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West Ml at mers ini Ber mi Stones Bus ., .... . - - v; r - K' ' , O ---fa- ftt aim i lahi-jji.B iifc , .aw iii w .fm a, , . v.--- 'Miwi-- -ii, .'JiiuTir. - S at"" v C ir . Water skiing, fishing, swimming, boating, camping and Oregon Veterans May Get Bonus Dividend On Life Policies Washington - IUPII - About 5 3 million veterans of the First and Second World Wars soon may get a bonus dividend on their GI life insurance pol icies. Veterans A d m i n i strator John S. Gleason Jr. has order ed a fiscal review of his agency's finances, in part to determine whether extra funds are available for insur ance policy dividends. He hopes to go over the figures during the first half of Sep tember. Dividend in 1961 The Veterans Administra tion paid a special dividend of S220 million on GI insur ance policies in July, 1961. That dividend came out of an excess of premium collections over benefit payments due to increases in longevity since the rates were computed. The VA now has about $200 million in uncommitted re serves. Gleason could decide to: Spend none of it, instead holding it as an extra safe guard against contingencies. Pay out all of it as a spe cial dividend. Use some of it to aug ment the regular dividend the VA pays each policyholder on the anniversary of his pol icy. Speed up payment of the regular dividend. The VA did that in March, 1961 to com bat a recession. It disbursed dividends scheduled to be paid during the rest of the year. 11 could do that again, anticipating dividends due for three, six or even 12 months. White House aides are in terested in the possibility of extra or accelerated dividend payments because of the add ed purchasing power they would bring into the economy. AMERICAN Boilon 4 9 1 Minnesota 6 9 0 Schwall, Radatl (7) and Pagliaroni; Sligman, Sulli van (8) and Baitty. X1S TAKEN ON 'HOT' RIDE Pig tlEWSOBRIEFS ITIMS FROM 5k ABOUND THI OlOII Edwards AFB. Calif.-lPI-Air Foret Maor Bob Ruih worth look th rockat plana X1S on "hot" ridt today at Edwards Air Fore Baia. SALMON PROGRAM RECOMMENDED Washinglon-lPl-The Interior Department today recom mended an Sll million program to help tare declining lalmon and iteelhead trout runt on Northern California f Ireams, KENNEDY TO HOLD NEWS CONFERENCE Waihington-'in-Preiident Kennedy will hold newt conference Wednesday at noon (PST), the Whit Houtt an nounced today, . Tfte Beauties of Health Regulation Slip-Up Blamed for Smallpox Scare New York -IUPI)- A short circuit of international health regulations appeared respon sible today for allowing a Ca nadian boy to enter the Unit edStates from Brazil while infected with smallpox. James William Orr, 15, a missionary's son, was isolated in a Toronto hospital today while public health authori ties here pursued an intensive campaign by press and radio to get in touch with the hundreds of persons who may have come into contact with New BLM Director Assumes Job Here Donald J. Schofield assum ed duties here today as the new district manager for the bureau of land management. Schofield succeeds Ross Youngblood, who has been transferred to Alaska to manage the bureau's Fair banks district. Schofield transferred from the BLM California state office in Sac ramento, where he was chief of the division of l?nds and mineral management. According to Ri'ssell E. Getty, BLM director for Ore gon and Washington, "Scho field has had broad experi ence in BLM, both in and out of the Northwest. He is- ex tremely well qualiifcd and a very capable manager." Schofield, 42, is a gradu ate of Montana Stale univer sity and joined the BLM in 1948 as a forester in the Sa lem district. From then he held increasingly responsible positions in forestry with the BLM in Bend, Spokane and Juneau. Alaska. In 1957, he transferred to the BLM's lands staff in Washington, D.C. In 1958 he became the range and for estry officer for BLM In the siate of Washington. He transferred to the Cali fornia state office in 1960. and was promoted to chief of the division of lands and minerals management in 19:1. Scenic Oregon (Oregon Suie sunbathing are principal activities at Crescent lake in the Cascades. him while he was In New York Aug. 11. The Public Health Service announced that all 74 persons on the plane that brought the Orrs to this country had been located and inoculated. The boy's father, James William Orr Sr., said in Tor onto today that his son had been vaccinated "five or six.." years ago in Canada. U.S. health