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fSJAffli BE mi UXJUXJ iu j AS . "" f Vjf ' ft j- ' , v GAS TANKS MOVED The California-Pacific Utilities company is clearing the area al Front and Second sts., for the installation of a regulator station for natural gas. This involves removal of six giant tanks which served the "gas-air" plant, built in 1935. The first three were taken out Tuesday. The tank in the photo has a capacity of 15,000 Coos Bay Man Killed by Police During Gun Fight Coos Bay - IUPP - Amos Gibson, 39, was shot and kill ed by police Tuesday after abducting his estranged wife and leading authorities on a bullet - punctuated chase in a hilly area south of here. His estranged wife, Kathy Gibson, was treated for shock at a hospital but was other wise uninjured. Gibson was killed in an exchange of shots with deputy sheriffs Dave Tankersley and Spencer Gas ton who located him after a search of nearly three hours. Authorities gave this ac count: Mrs. Gibson returned from a trip to Idaho and sought to visit her children. Gibson refused and, according to Mrs. Gibson, threatened to kill her. She fled his home and was walking in downtown Coos Bay with her mother when Gibson drove up in a car: Mrs. Gibson said he fired at her mother and then forc ed her into the car. They drove to his home. Tankers ley and Gaston arrived with a warrant for his arrest. The officers came upon the couple and ordered Gibson to drop his .30-.30 carbine. Shots were exchanged and Gibson fled up a hill into heavy underbrush, forcing his wife with him. The officers radioed for help. State and city police join ed deputies and for nearly three hours combed the hills. Shortly before 7 p.m. Tank ersley and Gaston came upon the couple. They said Gib son first fired al his wife, missing her as she ducked be hind a tree. Gibson then was killed in an cxhange of shots. Gibson, a farmer, lived in the Boise addition south of here. Christine Keeler Target of Barrage London-WPn-Women booed and shook their fists at play girl Christine Keeler, 21, to day as Scotland Yard com pleted a mammoth report which may explode fresh sen sations in the nation's sim mering sex scandal. The playgirl ran the gaunt let of the hostile barrage this afternoon when she left the downtown apartment where she is staying. She was ac companied by her friend, Paula Hamilton-Marshall, 22, who rents the apartment. Elegant in a green costume and with her face tense and pale. Miss Keeler accelerated her car through the crowd of jeering women. On the basis of a dossier being prepared by Scotland Yard, legal sources said that other key figures in the scan dal, perhaps even including Miss Keeler, may be charged with conspiring to pervert the course of justice. tWSOSBRIEFS IT MS FOM li jUV OUN0 THI MU FIREMEN'S UNION CALLS GENERAL CHAIRMEN Washinglon-a'fl-The firemen'i union today celled 156 of its general chairmen to a meeting here Tuetday in the hopei it will be ready with a propoial for settling the key issue in the railroad dispute. LARGEST CARLOAD OF LUMBER SHIPPED Tucumcari. N.M.-'VPI-What wa. said to ke the largest carload of lumber ever shipped by rail arrived Tuesday ia the Tucumcari yni of the Southern Peeific lailread. It tained 76.000 board feet and weighed le.T WESTERN AIR DEFENSES TESTED Hamilton AFB. Calif. -IPI-The United Steles lests its air defense in 10 Western steles lodey and Wednesday when Army. Navy ana Air rare Majority at Hearing Opposed to District For West Side Area A majority of those attend ing a public hearing on for mation of the West Side Wa ter district appeared opposed to it, according to opinion ex pressed this morning in the Jackson county courthouse auditorium. Approximately 150 people, either property owners living within the proposed district boundaries, or owners of prop erty there and living else where, attended. Those opposed to district formation stated: (1) that fu ture assessment for a water line serving their property ,. . , would be too expensive; (2) they already have adequate water; (3) much of the area is prime agricultural land, and should not be forced into subdivisions as would result from the water assessment; (4) many of the property owners within the proposed district boundaries had not been con tacted to sign petitions. Letter Are Read Two letters and two peti tions for exclusion were noted bv the county court which conducted this morning's hear ing. The county court has re ceived petitions signed by 128 legally registered voters of the area favoring the district formation, County Judge Earl M. Miller said. John Dellenback, attorney, said he had petitions signed by 148 people opposing the district formation. Edward Branchfield, Medford attor ney, represented Robert Hef fernan and his mother, Mrs. Heffernan, both of Ross lane, who are