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Newspaper Page Texthoot rui n K KOREANS LL ANOTHER AflflEMCAM Regional Edition Medford 16 Pages De Gaulle Seen Paving Way For Meeting With Kennedy No Effort Made To Hide Nation's Disagreements 'Reconciliation' Session Hinted Paris-OIPIl-President Charles de Gaulle is holding the door open for a possible "recon ciliation meeting" with Presi dent Kennedy in Washington early next year, French offici als said today. The officials interpreted De Gaulle's remarks at his first news conference in six months Monday as an indication he seeks talks with the United States to bring France's rela tions with Washington out of their long freeze. De Gaulle made no effort to conceal France's disagree ments with some aspects of U.S. policy. But the differ ences were far narrower than those that came out in his last press conference Jan. 14. At that time, he vetoed Brit ain's bid for Common Market membership and rejected Kennedy's offer of Polaris nuclear missiles. Monday, De Gaulle reject ed the nuclear test ban agree ment concluded by the United States, Britain and Russia, and said of Soviet Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev's plan for a non-aggression pact: "France does not appreciate assimilation of the Atlantic alliance and Communist slav ery." . '. ; ; But he went out of his way to emphasize that, despite ob vious disagreements, relations between the United States and France are based on "friend ship and alliance." Officials here interpreted this as a broad hint that he feels the time has come for talks with Kennedy, with the groundwork starting through diplomatic channels and working up to a possible visit to Washington. European reaction to De Gaulle's statements followed predictable lines. Moscow Ra dio Monday night denounced his rejection of the test ban treaty as "absurd and fool ish." Pravda said today that De Gaulle "more than once had recourse to slander the Soviet Union" in his remarks. British Foreign Secre t a r y Lord Home said Monday night that De Gaulle did no more than had been expected of him in turning down the nu clear agreement. "We have always recogniz ed ourselves this agreement would present a particular problem for France," he said, because of its "betwixt and between" position in the nu clear arms race. Communist Attacks Seen Part of Plan Washington 4UPD The State Department said today new Communist attacks across the truce line into South Korea may be part of a broad Red Chinese campaign to increase tension in troubled Asia. PROGRAM ATTACKED Washington - WPIl - Labor Undersecretary John S. Hen ning today attacked the Mexi can Bracero farm labor pro gram as a "betrayal" of U.S. workers. HEWSBRIEFS rtuu won Oy around thi oiom HUTS DESTROYED BY EARTHQUAKE Thran-IPIL-An tarlhquakt destroyed 350 mud hutt in the remote southwestern village of Gagum Monday, killing five ptrioni and injuring eight, it was announced today. duii iv Tavrs SOVIET CITIZENSHIP Moicow-! Pl-H. R. R. Philby, the "third man in Britain Burgeis-MacLean spy cae a decade ago. hat been granted Soviet cilisemhip and political asylum in Ruitia, the govern ment newspaper Iivestia announced today. DISARMAMENT NEGOTIATORS CONVENE Genevi-lPI-Deltgli to the 17-nation disarmament con ference gathered lodey. after a six-week receis, in an atmos phere of optimism generated by the East-Weit agreement on partial nuclear test ban. DEBT CEILING LID WINS APPROVAL Weshington-IPI'-The House Ways and Means Committee overrode lolid Republican opposition today and approved bill to keep the legal ceiling on tht national debt at $309 IpUion through Nov. 30. j MEDFORD, OREGON, TUESDAY, JULY 30, 1963 POLICE TAKE OVER Mrs. Sheila Brown is carried from the city hall in New York to a waning police van after she, her husband, Robert, and Joseph J. Jackson were arrested for refusing to move. The action was taken after pickets sat arm-in-arm for two hours in front of an iron gate leading to Mayor Robert Wagner's office. The mayor was out of town. (UPI) Civic Center Idea Endorsed by Local Improvement Group The Medford Capital Im- nrnviMnents committee unani mously endorsed the civic center concept at a meeting this morninc. and urged May or James Dunlevy to "imple ment it witn an possioie speed. The motion was made by L. E. McEachron after several committee members reported on their Impressions of the Eugene civic ' center, which they visited a week ago. Walter Higgins, planning commission member, said he had been "tremendously im pressed" with the civic cen ter, and he thought the peo ple of Eugene had done an "excellent job." However, he expressed con cern over comments he had Fire Fighting Crew Dispatched to Utah The inter-rcgional forest fire suppression crew station ed at Star ranger station left about 1 o'clock this morning from the Medford airport to assist in fighting a fire near Richfield, Utah. The suppression crew sta tioned at Redmond also was