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nate investigators Open Probe Into laker's Activities Strong Civil Rights Measure blocked on Committee Vote WASHINGTON (UPI)-Presi-dcnt Kennedy today won his battle to block a civil rights bill he felt was too strong to pass Congress. The House Judiciary Committee rejected the meas ure by a vote of 19-15. After the long-delayed show down vote, the committee turned to consideration of a less sweeping civil rights bill which, like the strong bill it re places, would touch on nearly every area of racial tension, in eluding voting, use of public ac commodations, desegregation of schools and ob discrimination, The vote on the strong bill was the first order of commit tee business when it met be hind closed doors. Members who left the room after the bal loting disclosed the vote. Wins Final Effort The showdown came less than an hour after President Kennedy called both Demo cratic and Republican House leaders together for one final effort to nail down agreement on the compromise. He obvious ly was successful. The committee action cli maxed strenuous personal inter vention by Kennedy and other top administration officials in the civil rights fight. Democrats and Republicans who had been lined up for the stronger bill went into the ju diciary meeting conceding that tlicy probably had been beaten. Some of them already were calling the proposed compro mise a good bill that they could support. Speaker John W. McCormack had given somewhat of an ad vance tipoff to the committee action after the White House meeting of leaders of both par ties with Kennedy. He was clearly optimistic in reporting "substantial progress" toward agreement on a bipartisan bill. Those attending the joint meeting after the regular leg Central jJDrug 1 L ifBOHBm Ask for your Advance Shopping List It's ready for you now at our Rexoll Drug Store, look ovtr the list, check items you wont, then leave It with any talei potion. We'll have your order oil ready for you to pick up on the fint day of the Sale. femf aaWtiied in IOOK, LIFE, POST, plui Thil Week, Family Weekly, Parade and other Sunday Newspaper!, and on Radio and TV. Central e Drug Your Convenient FREE CITY WIDE DELIVERY Maj Central islature breakfast by Demo crats with Kennedy included GOP leaders Leslie Arends, 111: Charles Halleck. Ind and William McCulloch, Ohio, the latter ranking GOP member of the judiciary committee. On the Democratic side, the con ferees included the speaker, House Democratic Leader Carl Albert of Oklahoma, and Judi ciary Chairman Emmanuel Cel ler, N.V. Although both bills are built on the same framework, the stronger measure, drafted by a judiciary subcommittee, would go far beyond anything Ken nedy asked. The biggest objec tion was to the "part three" section that would permit the Justice Department to initiate court action in any case in which an individual claimed his constitutional or legal rights were being violated. The admin istration also balked at proposals to apply the new voting provi sions to all types of elections and to bar racial discrimination in nearly every type of private business conceivable. The bipartisan compromise included a much - limited part three that would restrict feder al intervention to civil rights cases involving race, religion or national origin. The Justice De partment could not step in un less the offended citizen had started action of his own. Compromise Coverage The compromise also would include a public accommoda tions section that would exempt Portland Livestock PORTLAND CUPII USDA Cattle 30. Cutler-utility cows loll- canner 7-0; feedcri ionic roocI cholce 800-800 lb. steers 18-20; medium 7.10-900 lb. 10-17. Calves 75. SlnuKlttcr, good veal ers 300 lb. down 21-20; utlllly slandard 111-20; cull 11; '"'";1r"' Hood-choice 300-450 lb. stcera 20- 2Hor 300. Burrows and ft 11 Is 1-2 trade 200-220 lb. 11150-10.75. Sheep 200. Cholcc-prlme slauRh ler lambs fall shorn pells 17.75-18. Prescription Pharmacy 772-9431 WW 1SBF IS SMWfMOPPIKtllSI affSv retail stores, but cover hotels, motels, restaurants and places of amusement. Previously agreed exemptions for private clubs and small rooming houses also would be included. The voting section would cov er only federal elections and provide for the trial of voting rights suits