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MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD, OREGON THURSDAY. MARCH 30, 1961 1 t th" n 1 rtnAlLcl .yj -r ' fCCC?vCC3''l loc'' g ' KM0OM g KMOM Student Rioting on Florida Beach Blamed On Compound of Idle Boredom, Liquor Editor's note: For the first time in thi' yoars-loiifi history of the spring-vacation trek of college stu dents to thfir romance mecra, Fort Lauderdale, Fla., rioting broke out til ik week when mobs of young sters defied police authority. Ul'I Correspondent 11. I. Quigg ar rived during a riot Monday night to study the troubled situation on the storied beach which is the set ting of the book and the recent motion picture "Where the Boys Are." Hera is his report. JS Ranch and Modern Homes By HIAWATHA ESTES Basic materials have been used with both simplicity and honesty In this design to pro duce an extremely livable home. The design offers nu merous imaginative ideas and details to stimulate one's thinking. 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And underneath in small letters that almost seem an afterthought, it says: "Have Fun". As the Faster week end ap proaches, the small word "fun" has worked itself from a tickle of pleasure to a throb of migraine headaches for this lovely, palm-fronded, town-in-the-sun. At mid-week some wag stuck a sign up at the city jail entrance saying: "Where the Boys Are." It was entirely correct. The girls who were arrested were sent to another jail. About 400 students have been arrested. More than 200 male students were in jail Wednesday. The trouble is a compound of idle boredom and liquor but it has been catalyzed by a mixture of local punks and pug-uglies and callow, beer- surly high school youths. The police allowed them to take over a state highway parallel ing the beach in bottle-throw ing, firecracker-popping me lees for two nights and then, weary of trying to be nice, slapped them down. Crowds Discouraged Police barricaded the roads leading to the beach area and screened out the carloads of local sight-seers and high schoolers. They let no knots of persons congregate except at a roped-off section of high way set aside for college dancing a mile and a half north of the spot of the riots. And so, comparative b u t tense quiet was brought to the night in the strip "where the boys are," from the place called the Elbow Room (beer and whisky) to the apart ments named so help me Casa Lohta. By day, the scei.e has been good. Thousands of college students on the brown-yellow sand and sidewalks. A pale moon riding high over the At lantic. Sunburns and garish attire sweaters, blazers jackets with names of a myr iad of colleges and student societies. One little brunette with a sweat-shirt lettered "U.S.A. Drinking Team." Stu dents singing in groups. And most of these kids arc not rioters, although many of them have got themselves worked up in the bars on beer and spirits during the long afternoons. Most of them just "went along with the mob" to watch. Town Troubled This town is sorely troubled at the problem. But it is not a town engulfed by trouble or taken over by young fry on the loose. Fort Lauderdale and environs comprise about 80 square miles. There are 500 miles of streets. The stu dent trouble has been in one Farm Economy 10 Per Cent Over Early 1960 Level Washington -IUPII- Cash re ceipts have been flowing into the farm economy at a rate more than 10 per cent above the levels of early 1960. This pace may not continue through the year for all com modities. Egg prices, for in stance, are expected to be lower through most of the rest of 1961. But there are indica tions that net farm Income will go up this year from the 1960 rate. Increased Support Net farm income in 1960 was about $11.6 billion. Ad ministration officials are say ing the steps they have taken this year will raise the 1961 total by between $1.5 and $2 billion. The Administration has an nounced increased 1961 sup port prices for major crops including cotton, feed grains, oilseeds, and milk. Agricul ture Department economists believe that if there are any increases in farm costs this year, they will be moderate The department reported Thursday that farm product sales in January and Febru ary reached a total of S5.3 oil lion, more than 10 per cent above a year ago. February was the 10th straight month in which cash receipts were above the levels of the same month one year earlier. Livestock Sales Up j Receipts from livestock sales for the two months peri- ; od were up 9 per cent from i the same period in 1960 and j receipts from sales of crops l Jumped 16 per cent. In both cases, there was on ! a combination this year of 1 heavier marketings and high i er prices. Overall, marketings i were up 7 per cent, and ' prices were up 4.5 per cent. beach area of only about six blocks. A gentle southeast breeze wafted over the breakers Monday at 11 p.m. as this ob server walked south down the beach toward the corner where a riot the night before had been quelled with the aid of fire hoses. The street along the beach is Atlantic blvd., which is also Highway A1A. The police had blocked it off a few blocks from the corner of Las Olas blvd. because now for the sec ond night a mob or maybe "unruly crowd" is a better w o r d had formed and blocked it at the corner. The crowd grew from 3,000 to 5,000. The number of students in town has been estimated variously by authorities from 15,000 to 35,300. Las Olas runs at right angles west ward, over the inland water way and into the city. The unruly corner always has been a sort of "drugstore cor ner" for local youth even in the off-season. Mayor Edward H. Johns has said "for them its Times Square, and there's no getting away from it. Acrobat Cheered The crowd was surging around, cheering, chanting amid firecracker reports, giv ing the police a hard time when suddenly, at 11:15 a boy in white shorts and a checked sports shirt shinnied up a 25- foot pole and started doing stunts on a long arm that angles over