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56th Year Price 10 Cents Recommended Medrord'g Street Tree pre. (run hat progreued ateadlly Inre lu iUrt four yeari ago. with Between i,ooa and l.ioo w belni planted alone city itreeti. Read about thli program and the people that make It work on pace f A of today'i Mali Tribune. To report Improper or non delivery of the Mail Tribune In Medford and Aahland, phone SP 2-8141; Montague and Yreka phone OLobe 3171 before 6:45 p.m. dally and 1030 ajn. It "regular delivery arrlvee horUy after you call. P'"" notify office, thua eUmlnatim apecial meaienger aervlce. 1RIBUNE United Praia international rull Leased Wire United Preti International Full Leaied Win 56 Pages Section A MEDFORD, bREGON, SUNDAY. MAY 14, 1961 No. 45 CABdCER-'KILL T ft . vmr3 mm MEWORDmm t'T ; Hp;,: .. .-i .. . ... . ... ...... . - ,- ft ? 7 V4 v i a i pi - -, ; , , v'V--fyf . v.f.- t& J . .... X f xv "V- mfr ' ft Lek FALLING HOTEL A ..surprised twist was crashed at .the foot of his crane. People taken by a hotel Saturday in urban renewal watching the incident thought, the crane area near Portland as A -bulldozer tugged "at, operator was under the building and had to a cable to bring it down.. Arrow points to ' wait for dust; the1 crane operator leaping from the cab to . safe. run for his life seconds before John sori Says U.S. Would Go It Alone Manila-fllPI-Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson told Phil ippine President Carlos P. Garcia last night the United States is prepared to go it alone if necessary to halt further communist expansion in Southeast Asia. Johnson made the statement in an exchange of toasts at a state dinner in his honor wind ing up a busy day. during which he repeatedly reassured nervous Filipinos of the Unit ed States determination to help its allies resist the red menace. The, vice president began showing signs of fatigue from the hectic pace he has been setting on his tour of the Far East.He remarked last night that he had only 30 minutes sleep Friday night and 90 min utes the night before. Meeting Again Johnson was meeting again at breakfast with Garcia. They were expected to take up the touchy issue of American mili tary bases in the Philippines. In exchanging toasts, John son said the United States "will continue to honor our obligations, and if so asked, proceed unilaterally or with our allies to maintain the free world position in Asia." Garcia said Asians "deeply appreciate the reasurrances" of the Kennedy administration that the United States ''shall maintain unaltered and in alterable her stand that Asia shall ever be the land of free dom, progress and the pur suit of peace." Filininos were amazed al Johnson's energy and drive and admitted they were heart ened by his declarations of support. Will to Survive He said he had found a will to survive in South Viet Nam and in the Philippines and pledged: "The United WEATHER FORECAST: riondy thlt morn ing. Partly cloudv thli after noon, tonight and Monday. Hlfh todav CS. Low tonight 38. High Monday 71. Temp. Iligheit Veiterday J preelp. To I pm. Veiterday tr. Our Skies Tonight linft today - J:?S p.m. Sunrise tomorrow 4:S0 a.m. Mnnnset today T:10 p.m. Flrl Quarter May i! PftOMINKNT STARS The Twlni, high in wett at itiniet, will aet 11:11 pm. High ahove the Twlnt In the northeast It the eonitellallon. Una Major, whole brighter tarf form the Bit Dipper. the building States will stand together with you, and with any free nation which will not surrender." . Johnson made the vow in a speech at the University of the Philippines before making a similar address to the Phil ippine congress.. . . The Philippine government has made no secret of its ap prehension over the advance of communism in Southeast Asia and the failure of SEATO to take firm action against the Reds in Laos. The vice president flew ere from South Viet Nam, his first stop on his two-week, 28,500-mile goodwill mission to six Asian nations. Boardman Still Wanted by Boeing Portland - (UPD - The fact that the Boeing Company of Seattle will not bid ort a Sat urn rocket phase "will not af fect Boeing's requirement" for the Boardman Industrial Park. But it "could have some affect on the timing" at Boardman as far as the June 1 construction start is con cerned. , That was the word Satur day from Samuel H. Malli coat, director of the Oregon Department of Planning and Development. Mallicoat said he talked with Boeing officials yester day morning and "my impres sion is that the