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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
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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-
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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
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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
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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.
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