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Newspaper Page TextWorse, Wallace Find Each Other Wanting in Mental Faculties Story Column 3 Troopers King Schools In Huntsville Birmingham, Ala. (UPI) Gov. George C Wallace, succes ful in blocking racial integra tion in Tuskegee and Birming ham, today temporarily closed our more schools scheduled to desegregate in Huntsville. State troopers surrounded three elementary and one jun ior high school in Huntsville about 8:30 a.m. (edt) to enforce the governor's order to post pone the opening of classes un til Monday. Four Negroes were scheduled to start classes today at Hunts ville where the city school board had gone along with an earlier request by the govern or to put off the opening until today while he made his moves at Tuskegee and Birmingham. Two Negro students failed to show up for classes at Murphy High school in Mobile, where the fall term began today. State troopers were sent into the port city Thursday by Wallace, but did not appear at the school. Plans To Open Schools Huntsville Mayor R. B. Sear cy said the city planned to open its schools despite Wallace's latest order, similar to the one he used to close for one week a white school in Tuskegee which was on the verge of ad mitting 13 Negroes. Searcy acknowledged, howev er, that the governor had the power to close schools by exec utive order. "I just wish the governor had not sent the troopers in here, Searcy said. State troopers moved into Huntsville and Mobile Thursday from this steel city where Ne groes were to ask a federal court today to order the reopen ing of three desegregated schools closed following rioting that claimed one life, . Request Rejected ..- A request by Wallace that the Huntsville school, .board p o s t pone the opening of schools was rejected, according to the board chairman, Dr. Raymond L. Christian. The Huntsville city council asked Wallace in a res- Ashland Council Delays Decision Ashland The Ashland City Council last night again put off a decision on whether or not to sell the city's electrical system to Pacific Power and Light company. Action was deferred because of the fact that PP&L recently submitted a new proposed meth od for handling the sale. The new proposal will have to be studied, councilmen agreed. Councilman George Ward an nounced that another agency has contacted the city regard ing sale of Bonneville power to Ashland if the PP&L offer is not accepted. PPiL has offered $2 million for the city's electrical system. HEWSft? ITEMS fROM XJ UNEMPLOYMENT DECLINES DURING AUGUST Washington (UPI) Unemployment (ell by 4M,nn(l in August to 3,857.(1(1(1. the Labor Department reported today. GOLDWATER MAY VOTE AGAINST TREATY Washington (LTD Sen. Barry Goldwater (R-Ariz.) disclosed today that he probably would vote against the nuclear test ban treaty if his Cuban-missile reservation is rejected by (he Senate. AERIAL ATTACK I.N CUBA SAID TRIED Havana (UPI I Two twin-engined bombers wilh jet fighter escort tried to attack an air force base in central Cuba early Thursday but were driven off by heavy anli-aircraft fire, the Castro regime reported today. U.S. TO SEEK RELEASE OK DEFECTOR Berlin I UPI I The United Stales plans In take aelinn on a high level in a new effort to secure the release of an Army defec tor bring held against his will in East Berlin, informed sources said today. The sources said the United Slates would ask the Rus sians for Cant. Alfred Svcnson, 30, of Scranlon. Pa., on the grounds It has been shown clearly that he wants to return. CREWS TO BE REMOVED FROM TEXAS TOWERS Boston (UPI) Five helicopters left today to make an emer gency evacuation of 28 men from two Texas Towers battered by IJ-toot waves and gale force winds in Ihe slorm-swept North Atlantic. VICE PRESIDENT ARRIVES IN' HELSINKI Helsinki, Finland (UPI i Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson arrived In Helsinki today for his second stop on a lS.ono-mile, five nation lour of Northern Europe. olution "not to interfere with the operation of Huntsville city schools." Mayor Searcy said "We have not asked for state troopers to come in here. We do not need them because there will be no disorder." Rockefeller in Stronger Position Following Vote Albany, N.Y. - (UPI)-Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller's drive for a White House bid on the Republican