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Newspaper Page Text? U U - I. Regional Edition MEDFORDjrRIBUNE United Press International Full UiKd Wirt 40 PAGES Four Sections Congo President Resigns in Face Of Mob Violence Brazzaville, Congo - (UPTI -President Fulbert Youlou re signed today in the face of a howling mob which be sieged his palace and scream ed for his ouster. A Congloese army an nouncement said the army seized power in this farmer French colony following You lou's resignation. The unfrocked former Ro man Catholic priest who still calls himself "abbe," quit aft ter three days of demonstra tions and violence in which at least five persons were re ported killed. The army said that 46 - year old Youlou signed his resig nation at 1 p.m. and said it would remain in power until a new cabinet is formed. Authoritative sources in Washington said the Congo lese army totals 700 men and the gendarmerie 500. The resignation came as an estimated 10,000 persons chanted demands outside the heavily guarded palace that Youlou quit. A spokesman for ! t'h e French forces here said You lou's resignation has termi nated the military support given him by members of the 2,000 man French army gar rison at the start of the anti government riots Tuesday. The rioting was started when an estimated 3,000 trade union members marched on the city jail in an attempt to free two of their leaders. They burned and looted the jail, freed all the prisoners, burned down the television station and looted private homes of several government ministers. When the demonstrations continued Wednesday, You lou fired his cabinet members and was reported trying to form a new government when he was forced to quit. The rioters had demanded that Youlou give up his plan Center Boundaries May Be Outlined A resolution defining the boundaries of a proposed civic center in an area adjacent to the Jackson county courthouse is expected to be considered by the Medford city council at 7:30 o'clock tonight. Definition of the civic cen ter area had been urged by the Capital Improvements committee at its Tuesday morning meeting so that a subcommittee of the group, headed by John Pletsch, can take initial steps toward land acquisition. A public hearing will be held on vacation of alleys in Block 69 and the north 75 feet of Block 70, Original Town, site of the proposed new federal post office build ing. Public hearings also are scheduled for paving projects on Pearl St., and Whittle and Dakota aves. Baltimore Negro Gets Life Term in Prison New York -flIPD- Navy Yeo man 1. C. Nelson C. Drum- mond, 34-year-old Baltimore Negro, was sentenced to life in prison today for conspiracy to commit peacetime espion age for Russia. tEJ$(?GitlEfS rriMS noM IS ,ouw0 TOI l0M BUDDHIST NUN TAKES OWN LIFE Saloon. South Viet Nam-tPti-A Buddhist nua burned hr sail to daath today in ih coastal town ! Ninh Hea, reliable government sources reported. II was the lourtn ouaanui sui cide in recent weeks in prottst to government policies. rmPNHOWER MENTIONS HATFIELD New York-dPli-Former President Dwight D. Eisenhower today mentioned Oregon Gov. ... . j ful Of HepuDllcans na considers uoujii iwi niyuvs Hum, rtlKkN KIDNAPING INVESTIGATED London-mi-A Foreign Office spokesman said today Brit ain sent a frigate to a small island in the Bahamas to inves tigate reports that two Cuban gunboats landed Ihere Wednes day and kidnaped torn Cuban .evil. mm, for a one party system, end alleged nepotism in govern ment and include trade un ion representatives in the re gime. . (UPI) FULBERT YOULOU Palace Beteiged Congressional Groups Planning Washington-fllPD-The House and Senate commerce com mittee were reported today to be planning resumption early next week" of hearings on President Kennedy's pro posal that the Interstate Com merce commission solve the railroad work rules dispute. The committee ' had ' sus pended action on the proposal, a political hot potato because of union objections to it, in hopes that renewed negotia tions sparked by Labor Sec retary W. Willard Wirtz would resolve the issue. But the talks collapsed Tuesday, and the onus today was back on Congress. Matting Scheduled The House Commerce com mittee, headed by chairman Oren Harris (D-Ark.) sched uled a meeting, expected to be closed, for early next week. The exact date was not immediately disclosed. The Senate Commerce com mittee, with chairman War ren Magnuson (D-Wash.) back after an illness, was expected to meet on the rails issue late this week or early next week. House Speaker John W. Mc Cormack (D-Mass.) said the House would wait for the Sen ate to act before voting on any bill. The administration bill was expected to clear the House Commerce committee by a close vote. Helicopter Lost In Gulf of Alaska San Diego - IUPD A jet powered helicopter with four crewmen aboard was lost in the Gulf of Alaska early to day, Navy officials reported. GETS PROMOTION Salem - IUPD - Alfred Shir ley Jr., assistant state parks