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m Bandits Flee Witt Omii, terns icn Holdup of Train . 1 raff1 niHw. i sm lL.. 4 f i- LEAVES MEDICAL CENTER President Kennedy leaves the Childrens Medical Center in Boston, Mass., today after visiting briefly with his sick infant son. Crowds of hospital Kennedy Returns To Boston Hospital To Be With Son; Doctors Encouraging Boston - IITH - President Kennedy's ailing day old ion encountered "increas ing difficulties" from a breathing problem today and blood tests were order ed to determine the extent of danger to the infant. Boston - lUPli - President Kennedy decided suddenly to return here from Hyannis Port today to be with his in fant son who is hospitalized with a serious breathing dif ficulty. There was no immediate ex planation for the sudden change in plans. The Presi dent originally was scheduled to return here from Cape Cod this evening. Earlier, the President was given some encouragement from doctors treating his son. Press Secretary Pierre Sal inger said doctors were "hope ful" that the breathing diffi culty could be corrected. One day old Patrick Bou vier Kennedy had been rush ed to the specially equipped Children's hospital Wednes day after his birth five and a half weeks ahead of lime at Otis Air Force Base, Mass. 75 Attend Dinner For Alba Resident About 75 persons attended a dinner last night at North's Chuck Wagon in honor of Dr. Enrico DeMaria, a visitor here from Alba, Italy, Mcd ford's sister city. " The dinner was sponsored by the Medford Friends of Alba committee. William Mansfield was master of cere monies for the event. Medford Mayor James Dun levy presented DeMaria with a key to the city. DeMaria, in turn, gave Dunlcvy a port folio containing prints and biographical data on a 14th century Italian painter named Macrino, a gift from the mayor of Alba. Manville Heiscl. represent ing the Medford Chamber of Commerce, gave DeMaria a plaque making him an honor ary member of the chamber. Entertainment was provid ed by a vocal trio, the Coach men. Members of the group were Mark Cochran, Wally Huffman and Jarl Dyrud. DeMaria addressed the din ner audience briefly, relating his long interest in this coun try and the American people. He said that he first became interested in American jazz by listening, as a youth, to Voice of America radio broadcasts. WSU DEAN DIES Pullman, Wash. HOT Dr. Golden Romney, 60, dean of the Washington State Univer sity College of Physical Edu cation since 1950, died of a heart attack at his home Wednesday night. KEViS()BRIEF8 llfalllW ryj AROUND Wl OlOM iritis mow RUSK LEAVES FOR KHRUSHCHEV'S VILLA Moscow-4Ph-Secrelary of Stale Dean Rusk flew her from Leninorad today and almost immediately left for Premier Nikila S. Khrushchev's' Black Sea villa for further talks on ways to ease the cold war. NUCLEAR TREATY GOES BEFORE SENATE Washington-dPI-The treaty ending all but underground nuclear testing in a "first step" toward world peace was to go to the U.S. Senate today. Spokesmen for both parties said senators had "no other choice" but to ratify it. HAITI INVASION OUTCOME IN DOUBT Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic-rtPI The outcome of an invasion of Haiti by about 300 Haitian exilet remained in doubt today. The Haitian government said it had crushed the Invasion but exile spokesmen said the rebel movement was growing. 1 The President planned to divide his time today between the Children's Medical Center here, where his son is in a plastic-covered device which simulates the environment of a mother's womb, and Cape Cod, with Mrs. Jacqueline Doctor Describes Jackie Kennedy's Spirits as Good Otis AFB, Mass-(liro-P resi dent Kennedy visited his wife Jacqueline here after an early morning call on his newborn son in Boston, then flew to his Squaw Island summer home to tell Caroline and John Jr. about their baby brother. The President spent almost an hour and a half with Mrs. Kennedy at the Air Force base hospital building where she is recuperating from the Caesarean delivery. Earlier, Mrs. Kennedy's doctor said she had a "very good night and is in good spirits." Dr. John W. Walsh, 50-year-old prominent Washington physician who performed the Caesarean delivery of day-old Patrick Bouvier Kennedy, said that the President's wife was "taking fluids nicely and her post-operative condition is good." Dr. Walsh has been in con tact with the doctors at Chil dren's Hospital Medical cen ter in Boston to get the latest word for Mrs. Kennedy about how her baby is doing. Mrs. Kennedy