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Newspaper Page Text55th Year Price 10 Cents Recommended The lumber tnduitry, local clubs and a strong community spirit have played an Import ant role in past and present de velopments in Prospect. Few problems face the community. Read about this bustling and friendly village on page 12 A of today's Malt Tribune. Subscribers EDFORD To report Improper or non delivery of the Mail Tribuno in Med ford and Ashland, phone SP 2-141 boforc 6:45 p.m. dally and 10:30 am, Sunday. If regular delivery arrives shortly after you call, please notify office, thus eliminating special messenger service. United Press International Full Leased Wire United Press International Full Leased Wire 56 Pages Section A MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1961 No. 293 nyLA XT M lBkg$$mi Kid vNl ielataey Mtaits iratal Murder of iotterJoi : -' 1 " , i Lumumba Forces jlake Luluabourg En Big Advance 4 : ; 1 1 Leopoldville, . The ' Congo .', (UPD -r Pro - Lumumba troops J buoyed by the bloodless cap J ture of the capital of Kasa J Province Saturday fanned out I through the bush country in Jan apparent attempt to cut off the rival army of Joceph a Mobutu from, its capital of Leopoldville. . The precision and speed ,3 with which the supporters of slain cx-Perimer Patrice Lu mumba moved out from their Stanleyville stronghold in Ori ental Province indicated out side support. There was spec ulation Communist Czech or United Arab Republic officers were helping them, i The Lumumba troop com mander technically is Gen. Victor Lundula who was a medical corps sergeant-major before Lumumba elevated him last summer. ' Reliable sources said a col umn from Stanleyville seized Ikela in Equator Province, the home . territory of Gen. Mo butu, who has concentrated his forces at Buinba, 135 miles north of Ikela. - The advancing column split Rogue Basin Study unds Said '' Funds for completion of the study of the Rogue River Bas in Development project ap pear to be assured, It was re ported here Friday. V Congressman Edwin R. Dur- no (R-Ore.)' told Ben Hilton, Grants Pass, chairman of the i Rogue River Flood Control and Water Resources associa tion, that the Corps. of Army Old Wimer Bridge Topic of Meeting The county court and the county engineer will meet with residents of the Wimer area at. the Wimer Grange Tuesday, March 14, at 8 p.m. to disuss the old Wimer cov ered bridge. The bridge, one of the first built in the county and closed to motor traffic several years ago, is considered a hazard by county officials and is ex pected to be removed. County Judge Earl Miller said that the meeting has been arranged through the coopera tion of Grange Master Chester Jensen , and Evans Valley School Principal Earl L. Covey. - Judge Miller explained that the county plans to construct a temporary bridge across Evans creek to accommodate foot traffic. It was reported that school children use the bridge to reach school. 1 The meeting will serve to Inform the residents on what is being planned. Judge Miller said that the move is being made for the benefit and safe ty of the area's residents. World-Wide Non-Missil at Ikela, according . to dis patches and one fork headed for Boende on the road to the Equatorial Provincial capital of Coquilhatville The other branched out for the north Kasai town, of Lomela. Strength .of the columns was not renown, but some 300 Lumumba men took the Kasai capital of Luluaborg Friday without firing a shot. The 80- man garrison there surrended to them. New Congolese Premier Joseph Ileo gave the U. N. command until noon yester day to get the Lumumbists out of Luluabourg or else he would send troops to do the job. But the U. N. command did not take the ultimatum seriously. No troops were sent. The deadline passed unnoticed. The Lumunibists under the regime of Soviet-backed An- toine Gizenga in Stanleyville now control three of the six provincial Congo capitals Stanleyville, Luluabourg and Bukavi, capital of Kivu Prov ince. Assured Engineers has transferred $15,000 from other funds to he Rogue, Basin study ac count. This will ,: carry the studies through the balance of this fiscal year, , lso, iCongressman Durno said, and additional $35,000 is contained -lft-the budget for fiscal year 1962 (beginning July 1, 1961; for the purpose, and will be adequate to com plete the study. . Public Hearings . . It, is hoped the report can be completed in time for pub lic hearings to be held m sum mer or fall, with a bill intro duced, to authorize construc tion early in 1962. The Corps of Engineers has been -working