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MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, APRIL 14, 1963
No. 20
58th Year
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EXAMINES DEBRIS Admiral Herbert
L. Austin, DSN, uses magnifying glass to
examine pieces nf debris found floating
at the location of the sunken submarine
Witness Tells of Hearing
Thresher's Death Rattle
Portsmouth, N. H. - OIPD -A
veteran Navy officer said
Saturday he heard what ap
peared to be the death rattle
of the submarine Thresher
just moments after her crew
tried desperately to surface
the vessel before it apparent
ly broke up near the floor of
the Atlantic.
Lt. (jg) James D. Watson,
43, of Aurora, III., told a
Naval court of inquiry how
he and tit. Cmdr. Stanley
Heckcr. the skipper of the
submarine rescue ship Sky
lark listened oven an under
water telephone to the final
moments of the nuclear-powered
Thresher and her 129-
man crew.
Portsmouth, N. H. - HOT
- A floral replica of the
submarine Thresher will be
flown out to sea Monday
and dropped over Iht last
known position of the ves
sel as a final tribute to the
129 men aboard, the Navy
said Saturday.
Watson, the navigator and
First Lieutenant aboard Sky
lark and a 23-year Navy vet
eran, read and explained to
the court log book notations
he made seconds before
Thresher was losl in water?
a mile and a half deep last
Wednesday
He told the grim-faced
Navy brass sitting on the in-
NEWS($BNEFS
TIMS FROM m ST ABOUND TM 01.01
NATO FORCE TO BE OPERATIONAL
Washington 'IPI' The United Stales expects a 10
nalion NATO nuclear force to be operational under the
supreme allied commander in Europe, U. S. Gen. Lyman
L. Lemnitier. within a year, it was disclosed Saturday.
U.A.R. TELLS OF SETTLEMENT WITH SAUDI ARABIA
Cairo. U.A.R. lli The Uniled Arab Republic Sat
urday announced a settlement with Saudi Arabia on the
Yemen civil war and the little Red Sea nation moved
to join an emerging Arab Federation.'
WEST GERMANS CROSS INTO EAST BERLIN
Berlin m Long lines ol West Germans crossed
slowly into East Berlin Saturday to visit relatives and
friends living in the Communist section of the divided
cily.
SOVIETS LAUNCH NEW SATELLITE
Moscow in The Soviet Union Saturday launched
Its 14th unmanned exploratory saiellil in its cosmos se
ries designed to prepare the way for future space flights
by Russian cosmonauts.
.
Thresher. The debris will be .evaluated by
a naval board of inquiry gathered in Ports
mouth, N. H. (UPI)
quiry board that the sounds
which came over his tele
phone link with Thresher as
it practiced deep dives far be
low were all too familiar to
! him and Hecker.
"We both heard a sound
! familiar to me from World
! War II - the sound of a tor-
i pedocd ship breaking up
imHcrwaipr." Watson said.
'It sounded as though a com
partment was collapsing or
something of that nature. It
wa." a muted, dull Ihud."
Left Room
Al one point in the pro
ceedings, newsmen had to
leave the inquiry room when
QUvlark's loe indicated how
I deep Thresher was diving.
This is classified information.
According to the log.
Thresher messaged at 0913,
j "we have position up angle.
i Attempt to blow-up." This
was 13 minutes after Thresh
er had dived to test depth.
The word "blow-up'' meant
! that the crew was attempting
to force air into the ballast
1 tanks to surface, the craft.
The sub apparently was in
trouble at this point and Us
.,.,.. hnno tuac in surfacim?
quicKiy. rttuuiuuig iu an
other witness the sub had re
ported "experiencing minor
difficulties" shortly before the
0913 message.
Two minutes later, at 0915.
Heckcr grabbed the tele
phone and shouted four times
to Thresher:
"Are you in control?"
"There were blowing sounds
on the intercom, but nothing
else," Watson said.
Last Message
Then at 0917, Thresher sent
its last message. It was parti
ally garbled, Watson said, and
he picked up just two words:
" . . . test depth . . ." He said
both he and Hecker believed
several words preceded this.
Asked by the board if he had
any idea what the garbled
words might have been, Wat
son said he believed he heard
the word "exceeding" before
test depth, but added, "I'm
not certain."
It was shortly after the
'test depth" message that
signalled the end of the $50
million submarine.
