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Newspaper Page Textlfo)f?o) sen M (in UJU Ai lussica World United Nations Members Would Attend Session Summit Meeting Possibility Noted : United Nations, N. Y.-OIPIU The Soviet Union has pro posed that the heads of state and sovernment of all mem ber nations attend the 20th anniversary session of the U. N. General Assembly in 1965. The suggestion raised the possibility of a summit meet ing between the major East and West powers in conjunc tion with the U. N. session. . The Soviet proposal was dis closed by U. N. sources and the official Soviet news agen cy Tass. Contained In Letter , The Soviet recommendation was contained in a letter from Soviet Foreign Minister An drei Gromyko handed to U. N. Secretary General Thant Mon day by Nikolai Fcdorenko, "chief of the Soviet mission, ,the U. N. sources said, y Gromyko's letter was a re ply to a message from Thant asking for the views of all member governments on an "inter n a tit o n a 1 cooperation year" for 1965 voted last year by the General Assembly v Advocates Free Zones. : According to Tass,. Gromy ko also advocated nuclear--free zones separating nations of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization from Warsaw pact countries, normalization of trade between all countries and an end to colonialism by 1965. The General Assembly has voted to set up a 12-member committee to make plans for the 20th anniversary of the 'founding of the United Na tions in 1945. Thant polled the 111 UN mebers on their views on the resolution. Relaxation Hoped , The Soviet suggestion came at a time when East-West cor diality at the nuclear test ban talks in Moscow led to hope for a relaxation of tensions and the possibility of a top level meeting among leaders of the major world powers. Diplomatic sources in Lon don said Monday that Presi dent Kennedy does not favor a summit meeting with Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev and other Western leaders at this time. But they said if the Moscow talks opened up the prospects for further cold war settlements he was not be lieved likely to refuse. Five Leaders in Derby Announced Atlantic City, N.J.-flirn-The five unofficial leaders in the 17lh annual Powder Puff Derby were named today. Thirty-six contestants had landed at Atlantic City air port finish line with six more expected before the official end of the race Wednesday. The early leader was Mrs. Judy G. Wagner, Palos Ver- des Estates, Calif., flying solo in a Beechcraft Bonanza K-35. Mrs. Wagner, wife of a dental surgeon, flew in her second derby. Others in the top five in order were Elaine Loening and Linda Warner, both of San Francisco; Mary Ann Noah, Mission, Kan., and co pilot Stella M. Lchmann, Kan sas City, Mo.; Janet Ferguson, Middlesex, England, flying solo; and Bernice T. Stead man, Flint, Mich., and copilot Mary E. Clark, Jackson, Mich. NEWS(ll)BRIEFS IHMS OM "OUNO THI 10U RAILROAD SETTLEMENT HOPE VOICED Washinrjton-'tPt-Democralic congressional leadars said to day ar conferring with President Kennedy that they ware "very hopeful" for a settlement of the railroad dispute by next week to head off a nationwide strike. WALLACE WON'T ENFORCE LAW Washington-'iri-Alabama Gov. George C. Wallace told Congress today that if tht proposed public accommodations itction of Iht administration's civil rights bill becomes law, ht will maka no effort to enforca it in hit state.' MOSCOW TALKS APPARENTLY RECESSED Mosrow-tn-Soviet and Chinese deltgatts today took an apparent recess from their talks on lh split in the world Communist movement. Proposes Meeting T jimttrz-1 in n td 'sM - Li TRIAL STARTS Lester E. Morford III, 19, an itinerant ranch hand, is led into district court in Reno, Nev., where he is standing trial before a three-judge panel for the fatal shooting of Jack Foster of Medford last August. (UPI) Widow of Medford Man Describes Kidnaping, Reno, Nev.-OIPll-A pretty 24- ycar-old widow Monday de scribed how her husband was shot to death and she was raped twice by Lester E. Mor ford III, 19, who is on trial for his life. Mrs. Patricia Foster of Med ford, Ore., testified she and her husband of two days. Jack Foster, 23, were kidnaped early Aug. 22 from their Reno motel. . ? '-i . Forced At Gunpoint - ' She said that Morford, an itinerant ranch worker whose parents live in Santa Rosa, Overtime Parking Charge Dismissed A charge of overtime park ing against Medford Attorney George W. Rode, 2242 Buena Vista dr., was dismissed yes terday by Municipal Court Judge Donald Denman. The dismissal came after the city had requested a con tinuance of the trial until 2 p.m. The trial had begun in municipal court at 10. a.m. but was recessed until 1 p.m. in order to allow Judge Den man to study the law on mo tions for continuance. . City Attorney William Mansfield had asked the court for a continuance when