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MEDFORD RIBUNE U rated Press InternationalFull Leased Wire United Preu Interna tional Full Leased Wirt Section A 56 Pages MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1963 Six Sections No. 234 U.S., Britain To Push Nuclear Defense Plans Washington - (VPD - United States and British officials will begin a week-long meet ing here Monday to push plans for creation of a multi lateral nuclear defense force for NATO, it was announced Saturday. Emphasis placed on the meeting by Washington and London authorities underlin ed the determination of the Anglo - Americans to forge ahead as rapidly as possible to carry out the Kennedy Macmillan Nassau agreement, despite French President Charles de Gaulle's refusal to participate. Hope 01 Strike Settlement Called Very Dim New York -OJPP- The print ers' strike which has blacked out nine newspapers in this city wound up its 10th week Saturday with apparently no hope of settlement in sight. F. M. Flynn, president of Jhe struck Daily News, called the situation "serious" in a letter sent Friday to employ ees of the News. He said that the continued stalemate in the negotiations between the Publishers Asso ciation of New York City and Local 6 of the International Typographical 'Union (ITU) had led him to believe that "it now appears that a nego tiated settlement will be ex tremely difficult, if not im possible, to achieve." - Bertram Powers, president of the striking local, returned to the city Saturday from ITU headquarters in Colorado Springs, Colo., and said there was "no pressure from the in ternational or any other source to end the strike." It was learned that repre sentatives of five non-striking unions and the publishers in volved in the longest and costliest newspaper strike in the cily's history, now 71 days old, met Friday night. The unions represented at the meeting were the press men, photoengravers, machin ists electricians and the de liverers. Not represented were the printers, newspaper guild, stereotypers, mailers and pa perhandlers. There was no announce ment, however, on the pur pose or the results ot the meeting. In Colorado Springs, ITU President Elmer Brown, who had summoned Powers for a discussion of the strike, re ported that "there is no more outlook for a settlement now than there was at the first week of the strike." - It had been reported during recent 17 straight days of marathon talks between May or Robert F. Wagner and both sides that tentative agreement had been reached on the is sues of automation and bogus. The automation would in volve the use by newspapers of automatic tebtypesetting machinery. Bogus is the prac tice under which printers re set in type all work which is done outside the newspaper and delivered in the form of mats. The State department said the discussions will concen trate particularly on two as pects of the agreement which President Kennedy and Brit ish Prime Minister Harold Macmillan reached last Dec. 19-21: "The sale of Polaris mis siles to Britain." Britain will build the submarines to launch them and supply her own warheads. "Initial assignment of forces to NATO by both gov ernments." They have agreed to assign some of their nu clear bombers and tactical forces already existing to NATO as quickly as possible. Tyler To Head Group The U. S. delegation will be headed by Assistant Secre tary of State for European Affairs William R. Tyler. He will have Defense Depart ment General Counsel John McNaughton as his deputy. Representatives from the U. S. Atomic Energy commis sion also will participate, ac cording to Stale Department Press Officers Robert J. Mc Closkey, who made the an nouncement. The chief British represent ative will be Denis A. Green hill, minister of the British embassy here. Technical ex perts from London will join the latter stages of the discus sions. While the talks are in prog ress, the chief American nego tiator on the new multi-later al force, Livingston T. Mer chant, will be making final preparations for a trip to Eu rope to discuss the project with other NATO allies. Trip Planned Merchant is scheduled to leave toward the end of this month for Rome, Bonn, Paris, Brussels and possibly other capitals to discuss their pos sible participation in the multi-lateral defense force. In Paris he will meet with NATO officials but not dis cuss matters with the French, who have said they intend to build their own independent nuclear force. British and American offi cials last month held two pre liminary discussions on im plementing the Nassau agree ment. Chairman Waller Ros tow of the State department policy planning council, and Assistant Secretary of De fense for International Secur ity Affairs Paul Nitze, were in London Jan. 17 and 18 for talks with British technical officials. A v. El P! r2 BATTLE DOWN TO THE WIRE Communist slogans, ap pealing for the votes of West Berliners in today's elec tion of a new cily government, appeared on