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MEDFORD, OREGON, MONDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1963
No. 237
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FIREMAN DIES IN WAREHOUSE BLAZE Firemen are
shown pouring water on a burning warehouse at Hammond,
Ind., which was ripped by an explosion which killed at least
one fireman and injured 15 other persons. Firemen were
SHOPPING Dtf LEFT
CHRISTMAS SEALS fight TB and
Other RESPIRATORY DISEASES
BBI
Dixie Battered
By Heavy
By United Press International
A Christmas week storm pum
meled the Southland today with
paralyzing snows up to 14 inch
es deep and record cold.
The storm ranging from the
Southern plains to the Atlantic
seaboard on the second day of
winter brought parts of Dixie
some of its worst winter weath
er of the century.
The snow, ice and cold were
blamed for at least 45 deaths
in Southern states. There
were 27 weather - linked traffic
fatalities, 13 deaths in cold belt
fires, and 5 deaths fron miscella
neous weather - related causes.
Fourteen of the w e a t h e r fa
talities were in Louisiana.
The storm crippled traffic in
such cities as Memphis, Nash
ville and Knoxville in Tennes
see and in Atlanta, Ga., and
Jackson, Miss. Louisiana state
Dolice cautioned motorists to
stay off the highways until
Christmas unless driving was
absolutely necessary. Arkansas
eight to 12 inches of snow
closed highways and bridges
and ranked as the heaviest in
three years,
The storm headed northeast
and New York City girded
for a five-inch snowfall. In the
nation's North
temperatures
HEAVY GUNFIRE
HEWSBRIEFS
itims noM (jjfy
NICOSIA, Cyprus (UPII Heavy automatic and rifle lire
crackled again today In Nicosia, where at least lour persons
lnce Saturday. There were no immediate reports of casualties
since Saturday. There were no immediate rports of casualties
In the latest gun battles.
SEAMEN RESCUED
PORT AUD BASQUES, Nfld. (UPI) Eighteen seamen from
the storm-swamped French freighter Douala were rescued from
two lifeboats Sunday alter surviving jo nours annu in me icy
Atlantic.
POPE EXPECTED TO STRESS PEACE
VATICAN CITY (UPI) Pope Paul VI, directing his first
Christmas message to the world today, was expected to stress
peace and Christian unity as the dual goals of his historic pil
grimage to the Holy Land next month.
COMMUNISTS WELCOME WEST BERLINERS
BERLIN (UPI) Communist guards politely welcomed
West Berlin Christmas visitors through the wall today hut ap
parently used their submachine guns on an East German refu
gee to hilt hi (light West.
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Violent Explosion
Occurs During Fire
HAMMOND, lnd. (UPI) An
explosion described as "some
thing like an atomic bomb"
roared through a huge burning
warehouse storing anti-freeze
early today. One fireman was
killed and 15 persons were in
jured. . For a time it was feared sev
eral firemen might have been
caught in the flaming debris
but all were accounted for.
The firemen were pouring
water on the Uliana Transit
Warehouse when the pre-dawn
explosion blasted - the' building
Snowfall
spiralled downwards to more
than 20 degrees below zero.
Heavy snow warnings were
issued from eastern Tennessee
and Kentucky northeastward
across Pennsylvania, West Vir
ginia, southern Ohio and Indi
ana. Gusty Winds Hit
Northwest Coast
By United Press International
A gusty storm packing gale
force winds struck off the North
yest coast today.
Gale warnings were flying oft
Oregon and whole gale warnings
off Washington for south to
southeast winds up to 48 knots
from Astoria south and up to 58
knots to the north.
The weather man said t h e
winds would decrease tonight
and become west to southwest
25 to 35 knots Tuesday.
Rain, heavy at times, was
forecast for Western Oregon.
The mercury dipped below
freezing at a few points in East
ern Oregon and got down to 29
at Medford early today but tern
I peratures generally were mild.
AROUND THI OlOM
HEARD IN NICOSIA
FROM FREIGHTER
pouring water on the warehouse when the explosion roared
through the huge building. Windows were blown out of
stores three blocks away. (UPI)
and collapsed a section of it.
