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Gordon Cooper is shown as he went through his third simulated flight test Cabinet Shakeups Hit Syria, Iraq; Trouble Seen for UAR Syrian Premier Resigns in Wake Of Student Riots By United Press International Government shakeups hit Syria and Iraq Saturday, fore shadowing possible trouble ahead for the proposed new United Arab Republic.-. In Damascus Syrian Pre mier Salah Bitar quit in the wake of a week of rioting by students and cabinet resigna tions. ' - . . , ' Another government crisis forced iie,.rejjnation of the cabinet in Iraq. -V i.'--V - Bitar quit In the face of demonstrations by supporters of U.A.R. President Gamal Abdel Nasser, guiding light of the proposed new U.A.R. to be composed of the present Unit ed Arab Republic (Egypt), Syria and Iraq. He ran into opposition because he had in sisted that Syria remain au tonomous within the new fed eration. Baghdad radio in broadcast ing the cabinet resignation said Premier Maj. Gen. Ah med Hassan Bakr had been asked by the national council for the revolutionary com mand to form a new Iraqi gov ernment. The government had been in power since Febru ary when Premier Abdel Ka rim Kassem was overthrown and executed. Tilo Talks . Nasser, menwhile, was aboard a yacht en route to the Adriatic Island of Brioni for four days of talks with Yugoslav President Josip Broz Tito. A Syrian delegation that went to Cairo for crisis talks last Wednesday was reported piqued by Nasser's failure to abandon his boat trip irom Aleiers to Yugoslavia In fa vor of a quick flight to Cairo for a conference. The Syrian crisis seemed to be the more serious at tne moment, inasmuch as the pre mier himself was forced out there. Bitar was succeeded by Culture Minister Samt Al.Jun- dl who heads a middle of the road government. HEVSCBRIEFS AVIATRIX BEGINS FINAL LEG Suva. Fifl Iilands - m - Santa Monica housewife Mrs. Belty Miller took off Saturday on the final leg of hr at. tempt lo become tha first woman to fly alone from Cali fornia to Australia. SECOND ASSAULT ON EVEREST PLANNED Katmandu. Nepal - I0PII - Two members of the American Everest expidition plan to leave today for a second assault en the 29.028-foot summit, message from their base camp said Saturday. RUSK. DOBRYNIN TALK DISARMAMENT Washington - (CW - Secretary of Slate Dean Rusk and Soviet Ambessedor Analoly F. Dobrynln discussed the dls armament deadlock Saturday against background of in creasing official gloom here over future eaitweii relations. MASSIVE FIGHTING REPORTED IN CUBA Miami - PV- Cuban Premier Fidel Castro s ground and air forces fought a massive action against anti-Castro rebels in Cuba's Matansas Province in recent weeks which left 400 dead on both sides, exile sources reported Satur day night. Nelson Urges Curb On Atomic Testing At Memorial Dinner Predicting that someone in desperation is going to fire the atomic bomb if the testing continues, U. S. Senator Gay lord Nelson (D-Wis.), speak ing before the 13th annual Roosevelt Idemoriar dinner here Saturday night, pleaded for a curb on atomic testing, a mutual reduction of the in vestment of armaments, pres ervation of this nation's nat ural resources, an increase in appropriations for education, and a realistic look at the automation problem. Addressing a crowd of 300 at Hedrick Junior High school, Senator Nelson predicted that President Roosevelt, if he were here today', would not advocate the same solution te today's problems that he of fered during his. four terms in office. , "The approach to the prob lem of peace has to be a dif ferent approach since the ad- Soviets Announce Plans fQr Tests Moscow - ItJPD - The Soviet Union Saturday announced plans for new rocket tests in the Pacific, possibly as a pre lude to. the flight of the first woman cosmonaut. ' ' ' The official Tass news, agen cy said the tests would be conducted between May 25 and July IS "with the aim of furthering the conquest of space. Soviet scientists will test "perfected variants of carri er rockets for space flight purposes," the announcement said. Western observers In Mos cow speculated that the Rus sians might be planning to check flaws in current mod els of their space rockets as well as to seek development of new ones for future man ned space flights. The Soviets have hinted several times ear lier this year that they will seek to place a woman in orbit. In Cape Canaveral, Fla., Friday. Cooper will make his ; 22 orbit flight from here Tuesday. (UPI) vent of the atomic bomb," the speaker declared. "The con tinued testing of the atomic bomb, in view of a possible break