coun sel for Rode, Attorney Robert Grant, had challenged that the city had not shown that Rode was the registered own er of the vehicle which had been cited for overtime park ing. The citation had been is sued in May. The city had ob tained a continuance of 30 days in the matter early in June. Three Diamond Rings Reported Taken Here Three diamond rings valued at $2,000 have been report ed stolen from the residence of Patricia Constance Whit lock, 1624 Lcnora St., accord ing to Medford police. Mrs. Whillock reported the theft Monday. She told of ficcrs the rings have been missing since July 1. Murder Calif., forced them at gunpoint to drive to Truckee, Calif., and then to Lake Tahoe. At a wide place in the road, Morford ordered Foster toipull over. The defendant then tied Foster's hands to the steering wheel Morford smoked for a while, according to Mrs. Foster, and then without any warning reached across and shot her husband in the head. The defendant then dumped the body of Foster by the road and drove off. . Mrs. Foster said that "Mor ford raped her twice before she was able to escape by jumping from the car in Car son City. Judges Hearing Case Morford has pleaded guilty to an open charge of murder and under Nevada law three judges are hearing the case to determine the degree of guilt and fix the sentence. In earlier testimony, Mrs. Irene Scott, owner of the mo tel where both the Fosters and Morford stayed, said there was a strong odor of glue in Morford's room. She said she also found women's under do t h 1 n g in the defendant's room. Eymann's Salary To Be Garnisheed Salem -HJPIl- The Board of Control moved today to gar nishee the legislative salary of Rep. Richard Eymann (D Marcola). The Board moved after learning Eymann had failed to pay $76.64 rent on a Board of Control-owned house he had occupied during the re cent legislative session. It was also reported Ey mann had not paid for the removal of garbage from the house and this amount will be added to the garnishee mcnt the board will seek. Eymann was Democratic majority leader in the House during the recent session and headed the House Taxation committee. Bills Said Vital To Avoid Strike Washington - ITU - Chief executives of the nation's lead ing railroads said today that legislation was the only way to head off a nationwide rail strike over alleged "feather- bedding" work rules. The railroad execu lives blamed five unions for block ing any settlement of the con flict. They predicted that Con gress would not penalize man agement in drawing up a law to end the rail crisis. The statement, adopted by spokesmen for 103 railroads belonging to the Association of American Railroads, ap peared to dash Kennedy ad ministration hopes for re newed bargaining in the four-year-old dispute. Hatfield Suggests GOP Presidenital Hopefuls Debate Clash Proposed Before Primary Salcm-IUril-Gov. Mark Hat field suggested Monday that the two leading Republican presidential hopefuls, New York Governor Nelson Rocke feller and Arizona Sen. Barry Goldwater, meet in face-to- face debate before the Ore gon primary next year. He called for the debate "as in the high level objective tone of the Dewey-Stassen debate." Thomas E. Dewey and Har old Stassen appeared fre quently in Oregon during the 1948 Republican primary which was climaxed by a face-to-face debate. Dewey's subsequent Oregon primary victory gave him a big boost toward getting the GOP presidential nomination that year. Opportunity Exists "Our party is in no posi tion to incite political mayhem by a ruthless intramural at tacks which can only lead to fratricide. We advance neith er the cause of the party nor individual candidacies by such tactics, Hattield warned. Referring to recent Rocke feller and Goldwater speech es, Hatfield declared it is ob vious" from their statements magnificent opportunity exists for constructive discus sion of bed rock issues." "We can disagree without being disagreeable. Clear pos itive views on an impersonal basis should be welcomed by all within the party," Hat field declared. He warned the Republicans will face a common opponent in the coming election and declared the party would need the support of all its members, independents and "discerning Democrats," to win. langford Speaks On Work of Office Nine members of the Com' mittee for Capital Improve mcnts attended the second meeting of the group this morning in Medford city hall. Chairman Richard Travis pre sided. Flans were announced for the committee to visit the Eu gene civic center Tuesday, July 23. Eugene City Manager Hugh McKinley has made ar rangements to have the group conducted on a tour of the public buildings area. City Planning Director Ned Langford this morning brief ed the committee on the work of his office during the past several years. Langford said that on the basis of a land use inventory conducted in 1057 and 