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Recommended Southern Ortjon colleic relatively new ,ni ,"f,,?,a?" department In U. rSuI'J.ionaJ proiram Hud ,boll, ,h, Seion A 60 Pages Unprecedented TV Appearance Set For GOP Hopeful Four-Hour Telethon Planned by Nixon With Nixon in California lUPD-Vice President Richard M. Nixon, bolstered by en couraging reports of his chances, Saturday, added a nationwide four-hour question ana answer telethon to his whirlwind schedule. The tireless GOP presiden tial candidate announced the unprecedented telethon, first uch activity by a presiden tial candidate on a national level, for Detroit on Monday afternoon. It will begin at 2 p.m. E.S.T. and will be car ried by the American Broad eating company (ABG) net work. The program will orig inate in Detroit. The American Broadcasting company said that the Demo crats had asked for equal time on Monday and that an offer had been made to sell them the same amount of time that was being sold ihe Republi cans. . The Democrats rejected the offer, saying: "We are not negotiating with ABC for the purchase of this time. We cannot afford it. We hoped that Mr. Nixon would accept the senator's in vitation to a fifth radio-TV debate." Immediately after the tele thon Nixon will fly to Chicago to take part that night in a windup (CBS) telecast with President Eisenhower and GOP vice presidential candi date Henry Cabot Lodge, who will take part in the program from Washington. Then Nixon, hitting hard for votes down to the final minute, will fly back to Cali fornia that night to vote Tues day at his East Whittier, Calif., home. Nixon was encouraged by the crowds that turned out for his whirlwind swing through nothern California and by re ports from New York Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller that Nixon's chances of carrying that pivotal state have im proved in recent days. Rockefeller expressed him self as "greatly elated" by the improved GOP prospects in his state. During Nixon's drive for the 32 electoral votes of his home California, the Repub lican candidate struck out again and again at his Demo cratic opponent, Sen. John F. Kennedy. "A Kennedy administration would inescapably mean high er taxes, higher prices and a return to objectionable gov ernment controls," he told an audience. "It would endanger the stability of our free sys tem at the very moment when our gigantic strcntgh is most needed in the world struggle." U.S. Troops Finish Guantanamo Tests Guantanamo, Cuba - (UPD- U.S. sailors, marines and sea bees Saturday completed a 24 hour exercise to test the ground defenses of this key naval base against any attack by forces of the Fidel Castro regime. Commanding Marine Col. Merritt Adrlman said the ex ercise satisfied him that Guan tanamo's posture and numbers are adequate at this time to hold the base long enough, to bring up reinforcements in the unlikely event of Castro ag gression. Adelman termed the de fense test a "definite improve menf'over previous training exercises. FOOTBALL SCORES COLLEGE Oreoon 27, Stanford 6 OSU 20, Wash. St. 10 L is and Clark 14, SOC 12 Washington 34, USC 0 UCLA 28. California 0 Air Force 36, Denver 6 Texas 12. Baylor 7 SMU 0, Texas A&M 0 (lie) Mich. St. 17, Purdue 13 Pittsburgh 20, Notre Dame 13 Minnesota 27, Iowa Northwestern 21, Wisconsin 0 Ohio St. 36. Indiana 7 Missouri 16. Colorado 6 Mississippi 45, ChMIanooga 0 Georgia Tech 14, Tennessee 7 Duke 19. Navy 0 Florida 22. Georgia 14 Auburn 27. Mississippi St. Army 9, Syracuse 6 Yale 34, Penn 9 Medford United Preii International Full Leased Wlr - committed no crime. Morever, l men in City Jail Committed No Crime BY R. GREG NOKES Mail Tribune staff Writer (c) 1960 There are two men in the Medford city iail who have vaiuaoie service to the community. They have been in jail now for three months and have at least one more month to go before they can be released. Both men are confined under a slate charge of being material witnesses to a crime. It is one of the few pro visions under Oregon state law where a man can be jailed, not for committing a crime, but for witnessing one. It is perfectly legal. Eye-Witnesses to Murder Norman James (Mac) Mclnnis. 