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Newspaper Page TextPrice 10 Cents 58th Year Subscribers To report Improper or non delivery oi the fill Tribune in Medford. phono 772-6141; Ash- i.nd call at 416 Bridge at. or Shone 4 82-30112; Yraka. phone 42-2403. before 1:48 pjn. daily and 10:30 a m. Sunday. If regular delivery arrtvea shortly after you call please notify officej. thus eliminating special messenger service. Weather rORSCAST: IbOWcn nvrr thr - nit. mi. Ibu 'ii.. nun; Part ly cloud v loin eh i and Monday High titday j; low tonight St. High Monday 37. Temp. Hi chest Saturday Ati Lour st Saturd.iv Mo mine U Pit-cipiUiiun tu 5 it in. Ves.icr d.n. lr Medford Tribune United Press International KuJl Leased Wire Untied rreu international r uM Letted Wire 48 PAGES Four Sections MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, APRIL 21, 1963 No. 26 Government Falls In Jordan; King Rumored Fleeing Demonstrators Back Unity With UAR Amman, Jordan - (UPD - The government of Premier Samir Rifai fell Saturday night aft fer a day in which Jordanian troops opened fire on pro I Nasser rioters in Jerusalem land Israel moved troops up I to the frontier. (In Cairo the Middle East I News Agency (MENA) quoted la Lebanese newspaper as say-1 ling King Hussein was per paring lu flee Jordan in the j Iwake of the demonstrations calling for unity with the I new United Arab Republic. There wag no confirmation of he report). (The MENA report said Hussein had told his adviser" She wanted "to avoid the fate" j lot King Faisal of Iraq who iwas killed in the 1058 Bagh Edad coup. It said he already pvvas sending some of his fam- j idly abroad, including his cpi-othcr Prince Mohammed. Before fleeing himself.) jf An informed source here 1 gjuotcd Rifai as telling parlia-."-jricnt of the reported Israeli; troop movements during the ' lengthy debate. (Sources in Beirut, Leba non, said Jordanian troops were moved to the Border with Israel to counter the re ported buildup of Israeli forces.) (Israeli sources denied any troop movements had taken I Rifai announced he would aBai" last niSht' with temPer hand his resignation to King ! atures scheduled to drop to Hussein Saturday night after as low as 26 degrees. Communist Troops Make New Advances In Laos WINNING FLOAU - A S50 prize for best theme portrayal was awarded to the float shown aboye, the entry of the Latter Day Saints church, at the Pear Blossom Festival parade In downtown Mcdfurd Saturday afternoon. Hun dreds of area residents braved chilly weather and lined Central ave. to watch the annual parade. Heaters Fired As Temperature Drops To 24 Fairly general orchard heat ing was expected to take place he lost a vote of confidence in parliament on Jordan's ap proach to the newly formed United Arab Republic of Egypt, Iraq, and Syria. End Applauded Informed sources said dep uties applauded the announce ment of the government's fall at end of a nine-hour debate on government policies. Rifai took office on March 27 following the resignation of Prime Minister Wasfi Tal. Small demonstration broke out in Amman ... , . tonrier and the favor of Egyptian Gamal Abdel Nasser unread to the rest of country. The army was sent into the Jordanian sector of Jerusalem after violent demonstrations there in favor of the new U.A.R. The army imposed a curlew. Rifai said the govern ment did so only after agita tors appeared carrying arms among the demonstrating students. The heating was expected to be almost as intensive last night as it was Friday night, when the temperatures drop ped to as low as 24 in some areas. On Friday night, heating efforts were hampered by the fact that a poor ceiling caused the heat to go straight up. Orchardists had "real trouble" holding temperatures at 31 degrees to protect fruit buds LDS Church Wins Best Theme Prize In Festival Parade Chilly temperatures and i also marched in the proces ovcrcast skies failed to damp-lsion. The Central Point Jun en spirits Saturday afternoon j ior High school band perform- as hundreds of area residents ed in the library park. stage. Fourth Night Friday represented the fourth night of heavy heating since the start of this season. Observers said there un doubtedly was bud damage Friday night. Damage is con sidered still much 'oo early to determine pear crop dam age. County Agent Don Berry said Saturday morning the lo cal peach and apricot crop will be short this year due to frost damage in the Ash land area during last Tues day's heavy heating. Friday night was the tough est orchard heating night so far, with many heaters burn ing dry. Heating started at 11 p.m. It was general about midnight and orchardists burned their heaters wide open about .1 a in. Saturday thronged .downtown Medford streets to watch the 1963 Pear Blossom Festival parade. Grand marshall of the pa rade was Peter Graves, star of the television series "Fury." Jacksonville's Marty Wyalt, Miss