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Tuition Fees To Oregon Colleges Hiked by Education Board Stay ! OflMM 4 Rogue Valley Edition Medford 26 Pages MEDFORD, Khrushchev Hears Western Plan To Break Deadlock Amabassadors Talk To Premier Moscow-OTO-The U.S. and British ambassadors met with Soviet Premier Nikita Khru shchev today and were report ed to have offered a compro mise Western plan to break the deadlock over the number of on-site inspections under a nuclear test ban treaty. Reliable sources said the United States and Britain were understood to have pro posed that a total of 30 in spection be held over a seven year period to prevent cheat ing under a test ban. This would average out to slightly more ihan four inspections a year. Consistent Refusal The Russians have consist ently refused to go above two or three inspections a year on their territory. The West had refused to agree to a nuclear test ban agreement that called for less than seven inspections a year to determine if any under ground clandestine tests had taken place. U.S. Ambassador Foy Kohler and Britain's Sir Hum phrey Traveleyan handed the Western joint proposal to Khrushchev in an extraordi nary Kremlin conference that lasted 90 minutes. The meet ing was shrouded in wartime like secrecy. Withdrawal Hinted The meeting was held at Western initiative after Khru shchev had hinted Monday that the Russians might even withdraw their offer of a maximum of three on-site in spections yearly. There was no information available either from West ern or Soviet sources about how Khrushchev responded to the Western proposals. Western diplomats said, however, it was a good bet that Khrushchev had prom ised to "study" them. But they expressed doubt the com promise plan would lead to a break in the Geneva test ban negotiations deadlock. Two Men Injured In Auto Accident Two members of an orchard heating crew were injured yesterday afternoon on their way home, according to state police. Wilbur Dean Boatwright, 18, of route 1, box 660, Trail, is being treated in the Rogue Valey hospital for multiple contusions. H i s passenger, Dennis Merle Robertson, 16. White City, is being treated at the hospital for head injuries. Both were reported in fair condition this morning. Boatwright, the driver, told officers he apparently fell 1 asleen. His nassencer was s at-1 ready asleeo after working in i an orchard the night before and going to school. The car went off the Crater Lake high way near Shady Cove and down a bank where it stopped near the Rogue river. The car was extensively damaged, state police said. FUND ESTABLISHED Corvallis - HIPP - A scholar ship fund with assets of more than $400,000 has been estab lished under the will of the late E. E. Wilson. Corvallis banker, lo provide assistance to Benton county residents who become students at Ore gon State university. NEWS(BMEFS " ITIMI not IT ABOUHB TMi MOM MYSTERIOUS INFECTION BLAMED FOR DEATHS New Rochelle, N.Y jVPIuTwo persons died from a mysteri ous infection end third became seriously ill shortly after they underwent surgery at New Rochelle Hospital, it was revelled by hospital authorities today. KENNEDY ASKS ACTION ON YOUTH EMPLOYMENT Washington JlPI-President Kennedy, accepting an ad visory committee's proposal for combatting youth unemploy ment, celled today for grass roots action to wipe out present pithy concerning the problem. HUSSEIN STRUGGLES TO kmmai JordnlM-Kin9 .,j inriav in the face of repeated demonstrations by hun- dreds of pro-Nisser students defying heevily irmed govern- ment troops. SOVIET SUBMARINE ROCKETS SAID POWERFUL Geneva-' n -Britain told the 17-nition Disarmiment Con - ference todiy the Soviet Union hes submerine-borne rockets as powerful as those in U.S. Polaris submarines. Three Sections OREGON, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 24, 1963 No. 29 PRIEST ASSAULTED The Rev. Frank Ecimovich, S.V.D., pastor of Our Lady of Perpetual Help Catholic church in New Orleans, points to a black eye he received when he was assaulted in his rectory by one of four parents who came to him to protest joint religious instruction for white and Negro children. (UPI) Senate Approves New Workmen's Compensation Bill Salem (UPH The senate voted 21-6 today to approve a comprehensive new work men's compensation bill, and sent the controversial measure to the house for action. The new compensation measure would provide uni versal coverage, and would in crease benefits about 20 per cent. Opponents charged the measure was a "three way" bill because private insurance companies are allowed to un derwrite some employers. Supporters denied it was a "three way" measure and said their bill was a "two way" plan. They charged opponents Publisher Asks 1 rilth AKIiradCfi New York TOTD The presi dent of the American News-1 .,. , paper r-uonsners ..