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Newspaper Page Textpt Blockade Clears Second SSiS Further Cuban Action Pondei PR 1, Construction of ! Vslley Edihon MAL lSSMl MbsileSi.es i MEDF0RD& JJl VSV 5jl'&F! A LOntmiling ; 20 PAGES Two Sections MEDFORD. OREGON, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1962 No. 187 fcflW Kennedy Conce.s - - . j A. - . miAWAt mpJM klSS&m Trip To Brazil fl ft J ! 4 ImAA A IMA " TV 1 CUBAN TRANSPORTATION This photo, obtained from the Cuban magazine Bohemia Libre, now published in exile in New York, shows Cubans traveling in crude cattle cars converted for use in passenger trains, ac cording to the magazine. Bohemia Libre ATTEND BRIEFING Oregon legislators are shown in San Francisco, where they attended a briefing of western governors and congressmen on the Cuban crisis. From left, they are Rep. Edwin Durno, fourth Durno Claims Evidence Shows issile Build-Up on Cuban Soil San Francisco Evidence that Russia has emplaced me dium range and intermediate range ballistic missiles in Cu ba is "incontrovertible," Con gressman Edwin R. Durno (K 4th Ore.) said today. He spoke following a two hour briefing by state depart ment officials for some 50 to 75 governors, congressmen, senators and others from the Oregon Job Growth Said Under Average Portland-iUPD-The Democra tic candidate for governor, Ally. Gen. Robert Y. Thorn Ion, said Thursday night Ore gon's growth in employment is 22 per cent below the rest of the nation. "Despite the rosy publicity flowing from the governor's office," he said, meaning GOP Gov. Mark Hatfield, "Ore gon's economy is just not moving ahead with the rest of the country and certainly not with Washington and California." Thornton said employment figures show that in the last three years of the Hatfield ad ministration, total average annual employment in manu facturing dropped from 146. 700 in 1959 to 138.600 in 1981. Likewise, jobs in lumber and wood products fell from 74.700 in 1959 to 66.900 in 1961. Thornton said. In food processing, total employment averaged 21.400 in 1959 but by 1961 it dropped to 20.800, he added. CONVENTION SET Eugene OTP- The Oregon Motor Court Association and the Oregon Mobilhome Park Association will open their 18th annual convention here Sunday. KWStQhBflES IUMS FROM m Xr AROUND THI OlOII RUSSIA CALLS WESTERN DIPLOMATS Moscow-JlPI-The Soviet Fortign Ministry has ordered a number of Western diplomats who have been traveling through the Soviet Union io return to Moscow, it wat learn ed today. EAST GERMAN GUARDS DELAY TRAFFIC Berlin-"! PI East German Communist guards resorted lo harassing tactics today that seriously delayed Wast German traffic on the 110-mile super-highway linking Berlin lo the West. DE GAULLE WARNS FRENCH NATION ParisIPI-President Charles da Gaulle delivered a new warning to the French nation today that he will quit at one unless it gives him a sweeping "yes" vote in Sunday's con stitutional referendum. district Republican; Congressman Al Ull man, second district Democrat; Congress woman Edith Green, third district Demo crat, and Congressman Walter Norblad, first district Republican. (UPI) western statesiiere this morn ing. Gov. Mark Hatfield and all four Oregon Congressmen attended. The officials were shown pictures taken of emplace ments on Cuban soil, Con gressman Durno said, and were shown the sites of both medium and intermediate range missiles, as well as bombers and MIG fighter planes. Rep. Durno said the state department is convinced that Soviet technicians and soldiers have entirely taken over the military resources of Cuba, and have the missiles under their, rather than Cuban, con trol. The current blockade or quarantine of Cuba is Phase 1 of President Kennedy's pro gram, the congressman said, with Phase 2 being a morato rium on more missile ship ments, and Phase 3 being the 'Do Not Disturb' Signs Available Signs for elderly and ill people asking Halloween trick or treaters to refrain from dis turbing them are available from the two junior high schools in Medford. Residents west of Bear creek desiring a "Do Not Dis turb" sign should telephone McLoughlin Junior High school at 773-4513, and those living east of Bear creek should call Hcdrick Junior High at 772-7186. Signs will be delivered be fore Halloween, and picked up the next day. Residents wishing one of the signs should call the school in his area prior to Tuesday, school officials said. The project is sponsored each year by the student bod ies of the schools. 