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Newspaper Page TextPrice 10 Cents Weather Medford Tribune FORECAST: Some cloudlntu at umci. but tor the moil part fair through Monday mornini. Hjjh today it. Low toBUht Jl. High Monday SS-JI. Hlheit Vaatorday. .. "ss Lowest Yesterday 17 No Precipitation. United Preai International Full Leased Wire United frtaa International Full Leaead wire 56 Pages Six Section. MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, APRIL 28, 1963 No. 33 58th Year Subscribers and 10:30 in. Sunday, pedal wmaiMH aarrlw. khri.rk.Jin.. Cl.ll l iMhlUNUICY Jllll Firmly In Power, Karriman Says Premier Said Willing To Cool Off Crisis Moscow -WPD- U.S. trouble- shooter Averell Harnman aid Saturday he found Sov iet Premier Nikita S. Khrush chev still firmly in power and apparently willing to help cool off the crisis in Laos. He said the Soviet leader, during their three and a half hour conference Friday, gave no hint he is thinking of re tirement. "He gave me every indica tion he was very vigorous and strong as captain of the Sov iet ship of state," Harnman told newsmen. He said he and Khrushchev discussed "almost every sub ject" of joint concern to Rus sia and the United States, but concentrated on Laos. The U. S. Undersecretary of State said he straightened Khruschev out on some false impressions of American in tentions in Laos. He said he emphasized the need for the International Control commission to be free to investigate any cease fire violations in Laos and the desirability for close liaison among the U. S., Soviet and British ambassadors there. He said Khrushchev 'ac cepted in principle the need to do this," But he did not know what practical steps the Russians would take to re store peace. Harriman said he would fly to London today to talk to British officials before re turning to Moscow on Mon day. Violent Explosion Kills Three Men Rocket Center, W. Vi. -mt - Throw men were killed and 11 others injured Satur day when a devastating ex plosion tore through the Alle gany ballistics laboratory, one of the chief sources of fuel supply for the Polaris missile. The thunderous blast, which occurred about 3:30 a.m., in a chemical process ing building, shot flames 400 feet into the air, unloosed an atomic - looking cloud of smoke and rumbled the ground for distances up to 10 miles. The facility is operated by the Hercules Powder compa ny for the U. S. Navy. Its number one product is solid fuel propellant and it was one of the prime developers of the Polaris missile. On May 22, 1961, a blast demolished another chemical processing building and killed nine workers. That occurred during the day shift. Costa Rica Declares State of Emergency San Jose, Costa Rica - OIPD -Congress unanimously adopt ed a resolution urging the President to declare the na tion in a state of national emergency Saturday due to widespread crop 'damage caused by falling ash from Volcano Irazu. NWS(f)BR!EfS CUBAN DEFECTIONS DELAY u;.mi UTIi - Several refuqeei arrmng nere irom nav- na Saturday night reported freighter American Surveyor by the defection oi Cuban omcera ign.a s. ... set. The American Surveyor late today and arrive at Port fcvtrgiaaea. ri... Miami, with 800 more Cuban refugees. RICKOVER TO TESTIFY IN Portsmouth, N. H. - m - "ice sam. nym-n "-; who is credited with developing the atomic ' testify Monday before a court of inquiry investigating the Thresher tragedy. JORDANIAN STUDENTS SEIZE EMBASSY Cairo 1PI Some five hundred Jordanian students in Iraq seised the Jordanian embassy in Baghdad Saturday, destroyed pictures of King Hussein, and vowed to remain in ""building until the monarch falls, the Middle East New, Agency (MENA) reported today. STORM DELAYS EVEREST - P" - four days has delayed plans of an American !"' '. our o r Moii.ioei Mount Everett, expedition leedert reported Saturday. trartaM na LHHArtu in iin.i.... Minuter and Chancellor-designate Ludwi? Erhard intervened gtotrylohead off e melal industry strike that could fhreaien the future of hi. "economic miracle." a TO JOIN IN SEARCH - The bathyscape Trieste is shown as it arrived aboard the USS Point Defiance at Boston. The bathy scape will join the massive hunt for the Balanced Budget Presented To City Citizens Committee A balanced proposed pre-1 liminary 1963-64 budget for the city of Medford, with all operating costs off-set by an ticipated revenues, was pre sented Friday night to the citizens' budget committee. Estimated general fund rev enues and expenditures are matched at $930,476, which represents an increase of $30, 518 over the estimates for the 1962-63 budget. The administrative budget, which includes all city funds, totals $3,033,788. This total, however, excludes budgets for the water department and the public library. In his budget message to the committee. City Manager Robert Duff said that a total of $208,703 