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MFDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1962
Four Sections No. 140
57th V
Military Board
Fixes Blame in
Withycombe Case
Former Commander
To Be Discharged
Salem - (UPD - Gov. Mark
Hatfield has ordered Ore
gon's adjutant general, Maj.
Gen. Paul L. Kllever, to
carry out the recommenda
tions made by a ihreo-man
board of inquiry Friday.
The board looked into mis
sing property at Camp
Withycombe.
Salem - (UPD - A special
three-man military board of
inquiry has named late Ore
gon National Guard chief
Alfred E. Hintz in connection
with "irregular" activity in
volving surplus property at
Camp Withycombe in Clack
amas County.
It also recommended that
Lt. Col. James J. Anderson be
discharged as Camp Withy
combe commander and that
I he present adjutant general
"be directed to consider the
advisability, of military ac
tion" against him.
Studied Results
The board was named on
Aug. 6 by Gov. Mark Hatfield
to look into the matter. The
Clackamas County grand jury
earlier studied results of
state police investigation
without returning any indict
ments. The property involved sur
plus equipment from the old
Tongue Point Naval Station.
The military board was
comprised of Brig. Gen. Har
old A. Taylor of McMinnville;
Col. Willis E. Vincent of
Salem and Lt, Col. Arthur
Lowe of Corvallis.
Not Deposited
Their report said " . . .
documentary evidence estab
lished that $6,388.35 was re
ceived from the unauthorized
sale of property, acquired by
the military department from
Navy surplus" and that "this
money was not deposited in
state funds ..."
It also said "... the ac
tivities of the then Adj. Gen.
Alfred E. Hintz, deceased,
and James J. Anderson, camp
commander, Camp Withy
combe, in connection with a
portion of the property, were
irregular and in violation of
statutory directives."
74 Cuban Refugees
Arrive in Florida
Miami - (UPD - The first
group of 74 Cuban refugees
evacuated from Uruguay's
Havana embassy 43 women,
12 men and 19 children ar
rived here Saturday for a
tearful reunion with friends
and relatives.
Some of the exiles had
spent more than a year in the
Uruguayan embassy while of
ficials sought to obtain safe
conduct for them out of Cuba.
Most of the group looked
pale and thin. Immigration of
ficials would not permit the
men to be interviewed. The
women said they had agreed
to terms of the Uruguayan I
embassy not to discuss condi- a
tion in Cuba nor inside the!,,
embassy.
Flemming Schedules
Speech at Meeting
Portland, Ore. - WPIi - Dr.
Arthur S. Flemming, presi
dent of the University of Ore
gon, will be the keynote
speaker at a national voca
tional conference here next
winter.
The directors of vocational
rehabilitation counselor train
ing programs are scheduled ! representing the Italian con
to hold their annual meeting ! sul of Oregon, to Giupscppe
Dec. 3-5. The university will : Dutto, representing Alba,
he host of the meeting. I Italy, and to City Councilman
HEWSBRIEFS
ITIMS FROM
SOVIET BASE BEING INSTALLED
..: ml, k ..! 1 1 Cni,t n.il,lr kit.
K.tnTrn.uir.d n. h. p.;r.
exiles said here Saturday.
TWO AMERICANS DIE IN PLANE CRASH
Vientiane. Laos I PI Two American crew members were
killed when a C46 transport plane crashed in!o a mountain
side 120 miles north of Vientiane, it was reported today.
TYPHOON WANDA BATTERS HONG KONG
Hong Kong I PI Typhoon Wanda battered Hong Kong
Saturday with peak winds of 114 miles an hour and torren
tial rains, wreaking death and destruction in the refugee
crammed Britith Crown colony before slamming into Com
munist China.
BRANDT SAYS ALLIES WILL FIGHT
Berlin irt Mayor Willy Brandt told West Berliners Sat
urday night the Western Allies will fight to defend their
Isolated city but not to knock down the anti-refugee wall
thet splits
TALKS WITH FATHER Caroline, scratcn- from vacationing in Italy. Robert Kennedy,
ing her leg, talks vith hor father, President attorney general, right, also greeted them.
