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57th Year Price 10 Cents Subscribers To report Improper or non delivery of the Mail Tribune In Medtord. phone 772-6141; Ash land call at 1224 lows it. or phone 482-3002: Montague and Yreka. phone Globe 9 -JUL be fore 6 45 p.m. daily and 10 30 am. Sunday. If regular delivery arrives shortly a tier you call please notify office, thui eliminating tpecial me&.enger aervice. ft!? .. SuI"y period! thi ilirrnonn. Incr-islnt tlnudinm tonijht and Monday s' "In postlhlr Monday anrnoon and rv?nm. High to. ?H1 J L?' """111 55. Huh tomorrow Jg. Highest Y-M-rdav ""V Lowest vstrrday" Morning 57 PRECIPITATION To S p.m. Totirday ... 0 RIBUNE EDFORD Unitrd Pre si Internatinna) Full Leased Wire Untied PreH lnternatioml Full t.eaed Wire Section A 64 Pages MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, AUGUST 5, 1962 Six Sections No. 117 Weather M County Engineer Advises Against Agate Rd. Request County Engineer Robert J. Carstensen has recommend ed to the Jackson county court that a portion of Agate rd. not be abandoned as, request ed by the state fifgtottay com mission, but be closed to traf fic instead. The highway commission has asked that the county abandon a portion of Agate rd. between Crater Lake high way and the point where the commission proposes to make a new connection from Agate rd. to the highway. Carstensen pointed out that that once the county aban dons the portion of the road, it can never use it again. He recommended that the route be closed to traffic, but not abandoned until permanent development plans are made for Crater Lake Highway, Present Junction He noted that in the future it is likely the highway will be widened and improved in the vicinity of its present junction with Agate rd. A left turn holding lane also has been suggested for the inter section. About 300 feci of road would be closed, according to the engineer. A barricade could be errected when the intersection is changed, he added. The Agate rd.-Crater Lake highway intersection has been the site of several traf fic accidents, including one last spring which resulted in two fatalities. The highway commission and county court have been working for some time to eliminate the skewed connection and reconnection nf Agate rd. with the high way. The county engineer's of fice is continuing its study of the area to furthpr advise the court and the highway commission. WStBRIEFS itims hom FIGHTING INCREASES IN SOUTH VIET NAM Saigon. South Viet Nam I Pi Fighting in the Vietnamese Central Highlands stepped up Saturday as well armed Com munist guerrillas swarmed across the border of Southern Laos into South Viet Nam, reliable South Vietnamese mili tary sources said. ALGERIAN BUREAU CALLS FOR ELECTION Algiers -IH- The Algerian Political Bureau, headed by leftist Vice Premier Ahmed Ben Bella, Saturday called for elections to this new nation's first National Assembly on Sept. 2. CASTRJ CHARGES U.S. WITH VIOLATIONS Havana -'IPI1- The Castro government Saturday charged the United States witfi new "violations" of Cuban air space and announced the execution of two more "eounler-revolu-tionaries" by a firing squad. MARINES WITHDRAW FROM THAILAND Tokyo in The complete withdrawal of all U.S. Mar ines rn Thailand began Saturday, the Pacific Stars and Stripes reported today. The U.S. armed forces newspaper, in a dispatch from Its correspondent in Udorn. Thailand, said two companies were airlifted to Okinawa to begin the, withdrawal. The Beauties of t ;SiS5ril-.A?SW.- ...... , Mt. Hood stands high above the Ministers Fail To Agree At Common Market Session Brussels -HIPP- The six Com mon Market nations and Bri tain failed Saturday night to agree on the key question of comparable outlets for 'white' dominion" food exports. The meeting between the six nations and Britain broke up at 2:05 a.m. (EDT) after nearly 22 hours of negotia tions. A French spokesman said the negotiators would meet again in the fall to make an other attempt at solving the problem. Talent Man Hurt In Gun Accident A 24-year-old Talent man underwent surgery at Ash land Comunity hospital last night for removal nf a bullet following a shooting accident in a remote area off Dead In dian rd. Saturday afternoon. Robprt Duane Lucier. the victim, was brought out nf the area, up Cove creek about five miles off of Dead Indian rd.. by a U.S. Forest Service helicopter. His con dition at the hospital last night was described as "good." According to slate police, the accident occurred when Lucier pulled a .22 calibre pistol from a holster and ac cidentally shot himself in the hip and leg. Two members of Lucicr's party. Tony Kinion of Talent and Jim Johnron of Medford, came out and notified Ash land police of the accident at 4:35 p.m. Saturday. A third man, Robert McKnight, stay ed with