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Heavy Fighting Creates Panic in Katanga City Elisabethville. Katanga -lUPD-Heavy firing broke out here today between Katanga gendarmej and United Nations Much of Nation Slated To Have White Christmas By United Press International The Northeast and tne Mia west - as far south as Texas and New Mexico - should have a white Christmas. The northern plains and the Ohio valley felt the pinch of Christmas eve cold snap. Four to five inches of fresh . snow were on the ground at Flovdada. Tex., and some SDllled over Into New Mexico. One inch fell at Lubbock and Midland, Tex., In six hours, Another snowfall left an inch in Wyoming and small amounts in Nevada. In New York, seven inches of snow fell in a nine-hour neriod at Boonville, and a 45- mile an hour wind whipped the anow and cut visibility to almost zero. Boonville had 27 inches of snow on the ground. Snow Over Great Lakes Up to 12 Inches were ex nected to fall around Water town and Pulaski, N.Y. Snow flurries were expected across the Great Lakes into the East ern Ohio valley. The temperature dropped to IS below at Drummond Mont., early today. It was 7 below at Mlnneapolis-St. Paul, Minn., and 3 below at Chi cago. The temperature was only 17 at Louisville, Ky., 18 at St. Louis, Mo., and 20 at Kansas City, Kan. A three-day fog In Califor nia clogged transportation and stranded thousands of travel ers. A nun was killed imd about 50 persons were injured Saturday when 200 cars piled up in the dense fog on the Santa Ana freeway. The fog fina'ly lifted dur ing the week end and airlines relied on extra planes and ac celerated schedules Sunday to clear up the remainder of the passenger jam. Stocks Narrowly Mixed at Opening New York - IUPD Stocks were narrowly mixed In quiet pre-hollday trading early to day. Profit-taking in many is sues reflected the fact that today is the last day on which profits taken for delivery within five days, can be re corded in 1062 transactions for tax purposes. IBM tacked on close to 9 in an Irregularly higher elec tronics section. Oils were gen erally firm with General American up more than a point. Steels, autos, and chem IcrIs were narrowly mixed. Some metals, foods, and to baccos softened but a few drugs moved slightly higher. Ethiopian troops. The Katanga forces shot down a UN heli copter and took all nine per sons aboard prisoner. The fight, In which heavy machine guns and lighter weapons were used, lasted about half an hour and touched off wholesale panic among the capital's African population. Katanga President Moise Tshombe told a news confer ence there were no known casualties on the Katanga side. United Nations officials had no Immediate casualty report to make on the clash that broke out near the giant Union Miniere mining instal lation. During the exchange, the Ka tangese shot at a UN helicop ter, forcing it to land, and the three Swedes and six Indians aboard were taken prisoner Katange officials said one of the passengers suffered a slight leg wound. Fled to 'Communis' At one point the firing seemed to cover a half-mile stretch at the plant. African residents of Elisabethville fled the city for their ramshackle "communes" In the suburbs, abandoning bundles, bicycles and food in their flight. Tshombe claimed the Ethiopian troops advanced in to a slag heap guarded by Katangcse at the mining plant and opened fire. He claimed his gendarmes only fired into the air while awaiting further instructions. Katanga officials said sev eral rifle bullets ripped holes in the fuselage of the UN helicopter. Indian Gurkha troops of the UN force remained on the alert facing Katangcse in the area where the helicopter landed. MEN IN BLUE Fort Madison, Iowa - tDPD - Some children in Lee coun ty may think that Santa Claus wears a blue suit. Handicap ped and crippled children re ceived toys and clothing from Iowa Slate Penitentiary pri soners, who bought them with their prison wages. The gifts were signed simply, "Men In blue." Seafarers Win Bargaining Rights San Francisco - (liPIl - The Seafarers International Union Saturday said it had won bargaining rights for seamen working on Military Sea Transport Service vessels in the Pacific. The SIU had waged a six- months-long battle with the National Maritime Union for the right to represent the 1,800 sailors on the MSTS ships. The sailors had pre viously been unrepresented by a union. SIU Executive Vice Presi dent Morris Welsbergcr said his organization had received a telegram of certification from the MSTS Pacific Area commandant, designating the Military Sea Transport Union as a fully credited union. The SIU is affiliated with the MSTU. Welsbergcr said certifica tion was the first step toward formal recognition as sole bargaining agent. is?) ...... m 09 steeplejack shakedown ALL-GIRL CREW Lee Quinn, kneeling, turned seafarer, took his all-girl crew on cruise aboard his yacht "Neophyte" off Sausalilo, Calif. There's only one fly In the ointment the yacht sleeps five and the're six applicants for