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00 Starts onuttunica FOREST FIRE DANGER TOMORROW Regional Edition 57th Year Price 10 Cents The Beauties of Scenic Oregon Tribune (Oregon State Highway Commission Photo) 40 PAGES Four Sections MEDFORD. OREGON, THURSDAY, AUGUST 2, 1962 No. 115 ! KEEP OREGON GREEN t i ! t r iftirttnnifiifii Ti r t. Odrll lake, in central OrcRon. in the late afternoon has all the glitter of the mountain, Diamond Peak, in tne background. Central Point Man Is Charged With Starting Blazes Claude Walter Chase, 41, of route 2, box 668B, Central Point, has been arrested by Oregon state police and charged with setting a fire on forest land. The arrest was made Tues day, following a secret grand jury indictment based on an investigation of a series of approximately 12 roadside fires that occurred in Jose phine and Jackson counties July 16. Chase is expected to be ar raigned some time today in Jackson county circuit court on a charge of willfully and maliciously setting fire to for est land. Bail was set at $3, 500. District Attorney Alan B. Holmes, who announced the arrest late yesterday, said he expected more arrests to fol- Jow the result of the grand ; jury proceedings. The maxi- j mum sentence for the charge i )s two years in prison. North of Grant! Pass The scries of fires broke out in an area north and cast uf Grants Pass during a two-hour period on the atternoon of July lfi. Twelve were small and quickly extinguished, but 1 1 ..... in tl,.. , . ,, ' ., charge was filed bv his step Granite hill area, one mile , , ... K north f r.r.nl, P ..... .. . - The first of the fires was reported in the bunny Valley , urea north of Mt. Sexton. The. others followed in a pattern along Highway 99 toward ; Giants Pass on Foothill blvd. , a.-i in uiiy, aua in me Evans creek area. Al the time. Curtis Ncsheim, state forestry department dis- trie! warden, said he believed they were the result of arson, because of the number of Jires and the1 pattern in which they broke out. mtVt AIRPORT AID FUNDS ANNOUNCED Washington t Pt The Federal Aviation Agency loday an nounced a record S74.2 million airport aid program with Ihe emphasis on greater safety. DIXON YATES FIGURE DIES Washington-tri-Edgar H. whn w m cnirjil lioura controversy died tod.y in the HI mt resuil oi ccicorai nrmorrnngc. NSLI REINSTATEMENT APPROVED W.shing.on-IPI-Th. House Ve.er.n, commit... .pprod eq s a! on todey under which millions of T.t.rens ol world u.-.. it .-a v' . m k. ...i.t.j i ,.in..... N lional Servic. Lif. Insuranc. 5. 1 , , ' Ben Bella Faction Wins Political Control of Algeria Algiers, Algeria - IUPII - Al geria's warring political chiefs patched up their quarrels to day with a peace pact that put the month-old nation square ly under the control of a po litical bureau dominated by leftist Vice Premier Ahmed Ben Bella. The agreement was an nounced after a day and one half of tough negotiations here that often appeared near deadlock. It seemed an over- Coos Bay Man Held for Murder Coos Bay-IUPII-Elmer Finley Jeffers, 37, was booked on a murder count loday a few hours after his 12-year-old stepdaughter died of head in juries. Linda Jean Johnston was wounded inside her trailer home near here, police said. Her mother, Dorothy Jet- fers' recently estranged wile was hospitalized. I The district attorney late this morning filed a first de gree murder charge agaiuM Jeffers, who waived prelimi nary hearing and was bound over to the grand jury. Police said Jeffers was re Wnp.lv . e, . " ,V",n''?WePl 0VCr 3 20-aCre barlpV j-... -ru. I utla tui UMdUll. 11101 HbbdUll enn lalfflrf nlnnJnJ n.,ilt,. V F"-U gu.n.r During the 10 days in jail. ' nis wjfe fjc(J for djvor(, , Je(fers (old officers he re-' tlrned ,0 ,h(. ,iaI(?r Wednes. ; dav evening ,0 pick llp some belongings He said when his kcy failed' lo open ,he door j i he forced it with a tool. ( Jeffers said as he stepped inside the dark trailer, he , feit a knife against his chest, j He said he then started swing- ing the tool. He called an ambulance, but the girl died in a hos pital. .BRIEFS AROUND THI 01OII Dixon. 