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Newspaper Page TextCuba SaM To StilMPose 'Difficult Praieis'; Regional Edition MedfordJTribune MEDFORD, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER Led Chinese rive Indian roops Back New Delhi-dlPD-Communist Chinese forces drove Indian defenders back to within a few miles of the teagrowing Plains of Assam in the hours before a ceasefire the Reds had set for today. But as the deadline passed, there was no word from the mountain front on whether the fighting had stopped. Communist China claimed in a Peking Radio broadcast heard in London that it had cleared Indian forces out of all strong points they held "in Chinese territory" in western . sectors near the Sino-Indian border. The Defense Ministry dis closed that the Chinese attack ers had broken through In dian defense lines to within a few miles of the Assam Plains on the northeast fron tier. Indians Cleared Out There was an exchange of fire in the Chusul area of Ladakh in the northwest, but Indian forces there held firm to their positions. A defense spokesman said Indian troops had fallen back 80 miles along the Lohit river southwest from the town of Walong near the Burma bord er, a route that led to the Digboi oilfields in eastern Assam. This was a withdraw al of 64 miles since Tuesday. Admits Chinese Gains The spokesman said that in the western sector of the North East Frontier Agency, the Chinese Communists had made "some breakthrough to ward the foothills," indicating the attackers were nearing the Assam Plains in this area, too. He reinforced this view by saying that "sporadic fighting is in progress in the moun tains some miles south of Bomdila," the vital pass in the Himalayas that gives ac cess to the main road to Tez pur, headquarters of Indian army forces in the northeast. Only a few hours before the deadline for the ceasefire which the Chinese Reds said they would put into effect, an official spokesman here re fused to say whether the In dians would end hostilities. He pointed out that no for mal communication had been received in New Delhi from Peking up to that time about the cease fire. But he pointed out that Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru told Parliament later in the day that "he would consider the question of the cease fire" as soon as he was handed the Chinese proposal. Nehru indicated he might re ject Red China's cease fire bid. Offices, Stores To Be Closed Thanksgiving City, county, slate and fed eral offices will be closed Thanksgiving day and county school students will not re turn to classes until Monday, Nov. 26. The Mail Tribune will pub lish a noon edition. It will in clude Christmas shopper sec tions. Among stale offices closed tomorrow will be the Oregon Liquor commission store on North Grape St. HEWStft rrtMi from "j pry AIR FORCE TO RELEASE RESERVISTS i Washinglon-iri'-The Air Force loon will release more than 14,000 reterviiU called to active duly in the Cuban; crisit, it wii reported today. j CUBANS INDICTED FOR CONSPIRACY WashingIon-ll'l-Thrt Cubant arrested last week end in New York were indicted today en charges of conspiring to sabotage American defense installations as agents oi the Fidel Castro Government. U.S. SENDING CARGO PLANES TO INDIA Washington! PI The United States announced today it j will send 12 jet-prop cargo planes with American crews to; India in response to India's urgent plea lor fresh military! supplies to counter Chinese Communists border assaults. 16 Pages Nehru told an angry Par liament that India dose "not propose to negotiate" with Communist China until its troops are pulled back to po sitions they held last Sept. 8. But he refused to reject the offer flatly until he saw an official text of the note from Peking. In a surprise move, the Chi nese Communists had an nounced that they would put the cease fire into effect to day, but they continued to roll forward as the deadline neared. Biddle Rd.Zone Change Is Granted By Medford Council The Medford city council last night granted a zone change on Bidle rd., denied a request for a sign variance, and approved a change in the parking ratio for commercial zones in the city. The council zipped through the three - page agenda in an hour and a half, disposing of a number of troublesome mat ters that had been carried over from previous meetings. About 10 acres of land ad jacent to the Interstate 5 free way interchange on Biddle rd. were rczoned by the coun cil from single-family to lim ited commercial. Vote Breaks Tie The council was divided evenly on the zone change request, and it took Mayor John W. Snider's affirmative vole to break a 4 to 4 tie. Councilman Robert Baccus had warned that approval of the request would constitute an "intrusion into a residen tial area." Councilman Stan Stark countered that in view Chlorine May Be Added All Winter There is a possibility