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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 13, 1963)
AW BODY ARRIVES The body of Sen. Estes Kefauver is carried from a military air transport plane at Knoxville, Tenn., where it will be transported 30 miles to Madison-ville-, Tenn., where brief and simple funeral services were lley Scheduled for Rate Reduction Salem -flOT- A 20 per cent rate cut for natural gas cus tomers in Roseburg, Grants Pass, Medford, Ashland and other towns in the California Pa c i f i c Utility company's Southern Oregon division was announced Monday. Public Utility Commissioner Jonel C. Police Locate Hideout of Royal Mail Train Thugs London - IUP1I - Police dis closed today they have; Jp' cated the hideout of the rob-. bery gang that looted a royal mail train of more than $7 million, " By the time the police got there the robbers were gone, and so was the loot from the biggest robbery of all time, Scotland Yard announced. "Empty mail bags" were found, said Commander George Hatherill, deputy commander of Scotland Yard. The hideout was a brick house called Lcatherslade farm, about 23 miles from the scene of last Thursday's rob bery at Cheddington. Left in Hurry Hatherill said the house looked as though the gang had left "in rather a hurry." "There were a lorry (truck! and two Landrovers (Jeep like vehicles) outside. A pit had been dug. It looked as though they intended to bury the stuff," the commander said. Hatherill said no money was found at the hideout, but that some mailbags had been located. "We have satisfied our selves that this is the place. We don't know who the own ers are yet," Hatherill said. The estimated 12 to 30 masked men vanished after seizing the Glasgow-to-Lon-don mail train last Thursday morning near Cheddington in Buckinghamshire and taking $7,146,000 in cash. President To Rejoin Family at Cape Cod Washington - IUPB Presi dent Kennedy planned to fly to Cape Cod late today to re join his hospitalized wife and their two children. The Chief Executive flew back Monday to Washington to attend to various items of business at the White House.' CONGO PRISON STORMED; Leopeidville, Th Congo - HEIVSBRIEFS IfttU MOM XjU ists stormed and ransacked the central prison in the former French Conao capital of Branarille loday and freed all prisoners despite police efforts their heads EX-VENEZUELA DICTATOR TO BE RETURNED Miami - 1?I - A commission of Venetuelan authorities arrived aboard a chartered airliner early today io take former dictator Marcos Peres Jimenei back to Caracas to face embenlemeni charges. YOUNG BUDDHIST PRIEST TAKES OWN LIFE Saigon. South Viet Nam - HH" - A 17-year-cld Buddhist priest burned himself to death today, the third such suicide in protest against the religious policies ai President Ngo Dinh Diem's goernment. . . I"-" llll T lW,.f..- ,I,..-y,,i.-J J t 1 Users of Hill said the rate cut, total ing $238,814, will go into ef fect when Cal-Pac's existing customers are switched from manufactured to natural gas this fall. Hill said the firm tentative ly plans on having natural gas available in Roseburg about Sept. 16, provided that Explosion Starts Second Anniversary Of Berlin Wall Berlin - (UPII - A heavy ex plosion on the Communist side of a border canal early today ushered in the second anniversary of .the hated Red built Berlin wll. West Berlin police said a blue flame shot 45 feet into the air as the blast echoed across the Tettow Canal at 3:30 a.m. The mysterious explosion went off in the restricted zone behind barbed wire on the East German bank of the canal. West Berlin police said they saw Communist border guards carrying out a search and heard shots. But they could not see if the Reds ar rested anyone. The cause of the explosion was not known. The blast site was about a mile southwest of the main U.S. Army base at McNair Grants Pass Man Killed in Accident Grants Pass - Clyde C. Hamilton, 55, prominent Grants Pass contractor, was killed instantly at 9:20 o'clock this morning in a two-vehicle accident four miles north of here. State police said Hamilton's pickup truck and a car driven by Frank A. Batchelor, 76, Merlin, collided on Merlin rd. Batchelor was castbound and passing a loaded log truck and trailer, according to offi cers. Hamilton was westbound when another vehicle appar ently pulled out on the shoul der to avoid Batchelor's car. Hamilton was unable to gain clearance from the on coming Batchelor auto. The contractor is survived