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Ml llli fo) 9 i Regional Edition Medford 58th Year Price 10 Cents More Reductions Possible Later, Tribune 16 Pages MEDFORD. OREGON, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1963 No. 190 a? , U t v Jf" V:.:. l j- I r r " k II" III . INQUIRY OPENS-The Senate Rules Com miltee opened its inquiry into the affairs of former Senate Democratic Secretary Robert G. (Bobby) Baker in Washington today with Sen. John J. Williams, R-Del., as the wil- Four Leaders Of State Tackle Border Dispute BAMAKO, Mali (UPI) Four heads of state met here today 0 begin talks aimed at settling Iez D-Tex., slugged him just the Algerian - Moroccan border outside tne House chamber to confict over a strip of deser day af(er first threatening to that may contain rich mineral pistol-whip him. resources. Foreman said Gonzalez "com- T h e y are King Hassan of ! oetely lost his head" in anger Morocco and President Ahmed I over comments Foreman made Ben Bella of Algeria, whose troops have been fighting on the border since early this month, and Emperor Haile Se lassie of Ethiopia and President Modibo Keita of Mali, who are trying to help with mediation. All met in nearby Koulouba for lunch after Keita had greet ed each of the three heads of state, and were to begin their first conference working session shortly afterwards. Diplomatic observers said they had hopes the conference could produce a cease-fire to end the border fighting, al though a real solution of the dif ferences between Algeria and Morocco seemed far away. Fighting broke out Oct. 8 over the desert area claimed by both nations. The area is be lieved to have undeveloped min eral wealth and also lies along the vital supply routes across the western Sahara. Tax Court Upholds State Assessments SALEM (UPI) -The Oregon Tax Court today upheld tax commission assessments against Roy L. and Margaret E. Shull for the calendar year 1961. Judge Peter Gunnar noted that in 1060 the Shulls sold their farm in Coos County to their son, reserving a five year in terest in the timber on the farm. In 1961 the Shulls exchanged two and a half years of their reserve timber right for a dairy farm in Coos County, and claimed the exchange was tax-free. In his decision, Judge Gun nar held that the two properties were not of "like kind" and therefore n 0 t entitled to tax free treatment. tlEWSfBRIEFS ITEMS KOM JSy KENNEDY URGES FIGHT OVER FOREIGN AID WASHINGTON (UPI) President Kennedy urged Senate lead ers today to fight vigorously to prevent "unwarranted cuts" In foreign aid authorizations. DILLON ASKS FOR HIGHER DEBT CEILING WASHINGTON (L'PI) Treasury Secretary Douglas Dillon tndav asked Congress to approve a temporary national debt limit of S3I5 billion for the last seven months of this fiscal year. This would be sfi billion above the ceiling authorized through No vember. INTERNATIONAL RED CROSS W(l YEARS OLD GENEVA (ITI The International Red Cross, which grew from l Swiss humanitarian's dream Into the world's biggest re lief organization, marked its 100th anniversary today. ASSASSINATION PLOT REPORTED IN SEOUL SEOUL. Korea (I'PI) A plot to assassinate President-elect Park Chung lire was reported today by Seoul radio station. CHRISTINE KEELER MUST STAND TRIAL LONDON (L'PIl Christine Keeler. whose favors cost War Minister John Profumo his job and nearly brought down the Brit ish government, was ordered today to stand trial In Old BiuYy nn charges that her lies sent a Oscarded lover to jail. ness. Here committee chairman R. Everett Jordan, D-N.C, left, confers with Williams prior to start of the inquiry. The story is on page 2A. (UPI) Texas Congressman Struck by Fellow Solon in Dispute WASHINGTON (UPI - Rep. Ed Foreman, R-Tex told the Unliua thni Dan Uanru Hnml. about Gonzalez', voting record in a speech last weekend at Houston before the Texas Fed eration of Republican Women. Morse Blisters Foreign Aid Bill WASHINGTON (UPI) - Sen. Wayne Morse, D-Orc.