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Castro U.S. Dismanfl Regional Edition Medford 18 Pages Two Sections ia f Cease Fire Proposals INSPECTION TOUR President Kennedy inspection lour of installations at Fort Stew talks with Maxwell D. Taylor, left, and art, Ga., today. (UPI) Herbert Powell, fatigue uniform, during an Ylurri Selected Senate Minority Leader by GOP Salem - IUPII - Oregon's Re publican state senators met here during the week 'end, named a minority Te&iei i and created for the first time the post of floor leader. ' State Sen. Anthony Yturri, Ontario attorney, was named to his third term as Senate minority leader. Walter Leth, West Salem agriculturist, was named to the new post of floor leader. The Democrats control the Senate, 21-10. Eight of the nine Republi can senators attended the meeting here in the Marion hotel. Only missing member "was Sen. Donald Husband (R Eugene). In addition to selecting minority leaders, the group also discussed problems they will face during the 1963 legislature. Yturri was first elected to the Senate in 1957. Leth has served in the upper house since 1955. Three New Posts This makes three new posts that have been created for the 1963 legislature. Last week House Democrats, in a caucus at the Marion hotel, created the new position of majority leader and whip. They are, respectively, State Reps. Rich ard Eymann (D-Mohawk) and Norman Howard (D-Portland). The Senate Democrats have not yet held a caucus, and it was indicated they probably would not meet until just be fore the legislature convenes next Jan. 14. CONFERENCE SET London -HOT- Prime Minis ter Harold Macmillan will confer with French President Charles de Gaulle in France Dec. 15-16 for "a personal and direct exciiange of views" on international problems, it was announced today. HSiBMEFS ITtMJ FROM MARINER 2 TRANSMITTING REPORTS Washington-ilPM-The 447-pound space probe Mariner 2 tped toward cloud-maiked Venus today transmitting high quality reporti from a record diilance of more than 22. S million miles from Earth. The National Aeronautici and Space Administration said Mariner 2 is expected to reach Venus in 18 days, and mey return some long-awaited answers about the planet known as the earth's twin. DE GAULLE WINS MAJORITY CONTROL Paris-ilPI-French voters gave President Charles de Gaulle majority control of the National Assembly today and estab lished him as the strongest political force in recent French history. Runoff parliamentary elections held Sunday confirmed the results of week ego that De Giulle had turned a set back by parliament into a victory of major proportions at the polls. DUTCH INVESTIGATING DRUGS The Hague in-Th Dutch government announced today that an Investigation is under way into preludin and other drugs in connection with reporti the drugs may have caused birth deformities. V, MEDFORD, OREGON, Rejects Portions 'Danger Not Past Kennedy Informs Aromred Division , Ft. Stewart, Ga.-OIPtl-Presi-denti Kennedy, on a day-long inspection of troops rushed into position during the Cuban crisis, told an armored divi sion today "the danger is cer tainly not past" but will last through the decade. Kennedy began an inspec tion of a massive force of men and planes by looking over the impressively arrayed might of the 1st Armored Di vision, the Army's newest Strategic Army Corps divi sion, at Ft. Stewart. "I came here today to ex- Court To Discuss Improving Road A meeting will be held in the county court office at 10 a.m. tomorrow to discuss the improvement of Myers lane, off Stewart ave., County Judge Earl M. Miller said. Paul Culbertson and Dave Lowry, who reportedly have orchard property in that area, and Jack Hoffbuhr, Medford Irrigation district manager, have been asked to meet with the county court and County Engineer Robert J. Carstensen to discuss a right-of-way prob lem. An irrigation ditch and Pa cific Power and Light com pany power pole are in the right-of-way, it was noted. County officials are uncertain whether the irrigation ditch is an MID ditch or a private one. Miller noted that during ir rigation season water flows from the orchards across the road. Twelve residents along the semi-improved road have pe titioned the county court to improve it. AROUND mi OlOM MONDAY, NOVEMBER 26, press our thanks to you," the President told 3,000 men and officers of the division. "The cause of freedom and your work are intimately entwin ed,' he said. Visits Other Posts ; "The danger is certainly not past but we will continue to live in crisis and danger cer tainly through this decade. Therefore