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MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1962
Four Sections
No. 212
Cuban Exiles
Tell Of Plans
For New 'Raids'
Miami -(UPD- A Cuban exile
group known as "Commandos
L-66" Saturday warned the
Castro regime to expect new
hit-and-run raids on Cuba now
that the United States naval
blockade has ended.
At the same time. Dr. Au
reliano Sanchez Arango, lead
er of the Triple-A organiza
tion, said in an interview that
"the days of the terrorist re
gime of Cuba are numbered."
Triple - A was originally
founded by Sanchez Arango
years ago for the under
ground struggle against de
posed strongman Fugencio Ba
tista. Commandos L-66 is the new
name of the old Alpha 66 or
ganization which recently
split up into two groups. One
group adopted the new name;
the other retained the name
Alpha 66.
A spokesman for Comman
dos L-66 said:
"We are going to renew
raids on Cuba as soon as pos
sible. We now have enough
money to carry out the first
new action."
Ignoring apparent United
States policy toward discour
aging such raids, the spokes
man appealed to both Cuban
exiles and Americans to sup
port the group's military
plans with contributions.
There was no indication
where the projected raids
would be launched from or
what equipment might be
used.
Air Travel Poll
To Be Conducted
The aviation committee of
the Medford Chamber of
Commerce Friday afternoon
completed the draft of a
questionaire concerning com
mercial air travel to and from
Medford.
The completed form, which
contains nine questions, will
be mailed to a representative
list of about 436 individuals
and companies in the area to
determine their flight schedul
ing needs.
Air travel with the three
commercial airlines at the
municipal airport has steadily
declined in recent months,
statistics reveal.
The chamber committee,
feeling that inconvenient
flight schedules may be a ma
jor factor in the decline, de
cided to sample user prefer
ences with an aim toward pos
sible revision of the airlines'
flight patterns.
Manville Heiscl, chairman
of the aviation committee, said
that extra questionnaires will
be available at the chamber
office and at the airlines' of
fices at the airport for per
sons who may wish to have
their preferences counted in
the survey.
GOP PICKS CLAUSEN
Ukiah, Calif. - (UPD - Del
Norte County Supervisor Don
ald Clausen, who lost to the
lalo ripm Miller in the Nov.
6 election, was selected Satur
day to carry the Republican
party standard in a special
runoff for the first district
congressional seat.
Moscow -(UPD- Soviet scien
tists claim they are maintain
ing "stable radio communica
tions" with their 1.970-pound
Mars probe, now speeding to
ward its mission of photo
graphing the mysterious red
planet.
NEWS(Q)BRIEFS
itims moM ND wl 0l0M
AIR FORCE LAUNCHES SATELLITE
Vandenberg Air Fore Bast, Calif. 'I Pf1 Tht Air Fore
Saturday announctd it had launchtd a satellitt employing i
Thor-Agena B booster combination from this Pacific miiillt
rang bait.
MISSION LIBRARY DESTROYED
San Juan Capiitrano, Calif, TPf-A prt-dawn fir Satur
day destroyed tht library of tht
Minion, famed for Its legend
uirt Pnilfl ITTirifS BflSTS
Saigon -4 PI- Vitt Cong gutrrillai Saturday attacked fivt
government militia poiti along stretch of road 45 milti
south ot saigon ana ournta ont oi intm 10 int yrouna, in.
formtd military tourcts rtportcd,
SKELETON SAID THAT OF MISSING GIRL
Denver -I PI- A team of Denver doctori tgrttd Saturday
a tkeltton found in Grand Canyon National park in 1958
wai that of tht mining granddaughter ol a former Wyoming
governor, but ichedultd ont mort txaminalion to mike turt.
Sanchez Arango, one time
foreign minister in the gov
ernment of President Carlos
Prio, said Cuban exiles
many of whom were badly
disappointed when the United
States ended its blockade of
Cuba have no cause to feel
that Washington is embark
ing on a "coexistence" policy
with the Castro government.
"We interpret recent de
velopments as an undeniable
triumph of enormous tran
scendency for United States
policy in the fight against the
Soviet bloc and against the
Cuban regime which has re
sulted in the democratic bloc
of nations assuming the ini
tiative it lost 10 years ago,"
Sanchez said.
