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fffllWi KB mac - ';.-;,v;r t PIPELINE RIGHT OF WAY Work started this week on the right of way for the ten inch natural gas pipeline to be laid between Grants Pass and Ashland. Leveling the ground along Foothills rd. northeast of Grants Pass, is a bulldozer of the Roy Price company, Bakersfield, Calif., contractors for the 54-mile project. In Grants Pass-Tuesday Kennedy, Aides Study Russian Premier's Speech Washington - (UPI)-Presidcnt Kennedy met with a group of top aides today in an ef fort to determine whether So viet Premier Nikita S. Khrush chev is really serious about outlawing all nuclear tests ex cept those conducted under ground. In announcing the White House meeting, press secre tary Pierre Salinger said "The President considers Mr. Khrushchev's speech a matter of importance." He referred to the East Berlin speech in which the Soviet leader of fered to sign immediately an agreement banning atmos pheric and underwater explo sions. Sincerity Questioned But he linked the offer with a proposal that the North Atlantic Treaty Organization Bign a non-aggression pact with its Communist counter part, the Warsaw Pact Alli ance. This caused Western 'diplomats to question whether he really was sincere. The President conferred about It for one hour today with Undersecretary of State Averell Harriman, Undersec retary of State George Ball, Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara and disarmament agency director William Fos ter. Kennedy landed at An drews Air Force Base, Md., early this morning after an 11 hour flight from xvapies, Italy, and then flew to the White House by helicopter. His jet plane made a refuel ing stop in the Azores, but he remained aboard, in bed and asleep. Pope Paul May Visit United States Vatican City -fllPIU Vatican sources said today that Pope Paul VI may become the first pontiff in history to visit the United States. The sources, commenting on the Pope's meeting with President Kennedy Tuesday, said he probably would take an opportune occasion to go to the United States after com pletion of the Ecumenical Council. The council opens its sec ond session Sept. 29. No clos ing date has been set. Although the sources did not say so, one of the obstacles 1o such a visit in 1964 would be the presidential elections and the fact that President Kennedv is a Roman Catholic. An invitation for tiiat year would be unlikely. The sources believed 1965 is the earliest possible date. FIR-E FATAL Redmond -rtJ?l- Mrs Ethel Fletcher, 75. Shatter, Calif died Tuesday of burns suf fered in a house-trailer fire here June 10. HEWS( BRIEFS IRAQ CRUSHES COMMUNIST PLOT Btirut, Lbsnon-"lP1-Baghdid Radio today announced !h crushing of a Communist plot to seiit a military camp in Iraq. COMMUNIST CHINA ACCUSES KREMLIN . Pl-CommunUt China circulated t Foreign Min istry note in Moscow ioday accusing the Kremlin of trying lo obstruct Sino-Sovtii negotiations scheduled to start here Fridsy. LOYALTY CHECK ON REPORTERS ASKED Wsshington-'lU'-Sen. Thomis J. Dodd, rice chairman of the Senate Internal Security subcommittee, called todsy for closer loyalty check of American news reporters. for the arrival of the first of some 50 car loads of pipe were several California-Pacific Utilities company officials. They included M. E. Sands, vice president; M. L. Neal, Medford district foreman; V. V. Lyman, Southern Oregon division manager; Murray S. Gardiner, Medford district manager, and J. S. Richards, gas engineer. (Hooker-Johnston' photo) Railroads To Place Work Rules Into Effect on July 11 Washington - (DPI) - The na tion's railroads announced to day they will place new work rules into effect at one min ute after midnight July 11 despite union warnings that such a move would trigger a national rail strike. J, E. Wolfe, chairman of the railroads' negotiating com mittee, said union refusal to accept recommendations of a White House board has led Convicted Killer 01 Child To Die At Salem Aug. 1 ' Madras-WPD-Jeannace June Freeman, 22, was to be taken back to the State Penitentiary in Salem today to await ex ecution Aug. 1 for throwing a 6-year-old boy to his death in the Crooked River Gorge two years ago. Apparently only interven tion by Gov. Mark Hatfield could save Miss Freeman from becoming the first woman ex ecuted by the state of Oregon. She stood before Circuit Judge Robert H. Foley Tues day afternoon and heard him set the date just 29 days away. It was the third date set for her execution. The