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Newspaper Page TextOregon Rogue Valley Edition MEDFORD 22 Pages Two Sections Communist Guilty; Jury Deliberates 35 Minutes To Reach Verdict Defense Attorneys Planning To Appeal Washington -(UPD- The Com munist party of the United States was found guilty today by a federal court jury of failing to register as an agent of the Soviet Union and quick ly fined $120,000. The jury of eight women and four men deliberated only 35 minutes before announcing its verdict of guilty. District Judge Alexander Holtzoff im mediately imposed the fine. Plan To Appeal Defense attorneys said they would appeal the case to the U. S. Circuit Court of Ap peals here. The fine will be held in abeyance pending the appeal. The next step in the gov ernment's 12-year legal bat tle against the party and its leaders will be the trial of two officers, General Chair man Gus Hall and National Chairman Benjamin Davis, on charges of failing to register under the same 1960 act, com monly called the McCarran Act. Both have been indicted but no trial date has been set. Maximum Fine Holtzoff imposed the maxi mum fine of 510.000 for each of 12 counts. The first 11 counts charged deliberate fail ure to register on 11 consecu tive daysjjeginning .Nov.. 20, 1981. The 12th charged fail ure to fill out an information form listing names of mem bers, officers and contributors to the party. The conviction could be ap pealed all the way to the Su preme Court. Defense attor neys said even though Judge Holtzoff excluded the issue of self-incrimination from jury consideration, they would still base their appeal on that ques tion as well as several other considerations. Youth Remanded On Murder Charge McMinnville (DPI) Larry Richard Waibel, 17, Carlton, was remanded to circuit court today for trial as an adult on charges of premeditated mur der by Juvenile Court Judge R. E. Renne. The youth was accused in the rifle slaying of Mrs. Mae Pinnell, 69, Carlton, last Thursday. Judge Renne said at the ju venile hearing that Waibel was approaching the age of 18. the crime was serious, and he wanted him to have the benefit of a trial by jury. RECEIVES GRANT McMinnville-Linfield col lege is included in a program of Sears, Roebuck and com pany to distribute almost $900,000 in u n r e s t r i c ted grants under a new program of aid to privately supported colleges and universities. Lin field received a $1,200 grant for Sears, according to Dr. Harry L. Dillin, Linfield president. HEWS(wjBRIEFS ITEMS FROM Ik XV MW)NO THI OlOII MACMILLAN FLIES TO BAHAMAS MEETING London-lPI-Prime Minister Harold Macmillan flew today to meet President Kennedy in the Bahamas, expressing con fidence that the Skybol! missile issue, which has creeled the worst Anglo-American rift since the Sues crisis, could be settled. SATELLITE SEEKS DATA ON SPACE DEBRIS Washington-tNi-A new U.S. satellite flashed round the .. :,. i.i,rllnn, ia fl.th.r infnrmAtinn An linv bit. of tpace debris th.t could prove dangerous to space ; ecutlve of the -New Jersey Au ous oi r dubon Society, released de- (aval. The satellite, Explorer 16. began its second dsy with all equipment end experiments aboard tppsrently working satisfactorily. cmrriircr r.FNnARMERIE EJECT LEGISLATORS Dakar Senegal-! Pi-Troops of the Senegalese National Gendarmerie took OTer the Parliament building today and forcibly ejected all legislators from the building. MEDFORD, OREGON, MONDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1962 Fin BRIEF FLING Two convicts broke out of Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary Sunday but were recaptured within three hours. One of them, John Paul Scott, right, swam three miles from Alcatraz Island to a rock under the Golden Gate bridge, and the other one D. Lee Parker, left, was captured within 28 minutes after he escaped. (UPI) Alcatraz Inmates Have Brief Fling At Outside World San Francisco - 0JP1I - The myth of "invincibloAlcatraz," tarnished six months ago when three inmates disap peared from the island prison in San Francisco bay, was shattered a second time Sun day night when two convicts escaped from "The Rock." Both men were captured in a matter of