- delivered a scathing attack on the $4.2 billion foreign aid bill Monday and said the Senate should take three weeks if necessary to re write it. Morse ripped into the bill aft er Chairman J. William Ful bright, D-Ark., of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee opened debate on the measure with a plea for approval despite admitted shortcomings" of the aid program. Fulbright said the senate should approve the measure be cause "any large scale depar ture" from the present program "would pose unacceptable risk" in foreign policy. Senate leaders had hoped to finish action on the long-delayed, controversial aid bill this week. But Morse made it clear that he planned an extended fight. Oxygen Dryer Causes Fire After Explosion An oxvgen dryer located be hind Industrial Air Products on North Pacific Highway explod ed yesterday afternoon causing a fire and some damage. Medford firemen were called at 3.10 p.m. The fire was out when they arrived, however. Damage from the fire was mi nor, but tne explosion causeu considerable damage to the machine. AROUND THI OlOM Foreman, amplifying his ac count for newsmen, said Gonza lez approached him as he sat in the House during a quorum call and said he understood Foreman had called him a Communist. Foreman said he replied that this was not correct, but that he had discussed Gonzalez lib eral voting record. Gonzalez shot back that if Foreman ever did make such a charge he would pistol-whip him, Fore man related-.------'- -- Foreman said he replied "well, Henry, why don't you get started. At that he said Gonzalez in vited him outside the House chamber. As they stepped through door into the speaker's lobby he said Gonzalez swung at him striking his right shoulder. Foreman said he was not hurt and that he did not retal iate. Instead he told reporters he admonished Gonzales as fol lows: "Henry, I believe you have lost your mind. I can't imagine an intelligent adult and a mem ber of Congress doing a thing like that." Foreman said he then stepped back into the House chamber and Gonzalez left. Gonzalez was not immediately available for comment. Legal Arguments Given on Ruling PORTLAND (UPI) -A three- judge panel here Monday heard legal arguments on an Interstate Commerce Commission ruling affecting the ports of Brookings, Ore., and Crescent City, Calif. The judges took the matter under consideration will hand down an opinion later. The Port of Brookings is ap pealing an ICC ruling which places that city within Crescent City's terminal area and allows firms to transport lumber by truck trorn the southwestern cor ner of Oregon to the California city. - Brookings partisans filed docu ments showing the volume of lumber moved through its port has dropped by several million board feet since the ICC ruling took effect and the W. R. Cham berlin Co. of Crescent City ini tiated a trucking operation. The arguments were heard by Homer T. Bone, senior judge of the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco, and Portland U. S. District Judges Gus J. Solomon and John F. Kilkenny. WEATHER FORKCAST Partly cloudv thli evening. Koi or low eloudlneaa Werlnekdav mornlnf. Generally cloud v Wednetdav afternoon. Chance or light rain Wednet dav evening. Low tonight 44. High Wrdnfftday 51 Temp. Hlghett Yesterday 4 Lowcal Thla Morning 43 Prec. To 10 a.m. Today .03 Our Skies Tonight Sunset today 3:10 p.m. Sunrtie tomorrow .. .. (.42 a.m. MfMintt tomorrow .4:0 a.m. f ull Moon (Hunter Moon) Nov. I The planet. Mart, It now fol lowing Venn into Uif aouth nest at tunet. Mara ii zis mil' Hon mllea from the fcarth to ntrht and too dim to be eailiy Higher Education Alters Policy on Control of Money Advance Approval On Projects Planned PORTLAND (UPI)-The State Board of Higher Education Mon day adopted a policy giving the chancellor's office and the board a closer control of funds from gifts and grants. Chancellor Roy E. Lieuallen said the funds now amount to about $25 million every two years and are increasing. He noted Secretary of State Howell Appling had raised questions about "adequacy of our account ing practices" in this field. The board said the policy would allow it and the chancel lor's office closer control over procedures for handling t h e funds without restricting free dom of research projects. Part of the policy said gradu ation, education, instruction and research are "inseparable" and research is a "high yield invest ment" vital to education and to industrial and business growth. To Meet Request The board decided that ad vance approval of various re search projects should be ob tained from the chancellor's of fice so that future tax dollars may not be committed heavily. It agreed to meet Appling's request for an internal fiscal auditing system if money is available from the 1965 legisla ture, but Lieuallen said the pro posals did not go as far as re commended by the secretary of state. The board learned that the state system came within 73 stu dents of estimating this year's enrollment at the nine state in stitutions. The estimate was 33, 809 and enrollment was 33,736. However, six