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r IM1 JV itt a rppna la vj ,s H M hr7 x -fZS htl Rocket Launches h, iMi ; :;. I , , v riooeoi rianei v - vh. - Multi-colored domes and ridges in Painted Hills State park northwest of Mitchell are a photographer's attraction. Kennedy, Step in Banning Nuclear Tests Washington-lUPIl - President Kennedy and British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan of fered today a new "first step" on banning nuclear tests which would drop insistence on on-site inspection of testing in the atmosphere, underwa ter and outer space. The new proposals, there fore, would mean calling a halt to all tests except those conducted underground. The American-British posi tion was that it was necessary, however, to provide inspec tion of whether underground nuclear tests were being con ducted. The proposals were put to day before the 17-nation Dis armament Conference in Gen eva, by chief American nego tiator Arthur H. Dean. First Soviet reaction was described by Western confer ence sources as cool but still not rejecting outright the pro posed Anglo-American draft treaty. Kennedy and Macmillan, in fact, put forth two proposals. They expressed a strong Reward Offered in Mail Truck Robbery Washington - IUP1I - Post master General J. Edward Day today offered $50,000 reward, largest in postal his tory, for the solving of the recent daring $1.5 million Massachusetts mail truck rob bery. Day informed a House in vestigating subcommittee that in boosting the reward mon ey from $2,000 to $50,000 he was offering the entire amount given his department for annual rewards. The biggest reward ever paid previously by the postal service was $25,000 for what was described as "confiden tial information." The postmarter general told the House investigators he has ordered immediate changes to prevent similar postal robberies. Easf German Guard Flees To Wesf Berlin Berlin-WP-An East German border guard escaped unnot iced to West Berlin through the Communist wall today as the United Slates called on the Soviet Union to put a stop to the "senseless cruelty" and "brutalities" of the Red police in East Berlin. At the same time, informed American sources reported new Soviet harassment of US. military traffic through Communist Germany. ITIMJ FROM HSBRIEFS MARXIST ECONOMISTS CONVENE IN MOSCOW Moicow-lPI-The Soiet Union convened a meeting of MerxUl economists from icore of nations today to discuss how to deal with such Western economic challenges as the European Common Market. DE GAULLE ENDS SUMMER VACATION Parit-tri-Pretident Charlei de Gaulle ended hu lummer vacation and returned unannounced to Paris today. RUSSIAN NUCLEAR BLAST DETECTED Uppsala. Sweden-1 ri-Swdiih scientists today delected I powerful Soiet nuclear blast estimated to hee had an txplotire force of from 14 to IS million tons of TNT. Tfte Beauties of Macmillan preference for an all-inclusive ban on nuclear testing in all environments but with in spection provisions. In view of Soviet refusal to go along with inspection on grounds it would open Russia to espionage, the two Western leaders offered the limited al ternative to halt all tests ex cept those underground. The move drew both praise and harsh criticism from some members of Congress. Sen. Albert Gore (D-Tcnn.) hailed it as "the most feasible and realistic" yet advanced in the Geneva conferences. He was joined by Sen. Frank Church (D-Idaho). However, another leading Democrat, Sen. Strom Thur mond (S.C.) called the offer Moroccans Observe Marriage of King Rabat. Morocco - OIPIl - Mo roccans celebrated today with gunfire, feasting and prayers the surprise announcement that King Hassan II had mar ried a teen-aged Moroccan commoner and that she had given birth to a royal princess in a Rome clinic Sunday night. Clinic sources in Rome de scribed the mother as "very young, about 14 or 15," with reddish-brown hair and the face of a child. They said she was a typical North African beauty. Until Sunday night, there ' had been no announcement of j the 34 -year -old Moroccan ' monarch's marriage to Latifa Amhourok Hassan, grand riaughter of a Berber chieftain of the Las Mountains. 