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Two Arrested in School Insurance Scheme Jackie Expects August Birth Washington - HJ?I) - News that Jacqueline Kennedy is expecting her third child touk Washington by storm today It had been one of the White House's best kept secrets - better than some national security council meetings. Rumors had been floating in the capital for some time that the first lady was preg nant. But mum was the word among the Kennedys' intimate friends and asso ciates. With her sense of history and her love of children, Mrs. Kennedy has long cherished the idea of be- Thermometers in Area Drop To 25; More Is Expected Pear orchard thermometers showed a low temperature range of '25 to 27 degrees last night. Minimum safe temper ature for fruit protection is 31 degrees. The mercury dropepd to 24 degrees in a few cases. Coun ty Horticultural Agent Clif ford B. Cordy noted. Another valley - wide in tensive orchard heating peri od is expected tonight and ear ly tomorrow morning, accord ing to forecasts. Orchardists generally lit heaters about 11 p.m. yester day and started putting out about 6 o'clock this morning. Considering it was a heavy heating period, the smoke was not too bad and reflected the use of other than open pots. Last night was the sixth heat ing night, none of them so far consecutive heating nights. Petal Fall Stage Most pear varieties are in the petal fall stage. Bosc is the only variety yet in the late bloom stage. Petal fall is a critical stage when dam age can occur quickly, Cordy noted. All fruit has set by this lime and moderate amount of blossom damage can result in fairly laige crop losses. The horticultural agent es timated 800,000 gallons of oil was burned last night at a total cost of $125,000. About a thousand people were em ployed in heating crews. Approximately 375 people are busy in shifts today re filling heaters. Cordy advised orchardists to conserve as much oil as possible tonight since it will be needed when temperatures drop lower ear- ly in the morning. Doubts Raised Over End of Laos Fight Vientiane, Laos-iUPD-Reports brought back from the Plain of Jars by international in spectors raised grave doubts today that the warring neu tralist and pro-Communist fac tions are ready to end their fiffhtine. Avtar Sinch. chairman of the International Control Commission ICC, said Monday the situation on the plain "continues to be dangerous." Singh did not elaborate, but unofficial reports reaching Vientiane said fighting be tween neutralists led by Gen. Kong Lc and the pro-Communist Pathet Lao went on after a cease-fire pledge given Pre mier Souvanna Phouma Sun day. Communist broadcasts sua Kong Le's troops had seized ( ports, including one on bids control of Phong Savan, a j for construction of a diving town in Xieng Khouang Prov-1 pool at Jackson park, also ince, in an operation Monday are on the commission agen morning. ' da. NEWS(f)BRIEFS mMS ptoM T mound thi mom WEST BERLIN DEFENDERS DISPERSE RIOTERS' Berlin-'lPlAmerican soldiers today dispersed iimulaled Communist rioters at bayonet point in the openina of four-day maneuver to test plans to defend W.,1 Berlin. ARMY MEN ARRESTED IN Buenos Aires, Argentina - " .a, 662 high-rank ng army omceri .no ! ." ... .rr.it on charges ot supporting the recent gcanii n.c abortive anti-Peronist revolt. KENNEDY SCHEDULES WORKING VISIT' ..ch. Fla.-lPI-Preiident Kennedy will Ul-u. i.it" to Italy in taia trip because hit pregnant wife will company him. MACM1LLAN AIDING SECURITY PROBE MAC MILL AW Aiu MacmilUn Lonaon-. , ...... . , ,,.k which hand today in me '!r" became the theme oi noiou coining a mother again while living in the White house. Her baby will be born in August in Washing ton. When she returned to Washington from Palm Beach, Fla., following the Christmas holidays, the 33-year-old first lady's social activities were severely cut down. She has 1 i m i ted White House social doings to the "musts" prescribed by protocol, totaling three formal dinners and two re ceptions. Mrs. Kennedy will be the second first lady to have a baby while living in the . White House. She was pre ceded 70 years ago by Mrs. Grover Cleveland, who bore Esther Cleveland in Sep tember, 1893, shortly after her husband was inaugur ated. Another Cleve land daughter, Marion, arrived in July, 1895, before her father left Die presidency. The announcement means President Kennedy and his two brothers - Atty. Gen. Robert F. Kennedy and Sen. Edward M. (Ted) Ken