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Newspaper Page TextJohnson-Khrushchev Get-Aquainted' Meeting Not in WASHINGTON (UPI) A "get I undue provocations until Rus-I French President Charles Hp I nhau.s of Kllrnnpan nntilical I will meet sennratelv uillh n I lnhncnn In huri-ipil lollrc I sr nla.io.v4 - Future undue provocations until Rus French President Charles de acquainted" meeting between phases of European political theory. For that reason, it is consid ered most likely that Johnson will meet separately with De I Johnson, in hurried talks here I gress, pledged continuation of Having , done that, the new president will leave the intri cacies of discussions with NATO and other Allies to Sec retary of State Dean Rusk dur ing the next three weeks while the White House devotes prime attention to the legislative pro gram and preparation of the new budget. Rusk will meet with other NATO foreign ministers Dec. 16 in Paris at the regular winter session. He will attempt to re inforce in detail Johnson's as surances that the United States will honor all Its treaty com mitments and maintain i t s strength on the European front. .Some sudden Russian' pres sure move on Berlin, or a sharp deterioration in Southeast Asia, could force Johnson to turn his full attention to foreign affairs earlier than planned. However, officials said, So viet Deputy Premier Anastas I, Mikoyan during his talks ear lier this week with Johnson and Rusk gave no hint of imminent pressure. sian leaders have a better idea of how Johnson will react un der pressure. , Johnson's first ventures into the field of personal diplomacy, as presently planned, will be his meetings shortly after the new year with British, West German and French leaders. Summit Conference Possible There is a possibility, U.S. officials said, of a "Western summit" conference early in the year. However, such a ses sion might prove awkward since Gaulle differs rather sharply with the other Allies on nuclear defense strategy and some uauiie, diiusii rnme minister wjtn foreign leaders who came we P01" 01 maximum mill- Sir Alex Douglas-Home and . .. KonnoHv ,.,. . , tarv preparedness 'u!"nced by West German Chancellor Lud- for the Kennedrfuneral and in wimni!n(s to negotlstc :ionor- wig Erhard. : Wednesdays address to Con- able settlements if possible. president Johnson and Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev is not in the cards in the foresee able future, administration of ficials said today. Barring a flaming crisis which might force a personal confrontation, the new Presi dent is expected to shy away from any meeting with the Rus sian leader for some time. . The view in high official cir cles here is that the Soviet Un ion most probably will avoid Noon Edition 58th Year Price 10 Cents 56 PAGES - Five Sections MEDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1963 No. 216 WW IU1 I II" I Foreseeable nf A T T MEDFGRDUaTRIBUNE m of On Inter - VATICAN CITY (UPI)-A German cardinal urged the Ecu menical Council today to ease Roman Catholic regulations against inter-faith marriages as a contribution towards Christian unity. Joseph Cardinal Frings, arch bishop of Cologne, said church legislation should be changed to permit recognition of the valid ity of a mixed marriage, .even when performed "by a . non Catholic minister. ' .,,' Such a move certainly would Johnson Slates Television Talk To Nation Today WASHINGTON (UPI)-Presi-dent Johnson marked Thanks giving today by attending church. The rest of his day in cluded a scheduled television ad dress to the American people and a traditional holiday dinner with his family The new President was sched uled to speak to the nation -at 3:15 p.m. PST on television and radio. The White House de scribed his talk as a "personal" address to the citizenry. ; Briefing By C.I.A. Johnson began his work day with a 10 a.m., EST, briefing by Central Intelligence Agency Director John A. McCone. The McCone visit lasted about half-an-hour. The Chief Executive, his wife Lady Bird and their two daugh ters then posed for photograph ers who had requested a Thanksgiving Day picture of the new first family. The Johnson family attended 11 a.m., EST, holiday services at Mt. Vernon Methodist Church in downtown Washington. - Listed for this afternoon was a presidential meeting at 3 p.m with Secretary of State Dean Rusk and National Security As sistant McGeorge Bundy. Jail Prisoners Get Dinner of Ham Today The Jackson County jail will serve its usual big Thanksgiving dinner today. However, the 50 prisoners will have ham instead of the usual turkey. Five hams have been purchased. Turkey will be served Christmas Day. The rest of the menu in cludes sweet potatoes, mashed potatoes and gravy, fruit cock tail, salad, olives, celery sticks, pumpkin pie and coffee. The dinner will be served family style for all but the 12 felony prisoners, it was reported. Easing Marriages nS(Q)BRIEFS rims noM fc i munb mi eiou LIBEKACE HAS KIDNEY MALFUNCTION PITTSBURGH (UPD-Pianist Liberace. 