the Berlin J 1 wall here last week. The signs translated say "Vole for SED-W (Communist Party-West), Wall of Peace." (UPI) Auto Rolls Over, But Driver Escapes Injury A 39-ycar-old Portland man escaped injury Saturday af ternoon after he swerved to avoid another car on Inter state 5 near the Foots creek interchange and rolled over several times before coming to a stop upside down, accord ing to state police officers. Driver of the vehicle, Max Edwards Sherk, told officers another car cut in front of him suddenly as he was south bound on the freeway about 6:20 p.m. His car went off the road into the area between the northbound and south bound highways. Officers said the vehicle received consider able damage. State Sheriffs Posses Meet At Grants Pass Grants Pass - The stale con vention of the Oregon Mount ed Sheriff's Posses association concluded its activities here Saturday wilh election of 1063 officers and an awards banquet. Over 225 persons attended the convention, representing some 20 different mounted ridine groups from counties throughout the state. New officers include: pres ident, Clell Laird, Coos coun ty; first vicp president, CHI- fort Elliott, Yamhill county; second vice president, Joel Dolan, Lane county; third vice president, Frank Riley, Multnomah county; secretary- treasurer, . Floyd McNclly, Coos county; publicity chair man, Joel Barker, Josephine county; and immediate past president, D. W. Gillespie, Josephine counly. A number ot iropnies were awarded at the evening ban quet. The Sportsmanship tro phy went to wasninsion coun ty, the Parade of Champions trophy to Clackamas county, the Trailride Attendance tro phy to Washington county, and the Royce Lawrence Me morial trophy went to Mult nomah counly. The High Point Posse tro phy was awarded to Benton rountv. the James Applegate Memorial trophy to Josephine rnuntv. and Lucky Warren of Josephine county was present ed with the tropny lor dchik the high point man at the an nual Shodco. Two convention attendance trophys were won u rviiifTia; rinintv. and the rnmmnnitv service awaiu went to Coos counly. Registration for the conven tion began Friday. The event concluded Saturday following the banquet and a dance. K Has Won Cuba Objectives, Lodge Tells Lincoln Audience While Khrushchev tempo- rarily lost face during the Cuban crisis, he has accomp lished his objective not to destroy the United States with a missile attack, but to complete his conquest of Cuba," the Lincoln club of Jackson counly was lold Fri day night. The speaker, former Con necticut Governor John D. Lodge, made his statement as part of an hour-long attack on the foreign and domestic pro grams of the Kennedy admin istration at the 40th annual Lincoln Day program. About 125 persons attended the ban quet at the Jackson House More Than Coincidence Lodge said Kennedy s ac tion in Cuba was "overplayed and misunderstood." He sug gested it was more than co incidence thai the crisis de veloped just before the na tional elections last fall. "Those weapons had been in Cuba for many weeks," Lodge said, "but just two weeks after the election, Ken nedy determined the threat no longer existed." But Lodge denied the crisis was over. "We know the weapons were not withdrawn," he said. "Castro is still a threat. We don't actually know what was inside those missile cases the Russian ships carried out of Cuba." On the domestic scene, Lodge contradicted President Kennedy's recent evaluation that the state of the union was good. The speaker pointed to the anticipated $12 billion budget deficit, the rising cost of liv ing, the dwindling gold re serves," the current wave of strikes in the country, and the high unemployment among the labor force. Lincoln would be dist ressed if he should come back today," Lodge said. The speaker was intro duced by State Representa tive Edward Branchficld. Al so seated on the speaker's platform were State GOP Chairman Phil Roth, Hugh Jennings, chairman ot the Jackson county central com. Fiery West Campaign Marks Berlin Election Berlin -HTIi- West Berlin's Communists, hopeful of gain ing seats on the municipal as sembly in today's election. campaigned with threats and promises yesterday. The three democratic parties called for a record anti-Communist vole. The democratic parties, the West Berlin city government and the western press joined in urging the anti-Communist vote to show the world that "Berlin's political vigilance has not relaxed." Police said two bombs ex ploded at the Communist wall on the French sector last night, but did not damage it. An organization called the "Peter Fcchter Action Group" said it set off the bombs. The organization is named after a youthful East German shot down at the wall by Communists guards as he tried to escape. In plain sight of West Berliners, the Com munists allowed him to bleed to death. Summit Said Only Hope For Test Ban mitlec, John Ness, chairman of the Young Republicans club, and Wanda Williams, president of the Jackson counly unit of the Women's Republican club. iJick Couilright read a resolution praising the late Kenneth Denman as an "out standing citizen of county and state. Master of ceremonies for the event was James Rag- land. Lodge left Medford Imme diately after the banquet to fly to Portland. He has speaking engagement tonight in Connecticut. 