The board asked Watson
who was doing the talking
aboard Thresher
" I can only assume it was
the commanding officer (Lt.
Cmdr. John W. Harvey),"
Watson replied. "He was un
hurried. There was no note
of hysteria. He would be the
man most likely to carry on
in a situation such as this- '
Bill to Revamp CD
Passes in House
Salem - (TOD - A bill to
revamp the Oregon Civil De- i
fense law passed the Oregon
House unanimously Friday in
a preliminary test of the
Ways and Means committee's
, "out with the old. in with
the new" civil defense plan.
The vote came as the '
House plugged through a 27-'
measure calendar, its heav
iest this season.
Other bills passed includ
ed one to outlaw the require
ment of a lie detector test as
a condition of employment,
termed "a Gestapo type of
action" in House debate.
The Civil Defense bill con
tains the crux of ways and
means' new view ol Civil De
fense. It went to the Senate.
ACCIDENT VICTIM
Gold Beach. Ore. - ITS -A
U. S- Forest Service em
ployee was killed in a one
t car crash on U S. highway
101 near here Saturday The
victim was Charles Cook, 20.
He was Oregon's first week
1 end traffic fatality.
Higher Education
Warns of Plans If
Budget is
Salem - HOT - T h e State
Board of Higher Education
has told the legislature it will
take drastic steps to preserve
"quality" educatiun if its bud
get is cut by $5 million.
Ways and Means committee
members' replied they were
"shocked."
The board's letter was is
sued in response to a request
from the legislative committee
on where $5 million might
be cut from higher education's
proposed $81 million budget.
The board said if there are
extensive cutbacks it will "in
crease tuition rates sharply
and raise admission standards
for all students."
"We remain convinced," the
letter said, "that, if a choice
must be made, a high quality
Ticket-Vending
Machines Slated
For Campgrounds
Portland - OJPD - A schedule
of operations for ticket-vending
machines in 28 Oregon
and Washington campgrounds
was announced Saturday by
the U. S. Forest Service.
The ticket machines have
been installed this year at
selected well developed and
heavily used campgrounds af
ter being tested at two loca
tions last year.
Regional Forester J. Her
bert Stone said the overnight
camping fee will be $1 per
day.
Stone said the machines will
operate through Sept. 2.
He listed the following
campgrounds in Oregon which
will have the vending ma
chines, along with the date
the machines will go into op
eration: East Lake
Deschutes National Forest:
Blue Bay (Shuttle Lake) and
Link Creek (Shuttle Lake),
both July 8; Paulina Lake,
Little Crater (Paulina Lake),
Cinder Hill (East Lake), Aug.
1.
Mt. Hood National Forest:
Tollgate and Camp Creek,
June 22.
Siskiyou National Forest;
Grayback, June 24
Siuslaw National Forest:
Tillicum Beach, Cape Perpet
ua, Sutton Lake, Siltcoos, and
Carter Lake west, .all June
1; North Eel Creek, June 28.
Willamette National Forest:
Hoover, McKenzie Bridge,
Paradise. Black Canyon, all
May 27.
Winema National Forest:
Aspen Point (Lake of the
Woods), opening depends on
completion of campground.
Meatcutters Strike
Averted by Talks
A strike has- been averted i
through last minute negotia
tions between Meatcutters
Local 503 and employers in
Medford, Ashland and Grants
Pass, according to James D.
Cain, secretary-treasurer lor
the union local.
The mutual agreement will !
provide an increase in health j
and welfare benefits,' a sick
leave clause of 12 days peri
year, improved holiday pay
and wages to total $18.50 per
week for head meatcutter,
$17 per week for journeymen
and 912 per week for wrap
pers. The new agreement also
will clarify some of the arti
cles of the present contract
and will bring wages and
working conditions in line
with the rest of the state.
Cain said.
Medford Youth Held
For Setting Baze
A 13-year-old Medford boy
was arrested by sheriff's dep
uties Friday on charges of
setting a fire at the Rogue
River Academy on South
Stage rd. The boy told depu
ties he did it because he was
angry with a teacher, and he
admitted having done damage
to the school in the past
No damage resulted from
the fire, which was set in a
janitor's room In panic, the
boy pulled the fire alarm,
which was heard by a school
board member attending
rhtirr-h nearbv He and other
church members put out the
f ije
slashed
education for a (ewer number
would be preferable to a wa-lered-down
education for a
greater number."
