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Newspaper Page TextUniv. of Oregon Library EUGENE), ORSGO.V 0. S. Oregon left free to carry out execution WASHINGTON (UPD-The U.S. Supreme Court today denied a hearing to Jeannace June Free man, 21, sentenced to the gas chamber in Oregon (or throwing a small boy to his death. The court's brief order leaves the state free to carry out the execution. Miss Freeman, who would be the first woman executed in Ore gon, had appealed to the high court after the Oregon Supreme Court affirmed the conviction on Sept. 19, 1962. An execution date for Miss Free man will be set later. Bodies of two children were found in May of 1961 at the bot tom of the Crooked River Gorge in Central Oregon. The victims were Larry Jack son, 6, and a younger sister. Mrs. Gertrude Mae Jackson, 32, mother of the two, pleaded guilty to the slaying of the girl and was sen tenced to life imprisonment. Miss Freeman's appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court said that on arrest she was not brought before a magistrate for a preliminary hearing; that the statements by her admitted at the trial were ob tained during a period of illegal detention when she was deprived of the assistance of a lawyer. Local attorneys said today the U. S. Supreme Court will notify the Oregon Supreme Court that tho review has been denied. The Oregon court then will order Cir cuit Judge Robert H. Foley of Bend to set a new execution date at a court session in Madras. Tavern gunfight wounds 2 men RAINIER, Ore. (UPI)-Rainier Police Chief Don Allen and a Portland man were wounded in a gunfight at a tavern here early today. Allen was reported in satisfac tory condition at St John's Hos pital in Longview, Wash. He was Xo"horiirtii neck. i Gerald Macomber, 40, Portland, was listed in fair condition at Co lumbia District Hospital in St. Helens with bullet wounds in the side and one arm. Allen was called to the Stop-In Tavern shortly after 4 a.m. when tavern owner Mrs. Al Diss heard noises over an intercom system connecting the establishment with her home. The chief said he surprised a man and a woman inside the tav ern. The man opened fire, wound ing Allen, who returned the shots. The intruders then fled, but St. Helens police took Macomber and Donna Hedges, Portland, into cus tody on U.S. Highway 30 half a mile north of that city. The wom an was being held at St. Helens. Freak accident claims victim SALEM (UPD Albert R. Fes- kins, 18, Salem, died at a hospi tal today of injuries received in a freak accident involving two cars north of Salem Sunday. One of the autos was pushing the other. Feskins was standing on the rear bumper of the for ward car to keep it low enough to meet the bumper of the second car. When the first car was going at about 25 miles an hour, the two cars parted and Feskins jumped off. He fell on the pave ment and tracturea nis skuii. This Week Is NATIONAL REALTOR WEEK Be Sure to Check buys on page 10 Supreme Court denies THE BEND 60th Year Senior High music program due Tuesday The Bend Senior High School choir, stage band and orchestra will present their final concert of the season Tuesday, May 14, at 8 p.m. In the school auditor ium under the direction of Norman K. Whitney and Don Goodwin. The concert will be free to the public. Some 175 music students will take part. The concert will be one of the young musicians' big events of the school year. Practice has been underway for some time. Foul weather could postpone astronaut shot CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (UPI) Scientists moved ahead confi dently today with plans to send astronaut L. Gordon Cooper, 36, on America's most ambitious space journey Monday despite a threat of bad weather. . "As of this time preparations for the attempted launch... are con tinuing," a federal space agency spokesman said at a weather briefing. Cooper, an Air Force major, is scheduled to lift off Tuesday morning on a planned 22-orbit voyage that would far surpass three previous orbital flights by Americans. Foul weather could delay his trip one day or possibly longer. The first halt of a ' split count down" for the flight was com pleted at 7 a.m. PDT today. This consisted essentially of preparing the launch facilities and equip ment to be used in the 34-hour flight- - If all goes well, the second hail of the countdown will begin short ly after midnight tonight. The