hours. John Paul Scott, 35, a Ken tucky bank robber, floated and swam three miles through the churning, rain-swept bay and laudeii-attftck..undtid the Golden Gate Bridge. Scott and another bank rob ber, D. Lee Barker of Canton, Ohio, escaped from "The Rock" around 5:47 p.m. when their absence was discovered. Found at Fori Point Parker was captured 28 Bundy Denies Source of Article Washington - WPP - Presi dential a d v iser McGeorge Bundy said Sunday that nei ther he, nor any other mem ber that he knew of, disclosed what went on in the National Security Council during the Cuban crisis. Bundy has been identified in some reports as the source of a Saturday Evening Post article in which Adlai E. Ste venson was pictured as advo cating a "soft approach to Russia during deliberations prior to the U.S. blockade of Cuba. He is special presiden tial assistant for national se curity affairs. He said he did not believe anyone who participated in the National Security Council discussions on Cuba "would want to get into talking with reporters about individual po sitions" taken at the meetings. EIGHT ELECTED Astoria -IVPI'- Eight mem bers have been elected to the board of directors of the Co lumbia River Fishermen's un ion, secretary William Wester holm reported today. 09101IC arty of U.S. ff T 01! O I m9mW9 L.Ti. V' minutes later as he shivered on a rock outcropping known as "Little Alcatraz," only 100 yards off the main island. But Scott, using a make shift set of water wings in cluding an inflated shirt and several pair of surgical gloves, made it to Fort Point, a Civil War fortress directly under the bridge on the San Fran cisco side. . Ke was seen there by two unidentified teen-age boys who called the military police at"trre 'PrPSTrrTo1 Trt' Stt ff "ffalrP4 Cisco. A team of MP's and fire men captured the shivering, speechless convict at about 7:30 p.m. A spokesman at Let terman Army Hospital, where he was treated for exposure, said he had been in the water at least an hour and a half. It was the first instance of a convict actually negotiating the cold, fast-moving bay and reaching shore in the 28 years Alcatraz has been a federal civilian prison. 'Wish I Made II' On June 11, three bank robbers from the South Frank Morris, John Anglin and his brother Clarence disappeared off the north east edge of Alcatraz and have not been seen or heard from since. The FBI and fed eral prison authorities pre sume they drowned, but their bodies have not been recov ered. Late Sunday night Scott was transferred from the hospital to a Coast Guard launch which returned him to Alcatraz, about six hi.url after he left it. "I wish I could have made made it." Scott yelled to re porters as he was loaded onto the launch. Federal authorities de clined to speculate on how Scott and Parker got out of their cells. The only clue came from a doctor who treated Scott. He said the con vict disclosed he had used cleanser to smooth the bars, but would not say whether he sawed through tl em and if so, what implement he used. A prison spokesman said there was "some indication" the two men escaped from the basement of their eating unit throu i a window. Parker is serving a 50-year term for bank robbery, at tempted escape and kidnap ing Scott was sentenced to 30 years for bank robbery and possession of unregistered firearms. DDT May Be Harmful To U. S. Bald Eagle Newark, N.J. - t'Pl' - DDT may be affecting the repro duction of the bald eagle, the U.S. national symbol. Frank W. McLaughlin, ex- tails this week end on the DDT content of three eagle eggs that failed to hatch. The three eggs were collect ed in New Jersey and tested at the Department of Interior Patuxent Wildlife Research Center In Laurel. Md. Srow Tribune . IM.Y&, Rusk Reports to JFK, National Security Council President Readies To Meet Macmillan Washington-lUPI) - President Kennedy and members of the executive committee of the National Security council to day heard a report from Sec retary of State Dean Rusk on his recent meeting with the North Atlantic ' council in Paris. Rusk returned Sunday and made his first report at the White House today as Ken- President Kennedy's re view of his first two years in office will be