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MEDFORD, OREGON, FRIDAY, AUGUST 23, 1963
No. 133
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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."