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Newspaper Page TextPrice 10 Cents Weather FORECAST: Considerable cloud iness and cooler today and Monday with chances ol a few showers beginning UtU evening. High today 80. Low tonight 55. High Monday ?S. Temp. Highest Yesterday 7 Lowest Saturday Morning 5$ Precip. To 5 p.m. Yesterday None Subscribers To report Improper or non delivery of the Mall Tribune in Medford phone 772-6141; Aih land call at 418 Bridge it., or phone 482-3002: Yreka. phone 842-2403, before 6:49 p.m. dally and 10:30 a.m. Sunday. If regular delivery arrives ahortly after you call please notlfv office, thus eliminating special messenger service. Medford Tribune United Press International Full Leased Wire United preu International Full Leased Win 52 Pages Six Sections MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, JULY 21, 1963 No. 104 58th Year Ships Collide In St. Lawrence; A! Least 18 Dead British Carrier Sinks 'Like A Stone' Quebec City - 0IPH - A Brit ish ore carrier sank "like a stone" Saturday after a three way collision in the St. Law rence river in thick fog that badly damaged two other freighters. Authorities said Saturday night that 18 crewmen aboard the ore carrier were killed, 16 were missing and 16 .sur vived. The survivors were taken to hospitals in Quebec City and Baie St. Paul. Most of the crew of 50 on the British-officered, 12,863 ton vessel Tritonica were Chi nese from Formosa and Hong Kong. Ship Sliced in Half A crewman of the Tritonica said that the impact of the collision sliced the ship in half, and it went down in about eight minutes. Most of the crew was asleep; others jumped or were flung into the water. The collision shortly before 3 a.m. (EDT) Saturday was the second maritime mishap In the St. Lawrence involving more than one vessel within a few hours. Friday night ,the 13,925-ton Swiss freighter Bariloche, heading for the Atlantic with a cargo of grain, bumped into two lake freighters in dense fog off the Isle of Orleans near Quebec. All three vessels went safely into Quebec har bor. In Heavy Fog Saturday's collision was re ported by the skipper of the 6,153-ton British freighter Roonagh Head, which was bound for England with a general cargo. The skipper radioed that his ship had col lided in heavy fog with the Tritonica in the 31-mile wide St. Lawrence ship channel off Petit Riviere St. Francois, a village 40 miles east of Quebec. A Spanish freighter hit" the linking ship a few minutes later. The Hoonagh Head's hull was split but its captain de cided after a preliminary ex amination to make his own way back to Quebec. Reports reaching here said the sorel, Quebec-bound Tri tonica "sank like a stone" within a few minutes, giving Its sleeping crew practically no time to escape. Unions, Firms Agree to Pact Portland - HIPP - Represen tatives of the Pacific Coast Association of Pulp and Paper manufacturers and two big unions reached agreement on a one-year contract. The pact must be approved by members of the United epermakers and Paperwork ers and the International Bro therhood of Pulp, Sulphite and Paper Mill workers. The members turned down another negotiated contract in a referendum vote last month. The unions represent 20,000 workers at 49 pulp and paper mills in Oregon, Washington and California. The latest agreement, which came after 11 days of nego tiations, includes a 7ii-cent per hour general wage in crease. "Cost of the overall pack age is in excess of 10 cents per hour," S. W. Grimes, man aging director of the associa tion .said. NEVS(BRIEFS NEW DEVELOPMENTS IN DR. WARD CASE London-4W-Two new development! emerged in Britain's sex and security scandal Saturday as Dr. Stephen A. Ward readied a "No Names Barred" defense for his vice trial, which opens Monday. WEST GERMAN FLAGS AT HALF MAST Bonn-'IPI'-Flags flew at half staff throughout West Ger many in memory of the men who died in the bloodbath that followed the attempt to assassinate Adolf Hitler 19 years ago Saturday. ROCKEFELLER HOLDS TO CIVIL RIGHTS STAND Miami Beach-4PI-Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller ol New York came to the annual Governors' conference Saturday vowing he would "Rather be Right" on the Civil Rights issue than be president. EXPOSURE OF RED SPY RING PREDICTED Berlin-'ITI-Wet!ern officials said Saturday the escape of an East German secret police sergeant major to West Ber lin would smash a communist spy ring here and lead to the arrest of up to 50 Soviet Spies. National Geographic Douglas Solar Eclipse' Expedition IT f. 0J?.,",D; 6ao MPM J X i it s . I 1 . aft Jf ' .Wt '"H Vmrf SHADOW SPEED: TQO MPH f r OREAT SUAVE LAKE A RE AeJVa,- 3 f tPOINT OF INTERCEPT) -. - est&twTTp- V5 INTERCEPTING SHADOW CONE This artists's