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Dr. Soblen Unconscious After Suicide Attempt Senate Passes Modified Version Of Presidents Tax Reform Bill Measure Relumed To Lower House Amid Criticism Roll Call Vote of 59-24 Passes Bill Washington -IUPD- Th Sen ate, disregarding a flood of last - minute criticism, today passed a sharply modified version of President Ken nedy's tax reform bill. The roll call vote was 59-24 in favor of the bill with an unusual combination of lib erals and conservatives cast ing most of the opposition votes. Voting for the bill were 40 Democrats and 19 Republi cans. Oppose dwere 14 Demo crats and 10 Republicans. The measure, near the top of Kennedy's list of priority legislation, was sent back to the house amid a drumfire of criticism that it was a "special interest bill" and a "tax dodg er's dream." Backers countered that it represented an important step forward toward eliminating inequities in the tax code. They said the main feature of the bill-a $1 billion tax credit to spur business investment would revitalize the economy. The final version of the measure, which would cost the Treasury an estimated $400 million a year in revenues, now must be hammered out by a joint House-Senate con ference committee. The Senate action was a partial victory for Kennedy, who recommended the invest ment credit for business in his tax message last year. Many of his other requests were drastically scaled down, how ever. The tax credit for business is designed to stimulate in vestments in new machinery and equipment. Under it, busi nessmen could write off up to $7 out of every $100 spent on certain new facilities after last July 1. The bill would also put higher taxes on insurance and savings companies and crack down on U.S.-controlled firms operating in so-called foreign "tax havens." Gravity Pull on Mariner-2 Builds Pasadena, Calif. - IUPII -Gravitational pull from the siin today increased on the Venus-bound Mariner-2 space craft pulling the instrument- laden vehicle on a true course for a fly-by of the mystery planet. Scientists at Caltcch's Jet Propulsion Laboratory said the gravitational tug of the Earth would be equalized by that of the sun when the Mariner-2 reached a distance of 1.6 million miles from earth. At 5 a.m. (PDT) today, the spacecraft was 1,733,838 miles from Earth and traveling at a speed of 8,648 miles an hour according to calculations of JPL scientists. WEATHER FORECAST: Continued clear throuRh Friday. Smoky In the morning. Low tonight 50-55. llith Friday 94-99. Temp. Highest Yesterday 98 Lowest Thli Morning 52 Our Skies Tonight Sunset today 6:J p.m. Sunrise tomorrow .... 5:42 a.m. Moonset tonight . ...10:51 p.m. First Quarter tonight 10:45 p.m. The planet, Saturn, due south at 9:40 p.m., Is now nearly at bright ai the tar, Arcturus, setting at 10:18 p.m. HEWSfBRIEFS ITEMS OM fc nV AHOUND THI 01OH BEN BELLA SUMMONS MILITARY LEADERS Algiert-CPI'-Vice Premier Ahmed Ban Bella summoned Algeria's military leaders into conference today in an effort to enforce a cease-fir between rival troops in th country-lid. KHRUSHCHEV. UDALL HOLD TALK Moscow - ITti - Sovit Premier Nikita Khruihchv and Secretary of th Interior Stewart L. Udall held i "pro longed" conversation today that may hv considered Soviet intentions about the Berlin crisis and th latast U2 incident. BORDER GUARDS FIGHT GAS DUEL Brlln-H-Wsf Berlin and Communist police fought a brief tear gas dual on th border of th American sector of th city and th Communists withdraw. DE GAULLE, ADENAUER RUSH TOWARD UNION Bonn-an-Priden! Charles d Gaull and Chancellor Konred Adnaur tppeered todty to b rushing Franc and Germany toward political union dpit advie of their Hits to go s'ow. STAND ON PLAYGROUND Three Negro boys and their parents stand on the play ground today outside Andrew Jackson Ele mentary school in New Orleans, La., while police and firemen search the school after receiving a report of a bomb in the building. Swimsuit Tonight for State's Miss America Entry Atlantic City, N.J. (Special) - Tonight Marty Wyatt will don her swimsuit, but she won't go near the water. Competing in the Miss America contest here as Miss Oregon, she will enter the swimsuit judging during the second night of preliminary competition in Conv e n t i o n hall. She'll be competing