is being kept fully informed on the health of Patrick who is suffering from a lung complication. Miss Pamela Turnure, Mrs. Kennedy's press secretary, Family Picnic Set By Republicans The Jackson County Repub lican party will hold a fam ily picnic Saturday, Aug. 17, in TouVelle State park with Gov. and Mrs. Mark O. Hat field as special guests, Robert Balk, picnic chairman, an nounced today. The governor has accepted the picnic committee's invita tion and will be the principal speaker at the picnic, which is scheduled to start at 4 p.m. Invitations are being ex tended to the general public in Jackson, Josephine and Klamath counties, Balk said. Tickets for the picnic, which will include dinner and a variety of entertainment, may be purchased from the Insurance Mart, 36 South Bar lctl si., in Medford, and from Iverson Printing, 38 East Main St., Ashland. staff members crowd around the entrance as the President icft for Cape Cod. He will spend part of the day with his wife at the Otis Air Force Base hospital. (UPI) Kennedy and their other two children. The newest Kennedy was born by Caesarean section at 12:52 p.m. (edt) Wednesday, 38 minutes before a Jetstar transport plane with the Pres ident aboard landed at Otis said Mrs. Kennedy is "fine just fantastic." The President was report ed to have telephoned his wife twice during the night from Boston after seeing their new child in its special incu bator at the Children's hos pital. The second call was un derstood to have occurred at 12:30 a.m. (edt) today. The President assured Mrs. Kennedy that everything was all right, and. according to sources here, the First Lady "was very comfortable, very happy and sleeping very well." $15 Million Paid To 0 and C Counties Washington - (UPI) - Money paid to 18 Oregon counties from sale of. timber from O and C railroad grant lands during the fiscal year end ing June 30 totaled $15,031. 270, Rep Walter Norblad said today. Douglas county got the most, in excess of $3.7 mil lion. Norblad said an Interior Department breakdown gave these figures by county: Benton, $425,394; Clacka mas, $856,782; Coos, $883, 838; Columbia, $235,990; Cur ry, 453,944; Douglas, $3, 774,352; Jackson. $2,356,903; Josephine. $1,806,758; Klam ath, $359,247: Lane. $2,319, 325; Lincoln, $54,112. Linn, $399,831; Marion, $212,462; Multnomah. $263,047; Polk, $327,681; Tillamook. $85,678; Washington, $97,703; Yamhill, $108,225. Dedication Is Set For Highway Section Salem-IUPIl-Dedication cere monies will be held near Athena-Blue Mountain station section of the Oregon-Washington Highway in Umatilla county. The new 6.65 mile section replaces an old narrow por tion of the highway which is inadequate for present day traffic. The new road will bypass Athena and Weston and will bring the highway between Athena and Milton Freewater up to present day standards. City, county and state offi cials will attend the dedica tion with Rep. Stafford Han sen (R-Hermiston) represent ing Gov. Mark Hatfield. WEATHER FORKCAST: Mostlv rlnndv to night and Friday. Sratterrd shower or thunderihower thti evening and again on Fri day afternoon and evening. Low tonight 60, high Friday 90. Temp. Highest Yeiierday 99 Lowest Thit Morning 59 Our Skies Tonight Sunset today - R:24 p.m. Sunrise tomorrow . fi:ll a.m. Moon rise tonight . 10:42 p.m. Last Quarter ... Aug. 1 1 At moonrue tonight the Square of Hegatui t in the east Sagittarius is In the iouth( Arcturua is In the wet and the Big Dipper Is sinking in the northuesL AFB. Mrs. Kennedy had been whisked there by helicopter from her Squaw Island sum mer home in Hyannis Port shortly after 11:30 a.m. (edt). Because it was born prema turely and appeared to be having breathing problems, the child was baptized a short time after birth by the Rev. John Scahill, of Portland, Me., Catholic chaplain at Otis. He was named for Kennedy's grandfather, Patrick J., and father, Joseph Patrick, as well as for Mrs. Kennedy's father whose surname was Bouvicr. Father Scahill said the new born child looked "like Win ston Churchill," adding that all new-borns have that look. He said that the newest member of the Kennedy clain looked like a healthy infant despite the respiratory ail ment. Salinger told reporters In Boston Wednesday night that the infant, in a private room on the fifth floor of the Chil dren s Medical Center, was suffering from an "idiopathic respirato r.y distress syn drome." Respiratory Problem "In laymen's language, this is a respiratory problem which causes a problem in breath ing," Salinger said. "It is not uncommon ... in premature children." Later Salinger told United Press International that while it is not uncommon "it is still a cause for concern." Salinger said that in these cases "it takes approximately four days for this situation to develop in such a way that the doctors can make a final diagnosis." "Is it on the danger list?" a reporter asked. "I would not say that," Sal inger replied. "Nobody that I talked to has." Wit '1 .t4w- 'w vf - If t ml.