5S Washinglon--The State PliJl F I U L I 3 1 1 I 1 5 WAT was made necessary by shortage of rolling Department made clear today HIE D Hwl EM VVIMSHIV vJV n rhn rimari.; the maeazinp said, that "further action of an pM i. ' nliostion of how tn see that the offensive weapons now in Luba are removed San Francisco - IUPH - Ore gon Gov. Mark Hatfield emerged from a U.S. State Department briefing on the Cuban crisis here today and said the public "is being kept well informed" as tn U.S. ac tion. He was one of 10 Western governors at the conference, along with about 40 congress men and senators, including Oregon House members. Hatfield said the briefing, also conducted by a Defense Department spokesman, went into details on the Soviet build-up in Cuba, including number and type of weapons, but the details cannot be made public. Hatfield also said there is a "very strong determination to stand by our actions and not back down whatsoever." Rep. Walter Norblad (R Ore.) said the briefing reveal ed that no missile in Cuba has the capacity to strike ei ther Oregon or Washington, and that the build-up in Cuba is nowhere near that capaci ty. Contract Awarded For Work at Lake A contract for widening, realigning and paving lO'a miles of Highway 62 between Annie Springs and the south entrance to Crater Lake Na tional park has been award ed to a Portland firm. According to Sen. Maurinc Neuberger, Acme Construc tion company was awarded the contract for $816,994. Crater Lake park officials said construction is expected to start early next summer and is to be completed in 180 c-.lrhdar days. The highway will be 20 feet wide with three, foot shoulders. Recently completed was the highway from Anne Springs north to the lake's rim. Sched uled as the next project fol lowing the completion of the contract just awarded will be rebuilding the remainder of the Highway 62 tie-in from Annie Springs to the west park entrance. I Hospital Employees Fail To Cast Votes Salem - 1?n - Less than ! 200 of the 900 employees of i the state hospital here showed up at the Eagles Hall for a i vote on whether to join a un- ion. i No vote was held and Frank ' B. Hippie of Public Employ ! ees Council No 12, Portland, 1 said another attempt will be made to get registrations here Tuesday. Washington-IUPD-The Slate Department made clear today that "further action" of an unspecified nature is being considered to deal with the continuing Soviet m i s s 1 e build-up in Cuba. State Department press of ficer Lincoln White stressed in a statement to reporters that construction of medium and intermediate missile fa cilities in Cuba still is going on. White called newsmen's at tention to President Kenne dy's statement over nation wide television Monday that should "offensive military preparations in Cuba con tinue, thus increasing the threat to the hemisphere, fur ther action will be justified." While did not elaborate. White issued his statement after Adlai Stevenson, U.S. ambassador to the United Na tions, was called to Washing ton for an unscheduled White House conference during the morning. At the same time, it was learned that President Ken nedy would cancel his sched uled trip to Brazil next month because of the crisis. Secretary of State Dean Rusk, ambassador at large Lewcllyn Thompson and U.S. disarmament chief William Foster arrived at the White House shortly after Steven son. Rusk is a member of the ex ecutive committee of the Na tional Security Council which has been holding daily meet ings with Kennedy at the White House during the crisis. Thompson, a former am bassador to Russia and an ex pert in Soviet affairs, and Fos ter are not members of the committee. Missing Paintings Found in California Ashland Two paintings by a Leaburg, Ore., artist, missing since the close of an Ashland art exhibit early in September, have been recov ered in California, Ashland police said today. The two paintings valued at $600 were part of an origi nal group of five, valued at about S970, that was discov ered missing after the exhibit at the Mark Antony hotel closed. The paintings were all by Mrs. Veltie Pruilt. Ashland police recovered three of the five Sept. 7 in Ashland. Later officers receiv ed a tip that the other two had been seen on the bedroom wall of a 17-year-old Ashland juvenile. Upon investigation, howev er, it was discovered that the juvenile had since moved to Fairfield, Calif. Authorities in Fairfield were contacted, and they sub sequently apprehended the youth, who admitted taking the two paintings. The disposition of the youth is pending further directions from juvenile authorities, Ash land police said. Valley View Paving Nears Completion Crews from M. C. Lininger and Sons Construction com pany are expected to com plete the paving of a portion of Valley View dr. today, ac cording to City Manager Rob ert Duff. Valley View dr. will be paved from East Main st. to Hillcrest