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MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1961
No. 281
MedfordJI
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STORM DAMAGE Heavy rains m western Oregon caused
this washout on highway 101, nine miles south of Bandon. ''
Fugitive Posing
As U.S. Official
Kills Hotel Guard
'Miami Beach - (UPD - A
youthful fugitive who lived in
high fashion on the stolen
credit cards of a member of
the Kennedy administration
killed a security guard and
wounded a hostage Saturday
when he was unable to cash a
check at the swank. Fontaine
bleau hotel wherei heVwas a
guest. , x vj,1 ; , '
The berserk youth, identi
fied as John Charles Cross, 19,
of Mount Glen Lakes,' Butler,
N.J., later was wounded in a
gun battle with police who
cornered his careening car on
Collins ave. '.'
Police said Cross had regis
tered in the Fontainebleau ho
tel Feb. 6 as Dr. Herbert
Waters of Ridgewood, N.J.,
former aide to Sen. Hubert H.
Humphrey (D - Minn.), now
special assistant to the direct
or of the U.S. Foreign Aid pro
gram. Waters' identification
and credit cards were in an
attache case stolen from- his
car outside the Sheraton-Park
hotel in Washington last
month, police said.
Cross, who was being sought
by the FBI after living it up
in a plush Boston hotel on
Waters' bankvaccount and ap
parently fleeing in a Cadillac
stolen in Lenardo, N.J., jerked
out a .22 pistol yesterday af
ternoon when his credit was
questioned by hotel officials
in an office. He fired four or
five bullets into-s ec u ri t y
guard William Allsopp, who
died before reaching a hos
pital, and then raced through
the crowded lobby into a base
merit where he forced another
security guard to accompany
him to a parking lot where he
stole a car.
. The hostage, Lou Behrens,
was wounded in the leg, ap
parently as he tried to wrestle
the gun from Cross, wheeling
the car down Collins ave.
When the car was encircled
by police patrol cars, Cross
jumped out and began firing
at officers from behind the
front fender. He apparently
was hit in the hand during
the exchange with officers.
He finally surrendered and
was booked on a first degree
murder charge and then taken
to a hospital for treatment of
his hand and a mental exami
nation. MOSCOW DEMANDS .
Moscow - lUPI) - The Soviet
Union delivered a second note
.to France last night demand
ing punishment of the fliers
who fired warning shots to
ward the plane flying Presi
dent Leonid Brezhnev across
the Mediterranean Thursday.
WEATHER
FORECAST: Cloudy with rain
this morninK and afternoon.
Showers tonight and Monday
morninu. Partly cloudy Monday
afternoon. High today 50. Low
tonight 32. High Monday 45.
Temp.
Highest Yesterday 50
Precip.
To 5 p.m. Yesterday 45
Our Skies Tonight
Sunset today 5:39 p.m.
Sunrise tomorrow 7:11 a.m.
The Moon rises 5:49 a.m.
tomorrow a little to the left of
the planets, Jupiter and Saturn.
Jupiter continues to move nearer
Saturn and their closest ap
proach to each other win be
nrxt Saturday.
Student Government
Day Set; Campbell
Elected C i
Dan Campbell, M e d f o r d
High school senior, will, serve
as Medford's mayor during
Student Government Day,
Feb. 23, Marvin Trautman,
chairman of the Youth Ac
tivities committee of the Med-
ford Elks lodge, sponsors of
the annual event, announced
Saturday..
Kennedy Appoints
wiii Reischauer
To Japanese Post
. Washington '- (UPI) - Presi
dent Kennedy has decided to
name Edwin O. Reischauer, a
Harvard professor and re
nowned expert on the Far
East, as the new American
Ambassador to Japan, it was
learned last night.
Kennedy already has asked
the Japanese government for
its approval of the appoint
ment, reliable sources said.
Reischauer, 50, who speaks
Japanese fluently, was born
in Tokyo of American parents.
He would succeed Douglas
MacArthur II who was order
ed by Kennedy to take up a
new post in Brussels.
Reischauor's wife, the for
mer Haru Matsukata, is the
granddaughter of J a p a n's
great elder statesman of the
early 20th century, the late
Prince Masayoshi Matsukata.
At one time, she was the Sat
urday Evening Post's corre
spondent in Japan.
