Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, July 11, 1963, Image 1

Historic Oregon Newspapers

Medford mail tribune., July 11, 1963, Image 1

Image provided by: University of Oregon Libraries; Eugene, OR

About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (July 11, 1963)

Page of 34 Next Prev Issue Next Text PDF JP2 (2.9 MB) Clip/Print Image

Return to Top

Page of 34 Next Prev Issue Next

Newspaper Page Textlsif Msllla ail Ilia irowm Dim . .- . : - . . .... , ...... . . . . . - . T "' r ' , t . ' ' ' - LANDS AT MEDFORD - This Jet Star, Lockheed plane, the largest to land on the Medford Municipal airport, came in yester day, with Charles H. Bell, chairman of the board of General Mills, Mrs. Bell, and Mrs. In Maryland, Georgia Cities By United Press International . The. n a t i o n's integration struggle took a violent turn today. New racial upheavals in Cambridge, Md., and Sa vannah, Ga., resulted in arson, threats, gunfire, rock hurling and .tear. gas. . , In Cambridge two empty Negro houses went : up in flames and white men drove through a Negro section hurl ing ; bricks at pedestrians. State and local police were hard put to break up an angry crowd of Negroes who-threat--ened to march into, the white neighborhood. ' ' " Forgotten in; the -violence was an attempt by the U:S. Justice 'Department to medi ate the town's racial-dispute. The mediator had no one to mediate "with; 'when Negro leaders left him to investigate the fires, ' ". An angry Negro muttered "I'm' going to kill somebody tonight," and another stand ing near one of Uhe' burning houses said he' "took 'a shot" at some whites running from, the area. - Violence in Savannah - In Savannah,! police broke Up a demonstration by an esti mated 2,000 Negroes, early to day arid used, tear gas and high pressure water hoses. The demonstrators, shouting for the release from jail of their -'leader, slashed .police car tires, pulled open the door of a paddy wagon jammed with arrestees, and lay down in front of the police vehicles when they began to move. . A Negro teen-ager was shot in the foot and a white cab driver's leg broken by a hurl ed brick. The Bible Baptist church, whose congregation is white, was apparently set afire and received extensive damage in the rear of the sanctuary. The church was empty at the time. A white man said he fired pistol shot .through his car window-when a dozen Negro youths tried to block his pas sage. White police and Negro demonstrators were injured by rocks. Theft of Huge Tire Reported to Police , " State police are checking the theft of a tire weighing more than 300 pounds from the F. L. Somers construction company project on the Fish lake to Lake of the Woods highway in Klamath county. The huge tire, five feet in diameter, is used on off-high-wav use dump trucks and cost $1,500. State police were no tified of the tneit weanesaay which is believed to have oc curred earlier in the week. POSTMASTER NAMED Washington-tint- Bernice B. Muller was nominated as post master of Wolf creek, ore.. tnrfav bv President Kennedy The nomination is subject to Senate confirmation minutii WITEB AGREEMENT REACHED n...-. nni. - (IW - The Province ef British Columbia, announced Wednesday they have reeehed agreement en development of water resources is the Columbia niver oeiin. ..i.iw kin TRAVEL ISOLATION ASKED Wehlnj!on-m-The State Britain. Spain, Canada ana Mexico lo neip lurmer isoian -.... ,ith reteect to air travel. - . These are the four principal Free World countries through whose territory commercial airline routes (till operate lo and Bell's sister as passengers. It was piloted by H. Nystrom, who gave General Mills as his only address. The big jet took off again at 1:4 1 p. m. for Billings, Mont. (Knackstedt photo). . Family Removed To West Germany Berlin -0IP1U A Polish air force major and his family who flew to asylum in West Berlin in a two-seater train ing plane have been taken to West Germany, an American spokesman said today. Maj. Ryszard Obacz, a dec orated 34-year-old jet pilot, said he fled from Poland Wednesday in search of a life "where people are not pushed around." . ... ' - "I was tired of pressures," he said. Obacz and his family were flown to West Germany late Wednesday night, according to the spokesman. They will undergo investigation and processing by American au thorities at a U.S. military in stallation in West Germany. The stocky - Polish major packed his wife Maria, 27, and their" two sons, Lewstow, 9, and Kryzystof, 5, into the Rezone Request on Planner's Agenda A controversial request to rezone property located on south side of Barnett rd. im mediately east of Bear creek is included on tonight's agen da of the . Medford planning commission. An - earlier ' request to re zone the property from single family to limited commercial was passed by the city coun cil over the negative recom mendation of , the planning commission, but was vetoed by John W. Snider, then mayor of Medford. The property is owned by Luther and Anne Davis, but tonight's request is being pre sented by Holiday Inn Motel, Inc. . . Among other matters on the agenda are requests from Texaco company for a 50-foot high sign near the Biddle rd. freeway interchange, and from Richfield Oil company for 21-foot high sign at a lo cation on the south side of Crater Lake highway near Bear creek. Further consideration will be given to a request to va cate an east-west alley ex tending from Hawthorne St. to Genessee st. The city coun cil at its last meeting referred the matter back to the com mission because of a change in circumstances since sub mission of the original re-quest.