by three-judge fed eral courts. A controversial proposal to give Negroes the vole before their lawsuits are decided was dropped, but pro visions aimed at blocking dis criminatory use of literacy and other voting tests were retained Surplus Wheat Stocks Moving To Open Market WASHINGTON (UPI) - The Agriculture Department said Monday it had begun to move its surplus wheat stocks into the open market. Between July 1 and mid-October, the department sold about 35 million bushels of wheat out of the government-owned sur plus. In the same period last year practically no government wheat was sold. Sales are being made now be cause rising demand has pushed the open market price of wheat up sharply in recent weeks. For some classes of wheat, prices have risen to or above the level at which government surplus grain is available for sale. Prices Pushed Up Under present regulations, the surplus wheat can be sold only when market prices reach 105 per cent of the price sup port rate or higher. Market prices have been pushed up to that level because the 1!)3 crop was smaller than potential de mand during the current mer keting season. Acriculture Department ex perts now believe that if the Soviet Union and Communist satellite countries buy up to 200 million bushels of American wheat, total American exports this season will reach one bil lion bushels. The total domestic and export demand will amount lo one billion, 600 million ousn els. mand during the current mar If this forecast is accurate, total demand for American wheat will be about 465 million bushels greater than the 19fi3 crop. This means automatically, that 4li5 million bushels would have lo be sold out of the gov crnmcnt surplus in order to meet all demands. Sales at that level would leave the surplus next summer at about 725 mil lion bushels, the lowest since l!)5:i. The Acriculture Department also predicted today that the season average wheat price to farmers this year will average moderately above the support price of S1.R2 a bushel. Last vear the market price average was exactly the same as the support $2 a bushel. Youths Appear In Seaside Court SEASIDK (UPI) - Thomas Rice, 20, Longview, Wash., was found innocent of a charge of riotous assembly by a Municipal Court lurv Monday. The charge stemmed from rioting bv youths here during the Labor Dav holiday weekend Judge John Black found three Seaside youths guilty of charges in connection with the disturb ances. David Veilinmue, 21, was fined $:I04.50 and sentenced to 30 days in jail for buying and sup plying alcoholic beverages to ! minors. ' Dunne Young la, was fined ; $19.50 for disorderly conduct by reason of destruction of private proicrty and Brent Painter, 18. i was fined $19.50 for disorderly conduct by reason of vandal-! ism. I STACK lll'N(Ti:it .NTH IKE I MIAMI (UPD-Twenty two Haitian refugees have gone on a hunger strike to protest their j detention by federal authorities. ! The group has refused food since Saturday. Invesiment Funds Noon quotation! on itlacttd Itnrks mill Rid BulltH'k 14 10 Clicnm-M. Fund 12 JO (.'... nn1 r.uer U 47 F-.l.-i, Howard Stk 14 ;IH fidelity 17 15 Fiinrinntrntal Invest 111 id Gnuip Sec Avla-Flcc 7 Hi (.irnin Sri- I'oin Stk 1.1 RJ Hmnillon 11DA S 10 Hi 4H 1 1.1 T I i.i : is :n in 34 ' 7 nj i.i it .1 .18 18 1 II l .1 8!) 24 70 11 87 18 la 4 78 M 9 18 30 4! 8 fi 18 1.1 11 7 91 .1 84 Kr alone 11-4 10 21 Kctonr K-S 5 U Krvit.ui S-l 22(44 Krlone S-2 M t.1 Kcwi.ine S-3 13 1R Krvitrme S-4 4 Mn Inv Growth StK S .! NRtional Growth Sim TV tier Un1te1 Avrnm I'nitrd tnrnm United Si-ience Valur Line Inc. VariaMr Wrllmilon ft 40 10 41 7 117 1 .1 23 11 7S 7 i i SI 7 Id 14 88 Questions About West German Woman Dodged WASHINGTON (UPI) - Sen ate investigators today opened an inquiry into the outside busi ness interests of former Senate Democratic Secretary Robert G. (Bobby) Baker but side stepped questions on the pos sible involvement of a West German girl. Sen. B. Everett Jordan, D-N. C, chairman of the rules com mittee conducting the inquiry, said he knew "nothing" about the activities of 27-year-old El len Rometsch, the name-dropping former wife of a West German army sergeant. Asked if the question would come up, ben. Howard w. Cannon, D-Nev., said: "It doesn't appear to have any ma teriality now. If it appears to later, we might