The explosion was heard for
miles.
"The impact was something
like an atomic bomb," police
man George Magunary said.
"It mushroomed out and was
followed by a suction."
Knocked To Ground
One fireman was knocked
about 20 feet. A newsman,
Gene Langle of station WJOB
said he was knocked to the
ground, and when he came to
his senses he ran to a police
car and shouted in the radio,
there s been a terrible explo
sion here. Send all the help you
can."
The injured were taken to St.
Margaret Hospital. All were
firemen except one, Richard
Wylie, a Chicago Sun-Times
photographer. Aides said seven
of them were treated. Most suf
fered from smoke inhalation
and cuts.
The dead man was identified
as Francis Volk. He was stand
ing by an engine and was killed
outright by a flying object.
The rig had pulled between
the burning warehouse and an
adjacent building and it was
showered with flying debris. It
was because or this that offi
cials feared for some time that
firemen might have been
trapped, under the rubble.
Victims Identified
The hospitalized were identi
fied as Paul Kochis, Robert
Alexanderson, Fred Vahst, Rob
ert Jens, Fred Smolen, Jack
Wilson. Asst. Chief John Nova
lich, Michael Sanders and Fred
Kocol.
The fire was brought under
control about 7:30 a.m. CST.
An official of the firm said
the warehouse, a one-story
building of steel and corrugated
metal construction, contained
an undetermined quantity of
anti-freeze and soap. The offi
cial said he had no idea what
caused the explosion or what
the damage would amount to.
Observers said the warehouse
was a total loss and only a
shell was standing. The explo
sion collapsed a section about 50
yards long. The warehouse cov
ered 60.000 square feet.
Court Appearance
For Trio Continued
The district court appearance
of three young men charged
with extortion has been post
poned until tomorrow, the dis
trict attorney's office said.
Lawyers for Steven Joseph
Paradiso, 17, of 335'A W. Second
St., and Robert Gray, 19, of 616
W. 11th St., Medford, have re
quested a continuance so they
may consult further with their
clients. Walter Dale Balla, 19.
of a local hotel, now does not
have to be ' appointed, it was
expla'ned
The three men were charged
with extortion after Allan F.
Perrv. manager of the MprifnrH
hranch of the II. S National!
Bank ol Portland, received a
telephone call Wednesdav de
manding $5,000. The caller
claimed Mrs. Perry was being
held as a hostage.
Foundation Gives
Beekman House
Picture to Court
The Jackson County Court this
morning received a framed pic
ture of the restored home of
early day banker C. C. Beek
man today from officials of the
Siskiyou Pioneer Sites Founda
tion.
In presenting the picture
Elliott Becken and Jack Sutton
thanked the county court for
its efforts in helping save the
historic landmark from auction
by the University of Oregon and
labor and money the foundation
gave tor refurbishing the build
ing. This is the third such picture
presented by the foundation
One has been sent ot the Port'
land office of the U. S. National
Bank of Portland to thank it for
donating exterior paint for the
building. Another went to the
business office of the University
of Oregon, Eugene.
Sutton, who is local coordi
nator for the urban renewal pro
gram for Jacksonville, said the
preliminary phase of the pro
posed study has yet to be ap
proved by federal officials. Key
to the program is rehabilitation
and commercial use of the old
U. S. Hotel in Jacksonville. This
would be required before much
progress can be made in the
urban renewal program, he
said.
A survey of the pioneer gold
mining town and recommenda
tions for rehabilitating the build
ings in the key historical area
in Jacksonville would cost an
estimated $44,000 in federal
funds. Once this study is com
pleted, then the town would be
eligible for $100,000 in govern
ment funds for civic improve
ments which would mean cover
"public improvements" yet to
be defined, Sutton said.
State's Teachers
Get $262 More
PORTLAND (UPI) -The av
erage annual salary for Oregon
teachers is $262 higher than it
was a year ago, the research
department of the Oregon Edu
cation Association announced
today.
