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Newspaper Page TextHE Senators Rap Kerr-Mills Bill A tl ms ineffective By HALE .MONTGOMERY United Press International WASHINGTON (UPI) -Eight Democratic senators today at tacked the . Kerr - Mills medical care program on its third an niversary as "ineffective" in meeting the health needs of the nation's 18 million elder citizens. The highly critical majority report issued by the Senate health subcommittee on aging said less than 1 per cent of the country's elderly persons re ceived aid under the program and most recipients were sub jected to "degrading" welfare tests to become eligible. The report was a frank effort to push President Kennedy's long-stalled plan for health care for the aged financed through Social Security. This measure is in the House Ways & Means Committee with no chance for action this year. Challenged Majority Report Three Republican members of the Senate subcommittee challenged the majority report's conclusions that the Kerr-Mills program represented an "inef fective and piecemeal" ap proach to the problem. They called the report a "pre mature judgment based on in adequate evidence." They also accused the Kennedy adminis tration of deliberately failing to implement Kerr-Mills. The only explanatory material put out by the Health, Educa tion and Welfare (HEW) De partment to help the states, the Republicans said, consisted of three documents prepared dur ing the Eisenhower administra tion. The Kerr-Mills program en acted by Congress in October, 1960, created for the first time a new category of public assis tance Medical Assistance for the Aged (MAA). It provides matching federal grants to the states for health U.N. Team Confers With Vietnamese SAIGON, South Viet Nam (UPI) - The United Nations fact-finding team, confronted with South Viet Nam's seventh fiery Buddhist suicide, spent five hours today interviewing stu dents who were arrested and locked up in a "political re-education" camp. Members of the seven - man team were in another part of the city Sunday when a Bud dhist priest soaked his clothes with gasoline, struck s match and burned to death in front of Saigon's Roman Catholic cathed ral as hundreds of parishoners streamed out of the church. The investigating mission, sent here to find out if the South Vietnamese government has been persecuting the Bud dhists, talked with about 20 stu dents to get their side of the bitter dispute with the regime of President Ngo Dinh Diem. The camp, housing more than 200 young people, including about 40 girls, is located on the outskirts of Saigon. It is part of Ihe government's secret police headquarters. Title Insurance Rates Being Hiked SALEM (UPI) -Title insur ance rates will be increased $2.50 on Nov. 1 to $25 per S1.000, Insurance Commissioner Walter Korlann said today. Korlann said the increase was requested by title insurance companies. "The request was based large ly on the increased cost of ob taining title information, and was well documented," Korlann explained. Korlann said the basic rate had not increased since 1939. and that there have been no ad justments in the rate structure since 1956. ITEMS fOM m Jt AROUND THI OlOM ALGERIAN-MOROCCAN FIGHTING CONTINUES ALGIERS (I'PIl Fighting continued today along the Moroccan-Algerian border, although both nations have agreed to meet for truce talks starting Tuesday. TRIBUTE PAID TO POPE JOHN XXIII VATICAN CITY (LTD Pope Paul VI today led the cardinals and bishops of the Roman Catholic Church in a moving tribute to his predecessor. Pope John XXIII, as a man sent by God to give new life to the church and light to the world. BROKEN LINE SPREADS AMMONIA FUMES WALLA WALLA (LTD A line carrying anhydrous ammonia from a railroad tank car into a ground storage lank erupted to day, spewing sickening fumes over an area seven blocks square, LIVER TRANSPLANT PATIENT DIES DENVER (LTD Mrs. Jeanine Marie Goodfcllow, 20, history's sixth liver transplant patient, died today after surviving a record 23 days with new liver. - f benefits for the "medically in digent," or persons over 65 who are not on relief but are too poor to bear the burden of cost ly medical bills. The majority report said only 28 of the 50 states had joined the program, hence it was far from a national plan to help the aged. The majority report was signed by Chairman Pat Mc Namara, D-Mich., and Demo cratic Sens. Clair Engle, Calif., M a u r i n e Neuberger, Ore. ; Wayne Morse, Ore.; Joseph S. Clark, Pa.; Edmund S. Muskie, Maine; Edward V. Long, Mo., and Frank E. Moss, Utah. Chinese Atomic Bomb Declared Some Years Away TOKYO (UPD-Red Chinese Deputy Premier Chen Yi told Japanese reporters today that China will not be able to ex plode an atomic bomb for sev eral years, the Kyodo news agency reported. Chen, who also is China's for eign minister, spoke at a press conference held for Japanese newsmen currently visiting Pe king. Chen said his nation lags far behind other industrial coun tries, accounting for its slow ness in atomic development, but that