Kennedy, while her mother looks on. The (UPI)
first lady and Caroline had just returned
Park Dedication Highlights
Alba Day Events in Medford
Snips of two pairs of scis
sors, a flutter of bright ribbon
and Maple park at Medford's
south city limits officially be
came Parco d'Alba Saturday
afternoon as the covering slid
from a special plaque.
Participating in the ribbon
cutting were Giuseppe Dutto,
representing Alba, Italy, and
Mayor John W. Snider, for
Medford.
During the ceremonies in
the grove of Maple trees the
park actually was dedicated
may times over as each of the
speakers emphasized "the
spirit of brotherhood" be
tween the sister cities of Med
ford and Alba, Italy.
Thomas Vaughan, director
of the Oregon Historical soci
ety, and guest speaker, said
the park's trees would stand
as "signal signs of honor" for
Medford and Alba.
"This park is dedicated to
the spirit of life and life con
tinuous." the historian stated
..".".. -
In a par a,?d Rardcn al1 men
,
,f ,C,cr?"lc!?lc,i, Wl'"
I nam lviansiicia, ivieaiora cuy
j attorney, recalled that in the
Mate 1920's the American Le
gion encouraged its members
and members of other veter
an's groups to plant the ma
ple trees in honor nf young
men who died for their coun
try in World War I.
American Municipal asso
ciation town affiliation char
ciation town affiliation char
ters were presented by
Eugene Cecehini. Potland.
AROUND THI OlOM
Mi.i. n.-r; .,;,;., Cub.n
Robert Baccus, representing
Medford. . ,., - "
The ceremonies started with
Cannery Prices
For Pears Agreed
On at Meeting
Cannery prices for local
Bartlett pears were agreed
upon Saturday afternoon dur
ing a special meeting of a
cannery representative with
packing house officials in
Medford.
Fruit industry spokesmen
declined to reveal the prices
agreed upon, but reported the
average price will be about
S25 per ton less than in 1961.
"This return on cannery
pears is below the cost of pro
duction," an industry spokes
man said. "Since a variety of
prices
were set, we would
prefer not to mention the
prices."
Earlier it had been report
ed that local cannery pear
prices would follow those set
in the Yakima and Wenatchec,
Wash., area by canneries.
However, no word has been
received here that cannery
prices have been set in Wash
ington. Local growers and shippers
believed the cannery price de
lay was an attempt to wait
out the growers to see how
desperate they would get be
fore the prices were set. The
unusually small size pears
save placed the growers at
a disadvantage in bargaining
for prices. One grower noted
the current Bartlett size is the
smallest on record.
Candidates Night
Slated for Grange
A 'Meet Your Candidates
Night" will be held by the
P
Saturday. Sept. 8 in the Shadv
Cove school gymnasium.
All the county candidates,
plus a number of the district
and state nominees are ex
pected to speak to the voters.
Each candidate will be in
troduced by his or her local
party chairman and given a
few minutes for a statement,
according to a Grange spokes-
man. An informal get - ac -
quainted coffee hour will fol -
l"w-
Registration booths will be
open throughout the evening.
also. Registration for the No-
vember general election closes
Oct. fi
a color guard from Battery
B, 249th artillery, Oregon Na
tional Guard parading the col
ors before the white speak
er's platform draped with the
stars and stripes and the tri
color of Italy.
The Rev. D. K. West, First
Presbyterian church, Med
ford, gave the invocation.
Following the charter pre
sentations Dutto commented:
"I realize now what this sister
city organization means. It's
something real. I feel we are
friends."
Flight of Jets
The U.S. government was
represented by a flight of jet
fighters from Kingsley Field
Air Force base at Klamath
Falls, which thundered over
the park preceding the cere
monies. Various veterans' organiza
tions and auxiliaries were
represented. Curtis Nesheim
represented the Medford Ki
wanis club which nlanted a
jlawn in the park and made
various improvements.
