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inni Mi Rogue Valley Edition Medford 46Pages.. Five Sections' MEDFORD, OREGON, New i olds I Angry Democrats Block Advance of Measure in House 4 SALEM (UPI) -The Board-man-Boeing bubble sprung a new leak today. . r i Democrats who have become disenchanted with the proposed Space Age Industrial Park and angered at the governor for sur rounding it with secrecy today blocked its advance in the House. ' Reps. Richard Eymann, D Marcola, and Sidney Leiken, D Roseburg, challenged the legal ity of proposed legislation to bail the project out of new troubles and requested an at torney general's opinion. i Final Action . v Twenty-two democrats blocked suspension of the house rules needed to advance-the legisla tion to get it before the House for final action. The matter the final?. task Remaining before the special session threatened to prolong the 11-day-old special session. The latest Boardman problem was tossed unexpectedly r.into the lap of the legislature by the governor ;last, week. & J I House Speaker Clarence Bar ton said he was hopeful the House could receive an attorney general's opinion and act later today. He said an .unfavorable 'opinion would " meari " drafting new . legislation Barton- ..said there, was no points-Jn,gting home without handling the prob lem, since the governor would . 'simply call another, special ses sion. .' V '.' .' : . - Monday Eyed t; Senate President Ben Musa ,'said the Senate would stand on call today,5 but if the matter ;were not settled today,' it would probably adjourn until Monday. . The legislation pending before Jthe House would transfer the Boardman project, for better or or worse, to the " one state Agency that can best afford the "gamble. , . " lalenl Man Killed ) In Ashland Mishap tv' Everett Marion Schmelzer, 37, Ttoute 1, Box 78, Talent, was Skilled yesterday afternoon at the McGrew Brothers Lumber Mill, Mistletoe Road, Ashland, in an industrial accident. t': Schmelzer was riding on the side of a hyster when the oper ator; Larry D. Oviatt, 29, of 275 .Mistletoe Road, Asniand, turn ed a corner, Jackson County Sheriffs Deputies said. Schme lzer fell off and was struck by the vehicle. Nitze Approved as Secretary or Navy WASHINGTON (UPI) - The Senate Armed Services Commit tee today belatedly and not unanimously approved the nomination of Paul H. Nitze to be new Navy secretary. The vote was 11 to 3. .' ,. Nitze, now an assistant sec retary of defense, will succeed Fred Korth who resigned Nov. 1. t EWSBRIEFS CARACAS POLICE ARREST COMMUNISTS CARACAS. Venezuela (UPI) Police broke into a fnncral procession today and arrested dozens of Communist militants attending last rites for a fellow party member killed In street fighting. Authorities appeared once again to be in complete control of Caracas and the rest or the otage racked up a total nf 24 ' in a 48-hour period. ,fl . i COALITION CABINET RULES IRAQ BAGHDAD, Iraq (UPI) A new 21-mtn coalition cabinet of Baathlts, Arab Nationalists and Independents today ruled Iraq, ' replacing the all-Baath government ousted in Monday's mili tary coup. t YANKS TO LEAVE VIET NAM HONOLULU (UPI) Approximately l,30 American troops now serving In South Viet Nam will be returned home within the next two months, tocording to top-level foreign policy plan ": ners for the United States. r - , .- oardman ROBERT STROUD Dies of Natural Causes Alcatraz Birdman, Robert Stroud, 73, Dies in Hospital SPRINGFIELD, Mo, (UPI)-i Convict Robert' Stroud, the "birdman of Alcatraz." died toV day at; the U.S. medical center; for federal . prisoners.He. was. 73. : ., '.: " -, .,., Arson In Theater Fire ATLANTIC CITY, N.j' (UPI) A general alarm fire.destroy- ed the Surt ineaier j, anu threatened a nearby .chemical plant early today shortly after three eyewitnesses toiu ponte they smelled gasoline and saw a man running down a street carrying a can., .. i A The blaze.