it would have to explode a nuclear bomb within a few years or run the risk of degen erating into "a second-class or a third-class nation." Treaty Attacked In that connection, he at tacked the tripartite nuclear test-ban treaty, saying it is aimed at making converging as saults on a nation that may want to conduct testing in the future. "China is ready to repel such assaults," he said. t He said that along with nu clear bombs, China would de velop methods of delivering them, but that, they also would be delayed. A-bombs, missiies, supersonic aircraft, all are reflective of the technical level of a nation's in dustry, he said. And all will be developed as the level of Chi nese technology rises. He warned ominously mat with or without atomic bombs China would never kneel before the United States, Kyodo said. Surfacing Bids To Be Opened by BPR Bids for the surfacing of the Lake of the Woods Highway in Jackson and Klamath Counties will be received until 2 p.m. Nov. 18 by the Bureau of Public Roads m Portland. The contract will be for base course surfacing on 16.257 miles of the highway. Last week F. L. Somers, proj ect contractor for 13 miles of the highway, said that grading of that section of the road had been completed and approxi mately 96 per cent of the sub base surfacing had been placed. An additional five-mile section to the west of the Somers proj ect, was being reconstructed by Thomas J. Parker and Associ ates Inc., Ashland. Grading and slide correction on the highway is expected to be completed either late this fall or early next spring. This new east-west route, part of the Winnemucca - to the-Sea Highway, will connect Oregon 62 and Dead Indian Road near Lake of the Woods. Summit on this new route between Medford and Klamath Falls will be 5,106 feet. Regional Edition 20 Pages Two Sections ighf Lose Lives in Highway Collision 5 POUNDING COASTER Aerial view from a helicopter shows swirling seas pounding the 700-ton Spanish coaster "Juan Ferrer" against treacherous rocks on the Cornish coast of England. The vessel was driven onto the rocks by high winds Body of Young Woman Located Near Gresham PORTLAND (UPI) -The body of a young woman, dead for several months, was found in a brushy area near Gresham Sun day and Sheriff Donald Clark said the case was being treated as a possible sex slaying. The body was badly decom posed and there was no identi fication. The coroner's office said it appeared the woman was under 30 years old and had been dead for three to six months. The body was nude from the waist down and there were rem nants of what appeared to be a black dress twisted about the neck. No purse or other personal possessions were found except for a ring she was wearing. It appeared, Clark said, that her hands had been bound to gether with wire. She may have had brown hair, he said. There was no evidence of wounds that might have been responsible for death. Medical experts were working on the case today. The body was found by two young boys about 200 yards from a lover s lane type parking area, sheriff's deputies said. First Freeze of Fall in Medford First freezing temperatures of the fall season were recorded at the Medford station of the U.S. Weather Bureau during the weekend. The station at the airport re ported a reading of 27 degrees yesterday after a Saturday morning minimum of 31. Low temperature today was 31 de grees. Above freezing temperature was anticipated tonight. A low of 35 to 40 degrees is forecast. The station noted just .02 of an inch of precipitation up to 10 o clock today as ram snapped the freeze. Scattered showers i were Dredicted for this evening : with partial clearing tonight. Winter Schedule at Jacksonville Museum JACKSONVILLE - The Jack sonville Museum will begin win tpr schedule Friday. Nov. 1. The museum will' be closed on son and Stokes. Roseburg, will Mondavs with weekday hours be restricting north-south River front noon until 4 p.m. Sundays side Ave. traffic for further sig and holidays it will be open nal installation work, Thorp from noon until S p.m. ' said. Medford Members of Oregon Concentration on Moon Program Seen Threat To WASHINGTON (UPI)-A Re publican member of the House Space Committee said today that U.S. security will be in danger if the United States con tinues to race to the moon while the Russians concentrate on military space objectives. Rep. James D. Weaver, R Pa., said in a House speech that a "space gap" like this al ready has developed. He said Russia, which has announced ils withdrawal from the moon race, chalked up 375 hours of manned space flight compared with America's 53 hours. Medford Mayor To Attend Salem Forum Medford Mayor James J. Dun levy will take part in the 12th annual Oregon Forum on Intcr group Relations in Salem tomor row. Mayor Dunlevy was asked to serve as group consultant for a workshop on public accommo dations and services by Mark Smith, administrator of the Civil Rights Division of the state Bu real of Labor. Gov. Mark O. Hatfield is scheduled to deliver the key note address at the