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Rogue Valley Edition
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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Tribune
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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
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57th Year Price 10 Cents
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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
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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.
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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. -- '
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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.