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Admits 12 May Have Flown liver tesi Massive Rescue, Salvage Project Set Up for Iran nr. and Mrs. Alvin Rob erts and family of Central Point, who recently arrived in Hamadan. Iran, where Dr. Roberts , will serve at a medical missionary for a year, apparently were not in an area of danger in the earthquake Saturday night. According to word re ceived here, there have been no reports from the Roberts, and apparently they are not in danger. The earthquake center was about ISO miles from Ham adan. Tehran, Iran.-(UPIi-A mas sive International rescue and salvage operation mobilized relief today for the thousands suffering from the worst Catholic Grade Schools in New Orleans Integrate New Orleans - IUPP - The archdiocese of New Orleans integrated all Roman Catholic elementary schools in the city and five other parishes (coun ties) today despite a white boycott and segregationist picketing. At Baton Rouge, a group of whites heckled a Negro minis ter when he tried, without success, to enroll five Negroes at all-white public schools. As the new school year started with a major integra tion project in Louisiana, these were the developments: -Negro and white pupils went to mass together at churches in New Orleans be fore starting classes in the parochial schools. Children Go Home -White parents. M St. Leo the Great scno'dl in New Or leans called a boycott and many brought their children home after the mass because a dozen Negroes were admit ted. -Pickets gathered outside Mater Dolorosa church where three Negroes attended mass with several hundred white children. A crowd assembled outside Our Lady of Good Counsel church. -In Buras, a delta town 60 miles south of New Orleans, Our Lady of Good Harbor school opened with only 13 white children in attendance out of an enrollment of 340. No Negroes showed up. A crowd of pickets was outside the red brick school. -At Morgan City, a priest chased a photographer off the grounds of Sacred Heart Academy with a stick when the photographer tried to take a picture of a Negro girl entering. White enroll m e n t and attendance was normal at the school. Burglars Take Safe From Medford Store A safe containing $75 in cash, two checks and papers was taken from the Singer Sewing Machine company, 318 East Main St., Medford, some time during the week end. Medford police were noti fied shortly after 8 o'clock this morning that the small safe was missing from the store. Officers said a window in the back door to the build ing was broken to gain entry. Marks in the carpet indicated that the safe, on rollers, had been rolled from the front of the store through the back door. NEWSd)BRIEFS ITEMS FROM A M0UND ' 0l0M DE GAULLE ARRIVES IN WEST GERMANY Bonn-in-Preidenl Charles de Gaulle arrived in West Germany today for a six-day visit surrounded by tome of the heaviest security precautions ever accorded a visiting chief of stale. CAMBODIAN PRINCE WARNS U.S. Pnomphenh. Cambodu-lPI'-Prince Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia said Monday that if the United Slates and the Western Allies could not protect his country's borders and guarantee its neutrality he might appeal for help to Communist China or Russia. JFK FACES WORLD DOMESTIC PROBLEMS Wsshington-lPI'-President Kennedy returned to Wash ington today to face t number of international problems and to lend whatever help he can in getting his priority legislative proposals through the waning Congress. SENATE PASSES HOME SALE MEASURE WashingtonJlPl-The Senile voted today to allow per sons over 65 to pocket all the profits, tax-free, on sale el their homes with a price teg of S30.000 or less. earthquake in Iran's history. The United States and a dozen other nations poured money, men and machines in to this shattered land in a vast humanitarian effort to help Iran dig out of the dis aster that killed or injured 20,000 persons and left pos sibly 100,000 homeless. The U. S. Air Force was fly ing 10,000 blankets. 