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Newspaper Page TextAffi Ml be mm i 1 ; 'IS SUMMIT MEETING French President Charles de Gaulle, left, and West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer are shown as they met in Bonn today before beginning the first in a series of summit meetings United States, Russia Nominally Accept Test Ban Washington - njpn - After five years of talks, the United States and Russia reached a point today where both nomi nally accepted a ban on nu clear tests in the atmosphere, space and underwater. But so much confusion sur rounded their positions that no diplomat could tell wheth er it was an historic turning point or just another round in endless bargaining. On Tuesday Soviet Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev, in a major speech in East Berlin, said Russia would agree to "simultaneous" signing of a limited test ban and an East West non-aggression pact. Proposed at Geneva The test ban, covering all but underground nuclear tests, was what the v United States and Britain proposed at Geneva last Aug. 27 and which Russia had rejected. The non-aggression pact, be tween the 15-nation North At lantic Treaty Organization and its Communist equivalent - the Warsaw Pact - was something Russia had propos ed many times since 1955, and the West had never accepted. Wednesday, after all -day meetings at the White House and State Department and consultation with Allies, the Kennedy administration gave newsmen a U. S. response of sorts - for "guidance," not as a public statement. It said: Willing To Sign -The United States is still willing to sign the limited test ban, though it really would prefer a ban on all nuclear tests. -As to the non-aggression pact, this docs not involve the United States alone but all of NATO and therefore must be decided by NATO as a whole. No one in Washington knew whether Khrushchev meant by the word "simultaneous" to make a test ban conditional upon the non-aggrcssion pact. The Soviet leader was not clear. Two Flee Fire In Portland Home Portland - (UPI1 - Two men escaped injury early today when they fled from a burn ing house here. The blaze caused some S3. 500 damage to the one-story frame house. Matthew Harris, 30, the oc cupant, and Leonard Wells, 23, a guest, smelled smoke and ran outside in time to see flames crackling from the basement windows. Cause of the blaze was being investigated. NEIVS(BRIEFS rflMl FROM 1 HT "WO "M SWITCHMEN THREATEN TO QUIT JOBS Buffalo, N.Y.-'lPl'-About 20.000 switchmen will leave their jobs If the nation's railroads carry out plans to put controversial work rule changes into effect next Thunder, union president warned Wednesday. M1KOYAN PUTS BAN UP TO WEST MoicowlPI-SoTiel First Deputy Premier Anattat Miko yan said today the Soviet Union believes ill conditions have been met for an East-West agreement on a partial nuclear test ban. He said it was now up to the Wm, rtsrVHOWER HEADS FOR DENVER Ahilane. Ken.-dH-Former hower Joutneyed toward Denver today after a sentimental visit to Abilene, t')0 place of his boyhood. planned every six months. De Gaulle ar rived earlier from Paris to start a low-key visit which strove to avoid any comparison with President Kennedy's overwhelming re ception in Bonn last week. (UPI) Macmillan Faces Test of Strength In Two Elections London -(UPIl- Prime Min ister Harold Macmillan, bat tling to restore Conservative party prestige undermined by the Profumo scandal, faced new tests today in two parlia mentary by-elections. Political observers said the best the Conservatives could hope for would be a strong second-place showing in the two districts, Deptford and West Bromwich. The worst would be to fin ish third behind the Liberal party. Today's by-elections were occasioned by the death of two Labor party members of Parliament, both of whom won easily in the 1959 general elections by majorities of about 7,000 votes. Ashland Woman Hurt in Mishap Mrs. Darline Gaster Schmitt, 23, of 1458 North College Way, Ashland, was re ported in critical condition this morning at Rogue Valley hospital suffering from inju ries received in a three-car accident Wednesday after noon. According to Oregon state police, Mrs. Schmitt was a pasenger in a vehicle oper ated by her husband, Gary Arthur Schmitt, 23. He suf fered head lacerations and shock but was not hospital ized. The couple's nine-month-old son, Steven, was reported in serious condition. He suf fered a fractured leg and head injuries. According to police, the ac cident occurred on Highway 99 near Voorhies crossing about 3:45 p.m. A southbound pickup truck, operated by Cloe Evans Small, 48, of route 3, box 240, Medford, started to pass a logging truck