The Rev. Carl Mai, Sacred
Heart church, Medford, gave
the benediction.
Thirty-five persons attend
ed the no-host luncheon at
North's Chuck wagon restaur
ant in Medford as part of the
Alba Day festivities.
Sleeping Sickness
Deaths Recorded
: St. Petersburg, Fla. -1'PH-I
Florida recorded its 13th sus-
pected sleeping sickness death
Saturday. The announcement
! prompted a statement by Gov.
;Farris Bryant urging residents
i to remain calm.
Apart from the deaths, an
i additional 129 suspected cases
have been reported since
j health authorities first an
! nounccd the outbreak less
I than two weeks ago.
The latest death was that
nf W C. Wilson. 66. of Wild
! wood, who died Friday night
: in a Leesburg hospital. Cause
of the death was listed as
.encephalitis, the medical name
for the sleeping sickness dis
! ease.
1 sTiinrAY night
1 American League:
i Washington 3. Los Angeles
' 2
National League:
j Pittsburgh 7, Philadelphia S
j St. Louis 10, New York i
I Los Angeles S, Milwaukee 3
MIS
Castro Denies His
Vessels Fired on
U.S. Navy Plane
Cuba Premier Says
Report Fabricated
Havana - (UPD - Premier Fi
del Castro Saturday said Cu
ban naval vessels did not fire
on a U.S. Navy plane off Cuba
last Thursday and charged the
reported incident had been
"fabricated" by Washington
to try to intimidate Cuba by
"brutal threats."
(Adm. Robert L. Dennison,
commander of the U.S. At
lantic fleet, indicated in Nor
folk, Va., that the Navy would
call up attack planes if any
more American patrol air
craft are fired upon over in
ternational water near Cuba.)
The bearded revolutionary
leader, in an official statement
broadcast by Havana radio,
said Cuba will not be fright
ened and cautioned U.S. troops
"to be ready to die if they
attacked the Caribbean island.
Castro branded as "absolute
ly phony" the charges made
by the U.S. government that
two naval vessels presumed
to be Cuban fired on a U.S.
Navy plane on a training mis
sion over international wa
ters off western Cuba.
All Means Necessary
The U.S. statement, which
also was broadcast by Havana
radio, added that U.S. air
craft and Naval vessels have
been authorized to employ
"all means necessary" to pro
tect themselves against any
similar future attacks.
Castro's statement said that
U.S. military ships and planes
have violated Cuban air space
and territorial waters "hun
dreds nf times," but Cuba
"never answered provocations
with provocations."
A communique issued by
the ministry of armed forces
later in the day said there
were two violations by U.S.
planes of Cuba's eastern air
space on Thursday. It said a
jet flew within one mile of
the coast off Imias Bay while
a PV2 patrol--plane 'made
three low passes over a Cuban
ship near Nipe Bay. Friday,
the communique said, another
PV2 buzzed a Cuban vessel
twice.
Washington said that a U.S.
Navy SF2 attack bomber on
a routine mission with three
Naval reservists was fired on
about 15 miles off the port
city of Cardenas, 100 miles
east of Havana.
Castro said the Washington
report "is a purely fabricated
incident, according to a meth
od long used in Yankee poli
cy." Teen Mob Threatens
Seaside Violence
Seaside, Ore. - (UPD - An un
ruly mob of some 800 teen
agers was milling about and
threatening violence at this
northwestern coastal town
Saturday night, police said.
Some 50 city, county and
state policemen were mov
ing in to avert property dam
age and violence. A National
Guard unit at Astoria, Ore.,
was alerted. City firemen
doused the youths with water.
Seaside Chif of Police John
Yarmonchik said "We hope
to have the mob broken up
by midnight when the city
curfew goes into effect." He
said some 1,500 to 2,000 spec
tators were adding to the
problem.
"There has been some
drinking and the ringleaders
appear to be college kids,"
Yarmonchik said.
He added there was some
light damage including the
pulling down of a lifeguard
tower.
