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fo)A tow lb Talk, Big Meals Exhaust Writer Visiting Nikita Editor's note: Walter IJnnminn. Nw Vork tlvralil Trlhtin Syndicate columnist whose articles km uau an cxciumvb interview wiui xne iirst 01 cnree articles on the By WALTER LIPPMANN On this, our second visit, my wife and I were taken on a long journey by plane and auto to Nikita Khrushchev's country place in Sochi on the Black Sea. Before we . left Moscow, accompanied by two interpreters and an official of the press department, there was much mystery about all the details of the 'coming visit, : such as when and where we were to see the Great .Man. In fact, as it turned out, he had no other appointments after half-past eleven in the morning, when he met us in the pine woods near the en trance of his place. Eight hours later, a bit worn by much talk and . two -large, meals, we insisted on leaving in order to go to bed. I would not like to leave the impression that all eight hours were devoted to great affairs of the world. Perhaps, all told, three and a half hours were spent in serious talk. The rest of the time went into the two prolonged meals at which Khrushchev, who is on what appears to be a non-fattening diet, broke the rules, saying joyously that the doc tor had gone to Moscow for a 'day or two. The talk was largely banter between Khru shchev and Mikoyan, who joined us for lunch, and the banter turned chiefly on Ar menian food and Armenian wine and Armenian customs, which include the compulsion to drink all glasses to the end at each toast. Though we;all drank- a bit more than we wanted, Mikoyan chose to re gard us as American ascetics who only sipped their , wine. Finally Khrushchev took pity on us by providing avbowl into which we could pour Ihe wine as fast as Mikbyaft.fUisd our glasses. ' ' " ' Played Badminton . lSja... Between this heroic eating and drinking, we walked around the place, which is large, met Khrushchev's grandson and Mikoyan's granddaughter, inspected the new and very gadgetry swim ming pool and, believe it or not, played badminton with Mr. Khrushchev. ' In the serious talks, I might say that my wife made fairly full notes, I made a few jot tings, but there was no tran script and the translation was done very ably by Victor M. Sukhodrev who is an official in the Foreign Ministry. It was understood that I was free to write what I liked when I had left Russia and to quote Khrushchev or not t" quote him as seemed" de sirable. I shall set down my own understanding and inter pretation of the most impor tant' and interesting points that he made. i For an opening I reminded him that we had last seen him in October 1958, nearly a year before his visit to the United States. Much has happened in these two and a half years and would he tell me what seemed to him the most im portant events for good or evil? ; ' ' ' Threat Dying Down )' After a moment or two of hesitation, he replied that dur ing this period, the two main forces in the world - the cap italist and the socialist - have concluded that it was useless to "test" one another by mili tary means. I took him to mean by "test" the backing of their political aims by the threat of war. In contrast with 1958, when . he professed to believe that the United States and Ger many might attack him, he spoke with confidence that be cause of the growing strength Elizabeth Taylor Made Sentimental Favorite To Win Best Actress Honor Santa Monica, Calif. - IBPD Elizabeth Taylor, making her first public appearance since her brush with death, is the sentimental favorite to win the best actress Oscar tonight at the Academy Award pre sentations. The dark - haired beauty suffered a near fatal attack of pneumonia in London this year but has recovered suffi ciently to attend the event with husband Eddie Fisher. Comedian Bob Hope will be master of ceremonies. Nominees in the top five appear regularly in the Mall Tribune, soviet premier Hijciui rmrusncaev. Interview follows. of the Communist orbit, the threat of war from our side was dying down. As a result, the United States was aban doning the "Dulles doctrine" that the neutrality of small states is "immoral." He Him self welcomed President Ken nedy's proposals for a neutral Laos. ; v - v. 