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Wallace's Regional Edition MEDFORD 20 Pages Two Week Lives Eisenhower Calls For Assurance of Cut in Spending Pledge Wanted For Taxes Pared WASHINGTON (UPI) - For mer President Dwight D. Ei senhower wants Congress to re ject President Kennedy's pro posal for a tax cut unless Ken nedy promises to halt the rise in federal spending. Administration sources said Kennedy would not make the commitment demanded by Ei senhower because such a pro mise could not be kept. The House Ways and Means Committee is expected to ap prove an administration-backed measure Tuesday that would re duce corporate and individual income taxes $11 billion in two annual stages startiing Jan. 1. Views Said Requested Eisenhower issued his state ment from his Gettysburg, Pa., office Sunday in reply to what he said was requests for his views from "various members of Congress." The statement was distributed by the Republi can National Committee. Most, if not all, Republican members of the ways and means committee are expected to oppose the tax bill. However, it seems likely to get to t h e House floor within three weeks, and House passage appears as sured. It is uncertain whether the Senate will act this year. Eisenhower said that Con gress, before approving any tax cut, should get explicit assur ance from Kennedy that federal spending in future fiscal years would not be allowed to go above the current $98 billion level until the budget is bal anced and shows a surplus. Said Highly Desirable "A tax cut is highly desirable but only if the persistent and frightening increase in federal expenditures is halted in its tracks," the former president said. "It is my conviction that any tax cut without this firm halting of expenditure increase is un wise, undesirable and certain to damage our currency and the nation." Barton To Be Oregon Governor SALEM (UPI)-House Speak er Clarence Barton (D-Coquille) will become Oregon's governor Tuesday night. Gov. Mark Hatfield is planning to leave Oregon at 9 p.m. Thurs day to attend a traffic safety meeting Friday in Color ado Springs, Colo. On Saturday Hatfield is slated to attend a meeting of the Re publican Governor's association in Denver. H" expects to return to Oregon Saturday night. Senate President Sen. Ben Musa (D-The Dalles) who nor mally takes over as governor when Hatfield is out of state, will also be out of state during Hatfield's absence. He will be visiting his son, Dr. Byron Musa, in Minneapolis, Minn. It will be Barton's first ex perience as Oregon's governor. NEWSBRIEFS IT IMS fltOM nV AHOUNO THI OlOM WARRANTS ISSUED IN BANK HOLDUP MOSCOW. Idaho (UPI) Warrants have been issued for three men, believed to be from California, charging them with the SS5..1S7 robbery of the First Bank of Troy, Idaho. Friday, the Federal Bureau of Investigation laid today. An all points bulletin was issued (or the three. Identified as Ron Gordon, 20; Frank Knight, It or 20. and Joe Gordon, 25. HATFIELD TO ADDRESS CONFERENCE WASHINGTON (UPI) Gov. Mark Hatfield will peak at the nnoal Commissioners and Governors Conference on Metropolitan Area Problems here Sept. 26. AMERICAN LEGION SCHEDULES PARADE MIAMI BEACH (UPI) Thoutands of old soldiers don uniforms and climb onto floats tonight for the annual American Legion parade set this year along the palm-lined avenues of this resort city. Sections End Accidents Claim of 17 Oregonians rW r .." ENVOY RETIRING American Ambassador to Switzerland Rob ert McKinney and his wife are shown as they boarded an airplane at Geneva, en route to the United States. McKinney is retiring as the Swiss ambassador. UPI ) " ' Witnesses Testify Prior to Sentencing Of Bibeau Today Harold James Bibeau, 21, will be sentenced this afternoon on a manslaughter charge which involved the death of an Ash land theater manager. Sentencing will probably come late this afternoon sinca Bi beau's lawyers, Joel Keecler and Stanley Jones Jr., may call a total of 16 witnesses. Dijtrict Attorney Alan Holmes may also present witnesses. Circuit Judge Edward C. Kelly said this noon he will study further evidence and documents presented him after he recesses the court this atternoon. men. he will