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Sfl ) (SIM la Regional Edition 57th Year Price 10 Cents Medford Tribune 23 mmmmJ W x Column SQUADRON BRIEFED Part of the 31.ith Troop Carrier Squadron is shown receiving its first briefing from the commanding officer. Col. Vernon E. Acker, in Portland. Terrorists Bomb Power Stations In Venezuela Caracas, Venezuela - iUPP Marincs today guarded vital installations in the rich oil producing regions around Lake Maracaibo against pos sible new attacks by Com-munist-Castroite terrorists. The government declared the Maracaibo oil fields a zone of military operations shortly after saboteurs blew up four U. S. operated power substa tions Saturday night. The bombings were I h e heaviest blow thus far in the terrorist campaign against President Romulo Betancourt. The attacks followed by a few hours Bctancourt's mo bilization of the Venezuelan armed forces because of the Cuban crisis. U. S. officials in Washing ton said the bombers may have acted on orders from Fidel Castro's Cuban regime. First reports said the dyna miting of the power stations would temporarily halt a sixth of Venezuela's oil output, but a government spokesman said later that it would have no effect on production Thp ennkpeman sairi I hp I nnwor .tatinn wPr merely HamairriH nnl riol rnvpf? "Whatever the nuroosc of i this bombing whether it was meant to cripple or diminish the defensive capability of the West or to intimidate Vene zuelait has failed badly," Interior Minister Carlos A. Perez said. Perez told newsmen the Maracaibo oilfields have been declared a zone of military operations, with marines on hand to deal with any further attempts at sabotage. East Berlin Guards Delay Express Train Berlin -t'PD- Conun u n i s 1 guards today held up the Aachen-Berlin express train for an hour just outside the West Berlin border and made an inch-by-inch search of the train. Passengers said the East German guards halted t h e train, which runs between West Germany and Berlin, at the Griebnitzsee station. They : H 2 " said the guards checked and CONFERENCE PLANNED rechecked travel documents Longview CPI' The an in addition to making an in-luia convention of the Wash tensive search of the cars. jngton Association of Soil Con The reason for the unusu- j scrvation Districts will be ally strict check was n o t j held here Thursday through known. Saturday. HEWSBRIErS NORSTAD MAY BE KEPT ON JOB Washington-'irt President Kennedy was reported ready today to hold Gen. Laurit Norilad on the job at supreme allied commander in Europe for the world emit. POPE APPOINTS 90 TO COMMISSIONS Vatican City-4 PI Pope John XXIIL in surprise move, today appointed 90 extra membert to 10 vital Ecumenical Council commitsiont. Three of those named were Americans. MRS. ROOSEVELT'S CONDITION UNCHANGED Mew York iri-Mrt. Eleanor Rootevelt't condition wat reported lo be unchanged today, a spokesman for the teri outly tiling 78-year-old formcj first ldy said today. CD Office Receives Inquiries About Buildina Shelters Maj. Gen. Joseph 11. Hicks of the Jackson County Civil Defense agency, today said he had received a number of in quiries about civil defense preparations from people i nervous about the Cuban sit uation. lie advised them to con struct a fallout shelter in the basement of I heir homes or next to their houses, accumu late two weeks' supply of can ned goods, obtain a transistor radio and a all-out kit. A number of pamphlets con taining directions for con structing shelters and how to prepare for a possible atomic attack are available at the county courthouse switch board and in the county civil defense office on the first floor of the annex. It's hard to tell how many Soil Exploration Called on PO Site Bids will be opened in Mcd rd Nov. 15 for the subsur- ford NOV. 15 for the SUbsUP face soil exploration on the sik' "f llle Proposed Medford post office and federal build ing. The bids will be opened in the Medford office of Robert J. Keency, who with the firm I of Wilmsen. Endicott and Un- I thank. Eugene, are architects ! for the project. ) Plans and specifications for the explorations are available at the local office. Keency said. Bid opening time is 2 j p.m. j Friday the architects sent I the third phase plans for the I structure to the Washington,! I D C. office of the General Ad- j ' ministration services for ap- , proval. The plans included the I ! architectural, m e c h a n ical, I ' electrical, landscaping and in-' : terior design for the structure. After this group of plans is reviewed by the GSA. the j architects will meet with GSA : officials in Washington