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Sstbsck The Beauties of Scenic Oregon (Oregon State Highway Commission Photo) Court Hal S ' ' ' . wi:ff$k L.Iq-'J These are some of the residents of the only mainland sea lion rookery in the nation, basking on the rocks north of Florence. Thalidomide Warning Brings Highest Award Washington WPU Presi-1 dent Kennedy today conferred the nation's highest award for civilian service on Dr. Fran-' ces Oldham Kelsey for her role in the thalidomide case. "All of us who have hopes for our children" owe her a debt of gratitude, Kennedy said. Dr. Kelsey, 48, was honored at a While House ceremony for her stubborn refusal to clear the infant deforming drug thalidomide for commer cial sale in the United Slates. Too Excited She was presented the Pres ident's Gold Medal for distin guished federal civilian serv ice. The shy, Canadian-born doc tor, however, said she was not quite sure what the President said during the ceremonies. "I think I was too excited to hear him," she said after wards. Kennedy, placing the rib bon of the Gold Medal around the Food and Drug adminis tration medical officer's neck, said "We're all indebted to Dr. Kelsey. All of us who have hopes for our children know how important this work is." Girl 16, Dies From Exposure Chehalis, Wash. -HOT- The body of Dana Yelverton, 16, Bclievue, who died Saturday during a hike in the high Cas cade wilderness, was brought here Monday. Lewis County Coroner Dr. A. R. Twisp said the girl died of "absolute exhaustion and exposure." She and her 25 companions, who had been on a week-long church hiking party, were caught in a sneak snow and hail storm Satur day. Twiss said the hikers were not equipped for such weath- He said the girl died Sat urday evening after efforts to keep her warm in sleeping bags failed. Other members of the par ty hiked out of the Goat Rock." area, which is at an elevation'- of 7.0(10 feet, leav ing the body of the girl wrap ped in a sleeping bag. rriv.s from HEWSjBRIEFS MISSILE SCORES HEAD-ON INTERCEPTION Washington-1 Pl-A Sparrow III missile launched from a fighter plane has knocked down winged guided mistile in head-on interception, the Navy announced today. DRUG CONTROL TO HAVE PRIORITY Washingion-I n-Democraiic congreitional leaden pledged after a meeting with President Kennedy today to give high priority to nil legislation to tighten government controlt on drug distribution. KIDNAP VICTIM'S BODY DISCOVERED Oneonla, Ala.-in-The mutilated body of Larry Thomas. 11, kidnaped five days ago Irom Little League baseball field, was discovered in a thallow grave Monday night, police aid today. Within hours officials reported the arrest of Michael Mayola. 28. paroled sex pervert. Mysterious Phone Call Clouds Death Of Marilyn Monroe Hollywood-IUPIl-A new clc-, !ment of mystery clouded the ! tmtn Ma"lyn ! ' "I . . . i ne actress nni sHppnpr said Mondav Miss Monroe was' Guy R' Hockett, the man disturbed by a mysterious aSmg director of the Wesl telrnhone rail which sho re. wood Village Memorial, said jeeived the night before shelonly a handful of personal cuea. , Mrs. Eunice Murray, the mot ijuiauii iu sue lue ou-year- old voluptuous star alive, told United Press International she did not know who the caller was, but Miss Monroe "seem ed disturbed after the phone call." She did overhear the conversation. Private funeral services for Miss Monroe were to be to day, at noon (PST). No movie : Mlss Monroe, who became celebrities were included 1 America's sex symbol with among the 40 persons invited, 1 her wiggily walk and sensu a funeral director said. j ous figure, was found dead Poet-author Carl Sandburg I shortly after 2 a.m. (PST) Sun- U.S. To Press New Test Ban Approach Geneva lUPIt The United States intends to press its new approach to a nuclear test ban despite advance indications of a Soviet rejection, informed sources said today. U. S. Ambassador Arthur H. Dean is expected to put the new American ptfsiilon on rec ord Thursday when the three nation nuclear subcommittee of the 17-nalion disarmament conference meets. The olher members of the subcommittee are Britain and Russia. U. S. sources said Dean may seek further lalks with Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister Val erian A. Zorin, although no definite meeting was set. Smaller Russian Jests Believed Touched Off Washington - H'Pli - Russia apparently held some smaller atmospheric nuclear tests be fore touching off its super bomb Sunday, according to the Atomic Energy cominis- j sj0n The A EC said "there arc indications that the Soviet Union had resumed atmos- pheric nuclear testing a few days prior to the nuclear de tonation announced as having occurred at Novaya Zemlya Aug. 5." AROUND THl OtOII was invited to deliver the eulogy, but there was doubt his heaIth would pcnllit nlm' 0r1V a Few Invited " vitca because of the space limitatiolls at the ..rustic od. ern Chapel of the Palms. He said arrangements