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PAGECRAI ESI M ft Ml 0 HAY More Than 45; Families Still Without Power Western Oregon Cleaning Up Debris Portland - OTP - More than 45.000 families contended with powerless homes for the sixth straight day today as treatment of storm scars set tled down to a routine in Western Oregon. Some 35,000 telephones were dead. Most of the power outages were expected to end this week, or certainly early next week. Most of the telephones also were expected to be back in service in the next few days. Outages Slowly Reduced Portland General Electric restored service to some 9,000 customers Wednesday, leaving 30,500 to go. Pacific Power and Light still had 6,000 cus tomers without power. Small er local utilities were slowly reducing their outage figures. Power crews and telephone crews continued to plug away, their efforts slowed as they reached the worst trouble spots where most trees and lines were down. Streots Cleared Most city streets were clear ed of major trees, poles and debris. Signs still hung askew, not all lights were working, and huge piles of rubbish stood as reminders of the storm. Farmers worked on the grim task of cleaning up top pled barns, crushed cattle and flattened crops and orchards. Harvesters worked to save pears, walnuts and filberts picked by the hurricane-force winds. Aid On Way One million dollars in "di saster area" aid was on its way to start repairing public damage. President Kennedy said if it were determined that more was needed, he would supply it. The insurance industry be gan processing some 70,000 private claims valued at $18 million. And homeowners worked stolidly on - at clearing yards, fixing cars, repairing build ings, installing new windows and replacing temporary roof coverings. Bcivin Plugs for Reapportionment Eugene (UPD Population as the only guide for allocating seats in the legislature doesn't work well in Oregon, Senate President Harry Boivin (D Klamath Falls) said today. Addressing a service club luncheon here, he urged pas sage of the reapportionment measure in November. It would make area as well as population a factor in allo cating seats in the Oregon House. Eastern Oregon lost scats in the 1061 reapportion ment. "All we're seeking to do by ballot measure No. 9 is to see that all people are repre sented,'' Boivin said. "A heav ily populated state may be well represented using popu lation as the only guide. But this just won't work in Ore gon." Arlington Program Receives Approval Washington -IUPD- Arling ton, Ore., has received ap proval of its redevelopment program from the Housing and Home Financy Agency, the offices of Sens. Wayne Morse and Maurine Neuber- ger (D-Ore.) said today Formal approval of a work-i able program is needed before a community is eligible to re ceive federal aid in the form of loans and grants for urban renewal and low rent housing plus FHA mortgage insurance. HEWSdPEFS HIMS FBOM 3T 7 AIOUND THI OLOM AIR SQUADRON SENT TO KEY WEST Waihington-lPI-The Defeme Department laid today it ordered a squadron of Navy Phantom II jet fighter planet to Key West, Fla., two weeks ago to bolster the air defenses of that area again.! increasing Cuban air'slrength. AMERICAN CARDINALS ATTEND RITES Rome-'IPl-All fire American cardinels were imong the 200 Roman Catholic prelates and other, who attended a sol emn requiem ma.i today for Bi.hop Joieph A. Burke, Buf falo. N.Y.. who died of a hear! attack Tueiday at the Ecu menical Council. U. S. CONDUCTS ATMOSPHERIC TEST Wt.hington - 4 PI' - The United State, conducted another nlmo.phertc nuclear tc.t in the Pacific today, dropping a multi-megaton bomb from plane in the vicinity of John .ton Island. VISITS TRUMAN-Former President Harry S. Truman points as he speaks with Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson at the Truman Library Wednesday in Independence, Mo. Johnson took time out to visit Truman while he was in Kansas City for the Senator Ed Final Arrangements For Johnson Visit To Medford Listed Area Democrats announced final plans today for events scheduled around the visit of Vice President Lyndon John son and Sen. Wayne Morse to Medford tomorrow evening. A $5-a-plate dinner has been arranged in their honor at the Rogue Valley Country club at 6:30 p.m. A political rally, where Johnson is sched uled to speak for about 20 minutes, will be held at 8 p.m. at Hedrick Junior High school. The public is invited to both events. Tickets for the dinner are available at Democratic headquarters. 