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Storm DEAD CENTEH-This cabin was damaged by the storm. A demolished campground, miles of clogged streams, roads and trails closed, 203 miles of telephone lines dam aged, loads washed out, 72, 000,000 board feet of timber blown down. This is only a partial list of the damage done in the Rogue River National forest by the Oct. 12 storm. Estimates of the local damage to the national forest have been compiled by the supervisor's office in Med ford. So far damage totals in ex cess of $1,385,300. The majority of the damage Rioting Indian Students StoneCommunist Office Chinese Shops Target of Protest Against Attacks New Delhi, India -IUPD- Five hundred rioting Indian stu dents shouting "death to the invaders" today stoned an In dian Communist party office and smashed Chinese shops in a protest against the Com munist Chinese border at tacks. The rioting broke out in downtown New Delhi as an ominous quiet settled over the fighting fronts and V. K. Krishna Menon, demoted de fense minister, flew to Tez pur, 150 miles from one battle area. Headquartcri Stoned The students stoned the parliamentary headquarters of the Communist party only a short time before the Com munists issued a statement fully backing Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru against "Chinese aggression." After two days of debate, Ihe Indian Communists turned against China and appealed to all Indians "to unite in de fense of the motherland against Chinese aggression." The rioting students broke off from a crowd of 10.0110 protest marchers and attacked a Chinese restaurant, curio shop, and shoemaker's shop. I None of the Chinese propric-i tors could be seen. I Pnlir Oulnumbiirnrl i Outnumbered police fousht!Yank K,llch arcas. s'5l'K Ihe rioters but could not hold of approximately 25 square them back as they threw I miles. It lies between the pro rocks through the plate glass j Pcd southwest Phoenix zone window of Ihe fashionable res-! taurant and ripped down the Chinese characters of ils sign. I The students burned an effi gy of Chinese Communist Pre mier Chou En-lai and shouted 'Drive the Chinese back to the China wall." Neskia Beach Man Killed by Machinery Gold Beach - m - Thor Gold Beach - lUPI) - Thomas ! B. Campbell, 20. Neskia Beach was UllH lot.. W.wW.rfav while working at the U S Ply wood Corp. plant here. Officials said he was feed ing a dryer when he apparent ly (ell into a conveyor belt and was killed by the ma chinery. ITIMS FROM HRVSWIBRIEFS ADENAUER TO ACT IN CRISIS Bonn, Wait Gsrmny-llT-Chancllor Konrad Adenauer wis expected today to take iwtlt action to end a lull-scale crisis which has broken out in his coalition government over raids by the security police on the Bonn and Hamburg offices of the news magatine Der Spiegel. ULPRICHT UNEXPECTEDLY GOES TO MOSCOW Moscow-IPIuEasI German Communist leader Waltci Ul brlchf flew unexpectedly into Moscow tonight, apparently for key talks with Premier Nikita Khrushchfv on Berlin and Cuba. AUTO PRODUCTION SETS RECORD Dftroil-IH-American automobile production set an all time record in October of 728. 367 units. It was reported today. Damage in at Union Creek Owned by the -the greatest worry to foresters-is the 72 million board feet of timber blown down. Of this, an estimated 85 per cent can be salvaged from existing roads this fiscal year. This would account for some 61, 000,000 board feet, valued at $1,100,000. Foresters said that they have asked for an insect in spection of the unsalvagcd areas next, spring. Two salvage sales are al ready in operation and two others are being advertised for sale. Crews last week had already cruised some 20,000,- No Serious Pranks Reported To Police Halloween In Medford, city police re ported receiving a total of 48 complaints from residents about Halloween pranks or vandalism. No serious damage to person or property was reported, al though some of the activities bordered on the dangerous. Police said a group of youngsters was reported throwing various objects last night, among them eggs, pumpkins and balloons. One woman was splattered by a Wagner Creek Area Is Zoned The Jackson county court yesterday afternoon agreed to establish interim zoning in! the Wagner Creek area. Planning Consultant George Brenner explained earlier that several people of the area and the Jackson county planning commission recommended the zone be established pending public hearings and a vole. A development pattern fur the area zoning would be com pleted later, he said. The proposed zone covers Wagner. Anderson creeks and and ine souui laicni zone, anH the . Smith Brenner said. The zoning regulations The zoning regulations for the proposed residential farm district arc not as stringent as in previous interim ordi nances, Brenner said. The zone would permit single fam ily dwellings, accessory build ings: farm uses, except ani mals fed garbaRc. refuse or ,"" , , ' " V, ,L r', us "'"" W'"""""- ler. storage, rond-side stands not to exceed 400 square feet nf floor area and public parks j and public recreation areas j and facilities A number of conditional ucs also are provided. AKOUNO THI OlOll Eberline family, this summer home was hit by at least five trees. 000 board feet of timber. In the recreation depart-ment-a growing business each year in southern Oregon-the Rogue River National forest lost ground due to the storm. The small but well-used Muir creek campground at the fork with the Rogue river near Diamond Lake highway was demolished, foresters noted. This camp will not reopen next summer. The Union creek camp ground suffered a major loss in the trees that provided the ground cover and screening for the area. In addition the Night balloon filled with a red- colored liquid. Reports of youngsters firing B-B guns at cars were receiv ed, a fire hydrant at Glen Oak dr. and Oakwood dr. was opened by pranksters and fire crackers were exploded at various locations in the city during the evening, officers said. Youngsters Warned No arrests were made, though some youngsters were warned to modify their activi ties. A five - year - old Medford boy was shaken up earlier in the afternoon when, his vision obscured by a Hallo ween mask, he ran from be tween two parked cars into the side of a vehicle at Fourth st. and Myers ct., according to police reports. Hurt slightly was Hal Da mon Jones, 1111 West Fourth st. Driver of the car was Andrew Darrcll Mitchell, 37, of 508 South Grape st. The mishap occurred about 4:40 p.m. No citations were issued. County Vandalism The Jackson county sheriff's office reported only one case of vandalism. As a group of Crater High school students on a hay rirte and wiener roast passed Ma zama and Third sis. in Central Point a pickup truck load of boys threw various objects at them. However, the sheriff's office and Central Poirt police had been forewarned and quickly arrested eight boys involved. They were to appear in dis trict court and juvenile court today. One Hospitalized Following Accident Two personal injury acci dents occurred on Jackson county highways in the fog this morning, state police said Margaret Ann Cox. 40. of route 1. box 205. Talent, was reported in fair condition this morning at Rogue Valley hos-; pital while heme treated for 1 : head injuries and bruises. j The ear, driven by Mrs. Cox ; ; was hit by a car driven by i Velma Sharon Eads. 10, of j 1156 South Groveland avc.. po- j ! lice said, as the Cox vehicle1 droe onto Highway 99. I Mrs. Cox was taken to the ' i hospital by Litwillcr's Ar.ibu-! . lance Service. J Two drivers received minor j injuries .vhen '.heir pickup trucks collided at the inter-; section of Hillcrcst and North j Phoenix rds.. slate police i .atd. ; Kly Keys .Ir . 40, of route 3. box ItiflA. Medford. recetv- ' ed a btmv on the head. The other driver. Walter Douglas j Plnmlry, til. of ftOfi North I Central ave.. complained ot j chest pains No immediate I mrdical treatment was given ! either drivrr. stale police re I ported. Rogue CAMPSITE - Recognize this area? It is the storm passed. The footbridge, smashed by Union Creek campground after the Oct. 12 blown down trees, is in the foreground. footbridge was. damaged and 16 tables, one toilet, and sev eral stoves were smashed. Some damage was also re ported at the Natural Bridge, Abbott Creek and Hamacker campgrounds, and Boundary picnic area. U.S. Forest serv ice officials noted that the new campground at Abbott near Prospect had not yet been opened. Greatest loss there was trees which would have shaded the trailer park ing sites. Eleven miles of streams were reported clogged. While the majority of these will be LEV D. LANDAU Research on Gases fefcfctoti f flu lM ,J. tH-i-tr . .zjii Russian Scientist, British Chemists Win Nobel Prizes Stockholm -IUPD- A Russian scientist, who was revived four times from "clinical death" after an automobile accident, won the 1062 Nobel Prize for physics today. Two British chemists won the No- Medford To Host State Convention Of Dry Cleaners A president's reception and allied trades get-together to night will start the ltith an nual convention of the Oregon Dry Cleaners Association, Inc., which officially gets un der way here tomorrow. Tonight's reception will be held at 7 o'clock in Ihe Thun der bird ledge, convention headquarters. D. L. (Abb) Grcssett, association president and