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enate .'Groups Approves MASSIVE DEMONSTRATION - This picture was taken More than 200.000 persons took part in the March on from the air during the massive civil rights demonstration Washington. (UPI at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D. C, Wednesday. March Hailed as Huge Success, Praised by Kennedy, Officials President Feels March Advanced Negroes' Cause Washington - UPI The greatest civil rights march in U.S. history, hailed jgavhuge success by its backers, gave new impetus today to the American Negro's centuries old struggle for racial equal ity. '.. A vast throng, estimated by Police Chief Robert V. Mur ray to have numbered more than 200,000 at its peak, con verged on the capital Wednes day for the rally - which resembled more a revivalist camp meeting than a militant civil rights demonstration. At the end of a long and weary day, with words of praise from President Ken nedy and Washington offi cials, they streamed out of the city by bus, train, plane and auto in the same dis ciplined manner that prevail ed throughout the "march for jobs and freedom." March Leaders The President, who met with the 10 march leaders for more than an hour, declared that the march had advanced the cause of the nation's 20 million Negroes and of all mankind. He said he could not help but be impressed with the "deep fervor and the quiet dignity" of the gathering. He pledged to push for new civil rights legislation, and to con tinue efforts for more jobs "and to eliminate discrimi nation in employment prac tices." The Rev. Fred L. Shuttles worth, a Baptist preacher who was one of the leaders of the Birmingham, Ala., civil rights battle, said the march would "inevitably lead to an outbreak of little Washingtons all over the country." tEfS(BRIEFS ITiMS ROM IS MOUND THI OlOH DIEM PROMISES TO REMOVE GUARDS Saigon. South Viet Nam - itPH - South Viet Nam's of ficial piesi agency said today that President Ngo Dinh Diem hat promised to remove police guards from Buddhist pagodas and free imprisoned monks and nuns who will obey the newly installed Buddhist leaders. FREIGHTER LOCATES DEBRIS Miami - HW - The freighter S. S. Atalea City radioed today that it had located debris believed to be from two jet tankers missing since Wednesday with U Air Force men aboard. VOLUNTEER MAY DESCEND SHAFT Sheppton. Pa. - ICPH - Rescue officials may decide today whether to let a volunteer descend the escape shaft now being widened to Louis Bova more than 300 feet under ground. KHRUSHCHEV ARRIVES AT RESORT Kopar. Yugoslavia - ilW - Soviet Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev arrived at this northern Adriatic resort today en the last leg of his "private" Yugoslav visit that has turned into almost a triumphal ident Tito. Formal Filing of Referral Petitions Expected Shortly Salem -IUPII- Formal filing of petitions to refer the 1963 legislature's $60 million tax increase measure to a special election Oct. 15 is expected Picker Arraigned On Assault Charge Jorge Noriega, 26, a fruit picker, was arraigned in Jack son county district court this morning on a charge of as sault with a dangerous weap on. His case was continued for him to retain an attorney. Noriega was arrested by Jackson county sheriff's dep uties about 6:30 p.m. Wednes day after a two-hour search in the area of the Fruit Grow ers League labor camp north of Medford. Treated at Sacred Heart hospital for a nine-inch cut in his side was Antonio Vaz quez Gonzalez, 23, another fruit picker. Sheriff's deputies this morn ing said they were notified about 4:30 p.m. Wednesday that Gonzalez had been in jured following an argument regarding who would pay for some groceries. Following the incident, Noriega ran from the scene, and was later discov ered in the tall grass in a nearby orchard. Both men were reported to be from Mexico, but had been living in Texas and New Mex ico prior to being hired here. When Noriega appeared in district court this morning he was accompanied by an in terpreter. He is being held in the county jail with bail set at $1,000. friendship parade with Pres Friday afternoon or Saturday, J. Francyl Howard said today. Deadline for filing is 5 p.m. Sunday. Opponents of the tax meas ure already have well over 30,000 valid signatures, A to tal of 23,185 signatures was needed. Jack Thompson, elections supervisor, said if the peti tions are filed Friday, the formal certification of the measure to a special election by Secretary of State Howell Appling Jr. could take place Tuesday. Howard said he had more than 17,000 signatures in his possession, and thousands more with volunteer workers in other parts of the state. Multnomah Has Many In Multnomah County alone, 15,062 petition signa tures had been certified as valid by this morning, and there were still several thousands more on hand. More than 21,000 signatures had been turned