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Compro livem If Rwenue Program USE by Tax Conferees SYMPATHY DEMONSTRATION - Ap- demonstration gathering was the climax to proximately 15,000 Negroes, Orientals and a two-hour-long parade rally, which police whites gathered at the San Francisco City believed to be the largest of its kind ever Hall Plaza Sunday to hold a peaceful dom- held in the United States. The parade onstration to show sympathy for Negroes moved over a one-mile route in the down in Birmingham, Ala., and to call for an end town area. (UPI). to racial prejudice in San Francisco. The King Urges Kennedy To Do More To Outlaw Segregation Los Angeles - OJPII - The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. told about 30,000 persons tak ing part in a "Freedom Ral ly for Birmingham" Sunday night that President Kennedy "had not done enough" to outlaw segregation. King, leader of the Ala bama desegregation move ment told an enthusiastic crowd that the President "had done some significant things on civil rights" but that much more should be done. After the rally an estimated 1,000 persons marched the four miles through the down town area to city hall led by two Negroes holding two po lice dogs on leashes. The assemblage was quiet and orderly during the march and the half-hour they re mained at city hall' to listen to the vice chairman of the Los Angeles chapter of the Congress for Racial Equality gave a short talk. Some marchers carried signs with such slogans as "Equality, when?" and "Free dom in Alabama." Spectators at Wriglcy Field attending the three-hour ral ly contributed thousands of Man Being Treated Here for Injuries Gerald Schneider, 32, of North Bend, was reported in critical condition today at Rogue Valley hospital suffer ing from injuries received in an automobile accident near Coos Bay recently. Schneider was brought to the local hospital Saturday by Mercy Flights Inc., from the Coos Bay hospital suffering from head, chest and back in juries. He was the 1.560lh patient to be flown by the non-profit air ambulance service since it was started. rriMi ftoM NEWS0?)BRIEFS SENATORS JOIN IN TEST BAN PLEA Washington -UPI- Thirty tension joined today in a pro pond retelution urging that tht United Stetei ink an agreement with Russia to ban all atmospheric and under water nuclear tacts. The group included torn lawmakers with differing views on the U.S. propotal at Geneva for i comprehensive nuclear test ban treaty, which alio would cover underground testing. CHANCE SEEN SLIM FOR SCHOOL AID BILL Washington -An- Sen. Frank E. Most, one of the Senate'l ttauncheti supporters of federal aid to public schools, con ceded today that the proposal has little chance of pasting Congress this year. H said this it because it hat become "to emerted in re ligious controversy" the istue of whether aid should be given to parochial at well at public echoolt. dollars to support the Ala bama non-violence movement. No total was announced im mediately. Entertainer Sammy Davis Jr. pledged $20,000 - one week's salary from a Las Vegas, Nev., appearance. He said as he embraced King. "This should prove to you good people once and for all that my leader is your lead er." Numerous donations were received ranging from $23 to $2,000 from individuals, churches, union locals and other organizations. Mississippi Negroes To Air Grievances Jackson, Miss. - (UPH - City officials scheduled a meeting with Negro leaders today in a grievance session that may determine whether massive racial demonstrations will be staged in the Mississippi cap ital. Antiscgregation demonstra tions had been planned for this past week end, but were held in abeyance pending to day's meeting. Medgar Evcrs, state field secretary for the National As sociation for the Advance ment of Colored People, said Negroes would hold a "mass meeting" Tuesday night, ap parently to hear a report on the results of the grievance session. Mayor Allen Thompson, who has vowed that segre gation will be preserved here, invited 14 Negroes to the meeting and asked the city's two Negro ministerial groups to send two representatives each. Four of the 14 were chosen by Negroes at a civil rights rally last Tuesday. A group of top Negro and white ministers also