Salem Woman
Shot, Strangled;
Suspect Arrested
Salem -IUPD- A Salem worn
en was ihot and strangled to
death late Monday in the
Whitman's Ferry area near
here and a female companion
was being held in custody.
The victim was Helen Sa
rah Ped, 43. Being held in
custody in a hospital -vis
Carol Irene Ankle, 46, also of
Salem.
State police here said the
' 'victim was strangled with a
rope or cord and shot, appar
ently by a .22 caliber pistol.
.The weapon was not immedi
ately found.
Police said Mrs. Ankle had
admitted killing her friend.
Officers said she called police
early today after returning
from the scene of the crime.
She told them, police said,
that she killed her friend
while on a late evening drive
and left the body by the road.
Before calling police, offi
cers said, she took a bottle t
sleeping pills. When police
checked a parking lot they
found her car where she said
she left it before returning
home. Mrs. Ankle showed po
lice where the body could be
found, and shortly after,
passed out from the effects of
the pills. She was taken to a
hospital for treatment and
' wa reported recovering from
tlie effects of the pills.
Officers said Marion coun
ty District Attorney Hattie
Kremen was expected to pre
fer formal charges today.
Mrs. Ped was separated
from her husband. Mrs.
Ankle's husband was not at
home at the time.
Assault Charges
Filed Against Pair
Woodburn fUPD Charges of
assault with a dangerous wea
pon were filed here Monday
against two youths Involving
what police termed a gun and
razor fight between , farm
laborers Sunday night.
Held in lieu of $1,000 bond
each were Peter Gonzales Jr.,
19, Woodburn and Gabriel
Eduardo Perez, 21, Silverton.
Polices aid four shots were
fired into a pickup truck op
erated by Gregorio Valdez of
Woodburn. No one was
.wounded. Another youth, Ma
rio Rodriquez of Mt. Angel,
complained of being slashed
on the arm in a razor attack.
Man Penalized For
Illegal Hauling
Salem - IDPD - Robert N.
McClure of Blue River Mon
day, was penalized $200 by
the Oregon Public Utility
Com missioner involving a
charge of transporting items
not included in his permit.
Commissioner Jonel C. Hill
said although McClure had
authority to haul logs, poles
or piling on two occasions
has moved heavy equipment.
Hatfield To Attend
Seafair in Seattle
Seattle njPD Gov. Mark
Hatfield of Oregon will play
a role in the 1960 Seattle Sea
fair, heading the grand parade
on July 30. Hatfield will
share grand marshal honors
with Gov. Albert D. Rosel
lini. The Seafair runs from
July 29 to Aug. 7.
First Shipment of
New Volvo Arrives
Arrival of the first ship
ment of Volvo's new standard
family sports sedan on the
west coast has been an
nounced by Fred W. Stevens,
Stevens Auto sales, Inc., 505
North Central st., Medford.
Stevens said supply of the
automobile is expected to be
short this year because of lim
ited production and shipping.
Western U.S. motorists are
aid to buy six sports imports
for every four sold In the east.
High ' A bove the Valley
in a quiet non-residential area
, North Phoenix Road Phone SP 3-6162 or SP 2-7111
Rocky Fights for Aggressive Platform
In Go-for-Broke Try for GOP Nomination
Jack Expects
With Republican Nominee
Hyannisport, Mass.
A spokesman for Sen. John F.
Kennedy said today that the
Democratic presidential can
didate "presumes" he will
have television debates dur
ing the campaign with the
Republican nominee.
Pierre Salinger, Kennedy's
press secretary, said the sen
ator expected such joint ap
pearances on the major tele
vision networks during the
fall campaign.
Congress has enabled the
networks to proceed with the
debates by suspending legis
lation which otherwise would
have required them to give
equal time to splinter candi
dates. Sallinger also told news
men that Kennedy will be
briefed at his summer home
on Cape Cod Saturday by
Central Intelligence Chief Al
lan W. Dulles. The -briefing
will cover the general world
situation, Salinger said, with
specific attention to Latin
America and Africa.
