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Newspaper Page Text(n ISM a m la nil , sfSrk'lJS.' sJ ,uW'f - Crews Clean Up After Friday Gale Mopping - up operations were under way in Jackson county today following Fri days severe windstorm. Major repairs have been completed, it was reported, with many firms now sending repair crews to northern Oregon cities. Electricity has been re stored to the majority of Jackson county. Pacific Pow er and Light officials reported this morning. Power is still reported off in Union Creek. Howard Prairie and Hyatt lakes, and on Red Blanket road near Prospect. Power is expected to be re stored in all locales except Union Creek by tonight, offi cials explained. It is not known when the line into Union Creek can be fixed since 11 miles of line was re ported damaged in Friday's storm. Officials said a considerable number of trees were across the power lines in that area, and the firm may have to contract for clearing the blow downs. Some 23 men worked Sun day, mainly making perma nent repairs in areas where temporary repairs had been made earlier. Persons who do not have power today should contact PP&L, it was stressed. Repairman Injured Twenty-one men from the Medford district were sent to Grants Pass Friday and this morning. Sunday evening Harold Baker, Medford, suf- r 9 Medford 57th Year Price 10 Cents Tribune 18 Pages Two Sections MEDFORD, OREGON, MONDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1962 No. 177 DAMAGE CLEARED Power company linemen are shown clearing a downed power pole from the top of a car in Portland fol lowing Friday's storm. Extra linemen were flown in from neighboring states to help in restoring facilities brought on by the strong wind. (UPI) WEATHER FORECAST: Fair Uirough Tues day, except patches of valley fog or low cloudiness early Tuesdav morning. Low tonight 32-36. High Tuesday 62-6R. Temp. Highest Yesterday 51 Lowest This Morning ... 11 Sunset today ..: 5:30 p.m. Our Skies Tonight Sunrise tomorrnw . ... fi:25 a.m. Moonrise tonight 7:29 p.m. Last Quarter Oct. 2 The planet, Venus, Is lower in the southwest each evening. Now less than 35 million miles away, Venus will reappear In the morning sky In November, Precip. to 10 a.m. Today Trace Plea Made for More Pear Pickers Between 600 and 700 pear pickers are desperately need ed by Jackson county pet" growers, John Patton, mana ger of the Medford office of the department of employ ment, stressed today. Jackson county horticulture agents reported 50 per cent of the cornice pear crop dam aged and 20 per cent damage to the bosc pear crop. Needed are men or man and wife teams, he said. No one under 18 years of age should apply unless they are high scnool graduates. Persons who apply for peat ricking must wear rubber fcotwear, Patton stated, since the orchards are very wk. Pickers may work only one day or the entire week, he added. Orchardists are paying a bonus of five cents a box tor those who continue pick ing for the balance of the sea son Persons may apply at the farm labor office at the fair grounds from 6 a.m. to 3 p.m. or at the employment office, 119 North Oakdale avr between 8 a.m. and 5 p m. Morse Victory in Congress Leaves Roque Dams Intact By A. ROBERT SMITH Mail Tribune Washington Correspondent Washington -(Special)-Con-gress authorized three new Rogue river basin projects Saturday and handed Sen. Wayne Morse a major victory before adjourning so its mem bers could head homeward. A long stalemate on the omnibus rivers and harbors authorization bill was broken Friday night when a stripped down compromise bill emerg ed from House-Senate confer ence with the Rogue riv.er dams intact. The projects are Elk creek. Lost creek and Ap plegate dams with an estimat ed federal cost of S106.7 mil- on. The bill contained no funds to start their construction but made them eligible for inclu sion in future federal budgets. The .House approved the omnibus bill Friday night and the Senate followed up Sat urday before adjourning. Morse's major victory was in winning his fight for mon ey for several disputed proj ects which had been axed by Rep. Mike Kirwan (D-Ohio) in a fight over Kirwan's ac quarium bill. Out of $965,000 Kirwan had delted from the public works money bill, the , . . . ...!.' ... , " . MISSING - Cuban Exiles Unfold Story of