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DEBRIS OF DRUG STORE - Mayor Robert Welch (sec- iond from left) talks with policemen who had been gather- ting up women's purses from debris of drug store in San ; Jose, Calif., Saturday after a boiler exploded in the base- Ex-Janitor Held Police Believe Explosion Was Not Intentional ; San Jose, Calif - '(DPI) - Po lice said Saturday a janitor fired from J. C. Penney's less than an hour before the-sub-basement boiler 1 exploded, : killing three and injuring 72 , others, admitted ., leaving a : safety valve open. '" ' Chief of detectives Barton Collins said, "I don't think " the fellow did It Intentionally, but his negligence caused three deaths." . ... , Collins said maintenance man Ricardo Mello told in terrogators that he turned the valve earlier in the day and then forgot about it. Mello, 27, will be held over the week end. Evidence col lected, Collins said, would be turned over to the district at torney's office Monday. The blast occurred at 4:51 PST Friday at the height of the rush-hour, destroying a Thrifty Drug Store which oc cupied the four sfiry building with Pciiney's. Penney's suf fered extensive damage. , Eight .of the injured are in critical . condition, and five others are still considered se rious. ' Within minutes ot the cx ' plosion at First and Santa Clara streets, main intersec tion of this city of 200,000, police picked up Mello, who . lives in Milpilas, a . small nearby community. Collins said a police officer helping cordon off the street corner overheard Mello tell a bystander that there had been some trouble with the boiler. He was taken into custody, questioned and given a poly graph test Friday night. Ac cording to Collins, Mello "flunked two of the most vi tal" questions - whether he was angry with Penney's for being-laid off and if he had , tampered with the boiler. Collins said that after later questioning and a second lie detector test Saturday Mello admitted leaving the boiler valve open. "He knew what tt would do," Collins said, "but he didn't intend to hurt any- HSd)BRlffS ITEMS FROM Vy M0UN W' 9 PRESSURE PUT ON KOREAN REGIME Seoul - il'Pli - Tht United States Saturday was re ported exerting diplomatic pressure on the Korean mil itary regime to abandon its announced intention to re main in power another fonr years. MACMILLAN HOPES FOR SUMMIT MEET London - 'If I' - Prime Minister Harold Macmillan hopes to meet President Kennedy for an informal sum mit in late spring, diplomatic sources indicated Saturday. ARABS CONDEMN FRENCH TESTS Cairo - UPI1 - The Arab League Council Saturday recogniied the new regime in Yemin and approved a resolution sponsored by the United Arab Republic (UARI condemning French nuclear tests in the Sahara. DE GAULLE OFFERS PAY INCREASE Paris - art - President Charles De Gaulle's gov ernment Saturday night oilered striking coal miners a 7 4 per cent pay increase to bring salaries in line with workers in private Industry. The Initial miners union reaction was that it was "not enough." Kennedy Warns Of 10-Year Depression Without Tax Cuts Chicago - IUPI1 - President Kennedy took his call for a $10 billion tax cut to the peo ple Saturday and warned the alternative could be a decade of depression. ' The President made, a di rect appeal to "the will of the people" to back his economic program in a speech before 1, 400 civic - and airline digni taries. In effect he went over Congress' head in calling for action now to find jobs for tlie nation's "tide of manpow er."' As is often his custom, the President eliminated large portions of his prepared ad dress in actual delivery.' ' Health Center Plans Finished Working drawings of the proposed Jackson county pub lic health center at the fair grounds are now complete, Medford Architect Robert J. Keeney informed the Jackson county court last week. The plans will be' sent . to the state board of health, then to U.S. health officials as an other step in approval of con struction for the federal Hill Burton matching funds. These funds will provide a third of the overall cost. Next step would be to put the construction up for bid. Federal health officials would have to approve the bids, also, it was explained. Overall estimated cost is $180,000, of which the county would par $120,000. County Judge Earl M. Mil ler said construction probably would not be started in this fiscal year which ends June 30. NAMED QUEEN St. Paul - 01PII - Sherry Gil bert of Newbcrg has been named queen of the 28th an nual St. Paul Rodeo July 3-4. merit ot the building, killing three , persons and injur- ing some 72 others. The building was shared with the . J. C. Penny's store and both establishments were crowd- ed with shoppers when the blast occurred. (UPI) for Boiler Blast Among the deleted portions was the somber forecast warn ing that unless the manpower situation is solved "I must warn you this nation faces. a decade of chronic troubles and recession : charcterized by the economic Waste and hu man tragedy' of unemploy ment."