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Newspaper Page TextRegional Edition ' 57th Year Hrice 10 Cents Medford Tribune 18 Pages Two Sections MEDFORD, OREGON, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1962 No. 226 per lidwestesi t , ' , Col Smow Peep j Up '-,.'.:o.a;:.r4i.-t.5 J -,4-t.1 If FARMERS FIGHT COLD smudge fires hang over farmers fight to save crops Minufeman Missile Ready For Use in War Great Falls. Mont.-WPll-The Minuteman "instant" inter continental missile is ready for war. In a ceremony at Malm strom Air Force Base here today, declaring the solid fuel missile operational, the Air Force revealed that 20 of the slender 54-foot rockets are in place in underground silos in central Montana aimed at spe cific Communist targets and ready for firing on a mo ments notice should war come. Ten of the missiles were ready for combat during the Cuban crisis. The ceremony marked the official turnover of the first two Minuteman flights of 10 missiles each from the Air Force ballistic system division to the Strategic Air Com mand. Maj. Gen. W. Austin Davis, commander of the ballistic system division, turned the 20 missiles, their underground launch sites and their two underground control centers over to Lt. Gen. Archie J. Old, commander of SAC's 15th Air Force. Officials Present The ceremony was attend ed by high-ranking military officials, newsmen from throughout the nation, politi cal officials, and representa tives of industries that put the Minuteman together. The three-stage Minuteman, capable of delivering a nu clear warhead to targets 6.300 miles away, is the nation's first solid-fuel missile. Traffic Signals To Operate Wednesday Newly installed traffic sig nals at Jackson and Haw thorne sts. will be placed in operation at 8 a.m. Wednes day, according to City Engi nced Vernon Thorpe. Between 6 a.m. and 10 p.m. daily, the signals will be in normal operation. From 10 p.m. to 6 a.m., the signals will operate on flashing am ber, the city engineer said. Installation of the signals was necessitated by the heavy traffic flow at the intersec tion, Thorpe said. Albany Man Sentenced To Penitentiary Term Albany - it'Pli - Perry Far Icy, 34, Albany, pleaded guil ty to a manslaughter charge Monday in connection with the fatal shooting of his brother-in-law and was sentenced to 12 years in the state penitentiary. HSffiBRIEFS ITEMS FROM DE GAULLE REPEATS NUCLEAR DETERMINATION Parii-'IPI-Preiidenl Charlei de Gaulle repeated hit de termination today that France mutt have ill independent nuclear ttriking lorce. RUSSIA WARNS WEST ON NUCLEAR TESTING Geneva-1 1'l-The Soviet Union warned the West today that if Britain and the United Statet go on letting nuclear weapons beyond the end of the year "other nuclear power! will lake corretponding action." BRITAIN MAY REAPPRAISE DEFENSES London-ll'l-A defense spokesman laid tonight Britain would have to make an "agonising reappraisal" of its whole detente et-up if the United Statet iailt to provide it with Skybolt missiles. There were hintt (hit might include lott of U.S. baset in Britain. MUSEUM DISPLAY DESTROYED BY FIRE Bellingham, Wtth-lPIFire twept through the 7J-yer-old Bellingham Muteum Monday evening, damaging or de stroying $10,000 Hulled bird display, tome old paintings end other historical exhibitt. - Clouds of black smoke from South Florida's farmlands as from freezing weather. This Committee to Study Flood Damage Area For Disaster Loans Eagle Point Plans to form an organization to seek flood control measures on Lit tle Butte creek were initiated at a public meeting here last night, attended by more than 100 persons. A temporary three - man committee was set up to spear head organization of a flood protection organization in the Eagle Point area as an outgrowth of the Dec. 2 flood which forced numerous area residents to evacuate their homes. A second committee was formed to make a survey of flood damage in an effort to have Jackson county declared a disaster area, to enable res idents to obtain disaster loans. Named to the first commit tee were volunteers George McDonald of Las Creek, Don- District Suffers $20,000 Damage Damage to the main Med ford Irrigation district system is estimated at $20,000, MID Manager Jack Hoffbuhr said today. "This is a little more than we originally anticipated, but we have found several places which require more work," he said. Some of the more serious places include the wash-out at the South Fork of Little Butte creek diversion dam leaving only the concrete structure and part of the canal. Hoffbuhr noted a two-mile section where 21 places along a canal were overrun by flood waters. Bradshaw drop, where MID and Rogue River Valley dis tricts separate near Browns boro, had washes and slides and the canal was full of debris. The Antelope creek diversion also was washed out, Hoffbuhr said. The South Fork of Little Butte creek had the highest gauge reading on record. It peaked at 8.32 feet and esti mated flow was about 6.000 cubic feet per second maxi mum, according to County Watermaster David Hendrix. Gates were not opened at Fish lake