regulations require anyone entering the country to have a certificate attesting to a vaccination no more than three years old. The father said the boy had been given a vaccination cer tificate in Brazil without ac tually having been innoculat ed again. He said it was issued after a check was made of the scar of the previous vaccina tion. The Orr family flew into New York Idlewild Airport Aug. 11 from Brazil. They took a taxicab to Grand Cen tral Terminal, waited several hours, and then traveled to Toronto on a train that eve ning. Young Orr s condition was reported as "very well" to day. Dr. Matthew B. Dymond, Ontario's minister of health. said in Toronto "every precau tion is being taken in orderly fashion." The boy was in Riv erside Isolation Hospital. His parents and their two other children were quarantined. Vaccination! Urged In New Britain. Conn., state Health Commissioner Frank lin M. Foote urged any Con necticut residents who were in Grand Central Terminal between 1 p.m. and 8:30 p.m. Aug. 11 to get a smallpox vac cination. Foote said a sneeze by the boy could have spread the germs 20 to 30 feet. James entered the hospital in Toronto Saturday and is in no danger, according to doc tors. -"Clinically the hoy has the disease . . . but there is no need for panic or alarm. We do not anticipate an epi demic." said Dr. Dymond. The boy's father sajd his son probably contracted the disease in the interior of Brazil, where the family of five had been on a mission until they flew to New York. Western Oregon Said Free of Ragweed Portland-IUPII-Westcrn Ore gon will be a real haven be tween now and the first frost for persons allergic to rag weed pollen, the Stale Board of Health said today. It said the whole of West ern Oregon probably is the largest ragweed free area in the United States. HEARING RESUMES Portland-TPP-A hearing into charges of racial discrimina tion against a Portland apart ment house owner resumed today before Oregon Labor Commissioner Norman O. Nil Highway Commission Photn) 5 Algeria Lists Candidates for Sept. 2 Election Algiers-IUm - The Algerian Political Bureau today dis closed the list of candidates for parliament in the young nation's first national assem bly elections Sept. 2. All were virtually certain of election since only one can- didate is listed for each of the 196 scats in parliament. Among those named were strong man Vice Premier and Political Bureau Chief Ahmed Ben Bella and Ben Youssef Ben Khcdda. provisional gov ernment GPRA premier. Lengthy Meeting The list of candidates was revealed about 24 hours after the conclusion of a lengthy meeting between the political bureau and leaders of Al geria's six military districts (willayas). Former GPRA Premier Fer hat Abbas, Willaya Four com mander Col. Khatib Youcef and the three European mem bers of the administrative provisional executive Rother Roth, Jean Mannoni and Charles Koenig were nam ed. Sixteen nf the assembly seats will be filled by Euro peans. The assembly will have as its first job the forming of a government from among its deputies that will hold office for one year. The army had wrangled with the political bureau to make sure enough military men were on the list to pre vent it from becoming an in strument of government poli cy, rather than a policy maker. Sergeant Pleads Not Guilty to Charge Sgt. Roger Kent Olson, 29, San Francisco, Calif., pleaded not guilty to a charge of as sault and battery in Jackson county district court this morning. Trial has been set for 2 pm. Wednesday. Aug. 22. Robert Boyer, Mcdford law yer, is Olson's attorney. Olson was arrested by Mcd ford police Saturday morn ing after an incident Involv ing Olson and Sgt. First Class Harvey Cline, Army recruit ing office, Medford. According to police, Olson was in a local bar where he was disturbing other custom ers. Cline entered and sug gested that Olson leave. Ol son countered with refusals, according to the report. The incident continued in a nearby parking lot, where Cline said he was assaulted by Olson. Olson was picked up on a citizen's arrest at the corner of Main and Ivy sts. He was confined to Mcdford city jail, and Cline signed a com plaint against him this morn ing. Olson has been stationed at Fort Bragg, N. C., and said he was on his way to Korea. FOREST FIRE DANGER TOMORROW KEP OREGON GREEN AAcGahuey Killer Seen in Control of Self BY GEORGE H. BELL Mail Tribune Staff Writer Salem LecRoy Sanford McGahuey died hard early this morning. I don't mean