ticket in 1964 ap peared stronger today based on the outcome of key primary races at opposite ends of New York State. Although the governor was not directly involved, his political nrpsttpp was challenged. It was ' put to the test in Erie county j where a failure could have hurt ; his chances of bringing a solid istate delegation to the national convention. De Sapio Fails A close primary contest in New York's Greenwich Village section mav have ended a poli- tical career that at one time rangea nign in cuy, sidie anu national Democratic circles. K,,f onnffinifll fifllll-aC I showed Carmine G. de Sapio I failnrl in his nnlitical comeback I try by 41 votes. He lost his grip on Tammany Man two years ago as the result of a re form move headed by former r.nxt Hurhorl l.phman and the j late Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt. May Jeopardize Post The defeat may jeopardize De Sapio's post as a Democratic na tional committeeman when the New York delegation meets at the national party convention next summer in Atlantic City, N.J. De Sapio's successful op ponent was Edward I. Koch, a reform Democrat. In Erie country, two men ap pointed to judicial posts by the governor scored impressive vic tories over opponents backed by the county GOP chairman, Rob ert W. Grimm. The Erie country contests stemmed from a split between Grimm and Senate Majority Leader Walter J. Mahoney. Rockefeller has supported Ma honey. Interim Committee To Study Sales Tax Salem (UPI) - The Legisla tive lniprim committee on taxa tion decided today to make a thorough study ot tne sales tax. i MEETING SCHEDULED I Salem (UPI) The State ' Board of Education will meet ! here Sept 10 with Eugene Fish er of Helix, the new board I chairman. iBRIEFS AROUND THI OtOM Emergency Board Slashes $25,000 From Vote Funds Money Requests By Agencies Refused Salem (UPI ) The Emergen cy Board today warned of a tax revolt, slashed $25,000 from the funds set aside for the spe 1 cial Oct. 15 tax referendum elec ! tion, and refused all money re ! quests submitted by state agen cies. The $300,000 set aside to fi nance the referral election was cut back to $275,000 after Elec tions Supervisor Jack Thompson said he thought no more than that would be needed. The board refused a $21,650 request from Atty. Gen. Robert Y. Thornton to implement the Uniform Supervision of Trustees for Charitable Purposes Act. The vote against the appropri ation was 6-3. The board then voted unani mously to deny $80,556 asked by the State Tax Commission to implement three of the laws passed by the last legislature. The feeling of the Emergency Board was that the commission could get along with the $8.1 million appropriated during the regular session. Tax Commission Chairman Paul Lenniger said "we will do what we can," but said with out money the commission might not be able to adminis ter the laws. Involved are the new local budget law, farm land zoning law and new for est access roads legislation. Sen. Ward Cook (D-Portland) warned other members of the Emergency Board that the state was undergoing a tax revolt. "It will take a miracle to pre vent defeat of the tax bill at the Oct. 15 election," he said. In light of the feeling being expressed by taxpayers, he said he felt the board should refuse all requests that were not of an extreme emergency nature. Morse, Wallace Continue Insults At Long Range Washington (UPI) Alabama Gov. George C. Wallace and Sen. Wayne Morse (D-Ore.)have measured mental faculties and each found the other wanting. Continuing an exchange of in sults at long range with Wallace, Morse told the Senate Friday that Wallace came out of World War II with a psychiatric dis ability. The senator said the governor had not been exam ined by the Veterans Adminis tration since 1956 and that it would be appropriate for him "to volunteer to be examined At the present time." Kick in Head Mentioned In Alabama, Wallace replied that Morse may be suffering from effects of a kick in the head by a horse. Morse read into the Senate record excerpts of what he de scribed as Governor Wallace's military service record. He said Wallace was honorably discharg ed with a disability rating of 10 per cent attributed to anxiety and tension. Said Nervous Type Contacted in Anniston. Ala., Wallace conceded that he is a I nervous type. "Yes, like many other veterans who saw