sent to the fire, which is in Fish Lake National forest near Richfield. It is the second time the Star ranger crew has . been sent to Fish Lake National forest, and the third time the crew has been dispatched to a fire this season. Tribune heard in Eugene about the necessity of providing ample off-street parking facilities to serve such a grouping of pub lic buildings. Has Head Start Gerald Latham, business manager of the Mail Tribune, told the group he feels Med ford "has a head start" to ward a civic center since a number of public buildings are already located, or slated for construction, in the area contemplated for the develop ment. Tentative plans call for the Medford civic center to be located in an area adjacent to the Jackson county court house. A federal post office building is scheduled to be constructed about a block away from the courthouse. City Councilman Jack Ed- son, an architect, said he felt the Eugene civic center was an excellent example of "re building the heart of a city. He placed particular stress on the esthetic value of the Eu gene development, but point ed out that land, values have "sky rocketed around the center" since its creation. Hat Been Impressed Committee Chairman Rich ard Travis said that he had been impressed with the "functional aspects" of the center. He said that within a two-block area, a Eugene res ident could conduct all his government business "con veniently and easily." City Manager Robert Duff cited the close cooperation between the Eugene city ad ministration and the Lane rnnntv commissioners in clan ning and developing the civic center. He said similar coop eration would need to be tos tcred here before such a proj ect would be possible. The committee will meet again next Tuesday morning at which time Duff will pre sent a compilation of fore casts from various depart ments in city hall on their immediate and long range capital improvements needs. Disease Threatens Quake-Wracked City Skopje, Yugoslavia - WTO -Disaster relief poured into devastated Skopje from all over the world today but the once-bustling city was gripped by the fear of a new threat -disease. Rescue workers searched with growing urgency in the rubble left by one of the worst earthquakes in the country hisjry. 58th Year Price 10 Cents No. 112 Russia Oilers To Air Several Cold War Issues Non-Aggression -Pact Comes First Geneva - IUPI) - The Soviet Union today offered to negoti ate a wide range of cold war issues with the West but im plied that a non aggression pact between NATO and War saw bloc nations will have to be concluded first. Soviet disarmament negoti ator Semyon K. Tsarapkin, opening a new round in the 17 -nation disarmament con ference after a six-week re cess, said, "The Soviet Union places great importance on the issue of a non - aggression pact. It places the issue impera tively at the forefront of dis cussions," he said. Tsarapkin said there is "no reason why this solemn pact of peace" should not be easily concluded in the "present favor able atmosphere." He then went on to list other is sues which could be dis cussed. Earlier the United States pledged to carry forward the "momentum" achieved in re cent East - West agreements and to seek further under standings. American disarmament ne gotiator Charles C. Stelle said the three-power limited test ban agreement means "a shaft of light has cut into the dark ness. "The sun has not yet risen, but the shaft of light is there," he said. "It is not as wide as might be wished, but it is as bright as mans hopes will make it." Association Sign Erection Scheduled The Talent-Phoenix Busi nessmen's association sign urging northbound motorists to stay on Highway 99 through Talent and Phoenix instead of taking the new freeway section which opened last week is scheduled to be erected by about Aug. 9. Norman Wade, president of the association, said the sign will be placed on a billboard between the north city limits of Ashland and Valley View rd., where the new freeway section begins. Cost of renting the bill board space is being financed through the sale of member ships in the association. Businessmen in Talent and Phoenix yesterday reported that traffic was still moder ately heavy on Highway 99 over the week end despite the opening of the new free way section from Barnelt rd. to Valley View rd. Demurrer Filed in GP Murder Case Grants Pass Attorneys for two Josephine county mn charged with first degree mur der yesterday filed a demur rer to the grand jury's Indict ment of the men, Gerald Oden, 25, of Wolf Creek, and Norman Thomas, 22, of Grants Pass. Arguments on the motion, filed jointly by attorneys Rob ert Boyer of Medford and Charles Telfor of Grants Pass, will be heard Aug. 6 in Jose phine county circuit court. Oden and Thomas are charged in connection with the death of Lloyd Harper, 48, of Grants Pass July 12. Rail Settlement Plan Said Nationalization Washington (UPD A Dem ocratic congressman charged