This will be the first such
secret meeting under an ar
rangement nailed down Mon
day by Kennedy and Presi
MEDFORDiWrRIBUNE
Rogue Valley Edition
Stocks Seesaw,
End on Downside
xt v . aih n i.- Boeinf Air
m xur-u.-ru-oiui.- acc-
sawed within a narrow range
today before finishing slight
ly on the downside for the
seventh consecutive session.
Prices as a whole were firm
after the opening but demand
petered out near the close and
dropped many issues to their
lows for the day.
i The better gains appeared
in issue outside those used to
compile the averages and gen
erally ranged from 1 to 2
points.
DOW-JONES AVERAGES
' New York-mPMDow-jones
final stock averages: 30 in
dustrials 624.78. off 1.22; 20
railroads 138.94, up 0.28; 15
utilities 94.43, off 0.06; and
65 slocks 207.32. off 0.18.
Sales today wer about
2,430,000 shares compared
with 2,350,000 shares Mon
day. NEW YORK STOCKS
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Britain Worried
About Russ Policy
London - (DPI) - Prime Min
ister Harold Macmillan today
expressed Britain's concern
over the "new trend" in So
viet foreign policy and warn
ed that a mistake might
plunge the world into a war
situation "from which we can
not escape."
The warning was contained
in a terse personal letter to
the Soviet leader delivered in
the Kremlin by the British
ambassador earlier today.
The Prime Minister told
Premier Nikita Khrushchev:
If the trend of events in
the world continues we may
all of us one day, either by
m i s c a 1 culation or by mis
chance find ourselves caught
in the situation from which
we cannot escape."
TV Debates
dent Eisenhower, who offered
Uie Democratic nominee ac
cess to intelligence data,
Salinger said Kennedy was
"going to start some work
Wednesday.
Mixing seagoing and sechi
sion, the Democratic president
tial candidate planned a sec
ond day of boating and swim
ming with his wife, Jacque
line, and other family mem
bers in the warm blue waters
of Nantucket Sound.
On land, Kennedy main
tained a relaxed reading rou
tine in his white-painted house
a moment's walk from the
beach.
A steady stream of sight
seers' cars Monday drove past
Kennedy's summer house in
this scenic Cape Cod resort.
Their view was marred by a
six - foot grey picket fence
erected before the nominee's
arrival Sunday to guarantee
him privacy.
Two police officers were
on duty at all times to pro
tec t Kennedy's half - acre
grounds, adjoining a lawn
surrounded home owned by
his parents and another by
his brother, Robert.
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Macmillan disclosed his
warning to the House of Com
mons today.
The letter was accompanied
by a diplomatic note which
cautioned Moscow that Bri
tain "views with utmost ser
iousness" the u n p r o voked
downing of the U.S. RB47
plane in the Barents Sea.
The note said Russia's ac
tion "illustrates the danger
implicit in the present Instruc
tions to the Soviet forces."
Macmillan warned the So
viet Union that it bears "a
heavy responsibility" for the
action of the Soviet pilot who
shot down the U.S. plane in
international air space.
Chicago-.tlPD - Gov. Nelson
A, Rockefeller threw himself
Into a go-for-broke effort Mon
day to shape the Republican
platform so It would best fit
him as the GOP presidential
nominee.
Fighting for a more aggres
sive and liberal platform than
President Elsenhower and
Vice President Richard M.
Nixon want, the New York
governor was the day's dom
inant figure on the scene of
next week's GOP convention.
He was still available for
a draft to head the ticket but
not expecting it. And he de
clared he was "positively" un
available for the vice presi
dential nomination. He was
here officially for today's
opening session of the com
mittee to write the 1960 plat
form. He was scheduled to
testify before the platform
committee this afternoon.
