Image provided by: University of Oregon Libraries; Eugene, OR
About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 27, 1962)
Rogue Valley Edition 57th Year Price 10 Cents MEDFORD Tribune 60 PAGES Seven Sections MEDFORD, OREGON. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1962 No. 162 ississippi Governor, School Officials Hold Conferences in Guarded Building M J 'bj'zy p par 'a Strike Against Santa Fe Railway Barred by Judge Parties Ordered To Court Monday Chicago-niPIl-A U.S. District Court Judge today barred a trainmen's strike against the 13.000-mile Santa Fe Rail way scheduled for 6 a.m. Fri day. Judge William J. Camp bell said "there will be no strike." He ordered the Brother hood ot Railroad Trainmen, which had planned the strike, and the railway to maintain the status quo and to send their representatives to Fed eral Judge Joseph Sam Per ry's court Monday for further Asked . The BRT announced Wed nesday it would call out 3,000 employees on the Santa Fe's eastern and western lines -the segments between Chi cago and Albuquerque, N.M., and Sweetwater, Tex. The railroad, second longest in the nation, said such a walk out would affect its entire system. It asked Campbell to issue an injunction against the strike. Campbell refused to issue an injunction. He said the dis pute was tied up with the controversy over featherbed ding which has hoilcti into a threat of a strike' against all the nation's railroads. The BRT and four other unions representing" ontrain rail employees have threaten ed to strike if the railroads put stringent anlifeatherbed ding work rules changes into effect. Perry ruled last sum mer that the railroads had the right to make the changes. The unions, claiming the re visions would eliminate 80, 000 jobs, appealed to the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, where the case still rests. Said Related Matter Campbell referred the San ta Fe dispute to Perry "be cause it is a related matter" to the nation-wide feather bedding dispute. Featherbedding is a rail road term for unnecessary jobs. The issue has already triggered a tele graphers' strike which has shut down the Chicago and North West ern Railway, third longest in the nation, for almost a month. Mason Cites Need For More Policemen Salem UPB H. G. Maison of the state police indicated in an annual report to the gov ernor today he needs more officers. He said the present force of 527 is spread too thin to ac complish the "wide range of enforcement duties the public expects." - Maison said that in the past 10 years the rate of arrest of traffic offenders by state po lice has gone from 3.6 per cent to 9.7 per cent, based on each 100 million miles of trav el. In the past fiscal year, state officers arrested more than 100.000 drivers and issued nearly 120.000 warnings. Of the arrests, 1.023 were for drunken driving and 22,200 for speeding. NEWSftpRIEFS ITIMS MOM YjfT AROUND THI OlOll INCREASE ORDERED IN COMMANDO FORCE Washington-Wli-The Army hat been authorised to in crease its commando type anti-guerrilla forces from 5,300 to 6,650 men during the next five years. Deputy Defense Secre tary Roswell L. Gilpatric announced today. KENNEDY URGED TO BAN DISCRIMINATION Waihinglon-lPh-The U.S. Civil Rights Commission for the second year in a row today urged President Kennedy to iitue an executive order banning racial discrimination tn all housing built with federal assistance oi any kind. RUSK PONDERS SECURITY ORGANIZATION ! Although campus housing I, New York-'tPMJ.S. officials taid today that Secretary of al "PPcr c,a' student State Dean Rusk was seriously considering proposals to create have been placed in approved a special Caribbean security organisation lo guard against off-campus housing, school of-Cuban-based subversion or aggression. ficials said. Nr. one will need . . to give up college for lack of piiesti isicm TO STOP CREATING CRISES ! housing, it was explained. United Nations. N.Y.