first was last Dec. 6. This was postponed until Jan. 29 and then postponed again pending appeals to the U.S. Supreme Court. The high court twice refus ed to grant Miss Freeman a hearing. First Execution Miss Freeman's was the first execution scheduled in Oregon in the wake of leg islative action to remove the death penalty from the state constitution .A vote on the proposed constitutional change will be held at the 1964 general election. A companion measure, which sets the penalty for first degree murder at life in prison, became law without the signature of Gov. Mark Hatfield. It becomes effective if voters aprove the constitu tional change. Sanitary District Approved by Voters Talent-Voters in the South Talent Sanitary district ap proved the district's proposed 1963-64 budget yesterday by a vote of 45 to 6. The budget calls for a tax levy of $2,510 to cover op crating expenses. Construc tion of a sewer system is not anticipated until 1964. CRASH KILLS THREE Montcsano, Was h. WD Three persons were killed in a head-on collision about five miles east of here Tuesday. to "a complete breakdown" in talks designed to end the dis pute. President Kennedy on June 15 asked both sides to under take intensive efforts to set tle the dispute until July 10 without changing the rules or calling a walkout. Would Eliminate Jobs The new rules would re sult in elimination of thou sands of jobs and make sweep ing cnanges in working con ditions for 200,000 men who run about 95 per cent of the trains in this country. 1 he railroads' announce ment came as Labor Secre tary W. Willard Wirtz called in Wolfe and heads of the five rail unions to make propos als looking toward a settle ment. But Wirtz said no real progress had been made on key issues including whether firemen are needed In dicsel locomotives in freight and yard service. Wolfe said negotiations so far have been a "hollow mockery" of bargaining. But he told a news confer ence that today's announce ment "does not preclude con sideration of any constructive suggestions by the President the secretary of labor or any other interested party." Plans to Demolish Buildings Noted Authorization of plans for demolition of three down town buildings to clear the way for Medford's off-street parking program will be asked of the city council at Friday's meeting, City Mana ger Robert A. Duff reported today. In the demolition plans are the federal building at Sixth st. and North Riverside ave. purchased by the city from the government and the Han sen and Field buildings at Sixth and Bartlett sts. The Hansen and Field lots will be leased from William Hansen and Harvey Field the owners. The three areas will pro vide parking for approxi mately 100 vehicles, Duff said. The federal building pur chase for $42,500 has to be approved by a congressional committee and this action is expected about July 18. The city and federal government have agreed on terms and the Congressional action is view ed s a formality which has been favorably reviewed in reports from Oregon's dele gation. Jacksonville Council Accepts Sewer Bid Jacksonville The Jackson ville city council last night formally aceptcd the bid of R. A. Hcintz company, Port land, on both phaJrs of con struction of a sewer system here, paving the way for work on the projects to start in a few days. Tlie Hcintz company's bid was $286,448.30 on the sewer system and $57,198.80 on the pond, with a S500 deduction allowed if both bids were ac cepted, leaving a total cost of S325.147.20. The engineers' estimate of the cost was $293,608 80, but councilmcn found they could still finance the project, if at least 25 per cent of the front footage assessments are paid in cash before the end of the year. Regional Edition Medford 16 PAGES 4. Nabbed ODD Soviet Union Protests Arrest 01 UN Employee Espionage Ring ' Called 'Big One' Washington-fllPP-The Soviet Union today protested the ar rest of a Russian UN em ployee and his wife on spy charges and demanded their immediate release. The protest was filed at the State Department by Georgi Kornienko, a ct I n g head of the Soviet Embassy here. Mentioned In the protest were Ivan Dmitricvich Ego rov, 41, and his wife Alexan dria, 39. They were picked up along with another couple Tuesday night on charges that they conspired over the past six years to steal U.S. mili tary secrets for the Kremlin. Kornienko called the ar rest unlawful " and said it cannot improve in any way American-Soviet relations." Arrested by FBI Meanhile, Atty. Gen. Rob