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Price 10 Cents r,MJ rwl-,,,! f . ; H - j """ " "6 Pa96S " MEDFCRD, OREGON, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1962 No. 201 r. V' j"""" I w !--'--- : -. - ' - ' - fJ4 f . S Ousted Yemen . JJ?rx - ' .. ta ,Si Leader hghting ?;y-l i ' Ity- Jr'- ,-l?bC?SlTo Regain Throne I- - V.1:J I fv fi 3 : Former President 1! ' VETERANS REMEMBERED McNamara lays a wreath at Soldier at Arlington cemetery McNamara Lays Wreath at Tomb Of Unknowns Washington Wli - Defense Secretary Robert S. McNam ara laid a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknowns Sunday to mark Veterans Day obscrv-: ances throughout the nation. The secretary, in a brief j address, said that the nation; must be prepared to risk j thermonuclear war to pre- j serve freedom. j Outlining the lessons' 'of; past conflicts, McNamara said they were the ingredients: "whu-h we have tried to apply over the past lew weeks" dur ing the Cuban crisis. . Would Be Disaster "We know thai a nuclear holocasl would he a disaster ( of unimaginable proportions,! but we know also that unless j we arc prepared to place eveything at risk, we cannot I hope to save anything from disaster." he said. In cities and towns across the land, a minute of silence was observed at 11 a.m. in memory of the men who died , defending freedom in past : wars- and in the cold war i Parades, cemetery cere- ( monies and other observances were held in all pails of the nation as well as overseas! by Americans and their allies who fought side by side in the cause of liberty. In Paris Americans joined in an annual j ceremony at which President i Charles de Gaulle placed a wreath at the Tomb of France's Unknown Soldier. Kennedy in Virginia President Kennedy spent the day at the first family's; Northern Virginia retreat. In a Veterans Day message, he expressed home that "There will be no veterans of any future war not because all have perished, but because all shall have learned to live, in peace " Former President Dwighl D. Eisenhow er issued a state- -ment saying all Americans should "review in our hearts the determination to use all our energy, patience and un derstanding in the search for i peace with justice." ADMITS KILLING Loncview. Wash. l'N Sheriff's ollieers said Sunday that Kenneth DcPrie.-t of Loncview has confessed to the fatal shooting of his wife Vir ginia. 50. Saturday night. KBRIEFS ITEMS fROM S? HEART VICTIM LOSES BID FOR LIFE Portland - U'l - A young Creek profeiior lost hii bid for hie against a heart nilment that brought him Irom Greece to Portland. George A. Asleseliis. 29. died Friday lollowing open heart lurgery at the University of Oregon Medical School. CHURCH NEGOTIATIONS SUGGESTED Vatican City - U'l - Ecumenical Council lathen today tuggesied negotiation with non-Catholic Chriitian churches lo agree on a fixed date lor Easter each year. It was the firsl time during the historic conclave that a responsible Catholic voice had mentioned such negotiations on religious matter of joint interest. PORTLANDER NAMED TO NASA POST Washington - IH - Joseph Stein, a lormcr Portland newspaperman, has been aooointed program public affairs 4 coordinator lor branch L t'e National Aercnaulics end Space Administration. f -.1 J?'WL wvJT.- 4 -AA -.' VST J Meets Newsmen U Secretary of Defense Robert the Tomb of the Unknown in Virginia during Veterans Education Representatives Return From Observation Trip A group of area education representatives have returned from an observation trip to about 10 schools in Massa chusetts, Connecticut and Illi nois. The trip was made as part of an in-service project of the Oregon Program, a $3.5 mil lion Ford Foundation financed program to help improve edu cation and develop new pat terns in teacher education. Visited on the tour were new school buildings designed for specific programs, team teaching situations, coopera tive teaching programs, non graded e I e mentary schools, utilization of audio-visual equipment in schools, indi vidual student study and re search programs, class sched uling procedures, and admin istrative organizations design ed to help prevent the student from becoming lost in the large high school student body. Schools Visited Schools visited included McPhcrson High school. Mc pherson. Kans.; Estabrook ele mentary school and secondary schools in Lexington, Mass.; Wayland. Mass.. High school; Newton South High school, Newton. Mas s.; elementary and secondary schools in Nor walk. Conn.; Evanston Town ship High school, Evanston. 