-'iriBritain called on Russia today to slop creating artificial crises in Berlin, end tensions along the Communist wall and negotiate a Just settlement. ftf W: K VU lM rf?l rf .,mi.rii jslimM -.. FLOOD DAMAGE IN SPAIN Overturned autos and pools of water clog a street in Tarrasa, Spain, after the worst flood in the nation's history. Late reports said more than 700 persons are dead or missing in violent rains that Smuggled Reports Of Executions in Cuba Received By United Press International Smuggled dispatches from Havana report a new wave of executions and arrests as Pre mier Fidel Castro moves lo crush internal unrest under cover of worldwide attention on the massive Soviet build-up of arms and men in Cuba. Informed sources in the Cu ban capital said at least 75 persons have been shot down by firing squads in the past month and 28 others sen tenced lo long prison terms. The specific charge against them: Allegations they were plotting to assassinate Castro and other top government of ficials. The new executions bring to more than 1,000 the num ber of Cuban victims of Castro firing squads since January, 1059. Estimates of political prisoners range as high as 150.000. ' Official Reports So far, the Cuban people have heard officially only of the arrest of five rebels, in Havana's Miramar suburb, and the seizure of arms and documents alleged to involve them in a "counter - revolu; tionary" plot. The first reports of the re newal of mass executions in Cuba came Wednesday from diplomatic sources in New York and the Exile Student's Revolutionary Directorate in Mexico City. The students said four of their members had been executed in the Cuban capital in recent days and reported a new "domestic rebellion" un der way in Cuba. Shirra Will Photograph Earth's Weather From Orbit Five Area Students Are Semifinalists In Merit Program Five Jackson county high school students and one from Josephine county today were named as semi-finalists in the 1962-63 National Merit Schol arship competition. Approximately 11.000 high school seniors throughout the i country were cited as semi- tinansis. Four of the students are from Medford. They are Mike R. Miller, son of Dr. and Mrs. William J. Miller, 1307 Queen Anne ave.; Heather L. Rode, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George W. Rode, 2242 Buena Vista dr.: David C. Warren, son of Mr. and Mrs. E. W. Warren, 35B6 Crater Lake ave.; and Michael J. Whinihan, son of Mr. and Mrs. E. M. Whinihan, 1808 Westerlund dr. Named from Phoenix High school is Laura J. Griffith, daughter of Mrs. Thelma Mc Curdy, Cedar lane, Medford, and the Grants Pass High school semifinalist is James M. Decourcey. They became semnifinalists through their outstanding per formance on the National Merit Scholarship qualifying 1,748 Students Are Enrolled at College Ashland Enrollment at Southern Oregon college Jumped to .1,748 students on the fifth day of registration yesterday. A year ago the to tal enrollment was 1.373. Thf increase is 27.3 per cent sn far this fall. Male students enrolled this term total 1.016. compared to 793 last fall, a 28.1 per cent Increase. Total number of fe male students registered thin fall is 732, compared to 580 last year, an Increase of 26.2 per cent. Registration will continue through Oct. 8. The next highest enrollment at the college was last spring when a total of 1,527 students registered. j There is an urgent need for ; j part time work for college (students, officials said. ' flooded three rivers in northern Spain. In one part ot Tarrasa the flood swept away everything, including foun dations for buildings, leaving nothing but a broad swath of mud. The story is on page 2A. (UPI) test, the first step In the eighth annual Merit program. Each semifinalist now moves a step closer to winning a four-year Merit scholarship to the college of his choice. The qualifying examination, a test of educational develop ment, was given in more than 16,000 high schools last March. The semi-finalist group is composed of the highest scoring students in each state and in the United States ter ritories. The semifinalists will take another examination, the three-hour scholastic aptitude lest of the College Entrance Examination board, to be given in testing centers throughout the country Dec. 1, 1962. Students whose scores on the second test substantiate their performance on the qualifying test and who are endorsed by their high schools will become finalists in the competition. All finalists re ceive a certificate of merit in recognition of their outstand ing performance In the pro gram. As finalists, the students will be eligible for the scolar ship awards sponsored by NMSC and about 150 business corporations, foundations, un ions, professional associations and individuals. In the final phase of the competition, the high school grades, creative accomplish ments, leadership qualities, extra-curricular activities, and school citizenship of the stu dents will be evaluated along with their scores on the tests. About April 24. 