he resisted the execution or made it difficult for the guards and attendants. Indeed, he seemed cooperative and ready to help them in whatever way he could. He kept a tight smile on his face and passed remarks to the guards as they strapped him in the black, metal chair a few minutes after midnight. What I mean is that in stinctively - as any human organism does - he fought for life, and seemed to hold on as long as he could. It took about eight minutes for the cyanide to choke the life out of him. Though he was probably un conscious a few seconds after he first inhaled the white, va porous fumes, his body jerked and strained against the thick leather straps for several min utes. His head slumped forward and did not move again about three minutes after the cya nide pellets rolled out of the black steel box beneath his chair and dropped into the vat of acid. Carried Off Well If it is important lo note how a man acts as he goes to his death, put McGahuey down as carrying it off well. He seemed while conscious lo be completely in control of himself. One reporter who saw him come out of his cell and make the short walk to the cham ber said that as the guards helped him out of his terry cloth robe, he looked for ail the world like a cocky, little bantamweight boxer n few minutes before the bell for round one. He sat down in Ihe chair with the relaxed attitude of a man ready to have his hair cut. He was easily the coolest person in the room. Inhaled Deeply When the first fumes of the gas reached his face, he seemed to inhale them deep ly, and then turned his head and nodded lo Warden Clar ence Gladden on the other side of the glass, as if to say, Its O.K. Everything's all right." I watched him closely dur ing the interval between the time they sealed the door and the dropping of the pellets. jhis lace was composed and most of the time his eyes were closed. I noticed his lips mov ing slightly. It is possible he was praying. Guards Enter Chamber After it was all over and ammonia had been pumped into the chamber to neutral ize the cyanide, two guards put on oxygen masks and rubber gloves and went Into Ihe chamber to lake him out of the chair. One of them took a while towel and mopped Mc Gahuey's head and face with it to remove any traces of the gas. Somehow, that was the most wretched sight of the whole thing. As we all filed out. the guards were placing his still limp body on a sheet-covered stretcher, readying it for de livery to the state hospital. At mid-morning today, the mortal remains of Leeroy San- iora jncoanuey still had not been claimed. Railroad Merger Proposal Heard Washington-l'PP-Two of the nation's largest railroads went before Interstate Commerce Commission examiners today with their marriage proposal that one railroad can survive cheaper than '.vO. Tut Pcnnsylvjnia Railroad and New York Central Rail. r.,ad stated down a long le gal rnid they iioood would lead to approval of the merg er lo create the nation's larg est rail system. WEATHER roarrAST: mir M nrm thrniifh Tlturtiv. t,i)ir Innlihl S-to. Hth Tutieay 901.V TEMP. Illrrtt Vntfrrtiv 91 l.owfl Ihlt ltomlnt . i Our Skies Tonight Rnnifl toaiv 7:0 p.m. Snnrlo tomorrow ... S:li a.m. MoonrUc tonifhl 16:?4 p.m. I il UiiirWr Am. 21 Tht plan!, Mara, rliM a.m. and It moving from Ihe rnnIM latton, Tatirui. Into Grtnlnl. Mara la now abnut 12 million mllra awav. Rogue Valley Edition Two Sections 57th Year Price 10 Cents MEDFORDH&fTRIBUNE 16 Pages MEDFORD, OREGON, MONDAY, AUGUST 20, 1962 No. 129 Petitions lo Put Power Issue on Ballot Circulating Grants Pass Members of the Josephine County Public Power association have start ed circulating petitions seek ing to place formation of a People's Utility district on the ballot here in November . W. I. Davidson, president of the organization, said to day his group is encouraged by the recently released state engineer's report on the feas ibility of forming a PUD in Josephine county. The public power asocia tion seeks to form a PUD to lower electric rates, Davidson explained. In order to get the proposal on the ballot, 408 signatures of registered voters must be obtained and peti tions submitted to the slate engineer's office by Aug. 28 Report on Feasibility The state engineer's report on the feasibility of a PUD in Josephine county stated that "it appears possible that the district could operate as an economical electric utility." It also pointed out prob lems, however, including the Tani thai lirw.e unulH hau0 In be