combat, I am nervous," he said. Then Wallace added, "I won der what causes his (Morse's) nervousness? Maybe, as M r s. Clare Booth Luce once said while testifying before a con gressional committee, he was kicked in the head by a horse." Detectives Return Man Wanted Here Mcdford police detectives trav eled to Grants Pass today to take Aaron Cornelius Huisman, 19, into custody on a district court warrant charging burglary not in a dwelling. Huisman had been detained by Grants Pass police on the same charge, but had been re leased on his own recognizance. Detectives said Huisman is wanted here in connection with the June 10 burglary of the Brave Bull restaurant, 1206 North Riverside ave., in which over $1,000 in checks and cash was reported stolen. HEADQUARTERS PLANNED Beaverton. Ore (UPI) A $2 million regional headquarters building will be built here by the Chevrolet Division of Gen eral Motors, the company has announced. It will replace exist ing Chevrolet facilities in Portland. Regional Edition Medford 20 Pages Two Sections Vietnamese Sowm TROOPS UNLOADED Vietnamese army troops pour out of U.S. Army H-21 helicopters in an assault on Viet Cong guerrillas deep in Communist dominated territory near South Viet Nam's northeast coast. Fourteen of the. H-21s, piloted WEATHER FORECAST: Chatter of scat tered lluindrralmwprs over the mountains thin rvening, otherwise partly rlottdy to night and Saturday. Low to night 38, high Saturday fl.V Temp. Hlchet Yesterday 34 Lowest This MornliiC 6R Our Skies Tonight Sunset today 7:.1R p.m. Sunrise tomorrow . . fi:42 a.m. The Moon rises 9:4 3 p.m. ton lent and Is In Perigee. PROMINENT STAR Antarcs, low In south west 10:n p.m. VISIBLE PLANETS Mars, sets . p.m. Saturn, In southeast K:35 p.m. .luplter, leads the Moon. Leases Approved For Parking Lots the Medford city council last j night which clear the way for the eventual installation of pub lic off-street parking lots in the vicinity of Sixth and Bart.-elt sts. The leases were negotiated wilh William Hansen and Har vey J. Field and were executed for a 10-year period. Under the terms of the agree ment, the city is given the right to remove the buildings on both sites and to construct the park ing facilities. Operation of the completed lots will be maintained by Fred Robinson of Park and Shop, ac cording to City Manager Robert Duff. Bids have been called for on the demolition project and last night the council adjourned until 5 p.m. Thursday. Sept. 12. at which time the group will meet to award the contract for the work. Bargain Days Start I Tomorrow for M-T ' The Mail Trbunc's annual ; Bargain Days will begin Satur- i day. Sept. 7. and continue through Monday, Sept. 16. During Bargain Days, per. ! sons subscribing to the news paper will save $3. Prices will be SIR for a year's subscrip tion lo the newspaor by car rier, and $15 by mail in Jack i son, Josephine and Siskiyou counties where carrier service is not maintained. During the 10 days of t h e event, the Mail Tribune's circu lation office will be open un til 6 p m . and on the final day, Sept. 16. it will remain open un til 10 p m. Seaside Editor Sees Bigger, More Vicious Riot Next Year Seaside (UPI) Another Sea side riot, "bigger, more vicious, and with a greater possibility for terrorism," is a certainly here next vear, the editor and publisher of the weekly Seaside Signal newspaper predicted Thursday. In a front-page article which bitterly denounced state officials and the stale police, Max Scha fer said: "It is obvious that while state police forced the rioters onto the beach Sunday, nothing was done to solve the problem for the future." The specially trained state po- X?., 'ZJS! Seaside officials to assist local officers. Warne Nunn, an aide lo Gov. Mark Hatfield, was at Seaside during the week end conferring wilh local officials. The editorial was critical of the stale police for a "no rough stuff" policy against Labor Day rioters who did thousands of Jury Expected To Be Selected Today Grants Pass Selection of a jury in the trial of Gerald Rich ard Odcn, 25, of Wolf Creek, charged with first degree mur der, was expected lo be com pleted some time today. Oden is a former Jackson county resident, and he is being represented by Robert Boycr, Medford lawyer. Testimony in Ihe trial is scheduled to start Tuesday, flri. en has entered a plea of inno-1 