Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, July 22, 1962, Image 1

Historic Oregon Newspapers

Medford mail tribune., July 22, 1962, Image 1

Image provided by: University of Oregon Libraries; Eugene, OR

About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (July 22, 1962)

Page of 53 Next Prev Issue Next Text PDF JP2 (2.8 MB) Clip/Print Image

Return to Top

Page of 53 Next Prev Issue Next

Newspaper Page TextPrice 10 Cents Wesiher Subscribers To report Improper or non delivery ol the Mail Tribune in Medlord. phone 772-6141; Aih lanrl call at 1224 Iowa st. or ?hone 4B2-3002; Montacue and reka. phone Globe 9-3171. he fore fi:43 p.m. daily and 10 JO a m. Sunday h regular delivery arrlvea ihortly after you call please notify office, thus eliminating pecial meaaenger aervice. FORECAST: Fair and hoi lhrouch Monday. Chance of ifi ernoon ind evening thunder shors over mounUint kouth ind rat. High both dayt lot to 103. Low tonight near SO. w , Icmp. Hiphett Wstrrdiy iuo Lowest Yekterday Morn.nc 54 ., . Preclp. To 3 p.m. Yettrrd&y ft Tribune EDFOKD United Press International i't.ll Leased Wire I'r.ited Pre International Ku.1 Leased Wir Section A 56 Pages MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, JULY 22, 1962 Six Sections No. 105 57th Year M Russia Announces1 Resumption ol j Atmospheric Tests United States Blamed for Move Moscow - WPP - The Soviet Union has announced it is resuming its nuclear tests in the atmosphere. It said the blame rested on the United States "and it alone." The Tass News Agency an nouncement did not set a date for the tests to begin. The Soviet announcement came amidst disarmament and nuclear test ban nego tiations at Geneva. It hinted of a possible agreement to end testing following this new series of explosions. Right To Be Last "Since the United States was the first to begin nu clear weapons tests and ha hold many more of them with its allies than did the Soviet Union, the other side, the So viet Union, which has invari ably held its nuclear tests only in reply, has the right tn be the last to hold nuclear tests in the world," it said. The statement said the U.S. government knew that "if American nuclear bombs would begin to explode, the Soviet Union would be faced with the need to hold tests of its nuclear weapons." "Consequently, the gov ernment of the U.S. was fully aware of what it was doing.' it added. "On it and it alone depended whether the tests to which the Soviet Union had had to resort in the fall nf 1961 would be the last, or whether a new wave of nu clear tests would sweep our planet." It said the United Stales is holding its current series nf tests to achieve military supremacy over the.Russians. "The Soviet Union will not give this satisfaction to those who harbor aggressive de signs against our country, who threaten us and our allies with preventive war," it said. Kennedy's Plea Obtains Results Hyannis Port, Mass. - TO -President Kennedy made a personal plea Saturday for a 60-day delay in a threatened strike that would halt most of the nation's missile produc tion and delay its space pro gram. One large union involv ed immediately heeded the re quest. Kennedy, who also named a three-man board to investi gate the stalemated dispute, said, "In this important de fense industry all parties have a responsibility to cooperate in achievinga settlement without any interruption of work." The International Associa tion of Machinists announced in Washington that it would bnw to Kennedy's request. The United Automobile Workers also are involved in the dispute which affects 150, 01111 workers at 53 missile plants and bases. Average Tax Refund Check Totals $35.58 Salem -0.TD- The average tax refund check for 1961 was $35.58 compared to $33.60 for I960, the Oregon Tax commis sion said Friday. The number of refund checks was also up for last year over 1960. the commis sion said - 345,000 in 1961 compared to 338.853 in 1960. LICENSE REVOKED Portland - OTP - Labor Commissioner Norman O. Nil sen has revoked the farm la bor contractors' license nf James C. Cray nf Aumsville on basis of evidrnre intro ducer) at a hearing in his of fice Wednesday. ElEWSOsbBRIEFS lltMS FROM fJT AIOUN0 THI OtOH INDIAN TROOPS CLASH WITH CHINESE New Dtlhi m - Indit disclosed today that its troopi tought two cishei Saturday with Communist Chineie forces in the disputed border tree. EAST GERMANY ACCUSES WEST OF SABOTAGE Berlin in - Etst Germany accused the West Saturday of aboleging Berlin's Communist-run eleysted railway- It warned the Communists could retaliate by Interfering with West Berlin's vital rail traffic with the Weil. KHRUSHCHEV WATCHES MISSILE FIRING Moicow 111 - Premier Nikita S. Khruihcher watched atomic-powered submarines lire Polarii-type missiles from a tubmergeo1 position Saturday in the Polar reejioni, the Mo riet news agency Tass