1958, it was determined that 45 per cent of the land in the city at that time was undeveloped. Langford forecast that the population of Medford will reach about 70.000 by 1985, based on estimates of a 4 per cent annual population in crease. The director showed the committee various charts and maps his office has prepared to plan for the orderly devel opment of Medford during the decades ahead. Among matters he discussed were school and park sites, a revised major street plan, and location and arrangement of a proposed civic center. Accused Red Spy Wins Postponement New York - (UPU - The at torney for a Russian employee of the United Nations and his wife won a delay in their ar raignment on espionage charges today In a move to establish the couple's dlplo malic immunity. Ivan Dmitricvich Egorov, 41, a U N. Secretariat person nel officer, and his wife, Alek- sanrira, 39, were indicted by a federal grand Jury Monday on charges of attempting to send U.S. atomic and military se crets to Moscow. They were brought before federal Judge Jacob Mishlcr this morning, but attorney William Klein man obtained adjournment of the arraignment until Aug. 20. Klcinman told Mishler he needed at least a month to prepare motions challenging U.S. jurisdiction In the case. He said he would object to "every proceeding'' in the case against the Egorovs on the grounds that Egorov was ad mitted to the United States on a diplomatic passport and therefore he and his wfe have immunity from arrcM. Regional Edition Medford 20 Pages Cambridge Negro Heads Vow More Demonstrations Kennedy Testifies On Civil Rights By United Press Interntaional Atty. Gen. Robert F. Ken nedy took the witness stand today to testify on the admin istration's proposed civil rights legislation and Negro leaders in racially torn Cam bridge, Md., vowed more anti- segregation demonstrations. Kennedy appeared before the Senate Judiciary Commit tee, headed by Sen. James O. Eastland (D-Miss.) to testi fy on the President's ominbus civil rights legislative pro gram. Mrs. oioria Kicnardson, a militant Negro integration leader in Cambridge, .-.aid demonstrations in the eastern shore town would continue even if it meant the arrest of every intcgrationlst willing to march. Rally Promised Philip lavage, a field sec retary of the National Assoc i ation for the Advancement of Colored People, promised new demonstrations today and a rally tonight. The two leaders spoke sev eral hours after 14 demonstra tors were arrested and re. leased by National Guards men, called in last week to enforce limited martial law in Cambridge. Mrs. Richard son Was among those arrest ed and later released. In Savannah, Ga., a racial boiling point last week, Ne groes who were thwarted In demonstration march Mon day night turned to vandal ism and harassment The denv onstrators, mostly youths, broke up in small groups. Cars Bombarded Police said one group mounted an overhead rail road crossing and bombard ed passing cars with rocks and bricks. They also report ed that the rear windows of two automobiles had been de molished by gun fire. A police riot squad moved into an intersection In the Negro quarter and dispersed a large crowd. Earlier in the evening two groups of Negroes, numbering about 150 persons, attempted to march from the Flamingo Club, a Negro night spot, but were stopped after about 100 yards by a barrier of local police backed by state troop ers. Technician Joins City Planning Staff A recent graduate of the University of Idaho has as sumed his duties as planning technician for the city of Med ford, Medford City Manager Robert Duff has announced. The new employee. David Brashcars, 23, received a bachelor's degree In geogra phy from the university this spring. He is a former resi dent of Annapolis, Md. Brashcars will be working primarily with mapping, com piling statistics and accumula ting information for the city planning department, accord ing to Ned Langford, planning director. Brashears wi employed last summer by the Spokane, Wash., planning office to bring that city's land use plan up to date. He and his wife, Kay, reside at 836 Taylor si. Park Plans To Be Presented to Group Completed general plans for the redevelopment of Haw thorne park will be presented to the Medford park and rec- reation commission at its meeting tomorrow night. Presenting the plans will be Robert Royslon and Asa llana molo, members of the San Francisco firm of Royslon, Mayes, Hanamolo and Beck, which has been commissioned by the city to redesign the park. The firm will also be work ing on plans for development of the Barnctt park site as well as suggestions for bcauti fication of the hanks of Bear creek through Medford. Park and Recreation Direc tor Robert Haworth will re I port to the commission on rou I tine department activities at the meeting, which is sched lulcd for 7:30 p. m. In the coun cil chambers