! n. . He said instead that the country faces "serious prob lems" because of the "tide of manpower which is going to be hitting our labor market in the next five years. Stand Behind Text ' ; When Kennedy alters his text in this fashion it is White House policy to stand behind the original text as well as the actually delivered version as long as there is no sub stantive change in . meaning. There was no such substan tive change Saturday. The President left no doubt of his belief that, even though there is no single mag ic solution to the nation's ec onomic troubles, the most im portant action the country can take now is to "release the brake of war time tax rates which are now holding down growth at the very time we need more growth to create jobs." Bill Introduced to Redraw Districts Salem -(UPli- Rep. John Mosser (R-Beaverton) has in troduced a bill to redraw Ore gon's four congressional dis tricts so that each would have nearly the same population. The plan would divide Multnomah county at the Wil lamette river. The districts would be: First: Benton, Douglas, Lane, Linn and Marion coun ties. Second: Baker, Coos, Cur ry, Deschutes, Gilliam, Grant, Hood River, Harney, Jackson, Jefferson, Josephine, Klam ath, Lake, Malheur, Morrow, Sherman, Umatilla, Union, Wallowa. Wheeler and Wasco. Third: Multnomah county cast of the Willamette. Fourth: Clackamas. Clat sop, Columbia, Lincoln, Polk, Tillamook. Washington, Yam hill, and Multnomah west of the Willamette. Four Hospitalized After Accident - Between four and six per sons were reported injured in a two-car collision on the Jacksonville highway near Janney lane shortly after 9 p.m. Saturday. Both autos were total wrecks. . Identity of those injured and the extent of their Injuries was not immediately known. A Medford ambulance reore sentative reported that four stretcher patients were taken to Rogue Valley hospital. Ob servers at the scene said one or two others may have been Involved. New York Papers Plan to Publish Today or Monday New York -4UPD New York City newspapers got set Sat urday night to resume publi cation tonight and Monday, with some hoopla reminiscent of a Hollywood snectacular. , Barring unforeseen difficul ties, the city's longest and COStliest newSD&ner strllr will come to an end after 106 days today with a union rati fication meeting at Madison Square Garden.. ' The New York Mirror said it Plans to set off aerial hnmKi high over the city at about the hour the printers were expected to approve their new contract shortly after 4 p.m. (EST). When 1s nn. start later in the evening it said it would set off tiro. works over the East river and the Hudson river. About 6,000 members of Local 6 of the International Typographical Union (ITU) were expected to vote on set tlement terms today with their president, Bertram Pow ers, urging them to accept. The printers were under the threat from ITU President timer Brown that if they turned down the spHlpmnnl as they did once before, the strikers would be cut off from the international's strike ben efits. Grants Pass Woman Dies in Collision Grants Pass - Lauretta No ble, 87, of Grants Pass was dead on arrival at .Tntrnhinf General hospital here Friday anernoon following a colli: sion between the car in which she was riding anri a lumher truck. Colliding- nn Hirhum' 93R at its junction with Frultdale dr. were an autn driven bv Fred Theodore rirnw nn nf Grants Pass, and the truck driven by L.C., Sonny Bohan non, 46, of Grants Pass. Mrs. Duncan Finds Editor's note: Mrs. Robert B. Duncan, wife of the recently-elected congressman from Oregon's fourth Congres sional district, has promised to write occasional articles for the Mail Tribune, her "home town" newspaper. The first one follows. Of it she says, "This Isn't exactly what I'd promised, but will do a piece for the Women's Page soon." She added, "In these first few hectic months, Bob has been virtually concerned with the business of Congress and his job as Representative. As a wife and mother, I have been .deeply concerned with much of what I have observed in our Nation's Capital. I have enclosed some of my comment on Washington, D.C., as I sec it. I believe that it might Be of special interest to the women of Oregon." By MARIJANE DUNCAN The striking thing about Washington to me is not Its famous monuments nor its famous people, the Capitol Mall, the Japanese Cherry blossoms, or "Embassy Row." Viewed in the ordinary perspective that of a tourist come to see the sight these are Imposing and memorable. But even the casual tourist can -hardly avoid seeing, if not being appalled by, Washington's most striking feature desperation, denial, and want at the very heart of the richest country in the world. We are not residents of the District but of Maryland. At first I felt this inhibited my right to comment on or criticize the conditions therein. Then it dawned on me that Washington is my city, as It is yours. It belongs to us, as citizens of this country. In a very unique way. It is not Communist Meet Gets Approval of Brazil President 400 Foreign Reds Slated to Attend Rio dc Janeiro - HIPP - Jubi lant sponsors Saturday said about 400 "foreign personali ties" will attend an anti United States Communist con gress as the result of Presi dent Joao Goulart's go-ahead It was announced Friday that Goulart "will not inter fere in any way" with the wecklong hemisphere con gress whose theme is "Peace and freedom from world dom ination by Yankee imperial ism." Goulart's' hands-off decision was made in the face of ef forts by a Brazilian economic mission in Washington to con vince the United States to give Brazil $500 million in new aid. The mission also is seeking to win postponement of the repayment of $1.5 bil lion already owed the United States. The congress will be kicked off Monday night with rallies here and in Sao Paulo, the site of the "hemisphere con gress." Keynote Address Luis Carlos Prestes. 