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E7 Regional Edition Medford 40Pages Five Sections Etefield Offers Services To Settle lumltaWJtoyt lliin' "em ii in ii m ' i ii im ttffrymm'.. COOPERATION DISCUSSED West Ger man Chancellor Konrad Adenauer gestures during a conversation, with U.S. Defense , Secretary Robert. S. McNamara, right, who arrived in Bonn Wednesday for talks aimed Meany Asks Rejection Of Kennedy's Rail Plan President George Meany told Congress today that if it is going to "compel" 'railroad employees to work it ought also to think about ending private ownership of the in dustry. . "It's a natural followup,'.' Meany told the House Com merce Committee. Meany said that if employ ees can be forced to accept certain working conditions be cause their industry has "par amount public interest" then the "next logical step is that these industries should not be the medium for private profit." Korea Truce Line Patrolled by UN Seoul, Korea - IUPII - Swel tering American and Korean soldiers of the United Nations Command patrolled gingerly sinnir Hip truce line today on guard against further infiltra tion from Communist North Korea. Three skirmishes between UN troops and Red infiltrators Monday and Tuesday killed four North Koreans, three Americans and one South Ko rean in what has been called the gravest series of incidents since the Korean War ended 10 years ago last Saturday. The new series was the worst concentration .of inci dents on record and it oc curred six miles south of the demilitarized zone, the deep est Red penetration into South Korean territory since the war ended. The UNC said there was more firing Wednesday, ap parently warning shots by UN troops toward suspicious per sons or objects. There were no casualties or property damage. tEJ8(Q)BRIEFS llB" " iIX J W0UNB m 0l0M NUMBER OF EMPLOYED SETS RECORD Wahingion-i(TI-Tht number of jobi held by Americans climbed close to 71 million in July to reach another all-time high, the Labor Department announced today. ARGENTINA'S PRESIDENT-ELECT CONFIRMED Buenos Aire-ari-Dr. Arturo Illia was Argentina's ac knowledged president-elect today, victor in a vote that may put the nation back on the road to liability. NUCLEAR EXPERIMENTS POSTPONED Washington - 1PI - An underground nuclear experiment planned for this year has been held up by difficulties in mak ing the "small H-bomb" which the test requires, it was dis closed today. BOARD OF EDUCATION SELLS 20NDS Portland-! PIThe State Board of Education today sold $9.5 million worth of bonds to pay for college construction projects to two eastern firms bidding as a joint venture. MEDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY, AUGUST 1, at closer cooperation between West German and U.S. military forces. McNamara said one topic to be discussed will be recent develop ments in the military manpower and fire power of both countries. (UPI) 1 The labor leader called on the committee to reject Presi dent Kennedy's plan for sel tlying the four-year-old rail road work rules dispute. The President wants the ; matter referred to the Interstate Commerce Commission. Meany noted that the ad ministration does not consider the proposal as a form of compulsory arbitration. - "I do not know if it is com pulsory arbitration," he said, "but I do know it is compul sory." Meany said Congress would be acting more in the public interest if it adopted a T'ian for settlement he of fered several days ago. Under the Meany plan, the rs.lroad unions and manage ment would be directed to con tinue collective bargaining un der the close scrutiny of a congressional watchdog com- Spacecraft Ends ' First Sun Orbit Pasadena, Calif. - tUPIl - The Marine 2 spacecraft, which made a spectacularly success ful fly-by exploration of he planet Venus, today com pleted its first orbit of the sun. Caltcch's J e t Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) said the spacecraft, launched almost a year ago on Aug. 27, traveled about 540 million miles to complete the first solar orbit. Mariner 2 swept into the endless orbit around the sun after flying to within 21,648 miles of the mysterious, :loua shrouded Venus to return in formation to the earth. Portland - iUPI - Testimony continued in U; S. District Court today from The Dalles fruit growers seeking to bar Harvey Aluminum Co. from emitting fluorides which al legedly damage their crops. Tribune mittee. Negotiation would con tinue until the committee de cided that no further prog ress was necessary. Asked by one committee member what would happen then, Meany replied: "It puts it back to Congress as it is now, and Congress would have to do something." Asked what Congress should do then, Meany an swered that he had no opin ion now, but he would when the time came. "I hope we don't get to that point," he added. Meany described his pro posal as "a last shot at col lective bargaining." J. E. Wolfe, chief negoti ator for the railroads, told the Senate Commerce com mittee Wednesday night that "positive, deep - seated and prevading" differences sepa rated the carriers and the five railroad unions involved. Wolfe dismissed the Meany plan and said it was "highly