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9 o MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 4, 1961 A ; 5 Jobs, Living Quarters Miami Crowded With Immigrants Seeking Chance Editor's note: DPI Miami Bureau Mtnager Richard Hatch spent two weeks Catherine Information on the Cuban refugee problem on which the U.S. government It spending $1 million. This is the first of a series of three dispatches reporting inter views with government officials, civic leaders and the refugees themselves. By RICHARD W. HATCH Miami - (DPI) - Picture any Cuban Joe Smith-Jose Garcia. He arrives in this glittering crossroads of the Caribbean with no money, no job and no English words to find one, and a wife with two children tagging along wearily after hours of questioning by a khaki-suited U.S. immigration officer. Many of the Cuban Joscs and Marias arriving here at the rate of 1,300 every week face just this situation. They sold their possessions cheaply to escape Premier Fidel Cas tro's police-ruled island. They bought a ticket - or had a friend here buy Jt - for the 55-minute air " hop over the Straits of Florida. Cuba al lowed them to leave with only $5. Jose, Maria and their chil dren will find food, a place to live and at least the hope of a job some day despite the fact Greater Miami's population is crammed with an estimated 95,000 of their countrymen. For the Cuban grapevine -strung along Flagler, wrap ped around the downtown's Southwest wall of cheap apartments and hotels and northwest on First st. past the big Post Office to the airport - has guided their footsteps. Find Miami 'Angel' Those Cubans to whom life has looked blackest have feund their way to Sister Miriam, reverently referred to as the angel of Miami. The little nun, clad in the white trimmed black cowl of the Dominican Order, presides over the Spanish center of Gesu Roman Catholic Church, a block south of the downtown Post Office. ' For more than a year her loft Spanish has soothed as many as 100 homeless a day. The slight, robed woman has guided the hungry to Camillus House - dingy but smelling of beef stew ladled out by, three Brothers of the Good Shep herd. She has guided the ill to the Catholic Medical Cen ter, the . children to the two church nurseries that watch them while their parents hunt Jobs, and those who can afford the bus fare to the night class es teaching English. Area Short on Jobs Before the Castro Cuban exodus, Miami held about 50, 000 Cubans, fairly well-established. Then in 1960 another 45,000 poured in on top of them. The area already was short on jobs. The U.S. gov ernment stepped in last month with a team of experts and SI million in an attempt to re lieve the situation. "The Cuban community here has reached the satur ation point," warned Miami Mayor Robert King High. Tracy Voorhees, President Eisenhower's designated facU finder, agreed. He found that the resident Cuban population had absorbed all it could - as many as four families to a house - that hundreds do not get enough to eat. United Press International found only 1,500 to 2,000 Cuban men had been able to get jobs last year, and about 1,000 Cubans ar rived with no place to go. Get Holiday Meal Before Christmas, thousands , of refugees passed patiently through the International Refugee Center to collect - blankets and $1.50 to $6 for a family to have a holiday meal. But the center officials and Voorhees said they have not had time yet to determine Just how much "extensive hardships" exists. However bad it is, Voor hees added, "the Puerto R1 cans in New York are a much greater problem than Miami's Cubans." e The Cubans have treated grave school problems. The school board said it had ad mitted 3,730 Latin American children-most of them Cuban -to its already crowded public schools before Dec. 2. Hun dreds more gained entrance to parochial schools. Each child is supposed to pay a $50 state fee tr, attend public schools as a non-resident, but school authorities found some 200 didn't have 35 cents for a school lunch each day nor enough food at home to bring one. Lunches were provided for them and the'ee waived. Somehow each Cuban finds something each day to eat -though it may not be enough and a place to stay, a shared bed with friends, a cheap hotel room paid for by one of several charitable organ i z a tions. or maybe a bright little apartment