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mum mkteo in kmm Regional Edition MEDFORD 24 PAGES Two Sections Congressiona Plan for Friday Adj Lawmakers Called Back To Settle Foreign Aid Bill ' WASHINGTON (UPI)-Con-gressional leaders today aban doned plans lo adjourn Con gress tonight, called on scores of members who already have left town to return, and said they plan to keep the lawmak ers here until a contested for eign aid bill has been finally passed. They acted under the prod ding of President Johnson who told Democratic leaders of House and Senate at a While House strategy session it was imperative not only that they finish work on the aid measure but that they send it to the Wl'ite House minus a House approved curb on use of gov ernment credit in the proposed sale of surplus U.S. wheat lo Russia. Tough Task This posed a tough task for House leaders, who apparently were expected to turn around enough home - bound House members to reverse a 218 to IliO roll call vote by which the House only last Monday had ap proved the trade curb. . After only 288 of the 435 members answered an opening quorum call at the start of what was supposed to have been the year's last House session Demo cratic Leader Carl Albert took the floor to announce the new plans. He appealed to those present In cancel their plans to go home, and called on those who already had left town to return. Council Accepts Committee Report A recommended change in procedure for hearings regard ing zoning variance requests and applications for home oc-j cupations was submitted to the Medford City Council last night In an executive committee re-1 port presented by Councilman , Richard Travis. The report was accepted by the council for preparation of an ordinance. It would delegate i more power to the Medford , ment." desk Sgt. Harry Hopkins ty jail in absence of $2,500 bond. Planning Commission giving it, said. "We don't want anything j Charles E Kunkel special Se ttle authority to grant variances ; to happen to him." jcrct service agent testified at and home occupation requests.! McLarrv. 21, admitted the the arraignment 'before U.S. The recommendation was ap- th.cat bul said as a joke. ; Commissioner Bill Atkins Thurs proved by a vote of 7 to I, with; McLarry. who was quoted by dav. The charge said McLarry Councilman William Singlcr vol- a Secret Service man as saying : "Made certain threats to lake wg against it. np wns Katj Kennedy was dead.! the life and inflict bodily harm In other action, the council ; said at his arraignment that he to John Kenncdv, then tlie Pies approved an executive commit-, wished the President had been idenl of the United States." tee report concerning the possi-; impeached bul was not glad lo -He said he would be work- mmy oi caiamisninB siucwaiK improvement districts in school areas. A total of $1,975 was approved lo cover appraisers' fees for the ! civic center area and an amend ment to the courtesy car ordi nance. The ordinance requires lettering on all such cars parked at the municipal airport and restricts Ihe length of parking time and provides (or fine. I NEVS(V)BRIEFS DIMS FROM Jt J AROUND THI CLOU JOHNSON PLEDGES CONTINUED SOUTH VIET NAM All) SAIGON. South Vict Nam ( UPD President Johnson sent a personal message to South Vict Nam's new leaders today, rras Miring tlirm that U. S. military aid will continur as long as neces sary lo crush the Communist menace. BOEING GETS SPACE CRAFT CONTRACT WASHINGTON (I PI I Hoeing Co. Sraltle. has brrn srlrrlrd for a multi-million dollar rontmcl In build soai r ci hM In pho tograph the moon in preparation for man's landings, il was an nounced today. TIROS LAUNCH AGAIN POSTPONED CAPE KENNEDY (LTD Troubles in a salcty mechanism forced another postponement today in U. S. plans In launrh a Tiros weather photography satellite inlo orbit around earth. QUEEN SOPHIA GIVES BIRTH TO GIRL MADRID (UPD Princess Sophia nl (irreic. wilr nf Prince Juan Carton of Spain, son of Ihe prclrndrr lo Ihe Spanish Ihionc, five birth to a nine-pound girl MEDFORD, OREGON, FRIDAY, DECEMBER I y, i hi; , , ACtUSKI) ()!' THHK.vr Russel Wence McLarry, 21, is shown in Fort Worth. Texas, where he is charged with threatening lo kill President Kennedy the night before the assassination. McLarry, who said his remark was a joke, was quoted as saying he was glad the President was dead. tUI'l) Youth Arrested for Threatening To Kill President FORT WORTH (LTD Maxi-i mum security measures today , cloaked Russell Wence McLar- ry at county jail where he was neici on cnarges oi inreatening i to kill President Kennedy the night before the assassination. ' ..He's in sojtary confine-1 see mm dean oy violence. , "If I can be tried (or a joke ; ' and found guilty." he said. : "then that is the extent of it." Federal altornevs said no link hA knnn cl uMichnrl hnluioon IMM.m-rv an.