Trotter Fsims Riot at Yonkers Race Trac
Noon Edition
57th Year Price 10 Cents
Cries of 'Fix'
Start as Odds on
Longshot Dropped
Damage Figured
At $100,000
Yonkers. N.Y. - HTP - Near
ly 1,000 trotting track fans
yelling "fix" rioted at Yon
kers Raceway Tuesday night,
forcing cancellation of the last
The Beauties of Scenic Oregon
Medford
Tribune
(Oregon State Highway Commission Photoi
18 Pages Two Sections
MEDFORD, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, MAY 30, 1962
No. 60
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Jagged bluffs are
Hatfield Names
Paul Kliever as
Adjutant General
Salem-IUTO-Brig. Gen. Paul
L. Kliever, Salem, Tuesday
was appointed Oregon Adju
tant General by Gov. Mark
Hatfield to succeed Gen. .Al
fred E. Hintz who Mled last
week of a heart seizure. a
Kliever, 52 and a native of
Aberdeen, Idaho, has been
Oregon's assistant adjutant
general since 1959. He takes
over immediately. '
Kliever began his military
career by enlisting as a priv
ate in the 162nd Infantry in
Dallas, Ore., in 1930. He was
promoted from colonel to
brigadier general last year.
The governor's office said it
was not certain about whether
Kliever would take over com
mand of the 41st infantry di
vision. The 41st is made up
of National Guard units from
both Oregon and Washington,
and the command rotates be
tween the two states.
When Hintz died he was the
41st commander. The acting
commander now is Brig. Gen.
Ralph Phelps, Spokane, Wash.
Kliever's elevation creates
a vacancy for assistant Ore
gon adjutant general. Kliever
said he has this appointment
under advisement.
Stud Driver Said
Taken in Medford
A '. stud driver valued ' at
more than $100 was reported
stolen Tuesday afternoon from
1 King St., Medford police re
ported. The driver, used to fasten
boards to concrete, uses load
ed cartridges, which could be
dangerous if used improperly,
police said. Also taken were
150 rounds of .22, .32 and .38
caliber charges and fasteners.
Police said that since the
charges contain a high amount
of black powder, they could
be dangerous if used in a fire
arm taking that caliber cart
ridge. 1963 Legislature To
Seek 70 MPH Limit
Salem - OTP - A speed limit
of 70 miles an hour in Oregon
will be an aim in the 1963
Legislature. Senate Minority
Leader Anthony Yturri (R-On-tario)
said Tuesday.
newsoDbriefs
rriMS from mound thi oioii
RUSK CONFERS ON BERLIN PROBLEM
Wahington-in-Stcr!ary of Stale Dean Ruik and So
viet Ambassador Analoly F. Dobrynin today hald wide
ranging ditcutiion ef In Berlin probltm which disclosed
no "givt" In tht petition of tiihtr tidt.
PARIS POLICE CAPTURE TERRORIST
Paris-IPI-Police today loughl gun battle and captured
terrorist alleged to have helped meilermind the aiiaitina-
lion attempt on President Charles de Gaulle last Sept. 8.
LONDON TRADERS HOPE FOR RECOVERY
London-lPt-Tradtn on London'! stock exchange, reeling
from their wortt rfay lince the war, hoped tocifjr the partial
recsvery on Wall Slietl would spur a limilar revival here,
viewed from a new section of
Laotian Rebels
Force Royalists To
Leave Border Town
Vientiane, Laos - HOT - Pro
Communist rebels have
launched a new offensive on
Ban Houei Sai, forcing the
Royal' government garrison
and its U.S. advisees to evacu
ate the strategic town on the
Thai border, a ,U.S. military
spokesman said -today,
The spokesman said the
rebels hit the. town this morn
ing with a heavy artillery bar
rage. He said most of the
government troops had fled
across the Mekong river into
Thailand.
Advisers Found Unharmed
The report of the bombard
ment followed an announce
ment that two U.S. military
advisers missing since Sunday
had been found unharmed
near Ban Houei Sai in north
western Laos, and flown to
safety in a helicopter. Pre
sumably they evacuated with
the others.
