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BATTLE UN GUARDS Screaming, fist- York today in the midst of a debate on
swinging Negroes, said to be pro-Lumumba the Congo crisis. The demonstration erupted
supporters, battled United Nations guards as Adlai Stevenson, United States ainbas
at the Security Council chamber in New sador to the UN, was speaking.
(UPI Tclcphoto)
Lumber Industry in Spotlight
At Hatfield's Economic Parley
Salem-IUPD - The sagging
lumber industry came in for
the lion's share of attention
Tuesday at an economic con
ference called by Gov. Mark
Hatfield and attended by busi
ness, labor and government
leaders who agreed things
should look better in six
months. This is a time of "mingled
concern and anticipation,"
Hatfield told the 55 persons
at the outset of the three-hour
meeting. Fourteen persons
representing a cross section of
the economy spoke. Another
meeting, with suggestions for
economy ill cures, was sched
uled for Feb. 27.
Loran Stewart, president of
Bohemia Lumber Co. in Lane
county, predicted a spurt of
bankruptcies in the lumber
industry in the next six
months, but an eventual up
turn this year.
Ho predicted more consoli
dations of companies and
more direct sales, thus bypass
ing wholesale costs.
David H. Cameron, Oregon
employment c o m m i ssioner,
said employment in sawmills
and logging has dropped 40
per cent since 1951 while ply-
ASSUMES DUTIES
Portland -1UP1I- Charles F.
Luce, 43, a Walla Walla at
torney has assumed his du
ties as new Bonneville Power
administrator.
8-Year-Old Girl Found
Murdered Near Redding
Redding, Calif. - 0IPII - A
bloodhound led deputies today
to the body of a girl who lay
tied and murdered alongside
her package of valentines.
Shasta County Sheriff John
Balma said that the slayer of
Vicki Lee Morris, 8, was "def
initely someone she thought
was a friend."
Balma said that the killer
used a 25-pound rock to blud
geon the girl's head.
"We have no solid leads
right now," he said.
MEDFORD, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1961
wood has gained more than
100 per cent. He noted Ore
gon has some labor surplus
cities but still no "distressed"
areas as defined by the federal
government.
Heavy manufacturing also
is hurting in Oregon, accord
ing to Earl M. Jennctt of Wil
lamette Iron and Steel. He
urged aggressive action to get
more defense contracts and
military pojects.
Other industries, expressed
optimism, including transpor
tation, tourists, fisheries, elec
tronics and textiles.
Electronics Booming
Don E. Ellis of Tektronix
Inc., said electronics was
booming and that some firms
expect to grow in the near
future by as much as 400. per
cent.
A spokesman for Jantzen,
Pendleton Woolen Mills and
White Stag said if the state
didn't repeal its personal prop
erty tax on business inven
tories, little or no further ex
pansion in the textile field
could be expected.
Public Utility Commission
er Jonel Hill said some of the
current economic gloom may
be psychological. Francis J.
Murnane of the Longshore
men's Union said "to a worker
without a job, it's an economic
problem."
Tax Comimssioncr Charles
Mack said collections indicate
Oregon is in a recession but
"not one to cause panic."
A third grade student, Vicki
disappeared Tuesday on a log
ging road between her home
at Anderson, 11 miles south
east of here, and a point at
which the school bus dropped
her off.
Her body lay 35 yards off
the road, about one-half mile
from her house. Balma reason
ed that if a stranger had car
ried the blonde, blue-eyed
youngster to the bush-covered
spot, there would have been
signs of a struggle on the way.
But there were none.
groes Battle
Hatfield asked that recom
mendations for the Feb. 27
meeting be written so they
can be made into a pamphlet
and studied.
County Budget
Work To Start
' The Jackson county budget
committee will start review
ing the new fiscal yjear budget
March 13, County Judge Earl
Miller said today.
Budget committee members
are Arnold Bohnert, Central
Point, Gordon Hudson, Med
f o r d, and Archie Pierce,
Medford.
