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Newspaper Page TextTwo Dig of Jos mmm il oves Washington UPI) President Kennedy and Labor Secretary W. Willard Wirtz conferred with nine Democratic congres sional leaders today on pos sible government moves to head off a nationwide rail strike. Accidents Claim 11 Lives During Holiday in State By United Press International Eleven persons lost their lives in accidents in Oregon during the long Fourth of July holiday week end. Six persons died in traffic acci dents, two drowned and three died in other accidents. The week end count began at 6 p.m. Wednesday and end ed at midnight Sunday. Lawrence Norton, 20, Stay ton, was fatally injured in a two-car collision near Stayton early Sunday. Four other per sons were injured. California Youth Dies Bruce Current, 18, Gridley, Calif., was killed when his car struck a parked truck trailer north of Salem Satur day night. Karen Welo, 23, La Grande, died Saturday as a result of injuries suffered in a two-truck crash near Athena Friday. Killed in traffic crashes Wednesday night and Thurs day were Alexander Volk, 48, Eugene; Mrs. Margaret Bus sey. 56, Milwaukie, and Shar on Lee Christiansen, 18, Chil oquin. Two Drown Robert Trent. 41, Tacoma, Wash., drowned near New port Thursday and Lawrence Adams, 13, Portland, drowned rlear Sweet Home Wednesday night. ,w..-v- Two persons died in fires Friday. The victims were Fred Sayer, 78. Portland, and David Lund, 36, Oregon City. Madeline M a 1 o n e y, 8, Pendleton was dragged to death by a horse Thursday. The long holiday week end brought Oregon's traffic death toll for the month to eight, compared to six for a similar period in 1962, So far this year 259 persons have died in Oregon traffic erashes, com pared to 200 during the same period last year. Federal Court To Open Here July 22 The Medford term of U. S. District court will open here July 22 and continue through that week at the courtroom in the Medford post office. Presiding will be Judge John F. Kilkenny, Portland. The first day will consist of admission of attorneys, mo tions and pre-trial confer ences. The jury trial, Capital Sky park vs. W. J. Kesterson, will get under way Tuesday and is expected to continue July 24. The following day the jury trial, Bryan S. Hawley v. Pearl J. Lightle, is expect ed to begin. Three Persons Killed In Plunge of Bus St. Louis, Mo. - ItlPn - A crowded bus with passengers standing in the aisles hit a wet spot and plunged down a 30-foot embankment Sun day. Three persons were kill ed and 52 were injured. Officials feared the toll might be higher, but when the Scenicruiser was finally righted five hours after the pre-dawn accident, the death count was fixed at inree. Of Meeting MEIVS(BRIEFS row kom lPy M00ND 9MU MODERATE KEEPS LEAD IN ARGENTINA Buenos Aires-WI-Dr. Arturo Illia. heading the ticket of the Moderate People Radical party, maintained a liteable popular role leed todey in Argentine's presidential elections. Hie showing doomed a blenlr Fallot campaign by supporters of ex-dictator Juen D. Peron. INNOCENT PLEA VOICED IN MISSISSIPPI Jackson. MiM.-f-Byron De La Beckwith today pleaded innocent lo eharget that he murdered Negro Integretion leader Medgar Er.ri. EAST GERMANS ACCUSE U. S. TROOPS Berlin-'lfl'-Eail German Communists tonight i c e u t e d U. S. troeps of firing machine-gun bullets and tear-gas gre- ' j .. r.. r..tn harder ouardi and dsstroyina border fortifications at the U. S. sector enclare of Steinstuecken. Strike Topic With the walkout threat ened for 12:01 a. m. (edt) Thursday, the Chief Execu tive and Wirtz met with key members of the Senate and House Labor and Commerce Committees. Also present were House Democratic Lead- er Carl Albert (Okla.) and As s i s t a n t Senate Democratic Leader Hubert H. Humphrey (Minn.). Has Jurisdiction The Commerce and Labor committees would have juris- diction over any legislation proposed by the White House to block the walkout. Kennedy first discussed the rail crisis with Wirtz, Assist ant Labor Secretary James Reynold and White House special counsel Theodore C. Sorensen. The four of them then met with the congres sional group. Included were Chairman Lister Hill (Ala.) of the Sen ate Labor Committee and Warren G. Magnuson (Wash.) of the Senate Commerce Com mittee; Sens. Wayne Morse (Ore.) and Pat McNamara (Mich.), ranking Democrats on the' labor committee; Chair man Oren Harris (Ark.) of the House Commerce Commit tee, and Reps. Carl Perkins and Phil Landrum, ranking Democrats on the House La bor Committee. To Brief Leaden White House press secre tary Pierre