on the studies for several years,, in coopera tion with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and other ag encies. " . The tentative plans include four dams on the Applegate river near Cooper, on Elk creek, at Lost Creek on the Rogue and at the Meadows site on Evans creek. Preliminary cost estimates, based on 1959 figures, indicate the costs will be in excess of $64 million. The project Js designed to create values and benefits for irrigation, flood control, pow er generation, water supply, recreation and fish-life. HARRIMAN DISPATCHED Washington - HJPU - Presi dent Kennedy Saturday dis patched Ambassador-at-large Averell Harnman to London, Paris, Bonn and Rome to con vey the chief executive's personal greetings to western leaders "and discuss matters of broad mutual interest." e Gap 2 rlv i - PLANES FLIPPED During high winds Friday afternoon several private airplanes at Medford airport were forced from their moorings and sent flying into the air . . .but not the way they .were meant to. The picture above shows two, one belonging to the Civil Air Patrol, and the other owned by Bill Thorndyke and Doug Gardenier, that were Valley Residents Take Inventory Of Wind Damage Rogue Valley residents Sat urday took inventory of -damage from strong gusty winds Friday which caused numer ous, power outages, felled trees, blew shingles off hun dreds of buildings, and upset four planes at the Medford Municipal airport. The dollar value of damage resulting from gusts up to 63 miles an hour may never be known since considerable damage resulted to residential area homes, but it probably wilt reach into the hundreds of thousands of dollars. The California-Oregon Pow er company said it received more than 150 complaints Fri day of power outages, the majority -of -them small. Most of them were caused by felled trees or limbs. Planes Upset At the i Medford . airport, planes owned by the Civil Air Patrol and Bill Thorndyke and. Doug Gardenier were up set by a strong gust of wind A Piper cub moored near an airport building also broke loose and fell across a Cessna 182 owned by Dr. C. H. Hall of Happy Camp, Calif. , In Grants Pass, the wind blew in a plate glass window. and ripped part of the roof off Grants Pass High school. Classes ' were dismissed, and will not be resumed until re; pairs have been made. .Highway 99 north of the Rock Point'bridge was closed for. a while Friday afternoon when the wind blew trees and parts of a barn across the high way, according to state police, Traffic was routed along the old stage road between Gold Hill and Rogue River.- Weather bureau officials at the Medford airport said Winds sustained a velocity of from 25 to 30 miles an hour between 10:30 a.m. and 5 p.m Friday. Gusts ranged up to 63 miles per hour. ine strongest gusts were noted when the actual storm front passed over the area, but precipitation from the storm amounted to only .25 of an inch. When the winds started Fri day morning, the temperature jumped from 39 degrees at 10 a.m. to-61-degrees at 11 a.m., most of rise noted within a 10-minute period. Followine the front's passage, temper atures dipped to 39 degrees by 10 p.m. Friday after reaching a high of 63 degrees. - Representative From Pennsylvania Dies -, Washington - (UPD -Rep. Walter M. Mumma (R-Pa.), died Saturday at the Bethesda Naval Medical Center. He was 70. 4 Mumma suffered a stroke Thursday. His condition had been critical since Thursday. He had represented the J 6th district since 1951. He was a native of Stecltqn, Pa., but had lived in Harrisbnrg. NIMITZ TURNS 76 . Berkeley. Calif. - (UPD-Flcet Adm. Chester W. Nimitz, commander of the U.S. Paci fic Fleet in World War II, ob served his 76th birthday Fri day, 5, 1 . - " V-Jkj? tW WCt!i 7 Vt' ttl 'J''' ' HOUSE DAMAGED A large oak tree. up-. rooted by. high winds Friday, came down on the home of Mr. and Mrs. Oba Logan, 732 West 2nd St., Medford, while Logan watched helplessly. The tree had already began to fall but had become hung up in Elements Wreak Havoc in East By United Press International Floods, foot - deep snows, rain, dust blizzards and the threat of tornadoes mauled the eastern two-thirds of the nation late Saturday, and the death toll blamed on the ele ments rose to nine. - Some of the worst flooding in 42 years forced more than 7,000 persons from their homes in the sodden south east, which had nine straight days of rain in some sections. Nine persons drowned. New flood threats rose In New Jersey, where residents along the Ramapoo, Prompton and Passaic rivers were warn ed of possible evacuation, and at Rosendale, N.Y., where