by his wife, Mrs. Jean L. Hamilton, and two sons. Batchelor, who suffered head, chest and leg injuries in the crash, is a patient at Jose phine General hospital. ABOUND THI O10U INMATES RELEASED HTP -Thousands of trad union' to halt them by firing over to be held today. Kefauver, Senate, died in Washington (UPI) Natural Gas construction of the El Paso Natural Cas Co. line from Eugene is not delayed. Natural gas should be avail able in Grants Pass, Medford and Ashland sometime during the first half of October, he said. Hill pointed out that the new tariffs filed by Cal-Pac Barracks, at a point where the Teitow Canal forms the border between East Germa ny and the West Berlin Amer ican sector of Zehlendorf, The incident, deliberate or not, was the only one report ed in the early hours of the anniversary as both East and West acted to keep the day a peaceful one. It was feared, however, that there might be demon strations after an 8 p.m. ral ly in the meeting hall of the Technical university. This 'ral ly was called by the "Union of Political Prisoners" under the motto "The Wall Must Fall." Squads at Alert Riot squads stood at alert in West Berlin as wreaths to refugees killed while trying to escape from communism were laid at the wall during the day without any disturb ance. West Berlin police put up barricades, held water can non in readiness and were prepared to put down prompt ly any riots which might erupt as they did last Aug. 13. Communist border guards were observed strengthening the 100 - yard deep "forbid den zone" on their side of the wall. They also rolled up a water cannon and two trucks to the border behind the Brandenburg Gate, while 20 soldiers and four officers took posts aTOund the gate itself. Value of Shovel Emphasized in Fire Central Point-Value of car rying a shovel in a motor ve hicle during the fire season was emphasized yesterday. James McDowell, Pacific rd., Phoenix, came upon a grass fire along Blackwell Hill rd. yesterday morning as he was returning in a pickup truck from a service call. McDowell, a pump repairman for Siskiyou Hardware store, Medford, had the fire contain ed when Central Point rural firemen arrived. The blaze was confined to a 6 by 40-foot strip along the road. Firemen said that the fire would have been much more serious had not McDow ell come along with the shov el. They listed the fire as pos sibly smoker-caused. North Bend Man Found Shot To Death North Bend. Ore. OTB Clifford B. Estes, 35. North Bend, was found shot to death north of here on Ridge rd. Monday night. Police said he apparently shot himself accidentally some i time between 9:30 and 10 p.m. 60, a 15-year veteran of the Saturday of g heart attack. are identical to those in ef fect in Klamath Falls. Lloyd E. Cooper, vice president and chief engineer of Cal-Pac, said his firm pro poses to apply the lower rates to the first meter read ing date after natural gas has been introduced tn each town. Judging of Events At 4-Hr FFAFair Gets Under Way The Jackson county 4 - H and FFA fair was under way this morning wth rabbit Judg ing as the first livestock event, . : Some judging was held yes terday of home economics and non-ltvestock exhibits. Rabbit judging as to con tinue this afternoon, along with poultry judging. Rabbit judging was to con- ship classes will be held at 7 o'clock tonight. Beef female judging starts at 8:30 a.m. tomorrow, along with swine judging. The forestry identification contest will be held on the north side of the exhibit building at 10 a.m. tomorrow. Steer Judging Set Steer judging starts at 2 p.m. and champion steer class es and club herds will be judged at 7 p.m. Fair personnel this morn ing were still attempting to corral a beef calf which had escaped from the fairgrounds Sunday. It was reported out in the weeds behind the fair grounds." Something new this year are 15 pigeons, including show pigeons, squab and rac ing homers now located in the goat barn. This morning fair board members reported they have at the fairgrounds 230 beef, 200 hogs, 150 breeding sheep, 50 goals, 150 rabbits, and 30 poultry. Although the fair board met with the county court yester day afternoon on the problem, no decision has been made on removal of a car washing stand from the center of the fair grounds. Fair board mem bers have protested this small business run by a member of the blind rehabilitation cen ter, also on the fairgrounds. causes more congestion, takes up valuable parking space and sets