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Newspaper Page TextCuba toees To Red Oros hi d p Dmspectio i-? ? i " 74) X ' -:- "7f Josephine Election Includes PUD Issue Grants Pass A controver sial People's Utility district issue, three county wide and municipal races in Grants Pass and Cave Junction highlight tomorrow's election in Jose phine county. Of greatest Interest is a pro posal to create a PUD throughout most of the coun ty. On the county-wide level, voters will also pick one state representative and two coun ty commissioners. Also of interest is a mu nicipal proposal in Cave Junc tion that would change the city's name to Cave City. Voters will elect a mayor and two councilmen as well. In the city of Grants Pass, a mayor and four councilmen will be elected. Also on the city ballot are two serial tax levies, for sewer maintenance and for park and recreation improvements. Eugene Proposed As Second Capital Eugene - UIPli - State Rep. Edward Fadeley (D-Eugene) has written Gov. Mark Hat field that Eugene should be come Oregon's number two state capital. Fadeley said the 1961 na tional Governors' Conference endorsed the alternate state capital plan as part of civil de fense planning. He said "Eugene seems ad mirably suited to be the loca tion for our second, protected state capital." He said such a use should be taken into ac count in planning new con struction at the University of Oregon. HEWS( ITIMS FROM lriiu-ii'irrivttt ViiM'ai.aii ii'i MiV UN COMMITTEE VOTES END OF TESTING United Nations. N.Y.-'IPI-The General Auembly'i Po litical Commiitte, with iht United Slates, Britain and Rus sia abstaining, voted today for an end to all nuclear weapon tests by next Jan. 1. PREMIER OF BULGARIA FIRED Moicow-lPI'-The Soviet Tan newt agency reported from Sofia today that Bulgarian Premier Anton Yugor hai been fired and removed from hit pott on the Central Committee of the Bulgarian Communist Party. COURT STARTS 'SIT-IN' HEARINGS Wahington-iri-Tht Supreme Court began hearing ar gument today on a teriet of touthern "tit in" conviction! twith the ultimate ruling expected 10 provide a new key decision in the racial integration controvert. PLEADS INNOCENT Albert F. Nussbaum is shown with federal agents on his way to the U. S. Courthouse in Buffalo, N.Y., to day. Nussbaum pleaded innoncent to par ticipating in two Buffalo bank holdups and was ordered held on $100,000 bail. Nuss baum, one of the FBI's most wanted men, County Expects 70 Per Cent Of Voter Turnout for Nov. 6 The Jackson county elec tions department expects a 70 per cent voter turnout for tomorrow's general election which starts at 8 a.m. and continues to 8 p.m. This is approximately 10 per cent higher than the vote forecast for the state. Jack son county voters usually turn out stronger than the average vote throughout the state. County Clerk Marvin Madden noted. Polling booths will be set up in all the precincts by 5 o'clock tonight, according to Mrs. Clarice Anderson, chief deputy of the elections de partment. Vote counting will be expedited by arrangements to have the counting boards start earlier. The public schools in which precinct vot ing booths are located have agreed to set aside a special room for the counting boards,, it was stated. The bulk of the election re turns are expected to be in between 9 and 11 p.m. to morrow, Mrs. Anderson said. Baby-Sitters Available Meanwhile arrangem e n t s have been made with the Girl Scouts to provide baby-sitters in various locations through out Medford. Mrs. Connie Gannon, Medford, is coordi nator. Sitters will be located at the Red Cross building and at Roosevelt, Washington, Hedrick, Lincoln, Hoover, Jefferson and McLoughlin schools. Medford station of the U.S. weather bureau has forecast partly cloudy skies for elec tion day. Temperature is ex- U S. Ends Pacific Nuclear Testing Washington - (UPli - The United States has ended its controversial Pacific series of nuclear tests and called for an effective treaty to free the world from all nuclear testing. President Kennedy an nounced that the shot fired over Johnston Island Sunday (Saturday Honolulu time) would mark the end of the se ries that began six months ago. Kennedy said, however, that the United States would continue to conduct under ground tests in