The committee's work is
tentatively scheduled for com
pletion May 1. Publication of
the proposed budget and a
public hearing are scheduled
tentatively early in June.
All county department
heads are scheduled to return
their budget proposals to the
county bookkeeping depart
ment by March 1 for tabula
tion. Tabulation is to be com
pleted by March 10 and cop
ies of the budget proposals
given the committee.
The remainder of this
n.onth and the first week in
March the county engineer
and county court are sched
uled to study county roads
and bridges for inclusion in
the budget.
County Treasurer Karl Ja-
nouch is scheduled March 10
to turn in his estimates of
county receipts for the coming
fiscal year.
Dellenback To Be in
Medford This Week End
State Rep. John R. Dellen
back (R-Medford) will be in
Medford Saturday, Feb. 18,
and will hold office hours for
constituents during the after
noon, it was reported today.
Those wishing to talk to
Dellenback concerning legis
lative matters may make an
appointment by telephoning
SP 2-5268.
No. 284
Fight Breaks Out
During Speech by
Adlai Stevenson
Two Photographers
Suffer Injuries
United Nations, N.Y. - IUPII -A
screaming fist - swinging
demonstration by pro-Lumumba
Negroes that U.S. officials
said was Communist inspired
disrupted a meeting of the
United Nations Security Coun
cil today.
The demonstration erupted
as U.S. Ambassador Adlai E.
Stevenson was making a
speech declaring Russia's de
mand for the dismissal of
Secretary-general Dag Ham
marskjold and termination of
the UN effort in the Congo "a
declaration of war on the
United Nations."
Two photographers were in
jured by the demonstrators.
Photographer Knocked Out
Stanley Hall of the New
York Mirror was knocked un
conscious and Joel Landau of
United Press International,
seeking to aid Hall, suffered
a deep gash in his forehead
when a demonstrator struck
him with brass knuckles or a
length of chain.
Council President Sir Pat
rick Dean of Britain recessed
the council for five minutes
and ordered that the public
gallery be cleared. 1
The demonstration erupted
without warning when Ne-
groes leaped up in several
parts of the packed public
gallery, which scats about 400
persons, and began screaming.
Demonstrators Wrestled
UN guards rushed down the
aisles to remove the demon
strators, who refused to go
quietly. Scuffles and fist-
swinging occurred as the judo-
tramed UN security men
wrestled several demonstra
tors up the sloping aisles to
the public corridors.
The uproar broke out when
the U.S. ambassador was de
claring that the world could
not "cast aside the one and
only instrument mankind has
devised" to keep peace.
"This issue even transcends
the fate of a suffering 14 mil
lion Congolese people," Ste
venson said. "It involves all
mankind. The issue is, shall
the United Nations survive . ."
Pandemonium broke loose
at that point.
WEATHER
FORECAST: Clearinp toniftht.
Partly cloudy Thursday.
Cooler. Low tonight 30. High
Thursday 55.
Temp.
Highest Yesterday fill
Lowest this Morning 36
Prcc. to 10 a.m. Today 20
Our Skies Tonight
Sunset today 5:41 p.m.
Sunrise tomorrow .... 7:07 a.m.
Moonsct tonight 6:33 p.m.
First quarter . Feb. 22
MORNING PLANETS
Jupiter and Saturn, rising In
the southeast In the mornlrrg
twilight, now appear very near
each other. Actually Saturn is
now more than 450 million
miles beyond Jupiter.
"I Never Had Anything
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JETLINER CRASHES The wreckage of a Sabena Boeing
jetliner lies burning in a field near Brussels, Belgium,
after it crashed while attempting to land early today,
Jobless Benefit
Proposal Seen
Economy Booster
Washington IUPII L a b o r
Secretary Arthur J. Goldberg
said today President Ken
nedy's proposal to extend job
less benefits would provide a
$1 billion injection of buying
power into the lagging econ
omy. Goldberg told the House
Ways and Means Committee
that the emergency program
to pay extra unemployment
compensation to an estimated
3 million idle workers was a
"very crucial part" of Ken
nedy's antirecession plan.