1963. thp i names of the Merit scholars will be announced, the pxsrt number depending on the ex - tent of sponsor support of the Merit program. WEATHER FORECAST: Considerable rlnu. diness tonight and Friday. Rain through Saturday morning. Low tonight and Friday night 55 High Friday 15. Temp. Highest Yesterday g! Lowest Thla Morning S3 Free, to 10 a.m. Today .eg Our Skies Tonight Sunset today S:fil p.m. Sunrise tomorrow .... t-.fis a.m. Moonrtse tomorrow . S:! a.m. Srw sfnnn Friday ! PU.os.1IM.NT STAR 1 Square of Pegasus, high In south tltlg p.m. visini.r. planf.Ts Venui, sels . . g:51 p.m. Jupiter, due south H;lt p.m. Saturn, low In south- i west ... ..II :2Z p.m. Stars, high In east . 3:11 a.m. 1 Cloud Pictures Due To Be Taken By Astronaut Cape Canaveral, Fla. - HIPP -Spaceman - elect Walter M. Schlrra Jr. will photograph earth's weather from orbit in a key step toward develop ment of a new U.S. "weather eye" satellite, it was learned today. The slender, handsome as tronaut is scheduled to ride an Atlas rocket into space next Wednesday. He will carry along a hand-held 35 -millimeter camera lo record the most spectacular view a man has ever had of the world's ever-changing weather. Bearing on Project What his camera records will have a "direct bearing" on a project called Nimbus, a second - generation satellite system which will carry tele vision cameras into polar orbits to take pictures of weather over every square inch of earth's surface. United Press International learned that Schirra Is sched uled to spend 20 minutes taking pictures of clouds as he soars across' the North American continent 'in his six-hours of flight through space. In Fourth Orbit At that point, he will be In the fourth of his planned six orbits. His space capsule will be more than 100 miles above earth, giving Schirra an area of hundreds of thousands of square miles at which to aim his camera. The first 650-pound Nimbus satellite is scheduled lo be launched sometime next spring from the West Coast. The Nimbus will gradually re place the Tiros satellites in i complex system which now iusc" photographs from space in the preparation of weather forecasts for America. Capsule Repaired Meanwhile, a freshly re paired space capsule and a generally peaceful weather situation around the world to day raised scientific hopes that Schirra might keep his date in space next week. The bcll-shaped space cap- sule that Schirra named "Sig- mw was put back atop the Atlas booster Wednesday after spending five days In a hangar undergoing replacement of a leaky valve. But still ahead are all the crucial final checks of myraid instruments, seven miles of wiring in the capsule and 50,000 moving parts in the Atlas. Clubs, Tear Gas Shells Carried by Police Officers Meredith Schedules News Conference New Orleans, La.-flTI-An attorney for Negro James H. Meredith said here this afternoon that Meredith was en route to the Univer sity of Mississippi to make hit fourth attempt at regis tering there. Attorney Jack Greenberg said he had been assured by the justice department that a force ade quate to do the job was ac- companying Meredith. Oxford, Miss.-WPII-Gov. Ross Barnett hurriedly returned to the University of Mississippi campus today and went into conferences with state and school officials in a building guarded by helmeted police carrying clubs and tear gas shells. There was no immediate in dication what brought Barnett back to this campus, made tense by Negro James Mere dith's repeated attempts to en roll here. U.S. marshals were report ed pouring Into town. Meredith scheduled a news conference later today in New Orleans and it appeared un likely he would make anoth er attempt to enter the school today. To Alumni House Barnett, who twice has per sonally rejected Meredith,, went straight to the alumni house on the campus for talks with officials, , including Lt. Gov.- Paul Johnson, Johnson, who already was here when Barnett arrived, acted as the governor's representative in turning down Meredith's third Integration try Wednesday. U. S. Atty. Gen. Robert F. Kennedy said Wednesday night in Washington the gov ernment has no intention of backing down and again raised the. possibility that federal troops might have to be sent here. "We will use whatever Is necessary to get the job done," Kennedy said. Met at Main Gale Meredith, a 29-year-old Air Force veteran, was met Wed nesday at the main gate of the "Ole Miss" campus by John son and a cordon of state troopers and plainclothesmen. The Negro, escorted by U. S. marshals, was denied en trance to the campus by John son on the ground of "Immi nent breach of peace." Resolution