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--.. - - rix;; :.: -;t . - - ..,. ... k fiiMi mm gain bo Rogue Valley Edition Medford 58th Year Price 10 Cents Tribune 22 Pages Two Sections MEDFORD, OREGON, MONDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1963 No. 225 Bolivian ToStart In i: mers Threaten Series of Strikes Rebellious Group Continues To Hold Yanks as Hostage Government Given Submission Limit LA PAZ, Bolivia (UPI) -Rebellious tin miners holding nine foreigners, including four Amer icans, as hostages for the re lease of three Communist labor leaders today gave the govern ment 24 hours to submit to their demands "or face the conse quences." The "consequences" appeared to be continued retention of the hostages and the start of a ser ies of nationwide general strikes in the key tin mining industry aimed at bringing down the gov ernment. The government attitude to ward the ultimatum was indi cated in a flat rejection of the miners' original demands. At the same time, the government sent 3,000 troops into Oruro, 44 miles northwest of Catavi where the hostages were being held. The government had no im mediate comment on an offer by U. S. President Lyndon B. Johnson of "full assistance" to Bolivia in the emergency. Presi dent Victor Paz Estenssoro con voked an emergency session of his cabinet and it was believed the offer would be considered at that time. The foreigners being held as hostages and in their third day of captivity indicated they were unharmed and receiving good treatment and food. They in cluded the four Americans, three Canadians, a West Ger man and a Dutchman. Although government troops had military control of Oruro, 100 miles from La Paz, mili tant leftist miners announced plans for an anti - government demonstration there raising the possibility of disorders. Many of fMi j.iuirxpt i ijJr ? CANCEK VIKUS CRYSTALLIZED Bio chemist William T. Murakami of Brandeis University, Waltham, Mass., has crystallized the first cancer virus and determined its chemical contents. Dr. Murakami's achieve ment was revealed by the American Cancer Society. (UPI) Frank Sinatra Jr. Kidnaped From Lake Tahoe Night Club STATELINE, Ncv. (UPI) -Frank Sinatra Jr., 19, was kid naped at gunpoint from this Lake Tahoe gambling center Sunday night and police in two states issued an all-points bulle tin for two voung prison cs- i I ,.f U- U.1.... U. a nnn minni.e uioaDM in .the 1 1 uie o,uw o-o " " (ion showdown with the government were believed to be armed. Government rejection of the miners' "swap" demand was made by the attorney general of the republic. He said to ac cept it would be to surrender authority. He warned the gov ernment would do all in its power to release the hostages and punish the culprits. A driving snowstorm at this 6,225-foot high resort in the Sier ra Nevada hampered efforts by FBI agents and California and Nevada sheriff's deputies to find the son of the famous entertain- Talent Residents Roadblocks were set up on three roads leading from the area. But 11 hours after the kid- naping, Sinatra and his abduc I tors were still missing. I The voung singer was forced 1 from his motel room shortly be- Dnl Irrnn fore ne was t0 Perform al a VOte On DOnQ ISSUe plush gambling casino (Har-, . ,. c ,u rah's) at 10 o'clock Sunday i TALE.IV1 voiers in we ouuiu :(.. they overpowered him, bound his wrists and taped his mouth with adhesive tape. f oss said the two men, and possibly a third who remained outside, forced Sinatra into the car and sped away. The musi cian said he managed to break his bonds and call for help. Talent Sanitary District are de ciding today whether to approve a $135,000 bond issue to finance the major portion of a sower system here. The polls will be open until R p.m. in Cabin 7 at the Res more Motel on U.S. 99 south of Talent. Money from sale of the bonds, combined with other revenue, would be used to construct a sewer system to serve resi dences and businesses along U.S. 99 and Old Pacific High way from the southerly Talent city limits south to the vicinity of the Lithia Drive-in Theater. The abductors were armed with a sawed off shotgun and a .45 caliber pistol. Named in the all points bul letin were Joseph J. Sorce, 23, and Thomas Keating, 21, both from Los Angeles County. They already face kidnaping charges rising from their escape Oct. 26 from the Deuel Vocational Insti tution, Tracy, Calif., State Pris on, when they forced a 16-year-old boy to drive them to free dom. Thev are suspected of Board Authorizes Land Purchase PORTLAND (UPD-The State Board of Higher Education to day