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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 2, 1963)
S A MONDAY, Cloud of Rumor By United Press International A cloud of rumor has formed over the grave of Lee H. Os wald. As is the case with rumor, these are being whispered or elaborated largely by people farthest from the scene or least familiar with the evidence. Many come from Europe. The Dallas Police Department says it has conclusive evidence that Oswald killed John F. Ken nedy and that he did it without assistance. It has turned all this evidence over to the FBI for an investigation ordered by President Johnson. Until the President makes the facts public, the rumors and Try and -By BENNETT CERF- JOE MCCARTHY met an Englishman who had just re turned from the far North and was full of talcs of the troubles he ha dencountered driving a dog-sled team over the frozen wasteland. "I kept urging them on with 'Tally-ho,' 'Tally-ho,' he mourned, "but the con founded dogs wouldn't budge. They just panted a bit and laughed in my face." "You should have said 'Mush,' " advised Mc Carthy. "All right," conceded the Englishman. "The dogs just panted and laiirthivl in mv much " Tony Martin made one record last year that sold a hundred thousand copies in Rome alone, "Don't get too conccllfd about that, however," cautioned his agent "It turned out thai the Romans thought it was a licorice pizza." "My poor husband," sighed a stout lady at the poolslcle of a Florida motd. "For months now he's been convinced he's a lawn mower." "He'll get over it," predicted an optimistic acquaintance. "He'd hotter," snapped the stout lady grimly. 'Tm getting: sick of lending him to the neighbors." C 1963. by Banmtt Cart. Dlatrlbuted by King Feature Syndicate tut few DlCrCWGST Bathtub Research Committee's Task ' WASHINGTON (UP1) Na ture, as every schoolboy knows, abhors a vacuum. And so, I might add, does the Building Research Advisory Board of the National Academy of Sciences. The board, more familiarly Known as "HHAH, recently announced the appointment of an "ad hoc advisory committee on performance characteristics of sanitary plumbing fixtures." When I first got wind of this, I was deeply perplexed. I could not figure out what in the name of Chic Sale a committee like (hat would do, But by dint of arduous inves tigation, consisting of a phone call to Robert M. Dillion, BRAB's executive director, I was able to clear up the mat ter. It seems that in all of the centuries that mankind has ob served the custom o( body dunk ing, nobody has ever estab lished precisely what a bathtub should do. Hearings Slated On Workers' Benefits PORTLAND (UP1) - A series of hearings to determine if lum ber and sawmill workers are en tilled to unemployment benefits as a result of the lumber indus try strike and shutdown last summer will open here Tuesday. The initial session will be devoted to questions of a gen crr.l nature, according to F. J. Bradshaw, public relations rep resentative of the Slate Depart ment of Employment benefits division. Later, a series of meet ings dealing with specific claims will be held around the state, probably beginning in January, Bradshaw said. Representatives of later and management will be on hand for the meeting here, Sweet Home Youlh Drowns In River SWEET HOME (UPD-llow-arri Wayne Thompson, 21, drowned In the backwaters of the South Sanliam River near here Friday afternoon when he fell from a raft. Officials said Thompson was fishing with a young companion, Jim Reynolds, 13, when he lost his footing. The boy said Thompson could not swim and was weighted down with heavy clothing. The body was recovered short ly after the accident. stBad Breath Swiitim Mouth Slemach In 5 Mlnutn pr rout lit back il diunul CH Ballanl rh'n'" 0" trunk joul Dnatn mar enemj. Ball-am nrufraiia acdilv, iamim outh and ttomarh mi nujlc. No harmful guti. Cil Brllanl. Slotj poilal to etll-ani, 0wiMi, K v., lor utiral In! umoli. UKCEMRER 2. 