-t aerii.nrl assassin Lee Harvey Oswald. McLarry's father described his son as "a patriotic boy who shoots off his mouth too much ... I know my hoy didn't today. Kennedy intend to kill President Kennedy Held in Absence of lionet I . t. ... , ' oocior, was in ana unauie iu ai Ihe part-time student, who ! tunc! thn nnonino cninn Kptlinp worked as a machinist across the street in Dallas from where Kennedy was to speak Nov. was held todav in Tarrant Coun mg near the Trade Mart in Dallas when the President spoke and he would he waiting with a gun to get him," the charge said. Thn tnil nf Mr anH Mi-c IZhv McLarrv. retired riairv farmers at Sulphur Springs, Tex., saidi he had three guns bul they were ' ill at his parents' home McLarry admitted he made i the threat, but said it was in a joking manner. He "blamed the; President for the condition the country is now in." Kunkel said. Chief Asst. U S. Dist. Atty. ; Bill Hughes said McLarry's case I will come before a federal grand jury at Amarillo, Tex., in j . January. He said McLarry faced j !a SI. ooo fine, five years impris-l onment or both Salvation Army Notes Hoors of Toy Shop The distribution center for food basket (or needy families will be at 210 E. Fourth St.. ac cording lo Ihe Salvation Army. Baskets may be picked up there Monday. Dec. 23. and de liveries will be made Tuesday. Dec. 24. William Sherwood is supervising the distribution as sisted by members from the Elks Club and other volunteers. The Salvation Army Christ mas Toy Shop will be open at 27 N. Grape St.. Saturday, Dec. 21, iind Dec. 23 and 24 fium 9 :fti to o g m. O O Tribune 20, 1963 eaaers oyrorneni 22 Accused Of Wartime Grimes Tried FRANKFURT, Germany (LTD West Germany put 22 men on trial today for running the greatest mass murder fac tory in history and the defend ants began making excuses. "When I was sent to Ausch witz in 1942 I did not know it was an extermination camp," said Torbert Mulka, the 68-ycar- old assistant commandant of the i Nazi death mill where an esti mated 2.5 to 4 million persons perished. ''I only joined the (Nazi elite) SS because I had no job and I was detailed to an extermina tion camp only because a knee injury kept me from service at the front," said Karl Hocckcr, a 51-ycar-old former assistant Auschwitz commandant accused with Mulka of making sure, the mass gas chambers worked smoothly. Not Prnurl of Number Wilhelm Boger, the 56-year- old former first sergeant of the Gestapo guard and the alleged inventor of special torture de vices, told the hushed cuurt, "I I still remember my SS number." "It was 277!). I'm not very proud of it, but it was some thing special," he said, nerv ously rubbing his shabby blue suit. Their words came as the de fendants, one by one, rose to tell of their prc-Auschwitz lives. In coming weeks the greatest war crimes trial in post-occupation German history is expected to last six or eight months the court will hear evidence pin ning down the almost endless list of charges. One defendant, Dr. F r a n x V . b' "' , . ' ,h; ,.. fnP hn mnmnnl the judges ordered Lucas to show up Dec. 30. when he would rejoin his comrades for the sec ond scheduled trial session. Court officials said Lucas would not be tried separately from the other defendants. Students Picket Lynda Bird's Dorm AUSTIN, Tex. (LTD A group of mostly Negro students made good their promise Thursday night lo picket the dormitory where President Johnson's daughter lives on the University UI 1 Ld; Ldiiijua. The demonstration, carried j oul under rain and the watchful I eyes of the Secret Service, was! (o protest segregated housing at ! the school The President's daughter, Lynda Bird Johnson, was in the Kinsolving Dormitory when 22 pickets marched back and forth on a sidewalk across Ihe street from the building. There were no incidents. SHOPPING DAYS LEFT CHRISTMAS SEALS ftht TB and other RESPIRATORY DISEASES if ft - 99 58th