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Roberts for Making DAR Talk Officer Demands A Court Martial Washington -H'PH-The Army claimed full legal authority Saturday for its action in dis missing Maj. Arch E. Roberts from active military duty be cause of his unauthorized speech before the Daughters of the American Revolution. Roberts has demanded a court martial. But an Army spokesman disputed his asser tion that his more than 18 years of active service pre vent his being cashiered with out his consent. The spokesman further said that Roberts' release from duty was technically an ad ministrative rather than a dis ciplinary action, and that no court martial or formal ap peal procedures apply in his case. Improper Statements Army Secretary Elvis J. Stahr Jr. late Friday dismiss ed Roberts from active duty on the grounds that he made "improper statements" and "violated traditional standards of conduct for an officer" in his April 19 appearance be fore the DAR. Roberts at one time served as an aide to for mer Maj. Gen. Edwin A. Walker. After the Army had refus ed to approve a speech he had prepared for-the occasion, Roberts appeared before the DAR on an impromptu basis. He accused Los Angeles May or Sam Yorty of having a "communist background" and also said Assistant Secretary of State G. Menncn Williams had "leftist leanings" Refused to Accept At Ft. Lee, Va-., where he has been restricted since his suspension following the speech. Roberts refused to ac cept the Army's action as fi nal. He appealed to Sen. Gor don Allolt (R-Colo.) to inter vene in his behalf. A vital question for the 47-year-old Roberts was the fact that an officer on active duty may retire on a pension equal to one-half his base pay as soon as he compeltes 20 years of service, whereas an officer in the reserve status to which he is being returned cannot get a pension until he is 60 years old. Gold Star Mother President Chosen Mrs. Hilda Thomas, Coos chapter, was installed presi dent of the Oregon depart ment, American Gold Star Mothers, in the closing ses sion of the 14th annual con vention of the group Satur day night at the Jackson House. She succeeds Mrs. Ord Castle, Toledo. Also taking office were Mrs. Mary Champ, Salem, first vice - president; Mrs. Mildred Edner, Tilla mook, second vice-president; Mrs. Helen White, Salem, re cording secretary: Mrs. Lois Hollenbeck, Honor chapter, Portland, treasurer; and Mrs. Freyda Brpse, Memory chap ter, Portland, assistant treas urer. Also installed were Mrs. Norma Dellagc, Eugene, chap lain; Mrs. Roberta Wheeler, Albany, sergeant - at - arms; Mrs. Clyde Sturgill, Medford, historian: Mrs. Mary Hamil ton, Grants Pass, custodian of records; Mrs. Martha Ball, Roseburg. flag guard; Mrs. Mary Jensen. Honor chapter, banner guard. MS(BRIEFS TEMS FROM X?V UNB olM JAPA..ESE DEMONSTRATE AGAINST TESTS Tekyo-lPI-More than 3,000 singing, chanting Japanese, led by Communists, marched through Tokyo Saturday de-1 mending an end to U.S. nuclear tests and the scrapping oi the U.S. -Japan security treaty. vnrr shows confidence Karachi. Pakistan-lPI-Early returns in Pakistan's first r) Jail After Crash "basic democracy" elections today indicated vole of eon- 88-year-old Medford man fidence lor pro-Western President Mohammed Ayub Khan. was lodged in Jackson county jail Friday night after he INDONESIAN ARMY ORDERED ON ALERT I was Involved in an auto col- Jakarta-WI-Indonesian army, nary and air lorce unite lision at Highway 99 and Bil poised along the West New Guinea front have been ordered ; ijngs Hill, on standby alert lor what could be an ell-out invasion of i James Wallis Ambler of the disputed territory, according to a PIA news agency 1 28 North Orange St., Med report Saturday. I ford, was jailed on a charge NATIONWIDE STRIKE LOOMS Buenos Aires-IPI-The possibility of I nationwide general strike before or after May Day loomed Saturday as the Peronisl-controlled 62 unions of the General Labor Conled-j eretion mapped plans for a protest against the nullification of last month's elections results. g w- . JaH 1 1 t WfhJ PARADE-What looked like "poor weather" for Medford's annual Pear Blossom parade turned out to be pleasant after all and thousands of spectators were on hand to view the event. The picture above shows part of the crowd and one of the band units that provided lively music for Extremist Group Clashes With LA Police; One Dead Los Angeles -HOT- Extrem ist black Muslims battled po lice with guns, bottles, fists and feet early Saturday out side the anti-white sect tem ple in a riot that killed one muslim and injured 11 men. About SO muslims and an equal number of police were involved by the time the riot reached a climax at 12:30 p.m. It started