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Question To Be
Left To Courts
Salem DPD Discovery of a
military scandal and names
of officers who signed orders
relating to it were detailed
here Thursday by the head of
the' Oregon National Guard
and the secretary of state.
The testimony came at a
tense meeting of a Ways and
Means Subcommittee, which
also heard one officer admit
he had questioned activities
of his superiors but taken no
action.
The key witnesses were
Secretary of State HowpII
Appling Jr., and Adjutant
General Paul L. Kliever, who
became head of the Oregon
National Guard when the late
Alfred E. Hintz died last Hay.
Irregularities Revealed
Shortly after the death of
Hintz, irregularities at Camp
Withycombe in Clackamas
county were made public.
Continuing investigation,
Appling said, revealed the ex
istence of a srecial cash fund,
irregular disposal of surplus
goods, and diversion of money
to unauthorized projects, in
cluding improvements to
Hintz's home. The secretary
of stale gave the committee
audit reports and documents
bearing names to back up his
statement.
Kliever said the irregular
ities first came to his atten
tion the night after Hintz's
funeral, when he expressed
concern that Hintz's widow
would have to complete pay
ment for improvements to the
Hintz home.
Kliever said he was told by
Lt. Col. James J. Anderson
that "we didn't have to wor
ry, that the general had re
imbursed himself."
Kliever said Anderson then
"related the sale of these
logs and various equipment."
The reference was to logs and
equipment from the abandon
ed Tongue Point Naval Sta
tion. Kliever said he reported at
once to the governor's office.
The investigation followed.
Left To Courts
Appling, whose auditors
spearheaded the investigation,
stressed he would "leave to
the courts the question of
whether there was or was not
criminal or illegal action on
the part of any national guard
personnel involved in these
matters."
He said he was bringing his
findings before the committee
because he was concerned
over the standard of conduct
they reflected.
"Whether the degree of
participation be one of insti
gation of irregular proced
ures, actions which serve to
make it possible, or simply
silence on the part of those
who are aware of these oc
currences, the result seems to
me to contribute to the same
end." he said.
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Ashland Elementary
Schools Are Entered
Ashland Walker and Bris
coe elementary schools were
broken into last night, Ash
land police reported this
morning.
Entry was gained at t!3ch
school by prying open a roar
door and then prying open
the doors to the respective
principal's offices.
Between $25 and 5)0 in
change was taken from Walk
er school. Nothing was found
missing from Briscoe, police
said.
MEVSC?)BRIEFS
MEDICARE PROGRAM PIGEON HOLED
Washington - 'tlM' - Congress today consigned lo a(quiei
pigeonholt President Kennedy's new medicare program
which would boost Social Security taxes above S200 a year
for tvery worker earning $100 a week or more. The con
troversial plan will not be pulled out lor many months.
SPEEDY EXPLANATION DEMANDED
Wahing!on-m-The United States hat demanded a speedy
explanation from Cuban Premier Fidel Castro of the attack
by MIG lighters on an unarmed American shrimp boat in
the Florida Straits.
BIG THREE TEST BAN TALKS REJECTED
Geneva-'tPI-The Soviet Union today rejected any Big
Three nuclear test ban talki and said the issue mutt be ham.
trjejed out by the entire 17-ntioiy Disarmament Conference.
jiycombe
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STATUE DETERIORATES George Washington stands
quietly alone in Lafayette Park in St. Louis, Mo., to observe
his 231st birthday. The statue, having withstood 94 years of
St. Louis weather, is showing the effects of exposure and
neglect, the face and body marked with spots of erosion.
The statue is one of five bronze castings made by a sculpture
done in 1788 by the great French artist, Joan Antoine Hou
don, who was a contemporary of Washington. The St. Louis
park board is considering ways and means of restoration of
the statue.
American Exchange
Student Accused
By Russian
Moscow -IUPII- A Russian
newspaper has charged Chica
go exchange student Joel
Pichncy with the major So
viet crime of speculation and
suggested he be kicked out of
the country.
The Leningrad youth news
paper Smycna (The Shift)
said the 25-year-old student
also was guilty of "anti-Communist
ravings" and whisper
ing to strangers in the streets
of Leningrad about "discrimi
nation against Jews" in Rus
sia. "Isn't that just about
Flu Vaccine Shots
Are Recommended
Adults and children, unless
they are suffering from
chronic disease such as heart
trouble, should receive flu
vaccine, Dr. A. Erin Merkel,
Jackson county public health
officer, said yesterday.
