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Early Stock Market Dealings Wipe Out tosses Suffered Monday Story Page 2A 4aBsaBw - , .. - I .e- . Regional Edition 57th Yea Price 10 Cents MEDFO . r . , . . 44 PAGES Five Sections i- ; ; P xrfVKSLXIOSs. I ill U MV 1? ?mEUM$S$ ill JJ U 1 j XSA0 MEDFORD. OREGON, THURSDAY, MAY 31, 1962 n0. ai RARE BIRD This mother busy supplying food to marvel albino offspring in a nest at Manor Resident Killed in Crash On Highway 99 A 72-year-old Rogue Valley Manor resident died yester day afternoon when she was thrown from the car in which she was riding directly under the wheels of a passing truck. The victim was Amalla Welch, a passenger in a car driven by Mrs. Nartha Anne Leslie, 69, also of the Manor. According to investigating city police officers, the Les lie car was southbound on the North Pacific highway, re turning from a trip to Grants Pass, when the two women decided to stop at the Big Y supermarket. . As the Leslie car started to turn left at the intersection of North Pacific highway and Table Rock rd., it was struck from behind by a vehicle driv en by Margaret Diana Whiso nant, 19, Grants Pass.(?.. e Propelled Inlo Truck ' ,', . ' . The impact propelled the Leslie car tmo the side of a northbound truck operated by Gillis Jesse Fleener, 49. Port land. Mrs. Welch was thrown from the car when it collided with the truck, and the rear wheels of the vehicle passed over her," killing her instant, ly, officers' said. ; Mrs. Leslie was taken to' Rogue Valley hospital by Medford Ambulance Service, where she was treated and re leased. No citations were issued in connection with the accident, police said. Funeral arrange ments for Mrs. Welch will be announced bv Conser-Morris .Funeral home. The only other persons to die as the result of Oregon accidents during the Memorial Day holiday was Walter Fe lix Bowman, 55, of Unity, who was fatally burned while welding a diesel tank on a log ging truck at Unity. Finance Department Assistant Chosen Salem - (UPD - Ralph Miner, 35. Salem, today was ap pointed chief of the manage ment division of the State De partment of Finance and Ad ministration, making him the second ranking person in the agency, one of the most pow erful in Oregon government. The department controls purscstrings of the state budg et, and draws up the gover nor's proposed budget every two years. . Miner succeeds Leon Mar gosian, who resigned to work for the U.S. State Department on assignment in Pakistan. Miner has been Margosian's assistant since 1959. The head nf the management division puis him just under the direc tor of tlic department. Free man Holmer. ITEMS FROM PRIME MINISTER OF TURKEY RESIGNS Ankara. Turkty-Wl - Prim Minister Ismet Inonu, 78, grand old man of Turkish politics, resigned today in a crisis ovr demands for th reUast of impriiontd members of xecutod Prim Minister Mndri' govrnmnl. SPACE PROBE LAUNCHED AT VANDENBERG Vandenbcrg AFB. Calif.-IPI-A ipact preb mploying t Blu Scout booster combination rocket wit launched today by the Air Fore. Th tcr 20-word Air Fore announcement contained no details ol th launch er its program. IWA TO SEEK WAGE INCREASES Spokane. Waih. - in - Th International Woodworkers ol America will aik wage increases of 30 cents an hour in nego- cations with Eastern Washington and NertherC Idaho firms beginning next week. robin is too over her rare Racine, Wis. Birth of an albino robin is considered rare occurring about once in 10,000 hatchings. (UPI) Israeli President Rejects Eichmann's Appeal From Death Jersusalem, Israel - IUPD -Israeli President Itzhak Ben Zvi has rejected Adolf Eich mann's final appeal from his death sentence, reliable sources said tonight. The same sources told Unit ed Press International that Local Man Admits Burglaries Here Doyle Dwayne Trapp, 28, of , 718 West 14th St.. Medford. who was arrested in Reno, Nev., Monday, has given state ments to Medford city police admitting about 15 burglaries in the city during a six-month period. Police Chief Chfrles P. Champlin said today, i Trapp was held by Reno police after he attempted to cash about $2Q0 in dimes at a gambling casino there. The casino attendant, an off-duty ! police officer, became suspi cious, called his headquarters and had Trapp taken inlo