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Manipulation of News During
Cuban Crisis Denied by Defense
Washington -lUPU- The De
fense Department's top infor
mation official denied today
there was any distortion, de
ception or manipulation of the
news during the Cuban crisis.
Assistant Defense Secretary
Arthur Sylvester made the de
nial in response to a recent
protest by Lee Hills, president
of the American Society of
Newspaper Editors and execu
tive editor of the Miami Her
ald and other Knight News
papers. At the same time, a leading
congressional critic of govern
ment secrecy condemned new
information policies imposed
by the Defense Department
as "exeremely disturbing de-
Missing Man, 78,
Found Unconscious
Corvallis-iUTO-A 78-ycar-old
man lost since Tuesday after
noon in the brush-covered
bottom land of the Willamette
river south of here was found
unconscious but alive today.
He was rushed to the Good
Samaritan hospital here for
treatment.
Daniel L. Farmer, a retired
logger, was found "draped
over a log," a quarter of a
mile from where he was last
seen by his wife, the sheriff's
office said. He had wandered
from his car in a dazed con
dition while his wife went for
water to help him take pills
for a heart ailment.
Bloodhounds brought from
Portland found the man about
an hour after beginning the
search today. Earlier the dogs
had failed to find him, and
skindivers had probed a
slough without success.
NEWS
rttMS FROM
DAVE BECK WINS ACQUITTAL
New York-IH-Davt Beck, ES. former president of the
huge Teamsteri Union, won acquittal Thursday night ol fed
eral charges that he violated the Tall-Hartley Act by taking
( $200,000 loan from trucking industry executives.
RUSSIA EXPELS GREEK DIPLOMAT
Moscow IPI-The Soviet Union has ordered Creek diplo
mat George Venetsianoi to leave the country, it wn learned
today.
PAULING. WARBURG RECEIVE AWARDS
New York-IM-Dr. Linus C. Pauling, e Nobel Prite-win-ning
scientist, and author James P. Warburg Thursday night
received 19S2 Gandhi Peace Awards as "two of America's
loremost leaders in the causeVf promoting world peace."
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(UPI)
velopments" and promised a
congressional study.
The statement by Rep. John
E. Moss (D-Calif.), chairman
of a special House subcommit
tee on government informa
tion, came as the administra
tion appeared to be broaden
ing efforts to keep track of
contacts between federal offi
cials and newsmen.
Sylvester told Hills that as
a former newspaperman with
35 years experience he was
"sensitive" to the public's
right to know about the gov
ernment. Aware of Peril
"But as a public official,"
he said, "I am also aware that
in a time of extreme national
peril there are other consid
erations in addition to the
news business.
Sylvester commented: "Con
trary to some of the editorials
and columnists I have read,
there has been no distortion,
r.o deception and no manipu
lation of the news released by
Diarrhea Outbreak
Near Culver Studied
Portland-CTIi-A State Board
of Health team was at a farm
labor camp near Culver in
Central Oregon today looking
into an outbreak of a diar
rheal disease there.
A spokesman said several
persons, mostly children, had
been stricken and that he
understood four children had
been hospitalized. He said
laboratory specimens were
being taken in attempts to
get a definite diagnosis of the
disease.
The outbreak was first re
ported Tuesday, the spokes
man said.
AROUND THI 010(1
BRIEFS
effigy of Cuba's Fidel Castro.
the Defense Department dur
ing the Cuban crisis.
"We have, of course, pro
tected national security and
the lives of military personnel
directly involved in the cur
rent crisis. This is our primary
concern in releasing t h e
news."
Moss centered his criticism
on new rules for officials who
talk with newsmen.
The State Department dis
closed that officials have been
instructed to report to the
department's Public Affairs
Bureau each interview with
a newsman, giving the name,
organization, date and subject
matter.
A similar Defense Depart
ment regulation earlier this
week was issued by Sylvester.
Despite the Cuban situation,
Moss said, "The American peo
ple have a vital need to know
the steps being taken to pro
tect their lives and property
in this time of crisis."
He took sharp issue with
Sylvester's assertion that news
should be used by the govern
ment as a "weapon" in a cri
sis. Moss termed this an "im
plication of news manipula
tion." There was no agreement,
even among government offi
cials, whether the objective
of the new State and Defense
Department rules was to "con
trol" or suppress information
or merely "co-ordinate" its
release.