go into it." Sen. Joseph S. Clark, D-Pa., said he also was in the dark about the woman. She was giv en a ticket home by the West German government following an investgation of her penchant for high living while her hus band was based in Washington. Sen. John J. Williams, R-Del. the committee's first scheduled witness, showed up armed with a stack of notes and papers. He told reporters his presentation would take "some time." The GOP senator already had begun his own informal inquiry idto Baker's financial opera tions when the Senate, on his resolution, ordered the rules investigation into Baker's ac tivities. Baker won his spurs as "Lyn don's boy" back in 1949 when he became the unofficial aide of the then freshman senator from Texas, Lyndon B. John son. In 1955, Baker was elected by the Senate Demo crats to post of Secretary to the Senate majority. the senate Rules Committee s inquiry into Baker's multiple "outside activities" opened to day with advance notice that it might be denied any informa tion "of a criminal nature" turn ed up by the FBI or the General Accounting Office. Jordan, the courtly, 67-year-old chairman of the committee, explained that the Justice De partment did not want to com promise any legal case that might arise from its findings. Rep. H. R. Gross, R-Iowa, brought up the German wom an's activtiies Monday during a House speech attacking Baker. Members of Congress and the public are entitled to know whether there was any element of security violation concerned in this speedy and hitherto un publicizcd deportation," he said. He did not elaborate. Vancouver Blast Hurts Three Men VANCOUVER, Wash. (UPI) Three men were injured in an explosion at the Food Machin ery and Chemicals Corp. plant here Monday. Taken to the Vancouver Me morial Hospital were Palmer Jorgenson, 52, Camas, Wash., and Horace Kibbler, 58. Van couver, both chemical operators, and Milton T. Sanders, 27, Van couver, a process engineer. The explosion twisted steel beams and shattered reinforced concrete walls. A fire then broke out. Robert P o I a n s k y, resident manager of the plant, said he did not know the cause of the explosion and was unable to es timate the damage. However, It was thought that a solution in a two-story stoneware container exploded. The plant, which manufac tures hydrogen peroxide, was not closed by the blast. , rf I you pay no more and what Coimr-Coms O WIST MAIN AT SIXTH Priced for EVERY family Regional Edition Medford MEDFORD, OREGON, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1963 Foreign Briefs U.S. ARMY CONVOY CLEARED BY SOVIETS BERLIN (UPI) The U.S. Army sent a small convoy through East Germany to the West today and Soviet border guards passed it swiftly without Incident. MEXICO CITY BAN'S ONE-ARM DRIVING ' MEXICO CITY (UPI) The English-language Daily News said today the Municipal Traffic Department has banned one-arm driving in Mexico City. The newspaper said practices forbidden by the department include "embraces or other amorous practices while in a speeding vehicle." U.S. TRADE NEGOTIATOR ARRIVES IN BONN BONN, Germany (UPI) W. Michael Blumenthal, U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary nf Stale for Trade, was here today for ex ploratory talks with West German officials concerning next year's so-called Kennedy round of tariff reduction negotiations. KHRUSHCHEV ACCEPTS BID TO VISIT NEPAL MOSCOW (UPI) Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev and President Leonid Brezhnev have accepted an invitation to visit Nepal, Radio Moscow reported today. No date has been set for the visit, agreed upon during the visit here of Nepalese Prime Minister Dr. Tulsi Giri. Idaho Power Said Showing Disregard At Hells Canyon WASHINGTON (UPI) - The Idaho Power Co. was accused Monday of showing "cavalier disregard" for the public inter est in seeking to eliminate fish passage facilities at its Hells Canyon project in Idaho. The charge was made by the Washington Public Power Sup ply System (WPPSS) in a pe tition to the Federal Power Commission. WPPSS attorney Evelyn N. Cooper urged the FPC to turn down the company's request. She also asked that hearings be reopened in Portland, Ore., on Goldwater Urges Disposal of TVA WASHINGTON (UPI) -Sen. Barry Goldwater, R-Ariz., has suggested that the government sell the