'v v You think then, ; I asked him, that there has been a change in United States, pol icy? :To this he "replied that while there were some signs of a change, as for example in Laos, it was not a "radical" change, as could be seen in the United States attitude to wards disarmament. What, I asked him, is wrong with the United States , attitude? We cannot see, he replied, that any change is imminent when the subject of disarmament is put in the hands of such a believer in armaments as John McCloy. We thing well of. Mc Cloy and during his time in Germany we had good rela tions with him. But. asking him to deal with disarmament is a case , of asking the goat to look after the cabbage patch. (Continued on page 2) Student in Chute Jump Among Six Accident Victims By United Press International . At least six persons . met death in a variety of accidents in Oregon during the week end, including a college stu dent in a parachute jump; -. v Jerome Odell Bueller, 21, Salem, a student at Oregon State, feli about 2,600 feet to his death near Corvallis Sun day when,bis.chutef ailed to open, The emergency cord apparently was not pulled until .the victim,' member of the Beaver Sports .Parachut ing Club, was about .100 feet from-the grounds -; i . Hillsboro Woman Killed Katherine Modrow, ;78, Hillsboro, was killed Sunday in an auto accident on a coun ty road about six miles north west of Newberg. Mrs. Dorothy Lois Korte, 45, Springfield, was killed Saturday night when a car left a road and plunged into Fall, Creek southeast of Springfield. ! - Benton Randolph Yost, 26, Troutdale, w as- presumed downed in the Columbia riv er near Portland Saturday when a 13-foot boat capsized. Three other men survived. ; Killed by Tractor Henry Victor Wilhelm, 73, Sherwood, was killed Sun day when run over by a trac tor on his farm five miles south of Wilsonville. Mrs. Hazel Browning, 61, Portland, was found dead in her bedroom Sunday morning. The coroner's office tentative ly listed the death as acci dental due ' to a fall down a flight of stairs. State To Get Cut If Gold Discovered ' ' Salem -HPD- If any gold is found on the Evan's Creek - Rock Point paving project near' Rogue Riv er, ihe state will get its cut. The Highway commission Friday spelled out such an agreement on gold, or any other precious, metal, with Roy L, Houck Sons' Corp., which Is handling the job. Panning has been done by some private individu als in the area of the Pacific Freeway project. categories are (with favorites listed first): Best actress: Miss Taylor (Butterfield 8), Greer Garson (S u n rise . at Campobello), Deborah Kerr (The Sundown ers), Shirley MacLaine (The Apartment), Melina Mercouri (Never on Sunday). Best actor: Burt Lancaster (Elmer Gantry),: Jack Lem mon (The Apartment), Trevor Howard (Sons and Lovers), Spencer Tracy (Inherit the Wind), Laurence Olivier (The Entertainer). Eichmann Trial : Starts; Judges Reject Defense ' Accused Enters Plea of Innocent Jerusalem-fflPD-Adolf Eich mann pleaded innocent today to the slaughter of six million European Jews. Then he sat back in a bullet proof glass box and, hour after hour, lis tened while the prosecution delivered a catalogue of his alleged crimes. Contention Rejected ,. '. After almost a week of legal sparring, FUchmann's trial fin ally got under way this morn ing. A court of three Israeli judges rejected Eichmann's contention that it had no legal right to try him and the de fendant formally entered a plea of innocent to each of the 15 counts in the indict ment. They charge -crimes against the Jewish people and crimes against humanity. Then Gideon Hausner, at torny general of Israel, open ed the case for the state by taking everybody in the pack ed courtroom on a nightmare verbal journey across the dark and bloody ground of Adolf Hitler's Third Reich. Six Million Silenced "When I stand before you, judges of Israel," Hausner said, "I do not stand alone. Here with me stand six mil lion witnesses. Their blood cries to heaven, but their voices cannot be heard. Thus it falls to me to be their mouthpiece and deliver this heinous accusation in their name." ; -. . Lips Drawn Tight ' Eichmann heard Hausner's Hebrew through earphones in a German translation. His lips were drawn tight,, and. there was a slight twitch at the corners of his mouth occasion ally. He took many notes ias though he realized .that 'one escape door had been' slam med against him by the court's ruling on its competency to try the case. From now on he stands in .the shadow of the gallows rand he is going to fight all the way by partici pating in his own defense. f Area Made Ready For Fishing Date The Howard Prairie recrea-! tion area is rapidly approach-, ing readiness , for the opening of fishing season Saturday, County Judge Earl Miller said this morning. '. ' He and Lawrence V. Espeyt vice chairman of the Jackson) county parks and recreation commission, inspected the lake area Sunday.'1 .