Year Price 10 Cents No. 235 uro Only Oswald Kaduk accused of enjoying breaking inmates' necks with a pick showed something of an old habit. He stood ramrod straight and clicked his heels when t h e black-robed chief judge called his name. The defendants the doctors who allegedly selected inmates for slave labor or death, the dentists who made sure all gold was yanked from victims' teeth. the clerk who kept a rising death count, the Gestapo man who allegedly drowned a priest by holding his head in a bucket of water, the SS men who al legedly made "research experi ments on female prisoners sat mutely in the city hall cham ber used as a courtroom. Hearing ior One Of Three Arrested Scheduled Today A hearing on remanding Ste ven Joseph Paradiso, 17, of iWS'.i W. Second St., Medford, from juvenile court to Jackson County Circuit Court will be held at 1:30 o'clock this afternoon. Circuit and Juvenile Court Judge James M. Main will pre side at the hearing. Paradiso is one of the three young men charged with extor tion. Arrested with Paradiso Wednesday were Waller Dale Balla. 19, Hotel Grand, Medford, and Robert Gray, 19, of 616 W. 11th St., Medford. Balla and Gray may be ar raigned in district court Mon day, District Attorney Alan B. Holmes said. All three men appeared in dis trict court yesterday and their cases were continued. Balla ask ed to consult an attorney. Med ford Lawyer Joel Reeder is rep resenting Gray. Paradiso asked that an attorney he appointed for him. Bail of all three men was set at $5,000. Thursday morning Balla and Paradiso had signed statements admitting an extortion attempt and implicated Gray, local law enforcement agencies said. Wednesday morning a tele phone call was made lo Allan F. Perry, manager of the Medford branch oi the U. S. National Bank nf Portland, demanding $5,000. The caller claimed Mrs. Perry was being held as a hos- (age. Mrs. Perry was under po- lice protection until the three men were arrested. The arrests followed a joint investigation by Medford and slate police, the Jackson County Sheriff's Office, the Federal Bu reau nf Investigation and the U. S. Treasury Department. President Signs Chamizal Treaty WASHINGTON UPI (-President Johnson today signed a treaty with Mexico settling Ihe long-standing Chamizal border dispute involving land at El Paso. Tex. Johnson in signing the formal ratification of the treaty recent ly approved by the Senate, said t h e agreement demonstrated "that old and distasteful prob lems can be solved when men of honor try lo sec each other's viewpoint." The agreement provides f o r the transfer of 4.17 acres of American territory to Mexico and an accompanying Iranslcr of jucr 200 Mexican acres to ilus country. SXOW.M.XN TI.MK-Papa. momma and babv snowman are Hie creative work of three youngsters taking advantage of the snow in Southern Grip of Bitter Cold By United Press International I tcrnational Falls. Minn., and Freezing drizzle iced high- Devils Lake, N.D. Madison, ways and triggered traffic Wis., recorded 17 below, sub deaths across the Southern I urban Chicago 15 below and Plains today and bitter cold i Rockford, 111., 15 below. broke temperature records again in Ihe Midwest. A freak storm dimmed 20 inches of snow at Kalkaska, Mich., during the night. Temperatures fell below zero from Molilalia to Maine and dropped below freezing along the Gulf Coast. Ihe mercury dipped to III degrees at Nash ville, Ten ii., and a chilly 48 at Miami, Fla. Record .Sliatlrrrd , I A f!2-ycar record was shat tered at Chicago when the tern- f pcraturc dipped lo a below a now mark for the dale. II was also the eighth consecutive sub zero day at Chicago, a record (or December. The temperature fell lo 4 be low at Pittsburgh, Pa., break ing Ihe old record set in Hill I by eight degrees. Records for the date were also set at Dayton. Toledo, Columbus, Akron and i Cincinnati. Ohio, where the ; temperature ranged from 4 to 14 I degrees below zero. J The lowest temperature in Ihe j nation was 35 below at Hemid- ji. Minn. II was 2b below at In Independence Fire Burns Bulb Farm INDKPKNDUNCE, Ore. (UPD Flames Thursday evening raced through a gladiola bulb proces sing building on Ihe Green Villa Farms, about five miles north cast of here and caused an cs- timaled SlOO.OllO in damage. William I'., wagner. Maicm, who leased Ihe buildings and op erated the Riverside Gladiola Bulbs