Lucier. Stale police and the county sheriff's office were notified of the situation, and sheriff's deputies made arrangements to secure the helicopler. Lu cier was brought to Ashland at fi:0R p.m. AROUND THI CLOU Scenic Oregon (Oregon State Oregon metropolis of Portland. Earlier in the day. it had been reported that "quite a bit of progress" was made in the efforts to reach a com promise over the treatment of food exports from some Commonwealth countries fol lowing Britain's entry into the community. Britain requested that "comparable outlets" be giv en to exports from common wealth members in the tem perate zone - Canada. Aus tralia and New Zealind. For almost five hours Sat urday afternoon, the mini sters discussed amendments and counter - amendments in the document the six had sub mitted to the British on this question. British negotiator Edward I Heath submitted a series of i 24 amendments to the com i munity paper Thursday night, i In long - drawn and labor ious talks Friday and Satur , day morning, the six studied the Heath suggestions, rewrit ing and reamending them. I An atmosphere of pessi mism developed Friday night when it seemed impossible for the six to agree among themselves. At one time the French delegation even was said to have suggested that the talks could better be ad journed until Britain present ed the community proposals to the commonwealth prime ministers meeting in Septem ber. But the discussions went on and the six completed their work early Saturday after noon. They were reported to have met Britain part of the way on the principal points involved. It was learned that the de bate had taken place in a favorable atmosphere. Source said that Belgian Foreign Min ister Paul-Henri Spaak had done much to bridge the dif ferences. Gold Rush Jubilee Events End Today Jacksonville The first day activities nf the Jack sonville Gold Rush 'Jubilee were witnessed h y "good" crowds, jubilee officials re ported last night. The jubilee winds up today with a slate of activities in cluding the grand parade at 1 p.m. and a gold panning contest at 3:30 p.m.. in addi tion to several musical events during the afternoon and a carnival all day. During events Saturday, names of grand prize winners were announced. Don Shores of 88 Oak Grove rd., Med ford, won first prize; Mary Carrara of Mary's Casa. Med ford. second, and Judy Mc Faddcn of 225 Black Oak dr.. Medford, third. Miss Judith Ann Gebhaid. jubilee queen, waf crowned Saturday morning. Holywood - '!'Pt - Actor Charles Laughton. who un derwent major back surgery earlier this week, waj reporl eded resting comfortably Sat-urHv. 1intBlaHWMIIIaittUlaWd Highway Commission PHoto) Officials Check On Validity Of Zoning Petitions Petitions calling for an elec tion on zoning in the South west Phoenix area were still being checked late Friday by Jackson county officials for validity. The petitions, bearing a to tal of 132 signatures, were presented to the county court last week by Russell W. De Forest, Medford lawyer rep resenting the petitioners. County Judge Eirl Miller ask ed the court for a 10-day period to check the petitions for legal form and procedure. Friday, Miller said the pe titions had been returned by the elections department and that 105 of the signatures were signed properly. The judge said he would probably submit the documents to the district attorney's office to check the wording of the pe tition. The assessor's office also was expected to confirm property ownership. Incorrectly Registered County officials said that many of the signers were ei ther not registered voters or were incorrectly registered. Many of those signing the pe titions do not live in the area being studied, they added. Jack Eaton, county plan ning technician, said he ex pected to complete his study of the petitions by late Tues day. He noted that the area included in the petition de scription is about 12 square miles, twice the area that is currently wiltiin the South west Phoenix interim zoned area. Six Persons Hurt In Two-Car Crash Six persons were rushed to Rogue Valley Memorial hos pital Saturday night follow ing a head-on collision on South Stage rd. at 8:40 p.m. Names of those injured and information on the nature of their injuries were not avail able al press time, hut state police said four of the six were adults. The accident occurred when a motorist slowed down to allow a cat to cross the road. A second car heading in the same direction swerv ed across the center line to avoid striking the rear of the first and crashed headon with a pickup truck traveling in the opposite direction. The motorist who initially slowed down to avoid hitttng the cat was not involved in the collision. Sports Bulletins Klamath Falls - 1PP -Madison of Portland won its third straight Oregon Babe Ruth baseball cham pionship Saturday