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Russia Muses To lEaadl on Test lam Stand ge Regional Edition MEDFORD 16 Pages mx viti it VISITOR WELCOMED President and Mrs. Kennedy with President and Mrs. Romulo Betancourt of Venezuela during welcoming ceremonies on the North Portico of the Russia To Remove Several Thousand Troops From Cuba Washington - IlIPIl -The So viet Union has informed the United Slates that it plans to pull out "several thousand" of its military forces in Cuba by March 15, diplomatic sources said today. Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev's intention to withdraw the troops was dis closed in a communication from the Kremlin received here Monday through Soviet Ambassador Anatoly F. Dob rynin. The Soviet promise gave no Indication what was meant by several thousand" troops and it was said more spe cific information would have been welcomed by the Ken nedy administration. However, the promise was seen here as a useful and constructive move which would help lower some of the tension in the Caribbean. The Soviet message, relay ed from Dobrynin to the While House by Secretary of Stale Dean Rusk, sparked Monday night's secret White House meeting at which Pres ident Kennedy told congres sional leaders of the Russian promise. There are believed to be about 17.000 Soviet troops in Cuba, including 6,000 organ ized into combat units. The promise to remove at least part of them was not a personal message from Khru shchev but a Foreign Office communication sent through regular dcplomatic channels. High official sources flatly denied speculative reports that Khrushchev might be seeking a parallel withdrawal of U.S. forces from some touch;1 point on Russia's boundary in return for re moving his combat units from Cuba. Industrial Expansion Projects Reported Salem -01PD- Oregon had 14 Industrial expansion projects in January, Gov. Mark Hat field said today. He said announcements and openings of new and ex panded plants during the months represented a com bined investment of $4.7 mil lion and will add some 590 Jobs, he said. FIRE KILLS CHILD Wenatchee. Wash. - HOT - A lire which destroyed an or chard worker's home north of East Wenatchee today claim ed the life of 4-ycar-old Re becca Ann Ray. ITEMS FROM PEP. POWELL'S APPEAL Washinglon-lPI-Rep. Adam SWSBRIEFS pearly $700,000 to run hit House Education and Labor Com - millee was postponed today York congressman said he could not make it. STUDENT'S PLANS POSTPONED Atlanta-IPI-The U.S. Sth Circuit Court of Appeals has forced a postponement in the plant ol Dewey Roosevelt Greene Jr. to become the tecond Negro ttudent at the Univertity of Mittittippi. AGENCY OF SUBVERSION Miami. FU.-IPI-A Cuban Washington said Monday night MEDFORD, OREGON. TUESDAY, FEBRUARY White House today. The welcome for the Betancourts, who arrived for a state visit, was moved from the south lawn because of bad weather. (UPI) Betancourt Arrives For Two Days of Talks With Washington - IUPH - Vene- zuela's President Romulo Betancourt, who has waged an uphill and winning four year battle to show the way to peaceful revolution in Lat in America, arrived in Wash ington today for two days of talks with President Kennedy. Betancourt's jet arrived at Andrews Air Force Base at 7:45 a.m. (PST) from Puerto Rico, where he received the biggest, warmest welcome Puerto Rico ever accorded a foreign visitor. From Andrews, Betancourt was flown in a helicopter to the White House where the President and Mrs. Kennedy welcomed hirrh, his- wift daughter and official commit tee. $1,000 in Damage Done at Mausoleum The mausoleum at the IOOF cemetery on Eastwood dr. was extensively damaged, ap parently by youngsters with B-B guns, some time over the week end, according to Mcd ford police. E. W. Pease, IOOF trustee for the cemetery, said yester day that $100 reward is being offered for information lead ing to the arrest of those re sponsible for the vandalism. Thirteen stained glass win dows and two plate glass windows were broken, some with B-B shot and others with stones, police said. The vandalism occurred some time between noon Sat urday and 8 a.m. Monday, of ficers said. Preliminary esti mates set the damage about $1,000. Thornton Criticizes Hatfield's 'Authority' Salem-OIPII-Atty. Gen. Rob ert Y. Thornton said today the authority Gov. Mark Hat field gave him to investigate the Camp Withycombe situa tion amounts to nothing more than an "indirect accusation." Hatfield said that Thornton could investigate "if you have new evidence which you did not report ... or if you have been withholding information pertinent to this case . . ." In a letter to Hatfield. Thornton replied, "this is not authority to make an investi gation . . . but an indirect ac cusation that I have in my possession evidence that should have been presented to the grand jury." AROUND THI OlOII POSTPONED Clayton Powell's appeal fori alter the controversial new CHARGED ex-diplomat once assigned to Premier Fidel Castro's foreign Kennedy The two presidents and their wives then led a seven block parade from the White House to Blair House, where the Betancourts will stay. The White House said Kennedy added the parade to the re ception to "demonstrate his high regards" for Betancourt. Lunches With Rusk After a lunch given by Secretary of State Dean Rusk, Betancourt returned to the White House for the first of two private sessions with Kennedy. Tonight Betancourt will be honored at a White House banquet. Sources close to the Vene zuelan chief executive said he will propose to Kennedy a more effective base for the Alliance for Progress, as well as discuss means of combating the threat of Fidel Castro in Latin America. Betancourt's strategically vital nation on the Caribbean rim of South America No. 1 supplier of oil and iron ore to the United States-has been a prime target of Castro sub version. In his determination to prove that Democratic meth ods can succeed in Venezuela after 150 years of almost con tinuous tyranny, Betancourt has resisted the temptation to resort to strongarm tactics to crush extremists of the right and left seeking to top ple him. Southern Pacific Strike Talks Resume Chicago - (I'PIl - Federal Mediator Francis O'Neill re sumed talks with negotiators of the Southern Pacific rail road today, hopeful of find ing an agreement in the line's dispute with 11,000 railway clerks. O'Neill met separately with the railroad officials, who were joined by James E. (Doc) Wolfe, chairman of the National Railway Labor con ference, and several of his associates. O'Neill was hopeful a change in scenery from the previous San Francisco talks might prove beneficial. He planned to meet with negoti ators of the Brotherhood of Railway Clerks later today. Senate Fails To Override Veto Salem L'Pti The Senate to day was unable to override Gov. Mark Hatfield's veto of SB526 a measure to au thorize a 60-day injunction against actions taken by the Liquor Control Commission. Twenty votes were needed to override the veto. The Sen ate voted 15 yes and 14 no. with one senator absent. Hatfield vetoed four bills ; after the 1961 session, one House measure ana tnrcc sen- ate bills. Neither tne House nor aen ate has been able to override the vetoes. One vetoed meas ure is still in a Senate com mittcc. and has not yet gone to the floor for a vote. No measure vetoed by Hal- field since he became govcr- , nor four yean ago has been able to get the votes neccs- Tribune 19, 1963 PP&L Files New Schedule; Would Lower Area Rates Salem - After extensive re view with the public utility commissioner's office. Pacif ic Power and Light company today filed with Commission er Jonel C. Hill rate revisions that would bring its southern Oregon electric rates more in line with PP&L's rates in other areas of the state. The company estimated savings of $l-million annually would result for the firm's customers in Douglas, Jose phine, Jackson, Klamath and Lake counties. "Differences in the rate lev els in the Oregon areas serv ed by the company have been under continuous review with the PUC since Pacific Power and The California Oregon Power company merged in mid-1961," the company ex plained. D. R. McClung, PP&L pres ident, said 59,000 residential consumers in the southern Oregon area would share sav ings totaling $534,000 annual ly. Commercial and industrial customers would save an es timated $500,000 a year un der the proposed changes. Average 5.6 Per Cent PP&L said the rate reduc tions would average 5.6 per cent. "The proposed adjustment would bring the southern Ore gon rate structure more near ly in line with the rates in the Willamette valley, east ern Oregon and coast areas we serve in the state," Mc Clung reported. PP&L said the adjustments in the residential rates would include a reduction in the monthly minimum charge from $2 to $1.25, the mini- mum charged elsewhere