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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.
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TUESDAY, AUGUST 27,
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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
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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
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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
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