an hour ear lier with a seeming routine questioning of two peddlers, and concluded when police jailed nearly a score of the rioters. Involved in Episode Wounded by gunfire were one officer and six members of the black muslim cult, four of the latter reported in cri tical condition. About 10 0 muslims with brush-cropped haircuts and police were in volved in the episode, which officers said "caught us com pletely by surprise." A crowd of about 200 watched the battle. Dead was Robert Stokes, 28, Los Angeles, identified by Lt. Ronald Williamson as one of the black-suited cult ists. Police said apparently all those who engaged offi cers in the frenetic midnight battle were muslims, exclu sive of other members of the Negro community where the incident occurred. The cult advocated a sep arate "black nation" within the United States for Negroes despite p u b 1 ic opposition voiced by local and national Negro leaders to its extrem ist stand. National Following The secret muslim group. headed by a self-proclaimed i "Muhammed" its founder Elijah Poole is anti-white, anti - integration, anti-Christian. It preaches "without a struggle, there is no prog ress." Poole claims a national following of 250,000, but the best police estimates place the number at 60,000. An apparent minor inci dent, in which two patrolmen, Stanley Kensic and Frank Tomlinson. questioned two men peddling clothes from a car touched off the riot. Po lice said one peddler shouted: "We didn't do anything. You're only doing this to us because we're muslims." Police said those arrested included 15 adult Negroes, all muslims, on suspicion of assault with intent to commit murder. A 17-year-old boy al so was in juvenile custody. in xyur khan Church Float Wins Sweepstakes Prize In Blossom Parade A float depicting Alice in Wonderland sitting under a weeping pear tree won the grand sweepstakes prize for best theme portrayal in Sat urday's pear blossom festival parade in Medford. The winning float was en tered by the primary associa tion of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 2nd Ward, in Medford. Larceny Suspect Lodged in Jail John Henry Earle, 29, of Burbank, Calif., has been lodged in county jail by Med ford police, charged with lar ceny in connection with the theft of nearly $1,300 from a Medford dentist's office Wednesday. Earle was brought back to Medford from Salem Friday night by Lt. Lyle C. Perkins and Officer Milt Hanson who went up to question him. Earle had been apprehended by Salem police Thursday. According to Medford po lice, Earle answers the de scription of a man who took close to S1.300 in cash and checks from a receptionist in a Mall building dentist's of fice between 10:45 and 11:15 a.m. Wednesday. Earle is also suspected in connection with similar thefts from doctors' offices in Chico, Calif., Roseburg, Eugene and Grants Pass. High-Speed Chasei' Ends in Arrest A high speed chase by slate police early Saturday morn ing resulted in jailing Rob ert Lynn Cripe, 18, of 2682 Crater Lake highway, on reckless driving charges. State police said Cripe at tempted to outrun a patrol car while headed cast on Mc Andrews rd. It ran through a traffic light at Riverside ave. and a stop sign at Biddlc rd. At times the patrol car speed ometer hit 90 miles an hour. The Cripe car skidded some distance before crossing Cra ter Lake ave. and the rear end hit a Copco power pole. At this point, a passenger. Calvin Lee Granger, 18, of 2303 Spring St.. either fell or jumped from the car and ran away. The car continued on and turned onto Buckshot hill rd. It was finally stopped a half mile off Crater Lake ave. As the car slowed to a stop, a : second Dassencer. a 17-vcar- i old. jumped out and ran. I state police said further charges may be made against ! Cripe. I Medford Man Lodged 'of being drunk on a public highway He suffered minor injuries when his auto struck 8 car driven by Verne Alva Wig gins, 32, of 1305 Siskiyou blvd . Ashland. the parade. Sweepstakes winner was a float entered by the primary association of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, dcrland. 