414 East Main st., Puruckers' Music House. Medford Stationery store, and the Lusk Piano company. To Arrive About 6 p.m. Johnson's plane is sched uled to arrive at the Medford airport about 6 p.m., where he will be met by a host of dignitaries including Morse, House Speaker Robert Dun can, and Medford Mayor John W. Snider. At the dinner, Tom Reeder will be master of ceremonies and will introduce Duncan, candidate for Congress from the Fourth district, who in turn will introduce Morse. Oregon's senior senator will present the vice president to the audience at both the din ner and rally at Hedrick. Several Democratic state and county candidates will also be introduced at the din ner and the rally. Jean Mills, chairman of the Jackson coun ty Democratic central commit tee, is general chairman of events for the Johnson visit. Gift Presentation Planned Mrs. Ralph Poston will pre Public Hearing on Water Main Tonight Only one public hearing -a proposal to install a water main on Whittle ave. - ap pears on the agenda of the Medford city council for its meeting at 7:30 o'clock tonight in city hall. Among ordinances and reso lutions on the agenda is a request from the downtown merchants to close portions of East Main st. from 7 to 11 p.m. Friday, Oct. 26, to hold a "Moonlight Sale.'' Several public improve ment projects also will come up for council action. Long testimonial dinner. Johnson is sched uled to visit Medford tomorrow for a dinner at the Rogue Valley Country club and a speech at 8 p.m. at Hedrick Junior High school. (UPI) sent the vice president with a gift on behalf of the Demo crats of Jackson county. Mrs Poston is vice chairman of the county central committee. Johnson is the highest rank ing government official to vis it Medford since 1956 when former Vice President Rich ard Nixon stayed overnight here at a downtown hotel. The vice president, together with Rep. Cecil King of Cali fornia is scheduled to visit Portland today for a speaking engagement. He will be In Eugene tonight. King will not accompany the vice president to Medford. i Senator Morse Is scheduled to speak at the dedication of a plywood mill in Grants Pass at 3 p.m. tomorrow. He and Mrs. Morse will drive to Med ford in time to greet Johnson at the airport. Thompson Receives Penitentiary Term Leo' Vincent Thompson, 39. of Salem, was sentenced to 22 months in the Oregon state penitentiary this morning on a charge of setting fire to for est land. He had pleaded guilty to the charge in Jackson coun ty circuit court Sept. 11. He was one of three men arrest ed in connection with a series of fires in Josephine and Jackson counties July 16. Two other men are charged with the same crime and are awaiting trial. Both have pleaded innocent to the crime? and have been releas ed on bail. Also appearing before Judge Edward C. Kelly this morn ing were William Robert Eberhart, 40, of 1516 South Riverside ave., who is charg ed with receiving and con cealing stolen property, and Willard St. Arnold, 49, of 722 Oak st.. Medford, on a parole violation. Eberhart had Richard Court right appointed as his lawyer, and St. Arnold's case was continued until Oct. 22 at 8:30 a.m. Emergency Phone Requests Handled lnstallation of telephones in ry Shechan. county commis j the Mcdford Ashland area has 1 sioner; Ralph A. James, coun ! come to a halt except for j ty judge; and Bcrlc E. Steph I emergency situations, accord-1 ens. county sheriff. I ing to J. H. Crragcr, Pacific No action was taken by the j Northwest Bell manager here. ! council on other city dec j The company has moved I tinns, measures or judiciary hundreds nf employees to : offices. areas in the northern part of the st;ito which were hit by last Friday's storm in an ef : fort to restore service there as soon as possible. Thirty-five telephone plant department workers from the Medford-Ashland area have joined those from California, Utah. Nevada. Idaho, Colo rado and Washington in the task of rebuilding miles of lines and cables