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j 'r-r SSS' ?kU r METHODIST FAMILY Dr. John A. White, Conference on Family Life in Chicago. Seat- Easlcy, S. C, poses with Ins family in Chi- ed, front, from left, are David, 5, and Ann. cago after their selection as the Methodist Seated at rear, from left, are John, 10; family of the year. The family is being hon- Mrs. White, 42: John A. White; Martha, 13, orded during the fourth national Methodist and Toni, 16. (UPI) Vice President To Arrive About 6 at Medford Airport For the second time in six years Jackson county politi cians are preparing for the arrival of a vice president of the United States. Tonight Vice President Lyndon Johnson will arrive in Medford. On Oct. 26, 1956 then Vice President Richard Nixon arrived in Medford, also for a rally at Hedrick rJunior High school. Both speeches are on Friday and have to compete with Med ford High school football games. Tonight's game is with Klamath Falls, six years ago it was with Ashland. ' Arrive About 6 p.m. Johnson is scheduled to ar rive at the Medford airport about 6 o'clock tonight and will immediately go with Sen. Wayne Morse and other Dem ocrat officials to the Rogue Valley Country club for a dinner. The dinner is open to the public at $5 a plate. At 8 o'clock Johnson and Morse will speak at a public rally at Hedrick Junior High school. Among those scheduled to meet Johnson at the airport are ' House Speaker Robert Duncan and Medford Mayor John W. Snider. Tom Reeder, dinner chairman, will be mas ter of ceremonies at the Rogue Valley Country club. Morse will introduce the vice president at both the dinner and rally. Also to be introduced at the rally will be county and state candi dates. Jean Mills, chairman of the Jackson County Demo cratic Central committee, is general chairman of events lor Johnson's visit. Senator Morse spoke this afternoon at the dedication of a plywood mill in Grants Pass. Two Hunters Share Illegal Game Fine Ontario -OTP- Two Salem hunters shared a $109 fine after being charged with pos session of illegal game. William J. Esplin and Larry Gene Niblcr were picked up by slate police. Officers did not know who had shot and killed the deer fawn in their possession, so both were charg ed. When both pleaded guilty in Justice Court here. Justice of the Peace A. F. Peters split the penalty and fined each S54 50. tlEWS(BRIEFS PIMJ MOM m TT AROUND THI OlOU RAILROAD GRANTED INJUNCTION Chicaac'IPI'-Tht Santa F Railroad today wit granted a temporary injunction retraining tht Brotherhood ol Rail road Trainmen from striking Sunday. U.S. District Judge Joseph Sam Perry issued the injunction after hearing argu ments from both sides in the dispute. ATLAS MISSILE LAUNCH SUCCEEDS Cape Canaveral, Fla-4W-The Air Force today fired an advanced model Atlai intercontinental ballistic muiilt more than 4.000 mile across the Atlantic Ocean to study its per formance with cameras cerried on boerd. BISHOPS CONSULT ON SACRED LITURGY Vatican City-'IPI-Biihop of various nationalities today consulteed on possible chan in sacred liturgy, the first item on the egende of the Ecumenical Council, at vote-counting continued for the election ot 10 vital commissions. Snider Breaks Tie In Vote on Request For Sign Variance Medford Mayor John W Snider cast a tie-breaking vote at the city council meeting last night and supported a re quest by Standard Oil compa ny to erect a 35-foot sign on the north side of Crater Lake highway between the Big Y intersection and the inter change for Interstate 5. A second request by Stand ard Oil company, to creel a 50-foot sign on the east ride of Biddle rd. opposite the in terchange for Interstate 5, was referred to a joint meeting with the planning commission for further study. Snidcr's vote came after the council had deadlocked 4 to 4 on the oil company's re quest. The mayor qualified his vote by saying he believed "advertising is part of the 500 Youth Expected To Take Bike Test About 500 Medford youths are expected to take their bi cycle riding skills te?ls at 9 a.m. Saturday in the Medford Shopping Center parking lot, Park and Recreation Director Robert L. Haworth said to day. The riding skills test is the third and final examination in the ' annual Bicycle Roadeo, an event sponsored by the Medford Junior Womcns club and the park and recreation department in cooperation with several other organiza tions and agencies. Youngsters taking their rid ing skills tests' Saturday are urged to. bring with them the score sheets from the me chanical and written tests which they took at their schools earlier. Scores on the three tests will be totaled and a grand prize will be awarded to the youngster with the highest score. First, second and third prizes will also be awarded in the girls and in the boyii divisions. A number of area mer chants have donated the nri7.es I for the Roadeo, Haworth said. Katangese Planes Kill Nine in Village Raids United Nations, N. Y. -WPH-Katangese planes, ignoring a cease-fire, have killed at least nine persons In raids on sev eral villages in north Katan ga, official reports reaching the United Nations said today. American scene," and that others would benefit from the service