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EDFORD United Press International Full Leased Wir Unllrd Press International Full Leased Wire 64 PAGES SIX SECTIONS MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1963 No. 218 58th Year M LBJ Commission Will Seek Facts Of Assassination By United Press International Investigation into the assassi nation of President Kennedy and the subsequent shooting of the chief executive's suspected killer continued on several fronts this week end. There were these developments. A special commission ap pointed by President Johnson to investigate the assassination prepared quietly Saturday to launch its probe. The Soviet Embassy Satur day turned over Russian con sular files on Lee Harvey Os wald, accused assassin of Ken nedy, to the State Department. The files presumably contained information on Oswald's unsuc- James Andrew Is Firsl Of Quints To Leave Hospital ABERDEEN, S. D., (UPD Little James Andrew, the trail blazer of the Fischer quintup lets, went home to his mother and father Saturday. James Andrew, the first born of the five, and the first to advance from an isolcttc to an incubator to a hospital bassin ette, slept through Saturday's memorable, occasion. He was carried from St. Luke's Hospital in the arms of his mother, Mrs. Mary Ann Fischer, with his father, Andrew Fischer, walking proudly along side. "What do you think?" Mrs. Fischer replied when a reporter asked her if she were happy. Then she smiled at the infant wrapped in while blankets as protection against the sub-freezing cold. "I feel great," was the father's reply to the same query. Little James Andrew left the hospital 11 weeks to the day he and his four sisters were born in the pro-dawn hours at St. Luke's Catholic Hospital Sept. 14. A reporter noted that Saturday was the Feast of St. Andrew. There was no indication when the four girls would go home, but Dr. James Bcrbos, who de livered the five, said at least one would join James Andrew within a week. Fog To Persist Through Monday The cold Cray fog which blanketed the Mcdford area al most without letup Saturday is expected to persist at least through Monday, though partial clearing is predicted during the aflernoon hours. The foe has socked in the Mcdford municipal airport and commercial flights have been unable to leave or arrive since 10:46 p. mv Friday. The blanket of fog extends north to Roseburg, west to Cave Junction, and south to Ashland. Fog was also reported up Ore gon 62 as far as Elk Creek, and as much as five miles east on Butte Falls Road. High temperature in the Mcd ford area today and Monday will be about 35, with the low somewhere between 23 and 28 degrees. HEIVS(S)BRIEFS ITlMi FROM JPV R0UNB ,H' 0l0M NEW SUICIDE IN .SOUTH VIET NAM . xr-n., c.iL I'l.t Vox, IllPtl 17.vpar,lrl V IpI nu 111 r SP MIIIV, CMMllll ,1,1 noiu v. w .. ...... - gir! turned herself into a living torch Saturday before a crowd of horrifit-,1 and helpless onlookers in one of Saigon's main squares. It was not immediately clear why the girl cum milted public suicide. POLISH LEADERS ADMIT ECONOMIC FAILURE WARSAW (LTD Poland's Communist leaders Saturday ad mitted extensive failure In all sectors of the nation's economy and told the people they laced more belt-tightening measures to make up for losses. FRENCH STUDENTS BATTLE TOI.ICE PARIS (UPI) An unspecified number of students were in jail Saturday on charges of deliberately wounding policemen dur ing Friday's anti go eminent rioting. Forty-one police were in jured when thev clashed with an estimated to.nnn university students who raged through the city's Latin Quarter to protest what they say are insufficient education facilities. CUBA INAUGURATES MILITARY IIHAKT HAVANA (UI'll Raul Castro. Vice Premier and Armed Forces Minister, announced Saturday Cuba's compulsory draft begins today with the opening of I.M0 local draft boards through out the nation. ccssful application for Soviet citizenship in 1959. The ma terial was immediately deliv ered to the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Re-enactment The FBI, meanwhile, in Dallas Friday re-enacted the as sassination, running a motor cade past the Texas Schoolbook Depository Building, from where the three shots were fired at the President and Texas Gov. John Connally. FBI agents were reported Saturday tracking down the source of occasional small sums Oswald apparently received from time to time. A Dallas newspaper said it learned Os wald received sums ranging up to $10 or S20 at a time for sev era) montns prior to the as sassination. Mrs. Marguerite Oswald, 50, mother of the suspected assas sin, said that she was asked by a federal agent to identify a picture of Jack Ruby at least 12 hours before Ruby shot Os wald last Sunday, a Fort Worth newspaper reported. Switch Trial Tom Howard, cigar-chewing, country boy-talking attor ney for Ruby, indicated he may seek to have Ruby's murder trial moved from Dallas to a Texas city 200 or 300 miles away. He charged that District Attorney Henry Wade had