2nd Ward, Following the parade, be tween 1.000 and 1,200 per sons gathered at Hawthorne park for the blossom bucks auction, where some 80 items were sold to the highest bid der at prices that seemed more like those of gold rush days than of the present. Few items sold for less than $5",000 in blossom bucks. Some buyers brought large sacks of bucks. The most cost- lv merchandise sold was polaroid camera bought by Claudio Paterilini and Doug las Smith for $56,000. The auction lasted from 4 to 6:15 p. m. and an estimated $150,000 in blossom bucks was spent. Theme for this year's par ade was "Pears in Storybook Land," and the primary as sociation's float showed Alice sitting under the weeping pear tree next to a sign point ing "To Pearland." Jonah and Whale Winner of the sweepstakes award for best design was the Medford Free Methodist Church Sunday School with a float depicting Jonah and the whale, labeled as the Bible "pair." Susan Gannon won the grand sweepstakes award for best comic. In a special category for the float best depicting the value of the fruit industry to the Rogue River Valley, St. Mary's Neighborhood Girl Scouts came in first. An entry by Teddy Hansey and Terry Piche was second. In awards for organizat ional floats. Child Evangel ism Fellowship was first, Ne-wa-can-tanda was second and Mt. Pitt Avenue Church of the Nazarene Sunday school third. Awards to costumed walk ing groups went as follows: Winchester Avenue Gang, first; Brownie Troop 36, sec ond; Robin Murray group, third; Talent Girls Marching team, fourth; Cralerian Guard Baton corps, fifth; Brownie Troop 54, sixth, and Laurie Kerry Trautman and Gary and Kathy Conlcy, seventh. Raapke Girls Vehicle decoration awards went to t h e Raapke girls, first; Molly Wilson, second; Dana and Patrice Nicdermey er, thiro: David Compton and Lynn Louise Swascr, fourth: David McEachron and Stan Horton, fifth: Billy Pearson, sixth, and Billy Jones, sev enth. In Hip animal and pets cat egory. Shelley Haysc, Chris tine Haysc and Michael Bail ey were first; Pamela Sorcn son, second; Susan Kimball, third: Jeff Plankenhorn, fourth, and Keith Robbins, fifth. In the individual section Debra Tycer was first; Carol Lambrecht, second; Carol Kagy, third; Nancy and Su san Davidson, fourth; Diane Huntemann, fifth; Pamela Wiese, sixth, and Pal Taylor, seventh. The Chamber of Commerce announced that prize winners who did not pick up their checks at the park Saturday may do so at the chamber office anytime this week. Sports Bulletin Saturday Night Baseball Nationel League: Milwaukee 9. Houston 3 American Leegue: Baltimore 3, Ken. City 2 which depicted Alice in Won- Justice Brand To Be Main Speaker During Law Day Retired Chief Justice of the Oregon Supreme Court James T. Brand will be the princi pal speaker Tuesday, May 1, during Law day activities in Jackson county circuit court number 1. The activities, open to the public, will start at 9:30 a.m. Judge Brand was appointed judge of the military tribunal for major war criminals in Nurnberg, Germany in 1947. A graduate of Obcrlin col lege and Harvard Law school, Judge Brand was admitted to the Oregon bar in 1914 a"d was awarded an honorary doctor nf law degree from Willamette university in 1948. He practiced law on the coast and served as city attorney for Coos Bay prior to being appointed circuit judge in 1927 for the second judicial district. He was ap pointed to the state supreme court in 1941 and served as chief justice from 1951 to 1953. Although retired, he serves as a law professor on the staff of Stetson university, St. Petersburg, Fla. During the Law day pro gram the winner of the local high school student editorial contest will be presented with her award. The winner. Miss Mary Clare Stuart, 2650 Beall lane, Central Point, is a senior at Crater High school. Her editorial on the theme of Law day, appeared in the April 4, school news paper. The daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Stuart, she will receive $25 and a certi ficate from the Oregon State Bar association. Chairman of the activities in Medford, under the auspi ces of the Jackson county Bar association, are A. E. Pi azza and Paul Haviland. Ashland Woman Hurt When Struck by Bike Ashland Teresa Crew, 20, of Campus Trailer court, Ashland, suffered minor iin juries Saturday when she was struck by a boy on a bicycle in the Ashland plaza. Timothy Reeder, 12, of Granite St., Ashland, was on the bike. The accident oc curred at 2:45 p.m. "How Dare You Follow Me, You Criminal!" Series of High Altitude Nuclear Tests Scheduled May Be Set Off In Next Few Days Washington -WPP- A series of high altitude nuclear shots may be set off in the next few days at Johnston island, 800 miles southwest of Hono lulu. So far joint Task Force 8 has fired two atmospheric shots since the current U. S. testing series began last Wed nesday. Both blasts were trig gered near British-controlled Christmas island, 1,500 miles from Hawaii. But Johnston island, a small coral atoll, is due to become operational on Monday under plans previously announced by the Atomic Energy com mission. Shots fired there might be seen from Hawaii, a situation which has not been true with the two devices ex ploded near Christmas island. First Real Test Johnston island is going to be the site of nuclear blasts set off at extremely high alti