that chlorine will be added to the Medford water supply throughout the winter months, Robert L. Lee, water superin tendent, said today. Chlorine was first added to the water Nov. 15 as a pre cautionary measupe to main tain the water purity since the heavy rains in October. Lee explained that the de partment may be able to re duce the amount of chlorine added later this year, but this will depend entirely on tesls. He noted that the department found during the past two years that after heavy rains the water would not measure up to its usual high standards. The amount of chlorine being added is one pound per 10,000.000 pounds of water. The chlorine is added as a gas at a point below Big Butte Springs and is generally dis sipated before the water gels to the users, Lee noted. He said the amount of cholr ine being used here is approxi mately one - thirtieth of the amount used in other Oregon cities. .BRIEFS AROUND THI OlOtl Price 10 Cents 21, 1962 No. 209 BIRTHDAY John Nance Garner, former vice president of the United Slates, will cele brate his 94th birthday on Thanksgiving day with a quiet day at his home in Uvalde, Tex., where a few friends will visit briefly. (UPI) of the location of the proper ty, he couldn't "visualize any use but commercial." The planning commission had rec ommended the zone change. A request by Standard Oil company to erect a 50-foot sign advertising its Biddle rd. freeway interchange serv ice station was turned down by a 5 to 3 vote of the coun cil. The oil company had ar gued the unusual height for the sign was necessary so it would be visible over the In tcrnational Harvester compa ny building to north - bound traffic on the Interstate 5 freeway. Create Unsightly Mess In voting against the re quest, Baccus said he feared if the one sign were granted, the city would end up with a "hodge-podge of signs at the interchange which would cre ate an unsightly mess." Councilman Donald Hansen concurred with Baccus. "One such sign might not be offen sive," he said, "but 30 would be." The council voted to change the parking ratio in commer cial zones from 4 to 1 (that is four feet of parking space for every one foot of floor space in a commercial build ing) to 3 to 1. Cast No Votes The vote on the measure was 6 to 2, with Councilmen Fred Robinson and Donald Hansen casting no votes. Bac cus qualified his yes vote by saying he felt there was no "great pressure to make the change now," and that he would have preferred to con sider the matter at a later time. Speaking in support of the change, Councilman William Singlor said he felt the 4 to 1 ratio was "out of propor tion," and that 3 to 1 was more "realistic" and in the interests of good planning. The planning commission had advocated the change in ratio. The measure, in effect, wiP release about 25 per cent more commercial land in areas such as the Medford Shopping Center for building purposes. . -wrj ;-jn&r $289,001 Paid to County by Company Pacific Northwest Bell joined other businesses and residents of Jackson county in paying l!)fl2-6'3 property taxes last Thursday. J. H. Creagcr, manager (or the company, said a check lor $280,001 97 had been sent to the courthouse. The net amount alter discount was one of the largest payments in the county this year. "We certainly recognize that it is actually our custom ers who foot the tax bill." Crcauer said. "Even though the company sends in the tax check, only people pay taxes'." Throughout (he stale, Pa cific Northwest Bell paid tax es totaling $5 4 million, an in crease of some 7 8 per cent over last yenr. Kremlin Orders Reveal Missiles Ready for Action Warsaw Pact Orders Rescinded Moscow - WPll - The Soviet Union today canceled the military preparedness meas ures it took last month at the height of the Cuban crisis. It said President Kennedy's lift ing the Cuban blockade made the relaxation possible. The orders to the Soviet armed forces disclosed for the first time that intercontinen tal ballistic missiles had been in a slate of "combat readi ness" and indicated that some submarines had been sent to battle stations. Told of Decision The announcement came shortly after Moscow Radio told the Soviet people of the President's decision to end the blockade. But the broad cast did not mention the fact that U.S. aerial surveillance of the island will continue. Later, Moscow Radio broke its silence on the Chinese Communist cease fir? in the Indian border war. It broad cast a four - minute summary of the Chinese decision with. out comment. The military measures in cluded a holdover of rocket forces and other key forces scheduled for discharge and an increase in the general state of combat readiness of all the armed forces. Other Orders Rescinded The official announcement, broadcast by Moscow Radio, said that similar readiness orders given to the Warsaw Pact forces of Russia's East European allies also were