have the prisoner brought Forest Fire Danger At Peak for Year By United Press International I Fire danger sKyrocKelea imay to what chief U S. Forest Serv- ice Dispatcher Clarence Edging , ton called one of the forst fire-1 weather days of the year. , His warning came after a week end in wnicn o urea mu burned 562 acres in Oregon and Washington national forests and another seven burned more than 120 acres of state-protected land. Eddington listed soaring tem peratures which were expected to reach 100 degress in some areas, the threat of lightning storms, and the continuation of hunting season as the principal threats to dry forests. roopeirs MEDFORD, OREGON, MONDAY, before him and pass sentence. Maximum term as "firmly recommended" by the district attorney would be 15 years. Bibeau's lawyers were pre senting the witnesses and addi tional evidence today hoping to obtain as light a sentence as possible for the soldier. Army authorities said Bibeau could be returned to the Army if he received a sentence of no more than one year. 13 Witnesses Testify This morning 13 witnesses, in cluding Bibeau's father, Har old Bibeau, Empire, Ore., testi fied as to Bibeau's character. Additional evidence presented included a letter, introduced by the district attorney, which in dicated Bibeau showed no re morse, pictures of the dead man, Russell Waldon Osborn, dU anrl Ai-m.r r,nFi...nnnl 1.. a' of the . duced b Bjbeau, , Bibeau was specifically cnarged wjt) stranfj Asniand man in the ,jving room of nis home al 72S Waker avo on April 27. Bibeau pleaded gU,uy t0 the charge Aug. 14. Red Fleet Quits Shelikof Strait ANCHORAGE, Alaska (UPI) A Russian fishing fleet which was accused of harassing Amer ican fishermen pulled out of the mouth of Shelikof Strait Sunday about four hours after a U.S. Coast Guard cutter arrived. American fishermen had com plained that the Russians were deliberately fouling and ruining American gear. The Russians were located about 20 miles due west of Low Cape, which is on Kodiak Is land. Shelikof Strait lies be tween Kodiak Island and the Alaskan mainland. The area, about .TOO miles southwest of here, is in interna tional waters, though most of Shelikof Strait is claimed by Alaska as part of its inland waters since it separates two major parts of the state. CONFERENCE SET PORTLAND (UPI) - About 500 medical scientists, nurses and volunteer workers from 15 western states will gather M Portland Wednesday for Uie 11th annual Western Tubercu losis Conference. Tribune SEPTEMBER 9, 1963 Eugene Youngster Killed in Crash; 5 Others Drown Model Airplane Flier Electrocuted By United Press International Violent deaths claimed 17 Ore gonians over the week end. Another resident of the state died when he was struck by a car in Southern California after falling off the back of a truck. Accidents Sunday claimed one traffic victim, five by drowning and one by electrocution. A two-car crash on a county road 20 miles cast of Eugene Sunday resulted in the death of one-year-old David Laurence Sandlin Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. David L. Sandlin Sr., of Eu gene. According to state police, the child was riding in a car with his parents when it collided headon with a vehicle driven by Harold Delmar Ludington, 22, of Eugene. Tony Krossman. 58, of Sixes, drowned when he was washed off the rocks into the Pacific Ocean just north of the Port Orford Coast Guard Station by two large waves. Drownings Claim Five William Philip Gauthier. 51, Salem, was dead on arrival at Pacific Communities Hospital in Newport and his two com panions were injured after their sports boat capsized in heavy fog off the south jetty of Yaq uina Bay '-Sunday. '.; William Francis Mulick, 16. Portland, drowned in the Clac kamas river at Oregon City Sunday afternoon. Another drowning in the Port land area took the life of Don ald Ross Barbur, 15, Portland. Barbur drowned in the Colum bia river north of the city. Near Reedsport, the fifth Sun day drowning claimed the life of an 11-year-old Drain boy. James R. Vidergar was thr James R. Vidergar was thrown from a 20 - foot cabin cruiser after it was driven on the South Umpqua jetty just outside the Winchester Bay har bor