44. was reported suf fering from a serious kidney malfunction today by physicians at St. Francis Hospital. However, Ihe entertainer was reported in satisfactory conuiuon. - MIKOYAN SATISFIED WITH TRIP MOSCOW (liPIt Soviet Deputy Premier Anastas Mikoyan returned tonight with a thumbs up gesture Irom talks In Wash ington with President Johnson and said he was "very satisfied" with his trip. . ...... MORSE RESENTS VOTE INFERENCE WASHINGTON (L'PD Sen. Wayne Morse, (D-Ore.) de clared Wednesday he resented any inference thai he cast a '"vole of disloyalty" to President Johnson in supporting restrictions on the proposed wheal sales to Russia. HOFFA ATTORNEY AGREES TO SURRENDER LICENSE NASHVILLE, Tenn. (LTD One of Teamster President James Hnffa's attorneys disbarred from Federal Court here last week k. nsrccd to "voluntarily surrender" his license to practice law in Tenness" U an apptal tails lo overturn the disbarment or-dcr. uizzr Rule Faith Urged be well-received by non-Catholic Christian churches. Cardinal Frings made the pro posal during council debate on a document on Christian unity. Supporting the German cardi nal in another speech was Ila rio Capucci, superior general of the Basiiian Fathers. Cardinal Frings said couples in which one member is a non Catholic should be urged not to marry if they do not agree to bring tip their children as Cath olics. : ' . He 'added that ecclesistical penalties for mixed marriages contracted before non-Catholic ministers should be removed from Canon Law. Debate was slow this morn ing, with 14 speakers exercis ing their right to speak on the Christian unity issue. uunng this morning s debate, the council fathers voted to elect new members to fill new ly created positions on key council commissions. The elections will fill addi tional posts created by Pope Paul VI on the 12 committees responsible for amending and redrafting council documents. Results are expected Friday. Actions Are Delayed Some committees, like the theological panel headed by Al fredo Cardinal Ottaviani of the Holy Office, are dominated by conservatives who delayed ac tions favored by the council's liberal majority. The election is expected to strengthen: liberal representa tion and thus help to assure speedy action on documents and amendments in accord with the general wishes of the bishops Ten committees now have 25 members each. One, on Orien tal orthodox churches has 27, and the Christian unity secre tariat has only 18. The Pope has increased the membership of all 12 groups to 30. In - most cases four new members are being elected by the council and one appointed by the Pone. ' In the case of the secretariat, the council will elect eight new members and the Pope will des innate four. Many liberals feel the elec tion is a compromise solution to the problem ot tne conserva tive bottleneck. Many wanted complete reshuffle of the com- m ttees spcciticauy, ine ous ter of Cardinal Ottaviani, who went so far In one case as to refuse to regard a series of council votes as binding on his committee. Portland Police Send $ J 00 to Dolas Widow PORTLAND (UPI)-Portland police have sent a $100 check to the Officer Tippit Fund in Dallas, Tex. The money will go to the family of the policeman slain while. attempting to arrest the accused killer of President Kennedy. A HOLIDAY FEAST Lucinda O'Neill, 4, left; Patrick Mc-Closkey,- ic center, and Dawn Rene Casazza, 4, right, antlcl . pate the feast as they -watch a turkey being carved . at Rhine- Poll Shows JFK's Death Won't Alter Racial Problem ATLANTA (UPI) - President Kennedy's assassination will change neither the drive for Ne gro rights nor the views of Southern segregationists. This was the consensus of a South-wide survey conducted by United Press International. In the South, as in the rest of the country, the tragic events of the past weekend first brought shock, then grief and then a quiet assessment of what's to come. . Many Southerners think there will be a change in the impetus from Washington for civil rights and watch President Johnson's administration for indications of this. But Negro leaders vowed there would be no let-up in their drive against racial discrimina tion. "Time is Past" "The time is past when Ne gro protests were a momentary emotional phenomena. . .," said integration leader Martin Lu ther King Jr. Florida" NAACP Field Secre tary Robert Saunders of Tampa echoed these sentiments: "We can not sit back and wait. -They (whites) may get the picture we are not going to nush now." Saunders said mat jonnson s Southern background might mean that he will not push as hard for civil rights as Presi dent Kennedy, but added: "My iripa is that he is aware of the (racial problem and knows it is a world problem. I would hope sn"1 In Washington, the ttev. wane E. Auntrov. a director of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) which King heads, said there is "room for question and room for doubt" about Johnson's commit ment to civil rights even