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56 Pages Six Sections
MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1963
No. 152
58th Year
Oden Found Guilty
Of Involuntary
Manslaughter
Jury Deliberates
For Six Hours
GRANTS PASS Gerald
Richard Odcn. 25, or Wolf Creek,
was found fiuilly or involuntary
manslaughter late Saturday
night. The jury of seven men
and five women came in with
)ts verdict shortly after tl p.m.
It had begun consideration at
about 5 p.m.
South Dakota Quintuplets
All Fine After First
Day
Judge Orval J. Millard of the
Josephine County Circuit court,
where the case is being tried,
instructed the jury that it had
a choice of seven possible ver
dicts. They were told they could
find Odcn guilty of first degree
murder with recommendation
of life imprisonment; first de
gree murder without recomend
ation of life imprisonment (the
death penalty), second degree
murder, voluntary manslaugh
ter, involuntary manslaughter.
or assault and battery- Or they
could find him not guilty. j
Saturday's session in the i
courtroom was taken up by i
the closing arguments for the
state and the defense.
District Attorney Larry Asch
enbrenner summed up the
state's contention that Oden and
a second man, Norman Stewart
Thomas, 22, of Grants Pass,
who goes on trial Tuesday, beat
Lloyd Miles Harper, 48, of
Grants Pass to death on the
night of July 12.
Aschenbrenncr sought during
the trial to prove that Harper
died as a result of blows struck
by Oden after Thomas had
dragged him from the car in
which they were riding, and
that Harper died .while the two
were robbing him.
Defense Attorney Robert Boy
er of Medford, in his three-hour
closing statement, contended
that Harper was not fatally in
jured by Oden and that Oden
stuck him only after Harper had
made advances to a 17-year-old
girl in the car with the men.
Boyer also contended that
Harper died from injuries re
ceived when he accidentally fell
or was accidentally pulled from
the vehicle by Thomas. He- in
dicated (hat Thomas might have
-ni , ni in.,. ZJZ onv Vnh
ent was not involved in any rob-
li.. ; ih. i-i-,1
completed Friday afternoon, j
X ..o. Illl. HIV "I mi- li mi nao
Oden took the stand Friday and
testified that he hit Harper only
once, that he didn't hurt him,
and that he knew nothing of any
plans to get Harper drunk or
take money from him.
Demonstrations In
Florida, Tennessee
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (UPI) -'
About 150 Negroes marched
down famous Beale Street Sat
urday to protest crowded con-
ditions in Negro schools, and
about 2.10 college students!
picketed a segregated theater j
in Tallahassee, Fla.
Police in the Florida city ar-:
rested about fit) of the demon-1
strators Negro and white
students from Florida A & M
college for violating a court
order limiting the size of pro
test marches.
About 150 whites gathered in
Tallahassee and cheered while
police officials informed the
demonstrators they were in vio
lation of the court order, but
there were no incidents.
The Negroes quietly obeyed
police orders to get into paddy
wagons and were taken to coun
ty jail where bonds of $500
were set.
tlEWSO?;BftlEFS
ITEMS 'ROM m IS R0UNB ' Ol0M
BETANCOIRT REJECTS MILITARY'S DEMANDS
CARAC AS, Venezuela (I'PI I President Romuln Rplanrnnrt
has rrjrrtrd demands hv armed forces chief that Communist
congressmen he stripped of parliamentary immunity, it was
learned rrliahlv Saturday.
EDWIN GEORGE, ECONOMIST. DIES
TICKAHOE. N. Y. (I'PI Edwin Black George, government
and business economist, died early Saturday at his home in
Tuckahne, N. Y. He was 67. George retired last year alter a
long and distinguished record o government service that
spanned three decades.
RISK. SOVIET AMBASSADOR MEET
WASHINGTON (I'PI) Soviet Ambassador Anatoly S. Do
hrynin. in apparently jovial mood, met with Secretary of Stale
Dean Rusk Saturday, as the United States prepared for a major
new round of probing Soviet intentions during the coming weeks.
l INTS' MOTHER SENDS GREETINGS
MARACAIHO, Venenifla (LTD Sri. Ines Cuervo de Prietn,
who gave birth to quintuplets one week ago Saturday, isked
United Pre,s International to convey her congratulations In
Mrs. Andrew Hher of Aberdeen, S. D.. who had quints Satur
day morning. "I pray to God tor her babies and mine," Sri.
