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Oaivvrsity :f Orcg.u Library Otoe MiwmMw Umpqua Tours . New series features interesting auto trips which can be taken on good mountain roads of the Umpqua ' National Forest. Page 9. Capital Crowded An estimated 200,000 jam Wash ington for biggest civil rights march in U. S. History. Established 1873 28 Pages ROSEBURG, OREGON THURSDAY, AUGUST 29, 1963 204-63 10c Per Copy Action ly Congress, Kennedy Averts liailraad Planes, Ships Seek Missing Jet Tankers MIAMI (UPI) The freighter S. S. Azalea City radioed today that . it bad located debris believed to be from two jet tank ers missing since Wednesday with 11 air force men aboard. Officials at Homestead .Air Force Base near here said, the freighter found the debris about 300 miles from where the two KC135 tanker planes were last contacted by radio at noon Wednesday. There was no mention of the crew in the terse message from the freighter. . "The Azalea City is taking the debris aboard and will take it to the nearest base for examination. We can give no further details until the debris is identified," an Air Forces spokesman said. Earlier two planes, one carry ing a team of paramedics, and a Coast Guard boat were sent to the scene when first reports of the debris came in. A freighter reported sighting a life jacket about 250 miles south west of Bermuda late Wednesday, and an Air Force search plane said it sighted a possible oil slick in the same area. The KC13S aircraft, attached to the' Strategic Air Command (SAC), were returning to their home base at Homestead Air Force Base south of Miami when radio contact was lost with them Wednesday afternoon. They had refueled in the air two B47 jets from Schilling AFB in Kansas. The B 47s returned safely to Shcilling. - The Air Force called the mission routine, but would not say where the refueling took place or speculate on why both tankers vanished. Apparently there was no hint of trouble from the tankers,, attached' to the 10th bomb wing at Homestead. The life jacket was sighted by the 450-foot freighter S.S. Azalea City from Wilmington, Del. 100-Acre Fire Hits In Days Creek Area The Douglas Forest Protective Association Wednesday answered a j call to a fire which burned hot and furious over about 100 acres of land in the Days Creek area. The firemen got the call about 2 p.m., and brought the blaze un der control by night time, trench ing the area, and crews are mop ping up today. The location was Bland Moun tain, and the fire was in brush and forest reproduction. Cause was at-; tributed to a careless smoker along the roadside. About five acres of grass and brush burned over on the Roy ! Medley farm property east of Oak-! land about 10:50 a.m. Wednesday. 1 The damage was slight, but the fire could easily have spread into green timber. Cause was not de termined. The Roseburg Fire Department had a call to a car fire at 3:55 p.m. Wednesday in the 700 block on SE Rose SI. The car belonged to Lockwood Motors, and apparent ly the blaze started in the wiring. 'Belligerent Brute' Mother, Three Sons Arrested In Planned Slaying Of Father LA PUENTE, Calif. (UPI) i Elsie Mae Farley. 36, and her Police today sought murder in- sons, Shelby Jr., 18, Donald, 17, dictments against a mother and and John, 13. The mother and the oldest of her three teen age oldest son were hooked on suspi sons, two of whom allegedly par- cion of murder while the younger ticipated in the planned slaying ; two were held by juvenile author of the boys' faiher. j ities. Victim of the bizarre death The two older bovs implicated plot was Shelby Farley Sr., 42. a j the 13 year - old and said he railroad switchman whom detec- j agreed to the plan, fives described as a "belligerent, j In California an 18-year - old brute husband." I could be tried on a murder Authorities Wednesday arrested charge under the adult capital The Weather AIRPORT RECORDS Fair but with varlablt high cloud iness today through Friday. " Highest tamp, last 24 hours , Lowest temp, last 24 hours Highest temp, any Aug. (5) Lowest temp, any Aug. (56) . Precip. last 24 hours Precip. from Aug. 1 - 50 103 " 0 T Normal Auf. Precip, vji Normal Precip. -1 to M . .. 