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Newspaper Page Textam rnnnin (7 Wu A C T w w 1 21 Persons Explodes in Walls, Ceilings Fall on Scores Of Young Women Upper Manhattan Catastrophe Scene New York-IUPD-A basement boiler exploded and was hurl ed through an Upper Manhat tan office building today like a cannonball, collapsing walls and ceilings on scores of young women. At least 20 were killed and others were trapped in the wreckage. Police Commissioner Mich ael Murphy estimated the number of dead, most of them the young women working at their first jobs in the New York Telephone Co. training and accounting building. More than 60 persons were injured. Inside Jumbled The block-square two-story building in Upper Manhat tan's Inwood section did not appear heavily damaged from the outside, but, inside, res cuers found a jumble of wreckage. Nearly three hours after the blast, firemen and police wearing gas masks were still seeking to reach persons trap ped in the basement debris. About 500 persons were in (he building when the explo sion occured. Many had just been seated in the cafeteria for lunch. New York City Building Commissioner Harold Birns said the one-ton iron base ment boiler exploded and was "propelled by a tremendous force beyond comprehension." It blasted through the boiler room wall and up through the first floor, through the cafe teria and a records room. Couldn't Breathe Huge chunks of the first floor ceiling collapsed on the women employees. Delores Gross, 21, said "The building shook and you could not breathe. The place ju:.t filled up quickly with smoke," Miss Gross said she and scores of other women in the build ing groped their way to the street. Some had to climb through shattered windows because doors were jammed by the force of the explosion. "Girls were lying all over the floor covered with blood," said Dorothy Murphy, 19, an other of those who escaped. The blast showered the are: with debris. Several nearby buildings were dam aged. Travel Information Director Appointee Sahm - mro - Dennis Clarke, 35. Salem, Tuesday was promoted to director of the Travel Information Divi sion of the Oregon Highway department. A native of Condon and Ar lington and a University of Oregon graduate, he has been with the division since 19bl and its assistant director since 1956. He replaces Carl Jordon, who died in office in September. HEWSBRIEFS ITCMS PROM lb jt J AROUND THI OLOII FARM GROUP CALLS 'RECESS' Chieago-lPr-A militant farm group ended il 16-slate battle for higher livettock prices temporarily today and pott poned plant lo keep milk off the market. The National Farmert Organisation NFO called a "recess" in its "holding action" on cattle, hogs and iheep which hat been marked by rural violence, mat demontlrationt end upi-and-dowm in market prices. LIFTING WALKER'S BIRCH CARD FAVORED Lo Angeles-lPIRep. John Rousselot (R-Calif.,) a mem ber of the John Birch Society, said Tuetday former Maj. Gen. Edwin A. Walker should have hit membership in the society revoked if he "did in fact encourage rioters at the University o Mistutippi. DE GAULLE FACES SERIOUS CRISIS Parit--1PN-President Charles de Gaulle'i government faced today vhat may be ill moit serious crisis since he took power in 1958. .... De Gaulle'i oppoiition in parliament, infuriated by nil plan to hold a national referendum Ocl. 28 on the question of presidential succession, introduced a cemure motion Tuet-dey. Rogue Valley Edition Medford 28 Pages Two Sections Playmate for Born at Portland Zoo Portland (UPII -Packy, the prized boy elephant at the Portland zoo, got a play mate today. A girl elephant, weighing 182 pounds and standing inches tall, was born at 6:50 a.m. The mother, Rosy, and calf were "doing fine," Zoo Director Jack Marks said. The new arrival soon was wobbling around its pen and like its half brother born nearly six months ago trying lo figure out- what to do with its trunk. Packy proudly posed for a picture with the baby, a name for which will be picked later. Suspense and anxiety which surrounded the arrival of Packy first elephant born in this country in more than 43 years were lacking today. "We knew more what to expect," Marks said. The local zoo has two other expectant females with births expected later this year and next February. The fourth local female elephant, Belle, brought worldwide attention to Portland last April 14 when she gave birth to Packy first pachyderm born In this country since a blessed event in Salt Lake city in 1918. Fight-for-Berlin Resolution Given Nod in Committee Washington-(UPI)-The House Foreign Affairs Committee to day unanimously approved a resolution declaring that the United l States will fight, if Ashland Woman Dies in Accident Yrcka, Calif. - IIPH - Mrs. Silva Icenhower, 74, of Ash land, Ore., was killed early to day when the car in which she was riding left Highway 99, about 11 miles south of here, and overturned. Her husband, George, who was driving, suffered serious injuries and was taken to Siskiyou County General Hospital here. The California Highway patrol said Icen hower apparently fell asleep at the wheel and lost control of the car. The victim's address was listed as 501 Allison st. Ashland Couple Gets $40,500 for land An Ashland couple were awarded $40,500 Tuesday af ternoon by a circuit court jury for 34.2 acres of proper ty taken for Interstate 5 free way construction near Ash land. The condemnation trial went to the jury shortly after the noon recess Tuesday in its fourth day of proceedings. Defendants were Mr. and Mrs. Ernest M. Pelkofer. Eagle Mill rd.. who sought $137,000 for their ranch prop erty. The state had offered $25,000. lie as Boiler M.Y. Building MEDFORD, OREGON, necessary, to preserve West em rights in Berlin. The resolution is similar to a fight-if-we-must declaration on Cuba passed last week by the House and Senate. The Berlin resolution states that this country would regard as "intolerable" any violation by the Soviet Union "directiy or through others" of Western rights in or access to Berlin. To Fulfill Commitment "The United States is deter mined to prevent by whatever means may be necessary, in cluding the use of arms, any violation of those rights . . . and to fulfill our commitment to the people of Berlin with 'respect) their resolve for free dom," the resolution said. Many congressmen said they wanted to make it clear lo the world, through enact ment of resolutions on both Cuba and Berlin, that Presi dent Kennedy will have full congressional backing for any steps he deems necessary to protect U.S. interests while Congress is in adjournment. Series of Articles On Education Change Scheduled To Start Waller M. Schirra's or bital flight today could mark the fifth anniversary ot man's entrance into the space age, for it was on Oct. 4, 1957. that the first r.ian-made satellite orbited the earth. Since that day five years ago tomorrow, the space age and its technological de velopments have made con siderable impact on the lives of everyone. These technological developments hHvo been used for propa gftnda in ideological war fare, they have been used in political campaigns, and they have had an effect on society. One of the greatest ef fects the space age has had is on education, which is now undergoing changes throughout the country. Changes also are taking place in Oregon and Jack son county: they are changes designed lo provide a better education for chil dren now in school and for future generations. In a series of articles starting in the Mail Trib une tomorrow - on the fifth anniversary of the first man-made satellite changes in the educational system in Jackson county and at two state institutions of high er education will be review ed, noting possible future chsnget, tome of the prob lems facing educators, and pottible solution to those problems. 57th WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER Packy Jury Finds Man Guilty of Setting Fire in Boxcar A Jackson county circuit court jury late Tuesday night found Robert Lee Ryles. 37, transient, guilty on a charge of assault and battery by means of force likely to pro duce great bodily injury. Ryles was charged with starting a fire in a boxcar in Medford Aug. 26 in which Clair Amlon Camp, 51, of Lebanon, Kan., was burned. He is in fair condition at Rogue Valley hospital. The state concluded its tes timony about 2 p.m. Tuesday. Ryles was the only witness for the defense. He related the events of the evening of Aug. 25 when he said he was beat en up, treated at a local hos pital, and released. Following the early morn ing fire, he was picked up for questioning by Medford po lice. Ryles told the jury he was cold, hungry, had been drinking, and that his head hurt from the earlier attack at the time he dictated a state ment to officers in which he admitted starting the fire. The defense held that the fire had been started by transients smoking in the box car which was partly full of excelsior. A package of cig arettes was found in the poc ket of the charred shirt that Camp was reported wearing at the time of the fire. Nine witnesses testified for the state. Medford Police Lt. Lylc C. Perkins was recalled as the slate's rebuttal witness. The verdict was returned by 10 of the 12 jurors, the minimum number required to agree. They deliberated for more than three hours, with the verdict returned about 9 p.m. Deputy District Attorney Robert Fox represented the state in the case with John Ross the court-appointed law yer for Ryles. Ashland Sells