"The Soviet bloc, especial
ly the Soviet Union itself, has
been forced on the defensive."
He said as result of these
developments his Triple-A or
ganization, an independent
group, is "backing United
States policy" toward Cuba.
This policy has "fortified
relations among the Latin
American nations, he said.
Meanwhile, Cuba Saturday
began demobilizing its crisis
activated militia units, called
to arms Oct. 22 just before
President Kennedy's blockade
speech.
Caravans of trucks loaded
with grimy, bearded militia
men poured into hometowns
all over the island Friday
night and Saturday. In most
cities stay-at-home revolution
ary organizations staged wel
come parades and demonstra
tions. O f f 1 cial communications
media exhorted the returning
militiamen to waste no time
returning to the production
front "so that battle also can
be won."
Soviet First Deputy Pre
mier Anastas Mikoyan was
officially reported visiting
people s farms Saturday in
easternmost Oriente province
where the U. S. naval base at
Guantanamo bay is located.
(A Havana radio broadcast
heard in Miami said Mikoyan
would make his farewell ad
dress to the Cuban people
over radio and television to
day. Later, it was learned that
he will leave Monday. Mikoy
an has held six formal meet
ings with Premier Fidel Cas
tro and other Cuban leaders
since he arrived in Havana
three weeks ago.)
Soviets Take Steps
To Bolster Economy
Moscow -HIPP- Premier Ni
kita S. Khrushchev and the
Soviet Communist party cen
tral committee appeared Sat
urday to have reached some
predictable but highly debata
ble solutions in their week
long search for ways to boost
efficiency of the Soviet econ
omy. Among the impressions that
have emerged for study by
Western experts here after
the full central committee
meeting which ended Friday
night are:
No major cuts in military
or space spending. Thus no
new massive investment in
the civilian economy Is In the
offing.
Attempts will be made
Instead to boost production by
having Communist pauy offi
cials watchdogging and con
trolling the nation's planning
system and its factory and
farm production from top to
bottom.
hiitoric San Juan Capiitrano
ot Int swallows.
,4 -
SIGN OF PROGRESS An indication that work on Inter
state Highway S is progressing rapidly is this scene south
of Ashland. The path of the existing highway has been
altered at this point, where the new freeway will branch
off from the present route. The recently completed detour
Administration
Warns Cold War
Isn't Over Yet
Washington -IUPI)- The Ken
nedy administration was em
barked Saturday on the task
of tempering free world op
timism over the outcome of
the Cuban showdown with the
firm reminder that tough cold
war struggles lie ahead.
Officials derived solid sat
isfaction that Soviet Premier
Nikita Khrushchev's w 1 1 h-
drawal of missiles and bomb
ers from Cuba represented a
substantial victory.
May Be Oversold
But there was concern that
the American public and the
allies may have been over
sold on the scope of its long
range significance. .
Administration policy mak
ers were making plans to ex
ploit the broad peace possi
bilities that emerged from the
Cuban crisis but they were
wary of raising false hopes
that the tensions of the cold
war would vanish overnight.
They noted there was no
assurance that Knrusncnev,
in the face of his setback,
might not decide to get tough
er in Berlin or other areas.
The Kremlin leader also
could very quickly launch a
new "peace offensive" aimed
at dividing the allies and tak
ing advantage of any U. S.
complacency.
Soft Pedal'
The "soft pedal" approach
was taken Friday night by a
top administration spokesman,
Assistant Secretary of State
for International Affairs Har
lan Cleveland.
In a Philadelphia speech,
Cleveland said that any as
sumption that Khrushchev's
backdown in Cuba signalled
a general Communist retreat
was nothing but "bottled-in-bond
mythology."
He deplored the fact that
because of the Cuban success,
too many people "immediate
ly Jumped to the conclusion
that we shall wake some Fri
day morning and discover
that the horrors and threats
and sweat and struggles of
the past decade and a half
were no more than bad
dreams . . ."
Cleveland acknowledged, as
the President did this week,
that the way might be open
ing for progress on East-West
disputes but he warned
against any complete Russian
turnabout.
Mushroom Drug May
Be Used in Training
Mexico City -flIPD- Mexico's
"magic mushrooms'" which
produce hallucinations may
be used to help choose the
first American to reach the
moon. Dr. John D. Reed of
the U.S. National Aeronautics
and Space administration said
here.