Attack on Castro Patrol Boat MiamMUPP-Six Cuban ex iles today unfolded their story of a daring nighttime raid in which they attacked and sank a Cuban government patrol boat and picked up two Castro soldiers wounded in the battle. The two wounded men were undergoing treatment in Mi ami's Jackson Memorial Hos pital and one of them asked Mrs. Nancy Carol Rohl, 27, above, of Grants Pass, is being sought by Jose phine county officers after she disappeared a week ago with her two children, ages S and 2. She was last seen Oct. 7 when she left the. home of House Saturday voted to re- her parents, Mr.and Mrs, Both Sides Claim Victory in Yemen Cairo -IUPII- Rival "republi can" and royalist forces today claimed new victories in the struggle for control in the desert kingdom of Yemen on the Red Sea. Radio Amman in Jordan, which is supporting the self proclaimed Imam (king) Has san, said his forces captured the mountain village of Raseh Sunday and were continuing to drive on the capital of Sanaa. Amman Radio also said that many of Yemen's tribal chieftains were rallying to the support of Hassan, who pro claimed himself imam when the rebels claimed that Imam Mohammed Badr was killed ! in the revolt last month. ; But the semi-official Middle j East News agency Mcna of the i U.A.R. which is backing the rebel regime, said Badr was still alive. Gtore $800,000 for three of the five projects in content'.on: Bius River dam near Eugene. Columbia River channel ?nd Yaquina Bay jetty. Two east ern Oregon reclamation plan ning items were lost. Filibuster Threatened Morse had threatened a fili buster to block adjournment if the House refused to 3p prove the Oregon projects. The House, anxious to hit tue campaign trail, rclentej and adjournment came swi.'t and peacefully. George High, in Grants Pass She is said to have been driv ing a 1060 Studcbaker beam ing license number 2R-905. Anyone knowing of her whereabouts is asked to con tact the nearest police station. Budget Deficit of $6 Billion Expected Washington -IUPII- Instead of the S500 million deficit or iginally planned by President Kennedy, the federal budget for this year now is expected The Dalies Teacher Awarded Judgment Portland IUPH- Henry E. Steers, 39, The Dalles school teacher and a former Oregon football player, has been awarded a $140,000 default judgment and a $50,000 jury verdict as a result of injuries suffered in an auto accident here last fall. Steers brought the suit against Hazel Stewart, Wilma Williams and Eugene Mont gomery, Klamath Indians. He was injured critically when the car in which he was rid ing was struck by another while he was en route to a football game here. The default judgment was entered against Montgomery after he failed to file an ap pearance. The jury verdict was returned against Miss Wil liams. Mrs. Stewart, owner of the car, was not held responsible. Missinq Hunters Return to Home A hunting party of three men returned home during the week end after their sta tion wagon was stuck in the mud in the Gerber reservoir area in Klamath county. Paul W. Garren Jr., and his (wn companions Bill Jones and son, Lloyd Jones, all Med- t0 go $6 billion in the red ford, were found hiking along the highway after rescuers Morse Back in State tailed to reach the area due . .. to the deep mud left by Me ! To Hit Campaign trail storm Friday. ' Eugene -Jl'Pli- Sen. Wayne The three-man party used a i Morse (D-Ore.). arrived back bl.tane stove in the back of in the state Sunday to hit the their station wagon to keep ! campaign trail in the final varm. They were reported three weeks before the No missing since Friday night. j vrmbcr election. WSCBRIEFS rriMS kom Tjp! - - FINE OF BARNETT ASKED Weihington-IPI-The Justice Department today asked thai Miltuiippt Go. Roi R. Barnett be fined $100,000 for failing to purge himielf of contempt of federel court. ULBRICHT WANTS GERMAN TREATY (President Dwight D Eisen-Berlin-IPIEa.l German Communitl party chief Welter liowcr tonight, it was disclos Ulbricht told isiting Polish leaden todey that German cd toda peace treaty must not be witneia eny longer, UGANDA APPROVED BY UN COUNCIL Grace Confident Of Monaco Peace Monte Carlo, Monaco-IUPII-Princess Grace said with a big smile today that she was optimistic that the little war between Monaco and France would have a happy