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Newspaper Page Text- i i jv i 1 i 1 lp Quiet', GCenneiy Warns Security ouncIB '' -fib i WORKERS KILLED - Five men were Killed ana nine in- at Hillsboro, collapsed, plunging the men 60 feet onto con jured when the dome of this reservoir, under construction crete and wood bracing below, (UPI) n ive Men uie Structure Workers Dashed Onto Studding As Dome Topples Hillsboro, Ore. -IUPII- Five men fell to their deaths short ly before quitting time Wed nesday when the concrete dome of a new reservoir col lapsed while it was under con struction. Nine others were injured when the recently poured con crete gave way and sent them plummeting some 60 feet onto concrete and wood studding below. r Officials of Seahold and Wolverton Construction Co. said they were unable to say immediately what caused the collapse. The new reservoir was being built for the city of Hillsboro, about 20 miles west of Portland. There was no water in it. The dead were Arnold E. Johnson, 53. and Ward Har rington, both of Milwaukic, Ore., and Charles W. Stewart, 35, Bernard A. Lebold, 50, and Vidal Sedillo, 48, all of Portland. Four Ambulances Called Four ambulances from Port land, Hillsboro and Beaver ton, Ore., rushed the injured to hospitals here and in Port land. One of the workmen who escaped serious injury said there was no warning of the disaster. Rich Kavncy, Port land said he didn't realize anything was happening until he heard a slight crack and felt the wind rushing by him. Bob Clement, a nearby res ident, was looking out the window of his house. "The house shook and then everyone disappeared," he sain The collapse occurred at 5 08 p m.. just 22 minutes be- fore the shift was scheduled j ' I . Others injured in the acci dent were Loren Rcmy, Battle Ground. Wash.: Fred C. Wy att. Lyle Kuehn and Carl Cornilson, all of Hillsboro; Roland H. Wold, Beaverton; Joe Ficker, David Reichel, Richard Chilson and Hosea Wilson, all of Portland. HEARINGS TONIGHT Two public hearings scheduled to be held at a ; meeting of the Medford plan ning commission at 7:30 o'clock tonight in city hall. HEWSd)BRIEFS fflMl FROM WOUND THI OlOII TRIAL OF COMMUNIST PARTY RESTED Washinglon-'IPI-ln a surprise move, both the government and the detente reiled today in the trial of the U.S. Com munist perty for failing to regiiter with the attorney general at n agent ol the Soviet Union. DAILY RECONNAISSANCE FLIGHTS CONDUCTED Washinalon-iirt-The United States it conducting daily reconnaittance to mke ture beck to Cub. and it preparing world iraae wun RELAY LAUNCH SCHEDULED TODAY -... tlTh llniUH filatM waa In rw thii .ll.rnoon lo .hoot into orb.t . new t.t.llit. that could link America and Europe via "lire" televi.ion for a year or more, The 172-pound t.tellite. called Relay, wat tucked in he . i i . . . l - j . . i . j . i note 01 1 Uelia rotnei ior a n ra Self-Admitted Killer Links Airman With Double Slaying Mountain Home, Idaho -IUPD - Theodore Thomas Dickie told an Air Force investigator recently he went to a Moun tain Home residence eight months ago to see a woman and found her slain. John W. Peters, an Office of Special Investigations agent, testified at a military hearing today he interviewed Dickie Dec. 7. He said on .that day Dickie told him he saw Al-C Gerald M. Ander son at the scene. Anderson, 25, San Diego, is accused by the Air Force of premeditated murder of Mrs. Nancy Joy Johnson, 22, and her son, Daniel, 2Vi. Earlier, he was charged with first - degree murder in Idaho civil court in the death of Mrs. Johnson but was cleared of that charge when Dickie confessed he and not Anderson committed the slay- mgs. Story Related According to Peters this is what Dickie told him: The evening of last April B Dickie said he was in Boise robbing a store. He said he returned lo Mountain Home about 11:30 p.m. where he had been living with his brother. Al-C Russell Dickie. Dirkie said he went to ine Johnson residence because he had met Mrs. Johnson betore and she had given him her address. Dickie said he went to the back porch and saw the body of Mrs. Johnson on the floor between curtains of the door. He said he went in and saw Mrs. Johnson and the son dead. He told Peters he heard sobbing and went into the livinB room. There, he said. Anderson sat m ." his elbows on his knees, his face in his hands. He a.d he went back into