we will continue to call upon your services in the future as we have during the past days. I want to express our thanks to you." The President flew to Ft. Stewart this morning by jet for an inspection of facilities here, at nearby Hunter Air Force Base, at Homestead, Fla., Air Force Base, head quarters for the Cuban oper ation, and Key West, Fla., Naval Base. The President made a half hour inspection of rows and rows of armored vehicles and men at Ft. Stewart. He got out of his convertible several times to shake hands with soldiers. "Regardless of how persist ent our diplomacy may be in activities stretching all around the globe," Kennedy said in a brief off-the-cuff speech, "in the final analysis, it rests upon the power of the United States, and that power rests upon the will and courage of our citizens and upon you here in this field. Guarantor of Freedom "The United States is the guarantor of the independence of dozens of countries stretch ing around the world, and the reason that we are able to guarantee the freedom of those countries and to main tain that guarantee and make it good is because of you and your comrades in arms on a dozen different forts and posts, on ships at sea, planes in the air, all of you. "And there are a million of your comrades in uniform outside of the United States who arc also part of the key stone of the arch of freedom throughout the globe," Ken nedy said. Today's Rain Total Exceeds One Inch More than one inch of rain fell between midnight and 10 a.m. today and more precipi tation Is anticipated through Tuesday evening. Medford station of the U.S. weather bureau listed 1.02 inches of rain up to 10 a m I today after .07 up to midnight last night for 1 00 inches from the storm. Winds preceding and acccmpanying the rainfall reached a sustained velocity of 22 miles per hour with gusts up to 35 mph. This morning's rain brought the November total to 3.78 inches and the agricultural year amount to 10.81. Forecast is for periods of rain tonight through Tuesday. 57th Year Price 10 Cents Tribune 1962 No. 213 Offer Would Claim Territory Gained by Force Reds Would Hold Vital High Ground New Delhi -(I'm- India to day rejected a key portion of the Chinese Communist cease fire proposals because it would give the Reds 2,000 square miles of Indian-claimed terri tory they acquired by force. But an Indian spokesman said the ceasefire proposals were still under study. The official Indian spokes man read a prepared state ment which was the first offi cial reaction to the ceasefire arrangement offered by t h e Chinese Nov. 21 when they ordered their troops to halt fighting in the border war. Tile statement termed un acceptable the Chinese Com munist withdrawal proposals which, it said, would give them 2,000 square miles the Reds had overran in the north west frontier area of Ladakh. In the northeast frontier area, he said, the Chinese Communists would continue to control vital high ground between the McMahon Line boundafy, recognized as the frontier by India, and the monastery town of Towang. Giving Facts "I am giving you facts," the Indian spokesman said when asked about the purpose of the statement. "You can draw your own inferences." One inference might be that India was intending to reject the Communist offer but did not want to disturb the cease fire now in its sixth day. Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru said earlier that hundreds- of Indian soldiers trap ped when the Communist Chi nese cut them off at Se La Pass may be making their way to safety. Cave Junction Landmark Burns Cave Junction - The Hol land hotel, a landmark built here in 1904, burned to the ground last night, victim of a flue fire. The two Illinois Valley Vol unteer Fire department units stationed at Cave Junction and one from Selma respond ed to the alarm at 6:30 p.m. but were unable to save the building. A fourth truck sta tioned at O'Brien also re sponded, but broke down en route. One family was living in the hotel, but no one was in jured. Mrs. Pauline Olson and her five children had occu pied the hotel for the past two weeks. They are staying tem porarily with Mr. and Mrs. Bill Burch. Firemen said a faulty flue was responsible for starting the fire. Neighboring build ings were threatened, but fire men kept the flames Iron) spreading. The fire flared up a second time at 5 o'clock this morning, but there was no further damage. The Holland hotel was built in 1904 by J. M. Smock, who later aldcd on to it in 1914. Present owner it Harry Floyd. Nuclear Test Ban Efforts Urged Geneva -Wli- The