night by defeat ing Cleveland of Portland 10 9 in eight in nings. Pitcher Steve Cham berlain won his own game by singling home Jim Sha fer from second base with two outs In the extra-inning eighth. Chamberlain regis tered his third victory of the aight-leam, double, jliminahon tournament. SoblenOrderedTo; I Leave England By Wednesday Night Airliner May Take Him To Israel London -UPP-- The British government Saturday gave Israel's El Al Airline until midnight Wednesday to get convicted Soviet Spy Dr. Ro bert A. Snblcn out of the country. Israel promptly an nounced that if Britain insists on El Al carrying Soblen it will fly him to Israel instead of New York. The new complications in the tangled web of getting So blen back to the United States to face a life term in prison for espionage came as the ail ing, 61-ycar-old psychiatrist remained in Brixton prison amid conflicting reports he was in "excrutiating pain." He is recovering from self-inflicted knife wounds, but claims he is dying of incur able blood cancer. Appeals Rejected Soblen slashed a wrist and his abdomen in a ruse to gain entry to Britain. The El Al airliner taking him to New York landed here and he was given medical treatment. But his appeals to stay were reject ed and the British ordered El Al to continue him on his way. The home office first set a deadline of midnight Monday, but Saturday ex tended it to Wednesday. El Al said it must act only on Is raeli government orders. In Jerusalem, government public information officer David Landor said the Israeli government has decided it is not its business to get Soblen back to the United Slates where he faces a life sentence Soblen jumped $ 100,000 bail in New York, sought asylum in Israel but was ousted for entering there on a false pass port. Landor said Israel has no extradition treaty with the United States and therefore is under no obligation to send Soblen back. He said that if Britain insists that El Al re move Soblen to the United States, it would be forcing the airline - and thus Israel, which owns it - to extradite Soblen. Stumbo Indicted In Arson Case Harry Warren Stumbo, 34, nf Wolf Creek, turned him self in to the district attor ney's office here Friday. He was wanted on a grand jury secret indictment in con nection with setting fire to forest land in the Rogue riv er and East Evans creek areas on July 16. Claude Walter Chase, 41, of Central Point, was arrested earlier last week on a similar charge. Stumbo was lodged in Jack son county jail at 12:05 p.m. Friday. Both men were re leased later that afternoon on $3,500 bail each, according to sheriff's deputies. Chase was arraigned in cir cuit court Thursday afternoon on a charge of willfully and maliciously setting fire to for est land. The indictments followed an investigation of a series of approximately 12 road-side fires in Josephine and Jack son counties, one of which burned 250 acres In the Gran ite hill area, one mile north of Grants Pass. Phoenix Residents Invited To Meet Residents of the Southwest Phoenix Interim zoned area are invited to attend an in formal discuss session nf a ; zoning ordinance for the area jat 8 p.m. Monday, Aug H, in j the Jackson county court ; house auditorium. A notice nf the meeting has been sent to residents of the area, according to the plan ning commission staff, as well as rough drafts of the ordi nance. Commission members i hope to obtain recommenda tions on the draft to assist them in writing the ordi nance. Last month, the planning commission approved a devel opment pattern for the area and the next step is for the commission to formulate an ordinance which carries out the development pattern to be submitted to the county court for Its consideration. Beverly Hills, Calif - H'Pli Entertainer Kay Slarr and Nevada car agency manager Earl Sprncrr C.'allicutl were married Saturday pight. ew Soviet Nuclear s n en as war Morse Concedes Probable Passage Of Satellite Bill Measure Labelled 'Giveaway' Device Washington - fllPD - Sen. Wayne L. Morse (D-Ore.) con ceded Saturday that the Sen ate probably will pass Presi dent Kennedy's satellite com munications bill "but at a terrific cost" of ill-feeling. Morse is a key figure In filibustering tactics which have stalled the bill. He said on a radio-TV pro gram witl' Sen. Joseph S. Clark (D-P.i.). another oppo nent, that "they're going to win this fight at the cost of ill - feeling, not only in the Senate but in the country." While Morse and Clark were attacking the bill as a "giveaway" device to set up a private telecommunications system in outer space, anoth ed liberal Democrat defended it. Sen. Harrison A. Williams, Jr., N.J., said in a television interview for a Philadelphia station that "it seems to me the public will be amply served" by safeguards in the bill. He acknowledged the wide rift