the street to hold traffic light. The crowd booed the police who told him to come down. The mayor, agitated, asked for order and got booed. He was on a bal cony with a loudspeaker. Most of the crowd was just watching good naturedly. This eruption of violence will seem strange to oldsters who remember beautiful Fort Lauderdale from their college days. The annual hegira from the campus to this beach is popularly stated to have start ed 16 years ago. But old timers say they can remem bcr that in the 1930s, this was a spring vacation center for collegians Fort Lauderdale has an 85, 000 permanent population, which swells to around 150,- 000 at the peak of the winter season. It is used to influxes, but as editor and publisher Jack W. Gore of the Fort Lauderdale News says: "You cannot stick 15,000 kids in a six-block area and not have trouble. A Lot of Phonies "There are a lot of phonies in there, and a lot of high school punks looking for trou ble. Ninety per cent of these college kids are good kids. They live on the beach, tak ing a rest from exams. Most of them come by car. They leave a lot of money here, when you figure they come and go over a period of four to five weeks and stay five days per kid." Police Chief J. Lester Holt, 45, a square-jawed infantry man and professional welter weight boxer, said emphati cally thnt the police patience "is wearing a little thin." Holt said 40 per cent of the people in the Monday night mob were "residents of this county," that someone "could well have been killed." He said he was against giving the students a beach where they could drink: "If someone gets drowned, who will have condoned it?" Majority Disapproves On the beach, a carload of girls from Michigan State pulled to a curb. "It's a shame, like Newport," said straw skimmered Sheila Slimon, 19, of Crosse Polnte, Mich. "It's too bad, the majority disap prove it," said Leigh Camp bell, 20, of Fowlervllle, Mich. Asked what caused the mob, Doris Anderson, 20, of Chicago, said: "Too much drinking - they want to let off steam. We were here last week and it wasn't bad at all - very nice." The girls drove down in 35 hours In the convertible of blonde Diana Bob, 21, of De troit, who said seven girls were living in one apartment a mile and a half inland: "We've been living for 50 cents a day apiece for food been buying all our food and cooking It. We spend the aft ernoon at the beach and go back and cook again. Usually we find someone to take us to breakfast. How? They find us." Too Many at Once Carl (Butch) MacCartee, 20, (he has a butch haircut), a Duke university sophomore, said this was his third trip here and that "this year too many came at once - also, you only got so much money and you don't want to take a girl to the bar at night, you want to take 'em on the beach." That nothlng-lo-do theme is the alleged cause of the trou ble. The students In previous years have had night blanket and bonfire and beer parties Jade beach, a privately and Dania prohibited the stu dents. Fort Lauderdale does not allow parties at night on its public beach, and there can be no beer drinking on it at any time. Drinking Is in the bars. They, too, began closing when the Sunday riot started. In the city commission room, four commissioners and Mayor Johns heard sugges tions on what to do. The may or said: "Monday night we cut off Atlantic blvd. and let them in there and what did they do? Stood and posed for television. There were a lot of local hangers-on. They're not all bad. I counted 70 Sun day in church. But when we tried to talk to them out there, they booed. I tell you, the language they used was disgraceful. If some of them can't act like ladies and gentlemen, let them get out. We were very lucky there was not somebody killed." A white-haired former pro fessor, Earl Fleischman, pro posed a five-point program including special Good Friday services, a dance, and a field meet to help rid congestion on the beaches. William Weir, past presi dent of the Apartment House association, said the students do not want planned enter tainment. Fleischman started to in terject what they wanted and Weir snapped: "I'll tell you what they want, sir." The mayor ordered the remark stricken from the record. Weir said he thought, in view of the students arrogance, "we need some adverse pub licity - not 'Where the Boys Are,' but 'Where the Boys Shouldn't Be.'" Operators Get Pay Demands Portland -0JPII- Contract Im provement demands for tim ber and sawmill workers in two unions have been handed to mill operators in Western Oregon and Washington, an industry spokesmean said to day. The hikes would cost em ployers 23 cents hourly for members of the Lumber and Sawmill Workers Union and 10 cents an hour for members of the International Wood workers of America, accord ing to management sources. REPORTS $20,000 THEFT New York lUPD Burglars stole $20,000 in furs and jew els from singer Eartha Kitt's room at the Hotel Plaza Wednesday. Miss Kitt, who has been burglarized many times in the last few years, discovered that $13,000 in furs and $7,000 in jewelry were missing when she re lumed to her room Wednes day night. Karl Glos, vice-president of the newly formed Timber Op erators Council, Inc., said the demands were expected to spread industry-wide. The council was organized last Oc tober. Glos said that anything that adds to the cost of producing lumber or wood products means "we are pricing our selves more and more out of the market. MERGER RULING NEAR Washington -lliPli- The Civil Aeronautics Board is expect ed to make a final decision on the merger of Capital and United airlines within 10 days, it was disclosed Wednesday. CHEAPER. TOO London - (UPU - John and Petra Green tried to make a success of their 1959 divorce, but it just didn't work out. They remarried Wednesday because "it was so lonely be ing apart." SEARS -A - 5 Y owned beach seven miles to the north, and on the munici pal beach at Dania, the next town to the south. 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