Predicts Agreement
Rockefeller is at odds with
the Eisenhower administration
on such major issues as de
fense, medical care for the
aged, economic growth and
perhaps on civil rights. Yet
he still was predicting a plat
form that would be satisfac
tory to almost all Republi
cans. Charles H. Percy, Chicago
Matter of Fact By Joseph Aliop
WHAT REALLY HAPPENED
Los Angeles-The voluntary
combination of the two biggest
men in the Democratic party,
John F. Ken
nedy and Lyn
don B. John
son, was a re
m a r k a b 1 e
event, which
has astonished
and bewilder
ed a great
many people.
The true story
deserves to be
told.
JOSEPH ALS
To begin at the beginning.
Kennedy telephoned Johnson
before breakfast on the day
after he received the Presi
dential nomination. He in
quired whether he could call
on his defeated rival a little
later. In the resulting Gaston
Alphonse argument. Kennedy
won. It was agreed that he
would go to the Johnson suite
in me uiumore as soon as
breakfasfwas out of the way.
Johnson hastily convened
his inner circle-his wise wife,
his campaign manager, John
Connally, his chief Senate
aide, Robert Baker, and one or
two more. Their discussion of
the course he should follow
was inconclusive; and so, in
deed, was the first talk with
Kennedy which followed
shortly thereafter.
AT THIS morning meeting,
Kennedy went through the
motions of consulting Johnson
about the Vice Presidential
nomination, with the real pur
pose of finding out whether
Johnson would accept. He got
Johnson's characteristic ad
vice, to "go back and talk to
the other party leaders, and
choose whichever man you
think is biggest and best for
the country." He also got a
very clear idea - for Johnson
was quite frank about it - that
Johnson himself was interest
ed.
Kennedy then returned to
his own suite, to follow John
son's advice. He asked leaders
right across the spectrum.
from Gov. David Lawrence of
Pennsylvania to Walter Reu
ther, whether the Vice Presi
dency ought to be offered to
Johnson. Most of them, re
portedly including even Reu
ther, agreed that the offer
ought to be made.
Perhaps some different ad
vice would have been given
if Kennedy had also indicated
that Johnson might be expect
ed to accept the offer. But in
most cases, he did not do so.
He justifiably believed that
these others ought to be asked
to resolve the problem on just
the same terms on which he
had resolved it himself. And
he wanted to be advised to do
what he already In fact in
tended to do.
WHEN the process of con
" sultation was completed,
Kennedy's formal offer was
transmitted to Johnson. In the
Johnson suite, meanwhile.
consultation and debate had
also been In progress. At the
outset almost all the Southern
leaders, even Including Speak
er of the House Sam Rayburn,
were against Johnson's accept
ing the Vice Presidency.
As the morning wore on.
Speaker Rayburn and the
moderates camo round to the
idea. The Southern ultras.
whoso behavior pattern so
closely resembles the North
ern extreme liberal pattern,
always remained unreconcil
ed. They wanted Just what
the Northern liberals appar
ently wanted - Johnson pass
ed over, still Majority Leader
of the Senate, smarting from
his convention wounds, and
leading the South in war
a
OT
against the North. In John-
' inn'i rrt I n A In Annlfoil lYm
businessman, Is chairman of
the committee which will
frame the platform for sub
mission next Tuesday to the
convention in the Internation
al Amphitheatre In the Chi
cago stockyards.
Derides Platform
In testimony prepared for
today's opening platform ses
sion:
Sen. Thruston B. Morton
of Kentucky, chairman of the
GOP national committee, de
rided the Democratic platform
adopted at Los Angeles last
week. He called it a "fairy-
talc," promising a "lifelong
Garden of Eden, a total wel
fare state" and "cradlo-to-tho-
grave . . , government charity
for all." He said the GOP
platform would be a Republi
can program, not a response
to the Democratic platform
of the "strange" Kennedy
Johnson ticket nominated by
the Democrats.
Adm. Arthur W. Radford,
Eisenhower's first chairman
of the Joint Chiefs of Staff,
defended the administration
defense program and said the
President had geared it for
"the long pull," eliminating
"cycles of feast and famine."
Philippine women were
granted the right to vote in
1933.
need to reconcile and to unite
bulked larger and larger as
the discussion continued.