in to the Multnomah County clerk, and they were running about 84 per cent valid. Thompson said as soon as Howard files the petitions, his office will begin tabulating the certification made by county clerks. Edinger Injured in Fall Along Trail Wilson E d i n ger, forester with the Medford district, bureau of land management, was injured early yesterday afternoon when he fell while relocating the Rogue River trail. Edinger was working along the trail area across the river from Black Bar lodge, BLM officials said, when a rock he was holding to balance himself broke loose. He fell about 35 feet. Aid was reached through Bill Hull, owner and man ager of Black Bar lodge, who summoned help by logger's radio and the Roxy Ann net work. Edinger w. removed several hours after the acci dent via helicopter from the Medford airport. He suffered rib and back injuries, and was listed in good condition at Rogue Val ley hospital today. Part of the Rogue River trail downstream from Grave creek will be relocated and part of it will be rebuilt un der the Accelerated Public Works program. Work in the program has been under way about a week. BLM officials said. Last fiscal year, a new trail was constructed along the north bank of the Rogue river from Grave to Whiskey creek . First Death from Whooping Cough In Years Noted The first whooping cough death in many years in Jack son county has occurred, Dr. A. Erin Merkel, county health officer announced today. The three-year-old child had not received whooping cough im munization, he said. Dr. Merkel said that with this death it is emphasized that whooping cough still is a threat to the younger child and may cause death because of several of its complica tions. Dr. Merkel and physicians throughout the county strong ly urged that all parents take advantage of the protective immunization against whoop ing cough, especially in chil dren from two months to six years of age. The health officer said that it is important to keep up the booster inoculations at peri odic intervals. Combined With Vaccine Dr. Merkel said that at the present whooping cough vac cine is combined with two other equally important im munizing agents, diphtheria and tetanus, and should be started when the child is be tween two and three months of age. After the series of three shots has been com pleted, the routine recommen dation is to follow with a booster dose about 1 i years later and again about six years of age or before the child enters school. Dr. Merkel explained that the whooping cough vaccine is not 100 per cent effective in preventing the disease, but it can greatly reduce the sever ity and complications if the child should contact whoop ing cough following immuniz ations. i It was reported that whoop I ing cough is quite prevalent in the county at the present. Two Career Girls Slain in Apartment New York-iUPIi-Two young career girls, one the niece of author Philip Wylie, were found Wednesday night slabbed to death and tied to gether in their apartment on Manhattan's swank East Side. The victims, found in the bedroom of the flat, were Janice Wylie, 21, an employee of Newsweek magazine who hoped to become an actress, and Emily Hoffert, 23, daugh ter of a prominent Minneapo lis surgeon, who had planned to start teaching school next month. The bodies were removed from the third-floor apart ment shortly after midnight and taken, still bound togeth er, to the morgue at Bellevue hospital where autopsies will be performed later today. Eycleair Test Ban Treafiy Regional Edition Medford 40 PAGES Four Sections o) Senate Committee Approves Treaty By 16 to 1 Vote Washington -IUPD- The Sen ate Foreign Relations commit tee today approved the limited nuclear test ban treaty by a vote of 16 to 1. Sen. Russell B. Long (D La.) was the lone dissenter. The committee voted to send the pact barring all but underground nuclear tests to the Senate floor for considera tion starting Sept. 9. The committee members agreed that their written report would contain "understand ings and interpretations" re garding continued U.S. test preparedness. Usual Reservation Chairman William J. Fill bright (D-Ark.) said the com mittee members made , the "usual" reservation that they would be free to vote for or against the treaty on the floor, regardless of their vote in committee. No formal reservations to the treaty were proposed in committee but three proce dural motions were offered and rejected. One by Sen. Bourke B. Hickenlooper (R - Iowa), de feated by a 10-7 vote, would have requested President Kennedy to furnish the com mittee copies of his treaty correspondence with Soviet Premier Khrushchev. A second by Sen. Karl E. Muridl (R-S.D.) proposed de laying the treaty vote until 48 hours after the printed record of the hearing was available. This was rejected by an 11-5 vote. Burglary Suspect Returned to City David Clarence Moore, 37, of Eugene and Medford, who has