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HeoDsfeyire eeeSves- Tox MeSM.res Rogue Valley Edition 58th Year Price 10 Cents Tribune TA X.T ff l ? u Mm 16 PAGES mxP' P ( I TO TESTIFY Billie Sol Estes, the bankrupt West Texas farm tycoon, left, and his attor ney, Jack Bryant of Abilene, right, refuse comment to any questions as they board an airliner in Dallas en route to Washington and Estes Refuses To Answer Questions WASHINGTON (UPI) -Billie Sol Estes, the rags-to-riches Texas farm financier, took the Fifth Amendment today when Senate investigators asked whether he used influence in high places to build his now toppled farm empire. First in private, and then at a public hearing, the ex-tycoon pleaded possible self-incrimination to questions by the Senate investigations subcommittee. The subcommittce'had'suspend cd a long inquiry into Estes' cot ton allotment operations about a year ago. As the hearing got under way, he told Chairman John L. Mc Clellan, D-Ark., that he was the same Billie Sol Estes who fig ured in the subcommittee's long inquiry on how he acquired pooled cotton allotments from farmers displaced by govern ment activities in other areas. McClellan, who had already outlined Estes' refusal to testi fy at the closed-door session, then asked Estes when he first became interested in pooled cot ton allotments. "I respectfully refuse to an swer the question on the grounds that it might tend to incriminate me, sir," Estes re plied. Questions asked the west Tex as farm tycoon in the. closed door session were understood to have centered on Estes' opera' tions in acquiring cotton allot Toys for Christmas Project Are Accepted Toys for the annual Christmas project of the Medford Fire De partment are "coming in bet ter" than they were several days ago, firemen have re ported. It is hoped that people with broken but repairable toys will continue to bring them in, fire men said. Firemen repair and repaint the toys for distribution by the Salvation Army to youngsters of needy families at Christmas. 1EIVS0)BRIEFS ITtMl FROM m y AROUND IHI OlOM PRISON CONVICTS FOILED IN ESCAPE TRY LEAVENWORTH, Kan. (UPI) Two convicts attempted to escape from the federal penitentiary today by using a ladder to clin'h over a -to-foot wall, rhcy wall when a guard shot one of 'ItlO LIFT' STARTS IN REVERSE FRANKFURT (UPI) A fleet of silvery U.S. Air Force trans port planes headed for the United armored division flown lore last U.S. CONVOY CLEARS CHECKPOINTS BERLIN (UPI) A U.S. Army Intentions today passed through Berlin highway without harassment. NEW YORK TELEPHONE STRIKE POSSIBLE NEW YORK (UPI) The threat of a telephone strike In this krv citv remained a possibility today despite a new 38-month contract agreed upon Monday between the Communications Work ers of America and the American Telephone and Telegraph Com pany. RUSSIA ANNOUNCES MOSCOW (LTD The Soviet Union today announced It bad launched an unmanned artificial earth satellite Monday and pre liminary data showed It It operating close to its prescribed orbit. MEDFORD, a scheduled appearance before the Senate In vestigating Subcommittee. Estes is expected to be quizzed about his relations with the Agriculture Department during his wheeling dealing days. (UPI) by Subcommittee ments from farmers who had been displaced from cotton farming elsewhere in the coun try because of government ac tivity. Estes arrived promptly for his appointment. He was ac companied by subcommittee counsel Don O'Donnell and an other companion. He refused to answer news men's questions on whether he Nixon Promises To Take Legal Steps Against Candidacy NEW VORK-(UPI) - Former Vice President Richard M. Nix on, who has been relentlessly stalking rumors of his presiden tial availability,, Monday cut down a speculation given life by former President Dwight D. Eisenhower. On Sunday Nixon's one-time chief said that, if the GOP 1964 nominating convention became Bishops Split on Law-Making Powers VATICAN CITY (UPI) - U.S. bishops at the Ecumenical Council split three ways today in a vigorous debate over a proposal to grant ecclesiastical law-making powers to church eroups like the U.S. National Catholic Welfare Conference. James Francis Cardinal Mc- Intyre of Los Angeles vehement ly opposed the entire idea as a threat to papal supremacy. Jo seph Cardinal Ritter of St. Louis endorsed it as an effective way to promote decentralization of authority