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mm Regional Edition MEDFORD 40 Pages Four Sections Stumbo and Chase Change Pleas In Circuit Court Charges are Setting Fire To Forest Land Two men charged with set ting fire to forest land July 16 near Rogue River pleaded guilty this morning in Jack son county circuit court to be ing involved in the setting of the fires. Circuit Judge James M. Main ordered pre-sentence in vestigations for Walter Chase, 41, of route 2, box 66B, Cen tral Point, and Harry Warren Stumbo, 34, of Wolf Creek. The two cases were continued for sentencing and the bail was continued at $3,500 each. Both men told the judge they were fully aware that the fires were set by their companion at the time, Leo V. Thompson, but did nothing to stop him. They said they had no knowledge of Thomp son's actions at the time he was setting the fires, but did realize later in the day the fires were being set. The two men admitted be ing guilty of the specific charges of "acting together to set forest- fires." The charges involve a se ries of fires which broke out in an area north and east of Grants Pass extending into Jackson county during a two hour period on the afternoon of July 16. Thompson, 39, of Salem, was sentenced to 22 months in the Oregon state peniten tiary Oct. 18 after pleading guilty to the same grand jury indictment. 1 Suit Against City Enters Third Day, The circuit court jury trial in which the R. A. Heintz Construction company of Port land is suing the City of Med ford continued into its third day this morning. The company is seeking $94,462.74 plus six per cent interest for money they claim is due them for a sanitary sewer they constructed in the Kenwood - Grandview and north Laurelhurst area in 1959. Testifying this morning was Ray Vaughn, asistant engineer for the City of Medford. He testified as to plans and rec ords on the project. Lawyers for the case expect the trial to last two weeks. In the complaint, the con struction company claims it furnished material, equipment and labor and fully completed the work as directed. It further claims that the city interrupted the work by demanding and requiring ma terial and substantial changes. Formerly reasonable costs would have been $431,168 for the project. Present costs are now estimated at $514,584.15 of which the city paid $420, 121.41. This leaves a balance of $94,462.74 owed, according to the company. More Power in Drug Control Aired Salem - OJPI) - Legislation to give the State Board of Phar macy more power in control of certain drugs was discussed Wednesday night at a meet ing here. The meeting was called by the Oregon pharmaceutical Legislative Committee and was attended by several Port land officials including detec tive and legislator Bob Chap pel, newly-elected Dist. Atty. Gcoree Van Hoomissen. and Dr. Thomas Meador, health department head. ITEMS FROM DISARMAMENT PROGRESS NEED SEEN United Nations, N.Y.-IPI-Britain taid today that mutual trust through a lyitem of Internationa; verification it the most urgent need for progress in world disarmament. ADAM CLAYTON POWELL SAID IN ARREARS Washington-IPI'-The government it trying to collect $33, 141.ES in back taxes and penalties from Rep. Adam Clayton Powell Jr., it was learned today. BOMB REPORTED ON AIRLINER Spokane-1 n-Three commercial airliners were searched Wednesday night after the United Air Lines oflice here received an anonymous telephone call ttating: "There's a homb on your Seattle flight." No bombt were revealed. - v.? ; , V ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Last Rites To Be Saturday Mrs. Roosevelt's Death Mourned by Leaders of World New York - IUPD - The na tion and the world mourned Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt, 78, today and President Kennedy and former President Harry S. Truman made plans to at tend her funeral at Hyde Park, N.Y., Saturday. The widow of the nation's 32nd president died at 3:15 p.m. (PST) Wednesday in her Manhattan apartment from complications resulting from a courageous two and one-half year fight against a tenacious form of anemia. The White House announc ed that Kennedy will attend the funeral service at St. James Protestant Episcopal church in Hyde Park, long time home of Mrs. Roosevelt and the late President Frank lin D. Roosevelt. Truman and Mrs. Truman left Indepen dence, Mo., this morning by train to be in New York in time for the rites. Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev sent condolences to the Roosevelt family in which he said Mrs. Roosevelt had remained loyal to her late husband's convictions that "good relations are necessary Jackson Continues To Hold House Key Salem - 1UPD - Democratic control of the 1963 Oregon House of Representatives con tinued to hang today on the outcome of absentee ballots in Jackson county. The deciding vote in the slim 31-29 Democratic control, the same as last year, is the election of James A. Redden, Medford Democrat. At noon today, with about half of 1,004 absentee bal lots counted, Redden contin ued his lead. But a Republi can, Alexander A. Dumas, Medford, had gained some. With half of the absentee ballots to be counted, it was 12,125 for Redden and 11,919 for Dumas, a margin of only 206 votes. Another Democrat seeking Die scat, Alva N. Bradford, Medford, was rim ing third with 11,809 votes. If Dumas should win, it would be a 30-30 tic in the House, meaning an all out fight over which party will I elect the speaker. jBRIEFS AROUND THI OlOII MEDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1962 between the Soviet Union and United States of America." Khrushchev praised the for mer first lady as an "outstand ing American civic leaders." Interment will be in the rose garden at Hyde Park. The family said she would be buried next to her husband "in accordance with their joint wishes." Roosevelt died April 12, 1945. Mrs. Roosevelt's daughter, Mrs. Anna Halstead of Bir mingham, Mich., and two sons, John and Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr., were at her bedside when she died. Doc tors had been summoned ear lier because of indications of heart failure. Mrs. Roosevelt was hos pitalized last Sept. 26 for treatment of a persistent lung infection and anemia. Four weeks later, on Oct. 18, her doctors allowed her to leave Columbia-Presbyterian Medi cal Center here for treatment at home. Physicians said Wednesday night they knew then Mrs. Roosevelt was dying and wanted to make her last days as comfortable as possible. Mrs. Roosevelt's other two living sons, Elliot and James, flew to New York upon learn ing of their mother's death. Elliot arrived from Miami and James from California, where he had been reelected to Con gress. In their statement, the fam ily said it was discovered two and one-half years ago that Mrs. Roosevelt "was suffering from a complicated type of anemia." Mrs. Roosevelt's condition "gradually worsened during the last lew weeks of her life," her doctors said. President Kennedy led the nation in paying tribute to Mrs. Roosevelt and messages of condolence poured in from states men throughout the world. Mrs. Roosevelt's close per sonal friend, United Nations Ambassador Adlai E. Steven son, went to the Roosevelt apartment upon learning of the four-term First Lady's death. "I have lost an inspiration. She would rather light can dles than curse the darkness and her glow has warmed the world." he said. (Sea Story, Picture!. Pg. 10A) Public Hearing On Tonight's Agenda Only one public hearing is scheduled for tonight's meet ing of the Medford planning ! commission. j The hearing will be held ' on a request for a variance ; to the setback requirements I in multiple-family zones for a i piece of property located in Block 2 in the Cottage Home I addition. Also on the agenda is a ! request to erect a construc tion sign for the new Sacred Heart hospital at the south west corner of McAndrew rd. land Crater Lake ave. The commission meets at 7:30 o'clock in council chain i hors in city hall. Said Victim of Ocf. 72 Windstorm Returns Home Naked But Alive Albany, Ore.-IUPII-A hen with a homing instinct has turned out to be a hurricane heroine. The hen belongs to Mrs. Hazel Conway of Turner, formerly a resident and businesswoman of Sweet Home. On the dramatic day of the Oct. 12 big wind, the red hen stayed out in the yard when the storm struck instead of going into the henhouse with the other chickens. The cyclonic gusts not only lifted her high in the air, they ripped her feathers off as she sailed screaming out of sight. Mrs. Conway had no idea where she came to earth and considered her a casualty of the storm. Nine days later the her way out of the egg, Election W ret pup First 1 964 Candidate eveals Intentions Portland tUPD The ballots from Tuesday's general elec tion were still being counted Wednesday when the first can didate for election in 1964 marie his appearance. Porltand contractor Jim Bacaloff, a two-time loser in Republican primaries dating back to 1958, announced his candidacy for his party's nomi nation for U. S. Representa tive from the Third District. That district took about five minutes after the polls closed to elect Democrat Edith Green to her fifth term Tuesday. Bacaloff lost in the Republi can gubernatorial primary in 1958 and in the .U.S. Senate primary earlier this year. Hatfield Margin 78.000 Meanwhile, late returns trickling in from isolated pre cincts gave Republican Gov. Mark Hatfield a margin of 78,000 votes over Atty. Gen. Robert Y. Thornton. Com plete, unofficial returns from all the state s 3,244 precincts showed Hatfield with 340,889. Thornton with 262,961 and In. dependent Robert Wampler with 26,988. Hatfield collected 290 votes more in his race than did Democratic Sen. Wayne Morse in his victory over Sig Unan- der, but his margin of victory was much wider. Morse had a 54,000 - vole margin over Unander, 340, 599 to 286,376.