reported. The Beauties of Scenic Neptune Stale park is one U.S. Says Russian Decision on Testing "Disturbing News' Washington - (UPI) - The United States Saturday night said Russia's announcement it would resume nuclear testing was "disturbing news" and underlined the "urgent neces sity" for an early and perma nent ban on all such experi ments. The State Department said "it is to be regretted" that Oregon Accidents Take Six Lives By United Press International Six Oregon persons lost their lives in accidents in the state Saturday and Friday night. The latest victim was Linda Damaske, 11. Lake Crnve. She drowned in Lake Oswego Saturday afternoon. Her body was recovered. Two other persons also died Saturday. They were Clar ence Gilley, 16, Halfway, and Mrs. Marie Cantu. 34, a mi grant farm laborer. Gilley died of injuries suf fered when a hay elevator fell on him at a ranch near Half way Friday. Mrs. Cantu died in a Salem hospital of injur ies suffered when a truck went over a 35-foot embank ment near Salem Friday. The other victims were Rotchley Jones. 60. Yarhats: Mrs. Marianne M o r i e I . 54. Portland, and Wanda Reed. 13. Ontario. Jones and Mrs. Moriet were killed Friday night in a one-car accident near New port. The Reed girl drowned in the Snake river near On tario Friday night. Her hody was not recovered. lOrgon State of many state parks along Oregon s 400-mile seacoast. Russia decided to resume test ing just after resumption of the East-West disarmament talks at Geneva early last week. The department said it hoped Russia would never theless negotiate "seriously in an effort to reach agreement on the nuclear test ban treaty "which the United States and other countries of the world so earnestly desire." Earlier Tests Recalled The U.S. statement, issued by State Department Press Officer Lincoln White, called attention to the fact that the Russian series would be the second in less than one year. It said "The world need hard- ! ly be reminded that the So : vict Union broke the mora torium on nuclear testing last : September." j This was a reference In a 1 massive Soviet series which ' last fall shattered a three-year j silence during which the nil j clear giants had tacitly re frained from testing. Capacity Crowd Attends Festival Ashland - A standing room only crowd of 1.160 attended the opening night of the 22nd Oregon Shakespearean festi val here Saturday night, viewing the premiere perfor mance of "Comedy nf Kr rors." Nearly 1.400 persons join ed in "The Feast of the Tribe nf "Will" in Lithia park before the premiere. In the audience were Se bastian Cabot, noted stage and screen artnr. and a star of television's "Checkmate" ser ies: and NBC producer An drew C. Love, here tn pro duce the annual NRC nation wide broadcast from the Fes tival stage. Oregon's Gov. Mark Hal (irld addressed dedicatory re marks to the assembled audi ence. Also on hand were State Treasurer Howard C. Belton. Attorney General Robert Y. Thornton. Speaker of the House Robert B. Duncan, and a number of prominent edu cators. The second play of this year s series opens tonight. It is Edward Brubaker's staging nf Henry IV. Part II " Fol lowing Monday night will be the opening of Jerry Turner production nf "As You Like It." while "Cnriolanus" will open Tueday night The four plavs will rnta'p through Sep-. 2 . Oregon Highway Commission Photo) Morse Outlines Plan To Bolster Lumber Industry Portland - (UIH - Sen. Wayne Morse (D-Ore.) has outlined a plan to bolster the Northwest lumber industry that includes tightening the reins on the Forest Service. The Oregon Democrat said he would take the problems to President Kennedy Mon day Morse spoke before lumber industry executives at a meet ing arranged by the steering committee of the Lumber men's Economic Survival Committee. In Foreign Policy Fields Morse said solution of the stale's lumber problems lies in the fields of foreign policy, better liaison with, and more checks on, the forest service and some changes in the Jones shipping art. In the matter of foreign pol icy, Morse said that whereas the economic health of Cana da is important to this coun try, he did not like to see the giving of a big loan to Canada followed by imposition by Canada of import duties on American products. Morse suggested policy and procedural modifications in the forest service. There should be someone at secre tary level with whom Con gress and tthe industry rould deal, he said, because Con gress never delegated policy making power to those be neath secretary level. Denies Request He added that the forest .service "will hear from me Monday'1 regarding a letter sent to the industry seeking detailed information on opera tions which the service said Morse had requested al a re. cent hearing. Morse denied he asked for the information. He said the bill to remove Ihe present 6 per cent differ ential enjoyed by West Const shipbuilders is in committee and he expects it to stay there. NATIONAL LEAGUE St. Louis 3, Houston 7 AMER ICANLE AGUE Detroit 7. Kansei City i Cleveland 0. Los Angeles 4 PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE San Diego 4. Portlend S NORTHWEST "LEAGUE Euqene 5, Wenalchee- t Tri City 2, Salem It Yakima I, Lewiiion mm Confirmation of Military Choices Appears Certain Taylor Chosen Chief of Staff Washington 'ITP The re shuffled members of President Kennedy's new military team appeared headed today toward certain Senate confirmation but possibly extensive ques tioning about some of their views. No serious Senate objec tions were sounded to the President's choices. He named Gen. Maxwell D. Taylor to be chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Lyman L. Lemnitzer to be Supreme U S. Commander in Europe, and Gen. Earle G. Wheeler to become the Army's chief. Chairman Richnrd R. Rus sell (D-Ga.) of the Senate Armed Services committee, praised the nominees highly. This indicated that approval of the three by his group should stir up liltle contro versy. Other Changes Seen But military observers saw the Pentagon shakeup as raising the possibility of broad changes in organization, command and traditional war roles of the services. This particularly applied to Taylor, an outspoken and of ten controversial Army offi cer selected for chairman of the Joint Chiefs of staff. He is on record with a firm pro posal to abolish the Joint Chiefs system and replace it with a single "Defense Chief of Staff with great authority. Taylor is certain to he ques tioned about this proposal in his appearances before Con gressional committees. Kennedy himself has pre dicted that the mid-1960s may see the Army. Navy and Air Force being merged into a single service "dominated by a single command." That prophesy, in his 1960 hook, "The Strategy of Peace," may have new significance. He now has a slate of military leaders who are, with the ex ception of 1 he Marine Com mandant, nf his own choos ing. Break with Eisenhower Taylor previously served a stormy four years as Army Chief and stepped out of mili tary life in an angry break with the Eisenhower admin istration. When he rclired in 1959. Taylor wrote a book, "The Uncertain Trumpet," assail ing the policies, strategy and organization of defense un der President Eisenhower and other policy makers with whom he disagreed. When Kennedy took office, he tap ped Taylor to serve as his special military adviser. The general has been cred ited with a key role in expan sion of the Army under Ken nedy, an expansion (hat De fense Secretary Robert S. McNamara originally opposed. Polaris Launched 'From Nuclear Sub Cape Canaveral iirpfl Thr United Slates fired a Pnlaris missile from a submerged nu I clear submarine S a I u r d a y within hours aflcr the Snvict ; Union claimed it had conduct ed a similar underwater test. The American sub, the U.S.S. John Marshall, launch ed the boltle-.shapcd Polaris from a firing tube in its deck. The missile was aimed at a target more than 1,500 miles 'away. It was the third uch shot for the John Marshall, the ninth member of Amer ica's growing family of bal- , listic missile-firing nuclear suns. ! Earlier. Ihe Soviet News j Agency Tass reported that Russian Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev had witnessed alomic-powered submarines firing Polans-type missiles from underwater in a series i nf tests in the Polar regions. Distance Swimmer Heads for Portland While Salmon, Wash. Wt -Marathon swimmer Spencer Campbell continued his 557 mile swim from Ornfmo. Ida ho, to the Pacific ncran Sat urday night. Campbell, a 24-year old for mer Navy frogman, left here on the Columbia river (or Cs. rarie Locks, Ore. He plans lo pan through Ihe Bonneville dam t"dav and experts to he in Portland Tuc.day mornins Iron w n Jobs in Northwest Monday 1 , " - 'X ' ; t-V. JJ? t ADDRESSES CONFERENCE-United States Secretary of State Dean Rusk is shown as he addressed the 14-nntion Laotian Confer ence in Geneva. Rusk and Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko joined In prais- No Serious Fires In Rcgue Valley Despite Danger Despite hot, dry weather and high fire hazard condi tions, there were no serious fires in the Rogue Valley dur ing the first half of the week end. . Valley fire departments re ported only one small fire Saturday morning and two Saturday afternoon. Neither the State Forestry depart ment nor Rogue River Nation al Forest headquarters had been notified of any fires since Friday noon. One of the three grass fires I could have been serious, how ever, firemen reported. A brush fire of unknown origin broke out in the Ashland burn area above Lithia park in Ashland around 1:30 p.m. Saturday. Grass Burned j Ashland firemen said it burned some of the grass with which the old burn