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Newspaper Page Textrai Nl M 0) Lra i Regional Edition Medford 16 Pages Former Maj. Arrested in Charges Include Insurrection in Integration Case Prison Terms, Fines Possible Washington - lUPli - Former army Maj. Gen. Edwin Wal ker was arrested today on charges of "rebellion, insur rection and seditious conspi racy," Atty. Gen. Robert F. Kennedy announced. A Justice Department spokesman. Jack Rosenthal, said Walker would be arraign ed before U.S. Commissioner Omar Craig. Rosenthal said Walker was arrested "at a military road block on the outskirts of Ox ford." Charges Filed Rosenthal said the charges against Walker were: -Conspiracy to incite rebel lion or insurrection. This car ries a maximum penalty of a $20,000 fine and 20 years in prison. -Actually inciting to re bellion or insurrection. This involves a maximum penalty of a $10,000 fine and 10 years in prison. -Conspiracy to hinder fed eral officers in the-performance of their duties; This car ries a maximum penalty of six years and a $5,000 fine. -Assaulting a federal offi cer. Maximum penalty $5,000 fine and or three years in prison. Walker's headquarters in Dallas said it had no immedi ate comment on his arrest. Call for Americans Walker left Dallas during the week end to go to Ox ford, after issuing a call for Americans to pick up their "flag, tent and skillets" and follow him on a crusade against use of federal troops in the Mississippi crisis. Walker, who quit the Army in a dispute over its troop indoctrination programs, sub sequently made an unsuccess ful race for the Democratic nomination for governor of Texas. He also figured prominently in the Senate investigation in to charges that military of ficers were "muzzled" in their efforts to speak out against communism. Poked Reporter He finally was called lo testify and voiced his belief that a number of high-ranking Washington officials were dupes of Moscow. He wound up his appearance by poking a reporter In the eye. Walker, who commanded federal troops during the Lit tle Rock, Ark., school crisis five years ago. resigned his commission last November. His resignation came after he had been relieved of com mand of the "24th Division in Germany following investiga tion of complaints about his troop indoctrination program. TO MEET TUESDAY Washington lUPli Surgeon General Luther L. Terry an nounced today that his spe cial polioi advisory committee will meet Tuesday to review oral vaccine programs MEWSC)BRIEFS ITIMS OM T7 AROUND THI OlOII RUSSIA READY TO SIGN TREATY Moicow-4PH-Prtmier Nikiti KhrushcheT said today the Soviet Union U ready to lign a nuclear test ban pact but chirged the United Slatei it blocking any such treaty. KENNEDY VISIT TO MOSCOW MENTIONED Wshington-iri-Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev has casually mentioned to three recent American visitors the possibility of a visit by President Kennedy lo Moscow, the State Department said today. But department spokesman Lincoln White said nothing which we consider as a formal, or even at an informal in- vitation" lot such a trip has been extended. GOLDBERG TAKES OATH AS JUSTICE Wathington-lrT-The Supreme Court opended its 1962-63 term today with a brief ceremony swearing in former Labor Secretary Arthur 1. Goldberg as an associate justice. ' MEDFORD, OREGON, MONDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1962 , r ; r ' . ' ' ' -lit if - - ( 11 .Infunnni i i1i4i 'i it" jfci.iit iimn '-in kiiiIii t it-mi nr DISCUSSES ITINERARY Attorney Gen. Barton (D-Coos Bay) at a barbecue on the eral Robert Y. Thornton, right, goes over Applcgate Sunday. About 100 persons, in-, part of his campaign itinerary with Speak- eluding a number of candidates for office er of the House Robert B. Duncan, Demo- from Jackson and Josephine county, atlcnd cratic candidate for congress from the ed the event. Fourth District, center, and Rep. Clarence Thornton Warns of IFirst Week End i Increased Applegate Attorney General Roberl, Y. Thornton has warned prop erty owners in all timbered counties in Oregon to be pre pared to receive sharp boosts on their county tax bills in the next ten days. Speaking at an outdoor bar becue at Applegate Sunday afternoon, the Democratic candidate for governor charg ed that the increases were due to three timber tax re lief bills signed into law by Gov. Mark O. Hatfield last year which permitted large blocks of timber land to be taken off the tax rolls. "Although the present gov ernor and his political sup porters won Oregon's top of fice in 1958 with glowing promises of cutting the costs of government and cutting your taxes," Thornton told the audience of about 100, "the only tax cuts went to the large timber companies