The U.S. spokesman said
most of the 800-man Royal
garrison at Ban Houei Sai had
Freeway Opening
Ceremonies Set
Cere monies to officially
open Interstate Highway 5
from Grants Pass to Rogue
River will start at 11 a.m. Fri
day. Gov. Mark Hatfield, high
way department officials and
civic leaders from Grants
Pass and Rogue River will
leave a point 1V4 miles east
of Grants Pass at 11 a.m. and
drive to Rogue River.
Ceremonies are scheduled
at the Rogue River inter
change at 11:30 a.m. Mayor
Larry Shcchan of Rogue Riv
er will present Governor Hat
field with a key to the city,
and Richard Niquette, cham
ber of commerce president,
will give him an honorary
membership in the chamber.
Glenn Jackson of Medford.
chairman of the state high
way commission, will be mas
ter of ceremonies.
Following the Rogue River
ceremonies, the party will
travel back to Grants Pass
for a no-host luncheon at the
Riverside restaurant.
Highway 101 along the southern Oregon coast.
fled to Thailand by this morn
ing. Some U.S. military ad
visers and Laotian army offi
cers who stayed behind fi
nally were forced to with
draw in the face of the rebel
artillery bombard m e n t, he
Said. . '
11 was not immediately
known whether the town it
self had been occupied by the
attacking rebels, the spokes
man said.
This was the second time
this month that a pro-Communist
drive , against Ban
Houei Sai has routed govern
ment defender across the river
into Thailand where Ameri
can combat troops have been
deployed.
A U.S. spokesman said the
two missing American . in
structors were picked up by
helicopter about five miles
from Ban Houei Sai and
flown to friendly hands.
The Americans were iden
tified as Sfc. Virgil Murphy
of Van Buren, Ind., and Sgt.
Merle Loobey of Seattle,
Wash.
The men were examined at
the Tom Dooley hospital and
found to be in good condition,
the spokesman said. They re
turned with their weapons
and full gear.
Huss Talk Halted at
Monmouth Campus
Monmouth-IUPn - A talk by
Walter Huss, director of the
anti-communist Freedom Cen
ter in Portland, was halted
here Tuesday night when
I Huss criticized Oregon Col
lege of Education administra
tor Ellis Stebbins.
Huss attacked Stebbins for
I permitting communist party
I leader Gus Hall to speak on
the campus last winter.
Huss was speaking to a
crowd of about 125 students
at OCE. The talk was inter
rupted by Leland Hess, an
OCE social science instructor
who was acting as moderator
of a question and answer ses
sion. Hess stopped the talk and
said, "I do not wish to have
this platform used to criticize
an administrator who is not
here to defend himself."
Applause greeted Hess's
statement.
Huss charged that Stebbins
and others were representa
tives of a "degenerating
American society" that has re
jected the concept of God.
Secret Satellite
Fired at Vondenberg
Vandcnberg AFB. Calif.-ilW
A secret satellite, believed
to be of the Discoverer se
ries, was launched Tuesday
from this Pacific missile
I range base but the Air Force
declined to confirm whether
it had attained orbit.
Past Discover satellites
i have carried ;ghly sophisti-
I cated instrument packages for
s.,pling reflation end gath-
eying other experimental data
for man-in-pnce programs
Talk of Possible
Tax Reduction
Seen Premature
Washington (UPI Talk of
a possible tax cut to stimulate
the economy appeared pre
mature today even though
some of the talk came from
high administration officials.
The Kennedy administra
tion was keeping a close
watch on the economy in the
wake of the wild gyrations of
the stock market during the
last few days.
Politicians had little doubt
that President Kennedy would
call for a quick cut in income
taxes, if his economic ad
visers should conclude that
the stock market situation
heralds the beginning of a
recession. A significant boost
in unemployment would
threaten to imperil Demo
cratic prospects in next No
vember's congressional elec
tions. Some Recovery Made
But Kennedy's top economic
advisers are insisting that the
economy is in good shape.
This view was strongly es
poused Tuesday by Chairman
Walter Heller of the Presi
dent's Council of Economic
Advisers in a talk to a private
gathering of congress i o n a I
Democrats.
"The ironic thing" about
the stock market s tumble
Heller told them, is that it
occurred "when all the indi
cators on the economic front
were moving up . . . not a
little bit but rtioving up rap
idly." Some government econo
mists said that stock prices
(had' soared too high in rela-
iiun io earnings ana naa now
been brought down to more
realistic levels. The market
Tuesday recovered part of
Monday s sharp losses.
