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MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, MAY 12, 1963
No. 44
58th Year
MEDFORDrRIBUNE
THIRD FLIGHT TEST - Astronaut L. 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
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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.
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