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.3 H rvn n qj n ,y.. r-i i o) oj m i , . , i -( J.; " , ? ii ! ra J- CM, SHIPS COLLIDE, BURN Smoke pours from the Norwegian freighter Lionel as it continues lo burn in the St. Lawrence Seaway following collision with the freighter Manchester Racial Demonstrations To Resume, Martin Luther Kins Tells Johnson Oelinger Elected To Board Position In District Vote A. W. Octinger defeated W. B. Jessen for a seat on the South Talent Sanitary District Board of Directors, according to unof ficial returns from yesterday's election. In three other district elec tions, the lone candidate on the ballot was elected. The South Talent election, Uie only one with more than one candidate in the running, drew the biggest turnout, about 33 per cent of the registered voters. Oetinger received 34 votes, Jes sen 20. The term is for three years. Oetinger will succeed Don Grimes, who decided not to run again. The vote will be can vassed next Thursday night. In the other elections, Claude C. Thompson was re-elected to the board of the Central Point Rural Fire Protection District, Lee Quinn to , the Talent Rural Fire Protection District and James Scott to the While City Sanitary District. Thompson received 17 votes. Queen 14 and Scott 8 in their respective elections. There was i one write-in in the Talcnl Rural Fire vote Salinger, Other Aides To Remain WASHINGTON (UPI)-Four of the late President Kennedy's closest White House aides have accepted President Johnson's request to stay on the job. I hey are Press secretary , Pierre Salinger, special counsel wjth present board policy, please Theodore Sorensen. appoint- accept my resignation from the monts secretary Kenneth O'Don- board of directors effective im nell. and Lawrence O'Brien, mediately." special assistant for congrcs- His resignation followed last sional affairs. j month's board election in which Salinger said Walter Heller, Hueners was reelected to the chairman of the President's , board over Wilton White. Cul Council of Economic Advisers, j bertson had been identified with also agreed to keep working. white's candidacy during the Salinger's decision appeared j rather heated campaign waged to try to put an end to Precinct 3 of the district. speculation that he would quit I lo seek the congressional seat ucrmp, ill, .ovu... .v "i" Shellev. D-Calif. San Francisco mayor-elect TIMBER CUT VOTED WASHINGTON (UPI) - The Senate today passed and sent to the House a bill to remove a 53-year-old restriction on the cutting of timber on Indian reservations. NEVSC)BRIEFS ITtMS PROM n W AROUND THI OtOM TURKISH PRESIDENT SEEKS NEW CABINET ANKARA, Turkey (UPI) President Ccmal Gurscl, seeking In head off a government crisis, scheduled talks today on forma tion of a now cabinet following the resignation of veteran Premier Ismct Inonu. SECURITY COUNCIL WORKS ON SEGREGATION UNITED NATIONS, N. Y. (UPI) Members of the Security Council worked today on a Scandinavian compromise proposal calling for i strategir embargo to force South Africa lo end its racial segregation policy. OSWALD'S MOTHER PLANS TO WRITE BOOK FORT WORTH (UPI) Mrs. Marguerite Oswald, mother of accused presidential assassin Lee Harvey Oswald, said Monday the world should know the "true fads" about herself and her son. She intends lo write book containing them. TRIAL DATE FOR DALLAS (UPI) A Judge today postponed next week's scheduled murder trial of Jack Uuhy and set i new trial date f Feb. 3 for the slayer of Lee lUrvry Oswald. Protestants Plan Tribute To First Catholic President PHILADELPHIA (UPl)-Pro-tcstant church leaders will pay a unique tribute tonight to America's first Catholic Presi dent. In Philadelphia's massive Convention Hall, more than 5.000 representatives of 31 ma jor denominations will join in thanking God for the "inspired leadership, unswerving vision and courageous dedication" of John F. Kennedy. The interdenominational me morial service for the assassi nated President will be held in connection with the triennial General Assembly of the Na tional Council . of Churches. It MID Director Resigns Position Paul Culbertson has resigned as a director of the Medford Irrigation District, it was re- ported today. It was expected mat me oin er two board members would acceDt it at the regular month ly meeting scheduled for this afternoon. Also, it was reported that the other board members, Chair man Al