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Tffl 1SKE i rail T Regional Edition 58th Year Price 10 Cents Special Election Medford Tribune Due Oct. 15; Over 20,000FavorVote 26 Pages Two Sections MEDFORD, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 21, 1963 No. 131 XS ' ' . :wft ,4 WWW"' PATROL STREETS South Vietnamese soldiers patrol street in provincial city of Hue, which has been under martial law since last Friday, following the fifth Buddhist suicide by fire to protest religious policies of the Ngo Dinh Diem Throughout South Viet Ham Armed Troops Hit Headquarters of Buddhist Leaders Washington - IUPII - The United States today de nounced in blunt terms what it called "serious re pressive measures" by the Diem regime in South Viet Nam against Buddhist lead ers. Saigon, South Viet Nam -lUWl - President Ngo Dinh Diem declared martial law throughout South Viet Nam today and sent his heavily armed troops storming through pagoda headquarters of Buddhist opposition. At least 100 Buddhist monks were arrested in raids carried out under a state of siege decreed by Diem amid reports that a coup d'etat was imminent. In a massive crackdown on anli - government elements, the president appointed a new military governor of Saigon and a new chief of staff. He also imposed press censorship. The long - smouldering religious-political crisis in this Southeast Asian country ex ploded suddenly early today when thousands of soldiers and policemen swept into the main Xa Loi pagoda and rounded up more than 100 monks. The government forces tired pistol shots and used tear gas bombs and hand gre nades as they swarmed into the center of Buddhist oppo sition to Diem's authoritarian regime. Raid Other Pagodas Soldiers also raided at least three other pagodas in the most serious flare-up of vio lence in the 15-week dispute between the government and the Buddhist majority over alleged religious discrimina tion. Thousands more troops were deployed at vital points in and around Saigon - at the airfield, the national radio building, the presidential pal ace, telephone and power sta tions and road intersections. It could not be determined immediately whether there were any casualties in the raids. tWSBRIIFS ITIMS FROM IS AOUND THI 010H SOVIETS ISSUE WARNING TO CHINA Moscow-lfl-The Soviet Union warned Communist China today to abandon its dreams of producing nuclear arms in quantity before the effort ruins the country's economy. UN TEAM RUSHES TO FLARE-UP Jer usalem, Israel 'I Pi United Nations truce observers to day rushed an investigation into the latest flare-up be tween Israel and Syria in anticipation of an emergency U.N. Security Council meeting on the tense situation. U.S.. RUSSIA WEIGH ADVISABILITY Geneva-'IPI'-The United States and the Soviet Union ap peared today to be cautiously weighing the advisability of opening serious negotiations on means of preventing sur prise attack. KHRUSHCHEV URGES ECONOMIC COOPERATION Belgrade. Yugoslavia - ilPH - Soviet Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev urged the Socialist countries today to work out a program of "economic cooperation" which he called the best way of outproducing capitalism and insuring com munhni'i eventual triumph. Declares Ashland Receives $45,000 From State For Hospital Site A s h 1 a n d The City of Ashland has received $45,000 from the state board of higher education for the property on Siskiyou blvd., the location of the old hos pital. City Attorney Harry Skerry announced at the Tuesday evening meeting of the city council that the title to the approximately two acres of property had been cleared. The city has been at- Bomb Rips Home Of Negro Leader; Angry Mob Forms By United Press International A bomb blasted the front of a Negro integration leader's home in Birmingham, Ala., Tuesday night digging a two foot hole in the ground and bringing 2,000 angry rock hurling Negroes to the scene. Shots were fired but no seri ous casualties were reported. Police fired over the heads of the milling Negroes and several shots were fired from a darkened area by unidenti fied persons. The blast, heard 10 miles away, shattered windows, loosened bricks, blew in a garage door, damaged two cars and slightly damaged one room inside the house of at torney Arthur Shores, a long time court battler in Alabama integration cases. One policeman was struck in the head with a rock taken to a hospital during a tense period when Negroes congre gated near the site of the bombing. In other developments in the nation's turbulent racial scene, Negro demonstrators promised more protest march es today in racially-tense Plaquemine, La., a small town on the Mississippi River. In Mobile, Ala., a federal court judge was scheduled