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es rata -I n n Troop mmm m Test Treaty Regional Edition 58th Year Price 10 Cents Medford Tribune Condition 40 Pages Four Sections VISITING TEACHERS Among the 454 teachers who partici pated in the annual Mcdtord Chamber of Commerce Business Education day today were these who toured The Mail Tribune offices and learned about publishing a newspaper. Some 74 area businesses participated in the largest B-E day held since the program started six years ago. Mail Tribune Business Manager Gerald Latham, standing left, explained the process of setting Freak Blasting Mishap Damages Nearby Homes A fr-oib hloctinn mkhnn VPS- terday afternoon on Crestbrook.i rd., where crews are installing a 6-inch water main, threw rocks a distance of 250 feet, damaging two nearby unoccu pied homes. Medford Water Depart m e n t Manager Robert L. Lee said that no one was injured in the acci dent, but that extensive damage was caused to tile roof of one of the homes by falling rocks. The other received minor dam age, he said. The houses arc under con struction by Medford Builder D. L. Pickcll. Insurance held by the contractor, W. H. Conrad, w ill cover the damage, Lee said. The accident occurred, Lee said, as contractor's crews were j blasting a ditch for installation of the water main. j About 20 holes were dug to a I rionlh of four feet and snacerl ! about one foot apart. A stick of dynamite was placed in each hole, and the sticks were capped and connected with primacord. Caused 'Propagation' The first ten sticks blew at , intervals of a few seconds, as planned. However, the eleventh, mayor's resignation. disgruntled, defeated group that due to a mud seam which had , Ter Har sajj c petition i has been against me all along, been encountered below the rock was drawn ,,,, and signec by i "Until they accuse me and in the hole, caused what blasters fi9 pP,.sons afl?r the four-hour j draw up this request in legal call "propagation." meeting and delivered to form, I can't answer." The remaining ten sticks of Pysher at his home at mid-1 Tcr Har said he thought some dynamite blew simultaneously, j night. one might accommodate the Because the ground had a slope i i mayor today. oi auuui 10 m-Biera -i sue of tlie blast, rocks were hurled for a distance of nearly 250 feet, r . hi. - L' v,n,nvU i from the blast area. i Lce said that the blasting. which was begun about a week ' ago, snould be tinisnea oy rn- day. He praised Conrad's ox perience with blasting and said there was almost no possibility that the freak accident would recur. I NEWS(Q)BRIEFS itmj from Lry R0UND THI owu NO PLAN'S TO ASK RELEASE !' DEFECTOR Berlin (L'I'Il An American spokesman said today (hrre are no immediate plans to ask the Russians to arrange the release f a U.S. Armv officer who claims he is being held in East Berlin against his will. The spokesman said Army headquarters would wail to see what happens to Capt. Alfred Svcnson, 30. of Scranlon. Pa., who was classified as a defector by the Army after he crossed i East Germany in a jeep May 4. TRAVEL TO CTI! VIET NAM DISCOLRAGED Washinjlon (tPD Th Slae Department amouncd Mw it Is curtailing non-e !.rifll wcl W U.S. nWrW or pendents to South Viet Naw n "vcit M) t i ( the unsettled situalilk" RED CIIIM SAY.CltlSSIX T1IA.W.B Tokyo (ITU Red (I Mi IrcwW miy the Soviet Union was rradv In compromise 1M lnry's rebels in IMS, but vlrlrird to Chinese insistence I verrly. MEDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER Stand By On Fishing Proposal Asked Salem (UPD An angry Gov. Mark Hatfield Wednesday ordered the State Game com. j auri s the controversial proposal to close the state's inland waters to commercial salmon and steel head fishing. The blast came at the end of Seaside Mayor Not Planning To Resign Seaside (UPD Embattled Mayor Maurice W. Pysher said today he has no intention of resigning, at least until some one tells him why 69 residents signed an informal petition petition Wednesday night ask- ing him to give up his office, The petition was drawn up after an unofficial meeting of the Seaside Chamber of Com- merce and Junior cnamoor oi Commerce held in the wake of; the second consecutive year of Labor Day rioting by youths at the beach resort. Chamber President W. A. 1'cr I Har said 102 persons, the en tjre crowd, raised their hands in faV0r of requesting the i I, ,; . nct'nn About Home Entry Two juvenile boys, eight and ! seven vears old, nave ocen re- )cascd'(0 their parents after be- jng apprehended by sheriff's deputies yesterday on charges ;of hurglary. Thevhad broken into the Rich ard Jenkins home, 614 