cus tody. Medford officers returned Trapp to Medford yesterday and lodged him in the city jail. Under interrogation, Trapp admitted burglaries dating back to Dec. 21, when he broke into the Monarch Seed and Feed store, 305 South Fir st. Among other burglaries. Trapp admitted taking about $200 from the Shcrwin Wil liams Paint store, 1229 Court St., March 18; about $300 from a safe in the Timber Room, 3 South Riverside ave., March 25;-near!y $700 from Sy's Tavern, 129 North Riverside ave., April 4; between $200 and $300 from the Tabu, 305 South Riverside ave., April 18: and between S600 and S700 from the Paylcss Drug store in the Medford Shopping Center May 28, Champlin said. Trapp also admitted at least six other burglaries in the valley, outside the city dur ing the past few months. City police officers indicat ed Trapp may be arraigned in Jackson county district court this afternoon. British Envoy, Wife Visitors in Oregon Portland WIlS i r David Ormsby-Gore, British ambas sador to the United States, and his wife were Oregon visitors today. Both were honored at sepa rate dinners here Wednesday night and were to lunch with Gov. Mark Hatfield in Salem lonay. They plan to go to Seattle this weekend to attend the World s Fair. V. AROUND THI OlOM BR EPS I J ', : Eichmann's execution by hanging now might come at any time, possibly as early as Friday morning. An announcement on the rejection of the appeal to President Ben-Zvi was be lieved imminent. Eichmann was convicted of mastermind ing the extermination of six million Jews during World War II. Tightest security surround ed the next step, but Israeli I Prisons Commissioner Arye ! Nir said earlier todav that, if Eichmann's appeal to the pres- ident was turned down, "the execution might be carried out within a few hours." . Eichmann's last known whereabouts were his cell at Ramie Prison near Tel Aviv, to which he was returned fol lowing loss of his appeal, to the Israeli Supreme Court in Jerusalem Tuesday. Government snnrpps .iaiH no execution would be carried out on a Saturday, the Jewish sabbath, or Sunday, the Chris tian sabbath. For this reason, the sources said, it was quite likely the execution might come Friday. It was possible no an nouncement that Eichmann had been executed would be made until he already had been hanged. Washington Free Of Traffic Deaths By United Press International Warhington state got through the Memorial day holiday with no traffic fatal ities, but two persons drown ed and one other was killed in a farming accident. Mike Noller, 11, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ted Nollar, Seattle, drowned in Lake Wcnatchce Wednesday afternoon. The other drowning victim was identified as George Johnson, home address un available, who died in a boat ing accident al Big Lake in Skagit county. lngval Sundhein, 61. was killed while working in a field on a farm about 20 miles north of Colvillc. Stathos Campaign Expenses Reported Salem -il'Pli- The unsuccess ful campaign to get Donald Stathos. Medford. nominated as Republican slate senator in the May 18 primary cost $1,- 1 931, according to reports in i the state elections office here. This included personal ex penses by Stathos of $194 The balance was spent by his ; committee. The committee listed contribution? of $1,097. Stathos was beaten by L. w Newrby of Talent, the in- cumbenl senator from Jack- i sn county. Newbry's cam paign cost S3.062 the most expensive campaign in a con- test for a state legislative seat reported so far here this year SENTENCED ! Earl Bruce Stewart. 21, of 829 West 11th st.. Me ford. ; was sentenced today to 3H years in the Oregon stale pen itentiary for burglary not in ' a dwelling. Stewart, who was ' charged with entering the Griffin Creek school, appear ed before Judge James M. Main in circuit court BRIDGE DOOMED , Dallas. Ore. -HIPP- One of only two old covered fridges in Polk CDinty is to e torn down soon, and replaced with modern, open span. It is lo cated in the Kings Valley vi- cinity on State Highway 223 Holiday Traffic Takes 111 Lives; Sets New Record California Leads With 14 Deaths By United Presi International The nation's Memorial Day traffic toll reached 111, a record, final tabulations show ed today. The death rate increased in the waning