have be- Other entertainment celeb' rities on hand were Davis' wife, May Britt, Tona Fran ciosa , Dorothy Dandridge, Mel Ferrer, Paul Newman and his wife, Joanne Wood ward, and Rito Moreno. King told the crowd that "the Negro in the South is no longer willing to accept segregation in any form. "Segregation is nothing but a new form of slavery cover ed up with niceties. We have an ideal of freedom and hu man dignity. We want to be free whether we're in Bir mingham or in Los Angeles." gun conferring on the racial situation, but Thompson said the city administration has not sanctioned these confer ences. Evcrs also said he had not been advised of any conclu sions reached by the mini sters. At Greensboro, N.C., Ne groes halted their daily dem onstrations over the week end but told Mayor David Schcnck they would be re sumed this afternoon unless "some concrete, tangible, pos itive action on desegregation is taken." Schcnck last week appointed a special "goodwill committee" to seek a solu tion to Greensboro's racial problems. Registration Starts For Swim Classes Registration for summer swim instruction classes, spon sored by the Mcdford park and recreation department, op ened today at the department office in city hall. Park and Recreation Direct or Robert L. Haworth said the classes are for youngsters aged six or older. The first class session will begin June 17 and will end June 28. The other sessions are scheduled this summer. Fee for the 10-lcsson course is $2. Mail registrations will be accepted. Haworth said. and the check or money order should be made payable to the City of Mcdford. Holders of season passes may register for the classes at no additional cost. New Constitution On Agenda Tuesday Salem - d'PI1 - A new state constitution has been made special order of business in the Senate Tuesday at 10 15 am. Regional Edition Medford 22 Pages Two Sections Pope's Condition Said To Remain 'Very Serious' Pontiff Confers With Secretary Vatican City - (UPll - Pope John XXIII was reported feel ing somewhat better today but Vatican sources said his con dition remained "very ser ious." Two communiques issued by the Vatican said his doc tors had noted "improvement" Sunday night and again this morning. But other sources said that despite this deliberate optim ism the 81-year-old pontitt. stricken with a second attack of internal bleeding within a week, is dangerously ill. The Pope remained lucid, however, and conferred twice Sunday and again this morn ing in his Vatican apartment with his secretary of state, Amleto Cardinal Cicognani, Seas Personal Physician Prof. Antonio Gasbarrinl, the Pope's physician, visited him at mid-day today and was expected to return again this evening. He declined to dis cuss the case with newsmen. "You must understand, you must understand, I can say nothing," he told newsmen. A spokesman for the U.S. Embassy said that "so far as is known" President Kennedy still plans to visit Rome and, if possible, have an audience with Pope John. Vatican sources said they also regard ed the audience as still sched uled for late in June, depend ing, of course, on the state of the Pope's health at that time. Best Wishes Relayed Italian - Premier Amintore Fanfani sent his undersecre tary, Umberto Delle, to the Vatican today to relay his best wishes for the Pope's speedy recovery. The Vatican newspaper Osservatore Romano said "fer vent prayer ... is rising in every part of the world , . . for the intention of the su preme pastor." It said the Vat ican was flooded with tele grams from government offic ials and other persons. Coins Stolen From Ten Businesses Ashland and Mcdford city police were busy Sunday night investigating a scries of thefts from soft drink dispensing machines in the area. An un determined amount of coins was reported stolen from 10 different locations, officers said. Three automatic coin ma chines were broken into at the Koin-O-Matic laundry, 512 West Sixth st. Officers dis covered the theft about 3:55 a.m. Soft-drink machines at a service station at 707 West Main st., and the Econo-Wash laundromat, 918 King St., also were broken into. An attempt was made to break into a ma chine at a service station lo cated at 1045 South Riverside ave. Ashland police reported soft drink machines