oper ated by Ray Eugene Smith, 44, of route 2, box 672, Cen tral Point, when the logging truck changed lanes. The logging truck struck the pickup, knocking it across the divider and into a power pole, police said. The impact spun the pickup around and into the path of the northbound Schmitt car. In another accident investi gated by state police a car was demolished when it fail ed to make a curve at the intersection of Upton rd. and Scenic ave. The accident oc curred about 11:30 p.m. Driver of the vehicle was Royce Aaron Holder, 19, of 10i2 Jordan st. Holder and three passengers in the car were not injured, police said. President Dwight D. Eisen Deptford is a London sub urb and West Bromwich is a Midlands town. Would Be Blow The Liberals did not enter candidates in either district in 1959. If they can oust Con servative candidates from sec ond place in the strong Labor constituencies, Macm i 1 1 a n's party will suffer a new blow. The resignation of War Min ister John Profumo and his admission he lied to Parlia ment about his affair with call girl Christine Keeler have shaken the Conservatives and threatened to topple Macmil lan's government. Miss Keeler has admitted having an affair at the same time with former Soviet as sistant naval attache Eugene Ivanov. Polls Show Lead Recent public opinion polls indicate Labor currently en joys a commanding lead in popular support over the Con servatives, with the Liberals in third place. The Profumo scandal fol lowed last year's conviction of William John Vassall, an Admiralty employee, on charges of being a Soviet spy. Mucmillan's government was accused of questionable se curity practices in connection with the Vassall case. Fruit Industry Estimates Crop The fruit industry today estimated the Medford pear district would produce 900, 200 packed boxes of pears this season. This estimate is lower than the early May estimates and compares with an average estimated crop of 3 million packed boxes. David Lowry, operator of Associated Fruit company, emphasized there are some orchards which appear to have a good crop. Regardless of the crop, pickers will have an opportunity to make as much as they did last year, industry leaders said. The June 20 estimate, which followed the major June drop of the small green fruits, lists bartletts 210,000 boxes, red bartletts 4,200 boxes. D'Anjous 400.000 box es, bosc at 260,000 boxes. Winter Nellis, Cornice and miscellaneous items were not estimated by the industry's official release. Showers Forecast For Valley Today Scattered showers are fore cast today, threatening to dampen Fourth of July activi ties in the valley. The Medford weather bu reau station forecast variable cloudiness and scattered show ers, with low temperatures to night ranging between 50 and 55 degrees. July Fourth activities are scheduled in Ashland, Eagle Point, Williams, Happy Camp and Crescent City, Calif. Most valley cities at noon today participated in a na tional program of ringing bells for two minutes in an effort to remind people of the basic principle of Inde pendence Day. Noon Edition Medford 34 Pages Three Sections Youthful Hostage, Policeman Slay Escaping Convict Three Others Die In Freedom Break Americus, Ga. - (UPD - A husky life-term convict who killed two sheriff's deputies and a bystander today in a daring escape in Marianna, Fla., was shot to death near here by pursuing police and the 14 -year -old hostage he seized in his flight. Georgia Trooper Robert Benson felled 240-pound Mel vin A. Weaver in a pecan or chard with a high powered rifle and Richard Hale, the hostage, grabbed one of the convict's pistols and pumped three or four more shots into him. Killed Three Men Weaver shot the three men down in a hail of bullets at a Marianna hospital where he had been taken when he was overcome by smoke in his jail cell. He commandeered a car and forced a Marianna couple and their small son to head to south Georgia. He forced the family out of the car near Colquitt, Ga., then seized young Hale who was standing by the roadside near Smithville, Ga., 50 miles further north, with two other youths. Then, with a pistol pointea at Hale's head, Weaver drove slowly through Smithville and Americus in a second com mandeered car, this one taken from two Georgia Bureau of Investigation agents. Rum Toward House Armed with at least four pistols, Weaver suddenly stop- ped the iar on U. S. 19, about three miles north of Ameri cus, and raced on foot to a house beside the highway, still holding Hale hostage. Weaver, 23, tried to enter the house, found the door locked and fired several shots into the lock in an attempt to open the door. He then bolted into a near by orchard, still holding voune