A survey showed the state's
18,947 classroom teachers aver
aged $6,281 this year, compared
to $6,019 in 1962-63.
Average salaries for adminis
trators went up $420 from $8,-
938 to $9,358.
The OEA also reported that
school systems added 793 teach
ers and 44 administrators to
their staffs this year. It was a
4 per cent increase over last
year.
Air Force Launches
Secret Satellite
VANDENBERG AIR FORCE
BASE, Calif. (UPI) - A secret
' satellite, believed to be of the
i type used in numerous capsule
; recoveries over the Pacific, was
i launched Saturday by the Air
Force
As is customary, the Air Force
' announced only that the satellite
was launched by an improved
Thor-Agena booster rocket the
same employed on the Discov
er scries.
reports said rescue ships today
picked up about 900 survivors
after fire and explosions ripped
through the Greek liner Lakonia
cruising with 1,036 persons
aboard in Ihp Atlantic sm
miles off the Moroccan coast.
About 1O0 persons were
feared dead in the disaster.
Three of the passengers
aboard were Americans, most nf
the rest were Britons.
A broadcast by the coastal
radio station at Santa Cruz de
Tenerife in the Canary Islands
reported this afternoon that ap
proximately 900 survivors had
been rescued from the relative
ly calm Atlantic waters and
added that rescue operations
were "practically at an end."
Planes Dispatched
The U.S. Air Force dispatched
rescue planes from the Azores
and Germany. An Air Force
rescue spokesman at Ramstein,
Germany, said one of the U.S.
pilots reported sighting "about
100 bodies" in the water. He
said the planes reported that all
survivors appeared to have
been picked up.
"Our reports from the scene
described the 100 or so bodies
as lifeless," the Air Force
spokesman said. "They said the
bodies were in life jackets."
The Canary Islands broadcast
said the last person to leave
the Lakonia was the Greek
skipper of the luxury vessel,
M. arbis. lhe ship was ablaze
500 miles off the coast of Mo
rocco.
Sea Mercifully Calm
Many of the survivors were
believed injured or suffering
from exposure after hours spent
in a mercifully calm sea await
ing rescue.
There was no confirmation
from the British admiralty or
the ship s owners of the Tene-
rife raHin rticnim ronnrl 1
The 20,314-ton luxury liner
was carrying 651 passengers
and 385 crew members on a
Christmas holiday cruise from
England to the Portuguese is
land of Madeira when fire
broke out shortly before mid
night.
The flames spread so quickly
that all but a relative handful
of those aboard abandoned ship
quickly, either by lifeboat or
leaping into the water with life
jackets.
Reach Survivors
Four small vessels, one of
them an American freighter,
were the first to reach the
scene and plucked hundreds of
survivors from the water.
Early reports said the rescue
ships probably would head for
Casablanca, on the Moroccan
Atlantic Coast. But the Argen
tine ship Salta, reported to have
300 survivors aboard, reported
it was headed for Funchal, Ma
deira, 16 hours sailing time
away, and it was believed
others might steam for the
same port.
Senator Hits Cut
Of SP Rail Service
SALEM (UPD Oregon's pub
lic utility commissioner today
was urged to enter objections
before the Interstate Commerce
Commission to Southern Pacific
company's proposed elimination
of Shasta daylight train serv
ice during the winter months.
Sen. Edward Fadeley, D-Eu-gene,
urged commissioner Jonel
C. Hill to act "on behalf of the
Oregon citizens to be affected
by this arbitrary cutting of pas
senger service."
The railroad recently an
nounced it wanted to eliminate
its Shasta daylight passenger
service between Portland and
San Francisco during the winter
months.
Fadeley said the railroad's re
quest "will result in a oeieri
ment In Oreaon and the Wil
lamette Valley economically in
sofar as tourist and business
travel is concerned, not to men
tion lost employment opportuni
ties." Fadeley charged "Southern
Pacific Company just doesn't
care about passenger travel and
would be very happy if there
was no passenger travel on its
trains.
