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mounted RIOT IN BRUSSELS Angry rioters throw rocks at the windows of a bank in Brussels that has not closed down in the Brussels strike. An estimated 15,000 strikers surged through downtown Brussels for two hours in an orgy of Taylor Appears In Court; Judge Appoints Lawyer Edward Branchfield, Med ford lawyer, was appointed to represent John R. Taylor, 27, Salem, who is .charged in Jackson county circuit court with assault with .intent to kill and two counts of grand larceny in connection with au tomobile thefts. Taylor, who wasarraigned in district court Tuesday and bound over to the grand jury, appeared in circuit-court yes terday afternoon. He had pre viously indicated to District Attorney Thomas J. Reeder that he would waive the right to a grand jury hearing and enter ' a plea on district at torney's information. ... He is scheduled to appear before Judge James M. Main at 2 p.m. Friday. ... . Taylor said he would waive the right to an attorney and wanted "to get it over with." Judge Main said that because of the seriousness on one of the charges, he thought it his duty to appoint an attorney to consult with Taylor before he waived any of his rights. The maximum penalty upon conviction of assault with in tent to kill is life imprison ment, Judge Main noted. Taylor is charged with fir ing three bullets into the leg of State Policeman Donald Cain the evening of Dec. 20 when Cain stopped to question a hitchhiker at the intersec tions of Highways 99 and 66 south of Ashland. He also is charged with taking two automobiles to escape to Dufur, near The Dalles, where he was captured the next morning. Reeder pointed out that fol lowing an arraignment in dis trict court, the accused person is automatically held for the grand jury. The accused may waive a grand jury hearing if he so desires, Reeder added. Kennedy Meets With Fulbright : Palm Beach, Fla. - (UPD President-elect John F. Ken nedy canvassed a broad range of domestic and international problems today with Sen. J. William Fulbright (D-Ark.) as the Kennedy staff planned a temporary shift of headquar ters from Palm Beach to New York. Fulbright, chairman of the powerful Senate foreign rela tions committee, arrived Wed nesday night. Kennedy met him at the plane and escorted him to the seaside villa where Fulbright spent the night. Their talks resumed this morning. After lunch the two Democratic leaders planned to play golf at the exclusive Seminole club. Century's Worst Drought Reported in Tokyo - (UPD. - Communist China's Yellow river dried up for 40 days this year during "the worst natural calamity In a century," Radio Peiping said today. The New China news agency, the Communist radio said, reported the "peoples communes" have launched a desperate drive to sow win ter vegetables and fast grow ing crops in Shuntung Prov ince ih an effort to prevent a famine. - "The river could be forded on foot," Radio Peiping said In a broadcast monitored here. . r-ir- . ' 'H-, St ' J Stewart Ave. Will Be Closed Jan. 3 For Culvert Work Stewart ave. between Holly st. and Oakdale ave. will be closed to through traffic be ginning Jan. 3, County Engi neer Robert Carstensen re minded residents today. The closure, which will con tinue for about four months, is to allow construction of a reinforced concrete storm drain to cover the open ditch on the south side of Stewart ave. Carstensen said that by closing the street, working lime may be reduced by about one-third. The project will be 1,820 feet in length. It is part of a project estimated to cost Girl Apprehended For Shoplifting A 14-year-old Eagle Point girl, who said she wanted some Christmas presents, was taken into protective custody by Medford police Wednesday on a charge of shoplifting.' The girl had been appre hended by an employee of a local variety store where she allegedly took several items without paying for them. The employee said she refused to turn the items over to him, so he called police. On questioning the girl told police that she did not receive any Christmas presents and she wanted to get some pres ents for herself and her sis ters. Police said she had taken two pairs of stockings, four necklaces and an identifica tion bracelet. None of the items were valued at more than $1. Police Investigate Station Burglary Medford city police today are investigating a burglary last night at the Rogue Serv ice Garage, 609 West McAn Andrews rd. Approximately $40 in cash was taken. Police said the burglary oc curred between 7:30 p.m. and 8:35 p.m. It was discovered by an agent from a private detective agency who noticed that the rear door of the build ing had been broken open. The money was