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MEDFORD, OREGON, TUESDAY, JULY 23, 1963
No. 106
FIRE AT THE GHOTTO Heavy smoke
damage and some lire damage were re
ported as the result of a fire at the Grotto
restaurant, 10 North Front St., last night.
The fire, reported at 7:32 p.m., broke out
in the kitchen when grease on a grill ignited.
The entire kitchen was damaged, Mcdford
firemen said, and smoke caused damage to
the restaurant itself. In addition, the fire
extended up a range vent, igniting the wall
and areas between false ceilings on the first
Hoffa
Charge
Nashville, Tenn.-IUPII-Argu-menls
were scheduled before
U.S. District Judge Frank
Gray Jr. today on the validity
of an indictment charging
Teamsters President James R.
Hoffa with jury tampering.
This was one of 12 issues
raised by the defense in pre
trial motions seeking dismis
sal of the indictment or a
change of venue. Four of the
issues were resolved in favor
of the government Monday
when Gray overruled one of
Hoffa's two dismissal motions.
Hoffa and ten others are
acoused of tampering with
the jury which tried the un
ion leader's $l-rnillion con
spiracy trial which ended in
a mistrial here last year. All
have pleaded innocent..
Other Issues
Among the other issues to
be resolved at the pre-trial
hearings are whether govern
ment representatives are guil
ty of illegal conduct in the
case, whether the defendants
should be granted separate
trials in another city and
whether the defense is en
titled to transcripts of grand
jury testimony.
Defense attorneys charged
Monday that U.S. Dist. Judge
William E. Miller, trial judge
in the conspiracy case, had
made prejudicial statements
about the defendants and that
special assistants to U.S. Atty.
Gen. Robert Kennedy had
come here from Washington
to do a "hatchet job" on
Hoffa.
Attorney Joe Binklcy of
Nashville charged that Miller
found defendant Ewing King,
president of Teamsters Local
327 here, guilty in statements
Residents Reminded
Of Burning Hours
Trash may be burned in the
city of Medford only during
the hours from daylight to
10 a.m., the Medford fire de
partment reminded residents
today.
Burning permits are requir
ed unless the burning is done
in a barrel with a screened
top or an incinerator.
Fire men yesterday extin
guished three fires that result
ed from burning after hours.
At 12:11 p.m. they went
to the rear of the Everett
Hardin residence at 402 Clark
st. where a 20 foot area of
dry grass burned.
At 3:54 p.m. they were
called to the S. R. Reese resi
dence at 321 West Jackson
St. and at 5:03 p.m. to the
M. D. Marken residence at
2740 Elliott avc.
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CRIPPLED TANKER TAKEN UNDER TOW
Portsmouth. Va.-ilPf-A sea-going tug took tha crippled
Norwegian tanker Honnor under low today and crept toward
tha Eait Coait under th watchful tyai of a Coait Guard
cutler. Tht 527-foot Honnor was damaged in a collision Sun
day with tha Amarlcan ship San Juan.
HORNE NAMED TO LOAN BANK BOARD
WihinglonlH-Prtidnt Kennedy Monday named John
E. Horna at a member of tha Federal Home Loan Bank
Board deipite tome congressional hopes that Home remain
head of tha Small Buiintst Administration (SBA).
COMMERCIAL FISHERIES AID APROVED
Wmhinaton-IH-The Senate Monday approved a 128.250,-
000 program to aid stales in
fisheries.
and second floors and portions of the attic.
Fire damage was held to a six foot square
area through to the attic. Firemen had to
remove a wall section in an upstairs office,
and there was smoke damage to the second
floor offices. Three pumper trucks and a lad
der, with a crew of 17 men, were used. They
returned to the station at 9:15 p.m., then
went back to the restaurant at 11:51 p.m.
to check some materials that were still
smouldering. (Knackstedt Photo)
Jury Tampering
Argued in Court
the judge made in declaring
a mistrial in the conspiracy
case last Dec. 23.
At that time. Miller said he
had received evidence that
"close labor union associates"
of Hoffa attempted to contact
and influence members of the
jury.
Attorney Z. T. Osborn said
that from Miller's statements
and actions, the judge intimat
ed that Hoffa was "circum-
Rail Management
Asked To Postpone
Work Rule Changes
Washington-dlPIl - Congres
sional leaders appealed indi
rectly to management today
to sidetrack the threat of a
nation-wide rail strike by de
laying work rule changes
while Congress considers
Talent Man Dies
From Injuries
Elmer Fred Peterson, 63, of
route 1, box 509, Talent, died
shortly before midnight Mon
day at Rogue Valley hospital
from injuries suffered in an
automobile - train collision
about 8 a.m.