- Even so, Lyndon Johnson's
mind was not fully made up
when the formal Kennedy of
fer was received. It was not
until sometime after luncheon
that he decided, firmly and
finally, where his duty lay.
JOHNSON'S message to Ken
" nedy that he would accept
the Vice Presidency caused an
explosion of excitement in the
Kennedy suite. Kennedy had
been almost alone in expect
ing Johnson's acceptance. A
good many who had approved
the offer as a necessary ges
ture, were both surprised and
dismayed by the result. When
the word was passed to the
state leaders, there was angry
talk of nominating another
candidate in the Michigan and
some other like-minded dele
gations.
Johnson had said to Ken
nedy that he was "seeking"
the Vice Presidency. It seem
ed unlikely, at first, that Ken
nedy would be able to repress
the drive to put up an oppon
ent to Johnson. Hence it was
necessary to send Robert Ken
nedy to the Johnson suite, to
ask whether Johnson was still
willing to stand for the Vice
Presidency, even against op
position. The answer, that Johnson
was indeed willing, was given
through Speaker Sam Ray
burn after a fairly emotional
moment of misunderstanding
of the nature of the younger
Kennedy's mission. This ans
wer, that Johnson was ready
to fight for the nomination if
need be, was then passed on
by Robert Kennedy to the
gaggle of leaders in the Ken
nedy suite. This isolated frag
ment of the long story, re
vealed by one of those pres
ent, gave rise to the wholly
misleading report that John
son had asked for and insist
ed on the nomination.
The great moment of Ken
nedy's announcement of his
expected running mate, soon
followed the Robert Kennedy
Sam Rayburn exchange. It
was a moment rich in ironies.
MOT only were the Northern
liberals and Southern ul
tras the two groups that were
simultaneously utterly dis
pleased. By the same token,
the announcement also knock
ed into two simultaneous
cocked hats the North-centered
campaign strategy already
prepared by Kennedy's staff,
and the strategy based on a
strong appeal to the South al
ready prepared by Vice-President
Richard M. Nixon;
Kennedy's staff members
were visibly upset to find
their careful plans in sudden
need of revision, but Kenne
dy himself was far from up
set. No doubt, he had been in
fluenced by such factors as
the temptation to block Nix
on's known strategy. Mainly,
however, he had been influ
enced by his conviction that
Lyndon Johnson was simply
too large in human and in
political stature, to be lightly
passed over.
For these reasons, as this
reporter revealed at the time
on the highest authority, Ken
nedy had actually made up
his mind to offer the Vlce
Presldcncy to Johnson sever
al days before he won the
Presidential nomination for
himself. It was a big man's
decision. Johnson's answering
decision, assisted by the wis
dom of Mrs. Johnson and cer
tain other advisers like James
Rows Jr., was also the act of
a big man. And so this as
tonishing ticket was com
posed. (Copyright 1980 New York
Herald Tribuna Inc.)
BRUSH FIRE RAGES ON A brush fire The forest service estimated that 4.000 per-
blamed on a careless fisherman raged out sons In the Crystal Lake recreation area
of control at San Gabriel canyon, Calif., were forced to leave by a side road. Tho
Monday and today after burning an c.stt- fire Is 20 miles northeast of Los Angoles.
mated 1,000 acres of valuable watershed. (UP1 Telophoto)
Colonizers Get
Visas For Trip
To Galapagos
San Pedro (WD - Seventy
eight American colonizers
who have been waiting nearly
four months to sail for the
Galapagos islands started re
ceiving their visas Monday.
Dr. Alfredo Donoso, consul
general of Ecuador in Los
Angeles, said authorization
for the visas was received
from his government Friday
and that all 78 should be proc
essed by the end of the week.
The lack of visas has been
holding up the expedition.
Alex Reuss, Seattle, t h e
group's leader, said the colon
ists plan to sail for San Cris
tobal island in about two
weeks. They will voyage to
the island GOO miles west of
Ecuador on the 130-foot West
ern Trader.
