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Price 10 Cents Weather Subscribers To report Improper or non delivery of the Mail Tribune in Medlord. phone 772-6141; Ash land eall at 418 Bridge St., or phone 482-3001; Yreka. phone 842-8403. before :45 pm. daily and 10:30 a m. Sunday. If regular delivery arrives shortly after you call please notify office, thus eliminatini special messenger service. FORECAST: Variable eloudinrsi through Monday, borne chanrt of rain today. Some valley foe Satchfs in the morning. High oth days 53-is. Low tonight 30-35. Temp. Highfft Yesterday 53 Lowest Yesterday 31 No precipitation Mi 5 P m. yes terday. Medford RIBUNE United Press International Full Leased Wira United tress International FuU Leased Wire Section A 56 Pages MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1963 Six Sections No. 278 57th Year nPl rf 11 rP HIGH-LEVEL CONFERENCES President Kennedy is shown as he met in his office in the nation's capital Sat urday with U.S. Ambassador to Russia Foy Kohler. Kohl- cr railed on the chief executive to climax a round of high-level conferences ne has scheduled since his return to Washington D.C. earlier last week. (UPI) Medlord Man Dies After House Fire Despite Rescue John Lenard Detweiler, 78, of 515 Alice st., died Satur day morning after being res cued from a smoke filled house by Medford police and firemen. A neighbor, Mrs. Mae Eliz abeth Remillard, reported to Medford police at 10:12 a.m. that smoke was pouring from the neighboring house and an occupant was still inside. Firemen found the man on the bedroom floor and applied mouth-to-mouth resuscitation. Detweiler recovered consci- ousncss and was taken to Sa cred Heart hospital by Med ford Ambulance service. He died about an hour later. Firemen said apparently a heating pad or electric blan ket caught fire Friday night. Detweiler put it out, because remains of some charred ma terial were found out in the yard where it apparently had been thrown out. However, a spark must have ignited lh bedding and the resulting smoke apparent ly overcame the lone occu pant of the house. The body has been taken to . Perl's Funeral home in Medford, pending funeral arrangements. Federal Mediator Hustles to Avoid Railroad Strike San Francisco - (UPH - Fed eral mediator Frank O'Neill Saturday night succeeded in obtaining another post ponement of a strike by 11,000 clerks which would shut down the sprawling Southern Pacific railroad in even stales. Ambassador to Quit Harvard Position Tokyo -AMI- U. S. Ambas sador to Japan Dr. Edwin O. Reischauer has decided to re sign h'S Harvard university professoiship to remain in hi? post here, it was learned Sat urday. Reischauer, 52, took a two year leave of absence when President Kennedy named him to the Tokyo post, the most important in the Far East, in the spring of 1961. San Francisco-ttIPP- Federal Mediator Frank O'Neill dou ble-timed between opposing camps Saturday in his untir ing efforts to prevent li.uuu clerks from shutting down the Southern Pacific railroad with a seven state strike. If O'Neill fails to bring about a settlement, a walkout is certain. It would tie up the SP in California, Oregon, Ne vada, Utah, Arizona, New Mexico and west Texas, idling as many as 50,000 persons along 8,000 miles of company track. As he swung out of South ern Pacific's downtown of fices en route to a meeting with officials of the Brother hood of Railway Clerks Jaycees Name Three Outstanding Men O'Neill turned to waiting newsmen and said, "I know you're tired of hearing this, but we're still talking." The "talking" over the con troversial issue of men dis placed by automated equip ment was expected to contin ue as long as negotiators could prop their eyes open. O'Neill, of the Federal Me diation board, met first Sat urday with William McGov cm of Cincinnati, Ohio, spe cial representative of Broth erhood President George Hur rison. Conferred for Hours He then hot-footed It over to Southern Pacific where he and company negotiator K. K. SoViamp conferred for two and a half hours. Then the unflagging medi ator returned to the Sheraton Palace hotel for a second meeting with McGovcrn, and possibly James E. Weaver, chairman of the union's SP division. The union has demanded that Southern Pacific initiate a program of retraining and absorbing into the company men who have lost or will lose their jobs because of au tomation. The company's position is that it cannot agree to a pro gram that conceivably could create unnecessary jobs and retard technical advances. Nikita Scorns U.S. Concern Over Soviets in Cuba Bend, Ore. -tl'PD- The