111.: Highland Park High school. Highland Park, III.; Ridgcwood High school, Nor ridge. 111.: and Bloom Town ship High school. Chicago Heights. III.. Information and material gathered during the school and classroom visitations will be used by area educators to help improve programs in this area. Most of the ideas adaptable in this area will be used in the Medford district in cooper ation with Southern Oregon college. Ashland. The Med ford district is one of 22 school districts, and SOC is one of nine colleges and uni versities in the state partici pating in the Oregon Program to improve education. Ideas Studied Many of the ideas in con struction, class scheduling and educational program of ferings may be incorporated in a new school planned in Medford. Some members of the group toured buildings with unusual designs constructed with a soecific educational prog-am AKOUNO IHI 01OII Day ceremonies honoring the living and dead of the na tion's wars. Secretary McNamara represented President Kennedy at the ceremonies. (UPI) in mind and conventional school buildings adapted to to the needs of various- pro grams. Other members of the group attended classes in non-graded elementary schools, large group instruction sessions, lec ture classes in team teaching situations, and regular-sized class discussion groups to learn in detail how these pro grams are presented and con ducted. They also talked with teachers and students to learn how programs have been ac cepted. Those interested in admin istration discussed financing, school district organiza lion, construction and general edu- j calional information with ; superintendents, board of edu j cation members, teachers, and students. ' Persons Making Trip The group making the trip I included Medford and Central Point school board members. superintendents from M e d i ford. Central Point, and Ash j land. Southern Oregon college I representatives. Oregon state : department of education rep ! resentatives. architects retain I cd by the Medford district to design a new high school, and elementary and secondary i school supervisors from Med- ford. The trip to schools in Ihe i east is one of two in-service : UN Seminar Planned Tuesday Evening I A community United Na itions seminar will be held 'Tuesday, Nov. W at the Red Cross building. fiO Hawthorne ave., at 7:30 p.m. j Open to the public, the pan I ei will be moderated by Omar : Bacon, Panel members will be ' Chester Irish, Mrs. Ofidcn j Helios. Mrs. Roy Neal and Edward Brancbfield. Discus sion from the floor will be led by civic leaders who al 1 tended the closed circuit tele vision program direct from the United Nations in New ; York earlier this year. McMinnville Girl Heads State FTA Corvallis ifPIi - Linda Jortn, a junior at McMinnville hih school, was circled president of the Oregon future teachers of America at a convention here over the week end. She succeeds Ray While. Crater, who presided at Ihe x'ssions. Over 6)0 membrrs and .id visors attended the conven tion at Oregon State univer sity. Members are high school students who anticipate be coming teachers. Other officers installed a. a dinner meetim Saturday niiilit were Phyllio Thvd". South Salem high school, vice president. Sandra Hanson, Cascade Locks high school, secret ary-treasurer. and Jti'v ice Valentine, Bandon high school, state historian. PILOT MISSING Seattle t'Pl- Search resum ed at dawn today for Capl Robert J. Lucas. 34. pilot of an F-102 jet aircraft mls.