Land Near Oak Knoll Club Ashland-The sale of about 17 acres of land near the Ash land golf course was author ized by the Ashland city council last night. The land is being sold for $17,000 lo the Oak Knoll corp., which has had an op tion on it for several months. The land will be used in con nection with a mulli - million dollar development of dwell- j ing units, pirmarily for the j retired, planned in that area. I In other action Tuesday, councilmcn approved an an : ncxation of one lot located on : Mary Jane avc. ; ELECTED PRESIDENT j Spokane -OJPli- Rev. Albert j Baumann of Mount Angel Ab- I bey. St. Benedict, Ore., Tumi- day was elected president of 1 the Northwest Regional Cath - ! olic Press Association. Year Price 10 Cents Tribune 3, 1962 No. 167 Meredith Taking Tests; Campus Normalcy Sought Troops Break Up Demonstration Oxford, Miss. - (DPI) - The University of Mississippi be gan putting Negro James Meredith, 29, through routine aptitude tests today and other wise attempted to bring some semblance of normalcy back to the strife-torn campus. But troops guarding against a further outbreak of violence remained and had to break up a small demonstration shortly after midnight when a group of students threw rocks and bottles and exploded fire crackers. For All Students Meredith was driven to the Lyceum building about 8:30 a.m. for the aptitude tests. Registrar Robert Ellis said all new students must take the tests and said they would have no bearing on Meredith's abil ity to remain as a student, An Army spokesman seaid the "small demonstration curred several hours before Meredith was to begin his third day of classes at the strife-lorn university. There were no arrests, he said, and relatively few youths were in volved. No Damage Reporlod The spokesman said some bottles and rocks were thrown j at the dormitory in which Meredith was sleeping. No damage or injuries were re ported. The students also tossed exploding firecrackers into the air before soldiers, stationed on the campus to prevent further rioting over the admission of Meredith to the former all-white univer sity, broke up the gathering. ine incKlent only briefly broke the uneasy calm which has settled over the camnus and the small town of Oxford since federal troops moved in to auell rioting and restore or der early Monday. Body Located at Winchester Bay Winchester Bay -flJPII- The body of another victim of Monday's accident in which a 32-foot charter boat capsized on the Winchester Bay bar with eight persons aboard was found today. The Coast Guard said llu- body was that of Ted Berry, Laguna Beach, Calif. The body was found in the UmD- qua river inside the bar. Three other persons were missing. The body of Bonnie Walker, 42, Winchester Bay, was recovered earlier. Still lost were crewmem- bers Dale Crofton and Ken Abbott of Winchester rtnv and Marquita Wallace of Spring - Held. Gulf Oil Requests Oil and Gas Lease Salem - HIPP. The Oregon Land Board today received an o. application from Gulf Oil C nt i n i nrnia acvno fr -. oil and gas lease on fiflO acres ! .. lcm , ' "v- M"k"t in the bed of the Willamette fleld "'nt '''ifams to all 18 river northwest of Haisey, on'cmlwn' of lhc ""!-Scnlc the boundary of Benton and Conference Committee on Ap- t Linn counties WEATHER FORECAST: Clear mil con. id erahly cooler tonllht. r.arly morning Utt and low clouds again Trturnday. clearing- out bv mid-day. Mir Ihilrndav afternoon. Inrrratlnc rloudi nrw Thuraday nlaht. Low to nuhl 3-2. Inch Thunday 10-15. Temp. Hicheit eterday 71 l.owem Thu Mornlnit . 41 Prec. to Ifl a.m. Today Is Our Skies Tonight Knmel today S SI p.m. SunrUe tomorrow . . 11:11 a.m. Moortkft tonight S:1!t p.m. Klrtl Quarter . Saturday Antare. the hrltht reddish Mar below the Moon tonliht. I Mil llrht yearn from the Mrth. It name. f,ree in ori gin, mean "Rival ol vtar". ! j j I ! 1 j 1 I Mti nun mnMHimw. mm, SCHIRRA'S ORBITS This unusual UPI newsmap shows how astronaut Walter M. Schirra Jr., will pass around the earth on each of his six planned orbits, after the launching of Mercury Allas-8. The globes (from lop to bottom) show that as Schirra.'s "Sigma-7" completed one circle around the earth, the earth had revolved on its axis from west to east and Schirra was not over his starting point. By the time Sigma-7 completes six exact circles, or orbits, it will he over the Pacificnot Cape Canaveral. If Sigma-7 were to make 18 orbits, the earth would make one complete revolution and Sigma-7 would be over its starting point above Cape Canaveral. The first three orbits of Sigma-7 were the same as those of astronauts Glenn and Carpenter. Like Contempt Action Against Barnefff Johnson Delayed New Orleans - (UI'Ji - The U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals has put off until next week action on contempt charges against Mississippi Gov. Ross R. Barnett and Lt. Gov. Paul Johnson in the slate's integration crisis. A three-judge panel Tues day continued the case until Oct. 12, but dropped con tempt charges against the 13 mcmber Mississippi State col lege board and the registrar, chancellor and dean ot the University of Mississippi. Mississippi Atty. Gen. Joe Pat'erson told the court Bar nc'tl and Johnson had done "everything within their means" to comply with feder al orders admitting Negro James H. Meredith to "Ole Miss." The court's action had the effect of holding the threat of imprisonment and a heavy per diem fine over the two officials. If Barnett or John son violated the order before the Oct. 12 hearing, it could add lo contempt evidence aU ready gathered by the court. The court also continued until Oct. 12 a hearing on whether it should make permanent a temporary re i straining order prohibiting ! anyone from interfering with : mcreaitn s aomission lo in university. Hatfield Urges Funds for Projects piopiiuuons urging ine coir- mittcc to retain in its 1903 j budget $823,000 worth of ad ditional funds granted to four I Oregon projects. I The additions previously passed cither the House or : Senate. They include: j - $.r00,000 fur the Blue Riv 1 er Reservoir, lo begin con 1 slruction. j S200.000 for the Yafiiina j Bay project, to begin con I slruction. ! $100,000 for the Columbia River and Lower Willamette i River channel project, for pre j construction planning. ! $23,000 for the Coos and ! Millicoma rivers project, for j planning. -?rtJ LAUNCH I , 5 I CAPE CANAVERAL 11 IIP Y Vt'jfi'1'' LANDING Illy 300 MI..NORTHEAST A OF MIDWAY j mi munruanvlt Satellite Seeking Data on Threats To Manned Moon Trips Cape Canaveral - (UPII - An explorer satellite circled the earth today on a mission lo gather information on space radiation thai poses a threat to manned flights to the moon. The 89-pound moonlet was hurled into orbit Tuesday nlghl aboard a three-stage Del ta rocket and apparently went into a planned ' yoyo ' swing around earth. There is no reason to be lieve that wc did not get the exact planned orbit," said Rob ert Gray of the National Aero nautics and Space Administra tion (NASA). "The rocket per formance appeared normal, Tougher Efforts To Block Cuba Seen Washington-IUPIi-The United Slates and most of its Latin American allies were expected to join today In endorsing tougher individual and col lective efforts to block the spread of Cuban-based com munism. The two-day conference of Latin American foreign min isters called by Secretary of Stale Dean Rusk was to con clude its work at a late after noon session at the State De partment. Officials said they expected a communique reporting the general conclusions of the con ference. But they anticipated no formal resolutions, since this was an "Informal" gath ering. Signal Installation Ends Mothers' Protests Sulem -HJPli- Traffic signals have been Installed at a dan gerous crossing near Washing ton grade school here, ending a patrol of mothers, some of whom carried baseball bats admonishing motorists to slow down. One of the school students, a girl, was injured fatally near the crossing last week, touching off the mothers' armed patrol. MURROW IN HOSPITAL Tehran, Iran - (UPI) - U. S. Information Agency Director Edward R. Murrow has been hospitalized with suspected pneumonia or pleurisy, it was announced today. the two earlier flights, emergency landing areas for the first three orbits were in the Caribbean area. But, by the time Schirra progressed into the latter part of his flight, darkness had fallen over the Carribean and recovery of the capsule would be difficult. Therefore, landing points for orbits four, five and six would be In the Pacific, where it will be daylight. Schirra was to fire Sigma-7's retro-rockets on the sixth orbit, while the craft is over a point in the Pacific, 1150 miles northwest of Guam. The rocket will brake the craft from orbital speed, it will re-enter the earth's athmosphere and drop hy parachute into the recovery area 300 miles northeast of Midway (see large bottom globe). (UPI) the flight path was what we expected and the velocities were right." Gray added that il may take days to dctcrmite the exact orbit of the satellite. Scien tists were shooting for a wide swinging orbit that would take the moonlet as far as 53,000 miles from earth and as close as 1 85 miles during each 31-hour trip around the world. The explorer had the task of probing radiation bands, in cluding the natural Van Allen bells and a new belt created by the detonation of a 1.4 megaton hydrogen bomb about 250 miles above the Johnston Islands during the United States' recent Pacific tests, This