Hale, with scores of Georgia state patrolmen, dep uties and local police on his heels. Georgia Patrol Cpl. C. H. Bentley was wounded in an exchange of shots. His condi tion was described as not crit ical. Benson, armed with the rifle, slipped behind Weaver and from about 200 yards saw the convict trying to heap earth up into a mound. I figured it was the best shot I could get and shot," Benson said. Grabs Convict's Gun His bullet cut Weaver from his feet and Hale immediately grabbed the convict's pistol and pumped several more shots into him. Jackson County, Fla., depu ties Aaron Creel and Allen French, who were moving Weaver and three other con victs to a hospital after they set fire to their jail bunks, and Hubert Mayo, a bystander at the hospital, were slain in Marianna. Representatives To Discuss Districts Portland - (UPIl - About 20 state representatives will meet next Tuesday to study plans to initiate a measure letting up single districts for state senators and representatives. State Rep. Robert Packwood (R-Portland) said. The meeting will be at the home of State Rep. Shirley Field (R-Portland) who along with Packwood, sponsored un successful legislation for the single district during the 1963 Legislature. Packwood said he and oth er members of the legislature have discussed the possibility of a court challenge to a rul ing by Atty. Gen. Robert Y. Thornton, that a single dis trict initiative could not be limited to Multnomah county. One of the bills that failed to pass the House during the session would have set up 17 representative and eight sen atorial districts in Multnomah county. flSH MARKED Portland -JUPD- Nearly two million fall chinook salmon smolts have been marked and released from Fish Commis sion hatcheries this season, the commission said today. Kennedy Discusses Etail Strike Threat I, CONORS. M lJ WmMH 1 a J A REMINDER Quill pen in hand, Benja min Franklin points out Franklin's signa ture on the Declaration of Independence as a reminder of what the founding fathers did. Bells of Freedom Note Observance Of Independence By United Press International The bells of freedom rang loud and clear across the land today as Americans celebrated Independence Day with the pageantry of picnics, parades and patriotic speeches. From Connecticut to Cali fornia, the nation marked the 187th anniversary of its birth. The holiday theme was taken from John Adams, who wrote that the Fourth of July should be celebrated by the ringing of bells "from one end of this continent to the other, from tills time forward for evermore. Fair weather drew thou sands of Americans onto the highways and roads of the na tion for a visit to grandma's, a trip to the picnic grove or a holiday look at a parade. A United Press Internation I count at 9:30 a.m. (pdt) showed at least 63 persons killed in traffic accidents since the U2-hour holiday be gan at 6 p.m. Wednesday. Drownings accounted for sev en deaths, airplane crashes claimed one life and miscel laneous accidents left seven dead tor an over-all toll of 78 lives. Pennsylvania spurted to an early lead in the tiaffic death toll with nine dead. Iowa and Wisconsin both had four fa talities. The National Safety Coun cil predicted that between 550 and 650 persons-a record for a four-day Fourth of July - would die before the end of the holiday period Sunday at midnight Produce Container Standards Repealed Salem - UPIl - Oregon fresh produce container standards were repealed by the state de partment of agriculture Wednesday. The department announced the standards were repealed because they had become ob' solete and were no longer ap plicable to present packaging and merchandising methods. Revised grade standards for 35 fresh produce commodities also have been adopted by the department. In most Instances the changes were made to bring Oregon grade standards In line with the present U.S Department of Agriculture grade standards. MEDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY, JULY 4, 1963 for America Salinas, Calif., ant of his famous namesake. IUPIV Russian Article Acknowledges Rift With Red Moscow (UPIl Th.: Soviet The S o v i e t Communist Union today openly acknowl- Prty Central Committee edged for the first time that foment was the first pub ,. .... , . , . , .. . lie acknowledgement here its bitter ideological dispute . tnat ,he decpcning rlft be. with Red China has soured tween the two Communist gi- relations with the Chinese government as well as with the Chinese Communist party. The acknowledgement was contained in an across-the-board attack on Chinese poli cies in today's Pravda, the official organ of the Soviet Communist party, published on the eve of the start of Ide ological peace tnlks in Mos cow with a Chinese delega tion from Peking. Airplane Missing With Two Aboard Hamilton AFB, Calif.