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Weather FORECAST: Vartakle rloudl n' and little temperature mania ihrouah Monday. Hlih today 7i. Low temtht it. Huh Monday T8. HlthMt '"ft Lowest Saturday Momma ... j 58th vear . Medford United Preat International full Leased Wire nr at t Price 10 Cents Ur.lted rress International Full Leased win Subscribers To report Improper or de'iverv of the Mail Tribune J" Medtord. phone 77MU1: A; Und call at 1 Brtde at. or Phone 4S3-S002; Yreka. P?0" 84J-.MH3. brlore S:5 pJL daily and 10 30 am. Sunday. . If refjlar delivery arrival shortly alter you call pleaee nolitv otltce. thua elimi rutins special measenfr eerviee. 52 Pages Six Sections MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, JUNE 2, 1963 62 No. TT TO LIFE, MS ii ntTfSa MOMENTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS m.i m f'vam " i Mjaa, f Remain I in ' irvjfe ifffl SCENE AT ST. PETER'S SQUARE - As dawn broke in Rome Saturday morning, there was still a small crowd standing in St. Peter's square after an all-night vigil, await ing word on the condition of Pope John XXIII. (UPI) Legislature Passes Income Tax Bill, Kills Workmen's Benefits, Sales Tax Sslem - UPD - The Ore gon Senate last night re cessed until 1 p.m. Sunday, throwing the legislative, ses sion into its 140th day. San ale and Houie conferees were deadlocked over high er education salary bills. The House was expected to recess also. Salem -(UPD- The hardest lobbied bill of two sessions was stamped down Saturday night in the waning hours of the 1963 Oregon legislature. The Oregon House killed the ' "three-way" workmen's compensation bill, 25-34. On the bill rode millions of dol lars in business for insurance firms - and benefits for In jured workers. ; With its death, the badly split legislature pulled itself together and concentrated on a handful of business remain ing before it could adjourn late Saturday night. Adjournment, which would end a record 139-day session, 11 ttays longer than 'the pre vious record in 1957, still had not come as of 11 p.m.. Satur day. The big higher education budget hung in the final hours on a dispute over whether the state's tuberculosis patients should be concentrated at.the state hospital at Salem, or shared with the University hospital at Portland as they are now. A conference com mittee tried to iron out the dispute. Another conference, com mittee debated whether to give college teachers and state employees the extra $1.3 million ordered by the House, or remove it, as the Senate wanted. But most of the 'activities, and moods, of the final day swirled around the ' "three way" bill. Tensions were high. Legislators were tired,-restless, jumpy, and bitter over some of the fighting. The House at first refused to provide the two-thirds ma jority needed to get the measure before it without waiting several days. The Sen ate retaliated by threatening to go home until Monday, and insisted the bill at least be brought to a vote. The House buckled, put the bill to a vote, and killed it. Sales Tax Dies Measures for a' sales tax and for registration of lobby ists died more quietly than they lived. The sales tax measure which would have been re ferred to the voters at the No vember, 1964, election,.' died in conference committee. A tentative agreement on the sales tax blew up Friday when both Senate and House conferees resigned m a dis pute over whether, groceries should 'be. taxed., , ; . The House said yes, -t he. Senate said no. k New House conferees were W. O. Kelsay (D-Roseburg) and Jack Smith (D-Condon). New Senate conferees were Harry Boivin (D - Klamath Falls) and L. W. Newbry (R Ashland). Three college construction bills passed easily in the final hours. One will ask the vot ers next May to okay $30 million bond issue for college instructional buildings. Only $12.5 million would be used next biennium. A companion bill adds $11. 5 million in general funds for the $1963-65 period. Tax Election Possible A bill providing for a spe cial tax election, if voters want one, made its way through the legislature. If the voters refer a $60 million compromise tax program, the election would be held about mid-October. A bill providing an extra circuit judge each for Lane and Washington counties got through. Gov. Mark Hatfield finally got a government reorganiza tion tidbit. Both houses ap proved grouping agencies into a department of commerce with five divisions: banking, insurance, corporation, real estate and planning and de velopment. It will get a trial NEWSBnlEFS IT1MS rtoM IS A,0UN0 mi 0l0H ARMED FORCES GO TO AID OF CYCLONE SURVIVORS Dacca. Pakistan - HTH - Pakiitani armsd forces sought to contact isolated ollshort islands