32.72 Precip. from Sept. I 35.05 Sunset tonight, 7:54 p.m. PDT Sunrise tomorrow, 6:35 a.m. PDT I THE HEROES of the Wednesday mine rescue, Frank Markusek, 50, of Sunnyside, Utah, and Henry LaVisette, 42, of Moab, are interviewed shortly after their descent of nearly one-half mile to rescue two of a group of about 25 miners trapped by an explosion at Moab Tuesday. (UPI Telephoto) Lack MOAB, Utah (UPI) A rescue team, stymied 12 to 24 hours in attempts to get at possible sur vivors of a fiery potash mine ex plosion, turned today to the trag ic task of hauling the bodies of the dead' to the surface. Eight men are known to have died in the explosion and the first of . the corpses was brought up early today after the searchers reported a lack of oxygen made it. impossible foF them to reach the drift 3,000 feet underground where five possible survivors may be waiting. State. Mining Inspector Tony Hatsis said further rescue at tempts would be postponed until adequate oxygen facilities could be provided in the drift. The facil ities were being prepared Wednes day when voice contact was made with two survivors, and emcr- j fit' FLOYD C. FREAR, Douglas County engineer for 37 years until his retirement in 1957, died Wednesday in a Eugene hospital, (bee story Page 2) punishment laws. In some cases ! youngsters under that age have i been tried as adults, but rarely i has that age been dropped even ; as low as lo years Pohce said the elder Farley had been beaten, smothered and then held below water in a bath- tub until he ceased to strueirle because "he'd been a brute for 12 vears "i was afraid, of him and. so i were the children," Mrs. Farley torn otiicers She said her husband had oiiun , beaten her and had harassed the j family for 12 years. Mrs. Farley said she and the boys made plan J- - t r, mi n. H ' 7 wHV'-'f vi f-( til imm f Air Rescue gency measures had to be ..taken to free the men. "We should have followed this program 24 hours ago," Utah state Industrial Commissioner Casper A. Nelson told a press conference today. "But two men I came out alive, and we thought jif they could come out, we could go in." Nelson said he believed air was getting to the men in the drift. "If those five men are alive. they can survive another day or so," he said. "This' operation will take 12 to 24 hours." The two survivors lifted out of the charred shaft Wednesday afternoon said five men were alive and attempt ing to avoid deadly gas fumes be hind a barricade of rubberized cloth. However, four rescue workers said they covered a "substantial part" of the mine Wednesday night without locating the barri cadebut found eight bodies scat tered near the shaft mouth and down the east drift. This left 15 men unaccounted for. General manager Frank Tinnie said a crew started down at 12:55 a.m., MST (3:55 a.m., EDT) and planned to work through the east drift in a diesel-powered vehicle. He said the crew could bring the five possible survivors to the surface, "regardless of whether they are found dead or alive." Tippie said today's crew would have better and safer working conditions. Hampered By Water The crew which descended into the 2,712-foot vertical shaft Wednesday night was hampered by water leaking into the shaft "like a . hard rain." A water pump station at the edge of the "hole" was knocked out by the explosion which trapped the 25 construction workers Tuesday aft ernoon. The pumps were repaired short ly before midnight. to retaliate the next time Farley lost his temper and beat her. The "next time" was Tuesday. The two older boys returned to their home in this modest Los Angeles suburb late in the after noon to find their father beating their mother. Shelby Jr. told po lice. He said he grabbed his fa ther by the throat and wrestled him to the floor. Donald struck him with a vac uum cleaner metal extension lube, but his father continued to struggle so the 17-year-old ran into the yard and got a 30-inch sledge hammer handle. Police said the vouth relumed and I struck his father six times with the weapon. "He was still alive." the eldest bov told mlice "We vnt a nillnw I and tried to smother him. He was still moaning and groaning, so we carried him to the bath tub, filled "it part way with water and ducked him." After Farley had ceased 10 struggle. Mrs. Farley called sher - iff's deputies. Farley was dead on arrival at Hartland Hospital, Stalls Efforts Tippie said repairs also were made on the oxygen-providing equipment, and air was being pumped into the 3,300-feet-long east drift where any more surviv ors likely would be found. Utah Stale Industrial Commis sioner Casper A. Nelson, who is coordinating the rescue opera tions, said the explosion occurred in the 2,500-feet-long west drift He said the men in the west drift would not only have had to sur vive the blast, but would have had to . barricade against the poison metnane gas winch apparently was ignited. County Pays Cost Of New Airport Ramp Douglas County has agreed to pay the full cost of making an air port ramp improvementat Rose burg Municipal Airport. City Manager Craig McMicken said he was advised by Judge V. T. Jackson the county will provide 86,542 the amount of the bid received on the project from Rose burg Paving Co. as a grant-in-aid to the city. McMicken noted that contribu tions . for airport improvements have been made to the city in prior years by the county. Last year the city received 35,000 