Nevada. He said these would remain free from fallout. The United States resumed nuclear testing in the atmos phere after Russia broke a moratorium on Sept. 1 of last year by conducting nuclear experiments in the vast re gions of Siberia and the arc tic. BRIEFS AROUND THI OlOII peeled to range from a morn ing low of 35 to 40 degrees to an afternoon high of 60 to 65. Any voters who need trans portation to Medford polls on election day will be provided with the service through both the Democratic and Republi can headquarters. Child care also will be available through both headquarters. Voters in outlying districts should call their precinct com mitteeman or woman If trans portation is required, a Re publican headquarters spokes man said. The Democratic headquar ters can be reached by tele phoning 779-1351, and the Re publican headquarters ai 772 7344. -.- In Medford voters will elect a mayor and four city council- School Returns Favor Incumbents Salem - fUPIt - Final returns in the Salem Capital Journal's statewide high school political poll today indicated generally large margins for incumbents. With 43 high schools report, ing. Republican Gov. Mark Hatfield topped all candi dates, drawing 8,467 votes against 3,903 for Democrat Robert Y. Thornton. The In dependent candidate for gov ernor, Robert H. Wampler, got 441 votes. Sen. Wayne Morse (D-Ore.) drew 7,853 votes versus 4,960 for Sig Unander, his Republi can challenger. State Labor Commissioner Norman O. Nilsen, a Demo crat, topped his GOP oppo nent, Pat Blair, 6.531 to 5,448. The poll showed Rep. Wal ter Norblad (R-Ore.), of the first district, topping Demo crat Blaine Whipple 3,035 to 1,357; Rep. Al Ullman ID Ore.), second district, over Re publican Robert Chandler 847 to 318; Rep. Edith Green (D Ore.), third district, over Re publican Stanley H a r t m a n 3.685 to 1.168; and in the fourth district, Democrat Rob ert B. Duncan over Republi can Carl Fisher 1,147 to 804. Students also voted on two statewide ballot measures. Legislative rcapportionm e n t passed 6.566 to 4,173. State wide daylight time passed 8,050 to 4,598. Kennedy Confers On Cuban Crisis Washington - IUPD - Presi dent Kennedy conferred today with his top advisers on latest developments In the Cuban crisis. Administration sources said the current situation could be summed up in one word "unclear." Tension appeared to have eased for the time being. But U.S. officials stressed that the basic problem of removing Soviet missiles from Cuba un der international inspection remained unsolved. One development today was the announcement from the International Committee of the Red Cross In Geneva that the Cuban government has agreed to let Red Cross in spectors check cargoes of Cuba-bound Communist ships for hidden arms. NO NEWS CONFERENCE Washington-WI'-The White House today announced Presi dent Kennedy will not hold a ---v: rtprpn"! mis wp"K. was arrested Sunday. At left Is Nussbaum's wife, Alicia, shown just before going to the courthouse to meet her husband. The FBI learned that he was to meet her in a down-' town Buffalo hotel. The story is on page 8-A. (UPI) men one councilman from each ward. Fluoridation will also be voted on in the city election. A map of the ward boundaries is printed on Page 11A of today s Mail Tribune. Communities to Elect Outside of Medford, voters in nine other Jackson county cities will elect city council men, tomorrow. The cities are Ashland, Butte Falls, Central Point, Eagle Point, Gold Hill, Jacksonville, Phoenix, Rogue River and Talent. Mayors will be elected in all of these cities except Ashland. ' In three of the cities, Aslv land, Butte Falls and Central Point, voters will also be ask ed to elect a recorder and a treasurer. In Gold Hill voters will pick one man for the combined recorder-treasurer office. In Ashland, a fluoridation issue is on the ballot and voters will select three park comimssioners as well. The Jacksonville residents will also vote on a $250,000 bond issue for sewer construc tion. Voters in the area south west of Phoenix will cast bal lots and a proposed zoning and land use ordinance involv ing their area, and in the Sardine creek area west of Gold Hill, a proposed herd law to have 3,120 acres of grazing land closed to cattle is on the ballot. Three city