1963 suspicions probably will persist despite the lack of any support ing evidence. They ae coming in all sizes and shapes but they fall basically into three cate gories: That Oswald had a still uncaptured and unknown ac complice or accomplices. Says Oswald "Used" That Oswald, who pro claimed himself a Marxist, was "used" for a murder assign ment by extremists who were enraged by Kennedy's liberal ism. This is the line taken by the Russian press and radio. That when Oswald killed the President, he acted as a politi ,cal zealot as a hater of the Stop Me We all know, of course, what a bathtub Is used for. Sailing toy boats and making gin, among other things. But It has never been ascertained with any degree of exactitude Just what we should expect from a tub. And the same is true of wash basins and other bathroom ap purtenances. It was this void, or informa tional gap, that prompted BRAB to set up the ad hoc com mittee. The committee will en deavor to determine ad hoely what characteristics the fix tures should have. Then it will attempt to find out whether the performance of these characteristics can be measured. The need for such a study arose with the development of new materials plastics and that sort of thing. Kor example one company has introduced a line of plumbing fixtures made of reinforced fiberglass. According to Dillion, no one can say whether the new types of fixlurcs will perform satis factorily because no one has ever pinned down what plumb ing fixtures "are supposed to do in the first place." As you can see. the commit tee has quite a job on its hands. Perhaps it would be helpful if all of us dropped it a line list ing Ihe characteristics that we doem desirable. I, for one, strongly feel that plumbing fixtures, particularly bathtubs, are supposed to bold water. Few things are more ir ritating than a dry bath. Secondly, they should be port able. People should be able to I him' iik-ii imiimiiUK iiMiirrs Willi iiiem wherever they go. There is nothing I dislike more than having to break in a new bathtub. Thirdly, they should be collap sible. You should he able to fold up the fixtures when they are not in use so that you will hnvo more room to dance. SAVE 50 OR MORE! ECON-O-CLEAN Professional Dry Cleaning With Coin Operative Economyl 38 d r IL W' Cleaning and Spotting Onlyl Dumas Domestic Laundry and Dry Cleaners 30-32 N. Riverside Medford USE OUR DRIVE-IN SERVICE "Nothing Makoi Clolhti at Cltan ai Laundry" Forms American system of government which Oswald did in fact fre quently and violently denounce in his role of Marxist and de fender of Fidel Castro. There is absolutely no basis to any of these charges, specu lation and rumors on the basis of the evidence as it is avail able today. Until .the FBI un covers some dramatic new ev idence, this form of speculation remains in the realm of fiction and fantasy. The available evidence in fact tells a far different story. It points very strongly to Oswald as the President's killer. (The fact that he never confessed before he himself was slain is unquestionably encouraging ru mor more Hum anything else). And it points to a plot con ceived and executed by a single man who was socially misfit, emotionally unstable, political ly naive a man with an ob sessive hatred of constituted authority, be it a superior in the Marine Corps or the Presi dent of the United States. Most of the doubts and rumors about the Oswald case come from Europe. To Euro peans, organized attempts to seize power by assassinating czars and kings are as old as history. Therefore, to them, it is difficult to believe that there weren't people behind Oswald using him as a trigger man in a plot against the entire federal government. Here are a few of the suspi cions and accusations that have been (lowing in from Europe: The newspaper Corricre Lorn hardo of Milan, Italy, said the Italian Carcano rifle that killed Kennedy could not have been fired three limes in such a short space of time. There were Ihrce bullets fired and hence there had to be more than one man. (Sheriff Bill Decker in Kennedy Coverage Cost $32 Million WASHINGTON (UPI) - It cost the nation's radio and tele vision networks an estimated $32 million to broadcast the events surrounding the assassi nation of President Kennedy. ! Broadcasting Magazine said ; that during the four days of broadcasting more than 2,100 network employes in this coun try and abroad were involved at ! one time or another in working j on the story. The magazine said that, based on the hest available estimates, the costs included the Slft.R mil lion lost through elimination of television commercials; $6.8 million lost in radio commer cials; $.1.3 million in commis sions to advertising agencies and salesmen, and $X1 million for television and radio cover age of Ihe story. CARDS can still be y We feature quality CHRISTMAS CARDS Sp our f mn selection. im.vmjm hihwp, ii, i MINIMUM ORDER $1.90 Over Grave of Dallas replied that three shots could have been fired by one man in 20 seconds.) Russian newspapers, without offering factual support, blamed Kennedy's death on the "ultra-right hysteria in Texas." Suspicions Aroused The Dutch newspaper Alge mcen Dagblad said that when Oswald was shot to death sus picions were raised immediate ly that "Kennedy's assassina tion was a gang