in city hall. MEDFORD, OREGON, TUESDAY, JULY 16, 1963 r 2 few vTv uil Kr - ?rv r ill WORK PROGRESSING-The site of the Ml. Ashland Ski Lodge, in the center of the picture, is being prepared for construction of the lodsc, which is expected to stnrt next week by Batzcr Construction company, Med- Site Preparation: For Lodge Starts On Mf. Ashland Ashland - Footings are ex pected to be poured next week as construction of the Ml. Ashland Ski lodge gels under way. Alex Murphy, general man ager, said the lodge site is being prepared for construc tion. Batzcr Construction com pany, Medford, general con tractor for the lodge, is ex pected to pour concrete foot ings next week. A member of the engineer-1 ing staff of E. G. Constant company, Denver, manufac turer of the T-bar lift, visited the site last week to check soil and rock conditions in preparation for construction of mast-type supporting tow ers, Murphy said. Steel components for the supporting towers for the lift will be fabricated locally wherever ponsible, he said. Clearing of the beginner's slope has been completed by crews of the Ml. Ashland Corporation, and 50,000 board feet of timber has been re moved from the main line of the T-bar. Final grooming of the runs Is now being done, Murphy said. The lodge will Include a lounge, dining room, cafe teria, ski rental shop, first aid rooms, and manager's quar ters. Architect for the rustic type building is Robert Bos worth. Construction of a road from Siskiyou summit to ihc site is under way. and is expected to be graded and graveled by fall. It will be paved by next summer. Cnnirnrt It Cinn.J Cor"ro 5gned For Worfc on System Jacksonville A contract with R. A. Hrinlr. Construc tion company of Portland for construction of a sewer sys tem here was signed at special meeting of the Jack sonville City Council last night. Work is expected to get un dcr way shortly. The total bid of the Hci itz company on the project was $325,147 20. TO DISCUSS OBJECTIVES Salem -tPli- Stale Wrlfarc Administrator Andrew Juras will discuss the agency's ob jectives with county welfare administrators here Thursday and Friday. tribune ford, general the beginner's lodge location. . is located just ground. (Whitland Locke Photo) Residents of Area South of Ashland Air Incorporation Ashland - The" possibility of incorporating a separate city in the Bellview area south and cast! of Ashland was discussed at a meeting of Ihc Anti-An nexation committee at the Bellview Grange hall last night. A definite decision on whether or not to proceed witli Incorporation plans was deferred until a further meet ing, however, since those present thought such a step should not be made on the spur of the moment. A final decision is expected to be made at a meeting tenta tively set for Monday, July 29. The committee, which was formed to fight several pro posed annexations to the city of Ashland, mot to discuss whether to continue fighting annexations or to take steps to incorporate as a separate city. Opposed to Annexation Reports from various sub committees of the anti-annexation group indicated that a majority of those residents contacted in a survey were opposed to annexation to the city of Ashland. The group then discussed incorporation as a means of maintaining the status quo - a rural type of city without city services such as sewer sys tems. Bill Dcathcragc, Medford attorney who has represented the anti-annexation group, ex plained the advantages and obligations Involved in incor poration. He explained that the act of incorporating can be relatively simple. If petitions bearing signa tures of at least 20 per cent of the registered voters living in the area were presented to the county court, an election would be called. A majority vote at the election would be required to incorporate the area. Any area of 150 resi dents or more may Incorpor WEATHER FORECAST: Vrlhlr hllh rloudlncts tonight and MdnFi!ay. 1-ow tonight SO. High tomorrow S3. Temp. lllinril Votrrdar S3 Luwrtl This Morning 47 Our Skies Tonight Hiimrt today S:17 p m. Sunn tomorrow .... S:tfl m. 1 hr Moon rtM 3:55 a.m. tomorrow and li In Perlger-. Tlir total celtpftl! of top Sun on Saturday will have a maxl. mom duration of tan iProndft at Fort Hlmpton In the North. ft 1rrltortt of Canada. Thtt i ahoiit Stfl milt north and writ of Ldmonlon, Al hrrta. 