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
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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