Image provided by: University of Oregon Libraries; Eugene, OR
About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 25, 1963)
M Regional Edition Medford 24 PAGES Two Sections t (ji SUSPECTED ASSASSIN SLAIN Jack Ruby, right, is shown had been charged with the murder of the late President Ken as he shot Lee Harvey Oswald as Oswald was being trans- nedy. (Copyright 1963, The Dallas Times Herald and Photog fcrred from city to county jail in Dallas, Tex., Sunday. Oswald rapher Bob Jackson.) (UPI) Killer Silences Suspected Slayer DALLAS (UPI) - Sclf-ap- pointed executioner Jack Ruby will plead temporary Insanity in the shooting of Lee Harvey Oswald,, his at torney said today. "I think he was probably temporarily out of his mind," attorney Tom Howard said. DALLAS (UPI)-Police closed the books today on Lee Harvey Oswald and the world will nev er know what was in his mind. He was shot to death as Presi dent Kennedy's assassin by a self-appointed executioner be fore a nationwide television au dience. While the martyred President was being buried in Arlington National Cemetery, mourned by the world, the Communist-Castro sympathizer accused of slay ing him lay on a cold marble slab in a morgue, disgraced. He died with his lips sealed. He took to the grave with him the reason Kennedy was killed if, as police are convinced with out doubt, he was the assassin. The 24-year-old pro-Castro Marxist was being transferred in handcuffs from city jail to a maximum security cell at the Oregon Observes Day of Mourning By United Press International Local, county, state and fed eral offices, schools, banks and many businesses were closed in Oregon today as the state observed a day of mourning for the late President John B'. Kennedy. Many churches conducted special memorial services. Flags throughout the slate continued to fly at half staff. HIM fROM f2 KHRUSHCHEV TOLD OF JOHNSON'S PLANS MOSCOW (UPI) President Johnson hat told Premier Nikila S. Khrushchev he intends to continue John F. Kennedy's efforts to improve relations with the Soviet Union, it was announced here tonight. NATO PLEDGES TO PARIS (UPI) The North (NATO) Permanent Council paid of President Kennedy loday and Johnson. BILL ON KILLINGS TO BE INTRODUCED WASHINGTON (UPI) Rep. Richard S. Schweikcr. R-Pa.. said Sunday he will introduce a bill as soon as possible making it a federal crime (o kill, assault, or conspire to harm the Presi dent of the United States. GUERRILLAS KILL VIETNAMESE SOLDIERS SAIGON. South Viet Nam (UPI) Communist Viet Cong guerrillas killed it least 61 Vietnamese soldiers and wounded more than 80 in I icriei of raids in the put four days, govern ment sources reported todiy. HOUSE EXPRESSES WAMtlMilUN (uri jne House lormally expressed "pro found rrgrrt and sorrow" over the death of President Kennedy today and Immediately adjourned pie V" IFuneral MEDFORD, OREGON, of late President county jail house when Jack Ruby, a one-time Chicago street brawler and owner of a Dal las striptease night club, leaped from a crowd of newsmen and policemen' -with curse jammed a snub-nosed 38 cali ber pistol into Oswald's side and fired one shot. Seven Oregonians Die in Accidents By United Press International Seven persons died in acci dents ;;in Oregon during the weekend. There were four traf fic fatalities, two shooting deaths and a drowning. Airman 3c Everett Miller, 19, Gurnee, 111., was killed when his car hit a utility pole north east of Portland in Multnomah County Sunday night. Norman Rohde, 28, Roseburg, died in a two-car, head-on col lision on Interstate 5, three miles north of Myrtle Creek Sunday afternoon. Mrs. Mary ward, 63, Talent, was killed when her car struck the back of a truck on Inter state S, one mile north of Grants Pass Sunday. Mrs. Ward was the organizer and president of the "Workers of Wake, Guam and Cavite," an NAMED CHAIRMAN PORTLAND (UPI) - Capt. Eugene Ferguson of the Port land Police Bureau has been named chairman of the Region 5 Training Council of the Gov ernor's Advisory Board on Po lice Standards and Training. AROUND THI OlOM SUPPORT JOHNSON Atlantic Treaty Organization solemn tribute to the memory pledged Its support to President REGRET: ADJOURNS out of respect to his memory, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 25, "You son of a bitch," he shouted. Oswald jerked back. So did the police bodyguards flanking him. But there was no thing they could do to stop Rubyi '-'M-v-vm,., ..fc Dallas policeman P. T. Dean said Ruby told him he shot Os wald out of concern for Mrs. organization which sought, and finally obtained, compensation and medical aid for the men and dependants of