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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.
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MEDFORD, OREGON, MONDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1962
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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
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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.
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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
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' 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
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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.
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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.