conception, looking south from a point in space over the Artie Circle, shows National Geographic Society Douglas Air craft Expedition's DC-8 jet transport inter cepting shadow cone created by the Satur PROGRESS OF MOON-The progress of the moon across the face of the sun as it ap peared to St. Louisans watching the eclipse is shown in the above sequence photo graphed in St. Louis. The first picture was taken 20 minutes after the first contact was made at 3:29 p.m.; the second shot was Millions Watch Celestial Show As Moon Passes In Front of Sun United Press International The moon blotted out the sun Saturday in an awesome celestial show that plunged vast sections of the earth into an eerie darkness that brought out the night-time stars. The flame -rimmed solar eclipse, one of nature's great est space spectaculars, was the last this country will see for seven years. Morford Sentenced To Die For Murder Of Medford Man Reno, Nev. - WPII - Lester E. Forford III, Friday was found guilty of first degree murder and sentenced to die in the Nevada gas chamber for the fatal shooting of a 23-year-old Medford, Oregon man last August in Reno. A three judge panel delib erated three hours before bringing in the verdict against the 19-year-old itinerant ranch hand. Morford showed no emo- day solar eclipse high above Northern Canada, The DC-8 carried scientists from 13 organizations and their' astronomical equipment for airborne observations and measurements of solar activity during the eclipse. (UPI) taken at 4:15 p.m.; and the third was taken 'at 4:42 p.m. when the partial eclipse was at its fullest, 67.1 per cent. The last exposure was taken 20 minutes after the maximum eclipse as seen in St. Louis. The percentage of eclipse seen (UPI) ;. , . The world's astronomers and countless millions of others were kept guessing all afternoon-weather conditions on both sides of the globe were poor-until, at the last moment, clouds parted and they were treated to one of the most spectacular, of space shows. "It was fantastic. It's a sight I'd wait years to see," ex- lion as Dist. Judge John Bar rett read the sentence and set the execution date for the week of Sept. 23 at the state prison in Carson City. After the verdict was pro nounced, Morord talked brief ly with his parents, who live in Santa Rosa, Calif., and then lighted a cigarette as he walked out of the Washoe County District courtroom. The three judges deliber ated three hours before reach ing a decision. Morford had confessed the crime and it was the judges' duty to set the degree of guilt and fix the punishment. Judge Barrett said the un animous decision was reached after "total consideration of all evidence." Defense counsel Stanley Brown said he "had nothing to say at this time." Morford admitted he fatal ly shot Jack Foster, 23, Med ford, Ore., after he kidnaped Foster and his wife of two days from a Reno motel Aug. 22. He forced the couple to drive around Lake Tahoe, thnn hni Vnctnr onA rarutrl ui. . (,.,; i ,.. u ilia wiviww vn.; uviuic ant ..., . i j waa tiuvi ii, vaiapi. mwnwiu was captured a short time later about 40 miles cast ofPaired last Monday. Carson City in a gas station. The defense had based its case on the fact that Morford was under the effects of glue sniffing and one psychhtrnt testified the youth did not know right from wrong at the time of the crime. A S) in Medford was 50 per cent. . " V claimed 17 year old Allan Fries, a Chicago schoolboy. He, hundreds of other per sons and 20 teams of scientists were atop Cadillac Mountain at Bar Harbor, Maine, where the eclipse was total. It was the best vantage point in the U. S. from which to view the phenomenon. At the moment of totality, when the moon had obliterat ed the sun, the lattcr's corona was visible flaring into the depths of space with a flash ing brilliance. Stars were visible, as was (he planet Venus. Flashes of blue-white light streaked out from the edge of the sun as the moon creeped slowly across its face. The eclipse was first visible in northern Japan - where it was Sunday morning. For the Japanese, it was the final total solar eclipse of this century, and It lasted only 29 seconds. At Bar Harbor, the eclipse began at 4:35 p. m. (cdt). Totality came at 5:42. The eclipse lasted about two hours. Astronaut Scott Carpenter observed the spectacle (or 142 seconds aboard a jetliner streaking 8 miles above Fort Dawson in Canada's north west territory. Service Resumed In EP District Full service was restored today in the main canal of the Eagle Point Irrigation dis trict following completion of repairs Saturday. Service was interrupted Wednesday for the second time within a week when a , . . . ., , break occurred in the canal ul, .,, ... I The earlier break was re- Crews