'Goldberg also said he feared
the latest unemployment fig
ures "may indicate a rise" in
the country's 5.4 million job
less. ' '
The House was expected to
act with unusual speed in re
sponse to Kennedy s request
for immediate legislation to
aid jobless who already have
used up their benefits.
Informed sources said the
committee probably would
approve the measure with
amendments early next week.
This would send it to the
Rules Committee which could
clear the way for quick floor
action.
Worker Dies When
Buried in Slide
Cave Junction - A construc
tion worker for Grafe-Calla-han
died when he was buried
under an earth slide at 11:15
a.m. Tuesday while working
on the north approach to the
Oregon Mountain tunnel near
Cave Junction.
The man was identified as
George Loghry, 46, of Red-
way, Calif. He was standing at
the foot of the mountain when
the slide started. He was
buried under three feet of
earth and suffocated before
workers could uncover him.
Loghry's death is the first
since work started on the tun
nel. Salem -IUPII- The Oregon
Senate, faced with a heavy
calendar, today scheduled its
first afternoon meeting of the
1961 session.
From There Before"
Dr. Mayfield Named
In Damage
Lane County Court
Dr. Leonard B. Mayfield
Medford school superintend
ent, has been named defend
ant in a $52,000 damage suit
filed in Lane county by Ray
mond E. Pcttey, former em
ployee for the state system of
higher education and former
Ashland resident.
Petley had offices at South
ern Oregon college when he
was assistant professor with
the state system of higher ed
ucation's statewide general
extension division.
In the suit, Pettey claims
that Dr. Mayfield wrote a let
ter Jan, 28, I960, to Pettey's
superior In Eugene which re-
Steps To Control
Cats Suggested
Steps should be taken on a
county level to adequately
control stray cats, the Cat
Care Society, Inc., recom
mended today.
Society spokesmen said a
health hazard is being cre
ated by abandonment of cats
near schools and residential
areas. The society is the only
agency which has facilities for
the pick-up, placement or dis
posal of stray and unwanted
cats, and is finding it increas
ingly difficult to provide those
facilities.
'Health authorities agree
that stray animals can spread
infectious diseases such as
ringworm, scabies, feline dis
temper, and aggravates the
present danger of rabies to
pets and children," a society
spokesman said. "One of the
basic requirements of a mo
dern health community is ade
quate facilities for the control
of unwanted animals. This
should include the cat," the
society noted.
"The Cat Care Society hopes
that citizens with community
pride are also interested in its
health and will support the
improvement of present con
ditions by signing a petition
that is being circulated
throughout the county," so
ciety spokesmen said.
Europeans Watch
Eclipse of Moon
London (UPII Millions
Europeans on both sides
the Iron Curtain today
watched the skies as the
moon passed betwecn the sun
and earth, causing a total
eclipse in a wide area of
southern Europe.
Hundreds ot scientists ob
served the phenomenon from
observatories, mountain tops
and high-flying planes.
Air Pollution Samples
Taken at Courthouse
Two air pollution samples
will be taken at the air
sampling station at the court
house this week, according to
T. M. (Ted) Gcrow, district
sanitary engineer, Oregon
state sanitary authority.
The first will be taken to
day and a second tomorrow.
The courthouse station is one
of several in the national ail
sampling network sponsored
by the U.S. public health
service, Gerow said.
killing 73 persons, including
figure skating team,
Suit in
suited in Pettey's being
missed from his duties.
Pettey was dismissed Feb.
29, 1960, from the ?7,080-a-year
position.
He claims the superintend
ent's letter constituted an
"unwarranted and malicious
interference with the plain
tiff's position and is a trespass
and injury to the plaintiff's
property rights and right of
contract.
General Punitive Damages
Pettey - asked' 'siT.OOO gen
eral damages and $15,000
punitive damages.