to rule on a plan to desegregate the city's grade schools. Diem government. Today, the U.S. Embassy in Tokyo an nounced that all of South Viet Nam has been placed under martial law, as police and soldiers raided four Buddhist pagodas. (UP1) Martial Law tempting for about three years to clear the title to the property so it could be sold. The property will now be added to the Southern Oregon campus. The old hospital building last year was used as a supplemental men's dor mitory. No plans have been announced for the use of the property. In other action, the council heard a request by Allen Por ter, Medford, to establish a business at the Ashland air port to sell gasoline, service planes and give flight instruc tions. The city currently holds the lease on the property. After considerable discus sion the council took the re quest under advisement. It was noted that the city was in favor of having someone at the airport at all times. The offer by Pacific Power and Light company to pur chase Ashland's light system is being studied by the city's electrical committee, it was stated. The committee will re port at the next meeting of the city council, Sept. 5. The council accepted the resignation of John Reed from the city planning com mission. Reed, a long time member of the group, resign ed due to ill health. Two Arrested for Shoplifting in City Two adults were arrested for shoplifting in Medford Tuesday and three juveniles were apprehended and re leased to the custody of their parents, city police reported. Dick Paul Dice, 38, of 1501 North Riverside ave.. was lodged in Jackson county jail on a charge of petty larceny after his arrest at the Big Y Shopping Center at 6:10 p.m., police said. Roscoe Galey Harrington, 68, of Boise, Idaho, was ar rested for shoplifting at the Pay Less Drug store at 585 East Jackson St. Two juve niles also were arrested for shoplifting at the same store. They were released to their parents. Harrington is lodged in Jackson county jail. Another juvenile was taken into custody for shoplifting at Singler's Auto Supply at 220 East Jackson st. He was re leased to his mother upon the advice of the juvenile officer, police said. Recent Rains Lower State Fire Threat By United Press International Recent rains and cloudy conditions have reduced fire danger slightly in Western Oregon, forestry officials said today. The State Forestry depart ment reported 12 fires burned 20 acres of state-protected land Tuesday. The largest was a 10-acre blaze near Roscburg All but one were man caused and all have been con trolled. The U.S. Forest Service re ported 10 fires in Oregon and Washington in the 24 hours ending at 10 a.m. They burned I less than an acre. Dr. Minear Visits Team Workshop At Hoover School Dr. Leon Minear, state su perintendent of public instruc tion for Oregon, visited the elementary team teaching workshop at Hoover school today. Dr Minear observed filming of the worshop, which is be ing done for distributtion throughout the state in con nection with the Oregon Pro- gram, which is sponsoring the workshop here. He also will be in the film. The workshop is moving'In lo its last days with several television presentations sched uled over the closed circuit at Hiover. A seminar this afternoon will be on the role of the principal and public relations. Thursday morning's sched ule includes science and so cial studies in the morning and a public meeting in the gym starting at 1 p.m. to morrow. Area residents have been invited to attend the public meeting at which ques tions concerning team teach ing may be asked for mem bers of the Lexington, Mass., to answer. The four - member team from Lexington has been con ducting the workshop here. Friday is the last day of the workshop, but no tele vision presentations have been scheduled since the workshop will be evaluated through a testing procedure for students participating and discussions among the teachers partici pating. 1,664 Signatures Are Verified Here A total of 1,664 signatures have been verified on peti tions received by the Jackson county elections department. The petitions call for a spe cial election on the tax pro gram enacted by the 1963 leg islature. Nine petitions have yet to be checked, an elections de partment spokesman said. A large number of petitions are expected this afternoon. All such petitions must be in to J. Francyl Howard, Al bany, president of the Citi zens' committee for Economi cal and Equitable Taxation by Aug. 27. 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 tonight. Parl iv rloudv and rooler Thurs day. Low tonight 31, high Thursday near 80. Temp. Highest Vesterdav J Lowest This Morning . 