Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, March 19, 1963, Image 2

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Newspaper Page Text,1- Stocks Mark Time; Chemicals Lower; Steels, Cars Hold New York - OIPD - Slocks marked time early today, moving within a narrow price range in routine trading. Chemicals were irregularly lower featuring Kodak up roughly a point and Du Pont and Union Carbide off about 1 or more. Steels and autos held about steady. Electronics were narrowly mixed but foods weakened, paced by International Salt and Quaker Oats. Sheraton Corp. dropped nearly a point after cutting its dividend. DOW JONES AVERAGES New York - IUPII - Dow Jones final slock avaragts: 30 industrials 673. SB, off 2.77; 20 rails 151.28, off 0.43; IS utilities 135.72, up 0.07; 65 stocks 239.65, off 0.67. Sales Monday were about 3.25 million shares as compared with 3,41 million shares Friday. elected Monday's prlcei iiocki: Allied Chemical 44 Alum Co Am S3 American Air Llnei H 184b American Can 451,. American Mtorf 10 'it AT&T 120 ',i American Tobacco .. 31 ti Anaconda Copper 44 American Standard .... 14 Santa Fe 27 ',4 Bendix Corp 90 Bethlehem Steel 30 i, Boeing Air 3H'4 Brunswick le'a Caterpillar Corp S.li Chrysler Corp 0n'4 i-oca loia .. ini c.b.s m v, Columbia Gas .... 277i Continental can ,. 44', J Crown Zellerbach 411 Ik Crucible Steel W, Curtis Wright 21 Du Pont iW, Eastman Kodak H 1143) Firestone w.m. 33 7s Ford 4311 General Electric . 72 (J General Foods 70 General Motors 627's General Portland Cement ...... 18 ,.5 Georgia Pacific 44 T Greyhound 3S35 Gulf Oil 4 Hi Idaho Power 33 U I.B.M - ...4001!, Int Paper 28',! Johns Manville ......, 44 Kennecott Copper . 704 Lockheed Aircraft ............ .. S2, Martin 20i4 Merck 82", Montana Power 38 ',i Montgomery Ward 33 Vi National Biscuit . 48", New York Central lfl3,i Northern Pacific 43 Pac Gas Glee , 33 Penney J. C 46 Penn RR 15 Perma Cement ..... 13 Procter At Gamble 72 '4 Radio Corporation . 58 Richfield Oil 43 Safeway , 4R Shell Oil 37'i Socony Mobil Oil 84 '', Southern Co B.V Southern Pacific Sperry Rand 13'.'4 Standard California ............. H.l'i Standard Indiana R33ii Standard N. .1 82 Stoklcy Van Camp w . 20 Run Mines ... 0 Texas Co .,.... fl4 Texas Gulf Sulfur H'. Texas Pacific Land Trust 20afc Thlokol 34 Trans America , ......... 47 Trans World Air . 12 Tri-Continental 44 Union Carbide 10.1 Union Pacific 34 United Aircraft 48 tlnited Air Line 33 U.S. Plywood 2 U.S. Rubber 43 U.S. Steel .. 4.1 West Bank Corp ................ 33 Westlnghnuse 32 Youngstown ... 80 Blast Said Caused By Hand Grenade San Francisco - IUFD - Postal Investigators said today that a hand grenade, possibly be ing mailed home as a souvenir from the Far East, may have been responsible for an ex plosion Monday In the U. S. postal facility at San Fran cisco International airport. The blast; Injured two pos tal workers, blew out win dows at the facility and set fire to mall sacks. The flames were extinguished by other employees using hand fire ex tinguishers. A post office spokesman said the package containing the explosive apparently ar rived during the week end in bags of mall which had come from Vict Nam and Korea. The Injured men were mail distribution clerks David Bel bow, 46, Redwood City, Cal'f., and Robert Kingman, 42, San Francisco. Both were treated for cuts and bruises. NO HANGOVER CURE Concord, N.H. -luPH- Blue Cross and Blue Shield have muddied the reputation of black coffee as a hangover remedy. "Recent studies in dicate that coffcee tends lo prolong the effects of alcohol rather than curb them," the organizations said Monday In their monthly bulletin. LIQUID DIET Armed with vitamin pills and a statue of St. Jude, Mrs. Mary Fer guson begins a self-imposed liquid diet after checking in at the Breakers hotel in Long Beach, Calif., Sunday. Mrs. Ferguson, 36, who weighs 244 pounds, said, "I am so tired of being fat, and I've made up my mind that I'm going to lose weight." Mrs. Fer- guson said the temptation to snack at home was too great, so she decided to check into the hotel where the staff will supply her with coffee, tea and