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w -. f1 f rr , M,j,i m ,,,, yy up jiiywujppiafwi. hwkjh ijpni.i r im ii n y t it Tel J workers Strike en PLANE LANDS HERE - A U. S. Air Force C-119 landed at the Medford Municipal air port Sunday afternoon and stayed here about an hour. It is one of the larger planes which have landed at the local airport in recent months. The plane was flying Civil Good Grief, Charlie Brown! Italian Reds Pick on Peanuts Rome-WPIMtaiian Communists, apparently with nothing better to do during the summer doldrums, took issue today with the American comic strip "Peanuts." According to the Communist Party newspaper Unita, Lucy is simply a fascist. Other characters have tendencies ranging from a suicide complex to simple stupidity. Here is what Unita had to say about the different characters in "Peanuts" in an article Sunday: -Lucy "When you have turned to the last page, you hate her. She is a fasc st, Patty, however, like Violet, is simply stupid." -Linus: "He has a suicide complex. He saves himself by carrying around a blanket which substitutes for the motherly bosom." -Schroeder: "He is taken with music and plays Bach, getting angry when Lucy asks him what he will win if he is able to memorize all the sonatas of Beethoven." -Snoopy: "He is a nervous wreck. He varies between his own life as a dog and the aspiration to become another beast or man." -Charlie Brown: "He is the only one who is precariously balanced betwean mental health and a nervous breakdown. . . . faced with the strangeness of his friends he is overwhelmed or exclaims his alarming 'good grief.' " Five Oregonians Die in Week End Traffic Accidents By United Preu International Five Oregon residents lost their lives in separate traffic accidents during the week end. One of the accidents oc curred in Washington stale. Gerald Jensen, 3, Florence, was killed when he was struck by a car on Slate High way 36 near his home Sunday night Mrs. Joanna Bowcult, 40, Gladstone, was killed when her station wagon . collided head-on with a car three and one-half miles northeast of Shelton, Wash., early Sunday. Benjamin Maxwell, 45, Day Ion, died at a Portland hos pital Sunday from injuries suffered Saturday when the pickup truck in which he was Tiding crashed into a light post in Portland. Hermision Man Dies Edgar Charlton, 47, Hermis ton, died at a Pendleton hos pital Sunday from injuries suffered in a one-car accident on State Highway 207 in Uma tilla county Saturday. Larry Sade, 20, Roseburg, was killed when he fell from a moving car at the city limits of Roseburg early Saturday. A Montana woman was fa tally injured Saturday night when the car in which she was riding collided with an other on U.S. Highway 101 two miles south of Bandon. She was Myrtle LaRue Etter er. 66, of Great Falls. The Oregon traffic toll for the first 15 days of July shows 18 deaths, compared to 16 for a similar period last year. So far in 1963, 271 per sons have died in Oregon traffic, compared to 210 in 1962. Construction Worker Confesses To Murders Santa Rosa, Calif. - fUPll -A construction worker con fessed to sheriff's officers Sunday that he killed three children, who had known him affectionately for years "Uncle Robert," and left their bodies in an Arizona for est south of the Grand Can. yon. FBI agents and sheriff's deputies from Coconino Coun ty, Ariz., said Robert Afford, 56. a Negro, confessed the slayings after 12 hours of in terrogation. The confession climaxed a month-long inves tigation by authorities in two states. NEVSS(Q)BRIEFS ITCMS FROM 4 MOUND THI MOM TWO U.S. AIR FORCE JETS COLLIDE Lakenheath. England-HPI-Two U.S. Air Forca Super Sabra Jeit collided off England's tail coast during t train' ing txtrcita today, killing ona of the pilots. KREBIOZEN DISTRIBUTION ILLEGAL Washington-W-Dr. Sitrtn invettiaational plan for Krtbioien during iha wack and auto rustically mada all InHrttalt distribution of tha to-callad cancer drug illegal, a Food and Drug Administration (FDA) spokesman said today: LIQUOR BOARD INVESTIGATION DEMANDED Olympia. Wajh-lPr-S!ila San. Albart C. Thompson (R Bellavua) today formally damandad " a eompleta and com prehansiva investigations" of tha Washington Siata Liquor Control Board. Air Patrol cadets from Portland on a rou tine flight to Medford where it picked up eight CAP cadets from Medford and Grants Pass and a CAP officer for their summer training session in Portland. Alabama Governor Calls for Defeat Of Civil Rights Washington -flIPD-. Alabama Gov. George C. Wallace told Congress today that President Kennedy should be "retired from public life" and his civil rights program defeated. He said the legislation is totally unacceptable to the South and called for a nation al referendum on the propos als. If a referendum was held, Wallace said the civil rights bill would be overwhelming ly rejected. The fiery Southern Demo crat, testifying