57, the utilities execu- in h 19S4 Dixon. Ya( eowir W.shington Ho.pit.l C.nl.r v r.i s i'"?l USE whelming victory for Ben Bella, arch-rival of Premier BPn Youssef Ben Khedda. U provided for: A seven-man political bu reau, in which Ben Bella sup porters have full control, to run the country National elections for a constituent assembly, probab ly Aug. 27. An early meeting of the National Council of the Al gerian Revolution, the nation alist Parliament. Ben Bella awaited the out come of the talks in Oran. lie will arrive here with other members of the political bu reau Friday. The agreement, was an nounced in a join statement by Mohammed Khidcr, Ben Bella's envoy, and leaders of the group of politicians with headquarters at Tizi Ouzou who have led the struggle against Ben Bella. 30 Acres of Grain Burn in Sams Valley A fire in the Sams Valley area yesterday burned some Ii0 acres of grain and Brass on the Charles Hilkcy ranch. The blaze reportedly was innitoH frnM n U,., I flc'd and over Sams creek into an area of oats and vetch, The state forestry depart- " to the scene about 3:50 p.m. a mpn on ne 'aze which Was whipped by wind, A half-acre area in the sarn" barley field had burned the day before. Churchill Suffers Jaundice Attach London HTIi Sir Winston Churchill, 87, hospitalized wnn urimun iruyn uunt-, has suffered an attack of jaundice bill is recovering, his doctors said loday. A iMinnicsex nospnai ""i- cial. speaking for Lord Mor- 8n. Churchill's physician. dicated the jaundice attack was not serious. Churchill has suffered vari- I ous complications since he! ! broke his left thigh bone la-1 ' ! June 28 . U. S. Soldier Defects To Czechoslovakia Vienna - iVPIt - A U.S. Army soldier stationed with a mis - sile unit in West Germany has S riffrrtPrl nnri ncked for nsvlum j in Communist Cecho, ovakia. nnmu ri hkuc sdiu iwua.r The station said the soldier. identified only as R. S. Har - 1 eld. reached Prague -during Ihe pa. t few days wnn a vv... rirm.f, womn named , Margit Schlottag. Teamsters Chief Launches Drive In San Francisco Better Contract Among Promises San Francisco UPI Team sters Union President James Hoffa h-s launched a drive to sign up 263,000 members of the Communications Work ers of America. Hoffa, appearing Wednes day night before 500 San Francisco Bay Area CWA members, said his 1.5 million member union could do them more good and invited them to desert the CWA. He added that he plans to make similar bids to communication work ers across the nati n. Not Belter Overnight . Hoffa told telephone em ployees that he wouldn't promise them hetter condi tions "overnight." "But be assured," he said, "that in future negotiations you would have the full pow er, financial resources and militancy of 1.5 million mem bers of this union behind you." Hoffa and other Teamster officials were in San Fran ciscc in one of the first Team ster efforts to recruit CWA workers into Teamster ranks. "In a few days we'll move on 25,000 plant employees in New York," Teamster Vice President Harold Gibbons said. Drive Finds Support Hoffa's drive has picked up some support here. Several officials of CWA locals have begun to organize for the Teamsters. One, Joseph High tower, president of the Oak land, Calif., CWA local, said he was interested primarily in bettering condition- of tele phone workers. "Most truck drivers start to work for more money than we gel after 5'? years," he said. In a statement Wednesday the Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Company told workers that if they wanted to join a union, their inter ests would be best served by a .union that knows something about the telephone business. Kennedy Ready To Offer Easier Terms Washington - IUPII - Prest- dent Kennedy is ready to of- fer Russia easier terms for a nuclear test ban treaty if Mos cow will agree to inspections on Soviet soil. Kennedy said at his news conference late Wednesday tnai u.s. disarmament nego tiator Arthur Dean would re turn to Geneva with the new proposition. The President said "impor tant new technical assess ments" promised a "-simpler and more economical" means of detecting underground ex plosions, making it possible to offer Russia easier terms for policing a test ban agree ment. But Kennedy emphasized that some on-the-scene inspec tions still were necessary to distinguish between nuclear explosions and earthquakes. (See Story on Page 8A) Winnemucca Route Dedication Slated Salem - WPII - The Oregon Highway Commission will lake part in ceremonies