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Newspaper Page Text- r f M IT In p ! . " J f'ft kHz H V, 1 MISS UNIVERSE - Maria Vargas, 18, of Brazil, was crowned Miss Universe al the annual pageant in Miami ' Beach, Fla., Saturday night. A congratulatory message from Brazilian President Joao Goulart read "My compli ments on the conquest of the universal title of beauty. It is a triumph that brings us pride and represents a motive of Just satisfaction for all Brazilians." (UPI) Accord in Nuclear Test Ban Meeting Seen This Week Moscow (UPD U. S., British and Russian negotiators open ed the second week of nuclear talks today amid indications they would complete an ac cord on a partial nuclear test ban by the end of the week. The meeting - seventh in the three-power negotiations that began a week ago - open ed at 3 p.m. in Moscow's Spiri donovka Palace. Diplomats, encouraged by Premier Nikita S. Khrush chev's statement that "an agreement is in sight," pre dicted that an East - West treaty banning underwater, atmospheric and outer space nuclear tests would be ini tialed in a few days. Other Problems The U. S., British and So viet negotiators were report ed so far along on the test ban issue that their talks have turned to other cold war problems, including measures to guard against surprise at tack. Khrushchev discussed this Sunday in a meeting with Under Secretary of State W. Avcrell Harriman, the Amer ican nuclear delegate. They talked in a private room be hind Khrushchev's Lenin sta dium box, where Harriman watched the U. S-Sovict track meet Sunday. It was understood they dis cussed Khrushchev's offer for an exchange of inspectors as a means of safeguarding against sudden troop move ments or buildups. The in spectors would be stationed al key points on the territory of opposing nations. Harriman and British nego tiator Lord Hailsham were ex pected to discuss the subject with Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko today. No Obstacles Khrushchev, who frequent ly has denounced Western on site inspection proposals as attempts at espionage, brought up his inspection plan in a speech Friday. On Sat urday, he said at a reception following that day's negotiations: MiWS(f)BRIEFS ITEMS FROM 5 JP AROUND THI 01 Oil MORGAN'S SUCCESSOR ON FPC NAMED Washington - U'i - President Kennedy Saturday named David Statler Black to replace Howard Morgan on the Fedoral Power Commistion. FISHING BOATS TO REMAIN ANCHORED Neah Bay. Wash. - l PI1 - In a meeting here Sunday night lhe Fisherman's Beneficial association voted unanimously to continue to keep its boats tied up in protest over the prices being ottered for silver salmon. AIR EXERCISES SCHEDULED OVER INDIA New Delhi, India - IN' - The Indian government an nounced today that U.S. and British plane will fly lir defense exercises over India. " l w 1 1 5 If i 1 ' - "The talks are going well. No obstacles have been en countered so far. If they con tinue as they have so far, agreement is in sight." These indications of Soviet willingness to come to a set tlement, when viewed along side Moscow's repudiation of the Peking hard line in for eign policy, added to the op timism already felt by dip lomats here. They said there appeared to be no barriers to a test ban of nuclear explosions in the atmosphere, outer space, and under water. PO Parking Meiers To Be Changed Five parking meters along the south side of Sixth si. across from the post office will be replaced tomorrow by 15 minute parking signs, Medford Public Works Direc tor Vernon Thorpe said today. Thorpe said the signs will be installed on a trial basis. He said the change is being made because his office has found that the majority of persons parking there are pa trons of the post office and only stay parked for short pe riods of time. Portland Boy Drowns In Lake Near Sandy Sandy -HOT- Carl Bohrer. 9. Portland, drowned in Lake Roslyn near here Sunday af ternoon. The boy apparently slipped and fell into the Portland General Electric Co. reser voir. His body was recovered by a skindiver about lVa hours after the accident. MEMBERS TO VOTE Portland - (UPIi - Members of two unions representing 20.000 workers at 49 pulp and paper mills in Oregon. Wash ington and California will vote on a second negotiated contract providing a wage and benefit increase of more than 10 cents an hour. 3 Injured Hood Climbers Brought Off Mountain Rescuers Work Throughout Night Hood River-WPD-Three in jured mountain climbers were brought down off the slopes of 11, 245-foot Ml. Hood this morning after a 1,500-foot fall Sunday. Two of the men, Dr. Eber hard H. Glocckler and Dr. Mark Hanschka, both of Port land, were reported in satis factory condition at Hood River Memorial Hospital. At tendants said they apparently escaped with some fractures and cany cuts and bruises. The third climber, Portland attorney Robert Shoemaker, was least seriously injured. Mountain rescue units worked throughout the night to carry the two doctors down from the 10,000-foot level on the mountain. The - rescue teams reached them about 9 p.m. Sunday but it took near ly eight hours to get them to a hospital.