spokesman for the National Aeronautics and Space adminis tration said, "The extended period of clear skies over Florida is com ing to an end...and it now seems quite certain that morning cloudi ness (Tuesday) over Cape Canav eral will cover at least half of the sky, with some periods during the morning having nearly overcast conditions." NASA officials expressed confi dence that the clouds would clear away sufficiently to permit the in tense camera and tracking neces sary for the blastoff sometime be tween 6 a.m. and 8:30 PDT. The weather in the primary re covery area in tne raemc near Midway Island remained gentle "partly cloudy with scattered ugm showers and moderate to fresh winds along with moderate seas. Improving sea conditions are ex pected by the end of the 22nd or bit." Cooper planned a relatively ouiet dav today. He was scheduled to make at least one simulated flight in Mercury procedures trainer and later review star charts and teen nical information. The astronaut was to meet with Mercury Project leaders late to day for what was described an "informal briefing" on the flight A spokesman said the discus sion would cover everything from the status of the Atlas rocket that will boost Cooper into the sky at a speed of 17,500 miles per hour to tho recovery plans. all the outstanding of today's Bulletin! Ten Pages Nikita sends answer to joint appeal LONDON (UPI) -Premier Ni kita Khrushchev has sent a reply to the joint appeal from President Kennedy and Prime Minister Har old Macmillan urging an early nu clear test ban, the Foreign Office said today. The Foreign Office spokesman said the Soviet reply is "under study" by Macmillan. In Washington, the White House confirmed that President Kennedy had received a note from Khrush chev and is "studying it." The White House declined immediate comment on the letter except to say that the note arrived after Kennedy's pessimistic news con ference comments last week on disarmament prospects. Kennedy and Macmillan urged Khrushchev last month to stop stalling and help to pave the way for nuclear test ban with adequate international verification. The U.S. and British envoys in Moscow presented the Kennedy Macmillan appeal at a special in terview with Khrushchev at the Kremlin April 24. Details of the Anglo-American approach have not been disclosed, but according to authoritative dip lomatic sources the Western move was designed to try and break the deadlock at the marathon Geneva nuclear talks. Khrushchev's immediate re action to the Allied initiative was reported at the time to have been cool. The Soviet leader, however, said he would study the Western ideas and send a reply in due course. Racial law passes 49-1 0 In Oregon house SALEM (UPD Taking note of southern racial violence, the House today passed a bill to make Oregon's "good" civil rights laws more workable. The bill passed 49-10 and went to the Senate. "Happily ... we have good laws on our books now," said Rep. Berkeley Lent. D-Portland. He said the new biil would not change the scope of Oregon's civil rights laws. Rather, he said, it will let them be "administered in a more fair and workable manner." Oregon's civil rights laws are administered mainly by the labor commissioner and his department, which has a special civil rights section. Lent said the bill would clarify procedures, and provide for en forcement and remedies. The measure includes guidelines for the labor commissioner in set ting rules and regulations against discrimination, delineation of func tions in their enforcement, and clarification of the status of the civil rights commission. JFK statement read amid air of informality WASHINGTON (UPI) - Romp ing dogs, casual dress and a scribbled text gave an air of in formality to the White House Sun day night when President Kennedy read his statement on the Bir mingham situation. Many reporters, suddenly called to the White House, arrived in clothes they had been wearing while enjoying a cool, sunny Sun day afternoon. Several were in sport clothes without ties. One newswoman ap peared in slacks. Another had been called away from a cham Daene party. When Kennedy read his state ment, reporters noticed It was partially typewritten while other parts were in his nandwnung. Evans wounds FLORA. Ore. (UPD A week long manhunt in Uie wilds of northeast Oregon ended Sunday j when slaying suspect Billy Evans, I 44. shot and kiUed