Receiving visas Monday for
themselves and their families
were Don Gerrard and Don
Stewart, Seattle; John Hoff
man and Virgil Buhlcr, Ta
coma, Wash.; and William Ad
ams, Eugene, Ore. Five fam
ilies will be processed each
day, authorities said.
Most of the colonists, who
came here from Seattle on
March 31, have been living
aboard their ship docked in
Los Angeles harbor.
Reuss and his group are the
second organized by the Is
land Development company
to settle a 64.000-acre planta
tion on San Cristobal.
The first contingent of 32
left here Feb. 25 aboard the
Alert, a converted tuna clip
per. Spokesmen said 21 col
onists are still living on the
island, the remainder having
returned to the United States.
Swathe
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Fast-Moving Brush Fire
Threatens Summer Homes
Azusa, Calif. MPD A fast-
moving fire, which has taken
a heavy toll of watershed
and forced campers and home
owners In its path to flee, to-
Church Official
Opposes Freeway
Portland - (UPD - The presi
dent of the Greater Portland
Council of Churches has asked
the state highway commission
to make chnnges In tho pro
posed foothills route for the
Stadium freeway.
Mark Schnltzer of the
church group said Monday
that his organization Is op
posed to the foothills route as
It now stands because It would
forco the elimination of the
newly-completed Jewish Syna
gogue Congregation Shaarlc
Torah.
The building is valued at
$628,000. The congregation Is
made up of about 1,000 per
sons. KF Jury Acquits
Youth of Killing
Klamath Falls-nJPt-Bcrnard
J. Fltzpatrlck, 18, Billings,
Mont., was acquitted here
Monday in circuit court of a
voluntary manslaughter
charge In the bayonet stab
bing death of Ralph R. Law-
son, Pasco, Wash.
The stabbing occurred here
last Jan. 31 while Fltzpatrlck
was AWOL from Fort Ord,
Calif. The youth has since
been discharged from the I
service. I
Fitzpatrick's trial lasted I
one week. The jury that tried I
him was made up of seven
women and five men.
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THERE'S NO PLAGE LIKE A
day threatened about 80 cab
ins and summer homes In An
geles National Forest.
The 3-dny-old blaze also
advanced toward the Crystal
Lake recreation area six
miles away which is occupied
on weekends by thousands of
visitors.
About 600 reinforcements
from throughout the state,
Arizona and New Mexico
were flown in today to help
900 firemen already on fire
lines in San Gnbrial Canyon.
More than 4,000 acres of
brush, squat oak and big cone
spruce have been blackoned
by the fire. Perimeter of tho
blaze was 12 miles.
Threo summer cabins In
cluding one tho Forestry Serv
ice said was valued at $30,000
have been destroyed since
tho fire's start Sunday.
A carelessly discarded ciga
rette was believed to have
caused the fire. Its southern
tip is burning about six miles
north of this Los Angeles
suburb.
Ray L. Casterline, M.D.
Physician
Announces that
Francis H. Bogard, M.D.
Physician
Is Associated With Him In
Practice Limited to Internal Medicine
823 East Main Phon SP 2-7440
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Grass Fire Burns
Over 4,000 Acres
Th DhIIi'h - Him - A giusi
(h o that broke out vnrly Mon
day about 20 miles oust of
hero charred sniuo 4,000 acres
by liilo Monthly.
Officials suit) Dm burned
out iiroii Included iilxuit 1,000
acres of ripened wheat.
The flumes erupted In the
niK Junction urea curly
Monday and ranchers had It
under control a short tints
Inter, Spin k from a punning
tniln wore lielleved cause of
the first.
Monday afternoon, the fire
started up ngiiiii, flared out
of control and burned through
the wheal. A number of furm
sheds were diunagod by tin
flume hut farm houses wore
not burned.
DRIVING CITATION
Salem -lllfD- Oregon State
Police Issued 1,287 citations
fur violation of tho buslc rule
In June and In the iimi
period handed out only seven
warnings. A total of 83 ar
rests wcro made for driving
while intoxicated.
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