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Newspaper Page TextWeather FORECAST: Clear throufh thti evening, lncrealnc rloudineks tonight. -Temperatures moder ating ton H hi. High today 42 to 47; low 20 to 25. Temp. Highest Saturday it Lowe ti Saturday Morning 13 57th Year Medford United Press International Full Leaned Wire ie?" mtmj0r saasT Price 10 Cents Tribune United treat International Full Leated Wire Subscribers To report Improper or non delivery of the Mail Tribune In Medford, phone 772-6141; Ash land call at 416 Bridge it., or phone 462-3002; Yreka. phone 642-2403. before 6:49 pjn. dally and 10:30 jn. Sunday. If regular delivery arrlvea shortly after you call please notltv office, thus eliminating special messenger service. Section A 52 Pages MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, JANUARY 20, 1963 Six Sections No. 260 120 Aimed Nikita Missiles At U.S. Boasts Berlin -(UPD Up to 120 Rus sian missiles are ready to be launched toward the United States in case of war, Soviet Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev said Saturday. Speaking to East German steel workers in Eisenhuetten stadt, the Soviet leader gave no indication whether the missiles were based Inside Russia or elsewhere. But the inference was that they were capable of reaching the Unit ed States. "The American imperialists know that we withdrew 40 rockets from Cuba," he was quoted as saying by the East German News Agency (ADN). Sacred Heart Fund Drive Up To $575,332 A total of $575,332 has been accumulated so far for the new Sacred Heart hos pital at Crater Lake ave- and McAndrews rd., according to Paul W. Haviland, co-chairman of the hospital develop ment program. He also reported that proof of financial capability has been forwarded to Hill-Burton authorities prior to the dead line. Plans to break ground this year are ahead of sched ule, he added. The new structure will cost $2,123,000. Hill-Burton i fed eral funds already received total $623,000. The Sisters of Charity of Providence have assumed a mortgage , .of $750,000. A like sum is being solicited from public subscrip tion, Haviland noted. . Magazine Shows Interest. Pictures taken of the mock up room of the new hospital have been forwarded by re quest to "Hospital Progress," a national publication and will be featured in a forth coming issue. This room il lustrates the modern concept in hospital construction which is already operating success fully elsewhere. The public is invited to view the special room on the fourth floor of the hospital. Medford Youth In Critical Condition A 19-year-old Medford youth was taken to Rogue Valley hospital in critical con dition Saturday night after his car smashed into a traffic signal pole at the intersection of Highways 62 and 99, ac cording to city police. Injured was Marvin Lee Hamilton, 895 Gibbon rd. Of ficers said Hamilton appar ently turned onto Highway 62, abruptly changed his mind and attempted to change over to Highway 99. Officers said the Hamilton vehicle hit the steel traffic pole head-on. The car was demolished. Hamilton was rushed to the hospital by Medford Ambulance Service "But we have set up 80, prob ably even 120 rockets in other places." "Cuba is not the most con venient place to base rockets," Khrushchev said. "We have better places than Cuba." Khrushchev's claim of mis sile strength came fairly close to U.S. Intelligence estimates in Washington. A few months ago it was estimated that Rus sia had 50 intercontinental ballistic missiles, but the Sov iet Union could have turned out additional rockets since then. U.S. Hat 400 The United States has at least 400 missiles deployed with nuclear warheads that could be launched on Russian targets. These include more than 175 intercontinental bal listic missiles. Another 160 missiles are aboard 10 Polaris submarines which have been commissioned by the Navy probably nine-tenths of these are ready to fire at any given time. ; There are also 60 Thor mis siles mounted in Britain, 30 Jupiters in Italy and 15 Jupl ters in Turkey. Earlier, Khrushchev said the United States had been poised to invade Cuba with 300,000 men but was deterred by the "powerful Club" of Soviet military might. More Escapes He urged his audience at the Eisenhuettenstadt Steel Mills to work harder for Communism in another of