station besides Stand ard Oil company. Station Completed Hal Edwards, district man ager for the company, told the council the station is already completed and must be ready for business on Nov. 15 wher that section of the freeway is opened for travel. "We expect 300,000 tran sient tourists vehicles a year to pass through Medford on the freeway," Edwards said, "and if they don't see our sign, travelling at 70 miles an hour, they will drive right on through Medford and go some place else to spend their mon ey." He said the station attend ants would give information about the valley to the tour ists who stop in an effort to get them to stay in the rtrea for a few days. The oil company has re quested variances for both the signs from the city code, which stipulates that signs shall not exceed the height of the building which they ad vertise. Most Vocal Opponent The most vocal opponent of the requests was Councilman Robert Baccus who said, "I haven't heard one word about the interests of the citizens of Medford in this instance. These signs are obnoxious to look at. I certainly wouldn't want to live around one." Councilman Jimmy D u n levy argued that the council should "accept the recommen dation of the planning com mission," which had endorsed the requests at its last meet ing. Councilman William Sing ler said that Medford is in "a growing period," and that the council "had to be flex ible" in matters of this sort. A majority of the council voted to study further 'he re quest for the 50-foot Biddle rd. sign. Councilman Al Brad ford said he was concernd about the possibility of setting a precedent if the variance were granted. A number of other service stations and tourist motel com plexes are planned in the vi cinity of the interchange. Delay Tactics on High Dam Urged Portland - WPH - National reclamation leaders were urged today to apply delay ing tactics to a plan for pri vate construction of Hign Mountain Sheep dam on the Snake river. U. S. Commissioner of Rec lamation Floyd Dominy urged i federal - not private - con struction of the dam. An cx I aminer for the Federal Pow er commission has recom i mended private construction , by Northwest Power Co. ! Dominy said federal con j structlon would make reve 1 nues from the dam available ; to finance reclamation work ' in the northwest. He said reclamation leaders should I back Interior Secretary Stew- art Udall's proposal for fed eral construction of High Mountain Sheep as part of a comprehensive development I program in the basin. Ranger-5 Spacecraft Launch Fizzles; Clackamas Jury Reopens Probe Of Withycombe Thornton Called I To Give Testimony ! Oregon City - (WD - The i Clackamas county grand jurv ! Thursday reactivated its I probe into the Camp Withy combe case, and called Atty. Gen. Robert Y. Thornton in to testify. Dist. Atty. William Schu maker said Thornton gave in formation relating to his statement recently that the disappearance of National Guard property at Camp Withycombe might be closer to $60,000 than the $6,500 figure turned up by state audi tors. No details of Thornton's testimony were released. But Schumaker said "some names have been put before the grand jury that might lead to further investigation." From Unidentified Source At the 'time he made the statement regarding a possi ble $60,000 loss, Thornton said it came from a source he could not identify, but one close to the investigation. In Salem Thursday night, Thornton would not elabo rate on his testimony. He .added, "I want to con gratulate the governor on the speed with which he com plied with my request to re lease the state audit at Camp Withycombe." He had re quested Hatfield to make the audit public only a short while before the release came. Thornton said, however, he still wants the governor to make public the reports of the investigation at the camp by Stale Police and the Ore gon National Guard. Council Accepts Report by Planners A letter from the Medford planning commission asking the city council to urge the federal government to pro vide off-street parking at the proposed new post office building al Eighth and Ivy sts. was accepted and filed by the council last night. A recommendation from the park and recreation commis sion that $7,500 be appropri ated to secure professional planners to draw up a master plan for development of the 70-acre park site along Bear creek was referred to a joint meeting of the two groups. The council adopted a reso lution requesting the city manager, at the direction of the mayor, to take all steps possible to we that adequate off-street parking facilities are provided by the government at the new post office build ing. It is expected that, the as sistance of Oregon's congres sional delegation will be sought in support of the park ing proposal. Fair Ticket Sales Nearing 10 Million Seattle -0IPD- Ticket sales at the Seattle World's Fair surg ed toward the "magical" 10 million mark today as prepa rations to close the space-age exposition forever reached feverish pace. The one-term fair will go out of existence al midnight Sunday, literally in a "blaze of glory." A spectacular ar ray of fireworks, depicting the history of the 184 day "jewel-box" exposition, will