improbable" that the dispute could be settled if Congress does not approve President Kennedy's plan. Malheur GOP Asks Rocky Not To Run Vale - IUPII - The Malheur County Republican Central committee has passed a reso lution asking New York Gov. Nelson Rockefeller not to seek the Republican presiden tial nomination. The resolution said the committee felt it would "be in the best interests of the United States of America and of the Republican Party for Governor Rockefeller to de cide not to submit himself as a candidate." The committee then en dorsed Sen. Barry Goldwater (R-Ariz.) as its choice for the nomination. Georgia-Pacific Declares Dividend Portland - HIPP - Directors of Georgia - Pacific Corp. de clared the regular quarterly dividends and heard reports record earnings, sales and cash flow for the first six months of 1963 at a meeting Wednesday. The first six months of this year produced sales of $225, 025.000, earnings of $13,380. 000 and cash flow of $28,656, 000, directors were told. Khrushchev To Take Command of Talks Moscow - fl'PIt - Soviet Pre mier Nikita Khrushchev will attend Monday's signing of the partial nuclear test ban treaty and take personal com mand of high level talks with the United States and Britain, it was learned today. 58th Year Price 10 Centslnff....!. UMI 1963 No. 114 No Intervention Being Planned; No New Strikes Respite Expected To Be Temporary By United Press International Spread of the Northwest lumber strike halted, at least temporarily, today after Ore gon Gov. Mark Hatfield of fered the services of his of fice in helping to settle the dispute which has idled about 29,000 workers. It appeared the respite from new strikes would be brief, however. Harvey Nelson, Region 3 president of the Internation al Woodworkers of America, indicated more walkouts were planned against the 196-mem-ber Timber Operators Coun cil, but he declined to say when. "It might be tomorrow or it might not be until next week," he said. Nelson and executive secre tary Earl Hartley of the West ern Council of the Lumber and Sawmill Workers met with Gov. Hatfield for near ly two hours in Salem Wed nesday. No Intervention Planned Nelson said they simply discussed the issues involved. The governor's office indica ted he planned to meet with management leaders, but had no intention now pf interven ing directly in the dispute. Hatfield talked to some top industry officials Tuesday at Coos Bay when he attended a preview of a new Weyer haeuser Co. plant. Nelson and Hartley said to day they tiave no meetings scheduled with any firms, but were hopeful that sessions could be set up with Georgia Pacific Corp. That firm was struck two weeks ago. Nelson also said his union was "real close" to an agree ment with Scott Paper Co., which has continued to oper ate. Contract Expired The dispute over terms of a contract to replace one which expired June 1 has closed plants in Oregon, Wash ington, northern California and Montana. The latest strikes came Wednesday against Santiam Lumber Co. at Lebanon and Sweet Home and Menasha Plywood Corp. at North Bend. A strike also was scheduled against Rainier Manufactur ing Co. at Rainier, but its em ployees are on their summer vacation until Aug. 12. The LSW indicated pickets would be posted then. Outside the Douglas Fir belt, the IWA moved its ne gotiations with two producers from Lewiston to Albeni Falls, Idaho, today. Diamond Talks Today The IWA and Potlatch For ests, Inc., broke off talks in Lewiston Tuesday after each side rejected an offer from the other. Meetings were scheduled to day between the union and Diamond National Corp. More talks are planned Friday at Suocrior. Mont. IWA region al vice president Leonard Palmer said workers will stay on the job until the regional negotiating committee meets in Portland and decides on a course of action. Palmer said the meeting will not be held for at least a week. Potlatch Forests employs 2, 200 workers in northern Ida ho and Diamond National has 450 in northern Idaho and Montana. WEATHER FORECAST: Continued fair and mild throuth Friday. Low tonight 48. high Friday 90. Temp. Highest Yesterday M Lowest Thli Morning 45 Our Skies Toniqht Sunet today :33 p.m. Sunrit? tomorrow .... 0:03 a.m. Moonset tomorrow .. 3:20 a.m. Full Moon Aug. 3 This month, the planet. Sa turn, will fcr prominent In the southern sky. Tontfht It rlrs at 9:t9 p.m. and will he above the horizon the rest of the night. UlllUOi HIM Speed Evacuation 01 Wrecked City Rebuilding Planned On Another Site Skopje, Yugoslavia - ilIPD -Three new earthquakes struck devastated Skopje today, send ing its battered residents fleeing into the streets in panic once again but causing no further damage or injuries. However, Yugoslav rescue center officials who an nounced no new casualties said they would speed up the evacuation of the city, wreck ed by a 'catastrophic earth quake last Friday. They said there have been close to 200 tremors since Friday, but most of them h :c been minor. Officials also said workers dug out the bodies of three more victims Wednesday night, raising to 857 the total number of dead recovered. Estimates of what the final death toll will be ran between 