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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
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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) ,
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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