Reed told a press confer
ence that one difficulty en
countered in training astro
nauts is that they know the
ilmulated emergencies they
go through are not really dan
gerous. "We have been considering
the use of hallucination-producing
drugs to make a train
ee feel a simulated flight is
the real thing," Reed mid.
Jm
Big Bird Believed
Cause Of Air Crash
In Which 17 Died
Ellicott City, Md. - (UPD -CAB
Investigators said Satur
day that a big, white feathered
bird may have collided with a
United Airlines Viscount and
damaged its stabilizer just be
fore the crash which sent 17
persons to their death near
here Friday.
George A. Van Epps, chief
of the Civil Aeronautics Board
investigating team, said that
the carcass of a large bird was
found near a part of the
plane's tail assembly which
apparently sheered off before
the crash.
Van Epps also said that
blood and white feathers were
found on a part of the left
rear stabilizer, which was
about one quarter of a mile
away.
Missing Hunters
Found By Deputies
Two missing hunters, John
Wallace Morris and his wife,
Cecilia, route 1, box 491, Tal
ent, were found Saturday
morning by Jackson county
sheriff's deputies.
The couple had been miss
ing in the Long Prairie area
over-night. Deputies encoun
tered them coming down the
Copco rd. They told the search
party that their pickup truck
had become stuck in the mud.
Milo Fetter, Talent, had re
ported the couple lost when
they failed to return by 6:30
p.m. Friday. They had gone
into the area to hunt with bow
and arrow.
Two regular deputies and
three members of the sheriff's
reserve were dispatched this
morning to scout the area.
AMA To Discuss Smog
At Opening Session
Los Angeles (UPD Relation
ships between smog and dis
eases of the pulmonary tract
including cancer will be- the
main topic of discussion to
day at the opening session
of a four-day American Medi
cal association (AMA) clinical
meeting.
An expected 12.000 persons,
half of them physicians, will
listen to or take part in the
scries of discussions on man
kind's fight against a variety
of diseases including muscu-
liar dystrophy, hepatitis, and
ailments of the aging.
Football Scores
WEST
Oregon State 20, Oregon 17
Colorado 34, Air Force 10
USC 14, UCLA 3
Stanford 30, Calif. 13
Washington 26, WSU 21
Arizona 20, Arizona St. 17
EAST
W. Virginia 17, Syracuse 6
Rutgers 22, Columbia 6
Harvard 14, Yale 6
Pcnn St. 18, Pittsburgh 0
Cornell 29, Penn 22
Dartmouth 38, Princeton 27
Holy Cross 36, Connecticut
14
Maryland 40, Virginia 18
MIDWEST
Ohio St. 28, Michigan 0
Notre Dame 39, Iowa 12
Indiana 12, Purdue 7
may be seen at left, while in the center lies a portion of the
highway previously in use. Earlier, construction crews re
aligned the Southern Pacific railroad tracks and built a
new overpass as an initial part of the project.
Although the CAB refused
to speculate, the investigators
admitted the possibility that
the Newark - to Washington
plane might have struck the
large bird, apparently about
the size of a goose or swan. '
The impact could have dam
aged the Viscount's stabilizing
equipment and thus caused the
T" . !"u" . to'
of control, according to the
theory. ' . : - ' ,
i This possibility will, be in
vestigated by the CAB in its
probe of the disaster.
The investigators said that
only a very small portion of
the stabilizers integral parts
of the tail control were
found at the actual crash
scene. The other portions were
found at such a distance from
this that the possibility was
raised they were separated
from the plane before it hit
the ground.
Steep Angle
Van Epps said the inquiry
to date indicated that the
plane plumetted into a wooden
thicket near a corn field at a
very steep angle of descent"
and apparently landed upside
down.
This tended to verify the
eyewitness account of one
small boy who told reporters
yesterday he saw the plane
turn over on its back before it
struck.
Former Grants Pass
Woman Found Dead
Fresno, Calif. (UPD The
bodies of a man, his wife of
three months and his two
daughters by a previous mar
riage, were discovered Sat
urday night in their carbon
monoxide-filled apartment.