authorized purchase of land for a five-story parking garage for s t u d e n t s at fast-growing Portland State College here, Cost of the garage will be $1.1 million. The board also called for bids for a $1.2 million addition to the school's college center. Money for the garage and the addition will not come from tax funds, but from $9.6 million in bonds the board sold last August, ine Donas win De re in l-u iiuiii muuuiii ices. A parking fee of 25 cents is planned at the garage, which will be a concrete structure ac- in case the abductors made a ! commodaling 553 cars, ransom demand. ! , Tne new addition to the col- The suspects were believed to i lege center win De added to the 'Out of Control' Message Noted On Tape Recorder 81 Persons Die As Airliner Falls ELKTON, Md. (UPI)-The pi lot of the Pan American World Airways jet that crashed here Sunday night killing all 81 aboard radioed as he was go ing down that the plane was out of control, a tape record, ing of his last messages dis closed today. Seconds before the stricken airliner plunged to earth in flames, the pilot told the Fed eral Aviation Agency's ap proach control tower in Phila delphia: "Clipper 214 (his flight num ber) ... out of control. Down we go." His voice on the tape was as calm as if he were asking for landing clearance. "Clipper 214, did you call Philadelphia?" approach con trol asked. "Clipper 214 ... going down in flames." Again his voice was com pletely calm. The tape showed no warn ing of any disaster. There was no indication in the tape that the plane had been struck by lightning as many eyewitnesses claimed. The "out of control" message hinted that turbulence may have tossed the 120-ton jet about so violently that struc tural failure of a wing occurred as it entered a storm. This may have caused a sudden flash fire and explosion that racked the craft. Bobbie Allen, deputy director of the Civil Aeronautics Board's Bureau of Safety, told a news conference all possibili ties were being checked out lightning, turbulence and even a bomb. "There probably was an ex plosion, but what type I don't know," Allen said. "We have FBI representatives at the scene but they merely are there as observers and there is no indication their role will change." Truman Finch, veteran CAB accident investigator in charge of the probe, added: "Anything is possible. We haven't scratched the surface yet." About two dozen policemen and a like number of sailors moved out with the first light of dawn today to pick up the remains of the 73 passengers and 8 crewmen from tne trost-cov-ered cornfield where the Boeing 707 crashed at 8:28 p.m. EST. It was at this precise moment Sunday night that the plane's pilot radioed the Philadelphia control tower: "We're going down in flames." Numerous eyewitnesses in sisted they saw lightning strike the plane or flash near it, fol lowed by at least one and pos sibly two m-the-air explosions. But. investigators said, U mm BRASH rE&'J&Zi$ ! " -W-Tf vi " - " ' '' -'I j4 I V ' ' V' ';VV ; - 'l' J WRECKAGE DEBRIS This six-window section of fuselage' was the largest piece of wreckage left after the crash of a Pan-American 707 crash in Elkton, Md. (UPI) Foreign Aid Bill Receives -House Approval WASHINGTON (UPI) - The House gave final approval to day to a compromise foreign aid authorization bill totaling near ly $3.6 billion and containing authority for the President to grant trade concessions to Po land and Yugoslavia. By a 195-164 roll call vote, the House endorsed and sent to the Senate legislation agreed upon a riday Dy House ana sen ate conferees. The bill would authorize another year of mili tary and economic assistance overseas. ApHipriation To Come The $3.6 billion figure reached by the conferees was roughly halfwav between the $3.5 billion voted by the House and the $3.7 billion recommended by the Senate. The late President John F. Kennedy had asked for about $4.5 billion. Still to come is the actual ap propriation of money. Debate today revolved mostly around the question of retaining the "most favored nation" trade. status for the Iwo Com munist countries of Poland and Yugoslavia. The original House bill had no such authority. The Senate add ed the provision and that would have given the President the right to extend the benefit to any Iron Curtain country when he deemed it in the interests of the United States. The conferees compromised it! by including it in the bill but Khrushchev Reveals Crash Chemical Industry Progra MOSCOW (UPI)-Premier Ni- kita S. Khrushchev today an nounced an "unprecedented" plan aimed at more than trip