had been elimin ated from budget requests of the various departments in order to blance revenues and expenditures. Duff, however, defended the original departmental re quests, noting they were "log ical and would have provided increased service and greater efficiency or both." As he had last year, the Plane of Alleged Bomb Raider Seized Washington - IUPD - The Federal Aviation Agency Saturday night seized a plane owned by freelance photo grapher Alexander Rorke who said he staged a bomb ing raid over Havana Thurs- rlav The plane, a two-engined ! Beechcraft, was taken into custody at Meridian, Conn. A spokesman said the plane was owned by Rorke and Geoffrey Sullivan, a commer cial pilot. Sullivan, was questioned by Federal Bureau of Investi gation agents Saturday but the FBI refused to comment on whether the Beechcraft was the same plane used in the raid. FREIGHTER mat oepanure 01 uw u. from Cubs has been delayed is scheduled to Hare Havens THRESHER PROBE CLIMBERS Heavy snowfall during .. , pt UFTSt. DISPUTE - . r nuclear powered submarine Thresher, which vanished April 10 with 129 men aboard. (UPI) city manager again called the attention of the committee to the "necessity for developing new sources of revenue for the city." "The ad valorem tax levies cannot be further increased without seriously affecting the property owners' ability to pay," he warned. The budget message con tained happy news for prop erty owners. Duff said it was estimated that this year there will be a 2.1 mill reduction in the total city tax levies, which is represented by a re duction of $31,481 in the amounts to be levied. The budget also reduces the general debt of the city by $291,082. Duff said. The city's outstanding debt at the end of the 1963-64 fiscal year will be $2,742,845, excluding im provement bonds issued-.for Bancroft projects, he said. Contained in the proposed budget are four major capital improvement programs: arte rial streets, storm sewers, park improvements and air port development. The city manager also call- l ed on the budget committee to give "serious considera tion" tc implementation of planning studies already pre pared for the civic center plan, the school-park plan, the public building plan, and to downtown development. A series of meetings will be scheduled in the weeks ahead, during which time the budget committee will go over individual department budg ets and make its recommenda tions. The first of these meet ings, which are open to ine Publ!c' wi JUfSdfhy' ADril 30. at 7:30 p.m. in the city council chambers on the second floor of the city hall. John Nuich was elected chairman of the committee and Dr. Thomas Anderson, secretary. Butte Falls Plans Fire Department Butte Falls - A meeting will be held in the Butte Falls community hall at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, May 1. to organ ize a town fire department, according to an announce ment from the Butte Falls city council. A representative nf the Medford fire department will alL. nn nivri nf 3 firp HPD3rt- . rt m.rhanir r,f nr;an- :iiza,ion A sp0esman sajfi gat- lirday Butte Falls has an old Medford lire truck, but not an organized group of volun- teers. The city council hopes to reduce the present fire in- h m beUer orRanizcd fir0 S0systen,E P J i i . uJ By Haitian Police New York - (UPC - The Brit ish embassy in Port Au Prince. Haiti said today by telephone that Bernard Died- rich, correspondent there for Time magazine ana me as- sociated I Press , h., ibeen ar- Time magazine and the As- TO RESUME RELATIONS Cairo, U.A.R. -Wit- The United Arab Republic and Tiirkov will resume dinlomat ic relations severed since 1961. the U A R foreign ministry announced Saturday I County Welfare Budget $9,000 Above Estimate Jackson county's share of the local welfare program for 1963-64 is $209,026, according to the budget approved Friday by the state welfare commis sion at its monthly meeting in Salem. The total welfare budget for the county is $1,455,640 of which $758,880 will be from federal funds and $487,- 734 from the state. The Jackson county budget committee approved a local budget for the welfare depart ment of $200,260. Approxi mately $9,000 is needed to meet the budget. To Proles! Increase Members of the Jackson county court Friday didn't know where the additional $9,000 would come from. "I'll tell you this, I intend to protest the increase. The S200.260 allocation we in cluded in our county budget was based on estimates from the state office. Now they want $209,026!" County Judge Earl M. Miller said. The $209,206 was the fi nal amount approved by the welfare commission. The $200,000 was an estimate, it wis explained. The total wel fare budget for the county is $1 455,640 of which $758,880 will be from federal funds and $487,734 from the state. David Kuhnz, local welfare administrator, said he hoped to receive an