Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, December 25, 1960, Image 1

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Newspaper Page TextRecommended 35th Chrlstmai today ,s , ,! P oy of the city of M.dford. J""")-?" clty Wit department in 1925, Duff has rlwn to the number one administrative po slllon In city hill. Read about 8A of today'i Mall Tribune. 40 PAGES Section A Charleston Cafe Explodes, Killing 3r Injuring 12 Waterfront Area . Shakes like Boat' Boston - IUPI) - The Charles- town waterfront was shaken like a big rocking boat" ear ly Saturday when two explo sions shattered part of a city block, killing three persons and injuring 12. Police and firefighters and volunteers from the nearby Boston naval shipyard found the body of a third blast cas ualty as they sifted through the great heaps of dusty rub ble at the blast site. Earlier, Louis Mortorano of the Jamaica plain section re ported to police that his' fa ther, John, 78, of Randolph the operator of a small shoe repair shop in the area, had not been seen since the blast. The father's shop was two doors down from the Diamond Nugget cafe, where the ex plosion occurred. Mortorano said that a relative had taken . the old man to work shortly before the blast. The missing man's four sons spent Christ mas eve working at the flood lighted blast site. Find Body Shortly before midnight, crews found a body in the wreckage but there was no immediate identification of the blast victim. Of those injured, four were in critical condition and an other, Vincent Faraci, 16, of Medford, Mass., was on the danger list at a Boston hos pital. A radio and television appeal for blood donors for the youth brought seme 200 volunteers, including Gov. Foster Furcolo. Young Faraci was one of three youths de livering oil in the area at the time of the blast. "If this had Happened an hour later we'd have had 200 dead instead of two," said a policeman at the scene. The thundering twin blasts, believed caused by an illumi nating gas leak, distroyed the newly reconstructed Diamond Nugget cafe and the adjacent Purity Ice Cream Cone Co. and shattered windows for 100 yards in all directions. A three alarm fire flared out of control for nearly three hours in the debris. The explosions came when the city square ire of Char lestown was nearly deserted. Only a handful of persons in cluding sailors from the near by Charlestown Navy yard and longshoremen were on the streets. An hour later un der ordinary circumstances on the day before Christmas, sev eral hundred persons would have occupied the buildings hit by the blasts. . Taylor Confined In County Jail John R. Taylor, 27, of Sa lem, was returned to Jackson county and booked in the county jail at 2:30 p.m. Sat urday. Taylor is scheduled to be arraigned in district court Tuesday on charges of assault with intent to kill and two counts of grand larceny in connection with automobile thefts. He is accused of shoot ing Oregon State policeman . Donald Cain In the leg Tues day evening near Ashland. State Police Sgt. Thomas Eaton and Officer Dean De Berry of the sheriff's depart ment returned Taylor" from the Wasco county jail at The Dalles. He was captured near Dufur Wednesday morning after an intensive manhunt. BLASTS SCHEDULED Seattle - UPB - Two or three test explosions are scheduled to be fired by Standard Oil Co. of California off Whidbey island about 50 miles north west of here next week as part of the firm's oil explora tion program in the area. WEATHER FORECAST: Valley fo thll morning clearing partially this afternoon. Variable Men cloud iness above IOJ. nun I w tnnlrht 30 to JZ. High Mon day 40. IllChest Yesterday Lowest This Mornlnt ... . . 27 Precip. to J P-tn. Yesterday 0. Our Skies Tonight Sunset today : P-m. Sunrise tomorrow 7:35 a.m. Moonset tomorrow 1:29 a.m. Full Moon ". 1 PROMINENT STAR Slrlus In south at moonset. VISIBLE PLANETS Venus. In the southwest , P-"- Mara. hlcn above Slrlui. Medford United Press International Full Leased Wira Oregon Educators Approach Flemming About School Post Washington - IUPD - Arthur S. Flemming, secretary of health, education and welfare, said last night he has been ap proached about accepting the presidency of the University of Oregon. Flemming emphasized the post had not been formally of fered to him. He said he had an "exploratory" talk on the Holmes Appoints Fox New Deputy District Attorney Robert D. Fox, Portland, has been appointed as one of the two new deputy district attorneys according to Alan B. Holmes, district attorney-elect. Holmes said he hopes to announce a second appoint ment in the near future. Fox was graduated fiom the ROBERT D. FOX Named Deputy DA University of Portland in 1951 with a bachelor of arts degree and from Willamette univer