Oregon for this year, served as the parade's honorary grand marshal. Marching school bands from Medford High, Hedrlck Jun ior High, Eagle Point High, Talent Junior High school, Phoenix High and McLough Iin Junior High school partic ipated In the parade. Prises Listed Ashland's Elks Kilty band Mail Tribune Staff MembersWin Prizes Eugene - Two women staff members of the Medford Mail Tribune won awards Saturday night at the spring Oregon Pjesswomen's confer ence here. Olive Starcher, Mail Trib une women's editor, received first prize for a woman's sec tion in a Sunday edition. She n...njA thir nri'e tor a column appearing in a daily ! RUm t0 32 . newspaper. The mercury rose to 32 de- Peggvann Hutchinson, Mail grees shortly after 8 a.m. Tribune church editor, won 'when the heaters were extin second prize for a newstory guished. There were seven in a daily paper with a circu-' hours of solid heating, Coun lation over 10.000. Miss i ty Horticultural Agent CUI Hutchinson's prize -winning ford B. Cordy said story concerned the floods in About 375 people were busy the Medford area last fall. Saturday filling orchard heat- ti.. ,. orn nrpsmtpti ers up to midnight. Well over ,i a twnauet Saturdav night. . 800.000 gallons of Th. ,-nnferpnce will conclude j burned Friday Debris From Sub Indicates Flames Portsmouth, N. H. - (UPD -A chemist told a Naval Court of Inquiry Saturday that de bris, apparently from the sunken submarine Thresher's nuclear reactor shield, was charred in "a rush of flame." Fred L. Downs, a chemist employed at the Portsmouth Naval shipyard where the Thresher was built, testified about tests he made on new debris recovered in the At lantic where the submarine sank April 10 with a loss of 129 men. The debris included a as they struggled to hold the I chunk of charred plastic temperature. oil were night, Cordy today. said. about one foot square ana one inch thick which Downs said was from the nuclear re actor shield of a submarine of the Thresher class. Downs said he tested the plastic for impact, tear effect and compression but was un able to determine how the edges were torn, broken or burned. "There was a rush of flame against it. causing a charring effect," Downs said. He of fered no theory as to the or igin or extent of the flame. Top prizes in the parade were won by Latter Day Saints church for best theme, Child Evangelism for best float design, and Cub Scout pack No. 4 for best comic entry. First prize in individual en tries was won by Trudy and Shannon Smith. Other prizes In order were given to Pat and Jill Taylor, Janice and Arnold Halstead, Cindy Hub bard and Melody Kerr, Ron nie Shugart and Ronnie John son, Jeanette Stalon, and Susan Moody. In the category of animals and pets, first prize went to Hayse and Bailey. Other awards in order went to Mary Schuchard and Sheryl St. Germain, Mark Johnson, Rene Flakus, Jamie and Mike Adams, and Kathy Rhoades. First prize for vehicle dec oration went to Jerry, Bobby and Linda Lane. Other prizes in order were awarded to Sherry Lellis, Debbie Chit wood and Susan Davidson, Bob Tison and David Cox, Janet James, Genevieve Nel son, and Debbie Pruitt. Walking Groups Prizes for best costumed walking groups were present ed in order to Knights of the Royal Pears, Connie Gannon (Girl Scout troop No. 128), Lenora Drive Quartet, Jack son County Twirling Sweet hearts, Talent and Phoenix Toppers, Dcthridgc, Nelson, Peterson and Peterson, and the sixth grade at St. Mary's school. Organizations winning prizes for float entries were, in order: Colleen Hope Dance studio, Lorraine Johnson, Lens Lookers. Cub Scout pack No. 8, and Crater Lions club. Also participating in the parade were entries from the Grants Pass Cavemen and the Azalea Festival association. U.S., Britain Urge Measures To Ease Danger Rusk Has Meetings With Officials Washington - (UPD - Tht United States Saturday urged the three nations charged with policing the Laotian peace agreement to try to check the peril stemming from new Communist mili tary operations there. Secretary of State Dean Rusk held individual meet ings Saturday afternoon with the envoys of India, Poland, and Canada - the countries designated under last year's Geneva accords to see that the pact was kept. This was one of two steps ordered by President Kenne dy after an hour-long meeting on Laos with his National Security council. The President's other move was to order Undersecretary of State W. Averell Harriman to leave as soon as possible for London and Paris to con fer with top officials there on the critical development.