1 58th Year Price 10 Cents No. 100 il&.'f.:.Y'a-fe.j.?i.a-fc contractor. Tills view is from slope looking toward the Upper terminal of T-bar lift under the peak in the back ate In Oregon, Deatherage ex plained. There are several hundred residents in the Bell view area. Could Ba Inexpensive Deatherage said that incor poration could be expensive or inexpensive, depend 1 n g upon what the residents in volved want in the way of city services. If the status quo of the area were maintained and there were no plans to build a large city in the area, he estimated that the city could operate on $500 a month, covering the cost of hiring a police officer and a judge. The cost of an incorporation election was estimated at $1,250. The attorney added that it was conceivable that income to the city from stale collected taxes could offset the monthly operating cost, Myrtle Point Infant Dies in Auto Fire Myrtle Point -(UPI)- Michael Wade Obcrslallcr, Infant son of Mr. and Mrs. Anthony Obcrstaller of Myrtle Point, was fatally burned Monday evening while playing in parked car with his five and six-year-old brothers. I ne ciiuclrcn were In a car parked in a trailer park about four miles cast of Myrtle Point. Cause of the fire has not been determined but Coos county sheriff's deputies spec ulated the boys may have been playing with matches. The brothers, Dennis and An thony, were not injured. , Thornton Wiley, Former Mayor of Ashland, Killed Portland-Hirn-Former Ash land Mayor Thornton Wiley, 82, was killed and his wife critically Injured when their car collided with a truck-trailer near here Monday. Wiley, who served as may or at Ashland from 1U32 through 1049, died about two hours after Ihc accident at a hospital in Oregon City. His wife, Frcdrica, 82, also was hospitalized. Stale police said witnesses reported Wiley's car was struck by the truck as the auto made a left turn. The Wileys were pinned in the wreckage. Keith Vosgin, 34, Lebanon, Pickets Appear At Springfield G-P Operations Unions Refuse Wage Increase By United Press International Strikes in the Northwest lumber industry continued to oread today, after any hopes for a settlement were scuttled by the outcome of negotia tions in Portland Monday. The Lumber and Sawmill Workers Union and Interna tional Woodworkers of Amer ica extended their strike against Georgia-Pacific Corp to its Springfield operations, idling between 1,000 and 1,- 00 men. Log Operations Hit Pickets appeared at 8 a.m. at two plywood mills and a . fiber-ply mill near Spring field, at logging operations in the Mosby creek and Row river areas south of the city, and across a private logging road. Monday the LSW struck a Georgia-Pacific plant at To ledo, idling 400 worKers at a sawmill and a plywood mill. IWA members working in the woods were not affected. Other Georgie-Pacific op erations at Coos Bay, Co quille and Pilot Rock, Ore.: Olympia, Wash., and Feather Falls, Samoa and Woodleaf, Calif., were working today. About 22.500 Idle The Springfield closures bring to about 22,500 the number of men idled in Ore gon, Washington, Montana and California by the dispute. The two unions Monday turned down a wage increase of 28 cents per hour over a three-year period. The offer was made by the Big Six bar gaining group in a seven-hour negotiating session arranged by federal mediators in Portland. The unions report edly asked 35 cents. No . more meetings were scheduled with the Big Six, which represents U.S. Ply wood, Crown Zellerbach, Weyerhaeuser,' St. Regis Pa per, International Paper and Rayonier. The unions struck U.S. Ply wood and St. Regis June 5 and other four firms shut down the next day on the basis that a strike against one is a strike against all. Simpson Talks Today Negotiators for the union were scheduled to meet with Simpson Timber Co. offi cials today in Portland. Simp son, an independent, has con tinued to operate under an extension of a contract which expired June 1. Negotiators for 48 Pacific Coast pulp and paper mills also resumed their talks with officials of the United Paper- makers and Paperworkers and the Pulp, Sulphite and Paper Mill Workers Monday in Portland. Those unions turned down an employer otter in early June but have not taken a strike' vote. Some of the firms Involved in the lumber dispute also are taking part in the pulp-paper talks. Grants Pass Man Hurt in Accident Yreka Harold J. Maffett, 50, of 417 NW Midland ave., Grants Pass, was injured in a three-vehicle accident on Highway 09 about two miles north of the Klamath river bridge, according to the Cali fornia highway patrol. He was taken to Siskiyou General hospital, Yreka. Two other persons also were In jured. They were Mrs. Rcnee A. Fargel, 29, of Port land, and her two-year-old daughter. Maffett and Mrs. Fargel and Judith E. Davis, Castro Valley, Calif., were drivers of the cars involved, officers saidi was driving the truck. He was not Injured. The accident occurred as Wiley, a prominent .Southern. Oregon orchardist, and his wife were en route to a Church of the Nazarene dis trict assembly at Gladstone, He was a nationally promin ent Nazarene layman. The assembly opened today. Wiley, who was elected to one term on the Ashland City Council In 1925, was a mem ber of the board of regents at Northwest Nazarcna Col lege at Nampa, Idaho. In addition to his widow, he Is survived by a son, three daughters, 12 grandchildren and three great grandchildren. .,