prior ' to starting on the working ' drawings. Keency noted. ! Tentative schedule for the building's construction is to i K.c in A n,:l AROUND THI OlOII another 90 days because of The squadron was called to active duty with less than a day's notice because of the current Cuban crisis. The story is on page 2A. (UPI) people arc building shelters,! "In mv tnnnr( in lhn uf-tr I wrote that I knew positively of only three private fallout shelters, but I know there are more just from the inquiries i nave luccivea Dy prione irom i unidentified persons. Obvious-1 ly, since there is limited room inside these family shelters they don't want their neigh bors to know they have them in case of alomic attack." he added. Available Shelters Hicks said shelters in Jack son county now available would shelter approximately 1.600 persons of the estimated 81,000 total population. These shelters are located in Med ford and Ashland. No shelters exist in outlying towns, Hicks said. Southern Oregon college re cently appointed a committee to provide fallout shelters in campus buildings, he contin ued. The college will have the same soht of system as the I Medford schools with each building a potential fallout shelter. Medford schools have a supply of food in each school I building. Hicks said Approved Medford shelters include the Medford Beauty school with 116 person capaci ty, Medford hotel 128. Jack son House 107, YMCA 50, and courthouse 150. Other shelters rated not quite as high are in the Med ford Elks club and the Med ford branch, First National Bank of Oregon Ashland shelters are Elks I club 45 capacity. Selby's Ga-1 rage 300. and Southern Ore gon college 600. Hicks said one farmer is planning to construct a shel ter of earth and lugs costing an estimated S500 to S600, about one-third the cost of above ground construction. Grants Pass Market To Be Remodeled Grants Pass - The Pay 'N " " ""5( " Save market here will get a ! lcf l'"n f futUro P1"" cKonnn rmr,Hr.lin. inh ,hi. i But the narrowness of his ma- winter, including construction I Jor"-v "ignalled trouble ahead I of an 80-by-22 fool "bubble" ; '"r France s Fifth Republic. , in front of the building. ! Premier Georges Pompi-; Construction of the new dou said the results gave De j front, which will be entirely Gaulle no cause to resign. The ! glassed-in. is scheduled to ! '2 year - old president had: start the dav after Christmas ; threatened to quit unless he and be completed by the end : received a heavy majority, of February. i De Gaulle's proposal for ' At the same time the an- popular election of presidents j nouncemcnl of the remodel-' received fil .76 per cent of the j ing plans was made, it also ballots cast, but this represent was announced that Pay N , cd only 4fj t4 per rent of the Save and its sister store, the total electorate. ( A Street market have been ' It was his lowest total in incorporated with brothers four referendum votes since Tyler and Tom Cudd Jr. returning to power in 1958 named general managers. and the first time less than : Their father. Tom Cudd Sr . 50 per cent of the electorate j is retiring from active man- backed a De Gaulle proposal agement and will live in Laii fornia. Hatfield Cautions Aaainst Complacency Salem - IPli - Gov Mark : Hatfield spoke well of Presi 1 dent Kennedy ! Cuban actions Sunday but cautioned against complacency in the wake of Premier Khrushchev's back ,tiwn in Cuba. ' Oct. 31 Last Day For Applying for Absentee Ballots Wednesday. Oct. 31. is the I last day for making applies- I Uon for absentee voter ballots, i except in emergency cases, County Clerk Marvin Madden j reminded registered voters to- day. Persons finding themselves unable to vote at the polls after Wednesday may ask the county clerk's office about emergency procedures, Mad den added. Wednesday the elections de partment of the county clerk's office will start instructing election boards in voting pro cedure. Instructions for the day boards will start at 0 a.m. Wednesday in the Ashland armory. Instructions for the counting board will be given at 10:15 a.m. Talent boards will also meet in Ashland. The same day, Eagle Point day board will receive instruc tions at 1 p.m. and at 2:15 p.m. the counting boards. Both wi meet in the Eagle Point Grade school Instructions will be given at the Rogue River High school at 9 a.m. Wednesday for the day board and 10:15 p.m. for the counting board. Instructions in the Jackson ville grade school gymnasium will be given at 1 p.m. for the day board Wednesday and 2:15 p.m. for the counting board. Instructions for the Med ford west side prccincits will be held at 9 