- Shoemaker reach ed here as 7 a.m., 10 hours later. Fell on Glacier The men were climbing with a large group of Ma zamas, a Portland alpine or ganization, when they fell on the icy face of Cooper Spur to Elliott Glacier on the mountain's north side. The three were roped to gether and were descending from the top of the mountain to Cloud Cap Inn about noon. Dr. Hanschka slipped first, fol lowed by Shoemaker. Dr. Gloeckler, the anchor man, was unable to hold them. They tumbled head over heels down the icy chute and land ed on the glacier. . The accident occurred at almost the same spot where Colin Chisholm, Lake Grove, and his son, Douglas, rode out an avalanche in a 2,000 foot plunge in 1961. Richard Knutson, Portland, fell more than 1,000 in the same area last fall. ' Dr. Merkel Gets Board Assignment Dr. A. E. Markel, Jackson county public health officer, has returned to Medford from Portland, where he received his official appointment to the Mental Health Advisory Board to the State Board of Control from Gov. Mark O. Hatfield. Dr. Merkel had been serv ing on the board for several months replacing Dr. William Moore, who was on education al leave as director of the Josephine county health de partment. Dr. Merkel attended the meeting of the board which was held at the Oregon Alco holics Study and Rehabilita tion center in Portland. Norwegians Ahead In Battle With Sea Portsmouth, Va. - UPI) - A stubborn captain and 17 crew men apparently won their battle to keep their collision torn Norwegian tanker afloat today and began moving to ward port under the vessel's own power. A Coast Guard cutter, the Cherokee, escorted the dam aged 13.490-ton tanker Hon- nor toward Norfolk and an at- sea rendezvous wun a tug boat, which could tow the vessel the remaining distance if necessary. The Coast Guard here said the Honnor was making 3 knots about 220 miles off the Virginia coast. Tweny-two of her crewmen were transferred to the tank er San Juan, a converted tanker from Wilmington, Del., following the collision Sun day. The San Juan, despite bow damage, headed for Wil mington. Soviet Claims U. S. Employee in Russia Moscow-WI' - The Soviet government newspaper Izvcs tia today reported than an Arab-born former employee of the U. S. National Security Agency in Washington has de fected to Russia and asked for political asylum. Izvestia said that the for mer agent for the Americans defected because he was "out raged" by U.S. intelligence activities endangering peace in the Middle East. The alleged defector was I identified as Viktor Norria I Hamilton. Regional Edition Medford 18 Pages Two Sections Republican Governors Sidetracked In Vote on Issue of Civil Rights WyW d'-iv $W$ i STRUCK BY TRAIN - Elmer Fred Peterson, Talent, was critically injured this morning when the car he was driving was struck by a train at the Main st. railroad crossing in Talent. The car, thrown 53 feet by the impact, landed upside down, as shown in this photo taken shortly after the ac cident. Talent Man Injured As Train Hits Car; City Seeks Talent - Elmer Fred Pe terson, 63, of route 1, box 509, Talent, was in critical condition at Rogue ; Valley hospital today following a col lision between his car and a 70-car freight train at the Main st. crossing of Southern Pacific railroad here this morning. The crossing at which the accident took place has been the subject of two petitions to the . public utilities com missioner by the Talent city council requesting installa tion of a signal warning de vice. Lumber Shutdown In Seventh Week By United Press International The partial shutdown in the Northwest lumber industry went into its seventh full week today with more than 25,000 workers idle. Federal mediator LeRoy Smith said in Portland no meetings in the contract dis pute between employers and the International Woodwork ers of America or the Lumber and Sawmill Workers were scheduled this week, but he expressed hope some could be arranged. Members of the Timber Op erators Council, which bar gains for 196 firms in the Douglas fir bell, were report edly considering plans to re turn to the bargaining table soon. The TOC and unions broke off talks nearly a month ago, but the only TOC operations which have been closed are those of firms