Jobs, so which girl to leave behind is Quinn's next big problem. They plan to sail for the South Seas. From left, they are Giselle Mayer, 22, r'---. X ' ; f A ll mm acting first mate; Susie Bird, 20, a dental laboratory tech nician; Doris Lander, "over 21", a registered nurse; Jackie Miller, 24, an airline stewardess; Cindy Ali, 28, an ac countant, and Jeanne Browne, 32, a cocktail waitress. At Honolulu they will pick up Quinn's wife, who will take over the job of first mate. (UPI) House Destroyed Near Ashland in Fire Fire destroyed a house on Franklin rd. near Ashland Sunday, the Jackson county sheriff's office reported. The house was apparently vacant, a deputy said. How ever, the owner, Gale S. Brewer, 1S0O Ashland Mine rd., said he had found some wine bottles and cigarette butts In the house earlier. The house was outside the Ashland city limits. Pope John Sounds Optimism Note For New Year Vatican Citv - OJPD - Pope John XXIII sounded a note of optimism for the New Year Sunday by citing the rapid easing of the Cuban crisis as a sign of "confidence and cour age of an anxious world." The Pope, with the signs of a recent illness still obvious in his face, told assembled card inals and prelates in a Christ mas audience that "our hum ble life, like the life of any of us, is In the hands of God." Later, in a second audience for the diplomatic corps, the 81-ycar-old pontiff spoke of man's scientific achievements, and expressed hopes lor an improvement in world affairs after the overcoming of the Cuban crisis. Cauia lor Fear "The past year, as you are well aware, gave cause for fear and trembling on Ihe point," he snid. "But is it not a heartening sign for the year that Is com ing that the danRcr was so speedily dissipated, that wis dom and prudence triumphed so happily, renewing the con fidence and courage ot an anx ious world?" The two audiences, which together lasted an hour and 12 minutes, were the most strenous part of the Pope's Christmas activities, which started Saturday night with a broadcast message to the world. The Pope, suffering from gastric trouble believed to be a bleeding ulcer, looked some what tired but happy as he addressed the audiences. Foreign Briefs SOUTH KOREAN SAILORS KILLED IN CLASH Seoul-JUPIi-The Defense Ministry announced today that three South Korean tailors who killed in lht clash of a ROK patrol boat and a Communist North Korean naval vessel in the Yellow sea Sunday. A ministry spokesman said three other South Korean navy men were wounded. Casualties on the Communist side were not kown. CHINESE NATIONALS BLOW UP COMMUNE Hong Kong-WI-The Hong Kong Times reported today that about 90 Chinese Nationalist commandoes landed on the China mainland Dec. 20 and successfully blew up a people's commune. Quoting arrivals from the mainland, the rightwing paper said the commandoes landed in four or five boats on the Kwaungtung province coast. Mountain Home Prisoner's Family Share Dinner TRAFFIC TAGS Chicago - About two of seven auto drivers in the U.S. have been given police tags for one or another kind of traffic violations over recent years. HUNGARY BLAMES DROUGHT FOR FAILURES Budapesl-UIPII-Communlst Hungary Sunday blamed agri cultural failures on last summer's drought. It gave no figures for agricultural production but said output did not reach the planned figures. Industrial produc tion, it said, increased by 8 per cent. The rise in food prices ordered by the government re sulted in a lower standard of living, it added. Page 2A Medford, Tribune MEDFORD, OREGON, MONDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1962 Portland Warehouse Damaged by Flames Portland - lUril - A four alurm fire razed the interior of a big brick warehouse in the city's near northeast side Industrial area today, result ing in injury to one fireman. Fireman Al Beslnius was taken to a hospital with broken ribs and other in juries. He fell from a ladder onto the burning building while carrying a hose. The structure was occupied by E. J. Bartells Co. and In sulation and Wires, Inc. A. D. Schinnerer, branch manager for Bartclls. estimat ed his company's loss at be tween $50,000 and S7S.000 in glass pipe covering and in dustrial insulation supplies. Cause of the fire was not de termined immediately. The first alarm came in at 6:13 a.m. Five alarms were sounded, but the last was re called almost immediately when firemen decided they could put out the flames with the equipment on hand. A city police officer, Don ald J. Spady, was trapped in side his patrol car for sev eral minutes when a live power wire fell across it. He was removed safely. Police closed off two lanes of four-lane Interstate ave. for about two hours. Mountain Home, Idaho-flJPD -A-1C Gerald M. Anderson has little chance of getting out of the Mountain Home AFB stockade for Christmas, but he has his family here to share Christmas dinner with him Tuesday. The 24-year-old San Diego. Calif., airman, freed by the state of Idaho from a first degree murder charge then re-arrested by the Air Force, charged