ending for her tiny country. "Naturally, we are very concerned," the former Holly wood actress told United Press International. "But I am optimistic that everything will turn out all right." The princess, who rules her 360-acre country with her husband. Prince Rainier, add ed that, "I really can't say any thing because it is a political matter." She indicated she expected to live happily ever after with Rainier in Monaco -surrounded by their wealthy sub jects, expensive hotels, ornate gambling casino and harbor full of yachts. exiles, with the two wounded men, managed to run their damaged PT boat to Cayo Sal, a tiny British islet 45 miles from Cuba's north coast, where the U.S. Coast Guard picked them up Sunday. Flown To Miami The wounded men, identi fied as Militia Sgt. Filiberto Suarez Lima, 40, and Cpl. Miguel Cao Mandino, were for political asylum. The other rushed to the hospital here was too badly injured to talk. Premier Fidel Castro's re gime in Havana had believed both were dead. The raid took place early Saturday morning. The six Srong Winds Set Gresham Barn Upright Grcsham. Ore. -tUPD- Fri day's hurricane-force winds caused $170 million worth of damage in Oregon, killed sev- , eral persons and uprooted I trees. An ill wind, true, but . . . i George Swanson of Gresham ' has an old barn which has I been leaning south for several ! years. 1 It blew upright again. Lumber Talks To Resume on Tuesday Ottawa lUPh Canadian and United States negotiators will be under pressure from their home lumber producers when talks over Canada's softwood lumber exports to the TJ. S. resume in the capital Tuesday. Police Arrest Wanted Youth A 19-year-old youth, want ed in Napa, Calif., for the attempted murder of his wife and four-months-old baby, was arrested by a Medford city police officer Sunday aft ernoon as the fugitive was driving north through Med ford. Arrested and lodged in county jail was Gary Lee Mc Guire, who told police that he was on his way to Anchorage, Alaska, to see his mother. Officer George Lucas took McGuire into custody on North Pacific highway about 2 p.m. Sunday after recogniz ing the Napa man's car from an all-points bulletin he had read that morning. According to Napa author ities, McGuire is wanted for questioning in con nection with the shooting of Barbara McGuire and the couple's baby early Saturday. McGuire gave a statement to city police admitting that he had robbed a service sta tion Saturday in Vacaville, Calif. Napa authorities said M Guire's wife has a "50-50" chance of living, but the in fant is in good condition. McGuire has signed a watv- 1 NO NEWS CONFERENCE j Washington -WIi- President I Kennedy will not hold a news j conference this week, the ; White House said today. by helicopter. Miami area Immigration Director Edward P. Ahrens said Suarez Lima had asked permission to remain in the United States. The six raiders arrived aboard a Coast Guard boat at Key West -where thoy were met by immigrations, customs and FBI agents and taken to the Opo-Locka exile proces sing station for intensive ques tioning. The leader of the attack, a crewcut, cigar-chewing exile, said the group had left a base outside U. S. territory aiming to slip into Cardenas Bay on Cuba's northern coast to blow up a large distillery. Meet Patrol Boat Instead they encountered the patrol boat about a mile off Varadero beach in Mat anzas Providence and opened fire. The patrol boat fired back. Both of the wounded Cu bans were hit in the upper legs by 20mm cannon fire. Two other Cubans swam to shore as their boat sank. A few hours after the battle the Cuban Armed Forces Mili tary Ministry issued a com munique denouncing the at tack as "cowardly" and saying it was part of e plot of "ag gression" by "North American Imperialism." The Castro regime said Me raiders had opened fire on a "pleasure craft manned by four Cuban citizens" but Suarez Lima told officials it was an armed patrol boat. Hatfield Appeals for Help in Pear Harvest Salem-UIPli-Gov. Mark Hat er of extradition and will be I field today Issued a special ap- returned to Napa, where charge of attempted murder has been filed against him. Delay in Moon Shot, Due Tuesday, Expected Cape Canaveral - lUPli - Pay load troubles today gave the United States only a "50-50 chance" of launching its new est shot