Chestnut si. Monday and are accused of taking a toy gun and a small amount of food 111 lit rr hellion he put down se - a news story on a Linotype machine to, left to right, Ray Lewis, Miss June Whcaton, Miss Sandra Lien, Mrs. Lottie Applewhite, and Miss Dorothy Wilson, all Medford senior or junior high school teachers. Linotype machine operator is Richard Kuschel. On Thursday, Oct. 24, the business leaders participating in today's program will return the visit, visiting the schools one half day. Game Commission a 90-minute meeting of the Gov ernor's Committee on Natural Resources. The meeting had been called by Hatfield to get committee reaction to the initiative filed by Save Our Salmon and Steel head, Inc., to close the state's inland waters including the Columbia river. The Chamber president indi cated there minht be an effort I to make a clean sweep of all city officials, but he added "I feel there should be a complete investigation before taking any action." Speakers at the meeting were critical of the mayor's leader ship and the fact that he was out of town when the riots started. Pysher today demanded a list of the reasons behind the peti tions. "After all, it was just a piece of scrap paper scribbled on with a lead pencil and I could hardly read it," he said. "The names that were sinned were the same Court Case. llanrileH Meanwhile, 25 more court cases growing out of the riots came up in Municipal Court Wednesday. Three youths plead ed guilty, two pleaded innocent. and the other 20 forfeited bail ranging from $14.50 to $230. Only five of the cases involved Oregon youths. Two listed Cali fornia addresses, one a Color ado home, one no address and the other 16 were from Wash ington. Bees Take Over State Fair Building Salem (LTD The natural resources building at the Ore gon State Fair was buzzing with excitement Wednesday night when a playful youngster broke a glass cover and allowed a mass of angry honey bees to take over the structure. As the thousands of bees roar ed from their container, spec tators fled the building. Diners at a nearby food con cession left their food and ran. Officials locked the building, mi this morning a beekeeper tfs able to swarm the buzzing insects together. At last report the bees, still not back in their container. were contentedly gathered near 'the rabbit section, and the build 1 ing was open again to visitors 5, 1963 No. 144 Hatfield had asked Game Commission Chairman J. W. Smith if the commission favored closing the waters. Smith evaded answering. Biologist Opposed Earlier fish commission biolo gist Dr. Don Chapman had clos ed his testimony by stating he recommended keeping the state's waterways open to commercial fishing. Chapman's comments were joyfully received by two bus loads of commercial fishermen from Astoria who were among the 200 who attended the meet ing. Chapman said closure of the Columbia to commercial fishing would mean the fish would be caught elsewhere, there would be a substantial increase in spawning, and an increased death rate among juvenile fish. He said an increase in the spawn would not necessarily in crease the fish harvest substan tially because of the condition of the spawning grounds. Hatfield told Smith, "I think it's time you rcstudy the individ ual agency positions and respon sibilities, there is a great in terest in this issue. I want an answer from the game com mission." Meanwhile, an appeal was filed in the Oregon Supreme Court Wednesday protesting Atty. Gen. Robert Y. Thornton's ballot title for the proposal to close inland waters. The appeal was filed by Wil liam E. Westerholm, secretary of the Columbia River Fisher man's Protective Union, James C. Cellars, secretary of the Co lumbia River Salmon and Tuna Packers Assn., and by the as sociation. The title reads: "Purpose: Prohibits commercial fishing for salmon and stcclhead in all Ore gon inland waters, including boundary rivers. Prohibits all commercial dealings in fish taker illegally." The appeal asks that the last sentence read: "Prohibits a 1 1 commercial dealings in such fish taken in prohibited areas." SAGEBRUSH INFESTED Portland (UPD Millions of acres of Oregon sagebrush range arc infested with a defoliating caterpillar-moth, the Bureau of Land Management said today. WEATHER FORECAST: VarUhlr rloudi ntss lonlfhl init Friday. ( hinti of thunderfthowFri nvrr lh mountains this v nlnf. Low lontfhl 60, high t ri day 95. Tmp. lllrhMl YMtmy 99 Lowetl Thli Morning , 57 Our Skies Tonight nunsf! inday 1 n p.m. Snnntp tnntnrrow a it. MnnnrUr ton if hi 9 1? p m. Iitt Quarter snt. in Ihf bnihi "Mar- nareftt thr Moon tonlehl l th