Police said it appeared
Wayne Young, 31, and his
family had been dead since
Wednesday.
Cauxe of death apparently
lay with a faulty gas wall
furnace. Its exhaust pipes had
been gradually plugged with
debris sucked up from the
floor, according to police.
Bes'des Young th.' dead in
cluded his wife, Karen, 19,
(ormei.y of Gri'n'i Pass, Ore.,
and the two children, Sharon,
6. and Pamela .
Missouri 3
Oklahoma
Kansas 3
St. 30, Kansas
St. 8
Xavler (O.) 7, Cincinnati 8
Wisconsin 14, Minnesota 9
Houston 27, Louisville 25
Illinois 7, Mich. St. 8
Iowa St. 31, Ohio U. 22
SOUTH
Kentucky 12, Tennessee 10
LSU 38, Tulane 3
Auburn 14, Florida St. 14
Memphis St. 33, Detroit 8
Ckmson 20, S. Carolina 17
Duke 16, North Carolina 14
SOUTHWEST
Baylor 17. SMU 13
TCU 30, Rice 7
Arkansas 34, Texas Tech 0
Oklahoma 34, Nebraska 6
Committee For
Fairgrounds Will
Organize Monday
The Greater Jackson County
Fairgrounds Planning com
mittee will hold an organiza
tional meeting at 7:30 p.m.,
Monday in the Southern Ore
gon Production Credit asso
ciation offices at 1212 Court
St., Medford.
All representatives of var
ious service clubs and farm
nrffanizntinnn in flip nrun arm
urged t0 attend according to
cnairman Hugh Jennings,
Various committees will be
named: andappointed and
names of additional members
to the county fair board sug
gested.
The organization agreed
during its Oct. 29 meeting to
meet the last Monday of each
month.
Fifteen persons who attend
ed the earlier meeting gener
ally agreed the present fair
grounds south of Medford is
not large enough for including
a horse arena and track, plus
room for an open class county
lair and 4-H and FFA ex
hibits.
Horsemen present said 20
acres would be needed for a
thre-quarter mile race track.
A quarter of a mile is needed
for a straightaway.
Stanley Zapell, newly elect
ed secretary, said then the
first thought should be for the
H and FFA and the fair
should be built around them.
Kidney Transplanted
From Mother To Son
Denver - (UPD - A team of
surgeons transplanted a kid
ney from a mother to her 12-year-old
son at the University
of Colorado medical center.
Saturday, a spokesman for the
university reported.
The spokesman said the op
eration, possibly the first kid
ney transplant involving other
than identical twins, appar
ently was a success and that
mother and son were making
satisfactory progress.
Defense Dept. Orders Development'
Of Revolutionary New Supersonic Plane
Washington -1UPI1- The De
fense department contracted
Saturday for development of
a revolutionary new super
ionic Jel fighter for use by
both the Air Force and the
Navy. It is the biggest fighter
program undertaken by the
United States since World
War II.
Two versions of the plane
one capable of operating from
land bases and one from Navy
carriers will be developed
by the Convalr division of
General Dynamics Corp. at
Fort Worth, Tex. It was se
lected for the job over the
Boeing Co., Seattle, Wash.
Known as the TFX for
tactical fighter, experimental
the plane is expected to
cost close to SS billion. But
officials said this would be
a saving of $1 billion com
pared to the cost of entirely
separate planes for the Navy
and Air Force.
The development contract
calls for building 22 test mod
els In the next two and half
yean, at a probable cost of
U.S., Britain
Boosting Aid
New Delhi -(UPD- India Sat
urday asked Communist
China for "clarification" of its
three-day border war cease
fire. It was the first Indian
diplomatic recognition of the
one-sided truce offer and
came as U.S. and British
teams began formal talks on
massive militia aid for India.
London dispatches said the
British and American missions
De Gaulle
Favored To Score
2nd Victory Today
Paris - (UPD - The trium
phant De Gaulle bandwagon
Saturday rolled toward the
second round of France's par
liamentary general elections
with most observers predict
ing it would score another vic
tory. Communist gains also were
expected in today's polling for
the national assembly.
Crippling losses were fore
cast for the creaky alliance of
old-time parties whose revolt
against President Charles De
Gaulle two months ago touch
ed off a political crisis and
resulted in the present elec
tions.