at the moon on sched ule Tuesday, informed sources reported. peal to citizens of southern Oregon to help harvest the pear crop, hard hit in Friday's storm. "We have seen in the after math of this disaster the fin est kind of ncighborlincss in assisting the homeless and the inconvenienced. We now hsve a challenge to rescue one of the basic economic resources of the southern part of our state and I urge all citizens who can devote the time to assist in this effort," he said. GOP OFFICE ROBBED Bostin - WW - The Mu: a chusetts Republican State! '.ommittee office has been j robbed of $70,000 in cash tnd ; c'lecks. most of which reprc- i Emergency Situation in Northwest Blood Supply, Red Cross Officials Say se.ited payments for rai.-ing dinner for a rund former i An emergency situation ex ists in the blood supply in the Northwest. Medford Red Cross official; were notified this morning. Blood collections in the northern part of the state have had to be cancelled due to power outages, officials said. They noted that the supply of blood on hand prior to Fri- day's storm was low, and Delegates I treatment of storm victims Bloodmobile's visit to Med ford Tuesday and Wednesday. Red Cross officials noted. The Bloodmobile will be at the Red Cross chapter house, 60 Hawthorne avc., Tuesday from 2 to 6 p.m. and Wednes day from 10 a m to 2 p m. Appointments may be made by telephoning the chapter house 773-3813. Drop-in do nors will also be accepted. Portland - 1PT 'wire arriving today for Mi" ; has reduced the blood dras- officials said. United Nations N Y.-lP1-The Security Council recom- week's 31st national conven- tically. i The quota has been set at ded unanimously today that the General Assembly admit j tion of the National Reclama-! Only 20 appointments have I 350 pints for which 40n do- United Nations. MIOn association. ! utfn icmvcu u ini iui mic ' iiwib air iiccuiu. mended Uganda ai the 110th member of the Among those who will ben. efil from the drawing will be Mrivin Smith, 12, son of Mr and Mrs. Frank Smith, 417 Pearl St., who is a patient at Docrnbecher Memorial hospi tal in Portland. The boy suf fered serious burns last May and is to undergo skin grafts for which blood is needed. Persons may donate blood during the two day visit of the Bloodmobile in the name of friends or to blood banks set up by various firms. The Bloodmobile will be in Ashland until fl o'clock today fered a severe cut on one of his arms when a pole he was working on toppled. He was j reported in fair condition at j Josephine General hospital this morning. i Another lineman, Raymond Heidenriech, also Medford, who was working on the pole with Baker, was shaken up in the accident but was not hos pitalized. All repairs have been made to lines owned by Pacific Northwest Bell Telephone company, according to Jack Creagcr, district manager this morning. He noted that the company in Jackson county only suffered $7,000 damage. From Medford 12 installer repairmen and 15 construc tion men were sent to Grants Pass and Cottage Grove, Crcager said. He noted that from Gold Hill to Ashland there were only 726 telephon es out at the height of the storm, with all repairs com pleted by Sunday. Grants Pass Telephones Josephine county has a high of 3,000 telephones out of or der with 1,153 still without service in Grants Pass today. Creager stressed that due to the shortage of repair crews in Medford only emergency orders will be taken until storm damage is repaired in the northern part of the stale. Biggest mission in Rogue River National forest in the wake of Friday's severe wind storm is to salvage blown down timber as soon as pos sible to prevent beetle infesta tion. 1 That was the report today from Robert Torheim of the Rogue forest supervisory staff. Today's mission was to fly over the forest and get a gen eral idea of the damage. Re connaissance flights were to include checks to learn what the storm might have done to lookout stations. Torheim reported most of the damage occurred in the Union Creek area. It was pro. gressively less south through the forest. Summer Homes Damaged Fifteen summer homes were damaged in the Union Creek area. One home burned last night. Information on wheth er the fire was storm-connected was not available this morning. Radio was the only means of communication between