-. -v County road crews are ex pected to do final grading of the entrance road and parking lot this week. Bridge crews are putting in stairs to .., the boat mooring dock.' Tile has been installed to take the overflow from the spring into the lake. Miller noted that several trailers already1 are in the park awaiting fishing season The sheriff's office reported one boating accident already this season on Emigrant lake, another county public recrea tion area. A boat driven by Don Warren Mann, 20, " of 1425 Stewart ave., sped into the wake of another boat caus ing it to spill. Mann was pick ed up later uninjured by the sheriff's boat patrol. Recreation Officer Serving in Portland Ralpe Wlese, recreation of ficer of Rogue River National forest, has been placed on 30 day detail in the regional of fice of the U.S. forest service at Portland. He is working in the divi sion of watershed manage ment, i " " Handling his duties in the Rogue forest is Asa D( Bud) Twombley, Union Creek dis trict ranger. Best Pictures: "The Apart ment," "Elmer Gantry," "The Alamo," "Sons and Lovers," "The Sundowners." " Best supporting actress: Shirley Jones (Elmer Gantry), Janet Leigh (Psycho), Mary Ure (Sons and Lovers), . Shir ley Knight (Dark at the Top of the Stairs), Glynis Johns (The Sundowners). Best supporting actor: Sal Mineo (Exodus), Peter Usti nov (Spartacus), Peter Falk (Murder, .Inc.), Jack - Krus chen (The Apartment), Chill Wills (The Alamo). Regional Edition MedfordMIII 18 Pages limber lax Voted by GREETS IDAHO SENATOR House Speak er Robert ' B.: Duncan; greeted U.S. Sen. Frank Church; D-Idaho, during the eleventh . annual Roosev.elt Memorial dinner ' at Mc- f Loughlln Junior High school Duncan was twice hailed as the "next gov- tended the annual fund-raising event here, ernor of the state of -Oregon by the sen- ( V . i Committee Moves Toward Completing Work on The Jackson- county budget committee moved slowly to ward the scheduled windup of budget work Thursday. - Of the main budget items, only the assessor's, sheriff's, and the county clerk's offices require further consideration, County Judge Earl Miller said this morning. Van Displaying Cuba Banner Halted . State police stopped a furni ture van 'between Medford and Ashland Sunday, on , the side of which were big letters reading "Arms for Cuba, Inc." ; No arms were in the van which was moving household furniture from Roseburg to Ashland, an officer said. In the truck were two University of Washington students, one from Roseburg and the other from Klamath Falls. . . ' ; "The boys apparently though it was a big joke. They had used a grease pencil to print the banners and it ex cited a few Medford people, when the truck passed through the city," police said. : The officer scolded the pair and warned that such signs could disturb the peace in view of the current world sit uation. The furniture appar ently belonged to the father of one of the boys. , DEATH DISCLOSED Portland - (UPD - Word was received here Monday of the death in San - Francisco of Louis P. Hopkins, 72, superin tendent of the Portland di vision of Southern Pacific Railroad from 1944 to 1935. WEATHER FORECAST: Virlible cloudiness through Tuesday. Chance of a few scattered showers mostly over mountains. Low tonleht 35. Low tonight 35. High Tues day 10-74. Temp. Highest Yesterday 7 Lowest This Morning 44 Our Skies Tonight Sunset today .1 8:53 p.m. Sunrise tomorrow .. 5:26 a.m. Moonset tonight ... 0:45 p.m. First quarter April 22 PROMINENT STARS Aldebaran, above the Moon, Elnath.'welL above Aldebaran.' (Aldebaran Is 68 light years from the Earth; Klnath Is 300 light years away) MEDFORD, OREGON, MONDAY, APRIL 17, 1961 w Saturday night, the banquet, Budget Budgets approved so far In clude treasurer, $12,573; coun ty court, $28,543; circuit courts, $36,576; distriot court, $4,290; Ashland justice court, $8,043; election department, $19,210; county court ex penses, $47,396; Jackson coun ty farm home, $135,459; juve nile department, circuit court, $45,028; and health depart ment, $105,100. Revised Downward The budget committee has revised downward the budgets considered so far. The com mittee hoped to consider the assessor's and sheriff's budg ets this afternoon.. ' Most ofithis morning's dis cussion was on a bookkeeper which Jackson County Farm Home Superintendent Millard Hoffman - had hired without prior authorization from the county court. The budget committee ap proved a resolution to keep the bookkeeper's $1,400 an nual salary in the new fiscal year's budget, but reserved the right to reconsider need for hiring this man another year.-.' " - , r '. : ';. ; . . Hoffman had transferred unused funds to provide the $1,400 salary for the current year.- County Commissioner Chester Wendt said. Depart mental funds transfers are al lowed except for salaries, Wendt explained. Hoffman's action was a violation of this policy, he said. t Tots Recovering From Ant Poison Two small children are ap parently recovering from the effects of drinking some dead ly ant poison Sunday morning. The children are Connie Gail Adams, 2 . and Michael Ray Adams, 4. The parents of the children, Mr. and Mrs. Billy Ray Adams, 801 South Peach St., told police the children ap parently drank the poison early Sunday morning. When it was noticed that the chil dren looked sick, it was re vealed that they had taken some ant poison. With a police escort, the parents transported the chil dren to a clinic in Central Point where their stomachs were pumped out. 