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Newspaper Page Textre mm mm Regional Edition Medford 58th Year Price 10 Cents Tribune 18 Pages Two Sections MEDFORD, OREGON, MONDAY, JUNE 3, 1963 No. 63 1 " lip '5 TRAIN DERAILED A Pennsylvania Railroad freight train road cars over a three-block area and knocked out all long of 35 cars was derailed near Hartford City, Ind., destroy- distance and most local telephone service in Hartford City, ing an overpass and a house. The wreck scattered rail- (UPI) Harold Bibeau Pleads Innocent; Trial Set July 8 Harold James Bibeau, 20, U.S. Army, Fort Gordon, Ga., this morning in Jackson cir cuit court pleaded innocent to first degree murder. Circuit Judge James Main set July 8 as jury trial date, but assured Bibeau he is en titled to a speedy trial and could have the trial, tomor row if he so desires. :'... J Bibeau, dressed in Army uniform, appeared without emotion. The court recessed briefly as he consulted with his attorneys, Joel Reeder and Stanley Jones. Bibeau is specifically charg ed in connection with the death of Russell Waldon Os born,,; 49, Ashland Varsity theater's manager, April 27. Osborn was found strangled and shot in the living room of his home at 725 Walker ave., Ashland, late Saturday after noon, April 27. Osborn had been shot in the head and strangled, according to Jack son county sheriffs deputies, who with Ashland and state police investigated the crime. Bibeau was apprehended in a Portland motel later. Businessman Shot At Klamath Falls Klamath Falls -(UPD- Frank Bogatay, local businessman, was reported in good condi tion today after he was shot twice late Saturday afternoon. Police held Velma Lucille Banuelos, 61, Keno. Officers said a woman who entered the storage room of Bogatay's shoe store about 5:30 p.m. Saturday fired sev eral shots from a .22 caliber pistol. He was wounded in the thumb and shoulder. Police said Bogatay has re ceived many threatening tele phone calls and letters since the Klamath Merchants as sociation, which he headed, had worked to bring daylight saving time to Kamath Falls. Confusion, Short Tempers Noted at State Legislature By ZAN STARK Salem -flJPIi- Saturday, then Sunday, were days of disap pointment, bitterness, frustra tion and confusion in the capitol building. The legislature was sup posed to adjourn sine die but didn't. , Saturday was a day of hope ful anticipation when the Senate and .House convened at 9 a.m. But as the day grew longer. tempers shortened, plans were changed, the unexpected be came the rule. Spectators in the galleries were confused as each house met for a while to act on a few bills, then recessed to wait for the other, and to let legislators confer. It was late in the afternoon when the trouble surfaced. The House refused to vote on the heavily-lobbied three way workmen's compensation measure. The Senate issued an ulti matum: Vote on the bill or the Senate will adjourn until Monday. Measure Killed House members were poll ed. When leaders were certain the bill could not pass, the rules suddenly were suspend ed. The House then killed the measure. Throughout the evening and night the hallways be tween the Senate and House were jammed with clusters of lobbyists. Some, smiling and relaxed, were waiting to see what would happen. Others, angry, tense and threatening, frantic- Racial Violence Leads to Gunplay In North Florida Gresham Man To Be Speaker Candidate Salem - HOT - RP. Ross Morgan (D-Gresham) announc ed today he was a candidate for speaker of the House for the 1965-67 legislative session. Pilot Dies After Overseas Flight Anchorage, Alaska - (UPD -A veteran airline pilot col lapsed and died Sunday short ly after he landed a four-engine jet flight from Tokyo at Anchorage International Air port. Pilot Ralph Eric Nelson. 52, stepped from the plane, check ed through customs and was on his way to the pilots' dis patch office when he suddenly collapsed and died. He appar ently suffered a heart attack. NEWS(QhBRIEFS rrtMi. fiOM m 17 AROUND THI OlOU ' ,w MEREDITH MAY HELP IN MISSISSIPPI Jackson. Miss-m-Negro leaders hoped the presence her M tm.. Meredith, the first Ntgro iludtnt it the Urn- versity of Mississippi, would bolster civil rights push that already ha. resulted in the jailing of S70 Negroes. GOLDWATER PRESIDENTIAL RALLY PLANNED Washington-TPl-The national Draft Goldwattr Commit tee today announced plans for a mammoth July 4 rally In the nation's capital aimed at convincing Sen. Barry Gold water to run for president. CANADIAN POLICE TO LODGE CHARGES Montreal-Ill' - Police were expected to lodge formal charges aaainst eight men described at key memberi of the terrorist Quebec Liberation Front (FLO) responsible for recent wave of bombings in Quebec Province. ally tried to get last-minute consideration of a pet measure. By