Nixon Depicted
As Opportunist
Washington - WW - Former
Agriculture Secretary Ezra T
Benson today depicted Rich
ard M. Nixon as a political op
portunist who "I feel . . . does
not inspire sufficient confi
dence among the people."
Benson's criticisms of the
former vice president were
contained in a book. "Cross
Fire: The Eight Years With
Eisenhower." An account of
his often-stormy tenure In the
Agriculture Department, Ben
son's book details his conflict
with Nixon in the months
leading up to the I960 presi
dential elections.
The book went on s;ile Just
five days before the 1!)62 elec
tions when Nixon will try to
unseat Democrat Edmund G.
Brown for the California gov
ernorship. Salem 'I PI Slate Sen An
thony Yturri (R.Ontario) said
today he is a candidate for re
election as minority leader of
ie Oregon Senate. j
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Castro Rejects All
orms
St. Helens Man
Slays Three,
Takes Own Life
Mother, Father
Brother Found Dead
St. Helens, Ore. -WD- A
railroad bridge tender shot
and killed three members of
his family near Warren today
and then committed suicide,
police reported.
State police said Albert Ed
ward Mills, 25, killed himself
after telephoning police to say
he had just shot his father,
mother and brother. Two dogs
and a cat also were killed.
Mills gave no motive during
the brief telephone talk and
no note was found.
Dead were his father, Wil
liam Mills, 75, his mother.
Alberta, 70, and a brother,
John, 33. The shootings oc
curred about 5:30 a.m. at the
Mills' rural home.
State Police Sgl. Harold
Krieger said he received a
call from Mills at 5:20 a.m.
reporting he had just shot his
parents and brother.
Krieger said he tried in
vain to talk Mills out of kill
ing himself.
"I'm going to hang up and
shoot myself," Mills replied.
When Krieger reached the
Mills home, he found Mills
shot to death on the living
room floor. His mother also
was on the living room floor.
The father and brother were
upstairs in their beds.
Mills was listed as a bridge
tender for the SP & S railroad
at Linntor.,
Police were seeking rela
tives of the family. They said
relatives might live In the vi
cinity of Portland, The Dalles
or Pasco, Wash.
Columbia Gorge
Winds To Diminish
By United Press International
Whistling east winds through
the Columbia River gorge,
which reminded residents of
the Oct. 12 windstorm, were
expected to die down tonight.
However, the gusty winds
were not nearly so severe as
the Columbus day storm and
caused no reported damage.
They reached gusts of more
than 35 miles per hour.
Warm weather dominated
western Oregon with overcast
skies in the northeast part of
the state. Temperatures were
expected to be between 60
and 70 degrees in afternoon
hours through Saturday ex
cept in foggy or low cloud
areas.
The weather man said a
weak Pacific front moving
slowly toward the coast would
be offshore late Saturday and
may bring in some high level
clouds Saturday night, but
otherwise would have little
effect on the weather in Ore
gon. Hotel Carpeting Is
Damaged by Pranksters
Ashland Several hundred
dollars worth of damage to
carpeting and plaster resulted
when someone turned on a
fire hose in the third floor
hallway of the Mark Antony
hotel early yesterday.
The water was discovered
at 4:30 a.m. by a hotel night
clerk, who became suspicious
when he could see water on
the plastered ceiling above
the office,
Police, theorizing that It
may have been a Halloween
prank, are investigating.
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MEDFORD, OREGON, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER
of Inspection
Cuba Action Based
On Advice Russians
Would Back Down
Washington-tlM - President
Kennedy's actions in Cuba
were based on a considered
judgment that overall U.S. nu
clear superiority over Russia
would make the Kremlin back
down.
This opinion was strongly
urged by the President's top
intelligence and military com
mands during tiie mounting
hours of crisis.
It is one of several points
being made in interviews ad-
Man Hospitalized
After Motorcycle
Accident Today
Robert Hammond, 37, of
1096 B St., Ashland, was in
jured when thrown from his
motorcycle this morning, Ore
gon state police report.
He was reported in fair con
dition at Ashland Community
hospital where he was taken
by Medford Ambulance serv
ice. Extent of his injuries was
not Known this morning. He
was to be transferred to
Rogue Valley hospital later
today.
Hammond was attempting
to make a left turn into Farm
er's cafe in Talent when his
motorcycle and a car driven
by Roscoe Marcelius Hodson,
d5, of 486 South Pacific high
way, Phoenix, collided, police
said.
The motorcycle slid into a
ditch and struck a post, state
police said.
About 2:30 o'clock this
morning a one car accident
occurred at the intersection
of Taylor and Old Stage rds.