today that President Kenne dy's plan for settling the rails dispute eventually would mean nationalization of the nation's railroads. "To me, this is only the start," said Rep. Harley Stag gers of West Virginia, a mem ber of the House Commerce Committee. The group is con sidering Kennedy's plan to let the Interstate Commerce Com mission settle the thorny work rules issue which if the core of the dispute. i FLAMING WRECK This truck was loaded with lumber when it went over a 40-foot bank approximately a half mile south of the Siskiyou summit early this morning, according to state police. The driver, Charles Miench, Eu Apparent Burglar Arrested by Police In Local Pharmacy An apparent burglar was arrested by Medford police after he was discovered hid ing in a ventilator at Wain scotl's Pharmacy, 322 East Main St., about 2:30 o'clock this morning. The man, Bruce Dennis Far row, 26, whose address was listed as a downtown hotel, was lodged in Jackson county jail on a charge of burglary not in a dwelling. Incidents leading to Far row's arrest began when Of ficer S. R. Reese, on routine security check of downtown businesses, found the rear door of the pharmacy unlock ed. Reese radioed for help, and when Officer Joseph Roop ar rived, the two entered the building. Inside, they saw a pair of feet disappearing up a ventilator shaft leading to the roof. Roop radioed for assistance and Reese climbed to the roof, where Farrow was taken into custody without a struggle. Upon examination of the pharmacy, officers found a stack of miscellaneous items by the rear door. Several watches and cigarette lighters were found on Farrow's per son, according to Lt. Jack Sanders, Medford city police. Units from Central Point, Talent, Phoenix, Jackson county sheriff's office and Oregon state police cooper ated in the arrest. Oregon Crews Help Fight Idaho Fire By United Press International More than 500 firefighters, including some crews moved in from Oregon, continued '.o day to battle a range fire thai has blackened about 22,000 acres north of Weiser. Idaho. The Bureau of Land Man agement said a cool night helped men on the firelines but the blaze was still out of control. "If they don't get all the hot spots before the heal of the day starts, then we'll h.ive trouble again," a dispatcher said. Winds of 10 to 15 miles per hour were forecast (.", the (ire area todoy. Planes with rfce meal fire relardents were tried Mon day but had to be removed. They did not do much (,0'id. the dispatcher said, because it was just too hot. AOI To Oppose Tax Referendum Salcm-'UPIt-Associatcd Ore gon Industries announced to day it would oppose passage today of the tax referendum if it gels on the ballot n October. The Oregon Supreme Court heard arguments on the bjllot title for the lax referendum this afternoon. Us decision on the title will clear the way for opponents of the 1963 legislature's tax bill, designed to raise an ad ditional S60 million, to circu late petitions to try to put it before the people for vjIc. The ballot title prepared by Atty. Gen. Robert Y. Thorn ton has been challenged by a Lane county group on the grounds It doesn't adoqjalcly explain the bill's effects. ... UJ Enrollment Rise in State Colleges Is Discussed at Event Ashland-A 6 per cent in crease in enrollment through out the Oregon state system of higher education and a 17.8 increase for Southern Oregon college was predicted Mon day in an enrollment projec tion for the approaching aca demic year agreed upon at the inter - institutional executive meeting held in the Commons building in Ashland. Dr. Roy E. Llcuallen, chan cellor of the stale system of higher education, presided at the all day session. Much time was devoted to the discussion of master plan ning, stressing the necessity for coordination of plans throughout the system and within each institution in the system.' SOC was praised for the long-term plan of expan sion developed at the Ashland institution. Bonds Are Discussed A possible tax referral and bonding program to provide for construction beyond the provisions of the legislature was discussed. Considered in the discus sion were buildings which would not be self liquidating, but it was suggested that the same machinery used for getting Bonding Measure No. 6, which was for self liquidat ing buildings before the peo ple, would probably be avail able. The committee was es tablished as "Colleges for Oregon's Future." Plans for the annual meet ing of the stale board of high er education and the slate board of education were dis cussed. The meeting will be held in September in Salem. Many routine business mat ters were brought before the session, including administra tive code provisions regard ing patent policies, treatment of funds for dormitory coun selling in future budgets, treatment of new personnel requests, release of staff mem bers, purchases and traffic and parking regulations for institutions. Provisions for over head contracts