Sept 22 dedicating the "Winnemuc ca-to-the-Sea'' Highvay, the department said today. The ceremonies are being staged by the Winnemucca to-the-Sea Association where the route crosses the Oregon Nevada border. The route starts at Winnemucca. Ncv. I and runs through Southern I Oregon to the coast The commission will take part in the ceremonies an part 0, jl5 annu(1 in!pcctjon tour of Oregon routes. This year's trio, five davs Innff starts S(,pl 1R in por,and. Tnc commission will travel to Pendleton, Ontario. Burns, ,,akevieWi Brnd, and back t0 1 Portland j DulCOfl AoDOintS - . it Spnngf leld OfOU? Springfield - d'PI" - Appoint- ment ot a Duncan for Con- iar,ss Committee in the SnrinirfielH area was an- ' " " , , , nouncea nxiay oy urt-ijmi I House Sneaker Robert B ; Duncan, Medford, Democratic ; nominee for Congress in the i fourth district . Chairman of the ,,, man iiiiiiuiiiitT in hiha uoiu.-'. Springfield. The other mem - ers. all of Springfield, are Ed Harms. Krank Wor.cy. oeorge u. Miu. wunam n.. Rahrork and rwr F.. Vroo- ! man Britain Orders Soblen's Return To United States To Serve Term No Grounds Found For Granting Political Asylum Trip Expected To Start Friday London lf PI) Britain today refused political asylum to Dr. Robert Soblen and order ed him back to the United States to start serving a life sentence .'or spying for the Soviets. Soblen was CNpectcd to be headed for an American jail by Friday night. Home Secretary Henry Brooke, in an announcement to the House of Commons, said the, British government had found "no ground for granting Dr. Soblen political asylum here. "He is not in danger of persecution in his own coun try for his political opinions or on racial grounds," Brooke said. "Dr. Soblen is a convicted spy, a fugitive from a sen tence imposed on him by the courts of a country whose life is based on democratic insti t u I i o n s and constitutional guarantees." The statement said it had ordered the Israeli El Al Air line to fly Soblen back to the United States. Soblen, a 61-year-old native of Lithuania, had been de ported by Israel last month and was on his way back to the United States aboard an El Al airliner when he slash ed himself in the stomach and wrists forcing the plane lo land in London so he could be hospitalized, Soblen was convicted of wartime espionage for Rus sia. Soblen jumped $100,000 bail in New York last June 25 and fled lo Israel just be fore he was to surrender to spend the ret of his life in prison. He says his lite will be short anyway because he has leukemia-blood cancer. The Israeli government de ported him in an action that still ii having repercussions there. The Knesset (Israeli parliament) Wednesday de feated a motion of non-confidence filed against the gov ernment for the handling of the Soblen case. En route back to New York aboard an El Al Airliner, So blen slashed himself in the stomach and wrists lo force his hospitalization in Britain July 1. The government successful ly fought Soblen through two courts as he sought to gain his release from custody while in Britain. This left his appeal to the government it self his last hope. Board Urged To Study Tongue Point Salem - lUPli - The legisla tive interim committee on natural resources today sug gested the State Land Board look into the possibilities of acquiring the Tongue Point Naval station at Astoria. In a letter to State Treas urer liowara L. uciion, one 01 tne lana ooara s tnree mem- bers, the committee said me ; western pageant written Mnit k and broke a power board might be able to get j and directed by Mrs. Kdn.i C. I'"1'- a"d power lines. Morris the station for free from the j lawyer, will be presented at l('fl t'"' scene, going to a lav federal government, because I g.jm p'm Saturday at the i ('rn according to the report, of education aspects of use of 'Jacksonville school grounds1 Police apprehended Morris the facility. The letter lo Helton, sen by Tom Wright, executive sec-1 relary of the committee, said the board "might find itself a , proper vehicle for acquiring! th facililv adding it to the i ir-f "I the common school funcs such as is anticipated from the I ... lanrli l-imtrJIil I fir IMP ni HTQ- : man inausinai rarK. ine land ooara is trusi-B m Uregon s common scnooi iuna I 0T HACI SIOWLU he ween the , ' - - 1 