nedy (D-Mass.) - all will be fathers again this year. Robert's wife, Ethel, is ex pecting their eighth child, and Ted's wife, Joan, is carrying their third. With the birth of the President and Mrs. Ken nedy's next child, there will be 23 grandchildren of the chief executive's parents, former Ambassador and Mrs. Joseph P. Kennedy. Two Admit Killing North Bend Man Pittsburgh, Pa.JUPP - Alle gheny county detectives to day disclosed that a feen-age San Francisco girl and her male companion have confess ed bludgeoning a man to death on the West Coast last month and disposing of the body in tlte Pacific Ocean. Authorities here said Rosa lee Eaton, 19, San Francisco, and Clarence Eugene Parker, 40, Texarkana, Ark., admit ted the crime. The victim was identified as Richard Dennis McCutche on, 28, North Bend, Ore. It was reported that on March 29 he had given Miss Eaton and Parker a ride in his car when he saw them hitchhik ing outside Eugene, Ore. According to the detective bureau, the two suspects dumped McCulcheon's body into the Pacific near Ven tura. Calif., late on the night Oil March 30. They then took the victim's automobile and indentification cards and fi nanced a cross-country trip through 13 states using Mc Culcheon's credit cards, detec tives said. Redevelopment Plan on Agenda A proposed plan for reae - velopment of Hawthorne park will be presented to tne Mea ford parks and recreation commission at its regular meeting tonight in city hall. In Medford to present t h e plan is Asa Hanamoto. mem ber of the San Francisco plan ning firm of Royston. Mayes, Hanamoto and Beck. The firm was commissioned ! some months ago to draw up. plans for Hawthorne park, for improvement of Bear creek through Medford. and for the development of the recently acquired Barnett park site. A number of committee re- ARGENTINA lPI - Military source, said tod.y II inn --..-,-.,!. an4 . , . June rather than lull-blown unable to ac took u . K...r,..hnmh nam. w .u Jt, " ROY CHARLES SMITH fc N, Killed in Gunfight California Youth Dies of Wounds in Gun Fight An 18-year-old youth from El Monte. Calif., was shot to ! death by a city police officer I in a gun battle yesterday aft j ernoon following an attempt I ed holdup of the Spring Street I grocery, 1012 Crater Lake ave. Slain was Roy Charles i Smith, whom officers believe i may be a member of the U.S. I Army stationed at Ft. Ord, Calif. Smith was pronounced dead from two bullet wounds upon arrival at Sacred Heart hospital shortly before 3 p.m. City police were called to ! the grocery about 2:16 p.m. j yesterday by the proprietor, I Mrs. Edith Lindley. who said ; someone had just attempted i to hold her up. ; Arrive at Grocery Officers William Hall and Robert Allen arrived at the ' grocery about 3 minutes later. While Allen questioned Mrs. Lindley, Hall began to cruise the neighborhood, looking for the suspect. Mrs. Lindley told Allen the man had come into the store, paused by the bread rack, and then turned to her, dis playing a long - barreled re volver, which she thought at first was a toy. "I'm out of work," the crcw-cutted youth said. "This is a hold-up. Give me your cash." Mrs. Lindley said she back ed to the doorway of her liv ing quarters and said, "You better not do that. My hus band is in the back room." Upon hearing that, she said, the bandit bolted out the door and fled north on foot. Youth Is Spotted About 2:25 p.m.. Hall spot ted the youth walking south on Wabash ave. As Hall ap proached in his patrol car to within about 200 feet, Smith opened fire on him with two .22 calibre revolvers, one in each hand. Smith sprinted cast on Ridgeway ave., firing as he went. He hid behind some shrubbery in a yard at 711 Waverly st. Hall opened fire with his service revolver, aft er having radioed for assist ance. Ac Ihr vnnlh loft thp enver . . evergreen tree. Hall fired his fifth shot and Smith fell, but managed to pull him self partly under a hedge. Lt. Jack McMillan arrived to take charge. Together with other officers, they closed in on Smith. An ambulance was immediately called, but he was dead on arrival at the hospital. Arrived in Valley Investigations have reveal ed today that Smith arrived in the valley sometime Sat- urdav Hp sncnl Saturday and Sundav nights in two Med - ford hotels. Friends of his in Ashland are being question- cd today about his activities over the week end. He has been identified pos - SP's Cascade Train Runs 21 Hours Late San Francisco -Southern Pacific's man - The Portland - San Francisco Cascade streamliner arrived here to day 21 hours late as the re sult of a freight train derail ment north of Dunsmuir. The streamliner was one of several trains stalled Mon day while workmen replaced 1.200 feet of damaged track and siding ff0Sf Forecast in VVtprr. Oreoon weSTem vregon P o r t 1 a n d-VPI-Orcgon s April winter continued to day with a forecast of local pay frost in Western Oregon and lows in the 20s east ol the - Cascades tonight Klamath Falls, which got live inches of snow, had a low I of 19 above this morning and Lakeview.. with an inch of now. nad a low ol IB. incy were two of the coldest soots ,7, in ithc country OFFICER WILLIAM HALL Firet Five Shots in City itivcly as the one who broke the window out of Lamport's Sporting Goods store Sunday night and stole two .22 cali bre revolvers from the dis play. Officers said he was the man who snatched a purse containing about S15 from a woman on a dowdtown Med ford street Saturday after noon. Smith also has been connected with two incidents at Medford laundromats Sat urday night, in one of which a man was struck. FBI agents have sent in formation about Smith to the Pentagon in Washington, D.C., to attempt to gain positive identification. Smith was car rying an Army ID card in his billfold at the time of the shooting. District Attorney Alan B. Holmes announced this morn ing that a coroner's inquest has been scheduled for 9:30 a.m. Thursday to present evi dence in the case to a six-man jury. Quick Releases At Hospital Denied Salem - HJPD - Oregon State Hospital Superintendent Dr, D. K. Brooks denied emphatic ally today that patient! were being given quick release from the hospital (or budget reasons, "Our discharge policy has not changed," Dr. Brooks said, "We have not sent people out because of the cutback." He added, "If we had more staff, we might be able to get people released more quick ly." The superintendent said the hospital is presently oper ating with 80 fewer staffers than are provided for in the budget. The hospital is one of many stale agencies that are pres ently operating on reduced budgets to keep the state from going into the red for the balance of the current bien nium. Dr. Brooks said there were staff vacancies in dietary maintenance, nursing, and medical care classifications Budgets Receive House Approval Salem - UPD - Budgets for the state engineer and t h e state Soil Conservation com mittee easily passed the House today without restoration of small watershed planning money. The S992.530 engineers' i budget passed 49-10. 11 was 1 cut S105.000 from the gover - : nor s proposal, including f $100,000 in watershed money sought by local groups, The companion $75,942 soil 1 conservation committee budg- et, cut $15,000. also passed. Both went to the Senate The two budgets appeared on the House floor earlier but were returned to the Ways ! ana Means committee inr uir- thcr consideration ot tne cut in watershed funds. It was considered a test of ways and means hold-the-line spending attitude in the face of local pressures. Soaring' Earnings Noted by Chrysler Center Line, Mich - HOT -! Chrysler Corp. today report-! ed soaring first quarter prof its and sales. Chrysler President Lynn A Townscnd told the stockhold ers the firm had 1963 first quarter earnings of $36.2 mil lion, second best in history and a 2.800 per cent increase over a year ago. Trie firm also reported sales of $750 million for the January March period, a 50 per cent increase over 'sales of $498 million last Regional Edition Medford 18 Pages Modified Net Receipts Tax Given Tentative OK Package Includes One Per Cent Tax Starting at $500 Graduated Rate After Deductions Salem (UPD A $34 million modified net receipts income tax bill was tentatively ap proved by the House Tax Committee Monday. It could win final committee approval in time to reach the floor on Friday. The new revenue package includes a one per cent net receipts tax on all earned in come of $500 or more up to $16,000. and a 1.5 per cent net receipts tax on income above $16,000. No deductions would be allowed for the net receipts part of the tax. No Federal Deductioni A graduated rate would ap ply to the amount of income remaining after deductions. There would be no federal tax deductions, nor would there be deductions for state auto licenses, federal trans portation and communica tions taxes. The standard deduction would be increased from 5 per cent to 10 per cent, and all medical expenses would be