been making "inflammatory" re marks about the case and creat ing an "unfair" atmosphere in Dallas. President Johnson's special commission made plans for its investigation quietly. Its chairman, Chief Justice Earl Warren, was reported in conference throughout the day. An aide said no statement was expected. Undoubtedly, FBI director J. Edgar Hoover was being consulted on arrange ments for the commission's fu ture procedures. Questions Asked From Washington and foreign capitals came further, trouble some questions about the tragic events in Dallas a wccK ago. Johnson has instructed the commission to find the truth, "as far as it can be discov ered," about the death of Presi dent Kennedy and the subse quent murder of his accused as sassin, Lee Harvcv Oswald. The President also directed the commission to "report its findings and conclusions to him, to the American people and to the world," the White House said Friday night. Other Members With Warren, who is closely identified with the Supreme Court's rulings against racial discrimination, Johnson chose from the Senate. Sen. Richard B. Russell (D-Ga.), top strate gist for civil rights opponents, and Sen. John Sherman cooper (R-Ky.), a respected moderate from a border state. From the House Johnson selected another southerner. Rep. Hale Boggs (D-La), the Democratic whip and Rep. Jerry Ford (R-Mich.), leader of GOP progressives. In John J. McCloy, Johnson appointed a man well known abroad as a diplomatic trouble shooter for presidents of both parties in such endeavors as the long test-ban negotiations. Al len W. Dulles, former director of Central Intelligence, is also known abroad, and is a veteran of investigative work. iVv . ... ..... -.--- THE MAIL COMICS IN Both the White House and the Hyannis Port, Mass. Post Office have been swamped with mail since the death of President Kennedy. Above is a scene in the mail room of the White House as a staff worked to sort the incoming letters Friday. It has been estimated that about 109,000 letters and 50,000 wires have been sent to the White House for the president's President Urges Department Heads To Conserve Funds WASHINGTON (UPI)-Presi-dent Johnson notified all govern ment department and agency heads Saturday that he will ex pect their help in carrying out the pledge of "prudence and economy" he made to Congress. He asked them to submit pro posals to cut extravagance and save money next year. The President said in a mem orandum that public faith in free government is strongly in fluenced by confidence "that public servants are alert and efficient in conserving the na tion's resources entrusted to their care." Work Hard "For this reason, we must work hard to reduce the costs of government, not only for the sake of the savings to be made, but also in the interest of vin dicating the people's confidence in the institutions of democra cy." Johnson wrote. He instructed the top ranks of federal departments and agencies that he wants them "to assume personal day-to-day re Football Scores SATURDAY COLLEGE GAMES West Oregon 31 OSU 14 USC 26 UCLA 6 W ashington 16 Wash. St. 0 Stanford 2S Cal 17 San Jose St. 32 Pacific 20 Midwest Missouri 9 Kansas 7 Ohio St. 14 Michigan 10 Purdue 21 Indiana 15 Wichita 2fi Tulsa 15 Southwest Oklahoma 34 Oklahoma St. 10 Baylor 21 Rice 12 Texas Christian 22 SMU 15 New Mexico 26 BYU 0 South Georgia Tech 14. Georgia 3 Florida 7. Florida St. 0 Auburn 10, Alabama 8 Mississippi 10, Miss. St. 10 (tie) Tennessee 14, Vsndcrbilt 0 Memphis St. 29, Houston 6 East Yale 20, Harvard 6 Dartmouth 22, Princeton 21 A- Cross 9. Boston n Pittsburgh 31. Miami (Fla 20 SATURDAY PREP SCORES Phoenix 13 North Catholic 0 (A-2 Playoff) Jefferson 14. Maupin 0 (B-ll riavoff) Camas Valley 31, Eagle Val- ley 0 i B-8) i Iris sponsibility for making your agency a model of good manage ment and economical adminis tration." Johnson underscored the word "personal." Manpower Control The President called upon of ficials to press ahead vigorously with manpower control and utili zation programs developed in re sponse to a directive by the late President John F. Kennedy Oct. 11, 1962. He told the department and agency heads to hold employ ment "at or below the personnel targets established in response to President Kennedy's state ment to the cabinet of Sept. 23, 1963." Kennedy's statement at that time was aimed at meeting economy demands from con gressmen who opposed his tax reduction program unless gov ernment spending were reduced. West German Spy Scandal In New Turn KARLSRUHE, Germany (UPI) West Germany's latest spy scandal took a new turn Saturday with official announce ment that charges had been filed against a top aide of former Chancellor Konrad Adenauer. The federal prosecutor's of fice said Erich Helbig, 52, was being held on charges of "sus pected treasonable relations." He was arrested on Sept. 29. Court Orders James Included In Sanitary The Jackson County Court has reluctantly ordered the property of Roy Edward James be in cluded in the South Talent Sani tary District. "We realize assessment for the sanitary system will work somewhat of a financial hard ship or. Mr. and Mrs. James. but the property has been platted for a subdivision and there is no doubt it would ben- of it from the svstcm," Countv ! Judge Larl M. Miller said Fri - day. I He explained that the state law clearly requires them to in - I elude all property in such a dis - ?2 w w Mt..