construction men who were captured or kill ed on Wake Island during World War II. John Lansing, 38, Merrill, was struck and killed by a car on State Highway 66, 18 miles west of Klamath Falls Saturday. Phil Petersen, 17, Eugene, drowned in the Fern Ridge Reservoir when his canoe cap sized Saturday. The body of Petersen, a senior and star ath lete at Willamette High School, was not immediately recovered. Martin Alexander, 14, Mc Minnville, was accidentally shot and killed when a rifle held by a companion discharged. The accident occurred in a garage Saturday. Jack Fine, 40, a member of a prominent Harney County ranching family, accidental ly shot and killed himself while seated in his truck near Burns Saturday. In addition, James Cotton, 21, Coos Bay, was killed when a car he was driving collided head-on with a truck on U. S. Highway 99 near Corning, Calif. Saturday. He was a sailor sta tioned aboard a Navy ship at San Francisco. Soviets Charge Oswald Cover-up MOSCOW (UPI) - The Soviet Union charged today that Presi dent Kennedy was killed in a plot by "Fascist minded forces." It said Sunday night the murder of his accused as sassin was a cover-up. The Soviets gave permission to an American priest, Father Joseph Richard of New Bed ford, Mass., to use a Roman Catholic Church for a Requiem Mass for the President. It was only the second time he had been able to use the St. Louis de France Church in his 27 months here. The other Mass was for Pope John XXIII. Fa- t h e r Richard usually recites Mass In his apartment. Since Friday, the Soviet press has blamed rightists for the Kennedy murder and has taken pains to dissociate the Soviet Union from Oswald, who called himself a Communist and who once came here to live. Mn 58th Year Price 10 Cents Tribune1 1963 No. 213 Kennedy. Dean said Ruby did not want Mrs. Kenedy to "go through the ordeal of returning to Dallas" and testifying at Os wald's trial. -He said Ruby decided to "ob viate" the legal process by ex ecuting Oswald himself. Oswald was quickly rushed to Parkland Hospital's emergency ward where President Kennedy died Friday. At 1 p.m. (CST), 48 hours to the minute from the official time of Kennedy's death, Oswald's heart stopped beating. Open heart massage failed. He was pronounced dead at 1:07 p.m. Henry Wade, Dallas County district atttorney, filed murder charges against Ruby and said he would ask for the death penalty. A second assassination does n't help justify the first one," he said. "I will seek the death penalty for Ruby even if he pleads guilty because shooting a handcuffed man deserves the death penalty." Oswald died without speaking a word. There was no chance for a death-bed confession. He had steadfastly maintained that he had nothing to do with the assassination of Kcnendy, the wounding of Gov. John Connal ly, who was riding with Ken nedy, and later the slaying of Dallas police officer J. D. Tip- pitt. - Wade said, however, that there was more than enough evidence to send Oswald to the electric chair. West Berlin Names Square lor Kennedy BERLIN (UPI) - West Ber lincrs tonight honored the slain President Kennedy by giving his name tu the square where he won the hearts of local citizens only five months ago by telling them in German, "I am a Ber liner." West Berlin's famous "Free dom Bell" tolled as the square opposite city hall was renamed "John F. Kennedy Platz" in a memorial ceremony attended by a throng of West Berliners. Earlier today, Berlin's Amer ican Commandant, Maj. Gen. James H. Polk, assured grief- stricken West Berliners that President Johnson would stand by their city just as firmly as did the late President Kennedy. PATROLMAN BURIED DALLAS (UPI (-Slain as he accosted President Kennedy's accused assassin, Patrolman J. D. Tippet was buried here to day minutes - after President Kennedy was laid to rest in Arlington National cemetery. ROME (UPD-The left-wing Socialists today postponed de bate on a proposed government alliance with the Christian Democrats to see if their pro Communist wing would carry out a threat to boll the party. ARLINGTON NATIONAL CEMETERY (UPII-Under a bright and cloudiest iky John Fitzgerald Kennedy went to rest today on a grassy hill side in this cemetery re served for the nation's heroes. There was a 21-gun salute for the young leader who fell under an assassin's bullets Friday. Riflemen fired three volleys. A bugler sounded Taps. WASHINGTON (UPI) - The soul of John Fitzgerald Ken nedy, martyred 35th President of the United States, was com mended today to the care and mercy of God. At a simple Roman catholic funeral Mass, conducted by an old friend, the grief