Student Arraigned
On Murder Charge
Corvallis - (UPD - A 26-year-old
Oregon State university
student from Thailand has
been arraigned in Circuit
Court here on a charge of
first degree murder.
Damrongsak Sirimungkla Is
accused in connuection with
the fatal stabbing of his
sweetheart, Suvana Pakasuta,
also of Thailand.
Miss Pakasuta, also a stu
dent at Oregon State, was
killed last June in her apart
ment at Corvallis.
Circuit Judge Wendell
Tompkins set next Tuesday
as the time for Sirimungkla to
enter a pica.
BOAT BEACHED
Reedsport. Ore. - (TPf - A
fishing boat struck an ob
ject in the water and was
beached about four miles
north of the. Umpqua river
, bar Saturday.
i
Algerian Civil War Loom
As Opposing Forces Bias
Holiday Traffic
Accidents Kill
At Record Rate
Two Die in Oregon
Crashes Saturday
By United Press International
Traffic accidents killed
Americans at a record pace
six every hour on the first
day of the long Labor Day
holiday Saturday.
Oregon counted two
traffic deaths . today, the
first day of the three-day
Labor Day weekend holi
day. As the count shot well past
the 100-mark, the president
of the National Safety Coun
cil said if the trend continues
"A new record of tragedy
will be established." Howard
Pyle said the toll was run
ning 20 per cent higher than
last year at this time and
"the alarming increase is due
to one of the biggest traffic
jams in the nation's history.
At 11:30 p.m. (EDT), A
United Press International
survey showed that 137 per
sons had perished in traffic
accidents.
The breakdown:
Traffic 137
Drowning 10
Boating .., 1
Planes 0
Miscellaneous 16
Total 164
Minnesota led the nation
with 10 traffic deaths.
One of those killed in Min
nesota was .E. Ray Cory, 70,
president of the Minnesota
Automobile Association.
Marty Wyatt Flies
To Beauty Pageant
Seaside (Special) Mar
ty Wyatt, Miss Oregon of
1962, left Portland Interna
tional airport at midnight Fri
day, Aug. 31, for Atlantic City
to compete in the Miss Amer
ica Pageant.
According to all reports
from Miss America Pageant
officials, this year's contest
ants stack up as one of the
best groups ever to partici
pate in the annual event.
Marty will be competing
against 54 other contestants
from the United States, Can
ada and Puerto Rico. Her tal
ent number will be an inter
pretive jazz dance.
Accompanying Miss Oregon
to Atlantic City were her offi
cial chaperone, Mrs. John
Phillips, and two Miss Ore
gon Pageant officials, Mrs.
Alex Haralampus and Curt
! Sagner.
A family picnic along
" - L -
All City Council
Seats Contested;
Two File Friday
Two undcr-the-wire filings
Friday raised to 11 the num
ber of Medford men who have
filed for the four vacancies
on the city council in the No
vember election.
Filing Friday were John
Lusk, Ward 4, and Arthur L.
Cook, Ward 3.
Thursday, four men filed
for city council: Richard K.
(Die) Walsh, Ward 1; William
H. McKinley, Ward 2; Joe R.
Hosick, Ward 2; and Edgar B.
Van Horn, Ward 4.
With three candidates run
ning for election in three
wards, and two opposing each
other in Ward 3, every coun-
EDGAR B. VAN HORN
Council Candidate
cil seat will be contested this
fall for the first time in the
last several elections.
Die Walsh, 32, of 2560
Springbrook rd., is the owner
and operator of a commercial
art and sign studio located at
1030 Court st. He is married
and has six daughters.
A veteran of eight years
service in the Marine Corps,
Walsh has been active in com
munity affairs since returning
to the city in 1956. He is a
director of Crater Lions club
and past president of Lincoln
school PTA.
Joe R. Hosick, 39, of 1516
Jasper st., is married and has
three children. He is manager
and co-owner of Chapel in
the Trees Mortuary, 2100 Sis
kiyou blvd.
