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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
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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. '
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MEDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY,
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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.