entrance. According to the Coast Guard, the boat's motor failed, and an auxiliary motor was not powerful enough to keep the boat out of trouble. The Coast Guard rescued four oth er persons. At Sublimity Jerry W. Bruce, 23, was killed when a model air craft which he was guiding by a metal cable control line brush ed against a power line. A Sunday fatality near San Diego, Calif., took the life of Jackie Gene Garrison, 23, of Fos ter. Garrison was sleeping in the back of a truck when he tumbled onto Highway 101 and was struck by a car. Earlier week end fatalities in cluded: August John Covic, 36, and Dale Allison Kile. 33. both of Portland, killed in a two-cai- col lision on the Sunset higliwjy near Portland Saturday. Mrs. Louella Snyder, and her sons, Richard. 10, and David. 4, died in a fire which destroyed their two-slory frame house in Sweet Home Saturday. Bandon Man Killed Richard Johnston, 22, Bin don, died in a Saturday car crash. Zoa Burdick, 16, Camp Shor man. was killed when an auto struck a tree near Sisters Sat urday. Ray Aleman, 8, drowned in a Willamette river slough at Milo ma Farms near Independence Saturday. John Baldwin. 66. Porllai.d. was killed in a fall from his roof Saturday. Michael Giles, 15, Vida, died when struck by a car wtii it walking along a highway near Eugene Friday. - Oregon traffic has claimed !6 ' lives in the first eight days nf September, compared to 20 for ; a similar period last year. I There have been 386 de.ulis on highways of the state s i far this year, compared to 324 foi the same period a year ago. SALEM 'UPli-The building committee of the State Board of Higher Education today ap proved plans for a SI. 4 million addition to the former Doren Ibecher Hospital at the Univer sity Mediral School in Portland. Syrroirai 58th Year Price 10 Cents No. 147 Senators Warned About Exceptions In Nuclear Treaty Supporters Sure Of Ratification WASHINGTON ( UPD-Chair-man J. William Fulbright ID Ark.) of the Senate Foreign Re lations committee, warned today that any Senate reservations to the nuclear test ban treaty "would be unwise and irrespon sible." Fulbright made the statement in a speech prepared for the opening of formal Senate debate on the treaty. Supporters were confident they could get the two-third Senate vote required for ratification. Said Safe and Wise Assuring his colleagues that the pact was "indeed both safe and wise," Fulbright said "there are risks in this treaty but they are lesser rather than greater risks, and the political oppor tunities outweight the military risks." Fulbrighl's speech came as the Senate preparedness sub committee sharply criticized the treaty and as President Kennedy arranged to meet with Senate Democratic Leader Mike Mans field, Mont., and GOP Leader Everett M. Dirkscn, 111., to dis cuss the pact. The preparedness subcommit tee, in a report signed by six of its seven members, said the United States might suffer seri ous, even formidable, military disadvantages if the treaty is ratified. The subcommittee, which heard 21 military and scientific witnesses in closed sessions on the treaty, made no direct recommendation on whether the Senate should ratify it. Could Hold Gains But the group, headed by Sen. John Biennis (D-Miss .), conclud ed thai the Russians would be able to hold or make weapons gains under the treaty while the United States would be inhibited in its development of nuclear weapons systems. The pact bore a 16-1 endorse ment from the foreign relations committee, the all-out backing of the administration, and the sup port of many top-legal scientists and other experts. Medford Man Hurt In Auto Crash John William Dahlstrom, 21, of 34 Elm St., was in serious condition at Rogue Valley hos pital this morning from injuries received in a pre-dawn head-on collision on Highway 99 about 14 miles north of Grants Pass. Dahlstrom suffered severe cuts about the head and face, deep cuts in one leg. fractures to both arms, internal injuries and other undetermined injuries. The station wagon he was driv ing struck a truck-tractor with semi-trailer, operated by Clar ence E. Pratt, .'17, of Grants Pass, according to Oregon state police. Pratt received minor cuts and a single deep