be ing rescinded. It said the decision was made "in connection with the orders issued by President Kennedy on the lifting of the quarantine (blockade) of Cuba." The orders were given to the forces, it said, "in con nection with the possibility that has appeared for liqui dating the aftermath of the dangerous crisis that has tak en place in the Caribbean Sea." Grants Pass Man Killed in Accident Grants Pass - A Grants Pass man was killed yesterday afternoon when the car on which he was working rolled off two bumper jacks, pinning him underneath the car. According to Grants Pass city police, John Robert Noble, 54, of 1100 Southwest L st., was installing overload springs on the car when the accident occurred. He was discovered by a neighbor, Leon P. Kellogg, who arrived home about 1 p.m. Kellogg jacked up the car and with his wife freed Noble, but efforts to revive him by police and firemen failed. Noble is survived by his wife, Incze Noble, Grants Pass. Funeral services will be held Saturday at 2 p.m. at the L. B. Hall chapel, Grants Pass. Interment will follow at Hill crest Memorial park. Makeup Clinic Set For Sabin Vaccine A makeup session for all people wlfo failed to receive the Type II Sabin oral vac cine will be held in the Jack son county courthouse Friday from 1 to 5 p.m., according to Dr. A. Erin Merkel, public health officer. The makeup clinic is de signed primarily for students away to school when the earli er sessions were held, and for other individuals who missed the earlier clinics for some reason. No new people will be start ed in the clinic Friday, Dr. Merkel emphasized. The clinic is merely for those who have had all except the Type II. I WEATHER I HIIIKf T: I In.iflv vllh a lrw I M'nnkln c..i..:nl I h r o n i. h I IhiirMlav nichl. I.ow Innishl ; lu-li. hurdj.v 50. j I Tfmlt. I 1 Hletint Vrlrrdav (ill i I 'ihui This .Morning XX I I'rrr. to 10 a.m. luday, Tlaiej ! Our Skies Tonight Suntrt lodav Minrttr tumorrow Moonrl tomorrow 4:15 pi 7:11 art J:lt a.r Srvt Moon Nov. : I'lMIMIM.NT STAR Itrccihi. rtt-R .11:11 VIMlll.t: 1'I.ASfTS Mark, ahrivr Itrinhit. salurn, low In kouih. Kt 1:J Jnntpr, n touthwfftl 9:17 1 Yenua, r!fs :! t 1 v r t.fifY k 1 4 i Y . . 5 f 4. ' ' , V Y.. . ' 1 iXt"' r'"tN- ( V" ' ' s ' . " "" JOHNSON CREEK FLOODS Heavy rainfall in the Port land area forced Johnson creek to go over its banks and Flood Danger Eases; am Breaks in Several Dozen Families Flee in Tillamook County By United Press International Flood danger eased today after heavy rains washed out an Oregon dam and sent streams in southwest Washing ton out of their banks as moth er nature dealt the area its third blow in less than six weeks. Families on lowlands along Oregon's Nestucca river evac uated late Tuesday when the carthfill Mcadowlake dam burst northwest of McMinn ville and released waters of a lake a mile long and 10 to 15 feet deep. Chief Deputy Sheriff Mel Walpole of Tillamook county estimated at least several doz en families left their homes as the high water swept some 50 miles down the river to the sea at Pacific City. All families except one had re turned to their homes by this morning. Takes Out Bridges The wall of water shoved logs and debris before it, knocking out five small bridges, including a 100-foot Bureau of Land Management structure. It also took out some 200 foot of new highway near the dam and washed over several small roads. Highway 101 near Hebo was blocked for a while by high water, backing up cars. Cattle were herded from low land farms to higher pastures. The flooding came about two weeks after an earth quake jarred northwest Ore gon and southwest Washing ton and less than six weeks after the region's killer wind storm. It came just two days short of the two-year anniver sary of flooding that caused evacuations on Thanksgiving of 1880 in northwest Oregon. Cooler mountain tempera tures and a let-up in the rain fall eased the floor! danger to day and smaller streams were going down. The weather man said another disturbance had formed in the Pacific and ! would reach the coast tonight, j Southwest Washington was ' hard hit. I The Lewis river covered j 30. Robert L. Sweany, gen farmland.s in the Clark-Cow-1 eral manager of the Portland j litz county border area and some families in northern ! Clark county left their homes Tuesday morning. Others 1 evacuated as the Kahuna river i went up. A trailer court and motel were inundated near j Highway !)!). The Cowlitz j river was excepted to crest ! at 19 5 fr et, half a toot over flood stage. school man hurt , To Support Liberals Albany TPI Paul Mono. Vatican City - HTl' - Pope vice principal of (he Milwau-' John XX1I1 intervened today kie. Ore , high school was ser-1 to support "liberals" at the iously hurt today when his car Ecumenical Council and halt left the freeway south of Al-1 debate on a subject that could bany and crashed into a sign, limit the pruspects of Chris state police reported. tlan unity. 