tudes. In addition, a nuclear, tipped Polaris missile may be fired there in the first real test of this submarine-borne deterrent. In keeping with its policy of releasing a minimum amount of information about the tests, the AEC has given out no schedule of forlh.com? ing shots. But, the pace of the first two indicates that they will be frequent. Friday's shot was set off almost precisely 48 hours after the initial explo sion in the scries. President Kennedy has di rected that the tests be car ried out as rapidly as possible. They probably will be com pleted sometime in June. The U. S. tests are proceed ing on two fronts. In addition to the Pacific blasts, the Atom ic Energy commission is con tinuing with its underground scries in Nevada. Friday, it set off the 30th publicly an nounced underground shot there since last September. Medford Duo Wins Mechanics Contest Portland - lUPD - Two Med ford High school seniors, Clarence Lamp and Jim Sev cik captured first place in the Oregon Plymouth trouble shooting contest here Satur day. The youths captured the au tomobile mechanics contest in competition with eight other two-man teams. They earned the right to represent the stale at the national Plymouth trouble shooting contest at Detroit, Mich., June 26. Lamp and Scvcik remedied several pre-arranged engine malfunctions in 46 minutes and 53 seconds. SPECTATOR-Joyce Clark, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Duane ClarK, Mcaford, waves ai a pair of ciowns in tne Pear Blus- soin parade Saturday afternoon. The off-and-on sunshine SPECTATOR-Joyce Clark. ClarK, Mcaford, waves at a soin parade Saturday aftci made people squint and P trying to calculate cxposur made people squint and played havoc with photographers trying to calculate exposures. More Welfare Aid Said Offered for Less Local Jackson county is receiv - ing more services trom me county welfare department for less local money. Because of this, Jackson county may have approxi mately $46,000 for other serv ices than what Is Included in the tentative county budget, noy, under cqnsideratioa by the county budget committee. This fact became known Friday after the stale wel fare commission, in a region al meeting in Medford, ap proved the state's 1962-63 fis cal year budget for $45,904, 673. Jackson county's share is $1,454,191. Of this $758,469 is from federal funds, 487,005 from state funds, and $208, 717 to be supplied from coun ty sources. Matching Funds James Pullman, county wel fare administrator, explain ed that this reduction in costs of welfare from local sources is a trend that was started about four years ago. In 1959 60 the county had to pay $256,839 for local welfare services and this part ol the budget has gradually decreas ed with the fcdoral matching funds and slate moneys mak ing up the difference. In the tentative county budget now under considera tion by the county budget committee, some $254,658 has been slated for. the welfare department. During the Friday after noon session of the commis sion meeting, H. D. Christen sen, chairman nf the Jack son county welfare commis sion, presided during a dis cussion period. Some administrators of the Sfraub to Speak On Public Power Robert Slraub, Eugene, who Is seeking the Democratic nomination for Representa tive of the Fourth district, will speak at a no-host lunch eon on May 1 at Kim's res taurant. South Pacific hwy. His topic will be, "Public Power and Its Effect on Ore gon." A question and answer pe riod will follow the talk. Then he will speak to the reg ular meeting of the Demo cratic Central committee at 7:30 o'clock that night at the Labor Temple in Medford. Yonks in Finals of World Piano Contest Moscow -UPli- Two Ameri cans placed Saturday among the 12 finalists at the second international Tchaikovsky pi ano contest. They were Roy Vincent Bo gas of Richmond, Calif., and Susan Starr of Philadelphia. Four Americans out of the 10 who began the competition managed to reach the second round. J Money , medical aid for the aged pro- gram, established: uclooer, 1961, felt that something was wrong with the program since oniy iwo per ccm oi tne aiioiment money nad been spcnl. Dr. James H. Stewart, di rector of the division of medi cal care. of the state public welfare commission'stressed that any new program starts gradually. He believes that the number of cases will in crease. The state budget in cludes $3,000,000 for this pro gram. Dr. Ennis Keizor, North Bend, chairman, explained that in setting up this MAA program, they had no figures to find out the maximum number of persons who could use this program. All seven members of the state welfare commission1 at tended the monthly meeting. It was one of the six regional sessions held by the commis sion outside of Salem each year.