Dr. Mcrkel said his office
has received a number of tele
phone calls from people in
quiring as to whether they
should give their family the
vaccine.
Prc-school and school age
children especially should re
ceive the vaccine, the public
health officer said. However,
the family physician must
give the vaccine and advisa
bility of taking the shots in
each individual case must be
decided by the physician.
The U.S. public health serv
ice is recommending the vac
cine, Dr. Mcrkel said.
'DO PASS' URGED
Salem The first of
six bills aimed at sex offend
ers was forwarded to the
house floor today with a "do
pass" recommendation.
Scandal
Paper
enough? It's time to take this
insolent American student by
the collar and toss him back
home beyond the ocean,"
Smycna said this week.
Pichney and his wife, Clem
entina, 22, currently arc wait
ing in Moscow while United
States embassy officials con
sider the case.
The Soviet government has
lodged no formal charges
against the University of Chi
cago graduate. He declined to
comment Thursday because
the embassy advised him "to
say nothing at this time."
Speculation in money or
goods is a major crime in the
Soviet Union and several
death sentences have been
passed in recent months
against those convicted of
such charges.
Western legal experts here,
however, said such sentences
are passed only for large scale
economic crimes and Pichney
hardly qualified.
Could Be Tried
But they said he technical
ly could be tried and con
victed if the Soviets believe
he was guilty of speculation.
Smycna said he was guilty
of auctioning off women's
blouses, handkerchiefs, cig
arettes and other "trash for
"cash on the barrelhead."
The article was the first
newspaper attack known to
have been made against the 33
American exchange students
now in Russia. Pichncy, a
bearded, sandy-haired litera
ture student, is one of 12 at
Leningrad.
Students in Custody
For Theft at Home
Two Hedrick Junior High
school students were taken
into custody by Medford po
lice Thursday in connection
with the theft of some coins
from a Medford residence
Feb. 8.
The youngsters, one 14 and
the other 15 years old. gave
statements to officers admit
ting they broke into the home
of Gerald Walter Hobbs, 311
Ashland avc , and look a var
iety of small coins, some cf
them antique.
The bovs were released to
the custody of their nantnts
after questioning, on the ad
vice of juvenile authorities,
officers said.
TO OPPOSE BILL
Portland a'Pl' -The Oregon
Republican Action league will
oppose a Sunday closing bill
now before the state legisla
ture, chairman Roger Van
WUkle said Thursday.
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Plan To Outlaw
Speed Traps in
State Proposed
Measure Proposes
Maximum Speed
Salcm-IUPII - Proposals that
would outlaw radar speed
traps, set maximum speed
limits, and make attempted
suicide a crime punishable by
fine or imprisonment, were
introduced in the house today,
which would establish zoning
of land used exclusively for
farming, and a measure .vhich
would give juvenile courts
jurisdiction over a child
whose parent or guardian had
failed to provide for him.
Bans Evidence
The bill by Rep. Philip
Lang (D-Portland) would ban
radar evidence in prosecution
for speeding violations.
The House Committee on
Highways introduced the
bill which would repeal the
present prima facie speed
law. The bill would set
maximum speed of 70 miles
per hour on state highways,
and would increase present
20, 25, and 55 mile zones to
25, 30 and 65.
Lang also introduced a bill
providing that anyone trying
or threatening to commit sui
cide be punished by county
jail imprisonment of one year,
a $1,000 fine, or both.
The Senate Agriculture
Committee submitted the
farm zoning proposal. It calls
for farm land to be assessed
at its true cash value for farm
use and not at the true cash
value it would have if applied
to other uses.
Sen. Alfred Corbett (D-Port
land) submitted the juvenile
court measure. It would give
the court jurisdiction when a
child was allowed to become
dependent on a public or priv
ate child caring agency that
needs services of the court in
planning for the child's best
interests.
Lakes Purchase Is
Waiting Clearance
Final agreement on pur
chase of Hoover lakes in the
White City area for the state
game commission is pending
clearance of a technicality
with the General Services Ad
ministration, it was reported
today.