United States called on the 17-nation Disarmament Conference to day to redouble it efforts to reach early agreement on a nuclear test ban and general and complete disarmament. But the Soviet Union gave no Indication that it is pre pared to make an effort to do so. A Western spokesman said after the first session of the resumed conference that the Soviet position was unchang ed. The U.S. delegation chief told the conference that re cent events which pushed civilization close to the abyss of nuclear war had brought a new sense of urgency to the conference's .work. Mikoyan Expected To Give Message To UN Secretary Cuban Inspection Included in Plan Havana (UPD Soviet special envoy Anastas Mikoyan left for New York today presum ably bearing a Fidel Castro demand the United States dis mantle alleged training camps for anti-Castro foes on U.S. soil in return for United Na tions inspection of Soviet mis sile sites in Cuba. Mikoyan left in a special Soviet transport after a gala farewell ceremony at the air port involving the two Castro brothers, President Osvaldo Dorticos, State Minister Raul Roa and most of Castro's cabi net. Warm embraces were ex changed between the Russian, here for the past three weeks to patch up Soviet-Cuban dif ferences, as Mikoyan boarded the airliner. He is scheduled to dine tonight with UN Act ing Secretary General Thant and may at that time convey Castro's new demand on the United States. Demand UN Inspection Castro said he would ac cept UN inspection of Soviet missile sites in Cuba only if the U. S. would agree to simi lar UN supervision of the dis mantling of what he describ ed as "training camps of mer cenaries, spies, saboteurs and terrorists" purportedly on U.S. soil. The effect of the declara tion by the Castro govern ment was to reject the U. S. demand that Cuba permit in spection by the United Na tions to verify that Soviet mis siles and other weapons have been removed from Cuba. The official statement, printed in the government press, declared also that Cuba "reserves the right to acquire arms of any type for its de fense and to take the steps it deems pertinent to strength ening its security." This also was in retort to President Kennedy's news conference statement of last week noting- that "no lasting safeguards" had yet been es tablished against the reintro duction of offensive weapons to Cuba. Claims of Aggresison The statement, as publish ed in the newspaper Revolu- cion, said: "The United Nations must verify on the continental soil of the United States, Puerto Rico and other sites where aggression is being prepared against Cuba, the dismantling of training camps of mercen aries, spies, saboteurs and terrorists, centers where sub version Is being prepared and bases from which pirate ships embark against our coasts." Castro's communique cited his previous five-point pro gram for a Cuban settlement, which included a demand for U. S. withdrawal from the) Guantanamo Naval base on the eastern tip of the island. Mikoyan made a farewell address to the Cuban people Sunday night over a nation wide radio and television hookup, pledging that "the cause of Cuba is the cause of the Soviet Union." OSU College Bowl Team Victorious Corvallis - IUPII - The victor ious College Bowl team from Oregon State university was back on campus today and ready to begin training for next Sunday's television en counter with the University of New Mexico. OSU scholars who joined Sunday to defeat a team of women from Manhattan ville College 245-145 were Gary Kord, and Clifford Dempster of Corvallis and Fran Freeman and Mrs. Judy Torgerson of Portland. "Some of the pleasure of victory was lost in defeating such fine young women," said Dr. James Uroshong, associate professor of English who trav eled with the OSU team to New York as coach. The team brought back a $1500 scholarship from Gen eral Electric and is assured of at least $900 more even if It loses next week. WEATHER rontCAST: Cloudy with Per iods of rain tonight throuffh Tumdar night. Low tonight 4i. High luekday iO. Temp. Htghtt Yrnttrdir t.oHfU ThU Mnrntng .,. 