superintendent in Salem, is being promoted to assistant division engineer" in La Grande. Mark Hatfield among a hand- i i t i : u - - - . tram MY SOLVES I : Five Arrested; Others Said To Be in Custody Portion of Loot Claimed Recovered London IUPD Scotland Yard today cracked the $7.1 million mail train robbery case - one week to the day after it occurred. The police arrested three men and two women and it was unofficially reported that about $280,000 of the loot was recovered. Unconfirmed re ports said eight other persons were taken into custody. None was identified. Arretted Nar Scan An official police announce ment said two of the men were seized "for complicity in the mail robbery." They were arrested at Bournemouth, a seaside re sort, less than 100 miles from the place in Buckinghamshire where a gang of bandits hi jacked a royal mail train last Thursday and made off with 120 bags containing 2'i tons of worn, but valid, pound notes. Both men, according to the police, put up a struggle and had to be subdued by arrest ing officers. About 100,000 pounds ($280,000) was report edly found in two cars they had. ' Nabbed in Raids The other suspects - a man and two women - were arrest ed in raids on London homes by Scotland .Yard's "flying squad" of detectives, but the police . made- no formal: an nouncement -about; them. It was reported that, about 800 pounds ($1,400) was recovered in those raids. A London newspaper , re ported that another man was arrested in Surrey , and that he was carrying 200,000 pounds '($56,000) of the record loot. It said that the suspect was taken into custody at . a house not far from the East Molesey police station. Job Department Pay Cuts Cancelled Salem IUPD Plans to have 650 state department of em ployment workers take a one step pay cut were abandoned today, employment Director David Cameron announced. Instead, all employees will be laid off for one or two days next month. It was announced Wednes day that 100 department em ployees would be laid off, and that 650 remaining workers would get pay cuts. The State Civil Service commission, which met here Wednesday, voiced objection to the one - step reduction in the pay scale. Instead the com mission recommended one or two day layoffs. The pay cuts will average about $15 a month. The cutbacks were ordered because congress has failed to appropriate funds to operate the department. Medford Man Is Lodged in Jail A 31-year-old Medford man who assaulted a city police officer Tuesday has been lodged in Jackson county jail, charged with entering a motor vehicle without consent of the owner, and with assault and battery The district court warrants set bail at $1,000 on each of the two charges. The charges against the man, Marlton Lee Loftis, 11 Tripp st., were an outgrowth of a fracas Tuesday when a city police officer attempted to question him about an as sault of a Medford man ear lier Tuesday. Post Exchange Profits Go To General Fund Salem - IUPD - Profits from the operation of the National Guard Post Exchange should be deposited in the state gen eral fund as funds subject to the military department fund law, Atty. Gen. Robert Y, Thornton said today. n I A H IT MEDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY, AUGUST 15, 1963 RUSH-HOUR TRAFFIC DISRUPTED Firemen drench smouldering remains of a truckload of hay which burned and disrupted rush-hour traffic on the Northwest Express way in Chicago. The blaze was blamed on a cigarette House Group OKs JFK Request for Record Tax Cut Washington - IUPD - Demo cratic tax writers, having vot ed to cut everybody's income taxes, planned today to scale down the relief that would go to taxpayers receiving sizable income from stock dividends. - The House Ways and Means committee Wednesday ap- proved President Kennedy's request for the biggest tax cut in history. Every taxpay er: individual and- corpora tion - would share in the tax relief starting next Jan, 1. Their total tax savings would be somewhat greater than the net reduction of $10.6 billion recommended by Kennedy. . Passage 'Doubtful' Senate Finance Chair man Harry F. Byrd (D-Va.) said today that passage of the tax bill this year is "doubtful" because of the logjam otpther legislation still to be co lurid ered in Congress, particularly in the Senate. "It's all up in the air," the chairman of the Senate Tax Writing nmmittee said in an interview. "We still have to consider the test ban treaty, civil rights, railroad legislation and number of other important things. There are a lot of im ponderables that might hap pen." (Continued on page A9) Timber Operators, Unions in Session Portland -flJPIl- Negotiators for the Timber Operators Council and the two lumber unions met here today to try to ring down the final curtain on the wage dispute that re sulted in the Northwest lum ber strike. At the same time, another settlement on the 30V4-cent hourly formula over three years was announced. Pot latch Forests, Inc., and the International