WEATHER
HmKCAST: VirUhl Houdl
n lontsht ind Tuesday, hut
with tiUht ind mornlni pitrh
m nf valky f'rR. Low tonifht
28-33. Huh Ttifcdiy
Temp.
HlRhPSt VMtfffllV .
l.oweitl Thli Mornltn . 37
Our Skies Tonight
Suntft torliv .... :2 V -
SiinrUf tomorrow .. 7:3ft a.m.
Moon lift tomorrow 12:37 am.
First OuarUr lodav 11:55 a.m.
Thp wixln Moon that appari
to tit Ifadlnu thf planrt, .nipt
tr, ihruush thf iky lontrht
will b totally eellpard mrly
nmt Monday mornlnc and lhat
Kdlpsr will rtf vltlhle throm fl
out North America.
".IMt'lk' 1 IV 17 1) 11)1 A7t' AH
nf ih.r-l i fin i T T k- 1S a recent pnoio
of the Greek Liner Lakonia which sent out an SOS late Sun-
day that it was ablaze and exploding. Radio reports this
Foreign Aid
Continues To
Snarl Congress
WASHINGTON (UPI) Irate
Republicans balked Democratic
efforts to win an immediate
House test today on a foreign
aid fight that has snarled up
the adjournment of Congress
for Christmas.
They mustered enough votes
to block consideration of the
measure until Tuesday.
House Democratic leaders
needed a two-thirds vote of the
House to waive a normal one-
day waiting period before con
sideration of the Russian trade
credit amendment involved in
the $3 billion aid appropriation.
On a roll call, they didn't
quite get it.
The vote was 202 for pro
ceeding today and 105 against
it.
Leaders Confident
Congressional leaders mean
time had rounded up every
available member and were
confident that despite a trans
portation foulup due to an over
night snow they had the votes
t0 setUe lhe aid issue on lerms
le to the President.
'
Not only the foreign a 1 d
money bill but Johnson's pres
tige was at stake in the show
down fight. A key Democratic
leader, House Whip Hale Boggs
of Louisiana, confidently claim
ed enough strength to win the
battle over the $3 billion appro
priation bill.
The rules group convened
with every member on hand
except Reps. Richard Boiling,
D-Mo., H. Allen Smith, D-Calif.,
and Clarence J. Brown, R-Omo,
Salad Oil King
Gets Indictment
NEWARK, N.J. (UPI)
-Salad
oil king Anthony (Tino) De An
gelis was indicted by a federal
grand jury today on charges of
transporting forged warehouse
receipts for $40 million worth
of edible oils across state lines.
The 18 count indictment
against De Angelis, president of
the brankrupt Allied Crude Veg
etable Oil Refining Corp., was
oresented to U.S. District Court
Judge Anthony T. Augclli.
It charged t h a t the 48-ycar-old
executive took across state
lines forged warehouse receipts
of American Express Ware
housing Ltd., of Bayonne, N.J.,
in whose tanks Allied Crude's
oils were stored.
The forgeries were made
from Oct. 14 to 19, the indict
ment charged.
Books By, About
Kennedy Sell Well
PORTLAND (UPI) Book
stores reported today that
shelves were virtually empty ot
books about or by the late
President John F. Kennedy.
A spokesman for J. K. Gill s
said the demand was "beyond
anything we've had in recent
years."
Among books In heavy de
mand are "Proliles in Cou
rage," written by the late Presi
dent; "JFK, the Man and the
Myth," by Victor Lasky, and
"The Making of a President,
by Theodore White.
Agreement Reached
On Farm Prices
BRUSSELS (UPI) Common
Market foreign ministers today
reached full agreement on
package deal on farm price
problems, averting a threatened
French move to wrecK tnc six
nation economic bloc.
"An agreement has been
reached," West German For-
eien Minister Gerhard Schroe
der said alter leaving this all-
ernoon's meeting.
The accord came after six
days of hard bargaining in
which all six nations West
Germany. France, Italy, Bel
gium, The Netherlands and
Luxembourg had to give and
take for the common good.