1,000 tents and a 100-bed hospital unit to Iran where piles of crushed stone and mud were all that was left of scores of tiny villages in the vast tri angular area south and south west of Tehran hit by the quake. The U. S. State Department disclosed that $20,000 in emer gency funds was turned over to the Iranian government im mediately after the enormity of the Saturday night earth quake became known. Kennedy Sends Cable President Kennedy cabled message of sympathy to the shah and offered whatever other aid may be needed. The American Red Cross ca bled $10,000 to the Red Lion and Sun Society, the Iranian equivalent of the Red Cross. The New York headquar ters of CARE the Coopera tive for American Relief Ev erywhere directed its mis sion in Iran to divert $100,000 worth of food and other sup plies to the immediate assist ance of the quake survivors. The U. S. Embassy announced that 1,000 tons of food from CARE supplies already in Tehran were given as an im mediate gift to victims. Others Offer Help In addition, offers of help came from Canada, France, Morocco, Norway, West Ger many, Italy and the Vatican, with others expected shortly. Premier Assadollah Alam, who toured the disaster area and wept as he described the devastation later to newsmen, said in a broadcast today that health minister Dr. Ebrahim Riahi had set up a base at Ghazvin to conduct all relief operations in the stricken area. The premier also announced that Gen. Hejazi, head of the combined general staff, per sonally is directing all opera tions of the 4.500 troops in the disaster region. Auto Accidents Injure 12 Persons Nine traffic accidents with 12 people injured requiring medical attention were re ported in Jackson county over the Labor Day week end. No fatalities were reported, state police noted. Of the nine accidents, three involved one car, five involv ed two cars and one involved three cars. The accidents involved a total of 16 cars and 34 peo ple, state police said. Officers said it was a fair record for the amount of traffic. The last accident reported during the holidays occurred at 4:35 p.m. Monday at Jack sonville highway and Arnold lane, state police said. Robert Ernest Meyer, 41, and George Willard Peterson, 69, both of the White City Domiciliary were injured, but not serious ly, state police said. Officers said the Meyer car, in which Peterson was a pas senger, entered Jacksonville highway from Arnold lane in front of a westbound car driv en by Robert Lee Cantrall. route 1, box 54, Jacksonville. FOREST FIRE DANGER TOMORROW KEEP OREGON GREEN POSE FOR CARMEMEN Miss America candidates pose in swimsuites for camermen in Atlantic City, New Jersey, Tuesday. By states, front row, from left: Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Canada, Chicago, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Washington, D.C., Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa. Second row, from left: New York, New York City, New Mexico, New Jersey, Youth Arrested After Ashland Motel Robbery A 17 - year old Medford youth is being held in Jack son county jail in connection with the armed robbery of the Carlton motel in Ashland last night, the Jackson county sheriff's office said this morn ing. Mrs. Florence Carlton, motel owner, reported to deputies that a man between 16 and 18 years old entered the motel about 7:40 p.m. yesterday and demanded money at gun point. Mrs. Carlton said she hand ed him $45 to $50 from her bedroom dresser drawer. The youth then told the motel operator to slay in her bedroom until he left and not to call police. Shortly after that, Mrs. Carlton called the sheriff's office, and the youth's description was broad cast to local police agencies. Head to California Later last night a youth fitting the description was seen heading toward Cali fornia on a motorbike. The California highway patrol ar rested the youth in Yreka, and returned him to Jackson county this morning. Deputies said the youth had a gun and money with him at the time of his arrest. En route to Jackson county in a sheriff's car he admitted the robbery, but had not yet signed a written statement by noon today. No formal charges have yet been filed. It was the second armed robbery in Ashland in about 10 days. An armed bandit took $63 from an Ashland service station, Aug. 24. Be fore that, the most recent armed robbery was an Ash land bank holdup in 1929, according to Ashland police. Two Earthquakes Shake Up Eureka Eureka, Calif. - lUPli - Two "sharp" earthquakes today broke several windows and knocked canned goods off grocery store shelves in this north coastal community. The quakes occurred about 10:18 a.m. (PST) and were of short duration. One witness said that at about the time his building stopped shaking from the first temblor, a "really bad one" hit. A lighter quake, believed to be an aftershock, was felt at 10:3.1 am It was not felt at Brook ings, on the southwest Ore gon coast. The University of Cali fornia seismographic station at Berkeley said the quake had a Richter magnitude of 434 and was recorded for 10 minutes. It was centered off the coast near Eureka. BRUSH FIRE Lake Oswego -HOT- A brush fire was broKht under con trol on about 100 acres south of here today. Regional Edition