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Newspaper Page TextM IMl la IN p, mmm Regional Edition Medford 18 Pages Two Sections Diem Indefinitely Postpones National Assembly Elections Balloting Was Set for Saturday; No Reason Given Saigon. South Viet Nam (VPIl South Vietnamese Pres ident Ngo Dinh Diem, cur rently embroiled in a crisis with the country's Buddhists, today postponed National As sembly elections until further notice. A brief statement released by the government-controlled Vict Nam press agency an nounced Diem's decision, but gave no further details. It of fered no explanation for the postponement. The elections had been i scheduled for next Saturday. . The press agency said the ! president of the republic ! signed the order this morn ing. The order read: "... Application of law 13-63 of June 17, 1963, set ting the date for the elections to the third National Assem bly on Aug. 31, 1963 is post poned throughout the na tional territory of Viet Nam, from the day of the publica tion of this order and until further notice." Arrest Foreign Minister The disclosure that For eign Minister Vu Van Mau had been arrested threatened lo trigger more antirgovern ment demonstrations by mili tant students angered by the crackdown on t h e country's Buddhists. Reliable sources said Mau, who shaved his head in pro test against the government's repression of Buddhists, was arrested Monday as he was about to leave for a pilgri mage to India. Mau submitted his resig nation last week, but Presi dent Ngo Dinh Diem refused to accept it. On Saturday, Mau appeared at a student protest rally. The foreign minister has become a hero to the students, and his arrest was expected to cause further anger among the youth who have risen against Diem's government. New Safeway Store Under Construction Construction on the new Safeway store in the Med ford Shopping Center has started, according to store of ficials. The new one-story struc ture will have 28.000 square feet, substantially larger than the present store. This will allow for wider aisles in addition to increased display a'reas. The store will have its own bakery, expanded gourmet section, additional space for frozen foods and dairy prod ucts, and larger meat and pro duce facilities. There will be 11 check stands and improv ed parking facilities, it was noted. This is the second Safe way store to be built in Med ford. Another new store on West Main st. is expected to be open for business within the next two or three months. NEVS(BRIEFS ITEMS FROM 1i JL AI,0UND THI 010,1 LEADERS SATISFIED WITH TALKS Pula. Yugoslavia - HIM' - Yugoslav President Tito and visiting Soviet Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev are "highly satisfied" with their current secret talks, aides said today. CHINESE ACCUSED OF RACIST POLICIES Moscow - I PI - The Soviet Union accused Communist China today of advocating racist policies aimed at dividing the world on the basis of color. IKE'S RESERVATIONS DISCOUNTED Washington - in - oen. said today he did not think lormer President Dwtght D. Eisenhower's call for a "reservation" would hurt chances for Senate ratification of the nuclear test ben treaty. CAMBODIA BREAKS WITH VIET NAM Pnompenh. Cambodia - 'IPI' - The government of Cam bodia announced today it hat decided to lever diplomatic regions with Soulh viei nam. ej MEDFORD, OREGON, SEN. CLAIR ENGLE Condition Serious Senator in Serious Condition After Brain Operation Washington-iUPIl- Sen. Clair Engle (D-Calif.) was reported in serious condition today with a brain ailment. He un derwent an apparently suc cessful operation for the con dition last week end, an aide said. The 53-year-old senator's administrative assistant, Charles E. .Bosley, .said En- Watchful Waiting Air in Washington Washington -OIPD An air of watchful waiting settled like a Potomac river fog to day over the nation's capital the target of an expected 100, 000 or more civil rights marchers Wednesday. Officials and ordinary cit izens of the District of Colum bia, wise in the ways of in augural parades and heroes' homecomings, went about their last-minute preparations for the mammoth rally in a businesslike, almost blase, manner. Police posted "no parking" signs in a 100-square-block area in the heart of the city, including some of the . capi tal's most famous landmarks. The parking ban, scheduled to begin at one minute past mid night tonight, loomed as the major problem for the thou sands of government workers who stream into Washington each weekday. Injunction Bars Action on Bend Inn Portland - WPli - Federal Judge William G. East today issued a