a.m. and 10:15 a.m. Wednesday and for the east side at 1 and 2:15 p.m both in the Jackson county courthouse auditorium. Phoe nix precinct boards will meet in the courthouse at the same time, Madden said. De Gaulle Victor In French Voting I Paris tUPP - President I Charles dc Gaulle won the ! backing of French voters in ia national referendum approv- Amphibious Plane in Emergency Landing Yakima - n An aniphi- ; bious plane piloted by Walter Frank of Auburn made an : emergency landing in the i Nachcz River 15 miles west ; of Yakima late Sunday. Three ' persons in the plane escaped , injury as the aircraft landed i-i tl'rcc f ert of watrr Two We Dare You! Castro Challenges Miami-'iri-The Castro brothers have demanded the surrender of the U.S. naval base at Guanlanamo. Cuba, and dared the United States to invade their Soviet-infiltrated country. , Premier Fidel Castro started the bail rolling Sunday with the publication of a five-point demand for guarantees against aggression shortly after Premier Nikila Khrushchev announced Russia will dismantle its Cuban missile bases. However, he did not repeat his earlier declaration that United Nations observers never would be allowed in Cuba. Castro's program included a demand that the United States get out of the $76 million base, on which it has a 99-year lease, and return it to Cuba. The premier's brother Raul, chief of Cuba's armed forces, toned down the demand somewhat in a bitter anti-American speech at a mass meeting in Santiago Sunday night which included a challenge to the United Stales to invade Cuba. Raul asked for "peaceful return" of the base. U. S. spokesmen, however, said there was "not a chance" that America would give up the installation. U.S. Agrees To ndian Request To Supply Arms New Delhi -lUPIl- India ap pealed for U. S. arms to help battle invading Chinese Com munists today and announced it has lost up to 2,500 troops killed and missing in 10 days of fighting. Disclosure of the first over all casualty toll came shortly after the U. S. Embassy here announced that India had ask ed for U. S. arms to help battle the Chinese Red invad ers and the United States im mediately agreed 1" supply them . Ofier Confirmed Shortly afterward, an In dian external affairs ministry spokesman confirmed that the Americans had offered to "as sist in anyway they can" in sending supplies to aid India's defense effort. In announcing the loll of dead and wounded Indian troops, a spokesman said: "It is estimated that Chinese cas ualties are much higher." The announcement camel shortly after U. S. Ambassa dor John Kenneth Galbraith met with Prime Minister Ja waharlal Nehru and gave him a letter from President Ken nedy expressing "full sympa thy and support by the United Stales for India's present sit uation." Indian troops were moving up from throughout the coun try to reinforce the border battle-front in the undeclared war with. Red China. Treasurer Receives Money From State The Jackson county treas urer's office has received a check for SI 4.054.32 from the secretary of slate's office, ac cording lo County Treasurer Karl Janouch. A total of SI. 843. 73 desig nated for Ihc general road fund is the county' share of land sales by the state. Ore gon counties receive five per cent of this fund. The county also received SI 1.313.18 of the quarterly re ceipts from alcoholic bever age tax money. This is desig nated for the county relief fund. The Taylor Grazing act funds contributed S897.36. This Is from grazing fees out side of O and C and national forest receipts and on public domain land. Weyerhaeuser Sales Reach $30.5 Million Tacoma - UPI' - The Weyer haeuser Co. said today its net income for the first nine months of this year was ap proximately S30.5 million, equal to $1 a share. In the comparable period last year, Wcyorhaetiser's earnings were equal to 98 cents a share. WEATHER MI(M AST: fair ihroiuh Tiic, ilav nrrpl fdf forming 1 f r lo inrhf. rlrariiit: dii'ine mirlrititri) in r Inw Ion if lit lH-l.i Huh . I umda si-fc7. Itch"! trrtjiv fiii l.owrit This Morning 40 Our Skies Tonight Runt tortav 5:0 p.m. ; ; Suiirif tomorrow 4i i m. j Mm.nt torn (hi 6 .11pm. t mt quarter Nov. 4 Jnpllrr, thr IjrtfH planrt. In day h(n an rat nrd mov : mrnt among Ihr Mart In H . hm hfronnd Ttm wilt continue uniil nrxl Aufiitt. Sections To Invade Indian forces on the border appeared to be at least slow ing the Communist advance for the first lime since the fighting started. Informed sources said they expected urgently needed in fantry equipment would be gin arriving from the United Slates by the end of this week. The Stale Department