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14 FOUND DEAD M COAL HIKE BLAST wm m mm v. . - REFUGEES AWAIT EVACUATION Refugees wait at an airstrip on ihc Plain of Jars in Laos for an airplane to evacuate them 10 Vientiane, capital of Laos. Although the situatio l- said lo have improved after pro-Communist Khrushchev Reaffirms Agreements on Free Laos Harriman Told 01 Full Support On Geneva Pact I Moscow -IUPII- Soviet Pre mier Nikita Khrushchev to day reaffirmed his stand on the need for a free and inde pendent Laos. Khrushchev's support f o r his 106 1 accord with Presi dent Kennedy on Laos was disclosed tonight after U. S. president ia! trouble - shooter W. Averell Harriman met with the premier for 3'i hours and presented him with a message from Kennedy. Visited in Office Harriman. in Moscow on a dramatic mission to save the peace in Laos, saw Khrush chev in the premier's office after a meeting with Soviet Foreigi Minister Andre Gro myko. A joint Soviet - American staterru nl released alter the Kremlin meeting declared that-both governments "fully support the Geneva agree ments on the Laotian ques tion about which there was an exchange of views between them in Vienna and a mutual understanding reached " New Fighting in Laos The Kremlin meeting oc curred -win.-! .i background of ronewrd fighting in Laos, where Communist Pathet Lao forces were reported to have attacled an outpost of right wing forces led by Gen Phou mi Nosavan. Earlier in the day Harriman met for two hours and 40 minutes with Gromyko. NEWS($BR1EFS ITEMS FOM Wr MOONO THI MOM HALLE CK SAYS EXCUSES RUNNING OUT Washington-in-Home Republican Ltadei Charles A. Hallack said today President Kennedy had broken so many campaign promises that "Apologists for the administration ara raining out of excuses." SOVIET FIGHTERS CIRCLE U.S. HELICOPTERS Berlin- i I'l-Two Soviet jet fighters circled two U.S. Army liellteil 1 1 i over Berlin today, apparently lo underline Rus sia! contention that the helicopter flights were illegal. AMERICAN INSTALLATION FIRED IN VENEZUELA Caracas. Veneiuela-lPI-Six masked men carrying torn mrftnu today set fire lo the U.S.-owned Cordage Hull Cor-, paar On the outskirts of Caracas. The three-hour six-alarm fife caused S200.000 damage. DA HOPES FOR HOT LINE' PROGRESS Oeneva-1 1'l-The United States hoped to make some pro- i.en a hoi line communciations una Deiween raoscow fashington today despite test issue. I OUESTIONED IN SLAYING OF POSTMASTER laden. Ala.-lPI-Police of Floyd L. Simpson, picked up Thursday in con with the roadside slaying of Baltimore postman and dr.. ::ghts crusader William L. Moore. 35. Representatives of School District Return From Visit A group of representatives from School District 549C re turned yesterday from Den ver. Colo., where they observ ed teaching techniques, plant facilities and specific educa tion programs. The trip was part of an in service visitation program conducted in con. unction with Medford's participation in the Oregon Program, which is fi nanced on a state-wide basis by the Ford Foundation. Included in the group were school bard members, admin istrators, heads of depart ments, supervisors, and ele mentary school principals. Ac companying the group was Dale Skewis, Salem, super visor of secondary education for the state department of education. A Residential Section Schools visited and pro grams observed were in Jef ferson county, Colo., a resi dential section for people working in the Denver region. Members of the delegation di vided into smaller groups to observe specific areas of in terest, although in some cases, the entire delegation visited a school or observed a spe cific program. The Jefferson County dis trict was organized in 1950 from 39 small independent districts. This year the district has an enrollment of about 42.000 students. Team teaching, one of the more recent developments in the gloomy outlook on the today questioned the wife and Pathet Lao Prince Souphanouvong made two proposals to end fighting between his troops and neutralist forces led by Gen. Kong Le, the latest reports have Communists gaining ground. (UPI) teaching techniques, is in its sixth year in Jefferson coun ty, and is no longer considered an experiment as it is in other areas of the country visited by area educators on previ ous in-service observations. Cooperating With SOC Information gained on the trip, as with other such visi tations, will be used in devel oping teaching techniques to help improve education through better teaching and better qualified teachers. Med ford school district is coop erating with Southern Ore gon college in the Oregon Pro gram. A small group of district representatives visited schools in southern California en route to the Denver area, and three school board members remained in Denver to view exhibits in conjunction with the National School Boards association convention which starts this week end. Frank Bash, member of the Medford board and president of the Oregon School Boards association, is