in the company's Oregon system, Also available would be t block of 540 kilowatt-hours for household water heating at one cent per KWH, a rate which is two-tenths of one cent per KWH less than the present charge. Savings of about $14 a year would result for all residen tial customers using an aver age of 840 kilowatt-hours or more each month, PP&L said. The average use in Copco area households falls in this bracket, the company added. Two New Schedules Commercial and industrial customers would be offered two new schedules, and have a choice of whichever rate results in lower cost for the service. Along with other cus tomers, the Copco area indus tries with high load factor and high energy use charac teristics would be placed on rate parity with industries in the Willamette valley and comparable areas of Oregon as a result of the adjustments, PP&L said. Frank Bash, vice president and Copco Division manager, reported nearly all 9,700 com mercial and industrial firms w o u Id benefit from the changes, although under cer tain power usage conditions a few might experience mod est increases. "In general, the newly re vised Copco Schedule 30 for commerce and industry would mean the most eco nomical power costs for the low use, low load-factor cus tomers, and Schedule 37, the alternate PP&L rate to be made available in southern Oregon, would be lower for the high use, high load-factor industrial customers," Bash explained. Other Rales Reduced Rates for commercial wa ter heating and for airport and recreational lighting, such as parks and school foot ball fields, also will be re duced. PP&L noted the irrigation pumping rate in southern Ore gon was adjusted lower last April. This and certain out WEATHER FORECAST? Cloudy Ith rain thlt evening-- tnf or low rloiidtnea late lontehl and early tomorrow morning. Rain again or tomorrow afternoon. Low tonltht 4H-4S. Hlh to morrow 50--S. Temp. Hllhett Vetterdav it I owe tt ThU Mornlni 4. Prrc. to It a.m. Today. Trace Our Skies Tonight sunset today .... S:4t p.m. Snnrlte tomorrow .. . 7:03 a.m. The Moon rlr 4:41 a.m. tomorrow and ride low In the ron'tellatlon, hagitarrtu. The hrlght "tar" teen near It It Venua. whlrh U now aooitl t; million mllei from the Mrth. New Moon Feb. 21 57th Year Price 10 Cents No. 286 door area lighting rates, al ready comparable to other area rates, would be unchang ed, it added. The company official said it is hoped the revisions will be approved soon so the changes can be put into effect as early as possible. Struggle Between Secular, Spiritual Worlds Is Noted we live in a unique age in which the competition for men's minds comes down to struggle between the secu lar and the spiritual woilds-," Gov. Mark O. Hatfield said last night- Addressing about 300 "ion at the Presbyterian Men's club here, Hatfield said America's real weapon in the quest for human survival is its "spiritual armor." But the governor warned that many among us today are "worshiping false gods." Some are placing their faith and trust in the good of military power, he said, a commitment as vain and hope less as the French seeking safety behind the Maginot line before World War II. Economic Power Others, Hatfield said, wor ship the false god of ecoi m- ic power, which leads ulti mately to materialism, the basis of communism. Still others place reliance! in political institutions. A de mocracy, he cautioned, is only as sound as the moral and spiritual strength of the peo ple living in it. The false god of s-cionce is attracting worshipers today, he said. Hatfield praised sci ence for the benefits it has brought to mankind. But he warned this too is misleading. The governor quoted Gen. Omar Bradley, who once wrote that "man has grasped the mystery of the atom, but rejected the Sermon on the Mount." Science Relates to Man Science is good, Hatfield said, only as it relates to the constructive welfare of man. Probably the most subtle, but deadly of all the false gods, however, Hatfield warn ed, is the god of ego or self love. 