Urged In Mississippi Case Washington-(UPn-Two north ern senators, a Democrat and a Republican, jointly propos ed today that Congress pass a resolution supporting Presi dent - Kennedy In whatever steps are needed to deal with the Mississippi school integra tion crisis. The move was urged by Sens. Paul H. Douglas CD-Ill.) and Kenneth B. Keating (R N.Y.). "No state has the right lo defy the Constitution," they said In a joint statement. The two senators declared that refusal of Mississippi au thorities to admit Negro James Meredith to the state univer sity has cast "discredit" on the nation. , "The antics of these offici als are repugnant lo our en tire heritage of freedom and Justice. They must he con demned," the two senators said. Farm Bill Signed During Ceremony Washington -(IIPD- President Kennedy today signed the new farm bill with a predic tion that the measure will boost farm income, reduce government costs and slow pile-up of agricultural sur pluses. The bill, defeated earlier In this session of Congress but passed on second Herculean try by administration forces, was signed al a White House ceremony. Ki&J u VOLUNTEERS PRACTICE - Under the di- cation In the Florida Keys. The trainee! rection of ex-Marine Steve Wilson, standing, are mostly refugees from Communist Cuba, members of an anti-Castro volunteer unit go (UP1) through rifle practice at an undisclosed lo- , . Hunters Cautioned Of Fire Danger in Area Despite Rain Hunters were cautioned to day that the forested areas in southwestern Oregon, in spite of today's light rain, still are tinder dry and the fire danger is very high. In a' joint announcement by District Warden Curt Nosh elm of (he state forestry de partment and Forest Superr visor C. E. Brown of the Rogue River National forest, hunters were urged to be ex tremely careful with fire dur ing the hunting season which begins Saturday. - Fires are permitted only in safe places, and they must be attended al all times, Brown and Noshcim said. Building warming fires Is dangerous under dry condi tions now prevailing in Jack son county forests. . A warm ing fire which has been start ed In the morning when con ditions arc cool and damp can gel out of hand quickly later in the day when air becomes warmer and drier and wind velocities increase, they noted. For several years escaped hunter warming fires have been a major concern to the fire protection agencies, they said. . Brown and Noshelm re minded hunters that camp fires may be built In safe places without - a permit on Traffic Signals j Being Installed Public works department crews began work Wednes day on Installation of traffic signals at Eighth and Holly sts., according to Vernon Thorpe, public works director. Four holes were dug and steel supports and anchor bolts were placed, Thorpe said. , Concrete foundations will be poured Friday and the poles will be Installed next week. The traffic signals are be ing relocated from1 the Inter section of Court and Manza nita sts., where traffic checks revealed the signals were not needed. Thorpe said signals also will be removed from Riverside ave. and Manzanita st. and will be installed at Eighth and Fir sts. some time in the future. t The project is being under taken Jointly by the city and the state highway depart ment. The city is supplying the labor lo relocate the sig nals, and the highway de partment is furnishing neces sary materials, Thorpe said. Thompson Guilty Of Armed Robbery Martinez, Calif. - WPP - Don aid Martin Thompson, 38 formerly of Klamath Falls and The Dalles, Ore., was convict ed Wednesday on three charge of armed robbery. Thompson, who said he has been living In Walnut Creek, Calif., since November, 1059, was found guilty of robbing three Contra Costa County grocery stores between No vember 1958 and October 1959. Superior Court Judge Hugh H. Donovan set Oct. 15 for sentencing and a proba tionary hearing. An appeal for a new trial also will be heard on that dale. The jury of eighl women and four men deliberated for almost three hours before re turning the verdict at the end of the nine-day trial. : J national forest lands. How ever, it is illegal to build a fire on privately-owned land without the owner's permis sion. Entry by hunters to two ' areas in Jackson county is re. stricted because of high fire danger. One of these is the Ashland Watershed within the Rogue River National forest. This area is closed to entry and is posted with signs at access points. The other area is that part of Jackson county east of Jenny creek in the Green