an Oregon dele gate to the convention. He plans to remain in Denver throughout the week of the convention. Eagle Point School Budget Vote Slated Eagle Point - A budget, re duced by $36,773, leaving a U)ta of SS06,026.',7 to be raised outside the 1 per cent I limitation, will br presented j to voters of Eagle Point j School District in an election May 14. The Eagle Point school board and the budget commit-1 tec met April 22 to study the ; school budget, which was de tested by voters of the district April 17. It was decided to eliminate the purchase of a new bus, j included in the original budget, and lo cut all re modeling, painting and re- j pairs to a minimum. Only necessary repairs and essen daily needed plant mainten ance will be done, board mem bers reported. The planned summer recrea-1 tional program has been re-j moved from the budget and some improvement to grounds postponed. Some equipment and sup plies have been reduced and board members expressed the hope that they can be includ ed next year Board and budget commit tee members said they had tried to reduce the budget with a minimum of detrimen tal effect on the educational program r , Fighting Erupts At Four Locations On Plain of Jars Vientiane, Laos - (UPI - New fighting has broken out be tween Laotian Neutralist forces and pro - Communist troops at four different spots on the Plain of Jars, inform I ed sources reported tonight. In addition, the Laotian De fense Ministry announced that pro-Communist. Pathet Lao troops had attacked an out post of right-wing forces led by Gen. Phoumi Nosavan. The new outbursts of fight ing were reported as Laos' beleaguered Neutralist Pre mier, Prince Souvanna Phou ma, scheduled a trip to the Plain of Jars Saturday in a personal effort to halt the new battling that threatened the existence of his shaky coalition government. Informed sources in Vicn tane said that new fighting had broken out Thursday night and today at Khang Khay, Xieng Khouang, Phon savan, and Lat Houang. The four localities arc all on the Plain of Jars where troops of the Laotian Commu nist and Neutralist factions have been fighting sporadi cally for more than a month. Premier Souvanna, mean while, issued a statement criti cizing "foreign'' charges - ap parently those made by the Russian - that the strife in Laos had been instigated by the United States. Road Board Not To Develop Dunes Salem - (UPB - Gov. Mark Hatfield said today the State Highway Commission was "only answering an inquiry" when it expressed willingness to develop the Oregon Dunes area as a state project. Hatfield said there was no plan for the commission to lake over development of the j area. The commission Thursday suggested it could develop the area as a possible compromise I solution to the battle over the j proposed national seashore in Western Lane and Douglas ' counties. Commission Chairman Glenn Jackson said his agency : is not opposed to federal de Velopmenf and does not plan to push the idea, but it Is "ready and willing" to help if called upon. City Budget Committee Sets First Meeting The proposed preliminary i963-64 budget for the city of Medford will be presented to members of the citizens' budget committee at it initial meeting tonight. City Manager Robert Duff's budget message will be deliv ered to the committee. The group will also elect its offi cers for this year The meet ing will be held at 7:30 p.m. in council chambers in city hall i Hope Dwindles For Eight Others Missing in Shaft 30 Survive Violent Explosion Dola, W. Va. -HOT- Fourteen soft coal miners were found dead today deep inside the explosion - torn Clinchfield Coal company's No. 2 mine I and hoDe dwindled fast for eight men still missing. The explosion, triggered late Thursday night by either methane gas or coal dust, plunged this small mining community of 200 people into gloom. As grim word was flashed from rescue teams 330 feet beneath the surface, the strain began to tell on relatives who had gathered at the pithead. First two bodies were found, then another, and then a group of 11 in one of the main working areas which probably bore the full brunt of the violent blast. Thirty other miners sur vived the tragedy by scamp ering to the surface. The general feeling at the mine office was one of pes simism. Shortly before noon, a spokesman for the mine's man agement disclosed that 24 rub ber sheets had been ordered from a nearby mortuary. But in the tradition of coal mining, rescue teams pushed forward against time in an attempt to reach the men still unaccounted for. Significantly, the Compass No. 2 mine is located only a short distance from the scene of this country's worst mining disaster. On Dec. 6. 