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12 Oregonians Die
During Weekend
Traffic Deaths
Show Decrease
During December
By United Press International
Twelve persons died as a re
sult of accidents in Oregon dur
ing Uie pre-Christmas week end.
There were 10 traffic deaths
and two persons died by drown
ing. The traffic fatalities brought
to 28 the number of persons kill
ed on Oregon highways so far
this month, compared with 35
for the first 23 days of Decem
ber last year. So far in 1963
there have been 542 persons
killed in Oregon traffic, 69 more
than in the same period a year
ago.
Thomas Purcell, 18, Collate
Grove, was fatally injured when
his sports car went oft State
Highway 226 four miles north of
Cottage Grove Sunday.
Lyle McClure of Silverton was
killed in a two-car collision on
State Highway 22, about 20
miles southwest of McMinnville,
Sunday.
Air Force T. Sgl. Jack Owens,
35, drowned in Agency Lake 30
miles north of Klamath Falls
Sunday. He fell into the water
from a small boat while hunt
ing waterfowl. He was stationed
at Kingsley Field near Klamath
Falls.
Ernest Kellen, 2.1, Rockaway,
drowned in the Trask River
eight miles cast of Tillamook
Sunday. He fell into the water
when his eight-foot boat cap
sized. Three persons lost their lives
in a two-car accident east of
Portland Saturday. The victims
were Guy Gorrell, 71, Boring
and his wife, lna, and Robert
Currie, 23, Portland.
Mrs. Margaret Groshanz, 78,
Springfield, was struck and
killed by a car in Springfield
Saturday.
James Herrington, 35, Eagle
Point, was killed in a two-car
collision on U. S. Highway 109
five miles north of Cave Junc
tion Saturday.
Jacob Rosenburg, .17, Astoria,
died when his car plunged off
State Highway 202 into the
Youngs River three miles cast
of Astoria Saturday.
George Helm, 22, Bend, was
killed when the car in which he
was riding slammed into a tree
on U. S. Highway 97 five miles
south of Bend Saturday.
Brian Hanson, 2, Fortuna.
Calif., died in a Medford hos
pital Friday night from injuries
suffered in a one-car accident
near Cave Junction Friday.
Land Sales Fraud
Cases Under Study
PORTLAND (UPI) -Federal
Judge John F. Kilkenny May
took under advisement motions
to set aside mail fraud and con
spiracy convictions of three
men.
The convictions were returned
recently by a jury in Pendleton.
I he motions were tiled by
Richard D. Walker, 41, Los An
geles; John M. Phillips, 38,
Evanston, III., and Jack Cher-
bo, 37, Chicago. They claimed
there was insufficient evidence
at the trial to sustain convic
tion and that the court erred
by allowing prejudicial and im
proper statements and evidence.
MILK TO IIF, TOPIC
SALEM (UPI) - The Stale
Agriculture Department will
propose at a hearing here Dec.
30 that all transfers of milk
quotas under the market pool
bo reported to the department
by the handler who represents
the producer.
i
morning indicated that more
rescued. (UPI)
Jeannace
Caused Near-Riot,
Warden Discloses
By ZAN STARK
United Press International
SALEM (UPI) A near-riot
by five women prisoners
erupted at the State Penitentiary
Nov. IB when condemn! child
slayer Jeannace June Freeman
was placed in isolation, after! Passionate Letter Found
trying to drown out organ music I During the cleanup, prison au
from the prison chapel by bast-l ritles found a passionata
inn ho- ,.aii r.riin .t ion ,,i,,m lI"ree - page letter from Miss
ut i nl .
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DA Preparing
1 n I i
Zoning Resolution
The district attorney's office
is preparing a resolution
ami
oraerior uiejan. aieecuonon
torney Alan Holmes said this
moming.
The resolution and order will
be in the hands of the county
court tomorrow. The court's
next regular meeting is Friday,
Holmes told six representa-
lives from the area this morn-
ing (hot the county court could
legally delay the election until
after the present interim zoning
ordinonce expires on Nov. 1
1964. This might give the Jack
son County Planning Commis
sion time to complete a com
prehensive area development
plan.
the representatives of the
South Talent Improvement As
sociation which met with the
district attorney today favor
zoning, but feel permanent zon
ing would be useless without a
development plan. They were
meeting with the district attor
ney to see if anything could be
done legally to postpone the
election.