be the swan song. About 12 hours prior to the blast-out. President Kennedy will press a golden telegraph key on the fairgrounds, send ing a signal which will be re layed to the Mariner satellite hurtling through space toward Vends. Mariner, in turn, will send back a beep that will of ficially signal the turning over of the U. S. Science Pavilion to the Pacific Science Center Foundation. Salem - iliPli - The Oregon Agriculture department said today it is studying a MulU nomah county circuit court de cision on balloon bread to de termine whether the depart ment can appeal the ruling to the Oregon Supreme Court. WEATHER r f n f, C A T: f.fnrrtlly fair through Saturday, txtrptl pitrhv valley tn In morn tin I momly long rlvtr. Low tonight , 33-38. High Saturday tZ-7. ltnp. , Highnt Yesterday . ..Ml LowrtL Thii Morn) nT 31 Our Skies Tonight Hunet tndav I D.T inn rite tomorrow MoonrUe tonight Lt Quarter to l ! a i m it p i morrow 12:411 II PROMINENT KTARK ftquare of Pfgaiut, high In wnith I. II p in 'Hiin Vltilltl V 11 A VCT Saturn, due ot)th .:( p lupiter. tn toulnwett u.-ip Mr. etua II I ft IIM p r v.; it Merfiirv, rle Solar ! Rogue Valley Edition ! Medford 20 PAGES Two Sections Gromyko Soviet Policy To Oust Allied Forces Washington -HOT- Russian Foreign Minister Andrei Gro myko has outlined to Presi dent Kennedy and Secretary of State Dean Rusk a ' Single- minded" Soviet policy to oust Allied military forces from West Berlin, officials said to day. But Gromyko set no dead line for this, they said. No Serious Interest Informed sources said that at a State Department work ing dinner which lasted until the morning hours today, Rusk Bloodmobile Gets 241 Pints During Visit To Medford Only 241 pints of blood were donated this week in Medford during the appear ance of the Red Cross Blood- mobile, Red Cross officials have announced. The total collected is more than 100 pints below the 350 pint quota. The low collec tion is attributed to the num ber of persons picking pears, colds, and that many of the employees of the telephone and power company are out of town repairing storm dam age in other parts of the state. Of the amount collected, 43 pints wore in the name of Melvin Smith, 12-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Smith 417 Pearl St., who is a pa tient at Doernbecher Memo rial hospital in Portland. Boy Seriously Burned The boy, who was seriously burned in May, has so far used 12 pints of blood and needed 30 more pints for skin graft operations. Earlier, the Bloodmobile collected 105 pints in Ashland and 135 pints yesterday in Grants Pass. The low show ings in both of the areas were attributed to the same rea sons as in Medford. Red Cross officials express ed disappointment in the poor turnout, noting that there is an emergency situation In the blood supply In the state. Blood has been needed by storm victims and Bloodmo bile visits in northern por tion of the state had to be cancelled because of the storm. Local officials said that they had not received word if additional visits of the Bloodmobile here would be scheduled. The Bloodmobile is In Cave Junction today. Pear Purchase Order Amended The federal government's purchase order on surplus Bartlctt pears has been amended to include U. S. Grade Number 2, size 1R(I or larger, according to Sen. Wayne Morse (D-Ore ). Previously the U. S. De partment of Agricultural'! of fer to buy on a bid basis in cluded U. S. No. l minimum grade with 165's set as the minimum size. This would not have helped the local Bartlett surplus, it was explained. The Rogue Valley Market ing association, which repre sents local pear shippers, scheduled to meet at 2 o'clock this afternoon to consider the proposal. The offer would be on an individual bid basis, but the marketing association may act for the shippers In accepting or rejecting the offer, a spokesman said. The shippers have a week in which to make a decision since the deadline has been extended by the USDA. A hundred car-loads of Bartlett pears would be available, it was noted. Norblad, Wife Move Afler House Damaged Salem - m - Rep. Walter Norblad (R-Orc.) and his wife have moved from Stayton to Salem because storm damage to their Stayton home from last week's storm was so se vere Norblad said the Stayton home will have to be rebuilt from the ground up. Ray Pickup MEDFORD, OREGON, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 19, Outlines failed to get Gromyko to show any serious interest in nego tiations, an international ac cess authority on Beilin or other measures which, though they would not apparently set tle the Berlin issue, might ease it. Gromyko, sources said, thus indicated Russia still is inter ested only in talking about one point which the West con siders non-negotiable the Western troops garrisoned in Berlin. State Department Press Of' ficer Lincoln White told news men flatly today there had been "no progress" in the talks. Another high official said that during the entire 9'i hours of Gromyko's talks with the President and the State Department, nothing was said to pin down any more def initely the possibility of a visit by Soviet Premier Niki ta Khrushchev to this country. But officials still think