-ing and presumed down in the Sean Bay ara nf ttip Olympic f V'nmMiip research trips planned in con junction with the Oregon Pro gram. Another, less extensive trip, is planned in the San Francisco area later this year. Findings from both of the trips will be coordinated in developing programs in this area to improve education. The eastern trip and the one planned to California for Medford school repre s e n t a tives are being financed by non-tax monies in connection with the Oregon Program. I Participation in ! Government Is 'Urged of Veterans "It is now up to us veter ans ,to answer an even high , cr call of duty - lo participate i actively in government, to help Ihe government so there I will not be another great war" Speaking was Edward Branchfield, Medford lawyer j and legislator-elect. He spoke ! to a handful of persons who i attended the dedication of the J speaker's platform in the Med ford library park this morn ! ing. ! ' The dedication ceremonies were followed by a Veterans jday parade through downtown ! Medford. "It's entirely possible that if we have another great war ' there will be no veterans," Branchfield added. As rain clouds cleared away and sun filtered through the leaves, Branchfield noted thai it "usually rains" on Veterans ' day which seems oddly ip i propriate, since soldiers dur 1 ing all wars find themselves ! engulfed in mud and rain, j Veteran Can Heip ' H is not what we can get j from the government, but how i the veterans can help Ihe srv i eminent lo become strong and avoid another war." the Med j ford lawyer said, j Relating the background of ; the .speaker's stand. Branch ; field told how Mrs. T. W. (Jessie W.) Miles left money for Medford park develop ment. Most of this was used for development of Haw thorne park with the remain der used for the speakers stand. It took the joint efforts of the Medford city council, lo cal Veterans' Council and Pal Graham. Disabled American Veterans official, lo make the speaker's stand a reality. Branchfield noted. Spanish Arrrican War Vel Col William H. Paine. 12. Medford. a veteran of the Spanish American War. was introduced by Branchfield. He commented that such cere monies "are a very wholesome thing." The colonel related to news men later that he had been in the Puerto Rico campaign of the Spanish American war '. and was stationed lor two years in Cuba. Commenting fin the present International crisis involving Cuba. Colonel Paine said. "I donf know what is to become of Cuba and the Cuban people De velopment of i haracter as a truly Republican nation is re slncted due to poverty and lark of education '' K I lowing the sp'M-eh the parade was held. .leddah, Saudi Arabia -H'PH-Iman Mohammed El-Badr of Yemen, first reported dead and then wounded by the mili tary junta which overthrew j him. is very much alive and j U7!r)inu a hur-H fintil for the ' restoration of his throne. El-Badr discussed his plans over the week end with a group of newsmen who were flown to his Yemen head quarters from Saudi Arabia. He said his royalist troops controlled much of Yemen and were driving toward Sanaa, the seat of the Republi can capital under President Brig. Abdullah Sallal, Taiz and the Port of Hodeida. El-Badr was first reported "destroyed" when the mili tary junta shelled the royal palace al Taiz in the Sepl. 26 coup. Laler. he was reported by the Republicans as wound ed and confined in a Saudi Arabian hospital. I First Appearance I His recorded voice las been ! broadcast since his reported I death, but this was his first appearance before newsmen since the coup. El-Badr bitterly attacked United Arab Republic Presi dent Gamal Abdcl Nasser, who has supported Ihe Repub licans with arms. He said Ihe "massacres and bloodshed in Yemen" were "caused by President Nasser's lust for power and expansion." The Iman denied Saudi and : Jordanian troops wpre in I volvcd in Ihe civil war in ; Yemen. i t While Soviet Russia and j I the Communist bloc has rccog- J nized the new regime, tin j West, with the exception of I West Germany, has so far re- fused diplomatic recognition. Guam Destruction Said 95 Per Cent Washington - I11PII - The gov- i ernor of Guam reported to President Kennedy today that j the typhoon which swept the Pacific island Sunday niijht destroyed 95 per cent of the (civilian