were broken open at five different service stations around the city, and in front of Ebcrhart h a r d ware, 1456 Highway, 66. Helicopter Gets Into the 'Act' in Sunday Ball Game During a baseball game between the Medford fire men and policemen in Haw thorne park Sunday after noon, an unusuel fly drop ped into the outfield. Officer Jack Mcjunkin wet playing "heads up" ball, though it dropped within about 3 or 4 feet of him. But no wonder. The "fly" turned out to be a wooden plug about the lite of a banball which had drop ped from a helicopter pesiing overhead. Undaunted by the close call, the policemen battled on and eventually triumph ed over the firehoute gang by the tcore of 31 to IS. A remetch of the two lilmi it scheduled lor next week. hmrfthiim mat mi m jriti fi i iafSttM T iftf limn l TORNADO DAMAGE - Mrs. Forrest Lunday ls shown amid tumbled packing crates as she surveys her damaged automobile after high winds and a tornado demolished a concrete block and steel garage late Sunday. Few serious Supreme Court Orders Memphis Desegregation Washington - IUP1) - The Su preme Court today ordered Memphis immediately to be gin desegregating its parks, li braries and museums. It also said in strong language that southern communities are moving too slowly in integrat ing their schools. The unanimous decision re jected a Memphis proposal for gradually opening its park and recreation facilities to whites and Negroes alike. The city claimed this was pormiss able under the "all deliber ate speed" doctrine set out by the court in its keystone 1955 school edict. Rights Said Violated Speaking for the court, Jus lice Arthur J. Goldberg held that constitutional rights of Negroes were being violated by the delay and that deseg regation should be started "promptly." Goldberg then used the Memphis case as a spring board to prod states which maintain segregated schools on the theory that integration can be achieved gradually un der the "deliberate speed" policy. He said the high court In using those words in its 1955 decision "never contemplat ed" that they would allow "indefinite delay in elimina tion of racial barriers in schools." Claim Rejected In other major actions to day, the courl: Rejected a claim by Gov. George C. Wallace that Pres ident Kennedy had acted il legally by sending federal troops into Alabama during the recent racial violence in Birmingham. The court is sued a one - paragraph opin ion dismissing the governor's complaint that Kennedy had violated the federal and Ala bama state constitutions. Granted a hearing to Dion T. Diamond, who was convicted of disturbing the peace when he encouraged students at Southern universi ty at East Baton Rogue, La., to boycott their classes in 1962. Denied a hearing to Car los Marccllo. New Orleans racketeer, who has been fighting deportation for more than 10 years. Three Youths Fined In Municipal Court Three Mcdford youths., ar rested by city poiice Friday night on a charge of illegal po tession of alcohol Friday niffht. wrri finpH e.14 iarh in municipal court today after' they entered a plea of guility Compensation 8(7 to the charge. r .. Fined by Judge Justin ' Out Of Committee Smith Jr. wore Thomas Ed-1 Salrm - WD - The contro ward Ross. 19. 1208 South j versial "throe-way" work Whitman it.: David Crrswell I men s compensation bill re Young. 16, of 210 Eat Main gained life today and flitted ft , and John Dean Watkina. out of committee on a 5-3 19. of 960 Shaffer lane. I vote. J MEDFORD, OREGON, MONDAY, Syria, Iraq Having Thoughts Beirut, Lebanon - lUPII -Syria and Iraq's apparent sec ond thoughts on Arab federa tion today placed their pro posed union with Egypt in ser ious doubt. Both nations' ruling Baath socialist parties have given clear indications in recent weeks they are having misgiv ings about implementing the union plan reached in Cairo April 17. An abortive attempt during the week end to overthrow the Baghdad regime has height ened the difficulties. Anti-Baath sources here said they believed "only a miracle" can now save the am bitious union plans which were to go into effect by Sep tember. Fear Domination Observers believe the Baath leadership is delaying move ments toward union because of fears they would fall under the domination of Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nas ser, who would be the presi dent of the new United Arab Republic. They believe the Egyptian leader's demand that they form national front govern ments is only a cover for the eventual easing out of their party. In recent tests between Baath and Nasser supporters in Iraq and Syria, the Baath ista have won new strength. Reports from Baghdad have said the week end trouble was engineered by groups support ing Nasser. Earlier this month, serious rioting between Nas scritcs and Baath supporters broke out in Syria. But Nasser still enjoys New Post Office Substation Planned Establishment of a new sub station of the Mcdford post office was announced today by Acting Postmaster Al Bradford. The station will be located In the Grandvlcw Market, 2330 Crater Lake ave., and will be open for mailing starting July 1, Waller C. Davidson, con tractor, owner of the Grand view Market, is remodeling his market, Bradford said, in preparation for opening of the substation. The Grandvlcw station will be the third one serving Mcd ford In addition to the main post office. Others arc located on East Main st. and Stewart ave. Tribune MAY 27, 1963 injuries and no deaths were reported but hundreds of thousands of dollars in property damage was Inflicted as twisters hit scores of Oklahoma communities Sunday. (UPI) on Arab Federation strong support In his two po tential partners, according to observers here, and- the strug gle is by no means considered over. Cairo's semi-official Middle East News Agency said Sat urday night that 60 army of ficers and 120 civilians were arrested In Baghdad after Three-Man Defense Agency Staff Voted Salem - IUPI) - The Senate today rejected a move to send the civil defense budget back to committee, then voted 22-8 to cut Oregon's civil defense agency to a 3-mcmber coordi nating staff attached to the governor's office. The move to send the bud- Arlene Francis Death Car Driver New York - (tin - Actress Arlene Francis, injured Sun day in a head-on automobile collision in Long Island in which one person was killed, was reported In satisfactory condition today al Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center. Four other persons, includ ing a nine-year-old girl whose mother was killed, were in jured in the crash on North ern State Parkway near Lake Success, N.Y. Miss Francis, who was re turning to the city from Win. eola, N.Y., for the television program, "What's My Line," on which the is a panelist, was taken unconscious to Meadow brook hospital in East Mead dow. N.Y. She was transfer red to the New York hospital after regaining consciousness several hours after the acci dent. The 51-yenr-old star, who recently closed In the Broad way play, "Tchln-tchin." re ceived a fractured collar bone, a minor concussion, scalp lac. orations and multiple bruises. A medical center spokesman said "her face was un touched." WEATHER rnRfXAaT: rilr lhrnuh Ttit. day. l ow tontghl 4. Hltl Tun day 10. Temp. Htih'tl YMtPrdiy IT Lowttt Thii Morning 31 Our Skies Toniqht stinift today Sunrlir inmnrrow' Monnirl tnmorrnw t lrtt Quarter S 17 n m. 0 m. I ll am. May 2 r In thr Run'a barktrnuna are nf th rnnitrllatlnn. Taiirui: tha dim tar In lha Mnnn'a barkarmina tnnicht are In III conilallauon, Cancar. 58th Year Price 10 Cents No. 57 Second they tried to overthrow Pre mier Maj. Gen. Ahmed Has san Bakr. MEN A announced Sunday night from Baghdad that 10 retired army officers and two civilians were executed Sun day for resisting last Febrii' ary's revolution, which brought Bakr to power. get back to committee so the agency could be expanded and become eligible for federal funds failed 10-14. Sen. Vernon Cook (D- Grcssham) led the unsuccess ful battle to get the bill sent back to committee. He said 'It is essential to the welfare of the state to have strong slate leadership in civil de fense." Gov. Mark Hatfield had re quested funds for a 20-man civil defensp agency. When the move to send the budget back to committee failed, Sen. Ted Hallock ID Portland) urged his colleagues to defeat the budget and thus kill the state civil defense agency. "Oregon might lead the nation in having the guts to abandon a program of dig ging holes In the ground." Voting against sending the budget back