Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, January 02, 1961, Image 1

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Newspaper Page TextI ii IP II ! M m I. Ill ll i-rwyi ! 'Jin :rxji V.A Eisenhower. S s tao BSCUS CHILDREN ENTERTAINED Medford high school drum majorette Mary Milne, right, talks to a patient at the Shrine Hospital for Crippled Children at San oFrancisco during a performance by the band at the hospital Saturday. Theme for the annual skit by the band was "March of the Toys" and Miss Milne is dressed as a marionette. The band later per formed at the East-West Shrine football game in Kezar Sta dium in San Francisco. (UPD Telephoto) City of Burbank Orchid Flont Wins Top Pasadena Award Pasadena, Calif. - (UPD - The city of Burbank with its theme of "orchids in the moonlight" won the sweep slakes award today for the most beautiful entry in the 72nd Tournament of Roses. The sweepstakes award was announced as the flower drenched floats moved majes tically toward the parade route in clear crisp weather to be seen byDmore than a million viewers. Moonbeams? Featured Burbank's entry featured moonbeams made up of more than 4O5OOO orchids in addi tion to 100,000 chrysanthe mums and other flowers, with three beauties riding the 50 foot float. D "The green-eyed dragon" entred by Helms Bakers was awarded the grand prize. Its spectacular beauty showed a fire-bellowing monster in gorgeous orchids, chrysantho muius and poinsettias. 0 The theme prize was award ed to Americar? Legion Post 707 for "Sweet Leilani." T?he float salutes the 50th stijie in carrying flut the tournament's theme, "Ballads fci Blossoms." Maidens Paddle Canoes ; It featured throe live water falls in a lush tropical setting with two lovely maidens pad dling outrigger canoes at flch side of the entrys Thousands of orchkisand other tropical "plants made up the float. The president's trophy went to Florists Telegraph Delivery association for "hearts and flowers." It presented a de sign of hearts and featured a large heart fashioned from WEATHER FORECAST: Variable hlKh cloudiness with night and morn inn valley foe tonight and Tues day. Continued cold. Low to night 15. High Tuesday 32-38. Temp. HlChest Vesterday .P. 32 Lowest This Morning ... 16 Our Skies Tonight Sunset today 4:S0p.m. Sunrise tomorrow 7:41 a.m. Moonrlse tonight 5:58 p.m. Last Quarter Jan. 9 The Earth Is 91, 337.000 miles from the Run today, the nearest It will be this year. Average distance from the Sun Is 92,897, 418 miles w f '- i i iTTi'ii in iTTIiVnii rf f fv.f-- rf u BODIES SOUGHT Rescue workers dig through the wreckage of a Reno-bound Piper Tri-Pacer airplane In an effort to re cover the bodies of four persons. The craft left the Troutdale, Ore., airport for Reno, pink camellias and festoons of red roses.t Riding the float were Tab Hunter, John Pro vost, Angela" Cartwright and Judy Mellin. Queen's Trophy Winner Santa Monica, with "poor butterfly," took the queen's trophy. Its float showed an ex quisite pagado ornately deco rated with strung carnations and a picturesque bridge of typical oriental design span ning a stream. Roses, chrysan themums and orchids provid ed the0 vivid hues of the gaf den setting. ' .' , The Republic of Mexico pre sented "rayondd el s81 (sun rise)" to capture the interna tional trophy with a huge flowered Spanish guitar and a flower motif of the country. Cities outside California that won first prizes for clas sifications in their papulation bracket were St. Louis, San Antonio, Tex., and Portland. Nikila Galls fori Laos Conference5 Moscow -UIP1I- Bremier Ni kita Khrushchev today colled for an international confer ence to settle the Laos ques tion anc? said the work of tho Intern ational Commission there "must be renewed." Khrushchev? speaking at a Cuban National Bay reception at the Cuban Embassy, was quoted by the Soviet neujs agency Tass aji saying: "The dangerous hotbed of the fire which has started in Laos m8st be eStinguished in time, and a conference of states must Be convened ur gently on the same lines as the conference which took place in Geneva in 1054, and the wjjrft of the International Commission inoLaos must be renewed." Ullman Elected to House Committee Washington - (UPD f Rep. Al Ullrrran (D-Ore.) today