before the Senate Commerce Committee, accused Kennedy of making his White House office a "vir tual switchboard" of com munication with the Rev. Martin Luther King and other Negro leaders who were in volved in the Birmingham racial demonstrations. Wallace joined Mississippi Gov. Ross Barnett in accusing King of having "pro-Communist friends and associates." He urged the committee to in- vestgate the matter, which he noted now had been raised by "at least two governors." Bar nett testified similarly before Slippage Damages Irrigation Canal Extensive damage to the main canal of the Eagle Point Irrigation district was dis covered about mid-afternoon Saturday, which necessitated turning off the water, accord ing to Lawrence R. Silveira, district manager. The canal is expected to be in full service by late Tues day, Silveira said. The break, in the upper reach of the canal near Butte Falls, is about 350 feet in length. It was discovered shortly after it occurred be tween 3 and 4 p.m. Saturday by C. J. Kelley, foreman. Water was turned off before extensive damage could be done to surrounding property. Sixteen men plus heavy equipment are making neces sary repairs, Silveira said. The break was caused by slippage due to geological conditions in the area. The manager explained that present plans call for the sec tion in the area of the break to be concrete lined following the end of the irrigation sea son about mid-September. The section to be lined will be be- twen 400 and 500 feet long. Durovtc's withdrawal of an the committee Friday. Chairman Warren Magnu son, (D-Wash.) told Wallace such an investigation was a task for other committees which have been active in in quiries about Communist ac tivity. Wallace rolled out charge after charge against the Ken nedy administration. "A president who sponsors legislation such as the civil rights act of 1963 should be retired from public life," Wal lace said. "And this goes for any governor or public of ficial who has joined in- this mad scramble for the minority-bloc vote." Wallace sad that the Presi dent and his brother, Atty. Gen. Robert F. Kennedy, "by design and political motiva tion are sponsoring and foster ing a complete and all-inclu sive change in our whole con cept of government and so ciety a revolution of govern ment against the people. Sen. A. S. (Mike) Monroney (D-Okla.) said a charge by Wallace that the President was abetting racial violence by his public statements is 'hard to believe" because the President had appealed for law and order. But Wallace insisted that the Birmingham situation was "inflamed all over again" because, he said, Kennedy told a nationwide television audience Birming ham Negroes had been "abused" for a lone time. PO Wants Workers To Seek Other Jobs Washington - IUPB - The Post Office department is trying to encourage its most highly edu cated employees - Negro and white - to find other govern ment jobs, a spokesman saiu today. The department, the larg est employer of Negroes m the country, wants its em- ployces to look for better jobs being offered by other agen cies, the spokesman said. The problem of encourag ing workers with college edu cations to leave the postal service is an outgrowth of ef forts to eliminate racial dis crimination within the postal system. The department is conduct ing a survey of the education al attainments of its em ployees. The survey revealed that 44 per cent of the clerks and carriers in Southern p'ist of fices had at least some college education. More than half of the college-educated clerks and carriers were Negroc:. Southern Pacific Train Derailed Dorris, Calif. - 1TP - Twenty-five cars of a Southern Pa cific freight train derailed last night, closing the main north - south line between California and the Northwest. Two soundbound passenger trains were held up at Klam ath Falls and two northbound trains at Dunsmuir, Calif. One line was reopened shortly before noon, allowing one of the southbound trains to assume iti journey. Regional Edition Medford 18 Pages Two Sections Mundt Calls for Tighter Economic Boycott on Cuba Washington-(UPH-Sen. Karl E. Mundt (R-S.D.) called on the Kennedy administration today to tighten what he term ed its "half-hearted" economic boycott of Cuba. Mundt recommended a four part program of action "far short of war" which would deny U.S. ports to ships of any country letting its vessels trade with Cuba and would use the foreign aid program to reward nations joining in an anti-Castro effort. ' . He also proposed that the Organization of American States and NATO be asked of ficially to halt trade with Cu ba and that similar requests go to every other nation out side Communist domination. Trips Incraata Mundt, in the latest in a series of Republican Senate speeches on Cuba, said that the number of trips by free world ships to Cuba had in creased since January and that the "volume of Soviet- bloc shipping to Cuba seems to be rising. He conceded that there was "virtually complete embar go on U.S.