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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
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. 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
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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
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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