planl liipHT, which u now about tftl million mll't from th MMh. Yank Student Says Russians All Over The Place in Cuba Russians Live in Own Walled City New York (UPD Rus sians are "all over the place" in Castro's Cuba, an American student just back from there reported today. They avoid the use of uniforms, he added. Dick Riemann, 27, of Yonkers, N. Y., en route to a San Fran cisco Bay area teaching job, said the Russians traveled in groups and did not mingle with Cubans. He said they lived in a "wall ed city" of their own in Regla, a fishing village across the bay from Havana, and had thcinl own house of pleasure. The fortified area in which they live is off-limits to all but a hand ful of Cubans with special pass es, he reported. Spenl Seven Weeks Riemann was one of 59 Ameri can students who spent seven weeks in Cuba as Castro regime guests. He said he "volun teered" for the trip "because I knew the type of group that was going and wanted to lend some balance to it." Also, Riemann said, "I thought the Kennedy administration was downgrading Cuba which, in my opinion, is our No. 1 problem ... I feel integration comes aft er our national security . . ." City Fortified Under Fidel Castro, Havana has become a fortified citv, Rie mann said. He said rapid fire antiaircraft batteries dotted the capital and were even installed atop Havana s hotels. The food in Cuba "is nothing short of abominable," Riemann said. "It has no taste at all." He said this was true even though the students, as Ameri can guests, got special rations. "When the Cubans are down to rationing rice and beans, their basic staples, you can im agine the shape they're in," he said. Legislature Cost May Be $1.8 Million Salem (UPD The 52nd leg islative assembly has already cost the taxpayers $1,314,827, and the total is expected to top $1.8 million before the end of the biennium. If a special session is hold this fall, the total could go even higher. Tue 1061-6.') legislature cost $1,267,323, and the 1959-61 legis lature s operating expenses to taled $959,209 about half the cost of the 1963-65 legislature. Higher pay for lawmakers en acted earlier this year accounts for most of the increase. Legislators formerly were paid $1,200 a biennium, plus certain expenses. The 1963 leg islature raised the scale to $6,000 a biennium and expenses of $20 daily for a maximum of 120 days each session. If a special session is called, the $20 daily expense allotment will be authorized again. Cohn Enters Plea Of Not Guilty New York (UPD Roy Cohn, the boy wonder of M. the Army-McCarthy hearings of decade ago, today pleaded inno cent to a 10-count indictment that he lied and conspired to ob struct a Justice Department in vestigation of a multimillion dol lar stock fraud case. Cohn, who once served the southern New York district as an assistant U. S. attorney, told Federal Judge Dudley B. Bon sal, "I plead not guilty to each of the charges." U. S. Atty. Robert F. Morgen thau, whom Cohn charged Wednesday with being a part of a political vendetta against him, told the court he did not object to Cohn being released on his ! own recognizance. Cohn went j through routine fingerprinting, then was released. Implement Shed Damaged by Fire Fire yesterday morning de stroyed an implement shed and burned parts of a tractor at the O. E. Kellogg residence on Sar-1 In addition to Sweden and dine Creek rd. near Gold Hill. ! Finland, Johnson's goodwill the state forestry department i tour will include Norway, Den reported. mark, Iceland and Greenland. The flames were caused from I a spark from the engine of the i NAMIOD POLICK C'llIKI tractor, firemen said. When fire-1 Corvallis (UPD Assistant men arrived on the scene at 10 i Police Chief James A. Goodman, a m. some equipment and the 40, has been appointed chief of tractor had been pulled from the police department by City the shed. Manager John F. Porter. r1Tlm lit & i in 'Nriir rri-Jt. '--U. I ' ' iBi m ii yiife HOME BOMBED Negro attorney Arthur Shores, on steps, facing camera, discusses the second bombing of his home in Birmingham, Ala., in the past two weeks. The bombing dam Three Birmingham Closed Following Bombing By United Press International The Birmingham, Ala., school board today closed three deseg reualcd public schools at the re quest of Gov. George Wallace. The action came about five hours after 1,000 Negroes, en raged by the bombing of a Negro attorney's home, rioted in Birmingham streets, leaving one man dead and at least 19 persons injured. None Seriously Injured The rioting occurred about seven blocks irom tne oray mont Elementary school which two Negroes attended