The apparent appointment
of Reischauer as ambassador
ends speculation that Oregon
Attorney General Robert Y.
Thornton was to get that post.
United Press International
said last week that unconfirm
ed reports had Kennedy con
sidering Thornton for the am
bassadorship. Thornton at that
time declined to comment.
2 Missing Medford
Men Found Safe
Two Medford men, George
Jantzer, 70, and Henry Dufur,
45, were found safe about
noon Saturday after being
missing since Friday night.
State police said the men
were located on a road near
Fish lake.
Jantzer and Dufur said their
car became stuck in the mud
and they spent the night in it.
State police and state game
division officers staged a
search for the pair.
Board man Message
Expected Tuesday
Salem - (UPD - Gov. Mark
Hatfield will transmit his spe
cial message to the legislature
on the Boardman contract
Tuesday.
Hatfield and other members
of the Oregon Land board
have decided to ask the legis
lature for guidance on how to
proceed with signing the Boe
ing Airplane Co. for the 100,-000-acre
space age industrial
park.
4
The washout temporarily isolated Curry county from the
northern part of the stale- (UPI Tclephoto)
ty Mayor
Campbell was elected Fri
day at the high school follow
ing several days of campaign
ing. Bob Quinney, his oppo
nent, reportedly lost by a
close margin. . . , . ,
Student city council mem
bers elected Friday are John
Hamlin, Ward I; Joyce Roelfs
and Jim Randies, Ward II; Jim
Barry and Suzi' Van Sickle:
Ward III; and Pat Dunlevy
and Art House: Ward IV. A
councilman for Ward : I will
also be chosen by StMary's
Hih school. ,
Take Over City
Student officials will 'take
the reins" of city government
Thursday. Because this date is
not a regular city, council
meeting night, the . students
have been invited to attend
the council meeting Thursday,
Feb. 16. Appointive officers
for Medford city government
will be made this week by the
student officials.
Counterparts for the county
offices will be filled by stu
dents from other high schools
in the area. Schools Included
are Phoenix, Crater, Prospect,
Butte Falls, and Eagle Point.
Results of these elections for
county officials will be an
nounced later. ;
The Student Government
day program was started 13
years ago by Mrs. JoAnne
Smith, social studies depart
ment head at Medford High
school, and the late Diamond
Flynn, former Medford may
or. Us purpose is to give the
students a "laboratory" expe
rience in election procedure
and the operation of local gov
ernment. To Take Oath
On Student Government
Dayi the students register and
take the oath of office in the
city hall, and the court house
for city and county officials,
respectively. Both Mayor John
Snider and County Judge Earl
Miller will also brief the sen
iors on local government.
From 9 a.m. until noon the
students will work with their
counterparts, then will be
guests at a luncheon at the
Elks Club Party lounge. The
student officials will return to
their office for which they
were chosen in the afternoon.
Climaxing the activities will
be a banquet for officials, stu
dents, and parents in the Hcd
rick Junior High school cafe
teria at 6 p.m. A guest speak
er will highlight the evening's
program.
Small Cars
Float Well
Corvallis - H'l'll - Jack
Hartha, 2B, Portland, was
driving his smalt, foreign
car through washed over
roads in East Corvallis Sat
urday when swift water car
ried the water-tight auto
into deep water.
The vehicle was carried
along for over 1,000 feet
when it was tpotted by air
man John Weatherill of
Camp Adair. Weatherill
went after it in a boat and
caught it a half mile east of
town.
Harsha opened the door
to greet hit rescuer and ins
car sank in three feet oi
Police Officials
Involved in 4-Car
Collision in City
A state police car. contain
ing State Police Capt. Paul
Morgan and Lt. Earl W. Tich
enor, was struck in the rear
in a four-car accident in front
of state police headquarters
Friday afternoon and an 18-year-old
Medford youth was
cited by Medford police for
following too close.
Cited was Richard Gary
Morgan, 18, of 618 East Ninth
st,, Medford, no relation to
Captain Morgan. There were
no. injuries. ' V
State police reported that
the car containing the two top
ranking state police officers
here was travelling south on
highway 99 and had stopped
to make a left turn into the
stale police office parking lot.