had been replanted, and might have swept over much of the burn area had it not been spotted as quickly as it was. Only a small area burned, firemen said. A grass fire, possibly caus ed by sparks from a passing train, was reported by the Central Point Rural Fire de partment at 2:13 p.m. Satur day between Tolo rd. and the Southern Pacific Railroad tracks. It burned an area ap proximately 125 by 30 foot. Medford firemen reported a grass fire along Bear creek by the Fern Valley bridge at 11:40 a m. Saturday. The fire was in a field owned by Wal ler R Bolz. Cause was un known About half an acre burned. Pear Officials Discuss Problems I There were strong Indira- Democrats whose voles would lions Saturday night that the nrp candidates in state races. 'Medford area fruit growers Celebreeze decided on a will gel the number of skilled j brjcf postponement in order pic ke rs they need for the up- t0 saV(, thp cjly ar)0llt $1 25.000 coming winter pear harvest. ,n tn, cos nf tpec-,a rec ! A group of pear industry ; ,ion The dciliy WB, ,Hnetion leaders met al the Rogue Val-1 d by Prri(dpn, Kennedy, lev Country club with Sen. I Wayne R. Morse (D-Orc.) and ! wilh US. Department of La bor and state employment service officials lo clarify the : fruil harvest labor problems which everyone agreed are : unique lo this district. I The pear growers and ship ! pers won two and possibly Ihrce main concessions from 'the federal labor officials. I They conceded the growers ; have made "a reasonable ef fort ' this year and previous years to recruit all obtain : able domestic labor and that local growers need Mexican nationals to harvest the later pear varieties. Growers were informed the tentative ruling on a dollar an hour mini mum picking wage might be modified. And. Mexican Na tionals may possibly be used for emergency peach picking TAX LEV Y V O T E D Reaverton 'I'PP Vnlers here approved a $.10,014 tax levy ,'I'he vole wa 115 to 21 v orkers Expected Back PU?'ewej',"e ajajttnjaeaVPMK IIJMptW?""" i P. a. Neutrality for Laos Pledged at Geneva Conference Geneva -H1PII - Secretary of State Dean Rusk and Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko joined 12 other for eign ministers of the confer ence on Laos Saturday in pledging neutrality for Laos then met for 2H hours to see what they could do about the cold war. Gromyko first met with French F o re I g n Minister Maurice Couve de Mnrville. Sources close to the French diplomat said Gromyko told him the Soviet position on Berlin was unchanged - the same hard line that demands the Western Allies get out of West Berlin. Same Hard Line Informed sources said Gro myko presumably took the Celebreeze Delays Mayor Resignation Cleveland, Ohio-IUPD-Mayor Anthony J. Celebreeze Satur day delayed his resignation to become a member of Presi dent Kennedy's cabinet until next Friday to save the city the cost of a special election and to help Democratic candi dates in the November con tests. Celebreeze had planned to resign Monday to become sec retary of health, education and welfare in the Kennedy administration. He decided In wait until Friday, however, at the re quest of Democratic leaders In hopes the election to choose his successor would fall on Nov. 6, the date of the general election In which Ohio will name a U.S. senator, congress men, and state officials. It was felt that electing a mayor on that date would stir local In terest and bring out more Bulletin Seaside - HPli - Martha Louise Wyatl ol Jackson ville, Miss Rogue Valley, was chosen Miss Oregon of 1962 here Saturday night. Mill Wyalt, a itudent at Southern Oregon college at Aihland. was choien Irom among 10 lemi-tlnalists. Alice Louiie Berglund. Mite Salem, wn the firit runner-up. Vickie Diane Kinier, ol Millon-Freewater Mua Umatilla county, wai the second runner-up. Irene Gerd Svannion. Mist Greihem, and Char lotte Pye. Min Tillamook, were the third and fourth runneri-up. Min Wyatl, a 19-year-old S tool. 7-inch brunette. Ii Ihe daughter nf Mr. and Mn. Floyd C. Wyett of JackionTille. i',W3CuTaWM.lll. a ing the successful conclusion of the confer ence. Rusk offered Laos economic and tech nical aid to eliminate the waste of war. Avcrill Harriman, Undersecretary of State for Far East Affairs, looks on at left. IUPD , same hard line in his talks with Rusk. The West already had let it be known it had no new Berlin proposals and was walling for the Russians lo make a move. Gromyko's rigid stand was considered hardly encouraging. Rusk called on Gromyko at the Soviets' Villa Rose on Ge- neva's Avenue of Peace to oiscuss me cernn crisis, dis armament and a nuclear test ban. There was little hope of success but an American source said it would be "ir responsible'' not to discuss them. The opening of the crucial talks followed a final session of the 14-nation Laos confer ence at which Rusk sat down with