numbed Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy ana her mtie Doy and gin heard these words of comfort and promise: "Life is not taken away . . . life is but changed." And from the words of Christ, recorded by St. John: I am the resurrection and the life; he who believes in Me, even if he die, shall live." Also listening were the great of this nation and S3 other na tions. Among them were the new President, Lyndon B. John son, and two former presidents, Harry S. Truman and Dwignt D. Eisenhower. Conducts Mass The pontifical requiem Mass, preceding burial on a grassy slope in Arlington National Cem etery, was conducted in the 65- year-old St. Matthews Cathe dral by Richard Cardinal Dish ing of Boston, the friend and pastor who had performed the Kennedy s marriage ceremony in 1953 and baptized their chil dren, Caroline and John Jr. Caroline will be 6 on Wednes day. The slain President's be loved "John-John" was 3 today the day of his father s funeral. A moment before the Mass began, Mrs. Kennedy took her children by the hand and led them to where Cardinal Gush ing stood to greet them. Sprinkles Holy Water . As the eight service men bore the casket Into the cathe dral, they removed their hats. The cardinal, in the resplendent robes of . his office, sprinkled holy water on the still flag-cov ered coffin. Behind Mrs. Kennedy in the cathedral sat the leaders of Congress and the Cabinet and Police Seek Man In Canby Shooting CANBY, Ore. (UPI) - Police today were seeking a caretaker for questioning in the slaying of Mrs. Minnie Cornelia Milleson, 63, at her home near here. The body of Mrs. Milleson was discovered Sunday by a neighbor, Mrs. Ethel Skoe. She had been shot twice in the back of the head with a small cali ber weapon. Investigators said she had been dead about two days. Two transients were arrested in West Slope, near Portland, Sunday by State Police after they were found to be driving the dead woman's car. They were charged with car theft and lodged in the Clacka mas County fail. They denied any part in the killing and police saia it was possible they found the car in Portland s skid-road area. A .22 pistol was found in the vehicle. Governor Told of Oswald's Death DALLAS (UPI)-In a room at Parkland Memorial Hospital, where he had just taken his first steps toward recovery from an assassin's bullet wound. Gov. John Connally learned Sunday that Lee Har vey Oswald had been brought, dying, to the same hospital. The 46-year-old Texas chief executive, who resigned in-1961 as Kennedy's secretary of the Navy to run successfully for governor, was eating hearty meals ol chicken and pie. He shaved himself with an electric razor, left-handed. His right wrist was shattered by the sniper's bullet. The governor will be hospital ized for about two weeks. He lost the fifth rib of his right side, because it was too badly damaged by the assassin's bul let to be saved. But his doc tors said they were successful In patching a hole In his right lung, and they expect him to recover fully. WEATHER FORECAST: Filr throuKh Tiifsday, except vallry fog during night ind morning hour. Low tonight 10. High TucmUjt 19. Temp. Htfheit Veiterdar V to we it Tnli Morning 31 Our Skiet Tonight Runiel today 4:43 p.m. Runt1 lift tomorrow .... T ; 15 a.m. Moomet tomorrow .... 1:41 t.m. Full Moon Nov. 30 PROMINENT STAR tipflU. In north w fit f:0 p.m. VISIBLE PLANETS Venm, ietf In ftouth wml 5:3d p.m. Hat urn. tn soulhwett 11:14 p.m. Jupiter, high In south 8:31 p.m. the chiefs of state from other lands. - . Mrs. Rose Kennedy, the Presi dent's mother, and Mrs. Hugh D. Auchincloss, Jacqueline's mother, heard the magnificent words uttered by Cardinal Cush- 5&tr.irr-rTrTrfff i tu PROCESSION STARTS The caisson bearing the remains of the late President Kennedy pulls away from the Capitol in Washington to begin the procession to St. Matthews Cathedral Staff Increase Needed for Calls The load of telephone calls through the Medford exchange of the Pacific Northwest Bell Telephone Company was so great during four hours Satur day that a 25 per cent increase in the force was made to care for the increased demand for service, Jack Creager, manag er, said today. - He estimated thai the long distance operators cared for 700 more than the normal num ber of calls during that four hour period. Many calls came to the in formation desk, also, Creager said. Many of the calls were not in any way connected with tele phone service, but were from persons who were trying to find out just what Medford was planning to do during the period of mourning for Presi dent John F. Kennedy, Creager said. , The demands on the telephone company