'Man loo often regards himself as the center of the universe," he said. "He mut learn to displace his ego with commitment to something higher." The governor suggested in stead that love for fellow man be substituted for self love. "Man cannot live in the isolation of himself; he must be involved in the world and its problems,'1 he said. Morse Asks Tighter Control ol CIA Washington - (UPD -Sen. Wayne L. Morse (D Ore.) charged Monday that the Ccn- tral Intelligence A g e n c y (CIA) is "in effect exercising police slate powers" in some activities and should be brought under tighter con gressional control. Morse told the Senate he was particularly concerned about some of CIA's connec tions with and support for Cuban exile groups. Morse is chairman of the Senate For eign Relations Subcommittee on Latin America. "No agency should be given police state powers in a Demo cratic administration," Morse declared, and "CIA in effect is exercising police state powers." Morse spoke after publica tion of an article in which Allen W. Dulles, former CIA director, predicted that no country under Communism will successfully revolt against that rule. Jason Lee Home Due for Destruction Salcm-'IPl'-How to save the historic Jason Lee home here from a destruction deadline March 1 will be discussed Wednesday at meeting of PRISONERS RELEASED Three British citizens, "completely surprised" by their re lease from Fidel Castro's Isle of Pines prison, are shown as they arrived in Mexico City. From left, they arc Peter J. Lamb ton, 25, of Nassau, The Bahamas; Robert M. Geddcs, 31, former Havana resident Non-Support Case Investigator Will Be Sought An investigator for non-sup port cases will be requested by District Attorney Alan Holmes when his budget is presented the county budget committee, it was reported this morning. While explaining to the Jackson county welfare com mission this morning how the district attorney's office pro cesses non-support cases. Dep uty District Attorney Robert Fox said such an investigator would be a partial solution to the problem of caseload in crease. Such an Investigator might also work for the cir cuit court, Fox said. The sheriff's office docs not have much time to investigate such cases since it has a full Cat Lovers Ask For Disposal Plan Salem fUPK Cat lovers ap pealed to the legislature Mon day to make it possible for counties to provide for hu mane disposal of wayward ca Is. They said it would be a kindness to the cats, and in addition would cut down on wild bird and game destruc tion, farmyard raids, and thd danger of cat-carried rabies and disease. The witnesses, mostly from humane and cat care socie ties, and mostly from Jack son county, testified before the House Fish and Game committee on a bill to permit counties to set up cat control programs. The specific nature of the program would be up to any county that decided to par ticipate. There was no oppo sition to the bill. Mrs. Rita Shogren said her cat care society at Medford, started about a decade ago, was "very quickly over whelmed" by requests for disposal of "stray, unwanted and abandoned cats." She said the county began helping out on a trial basis in March, 1961, and handled 2,607 eats by the end of 1962. Thclma Tabor, who lives near Ashland, said she loses a large number of small chickens and ducks each spring to cats. She said farm ers in her area support the bill Heps. John LicucnbacK (n- Medford) and Grace Peck (D Portland) said they sponsor ed the bill to let counties with cat problem meet It. Flu Continues East Coast Siege By United Pren International New York City and the southeastern states today bore the brunt of the latest siege of influenza to hit the nation. Asian flu spread through out New York, and Dr. George James, city health commissioner, said that it had reached epidemic proportions. Hundreds of cases of respi ratory illnesses were reported in separate areas of Tennes see, North Carolina, Alabama and Massachusetts. James reported that for the first six weeks of this year there were 651 pneumonia and Influenza deaths In New York City, compared with 450 such deaths normally expect ed for the period. He said that for the first seven weeks of 1963 there were 084 more deaths than usually expected. 