Hueners and J. G. Cam eron, plan to appoint Floyd Baker, 1917 E. Main St., Med ford, a fruit grower, to suc ceed Culbertson. Culbertson's letter said: "Because I do not agree, and jn g00d conscience cannot agree The controversy had involved tn. administrative abilities of!,j ,u i, ",., aCCIfldiy - mdiicigci ooi-n. Hoffbuhr. and certain policies of the other board members. An audit report of the dis trict's operations over the last year, prepared as a result of the controversy, recently was referred to John Niedermeyer, a district water user, to study. His report is also expected at today's meeting. RUBY POSTPONED 7 Merchant at Montreal. One of the ships was carrying naphtha and the other had chemicals aboard. There were no serious injuries as both ships burst into flame. (UPI) marks the first time in its his tory that the National Council has devoted an entire assembly session to honoring the memory of one man. Some of the Protestant lead ers who will take part in to night s tribute were among those who publicly expressed fear, during the 1960 presiden tial campaign, that a Catholic President might jeopardize re ligious liberties. During his brief presidency, Kennedy refuted those fears and won the confidence and re spect of Protestant leaders as have few presidents in modern times. Kennedy had accepted an in vitation to address the General Assembly tonight. Instead of scheduling a substitute speaker, council leaders arranged for the memorial service, conducted by the Rev. Dr. Eugene Carson Blake, staled clerk of the Unit ed Presbyterian Church and for mer president of the National Council. Dr. Blake said the service would pay tribute especially lo Kennedy's "championship of liberty and equality" and to his "leadership on behalf of civil rights and racial justice." The struggle for racial justice has emerged as the dominant concern of the General Assem bly. Scientist's Name Restored To Honor WASHINGTON (UPI) - Ten years ago today President Dwight D. Eisenhower ordered that a "blank wall" be placed between scientist J. Robert Op penhcimer and secret nuclear data, pending a security review. Oppenheimer, who ultimately was declared a security risk by the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC), has never acted to erase that label. But Monday at the White House President Johnson pre- clear physicist "with pleasure and pride" the AEC's highest honor, the $50,000 Enrico Fermi Award. The ceremony climaxed ef forts by the late President Ken nedy lo restore Oppenheimer's name to public honor i n t h e light of t h e controversy sur rounding the decision nearly a decade ago that declared him a security risk. Dry Ice Clears Field For Plane Landing While fog blankcte the valley today, causing most people to shiver with the penetrating cold, the sun was shining about noon in spots. But just the spots where George Milligan of Mercy Flights sowed dry ice to break through the intense cover. Milligan went up to test a radio, which was giving trou ble, he said, and he had to dis perse the fog to get down and so he did. He sowed 300 pounds of ice over the airport and about 50 pounds over the town. A little snow storm resulted and the sun came through and Milligan landed with no difficulty. PORTLAND (UPI) -Clearance of 11 log jams above the newly completed $40,000 middle creek fishway on the Coquillc River was announced today by S'.e Fisheries Director Robert Regional Edition MEDFORD 18 Pages Two Sections Discussion With Chief Executive Called Fruitful WASHINGTON (UPI) - Dr. Martin Luther King said today after conferring with President Johnson that he told Johnson anti - discrimination demonstra tions would resume by the mid dle of this month in various areas. "I'm sure that we will have demonstrations as long as the conditions that brought demon strations into being are allowed" King told reporters. He said that moratorium on demonstrations which leaders of several civil rights groups had called following the assassina tion of Presdent John F. Ken nedy was only temporary. King, head of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference said that his SO-minute discus sion with Johnson was fruitful. He was the third Negro lead er to meet with Johnson in re cent days. King told newsmen that "As a Southerner I am very happy to know that a fellow Southerner is in the White House who is concerned about civil rights. The President was