which also belong to the Big Six bargaining group. Group To Tour Civic Center Between 14 and 16 persons including five members of the Medford Capital Improve ments committee, will visit Eugene tomorrow to tour that city's civic center. Also included in the group are members of the Jackson county court. City Manager Robert Duff and Planning Di rector Ned Langford will rep resent the city administration. The group is expected to leave the municipal airport about 8 a.m. tomorrow and return to Medford about mid afternoon. MANEUVERS PLANNED Jakarta, Indonesia - IUPP -Indonesia announced today it will hold four days of naval maneuvers in the waters off Malaya and Borneo under its policy of "confrontation" against the proposed Malaysia Federation. Signal The first petition was de nied by the PUC. The second is pending. At present there is only a crossing sign at the location. Peterson's car, eastbound on Main st. at about 7:50 o'clock apparently stalled on the tracks, according to Talent Police Chief Charles Roberts, and was struck by the northbound train. A passenger. Harold Wigen, Seattle, Wash., jumped out of the car and escaped injury. Peterson was still in the car at the moment of impact and suffered head injuries and multiple lacerations. Basil William Wilson, Eu gene, engineer, said the train was traveling approximately 35 miles per hour and trav eled about 500 feet after he applied the brakes. The car was thrown 53 feet from the point of impact. Two Portlanders Killed in Traffic Portland - lliPIl - Two Port land residents died in hos pitals here during the week end as a result of traffic ac cidents, and a third was kill ed in Nevada. Mrs. Donna Anderson, 27, died Sunday from injuries suffered in a motorcycle ac cident on a beach near Ocean Park, Wash., Saturday night. Mrs. Anderson, a mother of four children, was riding alone on the small cycle when it apparently struck soft sand and she lost control. James Bain, 40, died Satur day from injuries received in a two-car crash in southeast Portland Friday. Donald David Wilson died when he was thrown out of a carrcning auto 20 miles north of Reno. Mrs. Gloria Ball, Big Bear Lake, Calif., was in jured critically. Oregon traffic has claimed JO lives since July 1, com pared to 34 killed in the first 22 days of the month last year. So far this year 283 persons have died in Oregon auto accidents, compared to 228 during a similar period last year. City Police Check Service Sfafion Entry Medford city police Satur day investigated the reported Ihefl of $88.50 from a service station at 126 North Riverside ave. Officers said there were no signs of forcible entry. The cash was taken from two dif ferent locations in the sta tions, officers learned. A set of keys was also missing, ac cording to the proprietors of the station, who reported the incident about 7 am. Saturday. MEDFORD, OREGON, MONDAY, Hatfield Warns On Possibility Of Controversy Fight on Welfare Report Forecast Miami Beach - IUPP - Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller and other Republicans pushing for a vote on the civil rights issue were dealt a setback today by the National Gov ernors Conference which abolished its resolution com mittee. The Democratic - led move had the effect of avoiding on-the-record voting on the politically-intense issue. The showdown vole was 33-16 in favor of an amend ment offered by Democratic Gov. Grant Sawyer of Neva da. The result was reached on an almost party line basis. Hatfield Warns But Gov. Mark Hatfield, Oregon Republican, who had offered an alternative to force voting on civil rights with limited debate permis sible, warned that the gover nors still could get into con troversy In voting on com mittee reports. Hatfield forecast a fight over a committee report on public welfare, in which he and Gov. George Romncy of Michigan plan to file minority views. Rockefeller and other Re publicans fought to keep Hie door open for a vote On the issue but Sawyer came up with the plan to abolish the resolutions committee and thus head off another fiasco such as that last year when Southern governors staged a filibuster on the conference. Anti-Filibuster Provision Rockefeller and Hatfield wanted a rule to permit adop tion of resolutions on civil rights and other issues with a proposal containing an anli- filibuster provision. Sawyer proposed that the entire resolutions process be abolished to avoid another Southern Democratic fili buster. Bolh proposals were offered as a substitute for an execu tive committee proposal to abandon the present two thirds rule for resolutions and to return to the rule in force before 1956 to require a un animous vole. The unanimity rule would permit