that offers privacy lisfbi roominess. Although they are quick to FTryr"'i r wi " ivrrr CONDITIONS CROWDElJ - An example of into a room at the crowded conditions under which Cuban shared by the political refugees are living is this photo- five others, all graph" of a garage which was converted officers. GAS ECONOMY MODEL Dallas, Tex. -IUPD- Don Mat thews, a Dallas school offi cial, said Tuesday in dicker ing with a dealer for a used Electric organ he told the dealer he was only interested if it carried a new organ guarantee. . "Oh, it does. It does," he said the dealer replied. "This was a one-owner organ, and actually it was owned by a little old lady with arthritis." EXPERT 'LOOKS SILLY" London (CPb Do it yo-urH expert Bsirry. lucknell, who ctomonetrated an anti-thief de vice for automobiles on tele vision, today admitted the su-e-ce-ssful rifling of his car made "me look silly." The device was supposed to seund a horn if anyone tries to enter the locked auto. extend charity to each other, their pride makes them reluc tant to accept it from out siders, Sister Miriam said. "They may be down and out and broke, and many are spiritually uprooted, yet no one asks for money," she said, her bright brown cye-s gftjw ing with compassion. The only thing they are begging for is a chance to work. I '" fP ' Time To JV ' -SV Are- G!at:0. w&MnW o t Announce . fctm A rum dividend h&K?J L , IV. JT&K FOR THE PAST HALF YEAR, vVl 'NL $t& PAYABLE TO INVESTORS f1 W-N. XfhiW ' DECEMBtR 31, 1960 It I ! J. 1 f Three Men Safe Alter-Copter Flips Buckley, Wash.-IUPD-Thrce men, missing since they left Seattle to fly over an area be hind Mtud Mountain Dan in a helicopter Monday, vera found Tuesday, sa6e and sound despite th"e fact their erait VtaA CFK-S'lic-sl a4 burned. The pilot, Do Shelters, Se attle, s-aid the copter flopped BTer era lis s-i'Qe as roe a-umpei-ed to land it In soft snow in a clearing. The three barely got clear of the machine whe-n it ls'iw-st tat flames. The three men found aw old cabin stocked with stove wood. They stayed there un til they were found Tuesday. The ether two persons aboard were Walter V. Frederick and James Blodget, both U. S. geological engineers frorn Ta coma. 2O.000 MADE HOMELESS Jakarta, Indonesia (CPU Re ports reaching here Tuesday said three persons were killed and 20,000 made home less by a 125-iil'0-a'n-hoU'r typhoon Dec. 15 on the re mote Tanimbar Island in Mo luccas, East Indonesia. iiii t'i '' ir Vi.ij Photo Courtesy Saturday ,9nin9 P01' Lacking for Cubans Fleeing .Castro v i NT . Miami, Fla. The room is five men shown here, plus former Cuban rebel army (1SPI Telepholo) MacARTHUR PROMOTION? Washington-(UPD-Rep. Joseph W. Martin (R-Mass.), reintro duced Tuesday legislation authorising the President to njime General of the'Anny DouRlas MacArthur as "gen eral of ths armies at the Unit ed States." Gen. Jolin J. (ISIwclu Jcfe) Pershing, eom nmnArr of America's VS'arlcl War I Eurorjytffi fofew, i thp onl" officer who was ever vn;te general e,! the a.rmiis. Bridge 30 Inches San Franciseo-ffi'PE-Te-ffiipep- ature-s dropped below freezing in the San Francisco area o-a-F- ly Tuesday, causing the Bay bridge to s-hrin-k two and ene half feet. Engineers on. the bridge braved the unusual cold snap shortly before dawn with measuring devices. Some tii-r.u later, they reported that the span contracted 30 inches. Engineers on the Gold Gate bridge speculated that their S'pam P'PofeaW-y shrunk a bit, too. But it was so cold, they just sat in their warm office and speculated. Attorneys Seek JurorsJo Try Finch, Trepd Los Angeles - IliPl) - Attor neys began their second day today of trying to find 12 persons unopposed to the death penalty who have not already formed an opinion about the guilt or innocence of Dr. R. Bernard Finch and Carole Tregoff. They estimated it probably would take them all of this week and part of next to seat 12 jurors to listen to the third Finch-Tregoff murder trial. Finch, 43, and his red-hair- oie, 24, are accusccs ui ine fatal shooting July 18, 195M, of the surgeon's wife B.urbra Jean, 33. 