Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, December 04, 1963, Image 2

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Newspaper Page TextRacial Trouble Is rr;; o.!JV.n.n.L!.jl MEDFORD dam lUDbDemnu Death of Airman Page 2-A aMRIBUNE EVREUX, France (UPI) -A defense attorney at the court martial of two Negro American soldiers accused of murder in the death of a white airman claimed today racial trouble was behind the incident. American officials have main tained that the slaying last Sep tember occurred during a drunken barracks brawl with no racial overtones. But the defense attorney, Capt. Norman H. Kirshman of Milford, N.J., said tho victim of the incident and a number of other airmen called the de fendants "dirty niggers" and hurled other insults. "I am not asking for acquittal because my boys are colored," Kirshman said. "But racism is there. It is there today, it will bo there tomorrow and it was there Sept. 6." Sept. 6 is the day Airman L.C. Robert Padgett, 23, of Woodlawn, Va. died of a frac tured skull following a brawl at the U.S. air base near Evrcux. Kirshman claimed an autopsy showed Padgett had been drink ing before his death. Charged with unpromcditatcd murder in the Incident were PFG. Raymond C. Bost Jr. of Pittsburgh and PFC. Robert C. Burrcll of Philadelphia. The prosecutor, Capt. James Ritchie of Tulsa, Okla., told the court martial board of 11 white officers that Bost, Burrcll and four others committed an "un provoked attack" on the air men with sticks and steel bars used in cots. Bost, Burrcll and the four others, including one white serviceman, face a possible maximum sentence of life In prison if they are convicted. The four others will be tried separately. They were PFC. Edward Spears of New York City; Pvt. Richard C. Parker of Eckman, W.Va.; PFC. Franklin D. Wad dell of Philadelphia; and PFC. Allen Gernard of New York City. Gernard Is white. Portland Produce PORTLAND (UPIl Dnlr.v mnr kcl: EKgs To retailers: AA extra larnc 4ll-52c; AA larue 47-IXIc: A large 4!M7c: AA medium 40-4.17; A small 23-31c; carton 1-cenl higher. Duiter To retailer: AA and A nrlnli 117c; carlona 3c higher; B prlnli Nile. Cheese (medium cured) To re tailor! 4D-4IIC: nrnceued American 3-10 Ih. loot. 43-48C. nnni-i a m n mm. n , ch.ckena No. 1 grade dressed to retailors: Fryers, whole drawn. 2 37c lb.: cut-up. 33-40C ltj.; hens, light type, whole drawn. 21-2.1c lb.: light type hens, cut-up 23.30c Foreign Briefs WANTS CONFERENCE MANILA (UPI) Carlos P. Romtilo, In bed with a modcrnlc case of hepatitis-, said today he wants to confer with President Diostlado Macapagal before deciding whether to accept the post of foreign secretary. ACCIDENT-PRONE MOTORIST LONDON (UPI) - It Is possible to describe the typical "accident-prone" motorist, hut it is harder to say why he's acci dent prone, the Rond Research Laboratory said today. A laboratory report said the accitlcnl-pronn driver usually Is aggressive, played hookey when he was in school, and got into trouble In the army. Rut, It said, experts differ on whether Intelligence, hltniil pressure, personality defects or reaction limes have nnvlliine to do with II. MEDFORD, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1963 4!iA Krt lex rj & l ' ' TV4 MltlsWMlll RECEIVES CITATION M. Lowell Edwards, a retired engineer, center, is shown receiving American Medical Association's Layman's Citation for Distinguished Service in Port land. At the ceremony is Dr. Albert Starr, Portland surgeon, left, with whom Edwards worked in developing artificial heart valve. Making the presentation is Dr. Percy Hop kins, right. I UPI) Thompson Murder Trial May Go To Jury Thursday MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. (UPI) The Thompson murder trial, in recess today, was expected to go to the jury Thursday. Cancer Expert Says Death Rate Among Smokers Is High OPENING ITS BORDERS VIENNA (UPI) Ctechoslovakia Is opening Us borders to all western travelers, a Cicch embassy spokesman announced today. The spokesman told United Press