47. and Vireil Pavne Ben nett, 47, both transients, were eye-witnesses to the brutal murder of another transient in a downtown Medford parking lot on the early morning of Aug. 13. The two men reported the crime to police and also aided in the capture of the suspected killer. Leonard Eueene Nedson, 22, another transient. Nelson has since been charged with first-degree murder and the case will come to trial Dec. 5. The two material witnesses will have to remain in custody until the trial is over. From the moment the men hailed a passing cop that night they have not been out of police custody. Are they happy? Not in the least bit. Asked if he would report the crime again had he known he would have been jailed himself, Mac replied: (Continued Madden Says Durno Signs Misleading Jackson County Clerk Mar- vin Madden has notified Dis trict Attorney Thomas Reeder that certain billboard adver tising supporting Dr. Edwin R, Durno, Republican candi date for congress from the fourth district, is misleading. Madden noted that other m i s leading advertising i n newspapers has been changed voluntarily by Gerbcr' Adver tising agency, Portland, which is handling Dr. Durno's ac count. B He said there still is "one phase of Dr. Durno's political advertising which was con sidered to be misleading, that has not been changed." This, Madden said, is billboards which read "Elect Durno" at the top and "Your U.S. Con gressman" at the bottom. Should Investigate "Since no changes have been made in this billboard adver tising, I feel that it is a matter for your investigation. I am therefore making a formal re quest for your attention in this matter," he said. Madden told Jack F. Thomp son, director of elections, Sa lem, he had notified Reeder concerning the billboard ad vertising. Tile billboards are located throughout the fourth Number of Jobless Rises in October Washington - (UPII - Unem ployments politically potent economic barometer-climbed in October by 200,000 to the highest level in 22 months. government sources disclosed ! Saturday At the same time, the num ber of persons with jobs fell by 300,000 but still registered an October record of about 67.5 million. The new figures meant about 3.6 million per sons were unemployed, com pared to 3.4 million jobless in September. These figures show a re versal of the normal October trend in which unemployment usually drops by 206,000 to a yearly low and employment rises by 400.000. The October jobless in crease pushed the unemploy ment rate from September's .7 per cent to 6.4 per cent. This was the highest level since December, 1958. Movie Pioneer Dies At Hollywood Home Hollywood - (DPI) - Movie pioneer Mack Sennetl, whose Keystone Kops still provide laughs for millions with their wacky comedy from another film era, died Saturday of an apparent heart attack. He was 80. Although once the biggest producer in young Hollywood, Sennett lived alone for most of his last 10 years in a small, almost seedy apartment over looking the Hollywood he helped make famous. Sennett. also credited with bringing the world the first movie bathing beauties, had lived at the motion picture country home since Jan. 7. He underwent urological sur gery there Friday, but was re 'ported improving when death came. ... both men have performed a "Hell no." on page 2A congressional district. The c o u n t y i clerk told Thompson he notified Reeder of the billboards because "there is no apparent inten tions of correcting this mis leading advertising." Some advertising implied that Charles O. Porter, Demo cratic candidate seeking re election, was still "supporting Castro." Dr. Durno said "I re gret if my people used the turoum icnse wnen maybe they should have used the past tense, but Porter's multi tude of statements on Castro and Red China invite con tusion, tiowever, I am very happy if Porter has begun to see me Jignt as to Castro:" Dr. Durno said the com plaint alleging misrepresenta tion in Dr: Durno's newspaper and billboard advertising was "trivial" and an "obvious ef fort to cover up Charles O. Porter's record of incompe tence and neglect." Terrorists Kii! American Official Saigon, Viet Nam - (UPD -Communist terrorists Satur day killed a U.S. Operations Mission official in a machine gun ambush on a main road some 70 miles cast of Saigon. A U.S. Embassy spokesman said the Vietnamese driver of the American official's Jeep also died in the ambush at tack near the beach resort town of Long Hai. Tile