sity college of law in 1960. He is presently employed by the United States Postal depart ment. , The new deputy district at torney was born and raised in the Portland area; attended Portland grade and high schools and is unmarried. He expects to assume his duties Jan. 4 and 5 and is presently looking for a furnished apart ment, Holmes said. Those hav ing any information on this should call Alan Holmes, SPring 2-6221. Fox is also a captain in the Marine Corps reserve. During his law school years, Fox was business manager of the Wil lamette series of legal hand books, business manager of the Willamette law journal and was president of Phi Delta Phi legal fraternity. Hospital Releases Bernard Goldfine Washington - IUPII - Boston- millionaire Bernard Goldfine headed home for Christmas Saturday after being freed from St. Elizabeth's hospital where he had undergone men tal treatment for two months. The gift-giving friend of former Presidential Assistant Sherman Adams was released on orders of Federal Judge George L. Hart. Goldfine had been sent to the mental institution Oct. 18 when he was found incompe tent to stand trial for alleged tax evasion. The New England indus trialist left the hospital at 12:50 p.m. EST in a taxicab Hospital authorities would not permit newsmen to talk to him prior to his departure and the taxi sped from the hospital grounds without stop ping. Ores Start Moving To Idaho Mine Portland-WPD - More than $1.5-million worth of zinc and lead ores and concentrates be gan movement out of Port land Saturday, en route to Bunker Hill company smelters in Idaho. The 20,000-ton stockpile has been building up here since June, when a strike of min ing and metal workers closed the smelters down. The strike was settled this week. The ores, from Peru and Bolivia were unloaded from 11 ships since June. Shipping officials said it was the largest stock 4V J i if, s pile ever accumulated here. subject Wednesday night with a committee headed by John R. Richards, chancellor of the Oregon board of higher edu cation.' The cabinet officer, a for mer president of Ohio Wes- leyan university, said he has had "a number of contacts with representatives of other universities. "I have not made up my mind at all as to what I'm going to do," he said from his home in a telephone inter view. Flemming said he 'talked for about two hours with Richards and five or six other members of the committee. The meeting was held in a hotel in Chicago. Flemming was there to visit his depart ment regional office. Flemming said he tentative ly plans to visit the universi ty, at Eugene, Ore., before the end of the Eisenhower Admin istration, Jan. 20. Henry F. Cabell, president of the board of higher education, has said he hoped Flemming would make the visit. Flemming described Wed nesday's meeting as "an ini tial conversation between me and the committee. We are just getting acquainted." The University of Oregon has been Without a. presidenl since last summer, when Dr. O. Meredith Wilson resigned to become president of the University of Minnesota. Flemming, 55, holds a bachelor's degree from Ohio Wesleyan, where he was pres ident from 1948 to 1958. He also has a master's degree in international relations from American university and a bachelor of law degree from George Washington universi ty. Both are in Washington, D.C. Flemming took a leave from Ohio Wesleyan to head the U.S. Office of Defense Mo bilization from 1953 to 1957 He .returned to the Delaware, Ohio school briefly, then was appointed secretary of health, education and welfare in 1958 Woman Rescued From Rogue River Jewell Nadine Bicknell, 45, of Shady Cove, was pulled from her car early Saturday morning after it plunged into the Rogue river near McLeod bridge off Highway 62. State police said she missed a right curve in the heavy fog. Although the car landed on its wheels, water was up to the windows, rescuers said. Mrs. Bernard Wild heard the crash and called Richard East in and Wyles Berry. They in turn called Frank Dolenchek who launched his boat, and state police, with the help of Clarence Waglcr and his father, U. R. Wagler, pulled the woman out of the car. She was in a state of shock, rescuers reported. Clarence Wagler got into the car and assisted her out thrpugh the car window into the boat. - The accident occurred at 1 a.m. Saturday. The woman was lakenl to the Dolenchek residence to await the ambu lance. BODY RECOVERED Shcdd - OIPD - The body of Tony Senger, 49, drowned Monday, was recovered from Muddy creek four miles west of here Friday. Oregon 's a- w , v v x ( 3 :, KViW :C 'iv , X'iSt i' V?eU " . 