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MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, APRIL 30. 1961
No. 33
"Oh, There Ought To Be A
Cease-Fire Any Time Now"
MedfordMTribune
LAOTIAN 0 M IS; PSEIf K
U.S. Picks First
Astronaut; Name
Not Yet Released
Crucial Space-Shot
Planned for Tuesday
. Cape Canaveral-(UPD-An as
tronaut 'has been chosen to
make America's first manned
rocket flight Into space next
week, it was Jearned Satur
day ' . .' ' ::
Scientists in 'the nation's
$550-milllon project Mercury
Man'-into Space program pick
ed their man from a "select
list", of three astronauts who
have undergone special train
ing for the lasf three months.
.: Identity of the No. 1 4as
stronaut remained a secret.
But reliable sources reported
it was either Navy Cmdr.
Alan B. Shepard or Marine
Lt. Col. John H. Glenn Jr.
and that Shepard was' consid
ered more likely. v .
No Announcement
The National Aeronautics
land Space administration -said
only that "no announcement
has been made as to selec
tion." :'
Two men were chosen from
the 'trio of candidates one
as the "prime" astronaut and
the other as his "back-up," to
step in at the last minute in
case of a change in plans.
At stake was America's
first step toward manned con
quest of space. This will be
a 16-minute ride inside a 1 Mi
ton . Mercury capsule aboard'
a Redstone rocket. It is sched
uled to be launched -from
Cape Canaveral Tuesday,
morning. :
, For the U.S. spaceman this
will be only a peek through;
the doorway of space. He wjUT
soar to an altitude of about
115 miles, high enough to
view the Gulf of Mexico, the
Florida peninsula, Caribbean
Islands and perhaps as far
north as the Carolina?. ' P?' '
Not Orbital ; ,- - .; ;
It will not be- and was not'
Intended to be a . . sweeping
orbital trip like the global
swing which carried Russia's
Maj. Yuri Gagarin to a mixi
mum altitude of 187 miles
April 12. Bi't for the ' few
minutes he will be aloft in
the "sub-orbital'r flight, the
American spaceman's outlook
on the world should be just
as dramatic. .
j A full orbital flight for one
of the seven astronauts who
pre still in the Mercury pro
gram is not expected ' for
another six months to a year.
r- TiifxiHnv'c flicrht njavt wppk
Is a "crawl before you walk"
affair,' designed to test the
bell - shaped space capsule,
voice communications from
space and - perhaps most im
portantly to find out how
well a man can perform un
der extremes of weightless
ness and crushing pressure, f .
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j Hatfield Criticizes ;s
i Civil Defense Cut .
Salem-IUPD - Gov. Mark
'Hatfield told the Legisla
ture Friday its sharp slash.'
in the civil defense budget
-"would give aid and com
'fori to Castro and his kind."
The budget was cut from '
$288,000 to $173,000. Hat
field called it "fantastic",
and said "the action is con
trary to all urging of the
president and his advisors."
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PROSPECT AIRPORT Work on the 'Prospect airport is
ncaring completion. Construction started in the middle of
: January. The airport include a 4,000 foot runway, with
jl.OQO loot approach clearings o the north and south ends.
Court Rejects Plan
For Wrecking Ya rd
The Jackson county court
Friday denied an application
to establish a wrecking yard
just south of Talent on High
way 99 and residents of the
area are now making plans to
further improve the area so
as to prevent other wrecking
yards from moving in. '
The county . court unani
mously voted to deny the ap
plication. . ;.
"Our main, reason was. the
tremendous opposition from
the people of the area," Coun
ty Judge Earl Miller explain
ed. "We do not want to deny
the right of wrecking yards
or other business to locate in
the- valley, but we thought
-another - location- would be
more suitable. This decision
was made in the best inter
ests of the people of the area
Ashland Officer
Aids Girl Cyclist
: AshlandAAri Ashland' po
liceman rushed to the aid of
a maiden in distress Saturday
afternoon and saved her from
possible serious injury.
Bruce Hoy, a member Ash
land's finest, had just : stop
ped a car on Indiana st. when
he heard screams coming
from a Southern Oregon col
lege coed who was on 'a bi
cycle . speeding toward the
busy intersection of Siskiyou
blvd. and . Indiana.
. Hoy said the girl apparent
ly didn't know how to stop
the .foreign made bicycle
which had the brakes on the
handle bars. He estimated she
was traveling at a 30 mile an
hour clip. '
As she neared him he start
ed to run along - side in an
attempt to slow her down. He
grabbed a basket , oh ' the
handlebars and then the cycle
flipped, sending Judy Berry,
18, of Lakeview, , sprawling.
