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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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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."