Holmes emphasized that the
county court can call the elec
tion without waiting for the
completion of the plan.
IIF.ARINGS SCIIKDULED
SALEM (DPI) - The public
utility commission has sched
uled a series of hearings on
proposals by the Union Pacific
Railroad and Railway Express
Agency to withdraw their agents
from Wasco and Grass Valley
in Sherman County, it was an
nounced today.
Johnson Ends Month's
Mourning for Kennedy
WASHINGTON (UPI)-"...Lct
us here on this Christmas night
determine that John Kennedy
did not live or die in vain, that
this nation under God shall
have a new birth of freedom,
and that we may achieve in
our time and for all time the
ancient vision of peace on
earth, good will toward all
men."
With these words, spoken
from the steps of the Lincoln
Memorial at dusk Sunday,
President Johnson ended the
nation's month of mourning for
President Kennedy.
Flags all over the nation fly
at lull stall today for the first
time since Kennedy was shot
down in Dallas Nov. 22. The
black banners that darkened
the door of the White House
Candles Lighted
are gone.
Thousands of candles, lighted
In memory of the late Chief
Executive, flickered In the win
tcr wind as Johnson evoked
than 600 persons had been
fi"" "u ullu
Freeman
as a result two tables wers
smashed, 76 windows were shat
tered, bedding in several cells
was filled with glass, a wash
basin was torn from a cellhloolc
wall, and mirrors, lotion bottles
"J'Ti"
u umer personal ettects wero
smashed.
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prisoner.
The disturbance came In linht
after George F. Neavoll of Eu
gene wrote Warden Gladden
charging he had heard Miss
' ccman nau . Deen placed in
taTo, undetd
Neavoll, who last year person
ally appealed to Gov. Mark Hat
field to commute Miss Free-
man.s dea(h senl as0
rjof.
IMt Cnnvlrtlnn
I Miss Freeman. 9.9.. ivnt nnn
vfcted of Die 1981 slaving nf a
6-year-old boy. She would be the
first woman to be executed in
Oregon.
The State Supreme Court re-
I cently turned down her plea for
a new trial. Further appeals aro
expected on behalf of Miss
Freeman, who has had threa
stays of execution.
Prison records show Miss
Freeman was placed in isola
tion Nov. 18 when she becama
violent after being ordered to
turn down the volume of her
radio. She had turned up tho
volume to drown out the organ
music from the prison chapel.
At 8:30 p.m. the same day.
two women prisoners becama
violent in protest against Miss
Freeman's being placed in iso
lation. At 9:10 p.m. another woman
prisoner became violent, then in
quick order, two more women
began breaking up their cells,
and screaming wildly at prison
authorities.
The disturabance was quelled
at 10:30 p.m., and the five wo
men were placed in isolation.
Privileges Cut Out
Miss Freeman was moved
back to her cell, which had
been stripped of all its furnish
ings. She was deprived of pri
vilges, her radio and television,
for 18 days, Warden Gladden
said.
memories of Kennedy and of
the matryred Abraham Lincoln
and the Gettysburg Address.
Lights Candle
Standing bare-headed in the
cold, Johnson lighted a candla
from fire carried from the eter
nal flame that burns over tho
slain President's grave across
the Potomac in Arlington Na
tional Cemetery.
Johnson's talk was brief and
rang with the phrases sounded
at Gettysburg 100 years and
one month ago.
"We have been bent in sor
row but not In purpose," ho
said. "We buried Abraham Lin
coln and John Kennedy, but wa
did not bury their dreams or
visions." ,
"Thirty days and a few hours
ago, John F. Kennedy, 35th
President of the United States,
died a martyr's death. Tho
world will not forgot what he
did here. He will live on in our
hearts which will be his
shrine," the President said.
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