-s,ul, called loaay lor an autnon-1 tativc ana ciear-cui assur ance from the Kennedy ad ministration "that there is no place on its program for the use of the lie as an instru ment of national policy." The press is looking to the democratic weapons of truth and freedom at a time when government seems to insist more and more on secrecy and constraint. Irwin Maier told the 77th ANPA conven tion in the annual address of the president. MAINTAIN ORDER Hussein struggled to maintain Price 10 Cents TRIBUNE wanted to create a state mo nopoly by inserting rigid re strictions on employers who want to provide their own compensation benefits. Features Favored Organized labor opposed the bill, although It favored many of its features. Sen. Don Willncr (D-Porl-land), spearheaded opposition to the measure. He said it would cost $3.8 million next biennium to inaugurate the new program, and charged it could destroy the present state fund. Voting against approval to day were Sens. Chapman Vern Cook, Alfred Corbett, Fadeley, Monaghan, and Will ner. Passage represented a vie lory for Sen. Walter Pearson (D-Portland) chairman of the Senate Labor and Industries committee which spent 14 weeks drafting the new 94 Pae bi" i iiiiMjii aaiu iiic new win n ....i .1... W. i 1 1 madequar.ies jn (ne present system He termed it a compromise that was not completely sat isfactory to anyone, but s measure that all could live with. Committee Votes Bill The House State and Fed eral Affairs committee today approved a bill to transfer a number of administrative du ties of the State Land Board to other agencies in those fields. The committee heard testi mony on a bill to reier a loo- byist registration proposal to the voters, but took no action. n"s -' Marcola) said the committee Barton appeared before thcsnould be made advj60ry t0 House Welfare committee to , ,. a,.,. Aihnrit urge it speed up action on a bill to expand the state pro gram of hospital and nursing home care for eldery persons of limited means. The House hotly debated a bill to provide for loan financed management pro grams on leased state grazing lands, then returned it to committee. 'Gladden Bill' Given Approval by Senate Salem -TPf- The so-called Gladden bill" was approved 18-9 today by the Senate and sent to the House The measure would allow j i superintendents of state insti- ! tutions to remain on the job! , after the mandatory retire- j 1 ment age of 70 if deemed i , necessary by the board of con-1 trol. 4 Cniran.A CAA .1 Limaiiic i ceo a I Oregon Colleges Raised by Board Out-of-Staters To Pay $900 Yearly Portland -(UPD - The State Board of Higher Education, j I faced with legislative prod j ding and the problem of mounting enrollments, Tues- j day hiked tuition for out-of-! state students to S900 a year at Oregon, Oregon State and Portland State, an increase of S270. It also raised tuition for resident students by S30 a year at all state - supported schools and non-resident tui tion at other campuses by $60 a year. The increases go into effect with the 1963-64 school year. Legislative Difficulty Chancellor Roy Lieuallen said the decision resulted from necessity to face up to the legislature's difficulty in raising money. Last January the board had ordered a $60 per year increase for out-of-state students at the three large schools. The board raised the tuition at Oregon Technical Institute in Klamath Falls from $480 to $690 per year for out-of-state students, with likelihood of a $900 tuition there in 1964-65. $330 for Residents OTI, as well as Oregon, Oregon State and Portland State, will have a $330 tuition for resident students starting next fall, instead of the pres ent $300. Dr. James Jensen, president of Oregon State, called the non-resident tuition boost "in ordinately excessive", partic ularly for students working their way through school. It has been estimated there will be 3,500 out-of-state stu dents at the three larger schools next fall. Grade Average Hiked Last month the board, in efforts to reduce costs to tax payers of educating