de ductible. Present law allows medical expenses in excess of 5 per cent of adjusted gross Income. After the tax was comput ed $22 would be deducted for each personal exemption. At present a $600 dependency ex emption is allowed oeiore me tax is computed. Greatest impact, percent agewise, is on the lower in come brackets, because at present they pay little or no tax. Under the net receipts feature, everyone with an in come over $500 would pay at least one per cent regardless of the number of dependents or other deductions. While federal taxes would not be allowed as deductions from the slate tax, the slate tax still could be deducted from the federal income tax. For example, a family of four with a $5,000 income now pays a stale tax of $58, a federal tax of $408, for a total of $466. Under the new proposal, the family would pay $81 state tax, $404 fed eral tax, for a total of $485, or an increase of 4.1 per cent. A family of four with an $8,000 income pays $172 state lax, $938 federal tax. for a total of $1,110. Under the new tax the state total would be $230, federal $925, for a total of $1,155, or an increase of 4.1 per cent. $339 for State A family of four with a $10,000 incomes pays the state $270, a federal tax of $1,313. for a total of $1,538. Under the new proposal the slate would get $339. the fed eral $1,297, for a total of $1,636, an increase of 3 3 per I cent The same lamily with S25.0I10 income would pay two per cent more than at present Portland Building Damaged by Flames j Portland-WD-A three-alarm i fire heavily damaged the Gilsonitc Roof Products Co. I building here Monday after ' noon. The blaze caused an estl i mated $60,000 damage to the one-story concrete structure. Its cause was under investiga tion. WEATHER FORECAST: Variable rloudl nets tonight and H edne.day. A little warmer Wednrtday. Iik m :a -me cloudiness Wednea day ntjjht and early Thursday. Low tonight 27. High Wednes day 37. Temp. fl.fl.ffft Yelrday 4( l.owrtt fhU Morning ... ft I Prec. to 19 a m. Today .21 Our Skies Tonight 1 ftuntet today ' ' P-m. i nunrtte tomorrow 1:2 a.m. : Moon rite tomorrow 1:91 i.m. ' LaU Quarter tonight I p.m. ; PROMINENT STARS Procyon, high in .outh- writ i n p m. Rlrltift. well below Procyon. I Regulut. high In toutft- , wttl 9-m. i Alphard, well below Regulut t kptra, in ftoutnweii ai i it MEDFORD, OREGON, I Bow V 1 Mm I RECEIVE AWARDS Charles C. Hoover, left, and Terry D. Green display trophies received last night from the Med ford Junior Chamber of Commerce at the annual Distinguish ed Service Award banquet. Green, Hoover Get Awards From Local Jaycees at Terry D. Green. USB Sis kiyou blvd., was named jun ior distinguished citizen ot the year, and Charles C Hoo ver, 2095 Gregory ret., was honored as senior distinguish ed citizen of the year at last night's annual Medford Jun ior Chamber of Commerce DSA banquet. Dr. Doug Phillips, last year's winner of the junior DSA award, presented the plaque to Green, noting that the three candidates for the award were "all winners, all deserving." Dr. Elliott Beckon, who won the senior DSA award lasl year, handed the award to Hoover. He referred to Hoover as a latter day John ny Applcseed" in reference to Hoover's countless dona tions of trees to youngsters in the area. Featured speaker of the evening was Lnc w. Allen Jr., managing editor of the Mail Tribune. Allen took the theme for his address from the Chris- Beaverton Man Saved From Cave-in Portland - IUPH - A gritty man who told rescuers "I'm not dead yet" after being taken from a sewer cavc-in was reported in an improved condition at a hospital today. Alvin M. Gcpford, 51, Bea verton, Ore., was trapped for nearly two hours under eight feet of dirt in the cavc-in hore Monday. "It's a miracle that he's alive," a spokesman for the Oregon Industrial Acci dent commission said. "We just got to him in time." Gcpford suffered a broken pelvis and possible internal injuries. Firemen, police and public works rescue squads dug him out. When they finally un covered him, they found him hunched forward, face down, his mouth only inches away from the end of a buried length of sewer pipe. "That pipe saved him, a fireman said. "Somehow he must have got air from it or it formed some kind of air pocket." Grants Pass Man Injured in Mishap Grants Pass Ernest Fraz-i icr, 31, of Grants Pass, was reported in good condition at ! Sacred Heart hospital. Med ford. today following an ac cident 'at the Josephine Ply wood company mill here last : night. Frazier was working at the mill about 10 p.m. when his ' right arm became caught in a veneer roller. He was taken first to Jose i pliine General hospital for 1 x-rays and emergency treat I ment. About midnight he was ' transferred to Sacred Heart fr 4iecialized treatment Tribune TUESDAY, APRIL 16, 1963 Banquet nan precept, - uo unto otners as you would have outers ao unto you. While it is true that the evil that men do lives alter them, Allen conceded, it is perhaps more significantly true that the good men do can live after them too. "In doing good for othera," Allen said, "we are ultimate ly doing good for ourselves." The speaker denied that idealism is unrealistic or im practical, but rather pointed out that in terms of the ulti mate betterment and welfare of man, a positive idealism is the only practical approach to the ills and problems of man kind. , Allen said there was real cause for optimism, despite such enormous problems as the threat of nuclear war, the population explosion, automa tion and increasing unemploy ment. "There are millions upon millions of people, the world around, who are doing their utmost to bring order out of chaos, and safety out of dan ger; to deal justly wun tncir fellows, to broaden freedom, to widen opportunities for all men," Allen said. The banquet, which waa held at North's Chuck Wagon, was attended by about 125 Jaycees, their wives and guests Master of cercmoniea was Richard Frcy, president of the Jaycees. Cuban Refugees Crackdown Target Washington rtlPfl The Kennedy a d m I n I s t r a tion cracked down today on what it called Cuban exile efforts to drag the United States into war over Cuba. In an unusually harsh state ment, the Stale Department accused Dr. Jose Miro Cardo na, president of the Cuban Revolutionary coun cil, of "gross distortion of recent his tory." It said Miro was demanding commitments that "almost certainly" would bring war. and the United States did not intend to put its foreign pol- i icy at the mercy of foreign j refugees. The statement was issue., 1 Monday night in reply to re ports Irom Miami that Miro had accused President Ken nedy of breaking promises for an invasion of Cuba and of adopting an attitude of "peaceful coexistence" with the Fidel Castro regime. Ex-Wyoming Senator Dies at Pendleton Pendleton- 'DPT- E. V. Rob ertson. 81, former Republi can U.S. Senator from Wyom ing, died in a hospital here Monday after suffering a heart attack. Robertson, who had moved to Baker. Ore., from Cody. Wyo . five years ago, served In the Senate from 1942 to 1QJ8 58th Year Price 10 Cents No. 22 Rains Deliver Devastating Blow Around Honolulu Estimated 400 Persons Homeless Honolulu - OIPD - Torrential spring rains delivered a dev astating blow at Hawaii Mon day, leaving two Army offi cers missing and presumed dead, scores of families home less and damage estimated at millions of dollars. The rain, the worst to hit the islands in recent history, was still falling heavily and steadily, and the weatherman could promise no relief before late today. Rural Sections Hard Hit Hardest hit were the rural sections of Honolulu where, in one section. 18 inches of rain fell In eight hours, spill ing swirling flood waters over i stream banks, destroying val uable acres ol farm land and at least 100 homes. Some 400 persons were I homeless as the Hanapepe riv I er spilled over the west bank ,,,,1 fl.,..,l,, AA K, ,,,. t, tt widow ... Tvlo other nomcs werc washed away Lato Monday night the river i WHS reported to be less than iwo feet below the levee on the east bank, jeopardizing another 500 persona. Kauai cuunty officials sent an appeal to Honolulu for assistance from the National Guard Report! from outside Hono lulu werc slow coming in be cause high flood waters had left many areas Isolated. Virtual Waterfalls At the peak of the storm Monday morning, mountain sides became virtual water falls, sending water, mud and debris cascading through Ka- haluu and Waiaholc valleys. Eyewitnesses told of cattle and chickens flouting in the flood waters toward the sea. One truck farmer said a "wall of water" swept across his land and leveled Ills crops. Rescuers werc hampered by frequent landslides that block ed the only major highway leading into the stricken area. Ruh hour traffic out of Ho nolulu was backed up as much four miles along some roads by landslides. Exile Reports of Soft Policy Denied Washington m A State Department spokesman today rejected any suggestion that the United Stales