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Price 10 Cents Weather FORECAST: Filr todar and Monday. Ultlr chant tn tem perature. High both davt 82 to 86. Low tonight 50 to 55. Temp. Highest Yesterday 85 Lowe.t Yesterday 52 Precip. To S p.m. Yesterday none Subscribers To report improper or non deliverv ot the Mail Trihunr in Med lord, phone 772-6141; Ash land call at 1224 Iowa st. or prmne 182-3002: Montague and S'reka. phone Globe -3 171. be fore 6 45 p.m. daily and 10 30 a in Sunday 1: regular dffliverv nrrivps shortiy alter you call pirate notify oNU-e, thus eliminating special messenger service. Tribune United Press Internaiional Full Leaicd Wire United Preso International F'ull Le.ned Wire Section A 60 PAGES MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, AUGUST 19, 1962 Six Sections No. 127 57th Year MEDF0RDfflMl Hatfield Refuses Commutation For Convicted Killer Execution Slated For Early Monday Salem - flJPU - Oregon exe cutes its first murderer in nearly 10 years Monday. LeeRoy Sanford McGuhuey, 44, will die in the gas cham ber of the Oregon State peni tentiary for the hammer slay ing of a 23-month old Central Point boy, Rod Cameron Holt, in February, 1961. Police described the Holt boy's slaying as one of the most brutal in recent Oregon history. Testimony at McGa huey's first degree murder trial showed that he admitted slaying the boy after killing Uie youngster's mother, Mrs. Lois Mae Holt, because he was worried about the baby's welfare. Police said McGahuey, an ex-logger, had been living with the woman. Gov. Mark Hatfield Friday refused pleas of McGahuey and his lawyer, William Kel lington, for commutation of the death sentence. Hatfield said "I have pray erfully considered all the evi dence in this case and do not find any basis upon which to exercise executive clemency." Hatfield's office said the governor would be available in case any new appeal should be directed to him during the week end. Otherwise the only avenue for appeal would be to the Oregon Supreme Court, which turned down one appeal, or to the federal courts. McGahuey was informed of the governor's action by let ter in his cell on death row. Warden Clarence Gladden said McGahuey had no com ment when informed of the governor's action. Gladden said McGahuey appeared "calm and resigned to it." Kellington had Indicated the appeal to the governor was the final action he would take. There have been three mov es in recent years to end capi tal punishment in Oregon. Voters defeated a measure by 12,000 votes1 in 1958. Anti capital punishment bills were defeated in the legislature in 1959 and 1961. Hatfield is an avowed oppo nent of capital punishment as was his predecessor, Robert Holmes. But Hatfield indicat ed he would not take the move of Holmes, who in the closing months of his term of office commuted to life im prisonment the death sentenc es of three condemned slayers -George Sack, Billy Junior Nunn and James Norman Jensen. Strike At Missile Arsenal Settled Huntsville, Ala. WPP A strike at a Redstone arsenal that was costing $1 million a day and hampering the na tion's space program was halt ed Saturday by federal court order. Officials of striking local 558 of the International Elec trical Workers union ordered their pickets away from (he gates and the way was clear ed for the return to work of 1.500 non-striking workers who had honored the picket lines. The union called the ..trikc last Tuesday to protest tnr employment of non - union workers by several firms which have contracts at ihe big arsenal and missile center. HEWSff)BP ITIMS FROM N AI(0UNB THI 0l0H FINKBINE ABORTION PERFORMED Stockholm IPC - Mri. Sherri Finkbin tuccessfully un derwent a legal abortion in a Swedish hospital Saturday and doctors said afterward an examination showed the un born child would have been born deformed as the parents had feared. HIGH DEATH TOLL FEARED Bogota, Colombia 'IPt- - Rescue workers feared lhe death toll might exceed 100 Saturday in a flood that roared through lhe mountain city of Florencia Friday night. TROOPS MAKE SURPRISE STRIKE Soc Trang, South Viet Nam. 1PI - Four thousand loyal troops flown into battle and supported by U.S. Marine helicopters killed or captured more than 150 Communist guerrillas in a surprise strike through the swamps near