MedfordJ1iWTribune 16 Pages MEDFORD, OREGON, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1962 No. 142 CttAltOMU NAMMMiHAll 7 ' '. VVXN Marty Wyatt Starts Official Sessions In Beauty Atlantic City, N. J. - (Spe cial) - Marty Wyatt of Jack sonville, Miss Oregon in the Miss America contest here, was posing for newspaper, newsreel and television cam eras this morning, her trim 35-23-35 figure encased In a swimsuit, as the beauty pag eant opened today. Oregon's 19-year-old en trant, who arrived in the re sort late Saturday, said she's never been more thrilled or excited in her life. "I've never seen such beau tiful girls in one place be fore," she said, "and they're so friendly you'd never guess they re all competing for the Miss America title. It's more like a sorority convention." Arriving in the midst of the Labor day week end, Miss Oregon "eased" into the con test excitement. Accompanied by Mrs. Marguerite Phillips, Mrs. Betty Haralampus, and Curt Sagner, all of Seaside, Marty took a short stroll on the boardwalk Saturday eve ning, but she retired early be cause the "fun" started early on Sunday. Poses for Cameramen At 8 a.m. she was in the midst of a group of 10 early arriving beauties, posing for television cameramen in t h e Traymore hotel lobby. With only a few hours intermission, she was back before the cam eras again, this time with a group of 14 contestants Sun day afternoon, posing on the boardwalk in front of Conven tion hall, where the four nights of judging will begin Wednesday. "It was thrilling," the Jack sonville beauty said later. "People seemed to come rush ing from all over, and first thing we knew, we were in the midst of an ocean of smil ing faces. They all seemed so friendly, they really made me feel at home." Monday afternoon the pag eant got down to official busi ness. The 54 contestants gath ered for a short registration session in the Dennis hotel. Insure Isolation Here Marty heard the pag eant rules including one forbidding the beauties to talk to any men, fathers included, without a chaperone present and others that will Insure their "isolation" for the next five days. After the photographer and interviewers had exhaust ed themselves. Marty had din ner at the President hotel, vhere she's spending pageant week in a suite overlooking the ocean, and then attended her first rehearsal in Conven tion hall. Contest M. C. Beit Parks outlined the nightly produc tion numbers the 54 beauties will participate In from Wed nesday through Saturday, and after i two-hour session, Mar ty returned to her hotel to get her beauty sleep in prep xxss New Hampshire, Nevada, Nebraska, Montana, Missouri, Mississippi, Minnesota, Michigan, Massachusetts, Maryland, Maine, Louisiana, Kentucky, Kansas. Third row, from left: North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, Wisconsin, Wyoming. (UPI) Contest aration for today's photogra phy session. Tonight Miss Oregon will ride atop an open white con vertible in the Miss America Boardwalk parade, while an expected 200,000 spectators will get their first view of all 54 beauties. "I'll be doing my best to make the folks back in Ore gon proud of me," Marty promised. Forestry Officials Check on Fire State forestry department and Rogue River National forest crews this morning were dispatched to the scene of a fire near Moon Prairie guard station, about two miles east of Howard Prairie lake. The fire was spotted about 10:15 a.m. Additional details were not available late this morning. Both slate and federal crews were dispatched be cause it was not known wheth er the fire was In state or na tional forest area. State forestry officials re ported no fires over the week end prior to this morning's blaze. There was one small fire in the Rogue River National for est Monday about 5 p.m. at Fish lake. Less than half an acre burned. Cause was at tributed to a campfire that got out of control, forest offi cials said. Dead Indian Road Paving Near Done Paving on the Dead Indian rd. will be in good shape when the final section is fin ished Friday, according to County Engineer Robert J. Carstensen. Work Is now being done on the Hiatt lake section of the Dead Indian, he said. Road crews are grading VA miles of the Hiatt lake rd. improving It to the north end of the lake, he reported. Gravelling is being com pleted on the Evans Creek rd. between May's creek and Ramsey Canyon rd. Grading will be completed on Rogue River dr. this week. A short piece of the relocated section of Antioch rd. is being graded, Carstensen said. Construction of the bridge over Big Butte creek on the Netherlands rd. is completed, and fills