taken from an open cash register. The owner of the garage, Jack Rey Sides, told police he is in the habit of leaving the cash regis ter open so that if the garage is burglarized, the cash regis ter will not be damaged. He added that last n'ght was the first time he has ever left money in the register over night. Red China There was virtually no flow of water in the lower stream of the Yellow river at Tsinan." Tsinan is the major city just above the river's delta. It is below the Grand Canal which links Peiping and Shanghai. The report minimized re ports of human suffering but the broadcast lent support to other reports which told of long food lines and mass starv ation on the Chinese main land. The New China agency said 150 million acres, half the cultivated farm land on the China mainland, had been af fected by drought and flood. if tn window-smashing and attacks on buses and street cars. The rioting was broken up when a squadron or mounted police drew their sabres and advanced on the rioters who fled, (UPI Radiotelephoto) 5147,110. Part of this, $27,000, was paid last year by the City of Medford for part of the work done within the city. Detour Routes t Detour routes that may be used to by-pass this portion of Stewart ave. are on Holly st., Holmes ave. and Oakdale ave. or by taking O'Gara st. from Holly st. to Whitman ave. The engineer said that Stewart ave. would be open for traffic from Whitman ave. for west bound traffic. Residences fronting along the portion of Stewart ave. that will be closed 0ill be al lowed ample . access to and from their properties, it was reported. The storm drain, to measure 3V4 by 8 feet, when completed will be similar to construction completed earlier east of Holly st. on Stewart ave. Khrushchev Cites Important Issues London-IUPD-Soviet Premier Nikila . Khrushchev . regards Berlin and disarmament as the two most important issues to be settled between the Western and Communist worlds after the inauguration of President-elect John F. Kennedy Jan. 20. Authoritative diplomatic sources said today Khrush chev's policy line emerged during an 80-minute talk he had earlier this week with Britain's new envoy to Mos cow, Sir Frank Roberts. The Soviet leader gave no hint of any change in Rus sia's previously stated posi tions on the Berlin and dis armament issues. He simply indicated that they are at the top of the Kremlin's list for settlement. In his "friendly but firm" talk Krushchev made it clear that he wants the Berlin ques tion settled in 1961. The Dalles Strikes Blow at Dancing The Dalles-tlM - The City Council of this Columbia river town met in special session Wednesday and struck a blow for enlightened government. The session resulted when a would-be promoter of a Now Year's eve public dance in quired at city hall if he need ed a city license. A check of ordinances re vealed that not only was a license required but that: . . . Public dances must end at 12 midnight. ... No persons under 18 could attend without being ac companied by a parent or guardian. ... No "shimmy or other vulgar and objectionable danc ing is allowed and dancing areas must be illuminated so that no shadow dancing or moonlight dancing may take place." Research disclosed the Vic torian ordinance was enacted in 1921. Columbia Salmon To Be Talk Topic Salem - (UPD - Gov. Mark Hatfield said today depleting runs of salmon in the Colum bia river call for "immediate and drastic action" and Invit ed Govs. Albert D. Rosollini of Washington and Robert E. Smylie of Idaho to meet with him next, month to discuss the problem. Alpine Village, Resort Motel, Is Planned in City Plans for the Alpine vil age, a proposed resort motel and shopping area, were an nounced today by Developers Inc., Eugene. It will be located near the corner of Jackson st. and North Central ave. Wayne L. Johnson, presi dent, said the village, to en compass an area of approxi mately one city block, will feature a 65-unit motel with space for an additional 40 units, a chuck-wagon style restaurant seating more than 230, a pizza parlor, a service station, and rental locations ior a beauty parlor, barber shop, florist and gift shop, and a drug store. Tenants in the shopping area will be announced next month by Developers, Inc., and construction bids will be accepted in March. Property for the unit was purchased at a cost of more than $200,000, it was reported, and comple tion dale is set for June 1, 1961. Wood will be used both for effect and for construction ad vantages. The style will trend toward a "chateau" appear ance, and a shake-roof style will be used. The construction firm also plans a swimming pool and a "pitch-and-putt" golf course. Jordan Sentences 11 Men To Death