though he-has spoken out forcefu ly anil in ui I--. t uii Rimini aiiu uicu iiaiu lU llHlt idLiai discrimination in employment. Alabama's segregationist Gov. George Wallace issued a public statement denying reports that President Kennedy's death caused him to change his views on segregation. "I have not al tered my position at all," he said. Wounded Texas Governor Reflects On Assassination DALLAS (UPI)-Gov. John Connally, emotionally asking why he was spared and the President slain, said from his hospital bed that John Kennedy might - do in death what , he could not do in life: ' "That is to so shock and stun the nation, the people and the world of what is happening to us, of the cancerous growth that is being permitted to ex pand and enlarge itself upon the community and the society in which we live, that breeds hatred, bigotry and intoler ance . . ." The wounded Texas chief ex ecutive reflected upon t h e "whys" of last Friday's assas sination of President Kennedy in a closed circuit television press conference ' Wednesday that was his first public utter ances since being shot by the President's assassin.1 ConnaHly also gave a vivid account of those fateful sec onds when, as he tersely put it, "we went from great joy, great anticipation, to great tragedy." Speaking of ., the "magnifi cent" motorcade tour through Dallas, the governor said: President Slumped "We had just turned the cor ner (into Elm street)... we heard a shot ... I turned to my left, and the President had slumped. "He said nothing. "As I turned I was hit and I knew I was hit badly. I knew the President had been hit and I said, 'My God, they are going tn kill us all.' "Then there was a third shot and the President was hit again. "When he was hit, she (Mrs. Kennedy) said, 'Oh, my God, they have killed my husband Jack. Jack.' ' "After the third shot tne se- cret Service said, Get out o f ! l rnt its In a hncrmfll . neic aliu (jti. -'i--- rnnnallv said thev didn't tell him the President was dead un til the next day, Saturday, "af ter I was conscious enough to really understand. H was no news to me because I was al most sure he would be after the two shots I felt he had taken . . . because I personally mi lander Children's Center m New York. The youngsters were the first in a group of 1,200 children to receive Thanksgiving dinners at the center. (UPI). - . . fell that I had been, killed, too, when I received my shot." Connally was shot through the back by the sniper from a window of a building 100 yards away! The bullet fragmented. It broke three ribs, cut a lung, shattered his right wrist and made a slight wound above the left knee. Four hours of surg ery saved him. Some Speculation The governor said he knew that there was some specula tion that he; and not the Presi dent, was the real target of the gunman. "Of course, I had been cam paigning all over Texas all last year on horseback, in cars, on street corners, where I could have been easy prey for anyone with no security whatsoever, so I don't put any -stead (sic) in this. "1 think the man did what he intended to do shoot both of us." - Connally said that (he assas sination, which, he said, "could have occurred in any other city in America," was "an open manifestation of extremism on both sides that is the genesis of our own self-destruction if we are ever going to be de stroyed." - "I am not the least fearful," the governor continued, "of any foreign enemy as long as we have within ourselves not hate but human understanding, not passion and prejudice but rea son and tolerance, and not ig norance but knowledge and the willingness to use that knowl edge. "That is the only answer I can give as to why hs is gone and 1 am not." , . , ALLIES ACCUSED BERLIN (UPI) - The East I p h d BrjUsh ( ' ' today of endangering , traffic safety in East Berlin. ' : - Football Scores Minnesota 11. Wisconsin 0 Syracuse 14. Notre Dame I Maryland 21. Virginia Nation Observes Thanksgiving; Traffic Kills 70 By United Press International Untold thousands of Ameri cans went to their houses of worship today to pray for their fallen leader and to give thanks for their blessings before in dulging In the traditional Thanksgiving dinner. It was the 100th anniversary of Thanksgiving as a national holiday, proclaimed officially to a war-torn country by Abraham Lincoln in 1(104 and honored to day with the memory of John Fitzgerald Kennedy. While Thanksgiving is regard ed as a stay-at-home holiday, millions of Americans attended football games and parades, traditional church services and gathered from afar in the homes of their loved ones. - - Traffic Claims 70 A United Press International count at 8:30 a.m. (PST) show ed at least 70 persons dead in traffic accidents since the 102 hour holiday started at 6 p.m. local time Wednesday. The worst accident occurred near Selma, N.C., when four persons died in a head-on col lision on a rural road. North Carolina, Michigan and Illinois had four fatalities each. Cali fornia had three and Nebraska had two. The National Safety Council said about 472 persons would die in traffic accidents during normal non-holiday period from 6 p.m. Wednesday to midnight Sunday. WEATHER FORECASTS: Vulky fof, moil ly from the vicinity of Mfd ford to Granti Past tnttlsht and Friday, potlbly rearing only briefly Friday afternoon; otherwise, fair wih mild after noon temperature!, Low to1 nlRht 25-30 and high Friday 35-40, except In fog free areas low tonight 20-2S, and high Friday 53-60. Temp. Hlghenl Veiterdav 52 l.oweil Thli Morning . .. 