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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.
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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.
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' ! 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
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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."
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