to the approaches will be finished soon, he said. Bulletin Washington (UPI) Sen. Edward V. Long (D-Mo.) announced today Dr. Rob ert A. Boblen "is on his way" to the United States is begin life prison sen tence as Soviet spy. I 57th Year Price 10 Cents I Ben Bella Units, Guerrillas Clash In Heavy Fighting Algiers - IIM - Fierce fight ing oeiween Algerian army units and guerrilla forces op posing Vice Premier Ahmed Ben Bella was reported south and west of Algiers today. Headquarters of, Willaya (military district) Four, center of Ben Bella opposition, said the fighting involved "artil lery and automatic weapons.' Willaya Four said its guer rillas had pushed the Ben Bella forces back. It put the casualties at dozens of dead and seriously wounded. "The combat is still going on, with extreme violence," the Willaya Four announce ment said. The announcement said the fighting took place south of Aumale, about 55 miles south of here, shortly after day break. Willaya Four said its guer rilla troops "resisted fiercely and rcspclled the invaders." The fighting near Aumale appeared to be the heaviest since the pro-Ben Bella forces began their three - pronged drive toward Algiers last week to wrest control of the capital from the rebel mili tary commanders. Police sources at Medea re ported more "violent fight ing" near Masscna, about 120 miles west of Algiers, early this morning. First reports from the Mas scna region list eight dead and "several" wounded, the sources said. There was no immediate report on casual- tics in the Aumale region. alitor BURN CROSS Ku Klux Klansmen wearing traditional hooded robes form a circle around burning cross at rally in Albany, Ca., Monday. An estimated 3.500 persons at- I A Communist Voposlf'f0' . .. Intentional in bnoot bernner In Escape Try Berlin - IUPH - Communist police shot and probably kill ed a refugee trying to escape over a cemetery wall into West Berlin today. West Berlin police said the man was shot off the top of the wall and tumbled back into East Berlin territory. He showed no signs of life, and Western police said they be lieved he was dead. " The incident occurred as United Stales Army troops in full battle gear manned posi tions at key crossing points to block any attempt by the So viets to send their War Me morial guards in armored cars Festival Ends With Plays Seen By 44,708 Persons Ashland ,- Closing night ceremonies Sunday ended the 22nd season at the Oregon Shakespearean Festi v a 1 In Ashland, with the 44-night run playing to a total of 44,708 persons. Comedies proved to be top box office attractions for the event. Leading in individual attendance was "As You Like It" with 12.676. Second was "The Comedy of Errors," playing to 12,597. Third in totals was "Coriolanus," wilh 10,362. A total of 9,073 at tended "King Henry IV, Part II." Although the 1062 audi ences filled the open air Elizabethan theatre to 88 per cent of capacity, the figure is 3,015 less than 1961s record breaking year. Festival Standees Festival officials indicated that a week of bad weather earlier In the run, plus fewer standees on sell-out nights, combined to effect the drop. Twenty of the performances were complete sell-outs, with five others drawing more than 1,000. The house accommo dates 1,145 persons. Plans .'or the 1963 season include a lengthening of the playing period, with a later closing date. The run will open Wednesday, July 24, with the traditional opening night feast and play. Seen In rotation will be "Romeo and Juliet," "Love's Labour's Lost," "King Henry the Fifth,", and "The Merry Wives of Windsor." Rotation of plays and directorial as signments will be announced later. Hanley Road To Be Closed This Week Hanley road will be closed to through traffic between Beall lane and Taylor rd. for the next five weeks, accord ing to Robert Carstensen, county engineer. The closure is due to con struction beginning on the bridge over Jackson creek, which is being built by R and M Construction company. The road will be closed be- ginning Wednesday, Sept. 5. 