-.in this shore re sort's .business section,- broke out only' hours after a known arson suspect was cleared of any suspicion in the Surfside Hotel fire which killed 35 eld erly persons last Monday. The scene was about a mile and a half from the tragic ho tel fire, and less . than two blocks from the famed Conven tion Hall.. ;' ! ;. Five children .: a n d 'seven adults were routed from their apartments above the theater, by four policemen who discov-. ered the blaze and turned in the first, alarm. ...No injuries were reported.. Mnro than -200 firemen from nearby shore communities and at least 40 pieces oi alumina fought the blaze for more than two hours before bringing it un der control. ENTITLED TO QUOTA SALEM (UPI) - A dairyman who qualified as a grade A milk producer after April 30, 1983, is entitled to quota as a new pi in ducer under the 1963 milk sta bilization act, Atty. Gen. Rob ert Y. Thornton said today. country wnere terrorism ana $ao dead and more than 120 wounded - - THURSDAY, NOVEMBER A mournmenf (UPI) Hospital Warden J.. D. Harris. said Stroud, who has been in prison for the past 54 years, died unexpectedly in his -sleep .early today - iiv..; ,. "He died from natural causes and infirmities- ,nf ; age," the warden -said in a brief state ment. Stroud had, been a patient "at the medical ' center since July io- uxn. : ' He was transferred here from the island prison, of Alcatraz, wnere ne conducted the study of .. bird diseases, that earned him his nickname. Stroud was the subiect nf -a "book,, the '"Birdman of Alca traz," which later ; was made into a movie, starring Burt Lancaster. The "birdman" "also wrote a book about the federal penal system,- but prison authorities refused to permit its pub lication... The book was being held by the Federal Bureau of Prisons. Stroud was admitted to medical center in 1959. the Hoffa Attorney Is Disbarred by Court ' NASHVILLE,; Tenn. (UPD Two federal judges ruled Wed nesday' that an attorney for Teamsters President James R. Hoffa was guilty of an attempt to bribe a prospective juror and disbarred him. v , . . . - The court accused attorney Z. T. Osborn Jr. of conspiring to offer $10,000 for a vote of acquittal when Hoffa goes on trial on jury tampering charges. The judges said Osborn, a min ister's son and former assistant U. S. district attorney, tried to have a middle man" approach one of 36 prospective jurors in the trial scheduled next Jan. 6. -Hoffa has six co-defendants in the jury tampering trial. He faces a maximum penalty of 25 years in prison and $25,000 fine ll convicted. Portland fo Receive Gift from Sappore PORTLAND (UPI) - Port land is going to get a lantern from its sister city of Sappore, Japan. The lantern will be placed in the new Japanese formal gar dens in Washington Park. It is made of stone, is more than 15 feet high and weighs a ton. Employes Entitled To Higher Benefits SALEM (UPI) - Atty. Gen. Robert Y. Thornton said today that retired public employes re ceiving disability benefits are entitled to receive the higher minimum benefit authorized by the 1963 legislature. - - The opinion was requested by uie Public Employes' retire ment Board. - 58th Year. Price 10 Cents Tribune1 21, 1963 No. 210 Congo Police Nab Third Russian; 2 Others Still Held LEOPOLDVILLE (UPI) -Congo police seized a third Rus sian today in apparent retalia tion for suspected Soviet sup port of subversives seeking to overthrow the pro-Western gov ernment of , Premier Cyrille Adoula. .- . ' ' - Police draeeed a Russian journalist out of his bed and took him into custody. The ac tion followed the arrest Tues day of two Soviet diplomats who are still being held. The arrested diplomats also were manhandled by Congolese police when they refused to per mit security officers to search their briefcases. Fate Unknown '' The fate of the diplomats. Boris Voronin and Yuri Maiko- tnykh, remained unknown. Vor onin was described as an em bassy counselor and Maikot nykh as a press attache. There has been no official word on the incident involving the diplomats from the Congo lese government for more than 36 hours despite a stiff protest by the Soviet Union. The diplo mats were taken into custody by. Congolese state police. Well informed diplomatic sources in Leopoldville said the Congolese . . government may soon declare most Russian and Czech -diplomatic -personnel in the canital . "oersona -non grata.'''' They- said it was unlike ly, the Congolese government would