Peterson was driving cast
on Main st., Talent, when the
car apparently stalled on the
Southern Pacific railroad
tracks and was hit by a 70
car freight train.
A passenger in the car
jumped before the impact.
The train's engineer, Basil
William Wilson, Eugene, said
the train was traveling about
35 miles an hour. Following
the collision the car was
pushed for about 53 feet.
Auto Manufacturer
Said Eyeing Coast
Portland - WPH - Republican
nnliiical candidate Jim Baca-
loff said today he has learned
that a major automobile
manufacturer is planning a
$50 million assembly plant on
the West Coast, but high prop
erty and inventory taxes may
keep it out of Oregon.
TOURNAMENT ENDS
Billings, Mont. - ll'PU - The
Western I n t e rmountain di
vision Contract Bridge Tour
nament wound up here Mon
day with nationally - known
bridge ace Oswald Jacoby and
his partner. Paul Levitt,
taking the championship in
open pairs competition.
tha development of commercial
.
stanlially responsible" for the
alleged jury tampering ef
forts.
The government has accus
ed King of offering to help
obtain a promotion in the
highway patrol for James
Paschal, husband of a woman
juror. It also contends that
bribes totaling at least $75,
000 were offered to influence
jurors and prospective jurors
to vote for Hoffa's acquittal.
President Kennedy s peace
keeping formula. ,
The Association of Ameri
can Railroads voted unani
mously this morning to sup
port Kennedy's plan to turn
the work rules dispute over
to the Interstate Commerce
Commission.
A spokesman said in re
sponse to questions, however,
that the action did not have
any bearing on management's
decision to put the work rule
changes into effect at mid
night Monday. The rail unions
have threatened a nationwide
strike if this occurs.
In their appeal, the congres
sional leaders indicated they
expected the carriers to post
pone imposition of the work
rules, which eventually would
cost 55,000 workers their jobs.
"I assume they will con
tinue the status quo while
Congress is acting." Speaker
John W. McCormack told
newsmen after a breakfast
meeting with Kennedy
Democratic House Leader
Carl Albert (Okla.) backed
McCormack's view. Both said
they were doubtful that Con
gress could pass legislation
to put the Kennedy plan into
effect before the work rules
deadline. However, they said
every effort would be made
to get a quick decision
The leaders shied away
from any forecast of when
the bill might be approved but
Senate Leader Mike Mans
field (D-Mont.) said "prospects
look favorable'' for passage
of the legislation to turn over
the dispute to the Interstate
Commerce Commission for
binding determination.
Kennedy Appoints
Automation Group
Washinglon-iM - President
Kennedy is appointing a com
mission on automation to
search for means of easing
the unemployment backwash
caused when machines re
place men.
The President announced
appointment of the commis
sion Monday as part of his
message to Congress asking
that the Internstatc Com
merce Commission step into a
prime example of the impact
automation can have the
railroad work rules dispute.
He said the commission
would outline the effects auto
mation is likely to have dur
ing the next 10 years and
recommend governmental ac
tion. The commission "should
undertake the most compre
hensive review of this com
plex and many-sided subject
ever ventured, is. e n n e a y
said.
He gave the commission un
til the end of next year to
icorrtlcte its study.
GOP Governors
Hope To Retain
Issue on Rights
Republicans Lose
First Round Test
Miami Beach -HOT- Repub
lican governors promised to
day to keep the civil rights
dispute before the annual con
ference of state executives
even though they were over
whelmed in the first test on
that issue.
Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller
of New York, leader of the
campaigns to get the gover
nors' conference to issue a
civil rights declaration, tried
to lay responsibility directly
on President Kennedy for
Monday's conference vote to
shelve the issue.
The vote came on adoption
of a rules change to junk the
resolutions committee and
abolish the entire resolutions
process which has caused in
creasing controversy in the
conference during the past
four years. The 33 to 16 vote
was almost a straight party
line count with a single defec
tor - Democratic Gov. Wil
liam A. Egan of Alaska sided
with the Republicans against
the new rule.
To Try New Tactics
Republican governors im
mediately began searching for
parliamentary tactics to force
one or more additional roll
calls on the civil rights issue.
Another party caucus was call
ed for the lunch break today.
The revised agenda for the
conference called for talk
without action on civil rights
this afternoon. This debating
session was programmed by
Gov. Albert D. Rosellini of
Washington, conference chair
man, in one of the Democratic
moves to defuse the civil
rights issue.