ert F. Kennedy, commenting on the arrests, said that the Communists were stepping up their spy activities against the United States. The four were arrested Tuesday night by FBI agents in New York's Queen county and in Washington in the sec ond Soviet spy case in this country in two days. On Mon day the State Department or dered expulsion of Soviet Em bassy attache Gennadiy Sevas- tynov for espisnage. ... v A government official call ed the spy ring "a big one and the FBI said it had all the traditional trappings - se cret messages left at "drop points," codes, ciphers and secret writings. Said 'Illegals' Kennedy said today that the two arrested in Washington were not American citizens but were "illegals." The attorney general de scribed this term as applying to persons who came to the United States not as part of a diplomatic mission, but il legally and who adopted the identity of American citizens. Pilot Not Injured As Plane Crashes The pilot of a crop dusting plane escaped serious injury about 6:30 o'clock this morn ing when the plane he was flying crashed in a sugar beet field on the Don Bohnert ranch, Central Point. Taken to Crater Osteopathic hospital by Bohnert was Du ane Franklin, 28, Medford, who was treated. It was re ported that the field was being dusted with acromite dust which is not considered toxic to humans. The plane, owned by Aero- Ag Inc., was heavily damaged. The accident occurred when the plane came in too low, its wheels hitting the ground. A swath was cut in the beet field by the plane, Bohnert said. Fire Suppression Crew Returns Here The 25 - man inter regional fire suppression crew, which left Medford airport last Sat urday for Utah to fight a 1,000 acre fire, returned Tuesday af ternoon, Robert Torhcim of the Rogue River National For est service announced. The fire was under control when the crew left the Fish lake National forest near Richfield. Utah, about 100 miles south of Salt Lake City. The fire was the first lo which the crew was dis patched this season, forest service officials said. The crew's foreman, Francis Greg ory, and the crew left here in a Forest service C-46 plane based at Redding, Calif. More than 340 men from Utah, Ore gon. Idaho and Montana fought the flames, which spread again after the fire had crowned Sunday. MEDFORD, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, JULY AGATE DAM SITE-Rogue River Valley Irrigation district board members and District Manager Harold Sexton (left) yesterday inspected the proposed Agate, dam site when they signed the contract for construction of the project on (Dry creek. The reservoir will hold 4,600 acre feet about Petitions for Annexation Are Ruled Invalid Ashland-Prospects for any carlv annexation of area south of the city of Ashland fell by the wayside at last night's meeting of the Ash land city council, after City Attorney Harry Skerry ruled that pro-annexation petitions filed had not met qualifica tions. The issue of annexation south of Ashland has been a controversial one since it was first proposed Sept. 27, 1962. In its original form the re quested land would have in creased the city by one third and the population by more than 1,500. Enrouraging stiff opposition the proponents re vised and reduced the pro posed annexation area. Property owners not In fav or of annexation formed a committee and began circulat ing petitions with the result that the area was revised again and more petitions pro and con were filed. The anti- annexation group even went so far as to study the feasi bility of independent Incor poration. Reviewed Petitions At the council session last night, the city attorney brief ly reviewed the various peti tions saying that annexation petitions cannot be for a les ser area than in the original; that last minute revised peti tions did not have the requir ed two-thirds signatures of property owners or two-thirds valuation, although meeting the requirement on square footage, and therefore could not qualify for annexation without a special election in the city. Elmer Bicgcl, city superin tendent, was asked to give specific costs involved In the proposed annexation, ric enumerated the additional city services of water mains and sewers and the need for police and fire protection, say ing they would Increase the Ashland city tax base by an estimated six mills while bringing Into the treasury only an approximated $7,000 additional in taxes. Discussion followed In which councilmen agreed that the annexation proposal should