were made Monday by Mrs. Bcr nice Miracle, half-sister of Miss Monroe, and Mrs. Inez Melson, designated by the conservator of the actress' estate to make the arrange ments. The New York Post quoted Mrs. Murray as saying Miss Monroe received a call after retiring from Joe DiMaggio Jr., 21. son of her second hus band. The housekeeper said young DiMaggio told Marilyn something about "deciding not to got married." "She seemed very pleased about it and said she was go ing to call somebody up and toll the news," the Post quot ed Mrs. Murray as saying. I Already in Bed ! The housekeeper said Mari- j lyn already was in bed when ; DiMaggio called and already I had taken some sedation. Mrs. j Murray said she had to wake i Miss Monroe to talk to young I DiMaggio. The Post said DiMaggio, a ! Marine private at Camp Pcnd ; leton, Calif., noticed "noth-1 ing amiss" about Marilyn's! mood. He said he was very close to his former stepmother i j and called her whenever he 1 fell like talking to her. Britain May Deport Soblen Back To U.S. London-'t'Pli-British govern ment sources today raised the possibility that Britain might deport Soviet spy Dr. Robert Soblen back to the United States rather than let him slip back to Israel. The government has given Israel's stale-owned airline. El Al, until midnight Wednes to comply with its order to resume Soblcn's flight to New York. The flight, from Israel, was interrupted July 1. when Sob len slashed himself aboard an El Al plane, forcing his hos pitalization in Britain. Lightning, Heavy Rain Batter Prineville Area Princville-'l'PIi - A severe liiihtning storm Monday re sulted in disruption of tele phone service in parts of Cen tral Oregon. About 10(1 telephones were reported out in the Prineville area and others in Bend and Redmond. The storm dumped heavy rain. Prineville. normally dry this time of year, reported 84 of an inch of rain. Regional Edition Medford 16 Pages Hatfield Accused o f Passing Thornton Says Duly Shirked in Withycombe Case Statement Called Attack on Integrity Salem -WPP- Gov. Mark Hatfield today wag charged with shirking his official re sponsibilities and "passing the buck" in the reported missing property situation at Camp Withycombe. The charge came from Atty. Gen. Robert Y. Thorn t o n , Hatfield's Democratic opponent in the gubernator ial race this fall. "In fairness to the hun dreds of loyal guardsmen who are not involved in this scandal and who?e reputa tions and morale are suffer ing, Hatfield should stop beating the bush," the attor ney general declared. Commander-in-Chief Thornton explained the Oregon constitution makes the governor commander-in-chief of the National Guard and said the state police, who also are under the governor's jurisdiction, spent more than a month investigating the dis appearance of property at the camp. "Obviously they obtained all the information and re ported the facts to him. Why doc? he need another secret investigation?" A special board of inquiry to look Into the situation was named by Hatfield and began its duties Monday. Buck Passing Charged The attorney general said Hatfield was passing the buck to others instead of standing on his own feet and telling the people the facts. "The people arc entitled to have a complete list of the missing property together with its true value, who got the missing property if it was sold, who sold it and what be came of the money. If heavy equipment also was involved as is rumored, the loss is probably much greater than the $6,000 figure given," Thornton declared. Hatfield's press aide, Tra vis Cros?, called the Thorn ton statement "an attack on the integrity of the Jurors and the jury system which is basic in our form of govern ment." Indictment Refused The Camp Withycombe sit uation had been before the Clackamas county grand jury which refused to bring in an indictment. Cross said the governor's office "will not be a party to c a f t i n g a shadow of doubt upon their integrity." He said that this is not the first time that the attorney general had second guessed a jury's decision nor is failure before a jury unknown to him. Without civil findings the governor directed mili tary procedures be insti tuted,, Cross explained. "If the attorney general has knowledge not available to the board of inquiry, let h i m come forward." Cross declared. Guardsmen To See Simulated Blast Warrenton - (I'PH - Some 1.300 Oregon Army National Guardsmen will witness a simulated nuclear blast to- night as part of two weeks of aciive auiy training near nerc at Camp Rilea. Demolition experts will detonate the blast, using 250 pounds of TNT, gasoline, white phosphorous grenades and other explosives. Participating in the train ing exercises are batteries of line 249th Air Defense Artil- lery from Portland, Salem, Medford. Klamath Falls. Coos Bay. Albany. Gresham. Burns, Redmond, Bend, Ashland, Newport and Lake Oswego, along with supporting units from Portland, Salem and Clackamas. Col. Donald N. Anderson of Salem is In command of the encampment. MEDFORD, OREGON, TUESDAY, AUGUST WEATHER FORKC AST: Cloudy with occa sional show en lunlcht and in morrow morning- Partial clear ing and frwer showrrs tomor row alU'rnuon. Low tonight iy High tomorrow 75, Temp. Highest Yesterday 17 Lowest This Morning 58 Prec. to Midnight Yesterday .15 Free, to 10 a.m. Today AO Our Skies Tonight Sunset today 1:25 p.m. Sunrise tomorrow .... 