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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.
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