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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
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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.
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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,