seen on KBES-TV at 6:30 p.m. and on KMED-TV at 8:30 p.m. The lighting of the nation al Christmas tree will be seen on KBES-TV at 4 p.m. nedy prepared to leave Tues day for high-level talks in the Bahamas with British Prime Minister Harold Mac millan. Macmillan, who left Lon don today for Nassau, will greet the President on arrival. The two leaders will go to their separate quarters on Ly ford Cay. They will not begin their formal talks until Wednesday morning, i The President will appear on nation - wide television twice today. To Review Term he appears at the lighting of the national Christmas tree and again at 3:30 p.m. (PST) over the three major tele vision networks in a one-hour review of his first two years in office. The review was taped Sun day in the President's office where he was interviewed by White House correspondents for the National Broadcasting company, the American Broadcasting Co. and the Co lumbia Broadcasting System. Among the subjects to be taken up at the Kennedy-Mac- millan conference is Bnstish resentment at U.S. plans to scrap the Skybolt missile on which Britain has depended as its primary nuclear deter rent. Kennedy plans to fly di rectly from Nassau to Palm Beach Thursday to join his wife and two children for the holidays. Portlander Heads Lumber Group Portland - tliPli - Hershel M. Tanzer, Portland lumberman, has been elected president of the 45-member Western Lum ber Marketing Association. WLMA is a 2'2-year-old or ganization of sawmills and wholesalers in Oregon, Wash ington, California, Montana, Idaho, British Columbia and Alberta. Also elected during the WLMA's annual convention here were Denby Mackie, Timerlanc Lumber Co., Eu gene, first vice president; E. R. Taylor, W. H. Steele Lum ber Co. Ltd. Vancouver, B.C., second vice president; Doug McKay, Alexander Lumber Co. Seattle, third vice presi dent; William Andrews, Al pine Lumber Co. Portland, secretary, and Edward W. Moshofsky, Whipple & Mosh ofsky Lumber Co. Portland, treasurer. SHOPPING DAYS IEF1 CHRISTMAS SEALS ligMTBial Otter RESPIRATORY DISEASES 6 th 57th Year Price 10 Cents No. 231 L v SPECTACULAR SIGHT The famous Rose Bowl at Pasa dena, Calif., its neon sign lighted brightly, drew almost as many persons as it will Jan. 1 for the annual Rose Bowl County's Flood Loss Estimated To Be $1,156,550 The Dec. 2 flood did an overall estimated damage of $1,156,550 to Jackson county, according to'a survey headed by C. C. Hoover, Gregory rd., and County Agent Earle Jossy. A survey committee head ed by the two men estimated $436,000 for the Antelope and Little Butte creek areas with out the city of Eagle Point. A total of $70,000 damage was estimated for Eagle Point, in cluding damage to homes. Larry S h e e h a n, Rogue River mayor, estimated $123, 000 damage between Rogue River and the Josephine county line. All irrigation districts est imated their overall system damage at $100,000 total. I Medford officials estimated damage to the city, without the stores, at $25,000. Orchard damage was estimated at $15,000. This included dam age to approximately one- "tMr). of-1 th orchard -acreage in the Rogue valley, covering erosion, cover crop and fer tilizer loss, plus orchard heat ers lost or damaged and loss of oil. Recovered Heaters One orchardist reported he recovered 200 orchard heaters which had floated from Vilas rd. to the Crater Lake high way. Main loss estimated to the remainder of the valley's agri culture was erosion, creek bank, ditch and fence damage, plus damage to driveways, bridges, buildings, hay and equipment loss. Damage to fences was a big item, Jossy said. Fields cov ered with gravel and strewn with logs is another. The fields in the Brownsboro area have enough logs to keep Medford Corporation running for a few days, it was estimated. A grand piano was found in a Brownsboro field. The Red Cross, soil conser vation districts, various city and county agencies and farm ers conducted the survey. Jossy said the damage to farms did not include such things as reducing the econ omical operating units of farms. The survey was made to supply the Small Business administration, and other loan agencies with the needed basic information for