described by King as being "desirous of seeing the civil rights bill out of the Rules Committee before Christmas." Democratic legisla tive leaders told Johnson earl- that a drive would be launched Monday to pry the legislation from the House Rules Committee. But some congressional lead ers conceded privately that they will be happy to see the bill reach the floor by January. Pick 2nd pgh Shortly The President roe to the White House with AFL-CIO President George Meany and got assurance from Meany of organized labor's help in his ef fort to get the civil rights bill passed. Emergency Public Works Bill Okayed WASHINGTON (UPI) - A House commitlee today ap proved a bill designed to create jobs by pumping an additional $900 million into emergency public works spending. The vole was reported to have been close. The legislation would c u t down unemployment in eco nomically depressed areas by allocating federal funds during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1964 for sewage and water sys tems, health 'facilities, road im provements and otner accele rated public works" projects. All the Republicans at the closed session voted against the measure. Some Democrats joined them. According to one source the linal vote, including nroxies. was 16 to 15. Three members did not vote. WEATHER ftunirt tndav . .. 4 n p.m. Sunrttf tomorrow . ,. 7:13 l.m. Monnrlif inntfhl .... 1:41 V-trt-I.ait Quartrr fc. 1 Jiipltrr Ii thf hrlihl plincl In th totllh tnnlchl it p.m. Nfir ihf KfiiMlnr, JupHfr l no fn dtrerllv nvMh!: In Australia II apptan in thf northern iky. Our Skies Tonight FORECAST: Valli-v fog through H rdnf ita) . Chante of brtrf afternoon rlrartnc al a loratlons. Yartahlr hlfh c Inuflt nru abmf in' fof. I.nw tonight High Ucdnndav 30-15. exttpt SO-5 J ahuvr fog area. Tmp. Hich'ft Yntfrdav 11 ,omI Thl Morning 2) Effort Slated to Get House Vote on Civil Rights Bill Democratic Leaders Will Launch Drive WASHINGTON (UPI)-Spoak-er John W. McCormack an nounced today that an effort will be launched Monday to pry the civil rights bill out of the House Rules Committee and bring it to a vote on the floor. McCormack said following a meeting of Democratic congres sional leaders with President Johnson that "as far as the leadership of the House is con cerned every effort will be made" to force the measure out of the committee. Rules Chair man Howard W. Smith, D-Va., has made it clear he will try to keep it bottled up. Talking with newsmen at the White House, the speaker said a petition to discharge the bill from the Rules unit would be filed Monday by Chairman Emanuel Celler, D-N.Y., of the House Judiciary Committee. Celler's group has approve dthe legislation but Smith's commit tee, which filters legislation to the floor, has taken no action on it. Top Priority The bill is designed to fight racial discrimination in voting. education, employment, public accommodations and the use of federal funds. President John son last week placed the mea sure at the top of his congres sional priority list. However, Smith Monday night threw cold water on efforts by both Democratic and Republican congressional lead ers to press for action on the legislation as a testimonial to the late President Kennedy who also had made it a key priority item. Smilh said he did nol believe action should be dictated by "the present state of hysteria. McCormack and otner House leaders wasted no lime prepar ing to force the bill out of the Smith "traffic cop" group. But they were not certain of suc cess. McCormack said he could not predict what the prospects would be obtaining the required 218 signatures on the discharge petition. Ashland Youth Hurt In Morning Mishap ASHLAND Neil Kenl Van Blaricom, 16, of 91 Oak St., suf fered bruises when the motor cycle he was driving struck the rear of a car on Siskiyou Boulevard Monday. Van Blaricom explained that he was forced to swerve in or der to avoid hitting a car which had started to pull out into traffic from a parking space. But in swerving, he struck the rear of another auto. Neither of the two aulos in volved stopped after the acci dent, police said. Van Blaricom was taken to Ashland Community Hospital for treatment. SP Train Derails, Motorist Injured JEFFERSON, Ore. (UPI) - Twenty-nine cars of a Southern Pacific local freight derailed at Jefferson early this morning. One minor injury was report ed when a motorist, Anthis D. Pruitt, 