International Coopera (hc American victim as Dolph tion administration identified B. Owens, Tuscaloosa. Ala.. who arrived in South Viet Nam recently to serve as a public safety adviser. His wife and two small daughters were en route to join Owens overseas when they learned of his death. Mrs. Owens was notified at the airport at Memphis, Tenn. She returned to Tuscaloosa. Owens was the third Amer ican to be killed in Commu nist terrorist attacks in this southeast Asian nation in the past 16 months. "Folks Wait KennedyPromises To Try To Prevent War; Win Peace Demo Will Ask 'Country To Work' New York - (UPD - Sen. John F. Kennedy promised the na tion last night that if he is elected President he will try to fill the office in a forceful, full-time manner so he may be known after four years in the White House "as one who not only prevented war but won the peace.'1 "My opponent promises if he is successful to go to east ern Europe, to go perhaps to another summit, to go to a series of meetings around the world," Kennedy said. "If I am successful, I am going to Washington, D.C., and get this country to work." Kennedy ended a marathon day of campaigning in the New York area with a speech at a huge rally at the New York Coliseum, on Columbus Circle. A Dozen Speeches He made at least a dozen speeches during the day, on one of which he courted the housewife vote with a prom ise to appoint a White House guardian of consumer inter ests if he is elected. Wherever he went, the handsome young candidate at tracted such enthusiastic crowds, many of them scream ing women, that his entire schedule was disrupted. Ken nedy never did get to two street corner rallies and a banquet and had to drop out of the torchlight parade up Broadway in his honor. During the flay. Vice Presi dent Richard M. Nixon pep pered Kennedy with a final campaign barrage, including a challenge to produce a clean bill of health from his doc tors. Kennedy's press secretary, Pierre Salinger, said there was no need for this because he had made public medica reports from his doctors at the time of the Democratic convention. "Anyone who has stayed with Kennedy for the three months since the convention would have no doubts about his health," Salinger said. Kennedy's running mate. Sen. Lyndon B. Johnson, flew to New York to join him at the Coliseum rally. It was the first campaign appearance of the two candidates together outside Johnson's home state of Texas. Johnson, in a speech at the rally, declared that the 1960 campaign had. been his par ty's "finest hour. "As a party, we have stood up to the forc.es of bigotry, slander and . innuendo," he said. "Jack Kennedy and I have told the people the truth-lhe same truth, north, south, east and west." WEATHER FOltKCAST: Variable rloudiness today wllh chance of showers this afternoon. Cloudy with scattered showers tonight and Monday. Cooler .Monday. Itinh today 70. Low tonight 42, High Monday 62. Temp. Highest Yesterday 10 Lowest This Morning 33 Precipitation none. Our Skies Tonight Sunset today 4:50 p.m. Sunrise tomorrow 6:53 a.m. Moonrlse (onichl 7:41 p.m. The planet. Mercury, passes in front of the Sun tomorrow. This Is called n irnnsli. and can only he observed through a tele scope provided wllh proper protection ap.ilnst the blinding rays of the Sun. Listen- MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, hi r s : ' LJ i J , w;;;vrr i l . 1 it V , ' h ) htwjv , . Jwuty&l wr A I , ' t v . v"t'. -'..r - I t' f- . m . ;;V X - - fy 4t y- i ' VJ 'VV-) iU. , 1 PULLS GUN A Chicago police officer is shown holding a gun that Jaime Cruz Ale jandro, 23, (right) attempted to pull out of his pocket while following Sen. John F. Kennedy in Chicago in a torchlight parade Anti-Sweetland Handbills Result In Four Arrests ' Portland - (UPD - Four per sons were arrested by Multno mah county authorities Friday after the Multnomah County Grand Jury returned indict ments against seven persons charging political criminal li bel in connection with ma terial being circulated against State Sen. Monroe Sweetland, Democratic candidate for sec retary of state. Arrested were Mrs. Louise Gronnert, 55, Portland; Rev. Claude Pike, 41, Oregon City; Homer A. Rogers, 79, Port land, and Henry J, Dieringer, 65, also Portland. Three of the seven indict ments were "John Doe" ones, in which the