seeking exclusion. Ervin B. Hogan, Medford attorney, representing prop erty owners and residents fa voring the district, said dis cussion of assessments is too far ahead. The petitioners are merely favoring district formation so an engineering survey could be made to de termine what area could be economically served by a do mestic water line. Not AH Checked T. M. Gerow, district san itary engineer, and Orie Moore, county s a n itarian, said not all wells in the area had been checked for pollution; mainly the West wood subdivision which Del lenback pointed out is a small portion of the overall district proposed. C. O. Lovejoy, president of the Jackson county planning North Marion Team Wins Judging Award Portland-iUPP - The North Marion High School's Future Farmers of America live stock iudging team won first place in FFA livestock judg t the Multnomah County Fair, winning over 2fi otner Western Oregon FFA teams. " - gallons of butane gas. The third tank consti tutes a real problem, according to Murray S. Gardiner, district manager. It holds 27,000 gallons. M. C. Liningcr and Sons are using a 30-ton Lorain crane to do the job. The tanks are being hauled to the Naumes Equip ment company, where they will be used for storage of heating oil. commission, and Old Military rd. property owner, said pure water will soon be a prob lem for the whole West Side area in a few years and later for the entire valley floor. County planning commission studies have revealed the rap idly increasing population will bring about the problem. County Judge Miller said the county court would put the district formation before the voters in an election if and when it determines the "'3, T . Vh j beneficial to the county and a majority of the affected property owners 17 New Oregon Projects Reported Salem HIPP Seventeen new Oregon industrial projects representing an investment of $10.5 million were an nounced or completed during June and July, Gov.' Mark Hatfield said today. Seven of the plants are ex pansions of present Oregon industries. Include! in (he total are three new plywood plants, a hardboard plant and expan sion of a particle board plant. Hatfield also noted that three other developments in the state during the two months have "potential for great impact on the state's economy." These are the Boeing com pany's lease of the Boardman tract; Bunker Hill Company's application for lease of iron bearing sand near the mouth of the Columbia river and H e y d e n-Newport chemical company's research project on the extraction of chemi cals from pine stumps. First Tax Referral Petitions Go Out Salem -IUPII- First petitions seeking referral of the income tax bill passed by the recent legislature are now in circu lation, Albany Publisher Fran cyl Howard said today. He reported the first peti tion with 20 names had been completed and that the Linn county clerk had found 18 of them valid. Howard's organ i z a t i o n which is spearheading the re ferral movement, must get; 23.185 valid signatures m the. secretary of state's office by I Sept. 1 if the measure is to , be put up for statewide vote Oct- 15. I The bill which revises the I state income tax law to raise an additional $60 million will become law Sept. 1 unless the fish pond appeared illegal un necessary referral p e t i t i o n dcr a 1937 state law. signatures are obtained. Request for Lower f...JTB o-rc;JW -f""iw . . Jacksonville-This city s re - quest for a 15-mile-per-hour Van Hoomissen said he be truck speed limit will be con- lieved the games were being sidered by the state highway commission Sept. 5, the Jack sonville city council-was no tified last night. The council had requested the lower speed for trucks in order to reduce the hazard posed by trucks traveling on Highway 238 through the city. CIEV BHPATCHED The Star Ranger station i Inter-Rcgional fire suppression crew left by plane at 5:30 o'clock this morning to sev- ... I well. Idaho, area. Rogue Valley Edition MEDF0RD 28 Pages Two Haiti Demands OAS Take Action On Aggression Serious Turn in Developments Seen Port au Prince, Haiti - HOT - Haiti today protested a sec ond time against Dominican aggression in a note to the Organization of American States and demanded that body take immediate action to hall it. The new Haitian protest coincided with the dispatch of three planeloads of troop reinforcements from Port au Prince to Cap Hailicn in the' officially labelled northeast "war zone." The troops carried light and heavy machineguns and other combat equipment. They trav eled in Haitian army troop carriers. Serious Turn Hinted The new Haitian protest to the OAS hinted at a possible serious turn in military de velopments in the northeast. The original Haitian protest, taken up by the OAS Tues day, did not ask that body to take any action. There was