- ' County Monty Earns $76,568 During Year Jackson county money dur- inn fiscal year 1962-63 earned $76,568.49 in interest, accord ing to the report from County Treasurer Karl Janouch. The funds will go into the general county fund except for $17,141.28 to the school fund for bonds and interest payment and $41.78 to the sanitary and irrigation dis tricts. Canadian oovernment and the Department said today it wants Defector. cramped Polish air force trainer in Nadarzyce, Poland, 80 miles north of Poznan. Then he cooly flew the slow - moving single engined aircraft near tree-top level 150 miles across Poland and East Germany to the U.S. Air Force's Templehof Airfield in West Berlin, where he landed and requested asylum.. First Such Flight . It was the first time anyone had fled to West Berlin from behind the Iron Curtain in an airplane, although other de fectors have flown to West Germany itself. West Berlin is separated from West Ger many by 110 miles of Com munist territory. . An American official, asked if the request would be grant ed, said, "He's here, isn't he?" . The plane' probablywlll be returned to Poland., - To keep them from worry ing, Obacz had told his wife and children they were head ing for Stettin, just east of the Foiisn East German border, to visit friends. "It was the first time I ever lied to my wife in our mar riage," he said. Mrs. Obacz appeared happy with his decision. , Seeks Free Life Speaking through an in terpreter, Obacz said he made the flight because he "wanted to come to a place of open friendships." I wanted to work toward truth . i-." he said. "I wanted to go where people are not pushed around." Obacz said morale Is low in the Polish air force. "The mood Is very bad," he said. "Most officers are fed up just as I was. We want the right to traver where we want to, the right of free speech, the right to work for a- good cause." He said the toughest' part of the trip was getting the whole family into the small two- seater plane. Obacz sat in the pilots seat. His wife was in the rear seat and the two boys crouch ed between their mother's legs under the rear cockpit control panel. Crews Expected to Finish Pool Today Contractor's crews were ex pected to finish plastering the inside of the diving tank at Jackson park loday, according to city park and Recreation Director Robert L. Haworth. The 40 by 32-foot pool is expected to be opened for public use about the middle of next week, Haworth said. Some electrical work remains to be done, and a section of tile has to be installed on one side of the tank. The pool is 12 feet decD at. one end and 6 feet deep at the shallow end. It will nave iwo aivmg Doaras, one a 3-metcr and the other a 1 meter board. The tank will first be used for organized competition when the Oregon State Junior Olympics are held in Medford Aug. 2 and 3, Haworth said WFATHER FORECAST: Fair and warmer tonirht and Frtdav. Northerly afternoon wtndi. Low Untht $9. Utah Friday tS, Tm. Rtehfit YetUrdar .-a J Loweu Thii Mornlnf 49 Our Skies Tonight Sunit today :J p.m. Sunriar tomorrow a.m. Moonrltt tomorrow 12:9 a.m. t.ait Quarter .... Jvly IS Th planet. Mart. conUnn to grow dimmer and t earlier eath ntcnL It H ale movtnf from the comuiiauon, lio, I into Vlrfo. Regional Edition Medfordm 36 Pages Four Sections Convicted Child Slayer Starts New Legal Fight By ZAN STARK Salem - WPD - Child slayer Jeannace June Freeman won third stay of execution Wednesday and opened a new legal battle that could result in new appeals to both the State and U.S.- Supreme Courts. The moves may delay her next execution date until after next year's vote on repeal of the death penalty in Oregon. Miss Freeman s attorneys, Carl Neil and Philip A. Levin of Portland, filed a motion for a stay of execution and a petition for a post-conviction review . with Marion County Circuit Judge George A. Jones. The stay came 21 days be fore Miss Freeman's scheduled Aug. 1 date with death in the Oregon gas chamber. She was scheduled to be. the first woman executed in Oregon. Neil told UPI "This is a statutory procedure, we are again challenging the fairness of her conviction. We filed on the same grounds that were raised in the original appeal. except that we are seeking to produce some additional evi dence." Courts Upheld Sentence - The State Supreme Court has upheld her death sentence, and the U.S. Supreme Court has twice refused to review her case. She was condemned to death for throwing 6-year-old Larry Jackson to his death in the Crooked River Gorge in Cen tral Oregon in 1961. Miss Freeman, 22, was first scheduled to die Dec. 6. 