-A'" ;i ff"e-ir J ' - . it- ' " '?cn .1 jff - K ' '' '1 ' --W TREATY SIGNED Representatives of about 30 countries began signing the nuclear test ban treaty in Washington today. In the top photo acting Secretary of State George Ball, left, look: on as Australia's Ambassador Sir Howard Beale signs. In the lower photo Mexican Ambassador Antonio Car rillo Florcs signs for his country. In Moscow India became the first non-nuclear nation to sign when Ambassador T. N. Kaul affixed his signature as representatives of 22 other na tions, including Communist East Germany, gathered for the same purpose. UPI) TV Regional Edition MEDFORD PAGES Expanded Play Season Planned For Observance Ashland - Plans for observ ing William Shakespeare's 400th birthday in 1964 were announced today by the Ore gon Shakespearean Festival in Ashland and Stanford uni versity in Palo Alto, Calif. The two institutions will join forces to celebrate the anniversary year with a co- Hearing on Water District Continued By County Court The hearing on the propos ed West Side Water district was continued yesterday, ac cording to County Judge Earl J. Miller. He predicted more public hearings would be held with residents and property own ers of the area to determine more exactly how many peo ple are for and against the proposed district. "A total of 128 people of that area signed petitions fa voring the district formation and calling for a public hear ing." the county judge said. "Of those 12B, 103. or three over the legal limit, were found to be legally reg istered voters. It takes 50 per cent of the egally registered voters of the area or 100 persons to make the petition acceptable. Receives Letters The county judge also has received two letters seeking inclusion in the proposed dis trict. One petition for exclu sion was presented to the county court, Miller said. Meanwhile, the county court has asked County En gineer Robert J. Carstenscn to make a topographical sur vey of the area. Cards will be sent out to the 485 regis tered voters of the area, also to determine their feelings on the proposed district. Judge Miller noted that the new fiscal year budget ef fective July 1 includes $25,- 000 for a "Bear Creek basin" water and sanitation study by an engineering firm. Another $25,000 would be allocated for the next fiscal year to ward the overall estimated cost of $57,000. The survey would probably take two years, Miller said. MEDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY, AUGUST 8, 1963 ordinated program of drama, Elizabethan arts, and academ ic studies. Angus L. Bowmer, produc ing director for the Oregon festival, said the Festival's agenda next year will in clude 70 performances in two cities, the longest season the Ashland group has yet under taken and the first sustained road engagement for the group. Actors and technicians will convene in Ashland on Shakespeare's birthday, April 23, and will be joined June 4 by an auxiliary force. The entire organization will go to Stanford June 14. Designed Stag The season will open June 23 and play for two weeks on an especially designed Elizabethan - style stage at Stanford's open-air Frost Am phitheatre. After closing night at Stan ford, July 4, the company will return to Ashland for the pre mier of the regular season July 11, launching a 58-nighl home stand nightly through Sept. 6. Productions scheduled for next year are "King Lear," "Merchant of Venice," "Twelfth Night," and "Henry VI, Part I." After returning to Ashland, the Festival will open a fifth show, "The Win ter's Tale. At a press luncheon today in San Francisco to announce the quatro-centennial observ ance, Stanford officials also announced that performance by the National Shakespeare Festival of San Diego and the Actors Workshop of San Fran cisco also will be staged next summer at the Frost Am phitheatre. Decals Ordered for Parks Personnel The Jackson county court has signed the purchase order for 100 decals, replicas of the shoulder patches designed for employees of the Jackson county parks and recreation department, and they will be placed on