1 Both of their earlier triiils, which cost the county an esti mated $200,000 to prowscute, ended in hung juries. The third trial opm-S'il Tc day. Presiding Superior J u (fi g Dsivid Coleman turned down a request by Miss Tru's-offs attorney to have thw couple tried separately and took un der xubmiftsion a move by finch's att-o-ri'wy to have the trial place moved to another cwiii-ty. Then the di-ffiei-ilt task o-f trying to selee jttro-r befiaa. P'e-ur ju-rora quickly Enii-sl they alr&aly tel torine ai o'fi'm ion a.lsiut this earn. Kine oth-ers'cla-i-nwd eoBScientkHis sktu lte a-gainat the death penalty -wUieli the state agai-n is es yod'ed to ak lor the eeuple. And four others, claimed it wo-ul-d be a hards-hip if they lead to serve oi tlw jtwjt. A REAL VARMINT Mesa. Ariz. tl'PD A eswpie parked in a lovers' tone tnl-d police Tuesday they didn't g.e-t a good look at the fa-G-e ef a bandit who robbed them of S19, but they vividly recalled hi-s outfit a-nd mode of trans portation. The bandit was in full cowboy regalia including a 1 galkra S-t-c-tsoa, s.ars that jingled and a revolver a-nd holster. He rode a horse. TRUST OFFICIAL DIES North Ta-rrytown, M.Y.-ffM- Carl J. Hclles, 59, vice presi dent of the Manufacturers Trust Bank Co., died Tuesday. Taw c-o-n w-atch y-ou-r vavingi grow, here at First Federal, s:tf) (he finftt Htm Yesc's- f&solution you can make it to begi'n Might now with your own personal prosperity plan wil-h' ss'f-e, profitable Insured Investment or savings account ter-eil-Tow're mttun4 sonsistenlly high returns.; your money i feuw-eisl tip 13 $10,000 through the Federal Saving & loom Ineuranee Cer-pora-lion, em o'gency of the 0. 5, GovewmeiiaA. lit lis- r-e.ad'i-1-y a-v-ailaWe., taa, should you need' i,. w fiBiaA flK'ft ksismeisV jriieiFi sr feisnreieis- riigiW feieife In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS Hasty sampling of the news on the mciig of the second day of Anivo Domini 1061: Mother Earth is SLIMMING DOWN THE BULGE around her waistline. In the course of a million years or soshe is expected to reduce her middle age spread by maybe an inch or so. Hmmnimmnimm. Apparently patience a n"i perseverance DO work won ders. 1 LSO- She is slovins down a bit s she sets older. Which is to J.y, sh is reducing th spend with nhick nhjsotvinM on hrr ax?. What dos that rotaa to iw? Well, yo-u feKovsr, tto siyiwc-J with which the emrte toras on it asm rcMl.;ibi tlw LEJiGTM Oir OUK DAY. This slowing '0K-n oi the e-l5l lady' part means that awry new day you g-et up m trie morning t face will he owe u-e-thou;-an-6lth &f a snfctwl lo-1-i.ger than tin.' day twfore. TrWOGED thotiflhl: Owe h u ra d r e A million year from this particuUn morning af't'er the night bo fo.? the days vsi.U be 18 ii ates 1-o-n-g'C-r! WHO s-:iys so? , Km tosb a- pf-r-sia than Dr. Gordon J. V. ASeeDenald, tt the National Aerenauttee and Science Administration. Se we might n-s wcM fescflen to fgol ready for it. fOMB to wurry atoi-vt: li Di H-a-ro-ld Urey, N-ufocl p-riz-e-wi-nn-ing enemist, warns tha-t any d-ay new a comet iii-gM s-t-ri-ke the earth with the energy of 100 MILLION A-bombs. H-e adds that if that should occur all life in a cir cular area some 5.000 miles across might be wiped out. But, he. says, we have a gambler's chance. The odds tha-t this disaster might over take u-s are one out of 50, 000,000'. At that point, he hedges. Ho MIGHT be wrong, he admits. The odds might be as small a-s one in FIVE mil lion. At a-ny rate, MV g-rim werld we tove in. M' ORE modern world stuff: Down in Dallas, Texas: a Investment Made by the Tenth of the Month Earns Dividends as of the First. it was a dull dain the fire department. So they fell back on a game of uljeckers to pass the time awaV- The players were Chief O. G. Sartain, the department's checkers champ ion, and an IBM electronic bi'Sin. Chief Sartain, the reporters tell us this morning, came up with a new approach that STUMPED THE MACHINE. He brought about a stalemate in which he had one king and J1VE players left, where as the IBM hd one king and FOUR players left. Tin ma chine i rported to have rumblrd in iU inntrdt fcfr a trnr mixul-w, but in the ewi it hsiil tA eOKCC tAl5-4it. f'lpilH xoMhliw 'rws t-ccirfw 0'iikwr.o ki'i hii witk a roil 'aw. All hs &mM My 'st fiiw: teai-si wa.s hstitea, ill viigl'A, ls6 it will twrst fe beuten that way again. Now the seri-e i recorded on tap, and the machine will counter act the play if anyone evifr trk'B that approach again." Anyway, tlw electronic ji.S- B?r loarK-s by cxprncHiE which Is something. WHY all this weird stuK? ' At le-ast. it's less shivery and perhaps mo-re l-ns-tru-ctiw