50-Mile Hikers Asked Not To Telephone JFK MSBRIEFS tr" FROM py MOUND THI OlOII Sports Bulletins Two free shoti by Dan Miles wilh 1:40 left broke a deadlocked score ai Medford high noted Klamath Falli 49 to 47 here to lake over third place in the Southern Oregon conference basketball stand ings. Rich Benner had 18 points for Medford which led 11 to 7, 25 to 21 and 39 to 36 at the quarters. Wayne Cham berlain scored 13 for Klamath Falls. Medford is now 6-5 in the conference and Klamath is 6 6. Grants Pass The Grants COUNTESS ADMITS ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT Paris - il PI' - A pipe smokinj French countess who once crid at Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower's interpreter has admitted faking part in the plot to kill President Charles de Gaulle, police said Saturday. AMERICAN PRESS CRITICIZED Saigon - UPI - The gorernment-supported Times ot Vietnam Saturday attacked the American press and de mended that Washington consider censoring American correspondents in South Vietnam. TANKS RUMBLE THROUGH BAGHDAD Baghdad, Iraq - IPf - Tanks rumbled through the streets of Baghdad Friday night and isolated shots sounded as the rerolulionary government pressed its search of Communist and opposition leaders. BLIZZARD ALMOST BLOTS OUT SUN London - IPI' - A blmard that "turned day into night" hit northeast England Salurdiy at both fresh mows and lhawt harried western Europe. The auto mobile association laid the blinding blimrd in the northeast began it noon, almost blotting out the tun. Pass Cavemen rolled to a lop sided 70 to 48 basketball win here Saturday night over the Crater High Comets. The half lime margin wat cloter wilh the Cavemen ahead by a 38 to 33 count. Jim Pippin was highpoint man for the Cave men wilh 31 pointt. Howard Tomlinton led the Cornell with 22 points. The two teams now share the lead in the Southern Oregon conference wilh identical 7-4 recordi. Ashland Southern Ore oon college Red Raiders evened up their two-game j teries wilh Portland Stale's basketball team here Satur- ! day night with I 57 to 52 vic- 1 lory. High point man tor bOL was Dave Hughes with 13 counters. John Nelson and Jim Hollingsworlh of Port land State shared honors with 14 points each. Halftime icore favored SOC 30 to 21. Ex-Cubans Ottered Spot In U.S. Army Washington - (UPI) - The De fense department Saturday offered Spanish language military training and a pos sible haven in the U.S. armed forces to 2,500 members of the Cuban refugee brigade which conducted the abortive Bay of Pigs invasion in 1961. The offer, the first to in clude Cuban officers, was ex tended both to the 1,113 ex- prisoners who were returned to Miami under the December ransom agreement with Com munist Premier Fidel Castro, and to members of the brig ade who did not actually land in Cllha. Though it is both possible and probable that the trainees will some day return to Cuba lo fight Castro, it was stressea dial lliev would not be trained for that purpose nor will they be formed into strictly Cuban unit.s. Instead, they will be absorbed into various units of the armed forces. Washington - fllPH - The President's Council on Phy sical Fitness indicated Satur day that a 50-mile hike might improve a person's physical stature but will not do a thing for his social status at the White House. Richard Snider, adminis trator of the fitness council, issued a press release in an attempt to dissuade "I'm a hero" hikers from calling the White House to seek recogni tion for their accomplish ments. "The inquiries about hik ing were a welcome relief from the many people who want to challenge the Presi dent and his stalf to a game of touch football," Snider said. But he went on to say that the relief was wearing thin it certainly has focused alien. lion on the fitness effort. "Naturally, we favor reg ular exercise and activity over a spectacular one-shot cfforl. But we certainly want lo commend those who made the 50 miles, and those will ing to try." There was a strong sugges tion that that statement should be reward enough for anyone making the effort and any attcmpl for further recog nition from the White House would only detract from the merit of the accomplishment. Geneva -IUPII- U. S. disarma ment negotiator William C. Foster Saturday failed to get the Soviets to agree to resume the nuclear test ban talks they broke off earlier this month, reliable sources said. Many diplomats here said it would take action by Presi dent Kennedy and Soviet Pre mier Nikita Khrushchev lo get the deadlocked 17-nation disarmament conference here moving again. Foster met wilh Soviet First