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Newspaper Page Text100 s tats flepartmefit itf I Regional Edition 58th Year Price 10 Cents TV Medford 22 Pages MEDFORD, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 14, 1963 No. 125 Efiipldymerit Workers Lai iff -'g A T T Tribune U- w '- ; ft) M l WfT e f "f 111- I ; (j vis. " YV- r t Vs wife 1 LEAVES HOSPITAL President Kennedy holds the First Lady's hand as he escorts her from Otis Air Force Base hospital where she has been confined since the caesarean delivery of her son last Wednes Policemanlnjured In Fracas When Questioning Man A Medford city policeman was slightly injured and a pa trol car was damaged T uesday afternoon during a fracas, on Bennett st. when officers at tempted to question a man regarding an assault case. At Rogue Valley hospital under police guard is Marl ton Lee Loftis, 31, of 11 Tripp St., who was treated for head cuts and lacerations. Loftis was identified by the Bureau of Criminal Iden tification and Investigation, Sacramento, Calif., this morn ing by fingerprints. He was identified as a man arrested by local officers recently on a drunk charge who had given the name of Raymond Larance Thompson. He was reported to have used several other aliases, officers said. According to police, Loftis was wanted for questioning after they received a report at 1:40 p.m. that Charles How ard Barker, 11 Tripp St., had been assaulted near Haw thorne and Jackson sts. Bark er was hospitalized at Sacred Heart hospital overnight and released today. Patrolman Robert Allen was sent to Bennett st. short ly after 3 p.m. when persons said that a man was lying under a tree. Officers said that Loftis attacked Allen when he arrived on the scene knocking him down several times. He also attacked Pa trolman George L. Lucas be fore the two men mr.naged to handcuff him. Earlier he had ripped the microphone from Allen's patrol car. Police said this morning that both California and Wyo ming law enforcement offi cers are checking the case as Loftis may be wanted in those states. CR7S(BEUEFS ROCKEFELLER CONTINUES NOMINATION QUEST Alhanv. N.Y.-ilPtl-Gov. Nalson A. Rocktfeller continued hit unofficial quasi for in 1964 GOP presidential nomination Tuesday with a renewed attack on Sen. Barry Goldwater't failure to reject the support ox exirem rigni-wm9 irmiii stltT nl.YS VENEZUELAN'S EXTRADITION Mi.mi-rt Pli-A oaternitv suit today delayed the extradition Marcos Peres Jimtnes. who his homeland. ORGANIZED LABOR TO OPEN CAMPAIGN Unit. House. Pa.-ani-The AFL-CIO's political wing ad vanced plans today tor a mid leae;rs from 22 o! ine nanon s Dijgi sum tn ixed labor's activities in the 1914 campaign. day. The baby died less than two days later. Press Secretary Pierre Salinger said Mrs. Kennedy will have to curtail all of her White House activities until after the first of the year. (UPI) reement Reached For Supervision of . Civil Defense Units Salem -OIPIl- The federal government, which refused matching funds for the cut- down state civil defense agen cy, tentatively agreed Tuesday to provide supervision for six Oregon county civil defense organizations. The plan, drafted at a day long meeting between State CD Director Robert W. Sand strom and two federal offi cials, will be submitted to Gov. Mark Hatfield for ap proval. McKay Creek Fire Controlled Today By United Preis International A 125-acre grass and water shed blaze on McKay creek, about 30 miles southeast of Pendleton, was controlled to day. State forestry officials in Salem said it was one of 16 blazes reported Tuesday on state supervised forest and rangelands. Also controlled was an 80- acre grass ana Drusn Diaze in the Waterman Flat area near Mitchell, and a 40-acre fire near Medical Springs southeast of La Grande. Of the 16 fires reported Tuesday on state land, 10 were caused by lightning. One of the man-caused ifres was a seven-acre blaze in the Clackamas - Marion district which resulted from debris burning. The U.S. Forest Service re ported some 200 small fires broke out in national forests of Oregon and Washington Monday night and Tuesday, most of them set by lightning, by a 26-vear-old blonde beauty to Ventiutla of former dictator sayi he faces certain death in - September conference of union Cole Sullivan, federal field representative . for Oregon, and Dan Campbell, region eight federal