from Tru-Mix Con crete installed a concrete lin ing in the potrion of that canal that had been damaged by earth movements. A "Gun- nitc" process, a method of applying concrete pneumall cally, was used. Test Ban Accord Sino-Soviet Peace Chinese Leave; Split Appears Irreconcilable Defense Treaty May Be Scrapped Moscow - HOT - The Sino Sovict peace talks collapsed in final failure Saturday and the Chinese delegation return ed to Peking still convinced that war and bloody revolu tion are the only way to achieve the aims of Commun ism. Although the Soviet Union refused to budge from Pre mier Nikita S. Khrushchev's avowed policy of "peaceful co existence," the Soviet leader attended a farewell dinner Saturday night for the Chin ese "comrades" in an out ward gesture of goodwill. Irreconcilable But the split between the two Communist giants ap peared irreconcilable, marked by bitter exchanges of recrim ination that divides the Com munist world into those who follow Khrushchev's line and those who espouse the more warlike line of Mao Te-Tung. What effect the split may have on the world may not be known for decades. But in the immediate future the prospects appeared to be for an easing of tension between the Soviet Union and the West. Meanwhile in London, well informed Communist diplo mats were reported to have said that the Soviet Union is threatening to scrap its 13- year-old mutual defense treaty with China. The treaty is the backbone of the Sino-Soviet alliance and calls for the Soviet Union to come to the aid of Peking if China is attacked, and vice versa. Made In 1950 The "treaty of mutual as sistance and friendship" was concluded in Moscow early In 1950 with Communist leader Mao Tze-Tung and was accompanied by pledges of eternal friendship. The Communist diplomatic sources said the Kremlin made it clear to the Chinese it will not consider itself bound by the treaty provision because of Peking's rejection of Premier Nikita S. Khrush chev's policy of peaceful co existence. Brazilian Named Miss Universe Miami Beach, Fla. - IIIPII -Eighteen - year - old Icda Maria Vargas, a dark - haired candidate from Porto Alcsrc, Brazil, with a cheering section all of her own, was named Miss Universe of 1963 Satur day night. The brown - eyed college coed was the first winner from her country, and one of three Latin American beau ties among the 15 semifinal ists in the week - long pngmt to pick "the prettiest girl In the world." She was crowned by out going queen Norma Nohin of Argentina before about 5,000 cheering onlookers in Ihe Mi ami Beach Convention hall and a nationwide television audience. Runnersup in order were: Miss Denmark, blonde Aino Korwa of Copenhagen; Miss Ireland, Marlene McKcnwn of Belfast; Miss Phil 1 ippincs, La laine Bennett, of Quezon Cily, and Miss Korea, Kim Myung Ja, of Seoul. Sports Bulletins Saturday Night Baseball NATIONAL LEAGUE Cincinnati 3, San Francisco 2 St. Louis 3, Houston 2 AMERICAN LEAGUE Baltimore 6, Kansas City 3 Los Angeles II, Detroit 2 PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE Dallas-Ft. Worth 4, Portland 0 The Rogue Valley Dairy Maids defeated the Phoenix, Aril. Westerners at While City Saturday night 6 to 3, in the first of 1 two game series The teams meet egain today at 1:30 p.m. Pat Barron was the winning pitcher lor the Maidi. w i - . aw, af TUNNEL'S NORTH PORTAL - The new Randolph Collier tunnel on Highway 199, 3'i miles south of the Oregon state line, was dedicated in ceremonies Saturday afternoon attended by more than 2,000 per sons. This view of the north portal was taken prior to the tunnel's completion from Unity of 3 States Cited At Collier Tunnel Opening By PEGGY ANN HUTCHINSON Mall Tribune Staff Writer Oregon Mountain, Calif The unity of three states working to complete the Win- nemucca-to-the-Sca higttway and the men of vision who were responsible for gelling the highway built were cited by Sen. Clair Engle (D.-Calif.) yesterday afternoon at the dedication of the Randolph Collier tunnel here. Enclo reviewed the history of hienways tnrougn tne ore- gon mountains and over Ha- zelview summit and of Sen' ator Collier's battle to got the 1,835-foot tunnel built. Collier is the California sen ator for Siskiyou and Del Norte counties. More than 2,000 persons attended tho festivities held at the south portal of the tun nel. Events started with a barbecue followed by enter tainment by the Grants Pass Caveman, Winnemueca, Nov., Chiefs and the Crescent Cily Arabs. 