Springs area. Entry to this area can be obtained by securing a permit. Permits are issued at Lincoln guard sta- tlon and Penny Springs guard station, i , I Special fire patrols will be on duly beginning Saturday, according to: Brawn and Ne shelm. The present high fire danger Is expected to continue Until a soaking rain dampens forest areas. . Senate Committee -) , : i i . :' - Approves Project For Rogue River The Rogue Basin project, a Ihree-dam, $106,700,000 river development project, was ap proved by the public works committee of the U. S. Senate today. Bill Berg, administrative as sistant to Sen. Wayne Morse, told the Mail Tribune that authorization for the develop ment is contained in the om nibus rivers' and harbors bill. which was reported favorably by the committee. It will now go to the floor of the Senate, where favor able action is expected by the week end. Berg said Senator Morse is "reasonably sure" that favor able action also will be taken soon by the House. After that, only the signature of Presi dent Kennedy Is needed to complete the authorization ac tion. . The project Includes three dams on Lost creek, Elk creek and the Applcgale riv er. II is a multi-purpose de velopment, for Irrigation, pow er generation, recreation, and atreamflow control. If approv ed, It will be the culmination of a long struggle by Rogue Basin people for optimum de velopment of the upper river. The authorization bill oni rics no appropriations, which will have to be sought sep arately, probably In the' next session of Congress, but it vir tually assures that the project will be started within the next two years. ' Yemen Monarchy Said Overthrown Aden - (UPI) - Yemen Radio reported today a revolutionary army has overthrown the monarchy. Other Arab broadcasts said the Imam king had been assassinated. Yemen Radio said the revolutionaries proclaimed I free republic after "getting rid of" Seif El Eislam El Badr, 36, who took over the throne over a week ago following the death of his father. An unidentified Arab broadcast said flatly that the new king had been killed. The semiofficial Arab news agency from Cairo said he was assassinated Wednesday night. The radio station at Sanaa, the Yemenite capital, said the revolt broke out about 5 p.m. Wednesday. The new re gime announced a curfew over (he radio, and warned that anyone leaving his house after hours would be shot on light ? i " yd? - Woman Killed in One-Car Mishap On Interstate 5 A Riddle, Ore., woman was killed and the driver of the car in which she was a pas senger was injured in a one- ' vehicle accident Wednesday evening on Interstate 5 Killed was Theresa Kathryn Landers, 21. Reported in fair condition at Rogue Valley hospital this morning is Paul Edward Ful ton, 44, also of Riddle, driver of the car. According to Oregon state police, the Fulton vehicle was southbound when it came to a bridge construction zone near F.n ley .lane. north of Blackwell hill. Officers said the four lane ' hiRhway-narrows to one lane. The Fulton car skidded through a guard rail and turned over on the new bridge - construction, police said. Both were thrown from the car. - , Fulton was taken to the hos pital by Medford Ambulance service. Stale police also investi gated another one-vehicle ac-' cident shortly after I o'clock this morning. A vehicle, op erated by Arlet Alvin Ander son, 53, of route 1, box 307, Gold Hill, was damaged when It angled off Highway 99 near Beall lane and cut off a power pole. Gas Truck Spills Load on Highway Grants Pass - A lnsrleW gasoline truck en route to Medford jack-knifed on High way 199 about a mile) annth of Wilderville early this morn ing, ana spilled about 4,600 gallons of gas on the highway, according to the Josephine county sheriff's office. Joscpnine county rural fire men remained nn this srn this morning to wash gasoline on me mgnway, which wai closed for about two hnnm after the accident, about 2:30 o clock this morning. Sheriff's deputies said the driver, Robert Norton Ben nett, 47, Crescent City, Calif., attpmntfsH tn atnn tn ownirl hitting a deer on the highway. The truck started skidding on the wet pavement and jack knifed, breaking the tank trailer loose. The trailer rolled over and was punctured, spill ing gasoline on the' highway. Traffic was Ktnnnen hnpaiicn the danger the gas might ig nite. ; Nearly All National Forest Land Opened Portland - OTI) - Nearly all National Forest land In Ore gun will be open to deer hunt ers when the season begins Saturday, the U.S. Forest Service said today. ' 1