non-resident students, upped to 2.75 thf high school grade average required for most non-resident entry to Oregon, OSU and Portland State. The tuition at the colleges at Ashland, La Grande and Monmouth will go up from $474 to $534 for non-residents and from $364 to $294 for residents. At the Medical and Dental schools the out-of-state tuition will be $1,095 instead of $1,035 and the resident fee will be $687 instead of $657. U.S. Army Troops Going To Thailand Washington - UPD - More than 3,000 U.S. Army troops organized into two battle groups will begin arriving in Thailand next month to par ticipate in military maneu vers, the Defense Department announced today. The two units are the 1st Battle Group, 5th Infantry of the 25th Division in Hawaii, and the 2nd Airborne Battle Group, 53rd Infantry, based in Okinawa. They will be ac companied by supporting air craft and supply units. The U.S. troop movement is part of an eight-nation exer cise which the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization has call ed the largest of its type ever conducted by SEATO. SEATO officials apparently hoped that the maneuvers would have a deterent effect on Communists now stirring trouble in neutral Laos on Thailand's eastern border. Rogue Committee Role Change Urged Salem-fUPri-A change in the role of the Rogue River Co ordinating Committee was urged at a hearing before the TJ ' - 4 ...... 1 D n i - I i I-f ,,- r.nm. . Tuesday Eymann (D Thp ,hr.,.mombcr commit tec was created to control muddiness in the Rogue river caused by mining. It is made up of a mining representa tive, a fishing representative and a public member. The committee has recent ly been accused of leaning to ward mining interests Ey mann noted it could De vcighted either way depena tng on the appointments. NATIONAL New York 2 6 0 Chicago 0 3 2 Willey and Colemen: Buhl. Toth (7) and Schelfer. HR: Hunt. N.Y. Russia Refuses To Join In Laotian Peace Appeal WEATHER FORECAST: 1 1 chl rain tonight and partial clearing with scat tered sbowers Thursday. Low tonllhl IS. Hl(h Thursday 55. Temp. HiftirM Yesterday SJ Loweii Thla Mornlnc 34 Our Skies Tonight Sunset today 1:03 p.m. sunrise tomorrow . . 5:16 a.m. Moonset tontsht 8:SJ .m. Urst Quarter April 30 VISIBLE PLANETS Mercury, north of the Moon. Mars, high In south west :- S:32 P.m. Saturn, In suutheast 4:43 a.m. trnus ana -iuiuui. rise -. 4:3 a.m. ! (Venus Is the brighter of the ; two). North Vietnamese Accused by U.S. Being Removed Vientiane, Laos-flJPD-About 300 North Vietnamese, ac cused by U. S. officials of helping leftists in the Laotian fighting, will be withdrawn from Laos, the government announced today. An official communique said the move was initiated by the Communist North Viet namese government, but there was immediate speculation it resulted from pressure from neutralist Laotian Premier Souvanna Phouma, or possi bly the Soviet Union. West Pressing Russia Souvanna has been work ing desperately here and in the Plain of Jars battle zone to head off more fighting while Western diplomats have been pressing the Russians to use their influence to keep the Laotian and North Viet namese Communists in check .. ... from tnTpIam Today "of furth- er fighting between the pro- Communist Pathet Lao and neutralist forces led by Gen. Konff Lc. A shadow was cast over the peace efforts by reports from London that Russia refused to join Britain in a peace appeal unless the declaration blamed the United States for the trou bles in Laos. Ask ICC Supervision The government communl- aue said North Viet Nam de cided to withdraw the "tech nicians" from the Khang Khay area in the Plain of Jars be cause of the unsettled situa tion there. The North Vietnamese asked that the International Control Commission, which is charged with supervising the truce es tablished by the ueneva ac cords, make arrangements for removal of the "technicians." It was the first time that North Viet Nam has ack nowledged publicly the pres ence of so large a "work" force in Laos. Memorial Dinner To Be at Hedrick Hcdrick Junior High school has been chosen as place for the 1963 Roosevelt Memorial banquet to be held Saturday, May 11. Ted Philips, co-chairman of the annual event, has announced. A full committee meeting will be held Thursday at 7:30 p.m. in the Hotel Medford, Philips said, to continue plan ning for the dinner. He has asked that the ticket commit tee turn in as much money as possible Thursday