evening, all that block ed adjournment was a deci sion on higher education sal aries, and whether the Port- 1 a n d tuberculosis hospital should be closed. ' Conferees argued, pleaded. threatened. But each cham ber, sore at the other, refused to give. I . . Sen. Dan Thiel (D-Astoria), who collapsed of exhaustion Friday, was ordered by the legislatures' doctor not to serve on a conference com mittee. The House formally excus ed Rep. Joe Rogers (R-Inde- pendence) for a couple of hours so he could attend his daughter's wedding. Rep. Ray Dooley (D-Port- land), who suffered a heart attack earlier in the week, notified the speaker he had gone home. Pages stuffed legislators papers and books into boxes piled up along the walls of each chamber. Families Tired 1 Lawmakers families who had come to Salem to see the final hours became weary. Desk staffs worked frantic ally to keep records straight. Senators suggested going home until Monday. Musa stallled them. Then at 11 p.m., the Senate recessed until Sun day afternoon. The news stunned many secretaries, clerks and on lookers. The House threaten ed to quit until Monday. Then, after a caucus of near ly an hour, agreed to quit un til Sunday too. A pretty page exploded, "Damn, this will go on for ever." A representative's wife, tired and puzzled, scolded her husband. "We can't stay. There's no place for the chil dren to sleep." At midnight, the represent atives trickled out of the cap itol. Sunday, no one Was much happier about the political sit uation, but a night s sleep had made it possible to laugh a little. The spark of impending ad journment had died away, but the fire of the feud had not Some were surprised, more seemed bitter Sunday night when a day's efforts at com promise was killed by a vote j in the House. i The Senate, enraRed, laid off all secretaries and extra help and dug in for a long : s'ege. The House followed suit an hour later. The 52nd legislative assem bly girded for the 141st day Gainsville, Fla. - (UPD - A Negro man was shot, a white man was beaten, bottles were thrown and a car was smash ed Sunday night in a four- hour eruption ot racial vio lence in this north Florida city, the home of the Univer sity of Florida. Large bands of whites and Negroes formed and nearly clashed in the downtown sec- ition during the trouble, which started when Negroes attempt ed to buy tickets to a segre gated theater. ' . City officials promised strict control over more the ater demonstrations expected today. In the midst of ,the trouble. the city commission held an emergency meeting and set up a biracial committee of eight whites and four Negroes to work toward a peaceful solu tion to racial problems. "The law will be enforced. vowed Mayor - Commissioner Byron Winn. Look To Police Officials in Tallahassee and Daytona Beach, where iheater picketing already is under way, also looked to police control and cooperation by of ficials of both races to keep down trouble. There was near violence last week in Tallahassee. In the Negro section of Gainesville, a crowd of close to 1.000 Negroes gathered as word of the downtown trou ble spread. The Negroes pounced on a stalled car car rying three white men, wreck ed the car and beat one of the men. It was here, witnesses said, that a Negro pulled out a pis tol and shot another Negro, Joseph Simmons, either acci dentally while aiming at the car or because Simmons was trying to help the white men. Police said they were investigating. Simmons was treated for a wound in the forearm and re leased from a hospital. Eugene Student's Death Hikes Toll For State to 12 Traffic Over Nation Leaves 525 Victims By United Press International Theron H. James, president of the student body at Wil lamette High School in Eu gene, died this morning of injuries suffered in a car-train accident Sunday night. His death raised Oregon's Memorial week end holiday traffic toll to 12. One other person drowned. James, 18, was alone in his car when it crashed into the side of the Southern Pacific's Cascade passenger train in a northwest Eugene residential area about 7:15 p.m. He died in a Eugene hospital about 13 hours later. His death was the only one recorded in the last two days of the Memorial Day week end. The week end stretched from 6 p.m. Wednesday until midnight Sunday. Seven Die in Portland Seven of the deaths occur red in two automobile acci dents near Portland. Three persons died early Friday and four teen-agers were killed late Friday night. The long week end brought Oregon's traffic toll for May to 49, compared to 36 for the same period in 1962. So far this year 196 persons have died on Oregon highways. compared to 158 for the first five months last year. A total of 525 fatalities were counted on the highways of the nation, setting a record for highway deaths over summer-season