Miss Berry received cuts
and bruises and was taken to
Ashland General hospital for
examination.-. : .
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as expressed at last week's
hearing." ' -'',..
Other businesses along the
highway will also be cleaned
up, according to -. promises
made members of the county
court when they visited. the
area south of Talent last week.
- The county planning com
mission previously had ap
proved establishment of the
wrecking yard by a 4 to 2
vote. The yard was proposed
for the site of the former 99
Wreckers which has not been
operated for several years.
The board of directors of
the South Talent Property
Owners' association met Fri
day night to plan for, a public
meeting of -all Talent-' area
residents. The date ' will be
announced later,' according to
Mrs. Goldie Davis, secretary.
--"We -will probably -p li n,
aistnct zoning Dut will nave
to investigate further since
there are quite a few angles
to consider," Mrs. Davis said,
"Everyone in the area has
started cleaning up their own
property and nobody asked
them to." ,
Portland Area Time
Bill Passes House
' Salem-ttlPB-Measures asking
voters to okay state daylight
saving time next year and ap
proving immediate fast time
for the Portland area passed
the House Friday and went to
the Senate.
Rep. Ken Maher, (R-Port-land)
declared approval of
daylight time will do away
with a- "curse" of standard
time that threatens to
"strangle ' us economically."
Neighboring states go on fast
time today. Maher said it puts
Oregon at an economic disad
vantage. t The Portland area measure
would let the county courts or
commissioners elect daylight
time this summer for Mult
nomah, Clackamas, Washing
ton, Columbia or Hood River
counties. ; ,. . , -
If passed by the Senate and
signed, it would ' become law
immediately.- .
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Surfaced width is 150 feet. Highway 62 Is shown below the
aiport. Between, the highway curve and the airport, the
Mill Creek falls are visible.
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Red-Led Rebels
Issue Ultimatum;
Step-Up Attacks
Government Peace
. , Delegation Ignored
' Luang Prabang, Laos - (DPI)
- Communist Pathet Lao reb-J
eis auacKea on xnree ironus
Saturday and gave the pro
western Laotian government
48 hours to come to them and
sue for a cease fire.
The government sent a
large cease fire delegation to
a battlefield site but the Com
munists failed to show up and
insisted talks be held in their
"capital" as the right of the
"victors." The crisis worsened
by the hour. '
The Red rebels claimed cap
ture of Muong Sai in Luang
Prabang province in the ap
parent drive to seize as much
of the mountainous little coun
try as possible. A Communist
New China news agency
broadcast said . most . of the
government troops in the
town deserted to the R e d
cause. - - ;. ' .
Urgent Consultations
President Kennedy held ur
gent consultations in Washing
ton. Western allied officials
met in London, Paris and
Bangkok, Thailand, to consid
er military intervention to
save the Indo-Chinese king
dom. The . State department in
Washington charged the So
viets stepped -up an airlift of
supplies to the Pathet Lao
' by a considerable degree."
U. S. roving Ambassador
W. Averell Harriman arrived
la .'Vientiane; the -.adralnistra-
tion Laotian capital, for an
on-the-spot survey of tne Kea
drive.. . ' i- v-.'V,;:.
Artillery Barrage ' '
Red artillery pounded royal
government forces between
the royal capital of Luang Pra
bang and the junctions of
routes 13 and 7.. On the Nam
Lik river, the Reds were at
tacking and two towns in the
south, Tchepone and Muong
Phin, were reported under
rebel pressure.
Attacks were accompanied
by Red radio propoganda
broadcasts claiming victory
and accusing the government
of stalling on a cease fire. But
the Reds were demanding
cease fire talks only on their
own terms.
The government of Premier
Prince Boun Oum sent a 1,600
man mission into the jungle
at Vang Khi, 22 miles from
the strategic town of Vang
Vien seized by the rebels last
week. The government appar
ently presumed a Red cease
fire mission would meet with
it there. None showed up. The
war went on. '... ,
COUNTRIES MERGE
Accra, Ghana - (UPD-Ghana,
Guinea and- Mali Saturday
formed the "Union of African
States", in. partial realization
og ' Ghana President Kwame
Nkrumah's dream, of creating
a United, States of Africa. '
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READY FOR THOUBtE Sixty. American, ,' 6,000-troops are on the various Ships'," andL
British and Australian ships, including, the , both .troops and ships are reported ready to
USS Coral Sea (above), are just across the,. ; embarkrtoward Laos for' the .real, thing, if
South China Sea from strife-torn Laos dur- '; military actiori in the sbiitheast: Asian coum
ing current SEATO war games. - A total of ; try should be ordered. ; ' (UP! Telephoto)
Operation Alert
Said Realistic
Friday's 1 961 O p e r ation
Alert civil defense .test has
been declared more realistic
than other such exercises that
have been observed locally.