61, sec retary general of the still illegal Communist party of Brazil, will deliver the key note address here to what is expected to be the biggest public concentration of Reds in Brazil in recent years. The Rio rally will be held in the auditorium of the Bra zilian Press association. In sharp contrast to previous years, the meeting of the Bra zilian Communists will be open to the press and public for maximum publicity effect. Prestos, who spent much of the 1930s and 1940s in prison, has headed the Bra zilian Communist party- for more than 30 years despite periodic inter-party divisions. Francisco Juliao, leader of the leftist peasant league of northeast Brazil, also is ex. pected to attend the rally. Statewide rallies will be held through Sao Paulo Mon day night. Sponsors said about 1,400 Brazilian Communists are expected to be on hand when the foreign delegates ar rive for the conference there beginning Thursday. Congress spokesmen said "fraternal delegates" are ex pected to come from 54 Afri can, European and Asian na tions in addition to those from countries in the western hem isphere, Including the United States. Sports Bulletins Eugene-North Eugene won the Oregon A-l high school basketball championship last night by defeating Tigard 67 to 58. Sandy captured third place with a 44 to 35 decision over Astoria. Medford's Jack Forde and Grants Pass' Alan Hutchins were named to the all-stale second team. Louisville-iUPIl-A Tip-in by big Dick Rouse in the final seconds of an overtime period Saturday night gave Loyola of Chicago an upset 60-58 victory over Cincinnati and the NCAA basketball cham pionship. LODGED IN JAIL Norman Dell Lcsina,-32, of San Bernardino, Calif., was lodged in Jackson County jail Saturday evening on a charge of larceny. Lcsina was return ed from Stockton, Calif, on a Jackson County District court warrant. 1,500 ali Volcano 5J I CAUSING DISASTER - The volcano shown above, Gunung Agung, erupted in Bali last Sunday . causing disaster In which 1,900 persons may have perished. In the fore-'' ground is the Besakih Temple, four miles White City Game Area Renamed in Honor of Denman Portland - lUPH - T h e Ore gon State Game commission Friday voted , to rename the Rogue River Game Manage ment area at White City for the late Kenneth G. Denman of Medford. - Denman was a long-time game commissioner, and one of the state's leading conser vationists. The commission also de cided to hold a series of seven meetings In various parts of the state . before its public hearings on big game hunting regulations In Portland May 24 and June 7. The meetings will be held In Enterprise, Baker, Bend, Klamath Falls, Medford, Gold Beach and Coos Bay. Dates will be set later. The meet ings will give sportsmen In those areas a chance to ex press their views on hunting rules. Conditions Appalling in Washington only our capital; It is truly our responsibility. Our elected representatives here In Congress are di rectly responsible for the District of Colutnhla. There arc committees set up in both Houses to regulate its affairs. There are no elected officials for the District. Citizens here have begged for years for home rule not a change in form of self-government, such as caused controversy in many Oregon counties last election. Just self-government, period. Whether home rule would bring with it solutions to the ills that beset this unfortunate city is a moot question. But the people who have come to Congress, hat In hp.-r1. session after session, believe that local frrnJuae would be a big step in the right direction. However, right now the cxplosivcncss of the situation here la too real to permit speculation - as to alternatives. Things need doing without delay, and that puts it squarely up to Congress. i - The President has asked for adequate financing for District needs. There are proposals before Congress to im plement the specifics. The newspapers here are filled dally with testimony of school officials, police officials, admin istrators. Yet, in the face of a frightening raise In the crime rate, a high percentage of dropouts In the dreadfully In adequate schools (most without even libraries, all terribly overcrowded and understaffed, some shamefully obsolete), and appalling welfare problems that dwarf those' of the rest of the nation, there Is, on the part of many Influential lawmakers, a reluctance to act. Why? Theories vary, from the good old "it's going to cost Feared r rt . ft - J V l 11 f - r n ; v in Anti-Red Cubans Declare State Of War Against Castro Miami - IUPI1 - Delegates of 22 anti-Communist groups in Cuba set up an underground government and declared a state of war against the re gime of Fidel Castro; accord ing to information received here by private sources from Havana. The report of the meeting and of Dr. Carlos Marquez Sterling's designation as presi dent of the "Republic of Cuba In Arms" was confirmed by UPI Friday night In a tele phone conversation