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Newspaper Page TextPrice 10 Cents Weather Subscribers Te report Improper or non delivery of the Mail Tribune in Medford, phone 773-6141; Aeh lanc call at 418 Bridge ft., or phone 482-3002; Yreka. phone 842-2403. before 6:45 pjn. dally and 10 30 a.m. Sunday. If regular delivery arrive, ahortly after you call pleaae notify office, thua eliminating apecial measenger aervlce. Tribune FORECAST: PirtJy c!udy to day end Monday. Im reasinc cloudinets Ut Mondky. Hifh today 48 to 53; low tonight 21 lo 33. Hlib Monday 50 to 55. Temp. Hifhtst Yeiterdiy i& Lowest Saturday Morning ... 33 Precip. To 5 p.m. Yesterday 03 EDFORD United Preti International Fuji Leased Wire United Preu International Full Lened Wire 52 Pages Section A MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, MARCH 3, 1963 Six Sections No. 296 mi f ,eMaj yw--it- Instruments Float 15 Miles To Examine Atmosphere of 57th Year M a eMI 1 1 ",wy mmaiipfr J Up Mars ft , ', . , X-, - ' X -if V s - . - . ... . ...... ..r. ''t-r: -V . J .. . AN... i TAKING PEEK AT MARS - This was the scene at Pales tine, Texas as the giant balloon was tied at the launching pad prior to being launched. The balloon carried a 36 inch electronic telescope which rnse up some 15 miles - Red Chinese Renew Attack On Khrushchev Tokyo - (DPI) - Communist China renewed its attack on Premier Nikita S. Khrush chev Saturday with a state ment that only "scoundrel or simpletons" believe there can be anything except uncompro mising class warfare against capitalism in the world. Saturday's attack on Khru shchev, the third installment of an eight-part, 100,000-word Chinese Communist restate ment of its hard line, was in the guise of an attack on Ital ian Communist parly leader Palmiro Tiglialti. It dismissed Togliatli and "other comrades" with the statement "There is nothing new in their ideas." It said they had become "bourgeois socialism which Marx and Engels so relentlessly reject ed long ago." The statement was pub lished in the Red Flag maga zine in Peking and broadcast by Peking radio. Another Break Meanwhile, it was reported In London Saturday that Communist China has with drawn its name from the World Marxist Review in the first open break with the Moscow, led international Communist movement. The World Marxist Review, also known as "Problems of Peace and Socialism," is the official Communist ideologi cal organ and is a remnant of the former Cominform, the ideological platform of inter national Communism. It is printed in Prague and serves as a forum for Communist is sues inside and outside the Red bloc. 300 KILLED Lima, Peru - (UPD - Three hundred persons were killed by an avalanche that swept over a small town in the Pe ruvian Andes, according to reports reaching here Satur day night. IIEWS'V.uRIEFS now mom 4 C 0UND THI 010,1 FIVE MARINES DIE IN CRASH Manila-in-Flve U. S. Marines were killed Saturday when their helicopter crashed in the Zambales Mountains SO milef northwest of here. A U. S. Navy spokesman said. Two others were seriously burned and a passenger was mining and presumed dead. FRENCH WORKERS CALL FOR STRIKE Paris-'IPI'-French gas and electricity workers Saturday called a one-hour strike for Tuesday to back striking coal miners who are defying a government threat to throw them in jail If they don't work. It was the latest move in a worsening labor situation. CUBANS 'ANNIHILATE' Havana-'IPI'-Premier Fidel Caitro't government Satur day announced Hie "annihilation" of a counter-revolutionary band and the arrest of an alleged spy who tsujht refuge in a foreign embassy. SCHOOL CEILING COLLAPSES ON BOYS Seville. Spain-lPt-The ceiling and wall of an exclusive Roman Catholic grammar school collapsed Saturday on 40 small boys, killing three of them and injuring 28 ethers. Stolen Marble Slabs Recovered In Rogue Near Gold Ray Dam Jackson county sheriff's deputies, Oregon stale police officers, and Medford city po lice Friday afternoon recover ed nine marble slabs from the Rogue river, near the Gold Ray dam. They were part of a number of items stolen in Medford last June. ' Deputies Lee Rice and Clark Mears, both divers, re covered the slabs, valued at $370. The marble Is a small por tion of a large amount of stolen property which has Foster Challenges USSR To Prove Detection Claim New York - tUPD - U.S. Dis armament negotiator William C. Foster, returning from the deadlocked Geneva test-ban talks, said Saturday he chal lenged the Soviet Union to prove it can detect nuclear ex plosions without any on-site instruments. "I told them yesterday I'd like to have a list of all the (underground) tests we've had, because I believe we've had some tests