More than 300,000 persons
were reported killed in Ore
gon in the mock attack. - !
Maj. Gen. J. H. Hicks, Jack
son County Civil Defense di
rector, said Saturday, that
"relatively small", nuclear ex
plosions were reported at
Gold Hill and Grants Pass. re
sulting in severe fall-out. Be
cause of the absence of ade
quate shelters, the major por
tion of those areas would
have . been' "wiped out," ac
cording to General Hicks. ;
Operation Alert officials
noted a larger nuclear ex
plosion north of Klamath
Falls. ' Because ; of ; strong
south-west .winds, Ashland
suffered "moderate"' fall-out
with a 50 per cent loss. .
One-Third Loss ' - 4
s a. result of -regional
bombing, the entire Rogue
River valley received con
siderable" fall-out coverage
with a one-third loss in popu
lation within Jackson county.
Civil Defense estimates that
over half of the population
locally was lost, and the re
maining population would be
sick, due to radiation, for two
to six months. ;
A two megaton "burst" was
recorded at Medford at 5:25
p.m., as well as a similar ex
plosion in Looking Glass, just
outside of Roseburg. The two
megaton concentration was
realtively small, in contrast
to the ten megaton blast on
Portland, according to Gen
eral Hicks, v
Local Civil berense person
nel experienced the nation
wide Operation Alert here be
tween noon and 9 p.m. Fri
day. Sen. Robert White
Hospitalized Again
Portland - (UPD - Sen. Rob
ert White (R-Shlcm) has been
hospitalized . again in his
struggle with cancer.
1 "White, former mayor of Sa
lem, was admitted to the Uni
versity of. Oregon Medical
hospital here Thursday. A
hospital spokesman described
hi condition ai "serious."
Scholarship Banquet
Planned for May 15
The first annual.- Scholar
ship banquet, sponsored by
Medford service clubs and or-i
ganizations, will- be - held, at
the Rogue, Valley -Country
club Saturday, -May-15. . ' ,
Three : students from - St.
Mary's High -school and' 26
students from- Medford High
school will be special guests.
The students represent the
top 5 per cent of the graduat
ing senior class. . : , ;
The banquet is being spon
sored by a committee made
up-of representatives of ' the
majority of the service ' clubs
and organizations in Medford.
Ex-Judge Hanna To
Preside on taw Day
Law's Day ceremonies' will
start at 9:0 a.mi Monday 'in
Jackson county circuit court.
.Presiding at the bench will
be -,' Retired . . Judge H. ' K.
Hanna, Circuit Judges Ed
ward Kelly and James, Main
and District Court Judge L. L.
Sawyer. , , ' .
Dr. -Leonard B. Mayfield,
superintendent - of, Med ford
schools, will speak on ''Liber
ty. Tinder Law." . ,. .j
. The Jackson County Bar as
sociation will, present - an
award -to Gordon . Randal
Clark, .Crater High- school
senior, for - his editorial on
American law which appear
ed in the-April 5 issue of the
Crater Comments, high school
paper.
Clark is the son of Mr. and
Mrs. Fred J. Fry, 3820 Grant
rd., Central Point. ., ;
WEATHER
FORECAST: Moitly lunny to
day except for a few fcattered
ahoweri In mountain!. Increas
ing cloudlnexf tonictit with rain
likely Monday. Illch today SS.
Low tonlcht near 40. High Mon
day 60 to 65.
' ' '! temp.
Hlgheit Veiterday 67
Preclp.
To $ p.m. .Yesterday ....u....l6
Our Skies Tonight
Stimet today .. . 7:10 p.m.
Simrlae tomorrow 5:07 a.m.
Moonrlse today 7:16 p.m.
Full Moon today 10:41 a.m.
VISIHI.P. I'LANKTS
Man In the weit 9:45 p.m.
Jupiter and Saturn,
In the loutheait 2:49 a.m.
(Jupiter It Uie brighter of the
two.)
Venut, low In eait .... 4:11 a.m.