1 NATIONAL CHRISTMAS TREE Oregon's gift to- the American people this season is a 75-foot Douglas Fir which stands on the Ellipse across from the White House. Presi- dent Eisenhower lighted the tree, decorated with 8,000 Christmas Truce Enables Pilgrims To See Holy Land Jerusalem - IUPII - Christmas came to the Holy Land today and thousands of pilgrims vis ited Bethlehem, the town where Christ was born. Pilgrims from a dozen na tions, many .helped by a Christmas truce in the Arab Israeli animosity that divides Palestine, streamed from Je rusalem last night to the scene of the nativity, The barriers were lifted on the borders that divide the Israeli and Jordanian sectors of Jerusalem. Hotels and private homes were jammed with travelers. More than 2,000 pilgrims were forced to remain in Lebanon because of the short age of accommodations in Jerusalem, Bethlehem, and neighboring towns. More than 5,000 American pilgrims were among the throngs of faithful visiting the holy places and treading the dusty roads of Jordan - vir tually unchanged from the time when Christ and his dis ciples walked them nearly 2,000 years ago. Travel between the Israeli and Jordanian sections of Je rusalem normally is banned. But for 48 hours each Christ mas the historic Mandelbaum gate is opened to permit pil grims to visit the sacred shrines on the Jordanian side. MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, Christmas Gift To Nation wwwwiaM'iyiWM9Plwift Separate Accidents Kill Three Members Of Oregon By United Press International Tragcdy struck twice Oregon Saturday 6 hours and 150 miles apart at mem bers of the same family speed ing gaily toward a Christmas rendezvous. Two separate accidents left two young children and their uncle-by-marriage dead. Nine others were injured, one seri ously. The two children were kill ed before dawn in a four-car pileup on icy, fog-shrouded Highway 30 north df Ontario. Much of Nation Has Snow for Christmas By United Press International A light snow gave promise of a while Christmas over a wide section of the nation, and a warming trend began to smash a record-breaking cold wave this Christmas eve. .Fresh snow fell from the upper, Mississippi valley through the Ohio-Tennessee valley regions into the Ap palachians Saturday, while a separate snow belt developed over the Columbia valley of the Pacific northwest. The weatherman, however, promised a good, old fashion ed Christmas, with occasional snow Sunday, from Minnesota through the great lakes and the Applachians into New England. But the most heartening forecast was the end of the bone-chilling siege of Arctic air. Pywood Industry Is Slow This Week Porlland-flJPD - The Douglas fir plywood industry will be operating at less than 40 per cent of capacity through the Christmas week, according to the editor of Market Trends, Plywood and Lumber Market letter. Editor Rock Bradshaw said the industry would average about 60 per cent of capacity for all of December. CLEARED OF MURDER Eugene - fflPIi - Donald Orrie Northey, 35, a migrant agri cultural worker who was a chief suspect in the Aug. 29 slaying of seven-year-old Alice Louise Lee of Dexter, has been cleared, i DECEMBER 25, 1960 lights, at ceremonies Friday.. The tree will remain lighted throughout the Christinas season. Statues of the Three Wise Men, part of the Manger Scene, can be seen in the foreground, their heads bowed in homage.- (UP1 Tolephoto) Family Dead were Bert Leroy Chaf- fin Jr., 8, and his six-inonth- old sister, Edith Emahne, both of St. Helens, i Parents Hospitalized Their parents, Bert, 34, and Laura, 28, and a brother and sister were hospitlized, along with five other persons in the four cars. Mrs! Chaffin was in serious condition; Six hours later Tony Ray Jensen, Clackamas, died when the car in which he was riding slid off the road at an icy spot and flipped over on High way 20 west of Pendleton. Jensen was the uncle-by-marriage of the Chaffin chil dren. He had been looking forward to a holiday reunion with the Chaffins in Ontario when he heard of the earlier accident. Riding in the car with Jen sen was Mrs. Edith Humble, St. Helens, grandmother of the two children, and Jensen's mother-in-law. She was not seriously injured. Santa Claus Given Pentagon Clearance Washington - IUPI) - The Pentagon Saturday cleared Santa Claus for a ilight from the north pole ,lo everywhere. It sent this message to all defense tracking stations: "U n i d i n 1 1 f ied polar launching alert. "All SPASUR (space sur veillance detection net) per sonnel are to be alert for possible polar launch to pan SPASUR fence at 2400 Greenwich mean lime 24 Dec, 1960, launch aiimuth unknown, ai object may be directed to as to cover any portion of world during day of 25 Dec. "Object may appear on AGC (scope) as eight small objects followed by larger payload. Larger object may make intermittent payload ejections into earth almoi phere