lessened Sunday and Monday morning, the Medford manager said. He added that he was prepared to care for an other increased demand in case it occurs today after the funeral services are concluded in Washington, D.C. Holfa Takes Jibe Al Robert Kennedy NASHVILE, Tenn. (UPD Atty. Gen. Robert F. Kennedy "is just another lawyer" since the President has been assassin ated, Teamsters President James R. Hoffa said Sunday. Hoffa, here for a meeting of Teamsters Local 327 said the attorney general will not "be able to guarantee patronage, or advancement to the court of ap peals, or Supreme Court, be cause the passing of our Presi dent by assassination makes him just another lawyer . . ." Hoffa said Robert Kennedy will not "be able to promise as he has many times promo tions if he could secure convic tions, disregarding all the ethics that normally are prac ticed in court cases." Television Brings Funeral to Europe LONDON (UPI) - The big gest television link-up ever seen in Europe was set up today to bring to hundreds of millions of viewers on both sides of the Iron Curtain live scenes of President Kennedy's funeral in Washington. The relay was made possible by an American communications satellite. The Soviet Union was one of the countries that asked to re ceive the pictures. The east European "intervl sion" network also was given permission to cut into the net work for the transmission. In- tervision takes in Communist East Germany, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Hungary, Bulgaria and Romania, in addition to the So viet Union. All west European countries also joined in the historic operation. M ing. No flowers were on the altar. Echoing under the great vault of the church came the words "Requiescat in pace" Rest in peace. At the foot of the cathedral's Officials Targets of Abuse, Threats SALEM (UPI) - It is ditfi cult for normal, law-abiding citizens to comprehend the abuse, threats and vandalism that is directed at high public officials. The nation will nol soon re cover from the horror of Fri day, Nov. 22, 1963. And Oregonians may not want to admit such a tragedy could occur nere.i , . .' . , : i But it could. It almost has The security guard placed around tne home ot Gov. Mark Oregon Legislature To Resume Dec. 2 SALEM (UPI) - This was the 15th calendar day of the special session of the Oregon Legislature, but there were no lawmakers in the House and Senate chambers. The legislature will not re sume deliberations until next Monday, the 22nd calendar day of the session. The session recessed Friday after word of President John F. Kennedy's assassination was re ceived. Lawmakers have put two items of unfinished business awaiting their action next week. They have to find a solution to the Boardman Space Age In dustrial Park problem, and a salary reduction bill passed by the House is awaiting a Senate vote. CHAMPION RETRIEVER DAVIS, Calif. (UPI) - Dei- Tone Colvin, a six-year-old Lab rador male from Wisconsin, reigned at national retriever field champion today for the sec ond time. LEADS TRIBUTE LONDON (UPI)-A pale and shaken Harold Macmillan made a dramatic return to Parlia ment today to lead the Houses of Lords and Commons in a moving tribute to President Kennedy his friend and colleague. British Musicians Comment on Death of President During Overnight Stay Here Members of the Royal Phil harmonic Orchestra from Eng land were deeply upset by the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, and also much dis turbed by the killing yesterday of the man charged with the President's death, a member of the orchestra said this morning. About 70 members of the more than loo-piece orchestra spent the night in Medford en route to Eugene where tonight the group will give a concert for the Eugene Civic Music As sociation. Albert Pievsky, a violinist, said most of his fellow musi cians had been greatly shocked at the double tragedy. "Most Englishmen had the highest regard for President Kennedy," he said. "I daresay he was better liked than any other recent president of the I United Slates. We considered jCtinnedy central aisle, separated from the great altar by the commu nion rail, was the casket con taining, all. earthly that was left of the young President. Toward the end of the brief service, the cardinal said "Do- J 8 where Richard Cardinal Cushmg Catholic funeral Mass. (UPI) in Oregon Hatfield has been the subject of. much public abuse. But that security guard was the direct result of a nearly tragic cnain 01 events. The guard force was estab lished immediately after the legislature unanimously approv ed a resolution charging the state police with the duty