the kitchen and saw a knife sticking out of Mrs. Johnson's chest. Dickie said it was his knife and he had loaned it to An derson previously. He went back into the liv ing room and he said to An derson: "Is this your job?" He said Anderson replied, "Yes." Reaion Said Given He said Anderson told him he had to do it because Mrs. Johnson was going to 'tell his wife" that he had been at the house. Soviet we.pont ere not tent new regulation. di.cour.g. vncuuica nip miQ ipact arouna a in uo at Hillsboro Dickie said he took a sock and pulled the knife out of Mrs. Johnson, turned the sock inside out and wiped off the knife. He said he took a hammer, a saw and lamp base which Anderson told him had fingerprints on them and put them in his car. Dickie then said he took the items to a reservoir out side Mountain Home and threw them away. Dickie said he took the knife and threw it in a gar bage can several doors from the home of his brother. Then he went to his brother's home, met his sister-in-law and told her should anyone ask he had been home all night. Dickie later was arrested Park Consulting Firm Will Discuss Barnett Planning A member of a San Fran cisco park plan consulting firm will be in Medford Tues day, Dec. 18, to discuss a de velopment plan for the re cently acquired 78-acre Bar nett park site. City Park and Recreation Director Robert Haworth made the announcement at last night's meeting of the Medford park and recreation commission. The park consultant is Asa Hanamoto of the firm of Roy ston, Hanamoto and Moyes. Haworth said the San Fran cisco firm was the depart ments' first choice to do the parksite development plan At its last meeting, the city council approved an appro-j priation of $7,500 from the i park improvement fund to li-1 nance the development plan Will Request Plan Haworth told the commis sion he will request the firm to draw up a bcautification pian ior ucar creek mrougn : luemuru. ana a reaesign plan for Hawthorne park, in addi tion to the Barnett park site plan. The director said no con tract has been signed with the firm yet. Hanamoto and Ha worth will discuss the matter The fire occurred about 5, TlilOOrlu Mam Of! Mow 500 'cet c'evation. Someprob IWCCUy ndlllcU ncWjlcms were caused by the high , ... j velocity winds. IJirPf TnT m Hrtrtlfl A fo;est service spokesman UIIGUUI Ul IIUIIIC said that flrcj ao occur every I month of the year, and that Lawrence L. Tweedy has: ret.ent wjnds and brlgM Bun. been appointed new director , snjne above tne fog have dried of the Jackson county juvc- oul the forcsts. nile court and detention home. , .. 1 The appointment by Circuit 'Judges Edward C Kelly and 'James M. Main followed the recommendation of the Jack son county juvenile court ad visory council. The appoint- ment was effective Dec. 11. I Tweedy has acted as tempo rary director since the resig nation of Mrs. Kay Crowell Q . . sh , ' fn jult probation work in California. Tweedy has been with the juvenile department since Jun! 957 "e '"ved both as i Probation officer and intake : eounselor-During the last few I vears he wit assistant H i rnr. - tor. anse for the slaying of a young girl. Dickie said Rick Raphael, Boise television news m a n, told him he believed the OSI and the Air Force extracted confession from Anderson illegally. He quoted Raphael as say ing Raphael was against capi tal punishment and "this is a chance to do something about it." He said Raphael told him if he made the con fession to him he would pos sibly get a few years in mental hospital. The Air Force resumed Its hearing today after failing Wednesday night in Boise to got Dickie to repeat his earlier confession to the killings. during the consultant's visit Dec. 18. In other business, Haworth reported to the group that a drainage system has been in stalled in the play apparatus area at Hawthorne park. In addition, the west bay of the parking area in Hawthorne park, which has a 34-car ca pacity, will be blacktopped today, the director said. 10-Acre Forest Fire Being Mopped-Up Mopping - up operations were under way this morning ion a 10-acrc fire that broke out yesterday on Winburn ridge about four miles south of Ashland, Rogue River Na. tional forest officials said to day. The blaze started, officials said, when a 50-mile per hour wind came up suddenly yes- tcrday and carried sparks from 8 slash fire into an area of selective cut