decision not to bid on a particular phase of the Saturn program does not relax Boeing's desire to acquire Boardman." Earlier indication was that Boeing hoped to begin test type operations at Boardman about June, w(,th this part of the program involving a B00 man payroll. The state's orig inal schedule was for Boeing td start construction July 1. In Salem, Gov. Mark Hat field said Boeing's occupancy of Boardman will probably be before July 1. Hatfield dis closed that agreements have been "virtually completed" for acquisition of adjacent lands to permit occupancy of the site by both Boeing and the Navy. PAPER EXPANDS Portland - WW - The Daily Journal of Commerce newspa per has announced plans to build a new $300,000 plant in Portland. 4" V. t to clear , to discover he was (UPI Telephoto) Scholarship Fete Slated Tomorrow ' More than 150 persons are expected to attend the first annual Scholarship banquet honoring high school students set for 6:30 p.m. Monday at the Rogue Valley Country club. To' be honored are three students from St. Mary's High school and 26 members of the Academic Honors group at Medford Senior High school. The graduating seniors repre sent the top academic students in their classes. The banquet is being ar ranged by a committee made up of representatives of the majority of the service clubs and organizations Hfc Medford. The Rev. Carl Ml of St. Mary's and William Ruck of Medford High are school liai sons for the affair. Dr. John R. Richards, chan cellor of the state system of higher education and a UNESCO official, is slated to be guest speaker. State repre sentative John Dellenback will represent the governor and Robert Duncan will speak for the House of Representa tives. During the program The Shadows, a student musi cal group, will perform. Local civic organizations are sponsoring the dinner in order to recognize those stu dents who have excelled aca demically in high school. Each senior will be introduced at the dinner. Tickets will be available at the door. Thad W. Thad W. Hatten, 401 Park St., Medford, Friday after noon was unanimously ap pointed new Jackson county assessor. Hatten, who has worked in the assessor's office here for nine years, will be sworn in by the County Clerk Marvin Madden Monday. His term will expire in January, 1962. The county court waited until late Friday afternoon to go into a closed door confer ence, to make the appoint ment. County Commissioner Chester Wendt nominated Hatten. The nomination was seconded by County Com missioner Edwin Taylor and County Judge Earl Miller turned over his slip of paper showing he had agreed with the other two court members. "I believe your experience and qualifications make you the best person for the Job," Laos Peace Talks Still Deadlocked Geneva (UPD The Western foreign ministers called on Soviet Foreign Minister Gro myko in relays Saturday but failed to break the deadlock on start of the Geneva confer ence. They went into a second crisis session last night in hopes of saving the meeting. Secretary of State Dean Rusk visited the Russian for an hour yesterday morning in his first direct meeting with the Soviets but failed to budge him from his demand that the Communist Pathet Lao rebels be seated as equals at the conference on Laos. He reported "no progress." French Foreign Secretary Lord Home called on Gro myko last night and as he came away reported that Gro myko was holding fast. He had talked with Gromyko twice Friday without success and start of the meeting was postponed indefinetly. Plan Strategy Rusk, Couve De Murville and Lord Home met together to plan strategy against Gro myko. They met again last night for the second time of the day to try to decide what to do next in hopes the meet ing would start Monday or Tuesday. Informed sources said they agreed Home would draft a list of alternatives to meet the Soviet insistence of seat ing the Pathet Lao alongside the neutralist group of Prince Souvanna Phouma and the U. S.