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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
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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
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Mrth. It name. f,ree in ori
gin, mean "Rival ol vtar".
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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.
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5 I CAPE CANAVERAL 11
IIP Y Vt'jfi'1'' LANDING
Illy 300 MI..NORTHEAST
A OF MIDWAY j
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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.