causing the flood in the South Fork of Little Butte Creek, Hoffbuhr pointed out. The storage facility at Fish Lake is only half full at this time. 4,175 acre feet compared to capacity storage of 8.200 acre feet, Hoffbuhr said. The reservoir only picked up about 760 feet during the storm, he added. MOUND THI OlOH j 1 i . . - - - v J picture shows farmers near Homestead, Fla., burning old tires to fight off the cold, which reached the upper 20s in the mucklands. (UPI) aid Bieberstedt of Brownsbo ro and John Ousterhout of the Eagle Point area. Committee Members Members of the second com mittee are Charles C. Hoover, Ben Mouchett, Clem Ault and Earle Jossy. Persons at the meeting de cided to form the two com mittees after hearin reports from representatives of vari ous agencies, including the Small Business administra tion, Federal Housing admin istration and county depart ments. Many of the reports indi cated that residents of the area would have to form an organization and have the county declared a disaster area before much progress could be made either in pur suing flood control measures or in obtaining disaster loans. Declared Disaster Area Both Del Putnam of the Small Business administration and Gene Denney of FHA told the group that the county would have to be declared disaster area before low-in terest federal disaster loans could be made to residents who suffered flood damage. Henry Stewart, represent ing the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers, said the county would have to be declared a disaster area and a request made by a local organization before another survey of Lit tle Butte and Bear creeks could be made relative to flood control measures. The corps of engineers com pleted a study about a year ago, he said, at which time it was determined that flood control measures on the two creeks were not necessary or advisable. Persons attending the meet ing came from all parts of the county. Requests were made by Lloyd Silvers of the Ash land area and George McUne of Jacksonville to have the whole county included in the diasaster area designation. McUne, owner of the Pioneer Village in Jacksonville, noted damage to his property. Outlines Aid Offered A representative of the Red Cross outlined aid being of fered to persons who suffered damage. Deadline for applica tions for this aid, which is in the form of gifts rather than loans, is Dec. 14. A temporary office has been set up in the Eagle Point Lumber building. Persons planning to deduct losses on their income tax re turns were advised to contact the Medford Internal Revenue office. Evidence of the dam age suffered is necessary to declare it a loss, it was noted. The group offered a vote of thanks to all agencies which have helped flood - stricken residents. Also singled out for praise was Hoover, who spear headed setting up last night's meeting. Earlier the Jackson county court praised Jackson County Civil Defense Director Joseph Hicks for the way he and his assistants set up a communi cations network during the flood. The court also praised the sheriff's reserves, the Red Cross and citizens for their work during the period. CUIDE APPROVED Salem IT The Stale Board of Education today ap proved the study guide "Our Living American Heritage," to intensify the teaching of American patriotism. TRAIN DERAILED Spokane --I'M Thirteen cars of a 1 10-car freight train were derailed Monday nisht east ol I Mead. Several hundred yards j of track were ripped up. No I one was hurt. Walfonians Told Cooperation Is Needed for Parks Cooperation is needed among all agencies to achieve use of water resource devel opment of the bureau of rec lamation projects, according to a speech prepared by T. Torkelson, chief of the lands branch, bureau of reclama tion, Boise, Idaho. Torkclson's speech was read by Francis O'Connor, local bu reau of reclamation represen tative, at a meeting of the Izaak Walton League last night. Torkelson was unable to attend because of the fog. Seventeen bureau of recla mation reservoirs have been constructed in Oregon and all of them offer recreation op portunities, according to Tor kelson s speech. However, there are but three in which counties are involved. Howard Prairie and Emi grant reservoirs are adminis tered by Jackson county, and part of Prineville reservoir is administered by Crook coun ty. Tliis is the kind of coopera tion needed to develop the recreational potential of the area, it was pointed out, since use has exceeded all expecta tions. The federal reclamation law docs not contain general authorization for achievement of full recreation potential, but the bureau has followed the multi - purpose develop ment principle for the past 25 years, according to Torkel son's speech. During the last few years such projects have included minimum basic recreation fa cilities. These are determined by the National Park Service, and include sanitary facilities, boat ramps, parking area and picnic tables. "It's been the policy to transfer recreation adminis tration to suitable qualified public agencies," according to the speech. Recreation management agreements, such as those used in Jackson county, are license agreements, it was pointed out. Grass roots administra tion is most important. More active participation of coun ties is needed. This takes money, but legis lation may be enacted to per mit construction of basic rec reation facilities on older res ervoirs with non-rcimbursca-ble funds, according to Tor kelson. Youth Arrested as Burglary Suspect A 17-year-old Medford youth, admittedly the accom-1 plice in the week end bur glary of the Leverettc build ing, was arrested Monday aft ernoon at Medford High school. Upon orders of juvenile au thorities, the youngster was released to the custody of Ins parents pending possible for mal charges against him. The other youth involved. Gregory Brian Wolfe. 