23 Men Appear in City Court Today The walls of Mcdford city jail bulged over the week end as an unusually high number of persons were lodged on drunk charges. Some 23 men were brought before Municipal Judge Jo seph Fliegcl Jr. this morning for sentencing. This is the largest number in about two iflarc nnr nffirPT saifl. Sentences ran j jnc to o5 days in jai. Four j men were senlencea in jan terms, which will be served in Jackson county jail. YOUTH DROWNS Monroe. Wash. - -Robert Demcry, l!). Portland, drowned in Panther lake near hero Sunday after he jumped from a boat and at tempted to swim tn shore. AROUND THI OiOII Scenic Oregon Offer New for an uninspected ban "ri diculous and unrealistic." He said it would mean "surren dering a vital point which the President declared would nev er be surrendered." A group of Republican con- gressmen also described the proposal as a "further back down of Western conditions for a nuclear lest ban." Sen. John G. Tower (R-Tcx.) called i '"8" Cuban air space and tcr it danecrnus and fool-hardv. i ritorial waters. Morse Urges Halt To European Aid Portland -IHPli - Sen. Wayne ! that the United States should I stop "all aid to Western Eu rope" and ask its allies there "to take over more of the job of financing undeveloped nations." He made the statement as the featured speaker at the Clackamas County Democrat ic picnic at Canby and at the Multnomah County Democrat ic picnic at Blue Lake Park. Morse said the European economy was stronger than it was before World War II and also called "for more help" in Southeast Asia by other countries. Ben Khedda Enters Dispute in Algeria Algiers. Algeria -IUPP.- Pro visional Premier Ben Youssef Ben Khedda was reported to day to have stepped into the dispute between feuding mili tary and political factions in an effort to revive national Algerian elections. Informed sources said the former druggist was trying to revise the list of candidates for the 106-seat Constituent Assembly and make it accept able to both Ahmed Ben Bel la's political bureau and the dissident military leaders of the Kabylie and Algiers re- gions. Ben Khedda had been shoved aside when Ben Bella set up the poltical bureau a month ago. Informed sources j - burca- r . tional elections next Sunday as originally scheduled. The bureau Saturday called off the national assembly elections scheduled for Sept. 2. Fire Near Keno Said Man-Caused By United Press International Fire danger decreased in Oregon today as showers and cooler temperatures moved across the state. Several week end fires that dotted forest and range land were reported controlled today. The Stale Forestry Depart- ment said a OOacrc fire near, Keno. about 12 miles west of Klamath Falls, was man-! caused. It said eight smaller fires, covering an acre or less, also were man-caused. An eight-acre brush fire which broke out near Viento State park on the Columbia river west of Hood River de stroyed three amall houses None was occupied Daily Charges Against U.S. Come From Cuba New York-H'PIi-Cuba's big buildup of Soviet bloc mili tary technicians and equip ment is being accompanied by daily charges that planes from the United States Naval Base at Guantanamo are "violat- What the relationship be tween these twin develop ments may be if any re mains uncertain. But Ameri can officials are known to be concerned, particularly since the Soviet-supplied equipment missiles. Could Increase Tension Installation of such equip ment around Guantanamo, for example could dangerously in crease Cuban American ten sions over the huge naval in stallation which Premier Fi del Castro hopes some day to control, political sources said. For the past two months Cuba's Armed Forces Ministry has been issuing daily com muniques in which American planes, ships and submarines are accused of "violating" Cu ban territory. Most of the al leged violations occur around Guantanamo. The most recent of these charges, issued Sunday, said a U.S. plane flew over sev eral towns in Matanzas Province during a 28-minutc sweep over Cuba just after midnight Friday morning. The ; but said "the midcoursc guid Castroite communique did not ;ancc should make a big differ explain how the plane's na tional origin was determined. Flew Over Vessel Later on Friday, the an nouncement charged, a twin engined plane flew over a Cu- j Dan vessel in Cuban waters northcast of Maricl. The student revolutionary directorate, the Miami-based Cuban exile group which claimed responsibility for the attack, said the assault in eluded the shelling of a Ha- vana theater while a meeting of "technicians" presumably from the Soviet bloc was in progress. They theorized that Castro himself may have been In the theater at the time. Record Low Mercury Reading Is Noted Lowest temperature on rec ord for August for Mcdford :and vicinity was reported this I morning by the weather bu - reau siauun oi inn municipal fort,strv department prrsnn i airport. !nc The mercury dropped to 30 j southeast district office of degrees. slatc (orcS(ry department i-revinus low inr August was 41) degrees Aug 27. 