-Cuba trade" in ef fect since February 1962, and that most Latin American countries were sharply cur tailng their own Cuban trade. Provision Not Enforcad But Mundt said a provision of the Foreign Aid act de nying assistance to countries whose ships carry arms or strategic materials to Cuba was not being enforced as to NATO-type aid to NATO countries. Thus, he said, the aid restricton is "virtually inapplicable." The other present restric tion, Mundt said, is an order of last February barring U.S, government-financed cargoes to foreign ships that - have traded with Cuba since Jan, 1. Part of Women Fliers in Illinois Springfield, III. -(IJPII- Eigh teen women fliers punched their timecards, climbed aboard their airplanes and took off from Springfield to day on a cross-country flight to Atlantic City, N. J., in the 17th annual Powder Puff Derby. Other women, who bedded down overnight in Colorado and New Mexico, were ex pected to arrive at this stop-ping-off point later in the day. Arriving pilots taxied up to a painted area on the parking strip and shut off their en gines while their co-pilots punch a card in a time stamper. When they are ready to leave the next morning, the pilot must again taxi to the designated point, shut off the airplane's engine, and wait until the propeller stops be fore her co-pilot can again hop out and .punch her card. The 2.460-mile run started Saturday and the deadline for reaching Atlantic City is noon Wednesday. Each flier has a handicap, so the women with the most mileage are not necessarily the leaders. Eight Forest Fires Reported to State Salem - (UPD - Eight fires seven of them caused by light ning, were reported on state protected forest lands over the week end. A blaze in the La Grande area was caused by a care less camper and burned about one acre. All of the fires were small and occurred east of the Cas cades. The largest, on the Cali fornia border south of Klam ath Falls, covered a little more than an acre. Jacksonville Boy Rescued From River Timmy Mapes, 4, Jackson ville, was rescued from the Applegate river near McKee bridge, Sunday, by Mrs. Leon Myers, 1284 Ross lane. The boy's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Eugene W. Mapes, 891 H u e n e r lane. Jacksonville, and Mrs. Myers, who are ac quaintances, were talking near where the boy was wad ing. Mrs. Myers sjw Timmy slip on rock, jumped in and grilled him to shore. XM m- ,v 3. JT A':- 11 (S '" AH- : A V JL rZH ft ' I; I i fy I ., i' v i v, v INFORMAL SESSION - United States and British notables have an informal session with Soviet Premier Nikita Khru shchev prior to opening of nuclear arms negotiations among the three powers. From left are Karl Kaysen, special as sistant to President Kennedy; W. Averell Harriman, chief Moscow Conference on Test Ban Treaty Under Way Khrushchev Meets With Leaders of Western Nations Moscow -(UPD- Premier Ni kita S. Khrushchev, in a jo vial, wise-cracking mood, met for 3VJ hours today with high U.S. and British negotiators in the opening of a Kremlin conference that could break the East-West deadlock on a nuclear test ban. U.S. chief negotiator W, Averell Harriman and British Minister of Science Lord Hail sham, drove after the meeting to the U.S. Embassy where they presumably compared notes on the talks. There was nn immediate comment from either Western delegation. Waitarn Hoptt Raised Nor was it disclosed when the next meeting would take place in the talks which are expected to last about 10 days. But Khrushchev's surprise move in heading the tioviei delegation at the opening of the negotiations raised West ern hopes that some form of agreement - perhaps an ac cord for a limited test ban -might emerge from the cru cial conference. Khrushchev, in opening the three -power conference this afternoon, cnthusias ti c a 1 1 y pumped the hands of presi dential envoy Harriman and Lord Hailsham and remarked: "Where do we begin? Perhaps we should begin by signing an agreement first." In a banter ing aside, the Soviet leader turned to Harriman and said: "You did right when you kicked the British out of America." Khrushchev then turned to the British chief negotiator and said: "They acted with wisdom, they kicked you out." Mumbles Reply Hailsham's mumbled reply was not heard distinctly. The Soviet leader had es pecially warm and personal greetings for Harriman, U. S. undersecretary of state who had dealt face - to - face with Josef Stalin while ambassador to Moscow during World War 11. Khrushchev, 69, vigorously shaking the 71-year-old Hurri man's hand, exclaimed: "You are absolutely blooming, what are you doing? Are you count ing the years backwards?" "I began doing that a long time ago," answered Khrush chev with a broad grin. ON AERONAUTICS BOARD Salem - fl - William F. Maddron. Eugene, has been appointed