a series of personal appearances to boost sagging East German morale. But the the campaign suffered a setback Saturday when two more Communist border euards escaDed to the West. Other Communist guards fired into West Berlin in a vain attempt to stop one of the escapes, the first time they have done so i n some months. Khrushchev and East Ger man Party Chief Walter Ul- bricht skipped the fifth ses sion of the East German Com munist party congress and traveled 60 miles east of Ber lin to the steel city of Eisen huettenstadt, which until re cently was named Stalinstadt. While they were gone, an East German border guard risked death by crawling through the barbed wire bar rier and escaping to West Ber lin in a hail of machinegun bullets from his former comrades. A few hours earlier, anoth- ed guard had escaped unde tected. Their flights brought to six the number of success ful escapes since Khrush chev's arrival Monday. Anoth er six refugees have fled to West Germany. 4 3 MM. . S e-- y . Experts Foresee 1st China A-Test &sbs&& Crl Within Two Years Maritime Strike May Reach Climax Today f - - JM CENTER OF CELEBRATION This hue anniversary cake was brought out during a gala celebration in Washington, D.C. Friday night in observance of the second anniversary of President John F. Kennedy's inauguration. Looking on Democrats Laud J FK's Cuba Performance, Tax Cut Proposal from the front row in the background are, left to right, Mrs. Lyndon Johnson, President Kennedy, Mrs.. Kennedy and Vice President Lyndon Johnson. (UPI). Washington - lUPll -Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson said Saturday that freedom is stronger everywhere in the world because President Ken nedy called the Soviet Un ion's nuclear bluff in Cuba. Addressing the Democratic national committee, he said "We have pulled , the fangs of the Cuban rattlesnake and made it clear there were no limits to our determination to defend our security. BODIES RECOVERED Oroville. Calif. (UPD The bodies of five airmen killed in the flaming crash of helicopter into a huge rock pile of gold dredger tailings were recovered baturaay. Labor Leader Thomas Kennedy Dead At 75 Hazclton, Pa. -(UPD- Thomas Kennedy, 75, the ."Little Giant of the Anthracite," who succeeded John L. Lewis as president of the United Mine Workers of America (UMW) three years ago, died Satur day at his home after a lengthy illness. Kennedy, an outstanding labor leader who began his mining career at the age of 12, had been ill. for. the past nine months. He took over the top UMW post when Lewis was elevated to the title of president-emeritus on Jan 14, 1960. NEVS(Q)BRIEFS ITEMS FROM m IS M0UN0 UM PAINTINGS VALUED AT $660,000 RECOVERED Caracal, Veneiuela -ilPI- Stolen French paintings valued at $660,000 war recoTered undamaged Saturday by police who shot and wounded two men transporting the master pieces in an old green Chevrolet, according to officials here. INDIA HURLS NEW CHARGES AT REDS New Delhi ciri) India charged Saturday that Chinese Communist troops are concentrating on the border of Sikkim, the email Himalayan Irontier itate whose defense is in Indian hands. In a note to Peking, it rejected Chines charges of Indian troop movements in the Sikkim-Tibet border region. BRAZIL REACHES AGREEMENT WITH ITT Rio de Janeiro 'lPt The Brazilian foreign ministry an nounced Saturday a tentative agreement hat been reached with the International Telephone and Telegraph company (ITT) on compensation tor properties expropriated In Rio Grand Do Sul stale by Gov. Leonel Britoli. Asphalt Could Change Weather Washington - (UPD-- Cheap asphalt, spread over, thou sans of square miles of the earth's surface, could bring rain to coastal deserts and perhaps free cities of smog, according to a scientist. James E. Black of the Esso Research and Engineering Co., Linden, N.J., suggested the method for improving the weather in a report to the American Association for the Advancement of Science. The energy which creates the weather comes from the sun, but first it is absorbed by the earth's surface and then returned to the atmosphere as heat radiation. Dark surfaces are better solar energy absorbers than light-colored ones. Black said research with black asphalt Coatings and coating contain ing a while reflecting sub stance, such as gypsum, were