holiday. California Leads Final tabulations by United Press International for the 102-hour holiday showed the traffic toll had surpassed the 462 of 1961's Memorial Day week end, the previous record for this holiday, and the 509 for the July 4 week end of 1961, which had stood as the record for a summer season holiday. California led the Memorial Day count with ' 63. There were 42 in New York, 28 in Texas, 24 in Pennsylvania, 23 in Ohio, 22 in Indiana, 19 in Michigan and 15 in Tennes see. Drownings and boating ac cidents claimed 136 lives, air planes killed 20 and 104 died in miscellaneous accidents for a holiday toll of 785. Boys Cited for Curfew Violation Two Medford boys, aged 16 and 17, were cited by Med ford city police early Satur day for curfew violation. An appearance in municipal court will be scheduled for the youths. They were arrested about S a.m. Saturday. Vandals Enter New Baptist Church The new First Baptist church under construction at 649 Crater Lake ave. was broken into by vandals Sun day, according to Medford city police. A number of doorknobs and locks were removed from doors in the church by the vandals and were stiewn about the grounds adjacent to the building. About 12 of the locks have not yet been re covered, officers said. Entrance to the building was gained through a small window at the rear of the church, officers determined The matter was reported to police about 7:3S o'clock today. Lumber Industry Continues Talks Portland-OIPD-The Lumber and Sawmill Workers Union met with half a dozen big employers here today as the threat of a strike hung over the Northwest lumber indus try. At the same time officials of the region's other big lum ber union. International Woodworkers of America, held a meeting to discuss status of negotiations. Contracts expired Saturday but an extension was agreed to. Earl Harlcy, executive secretary of the LSW's West ern Council, has said there would be a strike if no agree ment was reached today. The two unions represent about 65,000 workers. The LSW meeting today was with the Big Six Weyer haeuser, Crown - Zcllerbach, International Paper. U.S. Ply wood, St. Regis and Rayonier. The 1WA has a meeting sched uled with the same firms Tuesday. The IWA's negotiating com mittee, regional executive board and its advisory com mittee met here today. The LSW seeks a 60-cent hourly pay hike over three years. The IWA has asked 40 cents plus othchr benefits over the same period. Three Days of Final Agony End For Church Leader Death Comes in Fifth Year of Reign Vatican City - (UPD - Pope John XX111, one of the great est Popes in the history of the Roman Catholic Church, died today in the fifth year of his reign. The 81-year-old Pope went to his death slowly, in prayer and suffering, his stout peas ant's heart carrying him through more than three days of final agony that was re lieved only by lapses into comas. Vatican Radio said the pontiff died at 11:45 a.m. (pdt). The spiritual leader of the world's half biljion Roman Catholics died without seeing the end of his great project, the Ecumenical Council, which was suspended with his death. For nearly four days the heart of the pontiff continued beating after doctors had given up hope of saving him from the stomach tumor that was believed to be cancerous. As his condition worsened, peritonitis, an inflamation of the abdominal cavity, set in, and his temperature rose dan gerously while his blood pres sure fell. Received Last Riles Last Friday he sank so close to death that he asked for and received Extreme Unc tion, the last rites of the church. As he lingered in the valley of the shadow of death in the days that followed, the Pope slipped In and out of a coma, rallying at times to bless those at his bedside with weak wave of the hand. then drifting again into deep unconsciousness. Before the end came he was too weak to move. Pope John's illness first be came evident last November, but he rallied and returned to his work in the Vatican of fices., until May 21 when the tumors lethal effects began forcing him into the. final sur render. - " . '''' The public saw him for the last time on May 23 when he blessed a cheering crowd of 15,000 from the window over St. Peter's Square. The death of the Pope was announced by Giorgio Luigi Dernucci, an editor of the Vatican City newspaper Os- servatore Romano. As the Pope died, 80,000 mourners were gathered be low his window In St. Peter's Square hearing an open air mass offered up for him. The celebrant was Luigi Cardinal Traglia. An altar had been set up on the ramp leading to St. Peter's Basilica beneath the balcony where on Nov. 4, 1958, Angelo Giuseppe Cardi nal Roncali had been crowned Pope John XXIII. Runt into Press Room Bernucci ran into the Vati can press room with tears running down his cheeks and said: "At 7:49 the Pope