in the Catholic Church. Albert Cardinal Meyer of Chi cago, speaking for 120 of the approximately 160 U.S. bishops at the council, took a middle position. were halted at the top o( the them in (he legs. Slates today, carrying home the month to meet a mock crisis. convoy sent out lo test Russian two Russian checkpoints on the SATELLITE LAUNCH OREGON, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1963 planned to answer the subcom mittee s questions. But ms com panion gave an indication of Es tes stand when he said "we will have no comment." McClellan said the subcom mittee had accumulated an ex tensive record on Estes' cotton allotment operations and felt that it was important that Estes be given an opportunity to testi fy before the record is closed deadlocked, the king makers would have to examine and approach" Nixon as a possible compromise candidate. "I appreciate such a gener ous remark about myself," Nix on said Monday, however, I am sticking by my decision to serve not as a candidate but as a constructive critic of the administration.' Nixon, who lost by a razor- thin margin to Sen. John F. Kennedy in the 1960 presiden tial election, foresaw "no cir cumstances whatever" under which he might become didate in 1964. He spoke at a news confer ence held to announce the se lection as "industrialist of the year" of Charles E. Daniel, board chairman of the Daniel Construction Co., Green v i 1 1 e, S. C. Nixon headed the 10-man committee which chose Daniel for the honor. Promises Legal Steps Nixon buttressed his denials of interest in the nomination with a promise to take "legal steps" for removal of his name from any primary election in which it might be submitted. By this, he said, he meant to ask officials of any such state to remove him from considera tion. The nation's first presidential primary is March 10, in New Hampshire, and Nixon said he thougnt the GOP contenders in that test should be Sen. Barry Goldwater of Arizona and New York Gov. Nelson A. Rockefel ler, the only announced GOP candidate. Home Loan Fraud Trial Resumed DENVER (UPI)-A U.S. Dis- trict Court iurv resumed delib - erations today in the trial 0f two building supply company employes accused of fraud in connection with federal home improvement loans. The jury had been recessed Friday until after the Veterans Day week end by Judge Hat field Chilson. Defendants are Theodore J. Venable. 44, of Medford, Ore.: and Thomas M. Roth. 32. of Rockford, 111., formerly of State wide Builders Supply Co. of Denver. Chilson had earlier directed icquilL'l nf a third defendant. Mrs. Margery Kincheloe Lytle, 1 38, of bait Lake City. Barton Suggests Recess To Draft Sales Tax Plan Income Tax Laws Would Be Rewritten SALEM (UPI) A plan to re cess the legislature to allow the Tax Committee time to draft a sales tax program for referral to the people was suggested to day by House Speaker Clarence Barton, D-Coquille. The proposal would include re writing the income tax laws to mesh with the sales tax, but would not include a property tax offset. Barton, who made it clear he personally did not favor a sales tax, said the legislature should move quickly to make the au sterity cuts recommended by Gov. Mark Hatfield. Could Be Reconvened The legislature then would re cessrather than adjourn so the Interim' Tax Committee could draft new tax laws. When the committee bills were ready, the session could be reconvened to take action on the measures. Under Barton's suggestion, the new revenue bills would be sub mitted for voter approval during 1964, so the 1965 legislature could draft new budgets based on the new revenue program if it won voter approval. Barton made it clear he want ed the special session to settle the fiscal crisis at hand first, before devoting its .attention to a new revenue program. Temporary Measure He said he favored the auster ity program recommended by Hatfield as a temporary mea sure including reductions in basic school support, and enact ment of revenue speedup. But he warned adoption of a one-shot speedup of withholding tax collections would "compound the problems tacing tne raw leg islature." He said a $418 million budget would be required for the 1965- 67 biennium to maintain state services at the reduced levels resulting from the Oct. 15 tax referendum. Barton said he favored use of bonds to finance all capital con struction projects. He said infla tion would offset the cost