carried out in Arizona. Increase Temperature Black absorbing patches, he said, increased the soil temp erature by as much as 19 de grees, and white ones reduced it up to 24 degrees. Increasing the surface tem perature 19 degrees. Black estimated, would be enough to affect the weather. , Twin asphalt coatings. Black said, could be applied cheaply, would last a long time, and used "over tens of hundreds of square miles of the earth's surface," . they could produce useful changes in local weather. "One possible application for black petroleum coatings would be for the covering of large areas of arid land near the shoreline of a sea or large lake. "This might augment the intensity of the sea breeze circulation, bringing in moist air from over the water, lin ing it to its condensation level, and causing cloud for mation and subsequent rain fall." "Bv calling the bluff in Cuba," he added, "we made freedom in Berlin and South east Asia that much surer. And a few short years ago the Communist world wai solid and united, its major preoccupation today is a bit ter internal quarrel between its two most powerful lead ers.'.' Johnson spoke before a luncheon session of the na tional committee which wound up a three-day meet in 2 held in connection with the second anniversary 'cele bration of the President s in auguration. ' One major item of business to be dealt with was choosing the presidential nominating convention site for 1964. Another speaker was Sen. Mike Mansfield (D - Mont.) Domestic Peace Corps Outlined Washington -UPD- A cabi net level study group has pro posed to President Kennedy the formation of a domestic Peace Corps with 200 to 500 members this summer ana expansion to 5,000 partici pants in three years. There is no aoum. aooui the desire of the American to give his brother a hand," the report to the President said. "The ' open hospitality of the frontier still lives, born of friendliness, charity and generosity. This, enormous force for the general good can be accelerated by a presi dential call for service." The report, made public by the White House Saturday, was prepared by a special study group assigned by Ken nedy to fit together a pattcnr for creation of a national vol untary service corps, tht do mestic equivalent of the over seas Peace Corps. who pledged that the Demo cratic leadership in the Sen ate would do all it could to get Kennedy's $10 billion, three-year tax-cut program passed. "Our goals in this Congress will almost certainly center on the tax cut," the Senate majority leader said. "The President has laid great stress on Its need, both In terms of its benefits to each Amer ican family, but even more Important in terms of putting a surge forward into the na tion's economy." " Members of the committee and other party officials came here for Friday night's gala celebration of the Kennedy anniversary. In the morning, a group of 20 Democratic governors ate breakfast with the President, Atty. Gen. Robert F. Kenne dy, Johnson, and Democratic National Chairman John M. Bailey. Bailey himself told the committee that while the ad ministration had won a great election victory last Novem ber, the results also carried warning signals." He said the Democratic congressional vote dropped 32 per cent from 1960 com pared with only 16 per cent for the Republicans. On the recommendation of its executive committee, the national committee elected two new vice chairmen to fill vacancies. Chosen were Gov. Edmund G. Brown of Califor nia and Mayor Robert F. Wagner Jr. of New York. Seven new committee mem bers, chosen by their state organizations to fill vacancies, were seated. They were Wil liam P. Trotter, Georgia; Lt. Gov. Wilson Wyatl, Ken tucky; Mrs. Gloria Latno, Maine; State Sen. John E. Powers and Mrs, Mary Fan tasia, Massachusetts; Lief Erlckson, Montana, and Rep. John A. Blatnlk, Minnesota. Sports Bulletins - Grants Pais high moved back into lone first place in the Southern Oregon con ference basketball race here last night by beating Medford 66 to 62. The Cavemen cam back from 12 points down in the third quarter. Medford had quar ter leads of IB to IS. 30 to 29 and 49 to 42. Al Hutch i n scored 25 points for Grants Pass. Jack Forde put in 16 for Medford and Larry Vowel! IS. The Cave men ere now 4-1 in t h league and Medtord 2-3. TSHOMBE FLIES TO