Ore gon Junior Chamber of Com merce named its three out standing young men of 1962 at its fourth annual awards banquet here Saturday night. Picked from 10 finalists were Guidon W. Burns, C4, a Grant? Pass barber snop ov.pn- ; y a , s er; Corland P. Moblcy, 35, a I (JO AClteSS AOfA i- i Medford Girl Wins Portland advertising execu tive, and Paul A. Thalhofer, 35, an attorney at Pendleton. The winners were chosen by a panel of five judges, including Dr. Edward Durno, former Medford congressman. HEWS()BRIEFS rtlMS FROM Of MOUND THI 0101 ITALIAN CABINET FAVORS PRO-BRITISH STAND Rome - TPD - The Italian cabinet Saturday voiced "satisfaction" with Premier Amintore Fanfani's pro British stand on the Europeen Common Market dispute ai pre-election tension mounted. TANKER MISSING WITH 39 ABOARD Portsmouth, Va. - HPfl - Mounting hours of fruit less search caused growing concern Saturday night for the sal'iiy of 39 seamen missing aboard an overdue World War II tanker which was last heard from six days ago. RED PREDICTS VICTORY OVER U.S. Tokyo - UPI) - Radio Peking said Saturday Com munist China's military commander is confident his forces could defeat the United Slates in new war even it it does have "nuclear teeth." Corvallis-Tracy Blackstone of Medford High school won the top award as best actress in one-act plays presented during the Regional Thespian conference at Oregon State university Saturday. Four other Medford High drama students made the fi nals of the competition. Jack Barr was a finalist in acting interpretation. Cast in the one-act plays in addition to Miss Blackstone were Jean Allen, Judy Brookman and Greg Keith. They were selected from some "t.iO students irom high schools participating in the annual event. Also partici pating Irom Medford were John Ilcttinga, Jim Kcrbcr, Richard LaFlcur and Dave Smith. Accompanying the students were Mr. and Mrs. R. S. Za pcll. Mrs. Zapell, Medford High school dramatics teach er, served as program chair man for the conference. Moscow -(UPP Soviet Pre mier Nikita S. Khrushchev told Canadian newspaper pub lisher Roy Thomson Satur day that Americans have no cause for alarm over the con tinued presence of Soviet forces in Cuba. Thomson quoted Khrush chev as replying "absolutely not" when asked whether con cern in the United States over Soviet troops and weapons still in Cuba was justified Khrushchev added, accord ing to Thomson, that the So viet forces on the Communist island were "weapon instruc tors, " sent there to teach Cu bans the us of advanced weapons with which they had been supplied and for no oth er purpose. Thomson met with Khrush chev for 2',2 hours in the Kremlin. During the discus sions, Thomson told newsmen that Khrushchev also: Not Satisfied Said he was not satisfied with the state of current So viet-American relations. Indicated he regarded the German problem one of the most crucial in East-West re lations. Said he was "not at all unhappy" about the current dissension . among the West ern allies following France's torpedoing of Britain's bid for membership in the Euro pean Common Market. Suggested the West not take too much stock in the long-range effects of the cur rent disputes between the So viet Union and Communist China. "The Chinese are our friends and always will be," Thomson quoted Khrushchev. When friends quarrel or dis agree, it is not terribly serious." Rusk Asks Soviet Envoy About Troop Withdrawal Dobrynin Gives Evasive Answer Washington - (I'PD - Secre tary of State Dean Rusk point edly asked Soviet Ambassador Anatoly F. Dobrynin Satur day when premier Nikita Khrushchev plans to keep his promise to withdraw Russian troopj from Cuba. He got an evasive answer. Rusk pressed Dobrynin about the Khrushchev pledge t a one hour and 15 minutes state department conference. U.S. sources said the envoy, parroting remarks Khrush chev made earlier in Moscow, contended the troops were weapon instructors and there was no cause fur con cern over their presence. Dobynin was invited to the suddenly scheduled meeting after Rusk had conferred with President Kennedy. The state department insisted there was no "emergency" involved. Apply Heat But there was speculation that the President and Rusk had decided to apply heat in an attempt to get swift action. Khrushchev made his prom ise during last fall's crisis in which Kennedy took him to the brink of nuclear war over the presence of Soviet mis siles in Cuba. Khrushchev said the troops would be withdrawn "in due course." The administration has been under increasing fire from congressmen of both parties over the troop issue. At his