park entrance signs and equipment. Neil Ledward, director of parks and recreation, also an nounced today that Clyde Richmond, park ranger at Howard Prairie, is now in uniform in time for the offi cial dedication of the recrea tion area Sunday. The same khaki uniform will be worn by James Hutch inson, caretaker at Emigrant, and by the maintenance crew members. The shoulder patch, designed by Ledward, incor porates gold for. sunshine, blue for Oregon waters, and forest green for the Oregon mountains, all superimposed on a snow white contour of Jackson county. The design was approved by the parks and recreation commission Monday. Larger Estate Tax Gets Approval Washington - lUPD - The House Ways and Means com mittee has voted an added tax on large estates left to heirs by persons who die in 1965 and thereafter. The proposal applies only to estates which include se curities and property that has increased in market value during the lifetime of the owner. Approved Wednesday by a 14-11 vote, the committee plan would require the heir to pay a capital gains tax on some of the "paper profits" earned by the deceased. Under the present tax law, the liability for these profits is wiped out when the owner dies. If the new owner sells the property he must pay a capital gains tax only on prof its resulting from a rise in the value of the property since he inherited them. There is no exemption from the provision of the commit tee plan. Any property ac quired by the descendent prior to 1951 would not be affectcl. Tribune t. i IRENE E. DAVIS Police Seek Death Clues ana roiice Continue t.i r ueatn o? Portland .- OTU Investiga tion continued today into the mysterious death of wealthy Payette, Idaho, pnttle heiress Irene E. Davis, 41, whose body was found in her Hilton Hotel suite Tuesday with nylon stocking around her neck. Police planned lo question persons who were reported to have last seen her alive. The body was found by a maid in a half-filled bnthlub. Authorities said there wri-c no signs of a struggle in the Hearings on City Planners' Agenda Public hearings on I wo zone changes and a request for a sign variance are sched uled for tonight's meeting of the Medford planning com mission. One request secksjo have properties located on both sides of Barnctt rd. between Bear creek and Ellendalc dr. rezoncd from single and mul tiple family to limited com mercial. The other zone change re quest is connected with prop. crty located at the southwest corner of Crater Lake ave. and McAndrews id. and seeks to have the hind rezoned from single - family to multiple family. The third hearing is sched uled on a request for a vari ance lo place a sign on '.ho building occupied by the Ore gon Bank on East Jackson si. to identify an insurance busi ness in the building. No Negligence Is Found in Blaze Newport, Ore. -IIIPIi- A Cir cuit Court jury late Wednes day found no negligence nn the part of the Hudson-Calla- han logging company in a for - 1.1V UiC inat Milium ,.vt.i i.nww acres of Willamette Valley Lumber Company land in 19B0. About a million dollars in damages was involved in the suit which had been heard in court for five weeks. The jury deliberated about four hours The decision hinged from a charge that negligent, use of a power saw was rcsponsi - ble for the fire which was UlSCUVL'I UU Hail d II II u U I after the saw was in use on Aug. 3, 1960. The state also has an action pending to collect $50,000 in fire fighting costs. Crown Zcllerbach Corp., which hold timber rights on the land, also has filed a suit for damages. Wednesday's decision parcntly will not ru'.c either of these two cases. Bj. out 58th Year Price 10 Cents No. 120 J. 1 t v Probe of ncircss hotel room. The coroner's of fice listed cause of death as "asphyxiation by strangula lion Detectives said nothing was missing from the room. There were some S300 In traveler s checks in her purse Police said autopsy results I indicated there had been no sexual attack . She was last reported seen alive about 2:30 a.m. Tuesday leaving a rooftop bar and res- lauranl. Call Received Police said they received a call from two salesmen who were seen leaving the restau rant at the same time and they reported lliey had not talked with her. Officers also said they wanted to talk to anoth er man reported lo have left at the same time. She was the daughter of the late Gus Davis, a wealthy Ida ho and Eastern Oregon cattle rancher. Business Licenses Were Due July 1 Medford Recorder - Treas urer Darell Huson stated to day that about 200 businesses in the