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Oswald Left
Confused Images
In New Orleans
NEW ORLEANS (UPI) - Lcc
Harvey Oswald! the man gen
erally believed to have slain a
President and wounded a world,
was born and lived in New
Orleans from time to time. But
no one really knew him.
He was a shadowy, contra
dictory figure. He left behind
him a welter of confused im
pressions when he died at the
hands of a sell-appointed execu
tioner in a Dallas police station.
"He was very arrogant; he
wouldn't associate with any
body, never had any friends,"
said the woman who rented him
a one-room apartment during
his stay here last summer.
'Stern, Cold'
"He was a stern, cold, un
friendly young man," said a
drug clerk who served him oc
casionally. "If he ever smiled,
I never saw it."
"He didn't dislike people; he
just couldn't get along with
them," said a schoolmate who
knew him better than anyone
else. But even he confesses the
relationship was not close.
Oswald entered the Marine
Corps in 1957, got a hardship
discharge and went to Russia.
He returned to this country
with a Russian wife and showed
up in New Orleans last May.
He went to work in a coffee
processin plant.
Castro Groups
During the summer he at
tempted to join an anti-Castro
organization, was refused, and
wound up as secretary of a pro
Castro organization, the Fair
Play for Cuba committee.
During the summer, Oswald
borrowed from the public
library a biography of President
Kennedy, a book on the assassi
nation of Louisiana Sen. Hucy
P. Long, books on Communism
and Communist leaders and a
number of spy novels.
Carlos Bringulcr, a Cuban
refugee and delegate of the
Cuban Revolutionary Student
Directorate, said Oswald of
fered his services last summer
to help train anti-Castro fighters.
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THANKS NATION Simply and without
emotion, Mrs. J. D. Tippit Friday thanked
the American people for the outpouring of
comfort and aid given to her as the widow
of a Dallas, Texas policeman slain while
trying to sicze the accused assassin of Presi
dent Kennedy. At right is Dallas Police
Chief J. E. Curry. (UPI)
Contributions For
Tippit Family
Continue To Arrive
DALLAS (UPI) - "Worn-out"
police office workers took a hol
iday Saturday from counting ev
er growing contributions to
the widow of Policeman J. D.
Tippit, slain trying to arrest
the accused slayer of President
Kennedy.
"We have 12 big sacks of
mail nnw " said Asst. Police
Chief Charles Batchclor.
"But these folks are just worn
out," he said. "Everybody fi
nally has to have a day off."
Mrs. Tippit, 35, thanked the
nation Friday night and said
her family wants to return to liv
ing "quietly."
Batchclor said there were
nine bags of mail for Mrs. Tip
pit Friday and 12 Saturday.
"Three more bags came in
late Friday night," he said.
Mnniw print iniiprl In arrive
from nearly every part of a
gratclul nation.
A $5 bill attached to a let
ter from Tulsa was typical of
contributions :
"I am sending a little con
tribution to help you realize
your husband's great sacrifice
is appreciated by many Amer
icans," the letter said.
"May God give you strength
of which you have been unaware
and may history's record make
you and your children eternally
proud of your husband and fa
ther." Cub Scout Pack 36 in Queens,
New York gave up $25 it raised
for Christmas money to Mrs.
Tippit.
A Los Angeles woman wrote
that her husband is in the sher
iff's department. "I know this
could happen to me and my chil
dren as it did to you," she said.
"I share your sorrow and I
will be praying for you." She
sent $10.
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Jury To Be Picked
Monday For 'Lake
Valley' Trial
PENDLETON (UPI) A jury
will be chosen Monday in fed
eral court hero for the trial of
seven persons charged with
mail fraud and conspiracy to
sell desert land near Burns.
The land development project
was called "Lake Valley."
Government and defense open-l-.g
statements also are expect
ed Monday in the case brought
by the government against Ab
raham Leonard Koolish, 70, Win
neika, III., and six other Chi
cago and Los Angeles area de
fendants. A hearing was held in Port
land Friday which indicated the
trial would last at least three
weeks.
In addition In Koolish, de
fendants arc his son, David
Frank Koolish, 43, Winnetka,
111.; .lohn Milton Phillips Jr.. 33,
president of Harney County
Land Development Co., Evan
ston, III.; .lack Cecil Chcrbn, 37,
Chicago; Richard Dale Walker,
4(1, Los Angeles: George Ed
ward Isaacs, 30, Olondale, Calif,
and Maurice Arthur Hall, 3!),
Los Angeles.
Morrow Court Favors
Boardman Titie Bill
HEPPNER, Ore. (UPI) -The
Morrow County Court Friday
adopted a resolution favoring the
passage of a bill which would
use state veterans' loan funds to
clear title to the proposed
Boardman Space Age Industrial
Park.
Judge Oscar Peterson issued
a statement which said the com
missioners approve the action
taken on the Boardman project
by the State Department of
Planning and Development, and
would recommend passage of
House Bill 1014.
The commissioners, however,
opposed HB1020, companion
measure which would freeze
land value on the 100,000 acre
park for the lifetime of the
Boeing Company 's 77-year
lease.
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I council Friday joined the Port
1 laud Uoautification Association
. in a drive for a ,lohn F. Ken
nedy Memorial Fountain in the
'southwest part of the city.
I Council members voted unan
imously to set up a fund to
construct a group of fountains
surrounded by low bushes in a
traffic circle at Southwest lllth
Avenue and Jefferson Street.
I A model lor the project was
authorized in 1W1. It has been
referi ed to locally as the
"(loose Hollow Fountain."