through, carries with it the danger of placing the bomb in irresponsible hands, such as those of Castro.'' : The. more testing, the more people will have the bomb, the senator from Wisconsin warned. "When China gets the bomb, we'd better be pre pared to meet an agreement with all nations of the world, he said. "If we continue to explode these bombs we are going to create a level of pollution that no one can adequately pre dict. There's not a single sci entist in the world today who knows the effect this will have on the fauna and the flora of the world," the speak er ventured. "What we should be doing is investing more in education of our youths ic enable them to help raise the standards of the people of the world. How long Ire we in this country going to believe that a nation which spends $56.2 billion in national defense can't afford to invest in the solution of domestic problems? We have no greater responsibility than the education of our youth. We must give every youth all the education that his capaci ty can absorb," Nelson chal lenged his audience. Referring to the 900,000 youths who have dropped out of high school and now com pose an army of people unpre pared for any job, the speak er explained. "There is no common labor market left in this country. We should be doing something about this problem and we aren't even talking about it." 'There is not stagnation in America, there is dislocation. That is the problem. We are making changes today in five or 10 years for which we were allowed 100 years for adjust ment during earlier periods of history. Men are being re placed by automation and they must-be trained for some thing else." I he senator condemned the destruction of natural re sources, and the pollution of our lakes, rivers and under ground water. 'We arc destroying our natural resources at a rate more rapid that that of any nation in the history of the world," the speaker a a i d, warning that action must be taken in the next 10 or 15 years or the cause will be lost. He asked for an appro priation of $500 million, in stead of $60 million to save the natural habitat. Nelson was introduced to the audience by Congressman Hubert B. Duncan, who call ed for leadership to "dissolve the ominous cloud of war hanging over the world to day." State Representative James Redden, acting as master of ceremonies, read a tribute to Mrs. Roosevelt, received In a telegram from President Kennedy. PTA Petition Asks Walkways for City School Children The Roosevelt school Par ent Teacher association last week unanimously approved resolution asking the city of Medford to study, and con struct if the need is deter mined, sidewalks or gravelled paths used by children going to and from school. 1 A similar resolution was to be presented to the Hoover PTA meeting Friday. .. . ., Mrs. Alice Rutter, program chairman for the Roosevelt PTA, presented the resolution, which was drafted by James McGoodwin, local 1 attorney who has children attending Roosevelt school. v The resolution ' asks the city to survey the necessity for safety sidewalk areas along principal streets which serve as avenues for students. It also asks the city to con struct safety sidewalk, areas if the necessity for them is determined. . -'., Roosevelt PTA members pointed out that the present proposal is not necessarily for paved sidewalks, but for paths or gravelled walks, the loca tion of the walks would be determined by the city, and established at public expense. PTA members feel that for the safety of school children and drivers, sidewalks or paths should be located on several streets in the vicinity of schools. Many paved street areas do not have sidewalks or paths. The problem, PTA officials noted, is accentuated in areas with unpaved streets. There are no walkways in many of the more concentrated school age children areas in the city. A sidewalk proposal was defeated by Medford voters some years ago following a survey by City Engineer Ver non Thorpe and Leonard B. Mayfield, now superintendent of Medford schools. Basements Flooded In Downtown Area Two downtown stores in Medford received water in basements due to Friday night's big downpour of rain and the torn up street. F, W. Woolworth company, 39 North Central ave., report ed six Inches of water cov ered the basement after pour ing in through the exposed dirt under the street pave ment. The sump pumps re moved much of the water, and store personnel were able to shift stored goods to avoid damage to them, the manager reported. Some merchandise in the basement of Hubbard Broth' era store, 335 East Main St., reported water seeped Into