Saturday to set up emergency relief fof tht survivors of this week's devasta ting eyciont. Local newipapers said as many as SO.000 may have perished in the whirlwind and tidal wave which swept over tht coast and tht 500 Islands in tht arts. NATIONALIST CHINESE PILOT DEFECTS Taiptl. Formosa - am - Radio Peking said Saturdty a Nationalist Chintst pilot dtfecttd to Communist China in a F6F fighttr plant. The Nationalist govtrnmtnt confirm td that ont of Its planus Is missing. It was tht first rtport of a Nationalist Chinese pilot dtftcling taftly to Red China. Two Rtd Chintit filers have escaped to Formosa. AERIALISTS SURVIVE 40-FOOT FALL Hamilton. Ont, - (tit - Three South American aerialists Saturday survived a 40-loot plungt to a conerttt floor whilt ptrlormlng a high-wire acrobatic act at a circus htrt. RUSSIANS HAVE SUBMARINE PROBLEMS Washington - r - Prtv'.ously stcrtt Congressional testi mony disclosed Saturday lhtt tht Kutsian submartnt fleet tt fcavir.ej so many ir.tchanical difficulties that some subs hv had to lit towed home on the surtact by trawlers. run for four years. Then the legislature will have to act again. A $48 million increase in the state income tax was on its way to the governor's of fice after finally having clear ed the legislature Friday. Passage - of the income tax measure climaxed a 14-day deadlock. A tax commission spokes man said the bill raised the state income tax 28 per cent, but that the out-of-pocket cost to tht average taxpayer would range from 3.5 to 6 per cent'because of a change in handling federal income tax deductions. Hikt Approved The Senate approved the tax hike 22-8 after it cleared the House 35-24 in a drama tic vote tally that was cli maxed by a last-minute switching of votes. Pack Mules Killed In Line 01 Duty Yreka - Two pack mules, Big Joe and Little Red, lost their lives in line of duty last week on a Klamath National Forest trail. The two were part of a six mule string moving a timber inventory crew into the upper end of Thompson creek when one mule balked throwing the string off the trail and caus ing Big Joe and two others to drop into the stream. The mules lost their footing in the fast water, according to District Ranger Charles W. Burk of Sciad Valley. Quick action by Glen Hictt, chief packer of the Klamath National forest, saved one of the mules. Hiett cut him free after wading into high water. Big Joe was unable to regain his footing because of the load he carried while Little Red was dragging him down stream. Both mules were caught under a natural log jam within a few minutes and were drowned. The mules' bodies were re covered and the loads salv aged. The animals were bur ied away from the stream to avoid contamination. The final tally showed six Republican and two Demo cratic senators voted against the bill. In the House five Democrats and 19 Republi cans voted no. The new income tax is backed by a one-shot speedup of withholding tax collections if needed, and carries a pro vision that any surplus in ex cess of $10 million would be applied as a property tax off set. The capital gains .tax was liberalized, and the corporate excise tax increased, as part of the package. , . '. ' Main features ' of the new income tax measure: - Removal of the. federal income tax deduction. , - Head of. household gets joint treatment. - Students entitled as de pendency credit. - Blind get full extra cred it. - Senior citizens over 65 get one-half extra credit. -Flat $22 tax credit for personal and dependency de ductions. - Unlimited medical deduc tion above 5 per cent of in come. - Five per cent optional standard deduction. - - Fractional rates from 2 to 7 per cent. - Base broadening via a $5 filing fee or 1 per cent of adjusted gross income, or the tax. whichever is higher. The measure represented a complete victory for the Sen ate, as the House-favored net receipts and cigarette taxes were refused by the Senate. Navy Backtracks, Says Thresher No) Found Search Now 'Will Be Resumed Washington -(UPD- The Navy backtracked Saturday on its announcement that the sunk en hull of the nuclear subma rine Thresher had been lo cated. It ordered an underwa ter search to resume. Nullified was a flat an nouncement earlier this week that the Thresher had been pinpointed by photographs about 220 miles east of Cape Cod, Mass., where the sub went down with 129 men aboard on -April 10. Saturday's statement said: "Detailed analysis of under water photographs taken .Thursday . . . determined that none could be identified as showing the Thresher." 