Salinger said the President also planned to brief Senate and House Demo cratic . leaders at breakfast Tuesday morning. Salinger said it was "quite possible that we may have something further to say" lat er today about the rail situa tion. But he said that until then there would be no White House comment "on any of the possible steps to be taken or on the timing of such moves." Salinger said Wirtz brought the group up to date on the conversations he had with management and union rep resentatives Friday and Sun day in a last-ditch effort to ward off a shutdown. The un ions rejected Wirtz's propos als. 1 Savings and Loan Plans GP Branch The Federal Home Loan board in Washington, D.C., has authorized the Jackson County Federal Savings and Loan association to establish a branch office in Grants Pass. The announcement was made today by H. J. Field, as sociation president. The auth orization is subject to final ap proval of the exact location of the branch office. J. H. Pletsch, executive vice president and manager of the association, stated that the date of the opening of the branch office will depend up on the availability of a suit able location. Cases Cleared By Arrests in Ashland The Jackson county sheriff's office this morning estimated approximately 75 cases have been cleared so far with the arrest of a group of young men and juveniles in Ashland late last month. Besides earlier cases, some of the group now have admit ted to taking 15 records from Purucker's Music House in Medford. theft of auto parts from a Talent garage, theft of two shirts from J. C. Penney store in Medford and a shirt from Sears and Roebuck com pany in Medford. Rogue Vailey Edition Medford 18 Pages Two Sections Moscow - IUPII - Premier Ni- kita Khrushchev, remaining far from Moscow in a seem ingly calculated snub to the Chinese Communists, met in the Ukraine today with form- NATO Secretary General Paul-Henri Spaak. The official Soviet Tass news agency said that Khrush chev conferred with Spaak, Belgium's foreign minister, in the Ukrainian capital of Kiev. Groundbreaking Held for County Health Center County Judge Earl M. Mill er and Dr. A. Erin Merkel, Jackson county public health officer, broke ground offici ally this morning for the new public health center. The new $190,000 building is scheduled for completion by Feb. 1, acocrding to Mill- Besides Dr. Merkel and Miller, those attending the ceremonies were Chester Irish and Robert Ross, of the Med ford branch, First National Bank of Oregon; H. P. Jewett, Jackson county board of health; and representatives of the mental health clinic, pub lic health nurses, sanitarians and County Commissioners Edwin Taylor and Don Faber. Earle Jossy represented the county extension service which has an adjacent build ing on the fairgrounds. Consolidate Offices The L shaped building will include offices for the public health officer and nurses, san itarians, mental health clinic and general clinic space. Now the various health department officers are scattered through the county courthouse.' The contract for the con struction was approved by the state board of health and the Jackson county budget committee.. The county will pay $130,000 toward the cost and $60,000 will come from federal Hill-Burton matching funds. Murphy Construction com pany, Roseburg, was low bid der at $187,816. Some alter ations were made in the plans to bring the bid within the money allocated by the coun ty. All changes were minor and will not alter the func tion of the building. Architect Robert J. Keency, Medford. explained. Three-City Merger Study Under Way Oregon City - CPU - A sur vey of agencies capabl"1 of making a consolidation . udy of Gladstone. Oregon City, and West Linn is under way here. The Tri-City Chamber of Commerce plans to meet with officials of the three clticj to learn the scope, methods and costs of a merger study. 3 .(mmmrmmmm: .. Khrushchev Snuhc IT o Vnaxi JUflfllt III UHlfllllC 1 ' H w I r . s ji ... , , -- S" jf' Jiff Khrushchev and Spaak were discussing East -West problems in the Soviet pre mier s first meeting with Western stateman since re lations between Moscow and Peking worsened in recent weeks. The Soviet premier, who had returned lo Moscow only last Thursday from an East German visit, was disclosed Saturday ' to have gone to Kiev. His trip was considered a rebuff to the Chinese Com munists meeting with high Soviet party officials in Mos cow. . The secrecy-shrouded Mos cow talks continued today as WesTern diplomats predicted that the Sino-Soviet struggle for Communist leadership would have little effect on the