schools had fewer students than estimated and three gained more than expect ed. Action was deferred on a new dormitory at Oregon College of Education costing 5545,850 and a heating plant costing $642,000 at the University of Oregon. Atlantic Alliance Changes Proposed PARIS (UPI) -French For eign Minister Maurice Couve de Murville called today for a sweeping reorganization of the Atlantic Alliance. He asserted that the present North Atlantic Treaty Organ ization (NATO) is out-of-date. But he said a major reorgan ization will not be possible un til other European members pull their full weight. Couve de Murville delivered a broad foreign policy review to the National Assembly as it debated the foreign ministry's 1964 budget. "France," he said, "has de cided to play her own role in defense." That, he said, is why she has decided to pull the bulk of her land, sea and air forces out of NATO. "The day when the other Eu ropean members of the alliance show the same will, reor ganization of the Atlantic Alli ance on a durable basis will be possible," he asserted. Chuong Speaks to DemoWomen'sClub WASHINGTON (UPI)- Tran Van Chuong, father of Madame Ngo Dinh Nhu and former South Vietnamese ambassador to Washington- said Monday there were "close to one mil lion" Vietnamese more anti- Communist than President Ngo Dinh Diem. Tran, who quit his diplomatic post in protest to Diem s crack down on Buddhists, told a lunch at the National Democratic Women's Club that Diem often was praised as "anti-Commu nist despite his faults. "There arc close to one mil lion Vietnamese who are more anti-Communist than Diem," he said. "These are people who abandoned all their possessions and risked their lives for lib erty when the Communists gained possession of North Viet Nam." MEETING CALLED PORTLAND (UPI) A meet ing of the legislature's Joint Ways and Means Committee has been called for Nov. 7 to consid er fiscal problems which will come up at the special session iLrting Nov. 11. Hatfield On Interracial Problem SALEM (UPI) -"We must re move prejudice from the minds and hearts of men, laws aren't enough," Gov Mark Hatfield to day advised the 12th annual in- tergroup relations forum here. "We must attack the problem at the child's level this is the battleground. Our rate of pro gress is being determined there." Hatfield said he fully endorsed the federal civil rights program now before Congress, and ad monished "I hope the President will not retreat from this pro gram." Child Care at Medical School May Be Curtailed PORTLAND (UPI) - About 175 crippled children may not receive care at the University of Oregon Medical School next year because of voter turndown of the legislature's tax measure Oct. 15, the State Board of Higher Education was told to day. Dr. Roy Lieuallen, chancellor, said a reduction of $110,000 in the budget of the crippled chil dren's division of the school was "indicated" by the State Department of Finance. The service reduction figure is based on an average cost of $li25 per child patient. May Close 34 Beds Dr. Lieuallen said it apparent ly will be necessary to close 34 beds at the Medical School hos pital as a result of a $639,000 slash indicated for the hospital budcet. This is in addition to the crippled children s oivision cut, ne said. He also said it apparently will be necessary to cut the num ber of patient visits at the hos pital's out-patient clinic's be cause of a $20,000 per year slash. Lieuallen said that although it also apparently will be neces sary to close 43 beds at the Tuberculosis Hospital in Salem, "all patients requiring hospitali zation for the treatment of tu berculosis will receive care. Food Stamp Plan Endorsed by Group PORTLAND (UPI) - Dele- gates at the Oregon Independ ent Grocers Association voted unanimously Monday to endorse the Federal Food Stamp Plan. "Because the Oregon" welfare budget will be reduced in 1064, due to the tax defeat earlier this month by the voters, we uree the Oregon Welfare Com mission and local counties to use the food stamp plan throughout the state, associa tion members said. They also voted not to take a stand on a sales tax. However, they agreed if one is voted next vear. there should be exclusion of food and drugs from the tax. Jerry Horn of Lebanon was elected president, Wally Pease of Corvallis was re-elected first vice president and Glenn Gay lor of Portland was chosen sec ond vice president. A speaker at the convention was Gene Autry, 55-year-old star of numerous western movies who also is a radio and televi sion