accused indi vidual is not identified. Dier inger posted $1,000 cash bail while the other three persons were released on their own recognizance. ' Raymond Mum Multnomah County District Attorney Charles Ray m o n d would not say whether names of other signers of the anti Sweclland handbills would be brought before the grand jury. Sweet land, following the grand jury's action said, "It is gratifying to know that the criminnl laws of Oregon pro tect our state from this type of scurrilous attack which is so damaging to the orderly pro cess of government." State Son. Robert Straub, Slate Democratic chairman, sent a telegram to all Demo cratic county chairman fol lowing the action of the grand jury in which he requested that the chairmen present de famatory political material to the county district attorney for appropriate criminal ac tion against those persons re sponsible. . KBOY Straw Ballot Favors Kennedy Medford radio station KUOY completed a series of 12 straw ballots Saturday morning with the final results favoring Presidential contender John F. Kennedy. After a 404-404 split vote yesterday morning, the totals showed some 2,503 votes for the Democratic senator and 2.450 calls for Vice President Richard M. Nixon. Station officials conducted the poll between 10 and 11 a.m. each Saturday morning with the listening audience telephoning its choice to thci broadcasters. Results of the experiment affirmed previous claims that the election Tuesday may be close, at least locally. Tribune NOVEMBER 6, 1960 Klein Is Appointed To OSC 4-H Of f ice Glenn A. Klein, Jackson county 4,-H club extension agent for the past seven years, has been appointed 1 to the Slate 4-H club office at Ore gon State college. The announcement was made Inst niht at the annual 4-H Leaders' banquet at the Central Point Grange by Clif ford B. Cordy, count exten sion agent. Klein's assignment to the 4-H state program for the com ing year will be followed by a year's sabbatical leave for advanced study. He will start work in Corvallis Dec. 1. He received his bachelor of sci ence degree in agricultural ed ucation at Oregon State col lege in 1951. To Work With Committees Duties in the state program, according to F. L. Ballard, as- sociation director of OSC ex tension service, will include preparation of 4-H training mntorials for agricultural pro jects, other than livestock. He will work with OSC extension specialists and advisory com mittees in developing materi als for such projects as hortt culture, entomology, forestry, wildlife, science, and others. Mother Arrested On Murder Charge Portland - IIMI .- Mrs. Jo seph Garrett was arrested Fri day afternoon and charged with first degree murder by arson in connection with the Oct. 7 fire at the Garrett home that claimed the lives of llircc of her daughters and a baby sitter. The Multnomah County Grand Jury returned a first degree murder indictment against Mrs. Garrett here Fri day afternoon. Killed in the fire were three Garrett daugh ters, Gay, 5 months, Vickie, 15 months, and Angela, 3, and Pntricla Male Gravatt, 21, a baby sitter. Mis. Garrett was being held at Rocky Butte jail here with out bail. Waller Evans Jr. an attorney for Mrs, Garrett, has requested that ball be set and a hearing is scheduled lor Monday at 2 p.m. She surrendered herself to the Multnomah county district attorney's office Friday after noon and sheriff's officers served her with papers charg ing her with first degree mur der by arson. Early investigation Indicat ed the fire was arson. Joseph Garrett was not home at the time the blaze broke out and Mrs. Garrett and another child wore rescued from the Friday. It took six policemen to disarm Ale jandro. He said later that he did not intend to harm Kennedy and only carried a gun for protection. : i . . '. , ,'. . . (UP! Tclephoto) Klein was one. at Oregon's first International Farm Youth Exchange delegates, spending seven months in New Zealand in 1951-52. During the past seven years that Klein has been with the 4-H program In Jackson coun ty, membership has increased by 50 per cent. Klein started the 4-H Empire Builder's coun cil here, which is a county wide service and education group of teen-agers. The coun cil sponsored the 4-H covered wagon trek to Corvallis last year as part of Oregon's Cen tennial events. Finch Retrial Jury Still