Prirtn taid with a smile Irom her hospital bed.
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ALL SMILES President John F. Kennedy smiles as he turns
toward his wife as they leave Bailey's Beach at Newport, R. I.,
Saturday to board the "Honey Fitz" for a cruise on Narrangan-
sett Bay. The President is vacationing in Rhode Island. Dur-
ing the day he sent greetings to Mrs. Mary Anne Fischer of
Kennedy May Fly Over Rogue
Basin During Western Trip
By A. ROBERT SMITH
Mail Tribune
Washington Correspondent
WASHINGTON (Special) -President
Kennedy will make
two stops in Oregon and prob-
ably take a low altitude look at ,
the Oregon Dunes area and pos
sibly the Rogue River Basin as
well during his 10-state Western
tour the end of the month.
In addition .to Portland, Pres
ident Kennedy will visit Tongue
Point, the abandoned Naval
base near Astoria, Friday, Sept.
27. He will later fly along the)
Oregon coast to view the Ore-
gon Dunes where his adminis-;
tration wants Congress to a p-
Pe a National Seashore park, i
he s( at Norln
Bend, as had been considered.
The President's light sched-
ule, packed with closely-timed
entrances and departures, is
only possible in today's age of
jet aircraft and helicopters.
Schedule Announced
Mr. Kennedy's visit to the
Pacific Northwest shaped up
Friday as follows.
Thursday. Sept. 26, his Air
Force jet will fly into Larson
Sports Bulletin
BROOKINS Eagle Point's
fnolhal team came out on the
short end or a ,tlt-n score
against the Brookings team
here Saturday night.
ASHLAND The Southern
Oregon College Red Raiders
defeated an Alumni football
team here Saturday night 19-6.
SOC led the grads 1.1-0 at the
half.
St. Mary's and Glide bat
tled to a i2-12 lie here Satur
day night. The Crusaders led
12-0 at the end of the first
quarter, but Glide came bark
with a touchdown in the sec
ond quarter and tied the game
with another TD in the fourth
quarter.
Air Force base, Moses Lake,
Wash., from Montana. A heli
copter will pick him up at
Moses Lake for a flight south
to the Hanford Atomic Energy
works near Richland, where he
will dedicate the world's largest
atomic power plant being con-
structcd by Washington Public
Power supply system.
Returning to his jet by heli
copter, President Kennedy will
fly to Salt Lake City for an ad
dress and a night's rest.
Leaving Salt Lake City Fri
day morning, his party arrives
at Seattle-Tacoma airport near
noon. There he is once again
taken by helicopter from the air-
port to Cheney Madium in la-
coma for a spcach
No xime Fo'r Llln
on resources.
Lunch
Taking no time out for
lunch in town, the President will
be plucked from the stadium but as of Friday, he hadn t re
grass by helicopter after his ccived word from the White
speech and returned to his jet ; House on this aspect of the
which will take off at 12:20 p.m. j trip.
for Astoria. It is due at Astoria ! Since President Kennedy is
at 1:05 p.m. for the President's flying south from Portland to
visual inspection of the base j San Francisco, he will in
which local interests and the I evitably cross the Rogue unless
Oregon Congressional delegation i
would like to have used for a
new federal venture.
Departing Astoria, the flying
While House is due to touch
down at Portland International
airport at 1:55 p.m. for the
start of an auto caravan into!
Diem Plans to Lift
Martial Law Rule
In South Viet Nam
SAIGON, South Vict Nam
(UPI) The government said
Saturday it would lift martial
law on Monday despite reports
of the arrest of more suspected
opposition elements and student
disorders reported in cities in
central Vict Nam.