a bad precedent. Personnel Change Noted by Fichtner The resignation of one po lice officer and the appoint ment nf a reDlacement was announced by Acting Medford Chief of Police Clyde ttcni ner. Resigning at the end of his shift tonight is Donald M. Claypool. With the depart ment since September, 1961, Claypool will move to Eng land, where his wife's parents live, and enter the study of dentistry at a university there. Claypool will be replaced by William H. Nili. 28, a for mer member of the Yreka city police department. Nill will reside in Central Point. He will be attached to the third platoon, which is com manded by Lt. Orlo McGee. Little Risk Seen In Ratification Of Nuclear Treaty Ban Would Slow Soviet Progress Washington - fltffl - Defense Secretary Robert S. MeNa- mara asserted today that the United States, with "tens o thousands" of atomic war heads, was "manifestly su perior to Russia m nuclear power and would risk little in ratifying the test ban treaty. The limited ban would slow Soviet, nuclear progress and prolong U. S. superiority, McNamara told the Senate in the second day of'hearings on the historic Moscow pact. Ahead in Design He acknowledged that Rus sia apparently was ahead of the United States in de sign of super bombs in the multi -megaton range - a point that has disturbed some Senate critics and military leaders. But he said that lead re sulted from America's "con sidered decision" against con centrating on such bombs. He said horror weapons of the 100-megaton type, which Rus sia could develop, had doubt ful military utility compared with smaller megaton weap ons that America could launch now with precision and In vast numbers. Says Risks Smalt Asserting his "unequivocal support" of the treaty, Mc Namara said the risks 11 en tails "are either small or un der our control and the values under the treaty are sub stanttal . , ," This was In essence the same thing Secretary of State Dean Rusk said Monday. Rusk was the administration's first witness before the Senate for eign relations, armed services and atomic energy committees to urge ratification of the pact which would ban air space and underwater tests but ..low. cotinu..Un4.4Anm.,2: ground blasts Senators Assured McNamara elaborated on several points made Monday by Rusk, particularly assur ing senators that this coun try will pursue underground testing and will keep at peak readiness to resume atmos pheric testing and other de velopment at once If Russia breaks the ban. McNamara said neither an unlikely successful secret violation nor an abrupt abro gation with surprise testing on Russia's part would threat en U.S. security. Nothing that could happen under the treaty's terms or in violation of them, he said, could change the basic fact that America will maintain its ability to survive a surprise attack with sufficient power to destroy the Soviet Union. Makes Disclosures In his 5,500-word opening statement to senators who must ratify the agreement by two-thirds vote, McNamara made several disclosures on details of defense pertinent to the test ban: -The first launch of an earth satellite designed for detection of deep space nu clear explosions is scheduled for September or October. A fully developed system would force Russia to go "hundreds? of millions of miles" into space lo explode as little as one megaton without detec tion - "not a reasonable prop osition. Deep space tests would take yearn to prepare and cost ''hundreds of millions of dollars." Detection System -A ground-based detection system could quickly be In stalled with Allied and neu tral cooperation that wouid detect tests 20 million miles from earth, 80 times as far as the moon. -Without any further test ing, America could develop a 50 to 80-megaton bomb for delivery by B52 bombers. Mc Namara did not say this would actually be done, however. He prefers several smaller weapons for greater assurance of target destruction. The biggest B52 - carried bomb now is believed to be 20 to 25 megatons. 