died." The Pope had been aware of approaching death and ac cepted it serenely. During a lucid period Saturday he told an aide: "I could observe my death step by step. Now I am gently moving toward the end." Last Thursday, he told one of his doctors: "My bags are packed, and I am ready to leave." In his final hours prayers were said for him around the world - by Catholics, Prot estants, and Jews. Buddhists w ished him well. Atheist Nlki ta Khrushchev sent him his best wishes. I . POPE JOHN XXIII Great Project Unfinished Festival Season To Start Thursday With Check-in Day Ashland - Thursday, June 6, is check-in day for the 1963 Oregon Shakespearean Festival company - 23rd such group to convene in Ashland for the purpose of staging Mistake in Tax Measure Clouds State Legislature Error Would Leave $30 Million Deficit Salem - (IPH - An error In the recently adopted $60 mil lion revenue measure was dis covered today, throwing an other cloud on the legislative horizon. The bill, and a companion measure calling for a special election in October if the tax package is referred by the voters, are on the governor's desk. The tax hike is designed to be retroactive to January 1 of this year if it is not refer red. But through a mistake. even if the measure was up held by voters at a referral election, the increase would not go into effect until next January. This would leave the state's budget about $30 million short of the $404 million needed to finance the general fund budget. Locked in Dispute The House and Senate are now locked in a bitter dispute on other items. In an effort to keep the nl- come tax measure from be coming part of the present battle, a special bill was to be introduced today in the House It would amend the meas ures now on the governor's desk and eliminate the mis take. If the correction was ap proved both in the House and Senate, it would not be nec essary for the Senate to recall the Income tax measure for a correcting ' amendment. Apparently the House was afraid to have the Senate re- gus L. Bowmer, meet k e y I statt members, receive a va riety of forms, and pose fori identification card portraits. Durins the afternoon, candi dates for roles mav meet with cU the bill, which would be repertory productions at the four directors to discuss the normal procedure, for Amorir-a'i VHtt Vli-ynUntUtm I .1 . i jl fpnr 1Mb umiilrl . tnon Wnma ... - u...Huv.,iUi, vuiiLcjia ui turn nuiui ituuuii I - .-. u.v....w tncaier. i as an aid In the competition I a Pa-oi-tne -present dispute. upening nigm mis . year to come. ine compromise revenue will be on Wednesday, July I xuiiiinii.n smu I program was finally approv- 91 1 . ...,,U An .1 . . i -rtU, DflnH n 1.1 r J J wiivuiiiK "IVJ iaiiiscumvc FridBV from n am -ucl n uvau- 24, nights of open - air closing. Sept. -7. - ''-.From 10 a.m. until noon Thursday, approximately -100 persons will sign-on for the heavy summer schedule ahead. Actors, production heads, technical crews, and operation personnel will con verge in the Rogue valley from 18 of the United States, British Columbia, and Eng land During the initial session. actors will hear a welcome from Producing Director An MISS BEAVERTON CHOSEN Beaverton-ITI- - Irene Her ring. 18. was chuccn Mist Bcaverlon Saturday n'gM. Reynolds Reactivates Potline at Troutdale Salem - 1T! - Reynolds Metal Co. anounced today it was reactivating the second f four potlines at the Trout lale aluminum plant, and rr .alling 75 men who had prev ously been laid off. V. G. Knceskern. general nanaarr. advised Gov. Mark 'ivfield today that the action - rt(Ti;ve lnime(1:n1c!y. Racial Unrest in Northern Cities Subject of Series Qualified observers believe racial unrest is about to erupt in vio lence in several key northern cities. These observers feel that the northern Neqroet may take .heir cues from the bid of their southern neighbors In Birming ham, Ala., for racial equality. United Press Interna tional has prepered a se ries ol five erticlet deal ing with the racial prob lem in five key north ern cities. New York, Washington, Detroit, Chicago and Loi Angel es. The first rimy in the series appears on page SB today. ,j" 111,1 !". , !!.;,: Ford Sentenced to State Penitentiary Llewellyn Ford. 44, of 732 West Fourth St., was sentenced this morning in Jackson coun ty court to three years in the Oregon state penitentiary on a charge of embezzlement by n agent. The sentencing followed a lengthy plea by his attorney. John Ross. District Attorney Alan B. Holmes noted that Ford had pleaded guilty April 14 to embezzling $65,000 to $70,000 from a construction company. He mentioned that Ford had handled the accounts of a number of other firms while head of Oregon Bookkeeping Service. Ford served one year in the slate penitentiary earlier after being convicted for ob taining money under false