a single governor to veto any resolution. Debate Virtually Assured The showdown came this morning at the 55th annual conference's first business ses sion. In any event, acoaie on civil rights was virtually as sured. Even with removal of the resolutions process, plans were made for a civil rights panel discussion Tuesday. The civil rights issue was embroiled in presidential politics, with the names of Rockefeller and Sen. Barry Goldwatcr of Arizona, poten tial GOP rivals, dominating talk at the conference. Rockefeller, demanding that governors show their re sponsibility by going on rec ord on Issues, said in an open ing statement that the real threat to the governors' con ference "lies in reducing these meetings to impotence and unimportance." Three Arraigned On Indictments Three men indicted by the Jackson county grand jury were arraigned In Jackson county circuit court today. Dwanc Elmer Blank. 36, of 005 East Liberty St., Weiscr. Idaho, charged with burglary ' not in a dwelling, pleaded in- noccnt. Trial will be set on Aug. 14 Timothy Ralph Barker, 20, of Lcmoore, Calif., and Charles Merrill Wright, 19, Seattle, bolh charged with rape, were arraigned and their cases continued until Monday, July 29, at 8 30 a m. Tribune JULY 22, 1963 iiiis INSPECTS CAR TAG - Oregon's Gov. Mark Hatfield checks a gold car lag stamped with his slate and his name at lhe National Governors Fla. Republicans named Hatfield temporary chairman of the caucus. (UPI) Administration To Request Increase Of National Debt Washinglon-UlPIl - The Ken-1 ncdy administration soon will ask Congress to boost the leg al limit on the national debt to a new record high. Informants said the admin istration would -Insist that tliei debt limit must be set at, or I slightly less thnn, $315 bil-J lion to accommodate the red-J ink spending in prospect for the fiscal year ending next June 30. Treasury Secretary Douglas Dillion told Congress in Feb ruary the administration might need a debt ceiling of about $320 billion. However, lax revenues have Improved since then as a result of a pick up in business condi tions. To Intorrupt Work' The House Ways and Means Committee will interrupt work on President Kennedy's lax-reduction and - revision program to consider the debt limit request at public hear ings starting next Monday. A new debt ceiling must be established next month. The debt limit now is $309 billion. It is scheduled to drop to $285 billion on Sept. 1. Everyone agrees this cannot be permitted, since the actual debt will be considerably higher than that. The debt now stands at about $3U6 billion and is head ing higher. The debt is cer tain to rise in the months ahead as the Treasury bor rows money to pay the gov ernment's bills in this period of red-ink spending. Federal Court Opens in Medford The Medford term of lhe U.S. District court opened here today In the post office building with Federal Judge John F. Kilkenny presiding. Four attorneys were admit ted to nractice in federal court: John Patrick Cooney, Justin M. Smith, William P. j Brandness and William Wal- j lace. The jury trial of Capital Sky Park versus W. J. Kes tcrson will open in court al 9:30 a.m. Tuesday and is ex pected to continue through Wednesday. WEATHER FORECAST: rirlly cloudy to. night and Tiimrtiy. Law Innlcht A1-H2, hl(h lufuday 75-80. Temp. Htrh'tl YMlerdv R. Uwrtt Thi Morning 56 Our Skies Tonight Hiintet today R:I2 p.m. ftiinrlie tomorrow 5:51 a.m. Monnirt ton if hi 10:14 Otn Flrol iftiartrr July 28 j 1'HOMINkNT star ftrztihii, nt-ar thf Moon. VIKIIU.K .'. ASMS MaM. low In yri .. . 10:1? p m. Ml urn. rlira ... fo.inp.m. Jnpltr. low In taat . UUiffl. 58th Year Price 10 Cents No. 105 Conference at Miami Beach, The debt limit Is almost certain to provide another partisan struggle on the House floor. Earlier this year, ad ministration forces managed by a scant nine-vote margin to win passage over GOP op position of the temporary fjuu billion limit. In an attempt to lessen op position, Democratic slrale- i gists plan to schedule the new debt limit bill for House floor action ahead of the tax cut bill. The argument will be made that should lhe House refuse to set the debt limit high enough lo accommodate a tax cut, there will be no tax reduction. Witness Injured; Trial Postponed Trial of Jack Allen, 31, transient, for burglary not in a dwelling, scheduled lo open in Jackson counly circuit court today, was continued until Thursday by Circuit Judge Edward C. Kelly at the request of the slate. Dale Collins, witness for the stale, suffered an injury over the week end which made It impossible for him lo appear. the district attorney's office announced. For this reason the stale asked for a