with other stale agencies, which specify that 10 per cent of the contract would revert to a general con tingency fund, were discussed by the group. This would mean, for instance, that if the slate system of higher educa tion had a contract with the state board of health, 10 per cent would revert to the con tingency fund. Attend Meeting Attending the meeting were Dr. Licuallen and Vice Chan cellor Miles Romncy, Presi dent James H. Jensen of Ore gon State university; Presi dent Arthur S. Flemmlng of the University of Oregon; Richard L. Collins, secretary of the board; W. L, McLaugh lin, acting business manager of Emerald hall; Dr. W. D. Purvine, director, Oregon WEATHER FORECAST: Vulr lhrouh Wednesday exrept noitlbly omr morninc elotidlnrM. Low tonlfht I. hih Wednesday IIV Temp- Mlfheit Yeitrrtfar 7 Lowest Thil Morning 44 Our Skies Tonight Hun. el today ..... 8 39 p.m. ftiinrl tomorrow . ;0J a m, Moonaet tomorrow 1:SY a.m. FlII Moon ... ,u$. S AnUret. brlRhteal tar of ftrorpfo, appears below the Monn tonight. VIHIIll.fc PLANETS aturn. rtM :St p.m. Mart, low In wctt . .ft J2 p.m. Jupiter, rltei . tl.it p.m. trjA izn gene, was believed at first truck, but was found safe in registered to Jack Brownlce, Technical Institute; Dr. Har old Noyes, dean, University of Oregon dental school; Eu gene Bauer, business manager of the dental school; Dr. Fred B. Bennett, president of East ern Oregon college; Dr. Leon ard W. Rice, president, Ore gon College of Education; Dr. Francis L. Nickerson, assist ant to the chancellor in cur riculum; Donald R. Larson, assistant to the chancellor in public affairs; Dr. Dean M Popovitch, dean of adminis tration at Oregon State uni versity; John Watson, assist ant comptroller, Oregon Slate university; Dr, James W. Sher burne, vice chancellor of con tinuing education, Attending from - Southern Oregon college were Dr. Elmo N. Stevenson, president; Dr. E. C. McGill, assistant to the president, and Donald E. Lew is, business manager. Central Point Girl Killed in Mishap Grants Pass - Marianne Hedgpeth, 15, of Central Point was killed and three other persons injured when a car driven by Gerald Wayne Hold- 22, of Maywood, Calif., went off Interstate S north of here last night and burst into flames. Miss Hedgpeth, daughter cf Mr. and Mrs. Gene Hedgpeth, Central Point, was dead on ar rival at Josephine General hospital. Another Central Point girl, Amy Chcrlyn Ca- vin, IS, was among the in jured. Also hurt were the driver, Holder, and his broth er, Royce, 19, of Grants Pass. All three were reported In fair condition today at Jose phine General hospital. The accident occurred at the Merlin exit of the freeway. Stale police said Holder drove at speeds up to 120 miles in an effort to elude a pursuing officer who was attempting to cite him for violation of basic rule. Holder tried to drive off at the Merlin exit but failed to negotiate the turnoff. Police said he will be charged with reckless driving and possibly other charges. He is under guard at the hospital. Motel Units Are Damaged by Fire Grants Pass-Eight units at the 10-unit Town and Coun try motel, on the Rogue River highway about a mile east of here, were damaged by an explosion and fire Monday attcrnoon. The explosion, Inside one of the units, blew the ceiling into the attic and demolished a wall. When firemen from the Grants Pass rural depart ment arrived shortly after 2:15 p.m., the roof over eight of the units was on fire. Cause of the explosion la being in vestigated. It took 15 minutes to con tain the fire and another five minutes to control It. The flames were aided by a 15 mile per hour wind. Two units were a total loss. Six others were damaged ex tensively. Owners Claus and Annomarie E g g e r i, who bought the motel two months o, plan to rebuild. vj . . . j: ...... to have been trapped In the Medford later. The truck was Eugene. Hatfield Renews Appeal for End Of Lumber Strike Salem-OIPD-Citlng forest fire dangers, Gov. Mark Hatfield made a new appeal Monday for settlement of the linger ing lumber labor dispute. At the meeting of the State Natural Resources Commit tee, the governor called for labor and management to get together to end the spreading lumber labor industry shut down. Hatfield said the strike- lockout could have a disas trous effect on the state's largest natural rcsource-tinY bcr. He explained thai the man power needed to fighl forest fires is now dispersed and il would be difficult to get to gelher. if a -blaze -broke out Logging and mill crews form a substantial part of the state's defense against forest fires. , More Closures Seen "It would lake Just two or three days for Ihe weather to dry out the forests and if a fire broke out they would become a veritable Inferno," Hatfield declared. 