life this Christ mas" by donating blood Wed nesday during the visit here of the Red Cross Bloodmobile. Red Cross officials empha sized the need for blood today by reminding residents that the area has only met 64 per cent of its quota during the last year. To obtain the 290 pint quota for the visit, 350 donors are needed, Mrs. J. W. Burba, blood donation chair man, said. Only 20 appoint ments have been made so far. She said that the Bloodmo bile will be at the Red Cross chapter house. 60 Hawthorne ave., Dec. 21 from 1 to 5 p.m. Since the visit is so close to the holidays, it will close at the earlier hour. Appointments for the visit may be made by telephoning! the Red Cross at SPring 3 3813. A number of service clubs and churches in the area are reported to be assisting with the drive to obtain blood do nors. TRAVELER TO SPEAK Ashland- Clarence Bell will tell of his travels through sev eral Far Eastern nations at the Tuesday noon luncheon of the Ashland Chamber of Com merce in the Mark Antony ho tel. Bell, former chamber president, returned from the Far East two weeks ago with his family. He will give his impressions of conditions ex isting in several of the coun tries he visited. His travels took him to seven Asian na tions, Hong Kong and the Philippines. A R6RAIFT Regional Edition Medford 22 Pages CABINET CHOICES Presi dent-elect John F. Kennedy is shown above with his 10 cab inet appointees. Kennedy com pleted his selections Saturday whqn he n&.ned James E. Day as Postmaster General. (UPI Telepholo) Superintendent To Report on Meeting Ashland - City Superinten dent Elmer Biegel will report on a recent meeting he had with Talent Irrigation district officials at the Ashland city council meeting Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. in the council cham bers. Bicgcl and irrigation dis trict officials discussed possi bilities of Ashland's purchas ing district water in future years. The council traffic commit tee will also report on the traffic light situation at the corner of Beach st. and Siski you blvd. near the Lincoln school. ' Eugene-(UPD-Oregon's new est television station, KEZI TV, was scheduled to begin broadcasting at 6:30 p.m. to day over Channel 9. WEATHER FORECAST: Partly cloudy to nlfht and Tuesday except valley foe forming tonight and dissi pating by noon. Low tonight 35. High Tuesday near SO. Temp. Highest Yesterady 5R Lowest This Morning 3 Preclp. to 10 a.m. Today 04 Our Skies Tonight 1 Sunset today 4:11 p.m. Snnrlse tomorrow 7:37 .m. Moonset tonight .......... 6:38 p.m. first Quarlcr Dec. 24 The planet, Saturn, teen right above the Moon tonight. Is now leaving the evening iky. When, It reappean as a morning Ktar In February, It will be very near Jupiter. $: i! -ii xm:: f i nlMli r f mK f DILLON b j MALL yi'i'mflu .J f IL1,ll,u,li,lgjZj,fl.f TREASURY f .NTCRJOff I KENNEDY 5? 4 GOLDBERG I 'LhftL-JLf XSfe? ll-rtdijLj COMMERCE- I ,f-V( m i -u.pftx I TfVHKALTM Remain Open MEDFORD, OREGON, MONDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1960 Presidential Electors To Officially Elect Kennedy Washington - IUPI) ,- Five hundred and thirty - seven presidential electors met in 50 stale capitals today to make official the election of John F. Kennedy as president of the United Slates. , The precise final count re mained in doubt up to the last minute because of a con fused situation in Hawaii and the tendency of an occasional elector to cast a "protest" bal- Salem-Wll - Oregon's six votes in ths electoral col lege went to Vice President Richard M. Nixon, defeated Republican candidate for president today. The law required the state's six electors ta vote for Nixon even though h lost nationally, because he carried Oregon in the No vember election. Oregon's votes were cast by Mrs. Stella Cutlip, Coos Bay: Herman Oliver, John Day; Mrs. Donald Richard son, Salem; Donald L. Stathos. Medford; Victor Wv Thomson, Hood River and Mrs. Frederick Y. Young, Portland. lot. But it appeared Kennedy would receive from 300 to 303 votes, and Vice President Richard M. Nixon from 219 to 222, depending on who gets Hawaii's three votes. Votes in Doubt In Hawaii, both Democratic and Republican electors cast ballots, pending a recount of the popular vote scheduled to Tribune be completed today. The stale's three electoral votes have been in doubt because of an extremely close race. A recount of some precincts switched the state from Nixon to , Kennedy Saturday by a margin of 21 ballots. In the Nov. 8 balloting, from which Kennedy emerged with a razor-thin popular vote margin over Nixon, the vot ers were actually choosing the 537 electors rather than voting directly for a presi dent. Each state is allotted a number of electors equal to the total of its senators and house members. Donald L. Stathos, Medford, Fire Department, Lady Lions Distribute Toys to Needy Jackson County Families Children in 200 needy fam ilies throughout Jackson