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MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1962
Six Sections
No. 236
57th Year
Release of Cuban
Prisoners For
Foodstuffs Begins
First Arrivals
Expected Today
Havana -HOT- Cuba began
transferring prisoners from
its Isle of Pines stronghold
to Havana Saturday in prep
aration for an exchange that
will set them free in return
for millions of dollars of drugs
and foodstuffs from the Unit
ed States.
A total of 214 leaders of
the abortive invasion attempt
were being taken from their
maximum security quarters
on the island.
(Reports in Miami said the
freighter African Pilot sailed
from Port Everglades last
night and would deliver its
bulging cargo of supplies in
Cuba about noon today,
planes Flying Today
(Reliable sources said char
tered Pan American World
Airways cargo planes would
take off from Florida this
morning and return with the
first ransomed prisoners
about 8:30 a.m. the same day.
About 100 prisoners will be
the first to arrive in the Unit
ed States, it was reported.)
The Communist newspaper
Revolucion reported the ex
change would start Monday.
The prisoners on the Isle
of Pines were the leaders of
the attempt to overthrow Pre
mier Fidel Castro. Mostly,
they were company command
ers and the sons of prominent
Cuban exiles, considered the
most recalcitrant of the 1,113
Cubans taken prisoner in
April, 1961.
The huge "model prison" on
the Isle of Pines is where
Cuba's major political prison
ers are kept. Officials say
there has never been a suc
cessful escape from the big,
octagonal jail. The invasion
leaders were transferred there
about seven months ago.
Signed Friday
Final agreement for the
prisoners' exchange was sigm
ed Friday night by Premier
Fidel Castro and New York
Attorney James B. Donovan,
counsel for the Cuban fam
ilies committee for the liber
ation of prisoners of war.
Early Saturday morning
Castro accompanied three of
ficials of the Cuban Red Cross
to Havana airport from where
they flew to Miami in Dono
van's chartered plane to "in
spect the medical supplies and
other goods being amassed at
Opa Locka airport.
All government newspapers
Saturday headlined the sign
ing of the agreement, empha
sizing that the full price of
S62 million set by a revolu
tionary tribunal for "indem
nities" on the prisoners will
be met.
Basketball Scores
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Saturday College Scores
Oregon State 61, Iowa 55 !
Cincinnati 72. Davidson 46 I
USC 55, Nebraska 53 i
Illinois 93, Oklahoma 90 i
Butler 66, Notre Dame 59 !
Ohio State 101. Detroit 66
Loyola 93, Seattle 83 :
Kansas 62. Northwestern 57 !
Arizona St. 98, Minnesota
79
Idaho St. 74. Texas St. 72
Kentucky 79, West Virginia
73
Dayton 47. Miami 42
BYU 75, Baylor 57
UCLA 77, Wisconsin 63 j
Utah St. 102, Michigan St.
87
Stanford 72. Texas 48
Calif. 60. Wyoming 55
ITtMS FROM
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KHRUSHCHEV WILL VISIT YUGOSLAVIA
London -in Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev has
accepted an invitation from President Tilo lo visit Yugo.
slavia, Moscow Radio said in
heard in London.
ANTI-COMMUNIST CLAIMS VICTORY
Santo Domingo I PI Juan Bosch, leftist antiCommunist
presidential candidate of the Dominican Revolutionary Party
(PRD). claimed victory Saturday and (aid he is not bothered
by reports of a plot lo assassinate him.
PLANE CRASHES WITH 40 ABOARD
Brasilia 1 11 A Vang Airlines Convair carrying 40 per-,
sons crashed and exploded last night while coming in for t
landing at the International Airport here, according to air
port officials. There was no immediate indication how many
-if any died.
POPE JOHN SEES GLIMMER OF HOPE
Vatican City -111- Pope John XXIII said last mghl in his
annual Christmas message to the world that there are now
glimmers of hope for international peace. The Pope, in one
of the most optimistic holiday messages of his four year
reign, said his calls for peace during the grave Cuban crisis
apparently were heeded.
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TASTY TRIMMINGS C a n d y canes and
luscious-looking ice cream cones just natur
ally appeal to youngsters. That is why most
of the lower decorations on the Christmas
tree at Jackson County Federal Savings
and Loan Association, Medford, show signs
of having been nibbled on. Although the ice
cream is made of plaster of paris, the cones
Hoffa Jury Deadlocked After
14 Hours;
Nashville, Tenn. -(OTP- The
jury trying Teamsters' Presi
dent James Hoffa on a SI
million conspiracy charges re
ported after 14 hours of delib
eration last night that it was
still deadlocked. A Sunday
session was ordered.