-backed Royal Laotian group. The sources said Lord Home probably would seek a Sunday meeting with Grot rhvko to seek a compromise. Rusk ended his day with a pre-midnight "fence-mending" call on Canadian External Af fairs Minister Howard Green who was said to be slightly "out of line" with the Big Three regarding conference procedure on Laotian repre sentation at the talks. Charge Stalling Russia was making tne most of the situation with a series of broadcasts and edi torials accusing the United States of stalling and charging Rusk with trying to "sabo tage" the conference, harsh words which boded ill for the Geneva meeting. Another complication arose when the Vanguard of a dele gation from the Royal Lao- Union Strikes GP Plywood Plant Grants Pass OJPD The ply wood plant of the Bate Lum ber company, eight miles northwest of here was closed Friday afternoon when some 240 workers walked out in a dispute over the seniority clause of a contract which ex pired April 1. Fred Lynch, business agent of local 3009 of the Lumber and Sawmill .Workers union, said the men walked out at 3 p.m. between shifts. Pickets were stationed around the clock. Lynch said the dispute is over management's interpre tation of the clause. ' It was the first strike called by the local since 1954 when an industry wide dispute over wages closed down many Ore gon lumber plants. Hatten New County County Judge Miller told Hat ten when he was notified of the appointment. The new assessor replaces Ray Schumacher who died last month while in office. Mrs. Elva Jennings, chief deputy In the office, has been serving as temporary assess or. Most of Hattert's previous experience has been in ac counting, he said. He worked in the automotive business and In the rural electrifica tion administration. He has had some experience in title work in Akron, Ohio. Hatten operated his own accounting office in Klamath Falls for two years. Hatten also was deputy county treas urer in Iowa for four years. He has been head of the per sonal property division of the assessor's office for five years. tian government arrived and announced it would not attend the Geneva conference until a cease-fire is verified in its' homeland. That situation is . expected to be eased when official word arrives from Vientiane that the three warring factions in Laos signed a formal cease fire yesterday in the Commu nist held village of Namone to supercede the shaky truce in effect since May 3. JOHN R. RICHARDS , May Leave Oregon : California Wants Oregon Official Sacramento, Calif; - (UPD - Chancellor John R, Richards of the Oregon State System of Higher Education may take a similar post with the Califor nia education system, sources said here Saturday. Richards -was unavailabl for comment. . - i D. R. Larson, an assistant to Hichards, indicated that Rich ards may become head of the Co-ordinating Council of Cali fornia System of Higher Edu cation. Larson would not con firm an appointment, how ever. . Sources in Sacramento said the coordinating council had probably made a choice, but would not make it public un til the middle of next week. Congo Leader Will Convene Parliament Coquilhatville, Congo -OJPD President Joseph Kasavubu announced Saturday the Con golese Parliament will be re convened when the current conference of political lead ers here ends. It would be the first meet ing of parliament in more than eight months but wheth er the leaders of such secess ionist provinces as Katanga, Oriental and Kivu Province deputies would head the ap peal and Kasavubu's guaran tee of safe conduct was prob lematical. Katanga President Moise Tshombe has been jailed by the Kasavubu regime to stand trial on charges of high trea son and the murder of former Premier Patrice Lumumba. Oriental Province leader An toine Gizenga is cool to any thing Kasavubu suggests. The same goes for the leaders of the various tribal factions in Klvu. ' "There will be no change In personnel or policy for the time being," the new assessor said. "I will do jny best to carry on to the best Interests of county taxpayers." Before making the appoint ment the county judge re marked that he thought two well-qualified men had been overlooked in the Democratic party recommendations made for the assessor's position . . . Hatten and Ray Barker, head of the commercial division In the assessor's office. However, Judge Miller noted that Barker had been in the office only tor one year. According to state law, the appointee had to be a Demo crat since Schumacher was a Democrat. ' Earlier the Jackson County Democratic Central commit tee had submitted three IT i ' Warring Factions Sign Cease-Fire Treaty in Laos Royal Government Makes Concessions Namone, Laos - (UPD - The three warring factions of Laos met in a dirt floored school house far behind Communist lines Saturday and signed a formal cease-fire agreement. The meeting was so friendly there was laughing and joking on all sides. Representatives of the pro western government of Prince Boun Oum, the neutralists of Prince Souvanna Phouma and the Communist