again, and clapped in the stockade, will share his dinner with his mother and father, sister and brother-in-law, some nephews and nieces and all the other in mates of the base stockade at a dining hall. His guests arc Mr. and Mrs. Martin M. Anderson, Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Braden, and their children. All are from San Bernardino, Calif. Anderson's freedom from more than eight months con finement in connection with the murders to which anoth er man has confessed, still waits the decision of the Air Force. Air Force reviewing offi cers at March AFB, Calif., will decide in about a month if a military hearing last week at the base gave proof another man did the slayings or Anderson did them. If the officers decide he did them, Anderson will stand a general courts martial. He was turned over to civ ilian authorities last April for the death of Mrs. Nancy Joy Johnson, 22, wife of A-1C Alec Johnson. The state freed Anderson when a Bcise man confessed to killing Mrs. Johnson and her two-year-old son, Daniel, but several hours after the state charges were dropped, the Air Force charged Anderson wi.h knif ing to death both mother and child. Released From Jail in Cuba Recalls Long Hours of Waiting VJ yjfZriZl V i-iV- ' V.1'"'' from all of us at BOTTLING CO. MEDFORD 600 North Grape Editor's Notei Hollow- cheeked Cuban lnrssica pris oner, Edgardo Buttari Jr., 28- year-oM son of a former Cu ban secretary of labor, detail ed for United Press Interna tional what a day was like in Fidel Cstlro t Maximum ie curity prison on the Isle of Pints where he spent more than seven months with 213 other captured invaders. Here is the story in his own words. By EDGARDO BUTTARI As Told To UPI Miami-ftlPD-For more than seven months, the day began about 6:30 a.m. with a push, a shove, a loud noise. Each day was like another. And always the glaring light the sun in the daytime and the electric bulbs when it was dark outside. About 300 of us-some were political prisoners -were crushed in a cell maybe large enough to hold 50 beds. For bedding we had the floor. For covers, we had whatever clothes we had on, on tnat particular day. After our rude awakening by the guards, we wailed for breakfast. Sometimes it came, sometimes it didn't. We had to warm it up when it did come. Normally we' were served coffee and bread, sometimes coffee and plantain. The rest of the morning we just sat and waited to be mus tered. Sometimes, for as long as a month, we would be given our breakfast at 11 a.m., our lunch at 12:30 p.m. and our supper at 2 p.m. Normally, however, we would get our lunch-usually cornmeal with nothing to drink-at about 1 p.m. After long hours of waiting we would be permitted take turns at the two shower baths provided for us. Then we would be served supper. It was macaroni. Always macaroni. For as long as I can remember. Man Bound Over fo Grand Jury Today Roy Ward Jr., 35, of B26 East Jackson St., was bound over to the grand jury in dist rict court this morning on charges of obtaining property by false pretenses. He is charged with issuing a check for $20 to the Phoenix Pharmacy, Phoenix. He is scheduled to be released this afternoon after posting $1,500 bail. It was terrible, just terrible. Then the waiting began, al ways with a warning we must be very quiet. Makes Chess Board Once we managed to make a chess board out of cigar boxes and we played chess. Very little bodily harm was done to us shoves mostly although on one occasion or two we saw some of our com panions in prison being beat en up by guards. The Communists don't try to break you bT force. They just bother you to death. They give you something one day and take it away from you for the next two months. We never received mail. Somehow, though, we manag ed to keep informed general ly of what went on in the outside world. We learned with glee about the Cuban blockade. But nobody will ever, ever believe things that happened to us happened to humans. We weren't just worms, as Fidel Castro called us. We had to be pigs to exist in that. It's a wonder only one of us died. Filthy, Conditions Enrique Borras, who was 41, died from a stomach pain in July of 1961. It may have looked like a natural death, but he would have lived if they had taken him to a hos pital. Instead, they just let him lie on the floor and get worse until, he died. ' Conditions were filthy. There was no soap, no toilet paper, little water and every body stunk. Despite the hardships, I do not remember that any of us ever lost our faith we would be rescued some day from that horrible cell. Now that we are here, thank God, we would be will ing to go back again to try to liberate our country from that oppressor. SHIP IT LflSME to or from Oakland, San Fran cisco, Los Angtlct and othar California points. Fitzgerald 773-7761 HOME MOVIE OUTFIT ELECTRIC EYE 118 x It ' complete L A OUTFIT ? LEATHER (JTVi CARRYING CASE ML OPTI-KLEEN 1 XT LENS CLEANER (jfe I6 "Vmlr" I ,l1 1 KOWtU . . . j ' ' re.,. 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