himself at his cabin after wounding his cousin, ; state police reported. I Evans had been sought since last Monday night for Uie fatal shootings In Clarkston, Wash., of 1 Mrs. May Grmer, 40. Clarkston. and William Gerry, 40, La i Grande. CENTRAL OREGON'S Bend, Deschutes County, Oregon, Monday, Jkbafsnce fedeirail mm ste INVITATIONS MAILED The Bend branch of U. S. National Bank today sent out 5,840 postcards, announcing opening of the new $235,000 building on Friday, May 17. At left John Stenlcamp, branch manager, delivers big mailing to Postmaster Farley Elliott. New structure has been under construction since early summer last year. Opening ceremonies are planned. Gov. Hatfield due Honor societies set conference Tuesday A conference of honor societies representing all high schools in the Central Oregon Education dis trict will be held in Bend Tues day, with Governor Ma.k O. Hat field to be the featured speaker. Governor Hatfield will speak at p.m. in the Blue Room of the Pilot Butte Inn. This will be broadcast live over KBND, and taped for other broadcasts in the area. Don Pence, Central Oregon Col lege president who, with Mrs. Stu art Sheik, PnneviUe, are co-chairmen of the conference, said some 220 persons are expected to attend this first meeting of mid-Oregon high school honor students. The conference will last through the day, with all meetings to be held at the Pilot Butte Inn. Three different assembly rooms will be used. The group will join in a sack lunch at noon, in Drake Park. The conference, sponsored by Phi Thcta Kappa, a junior col lege scholastic society, will open Tuesday at 8:30, time set for reg istration. Then will follow the formal opening of the meeting, with Vernon Crawford, COC stu dent from Prineville, as master of ceremonies. Rupert Park, Red Man, wife killed in auto ARLINGTON, Ore. (UPI) - A Portland man and his wife were killed Monday in a one-car acci dent about three-fourths of a mile west of here on Highway 30, State Police reported. The victims were Clarence W. Carter, 55, and his wife. Bertha, 52. State police said their eastbound car struck a piece of heavy equip ment in the road. They said warn ing lights were out but that the sun apparently blinded the driver. Slate Police Sgt. David Brizen dine said Evans shot himself after a group of officers closed in while firing a barrage of shots at the cabin for cover. The cousin, Amos Evans, 60, Enterprise, was wounded in the left side of his face and was listed in critical condition at a hospital. Billy Evans had been spotted last week, but searchers lost his trad. Sgt. Brizendine gave this ac BULLETIN DAILY NEWSPAPER iipiiMiw II I r "IT if Hi r 'iiiiMiMeiiiiiMiiil mm ' mond, will ask the invocation. The keynote talk, "Excellence," conference theme, will be by Dr. Orde S. Pinckney of COC. Follow ing the opening program, the group will divide into panels, dis cussion of which will be repeat ed, to make it possible for all to hear. Panelists will meet in dif- ferent rooms. COC students will serve as panelist moderators, Each high school in the area will be represented by two panelists. Panelists Listed i Janet McCusker and Paul Ward- law will be Bend Senior High pan elists, and Donna Brown and Bon nie Bishop will represent Red mond. Sisters panelists will be Kathy Roberts and Annette Lar son. Culver High panelists will be Roger Law and Charline Roberts. Brian Stevenson and Linda Swan son will represent Madras. From Gilchrist High, Sherry Collister and Ernie Taylor will be panel ists. COC moderators will be Mar garet Gall, Sam Swaim and Doug las Whitsctt Expense money for lawmakers "Y" I stops on luesday SALEM (UPI)-Tuesday is the day the expense money stops, as far as members of the legislature are concerned. Today was the 120th calendar day the last one lawmakers got their $20 a day expense allowance. Legislators are faced with the possibility of serving in the long est session in the state's history. The 10)7 sessions's 128 days is now the record. If this legislature stays in session until Tuesday of next week the record will be tied. Indications were that the old record may be bested. relative, count: Amos Evans and other relatives had lunch at another cabin in the area and then went to Uie sus pect's cabin, thinking he might surrender If he were there. Amos Evans look three or four steps up a stairway and was struck in the face by a blast of gunfire from Uie