temporary injunction barring any action that would affect the title of status of the Pilot Inn at Bend. The injunction was issued at the request of the U. S. attorney's office, which has filed a complaint that owners William and Gertrude Corbett made a fraudulent mortgage assignment to defeat govern ment tax liens. j. wunam ruiongm iu-ik.i TUESDAY, AUGUST 27, ' I gle s condition must neces- sarily be considered serious' because of the delicacy of the operation. But Bosley said En gle appeared to be making a good recovery. Bosley said physicians re ported Engle was suffering from a "congenital condition of the brain, indicating he was born with it. Engle entered Doctors hospital here Thurs day for extensive tests follow ing some preliminary test af ter experiencing some pain during a recent visit to Cali fornia, Bosley said. Some Effect The condition was said to have had some effect on blood circulation in Engle's right arm and leg, Bosley said. Surgery was performed Sat urday to remove "a small amount of tissue" from the brain, Bosley said. "The oper ation was to all appearances successful." Routine laboratory tests on the tissue were expected to be completed some time today. County Court to Consider Letter Jackson County Judge Earl M. Miller this, morning said the county court would follow up the district attorney's let ter on the alleged violation of the South Talent interim zone. The judge did not say when this would be done,- however. Indications were that the county court would study the letter during tomorrow's regu lar agenda meeting. Miller said he did not know about the new law, but did know the county court has no control over whether a wreck ing yard should or should not receive a license. This he learned through correspon dence with officials of the state department of motor vehicles, he said. District Attorney Alan B. Holmes has written the coun ty court that a new law be comes effective Sept. 2 which will give the state the power to revoke wrecking yard li censes. Meanwhile, a district at torney's opinion is pending on an alleged violation of the North Central Point zone (not an interim zone). Residents charge that a trucking oper ator is in violation of the zoning ordinance. The zone in cludes an exclusive farm dis trict, residential-farm district and residential-suburban dis trict. Huckleberries Are Reported Thin, Poor Huckleberries in the Pros- j pect, Butte Falls and Union ;crecK areas tnis year are mm and poor, Rogue River Na tional forest rangers reported. Blackberries in the Apple gate area, however, are good, according to reports. The poor crop of huckleber ries is due to a late frost, rariCK said. 58th Year Price 10 Cents Tribune 1963 No. 136 Mansfield Issues Appeal as Strike Deadline Nears Washington - OIPIl - Senate Democratice Leader Mike Mansfield called on manage ment and unions today to keep the nation's railroads op erating until Congress can deal with the dispute. The Montana Democrat's appeal came as both sides an nounced preparations for a na tionwide strike scheduled for 12:01 .m. Thursday. The carriers showed no im mediate sign of budging from their plan to put into effect at that hour new work rules which would idle about 700, 000 railworkers, including both those on strike and those affected by the walkout. Announce Embargo Shortly before Mansfield made his appeal, the major railroads announced an em bargo on all freight effective Wednesdy midnight. But they promised to try to get to their destinations any travelers on trains when the strike dead line rolls around. For their part, the five rail brotherhoods involved in the four-year-old dispute said that instructions will be1 given to night to about 150 union of ficials who will act as strike captains in the even of an walkout. " They . will be assigned . to every major rail terminal to co-ordinate strike activities if there is a shutdown, a spokes man said. In New York, a union spokesman said Long Island Railroad workers might jump the gun-going on strike be fore Wednesday morning's rush hour. JFK Tax Program Shelved by Group Washington -IUPD- President Kennedy's tax program, cut by an additional $130 million, was put on the shelf today until the second week in Sep tember. In a surprise setback for the administration Monday, the House Ways & Means com mittee voted unanimously to junk a complex sectiofi of the big tax measure imposing ad ditional taxes on heirs of big estates. The action sliced an esti mated $130 million in revenue from the bill and cut still further the revenue-raising "reforms" sought by the Pres. idem to balance liberal rate reduction for