Associated General Conlrac- tor. and the Spokane area iron worker, bcc.me . . r..hty neic t,c.ii.i:..oj i.ii..i tatives of both groups Inked Icontrarl forms , , li, , ' V '( - n l n. s' f r ' ,i CONTRACT SIGNED Aluminum Company of America and the Aluminum Workers Union signed a contract in St. Louis, Mo., Wednesday night, ending a strike that lasted less than 20 hours. Federal mediator William Rose, stand ing, looks on as William Davis, director of industrial rela Miss Gebhard Is Named Queen of Gold Rush Event Jacksonville - Miss Judith Ann Gebhard, daimhtor of Mr. I and Mrs. Franklin II. Geo- f hard. Central Point, was' named Queen of the Jackson ville Gold Rush Jubilee l;isl night. Miss Gebhard was sponsor- i ed by I he Crater Lions club ; She was named queen on the1 basis of the number of Jubilee tickets sold. The sale of tick-j ets in the queen's contest end-' ed last night. ,"u 1 . , queon s contest was Miss Mel- U Uimmiii, v ..i i.mv or and Mrs. E. O. Graham, Jacksonville; and third place winner was Miss Pamela ll.ir', daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Mar vin Hart, Ruch. Miss Graham was sponsored by the Ruth Rebekah lodge, and Miss Hart was sponsored ; by the Ruch Parent Teachers association executive commit tee, i Complete Queen's Court Com pie ting the queen's , court for the 2'ii-day eclebra-. tion in Jacksonville are Miss' Karen Hnlley, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. K. A. Hnlley, ! Central Point, and Miss Nancy Maxson, daughter of Mr. and j Mrs. Wavne Maxson, Med ford. Jubilee activities will start tomorrow evening featuring entertainment, carnival rides, and various conlesl.s. Among those participating in the event are Miss Miirlha Wvatt. who recently was named Miss Oregon of 1!02 and Pinto Colvie and his son Bourke. Pinto Colvig is known as "Bozo the Clown," ; an(j njs snn "Scntps Hie MUsit.;,i Clown" instead of Ihe Jacksonville Community hall as slated in yc,.rdBV Mflj, Tribllm-. j ' Tl- J C:,-, 1 111631 01 11165 Held at Minimum ; B ijn;i-H prtlt Internaiional fjQwer temperature and the ansencp 01 .KniumK sxmm . . i .i . : . HUM-11 V (II liK'i'OiiiK twiiri kept the threat of fires in for ?s in thp Bcifir Northwest " nV""" wetVVe. ,;(,.,, and Wash- , 11 ,.,m,.H cooler ! Z n a row Three fire, were listed on ! scprolcctcd land ,n Ore- -;Jm, a Jacre grass - , reported as either controlled lornui. ;i vol Hp i .4' Reynolds, Alcoa Join in Pact Ending Short Aluminum Strike SI. Louis - IUPII The Reyn olds Metals Co. Joined t h e Aluminum Company of Amer ica loday in reaching agree ment with the Aluminum Workers of America ending the one-day walkout by 10,000 workers Alcoa came to terms with Ihe union Wednesday night, Karly today Reynolds agreed on a similar pact. The two-year contracts, pro viding Improved pension and vacation benefits but no wage increase, were subject lo ap proval by union locals, which II,.,., l.il... .... I,,.,., nc in ,....D The Alcoa agreement cov- j ()f , ,.ikououncl i i,.n,.. ,,nj ,,.!,,. U.ln ,.. ! turning to their Jobs. Reynolds' agreement cover ed all but the Bellwood, Va., plant, where further negotia tion may be needed on local issues before the strike ends, officials said. The strike of 225 members of the International Associa tion of Machinists and the In ternal ional Brotherhood of Kleclrical Workers continued at Reynolds' McCook, III., sheet and plate mill, largest of its kind in the nation, The Driver Cited After Power Pole Mishap j Dunne Russell Morris, 27, f 781 1 Heatty at., Medford. Wil cited by Medford police early this morning for failure ' ' lenvr information at the scene of an accident According to police. Morns was involved in a one-ear ac eirlenl on East Main si. east of ; ' lorrnce ave. anoul I o clock 'hi' morning. The car he whs driving , "bout an hour and 411 minutes after the accident as he left tne tavern. Klectric power was out for , Hhotit an hour and z minutes in the residential district north of East Main St., Pacific , Power and Light company of ficials said. The power pol was replaced and power re s,ot,,ri as soon as posblc. - Superior Oil Files I n . a A nr.f .'