emergency loans. Telephone Firm Official Beaten Portland - H'PIl - Police searched Sunday for two young men suspected of beat ing up a telephone company supervisor east of Portland. Harland L. Hollingsworth was recovering in Gresham General hospital. He told officers he was attacked by two men who flagged him down and said they ran out of gas. Hollingsworth was found leaning from his car by Mr. and Mrs. Earl A. Klaus of Troutdale. They said a short while earlier they had helped two men push a stalled car with California plates. Hollingsworth is a super visor for Pacific Northwest Bell Telephone company. Laughlon Funeral Will Be Wednesday Hollywood - 1'P1) - Private funeral services will be held Wednesday for Academy Award winning actor Charles Laughton, 63, who died Sat urday night after a long, cour ageous battle with cancer. (See story on Page 2B) for " 'wtjy' Release of Cuban Captives Believed Near Completion By United Press International James B. Donovan, chief negotiator for the release of the 1,113 prisoners captured during the Bay of Pigs inva sion, left New York suddenly Sunday night for Cuba to try to complete final arrange ments for the captives' re lease before Christmas. Donovan was accompanied About Hearing Mrs. Ann Todd, Eagle Point, has filed a petition in Jackson county circuit court seeking judicial examination and judgment regarding hearing and order for inclus ion of new lands and altering the boundaries of the Eagle Point Irrigation district. She is asking the court to determine whether the EPID board of directors "acted arbi trarily, reasonably, fairly, justly and equitably" regard ing the hearing and order nf Nov. 16. District directors El bert Bjgham, Phillip Nevin, Stanley Straus and District Manager L. R. Silveira are named in the action. In her petition, Mrs. Todd stated the board overruled ob jections to the petition for in clusion of the land. She further charges that during the hearing the board did not hear or consider evi dence to determine the best interests of the district. The petition states that there were no inclusion proceedings and the board's recent action was unfair and unjust in prefer ence to land not in the dis trict. Tableau of Nativity Scene Is Scheduled Tonight at 8 o'clock the first of six tableaux of the nativity scene will be held in the city park next to the Pub lic Library of Medford and Jackson county. The tableau, sponsored by the Medford Ministerial asso ciation, will feature members from the various churches in the area. Choirs from the churches will also sing each evening. Tonight's participating church will be First Church of the Nazarene; Tuesday, Sal vation Army; Wednesday, First Presbyterian; Thursday First Methodist; Friday, First Christian, and Saturday, Zion Lutheran. The tableau will be in the park between 8 and 8:30 each evening. PROBE STARTS Washington -(ITIi- A Feder al Maritime commission in vesication has been started on a proposed dual rate sys tern In trade to Hawaiian and other ports for the Trans-Pa cific freight conference of Ja pan. WEATHER FOHKCAHT: Mostly rlotiily IhriniKh Tuesday. Viillfv fnjt and low cliMidlnni Utntfht and Titf nday tnnrnlnit. Low Turn day and Wednroriay mornlngi 4043. Miah Turiday 3Q-3V Htrhftt Yw.Hrday 53 l.nwrit Thlt MurnlnK 4S Vrtvlp, to 10 a.m. Today IS Our Skies Tonight ftunjt,t t-iflay 4:1ft p tn. 1:35 a.m. II :22 p.m. . Tuetday StinH tomorrow MoonrUe tin lint l.att tfnartfr Tht planet, Venui, U am Thlt wtrk It It at )t crratrtt hrllllanre, hflfhler than It ha hprn at any lime it tic Decern br, I .ill. 1 -. n. , : - mux v ' w v i ' football game when a quick spreading brush fire con sumed more than 500 acres of valuable watershed and pro vided a spectacular sight for motorists. (UPI) by Alvaro Sanchez Jr., na tional chairman of the Cuban Families Committee for the Liberation of Prisoners of War, and Mrs. Berta Barrcto, committee co - ordinator in Havana. The three were reported in Miami waiting final word of an appointment with Cuban Premier Fidel Castro. Received Call A committee spokesman said Donovan received a phone call instructing him to leave for Cuba Sunday night. "We are very hopeful this whole situation can be clear