Winter Arrives,
Blankets Nation
With Snow Fog
By United Press International
Arriving winter Saturday
delivered a rabbit punch of
heavy snow from Virginia to
Maine more than a foot of
it in Virginia gales on the
north Atlantic coast, and bit
ing, wind-blown cold from
Montana and Michigan to Tex
as. Freezing rain veneered
highways and airports with
ice as far south as North
Carolina and westward
through the Ohio valley, de
laying holiday travelers. Fog
created air and highway traf
fic hazards and delays from
JJli'ii
Black Tornado
Basketball Team
Suffers 1st Loss
Medford High school's
Black Tornado basket
ball team suffered its
first defeat of the season
Saturday night at t h e
hands of a driving Soulh
Eugene quintet, 65 to 58.
Medford was ahead go
ing into the fourth
quarter, 48 to 46, but
after the lead changed
several times. South Eu
gene went ahead 53 to
51 with 5:15 remaining
and held on for the win.
High scorer for the
game was Eugene's cen
ter. Jack Willis, with 23
points. Top man for Med
ford was Jack Forde
with 18 counters.
AROUND THI 010(1
French language broadcast
are real and it didn't take the toddlers long
to find out, for many of the ends are bitten
off. Little Joanne and Glen Ernst, above,
sample the yummy decorations. Joanne was
a little put out by the imitation ice cream,
but felt better after Glen gave her a bite
of candy cane.
Sunday Session Set
The jury foreman told Fed
eral Judge William Miller
the panel was "hopelessly
deadlocked" for the third
time at 10:45 p.m. (EST), and
Miller ordered the jurors
locked up for the night.
Miller asked Foreman
San Diego, Calif., to central
Washington early in the day.
Tile weather was blamed
for at least 68 deaths, 23 of
them in New England.
Indiana had eight deaths,
Tennessee seven; Maryland
and New York five each; Illi
nois and Montana four each;
Virginia and Iowa three each;
Wisconsin two, and Minneso
ta and California one each.
At Havre, Mont., Jim Car
rywater was found dead of
exposure outside the home of
a friend he had been visiting.
Inside, the friend, Patrick
Pepper, was found dead of
a heart attack.
Up to 9 inches of snow fell
in New York state. A 3-inch
j snowfall at New York City
i caused 137 traffic accidents
; in Long Island's Nassau coun
ty, injuring 70 persons.
A mother and two children
asphyxiated in their blizzard
stalled car near Shelby, Mont.
Four inches of snow fell
in parts of North Dakota and
Minnesota and winds up to 55
miles an hour fanned a bliz
gard, cutting visibility to 116
of a mile at Grand Forks,
N. D., and ;l4 of a mile at
Thief River Falls, Minn., as
the temperature plummeted
toward the zero mark.
Medford, Alba
Exchange Greetings
Christmas greetings have
been exchanged by cablegram
between the mayors of Med
ford and its sister city, Alba,
Italy.
On Dec. 12, Medford Mayor
John W. Snider sent the fol
lowing wire to Alba's mayor,
Osvaldo Cagnasso;
"Christmas greetings to the
people of Alba from the peo
ple of Medford."
Friday, Mayor Snider re -
ceived a reply from Mayor
Cagnasso:
"To the city of Medford
and its mayor, the warmest
wishes
SHOPPING
OH IEFI
CHRISTMAS SEALS fight TB and
ilker RESPIRATORY DISEASES
1 1rl
Walter Harper if he thought
the jury might be able to
reach a verdict if brought
back Sunday or Monday.
"I don't know," Harper
said, "it seems like we have
given it a lot of time. But if
we had more time, maybe we
could do something."
Begin Again Today
Miller ordered that delib
erations begin again at 10
a.m. EST after the jurors told
him they had rather hold a
Sunday session than wait un
til Christmas Eve.
Twice earlier in the even
ing the jurors sent out re
ports that they were unable
to decide if the Teamsters'
president was guilty of ac
cepting an illegal payoff from
a Michigan trucking firm.
Both limes Miller ordered
the jury back. "Go back and
stay with it," he told them.
After the second dead
locked report, Hoffa's attor
neys asked for a mistrial, but
Miller turned the request
down.