Tha case reportedly stems
from an incident in which
Pettey gave information about
Medford's adult education
program to the Mail Tribune
The story, written by Bob
Walters, then a member of the
staff of the Mail Tribune (now
reporter for the Portland
Oregonian), detailed the num
ber of people taking advan
tage of adult education oppor
tunities through the exten
sion division in various parts
of southern Oregon.
The article concluded that,
on a per capita basis, Medford
had less participation in these
classes than other communi
ties. Pettey is now a field repre
sentative for a school equip
ment firm. Before coming to
southern Oregon with the
state system of higher educa
tion, he was an employee of
the state department of vet
erans affairs.
Dr. Mayfield said today he
has no comment on the suit
at this time.
School Principals
Reelected by Board
Seven Medford school prin
cipals were reelected by the
school board last night. All
other principals in the district
are on tenure, and reelection
by the board is not necessary.
Reelected for the third year
were Herb Wing, West Side,
and Berl M. Cox, McLoughlin
Junior High school. Reelected
on tenure were Mrs. Myrna
Frink, Griffin Creek; Harold
Boner, Howard; Francis Guid
ry, Jacksonville; Lee Mcrri
man, Lone Pine; and Boyd
Gibson, Ruch.
Previously, the board had
extended for one year the
contracts for Superintendent
Leonard B. Mayfield, and As
sistant Superintendents Elliott
Becken and Russell Acheson.
Construction
Chamber Emigrant Dam
Ashland - J. A. Callan, con
struction engineer for the Tal
ent Irrigation project, assured
the Ashland Chamber of Com
merce Tuesday that the Emi
grant lake dam is as safe as it
can be made.
Callan went over construc
tion factors in detail. The latr
est techniques In construction
design and methods have been
used, he said.
The base of the dam Is 1.100
feet thick, Callan said. Mini
mum thickness at the top is
35 feet. The new dam has
been built around an old con
crete dam, which will raise
the dam's height to 190 feet,
enabling a reservoir capacity
of 40,000 acrc-teet of water.
A clay core has been blend
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members of the United States
(UPI Radiotelcphoto)
Ashland Company
Is Low Bidder on
School Addition
Wiley Company, Ashland
submitted a low bid of $33,-
940 for a three-classroom addi
tion to Wilson clainentary
school last night.
Wiley's was the lowest of 11
bids received. The addition
will be completed by Aug. 1.
Other bidders were Batzer
Construction company, $35,-
299; Cummings Construction
company, $36,950; H. C. Gold
smith, $35,528; Holiday Pool
and Construction company
$35,372; Don Jacobs, $36,226;
Myers Jones, $42,400; Loren
Ritchie, $36,708; Rogue Valley
Construction company, $34,
775: Harold Salter, $35,205;
and Dwight L.Seely, $34,721.
. Payne and Struble, 1005
East Main st;, Medford,
architects.
Funds to finance the addi
tion will come from a $750,-
000 bond issue approved by
district patrons March 31,
1960. It is among the last
projects in the two-year build
ing program.
Projects remaining Include
two more classrooms and
renovation work in the girls
and boys' gyms at Medford
High school for more class
room space.
The school board last night
accepted two school building
additions - Hedrick Junior
High school and Ruch school.
Previously, it had accepted
projects at West Side and
Hoover school. ( Projects re
maining to be accepted in
clude additions at McLough
lin Junior High school, Oak
Grove school, and Medford
High school.
Edward Branchficld, board
chairman, said the board was
pleased with bids received for
the Wilson addition.
Oregon Coast Feels
30-Mile-an-Hour Winds
By United Press International
The Oregon coast was bat
tered by heavy winds Tuesday
as Western Oregon was still
recovering from the impact of
severe week end rainstorm
that claimed three lives and
caused extensive damage and
flooding.
Winds reached up to .30
miles an hour Tuesday at the
mouth of the Columbia but
ships continued to leave the
river.
Salem - IUPII - The Oregon
Senate has approved 20-9 a
bill providing that a drunken
hunter or fisherman could
have his license revoked.