The car driven by the youth,
apparently was unable to stop
and struck the officers' car
driven by Tichcnor.' r ,
Hits Station Wagon ;
The impact pushed the state
police car across the center
line and into a station wagon
driven by Robert Francis Mc
Allister, 42, u Itoute 2, Box
573, Central Point. McAllister
lost control of his car and it
ran off the shoulder on the
west side of the highway.
The state police car 'con
tinued on the east side of the
highway and into a small for
eign car driven by Joan Lee
Lucas, 26, of 726 King st.,
Medford.
The slate police car sustain
ed damage to its left front
headlight, fender, grill and
heavy rear end damage. The
Morgan car was damaged on
its front and left sides, the
McAllister station wagon the
full length of its left side and
the Lucas car on the front
fender and grill.
COUNTY OFFICES CLOSE
Jackson county and Oregon
state offices will be closed
Monday, Feb. 13, in observ
ance of Lincoln's birthday.
Federal and city offices will
be open for business as usual.
"Anyhow, There' A Definite Disarmament Gap"
Planning Director
Says Boeing Made
No Commitments
Mallicoat Says Firm
To Offer Environment
Salem - (UPD - Planning Di
rector Samuel Mallicoat said
Friday enthusiasm over Boe
ing Airplane Co.'s application
for a lease on Boardman In
dustrial park centers on the
company's "potential of offer
ing the scientific environ
ment" needed to spark Ore
gon into the space age.
Mallicoat told a group or
legislators the company t
made no commitments for
massive space age develop
ments on the 100,000-acre
north Oregon site and specu
lation that the company plan
ned large-scale production at
ihis time was unfounded.
Company officials confirm
ed this.
Reaction to the Boeing
lease request has ranged from
fear the company would do
nothing with the land to
hopes the site would be plung
ed into use for heavy missile
production.
Urges Caution
Mallicoat cautioned against
regarding the Boeing applica
tion from either extreme.
He said a key to space age
development In Oregon could
be concentration of a nucleus
of "highly trained and inven
tive" minds at Boardman.
Such a group, for example,
would have to be assembled
for static aircraft and missile
testing - a complex operation
that also requires some me
chanical investment.
Mallicoat said in other in
stances - as in California -similar
initial operations have
brought in related industries.
He said Boeing, as "a leader in
the space field," offered
great potential" in breaking
Oregon in to the space age.
Castro Will Aid
All Rebel Exiles
Ha vana-OJPD-Prime Minister
Fidel Castro said last night
that Cuba will match Amer
ican dollar aid to anti-Castro
Cuban exiles by appropriating
funds to help 1 "revolutionary
exiles" from all Latin Amer
ican countries including Puer
to Rico.
Speaking at the closing ses
sion of a Congress of tech
nical assessors of government
industries, Castro also warned
the United Stacs that his re
gime intends to declare its
position on the question of
American support of Cuban
exiles before the United Na
tions. "If the United States feels
it has the right to approve
(dollar) credit for counter-revolutionary
exiles," he said,
"then Cuba feels it has the
right to approve credit for
exiled Puerto Ricans and for
all revolutionary exiles in all
of Latin America.
"And Cuba is going to the
United Nations to declare that
if the United States believes
it has the right to promote
counter - revolution in Cuba
. . . then Cuba feels it has the
right to support revolution in
Latin America."
Castro, who is a bitter foe
of Puerto Rican Gov. Luis
Munoz Marin and his com
monwealth government, was
incensed over President John
F. Kennedy's recent authoriz
ation of a $4 million aid fund
for Cuban exiles in Florida.
eavyHain
Slides
.
LOOKS LIKE RIVER Bear ' creeH .SatuN , takonut the
day looked like a-lull-fledged ; r War after .District dam
uiree'uays oi rain m xne
water' level considerable.
Reports Grow That
L u m urn ha
Elizabethville, Katanga
(UPI) - The Katanga government
said Saturday the escape car
reportedly used by Patrice
Lumumba to escape his make
shift jail had been found so
badly wrecked in a drainage
ditch the shock to the occu
pants "must have been vio
lent." The announcement that
Lumumba had met with vio
lence increased the belief in
some United ., Nations quar
ters that the reported escape
really was a cover story, for
his death. There were reports
the International Red Cross
Portland Reporter
Starts New Daily
Portland-IUPD-The Portland
Daily Reporter published its
first edition Saturday.