against the same 17 beauties who vied in Wednesday's talent contest - a rompetition won by Miss Mississippi, Charlotte Carroll of Walthall, who per formed a comedy song-and-dance routine. But if audience reaction is any indication, Marty won valuable points for her inter pretive jazz dance. Attired in a long black leotard and white shirt, her brown hair flowing as she cavorted to the music of "Love Walked In," she won a fine ovation. . Prepares for Second Test Since points also are scored for second - through fifty -placers in the preliminary judging, Miss Oregon is a good bet to be among the point leaders as she prepares for her second test tonight. Last night's swimsuit tro phy was won by Miss Illinois, Pam Gamble of Carbondale, whose measurements were 38-24-36. Miss Or2gon hopes to move the swimsuit champion ship west tonight. Since her arrival, Marty has been receiving telegrams and letters daily from the folks back home. And roses, too. "Gee," she sighed, "it's nice to know the people back home are rooting for me." Has Miss Oregon been hav ing a good time? 'Everything We Want' "Best time of my life," she sighed. "What girl couldn't have a good time on a week No bomb was found and the children were returned to the school. Police received sev eral bomb reports as public schools opened for the third year on an integrated basis and parochial schools for their third day on an integrated basis. (UPI) Judging such as this. We have every thing we want. We get the red carpet treatment wherever we go. We have absolutely no problems at . . ." Miss Oregon paused a mo ment, then her eyes twinkled. "Oh, yes," she said, "there was one important problem. In fact, it was almost a catas trophe." Marty went on: "On opening day, a pho tographer took a photo of Miss Oklahoma and myself.. And you know what? Our hats were exactly alike. We were each wearing the same style a big, black velvet hat with a rim around it." Then Marty laughed heartily. I guess that would have bothered some girls, but it didn't faze either Miss Okla homa or myself a bit." Any other complaints? "One," Marty said. "I love salad with roquefort cheese dressing. But wherever 1 go around here they make the dressing with oil, vinegar and cheese. Back home, they make it with sour cream and cheese." Atlantic City chefs, please take note. Medford Council To Consider Contracts A variety of items will be considered by the Medford city council at its meeting at 7:30 o'clock tonight in the council chambers in the city hall. Several contracts will be awarded for sewer, paving, and airport projects, and two public hearings will be held. One hearing is for the paving of alley Block 46 and the other for annexation of prop erty east of Murphy rd. and south of the Country club. Also to be considered will be a contract for re-roofing the city hall and for the re moval of the old Girl Scout building at Hawthorne park. Grants Pass Farm Wins Fair Ribbons Salem (UPD The Hoots An gus Farm of Grants Pass walked away Wednesday with most of the blue ribbons in the State Fair's Aberdeen Angus show. The ranch showed the grand champion bull, senior champion bull and picked off a flock of other awards. The ranch is owned by Mr. and Mrs. H. W. Hoots. Gil Savage of Salem cap tured the fair's cow-calling contest Wednesday. He won out against seven other contestants. He was presented a $10 first prize by 19-year-old Carole Windiut of Troutdale, the Multnomah County Dairy Princess. Segregationists Try To Enlorce School Boycott By United Press International Louisiana segregation 1 s t s renewed their efforts today to enforce a boycott of newly integrated schools. Negroes in Englewood, N.J., used the boycott to emphasize their claims that schools there are segregated. For the second consecutive day whites gathered outside Our Lady of Prompt Succor School in Westwego across the Mississippi from New Or leans. They raised a chorus of boos as a group of white chil dren alighted from a bus and entered the school where Ne groes recently were admitted. In the New Orleans area, five schools just opened on an integrated basis received tele phoned bomb threats. The scares sent police and firemen to the Wilson, Jackson and Jefferson David public schools and to St. Mary of the Angeles and St. Joseph parochial schools. No