Wednes day. The explosion shook up, but did not seriously injure, the family of civil rights'lawyer Ar thur Snores. Wallace said early today that the Birmingham education board had "acceded" to his re quest that the three schools he closed temporarily. He said the board also joined a petition filed by six persons to stay the federal court integration order. Wallace, who had dispatched 200 state troopers to Birming ham Tuesday and then decided not to block school integration, called the violence a "tragic thing." Sources in the capital at Montgomery said 600 Nation al Guardsmen had been put on standby alert in Birmingham. Birmingham police refused an offer of help from the troopers and brought the situation under control nfter two hours of bat tling between the screaming, Johnson Concludes Visit To Sweden Stockholm, Sweden (UPD Vice President Lyndon B. John son had an hour-long "very interesting talk" today with Prime Minister Tage Erlandcr at the wind-up of his three-day i goodwill visit to Sweden. Johnson and Erlander met for an hour and 17 minutes 10 minmcs longer man scncouiea, they left together, Erlandcr said without elaboration that very Interesting "we had a talk indeed." Before the meeting, Johnson gave Erlandcr an nil painting by Swedish-American painter John lliiltbcrg and a drawing of himself. Following the political discus sion, Johnson and his wife were guests of honor at a dinner-dance this evening at Stock- , holm city hall. jit s rock and bottle throwing Ne groes, policemen and white passersby. Officers fired rifles, shotguns and submachine guns just over the heads of the ri oters. The violence imperiled a U.S. Not To Demand Removal of Nhus Saigon (UPD The United States has decided against press ing demands that South Vietna mese President Ngo Dinh Diem drop his brother and chief po litical advisor now or face sharp reductions in U. S. aid, high- ranking diplomatic sources said today. Only a week ago these same sources insisted that the United States had decided it could no longer afford to support a gov ernment which included Ngo Dinh Nhu and his wife. Nhu and the fiery Mmc. Nhu were con sidered responsible for the crackdown on South Vict Nam's Buddhists. Forced to Drop Demands Mmc. Nhu s charges of clou ble-dealing by the United States; Illegal Use of Funds already had indicated that the Washington ,UPn Gov. government would not back crnmcnl xamincrs have ac down under pressure from the I. lhe Air Force of ieBanv United Stales. The source said the United States had been forced to drop its demands for the present be cause it had no alternative. ine sources said mat wasn- ington, and American officials here, had so thoroughly con vinced themselves that there was no alternative to Dicm's regime that they had not mougni oui wnai to no u ine unuca .-Hams aecinca noi 10 support it any longer. 'Wo had no contingency plans," one source commented, j Fire, Panic Seen As Cause of Crash Zurich, Switzerland - (UPD ; whether a wrecking yard in the -Fire aboard a Swissair jetliner : Smllh Talent interim zoned area probably caused panic to break j j, , violation of state regula out seconds before the plane tions, Counlv Judge Earl M. crashed Wednesday killing all : Miller said this morning. AO occupants, authorities said today. Airline spokesmen said the fire apparently forced the twin - jet Caravelle out of control and Commission, plus tne aisirici ai made it plunge into a field near I torney's legal opinion, the village ol Ducrrcnacsch, 20 1 Judge Miller said the county miles west ol Zurich. I has no jurisdiction over the Lt. Fritz Meier, deputy chief , 3!nrd; but ,hc ta'e . Wnh of the Aargaun district police duc 10 nT Sta Chi "11 and in char e of police forL at y' ,'. Tne, the crash sue, said "the aircraft ,ion ha's not in vio,a(ion was flaming m the rear section, o( th( cuuny imcrim znning both inside and outside before , ordinance and state regulalions the crash." j on wrecking yards until recent- "Panic most probably broke ' y, lhe county judge remarked, out because passengers without A nearby yard earlici been doubt saw the flames," he said ' violating both itc and county , - aged the exterior of the home and broke out all the front windows and the ensuing melee be-' tween angered Negroes and police left one man dead and 19 injured. (UPD Schools school integration program be gun Wednesday under federal court order. There was some scuffling between police and segregationists at two of the three schools to be desegre gated. The sources said that when the storm did break and Ameri cans began looking around for possible alternatives, they found