to committee were Sens. Bolvcn, Chapman, Ward Cook, Alfred Corbctt, Alice Corbctt, Flcgcl. Hop kins, Husband, Huston, New bry, Ovcrhulsc Pearson, Potts, Stadlcr, Thicl and Will, ncr. The eight senators opposing the $52,000 cl"ll defense budgel were Chapman, Flcg cl, Hallock, Lcth, Monaghan, Natcrlin, Pearson and Musa. The cut-down civil defense budget already has been ap proved by the House. It how goes to the governor. Missing S.F. Claimed Possibly Stolen Washington -Wli- A House subcommittee that Investigat ed disappearance of $7.5 mil lion In II. S. securities from the San Francisco Federal Re serve bank has concluded the certificates may have been stolen. If so. the theft would be the biggest In history. The subcommittee. In a re port by its two-man Democrat ic majority, said there is no actual evidence that the se curities were accidentally de stroyed, as claimed by the bank. It laid this means the miss ing securities "quite conceiv ably" may yet be presented for payment, despite their May 15 maturity date. 10-Day Deadlock Broken; Package Faces Uphill Fight Cigarette Tax Part of Proposal Salem - (ITD - A compromise, revenue program was approv ed by Senate-House tax con ferees today, ending a 10-day deadlock. Conferees admitted the) compromise package faced an uphill battle in both the Housa and Senate. House Minority Leader F. F. Montgomery agreed to sign the report after caucusing ear lier today with House Repub licans. The compromise program retained the Senate feature) of "the more children you have, the more you pay." The out-of-pocket tax in crease for different groups: -$5,000 income: Single per son up $29, married coupla up $28, family of four up $32. -$8,000 income: Single per son up $36. married coupla up $47, family of four up $67. $12,000 income: Single per son up $53, married couple up $73, family of four up $02. The agreement came when opposition to a net receipts plan buckled, and Senate con ferees Glen Stadler (D-Su-gene) and Donald Husband (R Eugene) agreed to a modified nel receipts program. House conferees Montgom ery and Richard Eymsnn (D Marcola) bowed to Senate de mands for a minimum filing fee, a 5 per cent standard de duction, and staggered de pendency credits. Senators agreed to a 4-cent pack cigarette lax, with about $3 million to go to cit ies, and the House approved holding a one-shot speedup ot withholding tax collections in reserve in case the cigaretta tax is referred to the voters. Revision of the personal capital gains law, and increas es in the corporate excise tax were included in Ilia compro mise. Conference committee members hoped pressure la end the session - now in its 134th day - will enable tha compromise to win approval. Couple Awarded $52,310 in Retrial A Jackson counly jury granted $52,310 In damages Friday as a result of a retrial of a state highway condem nation suit brought against James H. and Helen Nunes, 169 East Glcnwood rd. Taken for Interstate 8 free way right-of-way was 11.37 acres on Bear creek, two miles south of Mcdford. Ac cess was cut off from 10.4 acres of part of the proper ty used for top soil, sand and gravel. The case had been appeal ed by the highway commis sion to the state supreme court and a retrial had been ordered. During the week-long case witnesses for Nunes were Thomas F. McSweeney, Hing ham, Mnss., evaluation engi neer, a former Massachusetts of Technology professor; Mcd ford Appraisers Walter Jones and E. L. Bartholomew; and A. L. Nashs and Peter Bale man, sand and gravel con tractors. Elmer Colhcrg, Portland appraiser and Sully Ross. Portland evaluation engineer, testified for the highway commission. The Nuneses had been awarded $24,500 in the first trial, according to circuit court records. Securities Taxpayers in the end could take the rap for alt the loss except for $500,000 covered by a private insurer, the sub committee majority asserted. The report was made by Reps. Henry S. Rcust (D-Wlt.) and Charles A. Vanik (D Ohio). It sharply criticized bank officials and the parent Federal Reserve board both for their handling of the casa and their initial decision to keep it secret. The disappearance from a bank vault was discovered last Aug. 8. A House Banking and Currency committee staff member learned of It March 22. J