5:10 a.m. Moon set tonight 11:10 p.m. First Quarter Tomor row 1:55 a.m. The planet, Venus, sets 8:48 a.m. and. like the Sun. It now ts a little earlier and further south on the horizon each eve ning. cVnus Is also growing brighter. onian Killed in Crash Near Grants Pass Grants Pass - A 35-year-old Washington woman was fatally injured in a head-on collision near here Monday afternoon, according to Ore gon state police. Killed was Minnie Mc- Cracken, 35, of Oak Harbor, Wash. The accident occurred about 1:20 p.m. yesterday on High way 99 in the Sexton moun tains, 10 miles north of Grants Pass. Mrs. MeCracken was taken to the Josephine General hospital in Grants Pass and died about 5:25 p.m. Stale police said apparent ly the MeCracken vehicle was traveling south at the time oi the accident. A car, driven by.Luba Bakholdin, 21, of Montebello, Calif which was northbound in the right lane of the three-lane highway, was hit by (he Me Cracken vehicle. Police be lieved the MeCracken vehicle went out of control on a turn, causing it to cross three lanes of traffic. The driver of the Bakhol din car suffered severe lacer ations on her head. Two pas sengers, Miss Mary Muraviov, 21, and her sister, Miss Nad ya Muraviov. 23, both of Los Angeles, Calif., were alro in jured in the crash. Nadya was in serious condition and Mary suffered minor injuries, po lice said. They are in Jose phine General hospital. Mrs. MeCracken was re portedly en route to Sacra mento, Calif., where she was to meet her husband, Charles L. MeCracken. He had been in Philadelphia at a military school. Both cars were demolish ed, police noted. Jackie, Caroline Head for Vacation New York - 1IPP - Mrs. Jac queline Kennedy and her daughter Caroline fly the At lantic tonight to a two-week vacation in Italy. The President's wife ar rived Monday from the fam ily's summer vacation home at Hyannis Port, Mass. She ar rived aboard the Kennedy family's plane, the Caroline. with 11 suitcases, a golf bag and tennis racquets. Caroline, 4. was to be brought here from Hyannis Port today by a nurse. Mrs. Kennedy, her daugh ter and Secret Service agents were to depart for Rome at 5:40 p.m. (PST) today on a regularly scheduled Pan American Airways flight. From Rome. Mrs. Kennedy will go to Ravello. Italy, where she will visit her sis- ter. Princess Lee j '"r two weeks. Radziwill, 1 1 Persons Injured In Portland Collision Portland-WD - Eleven per sons, all women and children, were injured shortly before noon today in a two-car, head on collision. Two of Ihe in i Jured were reported critical. They were hospitals in taken to three Portland and Gresham. All of the persons involved were not immediately identi fied. Two teams of county deputies sped blood In relavs from the Red Cross head quarters to Gresham General ' hospital after an emergency 'call went out. i Douglas Denies Execution Stay For Mrs. Duncan Death Scheduled For Wednesday San Francisco-ltlPll-Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas today denied a stay of execution to Mrs. Elizabeth Ann Duncan. 58, scheduled to die in the San Qucntin gas chamber Wednesday. Defense attorney S. Ward Sullivan said he planned further action but added he was not prepared to say what it is. No Comment Douglas returned his ruling without comment after a hear ing at his summer home near Glcnwood, Wash., where he is vacationing. An appeal had been presented by attorney Arthur Warner, an associate of Sullivan's. A stay of execution would have allowed Mrs. Duncan to appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court the rejection of an ap peal by the California Su preme Court last week. About the time the accept ance of the appeal was an nounced, Mrs. Duncan was taken from the California In stitution for Women in South ern California to San Qucntin Prison where the execution is scheduled. Two Otheri To Die Mrs. Duncan, convicted of murder and scntcned to death for hiring two men to slay her pregnant daughter-in-law in 1958, sped north in a state car in the company of two custodial officers and a nurse. Luis Moya, 28, and Augus tine Baldonado, 23, hired by Mrs. Duncan to kill Olga Duncan, already were at San Qucntin Prison. They also are scheduled to be executed Wednesday. The body of Olga Duncan was found Dec. 21, 1958, in a shallow grave near a moun tain highway. She had been pistol whipped and strangled. Crater Student Gets Scholarship Salem - (UPD - David John son, superintendent-principal of Sisters High school, was named Monday as the new executive