break off diplomatic re lations," but thai it probably would permit, tne two commu nist countries to leave a skele ton . staff in Leopoldville . to handle embassy affairs. ; Jf Dunes Bill Gets Favorable Action " WASHINGTON (UPBi P The "Senate Public Lands subcom mittee today reported , out fa vorably a bill to establish a na tional seashore .at the Oregon Dunes, Sen. Maurine Neuberger, D-Ore., said., ,t . , . - The subcommittee v e r s i o n trimmed the boundaries origin ally called for in her bill. ' Mrs. Neuberger. said the sub committee move cleared t h e way for action Friday by the tun senate interior committee. She described today's action as "a favorable omen" for early Senate approval of the new na tional park unit on the Oregon coast. v - - ( t The subcommittee decided to establish the southern boundary of t h e seashore ' at Tenmile Creek and to move the eastern boundary generally to conform with terms of. legislation intro duced in the Ho"se by Rep. Rob ert Duncan, D-Ore. The new seashore would in elude. Honeyman State Park. Hatfield Favors Religion in School PORTLAND (UPI) - Gov. Mark Hatfield Wednesday night told Council of Chief State School officer convention that religion should not be ' taken out of the schools. Hatfield said "We should not abdicate our responsibilities just because of a couple of Supreme Court decisions," he added. Hatfield said also that Oregon has been a leader in the study of communism. He said the study, which was sharply criticized when it was begun, gives the student a "deeper and more profound un derstanding and love of Ameri can institutions." - Union Backs JFfT Tax Cut Program NEW YORK (UPI)-The AFL- CIO ended its convention Wed nesday firmly backing the ad ministration's tax bill but turn ing thumbs down on President Kennedy's plea to hold the line on the current 40-hour work week. - " , ., . -, . Problem v ;- . v 'i,s,". " ' - f , 1 , ' 14k . . ' . " v 1 ' SPY PLANE DOWN Military sources at Strategic Air Command headquarters in Omaha, Neb., said today that a high-flying U.S. recormaisance U-2 plane (similar to one shown above) crashed in the Gulf of Mexico Drug Allotment Cut Not Severe rts : Jackson ' County welfare re cipients, especially the 600 aged ones, may become unduly alarmed over statements from druggists that they will not fill welfare recipients' prescriptions, Jackson County Welfare Ad ministrator David Kuhns said this morning. ..." Kuhns was replying to state ments by two Medford pharma cists yesterday. They verified reports from Portland that Ore gon druggists are angered over reduction in payments for pre scriptions filled for' welfare re cipients and may refuse to fill presonpaonsivs v !a r,-'.:i i-1-:-;!-:-,' .".;. :-Kuhns indicated in his state ment that the cut in state wel fare allotments for- druB - pre scriptions is not as severe as it may ; appear at first glance. The 65 per cent pro rata pay ment is the 'equivalent of ap proximately 98 per cent of cost plus 50 cents , per! - prescription, Kuhns 'explained.. The' Jackson County - Welfare Commission's monthly r drug allotment is $1,- 472. . ... - ' . :; Not' New System'; ' ., "Pro-rating., or. paying costs below retail charges is. not a new system as hospitals, doc tors, nursing homes, homes for the aged, medical labs, funeral homes and private landlords have for several years either pro-rated payments or reduced fees,'.' Kuhns said. Some druggists throughout the state have said they will no longer fill welfare prescriptions because in November the state welfare agency paid only . 65 per cent of the total billed on each welfare prescription, Kuhns noted. Tins percentage reduc tion, which will . vary each month, was triggered by a state wide trend of drug costs exceed ing the budget allotment. The price ' the welfare department will pay for life saving and pain relieving drugs is, with a few exceptions, based on wholesale cost plus 50 cents mark-up, pius 85 cents per, prescription as a professional tee, the local ad ministrator explained. "I hope the level of medical payments can be increased be cause the medical vendors nave been put in the position of giv ing services and then receiving very low payment, as