been charged with larceny not in a dwelling in connec tion with the Grandview mar ket burglary Aug. 18, was re turned to Medford from Eu gene last night by Medford police. Moore was booked in city jail, and was to be taken to Jackson county jail today. Bail was set at $3,000. Officers were continuing their investigation of the case this morning. Moore also will be question ed by U.S. postal authorites, as the currency and stamps missing from the market were in the safe of the post office substation. About $204 worth of stamps and currency had been removed from the safe. Raymond Harold McCoy, 31, arrested by city police im mediately after the burglary, is now in Jackson county jail awaiting grand jury action on a charge of burglary not in a dwclli.ig. A second warrant was served on him last Fri day, charging him with ob taining money by false pre tenses. Several checks, brought to police attention, were basis for the second ar rest, officers said. Pakistan, China Ink Air Agreement Karachi, Pakistan - IUPD -Pakistan and Communist China today signed an air agreement that will give the Chinese their first landing rights in the non-Communist world. Under the agreement, Com munist China will be able to fly its aircraft to Karachi in West Pakistan and Dacca in East Pakistan. Pakistan will have landing rights in Can ton and Shanghai. The agreement was signed by heads of the Pakistan and Chinese civil aviation teams after two weeks of negotia tion. The final draft was com pleted Wednesday. Air Commodore Noor Khan, managing director of Pakis tan International Airlines, said after the signing cere mony that Pakistan expects to start air service to Tokyr), through Communist China, by early 1984. MORNING ACCIDENT - Forrest Alan Newman, 17, of 126 Elk st., is being treat ed at Sacred Heart hospital for injuries suf fered shortly before 11 o'clock this morn ing when his motorbike hit the rear of a vehicle waiting for the traffic signal at the corner of South Central ave. and 10th si. According to Medford police, both vcniclcs Teamsters Move To Seek Uniform National Contract Washington-IUPII-The Team sters union has moved to seek a uniform national contract for 430,000 drivers, ware housemen, mechanics and clerks in the trucking indus try. A national study committee composed of the Teamsters Executive board, and repre sentatives from 50 joint coun cils and big freight locals adopted a resolution Wednes day endorsing national nego tiations in 1964. Name Delegates The committee decided to call upon each of the four Teamster conferences in the country to name 10 delegates each and two alternates to a national p o I i c y-negotiating unit, Union President James R. Hofta said he believed the first national contracts would take effect in his own Cen tral Conference, consisting of 12 Midwestern states. The resolution, adopted at a two-day meeting, declared that national bargaining would remove wages as a fac tor in competition among truckers. A single national contract also would free the unions to use boycotts and selective strikes across the na tion. They are now prohibited where separate contracts are in effect. 520 May Die Over Labor Day Week End By United Press International The National Safety Coun cil has estimated that as many as 520 persons may die and 21,000 suffer injuries in Labor Day week end traffic. Last year's Labor Day week end claimed 501 lives in traf fic accidents, a record for the 78-hour period. The council esti mated Wednesday the total number of traffic deaths during the three-day holiday would range between 430 and 520. From 17,000 to 21,000, it said, would be injured during the holi day, which begins at 6 p.m. local time Thursday and ends at midnight Monday. Soviet Experts Tour Columbia Basin Area Eltopia, Wash. -IUPII- Seven Russian irrigation experts, who don't like to get up early, toured the Columbia Basin project of central Washington Wednesday. The seven, here as part of I U.S.-Soviet cultural exchange program, inspected the wltir distribution tacilities of the great irrigation project. 4 MEDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY, SAVE Oxygen Pumped Into Mine; Eight Known Dead, Two Rescued ' Moab, Utah - IUPII - Rescue workers pumped oxygen into an explosion - charred pot ash mine today in hope that 15 men who were trapped Tuesday behind a deadly bar rier of carbon monoxide were still alsive. The operation was aimed at providing life - giving oxy gen for the 15 men if they were still alive and at mak- 89 Petitions Are Checked by Clerk A total of 89 petitions with 5,475 verified signatures re ferring the legislature's $60 million tax program to the voters has been checked by the Jackson county elections department, according to County Clerk E. M. Madden. There are 19 petitions to be checked, he said. Jackson county coordinator for circulating the petitions is Mrs. Lea J, Zundel, 2148 Starlight lane. She