Woodwor k e r s of America, reached agree' ment In Lewiston, Idaho, on a three-year contract covering J.ooo union members. Pot latch had not been struck. The 196-member TOC last met with the union July 25 and offered a 26-cent hourly increase over three years. This was rejected. Since then sev eral TOC members, the giant Georgia-Pacific firm and the Big Six, have settled on the 30 i cent formula. Square Dancers Hold Conclave at Eugene Eugene - IUPD - Some 3,000 persons turned out Wednes day night to open the Far Western Square Dance con vention here. It runs through Saturday. OPINION REQUESTED Coos Bay - IUPD - An at torney general s opinion on the state forcsty board's au thority to lease state timber- land in Clatsop county to Crown-Zcllerbach Corp. for a 75-year period has been re Exchange To Arrive Friday Morning Three students from for eign lands who will attend Rogue Valley schools under the American Field Service scholarship program will ar rive in Medford Friday at 10:29 a.m. by Greyhound bus from San Francisco. Families, with whom the students will. . make their .homes while here, will be at ffte station to greet them -Coming .front'? Kent, - Eng- land, is Miss Judith Guttridge, who will live with the Vernon Tomlinsons and daughter, Gin ny, at Central Point. ; Bart de Beer of Voorburg, The Netherlands, will make his home with the Otto Frohn- mayers and son, Philip, of Medford. Miss Christian Hoberg of Hamburg, Germany; . will be at home with Dr. and Mrs. Herbert Cecil of Ashland. Local Chairman Local chairmen ' for the American Field Service chap ters are Mrs. Robert Sleeter, Medford; Charles (Chuck) Bateman, Central Point, and Robert O'Harra of Ashland. Mrs. H. D. Christensen is Southern Oregon Regional di rector of AFS. Two other students will be arriving soon to continue their educations in southern Oregon. They are Miss Maria Castro of Costa Rica, who will make her home with the Ralph Hibbs family of Med ford, and Tsutomi Sesaki of Tokyo, Japan, who will be attending Grants Pass High school. Students from this area, who have been in other coun tries under the Americans Abroad program, are expected Election Petitions Received by County Petitions containing 238 verified signatures have been received by the Jackson coun ty elections department. The petitions call for a spe cial election on the tax pro gram enacted by the 1963 leg islature. Three other petitions were received this morning, it was reported and signatures on these are being verified to day. The petitions, being circu lated throughout the state, must be signed by 23,185 reg istered voters prior to Sept. 1 for the referendum proposal to be voted on this fall. WEATHER FORECAST: Fair and mild throufh Friday. Afternoon valley winds la-IS miles per hour from northwest. Low to nltht 41-52. Hllh Friday SJ-IS. Temp. Hlchest Yesterday S Lowest This Mornlns 47 Our Skies Tonight ' Sunset today S:I4 p.m. Sunrise tomorrow . .. a.m. The Moon rises . 3:33 ax:. tomorrow and rides hlch. New Moon ... Auf. 19 PROMINKNT STARS The Twins, north ol the Moon. Vmill.C PLANK.TH Mars, low In west t:39 p.m. Jupiter, low In east 11:15 p.m. Saturn, due south .... 1:04 a.m. United tress International full Leased Wirt thrown from a passing auto. The burning hay spread over two of the four lanes. No injuries were reported but the hay, valued at $500, was a total loss. (UPI) Students in City back in time for the fall open ing of school with the excep tion of Rex Culbertson of Del Norte High school in Crescent City. He will spend the entire school year in Denmark. James Rowan of Medford will return from Gottengen, Germany, Miss Karen Krebs of Grants Pass will be home from Stuttgart, Germany, and Miss Judy Gargaetas of Cres cent City will return from Brazil.. ,.. Paul Named To Posf Af Tucson Hospital White City - Banks I. Paul has been appointed assistant director of the Tucson,. Ariz., Veterans Administration hos pital. Paul has been assistant director of the Veterans Ad ministration facility at White City since 1958. Paul, in the Veterans Ad ministration since 1953, grad uated from Columbia univer sity with a degree in hospital administration. He received his bachelor of science from the University of Houston. Paul served in the Navy from 1942 through, January, 1946. He has served in in creasingly responsible posi tions with the Veterans Ad ministration in Brooklyn, N. Y.; Chicago, 111.; Pitts burgh, Pa., and as assistant and acting director at White City. Taylor Assures Treaty Endorsed Washington - IUPD - Gen. Maxwell D. Taylor assured the Senate today the joint chiefs of staff endorsed the nuclear test ban treaty with out any administration "arm- twisting ' and were kept "con stantly abreast" of its develop ment. Taylor assured the Foreign Relations, Armed Services and Atomic committee mem bers considering the treaty that the joint chiefs suffered no "unusual pressures" from the administration in endors ing the pact. And he said he was kept fully informed