as it is needed for the preliminary expenses. Sen. Gaylord Nelson (D Wis ), has accepted the invita tion of Jackson county Demo crats lo deliver the principle address at the dinner. Serving with Philips in heading the committee plan ning is Mrs. Frank Christian Miss Bankhead To Head Play Cast Tallulah Bankhead will I head the cast which will pre I sent "Here Today" in Med- ford as a substitute perform ance for Judith Anderson and ' her company. It was an nounced by the Medford Broadway Theater league. Miss Anderson's appearance I for Saturday, April 27, was j cancelled last week and the j famous tragediene was said to ' be suffering from nervous ex haustion. The Bankhead play will come here in mid-June, it was announced. The league is now accepting renewals for the I 1963-64 season, and the an nual membership campaign I will be in early May. Harriman Will Discuss Laos Crisis in Moscow Washington (UPH- President Kennedy said today he is sending Undersecretary o f State W. Averell Harriman to Moscow Thursday to discuss the Laos crisis. Kennedy told a news con ference that Harriman would meet with Soviet Foreign Min ister Andrei Gromyko and would carry a "short message" from Kennedy to Soviet Pre mier Nikita Khrushchev. Harriman, a former ambas sador to Moscow and recently the State Department's top ex pert on Laos has been in Paris and London discussing the Laos situation with officials there. His trip to Moscow would be an attempt ( to persude the Kremlin to live up to Khru shchey's promise made to Kennedy in Vienna in 1961 to restore peace to Laos. Asked about the relative threat of Russia and Commu nist China to the United States, Kennedy said he thought It would be a mis take to try to make that as sessment. He said both coun tries create "serious prob lems" for this nation and that he hoped the Soviet Union would fulfill its responsibili ties toward Laos under the Geneva agreement as the United States is doing The President said that the situation to Southeast Asia rii rectly Involves Russia as i party to the Geneva agree- l J 4 I ... I It 1. A .ww.,,n'..rt llieilL ttllU Ulttl. Ik IIUU DkWIM.u ILITJ neutral, independent Laos Other points at the new conference: -U.S. and British ambassa dors presenter! proposals to Khrushchev in Moscow to day for "speeding up" the long stalemated negotiations for a nuclear test ban treaty. In reply to a question, the President said he is not overly optimistic about the prospects for an accord. He said the United States and Britain feel that "time is running out" for a test ban agreement. He will meet with Cana dian Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson at Hyannis Port, Mass,. May 10-11 in their "first discussion of the many important questions of com mon interest." Asked about the possibil ity of his meeting with Khru shchev, Kennedy said no such meeting was planned. He also Local Persons At Recreation Session Jackson county and the city of Medford have been represented by professional and lay members of parks and recreation planning groups at the Pacific North west District of the National Recreation association meet ing in Eugene this week. Robert L. Haworth, of the city system; Neil Ledward, county parks and recreation director; and Laurance V. Espcy, chairman of the parks and recreation committee, were in Eugene for the open ing sessions Monday Mrs. Katheryn Heffernan and Mrs. Marcel LePiniec, members of the county parks and recreation commitee, left today to attend the all-day session of the women's divi sion. Don Faber, Jackson county commissioner, attended the Tuesday sessions of the asso ciation. The district meeting is scheduled to end with a ban- I quet at the Eugene Hotel to- night. j Mail Service Times Will Not be Changed All mail service in the Med ford area will be switched to Daylight lime Sunday, Act ing Postmaster Al Bradford announced today. Official no tification has been received that schedules were being ad justed (or the new time. There will be no changes in respect to mailing times In the immediate future, Brad ford said. Everything will operate on the same schedule by the clock. MISTRIAL ASKED Portland -TOTt- A motion for mistrial has been filed in the income tax case of Portland attorney Reuben Lcnske said there were no plans for a U.S.