He is a member of the
American Legion, a past ex
aulted ruler of the Elks lodge,
and has served as county PTA
The Beauties of
the Oregon coajl is in a setli
safety chairman for the past
two years.
William H. McKinley, 47,
of 124 Newtown st., is the
area representative for Otis
Elevator company. He is mar
ried and has seven children.
A member of the Medford
Assembly of God church, he
has been active in the Med
ford Gospel Mission.
Edgar B. Van Horn, 49, of
605 Franquette st., is a driver
for Greyhound Bus company.
A resident of Medford for 37
years, he is married and has
three children. He attends the
Methodist church. .
President and Manager
Arthur Cook, 49, resides
with his wife and three chil
dren at 50 Kenwood ave. He
is president and manager of
Crater Title Insurance com
pany, 510 West Sixth st.
Cook is a member of the
First Methodist church and
belongs to the Crater Lions
club. He is a veteran of
World War II.
John Lusk, 38, nf 333 South
Riverside ave., is married and
has four children. He is a
member of the Masons,
Shrine, Elks and Eastern
Star.
Lusk is also a past presi
dent nf Crater Lions club. He
is the owner and operator of
Lusk Music company, 333
South Riverside ave.
Final filings for council In
clude'.- V , :i -' '
Ward 1: Robert' Cunning
ham, George Joyce and Die
Walsh.
Ward 2: Donald Hansen,
Joe Hosick and William Mc
Kinley. Ward 3: Robert Baccus and
Arthur Cook.
Ward 4: Richard Travis,
John Lusk and Edgar Van
Horn.
Three candidates for
mayor, all present city coun
cilmen, include: Fred Robin
son, James Dunlevy and Wil
liam Singlor..
Attendance High for
State Fair Opening
Soiam - (UPD Clear, sunny
weather greeted crowds at
tending the opening of t h e
97th State Fair Friday.
Opening day attendance
was 16,570, compared to 14,
800 who attended the opening
last year on a cool, rainy day.
The opening 11 - race card
at Lone Oak track attracted
1,667 who bet $80,108. Open
ing day handle in 1961 was
$73,720.
Scenic Oregon
(Oregon State
ng of golden sand dunes, green
Fighting Stops
After Two Hours;
Talks Resumed
Women, Children
Plead for Peace
Algiers (UPD Troops sup
porting Algerian strongman
Ahmed Ben Bella clashed Sat
urday with his enemies' forces
at two points within 100 miles
of the capital, threatening the
start of a civil war in this
newly independent country.
The news sent about 5,000
men, women and children
surging through the streets of
Algiers in response to calls .
for demonstrations in favor of
peace. Many o them waved
Algerian flags.
"Poni-p. neace." thev shout
ed. "Seven years is enough,
cyiwo i,a n onvprnment." Many
women lifted their infants
high and wailed, "Think o
us.
The radio in Algiers, strong
hold of dissident military
chiefs opposed to Ben Bella,
reported Algerian tignung Al
gerian al Boghari, 84 miles
smith nf the rnnilal. and at
Ain Adjillah, about 95 miles
to the south.
However, there were no re
ports of casualties and there
were Indications of etlorts to
avert a full-scale civil war.
Snnri-p.1n Rosharl renort t
ed hearing two hours of mor-
tar shelling, machinegun I
bursts arid, rifle fire. But a
police spokesman said the
fighting c e a s e d after two
hours at least temporarily
when both sides sent emis
saries to discuss the critical :
situation, '
"The shooting never seem
ed to become violent," anoth
er source said.. "It would start
I then stop."
"The two sides would watch
each other, then shoot again,
half-heartedly."
The source said when pro
Ben Bella soldiers entered
Boghari, stores and cafes be
gan reopening and people di
vided in their loyalty between
Ben Bella and the Algiers
military district (Willaya No.
4) began walking along to
gether. "The atmosephcrc was re
laxed." the source said. "The
people cheered."
There was no Information
on the fighting reported at
Ain Adjillah.
FOREST FIRE
DANGER TOMORROW
KEEP OREGON GREEN
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trees and blue water.
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