retained by North's Chuck Wa cent in the case. Judge Orval Rn restaurant, 1016 North Ri Millard of .Insenhinp circuit ! vcrsidc ave., and by Dr. J. W. court is presiding. He and a second man. Nor man Stewart Thomas, 22. of Grants Pass were indicted jointly in the dealh of Lloyd Miles Harper, 48, of Grants Pass. Harper was found dead July 12. Thomas will be tried separate ly and by a different jury. His trial is scheduled to start Sept. 17. Gary I-cc Banla, 2.1. of O'Brien has been summoned to appear as a witness at the Oden trial. Portland (UPI) C'ollec- i "serious economic loss" lo olh tions of federal tax money in or businesses on North River- flretfnn increased ft nor rrnl for Side avc. fiscal 1.!. the Internal Rev - nue Service said. MEDFORD, OREGON, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, by Americans, assault. tUPI) dollars damage at the beach re sort city for Ihe second year in a row. It was Ihe latest in a series of angry statements emanating from Seaside residents as a re sult of the riots. Sixty-nine per sons Wednesday night signed an informal petition asking for the resignation of Mayor Mau rice Pysher. Another citizens' meeting was held Thursday night and both Transfer of Beer ! U I S H G 1 51110 LirGllCG Okayed by Council By a 5 to 1 vole, the Mcd ford city council last night ap proved the transfer of a beer dispensing license from 43 South Fronl st. to a new loca tion at 902 North Riverside ave. The applicants, Robert Lee and F.dna June Knox, present operators of the Frontier club, 4.) South Front St., had been I denied a request at the previous meeting to transfer to the Whistle Stop cafe, 2211 North! Frnnl st . when spvnral ariin-l cent nroncrtv owners protested I the move. Medford Lawyer Frank .1 I Van Dyke appeared before Ihe council last night to "protest and present a statement in op - , position" to Knox's request, i Van Dvke said he had been Burba. He mentioned five oth er businesses in the vicinity of Knox's new location which he said also opposed the request. Same Reasoning The lawyer suggested Ihe council should use the same reasoning it had applied in earlier denying Knox's request to transfer to the Whistle Stop location. He said that if Knox main tained the same kind of tavern operation he was presently run ning at the new location, "it would engender certain prob lems." and might cause a 1 Van Dyke said that if, on the other hand, Knox proposed lo carried troops while 11 armed Pysher and Chamber of Com merce President W. A. Tor Har were unavailable Fi.'day morn ing because of other meetings. No one would discuss the talks. Schafer said Seaside citizens "may be forced to protect their property by any means avail able to them. If that ever be comes the situation, it has the makings of a tragedy or a scries of tragedies." The rioters at times ringed upgrade his operation, Ihe pub lic convenience and necessity did not demand it, since there were already four other "top grade" bars or cocktail lounges in operation on North Riverside avc' Knox, however, presented Ihe council with a petition which nc shiu cuniHincu ine signa tures of 17 persons in thc vici nity of his new location who fa vored, or had no objection to, his request I '"'y Requested He protested that some of the people Van Dyke had men- ' lioned as opposing thc request, j had told him verbally that they ! lavorea nis proposal The proprietor, of the Trave - akikb "'" yu.ceu i i';ly rol.mcd committee on Race'cond council for two weeks' delay lo give him time to circulate a petition. However, the council vole, on a motion by Councilman Joe Hosick, granted Knox's request. Councilman Jack Edson was alone in voting no. Grass, Brush Fire Burns 40 Acres Firemen from the Stale For- o.lrv ,lnnrlmnnl nnri II S '-J ,." - j iillllll t'll Willi uiiu mni-ii m voi forest service 25-man fire sup-1 jn which they were riding crash rcssion crew at Star Ranger ; jnt0 gn overpass pier. station extinguished a 40-acre grass and brush fire in the Little Applegatc area ycsiernay alter - noon, forestry department offi- cials report. Thc fire reported at 3;30 p m. was believed lo have started 1 beside a nearby road. Tribune 1963 lit f IPres UB - 1B helicopter protected the private homes over the week end and terrorized residents. "Tlie attitude on the part of slate officials , . . seems to be that the riots are