from the county as a contribution toward taxi-way and tie-down improve ments. Roseburg Paving Co. was the only bidder on the project. Follow ing bid opening a few weeks ago, the council decided to withhold award of contract pending review by the Douglas County Court. This was done with the hope the county would pay the full cost. The county had previously agreed to provide a grant-in-aid in the amount of $5,000. Now that funds are assured for the work, the council would be ex pected to award the contract at its next regular meeting. ! Roseburg Paving Co., which . holds contract on a project of seal ' coating the airport runway, was : expected to start work on this proj cct today. Homecoming Due For Team The Lockwood Motors American Legion junior baseball team will arrive sometime this evening by plane in Portland, according to in formation received here. Time of arrival in Portland and the planned trip to Roseburg are as yet unknown, but it is under stood Coach Bill Harper will call from Portland as soon as the plane arrives Meanwhile, plans are being made ' to welcome home the Western Rc- ! gional champs, who lost out in their , ma 10' national lame at Keenc, N IL I Jerry Cocn said the time of ar- i rival here will determine the type I of reception that can be made. However, a banquet is scheduled Thursday, Sept. 5, at the Umpqua Hotel, open to the public as a for ; mal welcoming for the team. Coen isaid arrangements arc being made j for ticket reservations and for a speaker. 2 New York Career Girls Found Slain NEW YORK (UPI) Two young career girls, one the niece of author Philip Wylie, were found Wednesday night stabbed to death and tied together in their apartment on Manhattan's swank East Side. The victims, found in the bed room of the flat, were Janice Wylie, 21, an employe of News week magazine who hoped to be come an actress, and Emily Hof fert, 23, daughter of a prominent Minneapolis surgeon, who had planned to start .teaching school next month. The bodies were removed from the third-floor apartment shortly auer mmnignt and taken, still bound together, to the morgue at Bellevue .Hospital where au topsies will be performed later to day. Police virtually ruled out bur glary as a motive in the slayings. ur. itniton Helpern. the city's chief medical examiner, said it did not appear that the women had been sexually molested. Have No Leads Lawrence McKearnev. an as sistant chief of detectives, said police had "no suspects" and "no leads." Of the killings, he said: mis is really sadistic." Were reaching for anyone.' McKearney said, when asked if he thought police would solve the case soon. "It's a tough one." the Doaies were discovered bv me two gins roommate. Patricia Tones, 23, and Miss Wylie's fath er. Max Wylie, an advertising tirm executive and also an au thor. Miss Tolles, who has a lob with Time Book. Inc.. said she last saw her roommates alive when she left the four-room, $250- a-monin apartment at 9:30 a.m., EDT, Wednesday for work. Returns In Evenina When -she returned at 6:40 n.m.. rshe--said;islio ;.fduha the apart ment in disarray and, frightened, telephoned Max Wylie. who lives just two blocks away. It was Wy- ne wno pusnea open the bedroom door and found the girls, who had been bound hand and foot and then tied together back-to-back with sheets. Miss Wylie was nude, and Miss Hoffert was fully clothed, police said. The bodies were wedged into a narrow space between one of the beds in the room and a wall. Next to the bodies, nolice said. were two bloody carving knives. A third knife was found nn n sink in one of the apartment's two bathrooms where the killer, or killers, apparently had gone to wash off blood before fleeing. The knife blades were between 10 ana n inches long. MCKearney said the oirln urn attacked in their bedroom and slashed repeatedly in the neck and abdomen. They were "very severely stabbed," Helpern said. Senate Croup Okays Treaty WASHINGTON (UPn-Th. Son. ate Foreign Relations Committee louay approved the limited nu clear test ban treatv hv n vn(o of 16 to 1. Sen. Russell B. Long, D-La., was the lone dissenter. The committee voted to send the pact barring all but under ground nuclear tests to the Sen ate floor for consideration start ing Sept. 9. The committee mem bers agreed that their written re port would contain "understand ings and interpretations" regard ing continued U.S. test prepared ness. Chairman J. William Fulbright, D-Ark., said the committee mem bers made the "usual" reserva tion that they would be free to vote for or against the treaty on the floor, regardless of their vote .in committee. No formal reservations to the treaty were proposed in commit tee but three procedural motions were offered and rejected. One by Sen. Bourke B. Ilickcn looper, R-Iowa, defeated by a 10-7 vote, would