500 Photos Taken . The ' earlier announcement had said that eight of about 500 photographs taken by the oceanographic research vessel Conrad had shown parts of the Thresher, including a por tion of its "sail," diving rud der and a split in the hull. In Portsmouth. N. H., a na val court of inquiry Saturday heard Dr. J. Lamar Worzel of the Conrad testify that none of the photographs def initely was of the Thresher. He said that one previously thought to be of the subma rine actually was of a weight on the bottom of the camera which took the undersea pic tures. Another shot, Worzel said, could have been of any object on the ocean bottom but could not be identified as the sunken sub. No Identification . Worzel told the court that he had absolutely no means of identifying the sub from any of the 1,500 pictures he had taken. The photos were rushed to Washington Friday night for detailed study. The Navy then announced that while limited analysis had led to belief the Thresher was found, "a more thorough analysis . . . failed to confirm the evaluation." The Navy quickly cancelled the dispatch of the deep-diving bathyscaph Trieste to the scene where the Conrad pic tures had been taken. The search for the sunken submarine, which had been temporarily halted, was or dered to begin again. 'Boatnik' Events To Conclude In Grants Pass Today California Capitol Sit-In Continues Sacramento. Calif. - HTD -Fifteen Negro and white dem onstrators arrived Saturday to beef up a capitnl building substituted as Grand Marshal Grants Pass - Janet Brock us. Grants Pass High school senior, was crowned Boatnik queen in ceremonies held in city park here Saturday after noon. The coronation of Miss Brockus, who will be attend ed during the week end pro grams by a court of five prin cesses, was the highpoint of day-long activities here, in cluding a colorful parade through the downtown busi ness district. Mayor Charles B. Gill Jr. sit-in protesting lack of ac tion on a fair housing bill. Congress of Racial Equal ity officials said the sit-in would last "indefinitely" or until a strong f.iir housing bill is approved by the legis lature, which has recessed un til Monday. Negro Groups Study New Legal Strategy Washington - (TO - Repre sentatives of four leading Ne- of the parade for State Sen ate President Ben Musa and his wife. Rep. Katharine Musa, who were detained in Salem by closing activities of he legislature. 42 Entries Forty-two entries partici pated in the parade. The theme was "Vacation Won derland." Zonta International won first prize, the Red Cross toui: second place and Dairy Queen was awarded third quartet from Vancouver, Wash., The Guardsmen, sang several numbers. Two closed - course boat races were held on the Rogue River during the afternoon. Ken James, Klamath, Calif., finished first in a race about 18 miles in length. Dave Wil son, Grants Pass, won a race about 2'2 miles long. Today's events include the famed "Boatnik." the 50-mile white water chase between Grants Pass and Galice. The race will start from city park at 1 p.m. and is scheduled to end there about an hour later. h f I J, RECENT PORTRAIT - Pope John XXIII was photographed in this thoughtful pose during the canonization of a new saint Jan. 20' of this year. (UPI) Tradition Governs Machinery For Selecting New Pope Condition Remains Same As End Hears Vatican City - (UPD .. Pope John XXII clung tenaciously to life today, rousing from a deep coma for brief moments of conciousness and taking sips of water during the night. Though on the threshhold of death with no hope of sur viving the illness that was draining the last of his tremendous physical strength, the 81-year old pontiff lived on through another night of suspense. Vatican City - (UPC -The moment a poH; dies, the ma chinery for election of his successor -automatically goes into action with centuries tested precision. The death of the Roman Catholic church's ruler places the government of the Vati can temporarily in the hands of the church "Senate." the Sacred College of Cardinals. But this "republican" rule is limited in scope and time by stringent laws which de tail what the Cardinals must do. Tt-r cardinals are not the rulers of the church, only caretakers. Cardinals Meet No sooner than 15 dcys from the time of death and no later than 18, the 82 princes of the church must meet In secret conclavp be hind the scaled doors of the Sjstine chapel, guarded by a Roman prince with bared sword. They cannot emerge until they have elected a suc cessor on the throne of Peter. In the days between the last breath of the old pope and the election of the new one, everything from funeral rites to the powers and duties of each olficia! of the Curia is rigidly governed by decrees of dead pontiffs and by writ ten or unwritten church law. This is the "interregnum" or "period of the vacant see." when the normal