news conference last week, Kennedy disclosed that negotiations were under way on the problem and he hoped for progress this winter. The President said that although about 4,500 Russians left Cuba after the missile crisis, about 17,000 remained, with between 5,000 and 6,000 of them formed into four combat battalions. Iraqi Premier Execute y IRebel Firing School Consolidation Election Due Monday Patrons of School Dis tricts 549C and Phoenix Talent District 4 will vote Monday, Feb. 11, from 2 to 8 p.m. on proposed con solidation of the two dis tricts. Poling places in the Tal ent and Phoenix district are at the Talent elementary school gym in Talent and the Phoenix elementary school gym in Phoenix. Polling places In School District 549C are Griffin Creek, Hoover, Howard, Jackson, Jacksonville, Jet ierson, Lincoln, Lone Pine, Oak Grove, Roosevelt, R u e h, Washington, West Side, and Wilson elemen tary schools. SOVIETS CALL FOR SUMMIT CONFERENCE Moscow - arc - The Soviet Communist party, in an apparent reference to Red China, Saturday called for two-way Communist summit conference to avoid an other round of intra-perty polemics. Sports Bulletins Grants Pass - Medford High defeated Grants Pass here last night 51 to 44 to bring its rec ord to 5-5 in the Southern Oregon conference basketball race. The Biack Tornado led at quarters 18 to 11. 25 to 21, and 41 to 36, Jack Forde scored 12 points for Medford, and Jim Hill and Dick Deffley each had 11. For Grants Pass Bob Shepard had 13 and Al Hulchins 12. Grants Pass is now 5-4 in the conlerence. State Senate Sets Saturday Sessions Salem -IUPD- The Oregon State Senate will begin hold ing Saturday sessions about March 1, Senate President Ben Musa said Saturday. Musa said he would begin the Saturday sessions in an effort to speed up the legis lature's consideration of the hundreds of bills now before it. House Speaker Clarence Barton was not available, and it was not known if he plan ned to begin Saturday ses sions of the House al the same time. Diefenbaker Loses Two More Cabinet Members in Crisis Trade and Defense Ministers Resign Ottawa -(UPD Two more members resigned from Prime Minister John Diefenbaker's erisis-riddled cabinet Satur day. Other departures were expected within hours in a wave of revolt against the conservative government's nu clear arms feud with the United States. Trade Minister George Hccs and Acting Defense Minister Pierre Sevigny submitted their resignations to Diefen baker in letters that took sharp issue with what they called an indecisive stand on defense and a dangerous dis pute with Washington over nuclear weapons for Canada The resignations, handed to Diefenbaker during a brief morning meeting at his home, dealt a sledge-hammer blow to the Canadian leader and his party, already faced with an uphill battle in the April 8 general election. They came only three days after Diefenbaker apparently quelled an open cabinet re volt against his leadership by winning a key confidence vote from his conservative supporters. Quit In Protest They followed, too, Defense Minister Douglas Harkness' decision last week to quit the cabinet In protest over Diefenbaker s refusal to com mit Canadian forces at home and in Europe to nuclear arms. Hccs also announced that he will not run in the elec tion. There was no immediate word from the prime minis ter, who himself could be forced into resignation by the latest developments. Both Hces and Sevigny pin pointed nuclear defense pol icy and Diefenbaker s appar ent decision to feature anti Americanism in his election campaign as the prime factors behind their resignations. The 52-ycar-old Hees, con sidered a key man in the Die fenbaker ministry, said he felt that the government's current defense policy "does not cither fulfill our interna tional commitments or pro vide for the security of our country. "I have also staled clearly that I consider the present attitude of the government cannot but lead to a deterior ation of our relations with the United States," he added In his letter to the prime minister. TMh . 