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MEDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1963
No. 294
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GLAZIERS CARRY GLASS - Looking much like a drill
master watching his section march through snow in neat
columns of two, a foreman directs fourteen glaziers as
they carry a 700-pound pane of glass to building under
Circuit Court
Jury Finds in
Favor of McNeel
A circuit court jury, after
deliberating more than three
hours brought in a verdict
last night in favor of O. R.
McNeel, Medford building
safety director, in the dam
age suit filed by Roy Picard,
Medford jeweler, against two
city officials.
The jury went out at 4:30
p.m. and reported at 8:30 p.m.,
taking out time for dinner.
Earlier in the afternoon.
Circuit Judge James M. Main
had directed a verdict in fa
vor of Joel Reeder, former
city attorney, and one of the
two original defendants, re
moving him from the case.
Counsel for Reeder filed
the motion shortly after the
defense began the presenta
tion of its case. Judge Main
granted the motion based
upon the law which states
that an official acting in a
quasi judicial capacity is not
liable in an action of malici
ous prosecution but is im
mune to such action.
After Reeder was removed
from the case, attorneys for
McNeel continued his defense
and District Attorney Alan
Holmes was called to testify
regarding the issuance of the
warrant for Picard's arrest.
Then they moved for a di
rected verdict in favor of Mc
Neel, but it was denied by the
court.
Picard had asked for com
bined damages of $100,000 in
a complaint arising from the
city of Medford's handling of
charges brought against him
for selling electrical equip
ment in his jewelry store
without registering with the
director of building safety.
Picard alleged that two
complaints were filed against
him without probable cause
and with malice toward him.
Ceilings in Library,
Office Are Painted
The ceilings of the Public
Library of Medford and Jack
son County and the library
office have been repainted.
The redecorating was in
cluded In the lighting im
provement program budgeted
last year but was postponed.
The work was done by Ed
Foulon, low bidder on the
project.
teS0)BRIEFS
ITEMS FROM k JT AROUND THI OlOII
POSSIBLE COMPROMISE SEEN IN SPEECH
Moscow - TPT - Wtslern diplomats today lound little
new in Pramiar Nikita Khrushchtv's iptch yesterday
except a hint e! possible compromise on Berlin.
RAILWAY CLERKS CONSIDER METHODS
San Francisco -(I PP - Officials oi the Brotherhood of
Railway Clerks considered t number of methods today of
lifting the court order which barred their strike against
Southern Pacific, the West's largest railroad.
ALLIES COOL TOWARD PLAN
Paris IPI-The Western Allies today showed i general
coolness toward President Kennedy's plan for a multi
nation nuclear (orce with the North Atlantic Treaty
Organisation (NATO),
Kennedy's special nuclear envoy, Livingston T. Mer
chant, pieced the proposal before the permanent NATO
Council Wednesdty.
DEMONSTRATORS ARRESTED IN SANTO DOMINGO
Santo Domingo. D.R. -I FT-Dominican authorities to
day held at least 10 pro-Communist demonstrators who
broke up the inauguration ptrade ol President Juan
Bosch with shouts of anti-American slogans and battled
with police.
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Massive Support
For Sunday Closing
Voiced in
Salem-IUPD-Massiv ' support
for a proposed Sunday closing
law, the hottest issue now
before the legislature, was
voiced here Wednesday m a
hearing that ran for more
than two hours,
Only three witnesses oppos
ing the measure had time to
speak.
Hearings will be ccntinucd
March 13, with opposition
witnesses scheduled.
More than 300 people
jammed the hearing roo i, and
at least 100 mere sat or stood
in the hall ouiside, listening
on loudspeakers.
Condemnation
Suit Under Way
The condemnation suit for
properly owned by Dr. G. A.
Gitzen wanted by the city of
Medford for right-of-way
along the extension of Har
nett rd. to Melrose ave. open
ed this morning in Circuit
Judge Edward C. Kelly's
court.