A car, driven by Thomas
Michael Bryan, 23, of 4140
Cedar lane, Medford, was
southbound on the Old Stage
rd. when it skidded in loose
gravel and went in a ditch
by Taylor rd. The vehicle was
damaged, but the driver es
caped injury, police said.
Ronald Wilmer Weidman,
37, of Eagle Point, was slight
ly injured last night when the
right rear trailer wheels of
his logging truck went into
a ditch on the Crater Lake
highway just north of Casey
State park, state police said.
The trailer lost its load of
logs and the truck cab was
demolished, state police said.
Personnel from the Steve
Wilson Lumber company re
moved the truck and trailer
and logs and took the driver
to a local physician, police
reports show.
Minnesota Man Held
On Federal Charge
Lcwcllyn C. Murphy, 46,
Jackson, Minn., is being held
in the Jackson county jail to
day on car theft charges after
being arrested yesterday in
Rogue River by Rogue River
Police Chief Bud Webb.
Murphy was arrested when
he ran a slop light, the Rogue
River police chief said. When
he failed to produce car reg
istration certificate and satis
factory personal identifica
tion, Webb took him to the
sheriff's office in Medford for
questioning. Enroute Webb
said Murphy admitted to the
car theft and later signed a
written statement. He is being
held on a federal charge of
taking a stolen car across state
lines.
The car was stolen from
Riverton, Wyo on Oct. 24.
Murphy said he had driven It
through Wyoming, Arizona,
Nevada, California and into
Oregon before being arrested.
Mikoyan Backs Castro's
Guantanamo Demands
New York - OIPIi - Anastas
Mikoyan, the Soviet Union's
international troubleshooter,
today backed Fidel Castro's
counter-demand that the Unit
ed Slates withdraw from the
Guantanamo Naval Base In
uba.
Tribune
ministration officials now
have time to give newsmen
about the recent turmoil of
events.
These other points also are
being stressed:
After the first "hard"
evidence of Soviet offensive
weapons in Cuba Oct. 15, ad
ministration thinking focused
very quickly on the strategy
of blockade and military
build-up rather than on bomb'
ing or invasion.
Bombing Undecided
On Oct. 27, the day be
fore Soviet Premier Nikita
Khrushchev agreed to remove
his missiles from Cuba, no
bombing or invasion had been
decided upon. The next steps
would have been progressive
tightening of the blockade to
include defensive weapons,
strategic items such as oil, and
finally a total blockade.
However, had the silua
tion gone on unchanged, and
especially if there had been
signs of a hostile Soviet re
sponse, it was assumed the
final decision on bombing or
invasion might have been
faced within "several days."
High altitude reconnais
sance flights over Cuba had
been flown on a regular basis
since they were first ordered
by the Eisenhower adminis
tration. At no time were they
completely suspended during
the Cuban build-up.
But bad weather and fear
that the Soviets could shoot
down high-flying U2s may
have delayed discovery of the
missiles in Cuba for a few
days - at most a very few
weeks. They were still discov
ered at a very early stage of
construction.
Comment by Rusk
The flavor of what went
on behind closed doors in
Washington Is given in a com
ment by Secretary of State
Dean Rusk, made at a policy
meeting in the tense period
before the Kremlin made its
position fully known.
Khrushchev had just sent
two contradictory letters to
the President, a private one
(still unpublished) looking to
ward a settlement, and a pub
lic one offering an unaccepta
ble trade for U.S. missiles in
Turkey.
"In this eyeball to eyeball
confrontation," Rusk told the
group, "the Russians have
blinked at us." Some remem
ber the word as "winked."
Cuba Announces
Naval Exercises
Miami, Fla. -0IPH- Cuba an
nounced new naval exercises
off the north coast of Pinar
del Rio Province today raising
speculation the zone may be
designated for the export of
Russia's missiles.
Havana Radio said the ex
ercises would be held off the
area between Cabanas, Marlel
and the Bancs River, a 10
mile strip of coast only a
handful of miles west of
Havana.
The Russian missile base
materials in Plnar del Rio
Province were brought into
Cuba secretly through Ca
banas and Mariel, former Cu
ban navy bases. The United
States has identified Candc
laria, in Pinar del Rio, as site
of one of the Russian missile
bases aimed at the United
States.
Candclaria is south of Ca
banas, about 18 miles away.
The missile base Is 10 miles
in from the south coast.