While City Realty is pur
chasing four of the lakes and
the surrounding approximate
ly 300 acre area for the game
commission in exchange for
other White City area land
now under control of the state
game commission, a spokes
man for the realty company
said.
The General Services Ad
ministration has some control
over transfer of state game
commission property because
it formerly was federal prop
erty, it was explained.
The state game commission
would use the chain of la
goons fed by Rogue River
Valley Irrigation district run
off water for a game refuge.
The C. C. Hoover family
created the lakes about 15
years ago as a recreation area.
Since they arc now subdivid
ing their former farm land
and find it difficult to police
the lakes, the Hoovers have
sought for some time to place
them under stale game com
mission administration.
Salcm-lUPIi-A cigarette tax
and a broader based personal
income tax should be ap
proved to raise new revenues
for Oregon, Associated Ore
gon Industries said Thursday
night.
WEATHER
fORKCAKT: fi.tr through flaU
ufdy, except for vat lev fog '
low tioudinf it In morning, low
tnnlclit J0-3. High Saturday
50-51. exrrpt five degree
warmer above log areas.
Temp.
Hlfhett Yetterday 5
l.oneit Thl Morning 31
Free lo 1 a.m. Today, Trare
Our Skies Tonight
ftiintft todav . ..
fcnnrite tomorrow
M (ton rise tomorrow
i it p.m.
i a.m.
J:fl(l a.m.
New Moon
F'h. 23
The lelescopie planet. I'ranut,
li now In the constellation,
l.eo. Tonight It It l.MH.000.000
mile from the F.arth, the near,
fit It hat been In many year.
Betailed at Hearing
MEDFORD,
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ROAD BLOCKED Devil's Slide, the pcrcnniul Coast
Highway 1 headache of slate engineers and highway patrol
men, was closed near Pacifica, Calif., by slides Thursday.
Mann's Request
Is Discussed by
Medford Council
A request by Mann's De
partment store to vacate the
west 100 feet of the alley be
tween its store and Western
Thrift store, 30 North Central
ave., was discussed by the
Medford city council last
night.
A public hearing on the re
quest will be scheduled.
In making the presentation,
John Moffat, Mann's presi
dent, explained that with the
alley vacation the store could
increase its size from 25,000
square feet to approximately
43,000 square feet.
An offer of $1,000 per lin
eal foot was made for the
alley, and Moffat asked that
the cily pay the cost for mov
ing utility distribution lines
in the area.
Cost Not Determined
City Manager Robert A.
Duff stressed that the cost for
moving the utilities in the
alley is not known and this
will be checked for presenta
tion at the public hearing.
The city also scheduled an
appraisal of the property to
be vacated.
It was mentioned that Fred
Robinson is negotiating to
purchase the building which
housed the Medford Furni
ture store on the southwest
corner of Sixth and Bartlett
sts. for a parking lot.
Moffat said that while he
had had a truck turn-around
in the alley that would re
main following the vacation
of the west end, the parking
lot in the area would open
up that corner of the block.
The store official said that
even with the final approval
of the request and the com
pletion of engineering plans,
actual construction on the ex
pansion could not get under
way for at least a year.
Swallows Return to
Grants Pass Home
Grants Pass Spring may
not be busting out all over,
but Marvin Clark. Grants
Pass, has a sure sign that it
hat arrived in southern
Oregon ihe swallows have
returned.
Clark, who each year has
been noting the arrival of
the harbingers of spring,
said it is the second time in
20 years that the swallows
have returned here this
early. Ordinarily, he said,
they put in their first ap
pearance about the middle
of March.
Tif A T T
OREGON, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1963
Ordinance Prohibits
Billboards Along
Freeway in Medford
An ordinance to prohibit
billboards along Interstate 5
inside the city limits was ap
proved by the Medford city
council last night.
In other business regarding
signs, Mayor James Dunlevy
voted to override a planning
commission recommendation,
when the council vote tied.
The ordinance, to prohibit
billboards within 270 feet of
the center line of Interstate
5, was described as a "stop-1
gap" measure until city coun
cil and planning commission
members with members "f
the sign industry can work
out an overall plan.
The ordinance allows signs
within this area only if they
identify the business on
which they arc placed and
are less than 100 square feet.