communities, intiud- j ing commercial and residen tial establishments. The President ordered an immediate survey of relief needs wher he received the re- i port from acting Gov. Manuel ; Guerrero. Kennedy also proclaimed ' the existence of a major dis- : aster area in Guam. Director Edward McDer molt of the Office of Emergency- Planning dispatched a j team of experts to the island to survey the damage prior to allocation of federal re lief funds. The American Red Cross also sent five disaster work ers In Guam from its Wash ington headquarters, Tokyo and the Philippines Porilander Heads Sl3te Employees Portland mi Chalmers Jones of Portland, an em ployee of Ihe Stale Depart ment of Employment, has been elected president of tV Oregon Slate Employees as sociation Al Geiss. Klamath Falls, a staff member at Oregon Tech nical Institute, was named vice president and Mrs. Mar ian Johnson. Salem, was re elected .secretary-treasurer. Reelected to Ihe hoard of directors for )WA were Huth Branch, Salem, director of .civil service; Ellon Lafky. Sa lem, law and legislation, and : John Schoonover. Salem, in ! sura nee. New members are ; Robert Simon. Salem, public 1 relations; G o r d o n Tomlin, ' Portland, membership, and Bales. Bend, retirement. i n .ii s i HiilWl Atorknsf I PAIR CAPTURED -- Jacqueline Rose, 19, girl friend of Bobby Randell Wilcoxson, one of the FBI's 10 most wanted men, is shown with an FBI agent as she was taken before a federal judge for arraignment after she and Wil coxson were arrested in Baltimore, Md., where they were posing as father and daughter under assumed names in a rented home. (UPI) AFL-CIO Council Seeks Solution To Meany-Reufher Tiff Washington WRi The AKL- CIO Executive council sought today to . find a compromise that would end a boiling feud between President George Meany and Vice President Walter Reuther. The 2n-member council was ca I led into c loscd sess ion to fill a vacancy in its member ship. Meany and Reuther. long at odds on union policy, wen? in violent disagreement over a choice for the job. Neulral members of Ihe council have been disturbed for several months that the disagreement might split the giant labor organization. But a spokesman for Reu ther said he privately had de nied reports lhat he was plan ning to resign or pull out of the federation because of this dispute. Reuther, head of Ihe United Auto Workers, has been insist ing on a selection from t h e ranks of the industrial, or for mer CIO. unions. Meany has refused to go along. The r e were indicat inns, however, that neither Meany nor Reuther wanted to push for an unconditional s h o w. down. A union source said someone Irom the CIO camp, other than Ileulher's first choice, probably would lie se lected. Meany lias enough votes in the council In beat Reuther. But if he pushed for a show down, the highly influential Reuther might resign or pull the 1.:in().0iHl.mcmber UAW out of the federation. The council vacancy was created by the resignation of Lei and S. Burkmasler. former president of Ihe United Rub ber Workers. The former CIO group on the council chose United Packinghouse Work ers President Ralph HeMein to succeed BiirkmaMcr. The Meany side balked Meany was said to contend that while the industrial un ions had a right to nominate their own man for ihe coun WEATHER I- OHM AST: Inlr rtiiHtni mm wlih MiuihMrt Hind Ml - ! , mil" per hour I hi nlknnion. riondv with ruin loniehl. br romiiit shuHrrv wlllt (laMial ; 1 IfJiriiif Til-rt)iv. Sihiw levrl i i lowriltt-K lt 1.IHW ffrt liv Tnrs- '. rtav morning . low ton it li I 411. Mich T11 nil ay I Hiihtil ler(1av VI l.ftwftt The. MornHif u 1 l'rptii. In Id a m Imlav .SB Our Skies Tonight : Xiinl Oirinv I .11 i m , ! SimrKr Oiimirniw a.m. j ! Mminrlr tmOfht mi p.m. ' 1 I.