Kremlin's basic attitude to ward the West. The diplomats said the cur rent Moscow ideological talks are concerned with the means rather than the ends of Com munist doctrines. Moscow and Peking agree, they said, that Communism should wipe out Western cap italism and their dispute is over whether this should be accomplished through Mos cow' policy of peaceful com petition or Red China's policy of armed revolution. The diplomats said that Khrushchev, therefore, might pursue talks with Westerns leaders on key issues of ten sion, but would not lose sight of the Marxist-Leninist goal of Communist control of the world. After a day of rest Sunday, the Soviet and Chinese dele gations returned to the nego tiating table today. The offi cial Soviet press and radio have carried no reports on the talks, and no announce ment was expected until the negotiations are concluded, probably within a week. Caribbean Combed For Missing Vessel Miami-WPP-A task force of Navy and Coast Guard planes combed the shark-infested Caribbean waters today for a rickety fishing vessel called Sno' Boy which vanished sev en days ago with 40 persons aboard. . The mysterious case of the 63-foot fishing craft was sim ilar to that of the SS Marine Sulphur Queen, which disap peared last February in the Gulf of Mexico with 39 per sons aboard and a cargo of molten sulphur. A former owner of the Sno' Boy said he was mystified by the circumstances surround ing the fishing vessel. He said the ship did not have conven ient space to transport 40 per sons and that he was puzzled by reports the Sno' Boy, a diesel-powered craft was car rying gasoline drums. MEDFORD, OREGON, ffrintxAv PLANE HITS PICNIC AREA-Sevcn persons were killed Sun day whert a jet fighter plane crashed into a picnic area at Willow Grove, Pa. The upper digging through the debris in lower photo, a landing gear The 14-monlhs-old son of Mrs. minor cuts and bruises when beside him. (UPI). Wildcat Strike Stops Round Butte Dam Work Madras - OIPli - A wildcat strike by members of tue Technical Engineers and Architects association stopped nearly all work on the Round Butte dam project on the Deschutes river west of here today. Dick Terry, 'project man ager for the prime contractor, Utah Mining and Construc tion Co., said he had been as sured by union business man ager H. W. Nelson in Seattle that the strike was unauthor ized. Terry said the dispute was between a sub contractor, Claytor and Associates, Eu gene, and Union Local 17 over wages. Claytor employed non union workers when work on the dam began, but the union later was certified as a bar gaining agent for employees after an election conducted by the National Labor Rela tions Board. Members of the Boiler makers union already had en WEATHER FORECAST: Fair through Tum dv txrin for viruni eloud nYai and rhmce nf ihovn thti evening. !. title rhange tn tem perttiirt. l,ow tonight SO. High Tuesday S3. Temp. Highest Yetterdav Lowe it Thll Morning 42 Our Skies Tonight Suntet Uda p m ftunrhe tomorrow Mnonrlie tonlghl Last Quarter . S:4J a m 16:21 D.m July 13 i The ol net, Ventia, now rltet later each morning and l to near the Sun to he etstlv een. It will reappear is an evening ttar In the Fall. MONDAY, JULY 8, 1963 photo snows rescue worKcrs a search for victims. In the wheel rests in a Dabys cno. Grace Lcdcrcr escaped with the wheel landed in the crib tered the project when a pick et line was thrown up across the main road leading to the Portland General Electric Co. hydroelectric project this morning. They remained on the Job, but other workers turned back. Terry said officials of other unions have assured him (he picket lines will not be honor ed for later shifts. He ex pressed optimism that the strike could be settled quick ly. Plane Sought in Crescent City Area Crescent City, Calif. - IUPII -Search planes planned lo take to the air again today in an other effort to locate a small plane carrying a Seattle couple that disappeared Sat urday. Civil Air Patrol planes, hampered by a slight over cast, searched a wide area Sunday without finding any trace of the single-engine "Ercoupe"' with Peter Vike Jr., an education professor at the University of Washington, and his wife, Nancy, aboard The craft was first reported missing Saturday night after it took "It from Ukiah, Calif., and failed to land as ichedul ed at Crescent City. Tribune Plane Picnic Seven Willow Grove. Pa. - HIPD -Seven persons, four of them children, were killed Sunday when a Navy jet fighter crash ed into a bathhouse being used as a shelter by picnick ers during a violent thunder storm. The FIE jet was on a land ng approach to nearby Wil low Grove Naval Air Station when it burst into flames in the air and crashed into the frame and cinder block struc ture jammed with people. Minutes before, they had been playing baseball and swim ming during a carefree out ing. They had sought the shelter of the double garage serving as a bathhouse when the sudden storm struck. The pilot, Marine Capt. John W. Butler, 30, Boiling Springs, Pa., ejected safely before the crash. He had been about to land following routine traintng mission. Butler, a Marine reservist, was detained overnight at the base dispensary and was ex pected to be questioned today by a naval team investigating the tragedy. 