1962. then was granted a stay to Jan. z. tier Aug. 1 execution date was set last month after the second U.S. Supreme Court refusal to review her conviction, Asst. Atty. Gen. Collis Mars ters has been assigned to han dle the case for the state. "She is entitled , to file s post-conviction proceeding un- aer me law," Marsters said, "the stay was necessary be cause we are so clpse to the execution date. "This is going to be quite a hearing, and may take a cou ple of days. Generally post conviction cases don't take that long. We won't try the mam Issues of the crime it self, but we will have a trial to determine if she was de nied her rights. This may re quire hearing several wit nesses, plus the record." August Hearing Expected Marsters said he expected the case to be heard some time in August. : If she is denied relief. then she can file proceedings in the Federal District Court, then in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, and then she can appeal again to the U. S. Supreme Court," Mar sters explained. ins iaoj legislature ap proved a vote at the Novem ber, 1964, general election to strike the death penalty from the state s constitution. The legislature also adopted a law making the penalty, for first degree murder life imprison ment, the law becomes effec tive if voters approve elimi nation of the death penalty. veraici way Follow Vale s Marsters said he did not ex pect any unusual delays in proceedings, but added that if the case goes through all the steps to the U.S. Supreme Court the decision could come after the November, 1984, vote on the death penalty. Corvallis Postal Employee Fired Corvallis - IllPII - A Corvsl lis post office employee was fired today for violating the Hatch Act by participating in politics. Alden K. Gray, a distribu tion clerk, was found guilty of the violation by the U.S. Civil Service Commission, which recommended his dis charge.-. Gray was accused of partici pating in the election of the Benton County Democratic Central committee chairman In June, 1962; of "speaking in behalf of Gus Hall," com munist lear, at a central committee meeting, and of helping to register Democrats for the 1962 elections. If voters approve elimina tion of the death penalty. Miss Freeman would, still be sub ject to execution because she has already been sentenced to die. However, the change- in the law might be interpreted by Gov. Mark Hatfield as a mandate of the people, and he might commute her sentence to life in prison, r -.- ; Hatfield to date has denied all appeals for commutation. Warden Clarence Gladden said Miss Freeman was hand ed a note advising her the stay had been granted. She made no comment. Committee Holds Organizational Meeting in City Medford Mayor James Dun- levy's Committee for Study of Capital Improvements held an organizational meeting this morning in the city hall. Councilman Richard Travis was unanimously elected chairman of the group. . : The committee, composed of various city officials and civic leaders, was appointed Ly the mayor about . two weeks ago to study the need in Medford , for capital im provements, assign prior 1 1 y for the improvements and de termine methods of financing tne projects. . . i At today's meeting, City Manager Robert. Duff pledged the cooperation. of the admin istration uv assisting the com mittee, with its work. ' , Duff said he hh requested his department heads to sub mit a list of their present and projected needs to him in the near future. The heads will be asked to describe and jus tify the capital improvement, indicate its possible location estimate its cost, and supply various other pertinent data i 'Duff said the1 department heads will be asked to define their immediate . needs and then, planning for a 4 ' per cent annual population growth in the city, estimate their needs for the next six years, for six years after that, and then for the next 20 to 23 years. Duff promised the commit tee the collected data will be available by August. .'He said he was considering the possi bility of assigning one of his staff to work closely on a permanent basis with the com mittee. Paramount among the group's considerations will be plans for development of a civic center, but Dunlevy said the committee will expand its scope to include all aspects of Medford's future capital im provement needs. Committee members pres ent Included Tod Tibbutt, Robert Cunningham, Larry Horton, Bob Taylor, Mrs. Fred Lorish, Jack Edson, John Pletsch, as well as Travis and Dunlevy. , Duff and Planning Director Ned Langford represented the city administration. County Classroom Teachers Get Award The Jackson County Class room Teachers association was recently honored by the De partment of Classroom Teach ers of the National Education Association during the annual meeting In Detroit, Mich. The group from ' Jackson county received a plaque for Its project of preparing trav eling displays for the schools of the county. The plaque was presented during ceremonies devoted to the DCT'i "Local Project Hecognition program." John Stewart, 303 Church st.. Phoenix, accepted the plaque