Commerce Secretary Luth
er Hodges started the tax
cutting talk at a news con
ference Tuesday morning
when the market was still
going down.
Accident Victims
Remain Critical
Two women who were in
jured in automobile accidents
in Jackson county earlier this
month are still reported on
the critical list, according to
hospital officials.
In critical condition at
Rogue Valley hospital is Mrs.
Aubrey McNicki, 40, of
Orange St., Medford. She was
a passenger in an automobile
May 26 which was involved
in an accident near Dodge
bridge.
Still in critical condition at
I Sacred Heart hopsital since
a May 13 accident is Mrs.
Sharolyn Lee Bennett. 20. T
route 1. box 396. Gold Hill.
She suffered head injuries in
a two-car accident in which
three persons were killed.
McCOPeMACK HONORED
Washington-IW-The Wash
ington Intertaith Committee
selected speaker John W. Mc
Cormack ID-Mass.) Tuesday
for its annual award as the
national personality who con
tributed most to Interfaith
und'Qtanding.
race and causing an estimated
$100,000 damage.
The management of the
raceway, one of the most
modern and beautiful in the
country, refunded all bets on
the ninth race which was
called shortly before midnight
when hundreds of fans in
vaded the track. Betters got
back about $265,000.
The disturbance began
when a rush of betting money
dropped the odds on a long
shot horse, Miss Chief Mo
ken from 10 to 1 to 5 to 2
shortly before the starting
bell for the eighth race. Miss
Chief Moken hadn't won
race since last November.
Volume Increase!
Booing started as the tote
board showed the diminishing
odds. It rose in volume as the
race began with Miss Chief
Moken in the lead. There was
a roar of anger as the longshot
finished two and one half
lengths in the lead, paying
$7.30.
At intermission hundreds of
fans lined the track fence
shouting disapproval. One
man, identified as James
Green, New York, burst
through the fence beckoning
the other men to follow. He
was hit by the mobile starting
gate which was rolling at 35
miles an hour. The horses got
off to a jumbled start and
were ordered off the track at
the quarter post.
Beer Cans Toned
The crowd of 31,054 in the
stands rained beer cans onto
the track, striking the depart
ing horses. Hundreds more
angry fans streamed onto the
track and set dozens of small
bundles of programs and
other papers afire.
They ran 1 riot, burning
many tribunal seats and at
tempting to set the ultra
modern structure itself afire.
Others tore down concessions
stands and burned them,
wrecking bars, scattered food
and china and pulled down
light stanchions. Bricks were
heaved through windows,
fences demolished and tote
boards smashed.
Riot Alarm Sounded
The track's 66 private de
tectives were unable to re
store order and sent out a
riot alarm to city, state and
parkway police and to fire
and police departments in
neighbor ing communities.
More than 100 authorities re
sponded and quelled the riot.
Police arrested three per
sons, including Green, for in
citing a riot and another man
for felonious assault on a po
liceman. Green was sent to a
hospital where his condition
was listed as fair.
HEARINGS SCHEDULED
Salem - IUPII - Hearings will
be held June 7-8 In Enter
prise, La Grande and Baker
by the Legislative Interim
Agriculture Committee.
Pageant
Finalist
Linda Ray
Representing Phoenix in
the Miss Rogue Valley Pag
eant is Lindn Ray, 'daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Lester Ray.
Phoenix. She has brown hair
and green eyes is 5 feet 5
inches tall and weighs 121
pounds. She will present a
dramatic reading during the
talent section of the pageant
which will be held June 2 at
the Oregon Shakespearean
Festival theater in Ashland.
Her chief hobby is collecting
poetry and her favorite sport
is hiking. She plans to attend
Southern Oregon college this
fall. O
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PAVING STARTED Paving of the section of Interstate
5 freeway from Seven Oaks to Jackson st. in Medford got
under way this week as crews, operating a "train" of
huge paving machines, laid 1,700 feel of the, new roadway.
When going full swing, they will put down about three
quarters of a mile a day. The picture above, taken from
the Seven Oaks overpass looking toward Medford, shows
Americans Honor
War Dead; Autos
Clog Highways
By United Press International
Americans honored their
war dead today and took to
the highways to enjoy the first
spring holiday at parks,
beaches and mountains.
For some, the Memorial
Day holiday was their last.