1012 Ice was reported on a trac- tor seat at the Becbe ranch cast of Central Point this morning. The experiment station on Hanley rd. reported a low of 38 degrees. Komaffl Irrigation a rVleasore Approved Washington - HIPP - The House Indian Affairs Subcom mittee today approved Senate passed legislation to ratify an Interior Department order cancelling irrigation charges against land owned by non Indians on the Klamath In dian Irrigation Project in Oregon forest fire Regional Edition Two Sections 57th Year Price 10 Cents Tft RalipvpH " DANGER TOMORROW , lUII UCIICICU KEEP OREGON CRI El -i-ORD, OREGON, MONDAY, AUGUST 27, 1962 No. 135 Scientists Hope To Unravel Mystery Cape Canaveral, Fla, -lUPft- U.S. scientists Sunday shot a gold and silver-plated instru ment package toward Venus, and said it may reach to with in 100,000 miles of the mys tery planet." , The 447-pound space probe, named Mariner-2, was hurled free of earth's gravitational pull by a 130-ton Atlas-Agena rocket launched at 10:53 p.m. (PST) Sunday. Mariner-2 is a mechanical explorer which, at the end of its 181 million-mile voyage, may help scientists determine whether life could exist on Venus, Earth's nearest plane tary neighbor. Could Sharpen Accuracy Federal space agency scien tists said Mariner-2 will reach to within 600,000 miles of Venus. But the spacecraft car ried a special "mid-course guidance" rocket which could sharpen the accuracy consid erably. Scientists plan to fire the mid-course rocket about eight days from now and there js chance it "'ill swing Mariner-2 around so it will reach within 100,000 miles of the cloud covered surface of Venus. An early small but signifi cant guidance error - possi bly caused by a slight waver in the 10-story booster rocket during lift-off - dimmed the hopes that scientists had of putting Marincr-2 to within in 10.000 to 36,000 miles of the planet. But it still ranks as one of the most spectacular successes in U.S. space exploration. The closest that any American probe had ever approached a planet previously was 8 mil lion miles - the distance that Pioneer-5 came to Venus after it was launched in March, 1060. Long Way to Co Scientists cautioned "we still have a long way to go," ence, we are extremely pleas ed by this shot so far." Marincr-2 should make its closest approach to Venus on Dec. 14, and then bypass the planet to swing Into a huge orbit around the sun. Mariner-2 carried six scien tific instruments that formed an electronic "eye" to peer through the clouds and find out what is under them. Two Small Fires Are Extinguished Central Point rural firemen put out a one-acre grass and brush fire along the railroad tracks near Kirtland rd. about 9:30 o'clock this morning. Firemen attributed the blaze to sparks from a loco motive. A one-half acre "smoker" fire was put out along High way B2 near Cascade gorge : ycslcrday allcrnnon by ,t(,te reported that two crews were !it work today mopping up on !,,,. i.,s.a,.r- fir. ,,. pnnrman's I trcck which started Thursday j and f)ar(,d up a(,ain Friday. . , WEATHER ' J pnKr,T: tIlr r,.mt ' I lUvtlm tfmpernturM thrnuch i I Tii?day. l ow tonight ntit 10. High Tuetd.y St. j Tmp I tllgh'ft VMtprday M Lowtat Thl. Morning It Our Skies Tonight ; Siinrt tnd.r Sunrl tomorrow I MnnnrUf tomorrow Sw Moon PROMINhN'T STAR S:V1 pm. S.l Itl 4 HI i m Aug. 2 'innrrt. low in tmithWMI VIMHI.t rt.ANKTS .liiplif r. rtM . - . Vnin. t Mturn. In knulh .. lr. rlt Site p.m. 7 :?t p m. . ill p m 10.32 pm 1: Jl m I A I I i. Wjg ' HHtHMUkWIWI IIM a,laBHlWIMFir ' ..''H "II. WIW.M IIH.I1 HOT SEAT U. S. Forestry fireman Jim McDaniel, right, gets a hot seat when fire comes directly behind him as he and a craw fight a forest fire which has burned over a thousand acres an hour since Sunday and was still completely out of control this morning. These fire lighters had to