Deadlocked Los Angeles - (UPD - " I hope to get this case over by Christ mas, I've already given up on Thanksgiving," With these words, Superior Judge Leroy Dawson Satur day sent the Finch -Tregoff murder retrial jury toward its 70th hour of deliberation and rescinded their luncheon privileges. The jurist stunned his court Friday by practically accusing Dr. R. Bernard Finch and Carole Tregoff of murdering the surgeons socialite wife. He told the deadlocked panel the evidence showed "a will ful and deliberate taking of human life. Saturday Dawson advised bailiffs to have sandwiches and coffee sent to, the Jury room so there would be no need for a luncheon break. He said he may permit them to study the problem - now in Its 17th week of retrial - into the afternoon. Lawn Sprinklers Removed at Hospital Rogue Valley hospital main tenance crews have started re moving the lawn sprinkler system from the area whore the new hospital wing will be constructed. Construction of the new wing is planned In the near future, according to Charles Guslafson, administrator. Plans for the wing, which are now at the surgeon gen eral's office in Washington, D.C., are expected here soon, he said. After approval by the surgeon general, bids will be called. Bids will be opened about 30 days after they are called, and construction may start within 30 days alter the contract is awarded. Funds available for con struction were donated and granted from federal Hill Burton funds. Nikita's Position EVlay Be at Stake In Moscow Parley 1 Washington - HOT - High'i American officials said Satur day that Soviet Premier Niki ta Khrushchev's position at home and abroad may be at stake at the Communist sum mit conference beginning to day in Moscow. They said that Khrushchev, fighting a diplomatic war on two fronts, must find some so lution of his ideological dis pute witli Red China before he will be In a really strong position' to renew his diplo matic assault against the West on Berlin and Germany. If he fails, the deterioration in his position could lead eventually to his fall from power as top official in Rus sia. U. S. officials said they did Same Employment Trends Continue n Medford Area Mixed employment trends In recent months continued In October, according to John J. Patton, manager of the state employment office, Medford. Patton said that job place ments held up well for this time of year, while at the same time employment ex perienced a series of fast changes which involved more jobs than usual.' Most of the layoffs, the manager continued, occurred in lumber and plywood mills and logging operations. Many of these crews returned to work quickly, but others re mained closed. He said sev eral firms also reduced work Ing hours below the usual 40 per-week. . ,, . 'In contrast to the uncer tain nature of some operations the larger lumber firms con tinued to run with few lay offs and little reduction in working hours," according to Patton. This situation is at trlbulxl to unsatisfactory wholesale prices for lumber and plywood. This , employment pattern resulted in a reduction in pay rolls, which in turn affected employment in other lines of business. The demand for agricultur al labor was also slack during October, according to Patton. Construction was slower than usual for October with the exception of a few skilled oc cupations and some office oc cupations. Patton says the local labor force should be sufficient to meet the needs of the next 60 days. I Sprague Is Released From Salem Hospital Salem, Ore. - (UPD - Former Gov. Charles A. Sprague was released from Salem Memorial hospital Saturday afternoon. ' Sprague, editor and publish er of the Oregon Statesman, underwent an operation Oct. 20 for removal of gallstones. Ho has recuperated satisfact orily, his doctors said. Mayor Snider To Preside Over Salem Convention Mayor John W. Snider of Medford, president of the League of Oregon Cities, will preside at the League's 35th annual convention which will be held In Salem, Nov. 13-16. More than 700 officials of Ore gon cities and state and fed eral officials working in fields related to municipal govern ment are expected to attend the tbrccMlav conference. "Oregon Cities In the Six ties" Is the theme of this year's convention which will emphasize long range plans and objectives relating to state and