convention chairman from Medford, will preside. Approximately J100 repre sentatives of Oregon's dry cleaning industry arc expect ed to start registering tomor row. Tomorrow's a c t i vities in clude a tour of the Jackson ville museum and the Beek man house, starting at 10 a.m. Bowling and golfing tourna ments for men and women will be held at 9:30 a.m. Tomorrow night a buffet dinner will be held at the Rogue Valley Country club at 7:45 p.m. Business Session Grcssett will open Ihe busi ness session at 2 30 p.m. at the Rogue Valley Country club. Charles Gill. Wardrobe Clean ers and Grants Pass mayor, wil.1 give the address of wel come. In be followed by the president's report by Grcssett, of Drive-In Cleaners. Other business session ac tivities tomorrow will include reports of the legislative and nominating committees and the election of officers. Major speeches of the con vention will, be Saturday, starting at 9 a m., at the coun try club. One of the featured speakers will be Al Johnson. New York City, director ot trade relations for the Nation al Institute nf Dry Cleaners. He will speak on fabric prob lems. Johnson works with manu facturers and processors of fabrics and has been success ful in convincing companies that many fabrics and arti cles, such as beils. will not dry clean, it was noted. Forest cleared along with timber sales, some will mean addi tional costs to the forest service. Ashland's watershed had roads washed out, check dams either washed out or silted and erosion plantings Regional Edition Medford 36 Pages Four Sections DR. MAX. PERUTZ Globular Proteins 1 bel award for chemistry. The Swedish Academy of Sciences announced the phys ics prize for Soviet theoretic ian Lev Davidovic Landau, 53, for his pioneering work on extreme low temperature re search on gases, particularly the strangely acting helium gas. Landau is in a Moscow hos pital still suffering from criti cal injuries he received in an automobile accident in Janu ary. The Soviet magazine Ogo nyek said that in the early days of his treatment, Landau suffered "clinical death" four times but was revived. Clini cal death comes when the heart stops beating. Dr. John C. Kendrew, 45, and Dr. Max Kcrutz, 48, o( Britain shared the Nobel Prize for chemistry. The two men, who work to gether al the Cavendish Lab oratory at Cambridge, Eng land, equally share the prize of S50.043 for their studies on "the structures of globular proteins." Nuclear Fireball Visible in Hawaii Honolulu -HOT- The United States detonated a nuclear de vice over Johnston Island ear ly today which put on such a fantastic display in Hawaii that even members of Joint Task Force 8 were taken by surprise. The shot created a weird Halloween effect over the 50th state. 800 miles to the northeast. Witnesses said it was brighter than the 250-mile-high megaton blast of July 8. The task force, which usu ally provides a prompt official announcement on the tests, took 4(1 minutes to prepare an explanation. It said the fireball was not visible in Ha waii at detonation, but boiled upward over Johnston after the blast. WEATHER FORECAST: VJir thrnuch ri day ith lit nithi ind morn Ine (ot I nw tonight near 40, Hifh Fridiv 1. Trmp I HtthfM VfUerdav ,ss I.ohcm Thu Mar nine 41 j Our Skies Tonight j sun! tndav .ns p.m. j I unrt inmnrrnw ft 44 i.m, i i Moomrt tnnichl R.H p.m. ' HrM Quarter No. 4 Th planft, Mir. , ti 1 1 SI pm. Thi. month II mnj trom tko i ; ronstfllanon, fanrrr. In in 1.n. . In lehniirv Mart will mnr j Mt li Into C anrrr. in Excess of washed out. The range management sec tion reported two miles of drift fence destroyed. Some 234 miles of road wore closed due to the blown down timber. This amount is only that which will not be MEDFORD, Jacksonville To Receive Historic Landmark Marker Jacksonville will be the fourth town on the Pacific coast to receive a national historic landmark marker from the National Trust for Historic Preservation. Jack Sutton, Jacksonville, president of the Siskiyou Pio neer Sites Foundation told the group at its recent meeting that his report on the rehabili tation work in Jacksonville was well received at the con vention of the National Trust in San Francisco earlier this year. He was able to give the only report whereby an his toric home had been saved by an historic group, Sutton said. He added that he had been asked to write an article for Antiques Magazine on the Beckman house. Jacksonville Mayor E. O. Graham reported that the city council has strengthened the zoning restrictions in the Jacksonville "core area" so any alterations in building fronts must be made in keep ing with the historic motif of Jacksonville. The Sites Foundation board authorized