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Hatfield The Beauties of Scenic r. "KV e i7liM. --" J Silver smelt follow Pacific ocean breakers onto Oregon shores, attracting these fish ermen near Yachats. California Man Killed in Crash Along Highway 99 Clarence Herbert Koppl, 33, of Union City, Calif., was killed early this morning when the truck he was op erating went out of control and tipped over on Highway 99 about seven miles south of Ashland. State police said the truck was loaded with about 38.000 pounds of reinforcing steel for delivery to a construction firm in Medford. y The truck was going down hill when the driver attempt ed to negotiate a sharp curve. Police said the truck's brakes Apparently set, causing the vehicle to skid about 250 feet. The trailer then flipped over and skidded another 215 feet on the highway shoulder. The truck knocked over a medium-sized tree, and the truck's cab was sheared off. officers said. The cab slid into two fir trees. Kofcpl's body was under the cab, police said. The body was taken to Conger Morris Fu neral directors in Medford. The accident was reported to state police about 4:09 o'clock this morning by a bus driver. It was the 14th traffic fa tality in Jackson county this year. Damage to Streets Being Repaired Two construction firms are repairing damage to city streets caused by heavy equip ment. Peter Kiewit Sons' company is working on portions of Jackson, Fourth, Main, and Eighth sts. The Virgil Ander son company also is working on Fourth and Jackson sts. The streets were damaged by equipment working on the Interstate 5 freeway project. American Millionaire Ordered Deported Manila-WPD-President Dios dado Macapagal today order ed the arrest and deportation from the Philippines of Amer ican millionaire Harry S. Stonehill and his business as sociate, Robert Brooks. Stonehill is a U.S. Army veteran who stayed on in the Philippines after World War I and built up a financial em plre. mainly in tobacco. He has been accused of in volvement in bribery of public officials, tax evasion and tile gal financial transactions. iiewsOSbriefs tTlMJ FIOM m 7 AROUND THl 9101 IKE ABANDONS COLOGNE TOUR Bonn-'IPIFormer President Dwight D. Eisenhewer today abandended plant to tour Cologne because he feared police were too few to handle the crowds. BUENOS AIRES STRIKE FIZZLES Buenos Atre-4P1-A 41-hour "general strike" called by the CGT Union Federation ended in apparent failure al mid night Thursday. EDITORS REPORT ON TOUR OF RUSSIA Wathington-IPI'-Four newspaper editors Thunder report ed to President Kennedy on their recent tour of Russia and ceniernlion with Premier Nikita Khruihcher. (Oregon State Clement Sweeps To Nomination as Tennessee Nashville, Tenn.-llPll-Frank G. Clement, his vote-getting ability still as sharp as his speech-making, won the Dem ocratic governorship nomina tion in Thursday's primary, practically assuring him the office for a third time. Clement, 10 years older at 42 than when he first was elected governor in 1952, trounced two major oppon ents, Chattanooga Mayor P. R. Olgiati and Memphis City City Commissioner William Farrls. With returns in from 2,536 of the state's 2,695 precincts, Gold Star Mother Held as Abortionist Rapid City, S.D. - IUPD - This Black Hills city's Gold Star Mother of the Year has been charged with being an abor tionist, climaxing a 12-year in vestigation. Mrs. La Vangc Michael, 67, selected Gold Star mother for 1962 two months ago, was ar rested in a surprise raid on her home by city, county and state agents. Sheriff Glenn Best said he began his investigation of Mrs. Michael and placed her home under surveillance 12 years ago when he was a dep uty sheriff. Mrs. Michael was freed under $5,000 bond Thursday. Municipal Judge Jack Hunt continued her arraignment until Aug. 9 to allow her at torney. Ro swell Bottum, brother of Sen. Joseph Bot tum (R-S.D.), time to study the case. Dr. Soblen's Return Is Delayed in London London-TOPI) - Bail-jumping Soviet spy Dr. Robert Soblen won another delay tonight in his return to the United States to serve a term of life im prisonment. The El Al Israel Airline, which had been ordered by the British government to fly Soblen, 61, to the United States, was