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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
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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
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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
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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.