here this week. PACIFIST DEMONSTRATION BROKEN UP Grolon, Conn., IPt - Police and Nary shore patrolmen Saturday broke up an "inTasion" attempt by pacifists who tried to disrupt launching ceremonies for this nation's newest Polaris submarine. Five demonstrators were arrest ed, and the launching of the nuclear sub Alevander Ham ilton went off without a hitcb. .; H ., r v t - PRESS PLUHGER - President John F. Ken- plosives, marking groundbreaking cere- ncdy, left, closes his eyes, and California monies at San Luis dam and reservoir site Governor Edmund (Fat) Brown grimaces as in Los Banos, Calif., Saturday. (DPI) both press the plunger that detonated ex- JFK Urges New Con Los B-no-, Calif.. C!i -President Kc-.ncdy climaxed a fast tour of Western re source development projects Saturday by calling for broad, new- i'cdov.tl-S'.nte conserva ,ion pro: r. r and men such as Calif- : Gov. Edmund G. Brown to help run them. Kennedy's last ri a j o r sv-ccch Ot trip that bejan . 'riday v..i appearances in South Da', la and Colorado was a col nation endorse ment of rrivnnced water dc vclopmen. Brov. l who is runnin': for re-c'?e.;on ppain.'t former Vice President Richard ?I. Nixon. Site of Kennedy's ar-P-T-ance was 'be vast San Luis Dam and r.cscrvoir ;:) be built at an estimated ccst of more than S-300 million. The President and the Governor joined in breaking ground for the project by pushing twin plungers In explode a 17,000-font line of earth mark ing the axis of the new Dam. "It is a pleasure to come out here and blow no this valley." the Preside-!'.' said to broad laughter from the audi ence gathered in hot sun and I Eugene Policeman Draws Suspension Eugene. Ore. - Wli - Capt. ; Donald Clark of the Euucnc Dolice department has been suspended pending investiga tion of charges of "conduct unbecoming a police officer," it was disclosed Saturday. The suspension was effec tive Tuesday. Clark was sus pended by City Manager Hugh McKinicy and Cnpt. W. G. Crease, assistant chief of po lice. The action came after an in vestigation of charges in an anonymous letter mailed to the. department July 30. v (l " terrrie-slurc '. pius-OD. Mer ced County police estimated ih? crowd at San Luis at about 13,000 persons. Saturday's phase of Ken nedy's "non - political" trip bcRan during tiie morning with a one-hour conference in Yosemite National Park between Kennedy and Brown who Inter flew with the Chief exec.;;'' e by Helicopter to an ir-rovised pad on the San Lt:is project site. Kennedy rep oi l. ' to his s u n .'?a;e.i audience outside Los r.. n.is that his trip was Thrca In Oregon Aiiio Accidents By United Press International Three persons . . .two from Oregon . . . died in traffic ac cidents in the state Saturday. The victims were Hilario Vasciucz, 70, Mercedes, Tex.; Mrs. Maxine Ham, 23, Foster; and Curtis Fuller, fi. Brooks. Vasqucz was killed in a one-car accident near Mc Minnvillc. Six other persons were' injured in the crash. The car went out of control and overturned. Mrs. Ham died when she was struck by a car as she stood beside her stalled ve hicle near Sweet Home and the Fuller boy lost his life when he rode his bicycle into the path of a car near Brooks. Owen Leathers. 35. Hepner, was killed in a motorcycle accident near Heppncr Friday night. He was testing his motorcycle in a field and went over an eight-foot bank. Army 2nd Lt. Lavid Cor don of Roscburg was fatally injured n a two-car collision near Coeur D'Alenc, Idaho. He died at a Kellogg. Idaho, Hospital. Governor Urges New Academic Freedom Monmouth -TPE- Gov. Mark Hatfield ha CHllcd for "a new kind of academic freedom for all of our public school teach er;;' In a talk here he said thai teachers should have freedom to speak arrd act as mind and conscience dictate on arty so cial and political issue. His view came when he talked to a workshop of pol itics held at Oregon College of Education. "I would like to see more teachers take positions nn the issues of the day making those positions known and defend ing them aeainst all comers. I would like to see them throw caution to the winds insofar as deference lo local authorities, school administra tors or public opinion might go in those matters of honest conviction relating to the wel faii of the social body,' the k- ' - r ('c -In red. V 9 jt - j , A 'V r " t i,v j .1" fi- servaison fruitful and inspiring in that it showed him what was pos sible when the public, and State and Federal Govern ments forget regional differ ences and worked together. It was within this frame work that he was unstinted in his praise of Brown for hav ing contributed so much to Ihe water development of California. Sneaking ahead of the President, Secretary of Interior Stewart L. Udall oraiscd Brown even more 'avishly than Kennedy, put ting Brown "in a class by him . cif as-the best water Gover nor of all our 50 Governors." While the White House stuck to its "non-political" classification of K e n n cdy's trip, California is a state where Democratic lead crs hope to pick up as many as eight new House Scats this fall. Kennedy will return to the, Slate, probably in Octob er, to help this effort. The California House Dele gation of 30 Representatives i. now split between 16 Dem- ocrats and 14 Republicans, t Eight new seats arc up for I election this fall due to ap portionment, most of them f i ii the Los Angeles area where j the President planned to , spend the rest of this week ! end. ! Air Line Prepares To Resume Service Miami (UPI) - Eastern Air Lines announced Saturday it i will resume full service on 'Sept. 13, but with 25 per cent j fewer workers than when the jliight engineers first called their present strike 57 days ago. I Eastern's president Mal ,colm A Maclntyre estimated :at a news conference the loss . in jobs, in all departments of i the nation's fourtn largest air carrier, would total between 4,000 and 5.000. A large number of these, he added, would be recalled , by Dec. 15 when the airline , normally steps up Its service ;for the lucrative winter tour ist season. I But Eastern wont soon i reach the level of 18.000 cm Iployces it had on the payroll jwhen the flight engineers in ternational association (FEIA) . went on strike June 23, Mac ' Intyre said. Branchfield Named To Veterans Post Salem - 1PI'- The advisory committee to the State De partment of Veterans Affairs Saturday named Edward Branchfield. Medford. chair man of the group. He succeeds Samuel M. Bowc. Grants Pass. Other officers named in cluded Harry E. Williams. Portland, vice chairman, and John Schum, Portland, secretary. rn Swing Ex-Truman Aide Offers Defense For Humphrey Young Declares No Favors Extended Washington -(UPI)- Former Treasury Secretary George M. ! Humphrey was staunchly de fended Saturday by a Truman administration official who okayed a nickel stockpiling contract that brought the one time Eisenhower cabinet member under Senate fire. Howard I. Young, now pres ident of the American Zinc, Lead & Smelting Co., St. Lou is, said Humphrey, multi-millionaire Cleveland industrial ist, "received no greater con sideration in the contract award than if he had been plain John Jones." Young is a fellow towns man of Sen. Stuart Syming ton (D-Mo.), who angrily de nounced Humphrey Friday during the Senate stockpiling subcommittee's inquiry into the contract. Deputy Chief At the time the contract was signed, Young. 3 Repub lican, was deputy chief of the defense minerals production administration (DMPA) under then President Harry S. Tru man. "He's one of the finest men in the United States," Young said of Humphrey who served in former President Dwighl D. Eisenhower's cabinet for four and a half years. "He's absolutely square in every re-! spect." Young jumped to Humph rey's defense in a long dis tance telephone interview with United Press Interna tional from his office in St. Louis. He said Elsenhower's election victory in November, 1952, and Humphrey's desig nation as secretary of the treasury 10 days later, had no effect whatever on stormy negotiations that led to a gov ernment stockpile contract with Humphrey's Hanna Min ing Co. on Jan. 16. 