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Newspaper Page TextRegional Edition 58th Year Price 10 Cents MEDFORD Tribune 22 Pages Two Sections MEDFORD, OREGON, FRIDAY, AUGUST 23, 1963 No. 133 Mouse Outs Over From JFK Foreig $1 BilHon LISTEN listening directors TO MINER - Rescue workers lie on the ground, to trapped miner David Fellin talking to rescue today. Fellin's voice is piped to the surface from Third Shaft Drilled to Withim Earshot of Metro UN Slates Urgent Meet Alter New Border Flareup United Nation, N.Y. - IUPII -The United Nations Security Council scheduled an urgent meeting on the new Israeli Syrian border flareup today in hopes of preventing further deterioration of the crisis. Before the 11-nation body were twin complaints by Israel and Syria, each accus ing the other of aggression along their mutual frontier. The council had becnv.ex pected to wait unti!-'Monday to consider the crisis, but de cided to convene this after noon at the insistence of Israel that the situation is loo critical to delay action. More Incidents Israeli Ambassador Michael S. Comay, who rushed to the United Nations from Israel Wednesday because of the border clashes, said Thursday the situation was deteriorating and might produce more inci dents. He called on Secretary General Thanl to inform him of the latest developments. The Israeli view was that a council meeting might help prevent further clashes. The 13 Arab delegations were unanimous in blaming Israel for the new tension, and reaffirmed their govern ments' attitude that any at tack on any Arab state "amounts to an attack against all Arab countries." Severl ground clashes and an aerial dog fight have been reported along the Israeli-Syrian frontier this week, The crisis suddenly boiled up Mon day when Israel charged Syria with responsibility for the shooting of two unarmed 19-ycar-old farmers. Salem Fire Causes $100,000 Damage Salem -HOT- Fire fed by a westerly wind destroyed a janitorial supply firm and damaged Blundell's Kanning Kitchen, a custom cannery, here Thursday. A preliminary estimate placed the damage at more than 5100,000. Five Salem fire companies battled the blaze, which broke out about 3 p.m. in a qu irter block warehouse which housed the cannery and Ad vance Supply Co. KIMS WOM S TEST TREATY NOT IN JEOPARDY Washington - itPlt - A Senate leader emceded today that the split amonq scientist! over the nuclear lest ban treaty "could cost a few votes" for its ratification, but he said the pact was not in jeopardy. Chairman J. William Fulbrighl (D-Ark.) of the Senate Foreign Relations committee said in an interview that the cleavage in the scientific community left "no clear pre ponderence for or against the treaty." MrNAMARA CALLED 'CONFIDENCE MAN' Washington - -IPI - Sen. Strom Thurmond (D-S.C.) liken inn Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara to a "confidence man " today accused the Pentagon chief of giving the Sen ate "grossly deceptive" testimony to support ratification of the limited nuclear lest ban treaty. PICKETS APPEAR AT PLANT Coos Bay - 'IN - P'cke lin" PPeared Thursday night .1 the Coos Plywood Corp. plant her. in a dispute report Jdl. eentwing on the company's employment and seniority policiflsv Quiet Coup Shifts Power From Diem In South Viet Nam Saigon, South Viet Nam -WPII - President Ngo Dinh Diem's brother was reported today to have taken over most of the power in South Viet Nam in a quiet palace coup. Well-informed sources said that Ngo Dinh Nhu, who has been Diem's chief political ad viser for years and is head of the secret police, is the one who engineered the massive crackdown on Buddhist and opposition elements in a series of raids early Wednesday as an opening move in the quiet palace takeover. The sources said Diem still is in the presidential palace No Date Set for District Hearing No date has been set yet for a further hearing on the proposed West Side Water dis trict, County Judge Earl M. Miller said this morning. However, the county court has received a map of the area with the boundaries of the proposed district. The county assessor's office has written in the names of prop erty owners within the pro posed boundaries. The map is being shaded to show location of properties whose owners are opposed or noncommittal about joining the district, the county judge explained. The county judge has a copy of the engineering re port prepared by those pro posing the water district. The county engineer's topographi cal report on the area has not ! been received yet, Miller said, j The county court has re- ceived a number of letters i frnm area nrnnprtv owners seeking exclusion from the district. The public hearing held Aug. 7 was continued. The county judge noted then that 128 people of the area signed petitions favoring the district formation and calling for a public hearing. Of those, 103 people were found to be reg istered voters. It takes 50 per cent of the legally registered voters of the area or 100 persons to make the petition acceptable. a microphone which had been beneath the surface. (UPI) carrying out some functions, but that his brother is now actually believed running the government. This, plus the resignation of Vietnamese Foreign Min ister Vu Van Mau in protest against the crackdown against the Buddhists, apparently were the reasons why newly arrived U.S. Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge has been unable to confer with govern ment officials on the boiling crisis. U.S. Embassy officials said Lodge has not conferred with any Vietnamese officials since he arrived Thursday night, and that he will not present his credentials to Diem until Monday or possibly Tuesday. Mau, a Buddhist, was to have met Lodge at the airport when he arrived, but had re signed instead. An eyewitness who saw Mau at the foreign ministry building said the for eign minister said he resigned "to protest against the gov ernment." He added that he had shaved his head in the manner of Buddhist monks to express his sympathy with other Buddhists in the coun try. Officials said Lodge was expected to spend the week end conferring with American officials in an effort to get a clear picture of what has been going on here. He was order ed to Saigon ahead of sched ule by President Kennedy when the sudden crisis erupt ed this week. Warrant Issued for Burglary Suspect A warrant charging bur glary not in a dwelling h . s been issued against David Clarence Moore, 37, of Ku gene and Medford, in con nection with the Sunday morning burglary of Grand view market, city police re ported today. Moore was questioned Sun day when Raymond Harold McCoy, 31. was arrested and charged with the burglary. He was later released. New evidence has been uncovered, police said, which made it possible to obtain the warrant for Moore's arrest. Moore is held in custody in Eugene where he was ar rested on a traffic violation and will be brought to Med ford to face the local charge. He also is wanted in West Virginia and Pennsylvania, officers have been notified. The West Virginia charge is for parole violation. They were not told what the chaige is against him in Pennsyl vania. McCoy, of a local hotel, was arraigned Thursday m irning and bound over to the grand jury with the $1,- 000 bail continued. Stamps and currency, amounting to approximately S204, were missing from the safe of the post office sub station at the Grandview mar ket. Minden, Nev. - 'UPI1 - Mrs. Thomasita Ruiz. 35. Gardner ville, was sentenced to 1-10 years in state prison Thursday for the fatal shooting of an Oregon woman. lowered to him. 331 feet Officials Predict Contracts Might Contact Might . Hazelton, Pa.-IUPII - Rescue workers, undauted by two failures and mechanical breakdowns, drilled an escape shaft within hearing distance of two buried miners today. "That drill isn't far from us and I can hear it real good," reported David Fellin, 58, by telephone through a six-inch food-and-water shaft drilled earlier. Louis Marino, 32, the drill ing foreman, said rescuers ex pected to complete the shaft by 11 a.m. PDT. Later Estimate Officials later estimated that the earliest that they could hope to break through to the miners would be about 2 p.m. (PDT.) Gordon Smith, deputy sec retary of mines, said Feliin's report was extremely encour aging. "Thai sounds pretty good, the drilling is nearly perfect," Smith said. "This hole may be in the pillar," the layer of coal immediately above the tiny chamber in which Fellin and Henry Throne, 28, have been trapped for 11 days. By 7:30 a.m. (PDT,) the powerful 12-inch drill had gone through 275 feet of earth anad rock. Fellin and Throne are at 330 feet. Rig Cable Slips A cable on the 60-ton slip ped off the hoist early this morning and interrupted dril ling for an hour. Another breakdown halted drilling for three hours to Louis Bova, 42, entombed in another chamber near by. But work on that shaft resumed at 6 a.m. and the drilling had pro gressed 40 feet. Despite their long entomb ment, Fellin and Throne ap peared to be in good spirits. "Boy, when this is over, I'm going to take a month off," Fellin said. Library Hours Will Remain Unchanged The library hours for Jack sonville and Central Point must remain the same, the county court reaffirmed to day in a letter to Omar Bacon, librarian for the Public Li brary of Medford and Jack son county. The librarian and library advisory board had