During the early hours of
the holiday, highways leading
away from major cities were
clogged with the mass exodus
to the country.
In Maryland, five persons
were killed outright when
their car missed a curve along
Maryland 416 at Sunderland
and crashed Into a tree.
California reported
dead, Ohio four and
eight
New
three
York and Nebraska
each.
120 Deaths Predicted
The National Safety Coun
cil said that holiday traffic
could claim 120 lives during
the 30 hours between 6 p.m.
local time Tuesday night and
midnight tonight.
At 9:30 a.m. (PST) a United
Press International count
showed that 42 persons had
been killed In traffic acci
dents since the holiday began.
The breakdown: traffic 42,
drownings 5 and miscellane
ous 3, for a total of 30.
Four Indianapolis
Racers Pile Up
Indianapolis, Ind. - IUPII - A
spectacular four-car sinashup
coming out of the northwest
turn into the home straight
away today thrilled a vast
crowd of nearly 250,000 early
in the 500-mile auto race.
All four drivers in the
crash. Jack Turner, Chuck
Rodec, Bob Christie and Al
len Crowe, escaped without
scrioup injury.
The crash began when Tur
ner's car went astray coming
out of the turn, banging into
the inside wall and almost
flipping over. Rodec. Christie
and Crowe all smacked into
the wreckage and three of the
cars almost blocked the track.
Bulletin
Indianapolii, Ind. - ITI -Rodger
Ward, a curly-hair-td
daredevil, led the last 30
laps at record ipeed today
to win 'he 500-mile auto
rece for the second time
with a record ipeed of more
than 140 miles an hour.
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Wall Street Uses
Holiday To Counsel
Befuddled Patrons
New York -(UPlt- Wall Street
was able to assume a holiday
mood today and used the Me
morial Day breather to clean
up from the most frenetic
trading in 33 years.
Investors Tuesday recover
ed more than $13.5 billion of
the paper values lost on Mon
day and checked a downward
trend of six days in epectacU'
lar fashion.
Volume on the New York
Stock Exchange, the nation's
largest securities trading mart,
was 14.750,000 shares.
Brokers were happy to give
up leisure time today to staff
their offices and provide coun
sel for befuddled patrons. .
The Dow Jones average of
30 industrial stocks ended at
603.96, up 27.03 points on the
day, a recovery of about 70
per cent of the 34.05 point
drop Monday. Standard &
Poor s 500 stock index was
58.08, up 2.58.
But it was hours after the
gong sounded to end trading
to the cheers of investors cn
the floor, before the statistics
could be assembled.
Gospel Mission to
Move Its Location
The Medford Gospel Mis
sion, 33 South Front St., is
expected to move from that
location sometime within the
next three weeks, mission of
ficials reported today.
The structure, which has
housed the mission since it
was started here In March,
1959, will be razed in June
along with several other
buildings on Front st, between
Main and Eighth sts. to make
way for a Park and Shop lot.
The final building to be torn
down will be Otto's Tavern,
39 South Front st., which will
be demolished after Nov. 3,
when the lease expires, ac
cording to Fred Robinson,
Park and Shop official.
Although mission officials
would not announce imme
diate plans at this time, it
was learned that a lease is
being negotiated on a struc
ture on North Grape st. be
tween Sixth and Main sts.
A campaign is under way
to construct a mission on
property on North Front st.
near Third st. The new struc
ture is not expected to be com
pleted until sometime in 1963
Pierce Freight
Sale Announced
Salem (UPli JoncI C. Hill,
Oregon Public Utility Com
missioner, Tuesday authorized
Valley Motor Lines of Califor
nia to take over the Oregon
operating rights of Pierce
FreigTit Lines, Portland. A
spokesman for the veteran
Pierce Lines said the firm is
going out of the trucking
business.
Valley Motor's new permit
allows service along U.S. 99
between Portland and the
California border. Hill said
fjVallry Motor is also acqulr-
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nift i itut a 1-11119' ni-ty ui oou
vchk'0nd other equipment.
A
a section of the new paving as it looked yesterday morn
ing. The northbound lane is being paved first and the
southbound lane will be paved on the return trip. The
machine in the foreground, which appears to make the
pavement lighter in color, is applying a curing compound
that keeps moisture from evaporating too quickly.
The last of the delayed
sales figures sputtered out on
the ticker tape 4 hours and 45
minutes after trading stopped.