given until Mon day to decide what it was go ing to do. TO RECEIVE DEGREES Eugene - IUPD - A class of about 400 students will re ceive graduate and under graduate degrees Aug. 11 at t h e University of Oregon's first formal summer com mencement exercises. Waies . wftliycpiiipe . Oregon Highway Commission Photo) Governor Clement had 285,705 votes to 198.273 for Olgiati and 185, 561 for Farris. Democratic nomination is practically the same as elec tion in Tennessee. There has been talk of the Republican party running retired Ten nessee Valley Authority Chair man Gen. Herbert Vogel in November. Court Tests Seen Two congressional contests seemed headed for court tests with the margin between two leading candidates slim. These races involved Democratic Rep. J. B. Frazler Jr., Chatta nooga, and J. Carlton Loser, Nashville. Frazier appeared to be the victim of an upset, and Loser seemed a bare winner, but there were disputes over some of the votes in each race. Clement was first elected governor in 1952, then two years later became the state's first four-year governor after the state constitution was changed. Noted for his speechmaking ability, Clement made many trips out of Tennessee to talk at Democratic party functions. In 1956, he was keynote speaker at the Democratic National Convention. Hatfield Considers McGahuey's Letter Salem-(UPD-Gov. Mark Hal field has under consideration a personal letter from LeeRoy Sanford McGahuey, 44, ask ing the governor for a stay of execution. McGahuey, scheduled to die in the Oregon gas chamber here Aug. 20, sent the letter within the past week, Hat field's office said. McGahuey, who wants more time in which to prepare a commutation plea, was con victed of first degree murder for the 1961 slaying of 20- month-old Rod Cameron Holt in Central Point. No action has been taken on the letter, Hatfield's office said. Several weeks ago McGa huey's attorney, G. W. Kel lington of Medford, also had a conference with Hatfield here on a commutation. Distributor Bans Controversial Novel Portland -(UPD A Portland distributor said today his com pany has imposed a voluntary ban on the controversial novel. "Tropic of Cancer." Norman Bay, operator of Bay News Co., said the re maining copies will be taken off newstands at 30 or more outlets Monday, even though the book has not been a tar get of the c'ty'i new obsceni ty ordinance. Bay said his (irm probably will make no effort to supply -...1 i , if:ii..-. i "'""' """'T TrV'' Tropic of Capricorn." The latter book is due out in Sep tember. OUEEN CHOSEN Eugene TPI - Claren Best, 17. Springfield, Thursday night was chosen queen of the Emerald Empire Roundup. Group To Study Disappearance of Surplus Properly Investigators All Retired Officers Salem (UFD Gov. Mark Hatfield today named a spe cial three man board of in quiry to look into the disap pearance of $6,000 worth of surplus property at Camp Withycombe in Clackamas county. The Clackamas County Grand Jury studied the matter but last week announced its inquiry had ended. No indict ments were returned. Hatfield said the case "is not closed." All Retired Officers "To probe more deeply into the matter I have Impaneled a board of inquiry composed of distinguished citizens who are familiar with military pro cedures," he said. The three, all retired Army officers, are Arthur Lowe, Corvallis, Willis E. Vincent, Salem and Harold A. Taylor, McMinnville. "They shall have access to Whatever records are deemed appropriate. Our citizens are entitled to know what hap pened," Hatfield said. "Re sponsibility must be fixed for this irregularity." The governor said "stern disciplinary action must be taken with those who partici pated or knowingly turned their backs on any wrong doing. New procedures have already been instituted to pre vent a recurrence of this type." Cemminder Suspended On July 6, Oregon Adjutant General Paul L. Kliever sus pended Lt. Col. James J. Anderson as post commander at Camp Withycombe. Kliever said following the grand jury's announcement that Anderson's status was the same. The board of inquiry will report directly to the gov ernor. Taylor now owns a hard ware and implement firm, Vincent is active In civic af fairs in Salem, and Lowe is