be given careful study and the present small area should be dropped until such time as there is request for a i larger district. July Fourth Events Listed for Community Areas Fourth of July celebrations including parades, horse shows, water event:, fire works displays and aerial feats, are scheduled in four southern Oregon communities and two ,in nearby parts of northern California tomorrow. Full days of activity are planned In Ashland, Eagle Point, Happy Camp and Cres cent City. Events also arc scheduled in Grants Pass and Williams. The schedule of events, with starting times, where available, is as follows: Ashland: Parade will start t 10 a.m. from Siskiyou blvd. and Triangle park to Lilhia park, followed by city band concert. Ashland Wrang lers' horse show at 1 p.m. and fireworks at the lake at 8:30 p.m. Booths and conces sions in Lithia park and boat ing on Emigrant lake will continue all day. Jets from Kingslcy field will fly over and aerial performances by Medford skydlvcrs will be held. (More details on Page 8A). Eagle Point: Coronation ball to crown queen of Eagle Point tonight at 9 o'clock at community building; Jayccc breakfast In park next to Grange hall Thursday from 6 to 11 a.m.; ringing of the bells at noon; parade at 12:15 p.m. with theme "Patriotic Woman Injured as Car Skids in Gravel Julia Jcmma Tummcrs, 4615 Hamrick rd., Central Point, received minor injuries when her car hit a bank on the north slope of the Siskiyou mountains yesterday. She was treated by a doctor for minor lacerations, state po lice said. The Tummers car skidded on loose gravel in a construc tion area, it was reported. Grazing land Burns Near Klamath falls Klamath Falls -HiPH- Three hundred acres of grazing land were burned over Tuesday near Merrill, 14 miles south of here. 58th Year Price 10 Cents tribune 3, 1963 five miles cast of the While of the silo with Sexton arc: man, board vice chairman; Chairman Otto Bohnert. Six People," Desert Pegasus Horse club show on grade school grounds at 1 p.m., gun shoot at community building, booths and concessions, pony rides, movies at grade school. py Camp: Crowning of qu... tonight during Ameri can Legion dance; 64-mile boat race down Klamath riv er tomorrow, with four kay aks starting from Swallows Auto court near Hornbrook at 7 a.m. and four rowboats from mouth of Scott river at 10 a.m. (entries accepted until half hour before each starting time); log rolling contest at Siskiyou mills, pig chase at Happy Camp High school, carnival all day-July 4-6. Crescent City: Fly-over by Jets from Kingsley Air Force base at 11:45 a.m. at which time parade will be in prog ress, aerial shows at 12:30 and 1:30 p.m., fireworks, stiu a re dancing and street dancing in the evening- Grants Pass: Bike parade down Sixth si. at 10:30 a.m fireworks at Josephine coun ty fairgrounds at 8:30 p.m. Williams: Grcyback Brush- riders fun day at 10:30 a. m at arena on Davidson dr., In cluding games and races In morning, lunch at noon, and horse show at 1 p.m. Spy Charges Dedication July 20 To Be At South End of Collier Tunnel Dedication of the Randolph Collier tunnel on Highway 199 will be held Saturday, July 20, with activities sched uled at the south end or me tunnel. The location of the dedica tion ceremony was announced Tuesday evening by William J. Fullan, Crescent City, presi dent of the Winnemucca-to-the-Sca Highway association. The $7 million tunnel vas started In January, 1961. at a point 340 feet below Hazel view Summit ridge. It will eliminate more than 100 curves and lower the highway to a point where snow re moval will no longer be a maior problem In winter. Dedication ceremonies will No. 89 M ji City area. Checking the map (left to right) Leonard Free Gordon Kershaw, director; and . . . WEATHER FORECAST:. Fair inrf mJM to night and Thursday. Light wtndi and chanre or afternoon and evitmnir tnundrrtinowrm. i.otv innjjtnt near . mgn Thunday S3. Temp. Highest Yesterday Tfl Lowest This Morning 47 Our Skies Tonight Ntinset today H:.M p.m. Sunrise tomorrow .. .1:31 a.m.! Muonrt tomorrow .. 