27 Persons Reoch Safety as Boat Sinks Tacoma - WB - Twenty- seven persons, including 25 children returning from church camp, swam to shore safely in life Jackets after j their 33-foot boat sank in Puget Sound west of here I Monday night. Regional Edition Medford IS Pages Two Sections Attem For C Agricultural Building on Nail Given Approval Appling Objects To Procedure Salem-WW-In what Secre tary of State Howell Appling Jr. termed "a lousy bureau cratic procedure," the board of control today gave Ms for mai approval tor construction of a new agriculture building on the Capitol Mali, Appling said he favored the new building, ' but felt the board was being called upon lo rubber stamp action al ready taken by the legislature, "Fortunately I was inter ested in this matter, and at tended the legislative hear ings," Appling explained, "Otherwise we would have no choice but to hold public hear ings and go over the same ground again." Offer -Destined Gov. Mark Hatfield offer ed to call such a hearing, but Appling declined. "It's lousy bureaucratic procedure to require the board of control to rubber stamp things of this sort," The' l3oardal!T authorised an offer of $126,700 for seven pieces of privately owned property In the Mall area. The property must be pur chased by the state before construction of the agricul ture building can begin. The action today by the board legally paves the way for drafting of plans for the new structure. Request Refused In other action, the board refused a request from the Blue Mountain community college board of trustees to change the wording of the deed transferring IIS acres of land near Pendleton to the coliege. Acting college President Wallace W. McCrae said trus tees feared the deed was too restrictive. The board re cently sold 175 acres of East ern Oregon state hospital land to the college for a campus site. 50 Observers Watch Workshop Session About 50 observers watch ed proceedings this morning in the two - week elementary team teaching workshop. A four - member team from Lexington, Mass., introduced science and social studies units to about 160 fourth and fifth grade students at the workshop at Hoover school. The number of observers Is expected to Increase later, workshop officials said. Morning sessions for the re mainder of the week include one on math tomorrow morn ing and on science Thursday and Friday mornings. Semi nar sessions are scheduled each afternoon. Wednesday afternoon's seminar Is en targe group Instructions, Thursday's is grouping pro cedures and Friday's is sched uling. The workshop Is being eon ducted under the auspices sf the Oregon Program in co operation with Southern Ore gon college. WEATHER remcit; rttt ummtfi Nil. i.ew fontsM S. Ml Hijftnl VtrSjr ... f.awi Till MsfbIrs Sunm lodiy ) !' p Om Skies Tonight Sour! iomoTfew ,.S:t Jlfsesrlse tomorrow . t:3 .ffl. SHr Man ... .. IS raOMINKKT ST ASS Spin, Mto :S f n. fmtfc8f, St . .. p.m. them fx tun pisftfl. Mmri MEDFORD, OREGON, TUESDAY, AUGUST pt To Salvage Ml -Defense-. fWIewrS-'raEAT Defense Secretary Robert MeNamafa to shown cs he appeared before the Senate Foreign Relations committee in Washington today where he testified in sup port of the partial nuclear test ban treaty. McNamara as serted thet the United States atomic warheads, was "manifestly superiors Ss Russia, in' nuclear power and would risk. little in ratifying the treaty. (UPI) Preliminary Figures Presented On Medford Needs Medford City Manager Rob ert Buff said today that on the basis of preliminary estimates ! from various city depart ments, about $3,0T,?05 Is needed by the eity for imme diate land acquisition and de velopment purposes. Duff made the estimate as part of a report to the Capi tal Improvements committee, which held its regular weekly meeting at 7:30 o'clock this morning. The city manager also noted further projected needs, which Included water depart ment estimates. He said $8,- 401,340 will be needed during the period between 1963 and 1968; about S9.381.8S9 from I9B9 to 1975; and some $13,- 255,372 from 1875 to 1888. Will Check B!qu! At its next meeting, the committee will examine indi vidual department requests, Chairman Richard Travis stated. Assistant CItv Manager Gil bert 1. Gutjahr briefed the committee on the city's pres ent indebtedness, and discuss ed standard guidelines that should be observed In any pas sible increase In the city's in debtedness for capital im provement purposes. Gutjahr said the city's total debt, which includes water system bonds and improve bonds for Bancroft projects, is about $3,718,000, Committee Member John Pletseh pointed out - and Gutjahr agreed - that the fig ures are somewhat misleading since most of the debts in the total figure are self - liquida ting. The actual net direct debt of the eity as of July 1, 1863, Is $1,O0O, Gutjahr said. . Should Consider Aii Heads Gerald Latham suggested that as a matter of operating procedure the committee should consider all the