cut on one leg. Both men were taken by ambu j lence to Josephine General hos I pital in Grants Pass, whereupon j Dahlstrom was transferred im mediately to Medford. He un derwent surgery this morning ! at Rogue Valley hospital. The accident occurred at 5:10 a.m. on a two-lane portion of Highway 99 near Sunny Valley. According to state police, Dahl strom's car, which was south bound, crossed over into the northbound lane and hit the truck-tractor head-on. Both vehicles were a total loss. Johnson Continues i Tour of Finland TURKU. Finland (LTD - A subdued Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson, apparently tired from the vigorous schedule of his northern European goodwill tour, arrived here today for a look al Finland's second city. Johnson flew in this morning , from Helsinki, where he was ' the target of an unsuccessful egg-thrower Sunday. The vice president, who shook hands with everybody in sight Sunday at Rovaniemi. the capi tal of Lapland, today shook hands only with officials when he visited Turku University, the first stop on the day's program. It remained for his 19-year-old daughter, Lynda Bird, to do the : informal handshaking at the I universitv. L , ".i T T-fT SkW- I. F'MJU STARTS REIGN Donna Axum, Miss America sized sex appeal as a necessary ingredient for of 1964, is the picture of radiance as she starts Miss America hopefuls. She told reporters she her reign as the queen of American beauty. At has no beau at present and is concerned only a press conference in New York she deempha- with the exciting year ahead. (UPI) Federal Grant To Aid Storm Sewer Drainage Study The City of Medford has re ceived a federal grant to con duct a study of storm sewer drainage conditions in three areas of the city, City Manager Robert Duff has been notified. Congressman Robert B. Dun caji ,wiredpuff, Saturday, that the Housing and Home Finance administration has approved $6, 370 for the survey. The Corvallis firm of Cornell, Howell, Hayes and Mcrryfield, consulting engineers, will be en gaged to conduct the survey. Duff said their work will be gin within 30 days. The study will survey drain age condtions in southeast Med ford, the Kenwood - Grandview area, and a section of the Bern-dale district, Duff said. The city manager said today that the three areas have been experiencing storm drainage problems for several years. A completed storm water col lection system in the areas has i been estimated by the city to cost about $942,500. The esti mate was computed on a cost per acre basis. ! The city council had author I ized the administration to re I quest advance planning aid for the project at its June 6 mcct j ing. The formal request was i submitted to the federal agency on June 12, Duff said. Lightning Storm Starts Eight Fires Eight fires were reported in the area northwest of Prospect on the Umpqua divide, officials from the Rogue River national forest reported today. The fires, two of which arc still being brought under con trol, are the result of last nights lightning storm, officials said. Medford's Temperature i Ties Record for Day I Medford had the hottest day of ; the year yesterday when lem I peraturcs in the area soared to ; 102 degrees, the Medford office of the U.S. weather bureau re ported today. It tied the record for Sept. 8 which was recorded i in 1943. Oregon Shakespearean Festival's Attendance for 1963 Season Passes 50,000 Mark for First Time ASHLAND The Oregon Shake spearean Festival's Saturday night audience of 1,11.1 brought the total attendance over the 50.000 mark (or the first time in festival history. General Man ager William Patton reported. During the 4fi-night run. which ended Saturday, the festival i played to 08 2 per cent of the capacity of the theater, Patton said. Final box office figures indi cate that 50.7B8 persons saw the four plays presented during the l1 season. New "standing room only" records were also established, according to the ' general manager. There were 30 i productions completely sold out 1 and lour of the remaining 10 Three Student Enrollment In District 549C Totals 8731 Today A total of 8,731 students en - rolled in schools throughout Dis trict 549C this morning, repre senting a 