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Newspaper Page Textam Rogue Valley Edition 58th Year Price 10 Cents MEDFORD Tribune 20 Pages Two Sections MEDFORD, OREGON, FRIDAY, AUGUST 30, 1963 No. 139 JFK Makes (Public Mpeal for Ekstoral of Foreign Ai k-v. m I v T -V.T km-..- Cits HOME FOR MINERS Here is the mine shaft that was home for trapped miners David Fellin and Henry Throne for two weeks. Miner's helt hangs from timber (left), and Kennedy Plans State to Check September Visit Part of Western Inspection Trip By A. ROBERT SMITH Mail Tribunt Washington Correspondent Washington - (Special) -President Kennedy reported ly is considering taking a look at the proposed Oregon Dunes National Seashore next month on a flying western in spection trip of conservation projects. The White House and In terior Department are map ping out a trip that would include the Pacific Northwest if international issues don't prevent the trip. Senator Maurine Neuberg er has been advised that Ken nedy plans to touch down in Oregon if he makes the trip. It would be his first visit to the state since his election as President. He visited the Seattle Worlds Fair last year but flew over Oregon without stopping en route to Califor nia. The Oregon Senator is eag er for the President to see the Oregon dunes area because she is enlisting support for her "sill to create a new Na tional Seashore Park on the Oregon Coast. The Kennedy administration supports her bill, which is expected to be reDorted favorably in modi fied form from the Senate In-! lerior Committee after Labor : Day. Rep. Robert Duncan Is sponsoring a smaller park 1 bill in the House. The Ken nedy administration prefers the Neubcrger bill. , If the President docs take time to look at Oregon dunes, his inspection will probably be by air and not on the ground, informed sources say. VFW Adopts Bill Opposing Test Ban Seattle -UHi- The 64th an nual convention of the Vetcr-! ans of Foreign Wars Thurs- day adopted, without opposi- tion, a resolution opposing Senate ratification of the nu- rlear test ban treaty. tS(V)BRIEFS mvi MOM JJT n mam DEFECTOR ARRIVES WITH WIFE Hong Kong-'IPI Albert C. Belhoiame. Belgian-born for mer U.S. Arsny seraeenl who defected to Communist China 10 years (go, arrived bar today with his Chinee ife ana tht lhrtt sons ht base will baee "a belter future ta tbe outside worle." CASTRO PAYS FOR STUDENTS' EXPENSES New York-IPI-lt cost Fidel Castro at least S150.000 from a dollar-short national treasury to pa the expemtat of S3 American students for seven weeks in Cube as gov ernment gueets. it was estimated here today. AAS TRY TO DILUTE RESOLUTION United Nations. N.Y.-'IPI-The Arab states, backed by Russia, today sought lo dilute an Anglo-American resolu tion condemning the "wanton murder" of two Israelis in a raid on the Syrian-Israeli border. SEARCHERS FIND 'FLOATING JUNKYARD' Miami-'IPI-Searchers looking for two missittg Air Force Stratoiankers and II crewmen found a 10aillaquare Viloating junkyard" of debris Viday in the- Allet!:.) 2S0 4.niles southwest of Bermuda, tru a fftae$ Public Assistance Payments Exceed ADDfODriated Sum Salem -IUPD- Public assist ance payments in Oregon dur ing July - the first month of the 1963-65 biennium - were more than $113,000 more than had been alloted, the State Public Welfare commis sion was advised today. Welfare Administrator An drew Juras blamed the over allotment expenditures on the lumber strike, and a tempo rary lull in agricultural em ployment. Juras said "if this keeps up, we will have to sound the alarm.'1 General assistance was S104.763 over budget, old age assistance medical over $28. 1RR, aid to dependent rhil- New Traffic Lane Opens Near Store The new traffic lane for northbound traffic at the corner of West Main and Ham ilton sis. will be open to motorists today, City En gineer Vernon Thorpe report ed. The lane, which will be for northbound traffic moving into Rose ave., was made pos sible by the deeding of a triangle to the city by Safe way Stores. The lane is at the intersec tion where Hamilton, West Main and Rose will be clear ing traffic coming to and from Safeway's new store, nearing completion at the corner of West Main and Hamilton sts. The triangle deeded to the city is 42 feet long on Hamil ton St. and 22 feet long on West Main. The lane will be primarily for