3 Oregon Reclamation Congress to Meet In City This Month "Reclamation and Recrea iion" will be tin; theme of the 52nd annual meeting of the Oregon Reclamation Congress in Medford Nov. 28 to 30, according to John Stewart, Klamath Falls, president. Although the Congress is primarily an association of irrigation districts In the state, the meetings are open to anyone interested in the field of water resource, ac cording to Marvin Shearer, Oregon State university ex tension irrigation specialist and Congress secretary. Meetings will be held in the auditorium of the Jackson county extension office. Registration at the audi torium will open at 1:30 p.m. Nov. 28. Committee meetings will fill the rest of the first day's schedule. Those attend ing also may register Nov. 29 at 8:30. Engineer to Speak A symposium on "Oregon's Water Resources Situation" will open the program Nov. 20. Chris Wheeler. Salem, Or egon state engineer, will speak on the watermastcr sit uation in Oregon. The status of ground water in the state will be discussed by Jack Sceva, Salem, state ground water geologist, and the ac tivities of the State Water Re source Board will be describ ed by Don Lane, executive secretary of the board. Luncheon speaker will be Harold Nelson, Boise, direc tor of region one, bureau of reclamation, whose topic will be "Recreation on Reclama tion Projects." That afternoon, Tom Hcl selh, Portland, state conser vationist with Soil Conserva tion Service, will report on the stains of Oregon projects being planned under the small watersheds act. Gill Stamm, chief of Irrigation and land use, bureau of reclamation in Washington, D. C, will speak at the banquet. Annual Business Meeting Congress members will hold their annual business ! meeting Friday morning, Nov. Chamber of Commerce, will be the luncheon speaker. Friday afternoon a second symposium is scheduled, this one to be built around Ihe theme of the conference. Par ticipants will be Andy Land force. OSU extension wild life management specialist n L !..... r ufjc tfirrir I trr cr venca - ( flood southwest Portland. Some traffic tie-ups occurred as drains plugged leaving streets inundated. (UPI) Oregon Jack tsmiord, Portland, ex ecutive board chairman of the Izaak Walton League; Le Selle Coles, Prinevlllc, Na tional Reclamation Congress president; John Ncidcrmeycr, j Medford orchardisl, and Joe Smith, Klamath Falls, Slate game commission member. Freeway Section Opens to Traffic To North Medford The section of Interstate 5 between Seven Oaks inter change to Crater Lake high way interchange opened this morning. Barriers were removed for northbound traffic al 8 a.m. and for southbound traffic at 8:30 a.m. Local stale highway depart ment officials reported that department cars lead the first vehicles through to direct them to the proper exit ramps. Tentative plans call for the opening of the section be tween Crater Lake highway and Barnett rd. the afternoon of Dec. 20. Turning Lane Construction started this week on a turning lane for northbound traffic on South Riverside ve. at Stewart ave. The lane will handle the in creased amount of traffic turning onto Stewart ave. en route to the Barnetl rd. Inter change once that section Is opened. Approximately one-quarter of an acre of Mcdford's Alba park is being used for the construction. A right of entry was given the stale by the Medford city council lasl month. 11 was stressed that no trees will be removed. The widening necessitated I the extension of a concrete I box now under Stewart ave. j Widening will be only on the curve, it was noted, since the 1 present turn Is difficult to maneuver. I The triangular piece of park i properly needed for the proj ieel is approximately 73 feet I on Riverside ave. and 88 feet , on Slewart ave. Highway department of ficials said that no change will be necessary to handle the j southbound traffic. ORDER REVERSED Salem-ilPP-An order issued by Public Utility Commission er Jonel C. Hill which denied a water rale Increase to bepoo Bay Development Co, in Lin coln county has been reversed by the Marion County Circuit Court here. Kennedy Removes Censorship on Military Data Washington -(UI'll- President Kennedy says Cuba still poses "difficult problems" although Russia's agreement to take its jet bombers home from Cuba has removed the immediate danger of East-West hostili ties. Kennedy announced al the opening of his news confer. ence Tuesday night that So viet Premier Nlkila Khrush chev had assured him that all of the IL28 twin-jet bombers in Cuba "will bo withdrawn I in 30 days." Blockade Lifted On the basis of this pledge, Ihe President said, he had ordered the U.S. arms block ade of Cuba lifled. It was Im posed Oct. 24. The Navy, in announcing the removal of Ihe blockade ships, revealed the strength of the force for the first time