Only Inut
The only issue reany in
doubt was whether DeGaulle's
Union for the New Republic
(UNR) would obtain an abso
lute majority in the new na
tional assembly (lower house).
De Gaulle and his wife left
Paris Saturday afternoon for
their country home at Colom-
bey-Les-Deux-Egllses where
they will vote as usual.
In the first round last Sun-
dav the UNR. originally ex
pected to lose heavily, scored
an overwhelming upset vic
tory by winning nearly one-
third of the Dopular votes,
Under the French voting
system only those candidates
who win an absolute majority
of votes in their own constituency-are
elected in the first
round.
There are 485 assembly
seats for metropolitan France.
The results of 98 of these
McNeil Awaits
Arrival of Turkey
Following Game
"Next time beware of
betting against profes
sionals!" So ended a telegram
sent Saturday by Med
ford Chamber of Com
merce Manager Don Mc
Neil to Dale Dunn, Ore
gon City, manager of the
Tri-City Chamber of
Commerce.
Wednesday Dunn had
staked aClackamas
county turkey against a
Jackson county gift box
of pears on the outcome
of the Medford-Orcgon
City football game Fri
day night.
McNeil's telegram
stated, "Tough luck.
Your team gave a fine
performance. Hope tur
key is as good."
close to $750 million. Follow
ing tests, perhaps 1,500 oper
ational models in the two ver
sions will be built.
The Pentagon said the de
sign calls for a plane capable
of retracting its wings Into a
delta or triangular shape for
flights at speeds up to 1,1150
miles an hour. The plans will
carry all the latest Ivpci of
nuclear and conventional
weapons and "will be able
to fly anywhere In the world
In one day."
Multi-Billion Coil
Full details of the magni
tude and cost are subject to
negotiation, the department
said. "However, it will be a
multi-billion dollar program
and will surpass any fighter
aircraft program since World
War II In both numbers and
dollars," it laid.
Convalr and Boeing had
competed keenly for the con
tract through 22 months of
studies. The department prais
ed the excellence of designs
submitted by both companies
but laid:
in New Delhi had been in
structed to tell Prime Minis
ter Jawaharlal Nehru the
two nations were ready to
give India "any assistance" re
quested whether or not it ac
cepted Peking's truce terms.
U.S. sources said 12 Ameri
can 130 Hercules transport
planes would go into action
for the first time today fer
rying Indian troops and mili-
Forces
were decided last Sunday and
46 of them went to the UNR.
Run-off ballots are being
held today in the remaining
369 voting districts. A simple
plurality alone is necessary
this time. Voting also is being
held in seven of the 17 con
stituencies in overseas depart
ments and territories.
The absolute majority of
the 48-man national assembly
is 242. The most conservative
estimates were that the UNR
would win at least 188 seata.
If last Sunday's De Gaulle
landslide gains further mo
mentum, the UNR was
thought to stand a good
chance of winning the abso
lute majority
3 East Germans
Swim To West
Berlin -(UPB- Three young
East Germans swam an, icy
river to the American sector
of West Berlin Saturday and
were undetected in their
cape to freedom.
The swimmers, aged 19, 22
and 27, were picked up by
West Berlin police on snow-
covered bank of the river.
They were hospitalized suffer
ing from exposure.
The Communist East Ger
man News Agency, mean
while, charged that arsonists
had set fire to an electric
transformer on the Commun
ist operated elevated railway
between East and West Ber
lin. It said the fire temporar
ily interrupted service on the
line.
West Berlin police denied
any knowledge ot such a fire.
The Communist ADN agen
cy said the transiormer was
located in the American sec
tor of West Berlin.
The Red agency said that
'this sabotage act against ele
vated traffic In West Berlin
created great dangers for long
distance rail traffic to and
from West Germany." '
The Communists long have
threatened that Interference
with West Berlin's elevated
traffic, operated by the Com
munists under four-power
agreements, might have reper
cussions on Western rail ac
cess to Berlin.
DRUG BANNED
Copenhagen - (UPD - Open
sale of the sedative drug Post-
afen was banned Saturday by
Danish health authorities
pending an investigation into
whether it could cause mal
formed babies.