Amman, Jordan - (UPD -Eleven men, including two Syrian officials, were sen tenced to death today for plot ting the time-bombing of Jor dan's prime ministry last Aug. 29. ; Five other men were acquit ted by the Slate Security Court hearing evidence about the bombing which killed Prime Minister Hazza Majali and 11 other persons. Four of those convicted are in custody here. The other seven, including the two Syr ian officials, were sentenced in absentia. HIGHWAY TO OPEN Salem - (UPD - State High way Engineer W. C. Williams announced today that the 17 milc section of U. S. Highway 101 from Davis Slough to Bandon will open at 11 a.m. Friday. Regional Edition Medford 28 Pages Explosions Rake Petroleum Plant In New Jersey 300 Persons Forced To Evacuate Homes Bayonne, N.J.-WPD-A scries of explosions raged through a petroleum company in this major U.S. oil distribution center Wednesday night and early today, injuring at least eight persons and forcing 300 from their homes. Police and fire officials said the blaze at the Sun Gas Products Co. apparently start ed when an empty dump truck backed into a four-foot-high propane gas cylinder. The cylinder burst afire and touch ed off a series of eight ex plosions. Flames Light Sky The truck theory grimly paralleled a viewpoint that the costly fire aboard the air craft carrier Constellation last week at the Brooklyn Navy Yard was started when a fork lift struck a lank of diescl oil. Flames from the explosions climbed 500 to 1,000 feet into the night sky, and cast an orange glow on the Statue of Liberty, about three miles away in New York Bay. About 1,000 firemcnt, dis aster and rescue workers were sent to fight the blaze, which destroyed the plant as well as 150 to 200 four-foot-high propane cylinders. The ' fire was declared under control about two hours after the first explosion, but burned for several more hours. . Return to Homes The 300 persons who fled their nearby homes were al lowed to return early today, but officials planned to in spect every building to make sure none was in danger of collapsing. They said most of the damage appeared to be glass breakage. Stanley Buchalski, plant manager, of Chester. N.Y., was critically burned when flames consumed the one-story office building where he had been resting when the blaze started. The other injured were all in good or satisfactory condi tion. Windows were shattered in an area of about 12 blocks around the explosion site. (Sea Picture on Pag 2) WEATHER FORECAST: Fair through Fri day except smoke and somr fof in valleys. Low tonight 25. High Friday 55. Temp. Highrst Yesterday 45 Lowest This Morning 17, Prec, to 10 a.m. Today, Trace. Our Skies Tonight Sunset today 4:17 p.m. Sunrise tomorrow .. 7:41 a.m. Moonset tomorrow .... 5:28 a.m. Full Moon Jan. 1 Tonight the Moon again pastes In front of Aldeharan. hrijrht cst star of the ronstellallon, Taurus. The orcultation will he complete here at 11:00 p.m. Congo iassacre R MEDFORD, OREGON, FfciGW, Russian Planes Said Ferrying Troops in Laos Vientiane, Laos-IUPll-Sovict-built planes ferried in Com munist Vietnamese troop rein forcements to the Vang Vieng mountain stronghold of left ist paratroop Capt. Kong Le in addition to airdropping military supplies to the rebels, according to reports here today. A Laotian member of a Western embassy staff who escaped from Vang Vieng said he saw "more than 100" Com munist North Vietnamese troops there. It was over Vang Vieng that a U.S. Embassy plane was machine-gunned Tuesday while watching a Soviet Ilyushin -14 transport drop supplies to the Communist forces. Embassy sources said the Russian plane opened fire from a window with a ma chine gun and raked the U.S. C47 with bullets. Soviet Pilots Assumed State Department Press Of ficer Lincoln White said in Washington Wednesday that it was not known "positively whether the fire came from the Soviet plane or from the jungles below. He said the State Department assumed such planes are flown by Rus sians and that the United States would protest to the Soviet government if it is established that the gunfire did come from the plane. A ranking American offi cial here said that the crew men of the U.S. plane felt sure the bullets came from the Russian plane. "I don't think there is much doubt in the minds of the crewmen that the shots came from the Ilyushin, he said. It was learned by United Press International that aerial photographs and reports of the crewmen were being sift ed by intelligence experts from the 13th Air Force to establish definitely the source of the shots. Reeder To Open Law Practice Here District Attorney Thomas J. Reeder said today he will open an office for private law practice next week in