ling development of the Soviet chemical industry in the next seven years in a crash program to boost Russia's farm and in dustrial production. The program, under which 200 new chemical plants are to be built and over 500 existing onos reconstructed al an ex pense of about $46 billion, was outlined by Khrushchev to a plenary meeting of the Commu nist party Central Committee. Khrushchev also told the as sembled Communist party leadership that two of his pred ecessors, Josef Stalin and. V. M. Molotov, sold grain abroad while people were starving In the Soviet Union. Khrushchev said that as re cently as 1947, Stalin kept sell- Johnson, Advisors Hold Discussion on Military Planning WASHINGTON (UPI) Pres- ant McGeorge Bundy, science KUANK SINATRA JR. Roadblocks Srt Up Reno early today from Palm Springs, Calif., after being noti fied of the abduction. He was reported incommunicado at a I '"e. " a.r' Bnn hn.nl i August. The bonds The youth's mother, Nancy Sinatra, Sinatra's first wife, was keeping her home telephone line open at her Hollywood home were lightning thai destroyed the plane, it was a l-in-10 mil lion shot. The giant plane began its flight in San Juan, P.R. with 144 persons aboard, according to the airline. It discharged 71 persons in Baltimore and left for Philadelphia with 73 passen gers and the crew of 8 aboard. It was early today Dciore ran American was able to set the death toll precisely at 81, final ly confirming that tne 4-day-old infant daughter of Mrs. Carmen Davila of Philadelphia, one of the victims, perished with the mother. limiting it to Poland and Yugo slavia, two Red nations consid ered to be more independent of Russian control than most. robbing two Southern California De traveling in a 1962 or 1963 southeast corner of the present banks alter meir escape ana White Chevrolet Impala with were described as "extremely dangerous." Sinatra's father arrived at NEWSBRIEFS rriMi roM AROUND THI OlOH a California license plate. They said the license number began with "EGW," but the fol lowing digits were unknown. California license plates carry three letters followed by three digits. Sorce was described at 5-fect, 10-inches tall, 150 pounds with brown eyes and brown hair. Keating was said to be 5-8, 185 pounds, with brown hair and blue eyes. Their hometowns not immediately avail- PflPF. RECEIVES CUSTODIAN OF HOLY LAND VATICAN CITY (UPI) Pope Paul IV today received the were Franciscan "Custodian of the Holy Land to prepare for tin nis- able. inrlr nilcrimace to Palestine next month. I The. search was being conccn- center and will rise six stories, A projected $2.5 million sci ence building for Portland State is among top priority items in building plans. Voters will be asked in May to authorize sale of $30 million in bonds. The board said that at its January meeting it would dis cuss proposals to raise tuition, beginning next fall, for the trated in the heavily - wooded t'on and snow-covered ipooners Summit area between Lake Ta hoe and Carson City, Nev. Gene Evans, a spokesman lor Load Limits on Road Are Changed Load limits on two sections of the Lake of the Woods High way have been removed by the State Highway Department ano will go into effect Tuesday, Dec. 10, at 8 a.m. on only a part of the highway, it was announced today. Restrictions will be in effect on approximately 6'j miles of the highway from a point about .7 of a mile east of the junction with the Fish Lake Resort road some 33,000 students who attend ' east to the junction with Dead schools of the State System of! Indian Road. Higher Education. Load limit will be 11,000 Voters rejection of the income ; pounds gross for single axle and tax measure uct. 15 helped bring on the tuition-hike situa- Two Injured in Sunday Accident Two persons received minor injuries Sunday in a two-car head-on collision on Old Stage Road at Blackwell Hill Road, sheriff's deputies said today. Yolanda McKlbben, 21, Route 1, Box 89, Gold Hill, was treat ed for minor injuries at Rogue Valley Hospital. Randy William Gossam, 4, Route 1, Box 176, Eagle Point, was reported in satisfactory condition at Rogue Valley Hospital this morning and being treated fur a cut on his forehead. Both of the in jured persons were passengers in a car driven by Charles James McKibben, Route 1, Box 89, Gold Hill. The Gossam boy is his nephew. Deputies, who assisted the Gold Hill Police, said the car collided with one operated by William Oliver Alexander, 37, of 4439 Hamrick Road, Central Point. ident Johnson and his top mill tary and diplomatic advisers conferred today on next year's