Tennessee Valley Au thority (TVA) to private indus try. Goldwater said in a letter last weekend to Rep. Richard Ful ton, D-Tenn., that he was "quite serious" about the proposal that the government dispose of the network of dams and power generating stations. The GOP presidential conten der said that TVA paid only 5 per cent of its annual gross to local government in lieu of taxes. It would have to pay five and one-halt times as much if it bore a levy comparable to other taxes paid by private business, Goldwater said. Goldwater said he believed the TVA would be better oper ated and would be of more ben efit for more people if it were part of private industry. Over-the-Counter Western Stocks Hid .Xskrd 32's 34 241, 2', IOB 22 24 301, .12 1 2 721, 7ti 24 ' , 211 29 J4 31 J 3'i 4. 33 35 1 I ', 2fi-', 28 2.1t 27 U 8!" 93 S3 'a 24 23', 2.V. 31 i j 331, Bank Americi ixdl Hotse Casfarie Cal Pao Ulil Con Frrmnt .. . Cyprus Mines Equitable S A First National I, Bank Jnntrcn Morrison Kmidscn Molt Kennels N W Natural Gas Oreiion Metal PI'fcL P1E U s National Bank Tektronix West Coast lei ixdl Weyerhaeuser you pay is your Our complete selection of services starts with most reasonable prices. Page 2A Tribune fish passage problems resulting from construction of dams on the Snake River. The petition filed by Mrs. Cooper said the Idaho Power Co. motion was prejudicial to the interests of both the WPPSS and the public. She said abandonment of ef forts to pass fish over the com pany's dams would hurt WPPSS in its effort to gain approval of the Nez Perce project on the Snake River. WPPSS, a Washington State public power agency, is seeking FPC approval of the Nez Perce project in opposition to an ap plication by the Pacific North west Power Co. to build the High Mountain Sheep dam. Mrs. Cooper's petition said approval of the company's re quest to abandon efforts to pass fish over its dams was "con trary to the public interest." Reduction of the fall Chinook and steelhead runs above the dams would hurt the people of the upper Snake River Basin "without proper justification" on the basis of hearings so far, the petition said. "Such cavalier disregard of an important fishery resource is intolerable," it said. The public power agency said approval of the company re quest also would reduce the FPC's role to that of "rubber stamping" proposals of state fishing agencies. Such agencies, she charged, were often influenced by what power companies wanted. Stocks Continue To Move Forward NF.W YORK (UPI) Stocks continued to move forward to-1 day. i U. S. Steel moved up nearly I '2 followed by gains of large : fractions to a point in National, Armco. McLouth, Inland and Youngstown Sheet. General Motors tacked on a point. Chrysler was off nearly 1 but Ford advanced a large frac tion. I Raytheon dropped more than j 2. Union Carbide and Eastman Kodak were UD about 2 and 1. respectively. American Crystal j Sucar. Havcg. IBM and Kerri McGee were up 1 or more. for Conger-Morris finer funeral service . . . decision. Statuesque German Denies Washington BONN (UPI) - A statuesque German model who was oust ed from the United States as an undesirable issued a blanket denial today of her reported Washington hi - jinx in high places. Mrs. Ellen Rometsch, 27, said she never had intimate rela tions with men other than her husband while living in Wash ington. Mrs. Rometsch, divorced since returning to Germany last August, issued a statement to the German press agency, which distributed it to all West German newspapers. She telephoned the agency from her parents' home on a farm near Wuppertal, in the Ruhr, where she apparently has been living for several weeks. Arrest Threatened Reporters besieging the farm since Monday noon were fright ened off Monday by a farm hand carrying a shotgun. To day, they were told by a mem ber of the Rometsch family If they did not leave the proper ty, police would be called and asked to arrest them for tres passing. None of the reporters or pho tographers at the farm nad got ten a glimpse of the model or her young child by late this afternoon. Villagers in the neighboring community of Hasslinghausen told reporters Mrs. Rometsch has been living with her par ents since late in September, when a Bonn court granted the divorce asked by her husband. They said she has