Appeal Is Approved
Also approved was an ap
peal from a planning commis
s i o n recommendation by
Standard Oil Company re
garding a 50-foot high sign
on property cast of Biddlrd.
at the Interstate 5 inter
change. The planning commission
had recommended a 35-foot
sign. In defending the com
mission's action, Elwood Hcd
berg, president, explained
that the group did not feel
that several such high signs
would be desirable in that
area. He said that the 35-foot
height was decided upon so
that the sign would be visible
above neighboring buildings.
Company officials stressed
that the requested height was
necessary so it could be seen
far enough along the freeway
for safe lurn-"ff.
Voting for the higher struc
ture were Councilman Wil
liam Singler, Robert Cun
ningham, Al Bradford, and
Joe Hosick. Opposing it were
Robert Van Sickle, R. L. Bac
cus, Richard Travis Bnd Terry
D. Green.
Prior lo his lie-breaking
vote, Mayor Dunlevy explain
ed that he felt that if a 50
foot high sign was not needed
at the location, the company's
engineering firm would not
have requested It. He added
that in other areas where
similar signs have been plac
ed by the company where
there are no regulations, the
firm did not install signs
higher tha what they
thought necessary.
Interested in Ordinance
Most of the more than 50
persons who attended the
council meeting were inter
ested in the proposed sign
prdiriiju-e amendment.
Tribune
One mass of mud closed one lane and a rock slide finished
closing the road. Above, heavy equipment starts removal
of the obstruction.- (UPD
In. presenting the proposal,
Biiccus said that he had
viewed with alarm the bill
board row that was starting
lo appear on the west side of
Interstate 5.
Speaking for Ihe sign in
dustry were Anrrcw Ha cr,
Ryan Avcrtising; John Eads
and Ira Phelps, Electrical
Products Corporation; and E.
E. Carpenter, Allied Neon
SiRn company,
Hawvcr stressed that his
firm would construct signs
according to national stand
ards and that they would be
maintained. He commented
that the distance stated in the
amendment-270 feet from the
freeway's centerlinc - would
would be approximately 150
feet from the right of way,
discriminating against prop
erty owners closest to the
freeway. He added that the
average lot Is 100 feet deep.
Support Situation
He said his firm would sup
port the interim situution and
would cooperate with the city
council in setting up an or
dinance. They all urged speed In for
mulating the permanent ordi
nance amendmci.t.
Appointed to a committee
by Dunlevy to work with
representatives of ihe sign in
dustry were Bradford, Van
Sickle and Green from the
council and Walter Higgins
and Hedbcrg from the plan
ning commission.
That part of the proposed
amendment making it retro
active to prohibit the erection
of billboards along the free
way by firms currently hold
ing city building permits was
deleted on a vote by Ihe council.
Eugene Man Claims $10,000 Stolen,
Minor Stab Wound Inflicted by Woman
Portland - HOT - Llndley A.
(Dick) Warren of Eugene re
ported to police early today
he was robbed of S10.000 and
stubbed by a woman.
Warren, 53, owns Top's
Restaurant and Warren En
terprises in Altany. He was
taken lo Good S? .uritan Hos
pital with what was described
as a non-serious stab wound.
He told police he met the
woman in a Eugene bar after
converting romc stocks to
cash to buy a new house
trailer in Portland. He Iden
tified her only as "Ann."
8ald be passed out aft
57th Year Price 10 Cents
No. 289
Estimated 500 7
Persons Killed
In libya Quake
Benghazi, Lybia - flPH - A
devastating earthquake that
"practically leveled" the re
sort town of Barce was re
ported today to huve killed
up to 500 persons and injured
1,000 others.
The quake hit Barce, 55
miles northeast of Benghazi,
Thursday night, wrecking
communications and virtual
ly reducing It .to- rubble.
American and British mili
tary rescue .workers ' dug
through the ruins in a frantic
search for survivors among
the town's 3,000 population.
Barce, once an Italian fort
ress and a World War II bat
tlefield of the Axis and
Allied desert forces, apparent
ly was at the epicenter of the
quake. The temblor did hot
affect Benghazi, one of the
two capitals of Libya, or other
cities.
Supplies Rushed
The British, who maintain
a military headquarters at
Benghazi, rushed troops, doc
tors and medical supplies into
the disaster area.