Seaside's prob lem and the state lias no re sponsibility other than to force the rioters lo the beach and to permit them lo scatter," Scha fer wrote. "Nothing could be further from the truth or more short sighted." "Seaside has trouble because youths from all parts of the Northwest flock to this commu nity on Labor Day. Seaside does not want them and it has been slated publicly and emphatic ally that we do not want them . . . We only want them to stay away and leave us alone." He pointed out that the rioters themselves say there is nothing to do in Seaside- The city is trying to keep them out by re- fltcintt In niiiA Ihnm antrlViinrf In d) nnd Mcanwh,c; morc cascs grow. inR mlt , thc rj()(s w,rc 8cnc(. uled to be heard in Municipal Court today. Officials say it may , akc lwo week., tn dispose of thc cases of some 70 youths ar rested in the three days. Council Approves Funds for Appraisal Portland (UP!) - Forest W. Amsdcn, former executive edi tor and associate publisher of 1 cxmlUv0 S(?crct ' of jhe ncw. and Education Thursday. The group is to study racial imbal ! ancc in Portland schools. Traffic Accidents Take Three Lives in Oregon By United Press International , The younger boy died instant Traffic accidents killed three J ly and Brian died en route lo persons in Oregon Thursday aft-1 PortIand hospital. Mrs. Neu- ernnnn And nicht. including two 1 . , I u .l,nn Ihn Aaron Richard Neubeck, 3, and his brother, Brian, 6, were , killed at the Kecne rd. overpass j o miles north of Salem when : their mother, Mrs. Eunice May ! Neubeck, 27. apparently went lo sleep at tne wneel, state I'o- lice said. 58th Year Price 10 Cents No. 145 As Demand Made in Formal Mole To U.S. Embassy ' No Indication Of Reply Given Saigon, South Vict Nam (UPI) The Vietnamese govern ment demanded today that the United States hand over three Buddhist priests who took refuge in the American Embassy here last Sunday, diplomatic sources said. The three priests included Thich Tri Quang, who is re ported to have masterminded the Buddhist protest movement against the government of Presi dent Ngo Dinh Diem. The sources said the demand was made in a formal aide memoire from the Vietnamese Foreign Office. U.S. Embassy representative William Truehart was summoned to the Foreign Office and handed the demand. There was no immediate indi cation whether the United States would hand over the three priests. Escaped Arrest Quang somehow managed to escape arrest when government troops and police stormed and sacked the city's main Xa Lot pagoda in the prc-dawn hours oi Aug. 21, in a massive crack down on the Buddhist protest movement. Last Tuesday, embassy of ficials refused to grant refuge to another young Buddhist priest because they said he was not a Buddhist leader and clearly was not in danger. At (he time, a source said the embassy had made it a policy to shelter only Buddhist leaders who might be in danger. Neither Key Figure The other two nriesls who took refuge in the embassy with him were Le Mai Chi and Tran Wan Nham, neither of whom was considered a key figure in the Buddhist movement. The sources said the aide memoire specifically named the three priests and said they were wanted for investigation. The sources said this was the first time the Vietnamese gov ernment formally had demand ed that the embassy hand over the priests. Earlier, diplomatic sources said the United States now is resigned to working wilh tho present government here and is searching (or areas of joint co operation to save the country from Communist control. .1 ! r- i latnoiic uraac School Enrolls 660 A total of lino students have registered for Ihe new year at St. Mary's Grade school. Sister Naadene Ann, the principal, re ported yesterday. This registration compares lo 630 at this time a year ago. Classes began Wednesday af ter Tuesday registration. The principal listed 86 students in Ihe first grade, Wi in the se cond. 100 in thc third, 01 in Iho fourth, 90 in the fifth, 73 in the sixth, 66 in the seventh and 65 in the eighth. I OCCK WaS IISICO in Critical Hill- dition at a Salem hospital. Lynes M. Needham, 48, ot Portland, was killed when his small foreign-made car was struck by a State Highway De partment truck in northwest Portland. The car overturned and burst Into flames. Truck driver Clifford Lehman, 33, Portland, was not injured. iCS 1 y u . - ,k a T"