about negotia tions on the treaty and in structions given Averell Har- riman, chief negotiator in Moscow, and passed this along to the other military leaders. Oregon Weather Blamed on Portland - (UPI) - Noted Den ver Scientist Dr. Irving P. Krick, president of the Amer ican Institute of Aerological Research, says residents of the Pacific Northwest ought to resign themselves to the same kind of "unseasonable dampish weather" they've ex perienced this year. Speaking at the 67th annual convention of the National Association of Mutual Insur ance companies, he blamed fit 58th Year Price 10 Cents No. 126 V vs. Jacksonville Girl Shows Champion Steer at Fair A yearling Angus steer owned by Marcia Dunlap, Jacksonville, took the over all championship of the 4-H beet show '-last-night at ' the Jackson county 4-H and FFA fair. .' . . This was the first time in 24 years that an Angus beef animal nas taken grand cham pionship of the 4-H snow. Reserve champion in th beef show was a Hereford owned by Jary Hansen, Ante lope. '.x - . Reserve' champion Angus steer was shown by Kate Be- ver, Antelope. Reserve . Here ford steer is owned by Candy Gail, Gold Hill. Carol Foote, Central Point, - showed' . the champion Shorthorn steer, and Jim Christensen, Apple- gate,, displayed the reserve champion Shorthorn steer.," Finals Schadulad This afternoon's fair events lead off with 4-H beef show manship with the finals sched uled at 7 o'clock tonight. Dairy judging will be held at the same time. Friday's events start with the dairy judging contests at 8:30 a.m., continuing through 1 p.m. Guide dog obedience judg ing starts at 1 p.m. The awards program and Style Revue will be held at p.m. Friday in the main show barn. Saturday's events start with the agriculture demonstra tions at 8:30 a.m. Dairy show manship starts at the same time. The flower arrangement contest will be held in the show barn at 1 p.m. Saturday, and judging of dairy goats starts at 2 p.m. The annual Bar B-Q will be held at 5:30 p.m. Saturday. The livestock auction will be held at 6:30 p.m. starting with the swine and followed by the beef. POOL TO CONTINUE Salem -IUPD- Grade A milk producers In Harney and Mal heur counties will continue to operate under a distributor pool instead of converting to the market pool established as a result of the 1963 milk price stabilization act, the Ag riculture Department said to day. ON AUCTIONEER BOARD Salem - IUPII - Gov. Mark Hatfield has appointed Allen Tanler of. Redmond to the State Board of Auctioneers to succeed Kerm Decker, Vale. the situation on high altitude nuclear explosions by the So viet Union and the United States. And, he said, the recently-signed nuclear test ban will not help the situation in the near future. '. This summer's weather has been a source of hurt pride for many Oregonians. Dr. Krlck said the high altitude nuclear tests have had a tremendous effect on atmospheric condition I, Hatfield To Favor Sill Referral Salem-IUPD-J. Francyl Howard claimed today that Gov. Marx tiattieid had changed his mind and now favored re ferral of the 1963 legislature's $60 million tax increase package. Hatfield termed the claim "Totally ridiculous and utterly misleading." Howard, editor of weekly newspapers in Corvallis and Albany, is spearheading the drive to gain 23,185 signature refer the tax package to a special election Oct, 15. The lead editorial of today's Benton County Herald In Corvallis, one of Howard's publications, is titled "Governor Hatfield NOW for Referral." Howard noted that earlier Hatfield had urged voters not sign referral petitions. "The governor stated that the $60 million income tax lav was a mess and that he washed gouge, the editorial said. "Our readers will remember that our governor refused sign this unneeded, unwanted and outrageous law. By doing this he delayed the efforts to get ten days," the editorial said. The editorial then declares, in the campaign to get the tax Hatfield's Statement Salam-WPIi-Gov. Mark Haifiald today issued a statement reiterating his opposition to rafarral of the H63 legislature' $80 million revenue increase package The statement daelarad: 1 "There are many people in tax law written by ih 1163 legislature was th best of all possible bills. I share that view. At the same time, it seems unthinkable that w should flirt with fiscal chaos by referring ih bast product on which ih legislature could agr. Thoa who ir alraady concerned about th adequacy of our education program, thoa who ar alraady concerned about th waight of ih property tax burden know that the proposed referral will endanger us on both counts. 