Planes from the U.S. Air
Force base at Wheclus Field
outside Tripoli, the second
capital 400 miles to the west,
dropped paramedic teams
over Barce and flew an en
lire mobile hospital and other
equipment to Benghazi for
overland transport to Barce.
The British set up a vital
radio link with the outside
world, replacing the shatter
ed landlinc communications.
Traffic on the link between
Barce and Benghazi was con
fined to requests for medical
aid, food and blankets.
er hiring another woman to
drive the two of Ihem to Port
land, but revived to find his
companion trying to stab him.
He said the driver then left
and a man he believed to be
his companion's husband look
him to Portland. He discover
ed his money was mining
when he reached the hospital.
Warren told police his loss
es included S8.500 he re
ceived for stock from his
broker Thursday morning,
and about SI, 500 in cash he
already had.
He said he invited "Ann"
to aoeompany him to Port
Attack on Cuba
Would Result in
War in America
Annihilation of
Countries Promised
Moscow (UPtThe Soviet
Union warned the United
States today that any attack;
on Cuba would start World
War III.
Soviet Defense Minister
Marshal Rodion Malinovsky
also said that Russia and its
allies would regard a war
against Cuba as a war against
all of them.
"This war will be waged
not only in Cuban territory
but on the territory of tha
United States too," Malinov. '
sky said in a major speech at
ceremonies marking the 45th
anniversary of the Soviet
armed forces.
Ships En Route
Malinovsky issued his warn
ing at a time whpn Kn.,i
ships were reported en route
to i,uba lo remove several
thousand of the estimated 17,.
(100 Russian troops stationed
there. It also came shortly
after the United States sent a
sharp note to Cuba demand
ing an explanation of the at
tack by MIG fighters on an
unarmed American shrimp
boat in the Florida Straits.
Soviet Premier N i k i t a
Khrushchev, appearing in his
army uniform for the first
time in 18 months, listened
attentively a s Malinovsky
spoke.
Would Start War
"We want to admonish the
aggressive circles," Maliniv-
sky said "that an attack on
the Cuban renublic would
mark the beginning of a third '
woria war.
He said that in the event of
any such' attack, the Soviet
Union would be in the fore
front of. those to help Cuba.
lt is impossible to intim
idate us," ,he said. "We have
the power to burn up the ag
gressors in the first hour ol
attack," .
He also charged that Amer
ican submarines were monar.
I ing Soviet ships In the Carib
bean. Malinovsky added that the
Soviet Union "will wipe out
civil and military objects of
the United States and anni
hilate countries which have
U. S. weapons" in "the event
of an attack on Russia.'
The defense minister
claimed in a major address
that Russia would reply with
a salvo of three times as many
rockets as those the United
States might launch against
the Soviet Union.
Global Rocket
Malinovsky repeated Soviet
claims that it possessed a
global rocket" that could
pierce any enemy defenses
and said ever-increasing num
bers of these were being sup-
piled to the Soviet armed
forces.
These rockets, he said.
woulu "irresistibly reach their
largcls and deliver their
lethal cargo."
The defense minister claim
ed that Soviet might had been
a consistent factor in holding
dbck alleged imperialist ag
gression, particularly in Cuba.
Mis main theme was to
boast of Soviet might, includ
ing me claim of an intercon
tinental missile with a 100-
megaton thermo-nuclear war
head "capable of fully destroy
ing all military and indus
trial targets in an area of
several thousand square kilo
meters." Snider Replaced on
Aeronautics Board
Salem IIIPD Mayor Robert
Veatch of Klamath Falls to
day was named by Gov. Mark;
Hatfield to the Board of Aero
nautics. Veatch, a C - 47 pilot in
World War II, replaced for
mer Medford Mayor John W.
Snider, who resigned.
land but that she objected
that he was in "no condition"
to drive. He said he agreed
and that the woman told him
she knew a woman cab driver
who would operate his car
He said he hired the wom
an cabbie and that he "passed
out" some time during the
trip. He revived to find
"Ann" attacking him with a
knife he kept in his glove
compartment.
She was able to inflict only
a minor wound. It was at this
point that the woman driver
left the car and Warren
found later that a man had
taken over the wheel,