in the strick en communities. Creager said. Crcayer expressed regret that normai schedules had bfen disrupted and expressed his appreciation to residents f'r their patience and consid eration. The number of telephones flill out of servue had been reduced to about .11.000 this morning More than 19.000 of them arc in the Portland area.) Ben Bella Joins In Demand U.S. Quit Guantanamo Havana -HOT- Algerian Pre mier Ahmed Ben Bella joined Fidel Castro Wednesday night in demanding the United States give up its big naval base at Guantanamo in Cuba's south coast. A communique issued a few hours after Ben Bella left for New York said the two pre miers agreed on "the imme diate need for the evacuation of troops and the dismantling of foreign military bases in other countries, including the naval base at Guantanamo." In Washington, a State De partment spokesman said the United States has no intention of giving up the base. At Proper Time "The revolutionary Castro government and the people of Cuba have repeatedly mani fested their intention of de manding the return of the Cuban territory occupied by the base at the proper time, through the means offered un der international law," the communique said. It also was announced that Castro has accepted an invita tion to visit Algeria, although no date was set for the trip. In a speech to a mass meet ing early today, Castro asked for 50 doctor volunteers to go to Algeria to deal with "epi demics" of unspecified dis eases in that country. Castro's speech, broadcast by Radio Havana, also "pro posed" that the doors of Ha vana university be closed to young Cubans who oppose the bearded leftist's revolutionary regime. Trades Council Backs Candidates The Medford Building Trades council endorsed Jim my Dunlevy for Medford may or at a meeting this month, according to Jerry Christean, secretary. Other candidates endorsed are Wayne Morse, U.S. sena tor; Robert B. Duncan, U.S. house of representatives; Rob ert Y. Thornton, governor; Norman O. Nilsen, bureau of labor commissioner; Henry F. Padgham Jr., state senator; Alva N. Bradford, Charles W. Crary, and James A. Redden, slate representative; Thad W. Hatten, county assessor; E. M. Madden, counlv clerk: Lar- Labor Temple Group Purchases Property Portland - IPIi - The Labor Temple Cooperative associa tion Wednesday bought for about half a million dollars property in the urban renewal area of Portland for a new! $2.5 million labor center. j Mel Lienard, secretary man-! ager of the Labor Temple as-1 sociation, said construction of . the 215.000 square foot build- i ing would start soon with completion expected in 1964. : Seller was Portland Devel-' opment commission which said it hoped to have all the ; urban renewal property In hands of developers by early next spring. i Regional Edition Medford 40 Pages Three Sections MEDFORD, OREGON, Three Men Die, 18 Injured in Utah Explosion Second Blast in Past Eight Weeks Bacchus, Utah IUPU- Three men were killed and 18 in jured Wednesday in an ex plosion at a Hercules Powder Co. plant that produces rocket motors for the Minute man and Polaris missiles. Production went on as usual with employees at the facility producting the third stage engine for the Air Force Mimiteman and the second stage engine for the Navy Polaris. An investigation team from the company's headquarters at Wilmington, Del., and gov ernment investigators sought the cause of the accident, the second involving three deaths at Bacchus within the past eight weeks. Blast Felt by Many The explosion claimed the lives of Larry Larsen, 26, and Charles H. Eutsler. 30, both of Salt Lake City, and Grant C. Terry, 37, American Fork, Utah. The blast, felt by many residents in Magna and Reams, happened in a small building where ingredients for solid fuel rocket motors are prepared. The explosion was in a small structure called the sol vent evacuation building. It came at 2:58 p.m. High concrete-laced earthen dikes confined the effects of the explosion to the immedi ate area. Freeway Sections To Open Soon Two new sections of Inter state 5 Freeway in the Med ford area will be opened for traffic soon, the state high way department announced today. The section from the Seven Oaks interchange north of Central Point to the