the Fluhrer building. Reeder, who has been dis trict attorney for the last four years, will leave office Jan 2. District Attorney-elect Alan B. Holmes will assume his du tics Jan. 3. Prior to becoming district attorney nerc, Reeder was in private practice here for short time after serving deputy district atlorney for about six months in 1954. He was also assistant attorney general with the state high way aepartment in Salem for about 3'i years. Reeder is a graduate of the University of Oklahoma law school and lives with his wife Mary, at 41 Eastwood dr. Berlin Blockade Avoided by Pad Berlin -lUPli- East and West Germany agreed today to continue trade next year, avoiding a possible Commu nist blockade of isolated West Berlin and a new internation al crisis. A West German press office announcement said East and West German experts agreed at their ninth meeting today that trade relations would continue on the basis of an agreement which the West German government canceled in September. The West German govern ment thus effectively with drew its cancellation of the old agreement Just two days before a Communist deadline for a settlement of the trade issue or rcimposilion of a probable new Berlin blockade. Tribune DfiCfiMWIF 37 1960 RAPS LAOS AID Sen. Mike Mansfield (D-Mont.) above, charged Wednesday United States has that the litle to show fon its vast aid to Laos except ,!'c h a o s, discontent armies on the loose and : large U.S. mission of hundreds of officials in Vientiane." (UPI Telepholo) Officers Recover Stolen Articles Medford city police and Jackson county sheriff's dep uties yesterday recovered a large number of stolen items of clothing and car accessor ies from two youths who had earlier been arrested for steal ing Cadillac taillight assem blies. The boys told police they had been stealing the items from a number of local stores over a period of six months. Included In the stolen goods were 26 records, three wheels, 14 hubcaps and several sweat ers and hats. The two youths, ages 17 and 15, were members of a gang of five that were arrested by sheriff s deputies last week afler they admitted to steal ing more than 15 pairs of 1950 Cadillac taillight assem blies. The taillights are ap parently desired by young hot-rodders ' for use in cus tom cars. The gang had been operat ing in Medford, Ashland and Grants Pass. All five of the boys, ranging in age from 15 to 17, were from Medford. A sixth member of the gang has already been sent to McLaren School for Boys in Woodburn on another charge. Police said the boys were so skilled at taking the tail- lights that they once removed a set from a car while the car was stopped waiting for a red light to turn green. Explorer VIII Stops Transmitting Washington -(UPD- Explorer VIII, the Ionosphere satellite launched Nov. 3, has stopped transmitting. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration said the last radio signal from the 90-pound satellite was receiv ed by the Quito, Ecuador, ground station at 7:20 a.m Dec. 27. Throughout the previous week its battery powered transmitter had been working erratically. Before launch, a useful lifetime of two or three months was predicted for Ex plorer VIII. It turned out to be one month and 24 days. The satellite travelled 20,- 868,707 miles in the 694.3 orbits it made before its radio went dead. It had transmitted for a total of 1,302.8 hours and filled 700 miles of mag nctic tape with information which is now being studied. If. ft ''v-'! lA feiiftsSii IffctjWCT bftKt&$ 55th Year Price 10 Cents No. 244 eoorts Balubas Said To Have Abducted Train Passengers UN Spokesman Doubts Stories Lcopoldville -IUPU- United Nations officials loday vestigated reports that passes gers on a train attacked m Katanga Province Wednesday were massacred after they were abducted by raiding Baluba tribesmen from Kasai Province. A U.N. spokesman said he doubted the reports. Authorities in Katanga had expressed fears for the lives of some passengers who they said had been kidnaped by the raiders. Contradictiont A U.N. spokesman said some reports had apparent contradictions in them. For example, he said, the U.N. troops guarding the train were Irish and Moroccan and not Swedish as had been re ported. He said the train was carry- ing about 100 African school children from Elisabethville to northwestern Katanga for the holidays. The spokesman said reports that the train left Elisabethville with 400 people and arrived at Kamina with only 30 survivors were "wild ly exaggerated First reports of the inci dent said the train was raided three times by the Kasai Balubas-eneinies of the Balu bas aboard the train who sup port Katanga Premier Moise Tshombe - and that 20 of the African passengers had been killed. UN Report Lacking The spokesman said the United Nations here had no reports of its own on what had happened on the train in the 30-mile stretch between Elisabethville and Buknma because the U.N. guard had been replaced between these points. The U.N. escort troops re ported that passengers were shouted at by Kasai Balubas during the time they were aboard the train but that no attempt was made to molest the passengers, the U.N. spokesman said. He said Irish Col. Harry Byrne, U.N. commander- for the southern Congo, had gone to the area to investigate. FIRE AT NEWBERG Newberg, Ore.