on behalf of the Jack son County Teachers associa tion. The Jackson county associa tion utilized professional pub lications, magazines and oth er materials in preparing the displays. An association mem ber made portable bulletin boards for the -displays and retired teachers helped to as semble the materials. ' i ALA XT MEDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY, s 1 n f t Iff 6 I Tv I i I, L-AriZ I Mm,fJJ i PANEL APPOINTED-Less than eight hours before a scheduled nationwide railroad, strike, President Kennedy appointed a six-' man panel to study the four-year-old feather bedding work rules dispute and make legis- lalive recoinmenaauons. ine bers arev for .government. W. Willard, Wirtz, upper left, chairman ot, way (Jierits. wr u. the panel, and Secretary of. Commerpe Luih- , ', ' . Kennedy Panel Starts Study Of Rail Work Rules Dispute Washington -IllPII- A blue- ribbon , panel appointed by President Kennedy to head off a national' railroad strike; be gan an 11-day study today of the bitter-work ruies dispute. Labor Secretary W. Willard Wirtz convened the first meet ing of the committee at the Labor department to arrange procedures for its work. ' Walkout Averted The board was set up by Kennedy as part of a formula to avert a nationwide railway ; strike which otherwise would; have started at 12:01 a.m. lo cal time this morning when management put new work rules into effect. Kennedy's action Wednesday averted the walkout just eight hours be fore it was to start. Wirtz told reporters today that the committee does not have any assignment to medi ate the conflict, but only to investigate it.1 But lie and George Meany, president of the AFL-CIO who is a mem ber of the six-man panel, said Day's Attorneys File Court Motions Portland-HiPD-Attorncys for Gold Hill rancher John Stew art Day filed motions In U. S. District Court here Wednes day asking ' that - a total of more than 3 milion sought as damages by two Alaskan widows be reduced to a max imum of $100,000. . The motions were made against complaints filed by Bettie M. Stevenson and Lav ern Augusta Elliott. They are widows of two men, William Stevenson and Air Force T Sgt. Robert Elliott Jr., who were killed when their light plane crashed on Mt, McKin ley May 17, 1860, during a rescue operation, s , , The women have each asked for a total of $1.7 mil lion based on complaints of wrongful deaths. The two men were kiled in an alleged attempt to resuce Day, who had broken his leg while climbing the mountain. They charged that Day was negligent in climbing the mountain thereby endanger ing his life and lives of others. MARKET ROBBED Yakima, Wash. -OTT'- Two holdup men robbed the May fair Market here at 3:45 a m. today and escaped with be tween $800 and $1,000. Tribune JULY 11, 1963 panel mem- Labor Secretary ' lower right, this does hot bar committee members from mediating on their own (f they discover, an opportunity to do so. . Two members of the panel -union leader George M. Har rison and Inland Steel Com pany executive Joseph -filock - .were not present for the opening session. Wirtz and Meany also agreed that an agreement between five rail unions and the na tion's major railroads would be the best possible solution to the complex dispute. - This seemed unlikely since the railroads have declared they do not contemplate any ! furtner bargaining over meir proposals to overhaul work Russia, Red China Recess Meetings ' Moscow - WPli - Russia and Red China, apparently sty mied in the attempt to heal their rift, recessed their ideo logical talks again today to allow deliberation of their re spective positions. Informed Communist sources said the secret dis cussions probably wiH be re sumed Friday. It was believed the Chinese negotiators were asking for fresh instructions from Peking. ' It , had been expected that the negotiating teams would hold their sixth meeting to day, with' technical aides sit tinu in for the first time. Both Russian and cmnesc officials kept a tight secrecy lid on the talks, which re portedly have reached the stage of substantive differ ences in the bitter dispute ber tween Moscow and Peking. The official Soviet press has made no mention of how the discussions are going, and there was no official an nouncement of today's recess. A similar interruption was called Tuesday to enable the Chinese to get instructions from Peking. - OSU Student's Death Said To Be Suicide Corvallis - HOT - A 23-year- old Oregon State university student whose body was found in his car at an abandoned farm near Philomath Tuesday night apparently took his own life. State police said today. Richard D. Marlin, Corval lis, died of asphyxiation. 