financial assist ance officer, met with Sand- strom. . Also drafted was .a skelton operating program for the state CD agency. Earlier, federal matching funds for six county organi zations had been approved on the condition that the state supervise the program. At Tuesday's session it was agreed the federal govern ment could authorize the use of federal field workers to help supervise the county programs. Counties Lifted Funds had been conditional ly approved for Deschutes, Linn, Washington, Polk, Ben ton and Umatilla counties. The 1963 legislature slash ed the state CD organization from an 18-member agency to a three-member coordinating staff. ' . As a result, federal match ing funds were withdrawn from the state agency. A sub sequent attempt to get an ad ditional $50,000 appropria tion was turned down by the State Emergency Board, made up of legislators. First Picking To Start Tomorrow First scattered picking of an unusually light crop of pears is expected to start to morrow with most orchards expected to start harvesting next week, according to Couiv ty Horticultural Agent Clif ford B. Cordy. Cordy said the pressure tests on local pears to reveal degree of ripeness are "just not low enough yet. He ad vised all orchardists to have sample pears tested since there is a considerable dif ference from orchard to or chard. The county agent also warned orchardists against tendency to let spider mites go. Neglect of spider mite control may allow pear trees to become defoliated too early. If the soil moisutre is good the defoliated trees will break out into a late bloom and the blooms will become blight infested. However, trees should be kept well watered until they become defoliated. htadviscd. Test Ban Treaty Said Compatible With Interests Testimony Given By Taylor, Seaborg Washington - ItlPIl - Gen. Maxwell D. Taylor told sen ators today that the "Joint Chiefs of Staff have deter mined that the nuclear test ban treaty is "compatible with the security interests of the United States." The testimony of Taylor, chairman of the joint chiefs. was given to one committee as Atomic Energy Commission Chairman Glenn T. Seaborg was telling three others that the treaty would permit U.S. anti-missile weapons develop ment and should improve rather than jeopardize, U.S. security. Taylor told of the military chiefs' support of the treaty in closed-door testimony be fore the Senate preparedness subcommittee. The substance of it was made public in a declassified statement. Certain Disadvantage Taylor told the subcommit tee that, while the chiefs con cluded in a comprehensive re view that the treaty has cer tain "disadvantages, those disadvantages "are not as ser ious as to render it unaccept able." Seaborg, testifying in be half of the pact to outlaw all but underground testing, said this country "already has" a number of nuclear warheads eligible for use on anti-missile missiles. Champions Are Named at Fair- , Championships were named in poultry and rabbits this morning at the Jackson coun ty 4-H and FFA fair as the second day of full scale activi ty got under-way. Orrin Frederick, Central Point, won the poultry broiler championship with his entry in the all breeds class, and Billy Bagley champion leg horn, light breed. Cathy Carl the champion showman. Gary Pinkham, West Side, had the grand champion buck and Cathy Garrett, West Side, grand champion doe. Michael Merickel, Ruch, won three blue ribbons with his pigeons. Jim Rey n o 1 d s, Southwest Medford club, won three blue ribbons with his pigeons. There were only two entries of pigeons this year. the first time this type of bird has been on exhibit at the fair. They were judged by the poultry judge. Catherine Anhorn, Central Point, had the junior cham pionship exhibit in flowers. John Fleischer had the senior championship exhibit. Nancy Brown, Applegate, took the unior championship in the vegetable garden exhibit, Wesley Hill, Applegate, the intermediate champion ship, and Bob Snook, Central Point, the senior championship. The fair continues with steer judging at 2 o'clock this afternoon and champion steer classes and club herds at 7 o'clock tonight. Thursday, the beef fitting contest will be held at 8:30 a.m., the FFA beef showman ship at 11 a.m., 4-H beef show manship at 1 p.m., beef show manship finals at 7 p.m. and dairy judging, 7 p.m. Grant Authorized For