firm, said the loss of his bulb crop and processing equip ment would come to that amount. Independence and Mon mouth lire departments respond ed In Ihe 5 p.m. blaze. VISITOR Pleased with her new American doll is Olga Po.d ncyev,' ii. as she sits al the breakfast table of the James C. McKenzic family in Portsmouth, Ohio. Ilor parents, Mr., and Mrs. Victor Pozdneyev, arc visiting the city as part o( a goodwill tour, will slay during the Christ mas holidays, and then relurn to Russia, i'lic story is on Page to Rflssia. ' 2A. fUPl) '"if f h w 4 1 &J?M - -5 few yfT- : J f Plains, Midwest At Dulutb. Minn., where the high Thursday was r below, the mercury fell to 18 below today Hazardous driving warnings were posted for Oklahoma, where icy roads were blamed Decision Today on Of Mt. Ashland Area ASHLAND A decision is expected late today on whether the Mt. Ashland Ski Area will be in operation this weekend. Hepresenlnlives of Ihe Oregon Slate Industrial Accident Com mission and the U. S. Forest Service went up In the area this morning to conduct a day long inspection o( facilities, in cluding Ihe T-bar lift, water sys tem, sewer system and roads. Also along on the inspection of Ihe lift was an engineer from Ihe E. G. Constam Company, manufacturer of the lift. The ski area will open this weekend only if all facilities and Ihe road system are approved for use. Valley residents interested in skiing on Ml. Ashland this week end were urged to contact Hie Forest Service prior lo going there. Access lo Area In the event of approval, ac cess to Ihe urea will be via Tolman Creek and Neil Creek Roads. Tralfic will use Tolman Creek J No Coffee Dimes? Coins How Scarce PORTLAND UPII -A short age of cuius, reported elsewhere in the country, also exists here. A spokesman for Ihe First Na tional Bank said today the lo cal federal reserve bank, the source of supply for Oregon, was completely out of dimes. II was out of nickels until a ship ment arrived Wednesday, he added. The situation is new this year and apparently is (he result of an increased number of coin collectors around the country, sources believe. The Christmas shopping season brought t h c shortage to light. Ihe rust Notional Bank said nii-Uels i-m-eiverl thk week were ' being sent out on a onc-for-livc basis or if $."i.0ifl in nickels is reaueslcd by a bank, $1.00(1 is given. In turn, bank customers 1 are similarly rationed. ! The hank said that it had lo furnish the coins to its branches in Eugene, Medlord and Grants Pass horn its own supplies. TIMBER SOLI) SALEM (UPD -The Bureau of Land Management's local of fice sold nboul l5.2iajHI board (rjl ol timber this week lor $:6ti,55;i. SI. Louis, Mo. From left hit dioli'hni Walch, Carol Nemclh, ami Keith llackc. (UP!) fir at least five traffic deaths. State police said U.S. 77 be- I.., N-rmnn unrf 1 .irlnnlm was "untravelahle " ' P..nn,lnn -am slnnl nnrf fnn also covered parts of Texas I eastward into Alabama. Numcr- ous traffic accidents were attri buted to the weather in Texas and West Texas airports were socked in by fog. Expected Operation Road for travel in both direc tions between U. S. 90 and Ihe national forest erca. Near Ihe lop of Tolman Creek Road, ve hicles will be routed up Hie Neil Creek Spur and then down the Ashland Loop Road back lo Tol man Creek Road. This system will provide one-way traffic over narrow portions of the road. Chains will be required. All drivers were urged lo use ex treme caution, as the road is passable but has many curves and is not surfaced, Forest Serv ice officials noted. The new two-lane paved road being constructed lo the ski area from the Siskiyou Summit is as yet incomplete. Target dale for opening of that route, with a packed dirt surface (or this season, is Jan. 10. WEATHER 1 u II I; (' A K T: rir.irlnc and roitlrr I on I it 111. P.trlly rlmnlv s.iluriliiv. I.ntv lomclit near -10. IIirIi s.i l in iIh v mill .Ml. I mi. Ilielifst YrilcHliiv .. . tl l.iiu rt Tim M or ii I tie .' I I'm-. lr Hi a in, Toil.iv . .