slash. Three loads of borate were dropped on the fire, and a 40-man forest service crew was rushed into the area. The blaze was controlled about 4 p.m., officials said. SH0PPIK8 DAYS LEFT CHRISTMAS SEiLSflktTliil Itkir RESPIRATORY DISEASES Rogue Valley Edition Medford 40 PAGES Four Sections MEDFORD, OREGON, Peace Group Founder Takes Witness Stand Wouldn't Block Communist Leader Washington - OiPII - The founder of a national women s peace group told congression al investigators today that she would do nothing to prevent Communists from gaining po sitions of leadership in the organization. Mrs. Dagmar Wilson, a Washington, D.C., housewife and originator of the Women Strike for Peace movement, bluntly told the House Com mittee on Un-American Ac tivities that any women, re gardless of their beliefs, were welcome to join the antinu- clear war movement. 'Unless everybody in the world joins us in this fight, then God help us!" she de clared. The hearing room, jammed with hundreds of women sup porters of Mrs. Wilson and other spectators, loudly ap plauded her statement. Some Refuse Testimony The committee has been conducting a three-day inves tigation of whether the wo men's group and other peace organizations have been in filtrated by Communists. A number of women recog nized as leaders in Women Strike for Peace have refused on constitutional grounds to testify whether they were or had been Communists. The committee made clear that as far as Mrs. Wilson was concerned, there was "no evi dence of Communist party membership, support of Conv munist front groups, or pro. Communist sympathy" on her part. Mrs. Wilsons appearance followed the refusal of two New Yorkers to tell the com mittee they joined peace groups to carry out Commu nist policy. They were Dr. William Obrinsky, Statcn Is land, and John W. Darr Jr., New York City. r Counties To Get Disaster Status The Small Business Admin istration has decided to desig nate Jackson and Josephine counties as disaster areas as a result of the Dec. 2 flood con ditions, Sens. Wayne Morse and Maurine Ncuberger said today. By being designated a dis aster area, businessmen, homeowners, churches and charitable organizations will be eligible for 3 per cent Small Business Administra tion loans, they said. Arrangements are being made, they added, to open a part time SBA office in Med ford to handle applications for loans. Meanwhile, loan appli cations may be made through the Portland SBA office. Declaration of the area as a disaster area was one of the points discussed at a meeting earlier this week in Eagle Point. Del Putnam of the Small Business Administration and Gene Dcnney of the Federal Housing Administration told about 100 people at the meet ing that the county would have to be declared a disaster area before low-interest fed eral disaster loans could be made available to residents who suffered flood damage. A committee of Charles C. Hoover. Ben Mouchett, Clem Ault and Earlc Jossy was named to survey flood damHge in the area in an effort to have the county declared a disaster area. WEATHER FOKP.CAKT: No rain ton! hi and l-rldiv. Low I'ndav morn- tni 40-43, tomorrow a ft r noon 4S-S0. Temp tilth ft YmUrdtv 0 I.uhciI Thlt MornlnK 44 I'rec. lo 10 a.m. Today . .02 Our Skies Tonight ! Kiint't tndiy . . 4:39 p tn. 1 Minn tomorrow . 1:33 i m. 1 Mnonrtte tonlihl .. 7:17 p.m. I.atl Utiarlrr Urc. II PKOMINFNT HTAHS Thr Twint, ahnr the Moon. IMIM.fc PLANUS ftiturn, low tn ouih- -i :)" p m. Jupttcr. Im outhwrtt 7 7 p m. iar. In the t II 4S p.m. Vti'i, rlaet . 4:40 i m "H! m:M$m r tew FOOD DONATED - The Christmas tree at Jackson school looked more like a super market Wednesday as hundreds of cans of food, destined for needy families on Christ mas, were prepared for delivery. Similar food drives, sponsored by the Junior Red Cross, are being conducted in other Med ford schools. The children themselves han Douglas To Grants Pass Chrome Deal Testimony Says Former Governor Sought Extension Washington -IUPII- A former assistant interior secretary testified today he submitted lo congressional pressure in recommending extension of chrome purchases in Oregon at prices more than twice those in the world market. Names of former Interior Secretary Douglas McKay and cx-Scnute Interior Committee Chairman James E. Murray -both now dead-were brought into testimony on the chrome program which cost the gov