by Gov. Mark Hat field to another term as a member oi the state Board of Aeronautics. MEDFORD, OREGON, MONDAY, Red China Accused Of Warmongering At Moscow Parley Moseow-(tW-Russia tonight accused Red China of war mongering and racism at the same time that Premier Niki ta. Khrushchev was meeting in friendly nuclear talks with U. S. and British negotiators. W hat do the Chinese want? Is it war . .? asked the Soviet government newsoaoer Izvestia on its front page. The official government paper's blast at the Chinese Communists followed a bitter week end attack on Peking by the Kremlin and coincided with the Moscow opening of the three-power conference on a nuclear test ban. Faiiura Saalad Today's Izvestia editorial accused the Chinese Reds of advocating the "un-Marxisl theory of dividing the world into races and- setting the colored race against the whites. The new blast came after Soviet and Chinese negotia tors went through the me lons of meeting in their deo- iogical talks. But informed Man Hospitalized After Accident Rogue River Kenneth Biggs, 51, of box 1453, Med ford, was injured in a boating accident on the Rogue river near here Sunday evening. He was taken to Josephine General hospital in Grants Pass, where he was report ed in good condition this morning. Another Medford man was reported involved in the acci dent, but he was not identt ficd. The accident occurred at about 7:15 p.m. as the boat in which Biggs was riding was going upriver at about 35 miles per hour The boat ap parently struck a rock and sank shortly thereafter. SENSATIONS HINTED London - lUPIt - A court rul ing hinted today at new sen sations in the Profumo case with the revelation of a mys terious tape recording made by play girl Christine Kceier. WEATHER r loud in cm at Umn fnntxHl sntf Tuesday. Low 4, hlfh tz. ttljthrtt Vti . K? Lewet Titlf Moritfng S9 Our Skies Tonight Sunt today - : fi.m, fennrttf tomorrow i.i .m. Sfoonri tomorrow .... 2:lS.m, Stw Moon July 2ft The toul pht of Ih ettipw of Uie Sb t thtt Nrw Moon mitt btn ftt tunrt In ipnt and n4 st iitrtift weM out if th Atisntir Ofn. t 58th Year Price 10 Cents Tribune JULY 15, 1963 U. S. negotiator; U.S. Ambassador to Moscow Foy Kohler; Khrushchev, who led the Soviet negotiators; an unidentified interpreter, and Lord Hailsham, chief British negotiator. (UPD. sources said Russia s bitter and unprecedented attack on Peking's militant Communism had already sealed failure of the talk and ft was believed the Chinese delegates may leave for home at any time. More than a week of talks have only deepened the split between the two Communist giants, and even if further meetings are held the only re sult expected is a non-com-mital final communique, they said. The Soviet Union, which de nounced the Chinese Sunday as hypocrites, warmongers, and racists and proclaimed its intention of seeking better re lations with the West, today followed up the attack with fresh charges against Poking. Communist China also con tinued the acrimonious ex change that shows the world the depth of the split In the Communist camp. No Peaca Possible The sources said the Chi nese closed the last meeting with Soviet ideological ex perts with a declaration that no peace will be possible un til Premier Nikita Khru shchev and his co-leaders are thrown out of office. The events of the week end left no doubt that the talks failed completely, these diplo mats said. They doubted that the Stno-Sovtet split will be heated within the lifetime of the present leaders. Standards Set For Pine Plywood Washington - fflPil - The first commercial standards and specifications for the produc tiers of plywood from South ern Pine timber nave been set by the. Department of Commerce. The announcement clears j the way for manufacture ofj plywood from southern pine on a commercial basis. Georgia-Pacific Corp. started constructing the first mill at Fordyce, Ark., in June. If. S. Plywood has announced plans for a milt in cooperation with Southern Pine Lumber com pany at Diboil, Tex. Pine plywood will be Inter changeable with widely-used Douglas fir plywood, accord ing to T. M. Orth, who served on the standards committee. Test runs to prove the feasi bility of using pine logs in mass production of plywood were successful at plywood mills In the south and at Douglas fir plywood mills on the West Coast. No. 99 Nuclear County Court Back Alter Mending Recreation hent Three Jackson county offii iafs were back at their desks this morning after fulfilling assignments in the recreation field. Charles S, Collins of the Cai Ore Recreation Develop ment association, County Judge Earl Miller and County Commissioner Ed Taylor at tended the meeting of the de velopment association board at Salmon Harbor, Winchester Bay. Judge Miller was elected president of the board at the meeting. Alt were taken deep sea fishing with the Winchest er Bay Coast Guard unit as hosts; and for