bouillon only. With her vitamins, liquid diet, and faith in St, Jude, which she describes as the "patron saint of hopeless cases," Mrs. Ferguson ex pects to loose at least SO pounds. (UPI) Foreign Briefs U. S. ACCUSED OF PLANNING INTERVENTION Tokyo-mro-Communist China's official New China News Agency said ioday ihat the main purpose of President Ken nedy's conference with Central American presidents in San Jose, Costa Rica, is to "plan further intervention in Cuba," PREPARATIONS MADE FOR KING'S ARRIVAL Nice, France-IUPIi-Preparaiions in this Riviera town were completed today tor the arrival of King Saud of Saudi Arabia and a 120-member entourage. Eestimated cost of his stay: $10,000 a day. Saud has taken the entire 60-room third floor of the Negreaco hotel plus sections of three other plus hoslelries for his wifes, concubines, bodyguards, and aides. NEW FATHER CHANGES LINES London-IUPIi-Actress Joan Greenwood's husband, Andre Morell, last night changed his lines in the play "Tray For A Lonely Man" to announce the birth of his 42-year-old wife's lirst baby. According to the script, when Morell is asked "have you any children?", he replies: "Yes, three." Last night he said, "Yes a bouncing son, six pounds 13 ounces," AIRMEN SAID NOT PAYING TAXES Huntingdon, England-llll'll-Huntlngdon town councilor Cyril Haigh complained yesterday that U.S. airmen stationed at nearby Alconbury base are going home without paying property taxos they owe here. He said the council plans to complain to ine case aooui the matter, but an air force spokesman is id the charge was nonsense." "Before any serviceman leaves the country he must sign a statement that he has settled all his bills," the spokosman said. Highway Travel Up In State Over 1962 Salem -IUPII- Oregon street and highway travel increased more than 500 million miles last year over the previous year, the department of mo tor vehicles said today. Mileage, based on sales of gasoline reporlcd lo the De partment was estimated at 8,053,000,000. Korean Soldiers Attack Work Detail Seoul, Korea-lUPIi-An esti mated 20 Communist North Korean soldiers attacked a work detail of South Korean soldiers along the (nice line today and engaged in a 40 minutc fight before with drawing. Korean military sources said apparently there were no casualties on either side. The sources said the Com munists crossed lite demilitar ized zone and opened fire on the South Koreans, who then returned the fire. The Incident was the latest In a scries of apparently un provoked Communist attacks on United Nations forces along the truce line. Last November, a U. S. sol dier wns killed and nnnlhcr wounded when North Korean Infiltrators hurled a ha' 1 grenade Into a U.N. observa tion post near lite truce line. Advertisement Tense Nerves Block Bowels New laxative acts on colonic muscles., .de-constipates overnight. The muscular wult of jour colon con tains nerves known lo medicine us Auerbaih's Pltxus. In regular people, I hew nerves left (he colon muscles lo pronel and expel wane from the body. Bui lense nerve or emotional upxt can block your normal bowel habtis. Your colon muKle impulses are no longer urong enough to eliminate wajie which dries end ihrtnlt, further aggravating the condition. The most effective relief, many doc tors say, comes from bulking actum combined with a colonic nerve stimu lating action. Of alt leading laxatives only a new tablet called CotosMn Jives you this pecial com but anon lor -way mermght rvltc): (I) Coins Minuildlcs colonic ncne network, to tint her Klt,t(c and rt'tuliie Us muscular "movement", I) I.'oionaio's unique re-hulktng action helps re-tmte tense colon muscles. (3,Gnii moisturize tor easy pmifc wiiliout pain or trttn. I moNAioeven echoes chronic con tlipaoon overnight; yei it is chmctlly proved gentle even lor evpeciant mothers, (id '-'uiOsaio today. INTRODUCTORY MtX 4.1. 