an example, doctors have received recently less than 50 per cent payment. The fact still remains welfare recipients have a high incidence of illness and do need essential drugs," the welfare administrator said. There are about 100 nursing home patients whose drug needs are of real concern to the wel fare department. I only hope some satisfactory plan can be worked out state-wide," Kuhns said. WEATHER FORECAST: Cotuldertbte rloudlnesi throtifh Friday. Hnow ihownri In mounUIni tnd point hit I ty of a few rain showeri In valley tonight and Friday. Low tonight 33.40. High Friday 41-53. Temp till hut Veiterday 44 Lowest This Morning ;.. 33 Our Skies Tonight Burnet today 4:45 p.m. Bunrlic tomorrow .. 7:10 a.m. Moonset tonight .... 1:15 p.m. Pint Quarter . . Nov. 2) PROMINENT STAR Rlgel, rliet 1:13 p.m. VISIBLE PLANETS Venui, led 5:31 p.m. Jupiur, high In aouth- eait p.m. Saturn, In louthweit 8:29 p.m. 40 miles southwest of Key West, Fla. It is believed the plane had been on a mission over Communist Cuba. Military sources in Washington said the pilot did not radio any indication of trouble before the crash. - - ' - ' (UPtl Soviet M I G Shoots Down Plane Over I ranian Territory MOSCOW (UPI)-Soviet Pre mier Nikita Khrushchev urged closer Soviet-American work to world tensions, but at tempts to bring about closer friendship with Western-oriented Iran suffered a setback' today. Khrushchev urged preserva tion of American-Soviet friend ship "despite the differences of our social systems," in a state ment that came in the after math of the arrest and release under U.S. pressure of. Yale Professor - Frederick C. Barg hoorn. , ( ' , ' . , Soviet communications media were eulogizing Soviet-Iranian friendship todav when Western I hews agencies brought word from Tehran that a Soviet MIG Jet fighter had shot down an lrAfilfli.flirilifln.nliin nvir Irnn- Flan territory, "-.v.-r-ft''.-'; . Two Iranians were killed and a third injured In-the incident Wednesday. It apparently could not nave come at a worse time because it coincided with the state visit to Iran of- Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev; ' The official Soviet Tass News agency and Radio 'Moscow in itially remained silent about the incident. Neither the Soviet for eign ministry nor the Iranian Measures Approved In Rogue River Vote ROGUE RIVER Voters of the City of Rogue River gave their approval to the two ballot measures presented to them in a special election Wednesday. The vote on Measure 51, call ing for annexation of the City of Rogue River to the Rogue River Rural Fire Protection Dis trict, was 104 yes and 24 no. Measure 52, providing that the city charter be amended to re quire the person charged with an offense in municipal court, wishing a trial by jury, to pay the police judge $30 in advance, was passed with a vote of 81 to 39. - ' ' The advance fund provided for in the measure would be used to cover jury fees and the pay of jurors would be raised from $1 to $5 a day with the defendant paying the jury's salary for the first day. 25 Injured in Train Collision ST. LOUIS. Mo.-(UPI) - A passenger train and a freight train smashed together today and first reports indicated at least 25 persons were injured, , Nine ambulances sped to the scene in northwest St. Louis. One of the trains was identi fied as a Wabash Line passen ger train en-route from St. Louis to Chicago. It was reported that the pas senger train - was the Wabash Line "Bluebird." Wabash offi cials In Chicago said the "Blue bird" included six cars, plus the engine, and normally car ries between 100 and 200 pas sengers. COMMITTED THE DALLES (UPI)-A worn an who admitted starting a fire that gutted a supermarket and variety store complex here a week ago was committed to Eastern Oregon Hospital Wednesday. . embassy here offered any com ment on tne incident. . But Tass carried a lengthy dispatch about a speech Brezh nev made in Tehran today to the Iranian parliament in which he said, "at present, no clouds of misunderstanding or mistrust darken the relations between Iran and the Soviet Union.'" : The Soviet leader's bid for "businesslike cooperation and friendly relations" between Rus sia and the United' States was contained., h i a - message from Khrushchev. to the National Council of Amcrlcan-S o v 1 e t Friendship; ... . I , me letter, dated Nov. 19, was regarded -Here as significant since it was sent two days after the release and expulsion of Barghoorrr and three days after the 30th anniversary of the es- taDiisnment of diplomatic rela tions Between the United States and the Soviet Union. Man Who Arrested Anne Frank Found ' ri1PrJKA VfTDT A ..!.! .... .... : riunnn tui j nuoMimi oil" thorities-today. 