station owner and part own er of the Los Angeles baseball team of the American League. Graham Swipes at Government Size HOUSTON (UPI) Evange list Billy Graham, who says he has no political ambitions, Mon day took a swipe at the bigness of government. Graham, on a three day speaking tour before Houston religious and civic groups, saia "our people look to the govern ment instead of to God." He said "it will destroy the moral fiber of our nation when our people look to the govern ment for everything to fill our needs." Graham was emphatic when he said he has no political am bitions because "I am not qual ified and besides, nobody would vote for me." MARACAIBO, Venezuela - (UPI) Armed terrorists over powered two watchmen at a government garage here Mon day night and tried to set fire to parked cars. Urges The governor noted that while the Negro is most identified with the "plight of the minority groups, we must not forget the Mexicans, Indians, the migra tory lab-v force, the Jews and other iijigious groups." Warning that "extreme right and left wing groups deliberate ly thrive on hate," Hatfield told the gathering of more than 100 "we must be concerned with all groups that are being victim ized. Not Simple Task "Our task is not a simple one, but we can make equal oppor tunity for all men in our so ciety." He said the problems facing Negroes were economic, social and educational. There must be no barriers against Negroes who are qualified to compete for jobs, "and we must help equip the Negro to become qualified." Priority List Is Adopted by Group; Submitted The Medford Capital Improve ments Committee this morning adopted a priority list of "im minently necessary" develop ments, but recommended to the city council that none of the projects be undertaken until ex isting city expenditures were re duced. This was the final session for the group, which has been meet ing weekly for the last several months to study the city's fu ture capital improvements needs. The priority list was drawn up in. two phases those.pxoj- ects which should be undertaken immediately, and those which should be accomplished during the next three to five years. Forwarded to Council The priority list report will now be forwarded to the city council for its consideration. No recommendation was offered as to the cost of the various proj ects, nor was a specific time schedule proposed. After drawing up the priority list, however, the committee also adopted the following state ment to be added to it: "The above are the priori ties assigned by the Capital Im provements Committee, and feel they are imminently nec essary, however, it is the feel ing of this committee at this time that the total cost of im provements cannot be added to Winnemucca Route Fails to Get Number SALEM (UPI) Highway De- parimcnt oiuciais nave not yet decided whether to try again to gel a U. i. route designation for the Winnemucca - to - the Sea highway, it was revealed today. An application for route desig nation was turned down last week by the American Associa tion of State Highway Officials route numbering committee. Reason given for the rejection was that the route was "not up to acceptable standards" of de sign and construction. No state route number has been assigned to the highwav and the highway department re fuses even to recognize that a Winnemucca- to- the -sea High way exists. The route beings in Win nemucca Nev., but there is still controversy over where it ends. Some say the terminus is at Coos Bay; others claim Cres cent City, Calif. Adolph Menjou Dies in Hollywood HOLLYWOOD (UPI)- Adolph Menjou, fashion plate film star whose career spanned more than 40 years, died today at the age of 73. The colorful actor set men's fashions during the 30s when he was named many times among the nation's "10 best dressed men," but dapper Menjou was more proud of his motion pic ture career than his wardrobe. Upon graduation from Cornell University in 1912, he joined the Orbert McLaughlin stock com pany in Cleveland, and later that year made his movie debut with the old Vltagraph Com pany New York. Attack He said the consensus in America today was that race barriers must be wiped away, and the Negro allowed to as sume a place in society. He said Oregon has good civil rights laws compared to other states, but the laws were mean ingless if their spirit was not reflected in the hearts of people. He noted "when I was an in fant they were burning crosses in Southern Oregon, and the Klu Klux Klan was an active force in Oregon politics. "Today