recom mended shortening the Jack sonville library hours due to a recorded drop in use and increasing the Central Point library hours due to an in creased use there. The letter also reaffirms the stand of the county court and county budget committee on its contract with the public library. The bounty court then threatened to cancel the li brary contract if the hours should be changed. Bacon had said, while requesting an in crease ir. the county's thare of the library budget, that it might be necessary to curtail branch library hours if the increase were not granted. County Judge Earl M. Mill er said an investigation re vealed the drop in use of the Jacksonville facilities was only a temporary one. Senate Bill Would1 Have Board Meet On Rail Dispute Washingon-lUPP-The Senate Commerce Committee today approved a bill providing for arbitration of the railroad dispute by an independent seven-man board. The legislation would bar chanees in work rules that threaten to set off a nation wide rail strike next Wednes day midnight. Committee Chairman War ren G. Magnuson said he ex pected the Senate to pass the measure on Monday. The bill would create a board consisting of two rep resentatives each from the railroads and unions involved in the four-year-old contro versy. Choose Neu'rals These four would select three other board members. If they could not agree on the other members. Presi dent Kennedy wouuld choose the neutrals. The board first would con sider the two main issues in the dispute employment ol firemen and size of train crews and hand down its ruling within 90 days after the legislation is enacted. Meantime, the bill provides for continued negotiation on secondary issues. But it calls for submission of those mat' ters to the arbitration board if there is no agreement reached within 30 days after the ruling on the two key issues. The arbiters would have 60 days to make binding deci sions on the secondary matters. ' The bill provides however, that no arbitration award take effect until all the is sues are resolved cither through arbitration or nego tiation. Scotland Yard Stages Raids London IUPD Scotland Yard's famed flying squad staged a series of blitz raids throughout London today and sent out "wanted" notices for a suspect known as "The Wea sel" in their massive manhunt for members of the gang which hijacked $7.3 million in Britain's great train rob bery. There were no details of the raids, but detectives appeared confident that they are hard on the trail of the robbers who staged the largest theft in history when they looted the Glasgow - London mail train Aug. 8. Scotland Yard identified the wanted man as Roy John James, 28, a London silver smith known to the under world as "The Weasel." Police also searched the Es sex county village of Coxie Green for a miniature white poodle reported roaming I homeless after being thrown from a ear. They wanted to determine if it is the dog called "Gigi" which was the pel of another suspect gang member, James White, 43. MEET SLATED Salem - IUPH - The interim committee on technological employment will meet here Aug. 28 to hear testimony from the heads of several slate departments, chairman Sen. Don S. Willner, D-Port-land, announced today. PLEADS INNOCENT Prosser, Wash. IUPII- Former Benton County treasurer, John H. Grigg Jr., 62, pleaded innocent Thursday to a charge of misappropriating public funds. WEATHER FORECAST: tnmldr rblf I rloudinrts tnnlglit with po-! iinie innweri or inunapr sloring thll evenlnr. Pirtly rloudy Saturday, l.nw tonight S3, high Saturday la. Temp. HlghFtt Yesterday 7 Lowest This Morning .. A4 Our Skies Tonight Sunset today . 11:0? p.m. Sunrise tomorrow . 1:27 a.m. Mooniet tonight ... 10:30 p.m. first Quarter Aug. 26 PROMINENT STAB Altatr, due south at 10:50 p.m.. Is 56 degrees above the hori zon here. In Panama and Venezuela this sUr Is seen di rectly overhead. PASS OUT PRODUCTS - Rep. Clarence Barton of Coquillc, Ore., Speaker of the Oregon House of Representatives, and Rep. William Holmslrom, Speaker Pro Tern., Game Authority Reveals Drastic Budget Reduction Portland -IUPII- The Oregon Game commission today an-1 nounccd it has slashed its I operations budget for the bi-1 ennium more than $800,000 below the level authorized by the legislature. State Game Director Phil Schneider said the cutback in fish and game programs for the next two years was neces sary because a new forecast of revenue is well below that projected when the budget was prepared more than a year ago. The new estimate is $7,755, 000. He said it has been estimat ed that about 8,800,000 would be available for expenditures. No Reserve Remaining Schneider said there is no reserve remaining in the game