of bonding. "We should not neglect need ed building programs for fear of issuing bonds," he said. Job of Legislature Barton said he did not believe a sales tax program should be initiated by the people, for fear it would favor the special inter est groups who would sponsor such measures. He said drafting of a sales tax was properly the job of the legislature. "We wouldn't find a three lpueeH revenue program very popular if one leg were longer than the other two," he said. "There is no question the leg islature has got to find a tax plan to provide more funds," Barton said. But he insisted the legislature should not turn its attention to such programs until the "crisis at hand" is settled. Towers Are Being Placed on Lodge ASHLAND-The first of four towers which will adorn the top of the Mt. Ashland Ski Lodge was hoisted into place during the opening hours of daylight this morning. A 30-ton crane brought In from Eugene especially for this job was used to lift the first ,of the towers, which themselves weigh 22 tons each. The towers were first assem bled individually on the ground beside the lodge. Hoisting of the large struc tures into place top the ski lodge was originally scheduled to take place last week, but the project was held up by snowy and rainy weather. The ski area was clear and 1 well above the fog this morning, however, and the wind was not lems. At least one other tower was scheduled lo be put into place today, with the other two to be hoisted up and secured cither this afternoon or tomorrow. Gen. John Hodge Dies in Washington WASHINGTON (UPI) - Four- star Gen. John R. Hodge, 73, one of t h e outstanding U. S. ground commanders of the Pa cific campaign during World War II, died early today at Walter Reed Hospital. Yale Professor Held in on Spy Charges MOSCOW (UPI) A Yale University professor, noted for his anti-Communist views, has been arrested by the Russians as a spy, the U.S. Embassy an nounced today. An embassy spokesman said Professor Frederick Barghoorn, 52, a member of Yale's political science department, had been touring the Soviet Union. The spokesman said the em bassy was informed of Bar ghoorn s arrest by the Soviet Foreign Ministry, but it was not known where or when he had been taken into custody. the spokesman said the em bassy was pressing for further details about Barghoorn's sei zure and was seeking "the op portunity of seeing him." He is believed to have been arrested a few days ago. Barghoorn, a bachelor, came to the Soviet union early last month on a one-month tourist visa. The embassy said he had been in Tbilsi in Georgia in con nection with the Robert Jenkins Clarion Concert Group, and at Alma Ata in Kazakhstan for the opening of the American graph ic arts exhibition in October. The charge against Barghoorn followed by only nine days the arrival back in Moscow of two Russian diplomats ordered to leave the United States for al leged espionage activity. The FBI charged the two and a third Russian" working in the United States had been engaged in an espionage conspiracy with John William Butenko of Engle- wood. N.J.. an Amenran elec tronics engineer. The two who were returned to tne soviet un ion had diplomatic immunity but the third, an employe of the Russian trading group, Amtorg, was lailed A few weeks before that, the Soviet Union released the Rev. Walter Ciszek, 58, a Roman Catholic priest, from prison aft er 20 years of confinement, in cluding time in Siberia. At tne same time, American student Marvin W. Makinen, 24, of Au burnham, Mass., was released from a Communist jail where he had been serving time for al legedly helping refugees escape from East Germany. Father Ciszek and Makinen were released and returned to the United States in exchange for two accused Soviet spies j who were set free in the United States. Barghoorn, whose home is at New Haven, Conn., is a recog nized authority on the Soviet Union. On Sept. 4 he made a speech before the American Political Science Association which was strongly critical of Communist tactics. Duncan Questions Need of Subsidies SALEM (UPI) -Rep. Robert Duncan, D-Orc., Monday ques tioned the need for continuing subsidies by the federal govern ment to some segments of agri culture. He sooke to about 200 persons at the opening of the Oregon Farm Bureau Federation's three dav convention here. Duncan took issue wun sta tistics provided by the Census Bureau and otner sources