had soften ed Its attitude toward the presence of Soviet forces in Cuba. Press officer Lincoln White said he knew "absolutely nothing which would tend to confirm" reports from Cuban exile sources that the United States was willing to accept the idea of a limited number of Russian troops remaining in the Communist-dominated island. The spokesman said Presi dent Kennedy and Secretary of State Dean Rusk had said "many times that we could not tolerate the continued presence of Soviet troops In this hemisphere." While said he knew of no change in that policy. Airliner, Tanker Have Near Mid-Air Collision Chicago - (UPD - Continental Airlines said today a jet air liner carrying 61 persons had to take sudden evasive action 29,000 feet over Nebraska to avoid culllding with an Air Force jet tanker. Both Continental and the Air Force said the Federal Aviation Agency had assigned altitutdes of 29,000 feet to their planes. The FAA in Washington said it was investigating the near collision. It was the second near miss involving an airliner and an Air Force Jet within a week. An American Airlines Elcc tra : to dive April 8 to Pair Named in Indictment by Multnomah Jury Alteration of Policy Charged Portland - (UPD - Authorities in Seattle have arrested a man and a woman accused of participating In a fraudu lent Insurance scheme affect ing 68 school districts in Ore gon and southwest Washing ton. The arrest of Kenneth Ran dall, 41, and Sarah Ann Chaf fee, also 41, was announced today by Multnomah County Dist. Atty. George Van Hoo mlssen. They were named in a se cret indictment returned by the Multnomah county grand jury charging alteration of an insurance policy with intent to defraud, a felony, the dis trict attorney said. Connected with Agency Van Hoomissen said both were connected with the now defunct National Scholastic Agency, a Portland firm which acted as an agent for California Life Insurance Co, An investigation started when California Life refused to honor some claims filed under policies sold by Nation al Scholastic Agency. The company claimed the policies contained unauthorized cover age clauses, particularly af fecting accident such as foot ball injuries. Suit Now in Court A suit involving the com pany and the David Douglas School District near Portland is now in U.S. District Court in en attempt to determine the company's liability. Van Hoomissen said the pair arrested apparently were the entire staff ot National Scholastic Agency. They were taken into cus tody by King county sheriff's deputies. Randall later waa released on $5,988 ball and the woman waa expected to be freed on ball later today. Van Hoomissen said he did not know how soon they could be brought to Portland. Siskiyou Accidents Caused by Weather Tweny-flve to 30 cars Jam med traffic on the snow-pack ed highway through the Siski- yous Monday afternoon fol lowing two rapid succession accidents. Slate police reported cars had skidded sidewise and slid Into ditches, but traffic was soon straightened out. Minor injuries resulted from both accidents. A Longview, Wash., family of three was treated at the Ashland Community hospital and released. Injured were the driver, Lourctte Fern Burck- hardt, S3, of 2728 Florida St., Longview, her husband, Jack, 33 and daughter, Connie 17. They were taken to the hos pital by a passing motorist. The Burckhardt car was headed north when it lost con trol on the snowy highway and went over a bank where it hit a tree, police said. Two more persons suffered minor injuries when their car was struck by one driven by Sam Allen Davidson, 23, of Seattle, Wash. The driver, Clara Mae Smith, 50, of South San Fran cisco, and her passenger, Lucy Smothers, 60, of Bellflowcr, Calif., were taken to the Ash land hospital, treated and re leased. Bulletin New York (UPI) U.S. Steel Corp. today announced i e 1 e c tive price increases of ap proximately $4.85 per ton on 29 per cent of Us steel products. avoid hitting an F101 Voodoo jet fighter near Syracuse, N. V, and five passengers were injured. Continental said pilot Wil liam Hart was flying the Los Angeles to - Chicago 707 Boeing Jet over Grand Island, Neb., Monday when he saw that he was on a collision course with a KC135A jet tanker crusing at the same altitude. Hart threw his jet into a sharp, climbing left turn, al lowing the jet to pass under his wing. Continental said. He had no time to sound a warning, but none of the S3 I passengers or eight crew mem- rjers was lnjurco. I narrations. 1