Able Teachers
The board said it desires to
keep "the able teachers now
on Oregon campuses."
It said Oregon has achieved
"a high level of educational
quality."
It is the clear duty of the
board lo protect this quality,"
it said.
It said budget cuts also
would bring cutbacks in aux
iliary service programs such
as agricultural research, the
teaching hospital and clinics,
the federal cooperative exten
sion service, and the crippled
children's division.
Ways and Means co-chairman
Ward Cook (D-Portland)
said the board sounded like
"a spoiled child that just takes
up his marbles and goes
home."
He stud the suggested $5
million cut never was given as
an ultimatum.
"I certainly hope the board
is not serious in its indication
. . . that it feels necessary to
cut out programs," he said.
Bradford Quits as
Councilman Alter
Postmaster Oath
Al Bradford, who was
sworn in Friday afternoon as
acting postmaster of Medford,
announced immediately after
he took the oath of office that
he would resign from the
Medford city council.
Bradford, who represented
Ward 2 on the council, of
which he also was president,
said he would resign to avoid
any possible conflict of inter
est which might develop. He
said that he fell he would
need to give full time to the
operation of the post office.
Bradford, who had stated
immediately after announce
ment of his appointment about
two weeks ago that he would
follow whatever advice in
this matter he received from
the post office department,
said he had not heard from
the department regarding the
holding of a non-partisan elec
tive office. He said he had
decided on his own judgment
to resign.
Attempt at 'Fast
Sale' Is Denied
Astoria - fUPD - The attor
ney for a group of Astoria
businessmen has denied that
an attempt was made to push
through a fast sale of the
Tongue Point Navy Base
here.
Robert McDonald, counsel
for Tongue Point, Inc.. made
the, denial after Sen. Wayne I
Morse ID-Ore ), charged the
General Services administra
Hon was allowing negotiations
in go through hastily.
McDonald said his group's
plans have been known since
October, 1982.
"If Senator Morse would
re-examine the facts in this
case he would learn that
Tongue Point has been turned
down by every other govern
ment agency in the area, not
to mention a number of pri
vate investors," Mc Donald
said.
High School Student
Confesses Slaying
Reno. Nev - UPD - An 18-year-old
high school student
Saturday night confessed to
strangling and dismembering
shapely Sonja McCaskie, a i
former British ski star whose j
body was found strewn
around her apartment last '
week.
Police charged Thomas Let
Bean of Reno with murder
after the youth made an oral
confession to the savage slay-1
ing and re-enacted the crime I
at the victim's duplex. His
arrest followed a bullet-punctuated
chase on a downtown
Reno street earlier.
TABLES BILL
Salem - Wt - The House
Tax committee Friday tabled
a bill which would have in
creased the 5 per cent East
ern Oregon timber severance
tax to 7' per cent. The ac
tion came alter testimony
from Eastern Oregon timber
interests in opposition to the
proposal
Pearson to Lead Canada;
Dieffinhaker
PEAR BLOSSOM ROYALTY Monte
Stewart and Cindy Kay Philips, both aged
8, were named king and queen of this
year's Pear Blossom festival Saturday at
a ceremony at the American Legion hall
in Medford. Stewart is the son of Mrs.
Beryl J. Stewart of Eagle Point and is
Group Asks lor
Oregon Hearing
On Dunes Park
Florence - (UN - The West
ern Lane Taxpayers associa
tion has sent a telegram to
Sen. Alan Bible fD-Ncv.) ask
ing that a hearing on a pro
posed Oregon Dunes will be
held In the Florence-Reeds-port
area.
Chairman John S. Parker
accused Sen. Maurlne Neuber
ger (D-Ore. , the bill's sponsor,
of trying to bypass property
owners in the area by advocat
ing a hearing in Washington,
D. C.
Parker said Sen. Wayne
Morse (D-Ore), has informed
him the Senate Public Lands
subcommittee will decide May
K whether to hold a hearing
in Oregon
Sen. Neubergcr's bill would
set aside some 42,000 acres
along the coast between Flor
ence and Coos Buy, as an Ore
gon Dunes National Seashore.
The Western Lane Taxpayers
Association is an organization
of property owners in the area
that has been critical of the
proposed park.