have requested Pres ident Kennedy to furnish the com mittee copies of his treaty corre spondence with Soviet Premier Khrushchev. Proposes Delaying Vote A second by Sen. Karl E. Mundt, R-S.D. proposed delaying the treaty vote until 48 hours aft er the printed record of the hear ings was available. This was re jected by an 11-5 vote. The third motion, by Sen. Frank J. Lausche, D - Ohio, pro posed that the Armed Services and Joint Atomic Committee members who sat in on the three weeks of hearings on the pact be invited in for discussion before the Foreign Relations members voted on the 'treaty. This lost on another 11-5 vote. - v. MEW ; : NOT" ,. j SOUTHERN PACIFIC railroader disgustedly left bis brakes man cap dangling orop slightly altered "Men Working" Sign at SaHin'a-s, Calif., Wednesday, after hearing legisla tion just passed to call off nationwide strike. Seconds before, he was happily posing beside sign and cap, hoping for the strike, which he said most railroaders were for. He, in background upper right, declined to give name. (UPI Telephoto) Diem Gives To-Remove Gua rds Af Buddhist Temples SAIGON, South Viet Nam fUPI) South Viet Nam's official press agency said today that President Ngo Dinh Diem has promised to remove police guards from Bud. dhist pagodas and free imprisoned monxs and nuns who will obev the newly installed Buddhist lead ers. The agency said Diem, whose government raided the pagodas last week, imprisoning thousands of Buddhist leaders, will place the pagodas in charge of the monks now in command. It said the president made these promises Tuesday to a delegation of monks headed by Thich Thien Hoa, who was placed in charge of Buddhist affairs last weekend af ter the arrests. The agency said Hoa also heads a breakaway Budd hist committee called the Union Committee for the Defense of Pure Buddhism. The agency said Diem told the Buddhists restrictions on pagodas in the highlands and central Viet Nam have been lifted and only a "small number of pagodas in Saigon and other areas are under surveillance. He said this action was taken because "the government had found in them a large number of illegal documents inciting the people to action aimed at provok ing disorder." In another development, observ D'AnnlsEnRoute To Beauty Pageant Dark eyes flashing with excite ment, D Ann Fullcrton, Miss Ore gon of 1963. left Portland Interna tional Airport Wednesday for the Miss America contest in Atlantic City. She will arrive there on Labor Day, but it will be Tuesday eve ning before the public will get its first glimpse of D'Ann, who with 51 other beauties, will appear when the f estival of t loats moves down the Boardwalk. An estimated 200.- 000 will be on hand to 'applaud the hopeful misses. in the interval between now and Monday, D'Ann and her chap- crone, Edie Wright of Portland, will stop in New York. This is the Ore gon beauty's first visit to the East and she is looking for ward to it with keen anticipation. A busy time is in store for D'Ann, who hopes to reach the Saturday night finals which will be telecast coast to coast over the Columbia Broadcasting System from 10 p.m. to midnight, Eastern Daylight time. D'Ann is aiming for the Miss Amenca crown and the $10,000 scholarship. that goes with It. The daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Fullcrton of Roseburg, D'Ann plans to attend Southern Oregon College in Ashland and major in educa tion. IX?HS$LL-S Promise ers said Saturday's national elec tions are expected to take place as scheduled, but they predicted less than half the 6.4 million regis tered voters will take part. Opposition political leaders indi cated they will not even bother to put up candidates, and the Buddhists, whose following is more than 70 per cent of tho popu lation, have no plans to do so. U.S. military sources said there has been no appreciable difference in South Viot Nam's war effort against the Communist Vict Cong guerrillas because of the religious crisis and the declaration of mar tial law. They said the Communists have not stepped up their activity mark edly since the start of the crisis. The dispute between Diem s gov ernment and the United States deepened today with a government charge that Washington had dis torted the crackdown on Budd hists. The government called a U.S. State Department assessment of the situation here "unjust and based on erroneous information. The Diem regime claims the Buddhist protests are politically motivated and . cloak Communist efforts to sabotage tho national security. Vietnamese officials con tend the Aug. 21 crackdown was necessary to block a plot against the government. BIG BALLOON BURSTS PALESTINE, Tex. (UPI) Massachusetts Institute of Tech nology scientists attempted today to determine what caused a huge balloon carrying instruments