-IUI'll- Clvil Air Patrol planes today searched along a line be tween Malad, lduho, and Del ta, Utah, for a missing light plane reported carrying a Chino, Calif., doctor and his wife. The Western Air Rescue Center here said Dr. and Mrs. Ernest W. Bcehler left Malad Wednesday afternoon for the 90-minute flight to Delta, estimating their arrival at 5:10 p.m. They were flying a single -engined T8 aircraft. a low-wing monoplane train er that was called the Har vard in World War II. The Bcehlcrs' route carried them over the Great Salt Lake and in the vicinity of the Oquirrh Mountains, rang ing up to 10,000 feet. Their aircraft carried a radio re ceiver but not a transmitter. WEATHER FORECAST: Variable rloudt nfti and wittered shower to night and early Friday. Partly cloudy and a lit Or warmer Friday afternoon. Low tonight 10-51, II Uh Friday near 71. Hlghe.t Yeilerday M l.nwMl This Morning .. . 14 Prec. to U a.m. Today 12 Our Skies Tonight Siinnet today :S2 p.m. fltinrltr tomorrow .. 5:40 a m. Moonrtic today 1;0S p.m. Full Moon July The Earth li In AphHInn to day, at Iti (treat it distance from the Hun for the year. Today we are about 4 mil lion mile from the Hun; on January 4 our distance was lei than million irilei. Tribune In 1776. This Franklin, 80, of is a fifth generation descend Chinese ants could break on lead to an open the diplomatic level. Accuses Chinese The statement Chinese officials accused in Moscow of "grossly violating the reg ulations in force In the U.S.S.R., by circulating a let ter containing the Chinese position. "Thereby the Chinese or ganizations interfere in the internal affairs of our party and transfer the differences from the sphere of relations between (Communist) parties into the sphere of relations between states," it said. Hitherto the Moscow Pe king argument has been billed officially as a matter concern ing both country's Communist pHrtics. I'ravda did not refer directly to five Chinese ox polled from Russia for circu lating the June 14 letter. But It gave Russians their first published news that the Chinese had sent a letter ex plaining their position in the dispute. "The publication of such a letter would necessitate an open reply on our part which would lead to the aggravation of policies," Pravda said. It called the Chinese attack "slanderous" Bnd said a reply would be published "in due time." Fee Adopted for State Milk Program Salem - (UPD - A fee of IVi cents per hundredweight has been adopted by the State Agriculture Department for administration of the state's milk audit and milk price stabilization programs, It was announced Wednesday. The new rate was made ef fective July 1, the depart ment said. Grade A milk producers formerly paid a 'i cent fee to finance the milk audit pro gram. The additional 1-cent will be used to pay for ad' ministration of the milk price stabilization law en acted by the 1963 Legislature. 58th Year Price 10 Cents No. 90 Chief Executive, Aides Arrive at No New Ideas Matter May Be Taken To Congress Washington (UPD President Kennedy and top aides con' ferred today on the "deadly serious threat of a nation wide railroad strike over work rules In advance of a last-ditch effort to bring the companies and unions to a voluntary agreement Friday. Labor Secretary W. Willard Wirtz told reporters after a 30-minute meeting with Ken nedy that they talked about various proposals, in cluding voluntary arbitration, which already have been made for a settlement. But he said they arrived at no new ideas. "It is going to have to be the parties who come forward with something new," Wirtz said. "There has got to be a fac- ing-up sqaurely by the parties and the country to the settling of this issue." To Meet Friday Wirtz said he would meet Friday morning with repre sentatives of the nation's rail roads and of the five unions whose members operate the trains. Wirtz was asked whether Kennedy, as he Indicated June 15, would ask Congress to act to keen the railroads runninff I It no agreement is reached. "That possibility is certain ly imminent, wirtz replied. He emphasized that "we are going to try In every way we can to reach a voluntary agreement. But he said that if a point is reached where this is Im possible, the President will have to take the matter to Congress since all other ave nues open to him have been exhausted. Storm Results in Outage in North Portland - (UPD - A thunder storm caused widespread out ages in the Portland area and the Willamette valley late Wednesday. The outages in the Portland- Vancouver area were mostly brief, according to spokesmen for Pacific Power and