Three Jailed for
Grocery Robbery
Oregon City - MPD - Three
men were jailed here Satur
day charged with assault and
robbery by force and violence
following the hold-up of the
Maple Grove grocery store.
The three men were cap
tured about 45 minutes after
the robbery.
They were indentified as
James Brown Williams, 54, j
Cleo Turner, 39, and Olden j
Summerfield, 30, all Port-
lind.
A trio entered the store
Saturday and demanded cash j
from Harry Fiesel, operator
of the store Fiesel was being j
beaten by the robbers when i
a bakery route salesman.
Robert Otherson, Portland,
entered the store.
The holdup men made a
break for a car and a chase
ensued.
The car driven by the rob-,
bers went out of control and
went over a bunk Police cap-'
lured them at the scene of tbc j
accident
Youth Grabs Purse,
Escapes Down Alley
A purse containing SI 5
was snatched from the hands
Of a woman walking along
Sixth st. between Ivy st. and
Oakdale ave. at about 4 p.m.
Saturday. It was recovered
nearby a short time later, but
only $2.42 was found inside.
Beulah S. Warner. 515
South Holly st. told Medford
police that a youth wearing
white trousers and a red and
white checkered shirt walked
up to her and a companion
grabbed her purse and ran off
down an alley '
sponsored by the Veterans Administration
Employees association. Miss Philips, daugh
ter of Mr. and Mrs. W. C. (Tex) Philips of
Medford, is sponsored by Courtesy Chev
rolet. The two were picked from 23 can
didates for the privilege of reigning over
the annual festival here.
Bells of Rome's
Churches Peal to
Welcome Easter
Vatican City - IW - The
bells of Rome's 500 churches
peaiea joyously al midnight
today to welcome Easter and
Its tidings of Christ's risin
from the dead
The booming of the biji
Dens at St. peters marked
the end of Easter vigil rites
in the Basilica and in th e
other churches.
Pope John XXIII. Satur
day night broadcast an Easter
message praying that Christ
would show the world's rul
ers the need to defend "the
great treasure of peace," did
not appear in public at mid
night. He came lo his window
earlier to bless a torch-carrying
pilgrimage of Rome taxi
drivers in St. Peter's later to
day to offer his traditional
blessing to the city.
Somber Interiors
The Easter vigil rites sym
bolized the rebirth of man
kind through the passion and
resurrection of Christ. The
churches commemorated the
event by bringing light back
into their somber interiors,
which had been draped and
darkened to mourn Christ's
death on the cross.
Baseball
Saturday Night Games:
Los Angeles 3 Houston I
(NL)
Kansas City 3 Minnesota 2
(AL)
State Police Raid of Illinois Valley
Benefit Poker Game Rouses Protests
Cave Junction - Life in the
usually quiet Illnois Valley
picked up in tempo this past
week - all because two state
policemen In plain clothes
paid a visit to the area.
Before the officers conclud
ed their brief stay in Cave
Junction and vicinity, they
raided a poker game at an
department ham shoot and
Illinois Valley Volunteer Fire
seized a slot machine at an
area cafe.
The story began when the
volunteer firemen decided to
put on a ham shoot last Satur
day at the Cecil Slack resi
dence north of Kerby, with
profits to be used to purchase
a resuscitator for the depart
ment. Donated Money
But when Sunday came, it
rained - and so the partici
pants moved indoors and lni
I tiatcd a game ol poker. Those
I present donated money for
chips, and after each set of
1 five hands, the player with
1 the most chips won a ham.
I Presently, several new
Admits ncc
I The Pone said last , ntuhli Th. v..i.a ,
1 Hood start toward peace has
-"V ,, - ""'
KLr
d temptations of easy 'sue
Medford Residence
Destroyed by Fire
Two homes in the Medford
rural area were reported on
fire within 11 minutes of each
other late Friday night. One
burned to the ground; the
other was heavily damaged.
Two boys, whose names
firemen were unable to ob
tain, helped Ance Copley out
of his home at 120S South
Stage rd. before It was de
stroyed. A neighbor: Robert Yutes,
noticed the fire and called
firemen at 11:55 p.m. The
house was completely In
flumes when firemen arrived.
It and the contents were a
total loss. Copley is now stay
ing at 750 Queens dr.