northbound Hamilton st. traffic, Thorpe said. FIPM PURCHASED Portland -JUPI- A New York based firm has purchased the Northwestern Ice and Cold Storage Co. here for s price reported to be in excess of SI million. on floor are sleeping bass, coveralls, and thermos jtiRS. Photo was made Thursday by lowering camera into the chamber and firing it electronically. (L'Pl) Trip to Dunes dren over $40,649. aid to dis abled over $3,200. and two nursing home programs over $71 and $256. Eleven of the programs were under budget amounts ranging from $286 to $16,370. In the new medical aid to the aged program, $15,690 more was spent far drugs than had been budgeted, hos- pltal payments were $4,200 over budget, and miscellane ous expenditures $9,410 over expectation. These were offset by pay ments lo physicians which were almost $30,000 less than expected, and nursing home payments which were $7,270 under budget. Before Revision At the meeting the former medical aid to the aged pro gram which was in effect fr.r 20 months before being re vised by the 1963 legislature, was reviewed. During the period of the old program, Nov. 1. 1961. I to June 30, 1963, 12.574 ip j plied, and 9,368 applications were approved, i Benefits were actually paid I to 4,372 persons and the av I erage payment per case was j$206. ! The average hospital stay l was eight days, and the aver ! age nursing home stay 24 ' i ! days under the old program, j Payments of $903,599 were made. $221,468 to physicians. and $682,131 to hospitals and nursing homes. The program was expand" d ' and liberalized by the legis lature because participation : in the former program war ' far below expectations. County Applies for ! Television Hook-up The Jackson county school superintendent's office has ap- plied lo the county court for ! sn educational television hook-up. I "This does not mean thai I this county is moving into educational television." Assist ! ant County School Superin- tendent Dra Cox emphasized , this mornina "The hookup will he with channels 7 and 10 sn local educators can see what is available on programs from I Portland and Corvallis. ' Cox explained. The television hookup would not cost the county nor the school superintend ent's office any money. Cox I said. The television receiver is already located in the coun ty curriculum materials cen ter. "This is the first time this office has been aware of the availability of this educational television hookup." Cox said PROMOTION Portland - I'PI' Kenneth H. Spies, deputy director ol the Oregon State Board of Health's division of sanita tion and engineering, has been promoted lo director of ihe eUvkioa. DA to Investigate Possible Foul Play In Mine Accident Shcppton, Pa.-lUPII-A televi sion camera today recorded "what appears to be a body" in the same underground chamber occupied for 15 days by two rescued miners. Dist. Alty. Harry Lighthouse ar rived at the scene to "see if there is any foul play to be investigated." Lighthouse's a p p e arance came as rescuers prepared to lower a volunteer more than 300 feet in an effort to find Louis Bova, trapped since Aug. 13 by a cave-in. "I'll see if there is any foul play to be investigated," Lighthouse said. "I've heard about some puzzling develop ments. I'm putting everyone on notice that there could pos sibly bp something in my jurisdiction. " Chief Detective Lighthouse . was accompa nied by William Keuch, chief Schuylkill county detective. H. Beecher Charmbury, stale mines chief, said the television ' camera recorded what looked like the "entire body of a man" in the same chamber in which David Fel lin and Henry Throne were trapped. They were rescued Tuesday but Bova had been separated from the other two by a wall of rubble and was last heard from four days after the cave in. Charmbury said the camera showed "a miner's hat, head, shoulders, arms, legs and boots." He said it appeared lo be in a sitting position against a wooden post. 107 Petitions Are Checked by Clerk The Jackson county elec tions department late Thurs day completed checking 107 petitions referring the legis lature's $80 million tax pro gram to the voters. A total of 6.069 signatures nn the petitions were found to be valid. According to Counly Clerk E. M. Madden, the petitions are being taken tn Albany today by Mrs. Lea J. Zundel, 2148 Starlight lane, county coordinator