became the first Oregon Democrat ever named to serve on the: powerful House Ways and Means committee. Noon Edition 24 Pages Oregon Traffic Accidents Kill Seven Persons By United Press International Traffic accidents claimed seven lives in Oregon Sunday and five persons were killed in other accidents over the Holiday week end. In addi tion, two Oregon residents died as a result of car crashes in California. ' Four persons died in a plane crash Saturday in the Mt. Three Injured in Accidents During Long Week End Three persons were injujed in automobile accidents due ing the week end, according to Oregon state police. Two persons were reported in fair condition today at Sacred Jleart hospital follow ing an automobile accident Saturday night on lligllway 99 at Miller's Gulch. . Vernon Leon Cotter, 28, of 1832 Ndrth Riverside ave., is being treated for bruises and Robert Harold Koger, 31, of 124 South Columbus ave., for head and chest injuries. State police said the car in which the two men were rid- jng was apparently travelling at a high rate oi speed wnen it left the hihway,' struck 'a roadside ditch by the "Corona do motel, and traveled c297 feet before stopping. - Park Accident . - Barbara "Elizabeth Balch, 28, of 331 West Second St., is being treated at Rogue Valley hospital for bruises received in an accident Sunday in ,Crater Lake National park, three miles west of Annie Springs. She was reported tn fair condition. Slate police said she f as a passenger in a car driven by ,DaVid Thomas Balch, 23, also of 331 West Second st., which Was travelling down hill 5toH tho driver lost control of it on a curve. It skidded into a car oporated by Scott ffiasdslpk Wickersham, (10, of 650f Eob-. erts rd. ' The third aitidutst rrasMliieS in manor damans and occurrril at this Phoonix esti CoHlmiRO rds. intersection. Ap car driven by Eny ployffl Harpham, 20, Grants Pass, was towing a car being steSer ed by Bill Fraaklin S&ncJers, 147 Mace rd., whence towed car crossed the center line and hit a trailer being pulled by ."Marshall Bessonette, SO, of Foothills rd. The trailer received a dent in the left front fender, police officers said. HONOR ROLL GBADES 0 Portland -fflPt-A total of S52 Oregon State college students and 322 University of Qregon students made honor roll grades of 3.5 or higher for the fall semester. - COUNTY CLERK DIES Oregon City (UPD- Guy Har old Pace, Clackamas county clerk for 25 years until his retirement in 1957, died Sat urday. He was 72. , ' ' Nev., Saturday and crashed and burned In the Mt. Hood National Forest, 20 miles from Mollala. The dead were identified as David L. Enger, 28; his wife Sharon, 23; Everett Boyd, 26, and his wife Dianne, 22. MEDFORDHfeTRIBUNE Hood National forest. They were David L. Enger, 28, Troutdale, his wife, Sharon, 23; Everett W. Boyd, 26, Port land, and his wife, Dianne. Lloyd Donald Vunderson, 58, Tigard, was killed Sunday when he fell from a hayloft near Tigard. Prospect Youth Killed Airman Third Class Curtis Allen Morse, 19, Prospect, was killed Sunday when his car struck an underpass girder on U. S. SI9E near Olivehurst, Calif: He was alone . at the time. Rosemary Gunnerson, 20, Lebanon, died today of in juries suffered Friday in a car crash about five miles south of Chico, Calif. She was a passenger in a car driven by Robert Sabin, 25, Lebanon. Sabin, and another passenger, Sue Billings, 22, also of Leb anon, were reported in fair condition) in a hospital. Seven persons died in Ore gon highway accidents Sun day. The victims have been iden tified aS Ed Yarbrough. Cave Junction, Shelby Anderson, 19, Gary Peirson, 17, Gary Spangler, 17, all of Roseburg, Viola Thomas, 44, Vernonia. J. B. Payne, 43. Yachats and Leota Barbara Lewis, 54, Portland. Failed To Make Turn " The Roseburg youths were killed sometime between mid night and 8 a.m. when the car apparently failed to negotiate a turn on Highway 99, one mile west of Glide, and plung ed down a 60 foot embank ment. They were found Sun- aay. xne rap of the car had been sheared off. Yarbrough died at Medfjord Sunday from injuries received Saturday night in a one-vehicle accident on Highway S3 noar Grants Pass. Yarbrrxugh was transferred from Grants Pass to Modford alter the xs cWont. Mrs. Themes was killed in