Johnson-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
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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.