such diverse diplomats as the foreign ministers of Communist China, Commun ist North Korea and Commun ist North Vict Nam, whose countries the United States docs not recognize. Real Test Later Though both Rusk and Gro myko hailed completion of a Laos neutrality declaration -to be signed Monday - an American spokesman said the real test would come later. They said it remains to be seen whether the neutralist government continues lo per mit Communist Viet Cong giicrrcllas from North Viet Nam to use Laos as a corridor to free South Vict Nam. Rusk also was conferring with the British Foreign Sec retary, Ihe Earl of Home, on some ways of settling policy clashes over the Congo. Brit ain is opposed to the use of force or coercion to reunite the Congo and the United States favors a tougher course in settling the crisis. Fasf Berlin Policeman Flees To U.S. Sector Berlln-lUPIl-An East German border policeman in full uni form slipped over the Com munist Berlin wall Saturday and escaped into the U.S. lec tor district of Kreuzberg, West Berlin police reported. Rocket Probe of Venus Rescheduled Cape Canaveral - OTP - U.S. scientists repaired a balky space rocket today and sched uled a new attempt to shoot a 446-p' .id probe toward the planet . enus lor Sunday mnrn'fj. If the fantastically complex shot is successful, the Marincr 1 probe and Its six experi ments will hurtle more than 225 million miles across space and pass within 10,000 miles of the so-called "mystery planet" before the end of the year. The launching, which may determine whether life could exist on Venus, is expected to go ahead regardless of wheth er a threatened strike In the U.S. missile and space indus try Is called. Mariner-1, first of Iwn U.S. Settlement of Six-Week-Old Strike Reached Wage Increase Totals 71 Cents Washington- IUPD - Labor Secretary Arthur J. Gold berg Saturday announced set tlement of a six-week-old strike of Iron workers that had tied up virtually all con struction work in the Pacific Northwest. The strike concerned con struction activities in both Oregon and Washington. Goldberg said that under terms of the settlement, all local unions involved and the contractors have agreed to re sume work and operations im mediately Old Contract Renewed The old contract was re newed with but a few chang es. Travel and transportation allowances were virtually un changed. The iron workers won a to tal of 71 cents to be spread over the next three years, in cluding 26 cents per hour in wages the first year until July 21, 1963. The second year includes 19 cents per hour in wages. 5 cents per hour In the pen sion fund and 1 cent per hour for apprenticeship training. The third year includes wages of 15 cents per hour and cents per hour in the pension fund. The first year wage Increase is retroactive to May 28, 1962, when the iron workers struck. Carl M. Hilvoritn, a spokesman for the Associated General Contractors, said in Portland that "the wage rec ommendation of the govern ment Is, In our opinion, infla tionary and substantially above current wage patterns negotiated by the construction industry in the Pacific Northwest. We accept the rec ommendation with reluc tance." Announced by Morse Announcement of the settle ment was made on behalf of Goldberg and William E. Sim- kin, federal mediation direc tor. Sen. Wayne Morse (D-Ore ), announced the settlement in Portland. He said the decision of the board would be final and binding. Morse said he expected the iron workers would return to their jobs on Monday. Morse commended efforts of state officials which he said paved the way for the settlement reached In Wash ington. UAR Launches Four One-Stage Rockets Cairo. U.A.R., (UPfl - The United Arab Republic Satur day entered the space age by successfully launching in pub- four single-stage rockets that President Gamal Abdel Nasser said could reach "a little south of Beirut" - mean ing Israel. Nasser said the Rockets were now "In large scale pro duction - otherwise we could not have spared the four for testing." He said the rockets launched Saturday could be combined Into a larger, multi stage rocket and when asked if they carried atomic war heads said firmly: "No. We are against that." for Today shots at Venus scheduled for firing period, originally was set for early Saturday. But the attempt was called off less than two hours before blast - off time when techni cians discovered an unwanted radio signal in the rocket. The trouble was centered in the booster section of the 10-story Atlas Agena. Inform ed sources said it was a "very minor" technical problem that was "fixed almost im mediately." But It took time tn re check the repairs. The delay was Just enough to force the shot to miss its two-hour- pre dawn launching "window" that period when the earth Is In the right position to per mit maximum use of the avail able rocket power.