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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.
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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.
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Lose Lives in Highway Collision
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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-
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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
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night. Fog or low rlotiflt Tun
div rvrntiiR. I'irllv mnnv Tuis
dy afternoon. ,ow tonight JJ
4. Huh TiiMday 53-58.
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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.