at the expense of Increasing the property taxes of the home owner, farmer and small busi nessman." Grow to Maturity Thornton said that hence forth the timber owners will pay no tax on these trees un til they grow to maturity, and then "roughly 30 per cent of the taxable value for that year." The attorney general said that if he defeats Hatfield in November, he will seek the repeal of these timber tax re lief laws or push for drastic changes. Gen. Mississippi " I, 3J Taxes at Picnic If elected. Thornton also promised to institute a lum ber economic commission which would map action lo ; meet the competition of Ca-; nadian timber. He said he would seek, too, to launch an industrial de velopment program in Ore gon, but one which would protect the slate's natural re sources. Thornton Introduced Thornton was introduced to j the gathering by Rep. Clar ence Barton (D-Coos Bay), who has been prominently mentioned as a candidate for speaker of the house in the Oregon legislature. Following Thornton's ad dress. Robert J3. Duncan, Democratic candidate for con gress from the Fourth Dis trict, said that for really ef fective representation, the Fourth District must send a Democrat to Washington, D C. "The Fourth District has been out of step with the administration for years." he told the audience. "When the country elected a Republican president, the Fourth District elected a Democrat," he said, "and when there was a Dem ocratic president in the White House, the Fourth Dis trict elected a Republican. Duncan promised he would jbe able to work with the Kcn incdy administration in pro jmoting the best interests of ithe district. Master of Ceremonies ' James Redden. Democratic candidate for the state legis lature from Jackson county, introduced a number of can didates for office from Jack son and Josephine county. Thornton left Medford last night for Portland. He ex pects to return to Jackson county Oct. 8 and 9 lo pursue his campaign for governor in this area. Western Edition of Times Inaugurated Los Anpclcs - IT1' - The ; New York Times scored a newspaper "fir5t" today with 1 the inaugural western edition of the Times, li marked the i first time in the United SUtes that a daily newspaper of general readership had been printed in two cities simultaneous. 57th Year Price 10 Cents Tribune No. 165 Of Hunting Season Fatal for Three By United Press International Three hunters were dead today two from gunshot wounds following the open ing week end of the Oregon deer hunting season. The victims were David Mc Callister. 60, Silverton; Rich ard McCollum. 41, Merrill, and Eugene Schenider, 73, Boring. They died Saturday. McCallister was killed near Burns. Slate police said he was hit by a rifle bullet which accidentally discharged from the rifle of a hunting com panion. Oren Phillips of Sal em. McCollum died while hunt ing with his son near Klamath Falls when he was hit by a rifle bullet. His son, Richard. 13. was hospitalized from shock. State police were in vestigating the shooting. Heart Attack Victim Schenider died of a heart attack near Ukiah. His body was found in a hunting area at Camas Creek north of Ukiah. Searchers were busy look ing for lost hunters during the week end. Ronald Lamotte. 27, Dallas, found his way back to his camp north of Burns Sunday after being missing for 24 hours. Searches also ended near Eugene and in the Tillamook Burn area Sunday for persons missing since Saturday. Roger Hilton, 36, Philo math, and his son. Jay Lee, 13, were found along Deception creek between Oakridge and Cottage Grove. Bill Christopher. 16. Al bany, and Jim Keistcr, 14, Milwaukie. walked out of the Tillamook Burn. They claim ed they were nol lost. Thev said they left their party to continue hunting rather than return home. WEATHER FORECAST: Fair tonight. In- i : rreasini rloudinr Tufidny.; : t ow tontjtht 45. High TutMlav j li-io. i Temp, j Hlehet Yesterday ... : 1 Lowest This Morning 41 j j i ! Our Skies Tonight ! i Sunset tndav 5:54 p.m. j Minnie tomorrow m. i 1 Mnonset tonight J:4? p.m. I i First Quarter Oct. i This month. Jupiter and Saturn. ! ' the two largest planets, are prominent In the southern sky. i Roth are nearly stationary among the urj and both will resume their usual eastward . motion In Ortober. Walker 1 NEGRO ATTENDS FIRST CLASSES AMIDST LITTER Oxford, Miss.