secretary of the Oregon State Scholarship commission. Johnson's appoint mont takes place immediately and he will move to Eugene where the commission's office is lo cated. The commission awarded 22 more scholarships to high school seniors who will attend Oregon public and private higher educational institu tions. Under a law passed by the 1961 legislature the young ! slers can get annual grants up i to $500 which can be renewed i for a maximum of four years I as long as the applicant re i mains eligible, i Scholarships awarded Mon : day included David Molloy, : Crater and Sheryl Wilson, Klamath Falls. One Killed, Two Hurt In Accident at Salem Salem - H'Pfi - One man was killed and two injured Mon jday evening when a ear crash jed through the railing of the j Center Street bridge here and i "hinged 75 feet down onto the Willamette River bank. The virlim was John Loren ; Cosla, 22. Walnut Creek, Calif. Police said he was thrown from Ihe car before it i plunged off the bridee. i Injured were Philip La j Beau. 25. Salem, and Michael .Morris. 22, Phoenix, Ariz. I Roth were In serious condi. ; tion. fOPEST RESEARCH RATED Washington -fl'Pli -The House , voted today to put forestry ! research on the same level as other types of research in agriculture. flou rTd Nation" vote Stayton - OJPH - Stayton vo ters will decide in November whether their water will be fluoridated. Buck Tribune 7, 1962 j...,-, j...rt. .Trr -)1IMtM1 imiiinniiiiiiiMniiiiimui CAUGHT UNPREPARED Government forms, though thick, are not really large enough to protect Meteorologist Philip Larch, from the rain as he checked Ihc rain gauge at the Medford airport Monday afternoon. Rain in August is, to say the least, unusual in this area, and Larch did not go to work prepared for wet weather. About half an Inch of rain had fallen at midnight last night. (Knackstcdl photo) 'Winter Type' Rain Boosts Precipitation Above Date's Norm A "winter type" shower poured .55 inch of rain on the Rogue valley last night and this morning. Personnel at the Medford Weather bureau called it an unusual shower, because it had the characteristics of win ter rainfall-a general steady rain. Precipitation durlrtg Au gust usually conies from Ihun dershowers. The .55 Inch figure was well above the normal .02 inch for this date In August, Mrs. Finkbine To Press lor Abortion Stockholm-IUI'll- Mrs. Sherri Finkbine got a transatlantic telephone call from a medical adviser today and said she had been told to press for im mediate abortion as further delay might make termination of her pregnancy a major operation. I don't know what to think," said the worried Phoe nix television performer who fears she may give birth to a deformed child because she took the drug thalidomide. "In the United States they don't like to wait beyond the 12lh week, which is what I am in now. But in Sweden they say its all right through the 15lh week.'' Her husband, Robert, said he had tentatively arranged for her to see one of Sweden's top women gynecologists, Dr Kristen Krostner, late today and that he hoped the exami nation might satisfy the State Medical board that his wife would be in danger of "men tal breakdown" if she were forced to carry the child. Lumber Negotiations Expected Shortly Seattle 'IIPH Negotiations with Canada aimed at con vincing the Canadians to re duce their lumber exports to the United States will begin "very soon, perhaps within the next few weeks," a top administration official said today. Interim Zoned Area Residents Are Encouraged Russell DeForrst, Medford lawyer and legal advisor to a group of Phoenix area resi dents opposed to zoning, en couraged all residents of the South west Phoenix interim zoned area to study the draft of a proposed zoning ordi nance. He made the suggestion at an informal meeting Monday evening at the county court house called by the Jackson county planning commission to discuss the proposed ordi nance's draft. DrForeit staled that he was neither for or against zoning. but had been hired for legal advice. He suggested that all 57th Year Price 10 Cents No. 119 but was not yet close to set. I ting a record for the month The wettest August on record came in 1945 when 1.13 inch fell, all of it within a 24-hour period. If it keeps raining this August, however, a record may well be established, the weatherman said. The forecast for tonight and tomorrow called for cloudy with occasional showers. The rain considerably re duced fire danger, and as of 10 o'clock today, no fires had been reported to any valley fire fighting agency during me iJieceuuig nours. The rain, and accompany ing cool, moist weather con stitute surt of a mixed bless ing fur valley agriculture, indicated County Agent C B. Cordy. The cool weather will be fa vorable to pears in sizing, he said, as hot weather keeps them from sizing well. On the other hand, the rain will Increase the amount of brown rot in the peach crop, and a brown rot spray should be applied as soon as possible