Engineer Assures Ashland
ed with harder materials and
packed around the old dam,
Callan said. The clay core is
470 feet thick at the base, he
indicated, and extending on
each side of the core is anoth
er 300 feet of sand, gravel and
rock.
When the reservoir is full,
the water level will be 12 feet
below the top of the dam,
Callan said. A 150-foot wide
concrete spillway has been
constructed a quarter mile
from the dam to insure that
the water will not rise above
the 12-foot level, he said. The
spillway has a capacity of 11,
300 feet of water per second.
An eight-foot thick concrete
tunnel has been bored into
the side of a mountain at one
73 Persons Killed
As Craft Falls
In Belgian Field
Laurence Owen
Among Victims
Brussels, Belgium - fljPB -All
18 members of the United
States figure skating team fly.
ing to Prague for an interna
tional meet were killed today
when a Belgian jet airliner
crashed out of a bright blua
sky near Brussels Airport. Tha
crash killed 73 persons, includ
ing 52 Americans.
Among the dead was Amer.
ica's "queen of the ice," Laur
ence Owen, 16, who won tha
North American figure skat
ing championship only four
days ago in Philadelphia.
Burst Into Flames
Relatives and friends of tha
victims watched in horror
from the Zaventcm Airport
Terminal as the Boeing 707
faltered and fell into an en
dive field nearby. It exploded
and burst into flames so in
tense there was no hope ot
rescue.
This was the first major
air disaster of 1961, the first
crash of a Boeing 707 jet in
commercial service, and a
great tragedy to American
athletics. A number of Ameri
can families perished with th3
skaters
The cause of the accident
only a mile from the end of
an airport runway after a non
stop tlight from New York
was a mystery.
i-ost rladio Contact
The sky was clear and tha
sun was shining brightly when
uie aanona plane dived to the
ground while circling for a
landing- Airport officials said
they lost radio contact with
me pilot as the plane ap
proached the field.
I 'Sabena Airlines officials ';
said there Were "no survivors" '
among1 the 61 passengers and '
11 crewmen. One man work
ing in-the field was killed"
and another was seajwusly in- 1
jured. -' ' i
Miss Owen. Winchester .
arelMass., and the other skaters.,
(were members of the U.S.
team en route to Prague for
the International Skating
Championships which were
cancelled because of the crash.
Mother Equally Famous
Also killed in the crash was
Miss Owen's equally famous
mother, Mrs. Maribel Vinson
Owen, a nine - times figure
skating champion herself, and
Laurence's 20-year-old sister,
also named Maribel, who is a
skating star In her own right.
The disaster wiped out U.S.
hopes for skating victories In
the 1964 Olympics. U.S. sen
ior men's champion Gregory
Kelley, Colorado Springs.
Colo., also was killed.
The man- killed on the
ground was another sports
figure, Theo Dc Later, 21, a .
well-known cyclist who was
released from military service
just two months ago.
Child Hurt When
Struck by Pickup
Gary Madison Mark, 6, of
128 Chestnut St., was taken
to Sacred Heart hospital Tues
day afternoon after he was
struck by a pickup truck op
erated by Donald Gus Stuart,
route 4, box 349B, Medford,
according to city police.
According to reports, the
pickup was caslbound on West
Main st. at Jcanctte St., when
the boy darted across the
street into the side of the
truck. Witnesses told police
that the pickup veered in an
attempt to miss the boy and
hit a fire plug.
The boy was treated at the
hospital and released, it was
reported.
Is Made Safe
side of the dam to insure ad-
ditional flood control, Callan
said. The tunnel will have a
capacity of 700 feet per sec
ond. Callan said there is a sand
stone area behind the dam
which could fall into the res- .
ervoir. No damage will result
if this happens, he said. Other,
fissures have been sealed with
concrete, he told the chamber.
Completion date of the ir
rigation project should be In
April of 1962, Callan said.
Some work on the Emigrant ,
project. Bear creek and lat
erals has not been completed,
Bids for a 20-mile lateral ex
tending from near Ashland to
Griffin creek will be received
March 7, he said.