58th Year Price 10 Cents No. 96 er Hodges, lower left, vice chairman; for management, Joseph Block, upper center, of Inland Steel Co., and Stuart T. Saunders, lower center, of Norfolk and Western Rail road; for labor, George Meany, upper right. AFL-CIO president, and George Harrison, president of the .Order of Rail- rules and' eliminate jobs of firemen on locomotives in yard arid freight service. The labor secretary said an other meeting of the blue rib bon' panel would be-held Fri day morning. All members ex cept Block, reported to be travelling in the west, were expected, to attend that ses sion. Representatives of the un ions and. management sat in on today's preliminary discus sion. Association Asks For County Funds The Rogue Basin Flood Con trol and Water Resources as sociation yesterday requested $1,300 from Jackson county s miscellaneous general fund under flood control to help finance a recent trip by a d e 1 e g a tion to Washington, D.C. The association stated it has $1,464.10 in unpaid expentes, $32 in the bank and $1,268.54 in recent travel expenses. The Josephine county court will be asked for a similar amount. the letter to the county court stated. ... The recent trip to Washing ton, D.C., was made to attend committee hearings on budg etary consideration. "The delegation did an ef fective job of presenting to the subcommittee of the house and senate the desirability of early commencement of the new Rogue basin project, it was stated. Circus Aerialist Escapes Serious Injury in Fall Vancouver, Wash. -Hint- A 22-year-oid circus acrobat es-l caped serious injury here Wednesday when he slipped during a finger stand in a drenching rain and fcii 16 feet. A stunned audience watch ed as Manuel Ramos, a star of the Shrine-Rudy Brothers Cir cus, slipped end plunged to the supporting platform. Ramos, of Alhambra, Calif., was rushed to a hospital where attendants said his in juries were minor- He was later released. He was one of several per formers who attempted to go Russian Troops Declared Active On North Coast Construction Work Said Going Ahead Miami -SOT- Russian troops and rocket installations in Cuba are "steadily growing," particularly along the north ern coast closest to the United States, newly arrived Cuban underground members said today. Members of the Cuban Free d o m Fighters Organization gave details on Russian ac tivity in tile area around Cai barien, a key port . on th northern Las Villas coast.. They were among a group of 31 persons, including eight women and seven children, who escaped the island in ,a 33-foot sailing boat last week and reached the Florida Keys after a four-day journey. itsere are approximately 10.000 Soviet troops in the Caibarien zone alone, the . freedom fighters - who de clined to permit use of their names - said. They said Russians com mand troops in tracking down rebel forces, and there also are "foreign troops" used. "borne of them look like Mongolians," one of the arriv als said. "The Russians use Cut-in militia uniforms and also Cuban army uniforms," he added. "There is tremendous con struction activitiy in the Caibarien area and even on the three keys off Caibari en," said another. "Most of it is done at night and the con struction areas are for the most part oft limits to Cu bans. . The three keys are Frago so, Frances and Santa Maria. They are from 12 to 20 miles offshore. "On Fragoso Key, -which was virtually uninhabited, in tense construction work has been going on for the past I nine months on some Ttind I of fortification or Installa tions," said the freedom fighter, his face deeply sun burned from the voyage in uie open boat. "Only the Rus sians are allowed in there." On Frances Key similar construption is in progress and on Santa. Maria Key 'a gigantic excavation is being dug in the exact center of the island," the Cuban said. "Work is done only at night." The anti-Castro rebels said similar night construction also was going on at Vinas, near Remedios, about . five miles in from the coast. Halted During Crisis "US. aerial photos last fail proved the Russians had begun a rocket installation there," one of the grouo said- "All work was stopped dur ing the crisis but it was re sumed again afterwords." The Cubans said they had very reliable reports" of a new rocket base being set up near Mabulla between the towns of Mayajigua and Chambas on the Las Villas Camaguey provincial border. A huge tunnel big enough for trucks with rock ets to drive through has been constructed beneath the main highway at Sierra Su- ela farm near Caibarien," the leader of the freedom fighter gronp said. Maison Reappointed State Police Head Salem - UPD H. G. Maison, superintendent of State Po lice since 1947,-was reappoint ed to another four-year term today by Gov. Mark Hatfield. Maison has been with the department since it ; was founded in 1931. He has served as the agency s chief executive un der seven governors, having first been named to the job by Gov. Earl Snell. Maison is a retired Army major general and a former commanding officer of the 41st Division. through with his act at a matinee in a pouring rain. The audience was protected by covered stands, but the tradi tional three -rings were ex posed to the rain which twice stopped the show. At one point, the ringmaster called eight girls, part of an aerial ballet, down from their pedestals when it became ob vious they were risking seri ous injury. Ramos was attempting his most dangerous stunt, a one finger stand on a wooden ball atop a 10-foot pole, when tie fell. . ' from Cube.