individual tax payers and businesses. Chairman Wilbur D. Mills (D-Ark.) at the same time an nounced that no further meet ings on the bill would be held until Sept. 10. Evans Indicted On Murder Charge Portland (UPll A handsome Hawaiian-born mechanic was indicted on a charge of first degree murder by the Mult nomah County Grand Jury Monday in the strangulation death of a wealthy Idaho woman here earlier this month. Circuit Judge Charles Crookham then appointed Portland attorneys Donald Layman and Stephen King to defend Robert Joseph Evans 26, Honolulu. Evans is charged the death of Mrs. Irene Davis, 41, Payette, whose partially; expect to announce the results j it was pointed out, the school clothed body was found in a ' of a wage agreement vote by park method affords opportun- bathtub in a room at the Port land Hilton Hotel Aug. 6. House Group Ofcoys Fallout SrWfor Plan Washington - HJPIl - The na - tional civil defense program took its biggest step forward in congressional history today when the House Armed Serv ices committee approved a limited fallout shelter plan designed to protect 11 million Americans. (g WAVES HAND - Miner David Fcllin, 58, waves his hand early today to the crowd cheering his rescue as he is carried to a nr ' 1 Mf 1& V CARRIED ON STRETCHER - Henry Throne, 28, is shown here, shortly after he was pulled lo the surface by rescuers, being carried on a stretcher to a hospital. Cost of Living Soars to Record Peak During July Washington - itlPli - Living costs soared lo a new peak in July because of sharp price increases for pork and fresh vegetables, the Labor Depart ment reported today. The department's consumer price index hit a record high of 107.1, up five tenths of 1 per cent over the previous month. This means it took $10.71 in July lo buy the same goods and services that cost $10 in the base period 1957-59. The rise triggered cost-of-living pay increases of from 1 to 3 cents an hour for 1,025, 000 workers in the auto, aero space, farm and construction equipment and trucking in dustries. Price Expert A Labor Department price expert said the July increase was the largest for any month since last September. Arnold Chase, assistant commissioner of labor statis tics, said he expected prices to ge "reasonably stable" dur ing the rest of 1963. He fore saw no major increases. Pork prices jumped by more than 5 per cent last month as farmers sent fewer hogs to market. Rises also were reported in prices of apples, lettuce, tomatoes, beef and veal. Unions To Announce Result of Wage Vote Portland - IPI - Officials of i the International Woodwork ers of America (IWA) and the I Lumber and Sawmill Workers Union (LSW) said today they employecs of Timber Opera-, jty for substantial savings tors Council plants laic' through sharing the cost of Wednesday afternoon. j acquisition, development and The workers are voting on , maintenance of the site bt whether to accept or reject a j tween the city and the school Ihrnn.vriar piinlpafl rallinu for i rlivtriM 1 a wage increase of 30 1 2 cents an hour. Lcaders of both unions have recommended acceptance of the pact, arrived at Aug. 15 after extended negotiations and some strikes against mem bers of the l!)6-firm employer waiting helicopter for the trip to the hos pital. (UP1) Improvement Needs Outlined for City's Advisory Committee There will be 14 capital improvement needs in Mcd ford's planning submitted to the Capital Improvement com mittee. City Manager Robert A. Duff said at today's meet ing of the advisory group. Some of them, however, he slated, will be lumped under the public works program so 14 meetings of the committee will not be required to con sider the proposals. Duff made the announce ment in answer to queries from the group which heard Ned M. Langford, planning director, and Robert L. Ha worth, park and recreation director, present the school park plan for which land ac quisitions totaling $167,705 me needed in the immediate future. This acquisition would in clude lands adjacent to exist ing school buildings and pres ent school sites. No Action Taken No action was taken by the Capital Improvement commit tee, chairmaned by Bob Cun ningham in the absence of Dick Travis. The committee announced that consideration will be given to priorities after all departments have prcsrn -H 'heir plans in the complete capital improvement program. The committee will then recommend certain pri orities to the city council. The two men appearing be fore the committee today ex- , plained the school-parks con cept. The basic proposal, n was emphasized, is that wherc ever possible schools and parks be