The government press agency
said martial law imposed on I
the country on Aug. 20 would
be lifted Monday and that gov
ernment duties taken over tem
porarily by the army will be
performed by civilians after
that.
Although martial law will he
lifted, the national state of emer
gency proclaimed in 1061, re
mains in force. Saigon itself
was uneasy with troops still j
guarding schools against possi
hie anti-government outbursts.
No Report
( In Washington, (he U. S. State
department said it has not re
ceived a report about the lifting
of martial law from its embassy
in Saigon.
("But if the lifting of martial
law means that the Vietnamese
government is going to under
take constructive measures to
achieve adequate support to win
the war and lo ensure a better
future for the Vietnamese peo
ple, it is a step in the right
direction," the State department
said. "We shall be watching de-' she sipped grapefruit juice and
velopments in Viet Nam close- nibbled candy from a small
ly." ' golden box.
(The statement implied that "It is not only President Ken
Washington believes more sub-jnrdy who is misinformed but
stan'ial reforms ar needed by the whole American public," she
the D,:em government, including 1 sajd.
Aberdeen, S. D., who gave birth to quintuplets early Saturday,
Meanwhile, it was announced that the President may fly over
the Rogue Basin project area during his visit to the West Coast
later this month. (UPI)
the city where he is to dedicate
the Northwest Towers Public
Housing project for the elderly
and make a major speech.
The White House schedule has
him leaving Portland about two
hours after his arrival, at 4 p.m.
Sens. Maurine Neubergcr and
Wayne Morse and Reps. Edith
Green and Al Ullman are expect
ed to join the Presidential party
at some stage of his Northwest
tour. Rep. Robert B. Duncan,
who said he wasn't sure wheth
er he would be on hand or not,
left lor Oregon Friday to dedi
cate a new tree farm north of
Gardiner Saturday.
Point Out Sites
Congressman Duncan wants
the President to fly over the
Rogue River so he can point
out the sites for newly author
ized dams in the Medford area,
the plane tlics ust oil tne coast
after passing the Dunes.
The President's destination in
California will be Redding,
where he will take a helicopter
to Lassen Volcanic National
park and stay overnight in a
cabin.
a settlement satisfactory to the
Buddhists.)
The Vict Nam agency said
President Ngo Dinh Diem, in a
separate decree, announced that
elections for the national assem
bly will be held Sept. 27.
The elections originally were
set for Aug. 31 but were post-
Pod indefinitely when the gov.
ornmont cracked down on Bud
dhists and university students
protesting against Viet Nam's
authoritarian government.
Meanwhile at Belgrade, Yugo
slavia, Mme. Ngo Dinh Nhu,
influential sister-in-law of Presi
dent Diem, said she personally
would welcome a United Nations
investigation of alleged religious
discrimination in her country.
"Viet Nam has nothing to
hide," she told a news confer
ence. "It is in our interest to
tell the truth."
Mme. Nhu said she did not
believe most UN members
would support such an investi
gation because many would fear
the world body would like lo
look into affairs in their own
countries.
Mme. Nhu waved her hands
as she spoke, causing her dia
mond and pearl rings to sparkle
as she once more charged the
press with misinforming t h e
world about conditions in South
Viet Nam. From time to time
National Forest
Timber Cut Sets
Record in 1963
Talent Irrigation district will
close its irrigation season Sept.
27 and Medford Irrigation dis
trict about Oct. 1, managers of
the two districts reported Satur
day. MID Manager Jack Hoffbuhr
said his district may turn water
out of the canals and close the
gates the end of September if
there are heavy rains the latter
part of this monlh.
Hoffbuhr agreed with his
brother, Walt Hoffbuhr, T I D
manager, that the overall irri
gation season has been "very
good" with cooler temperatures
and a cool spring.
The unusual amount of pre
cipitation in the spring brought
the ground water up making it
possible to use less irrigation
water this year than for several
years. In terms of distribution,
this was one of the easiest sea
sons, they agreed.
On Schedule
Walt Hoffbuhr felt the small
pear crop required less irriga
tion, which also helped. H i s
brother said MID used more
water through Bradshaw drop
this year than before. All of
the 5.000 acres of orchards un
der MID seemed to use the wa
ter on schedule, the MID man
ager noted. TID has about 4,000
acres of orchards it serves.