1 urge again that anyone considering signing a referral petition rec ognise that no special legislative session is likely to ado)t better measure t: an th on influential convert is Governor Hatfield. Our governor is a wise man and wise men change their minds. - 'We have in our newspaper our governor ... to a local Southern r acute Railroad man, in which he says, quote: 'Oregon s constitution clearly affords the people the op-' portunlty to vote on any program of expenditures that would require an increase in taxes. It has been my recommendation that, should additional taxes be be tied to tax reform and the the people'." Howard's editorial concluded: " ItianK you Governor Hat-. field." - The governor told United I Pres International "I recom mended that an election be held on any tax increase while the legislature was in session. The Democrats wouldn't let it happen, v . . rw l. n nuostinn the people have right to vote, Earlier this year, and in my budset message I said the leg - islature could avoid problems by reaching an early decision on taxes and having an elec tion while the legislature was in session. ' Hatfield said Howard's ed itorial was "utterly mislead ing," aind termed the sugges tion that he had changed his mind as "totally ridiculous. ' Only Three Fires Reported in State By United Praia International Only three fires were re ported on state protected for est and rangelands in Oregon Wednesday. All three were man caused. Largest of the fires was a 40 - acre grass blaze eight miles south of La Grande. Of ficials said it resulted from debris burning, and while it was not on state protected lands, was battled by state personnel to keep it irom iDreadins. The other two blazes, both less than one acre in size, oc curred in the Western Oregon district. Seventeen new, small fires were reported on national Forest land in Oregon and Washington, all but four set by lightning. Nine of the n were in Okanogan and We natchee National forests in Washington. Deleted Budget Items Cannot Be Restored Salem -uTPO- Items cut out of the county budget cannot be restored after final action has been taken on the budget, Atty. Gen. Robert Y. Thorn ton aaid today. The situation arose out of a cut in the Morrow county budget for extension services. A petition was later presented to the county court to restore the cut. Use of the emergency fund was proposed. Thornton said the purpose of the budget law was to set up barriers against greater expenditures than approprl ated. changing Jet streams and bringing about extremes in weather conditions. Oregon has experienced precipitation, while other areas have had extreme cold or dryness. The white-haired sclentist who has set up dozens of weather modification projects In the United States, Canada, and foreign countries - said his organization predicted the weather developments which have occurred this year. MS Tax his hands of this income tax ' referral petitions printed for "the greatest single success bill referred and the most' Oregon who doubt that the now on th books. office a signed letter from required, the increases should issues referred for decision by . farm labor Qit.ce OptnsinMwlioid ft'. A temporary farm labor olllce has opened tn a trailer at 1831 South Pacific High, way' between the Medford 1 Armory and the ball park, Glen Hasty, farm labor rep resentative of the State Env ployment service for Jackson county, announced today. ' The office will serve em ployers ; and . employees in every, .branch of .farm, work and horticulture. Hasty said. The tifflov will h on fhl" - week from 8 a.m. to ff p.m.: . Thursday and. Friday: Start-' ins Monday the regular sched- ' ule of .5 a.m, to 3 p.m. will be. observed .Monday, , Tuesday,; Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. The offioe will be ' open from 6 a.m. to noon on Saturdays. , , Anyone wishing informa tion from the temporary labor office is asked to telephone. 773-6877. i Harvesting of the pear crop to start in a small way this week. Hasty said, with most orchards moving into full swing next week. Since the crop is light he does not ex pect the labor office to re main open as late in the sea son as it: usually does. It is opening about the same time. Kennedy Returns To White House Washington - IUPD - Presi dent Kennedy, his family wor ries eased by the return of his wife from the hospital, flew back to his office today to tackle problems of the Chief Executive. 1 Kennedy traveled by heli copter from the first family's vacation retreat at Squaw Is land to the Otis Air Force Base and then returned to the capital by jet. The President bid goodbye to his daughter, Caroline, and son, John Jr., at Otis after they accompanied him there) on the helicopter. The first appointment on his schedule was a meeting with the new U.S. ambassador to South Viet Nam, Henry Cabot Lodge, former head ot -the American delegation to the United Nations and Re publican vice presidential candidate in 1960. N-Tests His theory is not a simple question such as the hydro gen bomb equals bad weath er, but it is something simi lar: "Something like nuclear explosions causing change in both the course and intensity of the jet stream." The jet stream is a hlgU speed current of air which moves west to east around the globe at altitudes between 30,000 and 50,000 teet. " V: 4 ' quested.