explanation Monday or Tuesday from the state office. Matching Funds Decline Kuhnz said he doesn't know where the increases would come in the commis sion's budget. Federal match ing funds to the state have dropped about 2 per cent since Oregon's economy is consid ered good, he said. This means increased state and county al locations. The budget for medical as sistance to the aged is being re-worked so nursing home costs can be paid out of it, Kuhnz said. This will make the program better utilized. However, there is not much county money in this cate gory, he added. All Oregon Goes On Daylight Time All of Oregon went on day light saving time today, with !l hri,,r set ahead nnr hour. churchgoers were remind- erj that services will take place on daylight time today, and Rogue valley school district i officials reminded parents and studeits that school buses will operate on daylight time start ing Monday. Present Oregon law calls for daylight time to end the last Saturday in September, but if a Senate bill approved Friday by the House is signed by the governor, daylight time will be extended through the last Sunday in October, the same day it ends in other Pacific Coast states. . " PEACE TO i Vientiane, Laos - 1IPP - Pre mier Prine Souvanna Phou ma flew Saturday to Commu nist Pathct Lao headquarters to discuss peace with his half brother "Red Prince'' Soupha nouvonz but ran into politi cal demands that could wreck the coalition government. Russell Osborn, Ashland Theater Manager, Slain Body Found on Living Room Floor Ashland - Russell Osborn, 50, operator of the Varsity theatre here for the past three years, was found dead on the living room floor of his home at 725 Walker ave. late Saturday afternoon. He had been murdered, Jackson County District Attorney Alan B. Holmes reported. Osborn's body was discov ered by his half-brother, Roy Carier, of Yreka, shortly be fore 5 p.m. There was a gun shot wound on the right side of his face, Holmes said, and his hands and neck were bound. A portion of a skin diving mask had been placed over his face. Bulletin Issued An all points bulletin has been put out for Osborn's car, a 1963 model, which is miss ing. Police are also seeking the whereabouts of Harold J. Bibeau Jr., 21, who is report ed to have resided with Os born at the Walker ave. home at some time. We don't have a real sus pect," Holmes said, however, but he added, "We know be yond any question of a doubt that it was murder." Osborn leased the Varsity theatre from Oregon - Cali fornia Theatres, Inc. He closed the theatre himself Friday night, and accompan ied by the theatre projection ist, made a bank deposit, it was reported. Call Attempted Then when Osborn failed to show up at the theatre Saturday afternoon, the thea tre chain was notified. Car ier, who is manager of the Broadway theatre in Yreka, attempted to call Osborn. Then when he got no answer, he drove to Ashland and dis covered the body. Holmes reported that Os born appeared to have died sometime after midnight Fri day. An autopsy has been order ed. It is scheduled to be per formed some time today. Holmes said there may have been other wounds and it was not immediately known if the facial gunshot wound was the fatal one. This was the second murder in Ashland in a little over three years. On March 15, 1960, Mrs. Marian Stella Hamilton, 40, of 2700 East Main St., was found murder ed in her ranch home about two miles southeast of the city. Klamath Man Wins Out-of-Court Award San Francisco - (UPt - Rob ert G. Narramore, 31, Klam ath Falls, Ore., Friday won an out-of-court award of $391, 667, one of the largest in1 Cali fornia history, Narramore, a former South ern Pacific brakeman, was paralyzed as the result of a fall from a box car in 1980 when he was tripped by a wire strung across a spur track in Canby, Modoc coun ty, Calif. Sports Bulletins Walnut. Calif. - HID -Al Oerter broke his own world record in the great est discus series of all times, ihe Arisona State university mile relay teem set a new world mark of 3:04.5. and C. K. Yang opened his bid for a new decathlon record Saturday in the Mt. San Antonio re lays. Oerter, who two weeks ago turned from e computer to ihe discus to start prac tice, threw ihe sphere 205 feei. 5' 2 inches to break his year-old record by 7 inches. He threw the dis cus five times over 200 feei on ihe series an un precedented achievement. Pullman. Wash - Iff -The University of Oregon Ducks took a dual track meet from Washington State university, (7 to 57 Saturday in Pullman. NATIONAL Cincinnati 1 0 Houston 0 3 2 OToole (4-1) and Ed wards; Johnson. McMahon (9) and Baieman. LP-John-on (1-3). Rousing Welcome Due On Arrival in Russian sHVW LssMH SaHlSLSlii WW ksWW i iB 1 1 wK' WW ! Bsi HL ' jiiiVttsftftw i m l'iI7IF';EZP!r CASTRO IN RUSSIA - Cuban Premier Fidel Castro, right, wearing a Russian cos-sack-style