evacuate Arrangements to Lease Pasture at Lake Being Made Jackson County Parks and Recreation Director Neil Led ward said today he is working cn lease arrangements for 35 acres of pasture in connection with a proposed bridle trail at Howard Prairie lake. . The county already has a recreation lease for the How ard Prairie area, but the bu reau of land management has been leasing 35 acres for cat tle grazing. Clyde Wilhclm, horse con cessionaire, would operate un der a lease similar to the one he has with Winema National forest at Lake of the Woods, Lcdward indicated. Wilhclm plans to clean up the .'15 acres, fence it and im prove the gales this fall lo be ready for a possible spring operation if a lease is worked out. Consider Change At Emigrant lake, the re creation commission is consid ering changing concession ar rangements some for next season. The present conces sionaire has indicated he will Snot seek lo renew his lease jwhen it expires Dec. 31, Lcd- ward said. j The concession stand will I be placed on a flat area in a central location, Ledward isaid. The present concession I platform will be used for a picnic sheller and fireplace, he said. 1 The nrw ennctssion stand may consist of a fond counter, but no slore. Ledward ex plained Vending machines ! which may be operated by a I caretaker also are being con- i sinered I Lease arrangements with federal agencies have yet to !be worked out for part of the 'Hialt lake area, Lcdward noted. The parks commission mo iix-ummcnaea a minimum operation consisting of trash cans, picnic lablcs, fireplaces i and reslrooms. ' SPEAKER SCHEDULED ! Portland -'liPli - John S. Hayes of Washington. DC, president of the United Com- jmunity Funds and Councils 1 nf America, will speak here ! Tuesday, To Vemus Transient After Box an Suffers Burns A 37-year-old transient was arrested by Mcdford police early Sunday after he alleged ly set fire to a railroad boxcar in which several other tran sients were sleeping. One man in the boxcar, Clair Amlon Camp, 51, Leb anon, Kans., was taken to Rogue Valley hospital with second and third degree burns. He was reported in poor con dition today. Lodged in Jackson county jail was Robert Lee Rylcs, formerly of Columbus, Ga. He Woman in Hospital Following Accident A 30-year-old Washington woman was hospitalized with I nacK injuries in Asniana mis morning following an automo bile accident Involving a car and an empty logging truck. Injured was Mrs. Louis Gordley, whose husband, Lou is Charles Gordley, 32, is sta tioned at McChord Air Force base near Tacoma, Wash. She was reported in good condi tion at noon today in Ash land Community hospital. The couple's two small children were treated for minor in juries and released. According to police, the ve hicle operated by Gordley and the logging truck driv en by Arthur Frederick Ho tlio, :iH, of Hi III Dakola St., Mcdford, collided on High way 1)0 near Talent, about 8:30 o'clock this morning. Both vehicles were southbound with the truck In the outside tune Police said Gordlev ao- I parcntly attempted lo change lanes, and the truck slrucH the 'right rear door of the car. ! Vofer RogsfraflOrt for Election Ends Oct. 6 Voter registration for the November general election will close at 8 p.m. Oct. 8. Jackson County Clerk Mar vin Madden said today. As of last week, 38.358 per sons were registered in Jack son county. 18.34!) Democrats, 17.311 Republicans and 803 miscellaneous. the Immediate area to escape the onrushing flames. A crew of 25 men from the Star Ranger Station in Oregon's Applegate area wera detailed to the fire in Shasta National Forest. E(torls of firemen were hampered because of the rough, steep country and hot, dry weather. (UPI) Arrested Car Fire; may be charged with arson, police said. Rylcs signed a statement ad mitting thai he scl fire to some excelsior in the boxcar about 4:30 a.m. after he be came angered with some other transients who, he claimed, had his coat, Taken to Hospital Earlier in the morning about 2 a.m.