man made radiation has destroyed the radio trans mission systems of three U.S. satellites, Transit IV - B, TRAAC and Ariel, and was reported to have damaged several "Secret" U.S. military satellites. Crash Injuries Fatal To Independence Woman Salem - (UPII - Mrs. Elma A. Hultman, 02, Independence, died in a hospital Tuesday of injuries suffered in a traffic accident earlier in the day near Independence. Police said her car collided head-on with a truck operated by Gordon Brunk, Indepen dence, who escaped injury. Great Britain Closed Down London - IllPH - A 24-hour strike today completely halted the nationwide railway system that comprises Britain's inter nal lifelines. Every train in the country was stopped for the first time in 36 years. London police were ordered out in force to cope with what the Royal Auto Club said would be "monumental cha os" on jammed highways. Hotels Crammed Businessmen crammed every hotel in town so full that the manager of the Waldorf said he was "using lounges and bathrooms everywhere except the hall." Nightclub owners reported "the biggest night since New Year's Eve." More than almost any other Bullseye Scored By Astronaut in Pacific Ocean American Space Records Established Cape Canaveral, Fla. -TW - Waller M. Schirra Jr., 39. splashed into the Pacific at 1:28 p.m. (PST) today lo wind up America's longest space flight by scoring a bullseye on his prescheduled landing area. Schirra and his Sigma 7 tpacecraft had whirled around the world six times along a space trail of 1 60. 000 miles long. His journey was twice as long as prev ious U.S. orbital flights. It blazed the trail for flights of 17 or IB orbits next year. The Navy commander came down almost exactly on schedule and almost exactly in .'he preplanned recovery site 275 miles northeast of Midway Island and 1,300 miles northwest of Honolulu. Cape Canaveral, Fla.-fuTfl A jubilant Walter M. Schirra Jr., 39, set new American dis tance and altitude records in space today and raced toward a Pacific Ocean landing after six earth orbits. Plunging through daylight and darkness at 17,560 miles an hour, the Navy command er had an all-clear to double the number of times a U.S. astronaut has circled the globe. His 176-mile altitude al ready has topped the height reached by his American pre decessors. "Hallelujah!" the astronaut yelled emotionally when told that his near-perfect flight was good for the full six orbits. ! . . Fines! Performance Ground controllers termed it the finest performance yet in this country's growing man j ned space program. . Schirra and his Sigma 7 spacecraft rose into the blue Florida sky at 5:15 a.m. (PDT), riding atop an Atlas booster. Millions of Americans watch ed on television, and the Tel star communicalions satellite relayed pictures of the take off to Europe. ,' So smooth was the opera tion that officials decided even before the fourth orbit began that the pilot could go all the way. . Schirra's new mileage rec ord began to pile up after he completed three full swings around the earth. He con served his attitude control fuel by letting the bell-bot tomed capsule fly on its own through much of the flight. Helps Prepare for Moon The astronaut also carried out a series of tests that will benefit future astronauts and could provide key information for this country's effort to put men on the moon. Through all this his heart beat and respiration remained well wilhin satisfactory limits. Project Mercury p h y sicians were elated. Schirra told ground stations that his craft was "flying beautifully." Even into his fourth orbit, the pilot still had aboard about 90 per cent of the hy drogen peroxide which is squirted through carefully placed jets to change the spacecraft's attitude. Astronaut Scott Carpenter in his three-orbit flight May 24 used up so much of his control fuel before the end that he had none left to stabilize the space cabin in its descent. By conserving his fuel, Schirra made certain that he would have enough left at the end of six orbits to put Sigma 7 in right position to fire braking rockets and bring himself down to a Pacific landing. Railways by Strike nation Britain depends on Its trains for commerce, mail and ordinary passenger travel. Distances are too short and space too scarce for the mas sive air and highway networks that criss-cross larger coun tries such as the United States. Clotures Protetted The railwpymen 350,000 strong, walked off their Jobs to protest the government closure of workshops and some sections of the money losing railways, which are op erated by the state. About 18,000 men already have lost Jobs and more clos ings are feared. All work stopped at mid night, and the first nationwide railway walkout since the gen eral strike of 1928 was on.