KOLWEZI Eliaabethvill. Katanga, The Congo -HPT- Katanga Presl dent Moite Tihomb flew Saturday to Kolwesi to try to stamp out the last opposition there to surrendering the city io the United Nations. - Senate To Probe Controversial Award Washington - CPU - Senate investigators will initiate hearings soon on the contro versial award of a fighter plane contract which is cx 1 3ctcd to run into billions of dollars. The investigation. Into the Pentagon's so-called TFX con tract, may well overshadow projected studies in both the Senate and House ot cancella tion of the Skybolt missile program. Klamath Falls Klam ath Union high defeated Ashland 39 to 29 here last night in Southern Oregon conference basketball. The Pelicans headed 19 to IS at the half. Jim Lamb had 17 points for Ashland and Gro ver Dahn 12 lor Klamath Falls. The Pels at 3 2 in the loop and Ashland O S. Rowan Appointed Envoy To Finland Washington - IUP1I - Carl T. Rowan, former newsman now serving as deputy assistant secretary of stale for public affairs, was named by Presl dent Kennedy Saturday ai U. S. Ambassador to Finland. Rowan, a Negro, was chO' sen to succeed Bernard A Gufler at Helsinki. The 37-year-old nominee, a native ot Ravenscroft, Tenn., was a reporter for the Min neapolis Star and Tribune prior to joining the State de partment in 1961. He attended the University of Minnesota and worked briefly In 1948 for the Balti more Afro American before returning to Minneapolis to join the staff of the Star and Tribune. He was cited by the Minneapolis Junior Chamber of Commerce as the city's "outstanding young man of 1951." The U. S. Junior Chamber of Commerce included him among "America's 10 out standing young men of 1953." Won Awards Rowan is the only newspa perman to have won three successive annual medallions from Sigma Delia Chi, the professional journalism soci ety. It was known that Rowan turned down some attractive offers to remain in govern ment service. Rowan does not speak Fin ish but presumably is learn ing it. The State department encourages all of its ambassa dors to become fluent in the language of the country in which they serve. Toyko - UPD - Experts be lieve Red China will explode its first nuclear device with in the next two years, Adm. Harry D. Felt, commander of the U. S. Pacific Command, said today. Felt said he thought such a development would worry Russians more than it would Asians. He indicated there was an Important difference between a crude nuclear ex plosion and the possession of nuclear weapons, but did not elaborate. The admiral made his re marks at a press conference called following a report by the Tokyo newspaper Main Ichl which said U.S. defense officials believe China al ready has built two atomic bombs and that it would test them before the end of 1963. 'The exnert opinion avail able to me is that we should expect Red China to explode nuclear device in tne near future." Felt said, "the near future being defined as the next vear or two. Saturday, the Mainieni Shimbun said U. S. officials made the disclosure to the JaDanese Government at a meeting of the joint U.S. Japan Security consultative committee in Tokyo. The. Jaoan Self Defense aeencv denied the . Matnichl reDort after It was published but the newspaper's editors aid their information was correct and refused to with draw the story. ' Malnichl said . . American military men did not appear greatly alarmed over tne cni' nese acquisition of element ary atomic explosives. . Japan and the United States agreed that even if the weapons were tested it would not affect the military situa tion in the Far East," Main- ichi said. "No hasty change of military deployment In the area is necessary." However, the Americans were reported to nave ex pressed concern over the ef fects on the Japanese public a Chinese atomic test be cause of the emotional and deeply rooted Japanese fear of atomic weapons. BARNETT SUMMONED New Orleans - 0IPD - Missis sippi Gov. Ross Barnctt and Lt. Gov. Paul Johnson have been summoned to appear personally before U.S. Bth Circuit Court of Appeals to face criminal contempt charges next month, a New Orleans television station said last night. MacArthur Gets AAU, NCAA To Reach Agreement, New York -(UPD- Gen. Douglas MacArthur an nounced last night that the AAU and NCAA have reached a settle