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United Preai International full Lcaied Wirt United Praia International Full Leaied Wlra 60 PAGES Section A MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, MARCH 26, 1961 No. 3 Rusk in Thailand For SEATO Talks On Laotian Crisis Urgent Conference To Start Tomorrow ' Bangkok, Thailand, Sunday - OIPU - U.S. Secretary of State Dean Rusk arrived here aboard a special jet plane to day for an urgent meeting of SEATO foreign ministers on the Laotian crisis beginning tomorrow. - Rusk declined to comment on the situation in Laos. He said he had been out of touch with events during his long flight from Washington, via Honolulu and Manila. But he expressed confi dence that the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO) would fulfill its obligation to restore peace to this area. Solidarity Wanted He indicated that he would do whatever is necessary to achieve SEATO's objective of restoring peace in Laos and called for complete-solidarity on the part of the eight mem ber nations in the defense al liance. The United Slates, he" said, supported the British propos als submitted to Russia for settlement of the Laotian war. However, he would not make any prediction as to the pos sible Soviet reaction to these proposals. He said, he expected the Soviet Union's answer to be made public shortly. As Rusk's Boeing 707 jet panded at 9:52 a.m. (8:25 p.m. EST Saturday at the airport here, several U.S. Air Force Globemaster and Hercules transport planes could be seen in the air. They are shuttling In supplies for relay to Laos. Judge Overrules Bengtson Protests ' Circuit Judge Edward C. Kelly last week overruled de murrers filed in December concerning eight indictments pending against O. H. Bengt son, Medford lawyer;- charg ing him with embezzlement. Bengtson pleaded innocent to the eight charges and bail was raised by Jude Kelly on the separate charges from $1,000 to $1,500 each. Bengtson, was found guilty o two other charges of em bezzlement from the Medford company by juries in October and January. He was sentenc ed to three years in the Ore gon Correctional institute on the first charge and for a period not to exceed two years in the Oregon state peniten tiary on the second charge. Appeals on both charges are pending before the Oregon supreme court. He is currently free on a total of $24,500 bail. Bail on the first charge was set at $2,500; on the second, $10,000; and $1,500 each on the eight other charges. Bengtson, who was earlier this year suspended from law practice by the Oregon su preme court, told the court last week he is without funds to pay an attorney. Judge Kelly appointed Medtord At torney James McGoodwin to represent him. Richard Car ney, Portland lawyer, and Robert Boyer, Medford law yer, have represented Bengt son in court action so far. A third attorney, Leo Levenson, Portland, is currently pre paring briefs for the two ap peals before the supreme court. Court appointed prosecut ing attorney in the case is P;iul Haviland. Judge Kelly said that trial date on at least one of the eight remaining indictments will be set by the court on the first Monday of the month when the court docket is pre pared up for the month. Contract To Design Building Awarded The architectural firm of Wilmsen. Kenney. Endicott. and Unthank of Eugene has been awarded the contract to design the proposed Medford federal building, Congressman Edwin R. Durno notified the Mail Tribune Friday. Associated with the firm for the contract is Robert Keeney, Medford architect. The proposed building, to house the Medford post office and local offices of other gov ernment aBcncis, is estimated to cost $2,365,000. The contract for the build ing design was itated to be $73,850. 1 Tve Said All Along I Eagle Point Mayor, Oth ers Write Letter To Medco Eagle Point - The Eagle Point mayor, the city council and members of the planning commission have signed a let ter to officers and directors of Medford Corporation express ing their views about the pos sible conversion of the Medco railroad to a log-truck road. In the letter, the city offi cials refer to a letter the Jack. son County Home Owners - Protective association pre sented to Medco officials last week in which the association members expressed opposi tion to the proposed off-highway truck road. No Decision Medcb officials said last week that no decision has yet been made on whether the company will convert the railroad from Vilas