Mrs. George Brew er, chairman of the Bcekman house emmittee, to proceed with 'tut Installation of an oil furnace heating system com plete with ducts. Low bid was received from the Taylor Sheet Metal company, Med ford, for $1,180. The county court has authorized alloca tion of SfiOO for the installa tion, and the Sites Foundation will contribute the balance. Officials of the University of Oregon, which has leased the home to the county, have authorized the installation, also. Due to the cold weather the home has been closed. An antique Jockey musical slot machine manufactured in November, 1889 and complete with slugs and music has been found and will be installed next to the back bar in the U.S. Hotel, it was reported. Excellent Catches Reported at Lake The summer troul seas-on officially ended in Oregon yesterday with excellent ; catches reported al Howard ! Prairie lake the last few days, j Jackson County Parks and Recreation Director Neil Led- ward reported that fishermen l he observed at the lake yes terday were taking their limit in good sized trout. Average length was 14 inches, with smallest caught about 12 inches, he said. A sign announcing that the concession building at Howard Prairie is closed will be erect ed soon. From now until Christinas vacation lor the schools. Concessionaire Rob ert Juhnslon's and county crews will be doing mainten ance and general repair work. The county crews plan to build more camping siics. Led ward said. The lake recreation area will he reopened tor winter "ports around Christmas time. Length of the season will de pend on the weather, he said. Blockade of Cuba Resumed . ,,.. . -. ... .- I . BLOW-DOWNS - Not some child's tovs, but white area in the foreground has been timber north of Union Creek in the Rogue logged. River National forest after the storm. The opened to timber sales. Also I Fire lookouts didn't escape j ment $3,500; Ashland water closed were 212 miles of ! the storm cither, as damage i shed. $43,600: ranee manage trails and 203 miles of tele - phone lines damaged. One government trailer house was demolished and ad- ministration buildings dam - aged in the Union Creek area. OREGON, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1962 Failure of Thant To Arrange for UN Observation Seen United Nations, N.Y.-ilOT-A curtain of official secrecy prompted speculation today that Acting Secretary General Thant had failed to arrange United Nations observation of the removal of Soviet missiles from Cuba. Thant returned from Ha vana Wednesday night with "reliable information" that the bases are being torn down but said nothing about his ef forts to verify the dismantling and removal of the missiles from the island through UN observers. Brought Aides Back He brought back with him the entire party of aides he had taken to Havana Wednes day, although he had hoped to leave some of them there to organize the missile ob servation corps. Castro May Have Balked Diplomatic sources express ed belief that Premier Fidel Castro had balked at accept ing UN observers without the guarantees of certain condi tions, including United States evacuation of the Guantana mo Naval Base. Talks on the Caribbean cri sis are to continue here at' UN headquarters. Wednesday night the Unit ed States ordered resumption of its arms blockade and 'News Control' Comes Under Attack Washington - (IIPD .- The De fense Department and its chief spokesman, Arthur Sylvester, were under severe attack to day by newspaper editors, re porters and broadcasters for "controlling" news and using it as a "weapon" in the Cuba crisis. Sylvester, assistant defense secretary in charge of public affairs, stuck by his guns in the face of editorial criticisms, protests from news executives and complaints of reporters trying to tell the Cuba story. The 61 -year -old Pentagon spokesman, himself a news paperman for ,17 years, said he had no intention to control, manage or damp up news "in a normal situation." "I know and respect the vital function of n.;ws media in turning the spotlight on us j in every action we take," he ) said. 1 But he said the ("i;ba cri.-is I is "unique." Army Troops Surround Dormitory at Ole Miss Oxford, Miss. - ltW - The Army placed a ring of fixed bayonet troops around a Uni versity of Mississippi dormi tory Wednesday night when a soldier was injured by an ex ploding firecracker. A number of weapons was confiscated Irom students' rooms in the building. There were ansry shouts from groups of students when they saw several Negroes 8mong Jhe stecl-helmetcd sol diers surrounding Lester Hall, adjacent to the dormitory of Negro student James H. Meredith. $1.3 1 was reported to several. The Rogue River National forests' damage loss sheet looks like this: timber, ' SI. 294. 