business manager of the Cor Vallis Gazette-Times. Chase Arraigned In Circuit Court Claude Walter Chase, 41, of route 2, box 668B, Central Point, was arraigned in Jack son county circuit court Thursday afternoon on a charge of setting a fire to for est land. The case was continued un til 9:30 a.m. Aug. 13 for Chase to enter a plea. Two other John Doe warrants have been issued following secret grand jury indictments resulting from its investigation of the case. - Chase was specifically charged with willfully and maliciously setting fire to for est land in the Rogue River and East Evans creek areas July 16. He is lodged in Jack' son county jail on $3,500. Medford Attorney Robert Boyer, Chase's lawyer, sought to have bail reduced. District Attorney Alan B. Holmes pointed out that the two other persons named in the secret inaicimenis are not in cus tody, and Judges James M. Main continued bail at the previous set amount. Chase was arrested by Ore gon state police Tuesday. The grand jury indictment follow ed an investigation of approx imatcly 12 roadside fires in Josephine and Jackson coun ties July 16. Four Workmen Killed When Bridge falls Rapid City, S.D. - (UPD - A bridge under construction on an interstate highway col lapsed today, raining hun dreds of tons of concrete, steel and mortar on a work party below. Four dead were counted Immediately and another workman was missing and feared killed, authorities said. Beer-Drinking Youth, 15, Chases Mother, Sisters Jefferson -WO- State police said a 13-year-old Jefferson boy chased his mother and two sisters from their home here early today, armed him self with a shotgun and rifle, nnH hM tat anrf Irwal rwilfr .- . f at bay for about 20 minutes. Officers said they climbed a trellis to an upstairs window and discovered the boy, Rob ert Franklin Hay, asleep on the floor with his hand on a loaded shotgun. The boy's mother, Mrs. Ger trude Hay, told officers the I ' 18 P9M I -XV WTSP5 BALLOON INFLATED General Dynamics-Astronautics personnel inflate a 140-foot-tall polyethylene ballooon near Townsend Plan Cofounder Held For Felony Thefl Amarillo, Tex. -IWD- R. E. Clements, businessman and co founder of the Townsend plan for the aged, surrendered him self to a sheriff today as one of three men indicted for fel ony theft and conspiracy by a grand jury investigating Billie Sol Estcs. Warrants were out for the arrest of the other two men, one of them from Pecos, Tex., and the other from New York. They were not to be identi fied until actually arrested. - Clements, prominent in Amarillo for charitable work and a former real estate agent in Long Beach, Calif., posted $10,000 Hond on the indict ment charging felony theft, conspiracy and restraint of trade. Made Tanks He was former owner of the Superior Manufacturing Co. which made fertilizer tanks used by Estcs in his business manipulations. Clement sold Superior Man ufacturing to Harold E. Orr and Rucl Alexander in April, 1960. Orr and Alexander have been indicted by . a federal grand jury with Estes and both have pleaded guilty to four counts of a 29-count in dictment, Payment in Mortgagee , . Testimony in a state court of Inquiry said Clements took part of his payment for the firm In bogus chattel mort gages and that he was aware they were fraudulent. . In Amarillo, Clements was president of the local United Fund charity drive and was active in organizing cultural programs. He was a cofounder wtn the late Dr. F. E. Townseid of the depression-era Town send plan to provide .the aged with pensions. " Ben Bella Arrives U For Triumphal Entry . Algiers, Algeria -WPIl- Dissi dent Vice Premier Ahmed Ben Bella, victorious in the Algerian struggle for power, arrived in Algiers today for a triumphal entry into the capital he left six years ago as a French captive. Ben Bella's plane landed at Algiers' Maison Blanche Air port after a flight-from the western port city of Oran. A public holiday was de clared this afternoon for Ben Bella's return. Value Increase Noted In Utility Properties Salem-WPft-The Oregon Tax Commission today put out final figures on the increase in true cash value of utility properties in Oregon from 1961 to 1962, showing an in crease of $100.9 million, or 9.1 per cent. The