rd. to Butte Falls to a log truck highway. . They cited several factors which would have a bearing on ' such a decision, which would be made by the board of directors. Eagle Point city officials said: ' - "The logical expansion of the City of Eagle Point is toward the west, on the oppo site side of the Medco right-of-way from most of the pres ent homes. While the twice-a-day' Medco train did not pre sent much of a problem, a busy, heavy-duty, truck road through a small town like Eagle Point would definitely bar future expansion of the town." The officials reviewed the city's progress in trying to improve the community as a place to live, and wrote that Yforri Says Appling Could Be Candidate Salem-IUPD - Sen. Anthony Yturri, (R-Ontario),- says Sec retary of State Howell Ap pling Jr. would be the next best contender for the U. S. Senate against Sen. Wayne Morse if Gov. Mark Hatfield refuses to run. In an interview over state radio station KOAC, Yturri said "it is a possiblity" he himself might be the GOP candidate against Morse in 1982. The Senate minority leader said, however, his primary concern was to see his party pick the man who can rack up the most votes" to beat Morse. Belgian Voters Go To Polls Today Brussels - (UPD - Belgian voters will decide today whether 62-year-old Socialist Paul-Henri Spaak's dream of a political comeback comes true or whether Premier Gas ton Eyskens' embattled gov ernment stays in power. About six million register ed voters of Belgium s nine million citizens were expect ed to vote in a parliamentary general election. Final results are not expect ed until near dawn tomorrow The Eyskens cabinet will meet at 10 a.m. tomorrow to decide whether to resign or carry on on the basis of the election results. Salem - H?r - State GOP Chairman Robert G. Davis of Grants Pass announced a "definite decision" Friday that state GOP headquarters will remain In Salem. Was Against Cold War" Officials "The heavy-duty truck road will quite effectively nullify our efforts to make Eagle Point a better place to live." "Considering the total cost of conversion to a truck road, plus the rather considerable cost of constant maintenance, plus possible cost of lawsuits, and the ill feelings which can not be measured in dollars and cents, we wonder if the comparatively small addition al profit which the Medford Corporation might hope' to make is really worth it, es pecially when much of such a profit would be taken from property values along the route, ' the letter read. "We hope that you will give your earnest consideration to the attached letter and " the above points In making your decision at ywur next board meeting," the city officials said. The letter was mailed to Medco officers and directors in Chicago, 111., and Medford U. S. Living Costs Rise in February Washington - fUPI) - Labor Department economists said Saturday they expect living costs, now at a record high, to dip slightly this month before climbing to new peaks in mid summer. They doubled that high un employment would have enough impact on consumer demand to pull down prices by sizable amount. The department announced Friday that its consumer price index rose slightly in Febru ary to the all-time peak first reached last Deeember-127.5 per cent of average 1947-49 prices. The increase erased a January decline - first in 12 months - of one-tenth of one per cent. Ten Speakers Oppose Tennis Club Site Ten - not 20 - persons spoke at last week's Medford city planning commission meeting in opposition to a re quest to allow a private ten nis club to be operated in the South Modoc avc. area. The Mail Tribune Friday reported that 20 persons spoke in opposition. But, while only 10 persons actually spoke against the proposal, about an equal number of others indicated by other means that they too opposed the operation of the club in the South Modoc ave. area. The commission unanimously turned down the request. HP Lake Bob Johnston, of Johnston Stores, Medford. concession aire at Howard Prairie lake, said Friday he has expanded equipment facilities and serv ices there for the coming sea son. "We will have 25 complete ly equipped new 14-foot fish ing boats for rent with or without three horsepower mo tors," Johnston announced. Reservations are being accept ed. Reservations have been re reived already for the four 15-foot camping trailers which are available for overnight ac commodations at the lake. No further reservations can be re ceived for these