they didn't de tect," he said with a smile. The Russians "with the fac ulty lor brushing off ques tions that don't please them, didn't answer," Foster said. To Set JFK Foster arrived at Idlcwild International Airport en route to report to President Kennedy h i s "disappoint ment" at the Russian refusal to talk about anything except the number of on-site inspec tion locations needed. Still, he said, the new 17 nation negotiations have been "a very useful exercise" in impressing the non-aligned nations with the necessity of discussing other problems be sides numbers. After four years of nego tiating, the Russians, who originally said they would not agree to any on-site Inspec tions, have agreed to three a year. The United Slates has reduced its demands from 110 to seven. Foster said the United States would go down fur COUNTER - REVOLUTIONARIES above 96 per cent of the earth's atmosphere - to make an infa-rcd study of the planet Mars. The launch was made successfully after 16 postponements had delayed the project. (UPI) been recovered by Medford city police, Jackson county sheriff's deputies and Oregon state police in recent weeks. Three arrests have been made so far, officers said. Sentenced last week in Jose phine county to two years in the Oregon state penitentiary for burglary was David Walk er Laflin, 35, of Spring st., Medford. With his arrest for a Grants Pass burglary, a bur glary in Medford last year in volving the theft of $3,000 worth of tools from the Kieth ther even to zero if the Russians, or anyone else, can devise a foolproof system to detect underground nuclear tests. "We want a properly safe guarded treaty. We're going to insist on it," Foster said. Two-Sided Game "This has to be a two-sided game, and if, as Mr. (Semyon K.) Tsarapkin and Mr. Khru shchev have stated, they are not going to move from their position, then we won t have an agreement and this is very disappointing," he added. Foster flew directly to Washington from here. He said he would be available for consultations with Presi dent Kennedy at any time. He has no plans to return to Geneva, he said, but other U.S. negotiators will continue the talks. Two Inches Of Snow Falls In Siskiyou s About two inches of snow had fallen on Siskiyou summit by 6 p.m. Saturday. Snow was also reported on Sexton moun tain north of Grants Pass State police advised motor ists travelling south to carry chains. Slush was reported on Highway 99 over the Sis kiyou mountains. U. S. 99 over Sexton mountain was re ported clear of snow, but there was icy spots on the highway in the higher eleva tions, state police said, GRAHAM WITHDRAWS Honolulu - (IPC -Evangelist Billy Graham withdrew from his planned Asian crusade Saturday under doctor's ord ers to rest completely for at least two months. Baskelball Scores Saturday College Games Seattle 78. Oregon 71 Wichita 73. Loyola (III.) 72 Minnesota 105, Indiana 73 Georgia 79, Florida 77 Northwestern 76, Iowa 66 Yale 56, Harvard 52 Ohio St. 95, Perdue 75 Penn 92, Cornell 86 Duke 68, Wake Forest 57 Michigan 84, Illinois 81 Wisconcin 92, Mich. St. 89 Princeton 64, Columbia 55 Tennessee 63, Kentucky 55 Colorado St. 67. Utah St. 60 New Mexico 84, BYU 59 Utah 91. Wyoming 90 lot) Saturday Prep Scores Project 60, Butte Falls 58 Schullz garage, McAndrcws rd., was solved, according to Medford city police. Pleading guilty to a charge of burglary, also in Jose phine county, was Bobby Lewis Krous, 28, of Spring st., Medford, whose sentencing is pending the compilation of a pre-sentencing report. Arraigned in Medford dis trict court last week on a charge of receiving and con cealing stolen property was Raymond Earnest Maddox, 33 Phoenix. His attorney, A. E. Piazza, appeared for him and the case was continue. Mad dox, who was arrested by Ore gon stale police, was released on $1,500 bail. Maddox is specially charged with receiving and concealing electric ranges and ovens, which were recovered, police said. Many Hems Recovered Law enforcement officers explained that numerous elec trical built-in ranges, table top stoves, and other house hold articles have been re covered as well as numerous carpentry tools which had been stolen from residence construction sites in Ashland, Grants Pass, and Medford. Officers said that the in vestigation is continuing and further arrests are expected. They added that the recovery of more property in connec tion with the burglaries in the area is also anticipated. 