conference. Other state officials will serve as discussion leaders at the meeting. Traffic To Be Rerouted by Work The westbound traffic lane at Riverside Ave. and Barnett Road will be closed today and ' Tuesday to permit the contract-1 or to install a traffic detector device, according to Medford Public Works Director Vernon Thorpe. A four by two-foot steel plate will be installed in the roadway, w"ich will activitate the traffic s i g n al at the intersection, Thorpe said. A barricade has been erected at Barnett Road and Stewart Ave., Thorpe said, and west bound traffic is being detoured ; through the Stewart Ave. signal. During the next two weeks, contractor for the project. Mad- MEDFORD, OREGON, MONDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1963 v 1 " $-',; O after it ran aground in heavy fog. The captain and three crew members were saved. The rest of the 15-man crew is believed dead. (UPI) Security While the administration was dazzling the public by moon glow, Soviet subterfuge has been concentrating on the potential military values of space domination of the near earth area," Weaver declared. He said U.S. space chief James E. Webb "has a respon sibility to present to this Con gress and the nation a realign ment of our space program with national security as its prime objective." "If he cannot do this effec tively, I shall call for his resig nation," Weaver told the House. Ridicules Challenge He charged that the Kennedy administration challenged the Soviets to a moon race in 1(161 "as a public diversion from the fiasco of the Bay of Pigs." "This moondoggle has been a wrong objective in a race with the Soviet Union that never ex isted and has resulted in a space gap which threatens our national security," Weaver said. Earlier, officials of the Na tional Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) said they planned to go ahead with the next step in the U.S. pro gram, Project Gemini to orbit two astronauts in one space capsule. Springfield Hunter Shot by Companion PENDLETON (UPI) - Leo Ray Canaday, 23, a Springfield elk hunter, was in satisfactory condition at St. Anthony Hos pital today after being wounded by a hunting companion Sunday. Harry Merle Brown, also of Springfield, said he fired when he thought he saw a bull elk in the brush. Canaday was hit in I the right leg, just below the ; knee WEATHER Mils rvrrmiK. Ih r I kal I'lrarlnjc to night. Fog or low rlotiflt Tun div rvrntiiR. I'irllv mnnv Tuis dy afternoon. ,ow tonight JJ 4. Huh TiiMday 53-58. Ill thru Ymtrroay fiO l.owtftl Thli Morning 30 Prer. To 10 a.m. Today ... . .oz Our Skies Tonight Xiimrt today . 5:11 p.m. Kiinrtti tomorrow ... 6:40 a.m, MoontM tomorrow 2;5I ft.m. full Moon (lliintrr't Mon Nov. I The planet, V en ut, now irt further outh eat-h evening. In the northern part of the IJ.H. and In Canada It l onlv brief ly vlilhle, low in the wulhwett right after tun tel. Rockefeller Hints Support Unlikely For Goldwafer NEW YORK (UPI) - Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller has hint ed he might not back Sen. Barry Goldwatcr if the Arizona Republican wins the 1964 GOP presidential nomination unless some of the senator's views change. Rockefeller, who plans to an nounce next month if he will seek the GOP nomination, Sun day coupled comments on Gold- water with sharp criticism of President Kennedy's foreign and domestic policies. 1 he governor recalled that Goldwater had said he would refuse to run on a platform such as the one adopted by the GOP in 1060. This platform, Rockefeller said, represented the "broad mainstream of the Republican parly." Notes Differences In noting differences between Goldwater's ideas and his own, Kockereller said the Arizona senator is opposed to foreign aid, regards Uic progressive in come tax with distaste and would like to "roll back social gains," such as federal aid to education. In reply to a question, he de clined to state directly that he would not support Goldwater. But Rockefeller said: "If he ran on a Republican platform like the one in HKKI, I would support him." In informal remarks following the interview, Rockefeller said, "I'll participate in formation of a (1964) Republican platform regardless of what happens to mc." In any case, he said, he did not believe the 19H4 GOP platform would follow the Gold water line, whoever is the can didate. $12,000 Grossed By Flea Market Some 8.211 persons over 12 years of age paid admission to attend the three-day Hca Mar ket sponsored Friday through Sunday by the Medford Junior Service League. Since children under 12 were not charged admission, League officials estimate the total at tendance exceeded 18,000. Gross receipts are estimated at $12,000. but League members stressed that expenses must be deducted. Net proceeds will be used to support the League's Kindergarten for Hard-of-Hear-ing Children. Tribune Family Father, Seven Children Die In New Mexico Traffic Accidents Claim Three Others By United Press International One of the worst traffic acci dents in New Mexico history killed the