'located the new home of suspended Vienna Po lice Inspector Karl Silberbauer, who disappeared from his old one after confessing he person ally arrested Anne Frank. An Interior Ministry spokes man said Silberbauer left his former long-time Vienna resi dence without their knowledge after being suspended from po lice duty early last month. Min istry officials were unable to find out until this morning that he had moved to a new home on the other side of town. Silberbauer confessed last month he personally arrested the young Jewish girl in her Amsterdam hideout Aug. 4, 1944. Anne Frank died In a Nazi concentration camp. Her book, 'The Diary of, Anne Franke," was first made into a stage play ana men into a mm. SOLICIT CONTRIBUTIONS PORTLAND (UPI) The Portland Solicitations Commis sion Wednesday recommended that the city council approve the National Association for the Ad vancement of Colored People's application for a permit to soli cit contributions. 1 Mayor 'Turns' Valve Bringing Natural Gas Into Area at Morning wcaiora mayor james uun- levy "turned the valve" this morning at the California-Pa cific Utilities Company gas plant on North Front Street dur ing ceremonies celebrating the arrival of natural gas In South ern Oregon. No effort was needed on the part of Mayor Dunlevy since natural gas was turned into the company's mains in the area last Saturday. About 100 valley businessmen, including California-Pacific Util ities Company officials from San Francisco and the Northwest, and state and municipal offi cials, attended both the ceremo ny at the plant and the luncheon at the Rogue Valley Country Club. Sneaks at Luncheon E. K. Albert, San Francisco, president of the gas company, was the speaker at the luncheon, 1 VJ n CAPT. JOE HYDE JR. Missing Pilot Facilities for Teen-Agers Noted During Meeting What teen-agers want and what is. planned or available for their use ' in Medford was discussed at length at the Med ford Parks and Recreation Com mission meeting last night. The three principal speakers were Floyd Courtright, sponsor, oi ine sugar anack. now in the Dutlding on East Main -Street formerly occupied by Walker's; Dreamland; Terry Bowles of Medford High School,, and Keith Bateman, : coordinator for - the youth council at the Medford I MIA. ' . .. ' Courtright called The, Sugar Shack, a teen-agers' night club. wnere memoersnios would be sold with additional charges be ing made for each activity at the building .such as visiting hu uancuig. no siuay iacuiues wouia oe available, it was no ted.. Memberships would be lim- nea to persons 20 years of ase ana unaer. - - - i ' : Courtright also explained" an ticipated costs. He welcomed: Ideas .from .parents and teen-i agera about activities, .but. noted that he' did not plan -any. ' teen age coordinating committee,. : Bowles said that his grouo wished a place for-. teen-agers to both study and hold 'dances whenever wanted. Bateman had offered the use of 'the, YMCA, but noted that he-could not guarantee the group unlimited use oi the second floor.' . ,' Three Hearings on Agenda for Council Three public hearings are on tonight's agenda of the Medford City Council. Two are for change of zone requests one from Class IA to Class IIA for property near Crater Lake Highway and Delta Waters Road and Class IA to Class II near Crater Lake Ave nue and McAndrews Road and the third to Install sanitary sew er on Murphy Road between Lazy Creek and Barnett Road. Also to be considered are sev eral improvement district proj ects concerning paving and rec ommendations from the Med ford Planning Commission. Speaking at the "turning on' ceremony were Murray S. Gard iner, Medford district manager, and J. S. Richards, gas engineer who designed the project from Grants Pass to Ashland. -Albert reviewed the compa ny's dreams of getting natural gas into the area during his luncheon talk. He explained that the company had spent more than a quarter million dollars even before the Federal Power Commission approved the proj ect. El Paso Natural Gas Com pany, which owns the pipeline from Eugene south to Grants Pass where it joins the California-Pacific Utilities Company's line, also spent considerable money on engineering and other work prior to the FPC approval, he noted. - .