56th Compromise mouse; 56 to 2 s I ator, and by Jackson County Democratic Chairman Harper Edwards. Church,, key-; note speaker of the Democratic national! convention last year, was main! speaker' at( Approximately 340 people -att Main Relocation " Starts to Make Way for Freeway 'City water ' department crews this week are relocat ing the first of four water mains that have to be moved to make way for the new free way. Water Superintendent Rob ert Lee said the relocation now in progress Is at the west end of Hawthorne park where a 12-Inch water main extend ing from Main st. to Biddle rd. is being moved approxi mately 50 feet east of its pres ent location. Another main that is in the way of the new freeway, is lo cated at the. intersection' of Arcadia and Spencer sts. Lee said this 6-inch main will be replaced by a new main' to be installed at the intersec tion of 12th and Spencer sts. City crews will also under take this project. A third water main project is on Earhart st where a 10 inch water main will be placed in a casing having a span of five feet and a height of more than two feet. Lee said the freeway will pass di rectly over the main at this location and the casing, which will , be 240 feet long, will serve as a means of access to the water main if mainten ance should be required in the future. The fourth project will be let out for bids early in May, This will Involve relocating of approximately 1,500 feet of pipe at the site of the Bar nett rd. interchange. The main is currently 16 inches in size. ' Lee said a new, 18- Inch main will be relocated to the north of the inter change area.. . The estimated , cost of all four projects is about $55 000, according to Lee. He said the state will reimburse the city water commission for the entire cost of the projects. Key Wardens' on Duty For Forestry Division Most of the key fire ward ens of the southwest district of the state department of for estry were on duty today after four more posts were filled. ' Wardens beginning fire sea son duties today were Willard Braunburger at Lincoln guard station, Curt Gerhardt at Ap plegate, John Black at Forest Creek, and Larry Cook, who will head a Medford head quarters crew. Year Price 1 0 Cents Tribune No. 22 Opponents Agree Measure Betters Present Practice Minority Report ; . Attempt Fails Salem (UPD The House to day approved 56-2 a Western Oregon timber tax com' promise 1 which opponents finally admitted would be an improvement over the present law.. ' HB1438 went to the Senate, The bill moves toward alle viation of the timber tax burden of those who are slow cutters. -The bill is called a compromise between Oregon's two timber giants - Georgia Pacific . Corp. and Weyer haeuser Co. c Georgia-Paclfic tends to cut its holdings faster than Wey. erhaeuser and Weyerhaeuser has complained of being penalized by being taxed for standing timber that produces no income. Committee Split The House Tax Committee was split sharply on the issue and Chairman Richard Ey- mann; (D-Mohawk) failed in an attempt to get a minority report adopted. The vote to substitute the minority report was defeated 42-16. , iThose voting for the minor ity 'report, which Eymann said would keep small timber operators from being hurt, were .. Reps. Back, Barton, Fadeley, Bateson, Benedict, Bradley, Halght, Howard, Leiken, Morgan. Peck. Ey mann, Van Hoomlssen, Whe- lan, wilderman and Duncan. Hep. W. O. Kelsay (D-Rose burg), main supporter of the majority report, then won a suspension of the rules so the majority bill could be acted on immediately instead of waiting until Tuesday. Barton, Coquille Democrat. said although he was disap pointed In loss of the minority report, he "recognizes that the majority report is an Improve ment over the present law." feymann agreed. The 86-2 approval was strong endorsement for an issue that has been battled in the legislature for the past two sessions. The two no votes were cast by Reps. Hand and Orr. Reps. Montgomery and Dooley were excused, 15-Year-0ld Girl Attempts Suicide A 15-year-old Medford elr! attempted to commit suicide Sunday because, she said, "I don't have any reason to live." Police said the glrl ate ap proximately 26 aspirin tablets about 7:30 p.m., Sunday and then called police. She was taken to Rogue Valley hos pital for' examination, and then taken to the Jackson county juvenile detention home at the instructions of a juvenile officer. , Saturday police had been called to the girl's home hv a friend who had then feared that the girl might try to com mit suicide. Police talked to the girl at the time and made an appointment for her to talk with the Juvenile officer Mon day. They said the girl was cooperative and seemed will ing to do this. Police said the girl, the youngest of eight children. now lives alone with her mother. The father apparently left the mother some time ago, and the family Is now on wel fare. Teaching