18, of j 55 Quince at., was apprehend ed by officers at the time of I burglary when he was dis covered hiding in a restroom. Wolfe was bound over to 1 the grand jury on charges of : burtlary not in s dwelling. i He appeared in Jackson coun ty district court yesterday. i He is being held in the Jackson county jail in lieu of I $1,500 bail. Army To Call 4,000 Men in February Waxhlngton-tTIi-The Army will draft 4,000 men in Feb ruary, the same number called for Jauuisry, Roads Blocked By Heavy Drifts; Schools Closed Frost Threatens Crops in Florida By United Press International A powerful snow storm backed up by below zero cold paralyzed towns and blocked highways across a suffering eight-state area today. The mounting storm packed a blizzard punch in Ohio. It closed school by the thou sands. Hundreds of motorists were marooned. Scores of communities called out all their resources to battle drifts as high as 10 feet. Towns deep in the southland were buffeted. Both the snow and the cold wave which followed it were of record - breaking propor tions. The icy blast shot all the way to Florida and the state's rich winter vegetable crops were already severely damaged by frost. The temperature plunged to 26 below zero at Sawbill Minn., to 17 below at Willis ton, N.D., and a record-break ing zero at Chicago. Temper atures below or near zero chilled snow-struck towns in Indiana and Michigan. The snow belt ranged across Indiana, Michigan, New York state, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, North Carolina and Virginia. Sound Bend, Ind., where drifts were eight feet high, was under a state of emergen cy. More slates of emergency were considered at Astabula and Painesville, Ohio, where the storm was of blizzard in tensity. ., Visibility sank to zero along snow-blown New York State roads where hundreds of mo torists spent the night In res taurants or joined a mile-long convoy of snow plows. Freezing cold covered all of Florida except the Keys. Miami vacationers shivered in 29-degree weather. At least 86 deaths h.id been blamed on the succession of storms. They included 21 each in Ohio and Michigan, 10 in New England, 7 in New York State, 6 each in Kentucky and Pennsylvania, 4 in Indiana, 3 each in Tennessee, West Vir ginia and Illinois, and 2 in Kansas. Plane Lands After Seeding Airport Fog A Mercy Flights, Inc., plane landed at Medford airport at 12:32 o'clock this afternoon, one hour after Pilots George Milligan and Dennis Connor seeded the fog over the air port with 100 pounds of pul verized dry ice. The plane was one of two stranded at Prospect because fog prevented their return to the Medford airport. Milligan and Connor this morning flew the twin-engine Cessna air craft. After seeding the fog, visi bility Increased from one-sixteenth of a mile to one half a mile, enough for the plane to land. About 30 minutes after the dry ice was released, visibility had increased to a quarter of a mile, and the sun appeared as a faint disk in the sky. Mercy Flights, Inc., of ficials wanted one plane at the Medford airport to be available for emergency serv ice if needed. CHURCH FIGURE DIES Salem -(UPli- The Rev. II. A. Schlatter, 83, well known In Oregon and Washington church life, died Monday. CHRISTMAS SE1LS fight Tl iM llttr RESPIRATORY DISEASES WEATHER FORKCAST: Fog and occasion al drliile through Wednesday. Increasing rluudinets above the log late Wednesday night. Low tonight n-32. High to morrow 35-40. Temp. Highest Yesterdav 36 Lowest This Morning 31 Tree, to 10 a.m. Today, Trace Our Skies Tonight Sunset today 4:39 p.m. sunrise tomorrow .... T:31 a.m. Moonrise tonight .... 