The Reporter, which steps
up from a semi-weekly, joined
the Oregon Journal and the
Oregonian in the daily news
paper field here.
The tabloid-size newspaper
was established exactly one
year ago as a weekly and later
became a semi-weekly. It
evolved out of the current
Portland newspaper strike,
which began in November,
1959.
Robert D. Webb of Port
land, a former Oregonian em
ployee, is the publisher. Most
of the paper's employees are
former employees of the Jour
nal and Oregonian.
Webb said the Reporter
would be published six days
a week, Mondays through Sat
urdays. SP Brakeman Falls
Underneath Train
A Southern Pacific railroad
brakeman was in critical con
dition at Rogue Valley hos
pital Saturday night after he
fell under a train at the Kogap
railroad crossing south of
Medford and had both legs
severed just below the knee.
State police said the man
was identified as Alva Ernest
Teeter, 60, of Roscburg. He
was rushed to the hospital by
police after the accident which
occurred at 7:1b p.m.
To Wes
- Mar
vaiiey raised me bridge
This picture was ,
Is Dead
would be called in to try to
find out if he actually had
been murdered.
A spokesman for this seces
sionist province said search
parties had reached the Lum
umba escape car some 40
miles from his prison site at
Mulshatsha, 340 miles north
east of Elizabethville near the
Angola border, and found it
in a ditch.
"There was no trace of any
injury to the occupants de
spite the shock they suffered
which must have been vio
lent," the spokesmen said.
The spokesman said over
night rains had obscured Lum
umba's trail from the car.
The Katanga government Is
sued a communique insisting
that Lumumba escaped Thurs
day night with two aides,
Maurice . Mpolo, minister of
youth in the deposed Lumum
ba government, and Joseph
Okito, vice president of the
senate.
The communique came, aft
er a growing list of nations
began demanding an investi
gation of the escape report
and after the Soviet Union
told Secretary-General Dag
Hammarskjold It was "very
much alarmed" by murder re
ports. .
The communique "emphati
cally denied" the jailbreak
was staged as a cover-up and
asked the local population to
help catch the former premier.
But neither Katanga nor
United Nations officials ap
peared anxious to make a full
investigation.
Bubonic Plague Hits
Venezuelan Village
Caracas - (UPI) - Bubonic
plague, the dreaded "black
death" of the middle ages, has
broken out only 42 miles west
of here and killed all but one
of the 24 persons who lived In
a little village, health authori
ties said Saturday.
An area of some 600 miles
has been placed under the
control of sanitary brigades
who are working to stamp out
the disease before it spreads
any further, officials said.
The immediate environs of
the village, a few miles from
the town of Tejcrias, has been
declared a "danger zone" and
a bounty of eight cents is
being offered for every rat
killed. Rats are a key factor
In the spread of the disease.
s Bring Flootk
fern Oregon
, i
It
Hogue River Valley' Irrigation'
just north ol the JacksW st.
Rain Still Belou
HormalinValkf.
Despite Sform
Heavy . rains of the last
three- days caused extensive
damage in many parts of
western Oregon, but in' Med
ford and the Rogue valley lt
was just another rain - and
welcome one at that. :
The U.S. Weather bureau
t the Medford airport report
ed that 1.20 inches- of rain
fell here during the three-day
storm.' This brings the total
rainfall since Sepl.. 1 to 9.93
inches,' which-' is still "1.77
inches below normal. , '. "
The month of February
however, appears that it will
be wetter than normal. A to
tal of 9.84 inches of rain has
fallen so far which'. is 1.01
inches above normal.- fi.
There were no reports; of
flooding in the Rogue, val
ley. The weathor bureau SRid
the Rogue river; crested at
6.3 feel at the Dodge -bridge
north of Medford Saturday
morning. It crested at 8 5 feet
at Gold Rey dam. , .
Chains Needed
Slate police advised that
chains should be carried, on
all highways leading out of
the valley. One-way traffic
is required on . highway 199
between Idlewild and Pat
rick's creek just south of the
Oregon border where a slide
has covered part of the road
way. Highway 99 near Curtain
was still blocked by a large
slide which covered the high
way Friday night. State po
lice said a detour has been set
up on highway 235 through
Yoncolla.