that potential opposition elements would not believe in the sudden reversal and did not trust the Americans enough to take any action. ' One high-ranking source de scribed it as "a crisis of confi dence." The sources admitted that when the showdown did come, it was Nhu and not the Ameri cans who stood firm. "Nhu told us to go to hell and he got away with it," one source said. Air Force Accused of .jnn nnriu sm non fnr im. pr0Vement of family housing at Fairchild Air Force Base, Wash. I he Government Accounting Office said the violations in- ri,ij ,.iin if iiu nm : as distribution svstcm. Dart of the cost, the GOA said, was il. legally financed by the payment of a surcharge on gas bought j from the Spokane Natural Gas j rj0 Court Sends Wrecking Yard to Salem The county court is sending a letter today to the slate ac ! partment of motor vehicles ask- inn fnr nn invntiDntinn ns to ! He sak he was writing the I letter this morning and will in- close the report and request by 1 the Jackson county planning Opposition From Both Sides Greets Senator's Idea Pact Declared Peril To Peace Washington - (UPD Sen. Burry Goldwatcr (R-Arir.) pro posed today that the nuclear test ban treaty be conditioned on removal of all Russian troops and missiles from Cuba. The suggestion for a reservation to the pact was greeted with a wave of opposition from both Democrats and Republicans. Senate Democratic Leader Mike Mansfield, a staunch trea ty advocate, said Goldwater'S proposal would mean "a iiiis chievous toying with the health and the hopes of the people of the United States." Said Peril to Peace Goldwater, the current Repub lican presidential front - runner, told the Senate that without his Cuban reservation, the treaty "is a potential peril to peace rather than a step toward it." ' His proposal would postpone ef fectiveness of the pact barring all but underground tests until Russia had removed all Soviet missiles, warheads, and mili tary and technical personnel from Cuba, with verification by inspection. Goldwater's speech outlining his proposal brought critical re action from several Republicans as well as Democrats. Sen. Gordon Allot (R-Colo.), suggested that the "psychologi cal moment for such action passed when the treaty was signed at Moscow. Would Require Renegotiation Sens. Jacob K. Javits and Kenneth B. Keating (both R- N.Y.), said they favored ratify ing the treaty as it stands be cause any reservation would re quire renegotiation. And, Keat ing said, "This might well result in defeat of this treaty." Mansfield and Javits both pointed out that a U.S. reserva tion such as Goldwater propos ed, would probably bring on reservations by Russia and pos sibly others of the 80-odd other signatory countries. And then, thev said, "we will be back where we started from with each half urging the disappear ance of the other even though nuclear disaster will provide for the extinction of both." Said Ill-Considered Senate Democratic Whip Hu bert H. Humphrey (Minn.), called the Goldwater proposal "ill-timed, unconsidered and il logical." He added that it did not represent "constructive pol icy, but rather partisan mis chief. Goldwater contended in reply to both sides of the aisle that "no damage" would be done in his opinion if the treaty had to be renegotiated. State Demo Party Chairman to Visit Democratic Party State Chair man Ed Spencer will discuss statewide progress of the par ty at the September meeting of the Jackson County Demo cratic Central committee Tues day, Sept. 10. The meeting will begin at 3 p.m. in the auditorium of the Labor temple, 24'4 South Grapo St. State Representative James Reeden will speak on the tax program referendum and an swer questions regarding it. State convention organization is expected to be discussed, ac cording to Chairman Charles Crary. Letter About zoning regulations, but this has been corrected with a change of management, he noted. A member of the Jackson county planning commission staff reported that eight cars which had been outside the wrecking yard fence had been moved recently. District Attorney Alan B. ' Holmes had written the county court recommending it write the motor vehicle department about the violation of regulations. Until the new law became ef fective the state did not have the power lo revoke wrecking yard licenses before, Holmes explained, although it could re fuse to renew a wrecking yard license. The planning commission charges that the area outside the main fenced yard section of the yard in question is larg er than allowed by state law" and contains more wrecked ve hicles than permitted by law. o o (6 4 O O : o (O) O