3:24 p.m. Last quarter Dec. IS PROMINENT STAR Vega, low in north west 9:12 p.m. VISIBLE PLANETS Saturn, low In south west 6:37 p.m. Jupiter, in south west 8:04 p.m. Mars, rises 9:58 p.m. Venus, rises 4:46 a.m. American Supply Force in India To Tolal 100 Men New Delhi - 0IPD The American military supply group advising India on arms assistance will reach a strength of about 100 officers and men by early next year, well Informed sources said to day. The group, under the com mand of Brig. Gen. John E. Kelly, will consist of about 45 officers and a still unde termined number of enlisted men. It will be concerned sole ly with supply, and not with advice or training. Galbraiih To Return Meanwhile U.S. Ambassador John K. Galbraith prepared to return to Washington Wed nesday for conferences with President Kennedy following a new assessment of the Sino- Indian situation. Galbraith or iginally had been scheduled to return Monday but postponed hia . departure following issu ante of a threatening' 8,000- word statement in Peking Sunday. He held a two-hour session with Prime Minister Jawahar- lal Nehru and conferred with the embassy staff. Sources close to the embassy said Gal braith was worried about the possibility that the Comma nist Chinese would not carry through on their promised withdrawal from Indian fron tier territory. Seekt Return of Troops Meanwhile, India disclosed it is seeking the return of 9,- 000 to 6,000 troops serving with the United Nations forces in the Congo. Dinesh Singh, parliament1 ary secretary for Prime Min ister Jawaharlal Nehru, told Parliament the request had been submitted to Secretary General Thant in view of In dia's border war with Red China. Waterworks Group To Meet in City About 20 perrons are ex peeled to attend a regional meeting of the Pacific North west Section of the American Waterworks association in the Medford city hall this after- noon, according to Robert L, Lee, city water superintend ent. The meeting, the first of its kind ever to be held in this area, will be attended by association members from Jo sephine, Jackson and Klam ath counties. Interested per sons are invited to attend. Lee said the purpose of the meeting is twofold: to find out how the northwest sec tlon of the association can serve waterworks people bet ter, and to determine local opinion on what should be the ei i ms and objectives of the section. Such meetings arc being held throughout the Pacific northwest area at part of an overall program by the asso ciation, Lee said. Association Trustee Archie Rice. Corvallis, will attend the Medford meeting. Relay Satellite To Be Launched Thursday Cape Caneveral-H'PD-Amcr lea plans to Install a new ra dio relay station in space this week to replace its dead Tel star communications satellite. The new satellite la a 172 pound eight-tided package of assorted electronics named "Relay." It is scheduled to be launched from Cape Ca naveral Thursday everuuev Kennedy Orders Foreign Aid Un-American Group Denounced At Peace Hearing Witnesses Invoke Fifth Amendment Washington-IUPD-The House Committee on Un-American Activities opened an investi gation today into American peace movements and found itself denounced by an angry woman, a former FBI agent, and a Democratic congress man. In rapid fire order: A Scarsdale, N.Y., wom an, Mrs. Blanche Posner, in voked the 5th Amendment and refused to tell the investi gators if she was an official of the Women's Strike for Peace Movement. A former FBI agent, Jack Levine, jumped up dur ing the hearing and demanded that the congressmen stop their investigation of the peace groups. "It's just dis graceful," Levlne yelled at the committee. Hustled From Room Levine, who spent 11 months with the FBI in 1960 and 1961, resigned and subse quently wrote an article criti cizing FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, was hustled from the hearing room by three capital policemen. He told reporters he Jumped up because "I just became so aroused. ' Before the hearings started Rep. William F. Ryan (D-N.Y.) issued a statement saying "the hearings apparently are in tended to discredit the Wom en's Strike for Peace and to cast doubt upon the loyally of those active in it. The ac tion of the committee induces conformity of thought and ac tion and intimidates citizens who are seeking lo express their concern for peace." Denies Affiliation Another woman witness, Mrs. Ruth E. Meyers, Roslyn, N.Y., Invoked the First and Fifth amendments when ask ed if she was a Communist party member. Later, outside the hearing room, she told reporters she had never been Communist. On the witness stand, she denied she had ever signed a nominating petition for a Communist party political candidate and answered ques tions about her personal ac tivities in the peace move ment. But she rcsfiicd to answer questions whether she was a Communist or had joined the peace movement to further Communist policy as "Insults lo an American citizen." Soviet Troops in Cuba Now Issue Washington - (UPD - Having succeeded in getting Soviet bombers and offensive mis siles out of Cuba, the United States Is now raising the Is sue of the continued presence of Soviet troops there. Secretary of State Dean Rusk told a news conference Monday the American hem it pherc "could not accept as a normal situation any Soviet military presence in Cuba." Rusk said there were "sev eral thousand" Soviet mili tary personnel in Cuba "and some of them are organized In what appear to be Soviet combat units." 