coun ty will have a Christmas this year, thanks to the efforts of the Medford Fire department and the Medford Lady Lions. The Lady Lions during the week end distributed approxi mately 2,500 toys to 562 chil dren. Each child was given at least four toys, ranging from dolls to wagons. Most of the toys . were do nated by county residents, al though a few new ones were purchased by the. Lady Lions themselves. City firemen took charge of the second-hand toys, repaired a,nd painted them, and then' turned Ihcm over to the Lady Liohs for packaging and distribution. , Evenings This 55th Year Price 10 Cents 234 Meet elector and secretary of the Republican stale central com mittee, wrote President-Elect John F. Kennedy Saturday asking that he review the elec tor system for selecting the president and vice president of the United States. Stathos staled that the elec tor system, as it now exists, is understood by.oply a small fraction of Ihe voters, and that those who do have some knowledge of it, do not ap prove of the system. The local elector reported that he discussed the letter with the other five electors prior to mailing it. The project has been an an- nal one for the fire depart ment since 1926 and for the Lady Lions just a few years less. 'Both Fire Chief Cordon Barker and Mrs. Thelma Dziarmaga, co-chairman of the project for the Lions aux iliary, called this year's proj ect a "definite success." Mrs. Alan Jewett was the other project chairman for the Lady Lions. Including among the toys this year were 650 dolls. Each doll was outfitted In a, new set of clothes by the Lady Lions and several other serv ice clubs in the Medford area. Barker said firemen at the No. Dozens Believed Trapped Below Decks of Ship Firemen Cut Through Hull of Flat-Top New York -IUPI) A disastrous fire flashed out of control through the aircraft carrier Constellation today, trapping dozens of Brooklyn Navy Yard workers below decks and heavily damaging tho Navy's biggest and most ad vanced carrier. At least 20 workers wcra reported killed and 100 in jured. Firemen were cutting through the hull of the listing flat-top, a $275 million dollar ship, to reach trapped men tapping on the sides for help. The fire department report ed 61 men were missing. A ruptured can of inflam mable liquid and a welder's torch set off the blaze which exploded through the carrier t 7:30 a.m. (PST) while 3,000 workers were readying it for sea duty. , Men Below Decks Three hours later the fira burst out with new force, and the ship was listing four de grees to starboard. Firemen were still battling to reach an unknown number of men caught below decks in swirl ing smoke and flame. The Navy opened sea cocks on the left side in an effort lo save the ship from capsiz ing as the huge liner Nor- mandie did at another New York pier. in 1942. Fire Commissioner Edward J.1' Cavanagh laid he would order, firemen off the ship If, it listed to five degrees. Fire men were pouring just enough, water Into' the smoking flat top, to keep the fire from spreading.' , T Cavanagh called for mora fire equipment to fight the, 10 alarm blaze. " ;. J Port Tanks Flooded ' r. '- '.''' "It it lists one more degree I will have to-order the ship evacuated," Cavanagh said. But when the Navy flooded the port tanks of the vessel, the carrier eased back to ono degree list. Firemen said they could car trapped men knocking on the port side of the carrier. nolhcr group could be heard tapping on a bulkhead of tha ship. Cavanagh told reporters at the stene: "I fear there will ba quite a few casulatlcs." rhere is no way of de termining how many men are trapped," said Fire Chiet George David. "This is lika fighting a fire in a big city it so huge." Spark Started Fir A Navy spokesman said tha fire was started by a punc tured fuel drum which was ig nited by a spark or welder's torch. Flames spread lika lightning through the entire hangar deck of the carrier. Many of the workers leaped Into the freezing waters of the East river.- Others climbed over the sides of the ship and down ladders and ropes to waiting tugboats. Firemen were hampered in fighting fire by a dense snow storm which started not long after the fire broke out. Oil soaked and choking ship yard workers struggled to safety and told of hearing an explosion and seeing the tow ering flames shoot from the vessel moments later. central fire station repaired the toys and firemen at the two branch stations did tha painting. All of the city fire men assisted in the project, he said, doing the work in their spare time. Repair of the toys was completed Friday and they were turned over to the Lady Lions for packaging. Satur day and Sunday the women distributed the toys from the Mayflower warehouse, on North Fir st. , Mrs. Dziarmaga said no toys were distributed to teen-age children this year, which would account for a somewhat lesser demand for toys this year compared to last. Week