- The state's top vote-Better. however was Labor Commis sioner Norman Nilsen, who snowed under Republican challenger Alfred (Pat) Blair, 375,631 to 225,625. Hatfield received a con gratulatory telegram from former President Dwight D. Eisenhower Wednesday. The wire said Hatfield's Man Wanted In Jailbreak Gives Up Bend - IUPII - A 21-year-old man wanted in connection with a jail break here last Fri day walked into the Deschutes county sheriff's office and surrendered to Sheriff Forrest C. Sholes Wednesday. Gary Childress was charged with burglary, but Sholes said he admitted he was the gunman who forced jailer Lucien McLauchiin and his wife to unlock a cellblock and free two prisoners Friday. Sholes quoted Childress as saying. "I couldn't let a buddy down." The sheriff said Childress' "buddy" was Patrick Ogle, being held for Montana au thorities on a parole violation charge. David Kaus, being held for robbery, also escaped but five other prisoners re mained behind. Ogle and Kaus are still at large. A car stolen in Bend was found a day later near Burns. Sholes said he had been seeking Childress since Satur day. He got in touch with Mrs. Patrick Gregg of Bend, Chil dress' sister, and asked her to convince Childress he should surrender. Thornfon To Attend New York Meeting Salem -H'Pli- Atty. Gen. Rob ert Y. Thornton leaves Satur day for New York City to at tend the two day annual meet ing of the National Board of Directors of the American So cial Health Association. Thornton is a member of the national board. Thornton returns home Monday. INJURIES FATAL Portland fl'Pli An elderly Portland woman, Harriet C. Cron, 77, died Wednesday from Injuries suffered In a three-car accident Sunday. Tribune hen came walking home, naked skinny and poor, but alive. election "is indeed an endorse ment of your past efforts in Oregon and a signal to con tinue the good work through the coming term." Morse issued a victory state ment which said: "I have always tried to be both responsible and respon sive to the needs of the people of my state and nation. I pledge to all the people of Oregon that I shall continue to serve in the Senate by fol lowing where the facts lead, thereby always placing prin ciple above partisanship." Morse got a congratulatory wire from President Kennedy. Dumas Picking Up Majority of Absentee Votes A. A. Dumas, Medford Re publican candidate at noon was narrowing the margin be tween his votes and James A Redden, for the third position in the race for the slate legis lature from Jackson county. The absentee ballot count ing board repotted Dumas had narrowed the lead to 84 votes. This gives Redden a total count to date of 12,305 votes and Dumas 12,221. The elections department re ported 552 ballots counted. In the third spot was Alva N. Bradford, Medford Demo crat, with 12,006 voles. All totals are unofficial. As of Wednesday morning Redden had a 337 vote mar gin over Bradford's 11,574. Dumas had 11,516. Dumas was 395 votes behind Redden. Mrs. Clarice Anderson, chief deputy for the Jackson county elections department, reported 947 absentee ballots of the 1,004 out were return ed in time, 18 of the 947 were disqualified. Being counted are 929 ballots. Revised Maps of Area Available Salem - IUPD - The Oregon Highway Department said to day that revised street maps are available for seven more Oregon cities. They are Central Point, Glendale, Hermislon, Jack sonville, Phoenix, Bend and Hammond. Small maps cost 10 cents and larger ones 25 cents. They show post offices, schools, rail stations, city halls, court houses and li braries, as well as streets. Shriveled Balloons, Unprecedented Speech Mark End Of Richard Nixon's Bid To Be Governor of California Los Angcles-fflPli-Shriveled balloons, stale cigarettes and discarded campaign posters to day was all that remained of Richard M. Nixon's bid to lead the Republican party from the California gover nor's chair. The former vice president was taking a "long holiday" from politics. He ended a ca reer which led the Whitticr, Calif., "poor boy" to within percentage points of being president of the United States. Nixon made it clear that he was stepping down both as state and national leader of his party. "I look for the Republican party to be revitalized In Cali fornia under new leadership, not mine," he said. He pre dicted new national leader ship would come from Repub 57th Year Price 10 Cents No. 198 as the day she pecked Unofficial complete returns from the First Congressional District gave Republican in cumbent Walter Norblad a 118,328 to 73,394 victory over Democrat Blaine Whipple. With four districts in Harney county missing from the tally, Rep. Al Ullman led Republi can challenger Robert Chan dler 52,148 to 29,657 In the Second District. Mrs. Green scored a run-away 2 to 1 vic tory in the Third District. The final count gave her a margin of 131,225 to 67,766. 