The General Dynamics de
sign was selected because It
offered the best chance of
developing an airplane that
would be acceptable and com
patible with the requirements
of the two services."
In its operational version,
the fighter will be known as
the Fill. It will be capable
of exceeding the speed of
sound at sea level, and to fly
two and a half times the
speed of sound at high alti
tudes. The Navy version will be
shorter and lighter than the
Air Force type. The Navy
plane reportedly will weigh
about 60,000 pounds and
may have a folding nose and
tall to fit into aircraft carrier
elevators. The retractable
wings dispense with the usual
need for folding wings in
large carrier planes.
Nevertheless, the Air Force
and Navy versions will he
about 80 per cent Identical.
The Defense department said
the "degree of commonness in
the end product" is still sub-
Reported
To India
tary equipment into Communist-threatened
Assam state in
northeast India.
The planes, flown bv Amer
ican crews, are forbidden to
fly Into combat areas. The
squadron of planes for a U.S.
air base near Paris is on loan
India for an Indefinite
period.
The battle fronts remained
quiet with only Indian patrol
activities reported in the Lad-
hk area of Kashmir in the
West and along the northeast
irontier agency in the east.
India has been tacitly observ
ing the cease-fire while the
government had the truce of
fer under consideration.
Red China however. ,
still maintaining a tough pol
icy, une Peking broadcast de
manded that India release the
hundreds of Chinese nationals
Interned under India's emer
gency regulations now in ef
fect. Another accused Nehru
of "still crvlne for a inn it
drawn out war."
With tensions esslni.
what along the border resi
dents who fled the Assam
town of Tezpur in path of the
Communist threat were re
turning to their homes Satur
day. But the return was dif-
ncuu because, for one thine.
some officials before fleeing
freed residents of insane asy
lums, prisons and some hospi
tals. India has carefully avoided
formally accepting or reject
ing the Chinese truce offer but
Saturday a fore an mlnistrv
spokesman said Foreign Secre
tary m. J. DeSai called in the
Chinese charge d'affaires Fri
day and raised "several points
which required clarification."
Ihe Chinese charge d'affalr-
es Is obtaining clarification
irom Peking," he said.
The American aid mission
in tJaU, Tlnlhl 4- 5
1 ...... -w. .a iicauca uy
I Averell Harrlman -who led a
similar mission to Moscow 21
years ago w h e n Nazi Ger
many showed signs of over
running all of Russia. The
British mission Is headed bv
Commonwealth Secretarv
Duncan Sandys who arrived
Saturday.
Asitst Nttds
Diplomatic reports said thev
had been instructed to make
Western stand of "any assist
ance" made to Nehru and to
aassess speedily and on the
spot the needs of the embat
tled country including trans
port planes and even fighters
and bombers.
Meanwhile Communist
China has offered Pakistan a
non-aggression pact that In
cludes assurances of military
help to Pakistan against ag
gression from any quarter,
usually reliable sources said
Saturday.
Foreign Minister Moham
mad All would neither con
firm nor deny the reports but
he said he would visit Com
munist China in the near fu
ture and It was understood he
would discuss it then. No date
for his Peking visit was set.
First reports of the non-aggression
pact were printed in
the English Daily Dawn in
Karachi. The newspaper said
the Chinese had no objection
to continued Pakistani mem
bership in the Southeast Asia
Treaty Organization (SEATO)
and the Central Treaty Organ
ization (CENTO). Both were
formed to fight Communist
aggression.
ject to negotiations.
Pratt and Whitney will pro
vide the turbo-fan engines,
and Grumman Aircraft Engi
neering Co. will be associated
with Convair in the develop
ment. The Air Force version of
the two-engine fighter Is ex
p e c t e d to weigh 70,000
pounds, making It the heavi
est fighter ever built and ap
proximately 20,000 pounds
heavier than a twin-engined
Convalr passenger transport.
Not Cumb.riomt
But the weight will not
make it cumbersome, the de
partment said.
The plane will be able to
"take off from rough air fields
In forward areas, and will
have a short landing capa
bility," a Pentagon spokes
man said.
Originally, plans called for
a "tri-scrvlce" fighter, also
calling for adaptability to pro
vide close troop support for
the Army. But designers said
they could not meet this requirement.
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