than the normal, run-o-f-thc- raill aftcrnMith ei the bows nf a three-day New Yoatr wc-ck end ho-lidav peris-d-. If D ead of Exposu re Frinevlll'G-IWfi-B-en Si-nllh, about 7'9, a ra'H-ehP?, was found dead al-a-ng-side a- farm road a quarter of mile from hi-s heme a-bo-n-t 8 a.m. Tues day by a crc-amery l-ruek driv- c-r. Sheriff Tex King said cause of death apparently was ex posure and extreme cold Mon day night. The temperature dropped to nearly zero in the arc-a. Smith is survived by his widow and four step-children. COLLEGE OFFICIAL DIES' Cincinnati - (l!PD - Daniel Laurence, 97, vice president emeritus of the University of Cincinnati, died Tuesday. at emindeir"'' T'hfe wmem the Y'O'UR' money Ljivested at First Federal direfctly helps to bwild the prosperity of THIS community amid the R'ogiue R'iver Valley ... It Is put to work building heme for you neighbors, crea-t-ing jobs for local builders and markets for locally manufactured building materials. & wih ttoe vt-sir-t of a New Year, all of us here at First Pedreiral pJftdige or continued efforts to offer you the very f'ie.st sa-vn:gis ewd loan facilities and service possible. To tih-i'S end we are right now planning a new home for thin fes't-H-ufen to b: biuilt In Medford this yearl STATEMENT December ASSETS First Mortgage Loans e $5,013.006.3 1 Share Loans 722.61 Real E-.tate Sold on Contract e 19.404.83 Real Estate Owned and in Judgment 34,218.36 Investments and Securities 441,400.00 Cash on Hand and in Banks - I 27.384 8" Furniture, Fixtures and Equipment, less Depreciation .....f. 8,086.38 Other Real Estata 28,740 00 Total Assets $5,672,963.38 LIABILITIES Members' Shara Accounts $4,889,012.75 Advances from Federal Home Loan Bank 210,000.00 Loans in Process 200,444.76 Other Liabilities 547.30 Spocilic Reserves , 1,500.00 General Roscrves ....) $354,898.78 Undivided Profits 16,559.79 371,458.57 Total Liabilities $5,672,963.38 e ' FIRST FES SAVINGS and LOAN ASSOCIATION of MEDFORD 29 North Ivy Street, Medford, Oregon Robert F. Kyle, Manaoer Wall Street Chatter New York -tUPD The real strength in the stock market still appears to center in the relatively small number of non-or anticyclical groups that iJtight expect to weather a gVneral business decline with out disruption of rising earn ings trends, according to Wins low, Cohu & Stetson. Food, tobacco, nntif:il gas .and finance companies seem to be the main bastion of thi strength, the firm says, along with several coal companies like Pcabody and, of course, American Tel & Tel. these issues, plus govern- nisnt bonds, seem to be the mtin beneficiaries of conserv ative investment programs jirWi tluir continuing strength dcu not bode particularly well 5oc the reet of the stock market or tl buinc out k!a, 'S!'Ci;S not. Waller Gutmsn's "8loclk of the Month," listed ffi Investor Maganine, is Air Products, "I can ie pnol-o doubling their mo-K-n'y iw two yiirs in this st-otfe," the Stearns Co. awilys naye. Inveetora A-sh-isofy iK-rvtili-i'w Meemnenda three meehiiMry We Am Prowl . . sw rcw foipjspat! k&we-. "Tfewe gan."' Tl-vra commfrrt i mi -tars. tf ems i'r-mi 0U'tMeir-5 wh i'tti': (ifnew. iile hemp lit G0.n-st'aiwt'!i;i. LITWiLLER FUNEUAL HOME Mighway 66 at Normal Asia. Ashland Dial MU 5-4541 Ashland's Leading Funeral Director Since 1935 OF CONDITION 31st 1960 ERAL Regime Bill Would Allow Red Vehicle Lights Salem-lUPI) - Rep.-elect Cor nelius Bateson (D-Salcm), said Tuesday he will introduce a bill in the 19(il legislature to permit volunteer firemen to have red'emergency lights on their cars. sQto police recently en forced a law denying such lights because of alleged abuses by some firemen vol unteers. Bateson, himself a volun teer fireman in the Fo'ur Cor ners rural fire department east of here, said his bill would include strong penalties for volunteer firemen who uso the red lights for any purpose other than rushing to a fire. Use'of the lights would be at the discretion of local fire departments. stocks which appear to. have "bottomed out" and.for which a substantial upturn is now In sight: Chicago Pneumatic Tool, Food Machinery Ss Chemic: and Gardner - Den ver. Martin Gilbert of Van Al styne, Noel & Co. feels t'-ut yho Dow-Jones industrial av erage In 1961 will surpass 113 all - time0 highs later in the yca.r. Mrs. Litwllter UP TO v2s10'00!J. C. M.LitwIller Ao' yoo gsS05 V up to hi