25 Our Skies Tonight Sunset today 4:42 p.m. Sunrise tomorrow .... 7:111 a.m. Moontet tomorrow .... 5:26 a.m. Full Moon Nov. 30 I'ltOMINF.NT CONH'I KLLATION Orlnn, In southeast' .10:54 p.m. VIHIULB I'LANbTS Venui. sett h-.ift n.m. Jupiter, high In south A: IB p.m. Aiurn, seia . . b;jb p.m. Legislature To Resume Work On Boardman Hassle SALEM (UPI) - The Oregon Legislature returns to the Capi tol building Monday to take up the politically explosive Board man controversy. The all-Republican state land board, and the Democratic Sen ate and House leaders all have urged approval of special leg islation to clear technical clouds on the state's title to the land so Boeing's attorneys can give their final endorsement to the project. The $4.6 million, 77-year lease between the state and Boeing for the 100,000-acre space age industrial park in northeastern Oregon already has been signed. The state . cannot back out. Boeing has until Dec. 15 to de cide if it wants to honor the document. If special legislation asked by Gov. Mark Hatfield is enacted, Boeing's attorneys supposedly would be. required to certify that the state has authority to lease the lands and Boeing would no longer be able to with draw from the contract. It's another in a - series of crises that have plagued the project since it was started three years ago. The 1961 Legislature appropri ated nearly $1 million. Another S5Z2,wo is needed now. ,..UJU.. ...... . the common school fund. Law makers proposed' shifting it in stead to the financially inde pendent V e t e r a n s' .Affairs agency. Howard Morgan, Ex-Oregon Public Utility Commissioner, former Federal Power Commis sioner, and possible 1966 Demo cratic gubernatorial candidate, blasted the project as "lopsided ...one-sided," and charged "it puts the state flat on its back for a period of 77 years." . Will Oppose Project The polish which Hatfield had worked so hard to apply to the project began to tarnish. Lawmakers read the bill again, and talked at having to ratify all the deals made to create the park. Attv. Gen. Robert Y. Thorn ton said "a grave question exists as to the constitutional ity" of the proposed bill. Two northeastern Oregon leg islators. Ren. Jack L. Smith, D- Condon, whose district includes the Boardman project, and licp. Clinton P. Haight, D-Baker, an nounced at a Portland press Arrival of Santa In City Is Friday Santa Claus will arrive in Mcdford at 1:30 p.m. tomorrow. His helicopter will land at the Jackson County Fairgrounds next to the National Guard Ar mory. With Santa's arrival Friday, Nov. 29, it will officially open the 1963 Christmas season here. His arrival Is under the auspices of the Medford Chamber of Com merce. Gifts of Christmas candy will be distributed to the children who go to the fairgrounds to see Santa. Stores will open nights start ing Friday, remaining open un til 9 p.m. The Medford Shopping Center stores will be open every night while downtown merchants will be open each night except Saturday. - Lafe President's Thanksgiving Proclamation President Johnson has urged that a Thanksgiving proclamation issued by the late President Kennedy he read In churches through out the nation. The text of the procla mation, which the . late President Issued on Nov. I, appears on page D? of tiwlnv't Mail Tribune. SIHW'mUtailflll3 conference Tuesday they would oppose the project. . - . warne Nunn, Hatfield s execu tive assistant, termed their an nouncement "political claptrap" and added "if these obstruction ists were sincere they would have raised these questions two and one-half years ago." Hatfield continues to express complete enthusiasm f o r the project. . i - His colleagues on the land board, Secretary of State How ell Appling Jr., and Treasurer Howard Belton, have been less enthusiastic, but say it s too late now to back out. ; r , Senate President Ben Musa and House Speaker Clarence Barton both Democrats con tinue to endorse the project. It seems likely they have al ready polled the House and Sen ate and know that they have the needed votes.' Withdrawal Order Will Be Signed : By County Court mu: 'T.i;. ri...... 1 weK for withdrawal of 21 nron- erty owners from the . Sduth Talent Sanitary District as re quested. The decision followed a public hearing yesterday by the County Court. Attorney Joel Reeder, Med ford, representing the property owners said he would draw up the order as soon as possible. Decision on the requested withdrawal of the Roy Edward James property will be