2.2 per cent increase over first day registration last year, according to Dr. 1'1'iotl Becken, assistant school super intendent. Last year 8.547 stu dents enrolled. Largest increase is for the high school, it was noted, were 1,900 students registered, an 8.6 per cent rise. An additional 100 stu dents who are working in the fruit harvest are expected to register late, Becken explained. Last year at this time the high scnool nao l.ibu students en rolled. Enrollment for the junior high students was 2.208 com pared to 2,158 last year, up 2.3 per cent and for elementary 4,628, down from 4,639. Registration by grades show: first 733, down 81; second 764, up 4; third 757, up 24; fourth 756, down 20; fifth 781, up 30; sixth 785, up 35; seventh 728, Hatfield Hits Delay In Oil Bid Opening SALEM -(UPD- Gov. Mark Hatfield today lashed out at an Interior Department announce ment that opening of bids for oil exploration on federal lands on the ocean floor had been post poned until Oct. 1, 1(164. "Oregon and the nation should not be penalized because one company saw more fully an op portunity open to all," the gov ernor said. The governor noted that Shell Oil Co. had conducted extensive tests off the Oregon const, and apparently was ready to start drilling next year. Hatfield suggested the inte rior department was yielding to pressure from oil companies that have not made such tests. "Oregon may have a resource of great economic value to the state and of great strategic val ue to the nation," Hatfield said. He charged the interior de partment was "confusing public interest with corporation inter est." ; topped 1.000. The "standing j room only" sign was displayed I at the box office lor 2.1 consec 1 utive nights from Aug. 1.1 through Sept. 4. Attendance was rather evenly distributed among the plays. All but one staging of "Merry Wives of Windsor" was sold out; two "Love's Labour's Lost" pro ductions were under capacity as were two presentations of "Ro meo and Juliet." "Henry V" sold out all but four of its per- l formnnccs, after having estab j lished a new Ashland record on iJuly 27 by being the first his : torical play to sell out on its i opening night. The 11 season had claimed Je record for attendance prior Schoo 1 up 20; eighth 723, same, and ninth 737, up 10. Students enrolled at the two junior high schools were 1,029 at Hedrick, up 47, and 1,179 at McLoughlin, up 3. Breakdown by schools showed; Griff in, Creek .114, down 7; Hoo- vi .hi, u, n, iiuwdiu ..w, uuwn 8; Jackson 399, down 27; Jack sonville 240, up 17; Jefferson 351, down 24; Lincoln 205, up 10; Lone Pine 295, up 23; Oak Grove 310, up 6; Roosevelt 529, down 47, Ruch 112, same; Washing ton 560, up 14; West Side 120, down 6; and Wilson 480, up 28 lor tile largest increase. Kennedy Names Postmaster General WASHINGTON (UPI) - Wis consin Tax Commissioner John S. Gronouski was named today to be postmaster general in the Kennedy cabinet. Gronouski, a 43-ycar-old Dem ocrat, will succeed J. Edwird Day, whose resignation took ef fect a month ago. President Kennedy's choice of Gronouski was announced by the White House, which said that as far as it knew Gronou ski is the first person of Polish ancestry to be named to the cabinet. The announcement confirmed reports which has been emanat ing from Wisconsince since Sun day Gronouski has been commis sion of taxation in Wisconsin since he was appointed to that post by Gov. Gaylord Nelson in January, I960. Wildlife Committee Completes Program SALEM (UPI) - The Legisla tive Interim Committee on Wildlife completed a two - day orientation session here Satur day afternoon and mapped plans (or the balance of this year. The committee will hold its next meeting in Klamath Falls Oct. 4 Cecil Edwards was hired as executive secretary at $750 a month. to this year when 47,7:14 persons attended the plays. Attendance ! dropped to 41.704 in 1002. This year's total is ,1,0:14 higher than the 1001 figure I Producing Director Angus L. i ISnwmer has announced that the i 14 season will be centered ! around the international cole- bratiun of William Shakespeare's j 400th birthday. Scheduled for ' the season are "King Lear," i"The Merchant of Venice," "Twelfth Night," "King