pur- nortine to show that farm in come was below the standards for a living wage. He speculated that many of those persons classified as farm ers actually were farming as a sideline. Duncan, a member ol the House Agriculture and Interior committees, was given the fed eration's "Top Hand" award for his service to the state's farm ers. WEATHER FOItKCAST: Mnsllr cloudy Io nium and Wrdimrtay. rondd frable valley lot, ''I"'1"' about noon, chance of a lit tle rain Wcdneiday nlfht. Low tonlihl 3J-40. Illlh Wednet- M- Temn. Hlihrit YfilMdiy SI Lowest Thli Morning 39 pr. to 10 .m. TotUy, Trace. Our Skies Tonight flutuft todiy 4:SJ p.m. HunrUe tomorrow :5 .m. .Moonrl tomorrow.. 4:1 .m. New Moon ... Nov. 15 PROMINENT STAR Spifi, rHe 5:09 i.m. hflow the Moon. VtMHLE PLANETS vnu, ift pn- MMirn, diir louth 0:04 p m. Jupltrr, huh in wuth pxtt 1:1 p.m. No. 201 Russia (UPI) PROF. BARGHOORN Authority Arrested Medford Man Dies In Hospital of Accident Injuries Harold .lean Davis, (ft nf .11!) Willamette Avp . MerifnrH riipH Monday tn the Sacred Heart Hospital from iniuries suffered .. ' earlier in a three-vehicle acci dent on Oregon 62 about five miles north of Medfoid. According to Oregon State Po lice, the accident occurred about 5:15 a.m. when the Davis car pulled onto the highway in the path of two northbound vehicles. In the collision Davis was thrown from his car, landing m a ditch with water. The other drivers revived him and he was taken to the hospital, but died S'A hours later. Police said the drivers of the other vehicles were George Al len Harshamn, 31, of 1253 Neil Creek Road, Ashland, and Wal ter Pulsipher, 60, of 610 Chest nut St., Ashland, who was driv ing a log truck. This is the 21st person to die in a traffic accident in .lnrksnn Cnuntv this venr. Last vcar at this time 19 persons had been killed in county traffic accidents. Rules Committee Bypassed by Group SALEM (UPI) The House Tax Committee bypassed the House Rules Committee today despite a warning it would look like a new legislative squabble. The Tax Committee voted to introduce four bills proposed by Tax Committee Chairman Rich ard Eymann, D-Marcola. Eymann failed twice tn get the bills cleared by the Rules Committee, which has power to stop bills by individual mem bers, but not by committees. The Eymann bill? provide for a net receipts income tax, a 10 per cent hotel and motel tax, a doubling of the beer and wine tax, and a one and one-half per cent tax on domestic insurance companies. Members of the Tax Commit tee who voted to introduce the bills made it clear they felt the Rules Committee had "broken faith" with the House. Mem bcrs of the House had given the Rules Committee clearance of bills' on the understanding that all hills dealing with slate revenue; and expenditures would be approved. Rules has not done this. Beauty's Death Unveils New British Scandal LONDON (UPI) - Officials scheduled an inquest today into the death of Julie Molley, raven haired "high priestess of love" who has become the key figure in an investigation of sex orgies, blackmail and drugs. Press reports said social lead ers, army officers and wealthy businessmen may be involved. The sex scandal centers on the death of the 24-year-old Italian born beauty who apparently led a double life as a dentist's re ceptionist by day and an exotic playgirl by night. TRIP BRINGS CRITICISM-Rep. Wayne L. Hays, D-Ohio, and Ernest Petinaud, headwaitcr for the dining room ol the House of Representatives, are shown leaving London's Hilton Hotel. Hays, head of a 10-man delegation at a meeting of parliamentarians from NATO and a member of the House Ways and Means Com mittee, has been criticized for bringing the Negro waiter to the NATO meeting at public expense. Expenses for Petinaud, who served as a messenger and page for the U.S. delegation, amounted to 5200 and were paid from the Hays said. (UPI) Airplane Crash, Traffic, Fire Kill Nine Oregonians By United Press International Nine Oregon residents died as a result of accidents Monday. Eight of the deaths were re corded in the state. A woman and her three chil dren lost their lives when a fire swept through their cottage at Cannon Beach. The victims were Mrs. Mar garet Gee, 24: he daughter, Michelle, 4, and sons, Warren, 2, and Daniel, 8 months. Roy Kelly, 50, Myrtle Point, died in a Bandon hospital from injuries suffered when his light plane crashed in the Sixes Riv er area 25 miles south