Pathet Lao also agreed to meet today and try to name a joint delegation to the Geneva conference. An agreement might make it possible for the Geneva talks to begin. They have been delayed by Soviet Insist ence on seating the Pathet Lao on an equal footing with the other Laotians although the west contends the Pathet Lao is a rebel armed unit and not a political group. Yesterday's meeting in this thatched village 60 miles north of Vientiane represent ed a series of major conces sions to the leftists by the roy al, government since an in formal and shaky truce went into effect May 3. The first was the decision to go ahead with joint politi cal and military talks at the same time, a demand put forth repeatedly by the Com munists. The second was to travel, via helicopter, to Namone deep in Pathet Lao territory. The government had held out earlier tor the village of Hln Heup In no man's land. The third was to negotiate with the Pathet Lao although the Soviet - backed guerrillas have not even claimed to have a formal government. The agreement to hold mili tary and political talks was Announced by gover n m e n t Gen. , Sing Rattanasamay and was greeted with clapping by representatives of the two rebel factions. ' Both military and political figures took part in yester day's talks. Correspondents got the impression the Sou vanna delegate, Pheng Phong Savan, former national assem bly president, gave the im pression he was dealing with small quarrel among chil dren.' But all were jovial. " The Saturday meeting was the first formal face-to-face political contact between the rival factions since Prince Souvanna fled to Cambodia last December to avoid being overthrown by pro -western military forces. Boun Oum re placed him as premier. Iranian Government Arrests Generals Tehran, Iran (UPD Iran's new government Saturday ar rested five top-ranking gen erals - including two former cabinet ministers - on charg es of corruption, embezzle ment, misappropriation of funds and abuse of power, authoritative sources said. The move appeared to be a dramatic first step in Pre mier . Dr. All Aminl's cam paign to wipe out alleged high-level corruption that was one of the factors leading to the fall of the previous sov- ernmcnt of Sharif Emami last I week. Assessor recommendations for the posi tion after the county court requested two. Their recom mendations according to pref erence were Central Commit tee Chairman Harper Ed wards, Alt Wcrnmark, party worker, and Ralph James, ex county commissioner. Observers have noted that the county court, In recent years, has consistently by passed recommendations for appointments made by party organizations. Present County Treasurer Karl Janouch was first ap pointed to that position when the Democratic Central com m 1 1 1 e e had recommended Andy Hauver and Ralph James for that position. Earlier this year 'Lyndel Newbry had been splinted state senator when the Re publican Central committee had recommended Mrs. Steph erG. (Eve) Nyt for the Job. ' ACTOR GARY COOPER Movie Hero Dies In Sleep Two Children Found Murdered I dentity Unknown -Redmond (UPD-Authorltles Saturday were trying to learn tha identities of two children who were brutally murdered and apparently thrown over a cliff into a rocky 300-foot gorge near here late Thurs day or early Friday. . The nude arid battered bodies of the victims, a boy Hollywood Blaze Burns 24 Homes Hollywood - (UPD - A 1,200- acre fire in the Hollywood hills that burned 24 luxury homes was under control last night with only standby crews remaining on duty to guard against a possible . flareup. The last hot spots in the fire were taken care of by two U.S.' forest service aerial tankers that went Into action with water borate bombs. One of the homes that burn ed down in the massive wind- fed fire last night belonged to author-philosopher Aldous Huxley. Actress Spring By Ington's canyon home came within four houses of going up in flames that were visible throughout the Los Angeles area last night. Some of the homes many in the $30,000-$100,000 class were only damaged by the blaze that was driven over the brush and eucalyptus cov ered hills near famed Griffith park by 40 mile an hour winds. Others including a five- story stone structure known here as simply "the castle" had nothing left standing but the foundations. Huxley managed to escape the fast-moving fire with a manuscript for his latest book "Island." He went to the home of friends where he said: "Thanks to a bright, alert boy who maneuvered