rd. Paving of East Main st. from 150 feet north of Eastwood dr. to Valley View dr. is expected to begin early next week, Duff said. Manager of Portland Store Robbery Victim Portland - HTIi - A holdup man. driving a new car, forc ed the manager of a southeast Portland Safeway store lo open the safe and escaped with an undetermined amount of cash today. Manager Don Bevans taid the bandit carried a gun. He said the robber was driving a 1962 to 1963 car that had no license plates. The holdup oc curred about 10 a m. I Merrill m The 26th an i nual Klamath Basin Potato Festival will open here to - night. Some 2.500 persons are rxprcted for the fvent tflJL JS JC U Vfc&?'w wi. Chinese Troops Threaten Border Capital City Another Column Near Burma Border New Delhi, India -IUPD- The novernmcnl proclaimed a stale of emergency through out India tonight. There was no immediate ex planation of the move. But it came as an Indian spokesman announced that Communist Chinese troops have driven deeper into India, threatening the northwestern border capital town of Bom dilla. Parliament To Meet The disclosure of new Com munist advances in the unde clared border war with India came as parliament made plans to meet in "emergency session a week from next Thursday to deal with the Red China menace. The Indian spokesman said the advance guard of some 10,000 Chinese troops that Wednesday captured the mon astery town of Towang Thurs day swept five miles east of the town and clashed with In dian troops at Jang. This is on the jeep track to Bomdilla, the capital of the Northeast Frontier Agency. Another Chinese force has driven 15 miles south from Kibitoo near the Burmese border, the spokesman said. There was no immediate in formation as to the matters that would be discussed at the emergency parliamentary ses sion. Passes Captured In the East, the radio claim ed the capture of three stra tegic passes and a bridge. New China said that in the West, advancing Chinese forces oust ed Indian troops from strong points north of the Chipchap and Changlung river valleys. Indian spokesmen admitted heavy casualties. They offered no figures, but claimed Chi nese losses were "heavier," Duff To Attend Portland Meeting City Manager Robert Duff expected to leave Medford to day for Portland to attend a meeting of the legislative com mittee of the League of Ore gon Cities. The purpose of the meeting is lo review proposed legis lation that will be submitted to the coming session of the state leigslature. The commit tee will make recommenda tion with respect lo the pro posed legislation, Duff said. About 24 mayors and city managers from Oregon com munities are expected to at tend the meeting, which will be presided over by Portland Mayor Terry D. Schrunk, chairman of the League of Oregon Cities. TRUCKER FINED Salem -OJPD- Public Utility Commissioner Jonel C. Hill said Thursday he has fined Elmo V. Galleton of Curtin $1,500 for hauling logs with out proper authority from Dougias county to a mill in Cottage Grove. WEATHER to KEf AST: Partly i-lourtv this ' Mfnin:. bcrominf low ovrrrant ; tortlnht and earlv futiirday. fair Saturday aftrrnwrn, br j fomlrtft rlmidy Saturday nixht. ! Low tonight 40.45, lllfli Hatur ! day 60-65. ; Tfmxt I Hlrhrst YiteriJav fin ! l.nwrji Thii Morning 4S ; I Prrr. to Ift a.m. Tudiy, Trace j Our Skies Tonight Snnsrt today . A-.ti p m, i Kunri liimnrrna 11 m i Mtmnrw tomorrow. 5:3d i.m. New Moon Oct, 21 ' the planet. Mars, i met 1 1 :4I p.m. Its brilliance is now tm:reuiig nrttfreahlv as tl move nearer ' the 1 arth at the rate of hnut 7 t0.fl(l0 mile per day. . ' Rep. Grace Peck Misses Portland Welfare Meeting Salem - WPli - Slate Rep. Grace Peck (D Portland) was the chief battler in the 1961 leg islature against moving the Oregon Welfare Commission from Port land to Salem, but the move was accomplished anyway, more than a year ago. Since then she has continued to attend each monthly meeting of the commission, as in years past, trekking to Salem. Mrs. Peck showed up in Salem this morning, for today's commission meeting, too. But the commission is meeting in Portland. SlSB Thant in First Moves To Freeze Crisis in Cuba United Nations, N. Y, (UPD- Acting Secretary General Thant started talks with the United States, Russia and Cu ba today in an effort to freeze the Cuban crisis pending ne- gotians for a settlement. The United Nations an nounced Thant would talk separately with representa tives of all three nations, start ing with U. S. Ambassador Adlai E Stevenson. Then he planned to call In Soviet Deputy Foreign Min ister Valerian A. Zorin fol lowed by Cuban Ambassador Mario Garcia-Inchaustcgui. It was possible all four might sit down together later on. Ths