Rosellini and other Demo
crats argued that any civil
rights resolution adopted by
the conference would be
meaningless, might cause it
to flounder in a Southern
Democratic filibuster and
even break up the organiza
tion.
Morse Criticizes
Somali Aid Effort
Washington - IUPII -Sen.
Wayne Morse (D-Ore.) today
criticized a $7.5 million U.S.
aid program to build a port
in Somali which will provide
a shipping point for farm
crops "which do not now
exist."
Morse cited American for
eign aid to the semi-arid East
African republic as a "classic
example of the kind of foolish
ness we have engaged in over
the past years."
He noted that $7.5 million
has teen devoted to construc
tion of a port at Chisimaio on
the southern Somali coast.
"The reason for building this
port," Morse asserted, "is to
provide an outlet for exports
in the one moderately promis
ing agricultural area of the
country."
"However, the problem Is
not only that the crops do not
now exist - the land has not
even been rendered fertile as
yet."
Egypt Develops
First Submarine
Cairo-4IPll-Egypt, displaying
its military might on the 11th
anniversary of the coup that
put President Gamal Abdel
Nasser in power, today an
nounced it has built its first
submarine and will test it
within 15 days.
But Nasser's plans for ex
tending the United Arab Re
public appeared to be all but
finished for the present. He
charged in a speech Monday
night that Syria, which was
to have joined Egypt and
Iraq in the new U.A.R. by
September, "has been con
verted into a vast concentra
tion camp."
He said he would never
federate with Syria as long
as its Baathist party rulers
remain in power. He did not
mention Iraq, also ruled by
the Baathists.
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Musa Appoints
Hood River Man
To Welfare Post
Acting Governor
Makes Selection
Salem (UPI) Temporary
Gov. Ben Musa today named
Ralph W. Perry Sr., 65, a
semi-retired Hood River or
chardist, to the State Public
Welfare Commission.
It is the first time since
Gov. Mark Hatfield has been
in office that a substitute
governor has made an ap
pointment to a state board or
commission.
Musa, president of the Ore
gon Senate, has full powers
when Hatfield is out of state.
The senate president said
today he recalled that a tem
porary governor years ago
had appointed a circuit
judge. Sen. Walter J. Pearson
pardoned a murderer who
was serving time in the Ore
gon penitentiary when he
was temporary governor In
I960.
Hatfield Not Told
Hatfield, who is In Miami
attending the National Gov
ernor's Conference, was un
aware of today's appoint
ment.
Warne Nunn, Hatfield's
administrative assistant said
he "wouldn't recognize
Perry if he walked in the
door."
"I . think the governor will
be real happy with this ap
pointment," Musa said this
morning.
He explained the naming
of the new commissioner
wasn't aimed at embarrassing
Hatfield.
"I just wanted to add to
the stature of that commis
sion. I think I'll be compli
mented for doing a good
job," Musa declared.
Musa Recommended Perry
Musa said he had known
Perry for many years and he
had recommended Hatfield
appoint him after Roy Web
ster, also of Hood River, re
signed from the commission
last week.
Wcbtser and Perry are
neighbors in Hood River,
which is a part of the senate
district Musa represents.
Both men are orchardists.
Perry was a member of
the Hood River County Wel
fare Commission from 1936
until 1956, except for one
two-year interval.
Hatfield Remarks
On Musa's Action
Miami, Fla. -WH Oregon
Gov. Mark Hatfield confirmed
that the appointment of Ralph
W. Perry Sr. to the State Wel
fare Commission today was
made by Acting Gov. Ben
Musa without his knowledge.
"I will be interested in
learning what critical emer
gency existed which required
Sen. Musa to take such action
in violation of a gentleman's
agreement which he voluntar
ily made at the beginning of
his term," Hatfield said.
The governor indicated he
and Musa had an Informal
agreement that Musa would
make no major decisions
while Hatfield was out of the
state.
Railroad Promotes
Klamath Falls Man
St. Paul, Minn. IUPH
Thomas J. Lamphicr has been
appointed special assistant to
the vice president of Great
Northern Railway, it was an
nounced today.
Lamphicr is now superin
tendent of the Klamath Divi
sion of the railroad with head
quarters in Klamath Falls,
Ore. He also has been select
ed as a special representative
of the Association of Ameri
can Railroads to visit France
for a special study.
Laniphier will be succeeded
at Klamath Falls by D. D.
Hoag. now superintendent of
Seattle's King Street passcn
gcr. station.