hours of the holi day and passed the record of 109 set in 1956 for a one-day Memorial Day fatality count. The National Safety Coun cil had estimated the toll would range between 80 and 120. Total of 191. Deaths Final figures compiled by United Press International showed this breakdown: traf fic, 111; drownings, 38; I planes, 13, and miscellaneous, i 28 for a total of 191. California led the nation with 14 traffic deaths. Michi gan had 9 traffic fatalities, Ohio and Pennsylvania 7 each, Texas and Maryland 6 each, and Missouri and New York 5 each. Car Leaves Road , .... ! In one of the worst holiday mishaps, three persons were i killed and four others injured when a car left a country road and overturned near Greeley, Colo., Wednesday night. The worst accident occurred near Sunderland. Md., when a car crashed into a tree and killed five persons, Four per sons died in a two-car collision near Beaverton, Mich. A fire Wednesday night killed Paul Francis Hayes, 27, and his four small daughters near Fort Dodge, Iowa. In Connecticut, Mrs. Edna Mil ler, 27, Stamford, and Sidney Smith, 38, Stratford, were drowned when they leaped into a nond to trv to save the woman's daughter. - Three plane crashes within 20 minutes in (jnautauqua county, New York, killed six persons Tourists Flock To Jacksonville Jacksonville - Tourists flocked to Jacksonville dur ing the Memorial Day holiday yesterday. The Jacksonville Museum counted 390 visitors. Besides local and 'Oregon visitors, they included people from the six Pacific coast slates, and Utah, Arizona, Hawaii and Poland. The number of visitors to the newly opened C. C. Bcekman home on California st. was more than 400 by the end of the day. "We had only one com plaint about the admission charge. Everybody else was most complimentary," a mem ber of the sponsoring Siskiyou Pioneer Sites Foundation said today. Mr. and Mrs. O. E. Salycr also opened their "Doll House" in the 100-year-old Dr. James McCully house on Cali fornia st. They estimated that approximately 150 visited it yesterday. More than 300 dolls from England, France and Germany dating back to the 1700s are exhibited. Some Jacksonville and Applegate dolls will be added later, Mrs. Salyer said. The dolls are from the col lection of Mrs. Salyer's moth er, the late Mrs. Lila E. Stone, of Santa Cruz, Calif. Columbia Reaches 16-Foot Flood Stage Vancouver. Wash. - OIPO -The Colu mbia river here reached the 16-foot flood stage today, one inan forecast. day sooner However, forecasters said they did not expect serious flooding this year. A long range forecast calls for the stream to reach between 19 and 22 feet, about the middle of June. Some low-lying, non-diked pasturclands will be flooded but most areas that are diked are protected to around 25 feet. Forecasters said cool air in the Columbia Basin would re sult in only a slow rise for I.) nt three days Fourteen years ago Weflies- day the Columbia reached height of 31 feel here, result ing in the disastrous Vanport .'1 nod. . '. tie Americans Seized By Communist Guerrillas Employment in May Climbs To Record Figures Joblessness Off by 230,000 Washington - IUPD - Labor Secretary Arthur J. Goldberg announced today that the number of employed rose about a half million more than expected in May. He said this indicated "a con tinued improvement in the economy." An aide said the monthly report on employment and jooiessness snowed mai cm- pioyers were anaing people to navPii,. iMr.ithr.r r nr Goidberg wouId apccuiate on j the relationship of the May job figures to the recent stock market fluctuations. Record Figures Goldberg reported that dur ing May the number of em ployed climbed to record fig ures and joblessness dipped. He announced that total employment rose by 1.4 mil lion to 68.2 million in May- about a half million more than expected. The total was a record high for the month, up one million from the pre vious high in May, 1960, and more tnan l.s minion anove jMay, 1961. i t,x RVenu Off In another economic devel opment, Budget Director Da vid E. Bell told the House Ways and Means Committee that although anticipated tax revenues have fallen by about $1' billion, the administration still does not expect the budg et deficit for the current fis cal year to top $7 billion. He said