a orro-car accident on State Highway 47 two milos south of Vernonia. She was dead on assnival at a Hillsboro hospital. Mrst Lewis died at Portland SaattariuBi Sunday morning ft-swi injuries roaeiwd whan struck by a car in Portland. Fayrcs, a paraplegic, was 6illo5 early SuKday whon his cor left rain-RHckenod High way 101 near Yachats on a straightaway section and plunged into a drainage ditch. o;r Plans for a 500-ton pulp mill at Gold Beach on the Rogues river, if legislative ap proval can be obtained, were reviewed in an article in Thg World, Coos Bay newspaper. According to the article, the1 U. S. Plywood Corporation is ready to construct the mill once approval is obtained for taking 25-second feet of water from the Rogue river for in dustrial purposes. It stated that the legislature will be asked for the authoriratlon when it meets thisionth. Rogue river water for in-. dustrial purposes is now pro hibited by state law. Industry sources told The World that the water would be taken from the river near the mouth, but above tideline. Mill waste would be pumped through a pipeline into the ocean, it was stated. Court Rules Basement Sprinkler Systems Invalid A Medford city ordinance requiring the installation of "an approved sprinkler sys tem" in the basement of build ings in the city's business sec tion has been ruled Invalid by Circuit Judge James M. Main. Judge Main Friday issued a permanent injunction restrain ing the city from enforcing the ordinance (Number 6668). The opinion was handed down in reference to eight suits involving eight buildings in the Medford business dis trict filed against the city in 1959. The suits involved Fluhrcr Building Inc., Mar garet Ames Fluhrcr. First Na tional Bank of Oregon, Con stance nd Eleanor Ames, Ro- MEDFORD, OREGON, MONDAY, JANUARY 2, 1961 TRAINING EXERCISE A special . aircraft' carrier task , ' force consists of aircraft carriers Lexington, above, and force of the United States Far East Seventh Fleet has been ' Bennington, 1,400 Marines and several destroyers. Re conducting "training exercises',' in the South China Sea ; liable sources report the Navy and Marine units have re since early December when Sighting broke out between ! turned to the South China Sea after spending Christinas pro-Communist and pro-Western factions in Laos. The task andi New Year's in port. UPi Telephoto) an troops Lose Strongholds; To Rebel Vientiane, Laos - (UPD - Lao-. 'The urgent meeting of the tian government troops lostl.eight-nation SEATO council two important strongholds to Communist-supported Pathot Lao rebels in strategic prov inces bordering North Viet Nam, it was announced today. The pro - Western govern ment quotedy'milltary: reports which indicated that Phong Saly, the provincial capital, was captured by Patliet Lao guerrillas "with tfee aid of ChitWe and North Viet Na m e s o Communists.", Xieng Khouang" was abandoned "to avoid artillory fire," a govorn naont spokesman said. Premjei'1 Princo Boun Oum Was reported consideriHjg a gcnoral mobilization to cope with the latost Communist ag gression. i The Sautkaast Asls Troady Organization, facing one of its most serious crises, met today in spacial emergency session to discuss the Laotion crisis. Low of 16 Degrees .3 Morning temperatures for the Medford vicinity yester day and today were the cold est in 11 months. ' , Medford station of the U.S. weather bureau reported a minimum temperature of 16 degrees this morning follow ing a low reading of 19 yestcn day.t.The temperatures were the lowest recorded here since a 19-degree minmimum on Feb. 28, 1960 . The mercury) Is expected to drop to an even lower 15 de gress Tuesday morning. Five- day forecasts indicate some wiiat higher temperatures by Wednesday or Thur-ty. West Slope Pharmacy Safe Robbed of $330 West Slope -(UPD- The Wash ington county sheriff's office reported Sunday that one man took $330 from a safe at the West Slope Pharmacy Satur day night while a woman and another man were talking to tne store manager. City Ordinance Requiring and Mary L. Hubbard, Robert J. and Hazel D. Crossman, E. A. Litlrell, Scott V. Davis Building Inc. and Raymond Retcr. Earlier the court had re strained the city from en forcing the ordinance while the suits were pending. Judge Main stated In his opinion that the property own ers are not furnished ft guide, rule or information in the or dinance as to what they must do in order to comply. He aaaca inai ine ordinance does not meet the tests of reason ableness as It affects the prop erties Involved. The judge ruled that in order for standards, set forth T A T T Forces of representatives was called by the United States after the Laotian government charged that Communist?' North Viet namese troops had invaded Laos to aid leftist rebel forces there.'