(IT Our Skies Tonight Sillisrl liul;i 1:11 pin. MinrlM tioiiorrnw .. . .MumiM-l liinlcltl I irsl oiiarlrr I'lMIMIM-.NT STAItS lli-li-lRrnsp, 111 IV In rasl 7 ::17 i.in. 11:1.1 p. in . I?r. 2J l",: !1) lit 6:13 p ill HIGH, rlsrs mi ii 1 11 nr llr-li-lKriisr. Viri, lnw In iiinlliivrM 1:IH p iip-,1 X:JR p. m ( api-llA, lileli nvrr- Ill-nil 1 1 :M p ni Crackdown Started By Authority A crackdown on "wigwam burners" used lo get rid of waste at lumber mills was start ed by Ihe Oregon State Sani tary Authority at its meeting Thursday in Portland. The authority, according lo Ihe United Press International, I decided to refuse approval for : " proposed new nurners alter Jan I. I!5. Authority figures show 00 of the burners in the Medford area topped only by Ihe Eugene Springfield district with 911. The authority also instructed its staff to prepare regulations for an orderly phasing out of the burners throughout the state. Estimated Number Slaff members estimated that there are more than 225 of the burners at small and medium sized mills in Oregon. They soid Mi Federalized Quartet Accused 01 Dynamitings Blasts Occurred Near University TUSCALOOSA, Ala. (UPD Police arrested four National Guardsmen Thursday on charg es of setting off explosives near the integrated University of Ala bama last month while serving with a federalized task forca protecting the campus. Authorities said a fifth Guards man would be taken into cus today today (probably in the afternoon). He was not arrest ed Thursday because of illness in his family. Officers across central Alaba ma picked up 2nd Lt. James T. Perkins of Holt, 1st Sgt. Norman R. Daniel of Fairfield and Sgts. James T. Maxwell of Tus caloosa and William E. Rough- ton ot Landale to climax an "around-the-clock" investin.-ilion that began last Saturday. Members of Task Force Several hours before the ar rests, Circuit Solicitor Fred Ni- col had said "we think we have the case solved" and indicated Ihe arrests would be "startling" because of the persons involved. The men were members of a special task force assigned to the university to prevent any disturbances in connection with Ihe presence of Negro sludent Vivian Malono, admitted under lederal court order lost Juno along with another Negro who dropped out of school the fol lowing month. Guard Federalized President Kennedy had feder alized the Alabama National Guard after Gov. George Wal- 'fVr.l l l.he. c?mP,,sf a"(l ked the admission o the VUIUV. miOO nuuuiCW mill the "PPcarnace ot the Guards- mCll. One of the three explosions. each caused by about a half stick of dynamite, occurred less than a block from Miss Ma- tone's dormitory. A second ex plosion the same day, Nov. 16, went off in a Negro section of the city a few blocks from Uie campus, and me final blast on Nov. 19 occurred fwo blocks from Ihe campus. No one was hurt in (ho explosions but win dows in several buildines ivera shattered. Released From Duty The Guardsmen wero re leased from federal duly la to last month despite Iho explo sions which at the lime were be lieved to have been sludent pranks. The charges against I Ii e Guardsmen will he presented lo the Tuscaloosa County grand jury at ils next session Jan. 7. Perkins and Maxwell, each re leased under $5,000 bond, were charged with "selling off or ex ploding dynamite. Daniel, a (o mcr Birmingham city police man and an ex Marine, and Houghton were to be charged later. Merchandise, Cash Taken From Market ASHLAND Someone broke inlo llamby's Drive-In Market on Lit Way Thursday night, Ashland police reported today, making off with some merchan dise and $2:13.10 in cash. Entry was made by breaking a window above the marquco on the front of the store, some time between 10 p.m. Thursday and 7 o'clock this morning, of ficers said. The money was laken from cosh register drawers and from a cash box in the office. Tha burglars then left by a rear door, it was indicated. Police are investigating a sim ilar burglary which occurred last week at a service station, also on Lit Way. on Burners Ihe burners are contributing (0 air pollution problems. One suggestion by Richard Hatchard, chief ot uir quality control, was (hat studies at Ore gon State University recom mends mill wastes be used for (uel by utilities. In the Medford area some of the larger mills have installed chippcrs, converting Ihe wood wastes inlo chips for pulp m ils and others have installed circu lators in the burners which re sults in more complete combus tion of the wood waste, thus reducing the amount of smoke. In other action, the authority ordered the United Growers of Salem lo slop polluting Pi ingle Creek wilh cannery waste; and Thillips Brothers Farm in Mari on County from pollu'.'ng Litllo Pudding River wit silage waste. ,a 3i