of providing security lor me gov ernor and his family. That resolution was adopted but a tew days after a dozen shots were fired at the Hatfield house by a frustrated welfare recipient. One of the bullets smashed through the trunk of the governor s car, which was parked alongside the house. The incident occurred about 30 min utes after the governor, h 1 s wife, and children left the front yard. Twelve months ago the Fed eral Bureau of Investigation and state police investigated a threat on Hatfield's life. Before Hatfield's house was placed under 24-hour guard, it was periodically the scene of vandalism. Every week the governor's office receives violent mail or telephone calls. Three Die as Car Smashed by Truck HOOD RIVER (UPI) -Three members of a Portland family were killed early today when (heir car skidded on rain-slick-ened U.S. Highway 30 and slid Into the path of an oncoming truck. The victims were the Rev. Ruthie Lee Drake, 52, pastor of the Church of the Living God; her husband, William, 67, and their daughter, Shirley Ann, 14. A passenger in the car, Patri cia Ann Bates, 9, also of Port land, was hospitalized here with a broken collurbone and shock. State Police said Mrs. Drake was driving and apparently be came confused when the high way made a slight curve around a construction barrier. him a good friend of our coun try and his death is a great tragedy at this time." The visitor added that many of the musicians, particularly the younger ones, had reacted as if the President's death had been a personal loss. Turning to the reaction caused by the news of the ar rest of Lee Harvey Oswald and his subsequent murder, Pievsky said he believed lhat such a sc ries of events could not have taken place in his country. He seemed to think that the amount of information given out by the police in Dallas concern ing Oswald had caused the citi zenry to become inflamed and to pre-juclge him. "The man wasn't given a chance," the musician said. "By the statements they made, the police convicted nim without I due process of law. You say lhat everyone is innocent until minus vobiscum" "The Lord be with you" and the choir and congregation replied: "Re quiescat in pace." And then the most sonorous of all chanted words, "Amen." (Continued on Page 2A) conducted a simple Roman Often Not all this insanilv is direct ed al Hatfield. Secretary ot Stale Howell An- pling Jr. recently was rousted out of bed by an early tele- pnone. can. The caller Ihreatened to kill Appling. It was nol an unusual inci dent. Appling said he has forced himself to "live with" Such threats. " "People have no idea of lha harassment directed at public officials," Appling reflected- re cently. Public officials know too lhat one act of violence always trig gers a stream of harassment. Stales that provide an execu tive mansion for (heir governor also provide, as an accepted matter of course, a security force. But in Oregon, when such a guard was provided for Hat- Held, It drew special attention. It was a change from the nor mal pattern. Every time special mention was made of the securily force, Hatfield became defensive. Few realized why. Every time the guards were mentioned, there was another flurry of harassment. Stale police, lully aware ot how one act of violence can trigger more insanity, wasted no time Friday rushing another officer to the Capitol Building. Slate police monitored calls to the governor's office. By nature of their self chosen iobs. most public offi cials automatically steel their "public" lives so they are emo tionally Immune to cranks, threats, and normal partisan po litical abuse. But in a relaxed off-guard moment within the sanctity of their homes a threatenint; telephone call can have a shat-' tering emotional cllect. Not only on the public official, but on his wife and children as well. - Violence seldom results. But history-is pocked with the tragic exceptions. proven guilty, but the Dallas police were already saving he was guilty. This wouldn't have happened in England." Tlie musician added lhat many Britishers feel Americans are somewhat lawless, and said the happenings of the week end would strengthen that be lief. He added, however, that he himself had been much more favorably impressed by Americans during the nine weeks tour lhan he had expect ed. Other musicians, discussing the late President, also praised his ability and stcti.nanship and said his death was a great loss to the whole world. One com pared him to "our Prince Philip" and said President Kennedy, like the Prince, "was young, enormously popular, very peisiinble and a family man devoted to his wife and children." i