told elec tions department officials that she will lake all verified peti tions to Albany tomorrow to J. Francyl Howard, who will take them to the office of the secreary of state in Salem for filing. All petitions which have been received by the elections department will be checked, it was noted, and mailed to Howard Friday night. Madden stressed that resi dents planning to vote in the Oct. 15 special election must register prior to 8 p.m. Sept. 14. The elections department in the county courthouse will remain open late that day in order that people may regis ter. Persons may register to vote at the courthouse Monday through Friday from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. and at other locations throughout the coun ty. Youth Killed When Truck Hits Bicycle Portland-lUPIl-A 14-ycar-old boy died today when a Mult nomah county dump truck apparently sideswiped a bi cycle on which the boy and a companion were riding. The victim was Gene Franklin Owen, son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert V. Owen of Portland. FOUNDER DIES Seaside - IUPII - Foster D. Wheeler, 87, founder of the Grandma Cookie Co., Port lend, died at hiit home !ednediy Tribune AUGUST 29, 1963 15) were southbound on Central ave. when the accident occurred. Apparently Newman did not see the traffic signal or the stopped car prior to the collision. Medford fire men were called to wash gasoline from the street following the accident. Driver of the car and condition of the boy were not known at presstime. ing possible for rescue crews to work 3,000 feet under ground.. Twenty - five men were originally caught by the ex plosion that jarred the earth's surface Tuesday afternoon in the remote badlands area of southeastern Utah. Two men were rescued from the mine. But eight oth er men were known to be dead. The body of one, too mutilated for immediate identification, was brought to the surface early today. That left 15 men unac counted for among the 25 who were in the mine when the explosion occurred. At least five were known to have been alive at mid-day Wed nesday, but rescuers could not reach them because of t h e deadly carbon monoxide caused by the explosion. State Mine Inspector Steve Hatsis said the major effort of rescuers today was to pump oxygen deep Into the mine and drive the carbon monoxide out so rescue teams can go in. This, he said, may take from 12 to 24 hours. 1 A -3 AWAITS DEPARTURE - A contestant in a beauty contest needs many changes of clothes. And D'Ann Fullerton, Miss Oregon, has a fair waTdrobe as indicated by the luggage which surrounded her while she waited for departure at Portland International airport Wednesday for Atlantic City, N.J., and the Miss America contest. Story Gslumn 5 58th Year Price 10 Cents No. 138 ii New Law Provides For Arbitration On 2 Key Issues Strike Held Off For Six Months Washington - tUPP - Last minute action by Congress and President Kennedy kept the nation's railroads operat ing today and prevented a strike over the bitter work rules dispute. The House overwhelmingly approved and Kennedy signed into law Wednesday night leg islation Drovidinu for hinriina arbitration on the two key issues - firemen s jobs and composition of train crews. The legislation removed the threat of a railroad strike for at least six months. After that DerinH it wnillH ha nnccihlA for a walkout to take place over other issues such as pay schedules and job jurisdiction. Action Hailed iv was uie iirsi lime III memory that Congress had or dered arbitration in a peace time labor dispute. The rail roads hailed the action, but the rail unions termed it a "regrettable and backward step" that could affect labor management relations. The President, who signed the bill 90 minutes after the House approved the Senate passed measure, said it reaf firmed "the essential priority of the public interest over any narrower interest." Kennedy said that free col lective bargaining was pre served. Work Rules The railroads had threat ened to put into effect at 12:01 a.m. today new work rules that would eliminate 37,- 000 firemen's jobs. The un ions said they would strike it the rules were imposed. When the House completed congressional action with the strike deadline only eight hours away, the railroads promptly pulled down their notices of the rules changes and the unions cancelled their, strike orders. WEATHER FORECAST: Variable cloudi ness and continued warm through Friday with chance of Isolated thunderstorms over the mountains. Low tonight 34, high Friday H5. Highest Yesterday 02 Lowest This Morning 56 Our Skies Tonight Sunset today 7:52 p.m. Sunrise tomorrow .... fi:33 a.m. Moonaet tomorrow .. 2:00 a.m. The Moon rides low tonight and will be Full next Tuesday. The planet, Venus, today Is al most directly behind the Sun and Is Invlslhle. Venus Is now over 16o million miles from the Earth, Its greatest distance this year. J 1 o