1907, 361 miners lost their lives in a mine near Monongah, W. Va. Access Roads To Freeway Section Are Barricaded ''If motorists are determin ed drive on the unopened sec tion of the freeway, they will find some way to get on it," according to Oregon State Highway Department Resi dent Engineer Donald Haller after an Ashland man was killed Thursday noon in an automobile-construction truck accident cn unopened Inter state 5 near Talent. Haller explained that all access roads to the freeway arc barricaded with "Road Closed" signs, but explained that motorists are able to drive around them since work men and construction equip ment must use these roads. He stated that motorists have knocked down the bar ricades, in some cases becom ing stuck in mud when they have driven around them, have torn down fences and broken padlocks to reach the partially completed freeway. The engineer explained that Thursday's fatality occurred in the most congested con struction area of the freeway, used frequently by heavy equipment for transporting gravel to and from the rock crusher. Haller noted that he had observed families, with chil dren, using the unopened freeway. Work on the tree- way continues nearly around; the clock, he noted, so that 1 workmen and equipment arc j in area the majority of the time. 55 City Recorders Attend GP Meeting Grants Pass-Approximately 55 city recorders and treasur-1 ers from throughout the stile 1 arc attending t h c annual workshop of the Oregon As- j sociation of City Finance Of-1 ficers here. Tile workshop opened yes terday and will conclude this afternoon. Presiding is Mr3. Frances Juris, Prineville city recorder-treasurer. New tech-1 niques in city finance manage merit and legislation affecting budgeting arc among topics j being discussed. Textbook Rental Proposal Tabled Salem - UPD - A measure' which vould have allowed . school districts to rent text-j books to parochial high schools was tabled Thursday in the Senate Education com mittec SURVEYS APPROVED gatem 1 The State High . way Commission Thursday I approved location surveys for a route for the McKenzie Riv I er Highway between Blue River and Mill Creek. Regional Edition Medford 22 Pages Two Sections MINERS AWAIT WORD Fellow coalminers await word from the men who were trapped inside the Compass No. 2 mine at Dola, W. Va., following an explosion late Thurs day. Standing in center facing the camera ia John Mora- Cuban Oil Refineries Said Target of Raiders 'Mystery' Plane Drops Five Bombs On Installations Miami, Fla. lUPD Anti Castro raiders In a twin-engined plane made a low-level bombing attack Thursday night on Cuban oil refineries on Havana's eastern outskirts, it was reported here today. The mystery" aircraft dropped five 100-pound bombs on the refineries, former Esso and Shell oil installations, but Cuban exiles reporting the raid said they were ineffec tual. Not Identified The attackers were not identified but in Washington, a free-lance newspaperman, Alexander Rorke, said he, two other unidentified Americans and a Cuban participated in the raid. Rorke said the attackers did not encounter either fight er or antiaircraft opposition. He said the homemade bombs, one of them lighted from the end of a cigar, were dropped from 150 feet. Rorke identified the Amer icans on the raid as members Of an organization called I "U.S. Freedom Fighters." He said it was a nonpolitical or ganization formed to help free Cuba. Up to midday, Havana Ra dlo had not mentioned the raid. News agencies were not 1 able to contact their Havana bureaus for information on j the attack. Skepticism Expressed In Washington, the Slate Department said it was checking" the raid reports, but expressed skepticism about the attack despite Ror ke's statement. Exile sources said the at lackers were out after a spe cific undisclosed target, but decided on a secondary ob jective when they were un able to pinpoint It for accu rate nombing. The bombs were homemade and presumably ineffective Rorke said they didn't blow anything up " It was the first hostile bombing of the Havana area since April 15, 1981. when exiles strafed and bombed ma jor airfields to set the stage for the abortive Bay of Pigs invasion two days later AT08PAY SESSION Salem - TPli The Oregon House will be in session Saturday MEDFORD, OREGON, T - r Hy EHtl m 9aV I a0"W. I n.li IV awmf aa aaaaaaai k -v ai aaar v w - Students Air Pollution Bill While Serving Posts A city council composed of Medford and St. Mary's high school students toyed with passage of an air pollution control ordinance yesterday afternoon, but finally re ferred it to committee for further study. The council meeting was held yesterday afternoon in city hall as part of annual Student Government day ac tivities sponsored by the Elks lodge. In other action, the student council unanimously passed a resolution endorsing a '20-year plan to develop a civic center in an area adjacent to the Jackson county courthouse. The proposed ordinance wouid have enjoined area firms from polluting the air, threatening civil procedures in circuit court, and would have become effective imme diately. One councilman expressed concern over possible effect of the ordinance on fruit growers, pointing out that or chards were "vital to the growth and prosperity" of Jackson county. Another student said "the major