an ice jam on the Roundout river threatened to send water sloshing through the streets. Surprise Storm A surprise snowstorm whip ped across Indiana and Ohio into Pennsylvania, accompa nied by high winds. It left up to a foot of snow, creating a state of emergency in Indiana, where whole counties were paralyzed. Wind gusts up to 49 miles an hour tore off roofs, knocked out windows and shredded utilities wires. Winter thunderstorms whip ped Virginia, accompanied by hail and strong winds. Warn- ngs of possible isolated tor nadoes were posted. Arctic air from Canada sifted into the northwest quarter of the nation, bring- ng strong, gusty winds which whipped up clouds of dust from the unprotected plains. OSC SELECTED Salem - tUPI) - Oregon Stale college (university) at Corval lis is one of eight institutions in the country selected to train architects and engineers in fallout shelter design. The announcement was made by Gov, Mark Hatfield. 4 wiklaiiw extensively damaged. A Piper cub moored near the Avia tion Services building at the airport, also broke loose and landed on top of a 182 Cessna owned by Dr. C. H. Hall of Happy Camp, Calif. Minor damage to wind and tail sur faces on other planes was also reported. Castro Seeks Better Relations With U.S. Havana - (UPD - The Fidel Castro government last night informed Latin American na tions with whom it has diplo matic ties that Cuba is willing to accept their good offices to GB Favors U.N. Seat For Mainland China London -(UPD- Britain, after a review of policy toward Red China, now can be expected to favor openly a seat for Pci ping in the United Nations despite. American opposition, diplomatic sources said Satur day. ' ' 1 There was speculation Prime Minister Harold Macmillan might visit Red China next fall during a scheduled Far East visit. ' " The sources said Macmillan would be certain to discuss the British position on Red China with President Ken nedy when they meet in Wash ington In April. Sports Bulletins Medford High school's basketball leam clinched a berth in the Oregon Class A-I basketball tournament last night by lacing Grants Pais here 75 to 44. Jim Barry and Bob Ouinney each scored 22 points for Medford with Barry can-' ning IS free throws without i mill. t Klamslh Falls Klamath Union High school took sole possession of the Southern Oregon conference basket ball diadem by downing Ashland 87 to 54 her last night. Bruce Brickner scor ed 21 points for Klamath and Jerry Hauck was high for Ashland with 17. USC 74rdSC68 A 1S telephone wires and Logan was outside try ing to get help. As he watched, the support ing, limb broke and the tree toppled onto the house, breaking the fireplace chimney and a window. : ' ' (Keith Boyd photo)' improve relations' with the United Slates. But at the same time the Cuban regime placed the blame for continuing hostility between Washington and Ha vana on the Kennedy admin istration, according to authori tative sources. An announcement said For eign Minister Raul Roa sent formal notes to the ; Latin American embassies. While the contents wore not made public, authoritative sources said the documents totaled 25 pages and made three main points. The notes were delivered as Brazil lodged a formal com plaint with Roa over the halt ing of an embassy official at gun point by military intelli gence agents outside that country's embassy residence in suburban Havana. ' The complaint, which drew an immediate apology from Roa, said embassy secretary Marcos De Salvo Coinbra was halted by agents with drawn guns when he failed to stop his car upon entering the resi dence driveway. Authoritative sources said tne wordy notes to "friendlv1 Latin governments. Including Brazil, contained these do nts -Cuba, previously violently hostile to Lalin efforts to ne gotiate a conciliation with the U.S.. is now agreeable to such overtures. -The Castro aovernmont despite the prime minister's statement that Cuba will ex port Its revolution to the rest of Latin America in defiance of the U.S., really does not intend to do so. -The Kennedy administra tion has failed to "rectify the mistakes" of the Eisenhower government toward Cuba and Is, in fact, continuing the same Hostile policies aimed at Castro's overthrow. Stevenson Says Russia Wants End To Congo Efforts U.N. Said Blocking Red Penetration Washington - (UPD - U.S. Ambassador Adlal E. Steven son accused Russia Saturday of trying to "destroy" United Nations peace efforts in The Congo as an opening wedge for "Soviet penetration of Central Africa." He gave his views after a conference of the powderkeg Congo situation