-, in Laos. Kennedy and his top mili tary and diplomatic advisers were understood to have con- I sidered the wisdom of send ins a cnnpinl annual in Ssnviol An estimated nine inches of prmi. tire-H. Khrushchev. snow failed to keep between ':::.f O rtinB(i Mffitmiy' : ' l UHl1 .ass. ttmf' THAILAND Yf! Many Fishermen Brave Weather As Season Opens Between 1,300 and 1,500 persons were at Howard Prairie lake Saturday morn ing as fishing season opened throughout the state. Anglers were reporting moderate suc cess. SCENE OF FIGHTING - Communist troops have driven neutralist forces from their strategic airfield stronghold on the Plainc des Jarres (top arrow) in Laos, it was reported Saturday. Skirmishes were also reported at Vang Vleng (bottom arrow), an important town on the highway between Vientiane and Luang Prabang, the royal capital. (UPD 350 and 400 boats off the lake. About 200 fishermen were on hand for the opening of the season at Hiatt lake, where fishing was reported as good. Largest fish, caught was a western rainbow trout meas uring 20 inches. About seven acres of the lake was report. ed covered with one-inch thick Ice. Some 100 anglers were re ported fishing at Fish lake. The lake was bordered with about 1 Vi feet of snow. Premier Niklta Khrushchev This would have asked him to use his influence to try to halt pro-Communist Pathet Lao attacks which have vio Fires Blacken Eastern States Neutralist Forces Are Driven Out Of Stronghold Reds In Position To Crush Kong Le Vientiane, Laos (UPO Communist Pathet Lao troops have driven neutralist Gen. Kong Le from his airport stronghold on the Plain of Jars and are in position to crush him completely, mili tary sources reported Satur day. The sources said Kong Le's men withdrew to the village of Man Phanh, about six miles . northwest of the air port, and began digging in for a possible new attack by the by United Press International Forest and brush fires whip ped through wide areas of five eastern states Saturday. Hun dreds of persons fled from their homes and firefighters worked at capacity to hold down a soaring damage toll At Gray, Okla., a $250,000 gas well fire roared out of control and burned three men Pathet Lao. However, the Pathet Lao did not immedi ately follow up their advan tage, the reports said. Fighting also was reported to have flared at Vang Vleng, an important road Junction only 50 miles north of Vien tiane. The village, on the main road from Vientiane to tsi no royal capital of Luang Md., and Rich- prabang, has been held Jolnt I lv Viv Neutralist end Pathet The fire burned thousands Lao forces. of acres of woodlands. Mary- Military observers said land forest rangers called Sat- Communist artillery had turn- urday the worst fire day in ed Kong Le's airfield into a the state's history. I rubble-strewn no-man's land. Gusts of wind up to 50 miles I Neutralists had held out there an hour sent fire raging against overwhelming odds through an entire city street 1 after retreating from nearby or Bicmeiora, Me. me maze Phong savang, one or. Kong Baltimore, mond, Va Forest tires, fanned by caused an estimated SS mil- winds up to 40 miles an hour, lion damage, Including level- Le's last major strongholds. The observers saia Kong Funfair Viewed By Crowd of 3,000 An estimated 3,000 persons attended the Crater Lions Funfair Friday and Saturday night. Crater Lions spokesmen said that Bozo the Clown will be on hand today to entertain the youngsters. Especially popular with children has been the trout fishing pond, where catches up to 10 inches have been re ported. All exhibits at the Funfair are under cover, eliminating weather conditions as a prob lem. Rides have been set up on blacktop so patrons will not have to walk over wet grounds. la ted the Geneva accord and swept thousands of acres of tna a factory and 15 tenement 1 Le still held a "sizeable" area nouses. I oi tne plain out uun, tne corn- Some 250 persons were left 1 munlsts had overwhelming homeless as flames leaped superiority in manpower and from building to building. J artillery' and could sweep his Residents fled carrying house- forces from the plain at any hold possessions in their arms j time. This would give the or in wheelbarrows. Pathet Lao control of two- Fir.men Hurl S.if!L , svcuiraiw rrcjnier s-rinct sent Neutralist government Dine land in three soutnern forces reeling In retreat in New Jersey counties and northern Laos Meanwhile, in London, the British government increased its pressure on the Soviet Union to help cool off what it called the "very serious situation in Laos. Sir Humphrey Trevelyan, British ambassador to Russia, consulted with Deputy For eign Minister Sergei Lapin in Moscow Friday and asked for a personal interview with So viet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko. Britain and the Soviet Union are co-chairmen of the Geneva conference of 14 na tions which established a coa lition government comprised of the three warring factions of Laos. forced the evacuation of more than 1,000 persons. Several thousand persons battled the flames and hun dreds of residents were left homeless in Atlantic, Gloucea-1 ter ana lower -maen coun- A dozm fremen, including lies, uuzens ui in eii,uer P.re ri,, Arthur H. Kins' were hospitalized for smoke