councilmen will be elected in each of the fol lowing cities: Ashland, Cen tral Point, Eagle Point, Jack sonville, Phoenix, Rogue Riv er and Talent. Six councilmen will be elected In Butte Falls, and five in Gold Hill. A list of the county's pre cincts and polling places for each is printed on Page 8A of today's Mail Tribune. Mikoyan Huddles With Cuban Premier Havana - IUPII - Soviet First Deputy Premier Anastas Mikoyan huddled with Cuban Premier Fidel Castro for near ly six hours Sunday in the sec ond round of talks designed to "settle differences" in Soviet-Cuban relations. No statement was issued af ter the Soviet trouble-shooter left the session at the National Palace, and it was not known whether the talks would con tinue today. Topics for discussion have not been spelled out, but the timing of Mikoyan's arrival indicated a key point was in ternational inspection to ver ify removal of Soviet missile boses from Cuba. The Rus sians have agreed to such in spection but Castro has re fused to permit any interna tional inspection team to enter Cuba. Assistant Attorney General Appointed Salem - (UPli - The deputy clerk of the Oregon Supreme Court, Mrs. Wanda Miller of Salem, has been named an assistant attorney general as signed to the State Agricul ture department, it was an nounced today. She fills a new position in the Agriculture Department. Mrs. Miller has been deputy clerk of the high court the past 3 1 3 years. She formerly jvorked with the rules com mi'toe ot me uregnn House Regional Edition Medford 24 PAGES Two Sections MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, NOVEMBER Nehru Turns Down Russian Premier's Cease Fire Call Voter Turnout Expected To Be About 50 Million Off-Year Election Always Lighter Washington -IUPD- Political analysts guessed today that about 50 million Americans will go to the polls Tuesday. But they acknowledged that the forecast might be off by 2 million votes or more - eith er way. Predicting the voter turn out In U. S. elections is al ways hazardous. It is par ticularly difficult this year. No one can be sure whether the Cuban crisis will stir apa thetic citizens to get out and vote, or distract them so that they forget or do not bother to visit the polls. Voting in off-year elections - when the presidency is not at stake - always is consider ably lighter than in presiden tial years. All experts agree that this year's turnout will fall far short of the 69 million votes cast in 1960. In the most recent off-year elections in 1958 about 45.7 per cent of the voting - age population actually cast bal lots. 82 Million Qualified Applying that percentage to the Census Bureau figure for the present voting age population points to a 1962 vote in the neighborhood ot 51,100,000. A UPI survey of registra tion figures, with estimates made in the cases of states which do not compile official totals, indicates that about 82 million Americans are quali fied to vote Tuesday if they wish. An official of the Republi can National Committee esti mated that at least 50 million persons will take the trouble to vote. He added that he would be "surprised if the to tal vote went above 52 mil lion." A Democratic National Committee spokesman said he was "hoping" for a total vote of "50 million or more." Ashland Woman Hurt in Accident An Ashland woman was treated for multiple abrasions at Sacred Heart hospital after she was involved in a truck- auto collision about 8:18 o clock today, according to Medford city police. Reported in good condition at the hospital was Jessie P. Pfaff, 41, the driver of a car which collided with a truck operated by Ray Leon Black, 42, of 2475 Finley lane. The accident occurred on Biddle rd. near Crater Lake high way, officers said. According to reports, the vehicles collided at Black at tempted to turn left off Bid- die rd. into the International Harvester company lot. Mrs. Pfaff was traveling south on Biddle rd.. Police said. Police cited Black for op erating his vehicle on the wrong side of a street. Mrs. Pfaff was cited for failure to obtain an Oregon operator's license. Bend Man Killed As Car Hits Tree Bend - (UPli - LeRoy Davis, 20, Bend, was killed Sunday night when the car he was driving failed to make a turn and smashed into a tree. Police said the accident oc curred in Drake Park In Bend. Three other young people in the car, two boys and a girl, suffered undetermined injur ies. WEATHER FORECAST: Partly rloudy through Ttifrtty. thinre of val ley tog Tueidav morning. Low tonight 15-49. High Tuesday CO 5. Temp. High fit YeitrffUy M Lowest Thli Morning 41 Our Skies Tonight Prrrlp, to 10 A.m. Today .05 ftiinirt today 5:00 p.m. H tin rite tomorrow .. 