Reynolds May Idle
Trout dale Employees
Troutdale, Ore. -IUPU- The
Reynolds Metals Co. said to
day that if market conditions
don't improve in the alumi
num Industry in the next 30
days more than 300 of Its em
ployees at Troutdale will be
laid off Dec. 1.
Washington liiPIi The Na
tional Committee for an Effec
tive Congreii announced
Thursday It has endorsed Sen.
Wayne Morse (D-Orc.) for reelection.
57th Year Price 10 Cents
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No. 193
Compromise Plan
By Soviet Union
Also Turned Down
Cuba Won't Yield
To Power Position
Havana-IUPD-Premier Fidel
Castro rejected any form of
outside inspection to verify
the removal of Soviet missile
bases from Cuba Thursday
night.
He said the demand for in
ternational inspection "was
made by the United States
from a position of force and
we do not yield to that de
mand we will never yield be
fore a position of force."
In the one-hour 22 minute
speech Castro told a nation
wide radio-television audience
he had rejected not only Unit
ed Nations inspection but also
a compromise proposal by tile
Soviet Union for inspection by
the International Red Cross.
Contained in Transcript
The refusals were contained
in a transcript Castro read of
his first meeting with Acting
United Nations Secretary Gen
eral Thant in Havana Mon
day.
In Washington, some United
States officials said privately
they saw room for eventiwl
arrangement of an inspection
plan for removal of Soviet
missiles from Cuba. They said
Castro's emphasis that United
States demands were based on
"force" appeared to be an out
for later acceptance of some
sort of neutral inspection
without force.
No Obstacles
Although Castro's rejection
of a Russian proposal appear
ed to reveal evidence of a
split in the Cuban-Soviet al
liance, he said Cuba is "not
placing any obstacles" to the
dismantling of the Soviet mis
sile bases.
He admitted "misunder
standings" with the Soviet
Union but praised Russia's
role in building up Cuban de
fenses and said "differences"
between the two countries
would be settled in private
by both governments acting as
equals.
Soviet First Deputy Pre
mier Anastas Mlkoyan was
due to arrive In Havana today
for talks with Castro.
Roseburg College
Petition Accepted
Astoria (UPD The State
Board of Education, meeting
in Clatsop County for the first
time, today accepted a peti
tion for establishment of an
educational district in Douglas
County to operate a communi
ty college there.
The board set a public hear
ing on the proposal for Nov.
26 at 8 p.m. in the Douglas
County courthouse in Rose
burg. After this hearing, if no
serious objections are filed,
the board will set a date for
an election to form the dis
trict. Harry Jacoby, assistant su
perintendent of Roseburg
schools, and Wayne Crooch,
former Roseburg school board
member, appeared in support
of the petition.
The board also approved
long-range plans for operation
of community colleges in Coos
Bay and Bend. These 10-year
plans are required In support
of applications for state funds
for developing the colleges.
Wanted Man Lodged
For Douglas County
Tony Milton Rayburn, tran
sient, Medford, last night was
lodged In the Jackson county
Jail on a warrant from the
Douglas county circuit court
charging him with probation
violation.
Sheriffs officers who ar
rested him said he would be
returned to Duuglas county
later today.
Yesterday afternoon, Edgar
Allen Post, 39, Klamath Falls,
was returned to Jackson coun
ty and lodged In the county
Jail on charges of petty lar
ceny. He was arrested In
Klamath Falls on district
court warrant charging him
with taking a circular saw
tyade and electric drill.
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DIES Mrs. Florence Carpen
ter, 62, above, mother of as
tronaut Scott Carpenter, died
today in a Boulder, Colo., hos
pital. She had been in ailing
health for many years. (UPI)
Fifty Per Cent
Increase Noted in
Absentee Ballots
To date, the Jackson county
elections department has re
ceived 002 absentee ballots,
County Clerk Marvin Madden
said today.
He noted this is far more
than the 600 absentee voters
during the primary election
last spring. He credited the
wide publicity given on ab
sentee voting as the chief
cause for the increase.
Wednesday, Oct. 31, was the
last day for making applica
tion for absentee voter ballots,
except In emergency cases
Persons finding themselves
unable to vote at the polls
during Tuesday's general elec
tion may ask the county
clerk's office about emergency
procedures, Madden said.
The instruction classes for
persons serving on day and
counting boards was "very
successful" judging by the
questions asked, general re
sponse and telephone calls
later, Madden said. He esti
mated approximately 300 peo
ple attended the sessions held
in the county courthouse audi
torium, but did not know how
many attended classes held In
outlying districts.