atUc. He did nX see Uie suspect. He made his way ouUide and was rushed to an Enterprise hos Freeman hearing May 13, 1963 Bend-Portland fells purchase of terminal Purchase by Bend Portland Truck Service of the Consolidated Freightways Terminal in Bend, at 1150 East First Street, was an nounced from Portland today by Wilfred E. Jossy, Bend-Portland president. Bend - Portland Truck Service will share the East First Street location with Consolidated, with occupancy of the nuw quarters by the Bend-Portland firm sot for to- morrow. jossy said his firm has sold its terminal at 101 East Greenwood to Central Oregon Welders sup- nlv. Inc.. headed by Harvey M. Watt as president. The purchase was made by Watt in connection with an expansion program. Watt plans to take over the new location just as soon as it is va cated bv Bend-Portland. Don Con ner, Bend-Portland terminal man ager here, noted that the new lo cation at the Consolidated plant will solve for his company a traf fic congestion problem, and will also make availablo improved loading docks. Consolidated and Bend-Portland will operate "side by side" in the new location Jossy has also announced that his company has withdrawn its application to the Oregon Public Utilities Commission to acquire the local authority of Consolidat ed. Consolidated, it was also an nounced, has filed an application with the PUC to withdraw from the local field ALL FERDINANDS T1LBURG, Tho Netherlands (UPI i A Dutch experiment in bull-fighting failed Sunday be cause the bulls would not fight. About 7.000 bored spectators watched small bulls brought here from Spain munch grass in the bull ring while Dutch matadors screamed and jumped in front of them, trying to interest them in fighting. No blood was shed. commits suicide pital by other relatives. State Police officers D. A. Nel son and Dean Harrison and Sher iff Mark Marks of Wallowa Coun ty closed in on Uie cabin., firing shots for cover. They called for Evans to come out and he replied "come and get me." An officer said he would be given to the count of three and Evans said "don't rush the matter." Then a shot and a shrill scream were heard from inside the cabin. Ten Cents Combat-ready troops standing by; surface calm reported in city BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (UPI) i An advance detail of federal forces set up headquartors today five blocks from a Negro section of Birmingham where a four-hour not erupted Sunday morning. Combat-equipped federal troops were poised at jump-off spots 80 miles south and 60 miles east of tills racially torn industrial city on orders Irom President Ken nedy. Birmingham was quiet and on Uie surface, at least, was near normal today. An Army colonel commanding about 15 soldiers worked through Uie night bringing in equipment in an office building that houses several government agencies. The headquarters was set up in the Federal Mediation and Con ciliation Service area across Uie hall from the FBI in a building five blocks from where rioting erupted Sunday. The soldiers arrived aboard C130 transport shortly before mid night Ed Guuiman ot uie justice Dcoartment had an olfice next door to the military headquarters. Truffle Flows Normally Heavily armed highway patrol men . remained - in the. riot-torn area. Traffic' moved alone the streets as on any other Monday morning. But at Intersections were patrolmen, who had slept In patrol cars during the night with carbines and shotguns close at hand. State authorities claimed Uie crisis here was "firmly under con trol" and said the riot-trained fed eral troops Uiat flew into Maxwell Air Force Base to the sown ana Ft. McClellan to the east were not needed. Huge Air Force transport planes began landing tho troops at Maxwell Air Force Base 80 miles south of here at Montgom ery within an hour after Kennedy issued his order Sunday. By eariy morning, more man iu piancs had arrived with cargoes ot sol diers, jeeps and other equipment. The stcel-helmeted troops, car rying bayonet-tipped carbines, were housed in vacant barracks for Uie night at Maxwell, which was placed on alert Kennedy said in caning out uie troops Uiat he would "do whatever must be done to preserve order in Birmingham which was rocked by bombings and rioting early Sunday. Twenty-two persons were injured in the pitched battles be tween Negroes and police Uiat cli maxed six weeks of antiscgrcga- tion