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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
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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.
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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
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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."
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RIBUNE
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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,
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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."