Park Rangers at Crater
Lake National park said 18
inches of new snow has fallen
at the park during the past
36 hours. It was still snowing
last night. They reported there
is now 86 Inches of snow on
the ground compared to 89
at the same time last year.
Total snowfall at the park to
dato is 232 inches. i i
The road from park head
quarters to the rim was closed
by snow, but rangers said they
hoped lt would be cleared by
today.
Salem - IlIPIl - Mrs. Vincent
Kuzmanich, mother of Ore
gon's first lady - Mrs. Mark
Hatfield - has been hospital
ized in Portland. There was
no Immediate word on the
nature or seriousnes of her
illness.
ii 1 1 m
Albany-Corvallis
Area Expecting
Flooding Today
6 Highways Still
Closed by Slides
By United Press International
Western Oregon residents
were looking forward to im
proved weather today after
three days of storms.
' The U.S. Weather Bureau
forecast was for a few showers
for the western section of the
state this afternoon and to
night and this, coupled with
a light amount of rain Satur
day, was expected to bring
fast relief.
State police reported about
a half dozen highways still
closed in parts Saturday night.
About a dozen were
Friday night.
Despite the' outlook n.
Albany-Corvallis area was pre-
ijmms ror expected flooding
early today from the swollen
wuiamette river. The rivr-r
was expected to go 10 feet
above flood stage at Corvallis.
ueav Mark
The storms left their mnrlr
on Oregon.
Rainfall which hpvnn
Thursday and reached a peak
inday sent rivers and streams
roaring out . of their banks.
The McKenzie river at Eu
gene crested at five feet above
1 1 o o a stage. 16.1 foni - T,,
Willamette river at Euepnii
reached its highest point :
since 1953, 12.1 feet.-
Dozens 61 homos Imrl
aboVe; Hoot- level n the Eu-
Bmm-opringneia area: Thn
Willamette:, valley' town bt
Turner, population 771. wn
reported' mostly under water
Saturday. ., : .
.Rocks and mud slides caus
ed evacuation ajr'nuna'arwaa.
A .passenger train was derail.
fid early Friday and twri unit.
ol the Troutdald -mofel wnru
crushedjby. sliding rocks.
Mrs.- Robert-Dorv and hni-
two children were re.mnvi
from one unit, of the motel
and rushed to ' a hospital. A
family of four In a neighbor
ing unit escaped without in.
jury. ...
Hips Out Track
A 35-foot slide near Rooster
Rock State Park on the Col-
umbla river, ripped out . 500
feet of track and sent two lo
comotives and two cars of a
passenger train Into a track
side lake formed by the back
wash'of the Columbia river.
Residents of some Clacka- -mas
county towns evacuated
their homes for the second
time this winter. .
The swollen Clackamas and
Molalla rivers' chased resi
dents away from the commu
nities of Shady Dell and Par
adise park which were aban
doned in flash floods on
Thanksgiving day
Sports Bulletins
Central Point Crater
High school pulled away in
: the second half to down
Ashland 64 to 47 here last
night in Southern Oregon
conference basketball. The
Comets had 17 to 8, 32 to 24
and 53 to 33 quarter leads.
Dennis Edwards of Crater
led scoring with 17 points.
Phoenix Henley high
defeated Phoenix 61 to 28
In a Rogue league basket
ball game last night. Tha
Hornets led 38 to 12 at the
half end Bert Allbrlllon had
18 counters for tha victors.
Eagle Point high trimmed
St. Mary's of Medford 55 to
46 In basketball last night.
Tha Eagles h'ad a 17 to 13
halfway lead. Mike Austin
of St. Mary's had 17
markers.
Klamath Falls Klamath
Union high kept its basket
ball record clean in tho
Southern Oregon confer
with a 56 to 41 win over
Grants Pass last night. The
Pelicans headed 15 to 9, 31
to 20 and 43 to 27 at the
intermission. Fred Biehn
had 19 points for Klamath.
Oregon State 55, Idaho 49
. Washington State 77, Ore
gon 73
Portland State 49, Seattle
Pacific 47
Lewis and Clsrk 93, Pa
cific 77 j