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ECLIPSE RECORDED The eclipse of the
sun Saturday afternoon is recorded in this
picture of a tree casting its shadow oh a
Negroes Reach
Agreement on
Cambridge Strife
By United Press International
Negro- leaders from strife.
torn Cambridge, Md., pledged
todays to halt racial demon
stralions Indefinitely under a
five-point argeemont worked
out between city officials and
Atty. Gen. Robert F. Ken
nedy. Kennedy, In Washington,
announced settlement of the
sometimes violent integration
dispute in the Eastern Shore
city where National Guards
men had been sent several
times to impose martial law.
School Desegregation
The attorney general said
the agreement provides for de
segregation of the first
four grades of school by Sep
tember; a low-rent public
housing project for Negroes;
hiring of a Negro in tnc Cam
bridge office of Maryland s
Department of Job bccurlty;
appointments of a bi-racial
committee including four Ne
groes; and united opposition
to a referendum that could
change a charter amendment
providing for desegregation
of public facilities.
Demonstrators Arrested
In New York, police today
arrested 73 demonstrators at
two construction sites and
city officials sought ways to
satisfy Negro demands for a
larger share of building trade
jobs.
Hearings arc to open July
31 on charges of discrimina
tion by contractors for city
construction projects.
Police arrested 58 men and
women pickets on charges of
disorderly conduct and resist
ing arrest today when thsy
lay down in the path of con
struction vehicles at the
Downstate Medical Center In
Brooklyn.
Cottage Grove Man
Arrested in Idaho
Lewiston. Idaho -Wll- Jude
C. Kaus, 29, Cottage Grove,
Ore., was held in the county
jail in lieu of $10,000 bond
today while awaiting further
court action on charges of at
tempted armed robbery and
assault with a deadly weapon.
Kaus was foiled in a holdup
attempt at a nightclub near
Lewiston Sunday when a mu
sician, Max Durham. Wlllits,
Calif., tried to take Kaus' 22
caliber pistol from him. Dur
ham was shot in the chest
during the scuffle, but was re
ported in satisfactory condi
tion after the bullet was re
moved Monday night.
Kaus waived preliminary
hearing Monday when he was
- arraigned
here
in justice court
rock walkway. The eclipse Is seen In the
half-moon design created by the shadow of
leaves. (Knackstedt Photo)
55-Acre Blaze Near
Shady Cove Being
Mopped Up by State
A lire which burned 53
acres . of rugged brush land
about three miles southeast
of Shady Cove was being
mopped up this 'morning by
a state forestry department
crew of 17 men.
The fire apparently started
from an abandoned campfire,
forestry department officials
said. It burned up a draw
from a point near Indian
creek and was reported at
2:04 p.m. A 40 - man crew
brought it under, control last
night.
A few pine trees were de
stroyed by the blaze, but oth
erwise the acreage involved
was mostly in brush. Fire
fighters were hampered by
the rugged terrain of the
area, which made access dif
ficult.
Craw Is Dispatched
Meanwhile, the 25-man for
est service fire suppression
crew station at Star Ranger
station in the Applegatc val
ley left the Medford airport
Monday in a C46 aircraft to
aid in fighting a large fire
in the Wallowa-Whitman na
tional forest 14 miles north
cast of Baker in northeastern
Oregon.
This morning, United Press
International reported the fire
was under control and being
mopped up by 285 firefight
ers. The blaze covered 600
acres of timber and range-
land.
It was the second fire to
which the suppression crew
ha been dispatched. The first
was in Utah.
Two other large fires were
reported In the Baker area
and several smaller ones In
other parts of the state, under
scoring the increasing fire
danger in Oregon, especially
cast of the Cascades.
All Under Control
All the blazes were report
ed under control today and
mop-up operations were un
dcr way.
The Bureau of Land Man
agemcnt said a 1.500-acre fire
eight miles northeast of Baker
was controlled Monday after
noon. Much of the scorched
area was rangeland
North Yamhi Basin
Study Requested
McMinnville - UP!) - Farm
ers and businessmen In the
North Yamhill River Basin
have announced plans to sub
mit a formal request to the
Bureau of Reclamation for a
study of the basin.
FURTHER STUDY
Salem - HOT - The Capitol
Planning Commission decided
Monday to take another look
at the location of the new
staJc
c agricultural building
j ... i j - ...
acu.m in. uui.icu -i,my
acres.- m n . t I v . rnneeland.
southeast of the cily. .
State forestry officials also
reported six small fires .in
various parts of -the state.