with Secre tary of Stale Dean Rusk. Stevenson, who heads the United States U.N. delegation, said the effectiveness of the U.N. is an "obstacle" to a Red drive lo win domination in the turbulent Central African area. Rusk also conferred on The Congo and other African mat ters with Ambassador Telli Boubacar Diallo of Guinea, who was paying his first form al call on the new secretary. Concrete Steps Diallo said he expressed to Rusk his country's hopes that the new U.S. administration would "take very concrete steps to bring about a just solution in The Congo." The ambassador said Rusk ex plained the U.S. position on .The Congo. Stevenson said he and Rusk during their meeting gave "top billing" to consideration of Soviet Nikita Khrushchev's renewed demand for elimina tion, of. the United Nations from The Congo and recogni tion of the pro - Communist regime of Premier Antoine Gizenza in Stanleyville. He said that in his view "It seems a pity that the Russians won't give the Afro - Asian U.N. resoluUon a chance for implementation before renew ing their attack on the Secre tary General (Dag Hammar- skjold) and the U.N. itself." Refers To Resolution . , Stevenson referred to the resolution sponsored by the United Arab Republic, Ceylon and Liberia, adopted by the Security Council last Tuesday, wnicn gave Hammarskiold in creased authority to use force if necessary to pacify The Congo. .. American officials said key element in the success of the new plan would be India's decision whether to supply the additional troops necessary to enable the U.N. to exercise its increased efforts. Khrushchev renewed de mands for an end of the U.N, operation in The Congo was addressed particularly to In dian Prime Minister Jawahar lal Nehru, although copies went to other government leaders in Europe, Asia, and Latin America. Eight Drunk Driving Trials Scheduled An unusually high number of trials for driving while un der the influence of intoxicat ing liquor are pending in dis trict court, according to Dis trict Judge L. L. Sawyer. Eight persons charged with the offense have entered in nocent pleas, he said, and trials have been scheduled Judge Sawyer reminded drivers that a person convict ed for the first time of driv ing under the influence may receive a maximum, sentence of one year in the county jail andor $1,000 fine. Accord ing to state statute the guilty person's operator's license is suspended for 90 days. The usual fine for first of. fense has been $300, although recently 10 days In the county jail has been added to this. Josephine County First in Program Grants Pass - (UPD - Jose phine county is the first coun ty In the state to set up a sur plus food program. County Judge Raymond A. Lathrop, a member of the State Public Welfare commis sion, estimated April 1 as the date distribution will start. Plans call for certification by the welfare department for those on welfare and also certain low-income families who will be eligible for sur plus food, an Shoots And Chokes By PEG HUTCHINSON Mail Tribune Staff Writer LeeRoy Sanford McGahuey, 43, Central Point,- admitted Saturday afternoon in a sign ed confession the brutal mur ders of Mrs. Loris Mac Holt and her 21-month-old Rod. The bodies of Mrs. Holt and her son were found Wednesday afternoon at the Bishop apartments, 415 South Front St., Central Point. Mc Gahuey, who was wanted by Medford city police on a check charge, was known to be a friend of Mrs. Holt, He was arrested Thursday morn ing in Medford and question ed about the murders. . According to the confes sion Mrs. Holt was killed about 7:20 a.m. Monday, Feb. 13. Her son was killed later that morning. No motives were given for the crimes. Extreme Brutality . District Attorney Alan B. Holmes reported that with the confessions, the extreme brutality of Mrs. Holt's death became known. He said that she had been beaten with a hammer, , strangled, . stabbed in both the chest and back and shot once In the head with a small caliber hand weapon. Both the hammer and knife were found In the closet with the bodies. Holmes said that McGahuey has told officers where he put the gun. District Attorney Holmes said that a. formal charge of first degree murder will be filed against McGahuey Mon day. In the confession, according to Holmes, McGahuey stated that he returned to the Holt apartment at least once not twice after,Feb. 13. Cuts Sceen if He admitted cutting the window screen to give the ap pearance mat someone had broken into the apartment from the room. He also stated in the confession that he had telephoned the Central Point cleaning establishment