5 Squad i . FORMS REGIME Baghdad Radio said late Friday that a revolutionary regime has been formed with Aboud As Salam Arif (above) as president. It was reported from Baghdad that a military revolution had overthrown the Iraqi government and that Premier Abdcl Karim Kassem had been executed. (UPI) New Fiscal Budget On Monday Agenda Of County Group ine proposed budget for I seeding. A water line will new fiscal year 1963-64 will I keep the playfield sprinkled be tne main Item on the Jack- in the summer. son county parks Tecrcatlon The Emigrant swimming commission s Monday meet-1 area has been fine-graded as lng agenda. I far down as the water would The aroun meets at 1:30 1 permit, Ledward said. p.m. In the Jackson- county 1 The road department has courthouse. ' had three to eight trucks haul- The commission will dis- i"8 and placing granite on all cuss, also, the proposed lease roads for almost two weeks, of 1. BURN WAREHOUSE Caracas, Venezuela - (UPI) -Communist commandos, working with military preci sion, overpowered three guards Saturday and burned down a $5 million Sears Roe buck warehouse. 8 acres from Mr. and Mrs, Earl Settcls at the Applcgate store. The commission plans to develop a small park next to the store and Applcgatc river. County Parks and Recrea tion Director Nell Ledward said he is working on a full report of Howard Prairie and Emigrant lakes' operations which will be out soon. The report will show the various expenditures and develop ments since the county took over the recreation areas In I960. New Entrance The department finished gravelling various areas at Howard Prairie last month. Earlier the ground had been too soft to move heavy equip ment over it. Gravel was also placed al the new entrance to the Willow creek picnic area to make it accessible to early season fishermen. Entrance road to Lily Glen riding sta ble: at Howard Prairie was gravelled, also. Work done at Emigrant in January includes finishing new roads and parking areas, sub-grading of the r,w boat ramp and regrading some ex isting roads and hauling bar ricade rocks for parking areas, roads and playfield. The playfield has been dressed down and barricade rocks placed around it. It is now ready for fertilizing and A large amount of granite has been stockpiled at the site for later use. The big ditches along the main road have been cleaned. The 1963 Pacific North- west recreation and parks conference will be held in Eugene April 21-24. There will not be a spring workshop this year, Ledward said. Masters' Paintings At Rogue Gallery An art exhibit, including works of some of the better known masters, Is under way at the Rogue Gallery, 220 West Main st., throughout February. The paintings, owned by Lloyd Halvcrson, Med ford resident, havo been collected by him since his graduation from Medford High school during his travels in connec tion with the antique business in San Francisco and Hawaii. Among the mrsterF repre sented in tne collection are Francesco Guardi, Eugene CarrifKs, Camille Plssarro. Nicholas Poussin, Edgar De gas, Goya, Van Dyke, Boudln and Modigliani. A number of lesser known artists' works are also included. The exhibit is open to the public Tuesday tnrough Fri day from noon to 4 p.m. Pictures of Body Transmitted Over Iraqi Television Two Other Officers Killed with Kassem Tehran, Iran -(UPD A rebel firing squad executed Iraqi Premier Abdcl Karim Kassem Saturday to break the back of the regime he instituted by revolution in 1958, according to captured Baghdad radio. (Information r e a c h i n & Washington said pictures of the deposed leader's bullet riddled body were transmit ted repeatedly over Iraqi tel evision. Reports said Kassem was shot about an hour after a rebel kangaroo court tried him on unspecified charges.) Baghdad radio, seized bv the rebels Friday, reported no new fighting Saturday. But the Turkish embassy In Baghdad, in a report to Ankara, said shooting was still going on in the area o the Iraqi defense ministry at tacked by young army and air force Insurgents to start the revolt. Turkish Foreign Minister Fordidun Cemal Erkin said Kassem's death had not yet been confirmed. But he ap parently based his statement on communications sent be fore the reported television showings.,-- -. Scores el Sentences . (The ' Washington reports (aid Col. Fadil El Mahdowy, head ot a court which handed down scores of death sen tences after the last revolt, and two other officers died with Kassem. ' (They said the revolulion- aries opened their final at tack on the defense ministry where - Kassem lived and worked at dawn. American diplomats standing on the. roof of the U. S. embassy in Baghdad saw tanks moving1 out of Camp Rachid at dawn, the reports said. (Gunfire and explosions continued until noon, when Kassem's execution was re ported by Baghdad radio, it was reported. The reports said Kassem's death was ex pected to prove a mortal blow to any resistance, with the possible exception of a few Communist controlled army ' units.) Ankara radio reported con- tinued fighting in the Iraqi ' capital between paratroop ers and Communists." line Washington reports said Kassem and several hun dred of his supporters appar ently held out In the defense ministry building all Friday night. By mid-morning, how ever, foreign diplomats re sorted tanks mr""rt-w .th fighting.) .