developed as inte grated units. A park facility located adjacent to a school will have essentially the same service area as the school. In addition to the function al advantages of a school site, I Accessibility to the school ; building from the park elim- i inates the need for the con- struction of a separate recrea tion building for indoor ac tivity, it was noted. Some of the costs of a Joint facility could bPshared by the school district anr the city, fjfrtic- y; t I -MkJ4' Throne was the first of the two trapped miners to be rescued after being entombed for two weeks underground. (UPI) ularly the cost of improving streets adjacent to the site. The elementary school with its service area is basic to park planning and also is a significant factor in general residential land use planning because it forms the nucleus of a residential neighborhood, Langford and Haworth point ed out earlier in their written presentation of a park plan for Medford. Talent Area Firemen Move Headquarters Talent - The Talent Rural Fire Protection district is moving its headquarters lo the corner of Valley View rd. and Highway 99, the dis trict board announced last night. The board has signed a five-year lease on property formerly occupied by a firm manufacturing Alpine logs. An existing building on the land will be used as the fire hall. The district was housing its equipment temporarily in a building on Old Pacific high way at Main si. here before the move. The fire district owns property at the corner of Main and I sts., and eventu ally board members plan to have a new fire hall built there. At last night's board meet ing, a contract was award ,-d to Ralph Kruger to tear down two old buildings on the prop erty. The board is now taking applications for the post of district fire chief. Ralph Con ner, the present chief, will resign Sept. 1. WEATHER rORKCAIT: Som rlouitlnrsi tonight nr urly WenneMUy with poulble few sprinkles, nthf rwlse, fair ind warm Wednesday. Low tunlirhL 33, hlfh Wednesday 90. Temp. Hllhest Vesterdav Xli Lowest Tills Mornlni 3ft Our Skies Tonight Sunset today 7:3d p.m. Sunrise tomorrow ... ft:31 a.m. Moonset tomorrow . 12:30 a.m. Full .Moon Sept. 3 The planet, Man. this week moves nearer Splra. brightest star of the constellation. Vir go. Splra seti tonight at 9:03 p.m. Little Hope Held For Third Miner Shoppton, Pa.-(IIPD-Two joyous coal miners, one singing and the other dancing a jig, were rescued early today from a cold, dark chamber more than 300 feet underground whera they were trapped for two weeks. Henry Throne and David rescue workers lifted them slowly through the 18-inch shaft drilled 309 feet through dirt, clay, rock and coal. They were flown to a hospital by helicopter and were in "good" condi tion. Throne, 28, said he would go 58, said he was not scared throughout his long ordeal. Fellin was singing "I'll be during his slow ascent. Throne reached the surface and saw the first time since Aug. 13. Week In Hospital At the hospital, Dr. Peter Saras, Throne's physician, said: "Throne still feels in good condition. He has some com plaint about the bruises on his about a tingling on the bottom of his feet, which disappeared once he began walking around the room." Dr. Anthony Fedullo, Fellin's physician, said: "Fellin is feeling very good. Right now he's taking a tub bath. He is in a good humor, smiling, glad to be safe. He keeps mentioning 'At no time was I scared.' He has com plained about a numbness in his toes. There is some swelling, which is subsiding." Throne and Fellin will be one week, the doctors said. One Miner Still Trapped Shortly after their rescue, secretary of mines, started efforts to reach Louis Bova, 42, a third miner trapped about 18 by the same cave-in. Workers began drilling a east of a six-inch communications shaft drilled earlier. They plan to expand the hole to 17V4 inches In an attempt to rescue Bova, whom Fellin believes is still alive. No response has been heard from Bova for Bova's 32-year-old wife, Eva, Locust Mountain State hospital at Shenandoah suffering from shock. She was resting Throne was the first to be football helmet and to cheering men and women on the sur face he looked like a grimy astronaut who might have been plucked from a space capsule. Fcllin was brought to the Fellin and Throne donned the ascent. It took 15 minutes eight for Fellin, ending an operation that required more than a week of preparation. Saras said all laboratory tests undergone by Throne blood count, sugar content, urinalysis and electro-cardiogram are normal. Asked how Fellin and Throne-appeared psychologically, he said: I - f I "Perfect - both men. Throne told me he would go down Into the mines again. 