fund to carry over into the present biennium. He said also that sales of hunting and fish ing licenses have leveled off and revenues from this source will be about $460,000 less than expected. Revenue from federal sources will be $235, 000 less than forecast, he said. Every function of the com mission's management pro gram will be at a reduced level, he said. Only game law enforcement will be increas ed. Among items cut were sea sonal help, habitat improve ment, and planned expansion of the E. E. Wilson game farm near Corvallis. Veteran Teacher Is Fired by District Oregon City - WPP - Mrs. Jewell Joy, 64, was fired by the directors of School Dis trict 62 Thursday after 19 years of teaching at Eastham school. The action came after a three-day hearing. Mrs. Jcy had been charged with 27 in stances of insubordination. She called most of the charges false, including those that she insulted and belittled Princi pal Charles McLin in front of students and criticized Supt. Edwin Ditto and other school officials. Four Actors Speak at By WILLIAM O. BRYANT United Press International Gadsden, Ala. -'UPli- Actors Marlon Brando. Paul New man, Anthony Franciosa and William Frye moved center stage Thursday night in the real-life drama of the struggle for civil rights. The four stage and screen stars told a tumultuous rally of more than 1.000 wildly cheering Negroes that the civ il rights movement is a wave that will sweep the nation. Bolster Drive The four came here to bol ster a desegregation drive in this racial hot spot in north east Alabama. They spoke in the sanctuary of the Union Methodist church to a crowd pass out products of Oregon Thursday from booth set up at the National Legislative con ference in the Princess Kaiulani hotel in Honolulu, Hawaii. (UPI) MOH Studies Ways To Reduce Budget, Stop New Session Salem lliPU A study of, budget cuts that could be made by Gov. Mark Hatfield without a special session of the legislature is under way Finance and Administration Director Freeman said today. The study was launched in the wake of referral of the 1963 legislature's $B0 million tax increase measure to a special election Oct. 15. If the tax measure is turned down by the voters, Hatfield will have to choose between slashing the budget himself or calling a special legislative session. Couple Escapes jury in Blaze A man and his invalid wife narrowly escaped possible in jury this morning when the trailer house in which they were sleeping exploded and broke into flames, Medford firemen reported. The incident, firemen re ported, was first noted by a neighbor, Guy Grammont, who heard an explosion out side his trailer home and de tected smoke billowing from the broken windows of a trailer belonging to Mr. and Mrs. Jess Johnson. Grammont went into the smoking trailer and carried Mrs. Johnson from her bed and away from the trailer. Johnson escaped through a back door. The fire, which was report ed at 8:08 o'clock this morn ing at the Rogue Valley Trail er court on North Pacific high way, was believed to have started from exploding gasscs in a leaky propane system in the trailer, firemen said. Weather Conditions Cause Wood Closure Salem - HJPli - Weather con ditions have brought another woods closure in the Klamath area, the State Forestry de partment announced tortoy. Effective next Thursday the 31,000-acre Bryant Mountain area southeast of Klamath Falls will be subject to entry by permit only. j Wllll'M uvui uuwi'U ill i s j i II c ! streets. j The aclors promised to meet i with city councilmon and offi ...u:..t. n..nn , i cials of Republic Steel and Goodyear Tire - two of the I town's largest employers - to present Negro grievances. "If that fails, we'll try again and we'll try again," Brando told the gathering. Little Later Asked if the four would lead demonstrations, Newman said, "We'll know a little lat er. Everything Is sort of in limbo right now." Asked if he were willing to go to jail, Newman said, "Yes, but I wouldn't like it." Summer - long demonstra tions against rigid racial cus- Hatfield has indicated he I would not can a special ses- i ? llaa l0' !,M 1 if the legislature couldn I ap- nrW a on.i ,.GVGmlI, mca. sure in a 141-day regular ses sion, there was no reason to expect better results at a special session. Key to whether the cut backs can be made without the legislating apparently is the $141 million basic school luno allotment.. Governor's Move Rare Hatfield asked Atty. Gen. Robert Y. Thornton for an opinion whether the execu tive branch had authority to cut the allotments. It was the first time in four years the Republican governor had asked a formal opinion of the Democratic attorney general. Holmer said the governor could