-IUPI)-Negro James Meredith, 29, registered today at the University of Mississippi and began attending classes on a campus littered with the debris of a major riot that took two lives and injured at least 75 persons. "It is not a happy occasion," he said. About 400 U. S. deputy marshals and 1.000 federal troops guarded the campus as the Negro cracked the segrega tion barriers of the 114-year-old school. The campus was brought under military control early today but the rioting spread to downtown Oxford and at least one soldier was hurt in a barrage of rocks, timbers and pop bottles before the crowd was dispersed with tear gas and reinforcements were brought in. Meredith, whose determination to desegregate "Ole Miss" brought about a conflict that threatended lo rock the federal union, walked solemnly to an American colonial history class at 9 a.m. to shouts of "Nigger, nigger" and "Was it worth two deaths?" Mississippi Negro Parolee Making Good in Oregon Salem - (UPll - The Oregon board of parole and proba tion today said that a Negro murder parolee whom Gov. Mark Hatfield refused to send back to Mississippi last year has "developed into a good citizen" of this state. At the same time, Hat field's office revealed that Mississippi Gov. Ross Barnett threatened to ship a "train load" of other Negro parol ees to Oregon if Hatfield re jected the extradition of Charles Chinn, 26. This never materialized. Chinn fled Mississippi and what he called a "system of peonage" for former pres oners. Paying for Release Chinn said that when he left in 1961, he had a $10 a week job in the garage of a Mississippi state senator, T. G. McCormick. Chinn said he was working to. pay McCor mick for obtaining his release from prison. Chinn served time for the gunshot slaying of another man. Chinn's mother was in Ore gon, and he came to live with her. When Chinn's whereabouts were established. Barnett sent a telegram to Hatfield, say- a' Open Invitation "I wish to advise you that In the event you should deny this extradition request, I fear you are making it an open invitation for hundreds of Negro convicts and parol ees from this state to flee to the state of Oregon." A Hatfield spokesman not ed that not one has come. After an interview with Chinn here in May, 1961, and later conversations with Bar nett, Hatfield turned Barnett down and said Chinn would remain in Oregon. He was put under the supervision of Oregon authorities. In one of the telephone con versations with Barnett re garding Chinn, Hatfield said Barnett told him: "We'll ship you a trainload of them." In No Trouble Hal Randall, director of Oregon's parole board, said Chinn has a job as a build ing maintenance worker in an Oregon city, and has been in "no trouble" since Hatfield refused to extradite him. Hatfield aides said the "last straw" in the negotiations was a conversation with Bar nett at the national governors conference in June of last year. In discussing Chinn, Hatfield said Barnett told him, "just send us back that boy for a few weeks and then we'll give him back to you." Hatfield indicjtcd he feared physical retaliation against Chinn if he were returned. ! Road Projects in (County Under Way ! Several road projects arc under way in Jackson county ; by the county roads depart ! ment. Graveling projects are un jder way on the Hyatt Lake ird.. Rogue River dr. between Sams Valley rd. and Shady Cove, Willow Lake rd. for one ' mile from its junction with I Butte Falls-Fish Lake rd.. An jtioch rd. north from Sams Valley rd. and Antelope rd. Crews also arc working on the fills at the approaches to Wimcr bridge, grading Pio I ncer rd. east of Carpenter Hill j rd.. and are widening one mile I of Sardine Creek rd. 1 He was accompanied to the clasres by three deputy mar shals and U.S. Department of Justice representative Ed Guthmatv The Negro was met at the registrar's office by univer sity registrar Robert B. Ellis who handed him a stack of forms. The historis occasion was concluded quietly. Rubbed Eyes Meredith, who caught a whiff of tear gas that cloud ed the campus early today, rubbed his eyes occasionally. President Kennedy, who caught only four hours sleep during the troubled night, was in close touch with the situation. His radio-television appeal to the students Sunday night failed to quell rioting that broke out when the campus and town learned that Meridith, turned away three times, had been brought onto the campus. The campus, littered toay with burned out autmobilcs, "oent tear gas grenades, brok en glass and other assorted rubble, was under virtual martial law. The normally sleepy col lege town of Oxford was in the same condition by noon today. Truckloads of troops roared toward Courthouse Square to put "down a fresh outbreak of rioting that threatened to continue throughout the day. At least one soldier was re ported injured in the down town rioting when a pop bot tle hit him about the head and shoulders. The crowd of several hundred, apparently mostly young people, was made even more furious by the fact that the troops trying to keep order included a num ber of Negroes. The Justice Department in Washington announced