Deputy Foreign Minis ter Vassili V. Kuznclsov Sat urday to set procedure for next week's sessions of the disarmament talks, of which they are co - chairmen. A spokesman said they agreed the talks should continue, with all 17 nations taking part. Bui the sources said Kuz. nctsov again blocked Foster's attempt to get the smaller meetings going aRaln among the three nuclear powers here the United States, Britain and Russia. The West, with the backing of the neutral, nations at the conference, has been pressing for resumption of (he nuclear talks, but the Soviets have been busy aide-tracking the test issue since tne conference resumed Tuesday. Instead, they want lo discuss the larg er field of general disarma ment. ' Kuznclsov said Friday the Russians were willing to sign a test ban treaty only on their own terms, wilh no further bargaining. But the present Soviet position on the number of on-site inspections and oth er safeguards is not accepta ble to the West, and the Brit ish accused the Russians of using "lake il or leave it" bargaining tactics. Foster will rctilrn to Wash. Ington for five days Wednes day and is expected to report to the President. It is not known if he plans another meeting with Kuznetsov be fore then. Meanwhile, in Washington, key legislative leaders in fo rmed the administration that a nuclear test ban treaty is impossible unless Russia moves away from its present attitude that it will not budge beyond acceptance of three 1 on-site inspections, coupled with a "black box" detection network, to police a test ban treaty. It was learned Saturday that legislators had Informed Foster, even before he left for the conference last Wed nesday, that such a proposal was unacceptable. They told him that a treaty based on the current Russian stand might not get even majority vole in the Senate, much less the two-thirds vote needed for ratification, There were reports Sat urday that the walking craie had spread to the Rogue valley. A group of five youths was spoiled by patting motorists and itate police officeri Saturday morning valiantly hiking down In terstate 5 near Rogue River. No information wat avail able about the identity of the hikers, but apparently the group wat attempting to walk the tome 30 free way milei between Med ford and Granti Pass. Vandcnbcrg Air Force Base, Calif. - lUPli - A Titan 2 mis sile, launched for the first lime from an underground silo, blew itself lo pieces Sat urday, spoiling an attempt to demonstrate retalilory com bat readiness. Police Doubt Male Nurse's 'Confession' Lowell, Mass. -IUPII- A male nurse surrendered to police Saturday and "confessed" that he strangled a woman in Boston where eight such un solved slayings have taken place since last June. The 41-ycar-old Lowell resi dent was drunk when he ar rived at Police headquarters, but authorities said he re peated the story after he sob ered up. His story was so vague, however, police doubt ed it was true. Circus Performer Fighting For Life ! Madison, Wis. -IUPII- A hew set of bearings under a rnpeze bar may have caused Mary Lou Lawrence, 28, to miss her grip and fall 30-fcet lo a concrete floor during a circus performance here. ! Miss Lawrence, billed as the "Hollywood Skyrocket" with the William Kay circus, fought for her life in a hos pital bed Saturday as her par- ents kept a bedside vigil. She was swinging on a trapeze Friday when she tried to switch hatods and plunged lo the floor before a stunned opening day audience of 2,000 at the Dane counly fair grounds. The West Borlin Reds dan gled before voters the hope that a Communist bloc in the assembly could negotiate with Communist East Germany to get passes for West Berliners visit friends and relatives on the other side of the Com munist wall. Red Party 'Tiny' West Berlin's tiny Commu nist party, which polled only 31,572 votes or 1.9 per cent in the 1958 election, warned that a vote for an anti-Communist policy will bring re sults "intolerable for a peace ful citizen." The East Berlin newspaper Neue Zeit told West Berlin ers yesterday a Communist vote would be a vote fop friendly relations with East Germany. East German police yester day shot up a car which ram med through two of three road barricades in a desperate bid for escape to West Ger many, and captured the three young occupants. One of them was wounded. The police fired 40 lo 50 machine pislol bullets into the car. The car's tires were punctured, and it veered out of control, overturned and burst into flames. The car burned just 80 yards short of the third barricade and West Germany territory. One Wounded The dawn escape attempt was made at the Marienborn checkpoint, at the end of the 1110-mile Berlin-Hclmstadt au tobahn through the Soviet zone.. The three young men who scrambled from the flam ing wreckage were hustled away by Communist police. A West German truck driver who was awaiting processing at the checkpoint reported one was slightly wounded. Political observers here doubted