The American Stock Ex
change . tickers were not so
far behind, but Amex trading
was highest for the year, 5,-
330.000 shares.
The day liad started with
the trend lower but shortly
after noon,, with the . tape al
ready far late, "flash" prices
showed some of the blue
chips beginning a comeback.
From then on the issues which
go into the averages mostly
made gains and held them.
Sources were agreed on
one thing: The low levels to
which stocks had been driven,
noticeably on Monday but
coming after a six-day slide.
had attracted plenty of buyers
who thought they knew a
good thing when they saw it.
Student Admits
Bicycle Thefts
A 15-year-oid junior high
school student was lodged in
tne Jackson County juvenile
detention home Tuesday after
he admitted to Medford police
that he and a friend stole sev
eral bicycles and sold them.
Expected to be questioned
today is a 13-year-old Junior
high school student.
According to a statement
given to police by the 15-year-old,
he took bicycles from
various schools, forged notes
from his parents giving him
permission to sell the bicycle
or parts and then took them
to a local shop.
Money from the sale would
be divided between the two
boys, he said.
Police said the boy also ad
mitted participating in the
theft of four hubcaps from a
car at Medford bowling lanes,
breaking out several windows
and lights at Lincoln Ele
mentary school, shooting a
neon motel sign several times,
and Implicated his friend in
the theft of six dollars and a
knife from the clothing of
boys in the locker room at
one of the Junior highs.
With the questioning, police
cleared one of five cases of
bicycle thefts reported Tuesday.
Eichmann Asks President
Of Israel To
Jerusalem, Israel-'lirj-GoV'
ernment sources said today
former Nazi SS officer Adolf
Eichmann Jias asked President
Itzhak Bc'n-Zvi to spare him
from hanging for .his part in
the wartime slaughter of six
millions Jews.
The sources apparently thus
scotched earlier reports that
Eichmann was resigned to go
ing to the gallows and would
not seek a presidential re
prieve. (In Rome, Eichmann's at
torney, Robert Scrvatius, ar
rived from Jerusalem and said
he had "presented this morn
ing request for clemency
for Eichmann to the President
it
Beekman Home
In Jacksonville
Gpens to Public
Jacksonville-About 75 per
sons attended 'ceremonies at
the official opening of the old
C. C. Beekman home in Jack
sonville this morning.
. Tli home of the early-day
Jacksonville banker will be
open each week end until
schools in the county close for
vacation, then it will be open
daily. ;
Officials of Jacksonville
and the Siskiyou Pioneer Sites
Foundation, which is sponsor
ing the home, were disap
pointed in the small initial
crowd, but hoped more people
visit the home today.
Arrival of Stage
The opening was preceded
by the arrival of George Mc-
Une s mule-drawn stage coach
carrying the four Jackson
county dairy princess con
testants, Barbara Gysin, Coal
Mine rd., Medford; Karen
Jossy, Eagle Point; Georgia
Hubbard, Eagle Point, and
Connie McDonough, Sams
Valley.
They were Introduced and
gave brief talks on their dairy
farm backgrounds and the
need for promotion of the
dairy industry.
Jack Sutton, Grants Pass,
president of the Siskiyou
Pioneer Sites Foundation,
briefly related the background
of Beekman as the first suc
cessful banker in southern
Oregon. He served as Jack
sonville agent for Wells Far
go and company from 1863 to
his death in 1913.
County Com m i s s 1 o n e r
Chester Wendt explained the
one-year temporary lease of
the home from the University
of Oregon. "It (the home) is
valuable to Jackson county
and to Jacksonville," he noted.
AMERICAN
(First game)
New York 10 16 0
Minnesota .. 1 7 3
Stafford and Howard;
Donikowskl, K r a lick (6),
Miranda (9) and Naragon.
Spare Life
of Israel." He declined further
comment).
The sources said Eichmann
signed a four-page clemency
petition Just before his trans
fer lij Ramlle prison. They
said the plea was "written in
Eichmann's oftn hand."
The 56-ycar-old German
showed neither surprise nor
distress Tuesday when Israel's
Supreme Court unanimously
rejected his appeal avilnst his
death sentence for directing
the Nazi mass murder of Jews
during World War II. The re
jection meant that only re
prieve from Ben-Zlv could
save Elchgiann's life.
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