their basement covering the floor ao a depth of 1 to lVi inches. The sump pump In the elevator shaft took care of most of it although bottom layers of goods such as nails and some sporting goods were soaked, store officials said. Calm Returns To Birmingham After Integration Pact Washington Lauds Peace Agreement Birmingham, Ala. - IUPII - The Negro section of Bir mingham Saturday was hard ly recognizable as the same area where just a week ago police and 3,000 Negro dem onstrators locked in four hours of pitched battle. A weeks time and an in tegration agreement worked out . Friday replaced chaos with calm. Shoppers both white and Negro went normally about their business in the downtown area, and the church that served as a ral lying point for the thousands of demonstrators last week attracted only a few Negroes Saturday. The agreement, which the city's leading business group said was necessary to pre vent an "imminent explo sion," drew praise from offi cial Washington, and resent ment on the part of many here. Klan To Meet A Ku Klux Klan meeting was called for Saturday night in the suburb of Bessemer to discuss the agreement. The Klan has shrunken to a shad ow of its once powerful self and has not been regarded as major force in the South in years. The Negroes also planned a mass meeting to review the agreement, which they con cede is merely a starting point and not an end answer to the decades of segregation. We don t feel that we are through with Birmingham yet," 'said Wyatt T. Walker, one of the leaders of the lo cal desegregation drive. But Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., in announcing the integration agreement Friday, said he had "been deeply im pressed by the quality of the white persons of the commu - nity who worked so dilligont ly for solution to o.tr mutual problems." He said he felt sure the city could now look forward to "continued prog ress." 1 . . , Rogue River Sets School Levy Vote Rogue River - Voters of the Rogue River School district will vote from 2 to 8 p.m. Monday, May 13, on the ad vertised levy of $243,410. This is an apparent Increase of $29,000 over last year's budget, according to Supt. John B. Harr. 'The receipts items which cannot be shown on the budg et, plus the increase of the assessed valuation of the dis trict, will, in- the opinion of the budget board, leave the tax millage at approximately its present level," Harr said. "The lack of any final ac tion by the legislature makes the exact estimate of these offset receipt Items difficult, but they should total in ex cess of $50,000, lowering the levy to the anticipated level, he explained. The increase In the operat ing budget is the result of six factors: increased prices of supplies. Increased enroll- ments, teachers' salaries, pur chase of a new bus, major re pair to the primary building roof, and increased adoption of elementary text books, Harr said. Sentencing Slated For Convicted Man Reno, Nev. rUPD The sen tencing hearing of confessed killer Lester Morford will be gin June 3 in Washoe district court before a panel of three district Judges. Morford, 19. of Santa Rosa, Calif., admitted the fatal shooting of Jack Foster, Med ford, Ore., near here last year. The Judges will hear evi dence in the case, determine the degree of guilt and set the penalty, which could be execution in the gas chamber. Morford was arrested near Carson City last August short ly after he kidnaped Foster and his bride of two days from the parking lot of downtown Reno motel. Inves tigators said he forced the couple to drive around the Lake Tahoe area, then shot Foster twice and raped his wife twice before she could escape from the car. Pearson Promises Sanada Will Install Nuclear Arms Haiti-Dominican Republic Conflict Nears Settlement OAS Team To Visit Troubled Nations Washington - ftJPK - Settle ment of the Haiti-Dominican Republic conflict shaped up strpngly Saturday as the Or ganization of American States prepared another on-the-spot inquiry of the friction be tween them. OAS Council Chairman Gonzalo Faclo said the truce team was tentatively set to leave Washington late Mon day or early Tuesday. Both quarreling governments were said ready to cooperate with the delegation. Settlement became assured Friday night when Haitian Foreign Minister Rene Chal mers promised U. S. and OAS officials his government would allow the OAS team to return to Haiti and would give exit visas to all refugees. ' The truce team, which visit ed the two Caribbean coun tries last week, will first go to the Dominican Republic. Terms Ends The OAS representatives probably will be on