city have not yet ob- lained their business licenses for the l!))3-64 fiscal year. Huson said the license fees came due July 1. Some 1,151 businesses in Medford have obtained their licenses, how ever, he said. Huson said thai unless the delinquent firms pay their fees soon, a complaint will be issued against them and Ihcy will be cited into mu nicipal court. Hopeful Signs Seen in Lumber Strike Picture Portland -lUPli- There were j hopeful signs j west lumber 1 . . in the North strike picture Progress was reported In negotiations between the struck Georgia-Pacific Corp. and union officials; the Big : Six and two striking unions scheduled a resumption of talks, and workers continued to rcnort back at Drcviouslv )ockcc Bi( Six plants, ; Harvcv NeS0Ili president of ! the Western states Regional I Cound, of u ,tcrnational Woodworkers of America, re ported some progress was marie in a Wednesday session with Georgia-Pacific. Nelson said he and Earl Hartley, executive secretary of the Western Council of the Lumber and Sawmill Work io.i union, wouia meet wun 'Georgia-Pacific officials again 1 this altcrnoon. The two un British Police Find No Trace Of Robbery Gang Almost $3 Million Estimated in Loot Cheddington, England -flJPD An armed gang of 20 to 30 masked bandits staged a rob bery that may have been the biggest haul in history today when they looted an unguard ed train of cash and gems estimated at almost $3 mil lion. The robbers staged their Wild West-type raid with split-second precision in the middle of the night and made their getaway with 120 mail sacks containing currency and diamonds from the Glasgow- lo-London train. Police searched this region north of London, but found no trace of the holdup gang that operated in Jesse James style and fled in three trucks and a passenger car, Reward Offered The post office offered a $28,000 reward for them and estimated that the loot may well run into seven figures which would make it at least one million pounds, or $2.8 million, . No Guards Aboard A spokesman said there were no guards aboard the train which was a "traveling post office" with about 75 postal employees aboard. The spokesman- said there never were guards on these trains, since pit :was felt the large force of mail sorters normally was sumcient to keep watch. The gang halted the train, overcame the engineer and fireman, uncoupled the en gine and first two cars, and moved them a mile down the tracks." Then thev ouipltlv Iswept'iup 120 mall sacks and I made their getaway In three 1 army-style trucks and a pas senger car. So swiftly and smoothly did the Kane work that the post office employees, all but four in the rear cars, were ' unaware of the robbery until it waa over. The incident took place near this Buckingham shire town 40 miles north of Lon don about 3:10 a.m. In a fashion as spectacular as any of. the great train robberies pulled off in the days of the desperadoes of the American West. Obviously well-planned, the robbery went off with split- second precision. It was the first attack on an all-mail train in the 125 years of their history in Britain. First, the robbers jumped the signalman on that sec tion of the line and set the block signals at "danger," bringing the mail train to a alt three miles from Leigh- ton Buzzard. When the fireman, David Whitby, 26,. climbed down from the cab of the diesel en gine to investigate, he was attacked and overcome by two of the bandits. The engineer. Jack Mills, 35, then was seized. The robbers swiftly and expertly uncoupled the en gine and first two mail cars, and forced Mills at gunpoint to drive them a mile down the track to where their com patriots were waiting. TRAWL AUTHORIZED Salem -0IPII- An otter trawl commission has been author ized in an election held by fishermen, the State Depart ment of Agriculture reported today. ions began striking Georgia-. Pacific July 17. At the same time, the Fed eral Mediation Service said the-Big Six employer group, against whom the strike was touched off June 5, would meet with the two unions next Monday at 1 p.m. The unions struck two members of the Big Six, St. Regis and U. S. Plywood, and the other four members Weyerhaeuser, International Paper, Crown-Zellerbach and Rayonier - shut down in re taliation. But this week, the four firms reopened Wednesday and union officials agreed to their members returning to work at these plants. The strike against St. Regis and U. S. Plywood continued An estimated 14 nnn "'vuivea in the back-l voir uiuvement with some) io.uuu sun on strike. V.' 0