- 'A- : widow and family, and another 125,000 to Hyannis Port. Mrs. Kennedy and her two children went for a walk along the Cape Cod seashore Saturday, venturing off the Ken nedy compound at Hyannis Port for the first time since her arrival Thursday. It was an nounced that she and the children will return to Washington today. (UPI) City Councilman Travis' Home Gutted By Fire The residence of Mcdford City Councilman Richard Travis, 1100 Mira Mar Drive, was gutted by fire Saturday afternoon. Mcdford firemen responded to the alarm at 1:41 p.m. with two pumper trucks, one from the Eastside Fire Station and one from the Central Fire Sta tion. One fireman, Gene Daley, es caped serious injury by jumping through a window of the resi dence when the roof fell in. He was treated for a cut hand at Rogue Valley Hospital and re leased. Started in Heater Firemen said the fire appar ently started in a baseboard wall healer, spread lo a nearby sofa, and then travelled up a wall into the attic of the home. The fog was so thick in the area that none of the neighbors saw the blaze until it was well under way. The Travis family was not at home at the time. Two girls who were walking past the Travis residence no ticed a red glow through the window and ran to a neighbor to call the fire department. Damage Extensive Firemen, who battled the fire until about 4 o'clock, said the damage was extensive. The front room, dining room, kitch en and hallway were burned out, they said. Three bedrooms and a bathroom were damaged by smoke and water. Travis, who was elected to the city council last fall, is the owner of Mechanics Laundrv. trict if it w ill benefit from the svstcm. He said the lateral would go up a road near the James property which forms part of the west boundary for the district. If the Jameses arc not includ ed it would place more of a burden on nearby properly own- ers to be served by the sewer svstcm, he added. County Commissioners Don- aid E. Fabt-r and Edwin Taylor j agreed that the law "is vcryjdrawals will he held Dec. 11 in ' piain." The decision was made the county court office. These i following an inspection of the petitions came in loo late lo 1 approximately five acres be- be considered during last 1 tween the Old Pacific Highway Communist As V Nation's Second Free Election Being Held Today Terror 'Curfew' Reported A Flop CARACAS, Venezuela (UPD A Communist threat to shoot on sight anyone leaving his house fell flat Saturday. The pro-Cas tro Armed forces of National Liberation (FALN) had declared a terror "curfew" in a despera tion bid to abort today's presi dential election. Venezuelans by the thousands defied the threat and went about their regular business Saturday despite scattered vi olence. The government applied special security measures at 6 p.m. to remain in effect until after the election. Troops Fan Out Truckloads of steel hclmeted troops fanned out throughout the city to guard strategic points. A 15 mile per hour speed limit was imposed. All streets lead ing past polling places were sealed off to vehicular traffic. Parking within 200 yards of polls was prohibited. The meas ures will remain in effect until 6 a.m. Monday. The government expected three million Venezuelans to vote today in the nation's sec ond free election in history. Around 11 p.m. Saturday a time - bomb ripped up a tele phone exchange substation in Catia, a northwestern Caracas suburb, but there were no cas ualties. A Few Bombs Several noise bombs were heard in the capital. The police radio indicated there were at least three firefights between troops and rooftop snipers shoot ing from working class housing developments. But police appeared to have complete control in Caracas and the terrorism was less than it has been on many recent nights. About midnight FALN tommy gunners shot up the residence of Trinidad and Tobago s Ambas sador Alexander Granados, in apparent reprisal for that na tion's return to Venezuela of six teen-aged hijackers who forced a Venezuelan plane down on Trinidad Friday. There were no casualties. Visa-Less Alaskan Still In Russia MOSCOW (UPI) - A lanky American, who defied Soviet authorities by refusing to leave even though his visa has ex pired, circulated freely in Mos cow Saturday and dined with the Russian sweetheart he hopes to marry next month. Lawrence Brayton, 36, of Fair banks, Alaska, said Soviet offi cials had made no effort to stop him or force him to leave the country. Brayton's visa expired at mid night Friday but he said he would remain until he marries Rosita A. Schifman, a 25-year-old speech therapist. Sports Bulletin BELL1NGHAM, Wash.