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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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DulCOfl AoDOintS
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Spnngf leld OfOU?
Springfield - d'PI" - Appoint-
ment ot a Duncan for Con-
iar,ss Committee in the
SnrinirfielH area was an-
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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
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: man inausinai rarK.
ine land ooara is trusi-B m
Uregon s common scnooi iuna
I 0T HACI SIOWLU
he ween the
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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, Wnslm.KU.n counly for o I ex-
plora.ion he Or eKon Land
Bo rd o W; sa. ,d y
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north of Inrcsl Grove, in the
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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
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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..
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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