The council directed city com
missioners in charge of streets,
parks and water to work with
the hcautification association in
working out details for the
fountain group in memory of
the assassinated chief execu
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PORTLAND (I'm - The
American Medical Association
will open its annual convention
here today, About 5,000 per
sons are expected for the five
day meeting.
Four other conventions also
will be held in Portland this
week .
The Agricultural Cooperative
Council of Orcfion opens a two
day meeting .Monday. Sixty de
legates are scheduled to attend.
The Oregon Wheat Growers
League starts a three-day meet
inn Thursday. Some 300 dele
gates are expected.
The Otogon Dairy Council
meets for a one-day session and
the lleprcsentativrs Council of
the Oregon Education Associa
tion opens a two-day meetinc
Friday About 200 persons are
c.xec;cd for each meeting
Thornton's Opinion
Of Boardman Bill's
Legality Reviewed
By ZA.V STARK
United Press International
SALEM (UPI) -While Atty.
Gen. Robert Y. Thornton says
"a grave question exists as to
the constitutionality" of the spe
cial bill to once again pull the
Boardman chestnuts out of the
fire, he docs not declare the bill
is illegal.
His four-page opinion request
ed by Reps. Sidney Leikcn, D
Roseburg, and Richard Eymann,
D-Marcola, was submitted to
lawmakers Nov. 22, shortly be
fore the special session of the
legislature recessed because of
the assassination or President
Kennedy.
The bill is scheduled for a
vote Monday when the legisla
te reconvenes.
The opinion deals with one of
two Boardman bills before the
legislature the one which would
transfer the protect to the Vet
erans Affairs Agency, and ratify
the $4.6 million, 77-ycar lease of
the 100,000-acre site to the Boe
ing Co. of Seattle, Wash.
Corbctt Asks Second Ruling
During the recess Sen. Alfred
Corbett, D-Portland, requested
Thornton's opinion on a compan
ion measure which would freeze
property lax values at the site
for the life of the lease.
Thornton's first opinion noted
"we can sec no constitutional
bar to the use of actual 'sur
plus' moneys now in the veter
ans' bond sinking fund."
Thornton noted the stale's
lease with Boeing holds the
company "harmless against cer
tain adverse claims by third
parties. This office has ruled on
several occasions that the slate
cannot enter into such agree
ments. ..in a 1 1 probability the
Oregon Supreme Court, if con
fronted with this question, would
hold these provisions of the
lease would not be binding upon
the slato, but would not on
that ground invalidate the en
tire lease."
Thornton's opinion continues,
"T h c principal constitutional
question which we believe arises
under the bill in its present
form is the validity of authoriz
ing and ratifying the expendi
ture of public funds to subsidize
industrial development, and (or
the benefit of a specific private
corporation.
"No doubt there are other
firms which would be interested
in receiving low-rent lands, lax
exemptions, or other preferred
treatment...
"We arc therefore confronted
with a bill which singles out one
corporation and grants to it a
privilege which is not available
to any other."
Thornton said he could find
no case "in which this precise
question" has been passed upon
by the Oregon Supreme Court.
He cited cases In 16 states
where such actions were ruled
unconstitutional, two where they
were held constitutional, and
two others where courts had
"decided the q u c s t i on both
ways."
Thornton then noted "in view
of the split of authorities in this
matter.. .the question is a close
one.
"It is our opinion that a grave
question exists as to the consti
tutionality of the bill, but... the
question cannot be settled until
the highest court of our state
speaks on it."
Thornton then suggested the
bill either should be referred to
the people, or voted upon by the
legislature, and if passed by the
legislature, be given an immedi
ate court test "so that the Boe
ing Company and all Oegon
citizens and her legislators and
public officials may know where
they stand."
Boeing signed the lease July
1, but technicalities arose and
the company has until Dec. 15
to decide whether to honor it.
The Commissioners' action
followed a debate on Boardman
held in the high school here.
Some 250 persons heard Senate
President Ben Musa, (D-The
Dalles) and Rep. Stafford Han
sell (R-Hermiston) defend the
state's proposed agreement with
Boeing.
Sen. Alfred Corbett (D-Port-land)
and Rep. Jack Smith ID
Condon I both opposed the lease
on the grounds it does not pro
tect the interests of the state.
Strong resolutions calling for
immediate passage of the bills
were submitted by the Pendle
ton Chamber of Commerce, the
Port of Umatilla and the Uma
tilla County Industrial Commit
tee. City Councils of Boardman,
Umatilla and Hermiston also
endorsed the project.
The Boardman lease will be
the main item of business when
the special session of the Ore
gon Legislature reconvenes in
Salem Monday.
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MEDFORDiWTRIBUNE
MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, DECEMBEH 1, 1963
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MERRILL UTI) .A-funeral
service was held here Friday
for Sp. 5 .lames D. Talker. 25,
who was killed in a traffic acci
dent in Saigon, South Viet Nam.
Nov. 10. Parker was with the
U. S. Special Forces in Viet
Nam.
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Bias Charge Against
Tavern Is Upheld
PORTLAND UTI) - Stair
Labor Commissioner Norman
Nilsen announced Friday he has
upheld charges of racial dis
crimination against .M s Wagon
Inn Tavern at Damascus.
Nilsen conducted n hearing
Sept. 24 on charges filed by
Herman Mitchell, a rortl.mil
Negro. Mitchell asserted that
he was refused service at the
taern June 15 because of his
race.
Nilsen ordered owner Albert
F.ichmann in cease and desist
from uolatinc the public ac-
Sj comod.ilions section of Oregon's
civil rights laws.
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