Attorneys were questioning
prospective jurors and indi
cations were that the jury
would be selected before the
noon recess. Following open
ing statements, jurors were
to view the property in ques
tion. The Gitzen property, basis
of the suit, is located to the
north of the Ghelardi- Rey
nolds property, which fronts
on South Grape st. This prop
erly also was involved in a
condemnation suit, which was
scheduled but not tried since
the city reached a compro
mise with Mr. and Mrs.
Charles Ghelardi and Mr. and
Mrs. Bob Reynolds, owners of
the property, according to
City Mannger Robert A. Duff.
Negotiations are reported
ly under way for the re
maining property needed for
the street right-of-way owned
by Nye-Naumes packing com
pany and Crystal Springs
Orchards.
Extension of the street is
awaiting a decision of the pub
lic utilities commissioner re
garding a grade crossing of
the Southern Pacific railroad
tracks.
construction in Chicago Wednesday. The pane
249-inches long, bO-inchcs wide and one-half-Driving
snow furnished slippery footing for
Hearing
The bill, proposed by the
"Save a Day for the Family
Committee," was discussed be
fore the House Planning and
Development co-imittee.
Social, economic and politi
cal arguments were cited in
support of the Sunday closing
proposal.
Opposition witnesses said
the law would violate religi
ous and business freedoms.
Opponents favored allow
ing the people to vote on the
measure. Those who favored
the bill bitterly opposed such
a vote, proposed b:- Rep. Bob
Chappel (R - Portland), and
charged the legislature should
not "pass the buck."
Among those favcring the
Sunday closing law was Mrs.
Laura Baker, mother of sports
star Terry Baker.
She said she gave up her
former job and went to work
for Sears in Portland so she
could have Sunday off to :je
with her three sons.
"Let's keep Sunday for the
kids," she pleaded.
Rep. Victor Atiyeh (R-Port-land)
said he sponsored the
bill out of consideratioi. for
people who are forced to
work on Sundays. He said
business created the need to
be open Sunday, and denied
it was a result of consumer
pressure.
Police Secretaries
Learn Filing System
Two secretaries with the
Grants Pass police depart
ment are in Medford today
and tomorrow working with
the Medford police depart
ment to learn local filing pro
cedures. They are Mrs. Larry Green
and Mrs. Grace Sanford.
Last Friday, Medford Po
lice Lt. Rollie Pcan, lieuten
ant of services, and Mrs. Pat
Butler, Medford police clerk
stenographer, were in Grants
Pass reviewing that depart
ment's procedures.
Last month, Grants Pass
Chief of Police Philip Avcnll
and Mrs. Green were in Med
ford checking the filing sys
tem here and arranging for
the longer visits.
Hatfield Criticized
For Wildernesses
Washington -OIPIi- Inter.or
Secretary Stewart L. Udall to
day renewed an appeal to
Congress to keep millions of
acres of public lands in their
natural state.
Udall, testifying before the
the Senate Interior Commit
tee, asked for approval of
the wilderness bill - which
he termed one of the "great
landmark" conservation meas
ures of all time.
Saying that the bill had
the full support of President
Kennedy, the secretary com
pared it in importance to the
Homestead Act of 18S2, the
Reclamation Act of 1902, and
legislation to create the na
tional park system.
The wilderness bill is per
haps the most important con
servation measure to fat
Congress in the past 30 years,
he said.
The United States. Udall
! said, was one of o ly a few
countries in the world that
still had the option of setting
aside wilderness areas for
future generation.
of glass is
inch thick,
the group.
(UPI)
Groups Seek Bill
To Control Mining
Near Rogue River
Salem - (UPI) - Fishing and
recreation interests asked to
day for a bill to give the
State Sanitary Authority the
job of controling mudincss in
the Rogue river caused by
mining.
Mining interests replied
the Rogue River Coordina
tion board is on "the right
track," but should be en
larged from three to five
members and given more au
thority. They testified on a Senate
bill to abolish the Rogue Riv
er Coordination board, a ref
eree panel with a fishing
member, a mining member,
and a member at large.