defense budget and long-range military planning but "no final decisions were taken." In another development, it was announced that Johnson, whose home state of Texas is the biggest oil producer In the nation, has divested the White House of "basic policy decisions on oil matters" and assigned full responsibility to I he Interior Department, This was announced by In terior Secretary Stewart L. Udall who met with the Presi dent this morning. In the military field, Johnson received a number of reports from Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara and Gen. Max well, D. Taylor, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, which will be studied over the next several days. The President was closeted for an hour and a half with the two key advisers along with Secretary of Stale Dean Rusk, Budget Director Kermit Gor don, National Security Assist- adviscr Jerome Wiesner and Defense Undersecretary Ros well Gilpatric. Johnson's desire for consolida tion of military installations where this can be done as a money saving move was among matters discussed, Press Secre tary Pierre Salinger said. Johnson's busy round of ac tivity came on the heels of a flying trip to New York Sunday where he called on former President Herbert Hoover. STRONGMAN OF THAILAND DIES BANGKOK, Thailand (UPI I Thailand today look security measures In Its Communist-threatened border provinces follow-i- iu. A.th nf strnnffman Premier Saril Thanaral, a staunch -t the .! hn had (oiiehl Communist subversion for Harrah's Club, said young Sinat ,"" 'ra and John Foss, a trumpet ' ' ' player with the Tommy Dorscy SCHOOL PROGRAM COMPROMISE NEAR i band, were in their motel room W ASHINGTON (L'PI) House-Senate conferees neared final t when someone knocked at the compromise agretmenl today on bill to boost federal help to door. vocational schools and expand the government's student loan Foss said Sinatra asked who was there, and a voice replied: l,r8rara' "Room service." CIVIL RIGHTS PETITION SIGNED The trumpeter said Sinatra WASHINGTON (L'PI) A discharge petition to spring the opened the door and two men civil rights bill from the Soulhern-led House Rules Committee was carrying weapons pushed their formally Introducfd today and drew 109 signers within an hour, way into the room. Foss said WEATHER KHIKCAST: CoMrr tonight. Vit Tuesday fxcepl (or morn ing tog naUhe. Low tonight ia-i3. High Tiifiday 40-4.1. Temp. Illghfl Vnlrrdav 4!l LowMt Tnl Morning . . 33 I'rec. loin a.m. Today 04 Our Skies Tonight Sunift tod iv Knnriite tomorrow . Mnonrlse tomorrow Nw Moon Tonight Vfnui telt Saturn, iM Jupiter, ifli .4 :3f p.m. ..7:23 a.m. I ll a.m. . lire. IS . S:55 p.m. . S:i p m. t-.ii 1 And the bright ur neareit the Moon la Splra. 20,000 pounds gross on tandum axle trucks, it was reported. The change was made follow ing a conference by officials of the U.S. Forest Service, Bureau of Public Roads, state highway, and firms logging in the area. MHS Men's Debate Team Tops Tourney Multnomah Official Gets Telephone Tireaf PORTLAND (UPI) -A Tele phone threat against Mel Gor don, Multnomah County com missioner, was reported today. Gordon said his administra tive assistant received a call from a woman which contained the threat. The sheriff's office was investigating. California Crash Hurts EP Residents YREKA four persons, all from Eagle Point, were injured in a two-car collision on U.S. 9!) Saturday night about three miles north of here. Involved were autos driven by Lew Everett Whipple, 19, of Route I, Box .1H5. Eagle Point, and Richard Rudolph Holzhaus er, 40, of Star Route, Box 48, Eagle Point. Both drivers were injured. Holzhuusnr suffered possible major injuries. Two passengers in the llolzhauscr car, Agnes Holzhauser, 38, and Ronald llolzhauser, 10, received minor injuries. All were treated at Siskiyou General Hospital. The Calilornia Highway Pa trol said Whipple's car, north bound, drilled over the center line, sideswiping the southbound llolzhauser car. Whipple had several pas sengers, but none was hurl. Water District Map Being Made A map of a proposed water district in Mcdford's west side area is almost completed, desig nating property owners who wish in the district and those who do not, the county couft said today. A hearing will be called as I soon as the map is completed and the county court has com piled all the required back ground on the water problem, it was indicated today. A hearing held Aug. 7 on the proposed district formation was continued until the county court could determine more accurate ly the number of property own ers to be included. This