6:51 a.m. Moon iet tomorrow .. lZ:14.m, Full mimn Nov, II The planet, Venui, It now be tween the Earth and (he Run and eannot he seen. It's dtV IV.' inre from ti today It leu than million mllea. Russia Expels U.S. Embassy Employee For 'Spy' Moscow - IUPI) - The Soviet Union Sunday night ordered the explusion of Richard Carl Jacob, a U.S. Embassy em ployee, on charges of "main taining secret liaison with a spy" in Russia. Jacob, 26, a secretary archivist from Egg Harbor, N.J, is expected to leave Tues day or Wednesday. Ho is the third embassy employee to be expelled on similar charges in the last five weeks. The embassy officials said the ouster of the three em bassy employees obviously was retaliation for the Amer ican explusion of two Soviet diplomats at the United Na tions after their implication in an American spy case. Two other Soviet UN employees left the United States before being expelled. The Soviet Foreign Minis try, in an oral statement to a U.S. Embassy official, charged that Jacob was caught redhanded ' Friday with ma terials that made it "certain beyond a shadow of a doubt" that he was carrying on espio nage activities. It did not elaborate. Assistant Embassy Naval Attache Cmdr. Raymond Smith was expelled Oct. 8 and First Secretary Kermit Mid thun was ousted Oct. 16. The four Soviet UN diplo mats left or were - expelled from the United States a week before Cmdr. Smith left Mos cow. It was felt here that the Russians might want to "even the score at four." If this is true, one more U.S. Embassy employee here could expect to leave soon. Nobel Peace Prize Not To Be Awarded Oslo, Norway -IUPI)- The No bel Institute announced here today that no Nobel Peace Prize would be awarded this year. A spokesman for the insti tute said the prize committee had decided to reserve the award money for next year. It was the fifth time since the World War U that no peace prize had been award ed. In two of these cases, the prize was awarded the follow ing year along with the regu lar prize for that year. President Kennedy and So viet Premier Nikita Khrush chev were reported to have been high on the list of pos sible Nobel Prize winners. But the Nobel Committee of the Norwegian National As sembly said in a terse com munique that there will be no peace prize this year and the prize amount will be reserved for 1963. The prize money this year amounted to $50,04;). The committee gave no reason for its decision. President To Cast Ballot in Boston Washington - IUPI) - Presi dent Kennedy returned to the White House today from a re laxed Sunday in the country his first since the Cuban crisis began. He will fly to Boston tonight to vote for his brother in Tuesday's election. The President had planned a side trip to Hyannis Port, Mass , to visit his father, Jo- feph P. Kennedy. But this was called off this morning. Press Secretary Pierre Sal inger cautioned newsmen against reading any signifi cance into the decision. The President, he said, "Just felt he wanted to stay and work this afternoon." Salinger said Kennedy would be "occupied" in Wash ington up to the time of his departure for Boston and had called off the trip to Cape Cod as a result. ZSA ZSA WEDS New York-Wli Actress 7,sa Zsa Gahor, 37, today married Industrialist Herbert L. Hut nt. 53, In simple civil cere-nnles. MO kt Activity (UPI) RICHARD JACOB Third Man To Go Tax Ratio Sent To Board by County Assessor The Jackson county board of equalization met this morn ing to receive County Asses sor Thad Hatten's property tax ratio studies. The board consisting of County Judge Earl Miller, chairman, Arnold Bohnert. Central Point farmer and C. W. Abbott, Medford busi nessman, must study the as sessor's ratios on each classi fication of property and make recommendations by Dec. 13. Ratio under the law is 25 per cent outside of Mult nomah county. This is the relation of assessed value to the selling