E. J. Schneider of Agness,
the fishing member, told the
Senate Natural Resources
committee he favors abolish
ing the board. He said he is
the board's "minority mem
ber." Dried Soil
Schneider showed the com
mittee chunks of dried soil
he said were taken from
rocks in the river and asked,
"How can salmon eggs hatch
out when there is soil that
deep?"
Curry County Dist. Ally.
Robert L. Miller said mines
were filling the river with
chemicals and silt, hurting
fishing and tourism.
He said the board has been
ineffectual in "keeping the
fishing industry in balance
with the mining induiiry."
Fayette I. Bristol of the
Grants Pass Chamber of
Commerce and the Oregon
Mining association replied it
would be a mistake to do
away with the board.
Oregon Rated First
In Education Study
Portland - (UPD - A Nation
al Education association study
made public today says Ore
gon has proportionately more
boys and girls of high school
age enrolled than any other
state.
The study said that in 1960
last year for which fig
ures are given 94 per cent
of Oregon residents aged 14
through 17 were enrolled in
school.
The national average was
87 per cent. South Carolina
had the lowest proportion, 78
per cent.
In the estimated expendi
ture per student for elemen
tary and high school students
for the 1962-63 school year,
Oregon ranked ninth with
$502. National average is es
timated at $432 per student
with New York leading at
$645 and Mississippi lowest
at $230.
Hatfield Attacked
On Death Penalty
Portland - H'Pli' - Rabbi
Emanuel Rose of Congrega
tion Beth Israel said Wed
nesday Gov. Mark Hatfield
was shrinking from decision
to help end capital punish
ment in the state.
Rabbi Rose urged abolition
of capital punishment and
said the governor should lead
the people.
He said if Hatfield opposed
capital punishment then he
should take positive steps to
end it. He said a public dec
laration by the governor was
saetg overdue.
Kennedy Sends Message
Rights to Congress; Ask
Brazilian Navy
Sends Ships to
Head 0(1 French
" 'Lobster War'
Builds to Crisis
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil-UIPD-The
Brazilian navy sent two
destroyers from the port of
Recife today, headed for the
French fleet off the coast in
another move in the growing
"lobster war" between the
two countries.
A spokesman at Third Na
val District headquarters in
Recife said the destroyers
Parana and Para were head
ing for the waters off the
coast of Rio Grande do Norte,
where a French carrier, a
cruiser and two destroyers
were reported spotted
Wednesday.
The spokesman said two
other destroyers will remain
in Recife, while another de
stroyer and two corvettes will
join the Parana and Para off
the northern coast.
Radio Messages
Adm. Pedro Suzano, Bra
zilian naval minister, said
Wednesday night the navy in
tercepted French radio mes
sages which indicated the air
craft carrier Clcmenceau, the
cruiser De Grasse and the de
stroyer Cassard were "half
way between France and
Brazil."
The French destroyer Tartu
was sighted 90 miles off the
Brazilian coast by an air force
reconnaissance ' plane earlier
Wednesday, according to Pres
idential Press Secretary Raul
Riff.
"We will repel these ships,"
Adm. Suzano said.
In Paris, the Navy Ministry
officially denied the Brazilian
reports. A ministry spokes
man said, "No French war
ships are on their way to the
coast of South America, and
it is not planned to dispatch
any ships in that direction in
the near future."
Telstar Satellite
Becomes Silent
New York QIPI) - Telolar
has turned silent again, ap
parently succumbing to a ra
diation sickness that afflicts
it every three months, Bell
Telephone Laboratories -e-
poned toaay.
Engineers had restored the
communications satellite to
working order Jan. 3 after
a 40-day silence. Last Thurs
day it apparently misinter
preted a ground command,
disconnected its storage bat
tcrics and quit working, Bell
Labs said.