Feb 13 where Mrs. Holt was em ployed saying she was ill and would not be to work ' According to Holmes,( Mc Gahuey admitted g o 1 n g to California and had only re turned to the valley shortly before his arrest. Jackson County Jailer Paul H a n 1 i n was credited ,'by Holmes with i obtaining the confession from McGahuey. Holmes said McGahuey talk ed with. H a n 1 1 n when he would not talk to officers. It was to Hanlin, Holmes indi cated, that McGahuey gave the first oral confession of the murders. I Discrepancies Noted Holmes explained that there were discrepancies in McGahuey's statement' and medical reports. Preliminary autopsy reports show that Mrs. Holt died from strangu lation. .- . ' The lie detector test, which McGahuey had voluntarily undergone Friday proved to be inconclusive, Holmes said. The sheriff and. undershcr iff of Lewis county, Wash., are in Medford this week end to question McGahuey about a 1957 murder in Lewis coun ty. The physical -characteristics of the-two murders , are said to be similar. McGahuey was wanted in .Washington for violation of probation for a January, 1960, conviction of taking indecent liberties with a minor child. . , ... Joint Efforts Holmes stressed that the murder investigation was made through the Joint ef forts of the, Jackson , county sheriff's office, Oregon state police, and Central Point po lice. Friday afternoon McGa huey was arraigned in dis- WEATHER FORECAST: Fair today with In rrras)nt cloudlntsi tonight and Monday, Chance of fthowers Monday, High today 52, Low tonlfht 30. High Monday .in. Tmp. Hilhfit Yiiterday .X ....48 Preclp. To 5 p.m. Yciterday ... ....25 Our Skies Tonight Sunsft today .5:.17 p.m. Sunrls tomorrow ft:M a.m. The Moon sat i .....5:13 a.m. tomorrow and 1b In Apogee, that point on Hi orbit furthcut from the Earth. The plantt, Venus, "ft 9:J p.m. tonlfht and fs In Perihelion, that point on iti orbit nearest the Sun. Note: The Moon orbits around tha Earth; Venui orblti around tha Sua. . Stabs Victim w.r.. Y' ' A i it J! 7-V V T 'l 1 s LEEROY SANFORD i McGAHUEY Admits Murder trict court on a charge of uk tering and publishing a forged check. He was bound over to the grand jury and held on $1,500 bail. Holmes indicated that McGahuey had passed more than $600 worth of forged checks in the Med ford area. Also questioned regarding the murders was Mrs. Holt's estranged husband, Charles Theodore Holt, who returned voluntarily from Nevada. He voluntarily underwent the polygraph tests Friday after noon. .... v , ANG Jet Crashes Near Portland v 'Portland -(UPD- An Air Na tlonal Guard F-89J jet fighter crashed in an isolated area about two miles north of here Saturday. . One of two men aboard tha plane was found. He was iden tified as. Lewis E. Hamilton, Ihe-rador observer, from Mon mouth,- Ore. He was taken to the Air Base hospital here where his condition is report ed as fair! f Multnomah county sheriffs officers were looking for tha second man. Parachutes Found r Two parachutes were found in.the area, one dangling from tree. No. one was found in the wreckage. . Thei P o r t be nd Air base would not' identify the two men but said both were from Portland, Ore. ; The control tower at tha Portland International airport said the plane was in-bound fora-landing. A woman, who said she was looking out of her window at her house near the crash scene, said' she saw the plana burst into flames. , County Opens Bids For Two Buildings The contract for the con struction of two buildings for the Jackson county extension service is expected: to ba awarded Tuesday, according to County Judge Earl Miller. Bids were opened Friday af ternoon with the apparent low bidder Don Jacobs construc tion company, Medford. Tha bid was SI 16,231. i Six other bids were receiv ed. They were Ausland Con struction ' company, Grants Pass, $119,300; Loren Ritchie, Medford, $124,902; Myer Jqnes, Medford, $125,900; Harold Salter, Rogue River, $127,883; Wiley company, Ashland, $132,200; and Strand Inc., Seattle, Wash.. $136,150. The buildings, which will be an auditorium and an ad ministration building, will be constructed adjacent to tha Jackson county fairgrounds. Prosecution Seeks Death for Menderes Yassiada, Turkey - (UPD -The prosecution Saturday de manded the death-penalty for ousted former Premier Adnan, Menderes and 17 ex-government officials being tried. on Yassiada Islnnd. ;- I!, was the fourth time in the mass treason trials of more than 400 former gov ernment officials that tha death penalty had been aiked for Menderes, who is accused on a' number of wide-ranging counts. tff .-S3 inr-- i rj