price. Classifica tions of land for taxation pur poses include urban residen tial, urban commercial, urban industrial, suburban residen tial, suburban commercial and suburban industrial. Other classifications include farm, rural tracts, range and range lands, timber and timber lands. The ratio for each land classification must average out to 25 per cent cent. The assessor is permitted 10 per cent deviation from 25 per cent ratio in each classifica tion. The assessor, according to law, posts the ratio on April 16. The equalization board meets April 22 to continue its ratio studies. The equalization board first sits as a board of appeals the second Monday in May to hear taxpayers who dispute the property appraisals. The board of appeals must meet for three weeks or may ex tend the period for two weeks. The assessor emphasized the time to worry about taxes themselves is when taxpayers vote on bond issues and the various budgets of cities and special districts. Before ap pealing to the board of equal ization, each property owner should check the property valuation with the assessor to see If an error has been made, he suggest. Pickets Return At Coos Bay Plant Coos Bay -(UPli- Pickets ap peared again today at the ply wood plant of the Mcnasha Corp. here after members of Local 833 of the Tlywood, Lumber and Sawmill Work ers Union Sunday refused to ratify a settlement negotiated Friday. Pickets were called off Sat urday morning after word of the settlement was announced. Local members met Sunday to ratify It, but turned it down by a large majority. American Air force Officers Die in Crash Saigon, Vict Nam - IUPII -Two American Air Force offi cers were killed toduy when a South Viclnamese air force B26 crashed in predawn dark ness while strafing and bomb ing Communist guerillas near ilakeo, about 170 ml'.i-s south ol Saigon. 57th Year Price 10 Cents Tribune -5- H, 1962 No. 200 India Suffers Serious Setback On West Sector Prime Minister Repeats Demands New Delhi IUPD Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru has rejected Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev's call for an immediate unconditional ceasefire in the undeclared border war between India and Communist China, informed sources reported today. The report coincided with official disclosure of a serious setback for India on the west ern sector of the disputed bor der and the reported massive build-up of Red troops and equipment on the eastern sec tor. Indian officials confirmed that Nehru's reply to Khrush chev's latest letter was sent to Moscow today. They re fused to reveal what it said. Demand Repeated But informed sources said that Nehru repeated his de mand that Red troops pull back to positions held before launching the major offensive last Sept. 8 in advance of any ceasefire or peace negotia tions. Communist China recently proposed that both sides with draw their troops 12.5 miles from the present "line of con trol" while representatives from Peiping and New Delhi try to resolve the border dis pute by negotiations. India im mediately turned down the proposal. A Defense Ministry spokes man today told newsmen that Indian forces have abandoned a major outpost guarding the Karagoram Pass entry into the Indian subcontinent in northern Ladakh, On the opposite eastern sec tor of the 1,000-mile border, informed sources reported Chinese Communist troops and equipment pouring into the Indian monastery town of Towang in the Northwest Frontier Agency in apparent preparation for another ma jor attack. Street Closures Listed for Medford Contractor's crews working on the freeway viaduct plan closures on Main and Eighth sts. at times during this week, according to Vernon Thorpe, Medford public works direc tor. Main st. from Hnwthornc st. to Riverside ave. will be closed Tuesday and Wednes day, Nov. 6 and 7, between the hours of 9 to 12 a.m. and 1 to 5 p.m. Eighth st. will be closed Friday, Nov. 9, between 9 to 12 a.m. and 1 to 5 p.m. Weath er permitting, it is expected the street will also be closed during the same hours next Tuesday, Nov. 13. Crews will be applying the final coat of gray paint on the steel spans that cross Main and Eighth sts. The closures are planned to prevent paint falling on any cars passing under the viaduct, Thorpe