local finance, an nexation as a solution to ur ban service needs, planning for new Industry, develop ment of water resources, and law enforcement. Dr. Frank L. Kldncr, Uni versity of California business economist, will deliver t h e keynote address at the open ing general session on Mon day morning, Nov. 14, speak ing on "A Perspective for the Sixties." General P. T. Prucss, assistant director of the Fed eral Aviation agency, Wash ington, DC, will discuss "Su pcrsonto Transport ot the Fu Subscribers To report improper or non delivery oX the Mail Trtbuna In Medfurd phone SP 2-6141, in Ashland MU 2-1UJ1 and in Yreka. VI 2-2B07. beiore 6:4ft pm daily and 10 30 a m Sunday If regular delivery arrive shortly after you call pleai notify office thus eliminating ipecial messenger service No. 197 not believe reports of a nar rowing of the gap between Khrushchev and Red China'3 President Liu Sho-chl. The latter arrived in Moscow Sat urday for the meeting of world Communist leaders to celebrate the 43rd anniver sary of the Bolshevik revolu. tlon. Behind Scenes Showdown Stato Department officials expect that Khrushchev and Liu will try to gloss over their differences in publia while staging a behind-the-scenes showdown on the ideo logical and operational differ ences which divide them. These divisions are beginning to spread to other parts of. the Communist world and could in time threaten Khru shchev's leadership of t h a bloc. Albania, North Viet - Nam and the Communist party oi West Germany sided with Red China against Russia at the Bucharest Communist meet ing last June. Since that time Albanian officials have been trying to recruit anti-Khrushchev sentiment in other East European' Communist countries. They also have been spreading reports that Khrushchev's days in power re numbered. American officials do not necessarily believe the Alba nian claims, any more than the false V'cmia rumor Fri day of a coup against Khiu- shchev. But they do believe the Russian-Chinese snlit ia as great as ever. Crack in Wall One top official, comment ing on the glowing tribute to Russia paid by Liu upon his arrival In Moscow, said: "They are trying to paper nvpr fhnf Hit .aL. ! - umii h. i if. -im !,'.. . . " "'.. ' MUUIU4JUOJ DVHOVW fie Sino-Soviet dispute over whether war against the West Is "inevitable" - Khrushchev says it Is not - is only one part of the disagreement be tween Moscow and Peking. They believe it goes beyond doctrine. . Communist China luis be come outright competitor of Russia in its effort to take the primary role in spreading Communism ,ln Asia, Africa and Latin America. Red Chi nese technicians are arriving in the underdeveloped areas In ever - increasing numbers. Peking's more dynamic ap proach In the underdeveloped areas appears to be an exten sion Into the operational field of the more aggressive ideo logical stand. Liu, who heads Red China's delegation to Moscow, Is his country's top Communist the oretician. And every member of the 10-man Chinese delega tion has, at one time, or an other during the past 18 months, issued a strong blast at the Soviet Union for Its alleged "deviation" from prop er Marxist-Lcnln doctrine. The Moscow meeting will continue where the Bucharest conclave left off. Officials here believe the Issue Is grow ing more critical for Khru shchev. - ' ture" at the luncheon on Mon day. . Walter P. Dyke, director ot the Llnflcld Research center, will speak at the luncheon on Tuesday, Nov. 19, and Dr. John M. Swarthout, dean o( faculty at Portland State col lege, will address the annual banquet that evening. A special gncst of the con vention will be Frank P. Zeid ler, former mayor of Milwau kee, Wise, who will be the featured speaker at a general session on annexation Tuesdny morning. Medford city man ager Robert A. Duff will also present a report on Mcdford's experience with annexation as a means for providing ur ban services. Other speakers and discus sion leaders from the Medford, area Include Robert L. Ha worth, director of parks and recreation, who will serve as a discussion leader on en croachment on park and rec reation sites; O. R. MeNeel, building Inspector, speaking on zoning administration; and Richard Cottle, Ashland mu nicipal Judge, who will lead a discussion on Juveniles in mu- I niclpal court. i t burning home by neighbors, 'V 1