rtdes in dune buggies n the area included n the proposed Dunes Seashore National park. The development associa tion has gone on record favor ing a Dunes National park. The Salmon Harbor is in the middle of the area to be in cluded in the proposed park. The Jackson county dele gation, also, inspected Doug las county's harbor develop ment in which the county has now expended approximately $700,000. The area annually provides entertainment for 400,000 persons, Collins said, and brings Douglas county an annual return of an estimated $4 million In tourist business. Collins, alio, attended the dedication of Hagelstein park, nine miles north of Klamath Falls on Highway 87. The 12 unit camping and picnicking area is located at the Bartley Springs, which was a wayside stop for Oregon pioneers and the Indians before the pio neers. The land was donated by William O. Hagelstein for whom the park is named. Higher Timber Values Removed by Salem - (Em - Timber land values in Benton, Lane, Linn, Columbia and Washington counties will remain the same as they were In 1882. The State Tax Commission today removed higher values which Its valuation division had ordered. The decision came after three days of fact finding hearings held last week. It announced further studies would be made to work out the forest land valuation prob lem before making future ad justments on the land values in Western Oregon. Tax commissioners said while they believed the high ierJand values which were 3 hree Springfield Plants Will Be losedonTuesday 1WA Members Remain on Jobs By Uniisd F?e International A strike by two Northwest lumber unions against tha Georgia-Pacific Corp. began ths morning with a walkout by 400 gangsaw and plywood mill workers at Toledo. Earl Hartley, executive sec retary of Region 3, Lumber and Sawmill Workers Union, said more men will be off tha job Tuesday, In addition to the Toledo operations, the LSW repre sents workers at CoqutHe, Springfield, and Pilot Rock, Ore., and Eureka, Feather Falls and Woodieaf, Calif. An LSW spokesman said tha big Spring field operation, which includes two plywood mills and a fiber-ply plant. wouid be etosed Tuesday. Thai union has 750 members m those plants. IWA Sttll Working The Interngtioitsi Wood workers of America kept all its members on the Job at Georgia-Pacific operations to day. President Harvey Kelson of the Western Regional Court cu reported. The IWA represents work ers at Coos Bay, Springfield ana Toledo m Oregon; Olympia, Wash., and Wood leaf, Calif. Members at Toledo. are in the woods crew and were not affected by the LSW walkout there. The plants at Coos Bay, Coquille and Olympia were not scheduled to resume work after tha Fourth of Juiy vacation until Tuesday. The strike was called after negotiations with the com pany broke down Wednesday, Company officials estimated 7,000 employees would be af fected if ail G-P operations in three western states wers struck. Some 21,000 lumber work ers are already idle because of the contract dispute in tha Northwest but there wer9 some hopeful signs In the sit nation today. Grand Jury Appearance Set Grants Pass-Two Grants) Pass men who have been charged with first decree murder in the death of Lloyd Miller Harper, 48, wera scheduled to go before tha grand juryBn Roseburg this afternoon, i Norman Steward Thomas, 22, and Gerald Oden, 25, wera arrested in Roseburg Satur day. They were apprehended following investigation of tha death of Harper, of Grants Pass, who was found in a ditch along Foothiii bivd. near Interstate 5 late Friday night. The Josephine county dis trict attorney's office an nouneed that Thomas and Oden were in fact the per sons who first "discovered" Harper's body. At the timo the pair told officers they had spotted the body white eit route on a motor trip to Washington, By Saturday moring, how ever, the Siskiyou county sheriffs department and state police had made soma "connecting links," said Wil liam Ferguson, assistant Jose phtne county district attorney, and the two men were arrest ed in Rosototrg, Further details of the casa were not immediately dis closed. Klamath Falls Woman Gets Severt'Year Term Klamath Falls - WPS - Mrs. Zelma Jean Oehiho, 42, of Klamath Fails was sentenced to seven years in the Oregon State Penitentiary and fined $1,500 on a charge of man slaughter today. Commission orfgtnaiiy ordered would hava been sustained In court, enough doubt had been raised in the hearings to justify tha additional study. Timber owners and forestry experts had strongly disputed the proposed increased land values. In Linn county the commis sion established forest land zones and values for the first time this year. Upon completion of tha. county's reappraisal program, they were set at levels in line with the increased values oi the other four counties. The Linn county values will now be reduced to the levels of those in previously reappraised counties ,