with Mar ques Sterling in' New York. The report coincided with an announcement In Havana that government forces had annihilated three anti-Castro rebel bands operating in Ma tanzas province which lies to the cast of Havana. A Cuban refugee who ar rived in Miami from Havana Friday said anti-Castro rebels ambushed and killed 130 members of a militia unit In lead in Eruption l 3 . A from the foot of the mountain. Fate of the temple was not known Saturday, but Be sakih village and four other villages are believed to have been destroyed by the swift lava flow. (UPI) Las Villas province last week Reports on the secret meet ing said the delegates met as a national assembly , "in a place of national territory," proclaimed Marquez Sterling president and declared war "against the Communist occu pation" of Cuba. Elect Delegates The delegates also said they would abolish the Constitution of 1940 once the Castro re gime is overthrown. . In . the meantime, they said, the "peo ple should elect delegates to a constituent assembly." ' ' The delegates then voted approval of a "provisional sta tute" which would serve as the basis for a provisional gov ernment. In addition to naming Mar quez Sterling as president, the delegates selected ministers of foreign affairs, Interior, war, public health and finance. But their identities were kept secret. the taxpayers" (when it's costing them so much more this way) to "the segregationists won't give D.C. a chance be cause of Its heavy Negro population. Such sentiment would preclude forever the fond hope that Democracy's capital might someday become the showplace of Democracy. Then there arc those who would give more money, yes but only for police purposes, brushing aside the demonstrated truth that crime, like weeds, flourishes in untended areas. This Is not the exciting account I expected to write home' of our first few weeks in Washington. We have had :tc.':":--nt, of course, and a gratifying sense of participa tion In this tremendous and complex government of all the people of the United States. But it is impossible to Ignore the cries for help that emanate from every front page of every dally paper ... the sight of massed black humanity clustered, as if hopefully, around the core of our country . . , the obviously unequal opportunity for children who arc not only unfortunate as to race but as to geography . . . the television program, inept but heart-rending, about "Junior Village" (row after row of small beds filled with unwanted, unloved children over 700 In space meant for 400). Coming from a state considered relatively "poor," I have never felt so rich. Coming from a middle-sized Amer ican community with excellent schools, I have never felt so privileged. Lke the great majority of the people In this country, I had no idea that our Capital needed help to desperately. I only hope the help- is tendered before the whole world is as shocked as I am. 5 Bali Villages May Be Buried Under Lava Flow Hindu Sanctuary Thought Destroyed Denpasar, Indonesia-HIMUA four-mile high cloud of black smoke towered Saturday over volcanic Mt. Gunung Agung in silent token of the disa. trous eruption Sunday in which 1,000 persons may have perished. Authorities here notified civil defense headquarters in Jakarta that 400 persons are Known aeaa and another 1, 100 are believed to have burn ed to death while praying when lava raced down the volcano's slopes. ' . ; v The swift lava flow is be lieved to have destroyed the villages of Pura, . Besakih, Pohnangka, Kedampul and Batu Ringgi. Besakih is, or was. the aite of Bali's most sacred Hindu sanctuary, : where a religious celebration . held only once every 100 years took place this month. , The fate of the temple was not known, . Continued Prayers ' '. The Antara News Agency reported one priest and 60 worshippers at Besakih van ished after refusing to leave me Hindu shrine as the lava flow neared. The report Bald mey continued prayers in an effort to halt the fiery erup tions. . ... i , Australian trained asricul- Uurist Wajen Dang In told United Press International one-fifth of. Bali's farm land was out of production, as the result of the eruption ot the "majestic mountain." Life was calm at this Bali- nose capital city. The streets were relatively untouched by the ash which has rained down on Javanese cities -as . far away as Jakarto. The ' volcano, 70 miles distant. Is invisible behind the smoke cloud. i I Representatives of the pro vincial government plan to ny to tne Indonesian capital . today to appeal for emergency aid. Minnesota Governor Problem Settled St. Paul, Minn. - IUPD - Re publican Gov, Elmer L. An dersen gave up his long, bit ter battle tor reelection Sat urday and said he'll turn over his office to Democratic . re count winner Karl Rolvaag Monday. " '; - Andersen could have ap pealed to the state supreme court from Rolvaag's slim vic tory In the four-month re count battle one of the longest and bitterest in his tory. Rolvaag won by only 91 votes out of a total of a million and a quarter. But instead, smiling and Joking, Andersen announced at a news conference over flowing with newsmen and politicians that he would not appeal. Ho sent the 49-year-old Rolvaag a letter saying: "You have my very best wishes as you take the office of governor." "If
