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MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1963
No. 140
JFK Will Visit
Slate This Month,
; Diem Seen Heading
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White House Says
For Diplomatic Showdown
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Stops At Dunes,
Portland Slated
Hyannis Port, Mass. - tUPlt -President
Kennedy will vis
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it Oregon as part of a 10-state
tour of conservation and nat
ural resource areas late in
September, the White House
announced Saturday.
The White House said no
details of times or places
were available, but Rep. Edith
Green, (D-Ore.) said in Wash
ington, D. C. that Kennedy
planned to speak in Portland
Saturday, Sept. 28, at a ded
ication of the city's new high
rise public housing project
for the aged.
It also was expected Ken
nedy would visit the Oregon
Dunes seashore area.
Nine other Slates
The White House said Ken
nedy's trip would take him
to Pennsylvania, Minnesota,
North Dakota, Montana, Wy
oming, Utah, Washington, Or
egon, California and Nevada.
The President said he hop
ed the journey would "focus
attention on the vital part
of American life and stimu
late further efforts in the
field of national conserva
tion." The White House said Ken
nedy's trip would take him to
national parks, national sea
shores, wilderness areas,
dams and power and rede
velopment projects.
Hantord Visit Possible
There has been talk of the
President possibly visiting the
Hanford atomic works and
Grand Coulee dam in the
state of Washington.
The project visit to Port
land Sept. 28 would bring
Kennedy into Oregon just
I wo weeks before Gov. Nel
son Rockefeller of New York
and Sen. Barry Goldwater of
Arizona, two Republican pres
idential nomination possibil
ities, attend a Western GOP
nlueting in Eugene Oct. 12.
Sen. Maurine Neuberger
(D-Ore.) said in Portland,
"The President's announce
ment to visit Oregon bears
out the plan that I knew he
had to visit the site of the
Oregon Dunes National Sea
shore. I am delighted that he
will have the opportunity, to
compare at first hand the Or
egon dunes with his own Cape
Cod, which he has long taken
an interest in."
The White House announce
ment said an advance team
of White House aides would
embark next week on a plan
ning expedition.
Central Pointer
Wins Blue Ribbon
Salem - (UPI) - Walter Vale
of Central Point was one of
six blue ribbon winners in
honey competition at the
Oregon State Fair Saturday.
Officials said that opening
day attendance Friday total
ed 16,700, compared with 16,-
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down to 1.535 from last year's
1.831, officials said, but the
take was up to $85,059 from
$80,108, last year.
Sports Bulletin
Saturday Night Baseball
AMERICAN LEAGUE
New York ft, Ballimorp 3.
Kansas City 7, Los Angeles 0.
Buston 5. Washington 4.
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Milwaukee 4, New York 3.
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BROADSIDE FIRED AT RUSSIA
Tokyo - 4Pi - Communist China Saturday lirtd an
other broadside in the propaganda war with the Soviet
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charging Russian leaders "have degenerated into
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Union
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KHRUSHCHEV VISIT CONFIRMED
Stockholm - tt PI . Sweden announced Saturday Soviet
Premier Nikita S. Khru.hchet's Tisit here will t.ke pl.ee
as scheduled n.xt spring despite strains on Soviet-Swedish
relations
used by . major
POPE DEPLORES DISPUTE
C.stel G.ndolfo. Italy - 1Pf - Pope Paul VI told dele
gates to a United Nations tourism conference Saturday he
Heplored their dispute over Portuguese and South African
racial policies.
BRITISH DEFECTOR SUCCUMBS
London - IPr - Guy Burgess, the elder hall of the
British diplomat ietm who delected Is th. Soviet Union
with their briefcases bulging with milit.ry secrets, was
reported Saturday night to
Moscow hospital.
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DEMONSTRATORS IN VIET NAM - Banner-carrying
pro-Government demonstrators jammed city hall square
in front of the U.S. Information agency in Saigon, Viet
Nam Saturday to demonstrate support of the South Viet-
namcse government's crackdown on Buddhists. The dem-
Highest Taxes Seen In Eagle
Pt., Jacksonville, Rogue River
Three small town areas will
have the biggest tax millage
in the county for the 1363-64
fiscal year, according to
figures released this week by
the Jackson county assessor's
office.