for circulating the petitions. They will the:i be taken by J. Francyl How ard lo the secretary of state office in Salem for filing. Madden reminded residents that those who have moved since they registered to vole and wish to vote in the Oct. IS special election, must no tify the elections department of the change of address. New residents who will have lived in the state six months and in the precinct 30 days by Oct. 15 are eligi ble lo register and vole in the election. Madden noted. Residents who have not reg istered, or who need to regis ter, may do so at the county courthouse until 8 p m. Satur day. Scpl 14. WEATHER FORKTAST: Variable rloudJnMi through Saturday with ritcr rd licht showfr. or posiihlr thundTinrm8 during the ft rrnnon or rvtnint. low to nicht fifl. hlch Saturday Tnnp. Hnht (fdiiv . a I.owijI Thli Morning . ... 58 Our Skies Tonight SunvH today . . V.Mt p.m. Siinrlsf tomorrow . ,m. Moonsrt tomorrow . . 2-M a.m. Full Moon ... Sept. 1 PROM1NKNT STAP c. high overhfJid J:0S p.m. VIMIII.K PLANETS Mar, set - : p.m. Saturn. In iouthrat V04 p m. VupMer, l 'a, ta-t to 14 p.m. U. S. Refuses to Surrender Two ist Priests Saigon, South Viet Nam -(UPll - The United Slates stood firm today on its refusal to give up two Buddhist refu gees despite an apparent eas ing of tension in South Vict Nam's religious-political cri sis. Diplomatic sources said U. S. Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge again turned down Thursday night a gov ernment request to hand over two Buddhist priests who took refuge in the U.S. aid mission during the raids on pagodas last week. The request was made by Acting Foreign Minister Tru ong Cong Cuu in a 25-minute telephone conversation with Lodge, the sources said. Cuu reportedly told Lodge the government released a large number of Buddhist priests and students Thursday in an effort to reduce the ten sion tha.t built up in the light ning repression of the coun try's Buddhists. The releases followed a re laxation of the original 9 p.m. to 5 a.m. curfew and other restrictions imposed under martial law decreed 10 days ago. The United States has voic ed strong disapproval of the government's strongarm lac tics in the crackdown on Buddhist opposition, and the Washington and Saigon gov ernments have differed pub licly over who initiated the raids and wholesale arrests. Three Killed i-- Oregon Accidents By United Press International Three persons died in auto accidents in Oregon Thursday, two of them in a two-lruck ac cident near Oakridgc. ' Jack Edwin Wiley. 17, and Kennclh Edmund Heinrich, 16, both of Oakridge, were killed instantly when their pickup truck collided head-on with a truck and trailer just west of Willamette city on Highway 58. Driver of the truck and trailer rig, Robert Dewey Hil linga, 23, Boise, Idaho, was not hurt. A sailor slalioncd at San Francisco, Wayne Simpson, 21, was killed and three other young people were hurl Thurs day nighl in a one-car crash nn Sauvie Island. Injured were Belly Faye Farley, 17, and Pat Gentry. 18, both of War ren, and Thomas Thompson, 17, San Francisco. NAACP Plans Action In Medford Region Portland -tUPD- The Nation al Association for the Ad vancement of Colored People plans to act soon on what it considers racial problems in the Medford - Ashland-Crants Pass area, its local president said today. Mayfield K. Webb, presi dent of the Portland chapter, refused to specify the prob lems or the type of action e peeled. He said an announcement on that subject would be made in a few days by Ihe organiza tion's executive board. Webb said there are no plans tor a civil r;lils march on Salem similar to the or on Washington Wednesday. "There's no need for it," he commented. Threo-Diy Holiday Commences Today Public officials of Medford and Jackson counly with the exception of law enforcement officers, will start a threeejay vacation al office closing time today. The cily hall and the court house will be closed until Tuesday morning. There will be no delivery of mail Sunday and Monday and (he post office will be closed both days, Acting Postmaster Al Bradford an nounced, adding that special delivery mail will be deliv ered as is the custom on all hwdays. TREE TRIMMING Twigs and leaves are coming down In Mcdford's City Center park this week as Linebaugh Brothers Tree Serv ice carries out a contract with