father and seven chil dren of an Oregon migrant family early Sunday. Oregon traffic accidents took the lives of three other residents during the weekend. Another man died of accidental burns and one was electrocuted at a Wyoming construction project. A car pulling a small trailer collided hcadon with a truck on U.S. Highway 66 about 36 miles north of Gallup, N.M., in the pre-dawn darkness Sunday. The crash killed Luz B. Gar cia, 37, and seven of his 10 chil dren Noelia, 16; Odelia, 13; Ir ma, 11; Vivano, 8; Lupc, 5; Mercedes, 4, and Kojelio, 1. The mother and the other three children were injured, none of them critically. So was the truck driver, William D. Wakefield, 48, Aztec, N.M. Lived At Nyssa The Garza family's last per manent address was Nyssa, Ore. Friends said Garza had farmed in Malheur County for five years and managed a tav ern at Adrian three of those ycari. The family was on its way to visit Mrs. Garcia s rela tives in Texas. Another accident east of Port land Sunday night killed Wil liam Wardrip, 21, and Wayne Williams, 19, both of Portland. Multnomah County Sheriff's de puties said their car left skid marks for 430 feet before hitting a tree. Mark Ellis Nelson, 20, and Richard A. Cox, both of Port land, were hospitalized with in juries. Struck By Train Ramona Belecz, 21, Milwaukie was killed in that city when her car was struck by a Southern Pacific passenger train Satur day. Lloyds Long, a 61-ycar-old transient, died in a Portland hospital Saturday after suffering burns on most of his body. Po lice said he was sleeping under an approach to the Steel Bridge and apparently rolled into a fire he had built to keep himself warm. Michael Nolen, 20, Klamath Falls, was electrocuted on a missile base construction site near Pine Bluffs, Wyo., Satur day. He was cranking an auxili ary boom to set up floodlights when it brushed an overhead power line. A total of 37 persons have lost their lives on Oregon highways so far this month, seven fewer than during the same period a year ago when 44 died. So far this year there have been 458 deaths in Oregon traffic, com pared to 394 for a similar per iod in 1962. Jacksonville's Receives Partial Approval JACKSONVILLE - This com munity's application (or a $41, 086 federal grant to study the cost and feasibility of restoring the core area of the city has received partial approval, it was announced Sunday. The application has success fully crossed the first of three hurdles, said Jack Sutton, proj ect coordinator, and E. O. Gra ham, Mayor of Jacksonville, at a Sunday press conference fol lowing their return from a two day meeting with federal offi cials in San Francisco last week. U. S. Housing Administrator Robert C. Weaver has deter mined that Jackson ville's "workable program for commu nity improvement" meets fed eral requirements, Sutton and Graham explained. The community has been sent 58th Year Price 10 Cents No. 189 High Court Orders Desegregation in Alabama County Appeal of School Board Turned Down WASHINGTON (UPI) The Supreme Court rejected today an appeal of the Mobile Countv (Ala.) School Board from an or der requiring a start on public school desegregation this fall. Earlier the board asked Judge Hugo L. Black to block the or der pending appeal, on the ground it would seriously dis rupt the education of the coun ty's 75,000 school children. Black refused to do so on Aug. 16. He said the board has known for nine years that It was running its school system in an unconstitutional manner but has done nothing about it. First Decision The Mobile decision was the first directed towards Alabama public schools below college level since the Supreme Court's famous school desegregation ruling of 1954. In other actions before taking a two-week recess, the court today: Agree to hear the case of German-born A n g e 1 i k a L. Schneider who is fighting to re gain her U.S. citizenship lost while living with her husband in their native land for more than three years. Mrs. Schnel dcr is challenging the law which calls for denaturalization of a foreign-born American cit izen who lives for three years or more in a country where he or she was previously a nation al. Her appeal contended the law unfairly discriminates against naturalized citizens by imposing conditions not applied to native-born U.S. citizens. Appeal Accepted Accepted for hearing a gov- enrmeni appeal from an ad verse antitrust ruling. A federal aistnct court decision had ruled against the Justice Depart ment's claim that acquisition of the Hazel-Glass Co. by Continen tal (Jan Co. Inc., was illegal. Granted a hearing to John Coleman, an Alabama Negro sentenced to death for the fatal shooting of a white man in 1961. Coleman's petition said he had been denied opportunity to pre sent evidence that Negroes were systematically excluded from the grand jury and trial jury which indicted and con victed him. Refused an appeal by Dar- rell Devere Poulson who has been sentenced to death for the rape-murder of an 11-ycar-old girl in Utah. Rogue River Woman Is Contest Winner