hat, and Deputy Premier Anas tas Mikoyan, left, have warm smiles for each other after Castro arrived by Russian jet at Murmansk, a northern Russian part. Italians Expected To Cast Ballots For Communists Rome - (im - Great sum bers of Italians In their Sun day best were expected to attend Roman Catholic mass today and then go from the church to the polls - to vote Communist. That is, unless they have changed their minds since the last time. But if they have, it will not be because of the sermons of the parish priest. It will be because of Khru shchev and Mao, Stalin and Hungary, Socialist Leader Pietro Nennl and the car: and washing machines of the "Ital ian miracle. Some Quit Parly And not the smallest share of the credit will go to the tinv patrol of ex-comrades who have quit the party and are now campaigning for the Socialists or Social Democrats with the crystal clearness of men who have conquered Communism within them selves. The strange to non-Italians phenomenon of peo ple who are Catholics in pri vate life and Communists in politics has marked all of It aly's postwar years. Although 99.6 per cent of Italians are nominal Catholics, this coun try's Communist party is the largest In the Western world, with some 1,700,000 card holders and a vote of 6,704, 000 In the last elections in 1958. Nearly all of the party members and voters are nom inal Catholics. A considerable part of them are also occa sional or even regular church goers. Barred From Church The late Pope Pius XII in 1949 excommunicated all Communists barring them from the sacraments of the church. No Communist could be married in church, receive holy communion or be spon- sor at a baptism. Nothing happened. Communist vote kept i oln,! up. The phenomenon has been variously explained. The most radical explanation is that Italians are one of the world's least believing nations. Reli gion, to them, is Just a set of ceremonies, mere outward ritual, as it was in the emi nently practical times of an cient Rome. Coal Mine Explosion Under Investigation Dola. W. Va. - Him - An in- i vesication was mapped Sat ,h. . H.i.rmin. iho ranae ni an exolosion that killed 22 coal Zer. wotl" 'utes before they were to go !off duty in the Cllnchficld Compass No 2 mine The Investigation is expect - cd to take several days and will be followed by a public hesring. sccordlng to Timms The man in the center is unidentified. Castro, who arrived a day earlier than expected, is due in Moscow today. He is expected to spend about a month in the Soviet Union. (UPI) U.S. Still Work With Cuban Refugee Groups Washington - IUPD - A high i with Individual Cuban refu. State Department official told Cuban refugees today the United Slates Is still willing to work with them In splinter groups or in a new exile or ganization, should thev over come their differences and create one. But Edwin M. Martin, as sistant Secretary of State for Latin American affairs, ex pressed doubts that the U.S. community of Cuban exiles will find the task of unity any easier today than it ever was. Evidence Confirmed Martin's carefully phrased remarks tended to confirm strong evidence that the ad ministration has decided neither to support only nor to oppose the creation of a new Cuban exile organization or of any exile government in exile, which President Ken nedy has called "imprudent." The State Department of ficial, said the recent admin istration clash with the exile leadership In Miami docs not "in any way change our gen eral interest in the problems of the refugees or our inter est In continuing relations Third Body Found In Boating Tragedy Miami fUPD Authorities re ported Saturday night they had found the body of a third victim of a gay boat-hopping party that ended in tragedy when a yacht hit a rock at high speed near Bimini In the Bahamas. The luxury yacht Jerry Mar hit a shoal late Friday night, 60 miles cast of Miami, and 23 survivors of the tragedy reported at once that Dr. Ro land Phillips, Coral Gables physician who was a host for the Dartv. and Mrs. Tov Pcrlc j obcrdorf, wife of a Cleveland manufacturer, were lost. I It wasn't until Saturday ' night after an Inquest Into the accident by British au- thorities that the body of W. II. Barnard, 41, a Miami in dustrial distributing firm president, was found. Hood River Youth Believed Out of Area Hood River -WD- The Hood River county sheriff's office said Friday that a teen-age boy missing since last Sunday from his home south of here ""' "VI - ,ne area' The office said that the bl - u ". - 1 Akins, 16, Parkdale, I 'T ' k" W,,e l. notc attaehed sayn he lelt he ,hould leave home and did w""' "wjmvw iu mm 1 atiCT nim- The boy was the object of 1 an intensive air and ground 1 search. t Willing to gee groups, or, if a larger, unified group should emerge, with that." Martin noted that Cuban exiles in the States have long had dt rulty In