- Delays In Proceedings -Delays In FPC proceedings were also noted by Public Utili ties Commissioner Jonel Hill Spy Plane Pilot Missing; Crash Cause Unknown Wreckage Found Off Key West WASHINGTON (UPI) - The Defense Department said today mat wavy divers had located the wreckage of a hieh-flvine U2 . plane which disaDDearerl Wednesday after a reconnais sance mission of Cuba.- The wreckage was found in about 100 feet of water, 40 miles northwest of Key West. Fla., the Pentaon said. The pilot of the plane has not been found, the announcement said. : - - The Navy divers who located the wreckage were operating from a PT boat. The Navy said it had started salvage opera lions to raise the craft. The Strategic Air Command (SAC) will appoint an accident investigation board to try to de termine the cause of- the Inci dent v t Informed sources said earlier that the plane had conducted a reconnaissance mission of Cuba but that there was "no indica tion" it was downed by ground fire or by any other plane. The sources said it was! believed a malfunction caused the plane to go down in the Gulf of Mexico. The pilot was Capt. Joe G. Hyde Jr. of Leland, Miss.; and La Grange, Ga. The Defense Department said nothing about the U2's mission at the time it was lost. Oil Slick The Pentagon announcement followed disclosure earlier by oat, mac an on suck and bits of debris were found where the U2 was believed to have gone aown. i The Strategic Air Command (SAC) said .there was no evi dence of hostile action and theo rized the jet. plane, experieaced rmwmanicai trouble,; F.i: "NEW ' YORK (UPlS Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller of New York promised today to abide by a request by Gov. William Scranton of Pennsylvania and not seek pledged delegates in the Pennsylvania primary elec tion next April.' '; The, governors of the two states-met ' for-80 minutes at Rockefeller's Manhattan office andthen held lasioint news con ference at which Scranton read a prepared statement. icranton said party unity in Pennsylvania .demanded that there-fbe i noi intra-party-. fight among the various: candidates for the Republican' presidential nomination, u ; ,: Pennsylvania has 64 delegate votes at , the GOP -nominating convention, "Accordingly, the state com mittee plans for an uncommit ted delegation to the Republi can national convention have my f u 11 support," Scranton said. . ..i ' . ', Ashlander Killed At Work in Eureka . ASHLAND - Carl (Buck) Smith of Ashland was killed Wednesday afternoon at Eure ka while working for Park Load ing Corporation. He was a native of Texas. He was born at Paris, Texas, Feb. 2, 1908. . . . He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Dorothy Smith, and two children, Bobby and Patricia, of Ashland. Funeral arrangements will be announced by the Litwiller Fu neral Home. Ceremony and PUC Chief Engineer David Don, both Salem. They also spoke at the luncheon. Albert explained that t h e scheduling of natural gas had been broken Into three phases': Delivery to existing customers, connect industrial customers, and to install mains in commu nities not now receiving utility gas service. It was noted that two industries in the White City area were serviced this morning. , ,' , . Construction work approved for the first 10 months this year in Southern Oregon was more than $2,710,000, and actual ex penditures to Oct. 31, 1963, was over $2,350,000, Albert said. The company's construction budget for 1964 will exceed $3 million, he noted. Albert concluded that the new low-cost fuel source will help attract new industries to Southern Oregon. , I .-1 3