no indication how many troops were air lifted to the front today but it was speculated that any where from 35 to 50 were aboard each plane. Rumors circulated in Port au Prince of a new exile land ing al Grande Saline, on Hai ti's west coast, but this was believed to stem from exile claims to that effect made in New York Tuesday. In Santo Domingo, exile spokesmen claimed their in vasion troops were pushing a two-pronged drive into the Haitian northeast, picking up support along the way from army deserters and the peas antry. - Paul Vernas, general coor dinator of the Haitian Nation al Democratic Union backing the invasion, said the rebels "have cut off the northern department" of Haiti from the rest of the country in their drive to topple the au tocratic regime of President Francois Duvalier. Trial Dates Set For Two GP Men Grants Pass - Trial dates for two Josephine county men charged with first degree murder were set Tuesday by Circuit Judge James M. Main of Medford, presiding tempor arily in Josephine circuit court. Judge Main sel the dates after overruling a demurrer against the grand jury indict ment of the two men. Gerald Richard Oden, 25, of Wolf Creek, represented by Robert A. Boyer of Medford, will be tried Sept. 5. Norman Stewart Thomas, 22, of Grants Pass, represent ed by Charles A. Telfer, Grants Pass attorney, will go on trial Sept. 17. They are charged in con nection with the death of Lloyd Harper July 12. Jantzen Beach Concession Closed Portlands An amuse. mpnt conccssjon at jantzcn Bcacn park nore was order,,,) coscn bv ,he Mutnornah rountv shcriffs office Tucs. day. No arresls were made. inutiis advised manaoer j jcrry Mackce of Vancouver, Wash., that a 25-cent-a-chance Dist. Atty. George Van Hoomissen Monday night clos ed down seven amusement concessions at tne Muunoman county air at oresnam un- i dcr the law. operated as games of chance. WEATHER FORECAST: Continued fair and hot through Thursday. F.x prrtrd low tonight 55, hUh tor Thurkday 93. Temp. Highest Yesterday 93 Lowest This Morning 51 Our Skies Tonight Sunset today K:M p.m. sunrise tomorrow 1:10 a.m. Monnrlse tonight ...10:11 p.m. I. ail Quarter ... Aug. 11 PROMINENT STAR Vega, high overhead 10:1(1 p.m. VISIBLE PLANETS Mars, low In west . 1:1! j.m. Saturn, In south- Q east 0.10:12 p m. 4upiter. high In south 5:?0 a.m. Sections BUILDING STARTS Installation of six temporary class luOiu.t at Mcdf'jid Hih suhuui siuricd recently. Here dis trict workmen are preparing concrete blocks which will Zuckert Reveals Contacts Made on Airplane Contract Washington -llini- Air Force Secretary Eugene M. Zuckert disclosed in testimony made public today that 11 members of Congress contacted him about the TFX fighter plane program before the huge pro gram was awarded last Feb. 24. Zuckert supplied the list of names at the request of the Senate permanent investiga tions subcommittee. Sen. Henry M. Jackson (D-Wash.), a member of the subcommit tee, was one of those on the list. In providing his personal office log of visits and tele phone calls marie between Jan. 17 and October of last year, Zuckert also listed con tacts made by officials of the contractors then engaged in fierce competition for the multi-billion dollar award. These included four visits by officials of General Dy namics Corp., two by Gruman Aircraft Co. and three by Boe ing Co. officers. The subcommittee, which has raised conflict of inter est issues several times in its five - month - old investiga tion, is inquiring into why the award went to General Dy namics, instead of Boeing Co. Eventual cost of the con tract for a changeable wing supersonic fighter - one of the largest awards in military procurement history - is ex pected to exceed $7 billion. The log showed that mem bers of Congress from Wash ington slate, home of losing bidder Boeing, and delega tions from Kansas, where Boe ing has a large Wichita plant, made several contacts. A member from Texas, location of Dynamics' Ft. Worth plant, also showed up on the list, RuskPTedictT Support for Treaty Moscow - IUPII - Secretary of State Dean Rusk predicted to- day the nuclear test ban treaty hp signed wilh Brit am and the Soviet Union Monday would receive "great support" in the United States. Rusk saw off a senatorial del egation and then flew to Len ingrad for a day's break be tween his talks on further cold war issues with Soviet officials. The senators, here for the signing, were return ing to Washington. The senators were equally enthusiastic about the partial test ban treaty, the first con trol measure agreed upon be- twecn East and West since the start of the nuclear aae 18 years ago. They said US. in terests were "well protected' by the pact. MEDFORD, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 7, 1963 G p NIL 1 US Six Classrooms Are Being