4:un a.m.j Full Moon .... July 6 PHOMINI NT STAR An in res helow the Moon. VISIHLK I'LANKTB I Mara, low In weal 11:0(1 p.m. Haturn, In aoiiiheast 1.1(1 a.m. Jupiter, low In eat 1:S3 a.m. Venut, riirs 4:.tft a.m. City of Dunes Dissolution Asked Eugene-lllPIi-A suit has been filed in Lane County Circuit Court to dissolve the newly- Incorporated city of Dunes south of Florence. The plaintiffs are four property owners who claim their property would be burd ened by taxation without cor responding benefits. They seek a declaratory Judgement lo make the incor poration election, held June 1 1, and the resulting order of the county commissioners establishing the city "null and void and of no effect." Plaintiffs are C. Von Hick man of Eugene, Aaron Hunt er, Globe, Ariz., Olive May, Santa Monica, Calif., and John May, St. Petersburg, Fla. They own together about 200 acres of Woahink lake and additional land on the outlet of Siltcoos lake. get under way July 20 with a barbecue at 1 p.m. along with entertainment and intro duction of some of the visiting dignitaries. The actual dedi cation will start at 3 p.m., Fullan reported, with the rib bon expected to be cut about 4:30 p.m. At that time the tun nel is expected to be opened for public travel. While California Highway department officials have not stated an opening date for the tunnel, It was reported that construction at the tunnel is in its final phases with light ing being installed and the pa ntlna completed. Invited to participate at the dedication In addition to Cali fornia Sen. Randolph Collier 15-Cent Hourly i Across-lhe-Board IncreaseAccepfed Definite Crack In Strike Sean .'..' Portland - WPD - Settlement of a strike against the J. H. Baxter Pole and Tie Co. at The Dalles was reported to day. ; - A union spokesman called it we "first breakthrough in the current Northwest lumber wage dispute, but an employ er spokesman discounted thia. Earl Hartley, executive sec retary of tlie Lumber and Sawmill Workers Union's Western Council said the LSW had accepted a one year con tract calling for a IS cent hourly across-the-board wage hike. The agreement, reached here Tuesday, extends through next May 31. - .... . -t Work Resumes The LSW went on strike against the Baxter firm Jun 18, affecting about 110 em ployees. Work resumed at th plant today following accept ance of the offer by union ' members at a 6 a.m. meeting; in The Dalles. Hartley said, "This is the first breakthrough on wages in Industry negotiations. W see a definite crack in thj strike front." But Karl Glos, executive vice president of the Timber Operators Council, a 196-mem-ber employer group, said th settlement with Baxter was not considered a "break, through." - 'There Is no correlation be tween the Baxter Company's operations, a manufacturer and processor of creosoted poles and piling,, and the log ging, lumber and plywood in dustry," Glos said. He said the Baxter firm was a member or the Pine Industrial Relations Council of. Klamath Falls. Ho Talks Scheduled ' The LSW and the Interna llonal Woodworkers of Ameri ca i went on strike June 8 against two members of the lumber industry's Big Six and the other four firms shut down, idling some 19,000 men in-. th. ...thrAA.b Panlfirt. . faMmk. been scheduled between thin iirma ana ine umoiu, pui tarn LSW meets here with Georfia . Pacific on July 10. Seven Persons die In Airliner Crash : Rochester, N.Y. -WPD- Sur vivors today indicated that strong gusts of wind caused the crash of a Mohawk Air lines plane which killed seven persons and injured 36 others unng a severe thunder and hail storm Tuesday. The crash happened as the Mohawk Martin 404 twin engincd aircraft took oft front Rochester Airport en route to White Plains, N.Y., and New ark, N.J. Witnesses said it roared down the runway and got about 100 feet in the air when it entered a black thunder cloud while hail as big as large . stones rained on the runway. Flames Threaten Griffith Park Zoo i Los Angeles -diPB- Officials today praised a "particularly amazing piece of fire fighting" which halted a brush fire In Griffith Park Tuesday that blackened 200 acres and swept to within 50 feet of the famed zoo. The fire, first thought to be minor, was declared "a major emergency" when 10 to IS mile an hour winds whipped the flames across fire lines. More than 1,200 persons were removed from the xoo. are the three governors of the states through which the Win ncmucca- to-the-Sea highway passes - Gov. Edmund Brown, California; Gov. Mark O. Het field, Oregon, and Gov. Grant Sawyer, Nevada. Governor Sawyer was the only one of the three who attended the dedication ceremonies last September when the section of the highway from Lake view, Ore., to Winnemucca, Nev., was opened. 1 Also Invited to attend are a number of state legislators, highway committee member and others from the three states. Dedication festivities ere under the direction of the Del Norte Chamber of Commerce.