a cut in anticipated spending would balance the tax drop. Goldberg reported encour aging news on the jobless sit uation. Unemployment fell by 230, 000 from April to 3.7 million, continuing the steady six- month decline, he said. Education Board Seeks Fund Release Salem - 0JPI) - The Slate Board of Higher Education will ask the Oregon Emer gency Board Friday to release $122,500 to acquire land in connection with the proposed Portland State college science building. The total project will cost $2.3 million. The $2.3 million was auth orized by the last legislature. The $122,500 will be spent for final plans for the building, and construction of an under ground steam heating line. The emergency board is a group of legislators headed by Senate President Harry Boi- vln (D-Klamath Falls). The Oregon Employment department wants authority to spend $432,000 for state office facilities in Klamath Falls and Salem. Oregon State university wants to spend $1 1,000 to com plete plans for a computer building in Corvallis. Medtord Man In Good Condition August Bert Wcnzel, 66, of 971 Gilman rd., Medford, was reported in good condition at Crater Osteopathic hospital this morning after suffering injuries in a two-car accident about 9:15 p.m. Wednesday. Treated for facial lacera tions at the same hospital was Dcncy S. Wenzel. 59, also Gil- man rd., a passenger in the car. She was later released. According to state police, the Wenzel car was involved ! In an accident on Highway 99 south of the Rock Point inter change. Driver of the other icars was Mrs. Marilyn Anne j Depuy. 29. of 1557 Stewart ave., jiford, l O Pageant Finalist Gay Sciweberf Gay Lynn Schwieberl, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Schwieberl, 203 North Mountain ave., Ashland, is one of the 1 1 finalists in the Miss Rogue Valley Pageant. The Pageant will be held June 2 at the Oregon Shakespearean Festival Theater in Ashland. She is 5 foot 6 inches tall and weighs 125 pounds. Her chief hobby is oil painting and her favorite sport is water skiing. For talent she will sing, al though she plays the accordi on and also has dramatic training. WEATHER PORRCAST: Variable dpudlneiR tonlffht and Friday. Clianre of a IftW IJinwrri over mountain! Friday afternoon. Little tem perature citanre. Low tonight ij. iugn rnoay 711. Temp. Highest Vesterday . 72 Lowest Thli Mornlhit r. , 3S Our Skies Tonight Sunset today . . 7:41 p.trr. Sunset tomorrow .. . 4:37 a.m. Moonrlse tomorrow .. 4:22 a.m. New Moon . .. . ... June 2 PROMINKNT STAR Splra, due south .. 8:5ft p.m. VISIIILE PLANETS Venus, sets 9:3S p.m. Saturn, rises 12:04 a.m. Jupiter, rises 1:19 a.m. Mars, rises . . . 3:18 a.m. The Beauties of Scenic 3 A scene along the Z AW Freight Smashes Stalled Passenger Train; 61 Killed Voghera, Italy-IUPIl-A 33-car freight train ran a red stop signal at 43 miles an hour early today and rammed into a standing passenger train loaded with holiday travelers, kill ing and injuring scores. An official communique placed the toll at 61 dead and 40 injured, of whom 22 were released after first aid treatment. Other sources estimated the number of injured at more than 70. The Transport Ministry in Rome announced that a check showed that regular red block signals were on when the crash occurred. It said that the freight train was travelling at a speed of 43.5 miles an hour at the time of the crash despite the red light and the fact it was sup posed to stop in Voghera in any case to change engines. Visibility was good at the time of the crash, the com munique said. The engineer and assistant engineer of the freight, who leaped clear of the train just efore the crash, first fled the scene. But later tney turned themselves over to police. They contended that the light signal they saw was yel low,' not red. Men Arrested " The two men, Lanfranco Pi giapi, 27, and Coriano Fabbri, 22, were arrested. Police said they probably will be charged j with manslaughter. The accident . occurred as j the Milan to Genoa passenger I train was about to put out of the Voghera station,- where it had stopped to take aboard more passengers. Most of the estimated 600 persons' on board were en route to- the Italian Riviera for the four-day Ascension Day holiday which started to day. Some of the victims were