'The Great Builder' Prior to Collier pulling the string attached to the lever of the piece of road machin ery so the jaws of the scroop cut the ribbon, opening the tunnel, Engle called the sen ator for whom the tunnel Is named "the great builder." He said that many will be in his debt for years to come. The ribbon cut was similar lo that used last September at Doherty Slide, cast of Lake view. The three strands were gold for California, silver for Nevada and green for the forests of Oregon. Prior lo the ribbon cutting, Engle pulled a gold and blue curtain, unveiling the bronze plaque dedicating the tunnel to Collier. Unity was also stressed by the three speakers represent ing the governors of Oregon, California, and Nevada. State Rep. John Dcllen back, Medford, noted the great need for improved com munications, calling the tun nel a long step In getting peo- Sonic Booms to Be Heard in Area A number of sonic booms will be heard in the Medford area during the next three weeks, according to an an nouncement from Kinsley Field, Klamath Falls. Air craft from the field will be operating over the Medford, Grants Pass and Ashland re gion. F-100 fighters, scrambling for the Pacific area, will ex ceed the speed of sound dur ing the hours of 9 a.m. and 4 p,m. They will attack simu- I latcd enemy bombers over the j ocean and coastal regions In prcperation for an Air Force ; evaluation of the 40HW l Ignt or group early next month The evaluations arc held periodically to test an organi zation's proficiency in defend ing it assigned area of responsibility. ,.1 T-i -31!i pie from one place to another to communicate ideas. He mnnlinnori llml nnplhnm fnl. Ifornia and southern Oregon have always been close, but the tunnel will tie the two even closer tnocthor. Robert Warren, director the Nevada department economic development, spoke for Nevada's governor, Grant Sawyer, the only governor who had attended the dedica Hon ceremonies last Septenv ber. Warren invited all to vis- n ine oiner ena or me men way, stating that the highway borliness and a new avenue of commerce. Eclipse 'Arranged' Robert Bradford, director of the transportation agency of California and chairman of the state's highway com mission, read a letter from Gov. Edmund Brown, com mending Collier for his state wide work on behalf of high ways. With tongue In check he explained that Gov. Brown had contacted President Ken nedy to see if something spe cial couldn't be done lo honor Collier. Kennedy, according to the story, culled the fed eral space agency who arrang ed an eclipse of the sun. Among the persons Intro duced were members of the county courts of Humboldt county, Nov., Lake, Klamath, Jackson, Josephine In Ore gon, and Del Norte in Cali fornia; Sen. Lynn Newbry, Ashland; Sen. E. D. Potts and Representative Sidney Bazetl, both Grants pass; Sen. R. Chapman, Coos Bay, and Ari zona Sen. Ben Arnold. Nu merous California legislators attended, since a Joint meet ing of the assembly and sen ate interim committee on transportation was held Fri day In Crescent City. National Guardsmen Use Tear Gas to Handle Cambridge Mob United Press International National Guardsman used tear gas to stop a shoving match with Negroes in Cam bridge, Md., Suturday night and hooded Ku Klux Klans mcn attacked a negro photog rapher in Savannah, Ga. The unidentified Negro pho tographer was trying to get a picture of Imperial Klan Wiz ard Robert Sheldon address ing a klan rally in a public park in Savannah. About 15 klansmcn and spectators pounced on him and struck him several times before the police riot squad ringing the park moved in and escorted the Negro out of danger. Shclton used the pub lic address system to hold the mlling crowd in check. In Cambridge, Negro lead ers were meeting with Na tional Guard Commander George C. Gclston when a few Negroes-described by Gclston as "just a couple of drunks "- Said ' Talks -v raw. m wii ..my. n. . -.. the former route. The old highway, to be maintained by Del Norte county, was 340 feet higher than the new tunnel and its approaches and has 128 more curves. The curves being eliminated are the equivalent of slightly more than 20 complete circles. (California Division of Highways photo). Numerous oilier officials from the three slates were nkn lnlpnri,,n Congressman Don Clausen. representing the ' First Dis trlct, brought greetings f rom Smnlnr Thnmo. v,.,. hoi .....b, UlUUKIIb K1GCII1IKB LLUUll . ... . . - of rinnornssmon T)nhrt no.n of Medford. , The new tunnel eliminates 123 curves on Highway 199 and is located 3 'A miles south of the Oregon state line. Tjie 400 foot out at tho south por- tnl la th rlrer.at In h jf - lot California. .., ., . I Symbolic Vehicles - , Jir,si. "le through inc.- tunnel luiiuwillg me no- bon cutting included 'Senator Collier as a passenger.