4 Prcclp. to It a.m. Todiy I.0S Our Skies Tonight Btmift today 4:i2p.m. ftunrWe tomorrow 7:Im. The Moon li Invisible tonight. New Moon tonight 19:30 p.m. The planet, ftiturn, li In the outhweit tonight at 7:12 p.m. The id magnitude itar to the right of Saturn la Beta Capri-rornui. wmwi:Mi 'iff: WRECKAGE FOUND Shown above is the wreckage o a 17, both of Madras. They were en route lo Madras after light plane that crashed near Portland Saturday night, attending the Portland Auto Show when their plane slam killing Jerry Van Cleef, 20, and Dorothy Jean Simpson, med Into a mountain during a windstorm. (UPI) Young As Light Plane Takeoff Made Despite Warnings Of High Winds Portland - (UPI) The bodies of a Madras youth and his girl friend were brought here Sunday from the wreckage of their light plane that crashed on Pepper Mountain' east of here during a windstorm. Killed in the Saturday eve ning crash, about 32 miles east of here, were Jerry M. Van Cleef, 20, son of a Mad ras farming family, and 17- year-old Dorothy Jean Simp son, a Madras High School senior. They were flying back to Madras after viewing the Portland Auto Show. Memen tos of the show were scattered through the wreckage of the single-engine Cessna 210. The young couple took off from Portland International Airport around 8 p.m., de spite posted warnings of high winds and severe turbulence along their flight path. A little while later, Mr. and Mrs. Jack Emler, who live near Pepper Mountain, reported hearing a plane crash. A search was launched. Sunday morning, a plane tak ing off from Portland sighted the wreckage. Ground parties went in and recovered the bodies. Freed Man Held by ilifary Authorities Mountain Home, Idaho (UPli Airman Gerald M. Ander son, 24, freed and cleared by civilian authorities of a mur der charge after seven months in jail, will return to military confinement. Anderson, who stepped from the Elmore county court house this morning cleared of any Implication in the stab bing deaths April 0 of Mrs. Nancy Joy Johnson, 22, and her son, Danny, still faced an Air Force Inquiry. Col. Charles A. Allard, com mander of Mountain Home Air Force Base, said that "Airman Anderson was turn ed over to civilian authorities from military confinement." "Upon his release, he will be returned lo military con finement." Allard said an impartial in vestigating officer will make a complete evaluation in order to determine further disposi tion or action to be taken. Anderson was freed of the murder charge after authori ties decided to believe the story of another man who said he killed the mother and child. Madras Man Killed In One-Car Accident Redmond - Wli - Stanley Taylor, 2ft, Madras, was in jured fatally In a one-car ac cident today about four miles west of Sisters. State police said Taylor's car left the road and struck I a tree. Madras Exhausted Youth Reveals Story of Boating Tragedy Bodega Bay barefoot, exhausted boy told authorities today how he spent the entire night In a lonely search along a beach for his father, brother and four friends who all apparently drowned in a boating acci dent. ' Mike Diller, 12, turned up wet and cold at 6 a.m. at the Jack Dei ranch here seeking help. "He was so badly fright ened," said herdsman Clyde Crump, "that he could hardly talk. I couldn't understand him, his teeth were chattering so bad." Boat Found Finally, the boy was able lo tell his story and the over turned 14-foot aluminum boat was found about a half-mile from the ranch. The bodies of a man and three children were Brothers Killed In Sunday Crash Ashland Two brothers were killed and a young couple was seriously Injured in an auto collision on High way 89 near Walker ave. here last night. Thomas L. Pruitt, 28, of 2Fif Bridge St., driver of one of the two cars involved, died instantly of a broken neck. Ashland police reported. His brother, Jackie Lawrence Pru itt, 23, of 1715 Parker St., died at Ashland Community hospi tal at 7:45 p.m., a little over an hour after the accident. Seriously Injured, but re ported In good condition today at the hospital, were David Vinson Lewis, 22, of Alameda, Calif., driver of the other car, and his wife Louise, 20. Both received facial lacerations and fractures that will require surgery. The Lewis' three-month-old son David was not injured. Police said the accident oc curred when Pruitl, north bound on Highway 99, crossed over Into the southbound lane to pass another car. His car was then struck broadside by the oncoming southbound Lewis auto. Largest Douglas Fir Shattered by Wind Astoria - d'PD - Washington state today Inherited the honor of owning the largest Douglas fir tree. Oregon's mammoth fir, belonging to Crown-Zellerbach, was up rooted by the wind Sunday. The forest giant, which poke'd more than 200 fret into the air in the firm's Klootchy Creek park in southeast Clat sop county, was shattered by the gusty winds. The Oregon tree was Judged the largest in the country, with a breast-high diameter nf 15.48 feet, compared to 14.48 feet o fthc Washington tree. Couple Hits fountain Two others were