The city of Eagle Point,
Code 9-1, will have the lead
ing millage rate of 102.0. This
reflects only a slight increase
in the millage rate over the
current year, .7 of a mill. A
mill is one-tenth of- one cent.
A resident of Eagle. Point
whose property has been
valued at $10,000, generally
speaking, would pay $255 in
taxes for the new tax year.
School Tax Drops
The Eagle Point school dis
trict has the biggest share of
the millage, 42 milles com
pared to 46.7 mills during the
current year. This shows a
drop of 4.7 mills.
The city of Eagle Point
Racial Skirmishes
Flare In Six States
Memphis, Tcnn.-lUPP-Abnut
500 Negroes protesting crowd-uensc
ed schools staged the largest
demonstration in Memphis's
history Saturday and police
clamped tight security meas
ures on racial hotspots in
Louisiana and Pennsylvania.
brought arrests in North Caro-1
lina, South Carolina, Louisi-!
ana. Ohio and Pennsylvania
in the most active day of ra
cial demonstrations since the
civil rights march of 200,000
persons in Washington last
Wednesday.
Authorities put a 10 p. m.
curfew into effect in the
Philadelphia suburb of Fol-
croft where an angry mob of i
whites early Saturday sacKea ql,jncey Newman, South Caro
and attempted to burn the linn field secretary of the
home of a Negro famifr which naACP - were arrested and
moved into a white neighbor- charged with trespassing
hood. ! when they attempted sit-ins at
Jail in Louisiana ! segregated businesses in
Police wielding e 1 e c I r i r ;
cattle proas herded more than
30 demonstrators to jail in
the Slississippi River town of
spy case. .
have died ol i heart .Hack tn
shows a 2.8 mill increase, 31.2
mills compared to 28.4 mills
for the current year.
The rural school, levy is al
most the same, 26.3 mills. The
county has levied 2.5 mills in
all areas this year to provide
school funds on a basis of per
school census child as re
quired now by state law.
The city of Jacksonville,
Code 1-1, will have the second
highest millage rate for the
new year, at 101.2. This shows
an increase of 12.1 mills and
is due mainly to the new sew
er system being installed.
A homeowner in that area
with a house valued at $10,
000 will pay $30.25 more in
taxes for the new tax year,
generally speaking. Such a
property owner's total taxes
would be $253 for the year.
City Rate Up
Most of Jacksonville's new
millage rale is refleqted in
Plaqucminc, La., where a
desegregation drive is.
underway. State troopers
moved in at sunset with an
emergency units, "gas mas ks
and horses and special
deputies were appoinnted to
b o 1 s t e r the town's 12-man
force.
About BO Negroes were ar
rested during day-long picket
ing at businesses in the North
Carolina farming community
of Enfield and authorities ar
rested seventeen racial dem
onstrators at a department
store in Dayton, Ohio.
More than 20 Negroes -
includinR the the Rev. I. De
Orangeville, S. C
Dogs Used
Police does on leashes and
electric prods were used to
control a crowd of about 50
Negroes picketing and silling
in at two drug stores in St.
Augustine, Fla. Twelve of the
drmonsrators were arrested.
In Montgomery. Ala., a 100
car caravan headed by uni-
formed, jack-booted members
of the National States Rights
Party drove to the state
capitol and presented a 30.000-
, name petition demanding
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i c osure of any Birmingham
Lchool th imgratcd.
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Portland -il'PP-The National
Labor Relations Board will
hold a representative election
Sept. 5 for production and
maintenance employes of the
lumber division of the Med
: ford Corp.