contribution" to air pollution came from the mills. In referring the measure back to committee, a councilman said he hoped that in a few years ihe industry would wive its own problem by bet ter utilization of wood by products. Conaressman In Medford r'nntri.tumun Rnhprl It 'nn r i n ..i n linhprl R Duncan of Medford, repre sentative of the Fourth dis trict, will arrive here by plane at 0:30 p.m. Saturday from San Francisco and will be available for constituents to talk with him at his home, 1500 Terrace dr., after 7 p.m. He plans to go there Imme diately after he deplanes t" spend Saturday evening Inter viewing constituents of this area. This will be Duncan's second visit to Oregon since taking up his congressional duties in January The congressman will con tinue to the coast area Sun day, were he has arranged a series of "open office inter views" to give Fourth district Tribune FRIDAY, APRIL 26, 1963 btto, who said "I was standing about a mile from the scene of the blast when the concussion shook the shovel out of my hand and knocked me to the floor." (UPI) Consider At the Student Govern ment day banquet at Hedrick Junior High school last night, an audience of more than 2S0 heard the speaker. Dr. Fran cis Nickerson, discuss "law from the point of view of education." Cynicism For Law Dr. Nickerson, chairman of college-high school relations committee of the state system of higher education, said that his generation has raised Its children "with cynicism for law." "My age group operates on a double-standard," he said. "We obey the big laws, but continually violate the little ones." Youngsters notice these things, the speaker said, and begin to sec adults not for whal they say, but for what they are. "If you don't like this world we have made," Dr. Nickerson told the students, "go out and design your own." But the speaker urged the youngsters to Institute their reforms within the frame work of established law. "Law is the basis of free dom," he said, "and freedom can exist only where people assume responsibility for whal they do." ASSESSMENT APPROVED Salem iliPli-Thc Senate to day approved a measure al lowing counties to assess tim ber lands in Eastern Oregon. Robert Duncan To Ra Saturday for roi.t.,.t an nnnnrlimii .. In residents an opportunity to ; bring their problems directly to him. He will be in the Cur ry county courthouse at Gold Beach at 10 a.m. Sunday, and i In the office of Attorney Mati i rice Engolgau, 217 North Ad ' ams St.. Coquille, at 2 p.m. Monday, April 20. office 1 hours for constituents will start at 9:30 a.m. In the Leb- anon city hall and at i p.m in the Albany Chamber of Commerce offices. Press Conference Planned Duncan also will visit the Labor Temple In Coos Bjy at I 4:30 p.m Sunday and hold a press conference at 5:30 p m I Sunday at 3600 Edgewoud dr., i North Bend. His Monday schedule will 58th Year Price 10 Cents No. 31 WEATHER . I rOMECAftl: BonU clearlnE to nitbt. Inert ait rig cloudlntM tuturdav. Rain halurrtav after noon and night. A UU1 warm er Saturday. Low tonight 38. High Saturday 63. Htghait Voaterday t Lowwt Tkis Morning , Is Prtc. to 10 a.m. Today ...... ,35 Our Skies Tonight Suftitt today . y-.as p.m. sunrise tomorrow fl:l,1 a.m. M null lot (outfit'. lo w p.m. Mr it Quarter , April 30 The planet, Mercury, it now crowing dimmer and moving nearer the Sun. It will re- I appear as a morning planet In June, north of where Venui and Jupiter are now seen. Maximum Speed Limits Approved Salem - OIPD The House voted for maximum sneed limits today In an effort to curb the state's rising high way death toll. Rep. C. R. Hoyt (R-Corval-I Is) said In an age when autos cBn go so fast "we need some thing to hcln us disciDline ourselves." Rep. James Redden (D-Med-ford) said in other stales with speed limits motorists heed tnem, out in Oregon they take advantage of a "five or ten mile edge." Oregon has the basic rule, which reaulrcc a driver- tn drive at a safe and reasonable speed that will enable him to keep his car under control and not endanger others. In addition. Orenon hiahwavs have designated, or suggested speeds, but they are not legal speeds. Speakers said the bill would retain the basic rule, but put a top on it. The bill, which passed 35 18, would set a maximum of 75 miles on freeways and 85 miles on highways. It also would increase the residential area speed limit from 25 to 30 miles and 'he school zone speed from 20 to 25 miles. Interviews I 1..I..J. - 1 include a luncheon address j before the Albany Chamber j of Commerce. Duncan will come to Med j ford from San Francisco, 1 where he Is speaking on I "Trade Prospects for Lum I bcr." He will address a lunch eon meeting of the Western Forest Industries association at the St. Francis hotel. About 1200 members of the associa tion from Oregon, Washlng I ton and California will be in San Francisco for the annual convention of the association. Duncan also will attend I meetings Saturday afternoon with the WFIA committees representing the O and C counties. i r