the cily of Mcdford. The pruning and shaping of the trees is part of the city's park program ap proved for this year, according to City Man Khrushchev, Tito Proclaim End to Major Differences Velenje, Yugoslavia -IUPII -So viet Premier Nikita S. lhru shchry,. today proclaimed ma jor Yugoslav - Russian differ ences al an end. In a speech climaxing his current bury-the-hatchet visit to Yugoslavia, Khrushchev told a massive (own square meeting here that "the basic questions between our parties and our people have been solved." The Kremlin leader said both nations "are for joining our efforts to fight against capitalism." The officially estimated crowd of 50,000 persons thun dered their approval. They shouted, "Khrushchev . . . Khrushchev . . . Khrushchev" in rhythmic chant while Yugoslav President Tito stood by smiling. Khrushchev dropped his prepared text to announce the agreement pounded out in talks between Tito and him self. Waving his arms and jam ming a pointed finger in the air. the Kremlin leader also tore into his Communist Chi nese and Albanian opponents. The Yugoslav audience cheered loudly and long. He cried for the struggle for peace. He praieed Ameri can and British "sincere co operation" in making possible the recently-signed partial nu clear test ban treaty. Application for Grant To Be Made ! Jacksonville - Korme) ap plication for a 4 1,08 federal rant to study the feasibility and cost of prenf rving and re toriru? the central busine.-e area of isc-eioftville will be made shortly. Jack SutVA. coordinator for plnnnine, o the Jacksonville Historic Preservation en Restoration project, seii he hopes lo gel the application off to the Housinai an Home Finance agency of the fedaral Urban Reieal administra tion office in Sain Prflncisco by Ihe end of next week. Tl. application received approval of the Jacksonville) city council this week All that remains is for it to be) checked by City Attorney tr fin B. Hogan. If the application is approv ed by the federal government, a year-long study of the pro posed restoration area would follow to determine what it would cost to restore each building to code specifications and whal other improvements would be desirable. STORE TO BE CLOSED Due to the Labor Day holi day Monday, the Oregon Liq r Commission store on North Crape st. will be closed all that day, store officials rermvded residents. Probe Under Way in Utah Mine Blast; 5 Rescued Last Night Moab, Ulah-tllPll-The. grim task of identifying bodies of victims of a potash mine, ex plosion began today in a truck repair shop converted into a temporary morgue. At the same lime, federal and stale agencies began a full-scale invesligalion of the Youth Remains in Critical Condition Forrest Alan Newman, 17, son of Mr. and Mrs. William D. Newman Jr., of 128 Elk St., who suffered severe head in juries in a traffic accident Thursday, was still in critical condition at Sacred Heart hos pital today. Newman's motorbike struck the rear of a car operated by Robert H. T. Moffetl, 55, of Inglewood, Calif., when both were southbound at the inter section of South Central ave. and 10th si., according to Medford police. The car had been stopped for Ihe traffic signal to change. The boy, who had waved al a friend, according lo wit nesses, apparently failed In note the traffic signal and did not see (he car, officers said. EXTEND SERVICE San Francisco ll'Pti Mat on Navigation Co. said Thurs day it will extend its Cali fornia - Hawaii container freight service to Seattle and Portland. Police Hunt 'Lunatic' - New York-IWIi-A "lunatic" who made obscene end threat ening phune calls was sought today in the carving knile sleyinft of two career girls l their fashionable Daiil Side MsnhatleQ spsrtmeat. One of the victims, prette Janice 1ylie, 21, niece of writer Philip Wylie, recently had received wvartl crank calls from an unidentified mn, accOjiejinf to her lither and one of her friend. 