church gov ernment is suspended. Every action of the cardinals is gov erned by tradition and Latin language law from antiquily to revision of the 1946 Apos tolic Constitution "vacantis apostolicae sedis" (the vacant apostolic see) of Pope Pius XII and of the decree "sum mi pontificis electio" (election of the supreme pontiff), issued last Oct. 20 by Pope John. No Jurisdiction "During the vacancy of the apostolic see, the Sacred Col lege of Cardinals shall net have any power or jurisdic tion whatsoever on matters which pope: but all these things it shall be bound to reserve for the future pontiff.' j Tnose ' are the opening words of chapter one of Pope Pius-Constitution. Any action taken in the interregnum on matters of papal competence, it adds, "unless expressly per mitted in this constitution . . . is hereby ruled null and void." NAACP Executive Is Arrested Jackson, Miss. (UPD - Roy Wilkins, executive secretary - ilia ATo4innn1 An-.;n: 1 y . Lateran at iui we nu ui;eiiiuni 01 V.-01-ored People was arrested Saturday while cauying an anti-segregation sign. Soon after, scores of yoi:ng Negroes were jailed lor conducting an unsuccessful march. He was arrested with two other Negroes and all three were charged with interfer ing with trade and released under $1,0(10 bond. The charge, a felony, car ries a maximum prnalty of a $10,000 fine, and is consider ably stiffcr than charges against previous pickets ar rested here. 88 March The marchers ranged in age from about 13 to 20. They went two blocks before they met a police barricade. Eighty-eight of them were ar rested and the others broke ranks and fled. The march was the latest in a scries of civil rights demon strations in the state's capital that have sparked some vio lence and resulted in more tlian 500 arrests. Wilkins. who arrivrd in Jackson late Friday from New York to boost a desegre gation campaign, was picKed up this afternoon moments Condition 'Stationary' - Vatican Radio reported at 6 a.m. (1 a.m. edt) that the Pope was able to take sips of water during the night. Fori odic communiques during the night reported that the Pope's condition remained "station ary." The Pope's three brothers, sister and nephew, an aid and two doctors spent the night at his bedside. A communique at 2:40 a.m. (9:40 p.m. edt) said his gen eral condition remains sta tionary. "His pulse is good. His tem perature is about 39 degrees centigrade (100.4 Fahren heit)," the announcement said. "He is assisted by Professors Valdoni and Mazzoni." Pictro Valdoni and Picro Mazzoni are two of the doc tors in constant attendance on the pontiff. Vatican radio had said earlier there were "signs of an increased weakness, also in mental faculties" of the 81-year-old Pontiff, but the Vat ican press office said word from the Papal sickroom early today was that the Pope was still gallantly fighting the deadly effee ts of his illness Stomach Growth The Pooe was suffering from a stomach growth with complications of peritonitis and anemia. The growth was widely reported to be cancer ous and doctors gave him pain killing drugs during the day as he slipped into and out of consciousness. A Vatican radio announcer in tearful voice called on the faithful to join in prayer for a Pope "who is showing us simply and magnificently how to die." It was clear the Pope himself was approaching death in se renity. Vatican sources announced that Pope John will be buried in the Basilica of St. John in his own request and not in St. Petcr'j where popes are buried. The Basilica of St. John, is in the southern part of the ancient city of Rome and now a working class district is considered the mother church of Christendom, sen ior even to St. Peter's. The Vatican source said the pope's body would be pre pared in his bed-chamber and dressed In full regal rain ment of his office. The body would ho on view for 24 hours in the Sisline chapel in the Vatican rnd then perhaps brought to St. Peter's to lie in state for a short period, the sources said. Baseba NATIONAL LEAGUE Cincinnati 1 Los Angeles 0 Experimental Serum Reported Given To Pope Osterville, Mass. UPP The president of a Cleveland re search firm said Saturday night that Pope John XXIII has been receiving oral dos ages of an experimental can cer serum. Asked earlier Saturday about the reported cancer se rum, a Vatican spokesman in Rome said, however, "No wonder drugs have been re ceived or are being used." Dr. H. James Rand III, pres. ident of Rand Development Co., said at his summer home on Cape Cod that 100 cubic centimeters of . the serum, enough for a month's treat ments, had been sent to Rome this week.!. Serum Requasttd Earlier In the day. Dr. Ser gio De Carvalho of Cleveland, who headed