of Ban don Sunday afternoon. He was attempting to land his aircraft on a small, landing Strip, I 11 1 J t- . . ! ! ! t 1 r 1 nmiu u v u, w, nnuuni, was fa.ta"y iniured wnen nis car collided with another car and a logging truck on State Highway 82 five miles north of Medford. .He died about five hours after the accident at a Medford hospital. Sixton Jimenez, 49, Portland, died in a Eugene hospital from injuries received in a tour-car pileup on Interstate 5 near Al bany Friday night. A logging accident near Two Feared Lost As Boat Capsizes COOS BAY, Ore. (UPI) - A 43-foot San Francisco-bound cab in cruiser capsized near the en trance to Coos Bay early today and a body believed to be that of nne of (he two men aboard was found In the surf. A distress signal from the ves sel, the Avanti, was received about 2 a.m. Later a stern sec tion was found washed up on the beach and personal effects belonging to the skipper, R. F. McCarty of Seattle, were lo cated, according to the Coast Guard in Seattle. Also aboard was Norman Ledger, also of Seattle. Anti-Sales Tax Pickets Parade Before Capitol SALEM (UPI) Anti-sales tax pickets paraded In front nf the Capitol Building here today. More than a dozen student members of the Greater Port land Young Democratic Club carried signs proclaiming "M a k e Corporations Pay," "First T a x SP Then Me," "Make PP&L F o r k O v e r," "Fork Over Crown Z" and "No Sales Tax." Air Rescue of Hunters Expected This Evening LA GRANDE (UPI)-A group of elk hunters stranded since Thursday by a snow storm was making its way down the Big Minam River today, and a pilot said he expected to fly them out of the area by this evening. Nine hunters and their pack ers were marooned when a storm dumped two feet of snow In the area 30 miles east of here Thursday and Friday. Drifts were up to 20 feet deep In some places. Bob Waltcrmire, operator of Hillcrcst Aircraft Co. here, flew to the Minam Lodge air strip Monday In hopes of pick ing the men up. When they had not arrived by noon, Walter mire flew up the canyon look ing for them. Ho found them al Red s Horse Ranch upper camp, some five miles from where they had been (landed. Wallermlre aaid committee s "counterpart funds , Recdsport claimed the life of James Cushman, 31, Coos Bay. He was employed by the Mat thews Construction Co. of Em pire. Mrs. Grace Tuttle, 86, Sheri dan, was one of five persons killed in a two-car collision on U.S. Highway 71 about 20 miles north of Nevada, Mo. The Veterans' Day traffic toll brought to 14 the number of persons killed on Oregon high ways in the first 12 days of November, compared with 16 for a similar period last year, There have been 477 traffic deaths in Oregon so far this year. There were 412 in the same period a year ago. Plans Completed For Duncan Dinne Plans have been completed lor the "Meet Your Congress man Night" tonight honoring congressman Robert B. Duncan, who began a heavy day s sched ule this morning with radio and television appearances. The dinner at Kim's restau rant will be preceded by a so cial half hour, starting at 6:30 p.m. The public is invited by the three sponsoring organizations of the Democratic party. Congressman Duncan came to Medford late Monday from a speaking engagement at Al bany, where he was honor guest at an American Legion banquet. He has scheduled office hours today in the Franklin building to meet with constituents be tween 1:30 and 4:30 p.m. and was speaker at the luncheon meeting of the Crater Lions Club at noon at Kin's restau rant. Gasoline Is Found in Company Manhole Gasoline which had seeped into a telephone company man hole at Court St. and McAn drews Road was pumped out by Medford firemen yesterday morning and flushed into a storm sewer. Similar seepage of gasoline at the same location occurred last year following heavy rains. All possible sources in the vicinity were checked, and piping found to be faulty was replaced at a nearby service station. Firemen said that, because of the seepage found this week, further inspection will be made he then landed at the main ranch and operator Red Hie gins talked by phone to the camp crew, who told him the hunters were working their way down to the main ranch The pilot waited until nearly dark before learning they had camped for the night about 10 miles from the main ranch "They can't be hurting for food, they passed up two camps," Waltcrmire said. "I don't know why they're