he will come, some more strongly than ever. Kennedy and Gromyka talked for two hours and 15 minutes at the White House Thursday evening. The Soviet official and Rusk continued the discussions at the State Department until 12:15 a.m. (EDT) without producing any softening of the stern Soviet demands for Allied evacuation of West Berlin. Gromyko told newsmen as he left the Slate Department that it was important for both countries to work for "Im proved relations between them." But he made It clear that the Soviet Union was still insisting on solving the Berlin problem on Its own terms. Refusal Repealed Officials said Kennedy and Rusk repeated their refusal to accept these terms and em phasized the Western deter mination to fight if necessary to stay In Berlin and keep open the access routes to the city across Communist East German. The United States and its Allies insist they can not pull out of West Berlin until there is a final German settlement based on reunifica tion of the country under free elections a proposal the Rus sians reject. Kennedy Defends Political Efforts Cleveland, Ohlo-IUPD-Presi- dent Kennedy today opened a seven-state, weekend political tour here today by stoutly de fending the extent to which he has dipped Into state races in this off-year campaign. Kennedy told a Public Square audience In midtown I Cleveland that he fell it was "appropriate and important" for a president to participate in selection of senators and congressmen. He said he fell justified In campaigning energetically for Democratic congressional can didates because a president cannot make laws, but must administer them. "I am concerned about the passage of those lawa which I consider essential to welfare programs of the United States," he said, adding that it was in this concern that he was attempting to elect as i many Democratic House and i Senate members as possible. I Pear Growers Still Assessing Damage ! Local pear growers today I were still appraising last j week's storm damage to or- ' chards. j "We still haven't appraised I all the damage yet," one grow-1 jcr said. "We estimate 30 to 40 per cent of the crop re maining before the storm is on the ground and there may be more." Damage to trees has not been estimated. However, no trees have been reported up- i rooted or knocked down. I Growers estimated today that most of them still have la week's picking If the "ma I turity of the pears is not too I far advanced." Some orchard 1 ists are through picking. - yy ft (-: ' ! i - READS STATEMENT Milos Vcjvoda, an official of the Czech Mission to the United Nations, reads a statement to the press concerning Karal Zizka, a delegation attache who kill ed his wife in their New York Mission apartment, led police on a 110-mile an-hour auto chase through three states and then fired a bullet into his head. He died today. (UPI) Czech UN Diplomat Dies of Gunshot; Wife Found Slain Bethlehem, Pa. - (UPK - i.zccn uniiea nations aipio mat wno Killed tils wile and then led police on a chase throuuh three states, died to. day in St. Luke's Hospital from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. Karel Zizka, 40, shot him self in the head Thursday Hearing on School Proposal Changed A public hearing on a pro posal to join the Phoenix and Medford school districts has been changed from Oct. 29 lo Thursday, Nov. 8, the Jackson county school superintend ent's office announced today. The hearing will start al 8 p.m. in the court house auditorium. Dale of the hearing was changed because the Medford school board will be on the cast coast visiting schools in connection with the Oregon Program of educational devel opment. The majority of the Phoe nix board has indicated the Nov. 8 dale i satisfactory, and members can be present. The rural board said It was concerned that the hearing should be held when repre sentatives of both boards can be present to prescnl and hear testimony on the. proposal. The rural board is continu ing to move as rapidly as pos sible lo complete the pro cedure on the proposal re quired by law In order that the districts Involved may proceed with building and educational programs, county school officials said. . . Tax Depreciation Rules Liberalized Washington -Wli- The In ternal Revenue Service today liberalized tax depreciation ules applying to the auto, aerospace and several, other Industries. The changes were the first made in the new guidelines announced July II. designed to give business and industry a $1.5 billion tax saving. THORNTON CAMPAIGNING Salem - OjPli - Atty. Gen. Robert Y. Thornton, Demo cratic nominee for governor, today launched a six day cam paign swing to climax next Thursday with a rally in Port land that will include Presi dent Kennedy. McMinnville - Wi Lin field's record - breaking en rollment has reached 1.013. It is the first time enroll ment has passed the 1,000 mark. Malfunctions 57th Year Price 10 Cents! Tribune 1962 No. 181 ! Aiat the end of a wild 25-mile to 110 - cnase al speeds up milos an hour. The attache was speeding from the Czech UN Mission In New York, where he had killed his wife earlier in the day, when his automobile careened off the the highway near Easton, Pa. Shattered Lobe of Brain