to study cosmic rays to burst at 107,000 feet. The balloon's 325-pound inslru ment payload was automatically parachuted to earth and recovered by scientists. Dedication Ceremonies Set For Winchester Boys Ranch Ceremonies dedicating the first boys' ranch in Oregon to be oper ated on a county level will be staged at 1 p.m. Friday at the ranch site in Winchester Park. The new facility for boys is sit uated in a ranch setting at the park located four miles north of Roseburg on old Highway 99. It will house young boys who are re ferred to it by the county juvenile authorities. The special program, to which the public is invited, will feature county officials and others who have worked for the development of the ranch. Opening remarks will bo made by a Douglas County juvenile judge, mis to be followed by in troduction of County Court Judge Law Provides For Binding Arbitration WASHINGTON fUPH Last. minute action by Congress and President Kennedy kept the na tion's railroads operating today and prevented a strike over the bitter work rules dispute. the House overwhelmingly an proved and Kennedy signed into law Wednesday night legislation providing for binding arbitration on the two key issues firemen's jobs and composition of train crews. The legislation removed the threat of a railroad strike for at least six months. After that per iod, it would be possible for a walkout to take place over other issues such as pay schedules and job jurisdiction. It was the first . time in memory that Congress had or dered arbitration in a peacetime - iaoor dispute, me railroads hailed the action, but the rail un ions termed it a "regrettable and backward step" that could affect labor-management relations. Signs Bill Quickly The President, who signed the bill 90 minutes after the House approved the - Senate-passed measure, said it reaffirmed "the essential priority of the public in terest over any narrower inter est." Kennedy said that free collec tive bargaining was preserved. The railroads had threatened to put into effect at 12:01 a.m. to day new work rules tnat would eliminate 37,000 firemen's jobs. The .unions said they would strike it the rules were imposed. When the House completed con gressional action with the strike deadline only eight hours away, the railroads promptly pulled down their notices of the rules changes and the unions cancelled 1 their strike orders. I . Sets Up Board The new law authorizes crea tion of a seven-man arbitration board, made up of two members from each side and three public members, to rule on the fire men's and train crew issues with in 90 days. Strikes or lockouts are prohibi ted during the two-year life of the panel's decisions. Fay schedules, job jurisdiction and other secondary issues would be left to collective bargaining, with a strike banned for 180 days. Both sides indicated after pas sage of the bill that they were ready to start talks immediately on these issues. Tho work rules dispute has been simmering for four years but came to a boil earlier this year when the Supreme Court up held the railroads' right to impose the new rules and eliminate the jobs. Attempts by the Labor Depart ment to mediate the dispute fell through 1 and the administration asked Congress to avert a nation wide strike by legislation. Congressmen, shy of stepping into the dispute, gained a 30-day moratorium on Imposition ot the rules in hopes that renewed ne gotiations could break the dead lock, Voice Reservations Many House members ex pressed reservations about the imposed arbitration but said there was no other choice. The House approved the bill, 286-66. Kennedy sought to calm labor fears about the future of collec tive bargaining by noting the heavy majority of congressmen who voted for the bill. He said the lopsided vote "is the firmest assurance that free collective bar gaining is not being eroded." I GETS BIRTHDAY CAKE WASHINGTON (UPI) Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson got a surprise from President Kenne dy on his 55th birthday anniver sary Tuesday. Kennedy gave Johnson a birth day cake at the weekly White House, breakfast meeting with legislative leaders. V. T. Jackson and commissioners Elmer Metzgcr and Ray Doerner. Other introductions will be made by Forrest Kcnnaday, Juvenile Ad visory Council chairman. Julian A. Hcileck, Douglas County Juvenile : Department di rector and Oregon Juvenile Coun cil president, will discuss the need and effect of the new youth ranch program. He will also pay tribute to those persons whose con tributions have helped the ranch reach its present stage of develop ment. Ken Miller, ranch director, is scheduled to close the program with a dedication feature in which the official name for the ranch will be revealed. Guests will then be conducted on a tour of the facilities.