that at least 108 persons had been arrested. These included a Decatur, Ga., man, Melvin Bruce, 24, identified as a frequent com panion of members of the American Nazi party. He was accused by military authori ties of sniping at the marshals Sunday night with a powerful rifle. The dead were identified as Paul Guihard, correspondent for the French news agency, who was found dead of a bul let wound in the back, and Ray Gunter, 23, an Oxford resident. Bargaining 'Out' In Cuban Crisis Washington -(UPll- Secretary of State Dean Rusk has ruled out bargaining with Moscow over its arms build-up in Cuba and U. S. bases in countries ringing Russia. "You cannot support free dom in one place by surren dering freedom in another," he said Sunday. Rusk also said there would be no "trade with Russia on Berlin and Cuba. The Cuba build-up, Rusk said, "is not a negotiable point." "This would nol be a way to meet the struggle for free dom," he said. Rusk and other officials at- 'tended a two-hour lunch at the White House Sunday with President Kennedy and Brit ish Foreign Secretary Lord Home. Office Employees, Union in Agreement Portland - WPH - Agreement on a new two-year contract between the Inter national Wood workers of America (IWA) as employer and Local 11 of the Office Employees union was announced today. The agreement calls for a five cent pBy increase retro active to April 1 of this year and an additional five cents per hour next April 1. It also includes payment of 12 cents an hour into the pension fund. AUTO-TRAIN CRASH Frank Fanger Jr., 68, and his wife, Anna Marie Fanger, 68, of 2686 Jacksonville highway, were taken to Rogue Valley hospital after their car col lided with a Southern Pacific diesel engine about 10:08 p.m. Sunday at the Main st. railroad crossing. Mrs. Fanger's condition was described as serious today, and Fanger was said to be in fair condition. According Governor For Peace Case Not Jackson, Miss. - (UPll - Gov. Ross Barnett, who issued a plea for peace and order Sun day upon learning that James Meredith had entered, the University of Mississippi cam pus, said today the plea was not a surrender. "We will never surrender," the governor said. He delivered his plea short ly after receiving 'a telephone call from Atty.- Gen. Robert F. Kennedy informing him that Meredith had been es corted on the campus. "My heart still says 'never,' but my calm judgment abhors the bloodshed that would follow," said Barnett. Grants Pass Man Shot in Accident Robert Charles Hargitt. 40. of 908 Southwest Rogue River dr., Grants Pass, was reported in fair condition today al Jo sephine County hospital after he was injured Sunday when a rifle accidentally discharged. According to Jackson coun ty sheriff's deputies, Hargitt was shot through the left an kle as he started to get into a pickup truck on Sykes Creek north of Wimer about 8:30 p.m. Reports show that the 30-06 rifle was on the floor of the truck when Hargitt's brother, Harold Eugene Hargitt, 37, of 1414 Playford lane. Grants Pass, started to pick it up. It discharged, and the bullet passed through Robert Har gitt's ankle and the truck's door. He was taken to the hospital by L. B. Hall ambu lance. Willi the brothers at the time of the accident was Or ville Forest Rigcl, 64, of 1690 Willow lane, Grants Pass. The accident was the sec ond in as many days involv ing hunters in Jackson county. Pear Pickers Are Sought for Area Glenn Hasty, farm labor representative of the state em ployment service in Medford, said today pear pickers are urgently needed in this area. Hasty said the department has estimated that local or chardists will be short about 500 pickers, and there are about two more weeks of pick ing. Recruiting of pear pickers i has been done in Idaho, Wash ington. California and Ore Igon, Hasty said, but there : have not been enough pick lers to supply the demand. Picking in this area, he said, usually lasts about seven weeks, but because of a heavy crop this year the itarvest is .being extended about two weeks. Hasty pointed out that lack of pickers means that employees in packing houses have to be laid off, and means a loss to the community as well as the grower. VETERAN OFFICER DIES Salem Vn - Charles H. McClecs. 