5Thcy eera from some lun ajtic who used obscene Ian exieaje," the fricnO said Miss Wylie told him. "She was plagued and ter rified by th. calls. Two weeks agn she told th man, 'Don't ever call me again,' " The friend related lo police. The friend reported that the caller answered: "Then you'll have to take the conse quences." Miss Wylie, an aspiring ac tress who worked for News week magazine, and one of her two roommates, Emily Hoffcrt, 23, a school teacher and daughter of a Minnea polis surgeon, were found WcdnestJ!; night tied togeth er with sheets in a bedroom of their apartment. ager Robert A. Duff. Dead wood is being removed from the trees and they are being shaped with pruncrs for the first time in "many, many years," the city manager said. Charles Linebaugh is clearing away the primings in this photograph. blast, which killed 18 of 25 construction workers nearly .3,000 feet below tlie earth's surface The makeshift morgue was set up when word reached of ficials that the remaining 18 men slill In the mine were dead. Seven men-survived the blast. Five were, rescued Thursday nighl; two were res cued Tuesday, the day of the .explosion. Sheriff John Stocks, who knew most of the victims per sonally, said it appeared that visual identification would be impossible in most cases. He said there was a possibility he would ask the FBI to aid in the identification. Order'. Inquiry T!ie federal Investigation into the blast was ordered by the Interior Department in Washington Thursday follow ing a statement by the direc tor of the Bureau of Mines that "all but one" of four fa tal accidents involving work ers at the mine property dur ing the past 20 months "were preventable." Bureau Director Marling J. Ankeny said corrective meas ures had been recommended to the shaft-drilling contract ing firm, Harrison Interna tional, Inc., of Miami, Fla., a Canadian concern. Ankeny said the mine slill was in custody of, the Harri son organisation at the time of Tuesday's explosion, but thai Texas Gulf Sulphur Co. "was exercising some surveil lance over the contractors." JAHICE WYLIE The bodies were discovered by Janice's father. Max Wy lie, a writer and advertising executive, who was let into the four-room flat by the third roommate, Patricia Tolles, 23. (Miss Tolles ls-t saw the twckirls alive when she left it Congress Warned Our Commitments Are Endangered Newsmen Called to Special Conference Hyannis Port, Mass. -IDP0- President Kennedy made a strong public appeal today for the Senate to restore Housa cuts in his foreign aid pro gram and said Americana must realize that "freedom does not come cheaply or eas uy." Kennedy warned Congress and the nation that unless tha billion dollar cuts are restor ed.'U. S. commitments from South America to Southeast Asia will be seriously endan gered. Kennedy called newsmen to the Cape Cod White House to restate his insistence upon un doing the House action after meeting more than an hour with foreign aid director Da vid Bell and retired Gen. Lu cius D. Clay, who headed a special committee which stud ied the program. Continue Aid Unless the cuts are restor ed, Kennedy said, the United States "will not fulfill its com mitments"1 to Latin America under the' Alliance for Prog ress or be able to continue military aid to nations rim ming the Iron Curtain. "This will limit very much our ability to influence tha events in these areas," Kenne dy said. It was the second time in a week that Kennedy has made special-appearances be fore reporters to denounce tha House decision and to urga Senate restoration of the mon ey. - -.;,..', The House ilast week slash. ed $585 million from the for eign aid authorization bill aft er its Foreign Affairs commit tee already had chopped about $400 million' from it This re. duced the amount from Ken nedy's $4.5 billion request to $3.5 billion. Too Far The President already had scaled his request down by $400 million at the urging of; Clay's committee. And Clay last week also said the House had gone too far. The President's words wera even stronger. He said that the 1960s will continue to be "very difficult" for the free world, adding that "peaceful coexistence with Russia will be very intense." Press Secretary Has Appendectomy Salem -IUPII- Travis Cross, press secretary to Gov. Marie Hatfield, was in Salem Me morial hospital today recov ering from an appendectomy. Cross first complained of not feeling well Wednesday afternoon. He was hospital ized and underwent surgery Thursday. His condition was reported good. Killer EMILY HOFFERT at around 9:30 a.m. EDT on Wednesday for her Job at tha book division ot Time, Inc. Police said the girls wera slain later that morning by a quiet killer who ransacked the apartment but apparently did not steal anything. if' 1 '