Baseball Kansas American League Loi Angeles 7 City 4 Pacific Coasl League Portland 10 Denver 2 Spokane 12 Oklahoma City 5 Dallas-FI. Worth S Ta- coma 5 (tie) Spokane 4 Okla. City S T a c o m a 5 Dallas Ft Worth 8 suffered burns or smoke in halation. More than 200 were left homeless at Newtonvllle, N. J. 100 Homes Burn A wind-swept brush fire whipped across New York s Staten Island, devastating a 10-square-mllc area and de stroying 100 homes and build ings. The blaze tied up 70 per cent of New York's fire fighting equipment and act ing Mayor Paul Screvane de clared the island a "disaster area." Hundreds of persons, in cluding 500 teen-age girls at a mission school, had tu be n.oved to safety. Roads were elused and clouds of dense smoke blacked out the sun. Brush fires also broke out in Winchester county just north of the city. In Virginia and Maryland, 600 soldiers and sailors joined firemen to battle at least five brush and forest fires between inhalation and other injuries. One fireman was struck by falling debris. A 60 foot derrick over a gas well at Gray, Okla., collapsed and hindered fire fighting ef forts. The $250,000 well shot flames 50 feet into the sky and burned three men, two critically. Four square blocks in Brooklyn, N. Y were hit by a fire which swept through a lumber yard, oxygen plant and coal yard. It was punc tured by periodic explosions from the plant and four fire men were hospitalized. ROCKET LAUNCHED Wallops Island, Va. -NPO-Thc space agency last night launched a shotput sounding rocket as part of a joint U.S. Italian project uesigned to cli max with the first launching of a satellite into an orbit around the equator. Souvanna Phouma announced plans Saturday for another peace-making visit to the Plain of Jars - if he receives permission from his half brother, Bed Prince Souphan- ouvong, leader of the Pathet Lao. His telegram was sent to the leftist stronghold of Khang Khay where Souphan ouvong has been for the past several days. A communique issued by Souvanna's offlrj said the decision to go to the plain was taken Friday night in a meeting between Souvanna, the British and Soviet ambas sadors and officials of the International Control Com mission. No date was set. Washington - (UPD - For mer Vice President Richard M. Nixon Saturday advocated a "fundamental change" In U.S. policy toward Cuba to provide open support for ref ugee forces trying to over throw the Communist regime. Commission Explains Reasons For Jacksonville Highway Route; UO Professor Criticizes Plans ... .... . ai I I - It,. nKu I nee,...nei. f,,,.,l. t,. mointolnl fulltno .on) Tanta-a.. HEWS(BJIEFS C A NADAIN PRISONERS RIOT Jew Westminster, B. C. - VPH - Some 350 prisoners nricd at the federal prison here Selurdey. overpowering a guard who was held with e knile al hi. throat lor 14 hours bclore he was released unharmed. SPAIN EXECUTES COMMUNIST LEADER Madrid - IN' - Spanish Communist leader Julian Garcia GrVmau was executed at dawn Saturday by . firing .quad for torturing and killing pohce pmoners 25 year, ego during the Spanish Civil War. U.S.S.R.. CHINA SIGN TRADE PACT Moscow - 1PI - The Soviet Union and Communist China ,. j... ,;.,( , irad. aareement ior 1963 and an accord . -V A.;-,, i. in r.Dav some credit, received from Moscow before the 1965 deadline. Sfargazer Balloon Launched by Mistake Alamogordo, N. M. - (UPC -A huge balloon scheduled to carry two men to the Iringes of space floated cast Saturday at high altitudes - minus its passengers . Another effort to launch the often - postponed "Project Stargazcr" balloon from Hol loman Air Force base ended in disaster at dawn when static electricity inadvertent- : ly tripped a release and freed the ballon from the gondola. New Building Tenants May Get No Mail Ice, Snow Reported On Mountain Roads Road conditions were re ported icy in spots on high ways into and out of the val ley this week end. The South Pacific highway through the Siskiyou moun i tains Saturday night was re . ported icy, but well sanded. Extreme caution was advised by state police. The Green Springs highway I was icy in spots and had three inches of new snow. The Crater Lake highway in the Prospect area had icy conditions with chains advis ed. Oregon Mountain had spots of ice and some fog with mostly bare pavement. Howard Prairie reported CASTRO MAKES NEW ACCUSATION Havana - IPt - The United States has abandoned plan. for a second invasion oi tusi in - r sinate Cuban leaders, sreech Saturday. Premier Fidel Castro said Washington - TPl - Tenants traffic going through all rigni moving into new buildings in with spots of ice on the road. 50 major cities were faced The road to Fish lake was re with the possibility of no mail ported all right, also, service after Monday because ; The road to Willow lake of a House slash in post ofiicc : from Butte Falls was report department funds. .ed muddy with chains needed. Jacksonville The State