for fishing season opening, he explained. If the demand for these ac JFK U.S., Russia Each Score Space Feat Cape Canaveral - (UPD - The United States, aiming for a spot 120,000 miles deep in space, hurled a satellite into a precarious "yo-yo" orbit around the earth Saturday to chart safe paths for space travel. Designated "Explorer X," the baby satellite's chief job will be to find out more about space - borne magnetic fields and electric currents. The satellite, made up of 78 pounds of complex mag- Kennedy To Seek $2 Billion Budget Hike for Defense Washington, March 25-UIPD- President Kennedy plans to ask Congress for an addtional $2 billion for defense during the fisacl year starting July 1, it was learned Saturday. Details of the request were submitted to Republican and Demorcatic congressional mil itary leaders at a secret Pen tagon briefing this afternoon. The increased appropria tions, if approved, would not necessarily mean a $2 billion increase in defense spending during the next fiscal year. There normally is a consider able time lag beneath con gressional appropriations and Pentagon spending.. The additional funds would be added to the record peace time high defense department budget of $42.9 billion re quested by former President Eisenhower last January. Kennedy had planned to submit his revised budget to Congress Monday. But the White House without explana tion ordered a 24-hour delay, giving rise to speculation that the briefing of the 10 congres sional leaders may have prompted lltli hour revisions. One participant at the brief ing, however, said none of the lawmakers present comment ed on the budget. He said he was certain there was no con nection between the meeting and the postponement. Defense Secretary Robert Li. McNamara motored to the capitol this morning to dis cuss the revisions with Speak er Sam Rayburn. The two men conferred privately In Rayburn's office. McNamara then returned to the Pentagon and met with the group of senior members of Senate and House Armed Services committees and De fense Appropriations subcom mittees. NY Police Official Found Dead in Bay Gilgo Beach, N. Y. (UPD A fisherman Saturday recovered from the waters of Gilgo bay the body of John Beckmann, 63, Nassau county police com missioner who disappeared un der mysterious circumstances las' Jan. 6. The area of the discovery was about 10 miles from Mcadowbrook causeway on the Atlantic coast of Long Island where Beckmann's of ficial auto was left abandoned, his service revolver and wal let inside. Positive Identification was made by Detective Lieutenant Thomas De Bcchcs, of Nassau county. An autopsy was or dered to determine the cause of death. Facilities commodations continue more trailers will be added this year, but since Johnston's con tract does not cover the next summer season, additions will be limited, it was pointed out. (The Jackson county court recently signed an amended contract to cover minimum fee charges to be made at Howard Prairie this season.) The temporary concession store will stock staple groce ries, fishing tackle and re freshments. Johnston advised campers to bring most or all of their grocery needs as his stock will be for emergency needs only. The store will carry ample slocks of tackle am' bait, soft drinks and can dy, he added. The concessionaire has hir- I To Meet With netometers and sensors, rode a 92-foot Thor-Delta rocket into the sky to start a scien tific journey expected to take 4Vi days roundtrip. Halfway Point The satellite reached the halfway point on its journey into space last night with all instruments "working well," according to the National Aeronautics and Space admin istration in Washington. It reached the 60,000-mile mark at 6:30 p.m. (e.s.t.), NASA said, and its speed was 4,800 miles an hour. The satellite was "sending strong signals," and early esti mates indicated it was travel ing very near to its program ed course, NASA said. The shot was dimmed by Russia's feat in orbiting and safely returning to earth a 10,352-pound spaceship carry ing a dog and other "biologi cal objects" yesterday. Ameri can scientists taking part in the shot here declined com ment immediately on the So viet launching. Moscow -(UPD- Moscow Sat urday orbited another dog in a spaceship and brought in safely back to earth in what was believed to be the final experiment before a manned space flight. The flight of the dog "Star let" aboard a five-ton space ship big enough for a man was televised