16 Persons Treated The crash on the grounds of the Green Hill Day Camp killed Mrs. Jennie Klein, 36, of Philadelphia; her daughter, banara, iu, ana a son, ni vey, 4; Emmanuel Fine, 43 Jean Arnold, about 40, Judy Arnold, 10, and Carolyn Horshflold, 10, all of Phila delphia. About IB persons were treated at Abington Memorial Hospital, and 10 of them were detained. One of the Injured, Samuel Oberdin, 51, of Phila delphia, was listed in critical condition. The day cemo area had been rented for the day by a family and neighborhood group from northeast Phila delphia. All the victims were from that area or suburban communities. Like Big Firecracker . Alan Fincman, 35, of Phila delphia, was on the outing Highway Slaughter Sets New Record By United Press International A toll of 557 traffic deaths during the Independence Day week end set a new record for highway slaughter during a summer holiday. Howard Pyle, president nf the National Safety Council, called the toll a "tragic stand ard against which lo measure any holiday." The final United Press In ternational tabulation of holi day fatalities from 6 p.m. Wednesday to midnight Sun day night showed that Cali fornia led the death count with 48 traffic deaths. There were 43 in both New York state and Pennsylvania, 32 in Michigan, 29 in Ohio, 25 in Texas, 23 In both Indiana and Missouri, 22 in Illinois and 21 in Virginia. Only five states could boast no traffic deaths over the 102 hour weekend. They were Alaska, Delaware, New Hampshire, North Dakota and Rhode Island. Snider's Dairy Building To Be Remodeled; Called Daisy Lane' A new concept In fine re tail shops and offices" will be created in downtown Med ford in what is now the Snid er's Dairy building on North Bartlclt St., John W. Snider announced today. The building will be com pletely remodeled and entitl ed "Daisy Lane." Snider said. It will incorporate a walk through lane, with shops and offices adjoining. Snider said the plans are "In keeping with the revital ized downtown trend, and will constitute "a more ap propriate use" for the build ing, since "it Is believed that an industrial function should best be carried on outside the 58th Year Price 10 Cents No. 93 Edits Area; Killed with his wife, Ruth, and their three children when the plane crashed "like the biggest fire cracker in the world." Fineman said a "huge orange ball of flames raised up, followed by billowing clouds of black smoke." He rushed to the pool where his sons, Barry, 9. and Evan, 11, were swimming. Fineman said the plane struck the ground about 30 feet from where he was standing and skidded into the crowded bathhouse. U.S. Blocks Cuba Assets in Banks; Money Dealings Washtngton-IUPII - The Unit ed States today aimed a blow at Cuban subversion in other Western Hemisphere nations by banning financial dealings with the Castro regime and blocking $33 million in Cuban assets in banks. The State Department. which announced the action, said it was in line with a resolution adopted July 3 by the council of the Organiza tion of American States which urged member governments to move against Cuban subver sion. . , . . Accounts Kept Open The ban, roughly similar to one already in effect for Com munist . China and - North Korea, was designed to pre vent Cuba from mini? U. banks or their subsidiaries overseas for financial transac tions. Officials said Communist Cuba has never used U. S.I The sheriffs department is banks to safeguard any major -ueH bulletins to all Dninf in share of Its' wealth, but has generally kept a number of bank accounts open in this country for various purposes. The State Department did not tip its hand in advance to prevent Cuba from transfer ring funds in this country to foreign banks. The action, which became effective at one minute past midnight this morning, was taken under the World War I "Trading with the Enemy Act." Dunes Potential Impresses Senator Portland - IUPII - Sen. Alan Bible (D-Nev.) said he is im pressed by both the recreation potential of the Oregon Dunes area and the need for a recrea tion development In th e region. ' The chairman of the Senate Public Lands Subcommittee made the statement after an all-day lour of the proposed Oregon Dunes National Sea shore area Saturday. Before he left here Sunday, Bible promised fast action on the various dunes bills now in Congress. He said home owners, Industrialists and park proponents should know where they stand on the is sue. "We won't keep you dan gling," he said. (See Story on Page 2A) increasingly valuable down town area." The building has been in use as i dairy processing plant for 50 of the 60 years the Snider firm has been In business. Snider also announced two new associations In the dairy business here, effective to day. All wholesale activities of Snider's dairy will be as sumed by Arden Farms, and Clovcrleaf Dairy of Ashland and Medford will continue service to home-delivery cus tomers. Snider said that Arden Farms, a leader In the dairy industry, has been represent ed In the Medford area for Seven Foot Tunnel Dug Under Wall For Night Escape Prisoners Believed i To Have Taken Car ' Grants Pass-Two men be ing held in the Josephine County jail dug a tunnel un der the wall and escaped early this morning. As of noon to day they were still at large. Wesley Earl Sanford, 30, and Kenneth Raymond Barr, zu, apparently made their escape sometime after mid night. They took out a largo cement section In the floor of their cell, which is located on the ground floor of the Josephine county courthouse annex, dug a seven-foot long tunnel under the wall and the sidewalk outside, and crawled through it. The escape was discovered at about 5 o'clock this morn ing by a janitor, who noticed that the section in the floor had been displaced. The two men most likely are driving a 1960 Valiant black four-door sedan with Illinois license GY-7240, said George Eckstein, chief crim inal deputy of the Josephine county sheriff's department. Takes Car The car belonged to San ford, Eckstein explained. When he was arrested here, the car was left at the home of an acquaintance. Sanford, of Hanford, Calif., was being held for Kings county, Califorr.ia, authorities. who arrived today to pick him up on a burglary charge -just a few hours too late. Sanford was released from the Oregon state penitentiary earlier this year. He is des cribed as 5 feet 7 inches tall. weighing . 160 pounds, with, hazel eyes and brown hair, and wearing a toupee. Barr, whose latest address was the U.' S. Navy, from, which he had gone AWOL, was being- held on a parole violation after a burglary con viction here. He Is described as 5 feet 10 Inches tall, weigh lng 156 pounds, with hazel col ored eyes and brown hair. , - Both men were lodged In the Josephine county jail Sat urday morning. They ap- S. I parently used large spoon and some steel mirrors to die - 1 the tunnel. The earth they dug I out was placed in a cardboard I box. rllfnrnl. nnn anrf Wah. jngton this morning, Everest Climbers Receive Medal Washington -fllPII- President Kennedy today presented the National Geographic Society's famous Hubbard Medal for ex ploration to members of an American expedition that con quered Mt. Everest. Eighteen Americans, a re tired British army officer, a Nepal army officer and five Shcrpa guides were honored at a White House rose garden ceremony. Norman G. Dynrcnfurth, leader of the expedition which. ascended the highest moun tain in the world, received the gold medal for the group. The Hubbard Medal, nam ed for the society's first presi dent, Gardiner Greene Hub bard, was presented first in 1906 to Adm. Robert E. Perry for his arctic explorations. Its; most recent previous recipient was astronaut John H. Glenn, first American to orbit the earth. Trial of Confessed Slayer Nearing End Reno, Nov. - WPP - The trial of Thomas Lee Bean, con fessed slayer of British skiing star Sonja McCaskie, Is ex pected to end this week. 20 years. They have acquired exclusive use of the Snider Dairy name and the "Little Daisy" trademark. Most of the dairy employees will be affiliated either with. Arden Farms or Clovcrleaf Dairy, or will be absorbed In to the Pepsi-Cola Bottling company, which is operated by the Snider family. In making the announce ment, Snider said, "We are most appreciative for the public acceptance of our pro ducts over the years, and we are especially grateful to our milk producer friends for the high quality of milk they have supplied us with. To our competitors we wish con tinued success."