4-H NEWS Sewing Gems The meeting of the Sewing Gems 4-H club was held re cently at the home of Mrs. Ray Chavis. There were nine girls present. , We talked about colors tor place mats we will make. Some of the members have their scissors case made. Our business was about the Fair In August and filling out our bonks. Diane White is going lo demonstrate the uses for dif ferent scissors. Our next meeting will be held March 27 at the home of our leader, Mrs. Chavis. Judy Dcbcrry will bring the refreshments for the next meeting. Judy Hill, Reporter. House Kills Bill To Endorse Social Security Approach Salcm-IUPII - Three Demo crats joined the Republican minority in the Oregon House Monday to kill a measure that would have endorsed the So cial Security approach lo hos pital and nursing home care for the elderly. The memorial, directed to Congress, was defeated 32-28. All 20 Republicans voted against it, along with Demo cratic Reps. Don McBain of Grcsham, Don McKinnis of Summerville, and Wayne Turner of St. Helens. The most impassioned plea for the memorial came from Rep . Jake Bennett (D-Port-land). . "This is the first humani tarian measure facing this legislature . . . stand and be counted," he said. He went on to cile the ex ample of an elderly woman whose carrying private insur ance rates had risen from $69 lo $103 in five years. Rep. Richard Kennedy (D Eugene) hit hard at alterna tive approaches, both private and the federal Kerr-Mills program of grants to states. He said both were inadequate, and the Kerr-Mills program, which requires a means test, was degrading as well. He said Kerr-Mills In Ore gon had been a "feeble" program. FOUR'S THE LIMIT Los Angeles -lUPH- Four-cat families will be a thing of the past here after July 1. The cily animal regulation com mission Monday pased a regu lation prohibiting residents, except kennels and breeders, from owning more than four felines. Witnesses Oppose Repeal of Libel Law Salem -fllPD- Newspapermen and broadcasters argued be fore the House Judiciary committee Monday against a bill designed to repeal the 1955 Oregon libel correction law. The bill, sponsored by Rep. Berkeley Lent (D-Portland), judiciary committee chair man, would repeal the law which allows a publisher or broadcaster to free himself from liability for uninten tional libel by carrying a re traction if requested. Under the Lent bill, a re traction no longer would free a publisher or broadcaster from liability in cases of un intentional, but "negligent" libel. A retraction would only be a mitigating consid eration. The Lent bill also would throw the weight of proof of eood intentions onto the pub lisher or broadcaster. At present, the person who says he has been libeled must prove bad Intentions. Lawyer Favors Bill Most of the witnesses, rep resenting the broadcasting and publishing industries, spoke against the bill. Speak ing for it was Philip Levin, a Portland attorney who re cently lost a libel case in which he tried unsuccessfully to have the present law ruled unconstitutional. Salem publisher and for mer governor Charles Sprague said the types of li bel at issue were those in volving an honest mistake on the part of a reporter, a faul ty news source, or even the slipping of a line of type into the wrong place in a column. He noted that newsmen often work under pressure. He said papers print retrac tions "promptly and gladly" when they are in error. All newspapers have a very healthy fear of libel," he said. "It sometimes makes them too cautious in calling a spade a spade." Eric W. Allen Jr., manag ing editor of the Medford Official Denies Student Charges Dunseith, N.D. - IIMI - A school superintendent denied today eighth grader Cheryl Wenstad was locked in a dark room because she refused to salute the American flag. He said she was punished because she was disrespectful to her teacher. State Atty. Gen. Helgl Jo hanneson ruled Monday that a student is not required to salute the flag If the action would be contrary to his re ligious belief. Bottineau County States Atty. A. S. Benson said Cheryl, daughter of Lawrence Wenstad, was locked in a dark room for 20 or 30 minutes be cause she refused to stand during patriotic singing. Benson asked Johanneson whether a student could be punished for refusing to sa lute the flag. Cheryl is a Jehovah s Wit ness. Dunseith Supt. Lincoln Jcr- stad said the school does not require students to stand