-Ryles was taken to Sacred Heart hopsital for treatment of injuries he suf fered In a fight with several other men on Front st. After being released from the hospital, Rylcs told police, he returned to the boxcar, which was located on a siding near the Southern Pacific freight depot, and the dispute followed. One witnesses told police that Ryles set several firc.i, but that the men in the box car were able to stamp them out before they spread. However, the witness said he and another man left the boxcar shortly after 4 a.m. to get some coffee. The rest of the men in the car were asleep. The fire, which burned the interior of one end of the boxcar, was spotted about 4:30 a.m. and the police and fire departments were called lo the scene. Annual Water Show Set At Hawthorne Park Pool The annual water show by the Medford parks and recre ation department - this year entitled "Orbits In Water Fantasy" - has been sched uled at 8 p.m. Tuesday and Wednesday, Aug. 28 and 20, according to Robert L. Ha worth, parks and recreation director. About 40 participants will present a variety of acts dur ing the hour and a half show, which is open lo the public without charge. The show, which will be held at Hawthorne pool, will feature clown acts and div ing exhibitions by Bob Watts, Eugene, Roger Wood, Port land, and Dick Griffiths, Medford. Possible Record For Week End Lakeview Youth Dies in Medford By United Press International Seventeen persons died In traffic accidents during the week end in Oregon, a possi ble record. The accident analysis divi sion of the Slate Highway Department said it was the worst two-day week endsince) 1959. The department still was checking earlier records. The latest victims were Robert Leo Hoyez, 19, Lake view; Donald R. Coffman, 20, Lakeview; Carl f. Tetreau, 30, Vancouver, Wash.; Ross Slane, 76, Coos Bay, and his wife, Lucile, 58. Ten died Saturday. Died in Medford Hoyez and Coffman were victims of a one-car accident on the Warner Valley road north of Lakeview. Hoyez died in the accident and Coff man died early today in a Mcdford hospital. Tetreau was killed Sunday night in a motorcycle acci dent in Northeast Portland. The Shanes lost their lives in a two-vehicle collision at Gladstone Sunday afternoon The Saturday dead were Dan Johnson, 20; Robert El liott, 20, and Byron Johnson, 18. Klamath Falls; Robert Harris, 57, Redwood City, Calif., and his wife, Laura, 43; George Hosi. 21, Port land; Howard Hubbard, 21, Eugene: Janis Crawford, 10, Ponca City, Okla.; Jack Hil- dreth, 30. Lucerne, Calif.; and Leo Edwards, 83, Salem. Four in On Crash A grinding, head-on colli sion 10 miles north of Klam ath Falls accounted for four of the fatalities. The crash killed ' Johnson and Elliott and the Rcawood City couple. , Johnson, was a passenger in a car: which left a high way . and overturned near Malin and Ross was killed when his sports car left a road and struck a power pole 12 miles jouth of Corvallis. Hubbard died In a one-car accident Just north of Eugene and the Crawford girl lost her life in a two-car crash near Myrtle Creek. Car Struck Railing Hildrcth died in a Eugene hospital of injuries received when his car struck a bridge railing near Eugene Thursday and Edwards died at a Salem hospital after being hit by a car as he walked near his home Friday. A two-car collision at an intersection south of Albany Friday night claimed the lives of Harry Vann, 40, and Don na Zimmerman, 19, both of Tangent. John Miller, 41, Burns, was killed when he was struck by a vehicle while crossing a street in Fontana, Calif., Saturday. , Crop-Duster Uses Field Vhen It Runs Out of Gasoline ' An airplant In an emp ty field can generate some, excitement, if not enough energy lo get off the ground. This was the case Sun-, day morning when a Steer man crop-duster, piloted by G. A. Bowers, ran out of gas In the air Just north of Spring (t. on the east side of the valley. Bowers mede a safe land ing in a field about 9:30 a.m., and called Rosen balm Aviation, Inc.. which owns the plane, for more gas. Although carrying a partial load of spray, the pilot negotiated a west bound take off with little difficulty, officials of the firm said. "Last year's show was good," Haworth commented,' "but thl one is going to be - even better." Several water ballet num.. bers, performed by selected ' members of the Medford ' swim team, are on the pro gram. Underwater lighting will be used to illuminate the -ballet. Dayle Nesheim, who taught' classes tills summer in baton, will perform several dance . routines and will also give an exhibition of baton twirl ing. Extra bleachers have been Installed around the pool for the event, Haworth said, bringing the seating capacity up to about 2.200,