Continued fair weather was
forecast for Eastern Oregon
today, but clouds and show
ers were expected In the west
ern part tonight and Wednes
day. Teen-Age Killers
Await Execution
Carson City, Nov. - 0IPD -
Two teen-age killers - Thomas
Lee Bean and Lester Morford
III, were scheduled to move
into cells on death row at the
stale prison today.
Bean, 18, heard the death
sentence read to him in
Washoe District Court Mon
day. He murdered and raped
tlractlve British ski star
Sonja McCaskie, 24, in Reno
April 5.
Morford, 18, an itinerant
ranch hand, was found guilty
of first degree murder by a
three-judge panel In Reno last
week and sentenced to die In
the gas chamber.
He shot and killed 23-ycar-
old Jack Foster of Medford,
Ore., near Reno last Aug. 22
after kidnaping his victim
and bride of two days from
their Reno motel room.
Thornton Rules on
Injured Teacher's Pay
Salem -IUPL- A school dis
trict can deduct the amount
an Injured teacher received
from the state Industrial acci
dent commission from his
sick leave pay, Atty. Gen.
Robert Y. Thornton said in
an opinion today.
Thornton said the action
could be done under the
school board's rule making
power.
The opinion was requested
by Supt. of Public Instruction
Leon P. Mincar.
Israeli, UAR Planes
Clash Over Desert
Cairo-iir!-IsraU and United Arab Republic lighter planet
clashed today oyer U.A.R, territory above tht Sinai Desert
and ont Israeli plant was shot down, a military spokesman
said.
In Jerusalem, an oflicial spokesman claimed it waa Is
raeli territory which was violated by two U.A.R. plants.
Tht spokesman said Israeli (Ighttrs chased tht U.A.R. planes
back across tht border, hitting ont In a britl dogfight, and
then returned safely to their basts.
Tht U.A.R. spokesman said lour Israeli planet Infiltrated
Egyptian ttrritory ovtr tht Sinai, which Is tht U.A.R. fron
tier provinct with Isratl and which lies tar to tht east of
Caijo. j
Negotiators
Tackle Other
Major Problems
Pact Expected To Be
Signed Wednesday
Moscow - IUPI) The United
States, Russia and Britain to
day ended historic talks that
diplomatic sources said seal
ed final agreement to end
East-West nuclear tests in
space, in the atmosphere and
underwater.
The major nuclear powers
were expected to initial tha
agreement Wednesday, just aa
t a s t European Communist
leaders convene for a summit
conference designed to close
Red ranks against Communist
China.
Other Discussions
The East-West talks that
diplomatic sources said might
prove to be one of the major
disarmament breakthrou g h 3
in the post war period ended
at 6.30 a.m. (pdt). The nego
tiators plunged immediately
into additional discussions on
other topics that could thaw
the cold' war.
Presidential trouble-shooter
W. Averell Harrlman, Brit
ain's i Science Minister Lord
Hailsham and Soviet Foreign
Minister Andrei Gromyko dis
missed their advisers and dis
cussed "other matters of mu
tual Interest."
Although Harrlman and
iiansnam came 10 jhoscow
,,(h. ,h..t , , mP,
I
out agreement on a nuclear
test ban,, the informal discus
sions which followed their
formal bargaining could lead
to talks settling additional is
sues.
Wants Risk Eliminated
President Kennedy was re
ported to have asked Ham-
man to sound out the Soviets
on Premier Nikita Khrush
chev's proposal that East and
West exchange observers who
would report from strategic
areas to cut the risk of sur
prise attack.
Gromyko also was expected
to sound out privately tha
views of the two key Western
Allies on Khrushchev's call
for talks that could lead to a
full treaty of non-aggression
between the Western Alliance
and the Communist Warsaw
Pact nations.
Diplomatic sources said the
possibility of a Berlin settle
ment also might be discussed,
perhaps pegged to another
Khrushchev proposal that Al
lied officials serve with Com
munist forces in East Germa
ny while Soviet officials serve
with Allied forces In West
Germany.
Major snag to the proposed
agreement on a non-aggression
pact between the North
Atlantic Treaty Organization
and the Warsaw Pact nations
was the Western fear that It
might mean recognition of
Communist East Germany.
Portland Housewife
To Seek Candidacy
Portland IPII Mrs. Ralph
Duncanson, 33, a Portland
housewife, announced Mon
day she will file for state
representative by petition.
GRANT APPROVED
Washington-JUrD-The Com
munity Facilities Administra
tion has approved an $85,000
grant to DuFur, Ore., for a
sanitary sewage collection fa-
cllity to cost $220,000, it has
I been announced.