8;. who directed game enforcement for the State Police for 18 years, died here Saturday. to city police, the Fanger car was shoved down the track about 200 feet from Ihe point of impact. Officers said warning sig nals were in operation at the time of the accident, but Fanger apparently did not see them. No citations were issued. The diesel engine was operated by Howard Edgar Mc Lane, 41. of 2976 Crater Lake ave. Says Plea in School Surrender Today he said some persons had wrongfully interpreted his plea to mean he was weak ening in his defiance of inte gration orders. "I repeat to the people of Mississippi: I will never yield a single inch," he said. The . Sunday afternoon statement said he was "sur rounded on all sides by the armed forces and the oppres sive power of the United States of America" and it con tained these words for fed eral officials: "You are de stroying the Constitution of this great nation; may God have mercy on your souls. This statement had struck a heavy blow to the capital of Mississippi. The townspeople were in a fighting mood late Sunday. The streets were alive with Confederate flags and some men even wore Con federate uniforms. A man leaned from the third floor of an office build ing - headquarters of the Jackson White Citizens Coun cil - and told a crowd U.S. marshals might be on their way to arrest Barnett. "I want to go to the gov ernor's mansion," he shouted, "and form a solid ring around it. Don't let the marshals get through to Gov. Barnett." Surges Toward Mansion Somebody played a phono graph record of "Dixie," the crowd let out a mighty cheer and surged toward the white pillars of the governor s man sion. They formed a ring around it that at one time was four deep. There were men, women, teen-agers and even a few women carrying babies. Despite the fact that there was no truth in the rumor that Barnett was going to be arrested, the crowd did ni.t disperse until it got word that the governor would be safe. Condemnation Trial Goes to Third Day A condemnation trial en tered its third day in Jackson county circuit court this morning involving property near Ashland for Interstate 5 freeway. The state highway commis sion seeks 34.2 acres of the ranch owned by Ernest M. Pelkofer, Eagle Mill rd. The state has offered them S25.000, it was reported. Five persons have already testi fied for the defense, with at torneys expecting the state to start their testimony Tuesday. Litterbugs on Beaches Bring Hatfield Action Salem - HJPJi - Gov. Mark all officials concerned, but Hatfield today called for a even more important is the , . .... element of public safety." he crackdown on litterbugs on ; d Oregon beaches. "t 8m ag concerned with He said he Is advising state, , the cut foot on the beaches county and local officials I as the cut tire on the road," along the coast that Oregon j Hatfield said, adding: "A vig litterbug laws pcrt8in to the orous program of enforcement beaches as well as the high- of the littcrbug laws is de-wi-ys. sirablc and this advance no- The preservation of our i tlcc for next year's heavy use beaches as sights of beauty U of our coastline should be a major consideration in call- j sufficient both for our citi ing this to the attention of zens and officials' Weather Threat To Chances for Schirra's Launch Cape Canaveral. Fla -IDPH-A two-pronged weather threat today cut the chances of launching astronaut Walter M. Schirra, 39. into space Wed nesday to 50-50, man-in-space officials reported. Schirra, a Navy command er, is scheduled to blast off between 4 and 7 a.m. (PST) Wednesday to make six orbits of earth, if all goes as scien tists hope. But tropical storm Daisy sprang up in the mid-Atlantic Sunday and today menaced one of Schirra's planned "emergency" landing areas. Over 'Tremendous' Area Project Mercury officials said Daisy appeared to be dis integrating today but that in the process the tropical storm was extending stormy weath er "over a tremendous area" of the Atlantic near Puerto Rico. The main threat was to the landing area where Schirra would come down should ho have to end his flight at the third orbit. This area is about 200 miles north of Puerto Rico. Cold Front Moving S 1 m u ltaneously, officials said, a cold front from the Gulf of Mexico moved toward Florida today and is expected to bring cloudiness to the Cape Canaveral area Wednesday. This poses a threat because of the stringent weather cri teria that scientists have laid down for manned spaceflights clouds covering no more than 40 per cent of the sky at blast-off time. rhis is to insure that track ing stations can follow the man all the way into orbit. Jury Selection in Court Case Starts The selection of a jury got under way in Jackson county circuit court this morning in the criminal case against Rob ert Lee Ryles, 37, formerly of Columbus, Ga. Ryles is charged with as sault and battery by means of force likely to produce great bodily injury. He was arrested by Medford city po lice Aug. 26 after a fire in a boxcar in which Clair Amlon Camp, 51, Lebanon, Kan., was burned. Camp was reported in fair condition at Rogue Valley hos pital today. He suffered sec ond and third degree burns on a major portion of his body. Court appointed lawyer for Ryles is John Ross.