women and children. The engine of the speeding freight hit the last coach of the halted passenger train and turned it into a crumpled mass of steel. (Oregon State Umpqua river near Sawyer rapids along Highway 38. High Altitude Nuclear Test Set For Late Tonight Washington-OIPD-The Atom' ic Energy Commission said to day the first of a series of high - altitude nuclear tests over Johnston Island in the Pacific is scheduled for some time after dark Friday. Darkness falls at Johnston Island at about 9 p.m. local time. That hour at Johnston .June 1 would be, 11 o'clock (PST) tonight. The AEC said the opening I shot of the scries will be a I device ' equivalent in power to something under a million tons of TNT. It will be deto nated at an altitude of "tens of kilometers." A kilometer is about three-fifths of a mile. The AEC said observers in Hawaii, 800 miles away, will see the glow from the detona tion. Auroral displays trigger ed by the sjiol may be visible in the Samoan area more than 2.000 miles south of Johnston. at Hawaii, and for a consid- erable distance northwest of Hawaii. The commission said the ex plosion may be delayed on an hour to hour basis or longer for weather or technical rea sons. Oregon Highway Commission Photo) , W Former Oregon Pastor Missing In Viet Nam Two Identified As Missionaries Saigon - (UPI) - Communist guerrillas have kidnaped three Americans who were treating lepers in a hospital about 200 miles north of here, the U.S. embassy reported to day. One of the three formerly was from Oregon. The embassy identified two ot the kidnaped as mission aries. They are the Rev. Archie E. Mitchell, 44, of El lensburg, Wash., and Dr. Eleanor Ardel Vietty, 34, of Houston, Tex., both of whom represent the Christian and Missionary Alliance. The third American was identified at Daniel Gerber, a representative of the Mennon- ite Central Committee at Ak ron, Pa. Woman Alto Seised An unidentified woman, possibly a Vietnamese, also was reported to have been seized by the. Communists at the isolated leprosartaum op erated by the alliance about 14 .miles southwest of the vil lage qf Ban 1 Me Thuot in South Viet ' Nam's rugged highlands. An embassy spokesman said the Communists left be hind nine other Americans in cluding Mitchell's wife. Battv. and their four children, Rebec ca, Loretta. Glen Patrick and ueraldine. No Rajon Giren ' :The" spokesman, said, riona of the Americans was molest- -ed by the guerrillas and no " reason was given for the kid- naping. The embassy said word of. the kidnaping was relayed: from the Saigon headquarters' - of the Christian and Mission ary Alliance. The Alliance headquarters in New York said Mitchell, a native of Franklin, Neb., pre- viously was the pastor of churches in Bly, Ore., and Ellensburg, Wash., and has been in Viet Nam since 1947. Klamath Falls - (UPD - The Rev. Archie E. Mitchell, re ported! kidnaped by Commu-; . nist Guerrillas in South Viet Nam today, was the only sur vivor of a World War II ex plosion of a Japanese balloon bomb in southeastern Oregon which killed six persons. The Rev. Mitchell and his first wife. Mrs. Elsie Mitchell, : had taken five children whose parents were members of their congregation on a May 1945 picnic in the mountains near. Lakeview. Heard of Balloon Bombs He said at the time that as" he got out of his car the chil dren shouted to him they had found something like a bal-. loon. He said he had heard' of Japanese balloon bombs, which were carried across the Pacific by prevailing winds and shouted i warning. ' "Just then there was a big explosion. I ran up - and they were an lying there dead. The other victims bes des his wife were Sherman Shoe maker. 12; Jay Gifford, 13; Eddie Engen, 13; Joan Patzke, 11, ad Dick Patzke, 13. tpsnk foam Welder's -ftatsefl Starts Fire Portland - lUTII-Sparks fcam welder's torch started, a fire In the Northwest Nat rai Gas Co.'s new building here today. Damage was esti mated at $13,000. No one was Injured. The blaze wy located in tlfi penthouse section of the newly constructed building. atmnke riamnffa Vinnatnrl thn ! loss, firemen said. TAKES OATH Salem-lWH-Brig. Gen. Paul Kliever, Salem, took the oath of office today as adjutant general of Oregon. The swear ing in wws irftjov. Mark Hat- 1 field! office. n