the island of Hispaniola shared by Haiti and the Dominican Republic Thursday - the day when the constitutional six-year term of Haitian President Francois Duvalier Is scheduled to end Duvalier announced last May that he was reelected in 1 congressional elections despite the fact hi: term did not end until this year. During the last few months, Duvaller's enemies have been plotting to overthrow him be fore he takes the oath of of fice again. Duvalier plans to celebrate the start of his new term this week. , Diplomats here and in Haiti anticipate a new rash of at tempts to oust Duvalier dur ing the next few days. Despite the enlarged pow ers given by the OAS to its truce mission this week, the OAS team cannot Involve It self in the internal political affairs of the Island. By allowing his political en emies to leave the country as demanded by the Dominican government, Duvalier will speed up the final settlement of the 14-day old conflict. Special Education Budget Is Reduced Salem - (UPI) - A $786,000 reduction In the governor's proposed budget for special education programs in Ore gon schools was voted Sat urday afternoon by the Ways and Means education subcom mittee. The cuts, however, were offset by $1.1 million added earlier by the subcommittee to special programs for men tally retarded and physically handicapped children. -The basis for the cuts was a policy decision by the sub committee that the state should begin to withdraw from special programs. Rep. Stafford Hansel! (R Hcrmiaton) said the intent should be to stimulate local school districts to take over and carry on the special pro grams. The cuts were made in the governor's proposed $155 mil lion budget for schools and for the department of educa tion. Most of that sum is for basic school support, a sub ject the committee has not yet touched. Sports Bulletin Los Angeles - (IPfl - Left. hander Sandy Koufax pitched the second no-hitter of his cereer Saturday night In a tension packed 80 victory over the Sen Francisco Gi ants. He walked two men, but feced only 21 batters, as one of the two was erased on a double play. Houston 1, Chicago 0 ond game) (sec- jK' af. Vl ry;r 1 fife, hum GRIPS RAIL - Soviet citizen ran as nis acatn sentence before a firing squad Is prononu ced in Moscow. Russia, Saturday. A former scientific of ficial, Penkovsky admitted nessman Grcville Wynne in Intelligence service. Wynne term, tun) Red Scientist Gets Death Penalty for Pro-West Espionage Moscow - (UPD - The Soviet Supreme Court Saturday de creed the death penalty for playboy Russian scientist and eight years imprisonment for a British businessman who had admitted spying for the United States and Britain. In the windup of Russia's most sensational spy trial since the U2 case three years ago, the court also condemned the activities of several pres ent and former members of the U.S. and British embassies in Moscow and hinted that further action might be taken in the case. Greville Wynne, a business man who said he was tricked into spying by the British In telligence Service, was order ed to spend the first three years of his sentence in prison and the remainder in a cor rective labor camp. Oleg Penkovsky, a former Soviet scientific official, was ordered stripped of his med als before facing the firing squad. He had been . accused of high treason. The maximum penalty for both defendants was death and the minimum seven years. The prosecution Friday in winding up its case had ask ed a 10 - year' sentence for Wynne. Under Soviet law there Is no appeal from the court de cision. Both defendants had admit ted their guilt soon after the state of the trial last Tuesday, but Wynne said he had been made an unwilling accom Forgotten Sentinel Stands Amidst Live-Ammunition Yakima, Wash. -OJPD- There was Private Daniel J. Arthur peacefully guarding his own private make-believe mine field. And there, on all sides of him, were 40,000 soldiers on maneuvers armed with very real ammunition. "I was kind of happy being away from everybody," said Arthur, who had not been told to leave his guard post Thursday in Exercise Coulee Crest, largest peace time maneuver In the West since World War II. Jets swooped overhead and dropped fire bombs. "I tried lo wave at them but they didn't sec me," said Arthur today. "Then I real lied 1 had the whole army o Oleg Penkovsky grips dock collaborating with British busi spying, reportedly, for British received an eight-year prison i plice of British espionage agents. Penkovsky was de-. scribed by one witness as lover of wine, .women, and song who once drank cham pagne from a girl's slipper at a