ROGUE RIVER Mrs. Frank Terry, Rogue River, was a first place winner in the recent Tide Sweepstakes, a national contest, it was announced Sunday. Mrs. Terry will receive $5,000 in cash, a new car, a mink stole and other prizes, it was report ed. Sports Bulletin PORTLAND (UPI) Med ford kept its grip on second place among Oregon class A-l high school football teams today in the Journal coaches' poll. Roseburg remained in first place and Grants Pass Is third. Phoenix continued to lead In the class A-2 poll. Federal Grant Request a certificate to attest to this fact. The next step is for two fed eral officials to visit Jackson ville to inspect the area. The two men may arrive as soon as early next week, Sutton said. The third and final hurdle will be faced after the officials leave, at which time the Hous ing and Home Finance Agency of the federal Urban Renewal Administration will make a final decision on whether to author ize the grant. "It looks very good," said Sutton of Jacksonville applica tion's chances fur success. Sutton and Graham conferred with officials of the Housing and Home Finance Agency office in San Francisco all day Thursday and part of Friday, going over the proposed Jacksonville His toric Preservation and Restora Chinese Sailors Found Carrying Portions of Drug Chinatown Resident Suspected Receiver SAN FRANCSCO (UPI) -Customs agents moving in on 19 Chinese crewmen from a Nor wegian freighter seized $700,000 worth of opium Sunday in the biggest West Coast raid in 15 years. Customs men from four West Coast cities and investigators from the Federal Bureau of Narcotics, tailing the suspects since the vessel Hoeg Dene docked here Saturday, made simultaneous arrests of the crewmen who were scattered along the waterfront and in tha city's Chinatown. A Chinatown resident, Ng Poy 68, was picked up following the other arrests as the suspected receiver of the smuggled opium. All 19 of the Nationalist Chi nese sailors were carrying por tions of the drug in rolled up rubber containers, agents said, and more was later found con cealed aboard the vessel. Chief Agent Frank L. Long said the 57 pounds of confiscat ed opium would have whole saled at $100 an ounce but that after processing and diluting it would have sold for as much as $700,000. Agents continued searching the vessel for possible portions of drugs hidden away such as that found late Sunday behind a bolted steel wall panel of the vessel. Believed From Singapore The ship arrived Saturday from Los Angeles where it had docked last week after a voy age from the Far East. Cus toms investigators said the ODi- um probably was put aboard in Singapore, the Hoegh Dene's last Oriental stop before sailing east. Agent Joseph Jenkins said au thorities became suspicious of the Norwegian ship because of its crew roster. An unusually large number of the vessel's Chinese crew had records o trafficking in narcotics, he said. wnen it docked here each sus pect was assigned an agent who touowea ins man every time a crewm.n left the ship. Jenkins said the suspects made frequent visits to the home of Poy, who also has a lengthy record ot narcotics violations. Yesterday at 1 p.m., Jenkins and other officers arrested a group of nine Hoeeh Dene crew. men,, found opium in their pos session and flashed Ihe signal by radio to arrest the remain ing suspects. Jenkins, a 15-year customs of fice veteran, called it "the big gest West Coast opium seizure I can remember." Mme. Nhu Arrives In San Francisco SAN FRANCISCO (UPO Mme. Ngo Dinh Nhu, outspoken First Lady of South Viet Nam, carried her cross-country cri- uijue ai u.o. mreign policy here today and seemed intent on avoiding public exposure. The glamorous sister-in-law of South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem remained se cluded in her hotel room Sun day night and indicated she might cancel two of her three scheduled speaking engage ments. This was Mme. Nhu's last stop in the United States, but even members of her official party did not know when she would depart or what route sha would take back to Saigon. T. N. Thaeh, Mme. Nhu's act ing press secretary, said shn would keep her noon speaking engagement Deiore me Com monwealth Club. But he said ho did not know if Mme. Nhu would speak at a local hotel to night or at the University of California in Berkeley on Tues day as scheduled. by Officials tion project thoroughly. 'Many of the people there seemed fascinated with the proj ect," Sutton noted, "and soma of them may come up on their own just to see what we have here." He pointed out that the pro posed Jacksonville project, if undertaken, would represent the first time the Urban Renewal Administration has worked on preserving the whole downtown area of a historic community. If the $41,086 grant application is approved, the money will be used to finance a study of the cost of restoring each building within the proposed restn-ation area, between Main and C Sts. and between First and Fourth Sts. This study would take from 12 to 18 months to complete, Sutton indicated.