to prevent it, Cordy said. The rain also could delay grain harvesting and baling of hay that has been cut. Eisenhower Visits French Landmarks Parls-WPIl-Formor President Dwight D. Eisenhower ipent a nostalgia filled morning to day visiting places he knew when he was here 12 years ago as supreme commander of the Allied forces In Europe. Mrs. Eisenhower kept to their suite at the Hotel George V for the second consecutive day, She wrenched her should er gcit.v.g ofi the train when they arrived Saturday and doctors ordered her to rest Eisenhower's day began with a drive to the home of Gen. Lauris Norstad, current supreme commander, where the Eisenhowers lived when ' be became the first allied commander in 1950. To Study Proposed Draft of those present at the meet. ing listen to the ordinance as read by the commission and assist In putting It into the best form possible. In this wny, he continued, in the s event you go to the polls and the ordinance dors go through, you will have the best zoning ordinance possible. The lawyer's statement was made after considerable dis. cussion by the more than 50 ; ordinance at Its monthly meet persons at the meeting. Most ing Wednesday, Aug. 8, at 8 of the questions were on p.m. The meeting will be held zoning In general, and not on in the county courthouse audi reviewing the ordinance draft torlum, according to Commls presented. Several residents of i sion President C. O. Lovejoy the interim zoned area kept stressing the need for con- ! tinucd zoning so that the area Judge Rejects Motion To Drop Injunction Plea Attempt Seen To Force Intervention Chicago -itlPli- The nation's railroads suffered a setback today in their court battle to put strict anti-featherbedding work rules changes into ef fect. U.S. District Judge Joseph Sam Perry turned down a motion by railroad lawyers to dismiss a plea for an in junction by five brother hoods of on-train railway workers. The unions ask the injunction to keep the rail roads from putting new work rules into effect Aug. 16. The judge's ruling did not touch on railroad plans to go even further than the recom mendations of a presidential commission in clamping down on what it considers to be featherbedding practices on the rails. No Wage Raise The railroads announced in court Monday they would put their original demands of November, 1959, into effect Aug. 16. The 1959 proposals allow no wage raise for rail employees and would author ize immediate dismissal of 41.000 firemen. The s h i f t in railroad de mands was an apparent at tempt to force presidential in tervention in the dispute through the naming of an emergency board. Perry refused to go along with railroad arguments that the unions had come into court without exhausting all administrative remedies pro vided by the Railroad Labor act. He said all administra tive procedures had been complied with and it was up to the National Mediation board, not the unions, to ask the President for creation of an emergency board. Judge s Opinion Filed On Suit . Mrs. Thelma Short, former secretary of the Eagle Point Irrigation district, has been advised that she may submit a decree dismissing the six causes of suit filed by Ann Todd, Howard F. Todd, and Paul D. Conrad, all district waterusers. The suit sought to recover for the district money paid i Mrs. Short by a power com- pany, interest on delinquent assessments, allieged uncollected entrance fees, a gift given to Mrs. Short by the district, charged the de fendant with unjustly using district water, and attempted to start action for wrongful credit extended by the dis trict to some users. The written opinion was filed with the county clerk Monday by Circuit Judge Ed ward C. Kelly. The court suggests to Mrs. Short that a decree in the suit should re strain and enjoin the plain tiffs from instituting further proceedings other than an ap peal to the supreme court. The suggestion was made. Judge Kelly said, due to the ' plaintiffs' disregard of other court decrees dismissing cas es involving the same mat ters. He added that any vio lation of the proposed re straining order would be con tempt of court. The Judge said it was the court's desire that the plain tiffs understand that once the matter is litigated and final decree entered, that it is the end of the matter and further litigation isn't permitted. Kelly said, "The remedy provided by law is an appeal to the supreme court. The court feels that it has been troubled enough with litiga tion involving the Eagle Point Irrigation district with out a continual rehashing and litigation of matters previous ly decided." of some six square miles could develop in an orderly fashion. Following DeForest's state ment, review of the ordinance draft progressed with more persons seeking clarification of points they did not under stand. The county planning com mission will consider all of the recommendations for the so that interested residents or Phoenix interim zoned are may attend,