wild party in Paris. It was assumed in diplo matic circles here that with in a few years Wynne would be sent back to England, per haps In a diplomatic swap for a convicted Soviet spy. Inthe U2 reconnaissance plane case pilot Francis Gary Powers was released after two years in an exchange for the Sovi et's Col. Rudolph Abel, who had been sentenced for es pionage in the United States. More Rain Forecast For Medford Area Nearly an inch. of rain fell. In the Medford area Satur day, and more of the same is expected for' at least the next five days. A scries of storms is coming across the Pacific ocean at 24 to 3d hour inter vals, the Medford Weather bu reau reported. Precipitation for the ' 24 hour period ending at mid night last night totaled .88 of an Inch, bringing the total for May to 2.90, which is 2.39 inches above normal. The sea son total now is 26.33, or 8.92 inches above normal. Snow fell in the mountains early Saturday, but state po lice said the pavement was bare on most highways lead ing out of the valley. chasing me. Willi guns." Arthur couldn't dig in. Under Helmet 'The ground was Just too hard," he said. "I just got under my steel pot helmet and walled." It was not a long wait. Heavy artillery began ze roing in on Private Arthur. Then, Private Arthur saw what he thought were trucks approaching. They were tanks. The tanks opened up at him. Private Arthur hit the dirt. Eventually, the tanks rum bled off over the desert churn ing up dust on the Yakima firing range. A group of men approached. Began Firing Arthur got up happl'v, fired Two-Day Meeting Marked By Mood Of Conviviality Leaders Issue Joint Statement Hyannls Port, Mass. - (tW - Canadian Prime Minister Les ter B. Pearson promised Pres ident Kennedy Saturday he would install nuclear weap ons in Canada as fast as pos sible as part of North Ameri ca's defense against a sneak Russian atomic attack. However, both Kennedy and Pearson made . it clear that any arrangement with Canada would have to be 'consistent wilth Canadian parliamentary procedures." The two-day meeting be tween the two leaders was held In a convivial mood. It appeared certain to improve the relations between the United States and Canada which have been somewhat strained in recent months. As the conference ended, Kennedy and Pearson issued a 17-point communique in which they said a number of Jjnportant matters pend 1 n g between the two nations were frankly discussed In a spirit of good will and understand ing." . The acceptance ot U. S. nu clear warheads tor Canada's Bomarc missiles was the Is sue that triggered the down fall of former Canadian Prime Minister John Dlefenbaker'i government: Defense Commitments The U. S. State Department charged that Diefenbaker had not lfved up to defense com mitments. Diefenbaker accus ed the State Department of meddling In Canadian affairs. Shortly after the commu nique was issued, Pearson had lunch with Kennedy at his home overlooking Nantucket Sound, then flew by helicop ter to Otis Air Force base for the return flight to Ottawa. Kennedy was to return to Washington at 6f30 p.m. (ED.T) after a side trip to Cambridge, , Mass., on the edge of the Har vard' university campus, to inspect several sites for a li brary which will later house his official papers. In the communique, the two leaders said they "reaffirmed their faith In the North At lantic Alliance and their con viction that, building upon the present foundation, a true community of American peo ples will one day be realized. Springfield Woman Killed in Collision Eugene, Ore. (UPD Mar jory Alia Williams, 36, ot Springfield was killed in a collision between two autos on State Highway 2 about one mile west of Jasper Sat urday. The other driver, Sherman Warren Neely, Creswell, was charged with negligent homi cide and held in the Lane county jail on $2,000 bail. State police said Neely's car apparently swerved Into the path of Mrs. Williams' ve hide. She was thrown from the car and killed. Neeley suf fered only minor Injuries. Ground Maneuvers three shots Into the air and started walking toward them. The Infantrymen dropped to their knees and began firing at him. Back to the helmet. Finally, the infantrymen re alized Arthur had been left out In no man's land by mis take and stopped firing. Gen. Paul D. Adams, com mander in chief ot Mie U. S. Strike Command, said new safety procedures would be established so no other soldier would be left to meet a simi lar fate during next week's firing here. Private Arthur also got a four-star compliment from the general. "A brave man and faithful to his orders," said Qeneral Adams. H e