bombs were found. In Buras, La., only 18 white pupils showed up today at Our Lady of Good Harbor School, the first to open on an integrated basis in the archdiocese. Five negroes who appeared for class eight days ago have not attended since then. More than 400 Negro chil dren boycotted Englewood's predominantly Negro Lincoln School today, a sharp increase over the 267 children who stayed home Wednesday. Their parents claim the school is segregated because of a state policy requiring children to attend schools nearest their homes. USDA Field Office Men Attend Meeting Ashland About 80 people are attending a convention of the personnel of field offices of the United States depart ment of agriculture at the Mark Antony hotel today and Friday. Dr. Elmo N. Stevenson, president of Southern Oregon college, will speak at a lunch eon at 1:30 p.m. Friday. The convention theme is "Improv ing Our Operations," and all conferences and discussions are centered on this topic. Bert Caster, manager of the Jackson county field office of the department, is in charge of arrangements. Also attending are Roy Clark, information specialist, and A. O. Kelly, deputy direc tor of the department of agri culture, both from Washing ton, D. C. David McLeod. Morrow county, is program chairman for the event. Salem - UPii - Former Camp Withycombe commander James J. Anderson today re signed his Oregon National Guard commission. He was a lieutenant colonel, f FOREST FIRE GANGER TOMORROW KEEP OREGON GREEN Five Youths Fined More Than $1,100 For Seaside Riot Nine Others Enter Pleas of Innocent Seaside IUPD Five youths arrested during the Labor Day week end riots at this coastal resort were fined more than 51,100 Wednesday. All pleaded guilty to charg es ranging from disorderly conduct by rioting to carrying a concealed weapon. Salem -Wit- A conference to investigate th riots at Seaside Sept. 1 and 2 'was appointed ihii morning by Gov. Mark Hatfield. The governor's office said the conference hat been called to figure out what led to vi olence and general riot in the Oregon coastal town over the Labor Day week end. Nine others pleaded inno cent to a variety of charges. Their trials will be held later. A total of 66 was scheduled to appear in court Wednesday, but 50 elected to forfeit bail raiging from $14.50 to $100. Two others pleaded innocent by mail. Municipal Judge Don Kempton, who also is a motel operator here, levied these fines: William Sanford Brown, 20, Eugene, rioting, $300; William R. Truesdall, 22, Seaside, riot ing, $300; Betty L. Karpuk, Howell, 30, Seaside, rioting, $300; Craig Danner, 18, Eu gene, disorderly conduct and minor in possession of alco holic beverages, $154.50; Conn Maloney, 18, Seattle conceal ed weapon, $54.50. Nine Innocent Pleas Innocent please were offer ed by Perry L. Joubert, 22, Kirkland, Wash.; Timothy D. Bonner, 19, Portland; Thomas Owen, 20, Astoria; Robert J, Schoenhut, 21, Portland; Rob ert Bradley, 18, Seattle; John Allen Enright, 18, Seattle; Gary Johnson, 23, Portland; Steven Kozelisky, 19, Seattle, and Dean Hanson, 18, Albany. Bonner ad Joubert demand ed jury trials and Judge Kempton said he would set a date later. The others will be tried by the court Sept. 14. Impact of Railroad Strike Hits Midwest Chicago (UPD The econom ic impact of the strike against the Chicago and North West ern Railway hit the Midwest with full force today and ap peals for a quick settlement mounted. From Wyoming to Chicago, the steppage of the nation's third largest railroad meant plant shutdowns, workers laid off, construction hobbled, and farm products stranded. In Chicago, Federal Modi ator Francis A. O'Neill Jr. en tered another round of talks with the railroad and leaders of the Order of hailroad Tel egraphers in hopes of solving the job security dispute which has shut down the North West ern since last Thursday. 40 Fire Fighters Mopping Up Blaze A crew of 40 fire fighters was mopping up today on the fire in the Moon Prairie area which swept over an estimat ed 110 acres. The blaze, thought to be smoker-caused, broke out Tuesday morning. It was con tained that evening, but the situation remained "touch and go" yesterday because of the danger that winds might cause it to spread. The fire was in an old burn, where there are snags, fallen logs and brush along with scattered timber. State forestry department fire fighters hdd the help of Industry and U.S. fores! erv ice crews. ENDORSE HATFIELD Salem -UlPli- Gov. Mark Hatfield has been re-endorsed for reelection by the Oregon Legislature Education com mittee of the United Steel workers of America. The committee had previously en dorsed the governor April 14. Regional Edition MedfordSsWTribune 32 Pages MEDFORD, OREGON. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1962 No. 144 Three Communist Soldiers Shot in Korea Truce Zone Seoul, Korea - IUPD - South i Korean troops shot and killed three Communist uoldiers who illegally entered the southern portion of the truce zone Wednesday, it was an nounced today. An Allied Headquarters an nouncement said the three Communists engaged in a 30 minute fire fight with the South Korean soldiers before they were killed. A South Korean soldier was shot in the arm. The clash occurred about 6 p.m. Wednesday about 300 yards south of the line that divides the 21s-mile truce zone. It was the South Ko rean 1st Army's sector of the Four Men Appear lit Circuit Court; Three Arraigned Four men appeared in Jack son county circuit court this morning. Three were arraign ed, and one had an attorney appointed. Robert Lee Ryles, 37, for merly of Columbus, Ga., was arraigned on a charge of as sault and battery by means of force to produce great bodily injury. His case was contin ued until 1:30 p.m. Sept. 12 for him to enter a plea. Ryles was arrested by Med ford police Aug. 26 after he admitted setting fire to a box car in which Clair Amlon Camp, 51, Lebanon, Kans., was sleeping. Ryles had earlier been charged with assault with the intent to kill. A Jackson coun ty grand jury indicted him Sept. 4 on the lesser charge, Arraigned on Charge Gerald LaGrave, 20, of Sha dy Cove, was arraigned on a charge of driving while under the influence of intoxicating liquor. He was indicted by the grand jury Aug. 27. LaGrave was being pursued by Eagle Point police May 26 when the vehicle he was driv ing struck another car near Dodge bridge on the Sams Valley highway. Two persons were injured in the accident. His case was continued un til 1:30 p.m. Sept. 10 for him to enter a plea. Malcolm Robert Dunphy, 47, of 5010 Crater Lake high way, Medford, had Frank Van Dyke appointed as his lawyer. Dunphy is charged with ob taining property by false pre tenses. The case concerns a check written to a valley mar ket. Pleading guilty to obtain ing property by false pre tenses was Robert Lee Smith, 44, of 308 Chestnut st. His case was continued until 1:30 p.m. Sept. 10 for sentencing Smith is charged with writing a check to an area service Sta tion. Agriculture Budget Slightly Increased Salem (UPD The State De partmcnt of Agriculture Is proposing a budget for the 1963-65 biennium that in less than one per cent higher than the current budget. The department said It pro ccts its new budget at $6,862, 806 compared to the current $6,850,094 two-year budget The increase amounts to one- fifth of one per cent. The proposal has been sent to Gov. Mark Hatfield for ap proval. Morse Urges Action Washington -IUPD- Two sena tors called today for concert ed action by the United States and Its Latin American neigh bors in dealing with the Cu ban situation. Another senator urged that the United States recognize a Cuban government In - exile and supply It with arms to invade Cuba before Castro's Communist -supplied military build-up gets out of hand. Sen. Wayne L. Morse ID Ore.), chairman of the Senate foreign relations subcommit tee on Latin America, and Sen. Jacob K. JavlU IR-N.Y.) 57th Year Price 10 Cents truce line, about 80 miles northeast of Seoul. A spokesman said this was the second serious violation of the armistice agreement by the Communists within less than two months. The last in cident occurred in July when seven Red soldiers fired on a South Korean army detail cutting grass in the zone. Soldiers Involved The Allied announcement said the South Korean sol diers Involved in Wednesday's crash were members of a road-repair detail. There were two officers. It said the Communist sol diers - one officer and two enlisted men - opened fire on the South Korean soldiers with rifles and automatic weapons. The South Korean soldiers were armed with American- made Ml rifles. The Communists sent a group of 10 armed soldiers into the area about an hour later, apparently in an at tempt to recover the bodies of the slain Reds. Four Communist soldiers were seen returning to the northern portion of the zone before dark, but the other six remained. 