said. Members Object To Use of Letter in Advertisement A news paper advertise ment favoring Sen. Wayne L. Morse (D-Ore.) for reelection came under attack In Grants Pass Sunday. Senator Morse this morn ing defended the contents of the advertisement and its use, and said it was used with au thorization of the writer of the letter which appears In (he ad. (The advertisement in ques tion appears elsewhere In to day's Mail Tribune.) The ad contains a reproduc tion of a letter to Senator Morse from Ben Hilton, presi dent of the Rogue River Basin Flood Control and Water Re sources association, thanking Morse for his efforts on behalf of the authorization of the Rogue Basin project. ISome members of organiza tions which are sponsors of Incoming Vessels May Be Checked For Hidden Arms Red Cross Acts in Interests of Peace Geneva -IUPD- The Interna tional Committee of the Red Cross said today the Cuban government has agreed to let Red Cross inspectors check cargoes of Cuba-bound Com munist ships for hidden arms. But the committee warned it cannot assume direct re sponsibility for the control ac tion and said this "remains the direct affair of the United Nations ?nd the nations concerned." The statement from the headquarters of the all-Swiss body here said the Red Cross had been informed by the United Nations that Cuba now agrees to the control of ships coming to Cuban ports by Red Cross inspectors. The United Stales and the Soviet Union already have accepted such an arrangement. No Comment In Washington, White House Press Secretary Pierre Salinger declined to comment on the Geneva announcement. Approximitely 30 red Cross inspectors would take part in the operation which would last about a month, the state ment said. It said the inspection would take place "on the high seas" and it was therefore assumed that Red Cross inspectors would be operating from U.S. ships now blockading Cuba. The Red Cross statement said the Cuban operation is beyond the conventional and traditional scope of the hu manitarian mission of the Red Cross." It said, however, that "in the superior interests of peace" and "in a desire to save the people from the scourge of war," the Red Cross was prepared to lend its good offices. Paul Ruegger, a former president of the committee, will fly to New York Tuesday to arrange details of the con trol operation with American, Russian, Cuban and UN offi cials. - ' The Red Cross said its "def inite decision" would rest on Ruegger's mission. But there appeared little doubt the op eration would begin soon. Juveniles Appear For Thefl of Cars Two run-away 14-year-old Central Point youths have ap peared in Jackson county juvenile court on car theft charges, according to Larry Tweedy, acting juvenile de partment director. One of the two youths was committed to MacLaren School for Boys at Salem. The other was placed on probation and released to his parents. The two boys had stolen five cars before they were ap prehended recently in central Oregon, Tweedy said. The boy sent to MacLaren had been placed on probation from juv enile court at the age of 11 for car theft. This was one of eight cases heard in juvenile court. Twelve cases are scheduled for hearing Nov. 0, Tweedy said. Adenauer Makes Shift in Government Bonn, Germany -flIPIl- Chan cellor Konrad Adenauer, 86, today fired one top govern ment official and suspended another to save his coalition government f.'om collapse. State Secretary Walter Strauss of the Justice Min istry was fired. Adenuucr sus pended until further notice Volkmar Hopf, stnte secre tary of the Defense Ministry. the association object to the listing of their groups. Sev eral of them, meeting in Grants Pass yesterday, de clared the ad to be a "fraud ulent campaign tactic." Senator Morse told the Mall Tribune by telephone this morning that the letter was authorized by the board of di rectors of the association, and ' signed by its president, and that It is not unusual to use such letters in campaign ad vertising. He said it should be obvi ous that not all sponsoring groups or Individuals are his supporters, and that the letter speaks for itself. Some of the objectors felt that the use ot the names of sponsoring or ganizations without their knowledge or consent was "a deliberate attempt to mislead the public."