for scientists and they reported the dog "normal" on landing. The Russians, buoyed by the latest success in bringing a dog back alive on command from earth and landing the ship on a specified target, pre dicted they would be first to send up a man. .; This was their second re turn of a dog-bearing space rocket this month. Spaceship V carrying the dog Zvesdochka (Starlet) weighed 10,352 pounds and was in orbit 88.42 minutes, Presumably, the "spaceship satellite" made on circle of the earth before being brought back. In addition to the dog it contained other "biological specimens," otherwise uniden tified. In tha past this has meant rodents and plant life. Eagle Point Girl Wins Scholarship Miss Aedene Jensen, senior at Eagle Point High school placed second in the state Elks lodge scholarship compe tition Saturday and will re ceive a $1,150 scholarship She had earlier won a $250 scholarship In district compe tition. Miss Jensen, daughter of Mr., and Mrs. Burton C. Jen sen, Nick Young rd., will now be eligible to compete in the national contest where $100,- 000 will be awarded in 65 scholarships. Results of the contest were announced last night in Ontario, Ore., accord ing to Joe Hosick, exalted ruler of the Medford Elks lodge. The boys' division entry from this district, Jerry Burns, Ashland High school, failed to place among the top three winners, but he did re ceive a $75 scholarship in ad dition to the $250 won earlier in district competition, accord ing to Hosick. WORKER KILLED Glcndale (UPD James Kim- brough, 37, Glcndale, was kill ed in an Industrial accident at a plywood plant hers Satur day. Expanded ed pxtra personnel to assist In traffic control to keep the area properly policed and clean during the crowded fish in,( season opening. Personnel will be on the grounds 24 hours. First aid service also will be available. A new service will allow a sportsman to leave his boat under a watchmans protection for SI. 25 a week. The same service will be extended to house-trailers for $1.50, John stnn said. Ample fire-wood has been ci.. by welfare work crews. Outdoor fireplaces and picnic tables, shower and rcstroom facilities were installed last season by order of the county court. (S story on pag 3A) ftp. k.C mv. t ZJV i n ITT .w fm Mf BLOCKS TRACKS An upended tank car blocks the Rock Island to Momphis-to-Llttle Rock main line following derailment of 25 cars of a 56-car freight train Saturday, Two Salem Man On Missing Military Plane in Laos Washington -(UPD- A plane assigned to the U. S. military attache in Laos with eight Americans aboard has been mysteriously missing since Thursday, the state depart ment announced Saturday. The spokesman was unable to say whether the C47 might have been the victim of hos tile action by Soviet support ed rebels In the tension-ridden area. "Nothing has been heard" from the plane since it de parted from the Laotian ad ministrallve capital of Vien tiane Thursday morning, av cording to department press officer Bon Thirkield. Thirkield reported that neither U. S. Ambassador to Laos Winthrop Brown nor the air attache at the embassy in Vientiane was aboard the plane, ultimate destination of which was Saigon in neigh boring South Vietnam. Announcement that the plane's "final destination" was Saigon, indicated it might have planned stops enroute. However, Thirkield said he had been given no more infor mation than was contained In the bare announcement that it was missing. Asked whether there was an official "gag" on this, he replied that he did not know. Nor was he able to say whether the disappearance of the plane was connected with the civil war in Laos between forces of tho central govern ment and Soviet-backed reb els. One of the men aboard the plane was Air Force Staff Sgt. Frederick Thomas Garside, of Mr. and Mrs. E. Gar- side of Salem, Ore., according to the state department. Texas Auto Crash Claims Six Lives Odessa, Tex.