The bullet was removed in a two and one-half hour op eration Thursday. The single shot Zizka fired Into his left temple had shat tered a lobe of the brain. The Czech attache never recover ed consciousness. The apparently crazed Czech caused consternation among fellow diplomats when the body of his wife Vera, 40, was found sprawled on the floor of their apartment at the mission in New York. In her head was a bullet fired from the same German pistol Zizka later pointed at a Pennsylvania state trooper In Easlon and then discharged Into his own temple. Also found In the disheveled apart ment was a note indicating his Intention of commiting suicide. Fled in Car It read, In part, "I think I am crazy." . The slaying, police said, look place about 6:30 a.m. (EDT). Zizka fled shortly afterward in a black 10H1 Cadillac sedan belonging to the mission. It was early after noon before Czech officials broke into the locked third floor bedroom, upon hearing radio reports of their col league's capture after a chase through three states. Zizka and his wife, married for 19 years, were the par ents of an 18-ycar-old daugh ter and a 15-year-old son, both of whom are In Czechoslovakia. Sweden Urges Russia, West To Agree on Ban United Nations. N. Y. - (UPP - Sweden urged Russia and the West today to agree to a nuclear test ban as soon as current Soviet and U.S. series of experiments have been fin ished. Swedish Foreign Minister Torsten Nilsson suggested a provisional and limited mora torium on all tests, pending further development of equip ment to detect and Identify underground explosions. No Mention of Rasolution He made no mention of the resolution calling for a test cut-off by Jan. 1 on which neutral participants in the I Geneva disarmament talks I were working. But he express I ed hope that the assembly 1 3 MAA D.lnr nuuii ixcmaiiu Amera'sMost Elusive Target Next Opportunity Early in 1963 Cape Canaveral-dTO-An $8 million power failure has ruined a U.S. attempt to send a Ranger-5 spacecraft on a col lision course to the moon to get the world's first close-up lunar snapshots. The 755-pound probe, hurl, ed away from earth by a 10- story Atlas - Agena rocket Thursday, is expected to miss the moon by about 300 miles and then swing into orbit around the sun around mid day Sunday. Rangers failed to get solar power and its own batteries ran down and, like its four Ranger predecessors and six earlier U.S. moonshots, it is a failure. The moon remains America's most elusive target in space. Next Opportunity The United States, still des peratoly short of the vital lunar exploration information needed to plan manned flights to the moon later this decade, won't get another moonshot opportunity until early 1963. The gold-and chrome-plated Ranger-5 that scientists pains takingly built at a cost of $8 million on the ground was turned into a worthless chunk of space debris shortly after it had leaped from earth on the start of a 70-hour, 231,500 mile flight toward the moon. Ranger-5's electronic death was spelled out in Its failure at that point to "lock on" to the sun a maneuver to keep its Huge solar panels in the right position to pick up elec tricity -producing solar energy. Left Powerless . without solar help lh spacecraft was left powerless when its short-Uved batteries wore out. The result was re vealed by a lerse' line in a federal space agency an nouncement 10 houra after blast-off: "... The 755-pound space craft will not be able to ac I compllsh any of Its mission objectives." - The objectives were several to try to get some 150 lose up photographs of the moon from altitudes ranging from more than 2,000 miles to within a few thousand feet of the lunar surface; and to at tempt to "crash-land" a cap sule loaded with scientific in struments on the moon itself. Safe With $245 Is Taken From Tavern A safe containing $245 in cash was rolled out the back door of Barkley's tavern In Phoenix last night or early this morning, the Jackson county sheriff's office report ed today. Deputies said the safe, mounted on its own wheels, was rolled onto a pickup truck and carted off by the thieves. Also taken was a cash reg ister drawer, a .38 caliber L; ie steel revolver barrel, a. Belgian pistol stock and pos sibly a Winchester rifle. Morse Hails Opening Of Josephine Plant Grants Pass - (UPB Sen. Wayne Morse hailed the open ing of the Josephine Plywood Corporation here today as Oregon's first tangible bene fit from the new Area Rede velopment Act. He spoke at dedication of the plant, which comes one year after the shutdown of the Grants Pass plywood plant. would endorse a memoran dum submitted at Geneva by the eight nonallgned coun tries calling for a test ban with inspection of suspicious disturbances by Invitation of the power on whose territory they occur. Might Avoid Mitus Misuse of the obligation to Invite such inspection. Nils son told the General Assem bly's Main Political Commit tee, might be avoided if "a group of eminent scientists from politically independent countries could be entrusted with the task of deciding, on a purely scientific and tech nical basis, if an inspection was necessary in order to es tablish the nature ef an earth tremor." t 4