in Washington had no immediate comment on the reported arms agreement. It was understood Nehru was making similar requests of the British, French and Ca nadian governments. V. K. Krishna Menon, who has been under fire for al legedly mishandling India's military preparedness as de fense minister, was reported to have told a meeting of the ruling Congress party this morning that "we are In a bet ter position now to meet Chi nese aggression than a few days ago." 2.4 Million Boxes Of Pears Picked Local orchardists and pack ing houses completed the pear harvest last week cud with an estimated 2,400.000 boxes of pears picked during the season. The total estimate docs not include the tonnage of Bart letts shipped to canneries, which has not yet been com pleted, it was reported. The season started later than normal about Aug. 15. However, records show that this is not the latest starting season. That was in 1948 when picking started on Aug. 24. Growers and shippers gen erally lost five full days of picking in the week of Oct. 8 due to stormy weather and possibly a day or two before that, it was reported. Growers were generally plagued with small sizing on a bumper crop of Bartlett pears which delayed picking, plus a lower price level throughout the Bartlett marketing season. Approximately 400 Mex ican Nationals worked In val ley orchards throughout the harvest season, but not all al one time. A number of local people helped the orchardists as the picker shortage became critical at the end of the sea son. Because of the storms when only handpieking was feas ible in orchards, local con version to semi-mechanical picking will be delayed for another two years, one orch ardist predicted. Jewelry Store Theft Listed at $10,000 Grants Pass An estimat ed $10,000 worth of jewelry and watches was taken from a Grants Pass jewelry store by a burglar who took advan tage of heavy fog here some time Sunday morning. The theft, from llarl's Jew elry, 225 S.E. Sixth st., was not discovered until 3 50 p.m. Sunday when two teen-age girls found the door unlocked. Grants Pass city police, who are now investigating the theft, said entry was made by prying open a front door h' ,ietime after 1 a.m. Sunday. MEDFORD, OREGON, MONDAY, Cuba Three-Man Team To Discuss UN Cuban Inspection Washington - Illl'll-Presidcnt Kennedy today named a thrcc iiian committee to negotiate for "effective" United Nations inspection of the removal of Soviet missile bases from Cuba. The committee, headed by John J. McCloy, will handle UN developments involved in "the conclusion of the Cuban crisis," the White House said. The U.S. position during the negotiations will be to seek "effective inspection" of the removal of the missile bases as ordered by Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev. Ball, Gtipatric Named Besides McCloy, the other members of the "coordinating committee" will be Undersec retary of Stale George W. Ball and Deputy Defense Sec retary Roswcll L. Gilpatric. McCloy, Kennedy's former disarmament adviser, has been working with UN Ambassador Adlai Stevension since shortly after the Cuban situation ex ploded a week ago today. Gil patric and Ball left today to join Stevenson in New York. Until "effective inspection" of the missile sites is arrang ed, American warships block ading Cuba will "remain on station" the Defense Depart ment said. The announcement was made by Assistant Defense Secretary Arthur Sylvester. But he refused lo be drawn into any discussion of wheth er the blockade force would continue to stop ships sus pected of carrying military cargo to Cuba. Khrushchev late last week said he had told captains of his cargo ships lo avoid the block ade. Kennedy, for his part, said U S. ships would seek to avoid any "confrontation" with the Soviet vessels, Sylvester also declined to say whether U.S. aerial sur veillance had shown that work on the missile sites had stopped, as Khrushchev Sun day promised. On Saturday night, before Khrushchev's dismantling or der was announced, the Pcnla gon said that work on the sites was proceeding. There has been no later U.S. word on that score. Military intelligence ex perts said earlier that any dis mantling moves on the bases would be readily apparent through photographs taken by the supersensitive cameras In U.S. reconnaissance planes. Sunday Fire Damages Central Point House Central Point An upstairs bedroom, the roof and a stair way were damaged by fire ! about 8:30 a.m. yesterday at the home of Elmer Richey, . 