constructcd to bring in power since there is no source of power within the proposed district. Davidson said the PUD would purchase its elec tricity from the Bonneville Power administration. The engineer's report Indi cated the proposed Josephine PUD would be comparable to the Central Lincoln PUD in Oregon as far as size and num ber of customers served is concerned, Davidson said. He added that the current rale charged customers for 500 kilowatt hours in the Central Lincoln PUD is $7, compared lo $10.85 for the same num ber of kilowatt hours in Grants Pass. The proposed district would cover 1,028 square miles and would have a population of 31,110 and assessed valuation of $38,274,497. Half Acre of Grass Burns at Academy One-half acre of grass and brush burned at Rogue River academy on South Stage rd. last night. Medford city firemen were summoned about 7:20 p.m. The fire was outside the Med ford district but firemen pro tected the buildings until a state department of forestry crew arrived. The blaze reportedly origi nated in a trash pile behind a house on the academy cam pus. Firemen reported that a grass fire near an old barn on Black Oak dr., near the west end of Walden place about 6:55 p.m. yesterday was started by boys playing with matches. Former Resident Is Killed in California Hornbrook Mn. Guy Kraft, who was born and re. red in Hornbr k, was killed in southern Califor nia automobile accident this morning Mrs. Krufl was returning from an Eastern Star meeting when the accident occurred near her home in Colton, Calif. Funeral services will be held in southern California with burial at Hornbrook Mr. and Mrs. Kraft return ed to Colton a few days ago after visiting in t1 e Horn brook anA Yreka areas. Ac companying them was Kraft's sister. Mrs. William Bcall, 917 South Ivy it., Medford. Executed : t.. i i I , It , k U 1 1 REFUSES TRIP Tonia Vcrstak, Sydney, Australia, has refused i prizes she received for winning the Miss International Beauty contest at Long Beach, Calif., Saturday night. Miss Verstak said she has not yet completed her contract as Miss Australia and Ihcrefore eels that her first obligation is to her home land. See story on page A7. (UPI) Kennedy To Capital After Western Washington -IUPII- President Kennedy returned today from his first so-called "non-political" trip preparatory to the November congressional elec tions, his jet specdjng him from Los Angeles to Washing ton in five hours, 15 minutes. The presidential plane ar rived at nearby Andrews Air Force base, Md. The President then took a helicopter to the White House. Kennedy spent a leisurely Sunday in Southern Califor nia, swimming and sunbath ing at the beachfront home of his sister, Mrs. Peter Law ford. At one time he surprised Pacific Ocean crowds by tak ing a swim among them. After attending church Sun day morning in Beverly Hills, the President held a brief offi cial meeting with his staff and then went to the beachfront Santa Monica home of his brother-in-law, actor Peter Lawford. Police held back large crowds of bathers and sight seers on cither side of the house. Hundreds of spectators rimmed the edge of the Pa- cifie Palisades overlooking Officer's Call Puzzles Portland Police Dispatcher Portland -lPn- "I'd like I record check on one man," a I d officer C. E. Cochran over the police ra dio. The ditpaicher said tire edly, "Go ahead." After a minute of silence, Cochran laid, "God All mighty." "What?" said the ditpat cher. "Thai's right," aald Coch ran. "And he'i got identifi cation to prove it," Cod Allmighty it 55. a la borer and a retident of a downtown Portland hotel. He it tcheduled to appear in Municipal Court Sept. 12 for jaywalking. The name on Ihe citation continued to caute a mild ditturbance at the police bureau office each time an office girl ran acrott file copy. IV . ... VaH'iiMel 21-year-old beauty from world tour, one of th' Returns Junket the house hoping In gel a glimpse of the President. However, he remained within the walled enclosure surrounding the Lawford pool most of the day. Late in the day he surprised the beach-goers with an un scheduled jaunt through the sand to the ocean. Although less than 300 were on hand when he first stepped out of the canvas-draped e nclosure the crowd quickly swelled to nearly 900 as word passed down the beach that the Chief Executive was going for swim. The throng flocked around him and greeted him as he made his way to the water. After a 20-minule dip he jog ged back across the beach