plot." The Ber liner Morgenpost in West Ber lin said that "it is possible that Jack Ruby silenced Oswald to cover the men behind the plot." Die Well of Hamburg spoke of "a forest of question marks." Dallas and Texas came un der heavy fire from the Euro pean press "The City of As sassination," "City of Oil, Cat tle and Violent Death." "High Heeled Boots and Broad Brimmed Hats Never Again Will Seem Funny." Against this wave of rumor and criticism, the Dallas police earlier turned over to the Fed eral Bureau of Investigation evidence they had collected against Oswald, including: Oswald's palm print on the butt of the murder rifle. Oswald's palm print on a box in the room from which the assassin shot Kennedy. Paraffin tests revealing Os wald had recently fired a rifle. DECEMBER FOOD BUDGET SAVERS. SHOP DOWNTOWN GROCETERIA AND HAVE MORE MONEY LEFT FOR CHRIST MAS SHOPPING. u:j ki,c WHITE STAR UNA CHUNK STYLE Vi TIN DERBY 13' 2 TAMAL SAVE 45c NUMAR MARGARINE WILSON'S PORK FEET Mb., U-oi. QUAKER OATS QUICK MATEY BUBBLE JOHNSON'S CHOCOLATE ECLAIRS PHEASANT APPLESAUCE PUREX GALLON 69' MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDKORD, OREGON Witnesses placing Oswald in the building from which Ken nedy was shot before the shoot ing and immediately afterward. Employed In Building Oswald's employment in the building. Witnesses who saw him shoot policeman J. D. Tippit less than an hour after -the as sassination. Photos showing Oswald with the rifle believed to have killed Kennedy and the pistol that kilied Tippit. Oswald's wife's admission that he owned such a rifle. It was missing. Oswald admitted he owned the pistol. Oswald was an expert marksman. The rifle, ordered by mail from Klein's Sporting Goods Store. The name on the order blank was "A. Hydcll" but the handwriting was Oswald's. When tracked down in a movie after Tippit's death, Os wald tried to shoot another po liceman but his gun jammed. A neighbor drove Oswald to work the day of the assassina tion and Oswald was carying an oblong package he said con tained window shades. Police said it was the rifle. Wrote Threatening Letter Oswald once wrote a threat ening letter .o Gov. John Con nally, wounded with Kennedy, saying he would "employ any means" to get even for a oz. Glass 1 IB. PRINTS REGULAR LARGE TUBE BATH 303 TIN TREND LIQUID DETERGENT 49' 22 oi. President Kennedy's Assassin wrong he believed done to him as a Marine. Connally was Kennedy's first secretary of the Navy. Almost every person who knew Oswald said he had a re sentment against authority. It started as early as the 11th grade when his football coach told him not to take a drink of water. "Oswald took the wa ter," said a Dallas policeman who was a classmate. "Then he yelled at the coach that this was a free country." In junior high school, in New Orleans, Oswald was a "loner" and con santly getting into fights, his classmates recalled. This threat of defiance and quick anger ran all through his career in the Marine Corps as Donald Goodwin, one of his sergeants, recalls: "He was such a hothead I was glad when he was shipped out for radar training. He was always having beefs with the boys in the barracks, just to get into a fight and vent his emotions, I suppose." Court-Martialcd Twice After the Marines transferred him to Japan, Oswald was court-martialed twice. The first time was for carrying an un registered pistol and the second time for swearing at a super ior officer. He obtained his dis charge on the grounds that he had to support his mother. He went to Russia, got a job Light Lean Rib Steak Corned Beef Save 40c g SAVE lie 25' SAVE 20c 59 39' 39 795' SAVE 10c 2 PKGS. 49c VALUE SAVE 40c UNDERWOOD Deviled Ham - 243 Jfor cLfor in a factory, married a Rus sian girl and tried to renounce his American citizenship, but failed to get permission from the Soviet Union. Aline Mosby, then of UPI's Moscow staff, in terviewed Oswald and from that talk emerged the same pattern of defiance: "Capital ism will disappear as feudal ism disappeared. It's the fash ion to hate people in the United States." If. on his return to the United States, Oswald wanted to or ganize a group opposing the government he went about it in SIMPLY jjh F N 1 L I 4 J Unit No. 3, The Mall, 100S J ACON USDA Otfct CHOICE OXJ lb Fresh -79 Indian River, Pink Grapefruit FIRM, FRESH TURNIPS RED DELICIOUS APPLES : DUTCH CLEANSER Giant Cart 253 a strange fashion. Mrs. Lena Garner, who was his landlady in New Orleans for a time, re ported: "He wouldn't speak to anyone. When he passed me or my husband in the yard he wouldn't say anything." 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