Crater Lake highway interchange in the north portion of Medford is scheduled for opening Nov. 15. The section through Med ford, from the Crater Lake highway to the Barnetl rd. interchange is scheduled for service Dec. 21. The newly-widened high way, now brought up to Free way standards, from the Rock Point bridge to Seven Oaks is now virtually completed and in use, except for two bridges ?till under construc tion. Paving is now unrlcr way on the new portion of the Freeway south of the Barnelt rd. interchange, and some structures arc alsi still under construction. It is due to lie opened next spring or sum mer. Absentee Ballot Deadline Nearing Applications for absentee ballots must be received by the Jackson county rloctionp department by Nov. 1, Coun ty Clerk Marvin Madden re minded residents today. This will allow time for the mailing of the ballot and its return by Nov. fi, election day. Madden stressed that appli cations for the ballots should be made a.s soon as possible. Exceptions arc allowed by law in can:s of unexpected ill ness or involuntary service, in such cases as repairmen in disaster areas. The county clerk urged residents in doubt about quali fying for absentee ballots to contact his nffien in the court house. 77:j-fi211. WEATHER FORECAST: rlr thronrh Fri day. Somt bifh rloiiftinfta Unit's and a few pjlrhr of vallry tut early In morning. Low tunl(ht 32-3ft. High Friday 1mp Hiih5t Vt-rdiv l.ottru Ihu Morntng 11 I Our Skies Tonight ftunt todav :s pr Hunrltr tomorrow . ft Th Moon rihr t; tonight and rtdM high, f al ouartrr I'llOMINI ST UTAH a pMla. low in mrih tatt ... VIMI1I.F. Pl.ANF.r Jitniti-r. dii omh R man 14 p n 11 p r l 11 pr i-s p r : ? a r I ! I r Kalorn, low in Mitith- Man. in thr ml .Mrrnrv. rr NOBEL WINNERS - The 1962 Nobel prize Dewey Watson, loft, and British scientists in medicine and physiology has been award- Maurice Hugh Frederick Wilkins, center, ed jointly to American scientist James and Harry Compton Crick, right. (UPI) American, Two Britons Winners of Nobel Prize Research Into Basic Molecule Of Life Honored Stockholm - WPlt - An Amer ican and two British scientists won the 10H2 Nobel Prize for physiology or medicine today for their research into DNA, the basic molecule of life. The American was biochem ist Dr. James Dewey Watson, 34, a Harvard university pro fessor who became one of the younRest men ever to win a Nobel Prize. The British winners were Dr. Francis H. C. Crick and Dr. Maurice If. F. Walkins, both internationally known research scientists. Great Scientific Leap Watson and Crick in re search at Cambridge univer sity deduced the structure and internal arrangement of DNA, an accomplishment which has been described as one of the greatest leaps in the history of science. Watson was 25 years old at the time of the discoveries in 1953. Wilkins was visiting the Sloan - Kettering Institute in New York when the Nobel Committee of Stockholm's Caroline Institute announced that he and the other two would share the $50,043 prize. The committee said the three men were honored for their "discoveries concerning the molecular structure of nucleic acids and its signifi cance for information trans fer in living materials." To Explain Mystery In effect, the award was marie for a project designed to explain the heredity mys tery of how, for example, the color of a persons's eyes and hair is transferred from one generation to another. Crick, 46, is a scientist at the Medical Research Council unit for molecular biology at Cambridge university, Eng land. Wilkins, 45, is deputy riirec- I tor of the Biophysics Labora ! lory at Kings college, London. During World War II, he was -a member of the Manhattan ! Distric t Project which pro i dined the atomic bomb. Hurricane Heading Toward Carolinas Wilmington, N.C.