International that western tourists and private visitors will he able In gel 30-tlny visas nl their local Ciech consulates within IH hours. Travelers will he able to cross In Czechoslovakia at all bonier points without nny difficulty, he said. PORTLAND. Ore. (UPI ,12 of the non-smokers died of The death rale among a large that disease. Coronary artery ETI noTd'f0 nm0l5erS,hU1.'ltliseas6 "Hied r,54 smokers and ing a period of ncorly three ; , ,, nnn.,mi,kpr, years was more than twice as , 0 I . non smoKcrs- Judge Rolf Fosseen recessed high as among a similar group taen man ln one "rouP was the weeks-long trial Tuesday) of non-smokers, an American m.a'chl as closely as possible and said he hoped that closing , Cancer Society expert said to-: Wlln a man ln tne othcr Sroup arguments and instructions to dav. j as t0 fl8e- racc' slze residence the jury could be completed in Dr. E. Cuyler Hammond, ! urban or rural)' edu one day. pipe-smoking director of the so- i P1'1?"' n""a status, drinking The nrosecu on honed o con-; celv's statistical rrapnrch. tc tension ana vince the jury that dapper ; ported new evidence in the re young criminal attorney T. Eu-1 latlonship of cigarette smoking gene Thompson, 35, master-1 to death and disease in a paper minded the "murder-for-hirc" , delivered at the American Mcd of his pretty heiress wife, Ca- j ical Association's 17th clinical rol, 34. She was bludgeoned meeting. and stabbed to death March 6; Matching 36.975 men over 40 suggestions that in her home. Thompson wanted who smoked a pack of cigar- tween cigarette many other factors. Hammond said he was trying through this "matched pair ana lysis" to eliminate all possible non - smoking differences be tween subjects in view of the link be- smoking and Of his findings, he com mented that "it is hard to es cape the conclusion that this difference in numher of deaths was due to the difference in smoking habits." 2030 V" phone I W. Main f A 772-6828 to collect more than $1 million : ettes or more per day with the j death rates might be merely in in insurance on ner me ana , same number ot non-smokers, : ciaeniai. take up with his paramour, the 1 Hammond said 1,365 of the state said. : smokers died during the 34.3- The defense sought to con- i month period. Only 662 of the vince jurors the slayinR was a non-smokers died, brutnl by-product of a hurglaty j Of the cigarette smokers, lit) at the Thompson's fnshionablc died of lung cancer while only SI Paul hnmp I j Among witnesses who took . Hie stand Tuesday was Thomp son's 14-ycnr-old son, Jcffcry, who contradicted earlier testi mony of Dick W. C. Anderson, the admitted killer. I ! Anderson, the state's slar wit ness, testified he slipped into 7. ine petroleum section leaul i " Pont the darkened basement of the - a247 91 Final wblMHp 4 lEi"rK"k Thompson home about 6 o'clock ! NEW YORK (UPI) News of Ford the morning of the slaying and increased chances for a tax , cicnerai eST"' waited alone until Thompson i cut next year pulled the stock , oenerai toons went to work and the four market today out of an easier K',r'i'",,i omeni i Thompson youngsters left fori trend. cicum,, pnciiic school. I Youngsiown Sheet & Tube SiSn"101" """" But young .lottery told the rose smartly followed by U. S. r.uir on jurors iie went downstairs and , Steel. Chrysler featured a firm I "i''i','r,s'p',mer turned off a recreation room 1 motors section with a substan- j R m tial rise. Du Pont bounced back I1,',',;,, "V ' ..,, from its early large loss and Kenneioti copper Chances of Tax Cut Pull Stocks Upward licht before leaving (or school Thompson wept openly Tues rlnv when his sister testified that his marriage was like "an ing level extended honeymoon." 242-' US', 37 3.1 J, 41)', 47', 43 't 34i 4R3 mm BONELESS OVEN ROAST Rumps Tips From Aged Steer Beef 79 c lb LEAN GROUND CHUCK 2 $410 ibt. I : i LEAN CENTER CUTS FORK CHOPS Young n Pork W lb. ALL CUTS CHUCK ROASTS Tendor Pol Roasts 49 FRESH GROUND BEEF All Beef 3,T Over-the-Counler Western Stocks Hunk Aini'rti-B Hi'lsf ("atrnttc I'iil Pur I'll. Con Kri'ltilil Cvprua ltll Kiiullnlilc MM, 1 Nt Nut ion I Hunk .1r.nlrn MoiTlunn Knuri Mull Ki'niu'ln N W Nrtlurnl C.nn Drrmn Mclnl PP.V I. PCK PS NmiIohnI Rnnk Tfktroinx Vc!t Coitt Tfl WcyiThnpuurr Portland Livestock Mid Aohrtl 2(1' J7 ' DOW JONKS AVKHAdKS XKW YOKK (VV) Onw Jones Hii.il stork avpracs: no industrials 7:.Sl. up ;t.