"The soil mantle stayed wet
in the fall and through winter,
although the small snow pack
indicated we might have a rough
season," Walt Hoffbuhr said.
Two Tremors Jolt
North California
SAN FRANCISCO (UPD-Two
sharp earthquakes jolted parts
of northern California Saturday,
tumbling canned goods off gro
cery shelves and causing floods
of telephone calls to police and
newspapers.
However, no serious damage
was reported nor were there
any injuries.
The first tremor occurred al
12:46 p.m. PDT (3:46 p.m.
ERT) and was felt in downtown
San Francisco, along Ihe coast
and as far away as Monterey
and Salinas, about 70 miles to
the south.
University of California seis-
mologists at Berkeley, where
1 the quake was also felt, said Ihe
epicenter of the jolt was 15
i miles due norlh of Salinas. They
said a revised reading of the
! Richler scale showed the quake
j had a S 3 magnitude.
Narcotics Agents
Seize Cocaine Haul
MIAMI (UPI) - Federal and
state narcotics agents climaxed
a two-month undercover oora
lion Saturday when they seized
10 8 pounds of cocaine with a
black market value estimated
at S2 million.
Agents arrested three Cuban
exiles and were seeking another
in connection with the case, de
scribed by agents as "one of the
biggest hauls in the nation."
Andrew Fischers
Have 4 Girls, One
Boy at Aberdeen
Kennedy, Nation
Send Greetings
ABERDEEN, S. D. (UPI) -The
wife of a $76-a-weck ship
ping clerk, already the mother
of five children, gave birth Sat
urday lo quintuplets four
"Mary's" and a "James An
drew," and all of them "fine
babies."
The premature children of Mr.
and Mrs. Andrew Fischer, with
each hour of life, lengthened
their chances of becoming the
first quintuplets ever born in
the United Slates to survive.
Although the odds against
quintuplet births are 54 million
to one, according to the Ameri
can Medical association, it was
the second time in a week that
the phenomenon had occurred
in the western hemisphere. Last
Sunday, quintuplet boys were
born in Maracaibo, ' Venezuela,
to a 34-year-old grandmother,
Mrs. Ines Cuervo de Pierto.
Bishop Christens
The Roman Catholic bishop of
Sioux Falls, S. D., the Most Rev.
Lambert Hoch, flew to this prai
rie cattle town near the North
Dakola border to christen the
infants. He baptized each of the
four girls "Mary" and the boy
"James Andrew."
The parents, exhausted and
dumbfounded, said they would
pick middle names for the girls
later.
"Oh, thank God It's over."
Mrs. Mary Ann Fischer, told
her husband.
"I don't know how it will be
financially, but through God's
will we will he able to take
care of them," "Andy" Fischer
said.
While the parents looked into
the future, the full resources of
St. Luke's hospital, a 235-bed
Catholic institution, were de
voted to keeping life in the 3V4
pound youngsters, born six lo
eight weeks prematurely.
Dr. James Berbos, 40, the
family doctor who brought the
quints into the world, said
"These are fine babies. As far
as I know they're going to be
all right."
Some Danger
But he added the warning
"The greatest danger involved
is prematurity itself. There is
a danger of membrane disease"
the malady common to
"proems" which claimed the life
of President and Mrs. Kennedy's
premalure son last month.
The birth of the Fischer quin-
wssmmmmmmmmmiimmii
Woman In Iran
Has Quadruplets -Two
and Two
TEHRAN, Iran (UPD
Quadruplcts have been
born to a woman in the
city of Nain, about 400
miles north of Tehran, re
ports reaching the Iranian
capital indicated Saturday.
It was understood that
the infants two boys
and two girls were born
to Mrs. Fakhru Mousavi
and that the quads and
molher were doing well.
Other details were not
known.
State Officials Disagree On What To Do
If Tax Increase Measure Is Referred
Editor'- mile: I there rjiess
"f al" in slate government? Do
voters want economy, or do they
want some new taxrs. This Is
the last of a five-part aeries.