-British-Russian summit meeting on nuclear testing and he does not think this would be "useful" unless there were an agreement first on a test ban treaty. Asked about Republican criticism of his Cuba policy, the President recited steps taken by his administration to apply pressure on the Cas tro regime. He said Free World trade with Cuba had been cut from $800 million year to $80 million, the Textbook Bill Attacked in State Legislature Salem-(UPD-A bill to let school districts rent textbooks to parochial high schools was attacked here Tuesday by two churches, a lodge, the Oregon School Boards association and the Civil Liberties union. The Senate Education committee is hearing the bill. The measure grew out of a state Supreme Court ruling Senator Defends Bill To Stabilize WteMuges Washington-'llW-Srn. Clair Englc (D-Callf.) today defend ed his bill to stabilize the Klamath and Tule Lake Wild life refuges as being designed to end a "pointless contro versy." Englc, in testimony pre pared for presentation to the Senate Interior committee, ad mitted his bill would be a "concession" to agriculture. "But it is a minor conces sion and a proper one," he said, adding that it was a "small price to obtain united support at last." Also before the committee was legislation introduced by Sen. Thomas H. Kuchel (R Calif.), which differed from Englc's bill in providing for maintenance of Tule lake wa ter levels by the U.S. fish and wildlife service. Engle said the Kuchel bill would permit the Interior de partment to "ignore or abro gate" the government's con tract with the Tule Lake Ir rigation district. "I don't think congress should Ignore this contract," he said Engle said his bill and an identical bill introduced in the House by Rep. Harold T. Johnson (D-Calif ) would pre serve four national wildlife refuges in the area, stop further homestead entry on the lands and maintain the Tule lake water area al 13,- 000 acres. But Englc denied his bill would give the Tule lake ir rigation district "arbitrary control" over water levels in the lake. He said some op position apparently was based on a 1959 Incident in which the lake was pumped below a "reasonable level" before the Interior department step ped in to maintain the level high enough to preserve nest ing areas of ducks and geese. Amendment Hearing Sef by County Court A public hearing on pro posed amendments to the South Talent and Emigrant lake interim zoned areas' ordi nances was set this morning by the county court for May 8 at 8 p.m. in the county court house auditorium The hearings will be dur ing the monthly meeting of the county planning commis sion. The amendments, recom mended by the planning com mission at its April meeting are housekeeping measures, it was explained The amend-1 deatn. Moore nan loin a raoiu oi yuu. mane termin inai ments allow for Interested 1 newsman at Gadsden that he when the Negro gels his rights parties to appeal the decs-1 did not tear violence on his und his vote that he does not slon of the commission's trek protesting segregation i treat the white man with the board of adjustment regard-1 because "I don't believe the ; contempt and bisdain that, un ing variances to the commls-1 people in the South are that fortunately, sotc of us now sion and county court movement of guerrillas out of Cuba had been limited, and that the island nation had been almost isolated by the Organization of American States. -Asked whether he agreed with recent proposals for the United States to take a more active lead in international studies of birth control, Ken nedy said that the United States already is participat ing in United Nations pro grams related to that ques tion. Rental last year that the state's long practice of giving textbooks to parochial schools was un constitutional. Two Portland attorneys, both involved in the case, fav ored the bill. Leo Smith, representing the Catholic Archdiocese of Port land and Oregon, said the bill only extended the "common privilege of any citizen" to rent books. Would Apply Judah Bierman of the ACLU replied the Supreme Court prohibition against giv ing books would apply to rent ing them to parochial high school students. He said the court decision "made lully for thstt -trvmr though the books were placed in the pupils hands they bene fit the religious Institution He said the bill would be "opening the door again to state subsidy of religious edu cation. Attorney Roy r. shields, a supporter of the bill, conced ed school districts would in cur some administrative ex penses in renting books. Lewis E. Starr of the Ma sonic lodge said