11,000 Lead for Duncan In the Fourth District, Dem ocratic House Speaker Robert Duncan of Medford finished with an 11,000 vote lead over State Rep. Carl Fisher of Eu gene for the Congressional seat vacated by Rep. Edwin Durno, a Republican. Duncan collected 82,580 votes compared to 71,187 for Fisher after a hard-hitting, clean campaign. "It proved you can run a campaign without an exercise in name-calling," Duncan said. Most races went about as the political dopesters had predicted, but the size of some of the margins and the total turnout provided some surprises. A total of 630,838 voters cast ballots for the three gubernatorial candidates, larg er than the 618,000 figure even the most optimistic elec tion officials had predicted. It made the turnout more than 70 per cent. Hatfield scored his 78,000- vote triumph In the face of Democratic voter edge of the same size. It was better than his 64,000-vote edge in 1958 and may well be noted approvingly by party leaders in search of a 1964 national ticket. Safety Manager of Motor Vehicles Named Salem - (UPD - The Oregon Motor Vehicles Department today announced the appoint ment of Howard Eddy, Den ver, Colo., as manager of the traffic safety division. Eddy, 34, has been assistant director of the Colorado High way Safety Council. In the post here he succeeds Edward J. Warmoth, promot ed to manager of administra tive services in the depart ment. TARIFF HIKE ASKED Portland IUPD The Oregon Wool Growers Association has called for tariff increases or Import quotas on sheep being brought Into the nation. lican governors elected Tues day In New York, Pennsyl vania, Michigan and Ohio. And he ended it with a speech unprecedented In American politics. Perhaps it was something the slrting-jawed, dark haired Republican had always want ed to ny but couldn't. "Just think how much you're going to be missing . . . You won't have Nixon to kick around any more," Nixon chldcd the press. "I think that It Is time that our great news papers have at least the same objectivity, the same fullness of coverage that the tele vision has." With repeated protests dur ing the press conference that he was not bitter, Nixon jammed his hands in his pockets and reared back with Sputa tig 1 Ai. 1 K BILLIE SOL ESTES Four More Indictments Billie Sol Estes Guilty; Sentenced To 8-Year Term Tyler, Tex. - (UP1 - Bank rupt Billie Sol Estes, 37, stared curiously at a jury, then sighed and sagged weari ly in his chair when the 11 rnen' and one woman pro nounced him guilty of swin dling and sentenced him to eight years in state prison. After 17 days of legal tur moil, the jury needed only 127 minutes Wednesday night to reach a decision. They began deliberations after a stern warning from Prosecutor R. B. McGowen. "If you acquit Billie Sol Estes," McGowen said, "you are doing one more thing to turn our way of life over to the crooks and hucksters." Defense attorney John D. Cofer said he would file a mo tion for a new trial. If re fused, it will clear the way for an appeal to the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals. Four Other Indictments Estes still must answed to four more state and federal Indictments . Judge Otis T. Dungan al lowed Estes to remain free In $5,000 bond pending the court's action on the motion for a new trial. Estes will be formerly sentenced If Dungan rejects the motion. Estes was convicted of swin dling Pecos, Tex., farmer T. J. Wilson on a $94,500 mort gage for 75 nonexistent fer- WEATHER FORECAST: Cloudy. moky y. Oc and cool through. Friday. casional rain In Grants Pans area and a few sprlnklm In Mcnrord and Ashland. Low to night 40. High Friday Sll-M. Temp. Highest Yesterday 5H Lowest This Mornlns 32 Our Skies Tonight Sunset today 4:S7 p.m. Hnnrlse tomorrow .... Monnset tomorrow .... Full Moon Jupiter, found In the Ii now the first "sti 6:55 a.m. 3:53 a.m. .. Sunday southeast, r" visible us, In the atfer sunset. And Hlrl southwest. Is the la it star to fade out before stinr Ise. charge upon charge of unfair press coverage in his political career. Nixon, who said on one of his campaign telethons that If he had It to do over again he would be a sportscastcr, tried to display some of those sportsmcnlikc qualities. "I want to congratulate Gov. (Edmund G.) Brown for his victory ... I wish him well not only from a personal standpoint, because there never were any personal con siderations on my part. I think he has a heart, even though he did not think 1 had one. I think he Is a good American even though he did not think t was. "Ho won and I want this slate to be led with courage." But Nixon, who saw his po litical career in shambles, tilizer tanks, and converting the mortgage to his own use. Cofer made a passionate plea for acquittal. He pictured Estes as more sinned against than a sinner. McGowen, the district at torney in Estes' home town of Pecos, decried Cofers argu ment. "Somehow If you steal enough money, you become something of a celebrity," Mc Gowen said. "Stealing is steal ing, no matter how big or small." It was Estes' first convic tion since the collapse of his multlmllllon dollar farm and fertilizer empire. The fall led to a congressional