By ZA. STARK
United Press International
SALEM (UPI) - State offi
cials are deeply concerned over
the possible defeat of the 1963
legislature's $60 million tax in
crease measure at the Oct. 15
special election. i
But there's no agreement on
what should be done. i
Some sav the defeat would
be a mandate from the people !
against any tax increase.
Senate President Ben Musa j
(D-The Dalles) feels that way.
Hp. says "it would be a kick in
the toih of IS1 vAaa it 4jto&
V
AFTER THE BIG EVENT Mrs. Mary Anne who arc reported to have a good chance of he
Fischer rests in her hospital bed Saturday morn- coming the first quintuplets born in the United
ing after she gave birth to four girls and a boy, States to survive. (UPI)
tuplets became a national event
within hours.
President ahd Mrs. Kennedy,
along with South Dakota's two
senators and governor, sent
glowing telegrams of congratu
lations. The people of Aberdeen
took the quints to their hearts.
The hospital telephone jangled
with the calls of proud South
Dakotans who just wanted to
send their best wishes. Mer
chants chimed in with offers of
free layettes and other necessi
ties for the babies.
The President and his wife
said the births were "an event
of great national importance."
Sen. Karl Mundt messaged "You
have put Aberdeen on the world
map.
After the pre-dawn births,
Andy Fischer greeted his new
born children in the nursery
and then went to his farm home
two miles outside of town to
milk the cows and break the
news to his other youngsters.
Andy and Mary Ann Fischer,
J FK's Campaign
Lines Up 80 Solons
Behind Test Treaty
WASHINGTON (UPI) - Pres
ident Kennedy's campaign to
produce the "widest possible"
support for the nuclear test ban
treaty has held opposition to
ratification to a hard core of
13 votes to date, a survey show
ed Saturday.
A continuing United Press In
ternational check indicated 80
senators have now announced
or inclined to vote for the pact.
Seven others are "wrestling
with their consciences" in the
uncertain ranks.
Senate Democratic whip Her
bert H. Humphrey, Minn., said
he is now hopeful the treaty
will get 85 votes for ratifica
tion, with no more than 15 op
posed if all but ailing Sen.
Clair Englc (D-Calif.) are pres
ent. Engle's position in support
of the treaty already has been
announced.
The most significant develop
ment in this week's historic
"great debate" over the pact
barring all but underground nu
clear tests was two-fold:
Democratic Sen. Henry M.
Jackson's reluctant but decisive
announcement that he will sup
new laxes If voters turn down
the lax measure." Senate Tax
Committee Chairman Boyd
Ovcrhulsc, (D-Madras) agrees.
House Speaker Clarence Bar-1
ton (D-Coquille) feels defeat of
the tax measure should be met
by some cuts in spending and!
enactment of some new revenue
measures.
House Tax Committee Chair
man Richard Eymann (D-Mar-i
cola) feels some new tuxes
should be enacted. His commit-,
lee already has some ready in
case a special session of the
legislature is called. i
The present tax bill has been
termed a "compromise of com-'
promises" by Gov. Mark Hat
field. That's because Ihera is a deep
HtfforSre of philosophy between
an attractive, a u b u r n-haircd
housewife, learned Wednesday
that they were due to be par
ents of quintuplets. St. Luke's
Hospital said at first the fact
had been kept secret from the
mother, but Dr. Berbos con
firmed ' Saturday that he had
located the quints through
x-rays and told both parents.
Mrs. Fischer wept a little and
went to the hospital Wednesday
night. At 11:30 (CST) Friday
night she felt' the first labor
pains. Dr. Bcrdos arrived. At
1:58 a.m. CST (3:58 a.m. EDT)
Saturday, the first girl arrived.
At 2:03, another girl; at 2:14
a third girl; at 2:39, James An
drew; at 3:01, the last "Mary"
and it was over. . .
They were natural births,
achieved w i t h o u t the aid of
anesthetics. Mrs. Fischer saw
her babies within moments after
their birth.