that the Communists will poll the necessary 5 per cent of votes needed to win seats under the city's propor tional representation system. The democratic parties urg ed the record turnout to pre vent the Communists from in creasing their percentage by default. The cily government said "Whoever does not vole weakens democracy. Whoever does not vote lets down our countrymen on the other side the .wall. Everyone must vole for a free Berlin." California Plane Crash Kills Six Livermore, Calif. - 0IPD - A private, - single-engine plane crashed into a hillside about five miles east of here last night, killing all six persons aboard. The names of the five pass engers were not immediately nown but the pilot was ten tatively identified by the Ala meda county Sheriff's office as Edward Silva of San Lean dro, Calif. Hijacked Freighter Cruises Toward Brazil Caracas Venezuela - OJPII - I of National Liberation I los Andres Perez has declared I the freighter with dynamite and he and his staff now were becoming "somewhat weary" of telephone calls and letters about hiking too. Snider, however, was care ful not to discourage anyone who wanted to take a 50-mile hike, or a shorter one for that mailer. He just did not want to hear about it. "It's a good challenge for those fit enough to attempt it," he said. "The interest in Vinson Supports JFK Handling Of Cuba Washington -dTO-Chairman Carl Vinson of the House Armed Services committee Saturday threw renewed sup port to President Kenncriy'i handling of the Cuban crisis. "t am confident that the administration is taking an necessary steps to bring about the removal of Soviet troops in Cuba," said the veteran Georgia Democrat who has received regular reports on Cuban developments. Basketball Scores Saturday College Garnet OSU 67 Oregon 57 Stanford 68 Calif. 58 USC 59 Washington 53 Wichita 65 Cincinnati 64 Arizona 74 Utah 70 Arizona St. 104 BYU 87 N. Carolina 79 Clrmson 63 Tulsa 66 St. Louis 65 Bradley 75 N. Texas St. 72 Loyola (Calif.) 58 U. of Pa cific 51 Sacramento St. 70 San Francisco St. 54 EOC 100 OCE 77 Saturday Prep Garnet St. Mary'i 66 Rogue Riv. 63 Henley 81 Lakeview 70 Caracas, Venezuela - IDPII - A U.S. Navy patrol plane Sat urday sighted the Communist hijacked Venezuelan freighter Anzoalcgui north of Surinam (formerly Dutch Guiana) cruising toward the north east shoulder of Brazil. Three Venezuelan destroy ers were ordered in pursuit at full steam. A Venezuelan gov ernment spokesman predicted interception by noon today. U.S. aircraft were granted permission by the Surinam government lo land and re fuel at Surinam to keep track of the elusive vessel, formally declared a "pirate" by Ven ezuela. (In Washington, the De fense department said last night that the navy plane fired rockets in the path of the hijacked freighter in an effort lo attract Its attention The rockets were fired, it said, after the freighter failed to answer blinker and radio messages ordering It to set a course for Puerto Rico. Not An Attack (A spokesman added that the rocket firing was "cer lainly not an attack on the ship." Despite the rockets, he said, the ship continued on course and was being kept un der surveillance. At last re nort it was about 180 miles north of Surinam. (The Defense department said navy planes had no in ftructions lo attack the ship if it continued to refuse to contact surveillance planes.) An authorized spokesman for the terrorist Armed Forces i (FALN) said here the pirate crew has offered to dock the hip if the Venezuelan gov ernment promises them am nesty and dispatches Inde pendent Senator Arturo Uslar Pictri to an undisclosed port of discmbarcation to assure protection of the hijackers. But Interior Minister Car that the ship must be sur rendered and the hijackers face trials which could net them 15 to 30 years. The anonymous woman telephone caller who has been the FALN contact with press organizations here for several weeks said earlier the hijpxk ers have mined the hold of the freighter with dynamite and will blow it up, with the crew, if "warships of any na tion" attempt to detain it. The ship was captured at gunpoint Wednesday, appar ently by stowaways in collu sion with a segment of the crew headed by Second Mate Wisnor Medina Rojas. It was en route to Houston, Tex. PUERTO O RICO All ANTIC OCtAN : AN7OATE0UI Ik? ' - ' r ABIRftF AM ' ' X VENEZUELA iilK-r t. f brazil' , PIRATE CHASE Declared a "pirate" ship by Venezuela, 'the hijacked freighter Anzoalcgui Saturday continued to lead three Venezuelan destroyers and surveil lance planes on a chase. Hijacked by Com munists after it left La Guaira (1), the Anzoalcgui was lighted in the Atlantic off Surinam (2) early Saturday by a U.S. Navy t. patrol plane. A Venezuelan Navy spokes man said it it believed the hijackers are headed for Brazil and possible asylum since they are heading In a south-southeasterly direction. On such a course, they could make port at Belem (3) or Recife (4) in Brazil. (UPI) '