commission revised its preliminary figures of two weeks ago that showed the increase as 9.5 per cent. PROGRAM APPROVED Washington-fflPn-The Senate Banking-and Currency Com mittee today approved by a 10-4 vote a $300 million pro gram Intended to strengthen metropolitan bus and rail commuter transportation sys tems. youth came home shortly be fore midnight, after drinking beer. He began to squabble with his mother and sisters and fired a blast from a shot gun over her head as she fled the house Officers said he ordered the other two sisters from the house but directed that one sister's 18-month-old child re main behind. The youth was charged with assault with a dangerous weapon and t?ken to Salem's juvenile detention facility. FOREST FIRE DANGER TOMORROW Lumber Shippers Granted Temporary Relief From Act Washington-fllPD - A com pletely revised bill to allow Pacific Northwest lumber pro ducers to ship lumber to U.S. East Coast pork on foreign vessels under certain condi tions was approved Thursday by the Senate Commerce Committee. The bill by Sen. Warren G. Magnuson (D-Wash.), chair man of tlie committee, was worked out in line with Presi dent Kennedy's six-point pro gram to help the depressed lumber industry. Limited Exemption The legislation, as finally drawn . by the committee, would provide lumber ship pers a limited and temporary exemption from provisions of the Jones Act, which requires American flag vessels in the U.S. coastal trade. The exemption would ex pire Jan. 31, 1964. Under it lumber shippers could use foreign flag vessels: -When no, domestic carrier service is "reasonably avail able" to the shipper. -If the commerce secretary declares the domestic industry is being injured by foreign competition. -When rales on a "substan tially parallel" foreign route are at least 20 per cent low er than those on route. domestic Life Imprisonment Given for Slaying Coquille-tVPD-EImcr ' Finlcy Jeffers, 37, of Coos Bay, was sentenced to life imprison ment here Thursday by cir cuit court Judge Dal M. King. Jeffers pleaded guilty to a charge of second degree mur der arising out of the death of his stepdaughter, Linda Jean Johnston, 12, the night before. Coos County Dist. Atty. John M. Eaton said Jeffers forced his way Into his trailer home Wednesday' night and began beating the girl and her mother, Dorothy, 36, while they lay In bed. The girl died of head in? juries in Kaiser - Memorial Hospital in North Bend. Her mothers Jeffers' estranged wife was not seriously In jured. Jeffers was charged with first degree murder Thursday morning but the charge was reduced to second degree mur der so Jeffers could plead guilty. Eaton said Jeffers had been released Wednesday from the county Jail at Coquille after serving a 10-day sentence on assault charges brought by his stepson. During hit sentence, his wife filed for divorce. School Innovations Discussed At Meet Salem-IUPD - Innovations in construction of school build ings were described by an Illinois educator Thursday at a workshop here launching Oregon's $3.3 million program to upgrade education. Dr. Clyde Parker of Skokie, III., said the township's high school has movable wall pan els so that rooms can be ad justed to classes of many sizes. He : said construction of schools must keep pace with new methods of teaching. Sessions Planned for Medford Pear Pickers Portland - HJPD - The Ore gon Stale Employment serv ice today announced special sessions for recruitment of pickers for the approaching Medford pear harvest. The question-and-a newer sessions for Job applicants will be held here Aug. S and Aug. 13. Pickers will be able to sign up following the ses sions. TRAINING SCHEDULED Portland-tro-The 304th Air Force Reserve Rescue Squad ron will leave here Saturday for two weeks of active duty training. nqiiiry Regional Edition MEDFORDWlTRIBUNE MEDFORD, OREGON, FRIDAY, AUGUST 3, 1962 El Centro, Calif., prior to launching the giant bag on a 120:000-foot-high ride to measure cosmic rays. (UPI) Several Pacific Northwest lawmakers have introduced bills calling for exemption of lumber shipments from the Jones Act under certain con ditions but the House Mer chant Marine Committee has not yet acted on them. Food Stamp Plan To Be Extended