- The first commercial vehicle was a Mitchell Brothers freight truck, loaded with redwood lumber and plywood out of Eureka, bound for Seattle, Wash. It symbolized opening the highway to commercial travel and its value to lum ber, Del Norte county's lead ing Industry, California state highway de partment officials said that the old curving highway will be maintained by the county, since California law prohibits the state from maintaining parallel highways. Final striping of the new highway was completed Sat urday evening after the dedi cation crowd left the area. The site at the south portal where the ceremonies were held was the dump for earth removed from the tunnel dur ing its construction. GOLDWATER PLANS BILL Washington - IIIPII - Sen. Barry Goldwatcr said Satur day he would introduce legis lation lo ban so-called union "feathcrbedding" on railroads and airlines on the same basis that other industries are cov ered by other labor laws. began pushing at the guard troopers. One tear gas shell was lobbed and Negro leaders rushed to the scene and helped end the episode. They called off a demonstration which the troops had been ordered to prevent. In Shrcveport, La., helmet ed police patrolled two stores following reports that new protests would be held. Fif teen sit-in demonstrators were arrested Saturday and Friday in the north Louisiana strong hold of segregation. Thirty-eight Negroes were arrested in Ocala, Fla., when they refused lo obey police orders to end their picketing at a county Jail. They were protesting the earlier arrest of an inlcgration leader. On estimated 100 Negroes staged an orderly anti-segregation march in historic Charleston, S. C, under the watchful eyes of scores of In Sight'; Collapse Russians, Others Say Test Talks Are 'Going Well' Favorable Senate Reaction Forecast Moscow-IUPD-Premier Nikita . Krushchev said Saturday night "agreement is in sight" on a partial nuclear test ban. Negotiators were reported to have begun working on the actual treaty draft. Khrushchev, at his jovial best at a reception and fare well party for visiting Hun garian communist leader Jan- os Kadar, told newsmen, "Tha talks are going well. No ob stacles have been encountered so far. If they continue as they have so far, agreement is in sight." Khrushchev joked and quip ped with W. Averell Harri- man, chief American nego tiator, and with Lord Hail sham, Britain's Minister of Science. Harrlman declined to com ment on progress of the talks. which resume Monday, but quipped, "I hope to be home in time for the World Series. Britisher Confirms Hailsham, asked by a cor respondent whether the gen eral impression the talks were going well was correct, re- p ,,: " ' , ".' , , '"r" w 1 right.- ', . , '. ne more-optimistic com- - I men : cam. ron nuoel' . ea'lor 0! newspa. per Izveslla ana son-in-law ol is.nrusncnev. ne loia report- e". The talks are going well." Earlier, high diplomatic sources had reported "contin ued progress" in the talks which began last Monday and a brief communique Indicated the treaty-drafting stage had been reached. Observers be lieved the agreement would be ready for initialling early next weck. . In Washington, indications were that efforts to get the U.S. Senate to ratify a par tial test ban agreement might meet with favorable response. Some opposition is to be ex pected, However, elimination of underground testing from the proposals under discus sion in Moscow greatly en hanced the chances for the needed two-thirds vote of Sen ate approval. Senate criticism of earner test ban proposals centered on the adequacy of techniques for detecting underground nu clear explosions and identify ing possible secret weapons tests conducted underground. Mansfield Cautious Senate Democratic Leader Mike Mansfield, Mont., cau tioned Saturday that 11 is "too early to be certain" just what will be the Senate reaction to a partial testing agreement. But Mansfield said the Mos cow negotiations have been conducted In an area which offers "the optimum chanco for approval" of a treaty by the Senate. He commented that the concept of a ban on tests in the atmosphere, In space and underwater has a broad base of Senate support. local policemen and highway patrolmen. There were no ar rests made. Integration strategists In Jackson, Miss., where riot trained policemen rushed to headoff a march by 150 young: Negroes Friday night, met be hind closed doors to discuss whether to resume full-scala protests that were halted after the slaying last month of Negro leader Medgar Evers. Eight pickets were arrested In front of a Danville, Va , department store and four Negroes who sought service at a shopping center lunch coun ter in Shrcvcsport, La., were arrested for questioning. Guerrilla-trained National Guard reinforcements were rushed into Cambridge, Md.. where Negroes promised new demonstrations last night In defiance of a ban Imposed when limited martial law 1 .Blmnn.Bl nn tfta ror-lallv tense fishing town.