we have a Roman Catholic as president, and from a small western state who may be a presidential candid ate." He lauded the Portland Board of Education for establishing a committee to study de-facto school segregation there, and to upgrade education in culturally deprived areas. to City the existing tax load of the City of Medford, and would urgently recommend tne City Cuncil take action to reduce existing city expenditures to a point more in line with comparable communi ties in Oregon before anv of the above projects are under taken. Heads List Heading the priority list was land acquisition for a new city hall and public safety building within the boundaries of a pro posed civic center adjacent to tne Jackson County Courthouse. . Land acquisition for parks ad jaccnt to existing schools was the second priority item. Land acquisition for runway exten sion at the municipal airport was placed third. The city s arterial street program was ranked fourth, concluding the "immediate needs." Proposed for the second phase of the plans were the civic cen ter building program, develop ment of park sites, projects at the municipal airport, and de velopment of a corporation yard for city equipment. Vandalism Reported In Areas of Valley The Jackson County Sheriff's office has reported vandalism the past few days. Someone shot holes in a tent owned by Marvin A. Lindsey, Charleston, Ore., near Prospect, it was reported yesterday. A chain-saw was taken from the tent, deputies said. Someone broke into the rcero- ation buildine at Hillcrest or- I chards, but apparently only play pool. Nothing appears to be missing, the sheriff's office said. Yesterday, several drivers re ported rocks were thrown at their cars, including a sheriff's patrol car. David Daun Baylor, 106 First St., Talent, and Bessie May Bal dwin, 108 N. First St., Talent reported that rocks were thrown at their cars. A rock was thrown at a sheriff's car and broke the windshield, deputies said. Last week end someone throw cantaloupes at mailboxes in the Talent and Valley View districts. The mailboxes were reported slightly damaged. Pay Raise Indicated For Civil Employes WASHINGTON (UPI) - The House Post Office and Civil Service Committee has all but agreed on a $650 million pay raise for 1.8 million federal em ployes, it was learned today. Congressional informants said the new proposal would provide 6 per cent increase to rank and file federal classified and postal workers. Members of Congress, the President's cabinet and federal judges would be given a $10,000 annual increase. Informed sources said the "guts of the bill" were ap proved today at a closed meet ing. The committee is expected to "polish off the edges" Wed nesday and take a formal vote. The committee was reported to have rejected overwhelming ly a move by Rep. Robert J. Corbett, R-Pa., to chop the congressional and executive pay riftcs out of the measure. mm m WW THE BEARDS Bearded Amer ican Civil Liberties Union Attor ney A. L. Wirin, top, has gone to the legal aid of a fellow beardwearer. Wirin has been granted permission to intervene as a friend of the court on be half of Pasadena, Calif., school teacher Paul S. Finot, lower photo, who has been barred from the classroom by the Pasadena school board because of his beard. Finot has sued the school district and the board in an injunctive action seeking in i-Luiu iu mBu N.UUU1 turn by the legislature," Hat classroom beard and all. iM sairf Wirin argues that it is Finot's "individual right ' to wear beard if he wants to. (UPI) Cook Presses For Legislature To Decide Cuts TILLAMOOK (UPI) - Stat Sen. Vernon Cook, D-Grcsham, has renewed his demand that the entire legislature decide where to make budget cuts as a result of voter rejection of a tax increase Oct. 15. Cook lashed out at Senate President Ben Musa, D-T h c Dalles, Monday night in a speech to the Tillamook County Democratic Central Committee. Noting that Musa had pro posed that the 14 members of the Ways and Means Committee meet with the State Department of Finance and Administration to agree on cuts, Cook com mented, "Tlic members of the Oregon Legislature were not elected to rubber stamp the de cisions of Governor Hatfield. Nor were we elected to delegate our responsibilities to less than one-sixth of the members of the legislature." "It is a shocking thing to have the Democratic president of Oregon's Senate propose that budget cuts should be deter mined by the governor's depart ment o( r inancc, he said. "To direct the Ways and' Means Committee