Sewer District Authorization of a federal grant of $35,340 to the White City Sanitary district was an nounced Tuesday by the Health Education and Wei fare department, Congress man Robert B. Duncan report ed today from Washington D.C. The grant is for the pump ing station, lagoon and inter ceptor and outfall sewer in cluded in the $125,000 pro) ect. The application for funds was signed by Frank L Reich, chairman of the board of directors, White City. It carried recommendations from Sen. Wayne L. Morse, Sen. Maurine Neubergcr and ; Congressman Duncan. Stale Employment Force To Face Reduction in Pay Branch Offices Already Closed Salem - IUPD - Layoff of 100 State Department employees and cuts in pay for all remain ing employees was ordered to day. As part of the cutback, branch offices in Oceanlake, Mt. Angel, Mt. Shasta, Calif., and Hermiston have been closed, and other branch of fices are being put on a short day. The cutbacks resulted be cause of the failure of Con gress to provide funds, depart ment officials said. The de partment was granted an ad vance allotment for the first quarter, pending approval by Congress of the normal money allotment. The cutback be came necessary when a direc tive was issued restricting ex penditures for the quarter to the amount included in the advance allotment. Involved is about $1.1 mil lion in federal money each quarter. Commissioner David H Cameron said he did not know how long the emergency would last. 'Congress Has Failed' "We operate on federal funds, and Congress has failed to provide the money, so we'll just have to get along on what we have " He said remaining em ployees 'would, be asked to take a one-step cut in pay aur ing the emergency. The . 100 employees who were laid off are scattered throughout the state. The department has protest ed the lack of funds to Sen. Wayne Morse (D-Ore.) and Rep. Al Ullman (D-Ore.) un man is on the House Appro priations committee. Other members of the congressional delegation also were notified. Workers Needed Cameron pointed out that the office closures come at a time when farmers need workers to harvest the peak late summer crops and food processors are re-opening to process these crops. "It also comes at a lime when much hiring is done through employment service offices for the back-to-school boost in business, and at the very peak of the tourist sea son," Cameron noted. He said the department op erates entirely on federal ap propriations. He said that in addition to the fact that Con gress had failed to appropri ate money for this quarter, budget cuts for fiscal 1964 are forecast. ll-Year-Old Girl Killed by Truck Lorraine Lester Anderson, 11, of 742 West McAndrews rd., was killed shortly after 11 o'clock this morning when she rode her bicycle into the path of a loaded logging truck near the intersection of Clark st. and McAndrews rd. According to Oregon state police, the truck, operated by Robert Richard Raffaclly, 29, of 39 Myers court, Medford, was eastbound on McAndrews rd. As he started to pass the girl on her bicycle she cut across the street in front of the truck, police said. Medford police assisted in directing traffic. The accident was just outside the city lim its. The body was taken to Conger-Morris Funeral home. Coos Bay firm Signs Contract With Union Coos Bay -IUPD- Mcnasha Corp. woods employees will return to their jobs Thursday following agreement reached here Tuesday night between the firm and Local 3037 of the Lumber and Sawmill Workers Ujion. I , FARMHOUSE INVESTIGATED Gerald MacArthur, right, Scotland Yard's superin tendent of detectives, talks with newsmen after an abandoned farmhouse used as a base by Britain's "Great Train Robbery" bandits was discovered near Oakley,. Eng land. MacArthur said the robbers had used Basin Dam Sites To Be Toured by Officials Saturday The Rogue Basin Flood Con trol and Water Resources as sociation will sponsor a tour of the three proposed dam sites Saturday for general public orientation. Planning to attend the tour besides members of the as sociation are Col. Sterling K. Eisiminger, Portland district engineer, U. S. Army corps of Engineers; Henry Stewart, also of the Portland district office; H. T. Nelson, regional director, bureau of reclama tion, Boise, Ida.; J. Mangan, area engineer, lower Colum bia development office, Sa lem, bureau of reclamation; Phil