ernment a paper loss of $11.5 million. The former Eisenhower Ad ministration official who tes tified today was Felix E. Wormscr. He was accused by Chairman Stewart Symington of "misleading" the stockpile investigating subcommittee In part of his testimony. Symington said Wormser did not read part of a letter by the late Sen. Murray which which was critical of Wormser. Grant. Pat. Mentioned The committee disclosed that McKay, who left the Eisenhower cabinet and in 1056 ran for the Senate, ap pealed for extension of the chrome buying program for Grants Pass, Ore, during his campaign. One week later, Defense Mobilization Director Arthur S. Flemming advised McKay he was announcing a three-year extension of the program against the advice of subordinates. Symington said he would not criticize McKay for trying lo help the chrome miners in his itate while running as a candidate for the Senate. But he said he felt Wormser took "unusual liberties and was certainly misleading the com mittee" when he skipped that part of Murray', letter critical of him. On Campaign Letterhead McKay', letter to Flemming on June 18, 105H, was written on his campaign letterhead. He wrote that extension of the chrome buying program for the depot at Grants Pass "may mean so much" to the industry and the miner. In his slate, he hoped it would be continued without any break which would cause a .hut down. Wormscr told the commit tee that he also wa. subjected to pressure by member, of Congres. from California, Ore gon, Washington, Alaska, Ne- Ivada and Arizona. THURSDAY, DECEMBER McKay's Name Tied Altered Ballots Chimed Found in Columbia St. Hclcns-Wn-Three worn en who served on the Colum bia County Election board Youth Cited After High Speed Chase A 10-year-old Medford youth received two citations from city police yesterday aft er he lost control of his car and ended up on the front lawn of a White Oak dr. resi dence, climaxing a high speed chase through the east side of the city. The youth, Arthur Hill Shackleton Gillmor, 45 South Barncburg rd., was cited for reckless driving and for not having an operator's license in his possession. According to police, an of ficer noticed the Gillmor vehicle being driven in an erratic manner about 10:35 a.m. on East Jackson st. near Lindlcy st. ! When the officer attempted lo stop the car, it picked up speed, went through two stop signs, and was outdistancing the police car when it spun out of control near the Inter section of East Main st. and White Oak dr. Gillmor told officers he fled when he saw the police car coming after him because his license was already in jeopardy and he did not want to lose it. Salem lUPH A Cave Junc tion man, O. Robert Martin, was named president of the Oregon Stale Holstcin associa tion Wednesday. Florida's Crops By United Pre.. International One of the greatest cold wave, on record dealt a crippling blow to Florida's citrus, vegetable and tourist Industrie, today and froze the .outhland with temperature, far below zero. The cold wave wa. the worst of the cen tury in Florida and the most severe ever for December In many parts of Dixie. Records which had stood for decade, tumbled along with the temperature. The weather new. wa. grim for Florida farmers. Most of the state'. 500 million citru. crop wa. frozen by temperatures which fell a. low a. 10 above. Both tender and hardy winter vegetable crop, had been wiped out In all area, except along the lower cast coast. Final estimate, of the dam age depended on how long the cold lasts 57th Year Price 10 Cents Tribune 13, 1962 No. 228 dle the program and many youngsters bought canned goods out of their own lunch money. Above, Jackson school students Richard Keene, Larry Funk and Ronald Phillips help Mrs. Norman B. Smith, Red Cross representative, carry the food to her car. Recount testified Wednesday they saw a number of altered ballots turn up in a recount in the disputed sheriff's race. The testimony came on the first day of a civil trial in which Republican Sheriff Candidate Roy Wllburn seeks to overturn a recount which favored Democratic Incum bent Spencer Younce. Wil burn has charged vote fraud between the time of the ini tial count, when he won by 100 votes, and the recount, which showed him losing by 41. The witnesses were Mrs. Grace Sonneland, Mrs. Martha Richardson and Mrs. Anna Levin. Mrs. Sonneland said that In one precinct about 