'There's a lot of coal down there,' he said." . Saras said, however, that neither of the men had a good night's sleep and explained they probably were "jittery." Shouts With Gle Throne shouted on the way up: "What a ride this is. I feel like a banana." When he emerged from the ground at 2:07 a.m., grimy and covered with grease, he did a joyous jig in the glare of the floodlights. He immediately was removed from the football-type hel met and coveralls in which he had been hauled up. He was placed on a stretcher, and, after a quick on-the-spot medical check, taken bv a waiting Marine helicopter to a room prepared at Hazleton State General hospital, about 10 miles away. Throne's journey upward took 15 minutes. At 2:42 a.m., after an eight-minute ride, the plucky Fellin once again stepped onto the earth's surface. "I'm coming okay, boys. he shouted as he neared tne sunace. iois ui iuum. .1 ni ls the life." ........ Through microphones attached to their neimeis, ooui miners had been "talked" to deputy state director of mines. "Just like the shutes at Coney Island," the weary Smith said with satisfaction as Fellin appeared. A second helicopter whisked Fellin to tne nospuai. noin men were bathed and siariea lake about 48 hours. A hospital official gave a preliminary report that both were in good Wives Nearby In a room nearby were Mrs. Fellin and Mrs. inrone, waiting to rejoin with their husbands. An order from Throne for a "cheeseburger with the The lonely mine site, which two weeks ago contained a few small shacks, had undergone a transformation since the cave-in. Now two television helicopter field had been . . . j onlookers stood Denina ponce rescue operation. The prolonged perilous rescue of the two courageous men had stirred the interest and sympathy of the nation as no like story had since Floyd Collins died in a Kentucky cave-in in 1925. , , , But all was not joy here today. Still buried deep in the earth was Bova, who has not been heard from since last Tuesday. Only five yards from the hole through which Fellin and Throne were extracted stood the equipment which had been drilling a three-inch "contact" hole to Bova. Hope It Slim That operation halted during the Fellin-Throne rescue, for fear the drilling vibrations would endanger the other two men. Hope for Bova's survival is slim, but Fellin told officials today that Bova may be alive, and work resumed. A bullet-shaped metal capsule feet long had been custom-made to bring Fellin and Throne up, but that plan was abandoned early today, for fear the capsule would bind along the sides of the narrow shaft. The harnesses were sewed to coveralls. The helmets were to protect them from falling debris, and they ascend ed with their heads. Lt. Richard Anderson, a Navy physi cian specializing in survival techniques, had suggested that the ride up "could be a terrifying experience'' for the two men. But the apparently imperturbable pair rode up without fear and full of spunky conversation. "Beautiful. Couldn't be no better," Fellin said. "Beau tiful down here. Nice ride." And Throne: "Go ahead ... all right fellows . . . coming up." Pops From Earth Throne, observers said, seemed to "pop out" of the earth, looking like a ragged parody of a spaceman. Seven men kneeling about the hole in a circle had helped pull them the final few feet with a heavy manila rope. A Pennsylvania Department of Mines truck with an inch and three quarters thick cable capable of lifting sev eral tons inched the two men up a shaft as long as a foot ball field and only 18 inches in diameter. Both men greased themselves to case the ascent. The last stage of the agonizing rescue effort came after two weeks of frustration and delay, with the lives of the pair in constant jeopardy. One six-tneh-wide "contact" hole had been sunk to their chamber early in the proceedings. It was their lifeline, for food, air and clothing to endure tempejatures in the 40's. Fellin were in high spirits as into the mines again. Fellin. coming around the mountain" danced a little jig when he humans other than Fellin for right hand and complained kept in the hospital at least H. Beecher Charmbury, state feet from Fellin and Throne 12' - 2 - inch hole about six feet seven days. , was taken Monday night to comfortably. rescued. He was wearing a surface minutes later. parachute-type harnesses for to bring up Throne and only the surface oy uoraon amiiu, lesis which condition. works'' was quicKiy miea. towers loomed over the area. bulldozed, and more tnan suu c tK ,U flnnrllinltf aA imes iu mui "