moving so slow unless their horses are played out or some one is hurt," he added. The snow is only two or three inches deep in the area through which they are traveling, he said. Some concern was felt earlier about feed for their horses and an attempt was made lo airdrop some feed and supplies, but clouds kept the i piano away from the target area. Cigarette, Sales Bills Introduced In Quick Order Withholding Speedup Entered SALEM (UPI) -On a "try, try again" note, tax bills sailed Monday into a chastized but not cowed Oregon Legislature. Sales and cigarette tax bills were introduced before the spe cial session was hours old. Gov. Mark Hatfield's bill to speed up withholding tax pay ments to the state was entered. And Ren. Richard Evmann. D - Marcola, promised to fight tor introduction of a net re ceipts tax measure and bills taxing beer and wine, hotels and motels, and domestic insurance companies. Eymann got a temporary re buff Monday from the House Rules Committee, but said he would try to introduce the bills through his own tax committee If the rules committee did not relent. Lawmakers Reminded The tax bills began appearine even before Hatfield went in front of ah opening joint session of the Senate and House to re mind the lawmakers their last tax achievement had been summarily and decisivelv" dumped by the voters. The people don't want anv new taxes this session, Hatfield said. The governor asked for morn budget cutting authority and a one-shot withholding tax speed up to bring the state budget back into balance. The voters defeat of t h e tax program passed last spring put the budg et $60 million out of whack. But while some legislators agreed that a simple program such as that proposed by Hat field was in order, others such as kymann said it would be a mistake to concentrate only on stop-gap measures. , Six bills were introduced the first day all in the House. In addition to the sales, cigarette, and one-shot tax bills, the rules committee cleared a measure to give the governor power to cut basic school money, a bill halv ing legislators' salaries, and a bill to let the governor trim the pay of state officials and admin istrators. . ' Bills Speeded The bills were sped through two readings so the Ways and Means Committee and the Tax committee could begin consider ing them at once. And the Joint Ways and Means Committee approved for introduction a bill that would let the Governor cut expendi tures in more than a dozen 'dedicated fund" budgets now beyond his control, including the Department of Veterans Af fairs, orphans and foundlings, and the Oregon Museum of Sci- ience and Industry. The sales tax bill was spon sored by Rep. Joe Rogers, R Independence. The proposal would go before the voters. It was the biggest money raising p r o p o s a 1 of the day. Rogers estimated it would raise an additional $48 million during the rest of the 1963-65 biennium. Rep. Morris Crothcrs, R-Sa- lem, sponsored the cigaretto tax measure. Rep. F. F. Montgomery, R- Eugene, minority floor leader of the House, introduced the gover nor's bills to cut basic school support and speed withholding tax collections, each a $12 mil lion measure. Committees Meet Committee meetings got un der way with dispatch. The joint Ways and Means Committee struggled over how much budget-cutting leeway the governor should get, and then referred the problem to a subcommittee. It also heard a suggestion from Legislative Fiscal Officer Kenneth Bragg that the gover nor be given power to cut liq uor revenues for cities and counties by 10 per cent for a SI million saving. The House Tax Committee got down to work with a report on the current picture of Oregon's tax revenues from members of the State Tax Commission. Commissioner Charles Mack said there were some ups and downs in tax collections com pared to the estimates made last spring, but overall expecta tions for the biennium remained the same. Central Point Youth Accidentally act Clinton Nobles Gibson. 17, of 3079 Sunnyvale Road, Central Point, was treated at Crater Osteopathic Hospital Monday afternoon after he was accident ly shot in the left leg while hunting. According to Jackson County Sheriff's deputies, Gibson was injured about 1 p.m. when his .22 revolver discharged as ho was getting out of a car on Tolo Road. The revolver was cocked at the time of the inci dent, officers said. Gibson was hunting squirrels with four companions. i i