ment, ending the bitter amateur sports feud that threatened United States performance in the Olympic games. ' After nearly 10 hours of continuous negotia tions with the groups which have been con testing for the control of amateur athletics in this country, the five-star general Tevealed at o p.m. (EST), that the AAU and NCAA had agreed essentially to a four-point program which he submitted. The agreement grants immediate amnesty to athletes who have been disqualified from selec tion for the Olympics for reasons other than those which are purely per sonal to the individual. Talent Rural Fire District Approved By 135-19 Margin Talent Formation o f t h e Talent Rural Fire Protection district won overwhelming approval at the polls Friday by a vote of 135 to 19. Elected to the board of di directors of the new district were Dean A. Blackburn, Howard DeYoung, Eddie M Heim, Lee Floyd Quinn and Esper C. Silvester. They were the only candidates on the ballot, although three others received write-in votes. Vote totals were: Blackburn 142, DeYoung 143, Helm 144, Quinn 140, Silvester 142, Joe Meyers 1, Jack Young 1 ana Clarence Wilson 1. ' The new distrlet takes In most of the rural area sur rounding the city of Talent and on the ' southeast ' and west sides of Phoenix. ' Friday's election merely cre ated the district. The board of directors will now be faced with the task of planning ways to Improve fire protection fa cilities In the district. In their pre-election cam paign, proponents of district formation indicated that their primary objectives would be to obtain modern fire fighting equipment and hire full-time, permanent personnel. At pres ent the rural area is served by a volunteer fire department. Basketball Scores Saturday College Games Oregon St. 63, Gonzaga 47 Oregon 59, Wash. St. 44 Portland St. 57, SOC 55 Montana St. 71, Idaho St. 58 Stanford 58, Washington 49 Penn 86, Columbia 66 Tennessee 78, Kentucky 69 Kansas 72, Nebraska S3 , Holy Cross 93, Dartmouth 75 La Salle 89, Seton Hall 80 Mich St. 80, Northwestern B Cornell 73, Princeton 87 Iowa St. 54, Missouri 53 Wyoming 88, Arizona St. 81 BYU 71, Utah 53 Pitt 79, Army 73 New Mexico 69, Arizona 48 Utah St. 75, Colo. St. 68 Outlook Held Bleak For Other Major Strikes ITU Strike Fund Reported 'Low' By United Press International Final recommendations ot a presidential panel aimed at. ending a month-old maritime strike on the east and gun coasts will be presented to both parties today. Sen. Wayne Morse, who heads the panel set up by President Kennedy, made the announcement after meeting separately with striking long shoremen and shippers bat urday. Morse urged that the proposals be given "careful consideration" toward ending the dispute which has tied up shipping and cost an estimat ed $700 million since it began ' Dec. 23. Morse summoned the nego tiators for the International Longshoremen's association and the New York Shipping association to an 11 a.m. (EST) meeting in a mldtown New York hotel today. The outlook was bleak for other labor disputes which have clamped news blackouts on New York City and Cleve land, and halted public trans portation in Philadelphia. Mayor H. J. Tate appealed to the Philadelphia Transpor- t a 1 1 o n Co and Transport Workers union negotiators to remain at the ' bargaining ta ble until they Teach an agree ment. In- a personal appear ance before the bargainers, Tata pllfl iinAn tVinm in rm I store service at once tor the (city's one million riders. In New. York, a spokesman for the International Typo graphical union - (ITU) ac knowledged that' the union's strike fund Is "quite low." He said the ITU's- nationwide rank and file would vote Feb. 6 on whether to back an as sessment for the strikers. Strong words were ex changed in the other newspa per strike, which has closed Cleveland's newspapers for eight weeks. The striking American Newspaper guild (ANG) charged in a statement that publishers were not "bargain ing in good faith" and that if the Cleveland Press would agree to an acceptable form of union security the "guild strike could be ended quickly thereafter,, wa believe." Louis B, Seltzer, editor of the Press, replied "When the guild begins to tell the truth and faces up to itself, the strike situation can be re solved." - , Operation Done Under Hypnosis Successfully