1 State Forester D w I g h t Phipps predicted there would be more forest closures than ever this year as a result of the big Columbus Day blow- down, which has not yet been cleaned up. Phipps declared the forest closures, which allow only persons with permits to en ter, will be "enforced more stringently than ever." He said conditions are now ncaring a critical point and may remain there until Oct. I. There have been 264 f irirs in stale-protected forest Ihis year, with 173 listed ns nimi caused and 91 started by lightning. A total of 1.200 acres has been burned. The biggest single loss was abuMt 700 acres of grass and bruit near Baker. EARNINGS INCREASE Tacoma - IUPU - Weyerhaeus er Co. earnings during the first six months of this year totaled $19,095,000, an In crease of 2 per cent over earn ings for the first half of 1962, company officials said today. Bulletin Lake Oswego-tPI-Thre men Intimidated employees ot the Benjamin Franklin Savings and Loin office here today and escaped with SS.300. Portlander Recruiting Demlng, N.M.-iUPIi-Marlon Kenneth Wilson, 58, of Port land, Ore., was held in lieu of $1,000 bond today on fed eral charges of enticing aliens to enter the United States Il legally. An official of the Immigra tion and Naturalization Serv ice said Wilson and another man being sought in Oregon attempted to recruit Mexican workers and fly them to Ore gon to pick cherries. B. Warren O'Neal, assistant district director of the federal agency, said immigration agents reported that about 90 Mexican workers were re cruited In the area of Palo mas, Mexico, last week. They Hour-Long Clash Below Dividing Line Reported Communists Make 1 Deepest Penetration Seoul (UPD North Korean soldiers today killed their third American in two days in a sharp, hour-long clash six miles below the demili tarized zone dividing South Korea from Communist ter ritory. Two Communists and a South Korean also were) killed. It was the deepest known penetration that North Ko rean soldiers have ever made) into the U. S.-guarded sector1 of South Korea in the 10 years of uneasy truce. A United Nations Command spokesman said the battla broke out about 9 a.m. just north of Munsan-Ni, and that in order to reach the spot cross the demilitarized zone, cross the dmilitarized zone, travel through heavily pa trolled areas and ford tha Imjin river. Civilian Supplies Tip Two North Koreans and a South Korean policeman wera killed in the gun-and-grenada exchange, after a South Ko rean civilian tipped off au thorities to the presence of the Communists, it was an nounced. The identity of the fatally wounded American was not disclosed immediately. At least one more North Korean, known to be armed with a sub - machine gun. escaped the clash. A UNC an nouncement said U.S. 1st Cav alry soldiers were sweeping the area in a hunt for him. The fight broke out a little more than 24 hours after an estimated seven North Kor eans ambushed three 1st Cav alry Division soldiers, killing two and wounding one. On Combat Alert Monday's incident resulted for a time in the first full com bat alert, of American forces in . Korea since the Cuban crisis last year. UNC authori ties said the "reinforced alert" lasted only a short time, but they emphasized that a "high degree" -of readiness was be ing maintained. The soldier wounded Mon day, Pfc. William L. Foster, 26, of Baltimore, Md sur vived an emergency operation and was reported in good con dition. . Election Petitions Planned in Zone Talent - About 50 residents from the South Talent and Wagner Creek areas last night made plans to petition for an election on interim zonin regulations now in effect in the two areas. Many of those present said they were not against zoning as such but felt that the pres ent regulations were "too drastic." Most agreed that an election would be desirable to determine whether a major ity of the residents want in terim zoning. The groups from the two areas, meeting at the old Wagner school, decided to pro ceed separately, with Mrs. Walter Emerson chairman of the South Talent group and Mrs. William Sommer chair man of the Wagner CreeK group. The South Talent group plans to proceed with circu lating petitions in the near fu ture, while members of tha Wagner Creek group indicat ed they felt further study was necessary first. Leaders of both groups plan to meet with county planning officials to discuss the matter. NAVY PLANE CRASHES Gander, Nlld. -flJPIK- A. U.S. Navy Super Constellation transport overshot the run way and crashed today as it came in for a landing at Gan der airport. Held for Mexicans were taken to Demlng to to "await a DC8 which would fly them to Oregon for tha cherry picking jobs." The Immigration officials said that after a two-day wait at Deming the Mexican work ers were told the plane was turned back because of wcalh er. When the immigration of ficials began their investiga tion, the 32 workers who had not drifted away were allow ed to return to Mexico. U.S. Attorney John Quinn said the Mexicans cams over the border on their own and met Wilson in Deming. He paid their hotel bills for tha two days they waited for tha plane to Oregon.