The Rev. Carl Mai: of St,
Mary's and William Ruck of
Medford .High are " working
with the committee on behalf
of the schools. . V; r
Speaker at the banquet
Will be Dr. John R. Richards,
chancellor of the state system
of higher education. -' .. . ;
Plans Formulattd : -. -! '
. Representatives of the serv
ice clubs and. organizations
have held several, meetings to
formulate plans for the ban
quet as a means of recogniz
ing students who have excell
ed academically in h i g h
school.. Tentative plans 'would
establish the banquet on- an
annual' basis. - ' ' ' ;
St. Mary's students who:
will 1 be honored are Fred-'
rick ':' Burlch, "valedictorian
Thomas Depnew salutatoriah;!
and Tohl Adams. - ' 1
Medford High school - stu
dents on the -academic honors
list are Frank Balch, Nancy
Brown, ' Margaret ' Childers,
Karen -Chrlstcnsen,' Stanley
Dowson, Juliet Faught, Caro
lyn Finch; James Frake, Mary
Kay -Harris, : Roger Harris,
Linda 'Hess,- Nancy Hinman,
Donna Hussong,- Ralph Lob-dell,-
Fred Lorish, : Rosalita
Patch, Dale Peterson,' Michael
Phillips, - R o b e r t - Quinney,
Richard Ragsdale, Marilyn
Shepherd, .Martha ISimpson,
Judy Sims, DcAnne 'Taylor,
Susan' Thompson., and' Jack
Winchester.. . .. - '.n ,. ip i
Banquet Guests
' Students 'will' be banquet
guests of the committee,; and
parents will have first pref
erence for tickets. Committee
members said parents should
indicate their attendance by
May; 5. Tickets are available
a( -the two 'schools.
' Service clubs and organiza
tions which - have been : con
tacted, or will be contacted,
for participation in the ban
quet are the Elks, Rotary, Ki,
wanis, Crater Lions, Medford
Lions, Medford Chamber of
Commerce, Medford Junior
Chamber of Commerce, Amer
ican Association of University
Women, American : Legion,
Business and ' Professional
Women, Eagles, Active-20-30
club, Veterans of Foreign
Wars, Moose lodge, and Ma
sonic organizations. ' ' ' - " j
President
With Top
Washington .- IUPD - Presi
dent Kennedy met with his
top advisers S a t u r d a y to
weigh calling for allied mili
tary action to halt art armed
Communist takeover, in Laos
and .repercussions, in other
areas, of southeast Asia.
Kennedy met with the Na
tional , Security Council for
two hours and then Immedi
ately conferred with. a smaller
group - of . advisers. He . also
scheduled a meeting tomor
row to deal with the situation.
A White House spokesman
refused to say what decisions,
if any, were taken at Satur
day's meetings. But they were
known to have dealt at length
with the Immediate crisis in
Laos and the less-known but
Allied Armada Set
For Laos Action
Singapore - (UPD - Sixty
American, British and Aus
tralian warships with 6,000
troops aboard maneuvered in
the South China sea Saturday
with plans that could turn
their SEATO war games into
the real thing should action
be ordered in Laos.
Informed sources here said
the Southeast Asia Treaty Or
ganization battle unltii were
prepared to load live ammu
nition, if the SEATO powers
give the order, . .
; The vessels In "Operation
Pony Express' were a com
plete fighting machine, with
.jet planes and helicopters, for
transporting1 U.S. Marines and
combat-ready soldiers. "s
: I Practice landings w e r e
scheduled to-be - carried - out
tomorrow In North Borneo for
jungle warfare training."-
.The rnaneuvers are . In an
area which is only a ' few
hours jet flying time from .the
land-locked Laos in Indo
china. . ... r '
Planners for' the SEATO
powers -'the United States,
Britain, Australia, New Zea
land, France, Thailand, the
Philippines and .Pakistan -drew
up stand-by .military
programs at a conference in
Bangkok last month as a re
sult of the Communist attacks
in Laos.
Sources said units could be
moved into northern Thailand
which' borders on Laos.
Girl Found Dead
In Bureau Drawer
' Cawker City, Kan - (UPD -
The brutally stabbed body of
a 3-year-old 1 girl was found
Saturday stuffed Into a bureau
drawer in the bedroom of a
neighborhood playmate. ' . .
The girl, Cyndi Ann Miller,
was stabbed 16 times in the
chest. A preliminary exami
nation revealed she had been
raped. -'
Authorities arrested a 13-
year-old boy, who lived across
the. street from the girl in
this north-central Kansas com.
munity. , ...