To Multnomah County Portland -(UPD- The federal government Thursday extend ed its food stamp program to Multnomah county and 24 other areas in 18 states. If the state accepts the plan by Oct. 1, it will enable wel fare recipients and certain Snider Proposes 'Park of Alba' ' Medford Mayor John W. Snider has proposed that a city park be named "Park of Alba," and that Aug. 18 be proclaimed Alba Day. The suggestion was made to the city council last night. The council responded to the Idea enthusiastically. Snider referred to the city park on the southeast corner of South Riverside ave. and Barnett rd., noting that at present it is unnamed. The mayor asked council approval of his plan, saying that the new name for the park would be in exchange for Albas having named a city street after Medford. Snider proposed that the park be dedicated in a formal ceremony Aug. 18 - which he intends to proclaim Alba Day in the presence of Pino Dut- to, a young Alba attorney who arrived in Medford this week for a six or seven week's visit. The mayor also proposed that a plaque be installed in the park to commemorate the event. A resolution naming the site "Park of Alba" will be prepared by the administra tion and presented to the council for approval at its next meeting Aug. 16, City Manager Robert Duff said. Councilman Robert Baccus, chairman of the Medford sis ter city program, will coordi nate arrangements for the event. Work Scheduled In Playground Area Work to complete the Haw thorne park playground area will begin early next week, according to Bob Haworth, director of the city parks and recreation department. The city council last night voted $1,300 for the project. The appropriation will come from the park and recreation improvement fund. Work will include drain age, installation of sprinklers, and preparation of lawn. Play apparatus has been Installed, and the ground in the appara tus area will be covered with a layer of white fir bark to provide a cushion. Sandboxes also will be filled. The project is expected to take about 60 days, Haworth said. WEATHER FORECAST: Pirtlr cloudy throiifh Saturday with icittr tf light howeri aver mun Ulni. Low tonight J5I. High ltury 71-M. Temp. Htfhfft YMWrtfar SI LQWfat Tnli Morning CI PKrCIPITATlON To It am. Today Tract. Our Skies Tonight stinift today 1:11pm. SunrWt tomorrow .... a.m. Mftonaet lenlght t:24 p.m. ftrit Quart r Aug. I PRO MINI: NT ITAR Altalr, high In vouth 11:1 p m. YIMRLt PLANUS Vraui, MUtli or tht Moon. latum, low tn touih cavt f :Sg p.m. jupltr, rlifi tut p.m. Mart, rlita t:2l a.m. 57th Year The bills were offered in respon&e to complaints by the lumber industry that Can adian producers could ship lumber from British Columbia to U.S. East Coast ports on foreign ships at rates much tower than paid by U.S. pro ducers on American ships. . other persons with low in- comes to buy food in grocery stores with stamps purchased from the federal government. The stamps will cost about 63 cents and will have a value of $1 in the stores. The gov ernment picks up the rest of the tab. If adopted, the program would mean an end to distri bution of free surplus food in Multnomah county. The sur plus food program would con tinue In 13 other Oregon coun ties. The federal stamp program is designed to stimulate retail economy and the food indus try. The coupons may bt .used to buy any food except im ported Items and non - food items such as tobacco and liquor. . . Welfare officials and re tailers both greeted Thurs day's announcement with pleasure. Harold E. Carlson, presi dent of the Oregon Independ ent Kctaii Grocers Association, said tests in other areas have shown the program stimulates sales, especially of milk, but ler, cneese and flour. He said he hoped it could be expand ed to other, counties in the state. , Youths Arrested for Burglary in Home Three youths were appre hended ' by Jackson county sheriff's deputies Thursday afternoon in connection with a burglary last month. Two of the boys - one 14 and the other 15 - were lodg ed In the Jackson county ju venile detention home pend ing a hearing. The third, a 13-year-old boy, was released lo his parents. The latter was on parole, according to re ports. . According to sheriff's depu