503,118 People Visit Crater Lake More than 500,000 persons have visited Crater Lake Na tional park this year, acced ing to Super lntendcnt W. Ward Yeager. The 8,000 visitors Sunday Sept. 2, brought the yearly total to 503,118, almost 90,000 more than entered the park during 1961. The 2,230 vehicles that pass ed through the park's two en trance stations on Sunday also established a new record. The previous high of 2,210 cars was set Aug. 19, Yeager said. The national park's camp grounds and lodge facilities continued to attract capacity occupancy through the holi day week end, he added. Clear, balmy weather with temperatures in the mid-70s has made viewing conditions ideal at the lake, Yeager con tinued. He noted that there has been no rain recorded in the park for more than 25 days. Construction crews com pleted the resurfacing of the road between Annie Spring and Rim Village Aug. 31. Heavy travel is expected to continue in the park through next October. Ground Broken for New Hospital in GP Grants Pass-The first shov elful of earth for the new Josephine General hospital was turned by Mrs. Harry O. Smith, president of the hos pital board of trustees, in groundbreaking ceremonies in Grants Pass this morning. Assisting were Bruce Dav idson, chairman of the county board of commissioners, and Dr. Richard H. Wilcox, Ore gon state health officer. The new hospital will be located at the corner of A and Dlmmlck sts., just north of the present hospital site and will replace the older structure. Special guests at the cere monies were heads of civic organizations, profess I o n a 1 people, mayors, city officers, and chambers of commerce from Josephine county. both told the Senate that the United States must work in unison with allies through the Organization of American States. Sen. John G. Tower (R-Tex.) proposed In a statement that Cuban exiles be given "tools . . . to overthrow communism and Castro In Cuba." Morse said he was confident that if an OAS conference is called, the necessary three fourths vote for a concerted plan of action could be ob tained. But even If it is not, Morse said, "It ii (till th responsi-V DR. ROBERT SOBLEN Attempted Suicide Shah Fearful Over Lack of Water for Quake Survivors Boocn, lran-(UPII-The shah of Iran, on the second day of his inspection of the earth quake-shattered area around this city, expressed concern today about a shortage of wa- tor for the 30,000 survivors of the disaster. The shah, his eyes grim behind dark glasses, camped out Wednesday night. He is touring an area the size of Massachusetts and Connecti cut by plane, helicopter and Jeep. About 3,200 bodies have been recovered here. Only a jagged heap of mud bricks and dust remain of what once was a city of hundreds of huts. Villagers pressed forward to kiss the shah's boots. "Help us, father," "Bring back my family," "Give us water," were some of the pleas, The shah said the water shortage was one of the most serious problems. The earth quakes destroyed under ground pipes which supplied this area. "The earthquake area had a population of 40,000 before the disaster," he said. "As far as is known now, 30,000 arc still alive, but about 25,000 of these have been left home less." - - , , Transient Picked Up in Eugene Today Howard Carmel Segle, 49, transient, who walked away from a Jackson county Jail work par.y in the White City area Wednesday morn ing, was picked up today in Eugene by city police there, the Jackson county sheriff's office reported this after noon. Sheriff Paul Bettiol was notified about noon yester day that Segle, who v.as serving 30 days on a drunk in public charge, had not ap peared for the noon check. He had last been seen at' 10 a.m., deputies said. ' It was later learned that Segle, who had been picking fruit at a local orchard, had returned to the firm and picked up his check then took a bus north. He was ar rested in Eugene on a drunk charge, It was reported. Talent Family Still Reported as Missing The Bud Griffin family, In cluding four children, still are