No Problems
"There was no difficulty,"
Berbos told a news conference
port the treaty. Jackson heads
the House-Senate Atomic Energy
subcommittee on nuclear weap
ons and serves on the prepared
ness subcommittee which came
out with a report strongly ques
tioning the military wisdom of
the pact. Thus his stand was
known to be swinging some pre
vious on-thc-fence votes.
Despite Arguments
A breakthrough in the ranks
of senior southerners, despite
the anti-treaty arguments of
Armed Services Chairman Rich
ard B. Russell (D-Ga.), and
Preparedness Chairman John C,
Stennis (D-Miss.).
Sen. Allen J. Ellcnder (D-La.),
Senate agriculture chairman and
a frequent visitor to the Soviet
Union, called for treaty ratifi
cation as a move toward "deal
ing directly with Russia."
Ellcnder's declaration was fol
lowed Saturday by a pro-treaty
announcement from Sen. Spcs
sard L. Holland said: "All I
have read and heard convinces
me that the advantages of this
pact to the United States and
the free world more than offset
the disadvantages."
the House and Senate. Hatfield
fears a special session could
erupt into another Senate
House fight such as the one
which dominated the closing
days of the 141-day 1963 regular
session.
Some state officials say pri
vately that Hatfield might be
able to trim 60 million from
the $104 million general fund
budget.
"if he uses a scalpel instead
of a cleaver," he might be able
to do it without crippling state
services, one high official said.
But the same official warned
"this is not really the way to
get the job done. There is some
fat In state government, but it
would be much better If the
cuts could be made in an order
ly manner rather than as an
' ' ' i
.' I
i
late Saturday. "The first threa
were rather easy. The fourth
and fifth had to be rotated a
little.
'At no lime were the mother
and babies in serious danger."
Berbos said Mrs. Fischer
would not attempt to nurse the
babies. Their first meal, a
formula of glucose and water,
had not yet been served by eve
ning.
Memories Recalled
The birth of the Fischer quints
in South Dakota's cattle country
revived memories of another
birth, 29 years ago, l.ooo miles
to the northeast at Callander,
Ont. This was the birthplace of
the D i o n n e quintuplets, first
quints In medical history to
grow lo maturity.
One of the Dionne quints died
in 1954. Aside from the Mara
caibo quints, the only other
surviving quintuplets in this
hemisphere are the 20-year-old
Diligcntis of Argentina.
Although there were seven
quintuplet births in the U. S.
between 1776 and 1059, tha
babies ' all died shortly after
birth.
3-Month Orbital
Flight Proposed
WASHINGTON (UPI) - Tha
American astronaut team will
spend the equivalent of almost
three months in weightless spaca
flight around the earth before
the epic U.S. try for a landing;
on the moon is made, a spaca
agency official said Saturday.
The 2,000 hours of orbital ex
perience demonstrates the tre
mendous workload yet ahead for
spacemen before a Ihrec-man
Apollo team is shot toward tha
moon. There are hopes the at
tempt will be made in as lit t la
as five years, but it might not
come until almost 1970.
President Kennedy has sot a
goal of an American landing on
tho moon in this decade. Spaca
officials have expressed the be
lief that, barring major set
backs, an attempt might ba
made by 1968.
In outlining generally the ex
tensive preliminary flights lead
ing to the lunar shot, an official
of the National Aeronautics and
Space administration (NASA) to
day mentioned "late in this dec
ade" as the possible time for
the Apollo shot.
hysterical reaction lo a voiers
; revolt."
In spite of public rlamnrincs
esigneo io salvage tne tax run
at the Oct. 15 election, many
state officials admit piivatcly
the measure seems doomed.
They're concerned the voters
who will opposo Ihe tax measure
will be voicing opposition to
higher taxes, and won't really
understand the full impact of
their action on stale govern
ment. And there's still anolher un
answered question.
If the tax bill is defeated, will
it mean voters are against this
particular Increase, or will it
mean the voters feel slate gov
ernment has grown big enough,
and Is providing all the serv
ices It should?