1" f) ) o Q 0 01 r v . i 1 I through the American sector of Berlin. The Russians did not try to get through up to 2 p.m. 19 p.m., PDT). When the report of the shooting reached the West, a French army ambulance sta tioned at the U.S. Army's Checkpoint Charlie at - the Friedrichstrasse crossing point on the East-West Berlin bor der was alerted and it began to move out. But it was called back al most, immediately when news reached the West that the refugee, wounded or dead, had been carried away on a stretcher by the Communists. Bled to Death The Western Allies station ed an ambulance on the bor der after a 19-year-old refugee bled to death on the Eastern side of the wall Aug. 17. The French ambulance re placed an American ambu lance at the border Sept. 1. As the shooting incident oc curred. Western Allied troops kept up an intense vigil at the border. The scene was set for a pos sible showdown after an allied order for the Russians to re route their conveys took ef fect at midnight. The Russians had shown no indication they wuuid comply. But they uid not attempt a crossing at their usual hour of 12:30 p.m. (4:30 a.m., PDT) D'Anjou Picking To Start Wednesday The Bartlctt pear harvest should be completed by Wed nesday and picking of D'An jou pears may start by the end of the week, according to Jackson County Horticultural Agent Cliff Cordy. A heavy crop of D'Anjous has been reported with the sizes spotty, Cordy said. More small D'Anjous were reported than ever before, he noted. Peach harvest Is In full swing in this area -,vith such late varieties of Alamars, Rio Oso, and J. H. Hales being picked. This is considered the best peach crop the area has had in years, Cordy added. Quality is good. A busload of 32 or more Mexican Nationals is expect ed in Thursday, according to Shelby Tuttle, manager of the Medford Pear Shippers. A small group of 10 to 12 Mexican Nationals Is expected Saturday, he added. This will bring the total number of Mexicans picking pears to 225, Tuttle said. This Is 100 short of the approximately 327 Mexicans brought in last year, he noted. WEATHER FORKCART: Continued fair and warm through Wednesday with considerable smoke In the valley. Winds variable five to M miles per hour. Low tonight 4ft to S3. High Wednesday B0 to 93. Temp. Highest Yesterday S3 Lowe it Thli Morning AO Our Skies Tonight Kunset today 8:42 p.m. Sunrise tomorrow .... 3:40 a.m. Monnirt tonight . 9:4ft p.m. First Quarter Kept. 8 Jupltor, the largest planet In the solar system, now rises right after sunset. Is In the south at midnight, and leti well before sunrise rr tended the meeting In a cow pasture near Albany, making It one of the largest Klan rallies In recent years. (UPI) Reply fo Soviets Winds Blew Plane i Off Set Course Washinaton-dW-The United Slates said today one of its U2 reconnaissance planes may have "unintentionally" over flown Soviet territory in the Far East. The statement was made in a U S, note to Moscow reply ing to Russia's charge earlier today of a U2 flight Thursday over Russia's Sakhalin Island. The U. S. note said investi gation has revealed "that an unintentional violation may in fact have taken place.' Severe Winds The note said "a patrol craft operated by the U. S. Air Force" was flying & course "well outside Soviet territorial limits" but encoun tered "severe winds" and 'may therefore unintentional ly overflown the southern tip of Sakhalin." The note added that U.S. policy on flights over Soviet territory has "in no way been altered" since President Ken nedy's statement at a press conference Jan. 25, 1961. Kennedy said then that "flights of American aircraft penetrating ' the air space of the Soviet Union has been suspended since May, 1960. I have ordered that they not be resumed." Heat Up Before the State Depart ment issued its statement, sev eral members of Congress said . they did not believe a U2 plane had violated Soviet ter ritory. Some suggested the Soviets were trying to heat up the cold war. One of the bluntest reac tions came from Sen. Howard Cannon (D-Nev.), a member of the Senate Armed Services committee. Not that the com mittee had been told that U2 flights over Russia had been discontinued, he said he did not believe the Soviet charge has "any substance at all." Rod. George H. Marion (D- Tex.), chairman of the House ueiense Appropriations com mittee, also was among those who cast doubt on the Soviet charge. Holiday Death Toll Sels New Record By United Press International The Labor Day holiday traf fic death toll reached 499 to day and the National Safety Council called for "immediate drastic actions" to prevent fu ture highway slaughters. The highways claimed eight lives in Oregon over the Labor Day week end and three more perions died in other accidents. The final United Press In ternational tabulation for the 78-hour period from 6 p.m. Friday until midnight Monday showed a total of 499 traffic fatalities. The over - all breakdown: traffic 499, drownings 72, boating 4, planes 9, miscel laneous 80, total 664. Howard Fylc, president of the Safety Council said in Cnlcago, "If this tragic waste of human life is to be checked, we must take immediate dras tic actions." Ml r $ I; rinnntaiiiMi'iil