! The election is tn determine
if Local 2715 of the Lumber
and Sawmill Sorkers Lmon
will be retained a collective
j bargaining representatives of
i thfj employes.
onstration reportedly came about on the orders of Ngo
Dinh Nhu, powerful brother of President Ngo Dinh
Diem. About 20,000 took part, although the government
press claimed 200,000 had been on hand. (UPI)
the city millage rale of 41.4
mills compared to 28.4 mills
for the current year or an
increase of 13 mills.
Medford school district 549
millage rate shows a slight
drop from 34.5 mills to 31
mills.
The city of Rogue River,
Code area 35-1 is third high
est in the county with a total
millage of 100.6 for the new
year. A home-owner in that
area with property valued at
$10,000 would pay $25 mtfre
in the new tax year. His total
taxes for the new year would
be $251.50. -
The city millage rate is al
most the same. The school
millage rate shows a slight in
crease of 9.7 mills, or 44.8
mills compared to 35.1 mills.
Butte Falls, code 91-3,
shows the greatest drop in
millage for the new tax year,
25.2 mills less or $63 on a
property appraised at $10,000.
Most of this decrease is re
flected in the drop in school
district millage, 47.8 mills to
22.3 mills, or a difference of
25.5 mills.
Pinehurst in Big Drop
Pinchurst shows a millage
drop of 18.6 mills for the new
tax year, or 52.4 mills to 33.8
mills. Most of the decrease is
reflected in the school mill
age, a drop from 26.2 mills to
5 mills, or difference of 21.2
mills. The rural school mill
age is 26.3 mills for the new
year, the same as in other
areas, and 2.5 mills for county
levy. One possible reason is
the increase of timber re
ceipts for that area.
Applegate school district
showed the largest decrease
in school district millage, a
drop from 59.1 mills to .5
mills due to a decrease in its
new school budget which is
about half of what it has been.
Other areas in the county
show only a slight increase
or decrease in tax millage.
Only One Company
Bids on Bleachers
Safeway Scaffold company,
Portland, was the only bidder
on bleachers for the new Jack
son county ball park at the
fairgrounds, the county court
noted Friday.
The bid was in three sec
tions, one for the platform
: typo and two other bids for
; the regular type of bleachers.
; Total bid for the bleachers
painted was $18,989 and $19,-
1 007 for the ri nDcd
lor ine aippca.
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The umy ourt
will an
nounce Wednesday whether
or not it will award the con
tract. Bid specifications will
be checked-mcanwhilc.
Fences for the ball park
are almost completed. County
Commissioner Donald E. Fa
bcr said.
Footings are already in for
the dressing rooms, Fabor not
ed. Estimated cost of the
dressing rooms including
showers and public rest rooms
Is $4,000.
The county commissioner
said the bleachers borrowed
from the high school football
field tltti summer will be re
turned and installed Tuesday.
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Tax Referral
Petitions Filed;
50,048 Signatures
Salem -WPP- Petitions lo re
fer the 1963 legislature's $60
million tax increase measure
to a special election Oct. 15
were turned over to the secre
tary of state Friday afternoon.
J. Francyl Howard, who
spearheaded the referral
drive, said the petitions con
tained 50,048 valid signatures.
Only 23,185 valid signa
tures were needed to refer
the tax bill to a special elec
tion. Secretary of State Howell
Appling Jr. told Howard he
expected the check of peti
tions would be finished and
the measure formally referred
to the ballot on Tuesday.
Work Involved
Appling said circulators' af
fidavits would be checked,
certification by county clerks
would be confirmed, and a
count made of valid signa
tures. Earlier Friday, state offi
cials and education leaders
met here to map plans to
salvage the tax increase meas
ure. The meeting was called
at Gov. Mark Hatfield's re
quest with a full scale plan
ning session scheduled Sept. 6.
Delivery of the petitions
took place in a near carnival
like atmosphere.
About 20 of Howard's co
workers joined in a car cara van
to the Capitol building. J
The autos were decorated
with small American flags,
and carried signs proclaiming
"Howard's petitions."
After posing for photog
raphers and television camera
men, Howard and his sup
porters marched to the secre
tary of state's office.