demonstrations. Alabama Governor Prottsts It was the second time in a lit tle more than seven months that Kennedy had ordered federal troops inU) Uie South in connec tion with racial violence. He dis patched 23,000 troops to the Ox ford, Miss., area last October aft er University of Mississippi stu dents rioted over Uie admission of Negro student James 11. Mere dith. Gov. George Wallaco protested the sending of troops to Alabama. In a telegram to Uie President Sunday, ho said "sufficient state law enforcement officers are ! available to maintain peaco and order" In Birmingham. A source close to Wallace said there was a good chance Uie gov ernor would seek a court order enjoining the federal forces from leaving Maxwell. Alabama Public Safety Director Al Lingo, a shotgun slung over his shoulder, told newsmen Sun day night that "as of now, we've Evans' body was found inside. Both Evans, who lived in a trailer house at Lewiston, Idaho, and worked for a feed firm there, and Gerry, a La Grande carpen ter, had dated Mrs. Griner, a di vorcee, police said. The bodies of Mrs. Griner and Gerry were found at Mrs. Griner's home last week. A warrant charg ing Evans with murder had been issued at Asotin, Wash. 'f TEMPERATURES ! High yesterday, 57 degrees. Low lest night, 28 degrees. Sunset today, 7:22. Sunrise tomorrow, 4:40, PST. No. 134 got things firmly under control. "We don't expect any trouble and if there is any, I know we can handle it," said Lingo, head of Uie State Highway Patrol. He snapped "no comment" when asked for his reaction to Uie send ing of federal troops into the state. The stone, brick and bare knuckle battling of Negroes with police was touched off by Uie dynamiting of Uie home of Rev. A. D. King, brother of integra tion leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and of the A. G. Gaston motel, headquarters of the inte gration movement which began a massive campaign to tear down the racial barriers here six weeks ago. At least 22 persons were In jured. Stores and homes were set afire as were a taxicab and a Shriner's gaudy motorcycle. Policeman J. N. Spivey waa stabbed twice in the back. A taxicab driver was pulled from 1113 car and beaten. Police Inspector William Haley was struck with a brick and It took six stitches to close the wound. ' ' Later Sunday, at Armislon, 00 miles to the northeast, two Negro homes and a church were dam aged by shotgun blasts. There were no injuries. New assault on tverest is underway WASHINGTON (UPI) -The sec ond American attempt to scale Mt. Everest got underway today Willi mountain climbing teams moving up the snow-covered peak Irom two sides. They hope to reach Uie summit simultaneously May 21. A radio report relayed from Katmandu, Nepal, said a two man team left its 17,000-foot base camp today to start its trek up Uie south col (pass) of the moun tain. On the west ridge, a second team reached Uie 24,000-foot mark. The two teams hope to duplicate Uie success of the trail-blazing American team which planted a U. S. flag on the summit of Uie world's highest mountain May 1. If both teams succeed In reach ing the summit, they plan to re turn together down the south col of Everest. Officials at Uie National Geo graphic Society, one of the expe ditions sponsors, said all mem bers of the team were reported in good physical condition. They said the climbers said Uie weather was good and "we are catching up on our sun tans." Expedition spokesman James Ramsey Ullman said in Katman du Uiat May 21 was chosen as a target date for Uie climb up Uie south col because the expedition does not have enough oxygen to remain longer at the high alti tudes. However, the group mak ing its v.-ay up the west side of Everest has enough oxygen cached on the mountain to remain long er. The members of Uie south col team are Barry Bishop, 30. BeUi esda, Md., and Luther Jerstad, 26, Eugene, Ore. This is Bishop's sec ond climb toward Uie summit. He was in Uie assault team that backed up James W. Whittaker and Sherpa Nawang Gombu in Uie first American conquest of Uie mountain. DOW JONES AVERAGES By Unlttd Press Inftrnariwwl Dow Jones final stock averages: 30 industrials 723.01. off 0.29: 20 railroads 164.65, up 0.05: 15 utili ties 140.45, up 0.55, and 65 stock 255.92, up 0.20. Sales today were about 4.92 mil lion shares compared with 5.28 million shares Friday. WEATHER Mostly fair; highs 40-45; lew 33-17; local spats of frost.