reported as missing, Jack son county sheriff's deputies reported today. The office was notified yes terday that the family was last seen about 10 a.m. Sept. t when they locked the house with the family dog inside and drove from the area. A neighbor became concerned and contacted officers. on Cuba Build-Up billty of the United States to protect the security of tne American people." Javlts noted that Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev has said the Monroe Doctrine is dead while "President Ken nedy says it still remains. Both can't be right." Regardless of whether So viet bloc personnel In Cuba are technically troops, Javits said, "It looks very much like the Russians have set up a base on Cuban soil ... for Communist infection of all America." But he said, "The only way ( Convicted Spy Takes Drugs on Way To Airport Ambulance Rushed Him To Hospital London -lUTO- Runaway So viet spy Dr. Robert A. Soblen, 61, blocked his return to the United States and a life term in prison for at least another 24 hours today by swallowing an overdose of barbiturates. Soblen lapsed into uncon sciousness in an ambulance taking him to London Airport from Brixton Prison to board waiting New York-bound jetliner. The ambulance was quickly diverted at the air port entrance and rushed him to nearby Hillingdon hospital. Remained Unconscious A Home Office spokesman said he had taken the barbitu rates, and he remained uncon scious throughout the day. This evening, a Home Of fice spokesman said Soblen would have to remain in the hospital for "at least another 24 hours." Therefore, the spokesman said, no new ar rangements were being made at present for his departure -at a later date. Earlier, a hospital announce ment had said Soblen was still unconscious five hours after he took an overdose of drugs. Indicates Overdoi "Dr. Soblen is still uncon scious. Barbiturates have been found in his blood in a con centration which indicates an overdose." It was the second time So blen had thwarted an attempt to return him to the United States to serve a life term In prison for giving American defense secrets to the Soviet Union over a 20-year span. The first time, after he had jumped $100,000 bail in New York, he cut his wrist and stabbed himself in the stom ach last July, while aboard, an El Al Airlines plane after being ousted from Israel. Telegram Received From Roberts Family A telegram from Dr. Alyin Roberts, who with his family, is in Hamadan, Iran, was re ceived at his office in Central Point today. He is currently serving as a medical mission ary at tlie Hamadan Christian hospital. The telegram stated: "We are all right. No damage from earthquake." , It was reported earlier that the earthquake center was about 150 miles from Hama dan. It was the first word re ceived directly from the fam ily since the earthquake last week end which killed or in jured 20,000 persons and left 100,000 homeless. D. D. Kirkland West, min ister of the First Presbyterian church, had received word from the New York office of the Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions that the Rob erts family was all right. Worst Days of Fire Danger Yet Ahead Salem - IUPD - Despite a low xccord of losses so far this summer on state forest lands the worst days of the forest fire season may be ahead. State Forester Dwight Phipps said Wednesday. He told the State Forestry Board his department would meet with the State Game commission to put safety measures into effect if critical fire hazards extend into the' regular deer hunting season late this month. "We'll try to delay the sea son if it becomes necessary," he said, adding he was hope ful that rain would fall be fore the buck deer season starts Sept. 29. Phlpps said that of Aug. 31, 5,447 acres of land protected by the state had been burned, compar.-d to 65,193 acres for the same period in 1G61. we can move is in unison with the Latin Nations. Javits said Latin Nations should welcome the oppor tunity to stand with the Unit ed States. Proposal Was Rejected Tower said his proposal for arming exiles had been re jected by the Slate Depart ment. But he said the recent Cuban refugees' action in shelling the Havana water front showed "how thin the sea defenses around Cuba are and how easy It would be to mount an attack on Cuba from the sea.