10 ballots with markings for both candidates showed up "In a bunch" In the first 20 ballots counted. All three testified that they noted questionable marks on several ballots at the time of the recount and said they did not remember seeing Ihem during the initial count. Circuit Court Judges J. S. Bohannan and Glen Helber in dicated they expect the trial to last at least the rest of this week. Much of the first day was taken up with a 06-pagc depo sition by County Clerk Rob ert Wellwood. The deposition said the outer doors of a vault In which the ballots were kept did not work and a key was available to the inner doors. It also .aid the outer doors had never been locked until Wcllvvood found them locked on the morning of the recount. Discussion of Matters Claimed To Be Unfortunate President Praises Stevenson's Work Washington -DPD Partici pants in proceedings of the National Security council had a public warning today from President Kennedy keep quiet. "It is unfortunate if any body discusses any matter that comes before the Nation al Security council because I think it lessens Its effective ness," the President said Wed nesday. What elicited his feeling on the National Security council was a series of questions at a news conference about the po sition U. S. Ambassador Adlai E. Stevenson took within the NSC prior to Kennedy's deci sion to blockade Cuba. Alleged In.ide Data An article in the Saturday Evening Post, purporting to offer inside information oh evolvement of the blockade decision within the NSC, pic tured Stevenson as having fa vored a soft line before Ken nedy announced his decision Oct. 22. The President praised Ste venson's work at the United Nations but he declined to dis cuss Inner , workings of the NSC. He was- surprised that anyone would Infer that he was dissatisfied, with Steven son. Concerning Stevenson's no. sition as reported in the maga zine, jvenneay said he was satisfied the details "did not come from a member" ol the NSC. In meetings leading up io me DiocKaae announce ment, there were from 15 to 25 officials present at times. Kennedy rnand Involved Kennedy said he had not heard anyone characterize Stevenson s position as it was reported in the magazine. The article was written by Stewart AIsop, Washington editor ol the maeazine. and CharJes Bart le it. a close Der- sonal friend ot Kennedy for a number of years. The Presi dent was asked whether he agreed with Stevenson that 'the authors of this article acted irresponsibly?" I have never attempted to characterize members of the press," the Chief Executive re plied. "I think that they have to meet their responsibilities. I have had some criticisms with various points which have been made, and I would not attempt to characterize writers of this article or any other." Girls Admit Taking Concession Money Three Medford High school girls gave statements to city police yesterday admitting they took $23 while working at concession stands during football games at the high school this fall. Two of the girls also told officers they took four blank checks from a checkbook be longing to the parents of the third girl, and had cashed them in four different stores recently. The girls, one 16 and the other two 15 years old, wore released to their parents pending action by Juvenile authorities. School officials alerted po lice to the matter when it was discovered that several of the concession stands at the foot ball games were failing to show the expected profit. Several Items purchased with the checks were recov ered from the girls' locker, at the high school, officers said. Frozen and how much of the frozen fruit can still be salvaged. A spokesman for Florida Citrus Mutual, a producers organization, said a preliminary estimate Indicated damage was greater than in the disastrous winter of 1957-58, when the citrus industry suffered a blow from which It took years to recover. The chilly prediction was for another night of hard freeze and scattered frost in most areas. Farmers near Tampa reported their fields were solid sheets of Ice. Miami resort owner, were no happier. The temperature stayed above freezing at Miami Beach, but It was a chilly 37 degree, and vacationers sported warm sweaters and topcoat, instead of bikinis. New cold record. Included 10 at Talla hassee, 18 at Tampa, 12 at Jacksonville, 35 at Miami. (See itory on page 2A) 3:30 p.m. (PST).