pro jected capital improvement needs and rank them in order of priority. After predicting the maxi mum development desirable, with "fens of thousands"' of to Group the committee should deter mine the resources and ability of the eity to incur debt to finance them, he said. The area of responsibility of the eivic center steering subcommittee, headed by Pletseh, was discussed, Travis suggested the three - member group initiate action toward acquisition of the property the eity will need in the civic center area. Welfare Joins Curb On School Drop-Outs Salem - are - The State Public Welfare commission has joined in a nationwide program to curb school drop outs, the commission announc ed today. The State Department of Education announced Mon day it had thrown its support behind the program recom mended by President Kennedy. Security Detail Keeps Watch Over Hatfield Salem - ftTB - Around-the-clock security protection for Gov. Mark Hatfield is con tinuing, hfs office said today. Uniformed members of a special security detail under the administration of the su perintendent of state police may be seen near the gover nor's residence here. The security force was es tablished after the 1983 legis lature adopted a resolution catting for strengthened se curity measures for Hatfield. Shots Flrd Rear House The legislative action came shortly after an incident in May in which a disgruntled person fired more than a doz en shots near the governor's house. At the recent governor's conference in Miami it was brought out that security is provided ail governors who 58th Year Price 10 Cents Tribune 13, - 1963 No. 124 Frail M Director Meets Willi Officials To Draft Plans Stocking Program May 8 DcIdYei Salem -SS8- An attempt to salvage federal matching funds for civil defense organ izations in six Oregon coun ties was to be made today at meeting between federal of. ficials and State CD Director Robert W. Sandstrom. The future of the state' fallout shelter marking andl stocking program also may be decided at the meeting. Sand strom said. Funds Mad Available Federal matching fund were made available for civil defense organizations la sis counties on the condition that the state agency supervise the programs. - The counties are Deschutes. Linn, Washington, Polk, Be a- ton and Umatilla. . Sandstrom -said "two ststt people front region eight head quarters in. Washington state twitt meet with me and ws twill try tn map out a pro I gram. If we can draft a pro- grim that satisfies the ied i eral officials, we will send it i ta the governor for approval. Ajncy Sluhtd The 1S63 legislature slashed Oregon's 18-member civil de fersse organization to a three member staff after ehargiai civil defease was a "do wsttf ing" agency. After the, cutback, federal officials refused to provide matching funds for the state program, but authorised matching funds for the six counties on the condition thai the state provide supervision. Sandstrom said it might be possible to keep the fallout shelter program going on tea ocal level without state aid. KopiiiU Transferred He also said that 3? stored civil defense field hospitals had been transferred to th tate Board of Health, He said the board will main tain custody of the 200-bed hospitals, but said be did not knew what training programs were planned so the hospital could be utilized in emergen cies. Sandstrom said the bsspi tats were complete units. "They have everything but building and the people to operate them," be explained. The 3? hospitals are stored throughout the state. ENDORSEMENT REFUSED Unity House, Pa. -tUF- Th AFL-CJO high command re fused today to endorse the Aug. 23 civil rights march oa Washington despite appeals by two union leaders who called for organized labor' backing of the mass demote stratioa. live 1b state-owned executive mansions, and that most other governors have some type of security provided either by state or municipal authorities. Oregon does not have state-owned executive tnas sion, and the Hatfields liv In their own home in south east Salem. Threat Probed by FS1 Earlier this summer Unites! Press International reveaied the Federal Bureau of Inves tigation had been railed last December to probe a threat on Hatfield's life. Announce ment of the probe was de iaved at the request of the FBI. The present security force includes five full-time mem bers, Travis Cross, press sec retary for Hatfield, laid the site of the force was subject to changa a conditions merit, ed. - t $