235 West Gregory rd., Cen tral Point rural firemen re ported. ! They said a faulty flue wa: he cause, Firemen reported! some water and smoke dam-1 age. I City's Trees Being Checked for Damage Farm forester for the south west district of the slate for estry department is currently assisting the city of Medford in assessing damage to trees from the Columbus day storm, District Warden Curtis Nesheim reported. He is Dick Olson. The study will determine whether trees damaged, but still standing can be left or Jhould u cut down. OCTOBER 29, 1962 I! TX I 1! V A 1. i l ffl! 4 W U.J i ' X ; ' GOING TO CUBA Acting Secretary General U Thant, up per left, has arranged a final round of discussions with U.S. ,.v. Lwrivi i;nvu(vs ociuiir ins piauucci oopariure lcr talks Willi Cuban Premier Fidel Castro in Havana. The principal aides who will accompany Thant lo Cuba arc llernano Tavares De Sa of Brazil, upper righl, UN Undersecretary for the Office of Public Information; Brig. Indar Jit Rikhye of India, lower lefl, military adviser lo Thant, and Omar Loutti, United Arab Republic, lower right, UN Undersecretary for oji-iiui i-uiuiLui Mians. turn Thant Confers With Russian Diplomat; To Leave for Cuba United Nations, N. Y. - WPIl Soviet Deputy Foreign Min ister Vasily V. Kuznelsov emerged smiling today from two-hour crisis conference wilh Acting Secretary General Thant, who was preparing to leave for talks with Fidel Cas tro In Havana. Kuznctsov was accompa nied by Soviet Deputy For eign Minister Valerian A. Zor In, having been sent by the Kremlin lo take over the ne gotiations (rom the grim Thompson Receives Five Years to Life Martinez, Calif. HPli- Don ald Thompson, a supermarket bandit, was sentenced to five years to life Imprisonment to day for robbing three markets of a total of $3,41)5 in 1958 and 1959. Thompson, 39, a former chain store executive, was convicted of the charges by a Jury Sept. 26 before Supe rior Court Judge Hugh L. Donovan. Thompson also Is under In dictment In Eugene, Ore., on a robbery charge. He was ac quitted of another similar charge last February In Med ford, Ore. Khrushchev Lauded As Maker of Peace Moscow - it'Pli - The Soviet press and radio today por trayed Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev's decision lo dis mantle and withdraw his Cu ban missile bases as an over whelming contribution lo world peace. The Communist party news paper Pravda said Khrush chev's "peaceful step" had evoked a "lively response in the hearts of millions of peo ple." Al the same time it quoted a Soviet worker's warning. 'Let nobody take our pcace flilness as a sign of weakness." Front Page Play Khrushchev's r-essage to President Kennedy Sunday re ceived front page play along with the text of Kennedy's statement of Saturday offer ing assurances against an In vasion of Cuba Pravda reprinted withou comment Cuban Premier Fi del Castro's declaration from Havana demanding the evacu No. 189 i - , faced Russian diplomat who had doggedly denied the ex istence of Soviet missile bases in Cuba. With two aides, the second ranked men in the Snvicl for eign ministry actually spent two hours and 10 minutes with Thanl, running through a scheduled appointment with Cuban Ambassador Mario Garcia - Inchaustegui al 12:30 p.m Thant left his talks with the riliccianc In r?..-,.;., f I chaustcgui briefly. The Rus sians did not meet the Cuban In Thant's office. He was expected lo see U.S. Ambassador Adlui E. Stevenl fon before the day is out, but no firm appointment had been scheduled. Stevenson was expected to be Joined by the full three man coordinating committee appointed today by President Kennedy lo handle develop ments involved In "the conclu sion of the Cuban crisis." CAUTION USED Twin Falls, Idaho - iliPP - A twin engine prop-jet F27 Wtst Coast airliner wilh 18 passen gers aboard made a "pre cautionary" landing here late Sunday after a pressurlzation hoze blew loose while the plane was in flight. ation of the U.S. naval base at Guanlanamo. However, there was no men tion of the fact that a Khrush chev proposal for the liquida tion of American bases in Tur key was not a part of the con ditions which now have been established lo reduce the Cu ban crisis. Await Chinete Reaction Just what effect the Soviet premier's action will have on the rest of the Communist bloc nations was a matter of speculation here. A dispatch from Tokyo re ported that Communist Chi nese newspapers published Khrushchev's order for the dismantling of the Cuban mis sile bases without immediate editorial comment. Red China has involved it self both actually and emotion ally with Fidel Castro's re gime and traditionally takes a more belligerent public at titude than does the Soviet Union in the East-West cold