' The youth;' an eighth grade
student, is a son of a Cawker
City farm Implements dealer,
Robert Bowles. ' v. :
The girl's body was discov
ered by the boys father, who
had gone to his son s bedroom
and r became suspicious ..at
finding it in a state of dis
arrangement.
Two Persons Perish
In Oregon Mishap
Warm Sprlngs-(UPD-The bod
ies of a mother and her daugh
ter were recovered from their
smashed car in the Deschutes
river about a mile, south of
here Saturday. ' "
The victims were identified
as Dorothy E. Smith, 43, and
her daughther, Lou Ann,' 14,
of the Warm Springs, Indian
Reservation. -
State police said the car
plunged off a reservation road
into i about 25 feet of .water
either late Friday night or
early yesterday.
The car . was discovered
about five hours before a skin
diver could recover the bodies,
Mrs. Smith and her daughter
were last seen laU last night
Confers
Advisers
equally dangerous Communist
activity in South Vietnam.
' While officials kept a tight
lid on any decisions on Laos
itself, it was made clear Ken
nedy and , his advisers do not
view the ominous develop
ments there as a crisis which
can be "separated" from the
rest of southeast Asia. :
Thus the meeting also- cov
ered the. broader question of .
protecting all of southeast
Asia from Communist subver
sion and attack. ' . !--The
State department called
attention to what it termed
very heavy Laotian- Commu
nist military activity at Tche
pone and Muong Phin, - two
towns in the Ions arm n
Laos i -that stretches south
toward South Vietnam.
Terror Campaign . . -
...Communist guerrillas hau
waged a terror campaign in
South Vietnam ' since t h e
French and the Cnmmimisi
divided the - country in an
agreement at Cieneva in July,
1954. The number of rebels
in South Vietnam has been
increasing steadily.
unicials here feared Lao
tian Communist progress
misht DrOvide COVPr fnr mnra
infiltration Into South Viet
nam and even lead to ah out-
ngnt communist attack on
tnat country. ;
Administration sources said
there was a feeling that the
time for anneals nnri wnmina
to the Communists; to accept
a cease : jute. In Laos had run
out and firmer action- was
needed. . . . . ;
Tan Reports . ' " ' '
This feeling appeared to - be
supported by reports from the
Soviet News Agency Tass.' In
a dispatch from Xleng Khou
ang in North Central Laos,
Tass said hones fnr nn 4df1v
cease fire "have been dash-'
ed." r - --. 1 - -It
blamed the Laotian
ernment and U.S. "n..
tions." ;
The Cnmmnnlof Pnthof Ton-
ignored effort hv th
Laotian governtaent to '".ar
range a 'cease fire.1 Instead it
ffav& the Dro-WPstorn rfnifOrn.
ment 48 hours to go to rebel
headquarters at Xleng Khou-
ang to hear the red peace
demands. .'
The leaders of Communist
China were reported meeting
in me East enma city of
Hanachow. Observpra in Tn.
kyo said they might be laying
a oasis lor direct intervention.
Pelping has opposed a cease
fire as long as the Pathet I nn
were winning. v ,
snsion Poilpontd
The mornlne spaclnn nt thm
International Control commis
sion for Laos was postponed
temporarily wnen an "Import
ant messaee" wai rarelvcH h
the Canadian delegation from
Its government. The nature ot
the message was not revealed.
Washineton sources a n I rl
that if a decision is made that
military action is necessary,
several days would elapse be
fore forces would be commit
ted. They said unilateral
American Intervention- has
heen rtllorl nut. Armrnvnl fli-of
would have to be won from
the Southeast Asian Treaty
organization (SEATO) allies,
they said. There was some
speculation the allies might
Seek United Nations action.
Queen Elizabeth II
Bears Gift of Rain
; Cagllarl, Sardinia fOPB -Queen
Elizabeth II brought a
British rain, to this drought
parched Mediterranean island '
Saturday and the Inhabitant
loved her for it.
" As the queen and Prince
Philip flew in to start an 11-
day Italian tour, the sky open
ed 'iip ' with the first rain in
three months. By the time
they drove to. this port city it
was pouring.
But the , downpour ceased
for a few minutes at the air
port and a spectacular rain
bow appeared In the skies. '
"Oh Bella - Bellisslma',
shrieked the dark-eyed Sar
dinian girls as'-the smiling
queen and her husband rode
by. Weather-beaten shepherds
and peasants waved in greeting.-
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