Both failures nrrllrrrH n
Tclstar's changing orbit edged
into strong section of the Van
Allen radiation belt. This pat
tern makes Bell engineers
"suspect that the continued
inhibiting effects of radiation
on transistors" is to blame,
Bell spokesman Bruce Stras-
scr said.
"If radiation is the cause it
is possible that Telstar will
recover Affain Htirinn th ra.
diation downtrend which it
is now entering, he said.
Scarlet Fever Noted
In Washington County
Vancouver, Wash. - IUPD - A
minor outbreak of scarlet
fever and "strep" infections
was reported this week by
the Clark - Skamania health
department.
The two -county health
board reported 22 cases in
volving one or the other of
the infections in its weekly
report.
WEATHER
FOHKCAT: fienrrtf rain to
tilth t. Mnitly rlounv wilh
thnMPM Friday mnrnlni, hr
tnmini fiirllv rlnridy Friday
ftiMnonn nd rlarinr Friday
night, i.nw tinixht near ii.
High Friday
Trmp.
HlEhffct Y'ltrrday &
Low Pit ThJi Mornini .". $
Our Skies Tonight
tint loday 1 J p m.
KtjnritP tomorrow ... r 1 am.
MonniM tonight .... M:0 pjn
Fir it Quarter Saturday
RpkuIui, brtihMt iUr uf Leo,
ti in the cist tonight
at :4A p m.
UXI shove Rrvulnt It the
planet, Mar and above Mart
ar i hp Twin.
Supreme Court
Hears Defense
In Prayer Case
Washington IUPP The Su
preme Court turned today to
a defense by Pennsylvania of
ficials of Bible-reading in the
public schools, which a lower
federal court has held un
constitutional. With questions and answers
flying thick and fast, the jus
tices Wednesday heard a Bal
timore case which dealt
mainly with use of the Lord's
Prayer at daily opening
exercises.
Feud Over O&C
Funds Resumed
During Hearing
Salem - HIPP - An old feud
between the counties that get
O&C funds and those that
don't resumed here Wednes
day. Rep. Stafford Hanscll told
the House Education commit
tee it is time for O & C money
to be taken into account in
handing out state equalization
money for school districts.
Darrcll Jones of the O&C
Counties association replied
the state might endanger the
federal receipts if it meddled
with county use of them. He
was critical of Hansen's ideas
on measuring county wealth.
Amounts Vary
The O&C funds, estimated
at $14 million this year, go
to 17 Western Oregon coun
ties and Klamath county for
timber taken from strips of
land once granted to the Ore
gon & California Railroad
company. The amounts per
county range from more thar
$2.5 million to less than
$100,000.
The equalization money -
20 per cent of what the state
contributes to schools - is
handed out on the basis of
bringing education in poorer
counties up to par with rich
er ones. The poorer counties
get more.
The wealth, or lack of it,
is measured in terms of true
cash value and special funds,
but not O&C funds.
Hansell proposed to start
by taking 25 per cent of O&C
funds into consideration in
allocating school equalization
money.
Woodworkers Talk
Lumber Tariffs
Portland - OIPIi - The West-
em Regional Council of the
International Woodworkers
of America continued its con
ference here Wednesday with
discussions on lumber tariffs
by Jack MacKcnzic, first vice
president of the regional coun
cil in Western Canada.
He spoke on campaigns by
large American lumber pro
ducers to secure tariffs or
quotas on Canadian softwood
imports into the U.S.
"It is very amusing," he
said, "to hear the same em
ployer argue against himself
over an imaginary line
the U S-Canadian border. I
feel strongly that the motiva
tion behind this is the effort
of a group of hungry oper
ators who want to gt in the
forest and get out."
Wogner fo Resume
Joint Negotiations
New York-d'Pli-Mayor Rob
ert F. Wagner said today ' ;
will resume joint negotiations
in the New York newspaper
strike because both publish
ers and striking printers
turned thumbs down on his I
suggesting terms of settle-1
mcnt as lccommcndcd by I
President Kennedy.