1953, four days before the Republicans took office. "As far' as I'm concerned the political situation had no effect whatsoever," he added. "Politics never entered into it as far as our shop was concerned. We (the govern ment) needed nickel and need ed damned it badly and they had some. ' Humphrey Headed Young was talking about the M. A. Hanna Co. and mining subsidiaries, compa nies which Humphrey headed before he came to Washing ton. The contract, which provid ed for the sale of more than $100 million worth of nickei to the strategic national stock pile, are under fire by Sy mington's Senate investigat ors. According to the Mis souri Democrat's interpreta tion of earlier testimony, the contract permitted Humph rey's companies to realize "windfall" profits of up to $19 million. Humphrey de nied the profits were exces sive. Symington charged Friday that after Humphrey was named to the treasury and just before he took office, somebody on high gave word to "make this deal as the Hanna peop'.e want It." He shouted lha "we are going to find out who that was" after he and Humphrey had engaged in a bitter exchange. 18 Drown As Boat Swamps In Lake Quincy. Fla. -HiPH- A IB-foot fishing boat Jammed with Ne gro children off on a church picnic swamped under the heavy load Saturday and 18 of the 19 persons aboard drowned. All but one of the victims were children ranging in age from 6 lo 12 years. The lone survivor was 11-year-old Jerome Maples, who was saved by a fisherman who managed to push a cane pole within the boy's reach. The only adult aboard was Joseph Rouic, 25. who was operating the small motor that drove the small, green, flat bottom boat. Witnesses said the boat had Just left Jessie's landing on nearby Lake Talquin when the heavily loaded vessel be gan filling with water in the stern. Bouie raced the molur in hopes of raisii g Hi; crnft in the water, witnesses aid. hut instead it caused the wa'cr to rush forward and the boat icnt under. Candidate Dearth Noted In Central Point Election Central Point - This city may wind up with a shortage of candidates for city council and other posts unless more nominees are forthcoming within the next 10 days. As of today not a single candidate has filed for the six positions that come up for election this November. Only three candidates have taken out nomination papers, and two of them are seeking the same post. Filing Deadline Deadline for filing nomina tion papers Is Aug. 28, one week from Tuesday. The six city posts that come up for election are mayor, treasurer, recorder and coun cilmen from Wards I, II and III. The six incumbents have either announced they do not plan to run for re-election or have not yet indicated what their plans are. To add to the situation, a fourth councilman, whose term does not expire this fall, is reported planning to re sign at the next council meet ing, because of a provision in the city charter, The three Incumbent city councilmcn are Bill Cowllcy, Leslie Bigham and Don Pat terson, all of whom reported ly have indicated they do not plan to run for reelection. About lo Resign Councilman Chester Ayres is reported about to resign be cause the city charter pro hibits persons from doing bus iness with the city while in office. Central Point buys gasoline from a service sta tion owned by Ayres. The Incumbent mayor. treasurer and recorder are Freeman Mason, Edward Jones and Lyle Paull, respec tively. None of them has in dicated publicly whether or not he plans to run for re election. Candidates who have taken out nomination papers are Bert Adams In Ward I and Dale Bartley and Keith Wil liams in Ward II. None of them has filed yet. PLANE DAMAGED Bonn -illPli- An East Ger man jet fighter plane Satur day shot at and damaged a West German navy plane, the West German defense minis try announced. it -."5 m The golden aandstonc cliffs of Oregon Cape Kiwanda recn mantle of vegetation i ' ' - , -T-. ' .i .-: v' r ! a ' RICHARD H. TRAVIS Files For Council Travis Files For Councilman From C'i ' iUL U A L.I1V 5 WBrij V"l ,,,, ,,M,M Richard H. Travis, 44, ol 1100 Mira Mar ave., Medford, has filed for city councilman, , Medford's fourth ward, it was j announced Saturday. ' iravis is me sue.. ia pu, mi to file for a council position, Robert J. Cunningham, 43, ! of ,24 North Groveland ave., -, Medford, earlier filed for Ward 1. Deadline for filing! is Aug. 31. ! i , Travis is married and has inree sons tie nas uvea in IWiecuoro tor 1 1. yoais, oM ebomnton . Pnlnnrt China tor was oorn in inuiiinu. rn: employed by Mechanics laun dry. The cily council candi date was a World War II pi lot. Travis is past president and campaign chairman for the United Crusade, past president of the Public Library of Med ford and Jackson county and School of Hope, president of the Oregon United