made by the court Friday, County Judge Earl Miller said. The requested withdrawal of Ralph and Vica Wellburn will be considered at a second hear ing on South Talent withdrawals Dec. 11. Judge Miller said there were some withdrawal petitions which were not received In time for yesterday's public hearing. Represent Petitioners Reeder, representing all but one petitioner, said that origi nally the petitioners thought they would all be served at the same time by the proposed sew er system. Later they found they were not in Plan 1A as presented by the consulting en gineering firm. If they are hot to be served at this time they do not want to be assessed and their properly bonded. The with drawal of the 21 property own ers was approved by the dis trict's board of directors. The district directors opposed, however, the withdrawal of the Roy Edward James' property coming under Plan 1A. Reeder explained the James are seek ing withdrawal because the cost of running a lateral to their house and property would be too expensive considering the long distance the lateral would have to extend. Mrs. James de clared that she and her husband did not plan to subdivide since the upper section1 of the prop erty to be served by the sewer lateral consists of springs and pasture Mrs. Kennedy Again Visits Husband's Grave WASHINGTON (UPI) - A grieving Jacqueline Kennedy passed up a family plane trip to a planned reunion at Hyannis Port, Mass., today to visit again the grave of her slain husband. Mrs. Kennedy, dressed In black, her face still lined with sorrow, knelt briefly at the gravesitc in Arlington National ! Cemetery just after noon, along I with her sister, Lee Radziwill. Mrs. Kennedy had been scheduled to leave for Hyannis Port at 11 a.m. aboard. the Ken nedy family plane, the Caroline, Making that flight were Sen. Edward M. Kennedy and Peace ' "H"5 U'recior ourgem Biinvcr, Pilot Forced To : Fly To Trinidad With Passengers American Colonel Still Held Captive PORT OF ' SPAIN. Trinidad (UPI) Armed Venezuelan pro Castro terrorists today hijacked a Venezuelan airliner bound for Caracas with 17 persons aboard including one American, and forced the pilot to fly here. It was the second spectacular ambit within 24 hours by the so-called Armed Forces of the National Liberation (FALN) in the campaign to block national elections scheduled for Sunday. yjn neanesuay, tour heavily armed men kidnaped U.S. Army Col. James K. Chenault, 45, of Sherman, Texas, when he left his. home in Caracas. He was being held captive. The. plane, a twin-engined Covair 340 owned by the Venezuelan-line Avensa, landed safely- at Port of Spain's Piarco International Airport.. Trinidad lies' just off, the coast of Vene zuela. . ... -.Seized- By Police Police- took the hHackam. garbed in FALN uniforms, into, custody after questioning crew men;, ano passengers. The plane was hijacked short ly after taking off from Ciudad Boiivar m southeastern Vene zuela on a flight to Caracas. -.' American- businessman F.. R. Richards 1 of Pittsburgh, Pa., loio security ponce here that the hijackers one woman and five men changed into FALN uniforms before pulling their guns. . He. said they first ordered pilot John Powers to circle over Ciudad Bolivar while thev dropped several thousand anti- Bnv.rnmn wif th-,i, , plane's emergency doors? The pampniets called venezueleans to-boycott the presidential elec tions. - ; - One leaflet exhibited here said the elections "are a mas querade to give continued re tention of the regime of oppres sion which governs us." 'Vote for no one. Have tha country free or' die for Vene zuela," the leaflet said. The hijackers then forced Powers to head for Port of Sapin. Ick 9th pgh It was $75,000 Awarded In Damage Suit A - Jackson County Circuit Court jury late Wednesday awarded $75,000 general and $969.50 special damages to the plaintiff in a suit brought by Don W. Sprinkle, Biddle Road, on behalf of his daughter, Cheryl Lou Sprinkle, 6. Defendants were Dr. Cleatis Lemley and Dr. Paul T. Rutter, Medford Osteopathic Clinic and Crater Osteopathic Hospital. The jury, after more than five hours deliberation, returned a unanimous decision on both counts of liability and damages. The plaintiff had asked $161,000. The complaint arose from the treatment of injuries for the child after she was hit by a log ging truck near her. home in June, I960. In the accident she suffered a broken leg and con cussion. . Hearing the case was Judge James M. Main. husband of Eunice Kennedy. Mrs. Kennedy, however, went to the cemetery and then drove from there to Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland, where she caught a White House jet for Hyannis Port at 12:40 p.m. Seen getting aboard the plane at Andrews were Mrs. Kennedy, her two children and Princess Radziwill. ' This was the latest in a series of visits by Mrs. Kennedy to the flower-bedecked graveslte on a slope before the Lee mansion overlooking the Potomac River, the Lincoln Memorial and, in the distance, the Capitol.