missing, and a search was un der way. The beach is below a steep, 200-foot cliff near the ranch, but the climb to the upland was not difficult. There are paths and also a graded road way so vehicles can reach the shore. "The boy's just In a sort of delayed shock, Crump said. "He don't want to talk on the telephone, but he did talk to the sheriff's deputies when they got here this morning. I guess he was just in a daze for a long while, and then went to hunting for his friends himself." The craft was powered by an outboard motor and, when found today, showed no struc tural damage. The boy had not viewed the bodies. His mother was being sought in a trailer camp near the beach by sheriff's deputies. She had not gone on the boating trip. The boy said seven persons had been aboard the small craft. He said they were his father, Don Wayne Diller, about 33, Carmlchacl; h I s brother, Rusty, 8; "S m 1 1 1 y" Smith, age unknown, and the two Smith children, Cindy, 4, and Stanley, 6. Cows Becams Uneasy Crump said he first heard about the accident after the cows in the dairy barn be came uneasy about 5:30 a.m. "They were Jumping around," Crump said, "and I got up lo sec what was wrong. I saw a face at one of the win dows, and I thought It was a prank-puller. "I ran out to catch him, but it was only a small boy and I caught him easy. He was so wet and frightened he could hardly speak. All he could say was 'town, town.' 1 took him in the house and got him warmed up. Then he told about the accident." Rain Slows Bridge Department Moves Today's rains have tempor arily stopped road work In the county, County Engineer Robert J. Carstensen said to day. Work on a grading project under way on the East Side rd. in the Applegate Brca has stopped, but is expected to re sume when the rain stops. The project covers 1 Va miles. Car stensen noted that road crews work on road projects In the Applegate when poor weath er and sticky soil In other parts of the county make work Impossible. Bridge crews are moving bridge timbers and materials lo the future county road shop headquarters on Table Rock and Antelope rds., Carstensen said. The 41 acres and several buildings were acquired from the government surplus prop erty section earlier. The area li Ml Oil! Folsom Inmate Dies Attempting To Stop Kidnap Folsom, Calif. - (UPil - A deeply religious Folsom prison inmate died Sunday in a futile attempt to stop three other prisoners from. . kidnapping and holding hostage members of a church choir who had come to sing for them. Conrad N. Becker. 4t. snrv. ing time for burglary, was stabbed three times with a makeshift knife. He died with out knowing that the threa convicts released their Drison- ers unharmed after negotia tions with prison authorities. The stabbing occurred In the prison chnpel of the max imum securitv nrisnn tnst m the la-member Bethel Choir from nearby Sacramento fin ished its first hymn of the af ternoon services. Becker noticed the three convicts, all armed with some sort of weapons, walking pur posefully up the aisle toward me cnoir. ho screamed, "Praise God," and attempted to tackle one of the men who turned and slabbed him re peatedly. Serving Life Sentences in convicts, all serving life sentences, hustled six of the startled choir members and the prison chaplain inlo the chaplain's seven-by-seven foot office. Then they began nnonliu. tions for release with Warden Robert A. Helnze, and Richard A. McGce, director of the California prison system. Dis cussions were carried on through a window of the door which one convict smashed. Ihey wanted us to open the gates, and we lust rinn'i open gates,"sald Helnze. "It's possible that these fellows just wanted to give It a try to see If it would work." After three and a half hours the convicts, Farrell Fenton, 29, Edward W. Maher, 27, and Edward Caugh, 20, released their seven hostages. Road Work; was occupied officially by the county last February. The bridge crew will be re located on the new property, the county engineer said. Other equipment and ma terials shitted to the, new lo cation Include a cold mix plant for road patching, plus materials and culvert pipe. It will be some time before the machine shop is moved from Barnctt rd. to the new prop erty, Carstensen said. Bridge abutments on the Willow creek reservoir road have been completed, Carsten sen added. The crew is now waiting for delivery of pre stressed bridge frames to con tinue work. The beams will be delivered from the Norse Brothers' plant at Harrisburg near Eugene. Routine road maintenance Is continuing, he concluded. i