48 Our Skies Tonight Sunset today Sunrise tomorrow Moonsrt tonight First Quarter PROMINENT STAR :ilj p.r 25 I I 9:41 p.r ... Aug. : Veza. high overhead 9:15 P-r VISII1LE PLANETS Mars, sets S:?J pr Saturn, In southeast 9:12 p.r Jupiter, low In east 10:51 P U.S. Preparing To Resume Tests If Ban Breached Washington-UJPIi-The United States is making preparations to resume atmospheric testing in the "unhappy eventuality" that Russia should breach the nuclear test ban treaty. President Kennedy told his news conference Tuesday that $22 million had been allo cated to prepare Johnston Is land in the Pacific for a re sumption of tests if they should be required. Commission Asks Court to Refer Problem to DA Residents of the South Tal ent interim zoned area and individual members of the Jackson county planning com mission are disturbed over the lack of action to correct al leged violations of a wrecking yard in the area, the planning commission has written the county court. The county court referred the matter to the district at torney for investigation. The letter signed by C. O. Lovejoy, planning commis sion president, advised the county court that the wreck ing yard is a non-conforming use within the interim zone ordinance. Slate statute provides that non-operating v e h i c 1 e s for sale or display outside of wrecking yard enclosure shall be in an area of not more than 5 per cent of the total wrecking yard area. However, the wrecking yard in question has an area as large or larger than the enclosed area and 90 per cent of it contains wreck ed vehicles, the commission charged. Also, auto parts and junk are scattered outside the premises, although stale law says the wrecker must keep the outside premises clear and clean, it charged further. "If found to be in violation, the county court is asked to request the state motor ve hicle department to revoke the license to operate this wrecking yard unless Hie wrecker agrees to, and docs comply with the provisions of state law," the commission urged. 30 Projects Are Under Way in City There are 30 public works projects now going on in Medford in the area of street improvement, and installation of sanitary and storm sewers, Vernon Thorpe, city engineer, announced today, reporting two more paving projects which will get under way this week. One is on Siskiyou blvd., and the other on Olwell Way. The Siskiyou blvd. project calls for placing base rock on part of the street and regu lar paving on about 150 feet, Thorpe said. The contract, granted to M. C. Lininger and Sons, was for $3,697.50. The project extends from 10th st. to Willamette ave. On Olwell Way, one block is to be paved and gutters and sidewalks installed. Portland Firm Low Bidder on Project A Portland firm submitted the apparent low bid for the construction of three du plexes in Crater Lake Na tional park, according in Na tional Park service officials. Roy Berg, Por'l'ind, bid $138,582 for construction of the two-story building which will include six living units each. An additional bid of $5,209 was for installation of utilities. Garage and utility areas will be on the first flour with living quarters on he second floor. Each unit will include three bedrooms, living and dining rooms, kitchen and bath. Other bidders w"re Lorcn S. Ritchie, Medford: Thomas J. Parker and Associates, Ashland, and Ausland Con struction company, Grants Pass. He cited this preparation as one of four safeguards be ing carried out by the govern ment to protect U.S. security under Ihe test ban pact. Kennedy said the three oth ers were: "Activated and vital" nu clear laboratories to maintain testing readiness; continuation of a "vigorous scries" of un derground tests, and improv ed methods of detecting any clandestine nuclear tests. The test ban dominated dis cussion at the wide-ranging news conference in which Kennedy also called for ap proval of his foreign aid pro gram, reported a decline in Soviet troops in Cuba, ruled out a summit meeting with Soviet Premier Nikita Khru shchev, and rejected job quotas for Negroes. The President rejected a charge by Dr. Edward Teller, "father of the H-bomb," that the administration curtailed atmospheric tests in 1961 for political reasons. Kennedy iid. "I don t think that charge is valid." He said that every atmos pheric lest produced fallout and "we would, it seems to me, be remiss in not attempt ing to keep the number of tests to the minimum consist ent with our national secur ity." Kennedy noted there were 36 atmospheric tests in the 1961 scries plus 97 under ground blasts in the last two years. Brown Says Treaty Would Better U.S. Military Position Wnshinglon-IUPD-The Penta gon's research chief told the Senate today that the limited nuclear lest ban treaty would "actually improve somewhat" rather than damage the U.S. military