Defense Attorney Jacob
Kossman argued that "any
further consideration at this
time would be a great mis
carriage of justice and a de
nial of due process of law1'
in arguing for a mistrial.
But Miller agreed to gov
ernment attorneys' request to
issue supplemental instruc
tions to the jurors and let
them continue their delibera
tions. At least once during its de
liberations the jurors asked
that evidence on Hoffa's lax
returns and the Judge's
charge to the jury be sent to
them
Tedium from the nine-week
trial apparently had begun to
show on all concerned.
Once during the proceed
ings today Miller reprimand
ed Hoffa for his nervous habit
of hitting the table with his
hand. 1
"I'm going to have order
in my courtroom and I'm not
going to have a table banged
on."
Sports Bulletin
Central Point Crater
high fought from behind in
the third quarter and expend
ed its lead in the fourth here
last night lo beat Lebanon
basketball team 64 to 48.
A two game week end
sweep gave the Comets a 6-0
I record at the completion
oi
1 pre-conference play.
I Mike Glinei scored 20
points and Lou Alvarex 15 for
j Crater. Tim Blanchet had 14
i nd Dave Slurgii 12 for the
Warriors. Lebanon was ahead
30 lo 2i at the hall and
Crater 40 lo 34 after three
quarters.
Ashland Chico State's
basketball team jumped to a
half lime lead of 52 to 19 over
Southern Oregon college here
Saturday night and coasted
lo a 80 to 58 win. High scorer
for the game was Chico't
Mike Leitner with 18 points.
SOC'i Larry Hink wai high
for the Red Raiders with 12
points.
: High School Scores:
j Ashland 61 Phoenix 31
I Nmth Eugene 61 Grants
I Pass 55
j Eagle Point 77 Onkridge 48
Butlc Valley 51 St. Mary's
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Skybolt S
But Projec
MacMillan Flies
Home To Face
ifical Furor
British Press
Cries 'Surrender'
Nassau - (UPD - Prime Min
ister Harold Macmillan flew
home last night from his
"landmark" conference with
President Kennedy to face a
political furor over the Anglo
American agreement on nuc
lear strategy and equipment.
The successful firing of a
skybolt missile Saturday at
Cape Canaveral added to his
embarrassment.
The Kennedy - Macmillan
talks ended Friday but Mac
millan remained here for con
ferences with Canadian
Prime Minister John Diefen
baker. A joint communique issued
by Diefenbaker and Macmil
lan said they discussed a wide
range of topics including east
west relations, disarmament
and nuclear testing.
Express Hope
It said the two leaders ex
pressed hope the "present sit
uation might offer opportun
ities for constructive moves
in the problems outstanding
in these fields."
Noticeably absent from the
250-word communique was
anv reference to the Mac-1
millan-Kennedy agreement on
the creation of a British
Polaris submarine fleet for
eventual integration into a
NATO nuclear force.
Macmillan, who came lo
Nassau to seek a solution to
the major domestic political
crisis over the U.S. decision
to scrap the Skybolt missile,
appeared headed for an equal
ly rough reception for the
new plan under which Britain
will acquire Polaris missiles
for a submarine fleet which
eventually is to be integrated
with a NATO nuclear force.
"First Class"
British Defense Minister
Peter Thorneycroft called the
Nassau nuclear agreement
"first class" when he returned
Saturday from the Bahama
conference between President
Kennedy and Prime Minister
Harold Macmillan.
But British newspapers
lashed out with headlines
such as "Macmillan's surren
der" and "Macmillan's nuc
lear folly."
The London Evening Stand
ard predicted there would be
a "big showdown" over the
skybolt decision when Par
liament reconvenes next
month and added that Mac
millan "may find it necessary
to seek a vote of confidence."
Labor party defense spokes
man George Brown called the
agreement a "terrible indict
ment" of Britain's "complete
and utter failure on defense."
Liberal party leader Jo
Grimond saw it as a face-saving
arrangement that exposed
the idea of an independent
British nuclear deterrent to
be a "myth."
SBA Temporary
Office Closing
The temporary field office
of the SBA (Small Business
administration), located at the
American Red Cross offices,
60 Hawthorne avc., will not
be reopened Dec. 27 and 28,
according to SBA officials.
All further inquiries result
ing from the flood damage
during the week of Dec. 2 by
Jackson and Josephine coun
ty residents should be for
warded to the SBA olficc, 1121
Southwest Washington st.,
Portland, Ore.