as it passei over U.S. Fragments may itrika homes. Parents are caution ed to keep contents out of hands of children until after 0000 GMT. "Objects may be poiilive ly identified by red glow emitted by leading object's nose cone tip. Satellite cap sule may be manned. Occu pant friendly. Ii believed voice trammission will bt made and may resemble oundi Merry Chriitmai to ill." .1 RIBUNE ntted Press International Full Leased 'yix Kennedy Family Sais Holiday By Trimming Tree Palm Beach, Fla. - 0IPII - President-elect John F. Ken nedy and his family began their Christmas celebration last night by trimming a 14- foot high Christmas tree and topping it with a Santa Claus that lights up. Prompted by three-year-old Caroline Kennedy who was permitted to stay up later than usual on Christmas Eve, the tree decorating was direct ed by Mrs. Joseph P. Ken nedy, the child s grandmother. Gathered round the ceiling high tree in the living room were the President-elect, his wife Jacqueline, his mother and father and his cousin, Anne Gargan of Boston. Divide! Attention Scampering Caroline, the most excited of the family group, divided her attention between the tree and the sev en stockings hanging from the mantle. She fully expect ed to see Santa Claus come down the chimney with his pack at any moment. The handmade stockings had names embroidered on them. The mantle Is decorated with silver and gold angels with a background of Christ mas greenery and holly. At the entrance of the Ken nedy villa on the Atlantic ocean, there Is a white Santa Claus, two feet higher. The main entranceway also was lined with tall red poinsettla plants. , The centerpiece for the Christmas dinner-- roast tur key, bread dressing and all the trimmings-will be a San ta Claus riding in a sleigh pulled by two reindeer. The silver candle sticks on the table will hold red candles. Police Recover Body From Umpqua River Roseburg - IUPII - The body of Riley J. Norris, 64, Jack sonville, whose pickup truck plunged into the North Ump qua river near here Nov. 19, was recovered Saturday. A fisherman, Bernard Rog ers of Roseburg, found the body at a point 20 miles below where the accident occurred. The truck entered the river 30 miles east of Roseburg. State police had been ham pered In the search for the body by high and swift waters. The body was taken to the Douglas county cor- I oner's office at Roseburg. Christmas Comes To Upset World War Threatened in Many Countries; Holiday Spending Greatest in Years By United Press International The world's billion Chris tians celebrate Christmas this ear with prayers of thanks giving and the biggest burst of holiday spending since the roaring twenties. It was a typical Christmas the United States from snow-blanketed New England to Sunny Honolulu where bright poinsotlns help Amer icans celebrate the birth of Christ. It was a prosperous one in Japan and in western Europe where nightclubs were book ed solid days in advance in the biggest, gayest and most expensive Christmas in his tory. The Christmas really began in mid-Pacific at the inlema tional dateline at 7 a.m. (EST) and as the world spun on its Disarmament Post Given to Nitze Palm Beach, Fla. - (UPD - President-elect John F. Ken nedy Saturday gave a key dis- rmament post in the new ad ministration to Paul Nitze, a New York investment man turned foreign affairs expert on everything from strategic bombing to economics. Nitze, 53 and a 1928 honors graduate of Harvard, was named assistant secretary of defense for international af fairs. Kennedy and Defense Secretary-designate Robert S. MacNamara agreed that Nit ze's post would have "broad ened scope and influence. An announcement in Ken nedy's behalf said the presi dent-elect "wanted the gov ernment to do considerably more in the field of disarma ment and Mr. Nitze would play a key role in the, devel opment of new disarmament plans." Stresses Importance Kennedy, himself, said, "I cannot too strongly stress the importance of the post which Mr. Nitze has accepted. Nitze will have the respon sibility for defense depart ment relations with the na tional security council and its adjunct, the operations coor dinating board: the direction of military assistance pro grams; liaison with the state department and disarmament work on behalf of the defense department. Pof'ce Find Body In Portland Fire Portland - IUPI) - County po lice found the remains of a human body while sifting through the remains of a house fire here Saturday. Officials said identification was impossible Immediately, but the owner of the destroy ed seven-room house, Loren Smith, 50, indicated the re mains may be those of his housekeeper. POPE JOHN HEARTENED Vatican City - IUPI) - Pope John XXIII said today he was heartened by the reception