53, Dorcna, struck one of the flalcars which had jump ed onto the Marion Road. He was treated at the scene. The derailment was believed to have been caused by a burnt journal connected with the wheel bearing arrangement, ac cording to a Southern Pacific spokesman in Portland. Sterilized Milk Will Be Available SALF.M (UPI) A new milk ctnrili-rnH milk Willi soon be found in Oregon mar- kets.. In an order which becomes effective Dec. 15, Ihe State Ag - riculturc Department announced It had set the standard of iden lily for sterilized milk. The nr der follows a hearing held Oct. 31. The standard idcnlified steri lized milk as homogenized sweet j milk scaled in a container and processed by heat, either be- fore or alter sealing, to prevent spoilage. It shall contain not less than .1.5 per cent buttcrfat vd 8.5 per cent milk solids not MEDFORD, OREGON, TUESDAY, Auld Lang Syne 22-Day SALEM (UPI) - The strains of Auld Lang Syne in the House, and sounds of ap plause in the Senate at 5:45 p.m. Monday marked the end of the 22-day special session of the legislature. Lawmakers seemingly welcomed final ad journment of the session which had been stunned and deeply moved by the assassina tion Nov. 22 of President Kennedy. One hour after the final gavel sounded, not one legislator was left in the House and Senate chambers. 1 Janitors were already sweeping up while custodial workers packed lawmakers' books and records in boxes. The first special session since 1957 was called by Gov. Mark Hatfield after the Oct. 15 tax revolt when the legislature's $60 mil lion tax increase package was struck down. Hatfield asked lawmakers to approve budget reductions, a $12 million cut in basic school support, and to enact a $12 million tax collection speedup. Lawmakers quickly deall with the fiscal crisis. Then Hatfield revealed the three-year-old project lo develop a space age industrial park at Boardman in northeastern Oregon had encountered new difficulties, and in a special message asked lawmakers once Condemnation Foes Hurdle Facing Oregon Dunes Jewett School Is Closed When Fire Damages Furnace CENTRAL POINT Pupils of H, P, Jewell Primary School al Central Point-are having a vacation today. The furnace at the school blew up this morn ing. The heal failure was dis covered at 7 a.m. and had probably occurred about 5 a.m., William B. Brewster, principal of the school, reported. The furnace had apparently gone on automatically, as usual at 4:30 a.m., Brewster said. There was an overflow of oil from the inside, for whal reason officials had not determined this morning. This formed a puddle of oil in front of the fur nace and the resulting blaze apparently damaged Ihe fur nace controls. No other damage resulted from the explosion, ac cording to the early check of the building. The first bus load of primary children arrives at Jewett school at 7:55 a.m. and the last load about 8:30 a.m. After all pupils had arrived, dismissal plans were made and by 10 a.m. all children had been re lumed to their homes or guar dians for the day, Brewster said. This project necessitated con siderable telephoning in cases where both parents of children are working away from home. No child was released from school, the principal said, until teachers were assured that he was going lo be cared for by an adult. Each took home a nole ex plaining what had happened and announcing that school will be resumed Wednesday. Commission Delays Coos Bay Decision SALEM (UPI) -The Slate Tax Commission today post poned (or five days a decision on whether the state should take jurisdiction of a tax dispute in volving lands along the Coos Bay shoreline. The five-day extension was granled to allow attorneys Jo seph McKoown and John Whitty, who represent the land owners, lo reply to a brief by Attorney G. F. Bartz which urges the commission lo take jurisdiction, The tax controversy, which in- volves land tax increases thai 1 range trom 50 to 4,000 per cent, I was aired loday at a hearing before State Tax Commission ers Paul Liniger, Charles Mack and rrcd lloefke. EARLY PURCHASE URGED SALEM (UPI) Passenger car owners whose license plates expire at the end of December should waslc no time in renew ing plates if they wanl to avoid wailing lines, the Motor Ve hicles Department advised to ds. Tribune DECEMBER 3, 1963 Special again to pull the Boardman chestnuts out of the fire. A nearly party - line partisan political