-WPfl- Hur ricane Ella plowed steadily northward in the Atlantic with 00-mile an hour winds today but forecasters said the center of the storm likely would steer clear of the North Carolina coast. Ella was located about 32S miles south nf Cape Ilatteras, N C, and moving on a north northwest to north course at about 6 miles an hour. This was roughly in a line with the jutting headland of Cape Ilatteras and North Carolinas oft-battered Outer Banks, hut the Weather Bureau predicted the storm would gather forward speed and start a grariua! turn to the northeast tonight. The late advisory said that "present indications are that the hurricane center will keep off shore Irom the North Caro lina const,' Tribune THURSDAY, OCTOBER Erratic Minuteman Missile Frightens Crews at Canaveral Cape Canaveral - UIPH - A thunderous roar, a fiery slash across the sky, and for eight incredible seconds an in tercontinental ballistic missile flew a deadly course toward the United States. The launching site was Cape Canaveral. The missile a 54-foot minuteman "Instant ICBM." And in those eight seconds Wednesday night, the normal ly dependable Minuteman wrote perhaps the wildest sto ry in the history of this sprawling, 12-ycar-old missile testing center. Before it was over, the United States was threatened by one of its own missiles, one rocket was destroyed and another damaged, brush fires were scattered all over the Cape, windows for miles around were rattled and some broken, and one man was in jured while scurrying for safety. Good Reasons for Safely And about the only thing (he Minuteman proved was that the Air Force ha some very good reasons for the stringent safety precautions it takes for all ballistic mis sle tests at Cape Canaveral. After a fairly normal count down, the three-stage Minute man bolted from the bottom of a concrete - lined launch ing "silo." It was supposed to follow a smooth flight of about 3,000 miles as another "routine" test nf a missile that often has demonstrated its re liability. The Minuteman left the ranks of the routine and be came a fiery 33-ton jugger naut of potential destruction by one simple action it changed course. Instead of angling toward the southeast and over the Atlantic Ocean, Truckers Seeking Petroleum Business Salem 'UPD Two Portland truckers Wednesday opened their fight to get a chunk of the petroleum business at the Eugene end of Southern Pa cific Company's new $8 5 mil lion pipeline in the Willa mette Valley. Glen A. Widing of Widing Transportation, Portland, told a hearing examiner for the State Public Utility Commis sion the pipeline will take a 50 per cent slice of his tank truck hauling business. Widing is now authorized to only haul from Portland. This firm, along with Port land Motor Transport, wants authority to haul from the Eugene terminus as well. The SP pipelines began op erating Sept. 17. It runs from Portland through Albany to Eugene. Four Portland-based firms with statewide hauling au thority, and now distributing in the Eugene area, have pro tested the applications. Portland (I'PP Georgia-Pacific Corp said today work has started on a hardhnard Icinpcratng plant at Coos Bay. 57th Year Price 10 Cents I 18, 1962 No. 180 !, 7 . "'WW,"! it bent sharply In the oppo site direction. "It looked like the televi sion picture was just exactly backwards," said one missile man who watches the shots from Inside a protected build ing via closed circuit televi sion. The missile crossed back over the heart of the 13,000- acre Cape -' and headed to- ward the Florida mainland. The seconds ticked by with electrifying slowness. "Blow it upl Blow It up!" yelled the observer. Still It climbed. A range safety officer with trained precision waited out the long seconds until the Min uteman could gain altitude. He flipped two switches that triggered a radio signal and touched off an explosive pack age inside the rocket. The Minuteman shattered Into hundreds of fiery frag ments soaring in huge, spar- Kiing arcs above the Cape, turning night into day, and churning up the sand' into gi- gantic, exploding clouds as they rammed back Into land. the Killing Suspect -Pleads Innocence Reno - HIPP - An lB-year- old Santa Rosa, Calif., youth pleaded Innocent to a charge of murder at his District Court arraignment today. Judge Grant L. Bowen re manded Lester E. Morford III back to the custody of the sheriff and ordered him re turned to court for jury trial Dec. 3. Morford is charged with the fatal shooting of Jack A. Foster of Medford, Ore., last Aug. 22. The killing followed a kidnaping in which the de fendant allegedly forced Fos ter and his bride of two days to accompany him on a Joy ride at gunpoint. Foster was killed with a bullet