Highway commission yester day assured the people of ksonvillc that it is Inter- ted in the restoration of the city as a tourist attraction, in connection with the proposed relocation of the Medford- Provolt highway. A memorandum from the office of Glenn L. Jackson, Medford, highway commis sion chairman, said, "There seems to be a greal deal of misunderstanding relative to the State Highway conimis-1 sion's plans for diverting the Medford - Provolt highway around the city of Jackson vllle. This project was under taken at the request of the people of Jacksonville in I order to remove logging trucks from the main street. "At the present time, load ed trucks traveling to Med ford must use the main street and negotiate a sharp, left hand turn in order to proceed northward A large timber sale in the Applegatc area was completed not long ago and that will increase the vol ume of logging trucks using i this road during the coming summer. "The new road will take off from the Jackson Creek bridge at the mouth of the canyon and will run north and east (along the south side of Jackson creek) rejoining the Medford Provolt highway at the northern city limits of Jacksonvile Only two small houses will be affected. The Oregon State Highway to north and bypass the city I necessary funds to maintain completely. It, he said. The state would, he "People don't realize that they set a barrier when a highway is constructed. They also don't realize how wide a strip such a highway takes," Ross commented. "When you put a highway through a town you divide it." Ross said he thought it commission, through its parks j would be cheaper to keep the and recreation division, has j highway out of town than to had a great interest in the . tear down buildings restoration oi jacKSonvuic as a tourist attraction and is very conscious of any project which would affect the future of the area." Rot. Is Critical i Meanwhile, the highway ! commission's proposed route I came under fire Saturday I from Marion D. Ross, acting j dean of the University of Ore- gon school of architecture. I "I don't see why they have i to ruin the town," he com- mented, adding, "but It's not i up to me to tell the State Highway commission what to do. Ross made his remarks af ter touring the proposed new route for the highway. He did not recommend another route, but suggested it cut farther The highway commision's statement thai only two small buildings would lie affected by the highway relocation dif fered from statements by highway department person nel who said during recent hearings here that between 14 and 16 buildings would have to be taken out. Planners Meet Ross repeated his statements during a Jacksonville Plan ning commision meeting Sat urdav afternoon. He also strongly recommended a pub lic movement to have Jack sonville made a state park or historical monument. Historical groups may put on a fund-raising drive to re store an historical building but too often do not have the added The Jacksonville cemetery should be considered part of the town, he said. The pro posed highway diversion would separate it from town. The town should be consid ered as a unit. The highway would tend to break up the unit, he added. Ross said he did not know whether any of the alternative routes suggested by various Collins sent Jackson a tele gram stating that he was "still concerned that only one route was presented to the people." He stated that no evidence had been given to "show that this single route had been studied or discussed with groups qr individuals inter ested in the historical preser vation of Jacksonvile." Collins suggested that an advisory research group be given 30 days in which to pre- ! para a report, io uc simiiec people would he better. High-1 both by the highway commis- way engineers would have to sion and the people of Jack decide this, he said. A Item-1 sonvile. Meanwhile, he asked atives suggested are north of i that no further commission ac- the cemetery or north of Jack-1 lion be taken on the highway son creek Richard Hein, Jacksonville, protested that the suggested route north of the cemetery would cut his ranch in two. Ross said separating the creek from the town with the highway might bar its use for further tourist attractions such as gold-panning. Collin. Suggests In still another develop ment, Robertson Collins, Jack win county civic leader, rec ommended that the highway commision organize an ad visory research group to study the highway plans. matter. Collins recommended Ross as committee chairman, with other to be the director of slate parks; the commission's chief engineer; Charles S. Pope, historical architect for the U. S. National Park Serv ice, San Francisco; Mrs. Wes Hartman, Jacksonvile; and Raymond Rcter, Medford pear shipper, and director of the Southern Oregon Historical Society, A group of "concerned Jacksonville citizens" would guarantee their expenses, Collins said.