ed up in the next few days," a committee spokesman said. "We're back in a cliff hanging situation." In Washington, a Stale De partment official said Dono van's passport has been vali dated for a trip to Cuba. Donovan, a key figure in the efforts to raise $62 mil lion worth of medicine, food and other supplies which Cas tro has demanded as "fines for the prisoners, said Sunday In New York he could not comment on the status of the negotiations "for tile time being." A spokesman for the Amer ican Red Cross said the Far- rell Lines freighter (African pilot) was standing by in Bal timore harbor to carry sup plies to Cuba for the barter when and if needed. To Sail Today A Farrcll Lines spokesman indicated the ship would sail today but declined to give Its destination. A call went out for a sailing crew to report. The Baltimore Sun said the ship tentatively was sched uled to sail for Miami today to pick up $13 million worth of medicines and food and then sail to Havana. It said the prisoners would be flown back. In Havana, a usually re liable informant said the deal was near completion, with only details remaining, such as which prisoners will be re leased first and how the ex change will be coordinated. Special Services Officer To Retire Chicago -lUPIl- Fifth Army Headquarters announced to day that Col. Arthur W. Gus- tafson, Fifth Army special services officer, will retire Dec. 31 and will become ex ecutlve director of the Chi cago United Service organiza tion. Gustafsnn headed the ath letic departments at Klamath Falls and Milton Frecwater High schools In Oregon, and Whitworth college, Spokane, Wash., prior to joining the army In April, 11)41, He was graduated from Oregon Slate college in 1933. Area Allocation Application Filed Salem - HIPP - California Pacific Utilities company, San Francisco, has filed an appli cation under the new stale utility area allocation law, according to Public Utility Commissioner Jonel C. Hill. Cal-Pac is asking the stale to allocate to It the areas in Harney, Baker, Grant and Umatilla counties where It serves as the exclusive electric energy distributor. Hill said several hearings would be scheduled because of the widely separated areas Involved In the application Oregon Traffic Takes Four Lives During Week End By United Press International Four persons lost their lives in Oregon traffic accidents during the week end Burnell Ernest Ober, 34, Portland, died shortly before midnight when his pickup truck overturned east of the Portland city limits. He was pronounced dead on arrival at Gresham Gen eral Hospital. Kenneth Queahpama, 23, of Warm Springs, was killed Sunday when he was hit by a car on U.S. Highway 26 two miles southeast of Warm Springs. He was struck by a car driven by Wynema Squim- pen, 20, Warm Springs. Girl Killed A 17-year-old girl was kill ed in a one-car accident on the Columbia River Scenic Highway IVi miles east o Bridal Veil Saturday. She was Donna Lee Oney, a senior at Marshall High school, The driver of the vehicle. Lawrence Cordano, 18, Porl- i i . j ... mnh county sheriff's deputies and charged with negligent homicide. His car skidded off the road and over a 12-foot embankment. Denzil Hoover, 52, Taft, was fatally injured Friday night when his pickup truck collided with a car on U.S. Highway 30 near Rooster Rock State Park. In addition, Louis Parker, 48, Hood River, died In a Washington hospital Sunday of injuries suffered Oct. 9 when the car In which he was riding failed to negotiate a curve and rolled over 15 miles north of Orondo, Wash. Hearing on Utility Area Is Continued Salem - (UPD - Postponement of a Public Utility Commis sioner hearing on a West Ore gon Electric Cooperative ap plication for an allocation of an exclusive utility service area in Clatsop county was announced. The hearing, scheduled to be held in the county court house at Astoria next Wednes day, has been continued to Jan. 21. Commissioner Jonel C. Hill said Pacific Power and Light company, Portland, a protest ant to the application, had filed an application for con tinuance. West Oregon, on Nov. 13, filed an application for alloca tion as exclusive serving agent, of the area in and around the old Tongue Point