Investiga tion and dismissal or resigna tion of at least four Agricul ture Department officials. Pending against Estes are four more federal and state indictments containing more than 30 counts of theft, swin dling, mall fraud, false state ments and criminal antitrust violations. Khrushchev Turns To Nuclear Ban Moscow (UPD Premier Ni kita Khrushchev today ap peared to have turned his sights from an Immediate Ber lin showdwon to a new cam paign to conclude a nuclear test ban agreement with the West. In his first encounter with western correspondents since the Cuban crisis, Khrushchev Wednesday night disclosed that Soviet nuclear tests will stop Nov. 20. He also rejected the Idea of a summit meeting, hinted at friction with Cuba, and Indi cated that he had no deadline at present for a Berlin settle ment. could not help blaming some one for his defeat by a man he obviously considered a very ordinary opponent. "I defended my opponent's patriotism but you didn't re port it," Nixon told reporters, "For once, gentlemen, I wish you would write what I said. Thank God for tele vision and radio for keeeplng newspapers a little more hon est." "I don't believe members of the press should fci that the publishers should order Ihcm to write one way or the olher. I don't believe the FCC (Federal Communications Commission) should reach Its long arm out to California If only one lonely voice Is raised for me and a whole lot of Allies Brought Up To Date on All Developments U.S. Still Wants Bombers To Leave United Nations, N.Y. - IUPD -The United States told its close allies today that the presence of nuclear warheads in Cuba, as well as Soviet bombers to deliver them, are a key factor now in the Carib bean crisis, which was de scribed as still "smouldering." U.S. Ambassador Adlai E. Stevenson met with represen tatives of NATO, SEATO and CENTO countries, together with a few others such as Korea and China, to bring them up to date on crisis de velopment. About 40 diplomats attend ed the private briefing at the U.S. Mission. Still Critical Informed sources said Ste venson and John J. McCloy, chief of President Kennedy's Cuban crisis diplomatic task force, who assisted the brief ing, emphasized that the criti cal stage had not diminished. "The impression was that the crisis still is smouldering," one said. Although there was satisfac tion with arrangements for a Red Cross check of inbound Cuban cargoes and U.S. Naval "contact" with Soviet ships leaving Cuba, the United States still sought assurance from Russia that Ilyushin 28 Beagle bombers capable of carrying nuclear bombs also would be taken out of the island. Arrangements Made The State Department dis closed that arrangements had been made with Russia for U.S. naval ships to "contact" Soviet ships and count the missiles they are carrying out of Cuba. The first such con tact was expected today. Representatives of the In- ternatlosjal Committee of the Red Cross and the United Na- tions continued work here on arrangements for inspection of inbound cargoes to check against hidden Soviet offen sive weapons. It was not clear how either the inbound or outbound check would be carried out. Seasonal layoffs Increase Claims Salem - (UPD - Seasonal lay offs have increased claims for unemployment Insurance in Oregon to 12,293, State Em ployment Commissioner Da vid H. Cameron said today. A month ago, there were 8,334 claims. The rate of in sured unemployment went up from 2.3 per cent to 3.1 the past month. - Cameron noted, however. that both claims and the job less rate arc still lower than last year at this time. At this time in 1961 there were 15,- 392 claims and the jobless rate was 3.9 per cent. Hlllsboro and La Grande had the lowest rates of in sured unemployment last week, both 2.1. Toledo had the highest rate, 7.4. Other rates last week, com pared to a month ago, includ ed: Corvallls 2.3 per cent, up 7 or a per cent; Eugene 3.2, up 1.1; Klamath Falls 3.2, up 8; Medford 3.8, up 2.2: Pen- dlcton and Milton-Freewater 3.4, up 1; Portland 2.4, up .2; and Salem 2.8, up 1.2. As of Nov. 1 Oregon's un employment Insurance trust fund contained $55.1 million versus $46.5 million a year ago. OFFICES TO CLOSE Salem-OIPD-Most offices that test for Oregon driver's li censes will be closed all next week. The license examiners will be here, attending an an nual training conference. voices are raised for someone else." Nixon named several news papers which he said gave him unfair treatment during the campaign. But he singled out one reporter as a fair ob jective writer (and he named Carl Greenberg of the Los Angeles Times). His wife, Pat, did not ap pear. She remained closeted in their seventh floor suite where the Nlxons watched elections returns pour in throughout the night. "This Is my last press con ference. What are my plans? I want to get home and get acquainted with my family again. From a political stand point my plans are to take a long holiday . . ." said Nixon. (See Story on Pag 3A) i J