1 whose wife and daughter live In Eugene, Ore., and Alfred Lewis, 79, of Georgetown, British Guiana. Geddcs said he plans to have a physical examination prior to de parture to join his family at Eugene. He was pale and appeared to be suffering from malnutrition. (UPI) by DA case load of other criminal cases, the deputy said. Fox said the statutes are as adequate as they can be. The length of time it takes to prosecute non - support cases depends on the time it takes to locate the father after the mother has signed the com plaint, Fox said. Fox said he handles most non-support cases referred to the office from the welfare department. He also handles other cases. Contact is sought with the father by letter first. He then has 10 days in which to satisfy authorities or his wife he wiil provide support. The district attorney's of fice does not keep a check list on case progress since there are too many such cases, Fox said. The burden Is on the mother or welfare department to notify the district attor ney s office that support pay mcnls are not being made. Be Sure of Failure Bcfr he district attor ney's o-.ee can prosecute, it must be sure that His "willful failure" to pay support. Then the district attorney's office can start a criminal action If the father is in Oregon or seek enforcement through the uni form reciprocal enforcement of support act for out-of-state cases. How wcl' this works depends on the other state's county attorneys, Fox said. Under Sheriff Paul Bcttiol explained how deputies seek out fathers charged with non- support. John Darby, regional di rector of parole and proba tion, said maximum sentence for non-support is one year In the state prison or In the coun ty jail. These cases are more of a social problem than a criminal problem since many of the men do not hold a steady job and make promises to pay which they never in tend to keep, he explained. Mrs. Joy Walsh, of the wel fare department, said an ac tive card file kept by her de partment will assist in prose cution of cases. Tornadoes Rake Central Florida By United Press International Tornadoes ripped into cen tral Florida today and high winds blew a car off a cause way, fatally injuring a tourist. The tornadoes were part of a double dose of winter dealt the South. Surprise snows closed schools in three other Dixie states. Tornadoes were reported near Orlando and at Lake Wales. Winds damaged air planes and a hangar at Lake land and trees were uprooted and electric service disrupted in the Tampa area. Near St. Petersburg, winds pushed in Tampa Bay a car that contained Carl Bowman, sncboygan, Wis., and his wife. Bowman's body was removed from the bay, but it was not Immediately determined if he drowned oi had suffered a heart attack. Mrs. Bowman was taken to a hospital. High tension lines were re ported down around Tampa and some streets were report ed blocked by downed trees at Plant City. The Weather Bureau warned more twisters might hit in southern Florida and southern Georgia. RECORD HARVEST" Portland - HOT - Timber harvested in the national for ests of Oregon and Washing ton reached an all-time high of 4.4 billion board feet In 1962, according to Regional Forester J. Herbert Stone. I SAC To Recall B47 Jets From English Bases Washinglon-IUPD-The Stra tegic Air Command withdrew several B47 jets from England last week in a preliminary to the planned general exodus of U.S. nuclear bombers from overseas bases. This move came to light to day as inquiry revealed that a difference of opinirn may be developing between the De fense Department and the Air Force over how fast overseas bomber bases should be va cated. Only a "handful" of the 600-milc-an-hour Jet bombers were pulled out of England but it was a forerunner of a big shakeup. The planes had been based at Grccnham Com mon, one of four Strategy Air Command bases in Ent land. New Striking Force inc wtmarawat came as the London Daily Express claimed that Britain will be come the main U.S. base for a new striking force of H- bombers. The newspaper said the bombers will be assigned lo the North Atlantic Treaty Organization under the agree ment between President Ken nedy and Prime Minister Har old Macmillan last December at Nassau. America Is to send a force of B52 Stratofortress H-bomb-crs and 1,300-milc-an-hour Hustler B58s, according to Chapman Plncher, the news paper's defense correspond ent. He said the aircraft would be under command of Gen. Lyman Lcmnltzcr, American NATO commander. Aiki Greater Speed Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara's office has ask ed the Air Force to study the feasibility of speedier with drawal of B47s from bases In England, Spain, Morocco, Alaska and Guam. More than 100 planes now arc kept on 15-minute alert at those bases. The Air Force has agreed to leave its three Moroccan bases next July. But it be lieves that B47s should be kept on some overseas bases for two more years. City Officials Take First Budget Steps City department heads met with City Manager Robert Duff this morning to Initiate steps to draw up Medford's ll)(i:. 