his group would not oppose the bill If It were amended to charge the private schools for all costs. The committee did not take any final action. Request for Fence Tabled by Court A request to fence off more land for a garden for the Jackson county juvenile detention home at the fair grounds property has been tabled by the Jackson coun ty court. The court will notify the Jackson county juvenile ad visory committee that no further changes can be made on fairgrounds land until a joint planning study of the area is completed by Medford and county planning commis sions. This follows a request by the planning commissions. However, during the inter im period the unfenced land may be used for a garden. Youngsters in the detention home have been raising their own vegetables adjacent to the building, it was explained. Hiker Urging Racial Equality Found Slain Keener, Ala-IUPH-A vaca tioning Balttmore postman hiking to Mississippi to de liver a personal letter to Gov. Ross Barnett urging racial moderation was found shot to death Tuesday night in a highvay ditch near this small northeast Alabama community-Authorities said William L. Moore. :i.". had been shot in the head with a .22 caliber bullet. On the body were placards reading, "Eat at Joe's, both black and white" and "equal rights for all (Mississippi or bust) Violence Not Feared Only hours before his way " Kremlin's Stand Sparks Fears of Mounting Turmoil Kennedy, Rusk Discuss Situation Washington -0ITO- President Kennedy met today with Sec retary of State Dean Rusk presumably to discuss the tense situation caused by Rus sia's refusal to join Britain in a Laotian peace appeal. Although the White House declined to disclose details on the meeting, the Kremlin's tough stand sparked fears of new turmoil in Southeast Asia. Russia rejected the idea of a peace appeal unless it condemned the United States. New Hard Line Seen Administration officials speculated that Soviet Pre mier Nikita Khrushchev might be adopting a new hard line on all East-West issues under strong pressure from Communist China. ip London, U.S. sources said Undersecretary of State Averell Harriman might fly to Moscow in the next 48 hours to urge Khrushchev to join this country's efforts to keep the uneasy peace in Laos. There had been strnns hints from the White House earlier that such a peace mis sion was under consideration to remind the Soviet premier oi his promise to Kennedy to maintain a neutral, independ ent Laos. The London re ports said no. final decision had been reached, however. Someofficiab here thought it possible the Sovlet-Slno bloc had decided to sabotage me ihi uoawva agreements guaranteeing Laotian inde pendence under a coalition government. This could con. front Kennedy with an agoniz ing choice between U.S. mill. tery intervention or watcbine the Communists take over the kingdom. A state Department spokes man said Russian alienations that the United States, in via. lation of the 14-nation Geneva accords, was sending arms and ammunition to govern ment forces were "patently false." No Bids Received :or Treatment Plant Talent - Construction of the city of Talent's water devel opment project will be de layed somewhat, the city coun cil here determined last night, because no bids were received on construction of the. water treatment plant. The council conducted a special session to open bids. Six bids were received on the installation of supply and dis tribution equipment, four on the construction of a water storage reservoir, but none on construction of the treatment plant-an essential part of the project. The city has undertaken a program to obtain water from Wagner creek. Present city water supply is rom wells. Councllmen decided to schedule another meeting for next Tuesday, at which time a representative of Clark and Groff. engineers of Salem, is expected to be present to ad- vise) what strrtv KhnnM nnm K I taken. Gov. George Wallace offer ed a $1,000 reward for in for mation leading to the convic tion r.l the killers. Etowah County Corner Noble Yokum said "it appears to be a civil rights case." Letters to President Ken nedy, Atty. Gen. Robert F. Kennedy and Barnett were found on the body of Moore, who said friends warned him to expect trouble in Birming ham and to fear for his life in Mississippi. 'Be Gracious' The letter to Barnett asked the Mississippi chief executive to "be gracious and give more than is immediately demanded treat Mm." A