ties, the youths were arrested in connection with the theft of more than $80 in cash from the Charles F. Shinn resi dence, route 2, box 442D, Medford. The burglary oc curred about July 24 or 23. Also taken were two B-B guns, and a third gun was purchnscd with the stolen money. The guns and a coupie of dollars was recovered; the youths said they had spent most of the money. Shinn reported to the sher iff's office yesterday that about $30 In cash had been taken from his residence re cently in a second burglary. Deputies said the burglary had no connection with the earlier one Involving the Juveniles. Mrs. Finkbine Cancels Reservations To Sweden Los Angeles - (UfO - Sherri Finkbine and her husband, scheduled to fly to Sweden today for an abortion, today canceled their reservations and said they were "consider ing going to Japan." The husband, Robert, call ed Scandinavian Airlines Sys tem shortly before the flight was to leave International airport here. The airline had been holding the unpaid for tickets since receiving the reservation by t el e p h o n e Thursday. Finkbine said he and his Scare Price 10 Cents No. 116 Briton Working In Germ Warfare Laboratory Dies Pneumonic Plague Claims Scientist London - (UPP - The War Office announced today that a scientist working at a top secret British germ warfare laboratory on means of com batting the deadly pneumonic plague has died of the germs. The scientist, Geoffrey Ba con, 44, was understood to have been studying the plague germs in the biological labora tory at Salisbury. His job kept him near germs so viru lent that amounts of a pound or less could kill millions of persons. Pneumonic plague, which differs from the better known bubonic plague, is an extreme ly virulent plague form af fecting the lungs. It usually kills in three or four days. Widespread Reports Bacon died Wednesday. Doctors and scientists had been working since then to establish the cause of his death and there were wide spread reports and fears he had died of some mystery ill ness. . The scientist's wife, Mary, and their two young daugh ters were placed under obser vation today, and the War De partment said it has set up a board of inquiry into the death. Mrs. Bacon said that when her husband died at a hospital after becoming ill last Sunday she thought his death was caused by a fever and pneu monia. The British War office, in announcing Bacon's death, said he "died In circumstances which make it possible that death was due to an accidental Infection resulting from hia work." McGregor Proposed For Commissioner Grants Pass-Tlie Josephine County Republican Central committee last night recom mended the appointment of Don McGregor to the countv board of commissioners to succeed the late Raymond A. Lathrop. McGregor is a Grants Pasa businessman, former city councilman and longtime civic leader. The central committee'!! recommendation will bo to the two remaining members of the board of commissioners, who make the actual appointment to me board. If McGregor is aoDointed. he will serve until the No vember election, at which time he and other candidates may run for the office. Lathrop, a Republican, died July 23. He was chairman of the board of commissioners. He had served as board chairman and previously as county judge since 1980. Assessed Values In Area Determined New assessed values for 1962-63 have been determin ed, according to Thad Hatten, Jackson county assessor. Hatten said the total assess ed valuation, including utili ties. Is $103,448,929, an in crease from last year of $4, 957,211, or 8.03 per cent. The assessor said only four taxing districts have lower as sessments this year because of changes in timber laws. Tax levies have not been figured, hd added. Hatten noted that the in crease In the assessed valua tion is a ''normal increase." wife were 40 minutes from the airport. But he would not say whether they were living in motel or staying with friends. Newspaper, radio and tele vision crews have been gath ered at the airport since early morning waiting for the Phoe nix couple, who have been in seclusion since early Thurs day. Mrs. Finkbine fears her un born child Is deformed be cause she took Thalidomide during the early days of her pregnancy. X