post ponement of the case. Mclvin Edwin Snodgrass, 25, who was arrested with Allen in Grants Pass four months ago, was returned to Medford from Baker over the week end to testify at the trial. He is being held in Jack son county jail on a criminal subpoena and will be returned to linker, where he wos ap- p r e hended on a similar charge, after he testifies in the Allen trial. CONSTRUCTION STARTS Bend - IUPII - Construction on Central Oregon college was scheduled to get under way near here todoy. Footprints Are Made in Effort to Identify Boy Footprints made in Wash ington, D. C, from the feet of the body of the small boy found in Kecne Creek reser voir July 11 have been re turned to officials here, Dis trict Attorney Alan Holmes reported this morning. The footprints will be made available to hospitals and if any prints taken by the hos pitals arc found to be at all comparable they will be for warded to the FBI laboratory in Washington, D. C Holmes said. The Jackson county sher iff's office described the prints as not too clear In de tail. Very lew telephone calls Congress To Be Asked To Refer Issue to Agency Legislation Would Expand Authority Washington - d'PD - Th While House said today Presi dent Kennedy would ask Con gress to refer the railroad rules dispute to the Intcrstata Commerce Commission for "prompt hearing and disposi Hon." Legislation to be submitted to Congress at noon PDT would bar any nationwide rail strike while the ICC con sidered the four-year-old work rules dispute. The White House announce ment said that provisions for job security would be con tained in any ICC order in the case. Senate Democratic Leader Mike Mansfield (Mont.) said the legislation would be a "single shot proposal" to giva the ICC broadly expanded au thority to settle the current dispute. "It is not compulsory arbi tration" and is by no mean "seizure" of the railroads, Mansfield told newsmen at the Capitol following a con ference between Kennedy and congressional leaders of both parties. Outlines Proposed Plan The White House announce ment of the President's legis lation proposal said: 'TTie President at 3 p.m. this afternoon will send to tha Congress legislation which will refer those railroad work rules issues which are still in dispute to the Interstate Com merce Commission for prompt hearing and disposition. Provisions for employee security would be contained in any Interstate Commerce Commission order of approv al. "Unlike complsory arbitra tion, this proposal would preserve- collective bargaining; and give precedence to Its so lutions." ' I The President previewed the plan with Democratic and Republican congress tonal leaders before sending it to Capitol Hill. He also briefed management and labor spokesmen In separate meet ings on his proposals. The provision or hearing" by the ICC and the reference to precedence for bargaining1 solutions Indicated the admin istration would use the time required for hearings to press for a voluntary agreement in he long dispute over what the railroads call unneces sary jobs - "fcathcrbedding." Sen. John O. Pastore (R- R.I.) told reporters he gut tho impression there would have lo be a moratorium, possibly two years, on the work rules dispute while the ICC con ducted hearings. The railroads would file with the commission applica tions on each proposed rules change, he explained, then the regulatory agency would conduct hearings and make a final determination. It could still go back lo collective bargaining after that, he said. Mansfield told reporters tha ICC was selected by the Presi dent as the basis for the legis lation because it would be "completely within its juris diction" to deal with railroad matters. But the law would be aimed at "a specific poten tial crisis," he emphasized. Porilander President Of Secretaries Group Denver - (UPI) - Mrs. Hazel A. Kellar of Portland, Ore., Saturday was elected interna tional president of the Nation al Secretaries Association. RANGE FIRE CONTROLLED Baker-lUPP-A 500-acre range fire northwest of Baker ha been controlled after a night long battle by state forestry crews and volunteers, tho Stale Forestry Department said today. have been received by local officers regarding the case, the district attorney reported. Three calls were received by the sheriff's office over tho week end and no new leads or clues pertaining to the case have been developed through those calls. Rumors that the child may have been a member of a transient family were d i s- counted by officials because of the quality of clothing In which the child was clad, Holmes said. The body was dressed in a red and while striped T-shirt, full length corduroy trousers and white walking shoes.