preliminary talks on a Cuban standstill were ex pected to lake three days. Engaged In Battle Thursday night Stevenson and Zorin engaged in a gloves off verbal exchange In the UN Security Council. The charges and counter charges all but obscured of ficial notification to the 11 natlon group that President Kennedy and Soviet Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev had agreed to seek a settlement of the Cuban crisis. Stevenson, seeking to Jus tify the U.S. arms quarantine on Castro Cuba, challenged Zorin to deny that the Soviet Union had provided medium and long range nuclear mis siles to the island country. Zorin sidestepped. He prom ised an answer "in due course." "I am prepared to wait for my answer until hell freezes over, Stevenson snapped. "I am also prepared lo present the evidence in this room." The American then display ed a series of aerial photo graphs of Cuban missile bases while an aide pointed nut their significant points. Ignored Photographs At first, Zorin ignored the photographs. But finally he gave them a grudging glance and then doubted their au thenticity. Zorin charged that last year Stevenson displayed pic tures of a plane said to have attacked Havana. The plane turned out to be a U.S. B26 bomber, according to Zorin. "What value is there in oil your photographs?" the Rus sian asked Stevenson. "One who has lied once will not be believed a second lime." (See Story on Page 2A) TITAN ROCKET FIRED Cape Canaveral -1I.N1- The United States today success fully fired its mightiest war rocket, a 10 -story Titan-2. some 3,000 miles across the Atlantic in a military test. A Glance at : :X? Cuban Crisis PENTAGON: Defense De partment announces Leba nese freighter bound for Cuba under Soviet charter was boarded, searched and allowed to proceed, about 180 mules northeast of Nas sau. The boarding party met no difficulty. UNITED NATIONS: U.S. Ambassador Adlai E. Ste venson flies unexpectedly to Washington for consulta tions at the While House. WHITE HOUSE: Kenne dy agrees to talks on U Thant proposal for two or three-week freese of Ameri can and Russian action, but says blockade will continue until missile menace in Cuba is dispelled. PENTAGON: Officials say that work is continuing on missile sites in Cuba. Indi cations mount that more di rect action than the block ade will be taken if the sites are not voluntarily disman tled. MOSCOW: Khrush e h v agrees io Thant proposal for a moratorium, tn the crisis. Personal relations be tween Americans and Rus sians in Moscow continue to be friendly. UNITED NATIONS: U Thant starts talks today with American, Russian and Cuban diplomats. Security Council was the scene Thursday of a dramatic con frontation, as Stevenson challenged Zorin to deny build-up in Cuba. Zorin sidestepped Immediate an swer. KEY WEST: Military build-up continues in Flor ida Keys, 90 miles from Cuba. Jury Deliberating In Homicide Case A Jackson county circuit court Jury started deliberating al noon today in the trial of Keith Edward Schroeder, 30, of route 3, box 195, Medford, who is charged with negli gent homicide. Both Chief Deputy District Attorney Thomas Owens and Defense Counsel Eugene Pi azza summed up their cases this morning. Piazza stated there Is rea sonable doubt that Schroeder was under the influence of liquor when his car hit one driven by Annie Matildia In nes, 68, of 1059 Morrow rd., Medford, who died in the acci dent. He also questioned that Schroeder's declared speed of about 50 miles per hour was faster than road, weather and traffic conditions prudently al lowed. Owens pointed out In his summary that two doctors testified that Schroeder was intoxicnled shortly after the accident. He said Schroeder was driving too fast to stop in lime to avoid the collision. J, 500 Pounds of Pumpkins Taken From Highway Fruit Stand Somebody is preparing for Halloween in a big way, Jackson county sheriff's deputies noted this morn ing. Someone look from 1,500 to 2,000 pounds of pump kins from Hartley's fruit stand on Highway 99 near Talent last night. The pumpkins were In a pile and on a cart behind the roadside fruit stand, Mrs. Florence Hartley re ported. Reteil value would be about $60. she told dopu- 57th Year Price 10 Cents Tribune LtMlllltfftlSillt4tilliii'Mi'BliMllirfW (Ul'I) ADLAI STEVENSON Capitol Caller Stevenson Flies To Washington for White House Talks United Nations, N.Y. - !IM - U.S. Ambassador Adlai E. Stevenson postponed a morn ing meeting with Acting Sec retary General Thant today and flew unannounced to Washington for While House consulations on the Cuban crisis. Stevenson was expected back In New York later in the afternoon when he was scheduled lo hold his post poned session