the car out of the burning garage, we still have a car and the clothes my wife and I are wearing." S. Viet Nam To Host 100 U.S. Guerrillas Washlngton-(UPD-The United States plans to send a team of 100 crack guerrilla fighters to South Viet Nam to train Viet namese soldiers, it was learn ed Saturday. Reliable sources ' reported he offer, approved by Presi dent Kennedy, had been made to South Viet Nam President Ngo Dinh Diem by Vice Presi dent Lyndon B. Johnson, who currently Is touring southeast Asia. The troops drawn from the commando-type Rangers, will act merely as instructors and will not engage In actual bat tle. The initial 100, however, will later be Increased, it was reported. , ' I ! ' I ' J t iiiideerjWlw - in Oregon; about six and a girl aboutl V four, were found Friday bylHUU and Bel-Air, unmarked tnree forest, service workers in the' chasm at a point be - tween a highway bridge, and State police at nearby Bend said a ; preliminary investiga tion indicates the two vie and possibly , strangled and then thrown into the gorge).,. Last week during a brief near Highway 97 ' 10 miles (period ot consciousness Coop north of here. ' ' " er said: "It Is God's will, and Murder Casea.:" " ' ' : ' r m not afraid of the future." "This is definitely two cases of murder," Jefferson County Coroner Ronald Toms said, .''.-' Authorities said an autopsy Indicated the victims had been dead from 24 to 36 hours before their bodies were .dis covered. Dr. George McGreary,! a pathologist from Bend, who conducted the autopsy early yesterday, said- "the ' fall would have killed them If they had not been killed be fore." No clothing was found in the area where the bodies were discovered. Removed by Crane The bodies were lifted out by crane about four hours after being discovered after men worked their way down the north wall of the gorge to the bodies. State police issued an all- points bulletin throughout the state as authorities at tempt to learn the identities of the two children. Reports of the discovery spread through the Central Oregon area but there were no reports of missing children. "Gentlemen. This Here Town Is Due For Some Changes" . ' End Comes While Wife, Daughter Standing Nearby Doctor Says Actor Had Will To Live Hollywood (UPD - Gary Cooper died peacefully in his sleep Saturday after a four month battle with cancer. He was 60 years old. The tall,' soft-spoken hero of a hundred motion pictures was pronounced dead at 12:27 p. m. PDT by Dr. Rex Ken namer at the actor's Holmby Hills mansion. At his side when the end came were Cooper's' wife, Ver onica, and daughter, Maria, 24, in addition to his priest, Msgr. Daniel Sullivan, who administered the last rites of the Catholic church. Even as death approached Cooper maintained the strong, silent steadfastness which, characterized the man off screen and on. "He had a great will to live," Dr. Kennamer said, "or he might not have survived this long." Known of Death Cqoper had known he was dying for several months. - "He died peacefully in his sleep," Dr. Kennamer said. , A score of newsmen waited outside the Cooper home when ' the announcement of his death was made. At the rear of the house motorcycle policemen were ' stationed . to escort bis remains to m funeral parlor. It was brloht. sunny dav in the -fashionable community which ll" between Beverly I by curiosity seekers who have 1 marred the deaths of other film greats. ... . . During the past week tha actor was unconscious much of the time and fed intraven - 1 ously. Visitors were lorbid- oad'a Will .' Twelve hours before hours before the end came Dr. Kennamer told United Press , International, "It Is just a matter of hours now.'' There is no hope."' In the past two weeks Mrs. Cooper or the couple's daugh ter remained at his bedside, . to make sure one of them was there when he awakened from his drugged sleep.: One ot his last visitors said, "Coon was simply a wasted . frame at the end, except for his face. He never was a heavy man, and he lost weight .steadily during the last montn. "Everything was gone for him. His stomach - gone. The cancer was eating all through his body." ' Shockingly Revealed News of the star's illness was shockingly revealed to the world last April 17 for lowing the nation-wide tele cast of the Academy Awards. Cooper's close friend, Jimmy Stewart, - accepted a special Oscar for the actor, and in an emotional speech said, "We're very, very proud of you. Coop. All of us are tremen dously proud." -.'...'' ft, r .-raw 1