Threats Said Received
Howard said "I wasn't sup
posed to get here, you know.
I received telephone threats
on my life, and threats that
1 would never be able to de
liver the petitions."
Howard said thousands of
dollars would he spent by
groups opposed to defeat of
I the lax bill. "I don't know if
! we can combat the attempt
i that will be made to brain
I wash the people of j&pegp.?
He said he was opposed to
'a special legislative session if
j the bill is defeated.
! The legislature enacted the
Max increase, measure to help
1 finance a $404 million gen
jeral fund budget for the IBM-
65 biennium.
Canadian In Critical
Condition Here
Paul L. Robinson, 18. son
of Dr. C. L. Robinson. Van
couver. British Columbia, was
reported in critical condition
at Rogue Valley hospital
Saturday.
Robinson, who was flown
to Medford Friday by Mercy
Flights Inc., was reported In
jured in an automobile acci
dent Thursday near North
Bend He is suftering from
a broken left leg and severe
head Injuries.
Washington May
Try To Apply
Intense Pressure
Possibility Of
Coup Still Looms
Saigon, South Viet Nam -IUPII-
The United States ap
peared Saturday to be head
ing for a diplomatic show
down with the South Viet
Nam government of President
Ngo Dinh Diem. Indications
pointed to new attempts by
Washington to pressure Di
em's regime into abandoning
its anti - Buddhist campaign
through diplomatic means.
An American Army general
in charge of U. S. forces fight
ing the Communist Viet Cong
from North Viet Nam told re
porters that Vietnamese mili
tary leaders were not involv
ed in Diem's repression of the
Buddhist majority and were
not informed in advance of
the action nor of the decision
to impose martial law.
Coup Still Hinted
Some sources interpreted
the general's statement as an
invitation to leaders of the
South Viet Nam army to seize
power from Diem in a coup
d'etat. The general said he was
aware of the implications of
his remark and that it con
tradicted a statement by Diem
that the military was aware
of the impending crackdown
and recommended it.
(Washington dispatches in
dicated the Kennedy admin
istration now favored the use
of intense diplomatic pressure
rather' than a military coup
to reform the Diem govern
ment. Formerly all indica
tions in Saigon were that a
coup by the military was con
sidered almost certain.)
Rally Supports D'em
The Diem government, gen
erally believed led now by
his brother, Ngo Dinh Nhu,
indicated Saturday it was not
changing its viewpoint. About
30,000 persons, most of them
civil servants or soldiers in
civilian clothes, staged a rally
in downtown Saigon in sup
port of the Diem stand.
Government press reports
of the meeting said 200,000
persons attended and enthusi
astically heard speakers de
nounce Buddhist leaders as
"political speculators." Actu
ally the crowds were much
smaller and the only enthusi
asm came wiicn they were
freed to return home.
The rally was organized by
Diem's brother, Ngo Dinh
Nhu, to show support for the
nationwide crackdown on
Buddhists. About 10,000 of
those attending were mem
bers of Nhu's blue uniformed
Republican Youth Organiza
tion or members of Madame
Nhu's women's solidarity
movement.
Numerous Fires
Started By Storm
Friday night's lightning
sl.irm set about 10 fires in
state forests in the area, but
all were under control by
late Saturday, a state forest
ry department spokesman
said.
The blazes, each consider'
ably less than an acre in
size, were located in timb
ered area between Butte Falls
and Prospect.
A forestry department plane
took off about 6:30 a.m. Sat
urday and spotted eight of the
small fires. Another flight
was made in the afternoon.
Two smoker fires were locat
cd during the afternoon.
The department spokesman
said about 30 men were dis
patched Saturday to put out
the fires
U. S. Forest Service sent
about 265 men into the Ka
math National forest Satur
day to battle 2? small light
ntngsct fires there. Most of
the fires were less than an
acre in area
MISS USA NAMED
Huntington. W. Va - tUP!)
-Miss New York City, Ml
chele Mctnnko, a blue-eyed,
ash-blonde, was chosen Sat
urday night as Misa USA.