not cut spending by the secretary of slate, state treas urer, the courts, or the 1 :gis luture. "We don't yet know about basic school support," he said. Of the stale's $404 million general fund budget, 58 per cent $234 million goes to education. There are Iwo reasons Hat field may want to avoid a special session of the legisla ture. Such a session would be cosily and the governor would have no way to re strict the session to the fiscal crisis. Phoenix Man Fined In District Court Raymond Earnest Mncldox, 33, of Phoenix, was fined $200 in Jackson county dis trict court this morning after pleading guilty In gross in jury to property of another. Maddox was charged with damaging an electric range when he dumped it in some 1 brush after learning it was stolen. The range had been left with Maddox by an ac quaintance. The original charge had been receiving and concealing stolen property on which Maddox was arraigned in dis trict court in February. Civil Rights Rally toms here have resulted in J more than 1,000 arrests. 1 Four Actors Brando said the Negro com i munitv had oostponed demon- stralions to give the four ac i tors time to "establish com j munications" with the promi , ncnt citizens of the commu nity and city officials, j "Every eftort will be made ; to sit down and try to pro Iduce an atmosphere for nego tiations," Brando said. "We are unaffiliated, interested citizens offering our services -whatever they might be." Frye was the first to speak and his talk was the shortest. "I am deeply moved,'' he said. Then he turned and took his seat along with the three Vote Regarded as Stunning Setback To Administration Measure Goes to Senate for Action Washington - (UPIt - The House today approved a last gasp Republican move to chop more than $1 billion from President Kennedy's foreign aid bill. The 222-188 roll call vote was a stunning setback for administration forces, who had steered the 17th annual aid authorization to the point of passage almost unscathed. The vote cleared the way for final passage of the big authorization bill, which then will go to the Senate. Dissatisfaction The climactic upset wat at tributed partly to week end absenteeism and partly to the growing dissatisfaction ol House members with the con tinued outpouring of taxnay- dollars. Post-World War II military and economic as sistance already has toppei $100 billion. Despite these factors House' leaders previously had man aged to turn aside all earlier efforts to cut the program. They also had blocked err tempered most of a whole i barrage of proposed new re- stnctions They went into today's cru cial vote happy with these successes but frankly wor ried about the outcome on this final assault on the bill. It previously had been trim med by the foreign affairs committee more than $400 million below the President's i ,.pnurl package Amendment The administration debacle came on a package amend ment offered by Rep. E. Ross Adair, (R-Ind.), one of six GOP members of the foreign affairs committee who voted against sending the bill to the House. Adair wrapped up cuts of $600 million in development loans, $150 million in funds for the Alliance for Progress, $225 million in military as sistance and $50 million in the program's "contingency fund." This was a total reduction of $1,025,000,000 and cut the bill s total authorization to $3,062,075,000, or $1,463,250, 000 under Kennedy's request. Mrs. Kisfner Said In Fair Condition Mrs. Betty Rose Kistner. 38, of 236 North Ivy St., who' was beaten by an unknown assailant early Thursday morning, was listed as "in fair condition" at Rogue Val ley hospital today. City police are continuing their investigation of the case but had nothing to re port on their findings. Mrs. Kistner told police she had fallen asleep while watching television at her apartment and was awakened at 2 a.m. by a man who was beating her on the head with a rock. When she screamed, the man, who was wearing a white cloth over his face, fled from the room. There were no items re ported missing from the room and the woman reported no attempt by the intruder to ob tain money, according to Medford police. other arlor in hich-backcd chairs on each side of the pulpit. Franciosa said. "Regardless of the great struggle we're go ing through, the greatest thing I see here is joy." Newman said, "This means something to me - very touch ing, very moving. I hope it means someting to you too." Brando was the last to speak. "As soon as I walked into this room I saw something indescribable. Something very moving, something that could not be muted. It is that civil rights is going to win. You people know a lot more about civil rights than we do be cause you haven't had them."