1004 budget. After the department heads have returned their estimates to the city manager, the budg et will be consolidated and presented to the city budget committee for consideration, Duff said. JFK Asks On Water Washington - HOT- Presi dent Kennedy has sent Con gress a study of the nation's water problems and asked for a full attack on them before some regions are parched. Kennedy asked specifically for new legislation "to strengthen substantially the contributions that the univer sities can make to research and graduate education in wa ter resources." The President sent Con gress a 307-page report Mon- I day that took a task force from the Federal Council for Science and Technology five months to compile. It noted that three dozen bureaus in eight departments and agencies were engaged In water resource research. No Indication Of Significant Changes Seen Cautious Hope Of Break Crushed Geneva-il'PD-The Soviet Un ion refused to budge today from its take-it-or-leave-it stand on conditions for a nu clear test ban treaty. American, British and So viet disarmament negotiators gathered at a private lunch for what their spokesman called a "social"' meeting. It was their first joint meeting since the 17-nation Disarma ment Conference resumed here last week after a two month recess. Sen. Hubert Humphrey ID- Minn.) who was present, told United Press International afterwards that it was a 'fruitful discussion but there was no sign of any significant shift." Hopes Crushed Humphrey's remark seem ed to crush cautious hopes for some break in the nuclear deadlock that had been raised earlier as a result of the lunch get-together. Humphrey said he found the Russians courteous, but I do not think there was any particular sign of a new move." "There was nothing new," the conference spokesman said. The United States and Britain, as well as delegates of the neutral nations attend ing the 11-month-old confer ence, have been trying to get the Russians to resume nu clear test - ban bargaining among the Big Three. Kremlin Terms But the Russians have stuck to their position of offering a treaty on Kremlin terms only. The Russians have taken a hard line and have refused to convene the nuclear subcom mittee. They have insisted on top priority for general and complete disarmament dis cussions to the full confer ence. With the conference In re cess until Wednesday, leaders of the eight neutral delega tions held consultations aim ed at a compromise which would serve as a basis for concrete East-West negotia tions. The nuclear issue lias stal led the disarmament talks. which resumed a week ago after an eight-week lay-off. Hijacked Freighter To Receive Escort Bclcm, Brazil - (UPD - A Brazilian naval vessel head ed for the mouth of the Am azon river today under orders to escort the hijacked Ven ezuelan frleghter Anzoategui here for formal surrender by its rebel crew. A spokesman for the Bra zilian Foreign Ministry in Rio de Janeiro said political asylum would be granted the pro-Communist Venezuelans who seized the freighter last week in the Caribbean, en route to Houston, Tex. The Anzoategui was report ed anchored in Brazilian ter ritorial waters Monday night in the north channel of the Amazon river mouth, about 50 miles from Macapa, capital of the northern territory of Amapa. Wilmar Medina Hojas, sec ond mate and leader of the nine men who seized the ship, wired news agencies in Rio that he planned to make port upstream at Macapa this aft ernoon, rather than continue the 200 miles to Belem. Salem - IUP1I - Gov. Mark Hatfield today asked Presi dent Kennedy to declare Mal heur county as a disaster area because of Jan. 31 -Feb. 2 floods. Attack Problems The report recommended development of water re search centers In each of the SO states and federal grants to universities to conduct in dependent research. Although about 9 billion acre-feet of water per year falls on the continental Unit ed States, large areas of the country are thirsty, the re port said. If this water were uniformly distributed it would cover the nation to a depth of 2.5 feet. But despite this tremendous fall, the re port said, the volume of wa ter "required to dilute sew age approaches, and in some places already exceeds, the amount of water In the rlvert during times of low flow." the Salem City council. i fcrvice IS ooviei-aomineiea agency oi suoTeriion. - sary 10 ovt-inue me i