Installed at Local High School Six temporary classrooms are bolng installed at Medford High school to handle the In creased enrollment expected next month. In addition to the class rooms in front of the high school, three more classrooms will be provided in a house constructed by shop classes during the past two years. A total of 1.S50 students are ex pected at Medford High next month. The six temporary class room buildings are being put in front of the high school at the school board's direction tor several reasons, school ad ministrators noted. The board decided it would be more economical since rest room facilities would not have to be included. Rest room fa cilities just inside the main building will he utilized. Another Factor Another factor In deciding the location is the possibility of using land to the rear of the main building for a per manent addition to the plant if this appears the more desir able solution to the secondary school problem. Signal Device Is Planned at Crossing Talent - A flashing signal warning device probably will be installed at the Main st. railroad crossing here, scene of a fatal accident last month, by the time school opens this fall. The Talent city council last night decided to go along with an offer from the Southern Pacific railroad, under which the city and the county would share the cost of the warning device equally. City Attorney Richard Cot tle told councilmcn that a Southern Pacific representa tive had approached h I m wilh the 50-50 offer, the city's share of which would amount to between $5,000 and $6,000. Cottle said he had investi gated previous agreements between cities and Southern Pacific on financing of signal devices and had found no in stances in which a city paid less than 50 per cent of the cost. The council decided to ac cept the offer providing that its share of the cost could be paid over a two-year period. PLANT DESTROYED Portland - nspn - Fire de- I stroyed Ihe one - story Lau dcrback Industries plant here today, causing some $55,000 damage. The firm manufactur ed water skis. Tribune hold the buildings. Thcv arc scheduled to bp ready early next month when school starts. i A citizens' advisory corn- mitlee is now studying vari. - jous aspect of the, secondary school situation, and is ex pectcd to make recommenda tions early next year.v The buildings were made in the high school shon by dis - tnct personnel. They will, be bolted together for easy dis mantling. The buildings have been constructed so they can be sold for use as cabins or other small buildings when they are no longer needed as classrooms. The buildings will be paint ed green. Youthful Driver Rescues Children Portland -IUHI- A lfl-year-old bus driver Richard L. En kelis, saved 12 children and their counselor from possible death Tuesday when he res cued the group from their overturned bus just seconds before it caught fire. Two youngsters were In jured, neither seriously, when the bus from the Jewish Com munity Center overturned on a Forest Park road. Taken lo a Portland hos pital was Marsha Sampson, 12. Her injuries were not thought lo be serious. Her brother Ben, 9, suffered an in jury to his finger. Enkelis said that the ac cident occurred when the ve hicle's front wheels got caught in a ditch, flipping the bus over on its side. Ashland Ponders Study ot System Ashland - The Ashland city council last night decided to consider the possibility of having a municipal financing consultant make a thorough study of the city's electrical system, in view of an offer lo buy the system made by Pacific Power and Light com pany. F. G. Sutherlin, municipal financing consultant from Stone and Youngberg of San Francisco, presented a propo sition under which his firm would study the electrical sys tem and estimate the long range benefits of each pos sible course of action. The council took Sulhcrlin's proposition under considera tion until the next regular meeting. Pacific Power and Light company last month made a formal offer to buy the city of Ashland's electrical system for $1 5 million, lalrr raising the offer lo $2 milMmi. 