donneybrook boiled to life over the request. The project faced a showdown vote in the House Nov. 22. Just before the vote was to be taken, news of President Kennedy's assassination was flashed. Partisan differences vanished. Stunned, deeply grieved, and incredulous, legislators quickly recessed tor nine days out of respect to Kennedy. There was still party bickering over the Boardman project when the session resumed Monday but lawmakers didn't really seem to have their hearts in it. They argued, debated, made charge and counter charge, then approved the contro versial measure. The solemnity which marked the tragedy of Nov. 22 returned for a few moments Mon day afternoon when the House and Senate voted unanimously for a resolution express ing "anguish and sorrow" at Kennedy's death. Legislators no longer were in a mood to bicker. They voted lo adjourn, and swiftly fled the Capital Building. w 1 ELECTED Raul Lconi, 5fl, above, has been confirmed as victor in Venezuela's presiden tial election. Unofficial returns from Sunday's election, reflect ing the vote of 90.2 per cent of Venezuela's eligible voters, gave Leom 985,230 votes to 691,125 for runnerup Rafael Caldcra, nom inee of the pro - government Copei party. Voting is compul sory in Venezuela. Yanks in Viet Nam To Return to U.S. SAIGON, South Viet Nam (UPI) Three hundred U. S. servicemen prepared today for the long flight home as the first troops to be withdrawn from South Vict Nam since the U.S. buildup here in 1962. They are part of Ihe 1,000 of ficers and men who will be re turned to the United Slates without replacement by the first of the year, reducing U.S. strength here lo 15,500. The reduction was the result of the visit here in October of Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara and Gen. Maxwell D. Taylor, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. They decided "the major part of the United States military task can be completed by the end of 1965" in South Vict Nam, a White House statement issued al the time said. Three OSU Students Bound Over To Jury CORVALLIS (UPI) - Three Oregon State University frater nity men have been bound over lo the Bcnlon County grand jury on charges of taking a valuable silver service and other items from a sorority. Two of the five arrested Nov. 10 have been freed of charges. The three were bound to the grand jury by District Judge Robert Gilliland following a picliminary hearing Monday afternoon. I hey are Douglas A. Wilson and Robert L. Caufield, both 18 and both of Portland, and George G. Collins, 18 1 Woodbury, N.J. WASHINGTON fUPI) - The Rural Electrification Adminis tration Monday approved a 134.000 loan to the Depoc Bay clcphone to. of Oregon. 58th Year Price 10 Cents No. 220 Ends Session Chief Republicans Have Misgivings About Need for Project WASHINGTON (UPO Op position to the condemnation private properly appeared today to be (he chief hurdle facing a Senate bill to create the Oregon Dunes National Seashore. A bill to establish the 30,000- acre national seashore was ap proved last week by the Senate interior committee and is ex pected to be taken up shortly by the Senate. Four Republican members of the committee said they had "serious misgivings" about Ihe need for the park and served notice they would ficht the eon. dcmnalion provision. Grucning Objects Sen. Ernest Gruenlng, D-Alas-ka, also objected to condemna tion of private land for the park but said he heartily approved establishment of the seashore. A majority committee report on the legislation said the right lo condemn properly was "es sential" to assure full develop ment of the proposed park. "The committee feels, as courts have held, that the ac quisition of some of our vanish ing shorelines and other recrea tional areas is a public purpose justifying use of condemnation where necessary," the report said. Contrary View A contrary view was ex pressed by Sens. Gordon Allott. R-Colo.: Edwin L. Mechcm, R N.M.: Milward L. Simpson, R- wyo., ana won B. Jordan, R Idaho. The four Republicans said Uicy would sock lo amend the bill on the floor to eliminate any provision for condemnation of private property. They noted that the Interior Department had not asked for unlimited right of condemnation. The bill, as introduced by sen. Maunne B. Ncuberger, D- ore., originally called for a 44, 000-acrc park. However, the Senate commitlee amended the bill to cut the park