Henry i VI, Part I," and a possible fifth show to be added to the roper : tory after the group opens its home season. i The company, as previously announced, will form in Ashland : on April 23, travel to Stanford Negro Children Begin Classes In Huntsville Birmingham, Mobile, Tuskegee Affected BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (UPD Gov. George C. Wallace defied the federal government in three cities today by surrounding white schools with armed state troopers who turned away 20 Negroes trying to enter. The fiery segregationist thus set the stage for another "school house door" showdown with the federal government which had said troops woula be used if nec essary to enforec the intergation ordered by federal courts. Huntsville Quiet The 20 Negroes were turned back by the helmeted state troopers ringing three schools in Birmingham, one in Mobile and one in Tuskegee. While the crisis mounted in these cities, three Negro child ren quietly began classes in for merly white schools in Hunts ville, leaving only Mississippi where integration has not started below the college level. There were no incidents at the schools in Birmingham, Tuske gee and Mobile. Court Orders Sought Legal maneuvers began in Birmingham to force Wallace to stop interfering with the deseg regation of the schools. A fed eral judge in Mobile was asked to issue a similar order but took the request under advise ment. In Washington, Atty. Gen. Robert F. Kennedy conferred for almost three hours with his top aides on the government's next move. There was no com ment from the White House. President Kennedy was kept abreast of the situation during the morning. 400 Troopers Used Wallace sent nearly 400 troop ers Into Birmingham, Tuskegca and Mobile to turn away the Ne groes who has been ordered ad mitted by the federal courts. Systematically, the troopers barred the way for 13 Negroes at tuskegee's only white school; turned back two teen-agers at Murphy High in Mobile; two girls at West End High in Bir mingham and a Negro boy at Ramsay High in Birmingham.. Even as the troopers accom plished their mission-apparently Wallace's first step to force the government's hand the color barrier fell for the first time at an Alabama public school below the college level. A small Negro boy began at tending classes with whites in the second grade of East Clinton Elementary School in Hunts ville. Seeks Restraining Order In Mobile, a Negro attorney promptly went into federal court to ask that Wallace be restrain ed from interfering with the ad mission of the two Negro to Murphy High, the stote's lar gest. Similar legal maneuvers were taking shape in Birmingham. Mrs. Viola Aycr, principal of the East Clinton School at Huntsville, said the lone Negro boy scheduled up this morning and began attending his second grade class. "Everything is just perfectly normal," said Mrs. Ayer. "There's not a trooper in sight." HEADS CONFERENCE PORTLAND (UPD-William Wells of Portland has been elected president of the Colum bia Basin Export Import Con ference here in November. WEATHER FORECAST: Partly rlntidy thrniifh Tiirstlny. Aftrrnnon nr evening thimdenhowera over the mountain. A little cooler timtiht and Inmorrnw. l ow to rt 1 1 IH 57-6;, hih Tuesday KH-93. Temp. Highest Vesterdav 102 Loweil Tills Morning 48 Our Skies Tonight No precipitation Hunset today 7:33 p m. Sunrlie tomorrow fi:45 a.m. Moonrlir tonight 11:34 p.m. t.ail Quarter tomorrow 4:34 a.m. ('aprlla, the bright itar low In the nurlhcHHt at moonrlae, Is ac tually two itar which are go ing around their common ren ter of gravity every 101 days. university for a two-week run starting June 2.1, and return to Ashland July 11, to open the southern Oregon season at the earliest date in the festival's history. Participation in the Stanford summer arts festival will en able the Ashland group to ex pand its 1904 season, playing 70 performances in two cities, Bowmer stated. Thousands of reservations could not be filled in Ashland during the 1963 season's record run, festival officials pointed out, voicing the expectation that next year's special observance will relieve the pressure of at tendance demands by making many more tickets available.