to examine the budget in one week is like sending 13 men and one woman to put out the fires in the Tilla mook Burn," Cook said. CONVENTION SET PORTLAND (UPI) - The In land Empire Waterways Associ ation will hold its 13th annual convention at the Multnomah Hotel here Nov. 3-5. i Body of Portland Woman Identified PORTLAND (UPI) -The body of a woman found Sunday in a brushy area near Gresham was identified Monday night as that I of Nona Christine Jackson, 28, divorced mother of three chil dren. Sheriff Donald Clark said she apparently had been slain, but cause of death was still un known. It was estimated she had been dead at least three months. Idenfication was made by her former husband, Raymond H. Jackson, of Oregon City. He identified a ring found on the body as one he had given her about 10 years ago. They were divorced 13 months ago and Jackson received custoy of their three girls aged 5, 8 and 9. The young woman's hands ap parently had been tied with a plastic covered wire and she Total of 426 Jobs Eliminated SALEM (UPI) -State institu tion budget cuts totaling $3.8 million were put into effect by the State Board of Control today and Gov. Mark Hatfield said more severe slashes might have to be made. As a result of the cuts, 42S jobs were eliminated but about 200 of these positions now are vacant. Hatfield indicated more cut backs might be in order if the legislature, meeting in special session Nov. 11, did not approve a one-shot speedup of withhold ing tax collections or the cuts he has asked in the basic school allotment. The budgeted populations for state institutions were cut 735 to 9,240 under the austerity pro gram announced today. Cuts announced today were: Board of Control administration, $150,412; state hospitals $2,642, 319; adult penal institutions $303,929; juvenile institutions $350,112; and the deaf and blind schools $157,154. Included in the $2.6 million hospital cuts were these reduc tions; Oregon state hospital at Salem, $891,872; Eastern Oregon State Hospital at Pendleton $488,775; Fairview Home $774,- 204; and Dammasch Hospital $277,890. The board announced it had established a $1 million prior list to be reinstituted if funds become available. Hatfield warned the cutbacks ordered might be revised if the legislature's ways and means committee decides to review in dividual budgets. "These are suggested points of departure, they can t be considered per- manent as they depend upon ac Way Buy Property The board also indicated it might be forced to proceed with the purchase of at least five parcels of property in the Cap itol Mall area, The sales were nearly com pleted when all property acqui sition was halted, but one per son appeared at the board meet ing today and said he stood to lose $2,000 in earnest money he had put down on another house if the state did not complete the purchase of his house. The board ordered the purchase ot the property from Mr. and Mrs. Ray Ward and indicated while it did not want to buy the prop erty in view of the tax election defeat, there was no other legal course open. Shipley Execution Reset for Jan. 23 NEWPORT, Ore. (UPI) -The execution of Larry West Shipley, 22, of McMinnville was reset for Jan. 23 by Lincoln County Cir cuit Court Judge stuart Weiss Monday. Shipley was convicted of slay ing Linda Jean Stevens, 16, of Willamina near Otis in 1961. Weiss set the new date after the U.S. Supreme Court denied Ship ley's appeal for a hearing. Newport attorney E. K. Rich ardson said additional legal moves are being planned. He asked Judge Weiss to set the execution date at least 90 days in advance to allow time for new appeals. Lumber Firm Denied Tax Refund Claim SALEM (UPI) - Oregon Tax Court Judge Peter Gunnar to day denied Edward Hines Lum ber Company's claim for a re fund of corporate excise taxes. The tax court found the State Tax Commission had computed the taxes correctly. was nude except for a swim ming suit pulled over her arms above her head. There were no obvious signs of fractures or wounds In pre liminary studies. Jackson said he did not know his former wife was missing un til she had failed to appear for her court-authorized visits to the girls. When he read of the re ports of discovery of a body he called the sheriff's office. Sheriff Donald Clark asked for public help in tracing the last movements of the woman. The room where she formerly lived here was searched for possible clues. Police said she had been em ployed last at a bowling alley as a cocktail waitress. She was re ported missing June '15. 9