unifying. He ssid probably would not "become any easier." The word circulating m of ficial Washington circles to day Is that the administration will maintain contacts with exile leaders st all levels, but will not take the Initiative in any effort to re-mobilize the exile movement. San Diego Woman New Mrs. America Miami Beach, Fla. -(0PD- A statuesque brunette from Cali fornia was crowned Mrs. Americs Saturday night to end the week-long pageant of the 51 top homemakers of America. Mrs. Marilyn Mitchell, 35. stunning in a lime - colored full - length evening gown, crossed her hands In front of her chest when judges select ed her from among the 10 finalists. Mrs. Mitchell is the wife of s Pacific Telephone com pany executive, R. Lyle Mitch ell, San Diego, and the moth er of three children. Injunction Against Picketing Refused Portland - IUM - Federal Judge Gus Solomon has up held Teamsters Union picket ing of retail markets in the Salem and Lebanon areas. Solomon said he was fol lowing a court precedent in refusing to Issue an injunc tion against the picketing. Youth Admits Guilt in Slaying of Medford Man Reno, Nev. - (CPU - Lester I Barrett. The Nevada Supreme Morford pleaded guilty Friday to a charge of murder in con nection with the shooting of a honeymooning husband and the rape of his bride, and was i turned over to a three-Judge panel which will determine his fate. Trial Siaris Monday Morford, 10, Santa Rosa, , - was to go on trial in j Waimrje county ditrct court i next Monday for the fatal shooting of Jack Foster, 23, 1 Medford. Ore., last Aug. 22 , near 1-aKe lanoe. Mrs. rosier told police Morford then dUmPd ,he h0dy 'r0m h" car and forced her to accom- pany him on a tour of the i laxe. sne sam sne was rapea j twice before she could jump from the car, Morford made his surprise 'pica before Dlst. Judge John 4 Castro Capital Greeting By Khrushchev Due Bearded Cuban Radio Moscow Joint in Praise Moscow -TOTD- Cubsn Pre- ' mier Fidel Castro headed for Moscow by train Saturday night for a bear hug greeting by Premier Nikita S. Khrush chev and one of the most en thusiastic welcomes Russia has ever given a visiting for eign leader. The Soviet capital already was gaily bedecked with flags and slogans for the forthcoming May day cele- uinuvua, wu v.asm a mam moth Red Square welcome was expected to ecllnse those given to Prime Minister Ja- waharlal Nehru. President Tito and Chinese Communist leader Mao Tie-tung. Long Distance Call The bearded Cuban flew . Into Murmansk early Satur day on a flight from Cuba in a Soviet TU-114 transport. He received a "viva Fidel" wel come from waiting dignitaries and a long distance csll from Khrushchev who told him: "The whole Soviet people are waiting,. for you. I am looking forward to seeing you in Moscow tomorrow." Diplomats here said the un precedented propaganda out- pouring on the eve of the visit was partly an attempt to 1 toe up Castro solidly on the aide ol the Kremlin in the Sine-Soviet Ideological aiapute. ff lueceaaftl. they ssid. It could signal greater Soviet in fluence in Latin America. First Deputy Premier Anas tea Mikoyan, who greeted Castro Jn the northern Rus sian port, accompanied him to Moscow by train. Castro, who plugged away on the theme of Soviet-Cuban friendship on his arrival, was expected in Moscow at ap proximately 5:30 p.m. today (7:30 a.m. PDT) Radio Joins In The government newspaper Izvestla devoted two of its six pages to the Castro visit and used such headlines as: 'Welcome dear friend and brother." "The Soviet people hearti ly, enthusiastically receive the welcome guest from the island of freedom." -"Long live Cuba!" Greetings were reported from throughout the country. Radio Moscow weighed in with more praise and Cuban music. The Russisns tend to regard Castro as a David standing up against the U. S. Goliath. If there was any trace of bit terness, between Castro and Khrushchev over the missile pull out last October it was submerged by the outpouring of mutual admiration. ROYALTY RETURNS Hong Kong -0JPD The Duke and Duchess of Kent returned to Hong Kong Saturday after attending the wedding of Princess Alexandra in Lon don. The duke, an army lieu tenant, Is assigned here. . Court will appoint two other district judges to hear testi mony in the case, determine the degree of guilt and the penalty. Mrs. Foster said she and her husbard were kidnaped by a young gunman at their Reno motel. After the shoot ing and her escape, Morford was arrested white driving the Foster car at a service station at Silver Springs, east of Carson City. Armed Wiih Pistol Morford, a dark-haired itin erant farm worker, was arm ed with a .22 caliber pistol. Under questioning by Diat. Atty. William Ragglo, Mor ford Indicated he may have been under the Influence of glue fumes when he accosted the couple at their motet at 4 a.m. and forced them to go with him.