NO 'FOUL PLAY' DISCOVERED - A vol
unteer was lowered Friday into the cham
ber near Sheppton, Pa., from which miners
Dave Fellin and Henry Throne were res
cued to see if a form noticed in pictures
taken by a TV camera could be the body
of a man. The "body" was found to be
only some rescue materials that gave the
Miner's Descent
To Look For Bova
Scheduled Tonight
Sheppton, Pa. -WPII- Miners
David Fellin and Henry
Throne probably would have
been crushed to death if their
rescuers had tried to briny
them to the surface in a spe
cially designed escape capsule,
tests showed Saturday.
A perforated capsule was
lowered to the bottom of the
309-foot chamber from which
Fellin and Throne were re
trieved early last Tuesday.
It snagged on the side of
the 18-inch hole about 80 feet
below the surface. When its
cable was lowered to free it,
the escape hatch at the top
fell through.
A man's head would have
been crushed by the hatch had
he been in the capsule, said
Clyde Machamer, president of
the Independent Miners and
Associates.
In last week's rescue oper
ation, officials decided at the
last moment not to use the
capsule, and Throne and Fel
lin were brought to the top
in a parachute-type harness.
Saturday's test was made to
satisfy curiosity over how the
capsule would have worked.
Meanwhile, high- speed
drills cut through rock and
TRAFFIC LANE READIED-George Bayne,
left, and Don Anderson put finishing
touches on "Jiggle bars" as street marker :
painting is completed to open new lane for
northbound traffic at the intersection of
West Main and Hamilton streets. Accord
ing to John Compagnoni, of the Traffic En-
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earth lo widen a hole for a
miner's risky descent in
search for miner Louis Bova,
living or dead.
The volunteer will go' down
tonight, the second man to be
sent underground to 'look for
the missing wildcat miner.
The drills were silenced for
a time and a super-sensitive
microphone was lowered into
a new hole, the 13th to be
completed since the cave-in
Aug. 13. Rescue leaders strain
ed to hear the sound of breath
ing but heard only the noise
of dripping water.
The name of the volunteer
who will be lowered under
ground was kept secret so his
family would not be alarmed.
Andy Drebitko, 36, of Potts
ville, who spent 16 minutes
in Ine chamber occupied by
Fellin and Throne, was the
first volunteer to be sent be
low. He went down Friday night
to investigate an image tele
cast to the surface by a closed
circuit TV camera. It looked
to some like a seated man,
but turned out to be only a
coil of rope and a plug which
had been shoved through In
the rescue operations. ,
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semblance of a human form, however. The
above newschart shows where the volun
teer was lowered Friday (circle). A shaft
also has been drilled (left) into the cham
ber where missing miner Louis Bova is
believed to be located. A volunteer will go
down after him tonight. (UPI)
AAA Criticizes
Traffic Campaigns
'Washirigton-OJPD-The Amer
ican Automobile association
Saturday, deplored what it
termed "highway scare cam
paigns" to hold down traffic
casualties during holiday pe
riods such as the Labor day
week end.. '
It said that such tactics
"have no permanent value in
preventing accidents."
A spokesman added when
questioned that the scare type
campaign "hoped to frighten,
intimidate or just plmn bully
the motorist into driving sane
ly." The spokesman said, "The
AAA believes it to be general
ly true that the number of
deaths recorded over a holi
day week end is no greater
than that recorded for any
other normal week end."
Meanwhile, Labor day traf
fic smashups claimed lives at
a record pace that safely ex
perts termed "alarming" dur
ing the early part of the week
end Saturday.
A United Press Internation
al count at 12:30 a.m. (ee'l)
Sunday showed 178 persons
dead in traffic since the s'-nt,
of the holiday at 6 p.m. Friday.
eincering division of the Department of
Public Works of the City of Medford. "jig
gle bar. let you know when you're off the
traveled way." Thcae nised chevron, give
any lrying motorud a sudden and star
tling three-dimensional reminder of the
proper flow of traffic.
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