in liberal Democrat ic ranks but said "this doesn t disturb me." Williams said In another TV interview for a New York station that "on this issue the people who are normally a community" the liberal bloc "are no longer, and there is a division, but it'll only last through this Issue. On other issues we'll probably be together again." The little band of Morse Democrats won a temporary victory this week in their ef forts to delay formal Senate consideration when the Sen ate referred the bill to the foreign relations committee until Aug. 10. The Senate measure, a mod ification of what President Kennedy requested, would set up a private corporation to operate a space satellite com munications system. Half the corporation's stock would be owned by communications companies and the other half sold to the public. Unhappy Delegates Quit Youth Festival Helsinki - (UPli - Disgrun tled Asian and African dele gates jolted the Communist World Youth Festival Satur day by walking out after charging they were "syste matically exploited" by the organizers of trie Red meet ing. The new walkouts came as visiting Russian spaceman Lt. Col. Yuri Gagarin was telling a crowd of some 4,000 persons that the Soviet Union is readying "further and big ger flights." Hema Dabare, head of more than 100 Ccylonesc delegates, said he and 43 others were quitting the fes tival because they had been "systematically exploited" by the Reds. Owiti Ger, leader nf the 11- mcmbcr Uganda delegation, also announced he was leav ing because the festival is "a total failure and there has been no friendship at all." McGregor Named To County Board Grants Pass - Don McGreg- or businessman and former city councilman, has been ap pointed In the Josephine County Board of Commis sioners. McGregor was named by Commissioners Louis Ringu ette and Bruce Davidson to replace the late Raymond A. Lathrop, who died July 23. The appointment came after the county Republican central committee nominated McGregor fur the post at a special meeting Thursday night. McGregor's appointment Is effective Tuesday. He will serve until the November election, at which time he and other candidates may run for the balance of Lathrop unexpired term. ins rim -iT Si, AT PRESS CONFERENCE husband Robert of Phoenix, ference at the Los Angeles airport Saturday before they boarded an airliner for Sweden. Mrs. Finkbine is going to Sweden to have an operation to prevent the birth of her child she fears may be deformed by a drug. , (UP!) Sherri Finkbine Flies to Sweden To Seek Abortion Stockholm. Sweden-'l'PP-An official of the State Medical Board said Satur day thai Mrs. Sherri Fink bine may have to .wait six , to eight weeks for an abor tion in Sweden, unless she can prove there is an emer gency hrh as mental 111. ness.. Dr. Carl Inge. Oester. head of the abortion bu reau, said that even where there is an emergency, the medical board would take at least a week to clear up the preliminaries and au thorise an abortion. Los Angeles - IUPD - A pret ty television actress, whose fears that her unborn baby might be deformed by a drug have been highly publicized, took off by plane for Sweden Saturday "determined" to get a legal abortion. 'I m determined to go through with this operation and I feel the people of Swe den will be sympathetic," said IV .. Sherri Finkbine of Phoenix, Ariz., who took a RECOMMENDS CREATION Salem - UPH - The gover nors committee on labor- management relations, after a year long study, Saturday recommended creation of a state labor-management rela tions agency (o help mediate labor disputes on a voluntary basis. Eagle Point Youths After Siphoning Soft Drinks Eagle Point-Several youths were Bpprehended by police here late this week in connec tion with a recent "siege" of juvenile crime. Shortly after noon Friday three boys - two 12 years old and one 13 - were caught by city policeman Orin Chastain while attempting to siphon soft drinks from a vending machine In the Scout Com munity building. The incident climaxed a se ries of such thefts, Including a case of full bottles taken early Friday morning. The building had been occupied from 9 a.m. until noon, ac cording to Dottie Harbison, Mail Tribune correspondent. Full Bottles According to reports. Offi cer Chastan had been asked to investigate a earlier theft of soft drinks and empty bot tles as well as the breaking nf several windows in the basement. At the time of the attempted siphoning, he was In Ihe building checking the names Mrs. Sherri Finkbine and her Ariz., are shown at a press con tranquilizer c a 1 1 d thalido mide during her early preg nancy. . ' . Abortions are legal in the Scandinavian country under certain' conditions - depend ing upon the ruling of the Ptntc Medical Board. The '30-ycar-old mother of four told a press conference before boarding an