Schneider, Oregon State Game commission; a repre sentative of the U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Portland of fice; and Malcolm Karr, state water resources board, Salem. Groups of citizens from Jackson, Josephine and Curry counties are expected to make the trip. A bus for Jackson county officials is expected to leave the National Guard Armory south of Medford at 8:30 a.m. Saturday and meet the bus of Josephine and Cur ry county officials at the in tersection of Sams Valley highway and the Crater Lake highway at 9 a.m. The tour schedule is to ar rive al Lost Creek at 9:45 a.m., leave Lost Creek at 10:30 a.m., arrive Medford at 11:45 a.m., leave Medford at 12:43 p.m., arrive at the Applegate at 1:30 p.m. and leave the Applegate at 2 p.m. A no-host luncheon will be served at the Rogue Valley Country club at noon. The Lost creek site is near "Un canny Canyon," the Elk creek site is three miles up Elk creek rd. from the crater Lake highway, the Applegate dam site is li miles north of the Copper post office on the Applegate rd. WEATHER FOKKCAST: Fair ind mild to. night through Thurtdty night. Afternoon winds northweiterly 1(1-1$ mile per hour. Low to night near SO. High Thursday near SI. Temp. Highest Yesterday Lowest This Morning SO Our Skies Tonight Sunset today :IS p.m. Sunrise tomorrow ... a.m. Moonrlse tomorrow.. 2:27 a.m. New Moon Aug. 19 PROMINKNT STAR o Anlarea, low In south west 11:11 P-m. VlXIHI.fi PLANETS Mars, low In west .. 9:lt p.m. Saturn, In southeast 10:11 p.m. Jupiter, rises I0:S1 p.m. "ft TO ; v " v I iS 1311 Bibeau Enters Plea To Manslaughter in Circuit Court Here Harold James - Bibeau, 21 pleaded guilty this- morning to voluntary manslaughter before- Circuit. Court -Judge James M. Main. Sentencing date was set for Sept.' 9 to allow Bibeau's at torneys, Joel Reeder and Stanley C. Jones Jr., to intro duce 20 witnesses in his be half. , Bibeau is in the U.S. Army stationed at Ft. Gordon, Ga. Army authorities waived cus tody of Bibeau in connection with the criminal charge, but still have jurisdiction over him. Jones, his attorney, hopes the Army will discharge him so he will not face mili tary charges when he should complete serving his sentence. Maximum sentence for man slaughter is 15 years In the Oregon State penitentiary. Bibeau was originally in dicted by - Jackson county grand Jury on first degree murder charges. He was ar raigned July 1 in connection with the death of Russell Waldon Osborn, 51, Ashland theater manager April 27 In Osborn's apartment. Bibeau had pleaded innocent to the charges of first degree mur der July 5, and a jury trial was set for Sept. 3. Waive Right to Hearing This morning Bibeau waiv ed right to a grand jury hear ing. No bail was set and he will be held in the Jackson county jail. District Attorney Alan Holmes said the man slaughter charge more closely fits the case since he feels it was a "crime of passion." Governor Hatfield Will Give Principal Address at Republicans' Gov. Mark O. Hatfield will give the principal address Sat urday at the Jackson County Republican Central commit tee's family picnic In Tou Vclle State park. Committee chairmen from Josephine and Klamath coun ties will join the Jackson county party officials in bringing delegations to ' the picnic, Robert Balk, picnic chairman, reported today. They are Jess Calvert, chair man of the Josephine County Republican Central commit tee, and Ross Ragland, chair man of the Klamath County Republican Central commit tee. Paul Selby of Medford will be master of ceremonies. Will Accompany Governor Mrs. Hatfield will accom- EE the farmhouse both before and after the robbery, spending about three weeks there. An old airstrip near the house led detectives to believe the gang may have loaded the $7 million loot aboard a plane after they counted it, and fled to the continent. (UPI) The legal description of vol untary-manslaughter read by Judge Main also included the words "crime of , passion:"' Bibeau is still charged offi cially with forging Osborn's name to three checks totalling $300.' Osborn had apparently made out the checks before his death but had not signed them. They would have fi nanced Bibeau's trip back to his military base where he is listed as absent without leave. Bibeau was specifically charged with strangling Os born in the living room of his home at 725 Walker