-; Otinrter Nov. IK f PHOMINrNT HT H ! Alflrharan, nrar hr Mmm. I VISIMl.i; t'l.A N r"M j Jnpifrr, 1"? "Hifh T (tfi p. nt Katiirn. low In tmtthWf! H ' 1 p m. I ril-rv rUM II tip m. cil. Ihe nominee must be ac ceptable to Ihe majority. The dispute over a succes sor to Burkmasler has been pending for months. Al a meeting in Chicago last Au ! gust, the council postponed a vole lo avoid possible in ternal chaos before the con gressional elections. Two Hospitalized Alter Sunday Crash ! Central Point - Three per sons were injured with two ' of them hospitalized Sunday as the result of a two-vehicle 1 collision in Central Poiul I last evening. S Reported in good condition today at Crater Osteopathic 1 hospital after suffering shock and minor injuries in the lie- t rident were It e b a Lena . Bailey, 38, of box (107, Gold Hill, and Betty Lorene Em mons, TH, of 11120 Ross lane, Medford. Mrs. Bailey's husband. Hu bert, 4.'l. also suffered minor ! Injuries but was released af ter treatment at Craler hos pital. The aecidenl occurred al Alder st. and Highway al : H h p.m. Central Point police said, when Bailey, driving a pickup truck, attempted a left turn and collided with an auto driven by Mrs. Emmons. Central Point police cited Bailey for failure to yield right of way. Fruit Worker Is Killed in Accident Attempls were still being made today to conlacl the next of kin of a transient fruit worker who was killed when struck by a car near 'lalcnt Salurday night. The victim. Clair W. I.ar sen. 51. became Jackson county's lltlh traffic fatality for !Mi2 when he was hit by a car driven by Lawrence Hill. :!!. Salem. Slate police said Larson was . apparently walking on Highway !MI when the acci dent happened about H:25 1) m. No citations w Te issued. , Larsen had been employed for several seasons as a fruit ' worker at Suncresl Orchards in the Talent urea. Another pedestrian. Rich ard Lange, 61, Beaverton. wa killed when he was 'struck tiy a car near Iteaver tnn Friday night, according to L'niled Press International, to he Ihe o'her traffic Hecidi-id fatality during the week end $m the slate ! Craft Heeded lo Bolster Defenses In Border War Machinery To Make Arms Also Requested ! New Delhi ilil'H Prime Min ister Jawaharlal Nehru said ; today that India had asked the ; United States for military air , craft to bolster Indian de j fenses in the border war with i Red China. He also asked for American machinery to pro i duce arms in India. The U. S. Knihassy here con-1 ' su'"" formed thai both requests ". 1was,Pi,r were under consideration. ' ', A , y T slruc'ur" On the fighting fronts, In- 1' 'nT,, ,T BaS? dia reported its troops had A"fl" "" " y S J?""; driven back two new Chinese I ,'r.,C ,m"i,n ,,ase lhc vast Communist probing attacks in i the Northeast Frontier Area during the week end. ' A Defense Ministry spok.-s- i man said the engagements "T ' ' . . nonn- of the monastery town of To-, : wang, and in the far eastern ! I stretch of Ihe Northeast Fron- j tier near Walong. r-U.H - ck.n.j A Communist New China j news agency broadcast said I Indian troops shelled Commu j nist forces heavily Saturday in both the Walong and Towang I areas. New China said Indian I heavy artillery fired more than lot) rounds on Chinese 'positions. The broadcast heard in Lon-1 don also said Indians havp in. I creased their air drops of sup plies as well as flights over Communist positions. The spokesman said two In dian patrols contacted Chinese Red troops near Walong and fire was exchanged. He said the Chinese troops "were I forced to withdraw." i Soldiers Wounded He said four ii,Hi:, ci.ii.,,... I were wounded in the week I end engagemenls but Chinese . iiiiiuiiuiiisi casualties were . nol known. The report indicated that .both Chinese Communist j Iroops and Indians remained ; active in the vicinity of Wa ! long. Hi miles south of the j disputed McMahon Line fron tier near Ihe Burma border. I Nehru disclosed his request I for U. S, aircraft in a talk ! Willi newsmen. Cuban Exi7es Fear Castro Has Missiles Miami, Kla. - Win Cuban exile leaders here fear Pre mier Fidel Castro still has mis siles tucked away on his Com munist island which are cap able of striking as far as New York. EDUCATOIRS TO MEET , Kugene 'I'Pli A limit Kill) educators are expected for the Oregon School Boards associ ation convention here nexl Wednesday through Friday. Norstcd Declares NATO Deficiencies 'Serious1 Paris Supreme Al lied Commander