Medford and the Union Creek ranger's office. The ranger station was operating on the emergency power of its own generator. Blown down timber caused considerable damage to the Union Creek campground. One trailer was smashed at the ranger station where there was minor damage to build ings. Beckic's cafe received minor roof damage. For the amount of timber down, it is lucky that there was not more damage in the Union Creek area, Torheim said. A number of trees fell between buildings. Trapped Hunter Freed In the Prosprct district most damage was the blown down limber. Roads were plugged by fallen trees. One hunter camp trapped at Huckleberry Gap was freed yesterday. Two hunter ve hicles still were trapped near Anderson mountain. Most of the roads, Including four major ones, still were blocked in the Butte Falls dis trict. In Ashland district most of the blowdown was in the Fish lake country. This was not so serious, Torheim said. Roads were open to the lake. Aerial reconnaissance in the southwest district of the state department of forestry revealed, some damage to the roofs of Round Top and Burnt Peak lookouts. Crews were sent inlo them today Medford City Engineer Vernon Thorpe estimated to day that it will take itv I crews at least "two or three days" to clean up storm dam- age in Medford. j Total cost to toe city will run between $1,500 and $2, 000. Thorpe said. All city street crews, about 22 men. worked until 9 p.m. Friday, cutting up fall en trees to clear streets. An estimated 20 trees fell on city streets during t h e storm, Thorpe said. Minor Damage Report City Manager Robert Duff reported to Gov. Mark Hat field's office today that dam age to the city from the storm was "minor." Some 15 alder trees were blown over in one section of Lithia park, but most of tin park's trees were not damaged. KENNEDY GIVING ATTENTION TO PLEA FOR AID By United Press International President Kennedy said today the government was giving priority attention" to Western Oregon where residents pick ed up the pieces from Friday's $170 million killer wind storm that left 21 dead. The Small Business Administration designated affected areas of Oregon, Washington and California as disaster re lief areas. It was understood the administration planned further action within 24 hours. Torn buildings and continuing power and telephone out ages from the worst Oregon wind in memory made emergency living still the rule today in many areas. There was wreck age from the Cascades to the Pacific. A federal disaster team moved in to meet with Gov. Mark Hatfield and take a look at the storm-torn state. Hatfield wired Kennedy Saturday saying Oregon is eligi ble for "major disaster area" aid. ' Kennedy wired the governor today saying "The office of emergency planning Is giving priority attention to the conaitions caused by the recent storms in your state." "When they have completed their survey and reported to me you will be advised promptly of the action to be taken." He also said: "Please extend my sympathy to the families who have suffered. Their distress is of great concern to me and I am hopeful that the situaion may rapidly improve." Oregon Bean Brunt of Storm Oregon bore the brunt of the typhoon-spawned storm which caused more than 45 deaths along the West Coast. Oregon counted 14 deaths from accidents and at least seven from heart attacks. The storm left some 150 to 200 families homeless. Schools were shut in many areas today, including Port land and some suburbs, Salem, parts of Lincoln county and the mid-Willamette Valley, and Oregon College of Educa tion at Monmouth. Western Oregon looked a shambles. And reports trickling in from areas involved by the storm showed farmers were among the hardest hit. Cattle carcasses lay crushed under collapsed barns and tons of hay from Tillamook on the coast to Rickreall in the Williamette Valley. Farmers were forced to fire rifles into fallen barns and hay to kill wounded animals. Orchards were uprooted. Unharvested crops were flat tened. Thousands of chickens were killed. In cities and towns, roofs had gaping holes. Trees sprawl ed across streets, power lines draped across tree and build ings or dangled dangerously.. The Red Cross, designated the official disaster relief agency by the governor, was swamped with calls for camp ing stoves, temporary