airliner with her schoolteacher hus band, Robert, that she .pre sumed Swedish doctors would do the operation for her. "It has been done there seven times previously for women who have taken the same drug," said the woman who seeks preventative sur gery for fear of having a drug -deformed baby. She pointed out that doctors in Arizona had recommended ; she undergo an abortion im mediately to avoid a Caesar ian section. Mrs. Finkbine, whoe case has received world-wide pub licity, agreed to a press con ference at International Air port after hiding out from re porters since her arrival here from Arizona yesterday. She said her pregnancy probably was "in the 11th week," and added: "I feel it Is better for my children to have a mentally sound mother. If I went through with this (having the baby), I'm sure that five chil dren would have a not so mentally sound mother." damage ind at the same time putting full bottles In the ma chine. The youths entered the building through the hole left for a proposed fireplace that was covered with boards. When the three entered the building about 12:30 p.m. Fri day, the policeman was in an adjacent room and returned just in time to catch them using straws to remove the soft drinks from the bottles in the machine. Empty Bottles The Juveniles reportedly have Involved two other boys -ages 9 and 11. The youths have admitted entering the building at least five times, stealing the case of bottles earlier Friday, and on four other occasions taking empty bottles from the machine, in the Eagle Point school. Three other local youths were expected to be ques tioned this weekend in con nection with the thefts. Sometime Friday night or early Saturday morning the Tests Begin Arctic Maneuvers Expected to Last About Ten Weeks Various New Arms May Be Tried Out Moscow - HOT - The Soviet Union starts a 10-week series of secret war games in the Arctic today which were ex pected to mark the resumption of its nuclear tests. The military maneuvers were scheduled to take place over a vast stretch of icy land and water between the Bar ents and Kara seas and to last until Oct. 20. Western observers expect the first at omic explosions of a new So viet test series to come on opening day, or shortly aft erward. Observes Games Soviet Defense Minister Marshal Rodion Malinovsky is believed to be in the Far North to observe the war games, which an official an nouncement issued July 24 said were designed to test "various types of modem arms." Soviet Premier Niklta Khrushchev headed for a Black Sea vacation and ap parently plans to skip at least the initial phases, if he plans to view the maneuvers at all. The war games will include units of the Soviet Northern. Fleet and Air and Rocket Forces. Although, there has been no announcement, it was considered possible that oth er Warsaw Pact nations may hold maneuvers to coincide with the Soviet exercises. Watched Firing Western observers believB the Soviets might include tests of a new Polaris - style mis- - sile they claim to possess. The official Tass News Agency re ported several week ago that Khrushchev watched the fir ing of one of these missiles from a submerged atomic sub marine at Leningrad. But the dispatch, . did not indicate whether a nuclear warhead was used then. It also was considered pos sible the Russians could be planning further tests of the anti - missile missile which Khrushchev has said Is ac curate enough to "hit a fly in space." But military experts of the United States, whose own Nike Zeus anti-missile missile has successfully intercepted an Atlas nose cone in flight, have said they still do not believe Russia has an anti missile defense that can ward off all attacks. Portland Furniture Factory Strike Ends Portland, Ore. - (UPD - A three-day strike against two Portland furniture factories was settled here Saturday night. Local 3182 of the Carpen ters and Joiners Union and the Portland Furniture Co. and Fashioncraft Co. signed a three-year contract. Arrested Eagle Point garage was enter ed. Police reports list a can of milk being opened and consumecd at the site. Also a small fire was started on one of the basement tables. Little damage was reported. Stealing Bottles An 8-year-old Eagle Point boy was apprehended Satur day and admitted he broke a window In the grange build ing and entered. In addition, his 13-year-old half-brother repeatedly talked his 6-year-o 1 d brother into stealing empty soft drink bottles from a resident's yard on North B St., and then selling them at a local market, Both juveniles also were apprehended Sat urday morning by police. Each of the youths involv ed In the recent crimes was turned over to the custody of his parents pending Juvenile court action. , Officer Chastain announced Saturday that two or three other misdemeanor acts were under investigation. j