Wagner said he asked Elmer j
Brown, president of the Inter
national Typographies unirn,
to make i rush trip to New
York to participate in the
negotiations.
Justice Tom C. Clark was
the only member of the court
who had almost nothing to
say. The other justices en
gaged in a verbal free-for-all
with attorneys and sometimes
among themselves.
A standing-room-only audi
ence, including numerous
members of the clergy, listen
ed to the arguments with rapt
attention. The spectators
chuckled frequently at the
sharp clashes.
The Pennsylvania case.
which has been fought since
1958, was started by a Uni
tarian couple, Mr. and Mrs.
Edward L. Schcmpp. They
have two children in Abing
ton High school.
Win Court Ordar
The Schcmpps eventually
won an order by a soecial
three-judge federal court in
Philadelphia that Bible-reading
be discontinued. The or
der also applied to recitation
of the Lord's Prayer, which
ioiiows the reading.
A Pennsylvania law oro-
vides for reading of at least
10 verses from the Bible, but
tne prayer was merely a mat
ter of custom. The court's
order hasn't been enforced
yet because o Pennsylvania's
appeal.
The lower court agreed
with the Schompps' claim
that the practice was a religi
ous ceremony barred by the
first Amendment to the Con
stitution. The amendment
says: "Congress shall make
no law respecting an estab
lishment of religion or pro
hibiting the free exercise
thereof."
The Schempps argued that
the Bible-reading favors Chris
tianity over other forms of
worship. But even if all reli
gious groups were included,
the state still may not "aid
religion," they said.
Jet Tanker Crashes;
Eight Are Killed
Fairbanks, Alaska - (UPD -An
Air Force KC135 Jet tank
er crashed on takeoff at Eiel
son Air Force base Wednes
day night killing the seven
airmen aboard and an air po
liceman on duty at the main
gale.
The four-engine Jet faltered
when taking off from the
north runway, skidded along
the ground and wiped out
the main gate at the oase.
Burning wreckage from the
plane spewed across the
Alaska Highway which runs
past the main gate, blocking
off the highway to traffic for
several hours.
MaJ. Lou Gracff, public in
formation officer at the base
26 miles south of here, said
all eight bodies were recov
ered. Names of the victims
were withheld pending notifi
cation of next of kin.
Group Departs for
Trip to Prove Migration Idea
San Diego - IWD - The
bobbed southward on the Pacific Ocean
today on a six-year mission to help prove
that the unfaltering currents helped early
migrations from Israel to Central Amer
ica. Capl. DcVcre Baker and his 15-man,
4-woman, 1-dog crew drifted out of their
Shelter Island dock Wednesday to the
flourish of a Navy band and the cheers of
civic dignitaries.
The 40-by-20-foot raft was expected
to take several days In reaching it's first
port of call, Enscnada, Mexico, 100 miles
down the coast from here.
Amateur radio operator Hal Masdcn
said he contacted the .raft Wednesday
night and Baker reported making good
progress through heavy seas.
When the Lehl V arrives at Enscnada
It will be put in drydock for final out
fitting before proceeding down the west
coast of Mexico. At Salinas Cruz it will
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(UPI)
BENJAMIN LEWIS
Killed in OIIic.
Chicago Official
Found Handcuffed
And Shot to Death
Chicago IUPS Chicago Al
derman Benjamin F. Lewis.
53, his hands handcuffed
above his head and four bul
let holes in the back of his
skull, was found slain today
on the floor of his political
headquarters.
Lewis, Negro leader of the
Democratic forces in the
tough west side 24th Ward,
was killed just two days aft
er he won overwhelming re
election to a second term on
the City Council.
Police and politicians said
the slaying might have been
the work of a bandit. Afcrlin
Nygren, chief of the uni
formed police, said there was
evidence that a rear door had
been forced and a lock had
been pulled out.
Political Execution
At police headquarters and
in City Hall there were also
fears that Lewis was the vic
tim of a "political execution"
in the tradition of bloody Chi
cago election baltlcs which
date back to the days of the
notorious "Bloody mth" ward
and the machine gun squads
of gangster Al Capone.