with Thant. U.S. Representatives Charles W. Yost and Francis T. P. Plimpton were substituted for Stevenson for an 11:30 a.m. (EDT) meeting with Thant, The acting secretary gen eral's talk with the U.S. dele gates was his first in the ef fort to freeze the Cuban cri sis pending negotiations for a settlement. The United Nations an nounced that Thant would meet with Soviet Deputy For eign Minister Valerian A. Zor in al 4:30 p.m. and Cuban Am bassador Mario Garcia In- chaustegui at 5:30 p.m. The U.S. delegation had no comment on Stevenson's sud den trip to Washington except to say he was summoned for consultations. In Washington the White House said Presi dent Kennedy wanted Steven son to attend a strategy meet ing this morning. FIRE FATAL Weston, Ore. TUPIl Howard Caan, 45, Weston, died when a fire destroyeo a rooming house here Thursday. Cost of Living Increases Due to Farmers' Strike Washington-OIPIl-The cost of living rose six-lenlhs of one per cent In September largely because of a farmer's strike that withheld meat from the market, the Labor Depart ment announced today. This was the largest month ly increase since February 1958 Considered Temporary Ewan Clagut, commissioner of labor statistics, said the rise was considered tempor ary. He said he expects the consumer price Index to level off during October. A strike by the National Farmers organization, in which meat supplies were withheld from the market In $earCied; Sno prohibited Materials Found Freighter Crew Shows Cooperation Washington - (UPn - Two U.S. Navy destroyers halted a Lebanese ship sailing under Soviet charter to Cuba todjy, boarded and searched it and then allowed it to pass through I the blockade. The vessel, the 7,268 ton freightet Marucla, was al lowed to continue its passage to Cuba because no prohibited materials were found in its cargo, the Defense Depart ment announced. First Incident It was the first boarding in cident since President Ken nedy's quarantine of arms shipments went into opera tion. The freighter was order ed to halt early this morn ing by two destroyers on duty about 180 miles northeast of Nassau in the Bahamas. The boarding party was from the destroyers Joseph P. Kennedy Jr., named for President Kennedy's brother who was killed during the war while on a volunteer mis sion over Europe, and the Pierce. In their messages to Wash ington, the destroyer crews reported that the Marucla co operated in the search which lasted for nearly three hours. The boarding party sent a radio message which said: "No prohibited materials aboard. All papers in order. Have obtained copy of mani- tesl." Under Lebanese Flag The Marucla was register ed under the Lebanese flag and apparently owned in Lon don. Bui it was chartered by the Soviets for the voyage to Cuba from the Russian Baltic port of Riga, Latvia. The Lebanese Embassy had no Immediate comment on the incident. Its flag has been in volved in a relatively minor way with the Cuban trade. A recent U.S. maritime ad ministration report lists Leb anon 10th among free world flags involved In the trade with the Cubans. State Industrial Growth Continues Portland IUPD Industrial expansion in Oregon contin ued to show an accelerated rate during September, Gov. Mark Hatfield said through Ihc Department of Planning and Development today. He said the department's monthly report listed 18 new plants and plant expansions with a combined capital In vestment of $5,667,000, creat ing some 500 new Jobs in basic industry. Hatfield said expansions by existing Oregon industry ac counted for most of the month's industrial growth, .11. though the report included establishment of Oregon oper ations oy three companies new to the state. These are Rich hold Chemicals, White City; Animal Research Co., McMin ville, and Texas Instruments, Baker. Alain St. To Be Closed During Sale Tonight Main st. from Riverside ave. to Front St. will be closed to traffic between 7 to 11 o'clock tonight in connection with the "Moonlight Sale" of the downtown merchants. Permission for the street closure was granted by the Medford cily council at its last meeting. Extra police of ficers will be on duty to as sist with traffic. order to Increase prices, end ed Oct. 3. Clague emphasized that the September Increase had noth ing to do with the current international crisis. He said there was an abundance of food and other products on the ;rarkct and he did not expect the Cuban crisis to have any effect on the cost of living "unless something more hap pens." Apparel Contributes The September Index stood al 106.1 per cent of the 1957 59 average. ' While most of the Increase 1 was caused by higher meat i prices, eggs and apparel also contributed to the climb.