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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.