'Modest" In Site These unitt, he said, were modett" In size but "well armed" and their purpose in Cuba is of very great "con cern to us and something we will follow very carefully." FUNERAL SLATED Portland-ftiPH-Funeral ierv leei will be held Wednesday for Hugh G. Stout, 60, who founded the Portland Teach ers Credit Union In 1032. Ho died Sunday after a brief ill- 1 1- (uri) LUCIUS CLAY 'Names' Included British Troops Discover Brunei Hostages Sate Singapore - HJPD - British troops, who recaptured t h e vital oilfield GEN. Other citv of Serial8"11 8es UP. "P. "Pi" from Brunei nationalist reb- eis, nave rouna iuu r.uio- mediately review the aid pro peana safe and sound, it was Rram to determine whether it reported today. contributes "materially" to A spokesman for Shell Oil I Co. in Singapore saia 4U per I sons, mostly Europeans, held hostage by the rebels had been freed. An earlier report that one European at Sena had been shot was "not correct, the Shell spokesman said. All others in the Sena area who were continea in their homes are reported do ing well," he said.' The rebels took Serla, about 50 miles from Brunei Town, in an uprising against British domination Saturday. Fresh troops and equip ment poured into northern Borneo today to bolster the 600 to 800 soldiers who re captured Seria in a pincers movement Monday. They se cured the oil field and took Andukl Airport north of the coastal town. An estimated 1,500 troops have been dispatched by air and sea to put down the re bellion by nationalist forces In the British protectorate of Brunei and the adjoining crown colonies of North Bor neo and Sarawak. Pershing Missile Executes Maneuvers Cape Canaveral, Fla.-fllPI)- The Army gave Its new Persh ing missile a good going over In a test flight Monday night and the rocket proved It could take almost anything dished up. The needle-nosed Pershing was fired on a grueling zig zag course through the sky. It pulled out of the planned trouble without a hitch, and parked Its nose cone squarely on target downrangc. Sale of Hospital Land Gets Tentative Approval Salem-lUPIi-Thc State Board of Control today gave tenta tive approval to sale of East ern Oregon Slate Hospital land at Pendleton to the newly-formed Blue Mountain Col lege. The sale would be made pending agreement on price after appraisals had been made both by the college and the state. Wallace W. McCrac, acting president of the college, ad vised the board the school would like to locate next to the hospital if the state would sell the land. The property Is located east of the present hospital residences. In other action, the board ordered a state owned house at 475 North Summer st. In the Capitol mall properly In Salem to be torn down. The Study Clay Chosen To Head Committee Reviewing Efforts Order Fails To Impress Critic Washington -TOPD- The lead 1 n g congressional critic of foreign aid today scoffed at President Kennedy's newly ordered review of the pro gram. Rep. Otto E. Passman (D La.), chairman of the House subcommittee that handles foreign aid appropriations, was not impressed with the review, interpreted as an ef fort to strengthen the admin istration's hand when lt goes before Congress next year to argue for funds. "They have taken anew, hard look every year since it started. Passman declared, "and that's 16 years ago." Cott Goes Up Passman told UPI that sim ilar studies have been made In the past under the Truman, Eisenhower and Kennedy ad ministrations, "but the cost hlnartisan cnmmitte tr, In.! the seeuritv of the United - states. To head the non-governmental group, the President chose Gen. Lucius Clay, who served recently as his repre sentative in West Berlin. Sen. John Sherman Cooper (R-Ky), who recently urged crentio': of a high-level com mittee io make a country-by- country review of the aid pro gram, praised the President's action. May Remove Steam A former U. S. ambassador to India, Cooper told a re porter he believed the Presi dent's action will take some of the steam out of congres sional criticism of the aid pro gram because the new com mittee consists of "men of great experience and influ ence." Besides Clay, members are Robert A. Lovett, former sec retary of defense; George Mcany, president of the AFL CIO; Edward S. Mason, profes sor of economics at Harvard; Eugene Black, outgoing presi dent of the World Bank; Rob ert F. Anderson, former sec retary of the Treasury; L. F. McCollum, of Houston, Tex., president of Continental Oil Co.; Herman Phlegcr of San Franclsco.former legal advis er to the Department of State, andj Clifford Harden, chancel lor of the University of Ne braska. Douglas Denies Report Of Retirement Plans Washington -(UPD- Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas denied today a pub lished report that he Is plan ning to retire from the bench to join the Ford Foundation. structure suffered heavy dam age during the Columbus Day storm. The board ordered a study of the advisability of demol ishing another state-owned house at 955 Marion Street which is now rented to Alco holics Anonymous. This build ing also suffered storm dam age. The board is also seeking a replacement for Judge Ron ald K. Rodman who has re signed from the Mental Health Board. Gov. Mark Hatfield ex plained the board wished to name a judge to succeed Rod man. Other members of the board of control are Secretary of Stale Howell Appling Jr. and State Treasurer Howard Bel-loo.