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.