-(UPD-A mother and two of her small children and three young women were killed and a baby critically injured Saturday when two cars crashed together violent' ly near Odessa in West Texas. The three young women killed were Mrs. R. T. Ross, 17; Mrs. Johnnie Miles, 29, and Mrs. J. O. Self, 20, all Crane, Tex,, housewives. The other three victims were Mrs. Eunice Derrick, 34, of Odessa, and two of her children, Cccile Ann Derrick, 7, and Ernest James Derrick, 1. Durno To Spend Week in Medford Congressman Edwin R. Dur no is scheduled to arrive in Medford from Washington, D.C., where he plans to spend 10 days during the Easter re cess of Congress. Mrs. Durno arrived In the valley last week. Among the events sched uled during the time tho con gressman will be in southern Oregon is an Informal recep tion scheduled Friday, March 31, from 4 to 8 p.m. at the Red Cross building for Con gressman and Mrs. Durno. The event is sponsored by the Medford unit, Oregon Federa tion of Republican Women's clubs. r-r ... carys carrying tho track, but Gresham Girl Dead In Murder-Suicide Gresham-IUPD-A 17-year-old Gresham higli school girl and a 50-year-old man were found shot to death in a remote area north of here Friday night. Multnomah county sheriff's deputies said It was apaprent ly a "murder-suicide." The victims were identified as Jean Murrell and Joseph Gerald : Baranet, also Gres ham. ' 1 The girl's body was found slumped against the steering wheel of t late model sports car. Baranet's body was found beside the car The car, which belonged to Baranet, was parked in the middle of a wooden bridge, Police said the girl had been shot several times. Baranet had been shot once. A .32 caliber revolver was found be neath Baranet's body. The man was described as long time friend of the girl's family. The bodies were discovered by two men who heard shots and investigated. Miss Murrell was described as one of the brightest stu dents at her school. She had Castro Denounces Exile Government Havana - (UPD - Primo Min ister Fidel Castro last night denounced the unified exile government set up by Cuban refugees In the United States as "a government of garbage." He warned the exiles and the United States, particular ly the U.S. Marines, that they will be hit by "torrents of shrapnel" if they come within the three mile territorial lim its of Cuba's coast. He also blasted his former close associate and top radio commentator Jose Pardo Lla da as "a shameless Judas bought by Yankee silver" for defecting from his govern ment after arriving In Mexl co last week. Castro spoke at a banquet honoring the semi-official newspaper Revolution for winning a journalism award given by Communist Czecho slovakia. Braakt SiUnce Breaking a three-day silence on the formation of Cuban "Revolutionary Council" In New York last Wednesdny un der the presidency of Jose Miro Cardona, Castro said the council's announced plan of soon converting Itself Into "government in arms" against Castro on Cuban soil was "Im possible." He said any attempt by Cuban exile groups in the United Stales - now welded into a single unit under the council - to Invade Cuba with "mercenary" forces was doom ed to failure. Castro said his forces have more arms than the people of Laos, the Congo, or Korea where he said the Uited States was either going to, or had al ready, launched "wars of ag gression." "They (the exiles) are not going to Invade us, those who were afraid to fire single shot against (former Presi dent Fulgenclo) Batista," the Cuban leader said. M explosive moterlals ran off did not overturn. (UPI Telephoto) recently won a national merit scholarship and was editor of the school's paper. She was considered a talented musi cian and had left home Fri day evening to give a music recital in nearby Parkrose. Police said that Baranet and Mrs. Baranet were di vorced and Mrs. Baranet lives in Seattle with an U year old son. A photograph of the dead girl was found in Baranet's apartment, Baranet and Mrs. Murrell had been former business asr. sociates In a music store in Portland Rebel Forces Advance in Laos Vientiane -(UPD- Communist- led rebel troops were reported Saturday to have captured central Laotian town of Kham Kuet from government forces in a drive that threatened to split this jungle kingdom In two. There was no formal con firmation that the town, a pro vincial capital some 145 miles east of Vientiane, had fallen. But official Laotian sources said the town probably was lost and U.S. military observ-. ers said the royal garrison had withdrawn from Kham Kuet three days ago. Confirmation of the fall of Kham Kuet would tend to lend support to Vientiane gov ernment charges that new bat talions of Communist troops from North Viet Nam had In vaded central Laos. The Vientiane government officially charged Friday that nine new battalions of Com munist North Vlentnamcsc forces had invaded Laos and that six of the Red units were stationed In the strategic plain of Jars. - Tho other three battalions, according to an official com