Navy base near Astoria. West Oregon presently serves the Maritime Commission base there. Damage, Death Toll Mounts in Great Britain London IUPH Winter floods, snows and winds up to 117 miles an hour caused heavy damage and loss of life to parts of Britain and the European continent Sunday. Weather forecasters predict ed more of the same today for the southeast coast of Eng land. The hurricane-force winds which whipped across Great Britain Sunday caused at least $2.8 million damage. At least 43 persons were believed killed. Twenty-three crew mem bers of the German freighter Nautilus were dead or miss ing after the ship sank off the Tax Commission Chairman Visions Good Prospects Legislators Given Fiscal Orientation Salem - UH) - A modest growth in Oregon's economy during 19B3, and a more rapid pickup in 1964, was forecast today by Oregon Tax Commission Chair man Charles H. Mack. Mack made the forecast as the three-day legislative fis cal orientation conference got under way here. Members of the 1963 Legis lature gathered here for a c o m p r e hensive briefing of proposed revenue and expen diture programs for the 1963 65 biennium. Freeman Holmer, director of the Department of Finance and Administration, gave the 69 legislators present a sum mary of the proposed 1963 65 biennium budget an nounced by Gov. Mark Hat field on Dec. 1. Time Said Appropriate In discussing the $5.5 mil lion veterans' bond money the governor has recommended be transferred back to the gen eral fund to keep the state from running In the red this biennium, Holmer said "the time is appropriate for mak ing the decision, the need is now." He explained that Atty. Gen. Robert Y. Thornton had questioned the constitutional ity of making the transfer, and told legislators that ques tion could be submitted to the ' voters as a constitutional ' amendment. Sen. Alfred H. Corbett (D Portland) opened the meet- , ing. He is chairman of thai Legislative Fiscal committee.! Mack said "in looking at the prospects for Oregon ifv 1963 we are forced to con- . elude that there is no evl- dence in sight of anv un. usual gain." He predicted an economic growth of from one to two per cent next year, and about tive per cent -during 1964. Will Keep Up , . v. , He said If the growth next year Is larger than expected, a smaller upswing will take place in 1964. -- ' For the period beyond lIQRd lMnnl 1 J-. i """- fiicuiutcu ure be abll toTeep ud with X l,.elPUp w,th lhe H ,j ..,,', -. . soul 111 will come from economic ac tivities other than lumber and wood products and agricul ture. "We expect gains to be re corded in wages paid bv most other kinds of manufacturers, service enterprises, trade busi nesses and governments. "Many non-wage types of personal Income will also In crease," he said. In reviewing business dur ing this year, Mack pointed out "consumer spending has not come up to expectations." Above Average He said there were reports that Oregon's personal Income Increased 8.2 per cent through September of this year. He explained this Is a larger gain than in California or Wash ington, and was well above the national average of 8.3 per cent. "This year, by the usual indicators, is a better year than 1961, but is not as good as the council of economic advisers anticipated last Janu ary," he said. In sessions scheduled this afternoon, Gov. Mark Hat field's operating budget for 1963-65 was to be reviewed. Woman Changes Story of Stabbing Portland - (UPI) - A 42-year-old Portland babysitter has told police her story of being stabbed by a burglar last week was false. Mrs. Kathleen Galvin said she stabbed herself because she was despondent over mon ey problems. She is recover ing from shoulder wounds. Dutch coast early Sunday. Another 10 persons died In Britain In car accidents or when chimneys and roofs col lapsed. Ten more were killed in Bavaria, where snow and ice turned roads into paths of death. Weather forecasters pre dicted moderating winds to day, except on the southeast coast of England, where more gales were expected to whip the English Channel to flood tide. The winds ripped up trees, smashed road signs to th ground, twisted television ae rials and toppled chimneys and walls.