Career Month Subject of Luncheon Ashland - A program for observance of Teaching Ca reer month will be presented at the Ashland Chamber of Commerce noon luncheon Tuesday at the Mark Antony hotel. ' , Marlene Powell and Keith Garrett, both teacher educa tion seniors at Southern Ore gon college, will discuss rea sons why they chose the teach ing profession. TROOPS BEACHHEAD NEAR HAVANA BY FRANCIS L. McCARTHY ''' UP! Correspondent A strong force of rebel troops invaded Cuba today in an attempt to Castro. ,'',..,'" By parachute and landing craft, the assault force swarmed ashore only 90 miles from Havana and established, a beachhead. Castro emotionally proclaimed a state of national emergency. He took personal command ; . me invaaers struck m the swampy area around Bahia '. de Cochinos. the Bav of Pics. shortly after midnight. : Another lorce was reported to have landed in Oriente Province in eastern Cuba Saturday night. . . . ;.; ,':,;;.. '. : .., : ,. . Sources of the Cuban Revolutionary Council estimated 5,000 anti-Castro troops had gone into action within the last 48 hours. ., The Castro regime Immediately cut off normal com munications to and from Cuba, and there was little informa tion on the progress of the fighting. out one m-oaocast indicated I the casualties were heavy. Cas tro- himself underscored the gravity of the events in state ments read over the country's biggest radio station after a 12-hour silence. The bearded premier told the people of Cuba that in vasion troops were attacking various points of national ter ritory in the south of Las Vil las Province with the aid of aircraft and warships. He. called for action against those who are surprised com mitting . . . sabotage, shooting, or assassination attempts"-ln- dicating that an uprising with in Cuba had accompanied the invasion. ; , In his broadcast statement Castro Identified himself commander in chief and prime minister," Indicating mat ne naa assumed oom- mand. President Osvaldo Dor- ticos previously had been des ignated as commander in chief of the armed forces. Castro called the Invaders "barbarians" arid said they nad come to take the land that the revolution had given to peasants to take the factories from the people, to take the sugar mills from the people to take the schools from the children, and to take from the negroes the "dignity" that the Castro government had given them. As the Cuban government mobilized its forces against the invaders, Raul Roa, Cuban foreign minister, charged be fore the United Nations that the attack was waged by mercenaries" from bases In Florida and Guatemala. U.S. Ambassador Adlai E. Stevenson formally denied that the invasion was launch ed from Florida. ' In Cuba streams of persons were reported jamming the roads into the Escambray mountains where guerrilla bands have been operating against Castro. They were be lieved to be civilians on the move and; not Invaders. The progress of the fighting was clouded because Cuban radio stations had been or dered not to report military information and because tele phone and cable service to the island was cut off. Troutdale-WPII-Bernle , Bis- sonette of Troutdale ate 156 smelt .Sunday and was promptly proclaimed the world s champion,. ' .' V: Projectiles " "" W;: ,' SET overthrow Premier Fidel of def ene operations. Americans Said n Sympathy With uba Revolution Washington-IUPD - Secretary of State Dean Rusk said to day "there is no secret about the sympathy of the American people" for the forces seeking to overthrow Cuban Premier Fidel Castro. ;. But he emphasized that 'there is not and will be anv intervention" in . Cuba by United. States forces.' Rusk also said the United States is determined "to do all we possibly can to insure that. Americans do not partici- pate'lnitpese actions in Cuba." Not From U.S. Soil Rusk said the landings were not. mounted from U.S. soil. Ana " he - rejected" Castro's charge that the United States was behind the invasion. ; The secretary made it clear. however, that the United , States is "not indifferent to intrusion into this hemisphere by the Communist conspir acy." : recently at last December "de- . clared its intentions to destrov free instltlltinrtR In nil nnt'ia of the world." He was referring to the manifesto issued in Moscow last December by representa- : tlves of Communist parties in more than 80 countries.' ommillee Reports Set for Council Ashland-Two committee re ports will be presented at the Ashland City council meeting Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. in the council chamber. ' The ordinance committee will report on city ordinances governing purchasing policies. Methods of soliciting bids for city purchases has become an issue in recent weeks. Ordinances relating to es tablishment of taxi stands on city streets will also be dis cussed. A hearing date for pro posed changes in residential zoning laws will be set. i