3 Hurt In Collision On Highway 238 v Three persons were taken to Sacred Heart hospital Saturday night with injuries they received in a head-on col lision on Highway 238 be tween Medford and Jackson ville, according to state po lice. Injured were Velma Marie Pike, 59, of 1015 Narregan st., Edward Calvin Welch, 17, Jacksonville, and hi mother, Mrs. Hazel C. Welch, 40. Hospital authorities said Mrs. Welch's condition was satisfactory following major surgery late Saturday. Both Mrs. Pike and young Welch were also said to be in satis factory condition. The accident occurred about 6:45 p.m.. state police said,! on a rurvc in the highways j west of the Hanlcy rd. inter- j section. Resignation Of Peru Junta Head Asked Lima. Peru - (IPO - The No. ; 2 man in Peru's ruling mili tary Junta Saturday night I publicly called for the resig- nation of Junta President! Gen. Ricardo Percz-Godoy to ! insure free elections next . June. Gen. NicoUis Lindley, dep- j uty president of the junta .ind also its minister of war, is- j i ciiri 1hr rail nvrnr a Lima in .hi. name nf Peru's armed forces. Lindley charged Percz Godoy of "pcrsonalistic han dling of junta affairs and of trying to set aside its collec-j tive rule of the armed forces, j 'Some Progress' Reported In NY Newspaper Strike Mayor Expresses Guarded Optimism New York - (UPD - Mayor Robert F. Wagner said Salur- ight last-ditch negotia between printers and publishers aimed at settling York City's longest and costliest newspaper strike had resulted in "some progress." "I want to be careful not to have everybody become over ly optimistic," the Mayor said. "But I believe there has been some progress." Wagner said both sides were continuing the talks. The Mayor left lo attend a banquet by City Hall report ers and said he would remain on call any time the negotiat ors wanted him. Work On "Language" Wagner said both sides had spent the afternoon meeting separately and working on anguagc. he added he did not want anyone to think that this "language" involved the drafting of a settlement. The strike ended its 12th week Saturday. Representatives of Local 6 of the International Typo graphical Union (ITU) and the Newspaper Publishers As sociation of New York City resumed meeting shortly be fore noon. Bertram Powers. Local 8 president, said the negotiators Friday "spent the entire day on the automation issue." "The issue was not re solved," he added, "but some progress was made." Meanwhile, the New York Post, one of five papers which suspended operations in the city immediately after the printers called a strike against the other four, pre pared to resume publication Monday. Use Old Terms Mrs. Dorothy Schiff, Post publisher, resigned from the publishers association Thurs day. She said she had worked out an agreement with Powers that her paper would be printed under the old con tract terms until the end of the strike against the other newspapers, at which time a new Post contract with the printers would be negotiated. Macy's department store, one of the city's largest news paper advertisers, has said it would not buy space in the Post at this time because "it might put undue pressure on (the other newspapers) lo set tle regardless of merit." However, two other major department stores. Klein's and Alexander's, said today they planned to advertise in the Post when it resumes pub lication. Portland Man Refuses Extradition From S.F. San Francisco - (UPD - Ralph H. Lemon, 34, Portland, Ore., has refused extradition on child stealing charge and his case was continued in muni cipal court until next Friday Lemon, also known as Don ald Hall, was arrested here on a charge of stealing from parking meters. Tower Of London Finally Falls To 'Invaders' London - ROT Brit ain's best guarded for tress, the ancient tower of London, fell to in vaders Saturday for the first time In its 885 year history. The invaders were hundreds of students from London universi ty taking part In the an nual "rag week." They captured the White Tower, heart of the whole fortress, haul ed down th- Union Jack and ran up a skull and crossbones flag and a sign reading: "White Tower For Sal 100 Pounds." That's $280. Pakistan, Red China Agree To Split Disputed Territory Karachi, Pakistan - (IIPD - Communist China. Saturday signed a border agreement with Pakistan that split the difference in their territorial claims, but showed continued hostility to India in its other border dispute. (Chinese Communist Pre mier Chen Yi in a broadcast monitored in Tokyo accused India of making "anit-Chi-nese clamor and war prepera tions" and of openly begging for military aid from the "im perialists." Chen made the statement at a banquet for visiting Pakistani Foreign Minister Z. A Bhutto). (The Communist New China news agency said Bhutto ur ged negotiations between In dia and Red China to settle their dispute. It said he called for peaceful settlements of India's differences with Pak istan and Communist