Antibes, France - IUPD -Doctors Saturday removed the appendix of a man who was under hypnosis and list ening to "dreamy music." No , anesthetic was used. A spokesman for the hos pital here said the operation on Francois Avlneau, 30, a fisherman, went off without a hitch. i Gaitskell's Death Leaves Labor Party Near Chaos Saturday Prep Scores Henley 61 St. Mary's 49 Prospect 48 Rogue River 39 Eagle Point 60 111. Valley 44 Phoenix 77 Sacred Heart 24 London (UPD A power struggle inside the Labor party for the leadership left vacant by the death of Hugh Gaitskell threatened further chaos Saturday to an already troubled British political scene. Gaiskcll, 58, died Friday night Just when the Socialists appeared to be within grasp of victory in the next elec tions because of the troubles besetting Prime Minister Harold MacMillan's Conserva tive government. There . was no automatic successor to Gaitskell and his death apparently greatly diminished Labor's chances for success. Some of his friends said he was worth a million votes to the Socialists. The Labor party is deeply divided into left-and right wings and it was Gaitskell, a conservative Socialist, who held it together. There was a possibility the Conservatives might take advantage of the confusion now reigning in the Labor midst to call a snap general election. Complicating Labor's trou. blc was the convening on Tuesday of the House of Com mons to face critical issues which will test the loyalty of the two Labor wings and the Conservative government it self. M.P.'s of both parties were full of doubts and uncertain ties over MacMillan's fight to take Britain into the Euro pean Common Market over French opposition. Many were angry over growing unemployment. Even some of MacMillan's support ers have been openly hostile to his decision to accept President Kennedy's proposal to abandon the Skybolt de terrent and accept the Polaris missile. There was speculation the confusion into which the Labor leadership had been thrown would prompt Mac Mlllan to call an election. Un der law he must hold one by October, 1964, but he is able to call one at his own discre tion if he thinks his Tories can win. Before Gaitskell's death the Labor party had been run. nfng ahead in public opinion polls and an anti-government trend set In several py-eicc-tlons last year. Political com mentators agreed MacMUIan could not call a general elec tion until some dramatic event changed things. UH HUGH QAIT8KELL Worth On Million Votes They believed success of Britain's bid to enter the Common Market provided the main chance. Now the Com mon Market negotiations ap peared close to disaster be cause of French President Charles De Gaulle's opposi tion to Britain's membership. The big question was whether the Labor feuds could be hidden. Gaitskell welded the party together by his personal prestige after it fell apart In the mid-1950s over such issues as national ization of industry, nuclear disarmament and Britain's approach to European unity. He convinced the left-wing that Labor th working class party must modify its socialist principles so as to win the support of the grow ing middle classes. He con vinced the right-wing, mostly influential trade unionists, to cooperate with the left-wing Intellectuals. Labor's problem Is that the two chief contends for the succession to Gaitskell repre sent those two wings. George Brown, 48, is a right-wing trade unionist. Harold Wilson, 46, Is a left-leaning Intellec tual who wants Britain to give up its own nuclear de terrent. Labor's hope now appears to be that the challenge of the situation and the great political stakes Involved will produce a middle-of-the-road man who could command enough respect to hold the party together. ' One man who might do It Is James Callaghan, 50. He has come up from a humble background In contrast to Gaitskell and former Labor leader Earl Attlee who were from the old privilege public school system. Another potential compro mise leader ii Sir Frank Sos klce, a "center" Socialist who served as attorney general and was a close friend of Gaitskell. The mechanics of selecting a new labor leader will begin at 5 p.m. Monday when the "shadow cabinet" the men who would serve In a Labor government meet In Gait skell's House ot Commons of fice to discuss arrangements for naming a successor.