to day. It said 63 ships and 25, 000 men were deployed. The blockade force exceeded the number of ships in the power ful U.S. 0th fleet in the Medi terranean. Ships To Be Checked In agreeing to pull out the bombers, Khrush c h e v also said ships carrying the planes back to Russia could be check ed for compliance. The Navy said these checks would be carried out by Atlantic Fleet antisubmarine forces, chiefly with P2V patrol planes equip ped with cameras. The tension-easing bomber removal pledge and the halt ing of the U.S. blockade was followed today by a Russian announcement that military preparedness measures it took at the peak of the Cuban crisis had been called off. Humble Requests Lease Along Willamette River Salem - turn - Humble Oil & Refining Co. Tuesday asked the Oregon Land Board for an oil and gas lease on 492 acres of the bed of the Wilamctte river in Marion and Polk counties. The acreage runs for about six miles northerly from Salem. Salem Man Named Deputy State Highway Engineer Salem - ll'PH - The Oregon Highway Commission Tues day appointed Roderick L. Porter, 58, Salem, as depuly .Vale highway engineer, ef fective Dec. 1. He will be the Oregon Highway Department's num ber two man, Just under Stale Highway Engineer For rest Cooper. Porter, who has been an assistant highway engineer I for the past year, succeeds G. S. Paxson, 69, who is retir ing. Porter's job as assistant will be filled by Lloyd P. Shaw, metropolitan engineer for the State Highway De partment In Portland. Fred B. Khiboe, Snlem, Bn Kennedy Orders Cuban Blockade Force Removed Russia Agrees To Remove Bombers Washington -HTD- President Kennedy Tuesday lifted the voluntary censorship placed on military information dur ing the Cuban crisis. He said his recent information poli cies might have prevented a disaster. Much of the President's news conference Tuesday night was devoted to the gov ernment's handling of infor mation during the Cuban crisis, and new information policies in the state and de fense departments. Kennedy said it would have been "possibly disastrous" if news of the Russian buildup in Cuba had "dribbled out" prematurely. And during the days follow ing the announcement of the missile threat, he said, re straints on information were necessary to have the govern ment "speak with one voice." Lifts Press Order He said the 11 points "that we made to the press in re gard to voluntary restraints on the movement of troops and so on" would be lifted im mediately. Kennedy also said "there will be a change, I think, in the State Department policy directive" requiring all offi cials to make reports on their conversations with newsmen. He Indicated no change in a similar directive at the De fense Department. "The need" at the State Department, he said, "is somewhat different from what it is in the Defense Department." The Defense Department, he said, deals with "very sen sitive intelligence and the methods by which that intelli gence is received. He said his only interest in establishing such policies was to prevent release of military information "extremely inimi cal" to the national interest. Ho indicated he was mainly concerned with the possible leakage of intelligence infor mation. Union Services Slated in Area Union Thanksgiving services are scheduled in the Rogue valley tonight and Thursday morning. In Medford, the service will be held at Zion Lutheran church. Fourth st. and Oak dale ave., at 10 a.m. Speaker will be the Rev. W. E. Martin, First Church of God. In Ashland, the service also will be at 10 a.m. at the First Presbyterian church. Edwin Hamon, pastor of Ashland Friends church, will speak. In Talent, the service will be at 7:30 o'clock tonight at the Talent Friends church with Mrs. Violet Bolliger, min ister of the Methodist church. speaking. Also at 7:30 o'clock tonight will be the service In Phoenix at the Presbyterian church. Individual churches which have scheduled services in clude Apostolic Faith, 10:30 i.; Ascension Lutheran, 10 a.m.: First Church of Christ. Scientist, 10 a.m.: Sacred Heart Catholic church, 8 and a.m. masses; St. Mark's Episcopal, 11 a.m.; St. Peter's Lutheran, 10 a.m.; Unity Church of Medford, 10 a.m.: and Ashland Grace Lutheran church, 10:30 a.m., all Thurs day. Ail of the services are open to the public. assistant construction engi neer, was promoted to Shaw's Job in Portland. Still another Dart of the shakcup caused by Paxson's retirement is the appoint ment of Gilmore L. Decker, Salem, a field construction engineer, who will lake Kla- boe's old Job. The shakcup In personnel also resulted in the promo tion of two department em ployees in Roseburg., J. F. Putnam, assistant division en gineer for southwest Oregon, moves to Salem to take Deck er's Job as field construction engineer. John H. Qulncr, resident bridge engineer for southwest Oregon, will take over Putnam's post In Roseburg.