munique, marched across the border from North Vict Nam and were advancing on Kham Keut, the capital of Khamou anc province. (In a radio Hanoi broadcast yesterday, Communist North Viet Nam officially denied that its troops had Intervened In Laos. It denounced the re ports as "fabrications" and sliuidurs . , . designed to de ceive public opinion,") U.S. mllilnry observers said a local Laotian constabulary unit still was holding hills around tho Kham Keut, but that the loyal forces there lacked arms- particularly mortars or artillery - to use from the heights. WEATHER FOHKCAST: Cloudy with riln Sunday morning. Partial clear Inn an rt frrqiitnt showm ttun day before noon. Decrraitnn showers Sunday afttrnmon and partially cloudy Hunday night. lnrrenalnK cloudlnrs .Monday with k hlfth today of 51. Low Monday 55. Temp. Highest YMtMday 55 Lowest Yesterday Morning 9 Prclp. To I p.m. Yesterday OS Our Skies Tonight flilntrt today 30 p m. ftiinrt.e tomorrow ,.., 0 u rn. The Moon sets 3:49 am. Venus, the bright planet seen tn the west soon after sunset. Is now leva than 30 million miles away, the nearest It hai baen slnct 1959. Leaders Confer In Key West On Laos Crisis Kennedy, Gromyko To Meet Tomorrow West Palm Beach, Fla.-VPD-President Kennedy, bound for a Key West meeting today with British Prime Minister Harold MacMillan, arrived here last night after an air borne conference with one of America's top paratroop com manders back only hours from a survey of tho Laos crisis. Kennedy, making his first presidential flight aboard the big jet 707 "Air Force One," arrived here for an overnight stop at his family home be fore continuing to Key West ' today for an 11 a.m. meeting with MacMillan to discuss "the serious situation in Laos." After the MacMillan meet meeting, Kennedy will return to Washington in time for a noon meeting at the Whito House tomorrow with Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gro myko who asked for the con ference to deliver a message from Russian Premier Nikita Khrushchev.' Returns' From Asia En route from Andrews Air Force Base, Md., to Palm Beach, Kennedy talked at length with Lt. Gen. Thomas Trapncll, commander of tha 18lh Airborne Corps at Fort Bragg, N.C. Tiapnell had just returned from a survey trip to the critical areas of South east Asia when he was rushed to Washington. British Ambassador Sir Harold Caccla tlew to Miami this evening and planned to go on to Key West today to be with MacMillan for tho meeting with Kennedy, at which the two leaders will seek to further coordinate) strategy if Russia refuses to heed their appeal for a truce in Laos. The White House statement announcing the meetings also said the President had serit a personal message, to Laos to French President Charles de Gaulle. No Overt Move High U.S. officials Insisted there was no overt Commu nist move that prompted the Kennedy - MacMillan confer ence. But they said the "ex tremely rapidly moving situ ation" in Laos made it impor tant for the Allied Big Two to meet "at the earliest pos sible moment." The Khrushchev message will climax a rapid series of Laotian developments which flamed into world crisis this past week. The Soviet Premier was responding to the formal British appeal to bring about a cease-fire in the Laos jungle fighting and Kennedy j firm warning that the free world would act to prevent the neu tral southeast Asian kingdom from falling to Communist ag gression from Red North Viet Nam. Hurried Reply (In Moscow, reliable sources said Khrushchev had drafted his message at a hurriedly- summoned meeting with his aides, i ', Three Students Die In Auto Collision Weed, Calif. - (UPD - Four persons, including three stu dents, were killed in a two car head-on crash eight miles north of here on U.S. High way 99 early Saturday. A small boy was seriously in jured., The victims were Identified by the Siskiyou county coro ner's office as Rudolph Ron ald Chemlka, 22, and Tony Lee Stacey, 20, both of Van couver, Wash., and Franle Bates, age and address un known; and Herbert Benja min Hcdrlck, 35, Richland, Wash. The boy, who was extricat ed from the Hcdrick car's crumpled front seat, was be lieved to be his son. The three students were described as wearing athletic department sweat shirts, pos sibly from Clark college in Vancouver, when their small foreign car collided head-on with the Hcdrlck car, also a foreign made vehicle.. The boys were north-bound and the Hedrlck car south bound when they crashed, .