A complete list of polling
places In Jackson county will
be printed In the Sunday Mail
Tribune.
Hatfield To Offer
Compensation Plan
Salem -WPIU Gov. Mark
Hatfield indicated today he
will propose a compromise
bill in the 1063 legislature de
signed to end the bitter strug
gle over who can write work
men's compensation insur
ance. He said his plan "will in
volve the private carrier, and
broaden the coverage that
now exists." Details will be
announced later.
One of the hottest fights in
the 1061 legislature was over
the "three-way" workmen's
compensation bill. Sponsored
by private carriers, It would
have opened up the writing of
such Insurance by private in
surance firms. They complain
the State Industrial Accident
commission now has a monop
oly on this.
The three ways to insure
were through the state, pri
vate carriers, and self-insurance
by employees.
The bill failed, as did tha
"two-way" bill Hatfield back
ed in 1981. The two ways in
his bill were state insurance,
and self insurance.
CAROLINE TO STAY
New York -IUPH- The family
of President Kennedy has de
cided against selling the Caro
line, Its private plane.
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MARS SHOT MAPPED This map shows the route "Mars-I,
unmanned interplanetary station" that was launched by
Russia Thursday, could follow In its seven-month, 48 million
mile Journey to Mars. The 1.9flS-pound vehicle was launched
by Improved booster rockets, Tass reported. The dotted line
In the chart shows how Mars-I will cross over from the
earth's orbit, swinging out to intercept Mars, at the top of
thjmap. The story Is on Page 2A. (UPI)
Aerial Photos
Show Russians
Going Ahead
Inspection Remains
Part of Agreement
Washington-arpB-The Defense
Department said today it has
"clear evidence" from aerial
photographs that the Russians
are dismantling their missile
bases in Cuba.
The U.S. position also re
mained that there must be
some form of International in
spection to verify the removal
of offensive weapons from
Cuban soil despite Premied
Fidel Castro's objections.
State Department spokes-
Lincoln White said this kind
of verification remains an "es
sential" of the U.S.-Soviet
agreement to withdraw the
weapons.
He said that "negotiations
are wll underway between
the U.S., U.S.S.R. and the
UN to put into effect the com
mitments that we and the
U.S.S.R. have agreed to."
Thursday night Soviet Dep.
uty Premier Anastas Mikoyan
conferred at the nUited Na
tions with UN Acting Secre
Viry General Thant and then
dined with U.S. Ambassador
Adlai E. Stevenson and John
McCloy, chief of President
Kennedy's co-ordinating com
mittee to negotiate an end to
the Cuban crisis.
Confers With Castro
Mikoyan flew today to Ha
vana to confer with Castro.
White, in saying that nego
tiations were "well under
way" to carry out the agree
ment, said that "All of the
essentials of these commit
ments are on the public rec
ord." Asked whether one of
these was international in
spection, he replied, "yes."
The Russians were report
ed to be seeking some alterna
tive to UN observers - such as
the International Red Cross or
the diplomatic corps in Ha
vana - to confirm withdrawal
of the weapons and bases.
In his statement, White also
emphasized that the United
States wants Soviet 1L128
bombers, capable of carrying
nuclear weapons, removed
from Cuba along with the
missiles.
It has always been under
stood," he said, "that what is
referred to is 'offensive weap
ons', whether they be bomb
ers or missiles."
Survey Checks Tree
Damage In Medford
The results of a fjrvey of
damage to trees in Medford
caused by the Columbus Day
storm was reported to the
Medford city council last
night by City Manager Robert
Duff.
Duff described the results
as "a little startling."
He told the council that on
the basis of a preliminary sur
vey some 253 trees on city
property have been classified
as "dangerous," and that about
313 others are regarded as
"questionable."
The survey was conducted
by a city employee and a state
forester last week.
About 42 trees on privale
property have been found to
be dangerous and 64 others in
a questionable condition.
Duff told the council last
night that the administration
intended to conduct a further
report, and that it "offered no
solution to the problem at this
time."
New Farm Federation
President Selected
Salem -IUP1I- Harold Beach,
Hermlston, has succeeded the
late Wiley Clowers, Madras,
as president of the Oregon
Farm Bureau Federation, the
bureau's office here said to
day. St. Louis, Mo. fl'PD Mary
DeMartlni of Portland was
elected president of the Na
tional Association of Bank
Women at the group's 40th
annual convention here
Thursday.
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