position. Dr. Harold Brown testified that even if Ihe Soviet Union cheated on the treaty "to the maximum extent possible with secret tests, they could not obtain "any substantial military gain" compared with unrestricted nuclear testing. The Defense Department re search -engineering director fully supported the treaty and the general views given pre viously to the Senate Foreign Relations, Armed Services and Atomic committees by Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara. Brown's testimony follow ed assurances by President Kennedy to the Senate that he would carry out "safe guards" to protect U.S. se curity against possible Soviet treaty violations. The President, at his news conference Tuesday, also re jected a charge of physicist Edward Teller that the Amer ican series of atmospheric tests in 1961-62 was curtailed for political reasons by the administration. Jail Administrative School Is Slated A jail administrative one day school will be sponsored by the Jackson county sher iffs office Sept. 3. The training will be con ducted by Harold R. Swenson, correctional program officer, U. S. department of justice, bureau of prisons. The classes will be held in the courthouse auditorium, j and will cover all phases of jail operation. City, county and slate law enforcement agencies from Jackson, Josephine and Klamath counties plan to send representatives. , I Police Press Search I For Holdup Suspect l Portland - UPli - Police to- day pressed their search for a well - dressed held up the I branch of the Willamette Savings and Loan association in northeast Portland Tucs- ' day morning. I The man, who was reported carrying a chrome-plated re I volvcr. escaped with $3,163. PRESSES EAR A rescue worker Dresses his ear to the six, inch pipe Tuesday through which communication and sup plies are maintained with trapped miners David Fellin, 58, and Henry Throne, 51, some 300 feet below the surface. The two trapped miners communicated with the third miner, in another part of the shaft, by tapping on the wall and told rescuers that Louis Bova, 42, not covered with rock. (UPI) Crews Drill New Hole in Effort To Save Miners Hazelton, Pa. -(UPD- Rescue workers began anew today the grueling task of drilling through 331 feet of rock and earth to reach three miners buried for nine days by a cave in. Teller Invitation To Meet Recalled While Sulphur Springs, W. Va. -IUPII- Southern governors uninvited" Dr. Edward Tel ler from their annual meeting today to avoid a battle over the hotly disputed nuclear test ban treaty. Teller, who opposes ratifi cation of the treaty, was "in vited" to the annual confer ence of southern and border stale governors by the South ern Interstate Nuclear Board, a compact among the states, apparently with the idea he would speak on the final day of the meeting here. But when the governors got wind of Tuesday's invitation, conference chairman Gov. Or val Faubus of Arkansas let it be known thai the distinguish ed nuclear scientist would not be asked to address the gover nors. Faubus advised Teller it might be embarrassing for him to appear at the plush mountain resort hotel where the conference was winding up today. Teller was reported to have departed Washington Tuesday night on an overnight train, then left the train before it arrived here and returned to Washington. He was to speak at the Na tional Press club in Washing ton today. Soviet Troops Evacuate Cuba Washington - IUPII - Some 2,000 Soviet military person nel, mostly combat troops, ap pear to have left Cuba in the last three months, sources with access to U.S. intelli gence reported today. President Kennedy told his news conference Tuesday there had been "a decline" in Soviet forces in Cuba in the past two and one-half months. gunman who i But he did not give the num Walnut Park ; ber. Kennedy said the U.S. mili tary intelligence community believed the troops remaining were mainly concerned with training the Cuban armed forces rather than being "con centrated military units." If yM the third, was bleeding but A 12-inch drill ground to within 138 feet of two of the miners , Tuesday but the hoped-for escape channel had to be abandoned when one of the trapped men, David Fel lin, 58, reported by telephone that pressure was causing cracks in Ihe ceiling of . the tiny chamber where he is entombed with Henry Throne, 28. The third miner, Louis Bova, 42, is separated from Fellin and Throne by a wall of debris. Sixteen hours were con sumed in sinking the probe. Its withdrawcl indefinitely prolonged the desperate effort to rescue Fellin, Throne and Louis Bova. Suggests Removal Fellin, communicating through a six-inch-wide hole drilled earlier, suggested that the probe be moved. Of ficials withdrew