000; recreation sites, ' $4,400: watershed manage- Tribune aerial surveillance of Cuba because of "lack of effective United Nations arrangements" to verify the dismantling op eration. Verification by the United Nations was a key point in the agreement between Presi dent Kennedy and Soviet Pre mier Nikita S. Khrushchev last Sunday. Thant said he was reliably informed in Havana that dis mantling of the missiles and bases should be completed by Friday and that plans were under way to ship them back to Russia. He did not identify his source of information. Castro To Report To Cuban Nation On Thant Meeting Havana -HOT- Premier Fidel Castro will report to the Cu ban nation in a radio-television address tonight on his talks with UN Acting Secre tary General Thant on the question of the dismantling of Russian missiles. A broadcast by Havana Ra dio said Castro's views will be disclosed in a panel discus sion with newsmen and com mentators, with the editor of the newspaper El Mundo, Luis Gomez Van Wangucrmcrl, act ing as moderator, Mikoyan Due Today The broadcast also reported that Soviet First Deputy Pre mier Anastas Mikoyan will arrive in Havana late today "to discuss matters connected with new trade treaties and also matters related to the present Cuban crisis." This was the first mention by Havana Radio of Miko .van's trip. 11 also was the first official disclosure that his trip was related to the Soviet agreement lo dismantle the missiles and ship them back to Russia. Highway Commission Adopts Record Budget Salem - H'PH . The Oregon Highway Commission today adopted a record budget of S241.lfin.123 for 1963-65. Box Car Shortage on West Coast Possibility Salem -HIT- Public Utility Commissioner Jonel C, Hilll Wednesday alerted the gover nor's emergency transporta tion committee to the possible spread of railroad box car shortage lo the west coast. Purpose ot the group is to secure. In an emergency, box tars necessary to Oregon In dustry. The 10 member committee, headed by Roland M. Wirt, Portland lumberman. Is not now in an active capacity, but Hill said the group may have to be reactiviated. The committee was set up Million ment, $1,000; transportation roads, $11,000, trails, $13,000; communications, $12,000; ad ministration sites, $1,000, and fire control structures, $1,81)0. 57th Year Price 10 Cents No. 192 Provisions for Reconnaissance Flights Made Wa'shington-iliril-The United Stales resumed its naval blockade of. Cuba today and made provisions for more aerial .reconnaissance flights over Soviet missile base sites. White House Press Secre tary Pierre Salinger confirm ed that the quarantine on the high seas went back into oper ation at dawn. But he refused lo say whether surveillance flights over Cuba had started up again. In another develop m e n t, the Defense Department indi cated there has been no relax ation in U.S. insistence thai Soviet bombers as well as missiles must be removed from Cuba. Focused on Bases Attention in the crisis in the last several days has remained focused on the missile bases, which Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev has ordered dis mantled. But President Kennedy also listed Russian Ilyushin 28 bombers, capable of carrying a nuclear payload, as "offen sive weapons." A Delcnse De partment spokesman said to day that "there never has been any doubt in my mind" that the offensive weapons to be pulled out of Cuba were "Just what the President listed." The Pentagon has estimated al least 20 1128 jet bombers, with ranges of about 750 miles, have been put in Cuba by the Russians in addition to . at least 30 medium range bal listic missiles. Two Public Hearing Dates Announced Talent Two public hear ings for two Talent proposed districts have been scheduled. The Dublic heaiin.-i on ihe. formation of a South Talenl sanitary sewer district has been set for Nov. 30 at 2 p.m. In the Jackson county court. The second hearing, for the formation of a rural fire dis trict, has been set for 2 p.m. Dec. 5. LEASES TO BE DROPPED Salem -WPP-Humble Oil & Refining Co. said today it is dropping all, ils leases in the nearby Silverloli area as (hey expire. by Gov. Mark Hatfield in 1060. Hill said the present supply of box cars in Oregon does not indicate an imminent shortage, but shortages are acute in the east and midwest. Other committee members are William F. Forrest, Dil lard, vice chairman: Stale Rep. W. O. Kclsay (D-Rose-burgt; Gerald S. Robinson, Corvallis; R. J. Hogue, Med ford: R. T. Moore Jr., Grants Pass; Wayne R. Glesy, Mon roe, and V. C. Cole, Joss C. Heslmark and Cecil Tulley, all of Portland.