the research team that developed the serum for the Rand company, arrived at Rome's Fiumicino airport. Dr. Rand said Dr. De Carvalho would remain in Rome until the Pope's death. He also will lecture before cancer insti tutes at Rome and at Lisbon, Portugal, Rand said Dr. Carlo Nervl of Rome's institute for the study and cure of tumors, one of those consulted by the Pope's physicians, had heard of the work being done on the serum and asked the Rand firm to supply some for th ailing pontiff. "So far," said Rand. "11,. doctors have been most en thusiastic about the serum and its effect on the Pope. They said that after the serum was given the Pope showed some good reaction." Rand emphasized that th. serum could not cure the pon tiff, and that it waa unlikely that the Pope would live much longer because of It pvriHincu to mr su- h v.a -i-i,-,:-- ,i, preme pontiff in his lifetime. ; ,inwn1nWn aroa or of doing grace or justice, or of carrying out what had been ordered by the dead New Mexico Explosion Rocks Atlas Launch Silo Roswell, N. M. - STD - An explosion rocked an Atlas mis sile launch silo Saturday, night, starting a furious un derground fire. An Atlas missile installed In 1 K a Kill ti'ii Krtl ianH tn iro demonstration groups met i " have been destroyed in the in here Saturday to map new c'" "ura ' ; ferno. A ttv.ck column of! 1 nuclear n-srSead. First reports said all per sonnel at the launch site, 15 miles north of Roswell near U.S. Highway 70. got out of the silo and adjacent bar racks, and none seemed Injured. Newsmen at the scene Arrested with him wore Medcar E.ers, state field sec retary of the NAACP. and an unidentified Negro voman. Indonesia Inks Pact With Oil Companies Tokyo - (ITT - Indonesia signed an agreement with U. S. and British oil companies Saturday under which the In donesian government will gradually take over foreign refineries and distribution fa-citir. Boy's Arm Hurt In Mower Accident Frank Sandy Me r 1 c k el nine-year-old son of Mr. and' Mrs. Bruce Arthur Mericke! route 2, Jacksonville, is m' fair condition this week end after catching his rm in a mower late Friday afternoon. Surgery was performed at Rogue Valley hospital Friday night, but he did not lose hi arm, hospital attendants said. He was rushed to the hospital by police escort. Record Highway Slaughter Feared By United Press International . dead in traffic accidents since The nation's Memorial hoi-; the slart of the holiday at 8 iday day traffic loll climbed p.m. Wednesday, above the 350 mark Saturday The breakdown: Traffic, with the most dangerous por- 355; drowning, 71; boating, 7; tion of the 102-hour period to plane, 9; miscellaneous, 76; come and safety experts fear- total. 518. The companies will be corn- in their civil i'he downtown area to watch ! smoke stil' boiled skyward learned that personnel at the pensated under an intricate from the silo two hours after ! underground silo, which is formula based on the original ' cirtents swelled the blast, but no flames were; used to train Atlas launch price of their facilities - less : toll well above the 500 murk visible above sround. i crews, had been fighting a depreciation - and they will I The United Press Interna An Air Force spokesman 1 small fire for several hours ' continue to handle production tinnal tally at 12 30 a m. EDT I talitiea in Portland within 24 legal moves rights fight in the South. Approximately 125 lawyers! and olrur leaders were on hand for the two-day confer ence. - . ...... the paracic As pr of the coronation ceremonies tn city park, the Grants Pass High school band pljived. en a record for highway deaths might be set. The grcptcst traffic toll for a four-day summer holiday occurred over the 4th of July week end of 166! when 509 person, perished. Luring the four-day Memorial holiday of 1961 there were 462 traffic deaths. . The National Safety coun cil estimated that traffic ac cidents might claim as many as 550 lives during the cur rent holiday. j Drownings, plane crashes, i boating and miscellaneous ac-1 the holiday . California led the nation with 45 traffic deaths. New York had 32, Texas 18, Ohio and Pennsylvania 16 each, Indiana 14. Missouri and 1111. nois 13 each, Oregon 11 and Kansas 10. California and New York listed 8 drownings, while Michigan reported 7. Texas had 6 and Pennsylvania S. A spectacular two-car col lifion near the Portland Zoo about midnight Friday took the lives of four young peo ple and raised the state's Me morial holiday week end death toll to 11. The deaths brought to sev. en the number of traffic fa- and a barbershop I said the missile did not have ' rx fore the explosion. land export of crude oil. i (Sunday) showed 355 persons hours. e t