. ..... -. , informed military sources, in "Tokyo . said the United States has alerted a special joint task' force in Okinawa to move to Laos if the situa tion warrants. A special aircraft carrier tang force of the U.S. Far East 7th (Fleet has been conducting "training exercises" in the South China sea since early December when fighting broke out between pro-Communist and pro-Western fac tions in Laos. The task force consists of the aircraft carriers Bennington and Lexington, 1,400. Marines and several de stroyers. . ',''! ' : The U.S. Air Fores Sunday night "repositioned" scyoral C130 turbo-prop transport planes from Sewarpi Air Force base, Tenn., but would not say whether tho action was relat ed 'to the crisis in Laos. Boy Is First 1961 Baby Bom Locally Anelght-pound, eight-ounce son born to Mr. and Mrs. Ron ald L. Ricketts, 143 South Keeneway dr., Medford, is ap parently the first baby born locally In 1961. 1he0baby, delivered at the Rogue Valley hospital,- was born at 6:40 yesterday morn ing. It wasn't until 2:38 that afternoon that 1861's second bahy arrived. Mr. and Mrs. Roy L. Lyon, 28 Jcanotte ave., Medford, arc the parents of a 9'i-pound girl born Sunday, also at Rogue Valle.v hospital. Spokesmen . at the Crater Osteopathic hospital in Cen tral Point, and the Ashland General hospital report that no babies were both under their care Jarni I. Board of Fire Underwriters, to be included in the ordl' nance, the pamphlet number should have been specified He added that the public has a right to the safest meth od of protection and that municipalities have the power to compel the adoption of new methods for the protection of the public. The Judge mentioned other cases where the court upheld the right of a city to enact ordinances affecting existing buildings, but In each the court ruled that the ordinances must be reasonable, Roberts, Kellington, Branch field and Hcffcrnan were at torneys for the plaintiffs with Joel B. Reeder representing MARGUERITE W. WRIGHT New Salem Correspondent ' Legislature Will Be Mail Tribune Column Subject ' "Slatelnuse Special," a col-i umn concerned with state gov- ernment and the 1961 session! of tho legislature, appears for the first time in the Mail Trib une today. : It wlll"contlnue, on a once-!1 a-wcek basis, during the 1981 session. Mrs. Marguerite W, Wright is the author. She has had wide experience, both in news paper writing, and as an ob server and participant in state government. Her husband, Tom, is stalehouse rep'orter for the 'Oregon Statesman of Salem. . i ' ' ' Reporting in Depth Mrs. Wright will not limit her reporting to any single phase of state government and legislative problems, but .will be able to provide . reporting in depth, and background in formation, on many, legislative problems. Her coverage will supplement that of the United Press International from. Sa lem for readers of the Mall Tribune. . , , In addition, each of the members of the Jackson coun ty delegation In the leglsla ture - StBte Sen. Lyndcl New bry, and Representatives Rob ert Duncan and John Dcllen- back - have been 'invited to use the columns of the Mail Tribune from time to time during the legislature to com municate with their constitu ents. Mrs. Wright's first column appears on Page 10B of to day's Mall Tribune. Portland Coliseum Dedication Sunday Portland-liifD -Formal dedi cation of Portland's $8.5 mil lion Memorial Coliseum will be held next Sundtiy, accord ing to Chairman Gale Living ston of the Expositlon-Recreii-Hon Commission, The Coliseum opened in November. Leopoldville, Tne Congo 3JPI) - Troops of Col. Joseph Mobutu were reported today to have failed In an attempt to wrest control of the capital of Klvu Province from support ers of ousted Premier