in the head and dump ed out nf the car on a moun tain road. The victim's wife managed to escape from the car and call police In Carson City, 30 miles south of here. Czech Diplomat Trades Pistol Shots With Police Bethlehem, Pa. il'Pfl A Communist Czechoslovak ian diplomat traded shots with po lice today after the diplomatic car he was driving crashed during a 110-mile an hour chase that led from New Jer sey Into Pennsylvania. The diplomat was wounded by police, then shot himself In the head. Identified as Attache Richard Dee. a spokesman for St. Luke's hospital where the man was taken, identified him as Karel Zizka, an at tache with the Czechoslovak ian mission to the United Na tions In New York. Dee said the mission iden tified Zizka after the hospital called Um mission. Tun mis Tk, on rim. IWtM I III CCUQT "a"! Planned To Reach 'Parking Orbit' Instruments To Land on Surface By ALVIN B. WEBB JR. United Press International- Cnpe Canaveral, Fla. - 'UPD - The United States today launched a camera - equipped Ranger-5 spacecraft on a plan ned three-day flight to the moon. The gold - and - chrome plated space probe, represent ing America's 11th moonshol in four years, was rigged up to take the first close-up pic tures of the moon and to "crash land" a package of in struments on the lunar sur face for a month of detailed study. A 10-story Atlas - Agena rocket blysted from its launch ing pad at :59 a.m. (rST) in an attempt to hurl Ranger-5 away from earth at a speed of 24.500 miles per hour. Atlas supplied the boost to get the payload up, and Age na provided the added thrust to put the probe in orbit. The Agena's powerful en gines were then reigniled at 9:35 a.m. to give the pay load the required 24,500-mile per hour speed to attain es cape velocity, A tracking station at Jo hannesburg, South Africa, made contact with Ranger-5 as it soared away from earth. Space agency officials said the shot "looks good right now." They stressed it might be several hours before they knew whether the payload had escaped the pull of the earth. Scientists said the flight plan called for the 755-pound spacecraft to cross the 231, 500 miles between earth and the moon in about 70 hours. This would put it in the vi cinity of the moon about noon Sunday. Scientists hoped to put Rangcr-5 into a brief "park ing orbit" around earth, and then shoot It off toward the moon from a point somewhere high above South Africa. Eugene Man Dies In Freeway Crash Robert Jan Bruns, 21, of 1670 Santa Rosa at., Eugene, was killed Wednesday eve ning when his sporta car hit the rear df a loaded log truck on Interstate 5 on the north side of Blackwell hill. According to Oregon state police, both vehicles were northbound on Interstate 5 in the outside lane when the accident occurred. The Bruns vehicle hit the left rear wheels of the truck, heavily damaging it and bending the reach. Driver of the truck, who was not injured, was Donald Charles Wilson, 24, of Cres cent City. State police said the log truck was traveling uphill about 12 miles an hour when hit by the car. Bruns was taken to Rogue Valley hospital by Medford ambulance. He died at 7:55 p.m. State police said the log truck was so heavily damaged that its load was transferred to another truck this morn ing. Kennedy Going on Campagin Trail Again Washington - (UPD - Presi dent Kennedy leaves Friday on a jet-paced week end of, campaigning in seven states, with the Democratic .party paying transportation costs on "political" portions of the trip. The White House said the party picks up the travel tab, amounting to S2.350 an hour, when the President uses his Air Force jet transport for purely political travel. sion, contacted in New York, refused to comment. The chase led over the Dela ware river bridge into Easton, Pa., where Pennsylvania stale police joined the pursuit. Zizka lost control of the car and It crashed into a block ade set up by police. Shot at Policeman I The driver stepped out of ) the car with a pistol In his I hand and fired a shot at Cpl. John E. Uditis. Uditis rcttirn- ed the fire and wounded 7.iz- Ka in ine arm. me uipiomai then turned his gun on him self and shot himself in the I head. I He was taken to a hospital I where he was reported in serl I out condition.
