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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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r" visible
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atfer sunset. And Hlrl
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fade out before stinr
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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.
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