Gen. Lauris Norslad warned today lhat NATO forces in Kuropp are "critically short" and suff'-r fiom "deficiencies of serious proportions." Norslad expressed confi dence, however, lhat Kurope ran be defended, lie dis closed he has ordered a mo bile forward defne in most fif (Vntral Kurope rather lh.ni holding rear positions. Norstad adrlressi-d th eighth annual Conference of Parliamenlarians nf the North Atlantic Treaty Organization countries. The supreme allied com mandrr was to have retired from his post Oct. HI bul he was asked to stay a iew mnnths longrr because nf the Cuban crisis. The lacl is. and I have made no st'crcl nf it. that o.ir fu'i-cs are critically short in .tiiiMiobrr of ways Tin-re an- Disaster Area h Wake of Storm Damage Estimated At $100 Million Tokyo It'l'l' Typhoon Ka ren churned through the Pa cific tonight toward t h e Philippine island of Luzon after raking Guam with winds of 175 miles an hour and caus ing $100 million damage. Al least one Guam civilian was reported killed and hun dreds injured. Thousands of persons were reported home less in the wake of the storm that swept over the island Sunday night. The u. S. Navy said there . were no casulaties among U. S. military forces or their dupondelitM. After striking Guam, the storm raced west - northwest Inward heavily populated Lu zon at 1!) miles per hour. II was expected to be about 3S0 miles off I.llon's c:il r.i.:wl within the next 21 hours. ! Mightiest Blow The Navy said il was the mightiest blow a lyphoon i ever has dealt Guam, j In San Francisco, federal I officials declared the island a I disaster area, making il eli- gible to receive low-interest I loans for rebuilding. I U.S. Air Force officials al A Navy spokesman in Hono lulu said every four out of five civilian homes lost their rooftops as the eye of the I storm passed over the island, the westernmost United State, . possession. The Navy said Guam's hos- pilals were being swamped with a steady stream of in jured civilians. .im: u.a, military news ' paper Pacific Stars and j Stripes quoted the U.S. Navy (radio station at Agana, the .capital city, as saying that j "many buildings at Agana were totally destroyed and many olhers badly damaged." The report said powerful siorm winds topped at least 30 per cent of the utility poles in Agana and at least half of Guam's natives were left homeless. The Island has about b'7,00() residents. Typhoon Karen was dp scribed as slightly larger than Ihe average lyphoon in Ihn Pacific. It was said to be moving west into Ihe open sea al about 15 miles an hour ' Bnfl rill nl pnw an humc- and 1 dla,c throal lo Bny olnpr liintI lm'"s' discount Available I On Property Taxes i Properly taxes must be paid I by Nov. IS lo receive thp three per cent discount. Mrs. Marjorie Brooks, chief lax j deputy, has reminded resi- dents. ; During October delintuenl real and personal property taxes collected totaled S10B, III2.17, Mrs. Boorks said. This .rompares lo S7u.5R(i.:i8 for Ihe same period last year. J Of the total collected for the month. $4l),3!l.4ll was de MiiKluenl personal property I taxes. A portion of this was j levied as Tar back as fiscal .year 1950-5 1, she added j Personal properly taxes collected after they bream delinquent total $50,796.7!) i since Sepl. 17, the date a lax deputy was assigned lo the i department, il was reported. i deficiencies of serious propor tions," Norslad told the l.Vna- ' tion conference. French Foreign Minister Maurice Couve de Murville told the conference earlier thai Kurope would have been involved if a war had broken ! oul over Cuba. "Kverymie here understood that if it had developed fur ther all would have been in volved (piickly," Couve de , Mur ville said. The French foreign minister said it would have been dif ficult lo keep a conflict over Cuba confined to Just, the Untied States and Hie Soviet Union. Couve de Murville described the Soviet nuclear weapons in Cubji as "both offensive and provocative " He said the 'United Stales had Ihe "per fectly justifiable feeling that it.s national security was dh rectly menaced hv the Soviet l ' n on " 4