Information will be furnish
ed as to procedures for filing
applications and eligibility.
Inquiries can be filed up
to six months from the dale
of the flood. Literature and
information arc still available
by contacting the Amrricnn
Red Cross office for guidance
prior to submitting complete
information directly to the
SBA In Portland.
SECOND SUCCESS
London - il'PIi - Skybolt had
another success last riight.
This Skybolt is a dug It won
(he seventh race at the New
Cross Greyhound Stadium.
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LAUNCHED SUCCESSFULLY The U.S.
Air Force successfully launched its contro
versial Skybolt missile from a high' flying
jet bomber Saturday and scored a success
that may pave the way for a Congressional
fight to save the program from extinction.
Missile Intercept
Launch Successful
Washington -(LTD- The
Army's Nike Zeus anti-missile
missile Saturday intercepted
an Atlas 1CBM that was
launched on a 5,000-m 1 1 e
course over the Pacific and
released decoys to confuse
ground defenses, the defense
department announced.
Thf thrno-slaCp Nike-Zeus
rnarpH nut nf the Armv's S75
million base on Kwajalein is
land in the Southwest Pacitic
to pass "well within lethal ra
dius" of the authentic Alias
warhead, fired from Vanden
berg Air Force Base, Calif.,
the announcement said.
It was the third lime the
Nikp 7.poK had intercented an
intercontinental ballistic mis
silo nn a 5 (100-mlle trajectory.
and the first time decoys had
been used.
The previous intercepts, al-
I so from Kwajalein, were on
Dec. 12 and July 19 this year.
As in previous tests, the
Nike Zeus carried no explos
ives. Ground tracking stations
determined that it passed the
Atlas nose cone within the
lethal r a d i u u( the nuclear
war head designed for the
Nike Zeus to carry In war
time.
First 24 Hours Of Christmas Week End
Safest In
By Uniled Press International I
Holiday travelers by the
millions clogged the highways
Saturday but the first 24
hours of the four-day Christ
mas weekend proved the saf
est in nine years.
The National Safety Coun
cil, which had estimated that
a many as 750 persons might
die in traffic accidents dur
ing the 102-hour holiday per
iod, reported that wintry
weather apparently was hold
ing the death toll In the low
est figure since lil'.;i when
the council began keeping
hourly figures.
At 12:30 a.m. EST. the
United Press International
had counted 153 traffic
deaths since the holiday per
iod started at 6 p.m. local
time yesterday. In addition 43
persons died in other types of
accidents.
uccessfully
W
ill
The Skybolt
Zorin Relieved Of
Soviet UN Position
Moscow (DPI) Deputy
Foreign Minister Valerian A.
Zorin has been replaced as
Soviet ambassador to the
United Nations, the official
news agency Tass said Satur
day.
Zorin, 60, is a long-time
Communist party member and
diplomat and served in sev
eral key posts under Stalin.
(It was Zorin, together with
U. S. Ambassador Adlai E.
Stevenson, who engaged in
one of the most heated ex
changes ever heard in the
United Nations during the Cu
ban crisis.
(Last Oct. 25, Stevenson
displayed to the UN Security
Council photographs of Rus
sian missile sites in Cuba and
challenged Zorin to comment
about their existence, "yes or
no. Zorin s reply was rau
cous laughter.
("I am prepared to wait for
my answer until hell freezes
over," Slevenson said.
("I am not in the clock of
an American courtroom, sir,"
Zorin replied. "You will re
ceive your answer in due
course."
(At one point previously,
Zorin had denied that Russia
had offensive missiles In Cu
ba. Shortly after his exchange
with Stevenson he was super
9 Years Says Safety
The breakdown:
Traffic 153
Fires 2
Miscellaneous 17
Total . 19B
Texas and Illinois each had
17 traffic deaths. California
was next with 13 and Ala
bama had 10.
The nation's worst traffic
accident occurred three miles
south of Clarks, Neb., where
seven members of a Dcs
moincs. Iowa, family died
when their car plunged off
a curve at a bridge approach
and overturned, all but sub
merged In icy water and mud.
The car was found Saturday,
some 12 hours after the acci
dent. An hour before the start of
the holiday period, tour
miners cn route lo work and
two mine officials homeward
Be
missile is shown under the
wings of a B52 11 bomber in the top photo,
while the newschart below shows the flight
the missile took after is was launched
(UPD
ceded by another Soviet first
deputy foreign minister, Vas
sily E. Kuznetsov, in U. S.