- Welfare administrators from Jackson, Coos, Douglas, Curry, Josephine, Washing ton, and Klamath counties at tended the meeting. County Budget Group May Wind Up Work The Jackson county budget committee, already behind in its budget work, will meet Tuesday and Thursday in hopes of winding up the budg et studies' this week. Major budget items yet to be passed on are the county clerk's department, recrea tion, sheriff, county assessor and salaries for . all depart. mcnt heads. Friday, the budget commit tee still had taken no action on the $7,000 requested for a teacher at the juvenile de tention home. Earlier the budget committee had tenta tively disallowed the Item. In dications were Friday that committee members would make this a positive "no" Tuesday. Considerable Discussion Referring to the other ma jor budget time which receiv cd considerable discussion Fri day, County Judge Earl Mil ler said the budget committee has tentatively established a capital improvement fund of "not more than $150,000" to cover the county's share of the proposed health clinic building. Federal Hill-Burton funds would provide one-third of the estimated cost of the clin ic building, or $30,144. Dr. A. Erin Merklc, Jackson coun ty public health officer, has been instructed to get a more accurate estimate on the build, ing costs. Miller said the $150,000 tentative allocation would also cover equipment for the clinic building. However, he noted that Dr. Mcrkel Is ask ing the budget committee for approximately $61,288 for Its Talks To Be Held Only II Results Are in Prospect Time Said Not Ripe at Present Washington - (VPO - Presi dent Kennedy and British Prime Minister Harold Mac Millan agreed Saturday to consider a summit meeting with Nikita Khrushchev If there was any prospect It would produce useful results. However, U. S. and Brit ish sources said conditions for fruitful meeting-at-the-top did not appear ripe at the present. They cited the continued Berlin deadlock and Russia's flnt iwfiirnl In oriniint an af. ban Jnnhitno lhal ,L u ' ' Will continue The discussion of the pros pects of meeting the Soviet premier was one of several topics covered by MacMillan and Kennedy in day-long talks at the White House. These sessions will continue today before the British premier leaves for Canada. AppnrHino in Ampriran anrl British sources, the two allied loaders aerecd the United sla(. should press ahead wli, t8 talks with the Rus- an8 in an effort to find a basis, (or. solving the Berlin tl IBIO., . But as far as the summit was concerned, they noted that Khrushchev, -in a recent interview! had come to agree with Kennedy's view that there was no use. holding such a conference unless there was some prospect it would make progress. The President was said to still stand on his three con ditions for a summit meeting -it must show promise for success, or be necessary to avert a major crisis, or be In the "national interest." Berlin and disarmament oc cupied the morning session, which was followed by a luncheon given by the Presi dent in honor of his guest. Then in the afternoon they resumed the talks, devoting them in part to the six-na tion common market which Britain - with U. S. backing -is getting ready to join. Kennedy described the mor ning session as "very good. share . of a . proposed public health clinic building. Friday, the budget commit, tee approved $53,681 for. courthouse . expenses compar ed to $55,096 for the current year and ' $1,332.50 for six months the county coroner's office will be In operation. The new. medical examiner program under the public health office becomes effec tive when the present coro ner's term of office expires Dec. 31. , . Annual Salary 1 It also approved $8,043 or the Ashland justice of the peace court budget and grant, cd the justice of peace a $204 raise to $4,032 In annual sal -ary. Also approved was a $4. 050 budget for the Gold Hilt Justice of the peace court, in cluding a $154 raise for the justice of peace to an annual salary of $2,484. It also approved an alloca tion of $7,500 to hire a soils ' scientist to make e compre hensive soils classification . study of Rogue valley soils. ' The approval followed letters from Oregon Milk Producers, the Jackson County Stock- '. men's association, Jackson county planning commission, county assessor, county health department, all three irriga tion districts, Agricultural Conservation and Stabiliza tion office. Farm Bureau, First National Bank of Ore gon, Medford branch, and T. H. Haight, real estate oper ator. The committee also approv ed $19,089 in mental health funds for an expanded pro gram. The state will grant $19,089 If the application is approved In Salem.