avc., according to the new charges. Several Items on Planners' Agenda A variety of items will be discussed by the Jackson county planning commission at B o'clock tonight in the courthouse auditorium. Among the persons to ap pear will be Jackson County Surveyor Mark Boydcn, who will discuss the state law re garding checking fees for sub division plats. The present fee charged In the county is $16. Reports will be presented by the subdivision committee and the board of adjustment. Other business will concern second hand stores and wreck- ing yards in interim zoned I areas and the sanitation code. pany the governor to the pic nic. Mrs. Gene Williams, Repub lican Women's Federation of Oregon representative, is be ing assisted by Republican members of the Medford Jun ior Chamber of Commerce in arranging the dinner menu, which will include open pit barbecued chicken. Persons wishing to join the Governor's Motorcade to the picnic are asked to meet at 3 p.m. in the Medford Shop ping Center parking area be hind Newberry's store. The motorcade will tour the shop ping center and the business districts then proceed to Tou Velle park. An "elephant race" Is being staged for juniors participat- In the ticket sale contest, Unions, Big Six Employers Agree On New Contract Hourly Pay Hike, Benefits Included Portland -IUPD- The Pacific Northwest's lengthy lumber strike was all but over today after negotiators for two strik ing unions and the Big Six employers' bargaining asso ciation agreed on a contract here Tuesday night. - The three -year agreement between representatives of the International Woodwor k e r a of America and the Lumber and Sawmill Workers' unions and the Big Six - if ratified by union members - would leave only an estimated auu men on strike. At one time about 29,000 were idled. Others Reopened About 6,400 men have been on strike since June 5 against two Big Six companies, St. Regis and U.S. Plywood. The other, four members shut down in retaliation but re opened last week. The proposed contract. which calls for a 30V4-cent hourly raise in wages and benefits during the next three years, will be voted -on this week by IWA and LSW work ers. Results of the referendum balloting are expected to be announced Sunday afternoon. At the start of negotiations the LSW had asked for a 60 cent hourly increase and the IWA a 40 -cent hike, both spread over, three years. Another Meeting Set The unions meet here Thurs day afternoon with the 196 member - Timber Operators Council employers' bargain ing association. Some TOC members already have set tled new contracts. The contract negotiating 'session' between the unions and the TOC was scheduled by federal mediators follow ing the settlement between the IWA-LSW representatives and the Big Six officials at 7 p.m. They had met off-and-on since 9:30 a.m. Similar Agreement The agreement, similar to most of the lumber contracts approved previously in the -region during the strike, calls for a 10-cent hourly pay in crease and a z-cent hourly skill differential retroactive to June 1, an additional 5 cents Dec. 1, 6 cents next . June 1, 6 cents June 1 in 1965 and increased travel pay for certain woods employees next Jan. 1, averaging lVz cents an hour. The two sides also agreed: ' to form a joint study commit tee to look into automation and other major problems. The Big Six dropped its de mands for a change in over time pay for working week ends. Union Girl Drowns In Grande Ronde River La Grande - flJPD - Donna Hunsucker, 14, Union, drown ed in the Grande Ronde river about 15 miles west of here late Tuesday. The girl, who could not swim, drowned in about three feet of water. She was attend ing a Baptist Bible Camp. Family Picnic Mrs. Frank J. Rider, chair man, announced. Contestants in this competition, winners of which will be designated "Mr. and Miss Junior Repub lican of Jackson County," are Pam Trowbridge, Ann Par sons, Robin Emmens, Day ' Lynch, Nick and Chris Ras mussen, Ed Davis, John Eads, John Case, and John and Al len Collins.- Persons planning to attend ' the picnic are asked, to buy ' tickets from junior' members of the party or at the Insur ance Mart in Medford or Iver son Printing in Ashland. Res-, ervatlons may be made by telephoning 772-1321 or 482 1491. During the activity period at the picnic a "Conservatives versus Liberals" baseball game will be Playeij.