spent most or all of her time on the farm, and none could recall ever see ing her in the town. In her statement to the Ger man press agency, Mrs. Ro metsch said she thought suspi cion had been drawn to her be cause of her friendship with a woman employed on Capitol Hill as a secretary. She said she had known the woman and the woman's em ployer socially, but she did not name them. Apparently she re ferred to Carole Tyler, another beauty, and Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, former Senate Demo cratic secretary who is under investigation by the Senate Rules Committee. Meetings Denied Mrs. Rometsch said that when she first went to the United States two years ago, she also was friendly with another young woman who was said Oownfown Your Friendly Bargain Corner DOORR HALLOWEEN COSTUMES Tiny tot to large sizes-3 to 14. Still a a great assortment-clown, Cinderella, cat, W B BJ witch, bunny, pirate ONLY 0 TRICK OR TREAT BAGS Big Jumbo Size With Handle jassvaaa easssl aaasai m m HALLOWEEN Rubber and Vinyl HALLOWEEN PARTY SUPPLIES-Napkins, CANDY BARS Butterfingen or Baby Ruth, 40 to pkg. Reg. 79c AISO GUM-all brnds-by the box Halloween Special Candy Party Reg. 79c Ib.-Save Downtown 6 TRANSISTOR RADIO $ Complete With Carrying Case, Batteries, Earphones ELECTRIC BLANKETS Twin or double bed site, tingle control 2 year guarantee 8 ONLY-Ladies' Vinyl Jackets limited Colors and Siies-Reg. $10.88. Sizes 8, DOWNTOWN llewberrys to have connections with a number of influential persons in Washington. But Mrs. Rometsch denied Open House Set At GP Branch Open house for the new Grants Pass Branch of the Jackson County Federal Savings and Loan will be held Wednesday, Oct. 30, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. An invitation to drop in and enter the grand opening contest has been extended to all per sons in Grants Pass and sur rounding areas, the home office in Medford announced today. The interior of the branch of fice has been renovated in a contemporary design using pre finished walnut paneling that was manufactured and finished in Grants Pass. The interior plans were designed by Jack Edson of Edson and Pappas, ar chitects, and the contractor was Harold Salter. ' Dale Clark of Grants Pass, who received his education in the Grants Pass schools and at Southern Oregon College, is manager of the Grants Pass! branch. After high school grad- i uation, Clark entered the U.S. Navy and received his dis charge in 1953. Sheile Dolenshek, teller and savings clerk at the branch of fice, is a native of Southern Oregon and has resided on the Rogue river most of her life. The services offered in the branch office are the same as those in the home office for the investment of funds or the se curing of financing to build buy, remodel or refinance, the staff here emphasized in an nouncing the Grants Pass open ing. Portland Produce PORTLAND (UPI) Dairy market: Eggs To retailers: AA extra large 48-52c: AA large 46-49c; A large 43-46c; AA medium 40-440. A small 23-30c; cartons 1-cent hiRher. Butter To retailers: AA and A prints 67c; cartons 3c higher; B prints 66c. Cheese (medium curedl To re tailers 46-49c; processed American I 3-10 lb. loaf. 43-4Bc. j PORTLAND (UPIi Dressed chickens No. 1 grade dressed to retailers: Fryers, whole drawn. 2H-37c lb.; cut-up. 33-40C lb.: hens, light type, whole drawn, 21-24c lb.; light type hens, cut-up. 24-28c lb.; heavy whole 35-39C lb. SIXTH AND CENTRAL UST MASKS Ifftf tk3 to Model Hi-Jinx she ever had met any of these persons, even at cocktail par ties, to which she was invited because of her modeling activi ties. She also denied she ever was alone or in small groups with men other than her husband. Mrs. Rometsch said the FBI interrogated her about four weeks before she and her hus band returned to Germany on Aug. 21, and that she told them the same thing. Both Mrs. Rometsch and her husband, Rolf, told the Ger man press agency their di vorce had no connection with the allegations being mads against her in Washington. Divorce trials in Germany are closed and only the fact of the divorce is published, but never the reasons for it. S7 217 E. Main Medford eacn tablecloths, cups 67 Mix 4? lb. 6 S066 U SS97 12, 14, 16 Q n Select your fj 1 Personal p 1 Christmas M, ; 1 Cards and jM j js avoid that JS j minute r at) W JN