pretenses. His attorney point ed out he had made restitution. theater, 1 ihrniioh R an r, m iv.. ontinn lock -a" I- , hi...b company - will perform ' pre pared scenes for the as sembled directing staff, Actual auditioning for roles begins that evening when di rector Edward Brubaker opens hearings for "Merry Wives of Windsor." Role read ings continue on Saturday at a.m. wmi Robert Lopcrs Romeo and Juliet, to be followed at 1 p.m. by Rod Alexander's "Love's Labour's Lost" and concluded at 7 p.m. with Jerry Turner's Henry. V" auditions. j Sunday is reserved for call backs and a further look at some candidates. The mass casting session - Involving Bowmer and all four direc tors - is set for 7 p.m. Mon day morning any final call backs will be arranged and tentative casting will be post ed at noon, with rehearsals getting under way immedi ately. All of the above events arc t the theater in Ashland and II are open to the public. Forest Grove Group Leaves (or Europe Portland - 0171 - The Forest Grove Gleemcn and Girls left Portland International Air port today on the first part of a trip that will include sing ing appearance in three Euro pean countries. The 52 singers and 15 other members of the party were given a sendoff by the Port land Rainmakers, Hollywood was with the Big Six Wayer- era. Five other singers will Join the group later in Chi cago, London and Rome. The amateur group will perform at the Salzburg, Austria, Music Festival and in Rome. They also are sched uled to give a command per- i formance for Prince Rainier and Princess Grace in Monaco. DEGREES CONFERRED Portland-ilFH-The Unlver sity of Portland conferred 275 degrees and Lewis and Clark conferred 204 In com mencement exercises Sunday WEATHER FOR EC A AT: Fair tnnlthf Vmrlv morning cloudi. l,ow tonight netr 48. High tomorrow near 70. Temp. Hlghett Yftterday g Lnwrst This Morning 44 Prerlp. to 3 p.m. Yetterday None. To ie a.m. Today .01 Our Skies Tonight ftuntrt today 1:43 p.m. Hiinrltp tomorrow . 3:36 a m. The Moon rle 4:18 p.m. today and H in Apogee. Full Moon June T Haturn rliei 1:25 a.m. and It now beginning to move t lowly weitward among the tan In Hi oacagrouna. Tennessee School Plans Thrown Out Washington - (UWI - The Su preme Court today followed up its warning that the South was going too slow on inte gration by throwing out two school transfer plans being used in Tennessee. In its unanimous 8-0 rulins. the court agreed with Negroes who protested than the trans fer systems hud been adopted to prolong segregation. Last week in a Memphis case involving recreational fa cilities, the court had sharply noted that the doctrine of "all deliberate speed" set forth eight years ago was being abused. Today, the court said the transfer progrums being used in Knoxvllle and Davidson county, which includes Nash ville, were unfair to Negroes. tn another case, the court ruled 8-1 that a group of Negro children In an ele mentary school in Cahokia, 111., outside East St. Louis, may sue in federal court on grounds that racial discrim ination Is being practiced there. EXPLOSION STUDIED Roswell, N.M. - (DPI) - Air Force safety crews and a board of Investigation both began work today into the ex plosion of an underground Atlas missile site that shook the quiet plains of southeast ern New Mexico Saturday night. Agency Shop Upheld In High Court Decision Washington -41P1I- The Su preme Court ruled today that the agency shop, now includ ed in about 6 per cent of all labor contracts, is permissible under federal law but not in states which have outlawed the union shop. Both decisions were by a unanimous 8-0 vote. The court upheld the legali ty of the agency a nop under the Taft-Hartley law In a case from Indiana. It then held In a separate Florida case that the agency shop is barred by an anti-union shop law there. The court left undetermined the question of whether Flor ida courts, rather than the National Labor Relations board, have Jurisdiction to en force the state ban against agency shop arrangements. This will tie decided next term. In general, the agency shop does not require a worker to Join a union but does require him to pay union dues. Justice Byron R. White read the two opinions for a unani mous court. Justice Arthur J. Goldberg did not participate in today's rulings. The Taft-Hartley labor law permits employers and unions to negotiate contracts which require union membership "as a condition of employment." This means workers have to Join within a specified period of time or lose their Jobs. Under agency shop agree ments, they pay the union a fee to help defray the costs of collective bargaining but need not Join. The sum is usually the same as the dues. This plan Is regarded as a compromise between the un ion shop and an open shop, in which all payments and membership are entirely voluntary.