back to about 30.000 acres as proposed by Rep. Robert Duncan, D-Oro. Youth Forced to Shoot Pet Lion to Save Life EUGENE (UPI) A Corvallisl youth who pulled "Ihe fastest reload I ever tried after being mauled by a pet lion Sunday in Springfield was listed in good condition at Sacred Heart Hos pital today. Ronald Guilcy, IB, shol "Cleo" a pet lion belonging to Bob Stevens of Springfield after the 250 pound cat started dragging the youlh toward Its cage by the leg. The animal, which knocked Guilcy down as he and a hunting- companion, Pat Haxby, 15, snipped to pet it, hooked its fgs In Guiley's boot. Apparent Adjournment Follows Senate 20-10 Approval lawmakers Predict Issue Nor Settled SALEM (UPI) -The Oregon Legislature gave its blessing to nueing s lease on me luo.oou acre Boardman industrial park Monaay, out me many lawmak ers predicted they haven't heard the end of the issue. The Senate passed the main Boardman bill 20 to 10 late in the day to clear the way' for adjournment, after the Housa had given it a 33 to 26 approval. The bill ratifies Boeing's lease on the northeastern Oregon land and turns the project over to the State Veterans' Affairs Agency, which will use profits trom its loan tund to clear title part of the area. The first payments will be 22,000 to the federal govern ment for former Navy land and $386,000 to the state's common school fund for school lands in volved in the project. While the Senate was consid ering the main bill, the House killed a companion measure to freeze the value of the bare land for tax purposes. The vote was 30 yes and 29 no, one short t h e majority needed for passage. "Men and women of vision prevailed in t h i s hour of mo mentous decision. Those who would build Oregon and rise above pettiness have providcdJ their children with a great lej gacy," Gov. Mark Hatfield said after the main bill was passed. Boeing signed a 77-year leaso on the land July 1, but had un til Dec. 15 to decide whether to honor it. The company has not specified what it will do with the land, but there were indica tions tt would be used for a mis sile test facility. Senate President Ben Musa, D-The Dalles, relinquished his post to lead the floor tight tor the bill in-the senate. He was joined by 10" other Democrats and all. 9 -Republicans in voting for It. The remaining 10 Demo crats opposed tt. Matter of Faith "This is nol a matter of parti sanship," Musa said of Hie bill, which was requested by Repub lican Gov. Hatfield. "This is a matter of faith In the future." Opponents of the measure in both the House and the Senate contended that the lease is weighted heavily in favor- of Boeing and that some of the provisions are beyond the con stitutional powers of the state. It was negotiated by the Stato Land Board. Voting against the bill in Mia Senate were Chapman, Vern Cook, Alfred Corbett, Alice Cor belt, Fadeley, Flegel, Hallock, Monaghan, Naterlm and Win trier. Voting against the bill in the final House roll call were Reps. Back, Batcson, Bennett, Dooley, Eymann, Haight, Hand, H o I m- strom, Hulett, Kclsay, Kennedy, Lang, Leiken, Lent, McBain, McClure, Morgan, Orr, Redden, Ridderbusch, Jack Smith, Tur ner, Whelan, Willits and Wilmot, all Democrats, and Chappel, a Republican. AMA Board Urges Cigarette Research PORTLAND (UPI) -An in tensive, long - range research program to fill gaps in know ledge about the relationship of smoking to health was urged Monday by the board of trus tees of the American Medical Association. It is "imperative" to discover which human ailments may bo caused or aggravated by smok ing, the board's statement to the AMA's policy-making House of Delegates said. The proposal is subject to ap proval at the AMA's 17th annu al clinical meeting here. Dele gates are expected to act on tlio proposal Wednesday, the same day Dr. E. Cuyler Hammond of the American Cancer Society delivers an important paper on smoking and health. ly excited by the smell of blood, the lion refusc-1 to let go when Haxby fired a shot in the air then struck the beast. Guilcy then reached into his pocket, fitted a hell in his single barrel shotgun and killed the lion with one shot through the head. Hospital attendants, said Gui ley suffered bites and scratches about the legs. Stevens said he got the lion from the Portland zoo. Ho said the two - year old beast had never hurt anyone before. Both youths had stopped to pet the lion before. 9