to confines of the Lawford pool. The President returned to the Beverly Hilton for dinner and then left by motorcade for the airport. There will be other trips , particularly In J September and October, as the Chief Executive tries to increase the Democratic ma jority In Congress, contrary to the customary off-year elec tion pattern in which the par ty In power loses congression al strength. (See Story on Page 2A) Stalinist Leaders Purged in Vienna - tUPD - A drastic purge of 25 Stalinist leaders in Hungary apparently was aimed at reducing conserva tive opposition to Hungarian Communist parly chief Janoi Kadar, political observers here said today. The purge, including ex party chiefs Matyas Rakosi and Erno Gcro, followed the pattern set by Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev In his de Stalinization campaign against the "cult of personality" in Russia. The expulsions from the party, reported Sunday by the Budapest newspaper Nepsza badsag, took place during a fou-day meeting of the Hun Shooting Blamed For Attack by Jeering Crowd Communist Claim Said Exaggerated Berlin - (DPI) A crowd of jeering West Berlincrs today hurled hundreds of stones at a Soviet bus carrying Russian soldiers to the Soviet War Memorial in West Berlin in a new protest against the Red shooting of a young East German refugee. Witnesses reported that scores of the stones smashed through the windows into the bus and that some of the 16 Red army soldiers inside bled from their heads or hands af ter the attack. Precautions Defied About 500 demonstrators. defying stepped up security precautions by West Berlin police, waylaid the bus and attacked it with stones min utes after it passed safely through U.S. Checkpoint Charlie on the East-West Ber lin border. The new violence broke out as the East German Com munists claimed they shot down a Western military air craft Saturday whe - it flew over East German territory in a "deliberate provoca tion." In Bonn, however, tha West German Defense Minis try denied that the plane had been shot down. Escaped to West The West German ministry said the Communist report was an exaggerated account of an aerial border incident which took place last Satur day when a West German navy plane wag shot at by Communist interceptors but escaped to the West. It was the third consecu tive day that a Soviet army bus was stoned by West Ber- liners embittered by the Communist police killing a refugee on the Communist wall last Friday. , An eyewitness reported that almost every one of the 500 West Berliners in the e crowd threw one to two stones at the bus and shat tered almost every window in it. Sides Denied The sides of the bus also were dented by the shower of rocks. Unlike Sunday's night-long' rioting, there was no anti American demonstration to day. Another Soviet bus stoned Sunday night by West Ber liners returned to East Ber lin today without incident. Mayor Willy Brandt had warned that alerted West Berlin police would crush further anti-American demon strations by West Berliners who complain that the Amer- cans should have Intervened lo save the fallen refugee. House Cave-in Kills Spokane Man Spokane -AIPD- One man was reported killed today in the cave-in of his residence east of here and about six miles north of Trcntwood. Early reports said the man. was crushed to death by tim bers while working beneath the main floor of the house. His wife ana four children reportedly escaped without serious injury by crawling from the debris. They wera taken to a Spokane hospital. The Spokane sheriff's office said Charles Frederick of Spokane notified it of the ac cident after picking up two of the children who were run ning down the road for help. ARCHITECT DIES Portland -(UPI)- Harrison A. Whitney, Portland, a partner In the firm of Whitney, Hin son & Jacobsen, and a Port land architect for more than 50 years died Saturday night. He was 85. Hungary garian Communist Central committee last week. Nepszabadsag said Rakosi and Gero were ousted for or dering hundreds of innocent persons to stand political trial. The two men were Ra dar's predecessors as party chief and leaned toward the "hard" policies of former So viet Dictator Josef Stalin. The newspaper said 17 for mer members of the judiciary, the prosecutors office and se curity agencies and six mem bers of the Rakosi grcip also were expelled. Rakosi, 70, was Hungarian Communist party chief in 1955 and part of 1956, and Gero, 62, was party chief, or three months in 193JI.