1,500 and 2,000. But officials said they had "no further hope" of finding more survivors under Skop je's rubble. Officials indicated a com plete death toll may never be known. They said: "We feel it is impossible anybody who has not yet been found could survive." The boom from dynamite squads demolishing tottering buildings echoed in the back ground as Yugoslav authori ties voiced their grim obser vations. New Site Planned Mostly they went ahead with plans to rebuild Skopje on another site in an effort to avoid future disasters. But some survivors felt otherwise. Djordje Dimosvki, a baker whose family escaped injury but lost almost everything they owned, commented: "Even if I have to sweep streets and live in one room someplace else, 1 will never come back." He said he and his family currently were living in a tent set up in a park. He add ed: "I will do anything to es cape from here, I will take any job." Cattle Rustlers Sought by Police Hcppner -(UPB- State police and branding inspectors in a four-state area have been alerted to look for 17 cattle and an unknown number of calves believed rustled from a ranch near here. Morrow County Sheriff C. J. Bauan said the white-faced Hereford cows and calves were missing from the 4,000 acre Grincah Ranch 13 miles southwest of here when the herd was brought in for branding last week. The cows were valued at more than $5,000. The ranch is owned by Dr. John Guyss, a surgeon at Dammasch State hospital. He said it would have taken a cattle truck to get the ani mals out of the area. A u t h o r i ties in Oregon, Washington, Idaho and Mon tana have been alerted to search stockyards, where cat tle sold must be examined by a brand inspector. Naval Operations Chief Takes Over Washington WPD Adm. George W. Anderson Jr. haul ed down his flag as chief of naval operations today and relinquished command of the world's largest Navy to an old friend and fellow aviator, Adm. David L. McDonald. Anderson now will become U. S. ambassador to Portugal, entering a diplomatic world with which he is familiar from international military assign ments. McDonald, a soft - voiced Georgian with essentially the same hard ideas as Anderson on the Navy's future, became the nation's top-ranking sea officer in a colorful change of command ceremony at the Washington Navy Yard. University of Oregon Receives Ford Grant Eugene - (ITD - The Uni versity of Oregon today an nounced receipt of a S500.000 Ford Foundation grant for a three-year project to broaden its program in international studies. PILOTS TO MEET Eugene - H'Pli - The Oregon Pilots Association will hold its annual convention here Aug. 24-25. SURVIVORS LEAVE-Carrying their belongings, survivors threat of disease from rotting corpses of quake victims. The of the July 26 earthquake leave Skopje, Yugoslavia, as en- devastated city was shaken by three new earthquakes to ginccrs began dynamiting of buildings to keep down the day. (UPI) Floyd E. Dominy, Reclamation Head, To Speak Floyd E. Dominy, commis sioner of the bureau of recla mation, will deliver the ad dress at the dedication of tie Howard Prairie Recreation area Sunday, Aug. 11. the Jackson county parks and rec reation committee announced today. Dominy will come from Washington, D.C., including several other assignments in his western tour. Also participating In the program will be H. T. Nel son, Boise, Idaho, regional di rector of the bureau of recla mation; and Glenn L. Jack son, chairman of the Oregon state highway commission. Homer Moore, president of the Talent Irrigation district. will be present and the bureau of land management will be represented. Official Unveiling The official unveiling of the plaque will be by Com missioner Dominy, County Judge Earl M. Miller and Moore of the Talent Irriga tion district. Guests will be introduced by L. V. Espey, chairman of the Jackson County Parks and Recreation commission. Presentation of colors will be by the Naval Reserve Elec tronics division 13-5. Judge Miller will welcome guests to the dedication and the Rev. B. J. Holland will give the invocation. Crooked River Grass Fire Under Control By United Press International A fire in the Crooked River national grasslands area about four miles cast of Madras burned 160 acres Wednesday before being brought under control, the U.S. Forest Serv ice said today. It broke out about 11 a.m. and was controlled 3'j hours later, chief dispatcher Clar ence Edgington reported. The blaze was listed as man caused, but Edgington said an investigation was under way into its exact cause. The fire was one of 12 re ported in Oregon and Wash ington by the Forest Service Wednesday. Cottage Grove Man Given 10-Year Term Lewiston, Idaho -d'Pii- Jude Kaus, 29, Cottage Grove. Ore., was sentenced by District Judge John Cramer Wednes day to not more than 10 years in the Idaho State Peni tentiary. Kaus pleaded guilty last week to charges of assault with a deadly weapon and assault with intent to commit robbery after a musician was wounded in a holdup alt-nipt at the Chicken Roost nisht club here. DROWNS IN TUB Portland - H'PH - Jack Har old Brumilt, 21. Portland, drowned in his bathtub Wed nesday evening