Coroner Andrew Tolman
said there was no evidence of
robbery. The alderman was
dressed in a business suit and
white stone ring was still on
his hand. An expensive wrist
watch was on his wrist and
his wallet was in hi3 pocket.
The coroner said Lewis was
lying face down in a "diving
position." A cigarette was be
tween his fingers and it had
burned down to the filler
The coroner said the body
was discovered between 8:!i0
and 0 a.m. and evidence indi
cated the slaying had oc
curred a half hour earlier.
DUTIES RELAXED
Seattle - IUPH - Canada has
eliminated or relaxed import
duty surcharges on a wide va
riety of goods due to an im
provement in its foreign ex
change position, William H.
Flood, director, U.S. Depart
ment of Commerce, Seattle,
said here today.
raft Lehl V
be transported overland to Vera Cruz
then drift up the cast coast of Mexico
into the Gulf Stream.
Baker hopes to arrive In New York to
spend the winter of 1064-65 before put
ting to sea once more and drifting over
the Atlantic to England.
He plans to winter on the Thames
River, then be towed to the Baltic Sea
and drift down North Europe's rivers the
following winter. The Lehl V will be
taken through the Mediterranean and
Suez Canal to the Persian Gulf for the
start of Its prime objective.
The raft will be pushed out of the
Gulf of Oman and swing around India
and through the islands of the Far East to
catch the Japanese Current that Baker
hopes will carry him to within a few
miles of his Rcdondo Beach, Calif., home.
An earlier Lehl successfully drifted
from the West Coast to the Hawaiian
Islands.
on Civil
s Laws
JFK Advises Laws
Needed to Guard
Negroes' Rights
Proposals Outlined
In Special Message
Washington -(UPD- President
Kennedy asked Congress to
day for a series of new laws)
to protect Negroes from "the
cruel disease of discrimina
tion" in voting, schooling, and
other walks of life.
The President outlined his
proposals in a 6,000-word spe
cial message, his first on civil
rights. The politically signifi
cant message hailed the ad
ministration's non-legislativa
accomplishments in the past
two years.
He called for laws to speed
consideration of voting suits
by Negroes, provide them the
ballot .while their suits are
pending, guarantee them th
pame voting tests as whites,
and presume they are literata
if they have completed the
sixth grade.
Expanded Powers
Kennedy also asked for
federal technical and finan
cial assistance to school dis
tricts which need help to de
segregate., And he requested
four more years of life plus
I expanded powers for he U.S.
Civil Rights Commission.
Describing these as "a list
of priorities," Kennedy said
he knew his proposed and
past actions "do not consti
tute a final answer to tha
problems of race discrimina
tion in this country." Ha
promised to sign, it enacted,
any "nther measures directed
toward these same gcals."
"The program outlined fn
this message should not pro
vide the occasion for section
al bitterness," Kennedy said.
"No state or section of this
nation can pretend a self
righteous role, for every area
has its own civil rights prob
lems. Nor should the basic
elements of this program ba
imperiled by partisanship."
The Tresident's failure to
ask for much new civil rights
legislation u itil now has
aroused criticism from soma
Negro leaders and some Re
publicans, including New
York's Gov. Nelson A. Rocke
feller. State Plans Move
To Halt Labor Suit
Salem - (UPD - The State of
Oregon ' planned official ac
tion today to holt a suit by or
ganized labor over the con
troversial prison labor issue,
. The suit was filed by la
bor to halt construction, of
the women's prison here by
eonvict labor.
Use of prison labor on tha
project was authorized by a
2-1 vote1 against Gov. Mark
Hatfield by other members
of the Board of Control.
Shortly after Secretary of
State Howell Appling Jr. and
State Treasurer Howard Bel
ton overruled Hatfield, or
ganized labor filed suit in
Marion County Circuit Court,
Six - Year