Russian negotiations about
taking them out.)
Fedorenko Named
Tass said Zorin has been
replaced by Nikolai Fedoren
ko, a 510-year-old career diplo
mat and former ambassador
to Japan.
Tass gave no indication
whether Zorin had been mov
ed to a new post.
It merely said that the coun
cil of ministers has named
Fedorenko to take over the
posts of permanent represent
ative at the United Nations
and as the Soviet representa
tive on the Security Council.
City Employees To
Get Extra Holiday
Employees of the city of
Medford, by action of the city
council, will receive one ex
tra holiday, either the Mon
day before Christmas, or the
Monday before New Year's
day.
City Manager Robert Duff,
who recommended the action
to the council, said that city
hall will be open both Mon
days operating on a skeleton
crew.
bound for the holidays were
killed when a car collided
with a pickup truck near
Carlsbad, N.M.
Two small children
drowned In Lake Huron near
Port Huron, Mich., Saturday
while playing on the ice.
200 Cars Collide
At Anaheim, Calif., a giant
chain-reaction traffic crash in
volving an estimated 200 cars
in dense fog on the heavily
travelled Santa Ana freeway
early Saturday claimed the
life of a Catholic nun and re
sulted In injuries to about 50
motorists.
"It looked like a giant
junkyard," a news photog
rapher said in describing the
scene of the monster pllcup
along a mile-long stretch of
the freeway.
Dead was Sister Mary
Refuge of the St. Francis
Fired,
Propped
i
Defense Officials
Say Program Still
Be Scrapped
Congress May Have
Different Ideas
Cape Canaveral -(Wr-Amer-
lca s controversial bkybolt
missile scored its first success
in six starts Saturday, but
the impressive 900 mile flight
came too late to save the pro
gram from the presidential
ax.
The Air Force, however, is
still hopeful it can pick up
congressional support for the
costly program.
In a desperation overtime
bid to save its high-priced
baby" from extinction, the
Air Force held the Atlantic
missile range open an extra
day to shoot for a success
that might impress the con
gressmen who will be return
ing to work on a new budget
next month.
The gamble paid off. A
sleek B-52 jet bomber streak
ed past Cape Canaveral and
dropped the 39-foot Sgybolt
from its swept-back wing at
an altitude of more than 40,
000 feet at 9:15 a.m. (EST).
Reverses Past Mark
Completely reversing Its
previous performance record
of five consecutive failures.
the Skybolt climbed steeply
into space and sent its nose
cone in a high arc to its tar
get within 20 minutes.
But hardly had the roar of
the rocket engines subsided
before the administration
made clear that the success
would not change President
Kennedy's mind about the
Skybolt program.
Tins word came both from
the Defense department in
Washington and the winter
White House In Palm Beach,
where the President is spend
ing the Christmas holidays.
The Defense department, in
bluntly-worded statement,
said that "today's single test
did not conclusively demon
strate the capacity of the mis
sile to achieve the target ac
curacy for which the Skybolt
system was designed."
"This flight test was one of
an extensive series planned
for the research phase of the
project," said Deputy Defense
Secretary Roswell Gilpatric.
"It Is always expected that
some test of this sort should
succeed and that others will
fail. Many additional tests had
been planned and would be
required during the research
phase to prove out and perfect
this complex weapons sys
tem." The phrasing of Gilpatric's
statement that further tests
had been planned" ami
would be required" Indicat
ed that no more Skybolt tests
will be conducted, although
Gilpatric did not say so ex
plicitly.
SPY SCARE SPREADS
Moscow - (IIPII - The Soviet
Union's big spy scare spread
Saturday. A Russian physics
teacher with a love of ab
stract art was accused of
passing secrets to the Amer
icans and a West German
tourist was expelled for pho
tographing defense objects.
Council
home in this Orange county
community 35 miles from Los
Angeles.
A dozen ambulances rushed
the injured to hospitals in the
area and some 30 tow trucks
were dispatched to the scene
to remove smashed vehicles
strewn along both i 'bound
and outbound lanes. It took
more than three hourj to
clear the wreckage.
One Oregon Death
Oregon recorded its first
Christmas holiday traffic
death Friday night.
The victim was Alice
Thompson, 28, Eugene. She
was killed in a one-car acci
dent on U.S. Highway 20, 14
miles west of Burns.
State police said her car
went out of control and
turned over after hitting Ice
on the highway. The accident
occurred at 9:13 p.m.
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