when he was overcome by an epileptic seiz ure, the Multnomah County Coroner's office said. Former Decides Hong Kong-(UPII-An Ameri can captured during the Ko rean War who chose to stay behind the Bamboo Curtain returned to the West from Communist China today and said another American may be coming out soon. Lowell D. .Skinner, 32, of Akron, Ohio, a former cor poral who has not seen the United States since 1950, stepped across the border into this - British crown colony shortly after noon. Lions Cause Stir As Cage Tips Over Albany - (UPII - A pair of circus lions, one of them said to- be the second largest in captivity, gave state police a headache Wednesday when their portable cage flipped over on Interstate 5 near the Halsey interchange. The cage, being towed by truck from Sacramento to Portland, tipped over when a trailer hitch came loose. Nei ther of the lions was injured, and their trailer was set back on its wheels by a tow truck from Albany. Driver of the truck was Ray Grant, 23. of Pasco, Wash., who apparently 'vasn't taking any chances witn the animals. "Are cither of them hurt?" newsmen asked. "No, but they will be if they get out," he said, point ing to a near-by rifle. Passing motorists, noting a warning sign leaning against the trailer, weren't taking any chances, either. None stopped at the scene. Death Car Driver Held for Robbery Grants Pass - ItlPB - Gerald Wayne Holder, 22, driver of a car involved in a fatal traf fic accident Monday, has been arrested on an armed robbery charge. The Maywood, Calif., man was being held for Lake coun ty authorities. Police said today they were still investigating the accident in which Marianne Hedgpeth, 15, of Central Point was kill ed. Police said they chased Holder's car, containing Miss Hedgpeth, at speeds up to 120 miles an hour before it crashed and burst into flame at the Merlin exit on Inter state Freeway 5. Holder; his brother, Roycc, 19, of Grants Pass, and Amy Cherlyn Cavin, 15, Central Point, were injured in the crash. . - ' Genera O'Donne Retires From Air force Honolulu - I'Pft - Gen. Em mett (Rosie) O'Donnell, who won the Distinguished Flying Cross before World War II was two days old and later led the first B29 raids on Japan, retired from the Air Force Wednesday. A Yank Soldier To Leave China "It's about lime to go back," he said. "My parents are getting pretty old." Skinner said that ' during his nine years in Communist China he kept in touch with other Americans among 21 who stayed behind at the end of the Korean fighting. One of them, Scott L. Rush of Marietta. Ohio, indicated he also might be leaving China soon, according to Skinner. He said Rush was employed as a lathe operator in Wuhan, a big steel center in the cen tral mainland. Besides Rush, seven others of the original 21 American prisoners of war are believed Apartheid Scored By Africans in UN United Nations, N. Y. -0IP1I- African members of the Unit ed Nations today pressed their attack on South Africa's seg regation policies before the UN Security Council follow ing a successful move against Portugal. The Africans seek "firm and . positive" action against the white government of South Africa for its "apar theid" program of keeping whites and Negroes separated and of denying Negroes any real part in the government. But counsels of moderation by the United States and Brit ain appeared to be having an effect. The Africans' opening speeches in the apartheid de bate Wednesday were surpris ingly mild in tone.. The action taken against Portugal for its colonial pol icies in Africa also was more moderate than the Africans had demanded. t TURNED TO TORCHES-Two men were turned into "human torches" at Memphis, Tenn., when a truck carrying 7,500 gallons of propane-butane exploded. A trucking company employee dressed in fireproof clothing climbed under the truck and scaled a leaking valve. (UPI) still living.in Red China. They are:. Clarence C. Adams of Mem phis, Tenn., Howard G. Ad ams of Corsicana, Tex., John R. Dunn of Baltimore, Md., James G. Veneris of Haw thorne Calif., Harold H. Webb, of Fort Pierce, Fla., William C. White of Plummcrsville, Ark., and Morris R. Wills ot Fort Ann, N. Y. The last previous American former prisoner of war to leave China was Richard G. Gordon of Providence, R. I., who arrived in Hong Kong in December, 19518. Skinner and the others alt were dishonorably discharged from the U.S. Army in 1954, and cannot be prosecuted un der military jurisdiction as turncoats. Hearings on Agenda For Council Tonight Public hearings are slated on seven zone change requests at a meeting at 7:30 o'clock tonight of the Medford city council. The zone change requests are , for property located on the west side of Franquette st., north of Earhart st.; on the south side of Barnctt rd. immediately cast of Bear creek; at 1925 Crestbrook rd.; at 1036-48 Crater Lake ave.; on the southeast corner of McAndrews rd. and Biddlo rd.; between old Biddle rd. and the realigned Biddle rd. at the Crater Lake inter change; and at 801, 851, 895 and 955 Biddle rd. Hearings also arc scheduled for paving projects on. 11th st. and Dakota ave. and for a water main installation on 10th st. I