- - , . v B1NG OKAY Santa Monica, Calif. - (UPD Crooner Blng Crosby went home Saturday from SU John's hospital where he un derwent surgery fur removal of a kidney stone 10 days ago. LARGE WAVE KILLS TWO SAILORS Norfolk, Va. - UPI, - The Navy reported Saturday a large wave swept lowered elevator on the nuclear air craft carrier Enterprise Friday, killing two crewmen and injuring seven others. i Hatfield leaves for California Speeches Salem - UPti - Gov. Mark Hatfield left Oregon today for California where he is sched uled to hold a pre infer ence and deliver three ad dresses. The governor is sceduled to return to Oregon Wednesday afternoon. i Monmoulh, Ore. - UPP -Oregon College of Education, with four players hitting in double figures, defeated Southern Oregon 65 to 57 in an Oregon Collegiate confer ence basketball game last night. Ashland A determined Ashland High basketball team rolled to its second Southern Oregon conference victory of the season last night with a SO to 41 win over Klamath Falls. Ashland led all the way, with the score 23 to IS at halftime. Jim Lamb led Ashland scoring with 16 points. Basketball Scores Saturday College Resultsi Stanford 86 UCLA 78 Washington 63 California 53 Seattle 82 U. of Pacific 56 Cincinnati 65 Bradley 61 Duke 56 N. Carolina St. 55 Arizona St. 73 Arizona 64 Louisiana St. 58 Georgia Tech 54 Clcmson 62 Maryland 60 Rice 89 Texas Tech 77 Minnesota 80 Purdue 73 Prinrr-ton 61 Yale 58 Fordham 71 Army 56 Texas 77 SMU 62 BYU 89 Wyoming 77 Utah 74 New Mexico 57 Utah St. 78 New Mexico St. 48 St. Mary's 74 Loyola (Calif ) 69 Montana St. 73 Washington St. 71 Rockefeller Scores. JFK for 'Failures' Saturday Prep Scores: Henley 59 Phoenix 54 Eagle Point 69 Rogue River 49 Illinois Valley 81 Lakevicw 65 Washington-(UPD - New York Gov. Nelson Rockefeller said today the Kennedy adminis thation has failed to live up to its promises to get the country moving again. Rockefeller said In a tele vision interview with Sen. Kenneth B. Keating (R-N.Y.) (hat he had no quarrel Willi President Kennedy's goal in economic and social areas. The failure, he said, has come in translating those goals Into realities. "The real criticism is in the Inability to take the meas ures and to actually carry out those goals and make them realities," the governor said. Rockfcllcr was critical of Kennedy's sweeping tax cut reform program which car ries the administration's No. 1 priority label for enactment by congress this year. He said It was difficult to see how Kennedy's tax pro gram would achieve its avow ed purpose of promoting eco nomic expansion. The outlines of the program, he declared, .ir ii xA Wile . Jsl r . : f ? ' J"" GOVERNOR ROCKEFELLER Attacks Kennedy "do nol give any identifiable pattern that leads one to say this will achieve a more rapid rate of economic growth." The New Yorker, consider ed by many to be Kennedy's chief rival in the 1964 presi dential race, also said the D e m o c r atic administration had failed in the fields of civil rights and transportation reform. As fur Kennedy's economic goals, Rockefeller said: "The predictions were that this last fiscal year would show a gruss national prod uct of $570 billion, an unem ployment drop to 4 per cent, and that we would have a sur plus In the budget during this past year of $500,000. ! "Wei!, of course, none of ' that was achieved. There's go I Ing to be a deficit of close to '$9 billion. The GNP of the nation only reached about ' $554 billion. Unemployment Is In the high S per cent range." In the social field. Rocke feller said that despite a strong civil rights plank In the 1960 Democratic platform, "there has been no major leg islation to carry out the prom ises and no major progress in the field of legislation." He declared that "transpor tation in this country is in a chaotic condition. There is no' overall policy. The President promised that he was coins to develop an overall policy. At the same time, Rocke feller put in a plug for his proposed 40 per cent increase in New York auto license fees. The plan has kicked up serious protests in his state, but the governor said he thought "chances are good" that the legislature in Albany will approve it. ARRIVES FOR TALKS Geneva - OT - William C. Foster, President Kennedy's top disarmament adviser, ar rived here today for the re sumption of the Geneva test ban talks. The 17-nation con ference will re-open Tuesday,