China "in the interests of peace in Asio-African countries and in the interests of peace in the world.") Signed In Peking The Pakistani foreign office announced that the agreement was signed in Peking Satur day, settling claims to 3,400 square miles of disputed ter ritory along a 300-mile line of mountainous frontier. It said the agreement gave Pakistan 1,350 square miles, including 750 square miles It had not previously owned, Jury Awards $6,750 To Gifzen Family A verdict awarding $6,750 to Dr. and Mrs. G. A. Gitzcn for the property being taken by the city of Medford for right-of-way along the exten sion of Barnctt rd. to Melrose ave., was returned by a cir cuit court jury Friday after noon following Jess than two hours of deliberation. The city of Medford had offered the Gltzens $5,000 and the Gltzens had asked for $15,000. There was one tenth of an acre In the take and part of the sprinkling system which serves the veterinary hospital grounds and the greenhouse, operated on the same property as a hobby by the Gltzens. The condemnation suit op ened Thursday morning be fore Circuit Judge Edward C. Kelly. Attorneys' fees were allowed in addition to the jury's verdict and will be set by the court next week. Sports Bulletins Central Point - Eagle Point high basketball team won the second place play off in the Rogue league here last night, defeating Illinois Valley 62 to 52. IV headed 15 to 13 at the quarter and 32 to 30 at the half. Eagle Point led 49 to 42 after three periods. Dar ryl Gellert scored 17 polntt for Illinois Valley and Bill Hoefft IB for Eagle Point. Corvallis - Lebanon high captured the Oregon Cless A t high school wrestling championship here last night with a total of 44 points. Grants Pass was second with 43 and Klam ath Falls third with 42. Hilltboro had 34 and Madi son 31. Ashland Crater high joined a thre-way tie for first place In Southern Ore gon conference besketball by downing Ashland high 64 to 53 here last night. Rick Pierce had 26 points for Ashland and Lou Al vares 20 for Crater. Crater led 40 lo 24 at halftime. The Comets of Crater, Med ford and Grants Pass each have 9-5 leegue records. Grants Pass high trim med Klamath Falls 58 to S3 in a Southern Oregon conference basketball game here last night. Jim Pippin cored 23 points for Grants Pass and Al Hutehens IS. For Klamath Wayne Cham berlend had 14. Klamath Falls was in front 2( lo 23 at halftime. A while China retained 2,050 square miles, all of which had been marked out as Chinese territory by a British survey in 1899. (In New Delhi a foreign of fice spokesman said India had delivered a note to the Chi nese Communist Charge D'Af faires protesting the border agreement on grounds "Paki stan is in illegal occupation of portions of Kashmir" bor dering China. A similar note is to be given to Pakistan.) Peking Radio meanwhile broadcast charges that India is "waiting for an opportun ity" to attack China and "step Rogue River Hikers May Have Cracked National Record Two Rogue River High school sophomores, both cross country runners, covered 50 miles in 8 hours and 32 min utes , yesterday, and their track coach, Frank Morris. claimed a national record for them. The youths wore Ron Hail- icka and Richard Ross, both 10 Morris said that the boys ran from the bridge at Rogue River down the freeway to the site of the Phoenix exit some three miles on past Bar nett rd. then returned to Rogue River. The coach said that the distance from Rogue River to the Phoenix exit had been clocked By car at 25 miles. A slate policeman started th two youths. Morris report ed, and a deputy sheriff purhed cards for them at the south end of the jaunt. Morris said that the fastest he had heard of prepstcrs cov ering 50 miles was 8 hours and 37 minutes. Meanwhile, the hiking craze continued elsewhere in the valley over the week end with the enthusiasm of the younger generation undaunt ed by rains and snews. Results, however, were ap parently a bit dampened- Many started out on long jaunts but nol many reached the finish line or were too weak to report their mileage. Four students from St. Mary's High school in Med ford completed the round trip to the town of Rogue River via applcgatc, a total of 50 miles. Glenn Stewart and Joe Sterling made the trip, walk ing and "trotting," in 9V5 hours. The other two, Dave McDonald and Dan Kosmat ka, came in 10 minutes later, they stated. The four took out one hour for lunch. A group of nine or ten stu dents from Southern Oregon college motored to Prospect Friday night and started out for Medford at 1 a.m., Sat urday, according to a spokes ;r 't W i ,;;;: 5";,,.. A PLANE IN THE FRONT YARD? - What appear to be tiny doll houses In this