Light Co., and Portland General Electric. The longest outage was re ported In cast Portland. It lasted 30 minutes and was caused when lightning struck a pole. Sudden rains which accom panied the flashes of lightning and thunder reportedly scat tered spectators at the Albany Timber Carnival and drove many attending the St. Paul Rodeo and Molalla Buckaroo under covered stands. ' The weather bureau said the rain totaled .08 inch dur ing the night. ADDITIONAL TITLE Portland - (UPD - D. R. Mc- Clung, president of Pacific Power and Light Co. has been given the additional title of chief executive officer of the company. Norblad Sees Hatfield As Compromise Choice Portland WPI) Gov. Mark Hatfield may be selected as the Republican presidential candidate in the event of a deadlock at the 1964 nation al convention, Rep. Walter Norblad (R-Ore.), said Wednesday. "Mark could be the com promise candidate," Norblad said In an interview here. He said Hatfield's name is not mentioned in Washing ton, D.C., as a serious presi dential choice, but he is often considered likely choice as a vice presidential candidate with anyone except Sen. Barry Goldwater (R-Arlz). Norblad laid Hatfield and French Leader Avoids Competing With Kennedy Session First of Summit Meetings Bonn, Germany-IUPD-French President Charles de Gaulle and German Chancellor Kon rad Adenauer met here today in the first of a series of sum. mit meetings planned every six months. De Gaulle arrived at near by Wahn airfield this morn ing from Paris to start a low keyed visit which strove to avoid any comparison with President Kennedy's o v e r whelming reception here last week. Adenauer and five cabinet ministers met De Gaulle at the airport. Leaders Confer The French party was driven from the airport to the Palais Schaumberg, which serves as a foreign ministry. De Gaulle and Adenauer went into conference while their ministers gathered In subcom mittees. The Germans tried to pre vent De Gaulle's visit from being turned in a popularity contest with Kennedy. No school pupils were sent to the airfield and public buildings did not fly flags. Only a handful of curious bystanders gathered at the airport. Police, obviously prepared to handle crowds, had put up barricades but they weren't needed. The police appeared to outnumber the bystanders. Police on Duty . Because of the fear of an assassination attempt against De Gaulle by the underground Secret Army Organization. about 3,000 police were re ported on duty in the capital. The same number was assign ed to handle the huge crowds who Jammed the streets to greet Kennedy. The meetings are among the first' of .many to be held under the Franco - German friendship treaty signed by the two tiatlons in January and ratified 'last month, ' The French president, who is developing an independent nuclear force for his own country, Is the Western alli ance's prime exponent lor a stronc Europe under mini mum U.S. influence, ,. On Working Visit , Officials stressed that De Gaulle was on a working visit while in West Germany. By this they apparently meant to play down any possibility that people might think he was trying to undercut the mas- ve enthusiasm shown for President Kennedy last week. Sources said the French president also hoped to shun ny suggestion that he might ask Bonn to choose between Paris and Washington. Russian Premier Returns To Moscow Moscow -IUPD- Soviet Pre mier Nikita S. Khrushchev to day returned to Moscow from East Berlin where he issued a new call for Communist unity and warned the West "not to stick its nose into the East's affairs." Shortly before Khrushchev returned First Deputy Pre mier Anastas Mikoyan told newsmen at the U.S. Em bassy Fourth of July recep tion here that Russia believes all conditions have been met for an East-West accord on a partial nuclear test ban. He said it was now up to the West. Khrushchev left East Ber lin's Schoenefeld Airport this morning ending a. six -day visit to East Germany during which he held summit talks with Eastern European Com munlst bloc leaders and de livered key policy speeches. Berlin reports said Khru shchev . failed to match the popular acclaim accorded President Kennedy on his West Berlin visit last week. Goldwater arc not too apart politically, but close geographically. far too He said Hatfield would be the logical running mate with a presidential candidate from the east. But Norblad said Goldwat er is out In front as a presi dential candidate because of the resurgence of conserva tism and the remarriage of New York Gov. Nelson Rockefeller. The first district congress man was In Oregon to visit his rebuilt home In Stayton. His house had been destroyed by the Oct, 12 storm last year.