of his Christmas message al though he noted there is still much suffering and disaster in the world. Nation's Holiday Traffic Death Toll Climbs to 177 By United Press International Traffic deaths provided a somber note for the Christmas holiday and even President Ei senhower appealed to the na tion's motorists to demon strate highway courtesy. The presidential appeal was made during the crush of trav el Christmas eve as millions of Americans headed home for the holiday. Airlines, bus lines and railroads -cported heavy traffic. But the gaiety and joy of the yuletlde season was spoil ed on the nation's highways with report alter report of fatal auto accidents. A United Press Internation al count at 12:50 a.m. EST Sunday showed 177 traffic deaths and 50 deaths in other accidents during the first 30 hours of the 78-hour Christ mas week end. The breakdown: Traffic : 177 Fire 18 Miscellaneous 32 New York state's toll was 14 dead in traffic. California, t Subscribers To report improper or non delivery of the Wail Tribune in Medford phone SP 2-6141. in Ashland ML) 2-1021. and in Yreka, VI 2-2807, beiore 6:45 pjii. dally and 10:30 a m Sunday If regular delivery arrives shortly after you. call please notify office thus eliminatlnj tpecial messenger service No. 239 axis Christmas eve gave way to Christmas day throughout the world. Troubled World It was a troubled world. The threat of a Korean-typa war hung over Laos and Com munist China was making om inous threats and accusations. The Congo was still in a turmoil. Refugee B a I u b a Tribsemen driven from their homes by stronger and mora fierce Luluas were reported starving at the rate of 200 a day. In Ethiopia where Emperor Haile Selassie has just put down a rebellion against his 30-year regime, armed patrols moved through the streets in search of the ringleaders who led the abortive uprising. There was trouble in Al geria. Moslem mobs surged through the streets of Oran waving knives, hatchets and rebel flags. In troubled Franca the people tried to forget with an orgy of parties seldom, seen since World War II. . Threat of War The threat of war hung over the Holy Land where Chris tian pilgrims from Israel wero allowed to cross into Jordan for the annual pilgrimage to Bethlehem, the little town where Christ was born. President Gamal Abdel Nasser took note of reports Israel might be building an atomic bomb and said this meant war if it were true. In Rome, where Pope John XXIII broadcast a message of peace and good will to man kind, there were midnight masses. And in Moscow, too. and in other countries behind the Iron curtain. It was a black Christmas for Beugum, crippled by a general strike with Christ mas mail piled up undeliver ed. It would have been black; in Vienna, too, but 4,000 bak ers halted a strike to baka bread for Christmas dinner. Ate Tree Lights In Bristol, England, it was a diet of cotton wool for two- year-old twins Anne and Julie Meaden who became so entranced with the Christmas tree lights they unscrewed and ate them. There was trouble in like- ton, England, too, where 73 knitters at a hosiery factory went on strike because two of their co-workers were sus pended for kissing a girl un der some mistletoe , in the plant. In Cuba, which announced the first Soviet tourists would be arriving next week, Ha vana residents were treated to the sight of Fidel' Castro and two of his lieutenants, Erne sto (Che) Guevara and Gue vara and Negro Maj. Juan Al media as the three wise men. in ; painting of the Magi. ' Americans went home for Christmas. Airports were crowded, trains and buses were jammed and highways were clogged and the nation- safety council predicted 510 of them would die in auto crashes by the time the holi day week end ends. PHILANTHROPIST DIES El Dorado, Ark. - IUPD - Col. T. H. Barton, 79, multimillion aire philanthropist and Ar kansas oil pioneer, died today of a heart attack at his homo here. Georgia and North Carolina each recorded 13 dead, fol lowed by Texas with 12; Mich igan, 11; Florida, 10, and Il linois and South Carolina, each 8. In his appeal, President El senhower asked motorists to exercise caution in helping reduce the traffic toll. He said that "thoughtfulncss, patience and respect" for traffic laws would "go a long way" toward saving lives and prevent ac cidents. "The holiday toll is running . . . gratifyingly below last year's toll at this time," said Howard Pyle, president of the National Safety council. "To that extent, drivers, pedestrians and traffic en forcement officials deserve to be congratulated. The long . week end is just beginning. We have it in our power to make this a safer and happier ' Christmas week end by exer cising extreme care and cour tesy to meet the heavy traffic and added danger."