-The Southern Oregon College Red Raider basketball tram dropped their season opener here Saturday night to West ern Washington College by a score of 81 In 55. High point man for SOC was jerry Shults. Mcdford, who garn ered 12 counters. Property District I and the Southern Pacific Rail toad which would be included I in Plan 1A submitted by the consulting engineers for the dis trict. Earlier last week the county court had approved withdrawal from the district 21 property owners not included in Plan 1A. i The requested withdrawals of i those property owners had been I approved by the sanitary dis- trict board earlier. : Another hearing on with- j week s hearing enezue ILL;., Nfti' 74 VTifcaiW. ' CRASH LEFT A CRATER - This aerial photograph shows the huge mud crater made Dy the Trans-Canada Airlines jetliner which crashed north of Montreal, Canada, Friday Investigators Probe Cause Of Canada's Worst Air Crash STE. THERLSE, Que. (UPI) -Police Saturday investigated the possibility that an explo- sion might have caused the crash of a Trans-Canada Air Lines (TCA) DC-8 jetliner in a storm, killing all 118 persons aboard. Investigators sloshed through a snow-coated quagmire trying to piece together details of Canada's worst air tragedy. Menzies Coalition Wins In Australia SYDNEY (UPI) Prime Minister Sir Robert G. Menzies, Australia's 68-year-old political warhorse, led the Liberal-Country party coalition Saturday lo a stunning victory in nationwide parliamentary elections. With about 70 per cent of the estimated 6 million votes count er, Menzies government appear ed ccitain to increase its razor- thin one vote majority in parlia ment to at least 15 and possibly 20. The big surprise occurred in New South Wales, where the Menzies forces captured at least six and possibly seven scats. The area has been solidly in the labor camp for the past 21 years. SEARS WITHDRAWS GUNS CHICAGO (UPD-Sears Roe buck and Company said Satur day it has withdrawn from its retail stores the sale of all hand guns and will not advertise them in its next catalogue. Mfl v til GREET SANTA CLAUS A throng of area youngsters and their parents were on hand Friday afternoon lo greet Santa Claus as he arrived, not in his traditional sleigh, but in a modern helicopter. Seen here greeting old Threats Fail la Vote Mears But they would not even reply to questions of whether a bomb might have been aboard the I big American-built jet, which was just five minutes out of the Montreal International Airport Friday night when the crash occurred. Two of the 111 passengers were Americans, both from the New York City area. Seven crewmen also died in the crash 20 miles north of Montreal. The U.S. citizens were iden tified as Mrs. S. Hankozsky of (P.O. Box 72) Port Washington, N.Y., and R. Kerne of (1491 East 18th St.) Brooklyn. The plane crashed with ex plosive force in a muddy field during a driving rainstorm. Service station operator Paul Lanctot said he heard the big jetliner overhead. "Then 1 heard a terrific ex- Churchill Observes His 89th Birthday LONDON (UPD-Sir Winston Churchill celebrated his 89th birthday Saturday with a big black cigar, a 19'i pound cake iaccd with brandy and a smil ing wave for a crowd of well wishers who gathered outside his Hyde Park home. The wartime prime minister, dressed in a green smoking jacket and a natty polka dot bow tie, stood in front of a window for two minutes while hundreds of Britons cheered and wished him many happy returns of the day. s?v V 'I t. , evening during a heavy rainstorm. All 113 persons aboard the plane were killed in the flaming wreckage. (UPI) plosion that seemed to fall right on top of my house and station ... and then there was a ball of flame," Lanctot said. Investigators said no piece of the wreckage was bigger than an ordinary office desk. The disaster was the second worst in the history of commer cial aviation involving a singlo plane. TCA officials challenged the theory that the plane exploded in flight but this possibility was undergoing investigation by po lice because of the extreme fragmentation. There also was the possibility of explosive de pressurization. Experts from both the Can adian and U.S. governments led the investigation, marie rloiihlv difficult by dcc mud and the sudden onslmighl Salurday morning of the season's first heavy snowfall. Among them were two spe cialists from Ihe U.S. Civil Aeronautics Board (CAB) George R. Baker, flicht oper ations expert, and Pilot-Engineer Jack Sanbourn. Also taking part w.i.; TCA's permanent safety crew hraded by Ian MacDonald. Statements from several per sons living near Ihe crash scene indicated the jetliner might have exploded in flight. But airline officials in their pre liminary reports claimed the plane hit the ground, broke in two, then disintegrated. The plane was en route lo Toronto when it slammed inlo the mucky field. It was pouring rain and visibility was poor. 31. Nick is L. E. McEachrnn, rrprcvnlmg the Mcdford Chamber of Commerce. San'j's arrival officially opened the Christmas shop ping season in Mcdford.