-tUPD-Keizcr's shoe store and Hamncr's drug store were destroyed by fire here early today and firemen estimated loss at $40,000. ion Bulletin Pacific Power and Light company has offered to buy the California Oregon Power company, and the offer has been tentatively accepted, it was learned today. Officials of the two companies would neither confirm nor deny the report today. Copco's board of directors heard the offer at a meeting last week, and accepted on behalf of the stockholders of the Oregon and California elec tric utility firm. The action will require a vote of stockholders, and is subject to approval by various regulatory bodies. Details of the transaction were not immediate ly made known, but one source indicated that the PPL offer was "too good to turn down," and that the directors had no other choice if they were to be honest with the stockholders. It was indicated that , the transaction will in volve exchanges of stock shares in PPL for shares in Copco. It is reported that the sale will have no Imme diate effect on local operations of Copco, which serves a seven-county area in southern Oregon and northern California, with headquarters in Medford. Announcement of the sale was scheduled for Friday, but it was discussed in public by those who knew of it, and was learned by newspaper and radio reporters in Portland, and the story was car ried by one of the wire services. Reports of the impending sale were first mads more than a month ago. King Baudouin Flying Home To Tackle Crisis Weapons Drawn On Demonstrators Brussels. Beleium - (UPI) Mounted gendarmes with drawn sabers scattered rock" throwing rioters today as King Baudouin Hew home to crisis-racked Belgium. The gendarmes intervened after 15,000 strikers surged through Brussels for two hours in an orgy of window smashing and rock-throwing. during which they overturned postal truck and wrecked and tried to set fire to a bus. At the same time, about another 100 gendarmes on foot advanced with rifles at the ready. It was the first time secur ity forces had intervened against rioters in two days of antigovernment demon s t r a tions. Rioters Tak Flight But the gendarmes did not have to use their weapons be cause the rioters broke and fled just as the police charged. In clashes in other parts of the country, gendarmes have iscd rifle butts and tear gas bombs to break up crowds of demonstrators. In Ghent, where sporadio day-long rioting erupted Wed nesday, strikers tore up street car tracks and poured cement into switches. One man was caught in the act and arrested. In nearby Bruges, gen darmes dispersed several hun dred strike pickets at the gates to a glass factory after sharp fighting. Strikers called for a protest demonstration in Bruges Saturday. Government Stands Firm The .demonstrations were called by defiant Socialist union , leaders who are de manding, that the government of Premier Gaston Eyskens withdraw an "austerity" bill from parliament which would generaly tighten up the coun try s economic situation. The Socialists ' fear the move would wreck many of the im portant social gains made over the years. But the government has rejected the Socialist de mand on the grounds that it must pull in its belt and live within a smaller income limit; due to Belgium's billion-dol lar losses in the Congo. . Socialist Party President Leo Collard declared that the nation-wide strike movement will continue until the gov ernment withdraws its aus terity bill. He said there will be no truce during the New Year week end. , Baudouin' decision to fly back with Queen Fabiola, his bride of less than two weeks, heightened the tension that has gripped the nation during 10 days of strikes. GE Tells of Western Expansion Program San Franclsco-IUPD-General Electr(c Co. today announced ! thct it would spend more than $9 million for new plants and equipment and employ 1,000 more persons during the com ing year in the 10 western states. CARSTENSEN APPOINTED County Engineer Robert J. Carstensen was appointed to that position for another two years by the county court Wednesday.