photo arc actually full-size homes, dwarfed by their surroundings In the Air Proving Ground Center's climatic laboratory at Elgin Air Force Base, Florida. The houses are undergoing tests to determine if they are ping up war preparations" with the help of the Western powers. The broadcast followed an announcement Friday that China has completed troop withdrawals from the Indian frontier areas it invaded last fall. Peking Radio said this with drawal has eased tension and the situation "will not be come tense again provided the Indian side refrains from mak ing provocations again and from re - entering the four areas where there is a dispute about the cease fire arrangement." man. They were scheduled to check in at Barker's store in Medford Saturday afternoon but no one showed. The last to be heard from were Tom Perdue, Warren Hark, Ron Ketchum, Clyde Murray and Andy Anderson. all sophomores. Warren Park telephoned from White City ana staled mat the others were not with him and had apparently decided not to complete the "jog". If he came on into Barker's. Vie did not report hit time to the Mail Tribune. He had not ar rived there at 4:30 p.m. Darneitte Wins SpeecrY Contest Lindsay Darncjlle, 17 a sen ior at Medford High school. was named district winner of the American Legion speech contest at the legion hall Sat urday night. Runncrup in the contest was John Gervals, Grants Pass High school. Miss DarneiUe's speech was entitled "The Citizen's Re sponsibility to the Constitu tion of the United States." She is now eligible to partic ipate in the state finals in Portland on March 9. Legion Area Director Frank Powell, Canyonville, was In charge of the event, assisted by DcVere Taylor, district di rector. Bonneville May Have To Raise Rafes Portland - OIPD - Bonneville Power. Administration must aise its rates. Administrator Charles Luce said Friday. Luce told a meeting of the Bonneville Regional Advisory Council that rate hearings would be held this summer and added that BPA "will have to raise rates sufficient ly to get in the black," j if- .4 '. , t lepMeiftew-" Balloon's Flight Called Successful By Scientists May Indicate If Planet Has Life Palestine, Tex. - ICPn - In. slrumenls raised by a giant baloon from Texas to the fringe of space and brought back to earth in Tennessee Saturday gave man his first unrestricted look at Mars and possibly an answer to the question of life on the planet. Elated scientists, successful after 15 attempts to launch the unmanned Tandem bal. loon and its 6,300-pound pay load, said they may have a preliminary report within two days on whether the Martian atmosphere can support life. Lands In Tennessee The balloon was launched Friday from Palestine and came to earth this morning near Palaski, Tenn., with its instrument package acA 36 inch telescope. Scientists in Pulaski said they were "tick- led pink" by the 12 - hour flight. Dr. Marvin Schwarzchild, director of Project Strato sphere II examined the bal- loon's payload at Pulaski and said the blue box containing a recording tape was undam aged. 1 The blue box Is In' perfect condition and this is -what we are most interested in," he said. "How wonderful it came down here (where there are no trees). Result! Hoped For - The findings may show whether water vapor, carbon dioxide and possibly other gases that lend themselves to support. of life forms are in the Martian atmosphere. It will be two or three months, however, before sci entists are able to decipher all the details of the studv. " The experiment was jointly sponsored by Princeton uni versity and the University of California but the U. S. gov ernment put up the $5 million so far spent on it. Ahead Of Russia The Russians have a space probe en route to Mars but it will not be in position to re port anything before early summer. The Stratosphere II Project ballon may have got ton the same information months earlier. The balloon - actually two balloons scperated by a kind of girdle - was launched from Palestine about 5 p.m. Friday. Drifting ' Northeast through the night, it reached a maxi mum altitude of 77,000 feet, ' above 96 per cent of the earth's atmosphere. GRAIN DESTROYED Bow, N.H. (UPD - A thun dering grain dust explosion touched off a chain reactioa fire in six silos and a ware house at the Merrimack Farm ers Exchange today, destroy ing 100,000 bushels of grain with loss estimated at $1 million. suitable for use at Air Force bases around the world, A young Air Force couple will live In the duplex building at right for the next month, during which time "outside" temperatures will range from 63 degrees be low zero to 110 degrees above. Nothing like having an airplane in your front yard! (JPI)