roofing, baby sterilizers and disposable diapers, and portable generators for iron lungs. Hundreds were injured, most of them struck by flying umns, glass ana aeons. More than 2,000 power and telephone linemen,, many flown in from neighboring states, worked around the clock to restore service. Pacific Northwest Bell, with 55,000 telephones out late Sunday, brought in a 43-car trainload of equipment. Gold Beach Families Evacuated The coast was battered. Astoria lost" a tuna cannery and part of an airplane hangar. Many Gold Beach families were evacuated. Port Orford lost two sections ot Pacific High school. A $70,000 fire burned a mill near Cape Blanco. During the height of the blow late Friday Mt. Hebo re ported a gust of wind to 170 mph. , Engineers worked to suspend a 115,000 volt line from the Highway 101 bridge at Coos Bay after a tower holding the line collapsed inlp the shipping cannel during the storm. Ferries were temporarily Idled by lack of loading power at Astoria. At Florence, houses, boats and much of the downtown section were wrecked. On the coast and in lakes and rivers boats were tossed about. Several hundrec light airplanes were flipped around UKc leaves In the wind. Damage in the Willamette Valley was severe. The State Capitol grounds at Salem, the pride of the state, were re duced to rubble. Century- old trees were torn up and a statue was toppled and cracked. Repairmen worked to fix the roof of a building at Ore gon State Hospital. A ward full of maximum security women prisoners had to be transferred when the roof was torn off. Eugene was one of the hardest-hit cities. Parts of the roofs of South Eugene High school and Roosevelt Junior High school were bluwn off. One man was killed when the wind collapsed part of the Sunset Home for the Aged. The Eugene Fire Department answered some 75 fire calls during the blast. A historic campus lower toppled at Oregon College of Education at Monmouth. On campuses throughout the state, trees were snapped like mntchsticks. A bridge at Corvallis was closed. In Portland, the Hawthorne Bridge was reopened to three-lane traffic after a ship rammed into it during the storm. Multnomah Stadium had parts of its roof torn off, but 30,030 football fans showed up Saturday to watch Wash ington edge Oregon State 14-13. Livestock Exposition Parade Cancelled The Pacific International Livestock Exposition cancelled its parade over littered and blocked Portland streets, but opened on schedule Saturday despite storm damage to Its buildings. Hatfield upped his damage estimate from $150 million to $170 million after the State Forestry Department reported $20 million damage to state forests alone. Many lookout tow ers were damaged. Hatfield put 100 foresters on the alert to help cities and counties assess tree damage and remove weakened trees that would become hazards In even moderate winds. The governor also appealed to residents of Southern Oregon to give all possible help in harvesting pears knocked from trees by the wind. One-half million boxes of unharvest ed pears were feared damaged In the Ashland area. An army of several hundred insurance adjusters was flown Into Oregon, named a "catastrophe area" by the In dustry, to assess and settle storm claims. ' Falling trees were blamed for most of Oregon's violent storm deaths. Others were caused by falling buildings, flying glass, a fall, and electrocution. Preliminary damage estimates Included $4 million In Marion county, $5 million in Lincoln county, $2 million in the Gold Beach area, $1 million at Bandon. The Red Cross estimated as many as 200 families were left homeless. An emergency tank of water was trucked to Sllctz Sun day. The community had been using hand-chlorinated and boiled fire protection water. Temporary pumps were hooked up for other communities where regular pumps depended on electricity. Fire fanned by the hurricane force winds destroyed a $400,000 farmers' warehouse at Junction City, six homes I and part of a veneer plant. At Klamath Falls, another fire caused $loo.ouo damage to the Ellingson planning mill. (See story and pictures on page 2A) Bulletin San Francisco I PI The Sen Francisco Giants today defeated the New York Yankees, i to 2. lo win the sixth gam of the World Series. The seventh and de ciding game will be played here Tuesday.