summer 128 persons of the area had petitioned for the district. Of these, 103 were reg istered voters. For the petitions to be effective the law requires 50 per cent of the area's regis tered voters or 100 person sign the petitions. ( Areas with the most property owners seeking inclusion were along Ray and Freeland Roads. The problem arose when the Jackson County Public Health Department reported a number of wells in the west side area polluted from nearby septic tank drain fields. ing wheat abroad even though there were critical shortages in areas of the Soviet Union. The Soviet premier, in a speech of nearly five hours, told the Western powers that the So viet Union is not weak econom ically and warned them not to "put your knee on our breast" by imposing conditions on wheat sales to Russia. Khrushchev's long speech, de livered before 5,000 delegates in the Kremlin Palace, of Con' greBses was devoted mainly to the need for "chemicalization'1 of agriculture, by stepping up production of chemical fertiliz ers that would help make up for disastrous harvests such as this year's sub-par yield, The poor output forced tho Soviet Union to negotiate pur chase of almost a billion dollars worth of wheat abroad. Western newsmen were not admitted to the meeting, which was called to discuss tho dis astrous Soviet harvest and the crash program Khrushchev has demanded to build up the chemical fertilizer industry to remedy farm failures. Weather Blamed Khrushchev again blamed the. weather for tho fact that "the government was compelled to purchase a quantity of grain from abroad." He said Soviet people were asking how it was possible in the Stalin and Molotov eras to sell grain abroad at times when harvests were about the samo as this year's. "If to ensure grain for the population one had used tho methods of Stalin and Molotov, then this year, too, it would have been possible to sell grain abroad, and in several areas people become distended from hunger with lack of bread and even have died," Tass quoted Khrushchev as having said. The men's debate team of the Medford Hich School placed first at the Pacific University I Court Removes Rail High henool hpeeen tournament , . Dec. 6 and 7. Members of the i Merger Obstacle team were Phil Frohnmayer WASHINGTON (UPI) - The and Fred Haupcrt. Supreme Court removed today Other Medford High School i the last obstacle to the merger winners in the tournament were of the Chesapeake & Ohio Rail Susan Tungate, second, women's 'way with the Baltimore & Ohio. extemporaneous speaking, and 1 In a brief order the high Betty Hicks and Susan Tungate, i court affirmed a ruling in favor of the railroads handed down on Aug. 13, 1003, by a special three - judge federal court in Detroit. The lower court upheld a 12 decision of the Interstate Commerce Com mission (ICC) approving the merger. Eastern Oregon Gets Heavy Snowfall By United Pres International Heavy snow in parts of East ern Oregon and heavy rain on the coast dominated the state's weather picture today. But the weather man said less than normal precipitation was expected through Friday with below - freezing nighttime tem peratures in many areas. Coastal areas got heavy rain with Brookings reporting 1.20 inches and North Bend 1.14. As toria, however, had only .22 of an inch. Salem got .58 and Port land .38. Motorists were advised to car ry chains on mountain routes. West Coast Lumbermen Schedule Advertising third, women's debate. Medford High School tied with South Salem High School for second place in the men's division sweepstakes. Other finalists were John Eads and Fred llaupert in men's oratory. PORTLAND (UPD-The West Coast Lumbermen's Association said today It plans to spend $445,000 for advertising and pro motion of Northwest lum ber next year. G. E. Edgctt, WCLA executive vice president, said this would be a continuation of the 15-year program of industry national lumbor promotion. Edgctt said (320,000 of the as sociation's $064,000 budget would be allocated to direct ad vertising In national magazines. An additional $135,000 will be spent for some two million pieces of literature. A breakdown of the advertis ing budget showed $108,75.1 would be for national architec tural magazines end $111,185 for builders' trade publications. Retail lumber magazines will receive $24,495 and regional re tail magazines $18,763. Edgett said. Farm magazines will get $24,147 and building code anil trade magazines $13,143, he added. WCLA is a trade organization made up of lumber manufactur ers in Western Oregon and Washington and Northern California. t