58th Year Price 10 Cents No. 119 Heiress Found Strangled in Portland Hotel Portland - lOTD - Police piessea an investigation to- been delivered 25 minutes day into the death of Mrs. I earlier. Awaiting the Presi Irene E. Davis, 41, an attrac- went was his sister. Mrs. St. tive . Idaho . cattle heiress whose body was found in a partly - filled bathtub at the 1 Hilton hotel Tuesday, . A nylon slocking was twist- ed about her neck. She was wearing a black half slip. The coroner's office, await ing final results of an autop sy, tentatively listed cause of death as strangulation and asphyxiation. Police said she apparently had been strangled. There were no other signs of a dis turbance in the hotel suite. The body was discovered by a maid Tuesday morning. Mrs. Davis was last seen alive about 2:30 a.m. Tuesday leav ing the hotel rooftop restau rant and bar. Employees said she was accompanied by three men as she stepped toward the elevator. Mrs. Davis was the daugh ter of the late Eastern Ore gon and Idaho cattleman Gus Davis. Several travelers' checks were in the room, along with other items including receipts of several purchases made in Eastern Oregon and Idaho amounting to several thou sand dollars, police said. Mrs. Davis arrived from Payette Sunday afternoon. A brother - in - law, Robert Rose, in Payette, said the woman had apparently come to Portland for a few days vacation. ' Mrs. Davis was divorced several years ago from Rob ert Solomon and had two sons by the marriage, relatives said. They said she had as sumed her maiden name fol lowing the divorce. 4 Big Six Plants Resume Operations Portland - HOT - Some 14, 000 men began returning to work at four Big Six employ ers' bargaining association lumber companies in the Pa cific Northwest today. Two striking lumber unions agreed Tuesday to put their men back on jobs at Weyer haeuser, International Paper, Crown-Zellerbach and Rayon ier plants in Oregon, Wash ington, California and Mon tana. The plants were shut down June 7 in a retaliation lockout by the Big Six for a strike called two di earlier against its other two members, U.S. Plywood and St. Regis, by the Family's Third Child Born at Air Force Base Mother, Infant Said Doing Well Otis AFB, Mass.-IOTD - Mrs. Jacqueline Kennedy, wife of the President, gave birth to day to a 4-pound lOVfe-ounce son at the Otis Air Force Base Hospital. The baby, five and one-half weeks premature, was born at 10:15 a.m. (pdt) while the President was en route from Washington by jet. Presidential news secretary Pierre Salinger reported that the baby's condition was "good" but that he was placed in an incubator. He also re ported that Mrs. Knenedy was in good condition. The child was the third born to President and Mrs. Ken nedy and their second son. Salinger reported that Mrs. Kennedy went from the Ken- ' nedy's rented summer home to a stable area owned by the Kennedy family near Oster ville this morning, However, she returned home immediate ly and Dr. John W. Walsh, a Washington obstetrician who has been staying in the area, was notified while she was still en route home. The baby was born' by Caesarean section as were the other two children. Goes lo Hospital Walsh was at the Kennedy house on Squaw Island off; Cape Cod when Mrs. Ken nedy arrived. He decided im mediately that she should go to the Otis Air Force Base hospital. Mrs. Kennedy left the house by helicopter, accompanied by Walsh, for the trip to the hos pital. the was taken to the surgery ward immediately. The President, still at the White House, was notified by telephone -that his wife had gone to the hospital. He left the White House within min utes by helicopter for An drews Air Force Base and the jet flight to Cape Cod. Baby Delivered ' Whpn Tip i-i-ivrf n hs Una. nital. the hahv alrMWv hri Dhen Smith, at the hnsnital. Assistine Walsh ' who also was the obstetrician when John Jr. was born Nov. 25, 1960, were Col. Paul H. Stavig, Sioux Falls, S.D., Mai. Frank Mahon, Panama, Okla., the anesthetist; Capt. William Jablonsiki, Boston, and Maj. Leonard Cobb, Longview, III. Mrs. Kennedy is the first President's wife in 70 years to give birth to a baby. The last White House baby was born on Sept. 9, 1893, to Grov er Cleveland. Demo Committee Favors Convention The Jackson County Demo cratic Central committee has gone on record favoring a party platform convention to be held in February, 1064, prior to the primary elec tions, it was announced today. The action was taken at Tuesday night's meeting of the central committee. Purpose of the convention will be to draft a local party platform to be submitted to the State Central committee for its approval and possible inclusion in the state plat form. It was agreed that all registered Jackson county Democrats will be eligible to attend the convention as dele gates upon payment of a regis tration fee. Committee appointme n t s will be announced at the Sep tember meeting of the central committee, Chairman Charles Crary said. International Woodworkers of America and the Lumber and Sawmill Workers unions. The firms announced Monday they would reopen the plants to day. However, union spokesmen, speaking at a news conference here, said the latest action did not mean the 64-day-old strike was hearing its end. The spokesmen said more strikes could be called. An estimated 20,000 men were Idled at the Big Six plants in four states. Another 9.000 are out on strike against other companies in the region Including 'Georgia Pacific Corp. olf a mock aiiacK. GO a