Patrice 55th Year Price 10 Cents No. 246 Medford Police Report Very Quiet New Year's Eve ; i The New Year's celebration in the city of Medford was one of the quietest in years, as far 8s city police were concerned Police said this morning that most Medford citizens; includ ing drivers, seemed to be on their best behavior. ' i Only two minor traffic acci dents were reported to police during the first two days of the three-day- week' end. If there were any loud or wild parties Saturday night, police did not hear of them. And, the city's drunk tank remained nearly empty the entire week end. 1 One of the accidents report ed to police involved an ap parently intoxicated pedes trian. . . Thomas Earl Manley, 19, of 607 Catherine st told police that a man walked into the side of his car while he was headed west on Main st, near Central ave., about 3 o'clock Saturday afternoon. . Manley said the man grab bed a radio aerial on his car, then fell to the pavement. Manley got out of his car about the same time as the man got back to his feet. He told police the man said only: "I'm drunk and okay - go ahead." He then walked off down the street. The other accident occurred about 4:30 p.m. Saturday, when cars operated by Michael Francis Naples, 52, of 1125 East Fine St., Central Point, and George Fredrick Rouse, .45, Coqullle, were in volved in a rear-end collision on ' Riverside ave. near Mc- Ahdrews rd. Police said dam age was minor and ho cita tions were issued. i . "They Went Tbataway" Officials Hope SEATO Meeting Will Defer Reds President Keeps In Close Touch . Washington - Ml) - PresI dent Eisenhower today ap proved measures to increase the readiness of U.S. forces in the Pacific because of the Laotian crisis. Washlngton-ttlPD - President Eisenhower today called in Secretary of State Christian A. Horter to discuss develop? ments in Laos. Herter returned to Wash ington Sunday from a Christmas-New Years vacation. White House Press Secre tary James Hagerty said Ei senhower has kept in closa touch with the situation in Laos during ' the New Year week end. . Ttilked by Phone He said the President talked by phone to Kerter both Sun day evening and this morn ing. Hagerty recalled Saturday's State , department statement on L?os which said the United States would take a "grave" view of intervention in Laos by outside forces. Hagerty said that this is "the viewpoint and the policy of the United States govern ment." U. S. officials were hoping that the call for an urgent meeting of the. eight-nation SEATO council would deter the Communists from pressing any large scale Invasion of Laos. Another Korea Seen The officials were hopeful that Red China and Commu nist North Viet Nam would realize that if SEATO were forced ' to intervene in the Laos strife, the tiny Asian kingdom could turn into an other Korea. The State Department an nounced late Sunday after noon; that the U. S. represent ative on the SEATO coun cil, Ambassador U. Alexis Jptihson in; Bangkok, Thail and, 'had been instructed to ask for 'a meeting "as early as possible," Carriers on Patrol f lf .the United States docidej to send military forces to re pel a reported invasion of La os by North Vietnamesa troops,: a task force of two aircraft carriers, 1,400 Ma rines and savera! destroyers' is on ' patrol nearby in tho South China Sea. The United States, which has been supplying military and economic aid to the roy al Laotian forces at the rata of $45 million per year, was reported to have stepped up assistance to Prince Boun Oum's army. Fires Reported ! To Fire Department Central Point - The small residence of Dora Dorelch on Haniey rd. burned about 6:45 p.m. yesterday, Central Point rural firemen reported. They described tho house a a total loss and said that tha cause of the blaze was not yet determined. Rural firemen were sum moned to another house fira on Saturday afternoon at 1001 Gibbon rd. They said the fira apparently started from tha flue and burned into one wall and extended to the attic. - Firemen reported slight fira damage to the trailer of El don Holmes at Million Item Trading post on Table Rock rd. Saturday when water pipes were being thawed by use pi a blow torch. imd Lois A., Chester A., m ji pampme.1 ay m, KuoMiUm city of Medford Lumumba.