At 11:44 p.m.. fire was re
ported at the home of Mr. and
Mrs. Robert L. White, Rt. 3,
Box 170 A, Medford, located
near the intersection of North
Phoenix rd. und Cherry lane.
The fire started in a
clothes dryer, which had been
left running when Mrs. White
left home, firemen said. A
neighbor turned in the alarm.
There was heavy damage
to the house and the contents.
' and two dogs and a cat ap
i parcntly died in the blaze.
comers arrived at the Slack
home, and two of them in par- j
ticular, named Nick Barry
and Byron D. (no kidding);
Wlnningham, did rather well, i
They won three hams be- j
tween ihem.
But then, all of a sudden,
Barry and Winmngham1
whipped out state police
badges and identified them
selves as officers. They con
fiscated all the money and
hums, and cited seven persons
fpr conducting, permitting or
engaging in a game of chance
Members of the fire depart-,
mcnt are reportedly rather
j unhappy about the incident.
The Illinois Valley News in i
a slory Thursday quoted one
I as stating, "We try to Im- j
' prove the equipment without I
any additional taxes or with-
I out donations. We work on :
; our own free time without I
i pay, both fighting fires and at 1
benefits lo raise money for
equipment to better protect
the valley and this is what wc
get Well. I for one, am
through."
Party Leaders To
Meet Monday To
Arrange Changes
Liberal Takeover
Seen by Mid-Week
Ottawa - ram - Prune Min
ister John Diefenbaker, the
defeat of his Conservative ad
ministration confirmed by
Canada's armed service vot
ers, agreed Saturday to step
aside in favor of a new Lib
eral government headed by
Lester B. Pearson.
The 87-year-old Conserva
tive leader made the formal
concession, ending the politi
cal uncortalntly that follow
ed Monday's national election.
In a telegram offering to
meet Pearson to discuss "the
date of the change-over of
government."
Pearson, 65 - year old for
mer external affairs minister
and Nobel Peace prize win
ner, quickly agreed to the
meeting at 3 p.m. (EST) Mon
day in the prime minister's
Parliament Hill office.
Barring an u n expected
snag, it seemed certain Pear
son would become Canada's
inn prime minister by mid-
week.
Endorsed. Stand
The country's armed aa.ru. .
ice. voters endorsed Pearson's
privnuciear stand by giving
.uti uiuuraiH iu.o per cent Ol
tnoir bullots versus only 30.S
per ccm lor uiGXcaoaker a
Conservative!!!.
the two political rivals), w
noio. nine personal affection
1? "?
- I "Zl - 98 Oto T rVi',f
pendents and hospitalised vet
erans, tabulated seoaratelv
under the Canadian electoral
system had switched: two
more seats from the Conserv
atives to Pearson's Liberal
party.
They raised the Liberals to
130 members, three short of
overall majority in the
285 - seat House of Commons.
The Conservatives were left
with 94 seats and the Social
Credit and New Democratic
Splinter parties retained 24
and 17 seats respectively.
Formal Document
Six Social Credit members
from French - Cauadlan Que
bec, however, bolted party
ranks Friday and. In a for
mal document sent to Pear
son and Governor - General
George Vanier, promised to
support a Liberal administra
linn in the new 28th Parlia
ment. If half this group holds
to their announced intention
some of them began to
backtrack today Pearson
will be In control of the new
Commons.
Following Monday's infor
mal meeting, Diefenbaker's
next step will be to hand his
resignation to Vanier, who la
recovering from a mild heart
attack, and "advise" the
Queen's representative to call
on Pearson to form the new
government.
The slate police have a
somewhat different version of
the raid. According to a
spokesman at the depart
ment's Grants Pass office, of
ficers got u tip from someone
in the Illinois Valley that a
public poker game was in
progress, and so they sent two
plainclothesinen, both from
Iloseburg, to investigate. The
spokesman said the officers
did not know at the time that
the- game was connected with
a benefit event.
The case is expected to be
tried in Illinois Valley Justice
court, at a date yet to be an
nounced. Members of the
Volunteer Fire department
have hired a Grants Pais at
torney. In the second raid last Sun
day, the two plainclothesmen
seized a slot machine at the
Chit Chat cafe in Cave Junc
tion and cited Mona Merit
Eaton, who appeared in the
local justice court Tuesday,
posted $250 bail and was
given additional time to enter
a plea