Appeal and campaign chairmnn for Jack son county of the Carl Fisher for Congress committee. He is also a member of the Elks, Masonic Lodge 103, Hil- lah Shrine and American Le gion. SULLIVAN OKAY ' New York - (UPI) - Ed Sul livan, nationally syndicated columnist and television per sonality, was reported in ex cellent condition Saturday after a gall bladder operation at the Mayo clinic, Rochester, Minn., the Columbia Broad casting System announced. The Beauties of Scenic Oregon i"WI" .:., Australian Entrant Wins Beauty Contest Long Beach, Calif. ( L I't ' Tania Verstak, 21-year-old brownhaired lovely from Sydney, Australia, Saturday night was named Miss International Beauty of 1963. Chosen from a starting field of 52 from all over the world, Miss Verstak was crowned in a colorful cere mony after being selected from five finalists. County 4-H Fair Climaxes With Saturday Events The week-long Jackson county 4-H and FFA fair reached a climax Saturday with a barbecued beef dinner, sheep auction and general livestock auction. Under the guidance of Francis Krouse, Applcgate '"anchor a"d 4-H leader, 1,200 I people were fed in approxim- lately 40 minutes Saturday evening. Crater FFA chapter's Den nis Cornutt sold his FFA grand champion choice South down sheep for the high price of the sheen auction. A . n(, SaUirdiiy afternoon. i i K ., .. , Tal.n, , sold her 4-H grand champion choice Suffolk sheep lor $1.20. The general livestock auc- i lion louowea aooui i p.m. ,,., vlr Hals(, vo1 pnml with Vic Halscy, Eagle ( FF A chaptcr, seiUng ni, Brand champion. - Poland China, $1.01 a pound. ' Champion Duroc Top 4-H hog, the 4-H Grand champion Duroc exhibited by Mary Ann Barker, Ruch, brought $1.17 a pound. The top selling FFA steer, i the FFA Grand Champion Hereford, exhibited by Lloyd Campbell, Phoenix, sold for 60 cents a pound. Candy Gail, Gold Hill, sold her 4-H Grand Champion steer for $1.03 a pound. A larger crowd than ever overflowed the sale barn Sat urday night and spread out onto the grounds. Bidding was brisk during the livestock sale which wound up the week-long fair south of Medford. A 4-H leader summed up the fair as having few prob lems, but the large hog and sheep entries required doubl ing up with three animals to a pen. (Oregon State v l t !7 1 sJrSV " - ' create a dramatic color pattern andttlcep blue ocean water. eflf r.'sWMi . . " - ii i i a Presence of NATO Forces In Berlin Scored In Speech Stand Taken During Fete For Cosmonauts Moscow (UPll - Premier Nik ita Khrushchev, raising the stakes for a Berlin settlement in the wake of Russia's new space feats, demanded Satur day that U.S., British and French troops get out of Ber lin, He withdrew an earlier offer to let smaller Nalo coun tries station troops in Berlin, The jubilant Soviet leader addressing a Red Square rally in honor of the Soviet space twins, also threatened ant'iv to sign a separte peace treaty with East Germany, but he did not set a deadline. For the first time, however, Khrushchev spelled out a re fusal lo permit NATO troops to participate, even under United Nations auspices. The refusal was a sudden switch from a proposal made by Khrushchev last month that the Soviet Union would be willing to have a joint NATO Warsaw Pact fuice keep the peace in West Berlin. Berlin Settlement Khrushchev's switch was taken' (o mean he now waj prepared to concede only a neutral force In the cily un der. U.N. command to replace Western Allied troops under a Berlin settlement. At the same time, Khrush chev pointed to the recent ne gotiated settlements of the Laos and Dutch New Guinea controversies and said the Berlin problem should be solved "in a similar fashion. ' He said the Soviet Union had as milch or more might than the "imperialist" nations and the Western Powers would be committing suicide If they tried to settle the issue by force. The Soviet Premier spoke for 50 minutes to cheering thousands in Red Square after decorating cosmonauts Maj. Andrian Nikolayev and Lt. Col. Pavel Popovich for their marathon twin voyages in space. Divided City. Khrushchev declared that to settle the "ripe" and "ur gent" problem of Germany, "NATO war bases in West Berlin" must be liquidated and Western troops with drawn from the divided city. HiQhway Committer. Ptvo with the frothy surf, pale sky,