.'hm ' S.em - - Superior Oil Co, Denver. Colo., has filed ! an aiiul leal ion to lease 120 1 a. re, of ,ttc land in northern ... . ...,, r, - ;i , Wnslm.KU.n counly for o I ex- plora.ion he Or eKon Land Bo rd o W; sa. ,d y - - ., , :- lh north of Inrcsl Grove, in the in""""1 m iy, y- tions for Alcoa from Pittsburgh, Pa., left, and Eddie Stahl, Fulton, Mo., president of AWIU, right, sign the contracts. A. J. Fecley, Potlsville, Pa., president of Local 405 there, at extreme right, smiles happily at what Stahl called a "very satisfactory" settlement. tUPl) walkout has idled 3,000 worK ers, mo.it of them members of the U n I I ed Steolworkers Union, which reached con tract agreement with Reyn olds June 28. The McCook strike has stalled armor plate produc- I tion for the Defense Dcpart- ment, along with sheet alum- j inum production for aircraft and missiles. Neither Alcoa nor Reynolds officials could give any im mediate estimate on the value per hour of the fringe changes in the new contracts, which contain provision for reopen ing of wage, pension and In surance clauses upon HO dnys notice after June 1, 1f)6;i. However, the Alcoa vaca tion and pension benefits Grants Pass Plans Arterial Project Grants Pass - The Grants Pass city council last night authorized the city's partici - pation in a joint city-county project to construct a major easl-west arterial street in the city. Construction will exlend over a three-year period with work and costs being shared by both city and county. Prop erty owners along M st. on the east and Bridge si. on the west will participate to Ihe exlent of sharing the cosl of; curbing. This is the first agreement ot tills kind between the city and Josephine county n oilier council action. Ihe - 1 nnnoinlment of Samuel M Bowe, Grants Pass attorney. to the water commission was affirmed. Bowe will fill the unexpired term of Charles Newland, who resigned. The purchase of a police enr from Heese-.Jacobson Mo tors, Grants Pass, was author ized. Thp council heard the first ! i two readings of a new com-j ! prehensivc zoning ordinance.) j The final reading Is scheduled :at Aug. 15 meeting. ,fe Vlrs. Finkbine Reserves Seat on Plane to Sweden Phoenix - HJPD A reserva tion was made lodav for a Irl.ui in c.a.H..n ln I ho nnmi !o, SherrlVlnkbine who wants ! to have an abortion perform- icd because she fears her child may be deformed by the dru 'I'VinlWInm Hp , Sys. ta.ndin.v..n rl'J em ,n vti i,i .h h.r hu.hand noherl bine and her husband. Robert who were unable to get legal i . i I S " 1 - ? f " 1 J v . 1 -0 alone were said to he wonU an additional 7'a ccnls an hour. Most workers will get an additional half-week of paid vacation. The pension improvement was up lo 4 1 3 cents an hour. In addition employees will he guaranlcrd .12 hours pay for any week in which the worker was cm- ployed. Reynolds workers will cet improved vacation and pen sion benefits and a continua tion of their 2.'t-rent an hour cosl of living allowance. Table Rock Rd. Resurfacing Starts County road crews are re surfacing Table Rock rd. be tween Mcrriman and Hamrick rds , Robert Carslensen, Jack son counly engineer, said to day. The road iln will hn u.irf. i cned bv Iwo f. ri hn airf ti,. Work is fxpct.1(,d lo bp com. : nlctod this week Other crews are placing decking on a new bridge on Netherlands rd. over Butto creek, Carstensen said. The new bridge i.s expected to be open for traffic about miri Augusl. Monday county crews will start repaying aboul five miles of Dead Indian and Hyatt Lake rd WEATHER KOHKCAST: Inr (-rutin; rlonU-n-. tonic til. (Idiirty Kntlav morning, hprnmlnn partlv i lonely F r I fl y aMrmnnn. rhnnri f n little rain tnnlKhl r Friday mornlnc. fsperlallv In ihr liranli Pan a r f a. Cootrr. low trtniRht .Sd-55. II Uh Friday 7S-X.. Trni. Mlchrtil Vlrdiiv . . :i? I.nw-si Thin Miirnltig 50 Our Skies Toniciht SiiMict Uidnv 7 It p sn. Sunrlni tomorrow . 3:0. a m The rtlainHfr of thr Sun Is BM. not! utiles, mnrr thn Hilt Urn that of thr Karili. whose diamrtrr U 7,tlH mllev MiMiiurl tonltlil . 8:A pm Klrtt Wiiarlfr . u. R The dlam"r: ot Ihr Moon Is 3,lb(l milts. , approval for the proposed abortion in Arizona. 4 A 5s en i r the reservation Jwas for a fligh, leaving Lo, : Angeles International Airport : r ritiay at hi ..hi a.m. nan, : connecting at Copenhagen for 1 a II II! Ml to SlOCKnOini aWC- dcn jdcJj wa, givcn , ' d,'n of s 'nd "v b.v? phvS clans for safe performance ot clans lor sate rntnrmanct or Ihe abortion