if their religion prohibits it. But he said all students arc required to stand for singing periods and the Wenstad case arose because the National Anlhcm was included in one singing period. Jerstad said the girl would be required to stand during future singing periods unless she was told differently. He said he had not seen the at torney general's opinion. Griffin Creek A new member enrolled in lite Griffin Creek Dairy 4-H club at the March meeting. She is Mindy Ilaekctt. She was assigned the job of news reporter, Most of Ihe meeting was spent Retting acquainted with the new member, then some new project material was handed out, Margaret and Marlhanne Goodwin, at whoso home the meeting was held, served ro frcshments. Mrs. llackett and Mrs. Goodwin were guests. Mindy Hacked, Reporter. Central Point Club Programs were filled out and a baked foods sale dis cussed at a recent meeting. Plans were made for a moth er's tea to be held in the near future. Krtsti Stevens was Intro duced as the new reporter (or the club. Claudia and Milana made rice delight. Refreshments were served and the meeting was adjourn ed after It was announced Ihat the next club meeting would be held at the home of Mrs. Stevens, 440 Bush St., Central Point. Krlsti Stevens, Reporter ICOA LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY SALEM, OREGON OFFERS FOR SALE 900,000 SHARES SUBJECT TO PRIOR SALE OF COMMON STOCK AT $2.75 PER SHARE Ortgon reitdenri may tend for proipectus which con tain! full information concerning this stock offering, by filling out and itnding tht coupon below . , , j OREGON UNDERWRITERS INC. ! 143 S. LIBERTY ST. SALEM, ORE. PLEASE SEND ME A COPY OF THE ICOA LIFE INSUR ANCE CO. PROSPECTUS. I UNDERSTAND THERE IS NO OBLIGATION. NAME ADDRESS CITY STATE This announcement is not jn ofer to sell or a solicita tion of an otter to buy any of thesl securities. The offering Is made only by the "Prospectus", to resi dents of Oregon only. Mail Tribune, said the present law protects editors "from nuisance suits and opportunis tic harassment." Some Errors Inevitable "Nq newspaper makes er rors cheerfully," he said. "They hold the paper up to ridicule or worse. Yet, when a single story may go through six or more different hands .. . it is inevitable that some errors will occur. "When this occurs, any edi tor worth his salt will, when it is called to his attention, immediately do his best to set the record straight, correct the error, and, if called for, issue a public apology. "Newspapers should be ful ly responsible . . . but . . . innocent and inadvertent errors should not be the basis for general or punitive dam ages when an honest effort is made to rectify the error." Levin charged that the present law grants the privi lege of libel without damages to the class that can best abuse it for profit and can do the most damage. He said that under the Lent bill a publisher could still clear himself by proving he was not negigent. Proof Held Difficult "To the average little guy who is libeled the proof of inent to defame ... of negli gence ... is well night im possible," Levin said. Carl O. Fisher, Eugene ra dio executive, said the Lent proposal would make it parti cularly difficutl for broad casters in situations such as live interviews. Lamar Tooze, Portland at torney speaking for the Ore gon Newspaper Publishers Regional Edition MEDFORD Page 2A WTribune MEDFORD. OREGON, TUESDAY, MARCH 19, 1963 1955 Oregon had a libel law straight from the days when invention of the printing press made public officials fear freedom of expression. He said the 1955 law brought Oregon up to date. Tooze said the burden of proof is on the plaintiff in suits involving fraud or as sault, and the same should ba true in libel suits. Complete Investment Service STOCKS BONDS MUTUAL FUNDS TAX EXEMPT SECURITIES Our recommended list of investment opportunities is available upon request. No Obligation FIRST CALIFORNIA COMPANY' INCORPORATED SUCCESSORS TO ZILKA SMITHER & CO. INC. Members: Pacific Coast Stock Exchange Midwest Stock Exchange American Stock Exchange (Associate) 14 S. 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