their equip ment and planned a new probe 18 feet west of the present hole, to start as soon as the drill could be moved. Fellin and Throne have been in good condition throughout their ordeal. They joked and conversed with their wives over the phone Tuesday. But for 39 hours since 9 a.m., EDT, Monday Bova had remained silent; he was feared dead. Three taps the traditional sign of safety in the Pennsyl vania mines disclosed late Tuesday that Bova still was alive. Fellin, who had shout ed to his co-worker to tap, relayed the dramatic news to the surface. CONE APPOINTED Salem-lUPI)-E. E. Cone, Eu gene, has been appointed a member of the State Speed Control Board for a two-year term beginning Sept. 10, the governor's office announced today. "But there are still Russians there," Kennedy said, "and tliis is still a matter of con cern to us." Asked to estimate how many Soviet troops had been withdrawn, the President re plied: "It Is difficult for us to say precisely." The a d m 1 n 1 s tration has been reluctant to make public its estimates of Soviet troops in Cuba for these reasons: Dif ferent intelligence channels vary on how many troops have left and on how many were there in the first place. Officials believe the Russians are likely to remove more troops if they can do so quietly- Less Than 3,000 Names Still Needed Salem-OJPIl-The 1963 legis lature's $60 million tax in crease measure has been re ferred to a special election Oct. 15, a survey by United Press International revealed today. A check of county clerks in each of Oregon's 36 counties showed more than 20,208 re- referral petition signatures al ready have been certified, and more than 8,254 have been turned in but not yet check ed. A total of 23,185 signatures are needed before the spe cial election can be called. Anticipating a possible re ferral of the tax increase package, the legislature set aside $300,000 and the Oct. 15 date for a special election be fore it adjourned last spring. More Petitions Expected Clerks in several counties said they expected more pe titions to be turned in. They reported they were finding from 80 to 90 per cent of the signatures submitted to be valid. This would mean that the 8,254 still unchecked signa tures would produce mora than the total needed to re quire the special election. When told of the poll re sults, Gov. Mark Hatfield told UPI "if the remaining signa tures are valid, the people will have to face up to the reality of deciding the ques tion of vastly increased prop erty taxes or vastly decreased educational opportunities." Circulation of petitions was begun Aug. 6 by J. Francyl Howard, editor of weekly newspapers in Albany and Corvallis. Deadline Sept. 1 Deadline for filing petitions with the secretary of state is 5 p.m. Sept. 1. Education groups, organiz ed labor and the Associated Oregon Industries are on rec ord as opposed to referral, and a spirited pre-election battle could result over the issue. At the special Oct. 15 elec tion Oregon voters would either approve or reject the legislature's tax measure. If approved It would become law, retroactive to Jan. 1, 1963. If rejected, Hatfield would have to trim $60 million from the state's $404 general fund biennium budget, or call a special legislature session so lawmakers could make the cuts or enact a new tax meas ure. Scotland Yard Net Closes on Robbers London flJPD Scot land Yard appeared today to ba closing the net on Britain's record train robbery gang and the remainder of its S7.3 mil lion loot. "We certainly think arrests are immiment and we hope they will be," Det. Supt. Ger ald McArthur in charge of headquarters for the manhunt at Aylesbury, Bucking ham- shire, said Tuesday night. It was the most optimistic police statement to date in the search for the well-organized gang that robbed a Glasgow London mail train near Ched dington two weeks ago. Five persons have been arrested so far in connection with the crime and $667,420 of the loot recovered. A London newspaper, the Daily Herald, reported that an underworld stool pigeon has given police full details on how the robbery was car ried out and the names of 31 members of the gang includ ing hijackers and accomplices. It was variously estimated there were 21,000 or 22,000 Soviet military personnel in Cuba at the height of the Oc tober crisis. Kennedy said previously that 5,000 left in November and, taking into ac count some new arrivals, a net of some 4,000 left during March and April. This would have left some 12,000-13,000 in late April. The departure of 2,000 more would leave 10,000-11,000 So viet military personnel In. Cuba. Most of the 2,000 recent departures were reported to have been combat troops. There have been 5,000 to 6,000 of these. - o O