(i!l; 20 r.illrnatls I72.lt, off 0.07; l. utilities m.n, off 0.21, find IT. stocks '2(i:t.7n. up O.ia Snlrs Urdnesdiiy wore nlinut 4.79 million shares compnrod ultli S1 million shares Tucsilav. PORTI.ANI (t'PH PSllA (h-i'HHlniiHl stfinnarci storm -t'ftt- 17; canncr-futlci- cow ln-l'J.10; vtninfi, ineduim ntut (tuod utiu-k fv 740 Hi. 1.1 Ml L'Blvr 2?i ooil-ohoii vrnlrrs Ami RlnttRhtrr enlvr afi-;iu Hour ilt)0 Hnrrnwn nnrt Bill HtfNdv In Mi mm. mm unci!! '!."'( hiclipr: 1 Atirt 2 r.n1r 1.1 .Mi-i.l 7.1. Jl nnd 5 urnrif M-I4.M1 Shrrp 2(in Oinu r-ni nr uoolrcl nlnuchtrr lrnlM IB 2.1 moved close to Tuesday's clos- y,n,'r,meod Alrorfl ! Mrrrk I Mcmlann Powrr MnntRomrrv Wnrrt Nnticmnl Rlsrutt New Ynrk Crntrnl Northern Nuturnl Gns 1 Northern Pm-tftr Pju- Ghi Zrv I Prnnry ,1. 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I Allied Chemical ' Alum Co Am AineriCHU Air Line , American Can 1 Aim'ricriit Mot or (t ATtVT American Tobacco , Anaconda Copper i Aimco j American Stamlnrd I Avco Corp Hrndix Cnip Bethlehem Steel - Hnelnit Air Hmimvlck Caterpillar Cnip Chrvsler Corp C B S Columhta (as Cnntinentnl Can Crown Zcllertiach Crucible Steel Curtis WriKht Dow Chemical prices o selected MO' i 27 441, 101 -in A PAIR OF QUAIL... $400 In gleaming Porcelain the pair Unique gifti that show thought and consideration come from the house CDLLECTIDT4 At Trowbridgt Elactric, Main and fit Straat Agent Who Shielded Johnson In Dallas Will Receive Honor WASHINGTON (UPI)-Presi-dent Johnson honors today the Secret Service agent who shield ed him with his own body dur ing the assassination of Presi dent Kennedy. The Chief Executive partici pates in special ceremonies at the White House for agent P.uf us W. Youngblood, who was to receive an award for exception al bravery. The ceremonies were sched uled for 10:30 a.m. EST. Treasury Secretary Douglas Dillon presented a similar cita tion Tuesday to Clinton J. Hill, Mrs. Kennedy's No. 1 Secret Service agent, for his actions in Dallas Nov, 22. Last week Johnson wrote to Youngblood's boss, James J. Rowley, head of the Secret Ser vice, commending the agent for his quick action. Covered Johnson's Body When the shots were fired at Kennedy, Youngblood leaped in to the limousine with Johnson and his wife, pushed the then vice president to the floor and sprawled on top of him, shield ing Johnson with his body. Johnson scheduled a meeting with another civil rights leader today, his fourth in less than a week. He was to confer with James Farmer, head of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), shortly after the cere mony honoring Youngblood. Johnson met Tuesday with the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, head of the Southern Christian Leadership Confer ence. Previously he conferred with Roy Wilkins, executive sec- retary of the National Associa tion for the Advancement of Colored People, and Whitney Young Jr., executive director of the National Urban League. King said he told Johnson ra cial demonstrations would be i resumed as early as Dec. 15 in several cities. He said that the i President made no request that they be delayed or discontinued. Makes Point Clear j "I made it clear to the Prcsi j dent that. . .we will have dem i onstrations until the injustices that have caused them are elim 1 inated," King said. He added that he was "very happy to ; know that a fellow Southerner i is in the White House who is concerned about civil rights." Johnson also was to meet to I day with the influential Busi- j LUNCH ROOM BURNS PORTLAND (UPI) - A fire caused some $10,000 damage to a lunch room and storage build ing at Willamette Iron & Steel Co. here Tuesday night. 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