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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
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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
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City area. Checking the map
(left to right) Leonard Free
Gordon Kershaw, director; and
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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.