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Weather Fnrtrist: fog Sunday mornlnc lifting nrar noon. Cloudy Sun dy afternoon and nitbt. C ha net of rain Monday. TEMP. Hljthut Ycittrday 46 Loweit Vetterday 35 PRECIP. To S p.m. Yesterday .03 56 Pages SIX SECTIONS THOUSANDS WAIT The gates to East Berlin opened for holiday visitors Friday, but many West Berliners eager to visit their East Berlin relatives were left waiting out in the yga official was spy for u s. VIENNA (UPI) - A top Bul garian Communist diplomat at United Nations headquarters in New York has confessed in full to spying for the United States for $200,000 he spent on an im moral life involving "m any women," the Bulgarian News Agency said Saturday night. The official agency identified him as Ivan-Assen Hristov Geor giev, 56. a high-ranking diplo mat and international lawyer and said he gave "important" secrets to the Central Intelli gence Agency (CIA) over a seven-year period. Identity Now Revealed ' '"' His arrest was first announced Nov. 9 in Sofia hut his full identity was withheld. Saturday the Bulgarian News Agency gave details of his confession and his life of sin during which he used his pay to support sev eral mistresses at home and abroad. The agency reported he was being held in a maximum se curity jail in the Bulgarian cap ital awaiting trial. It called him a "malicious enemy and traitor In the Bulgarian people" who had received a "diploma" from U. S. intelligence officials fori his efficiency. j Saturday night's report indi cated Bulgarian security organs may have been watching Geor gicv for some months before he was arrested in September. Tuned In Radio The news agency said the ac cused spy in Sofia was instruct ed to tune his special radio into a certain frequency every first and third Friday of the month at 0:30 a.m. Bulgarian time for ciphered transmissions from "the U. S. .intelligence radio center in Greek territory. It said the renter sent these messages to Georgiev eight times starting May 17 and end ing Sept. 6 before his arrest. But it was not clear from the news agency account whether this information came from Georgiev after his arrest. There was no mention of the circum stances of the diplomat's arrest or how the security police dis covered his alleged activities. SATELLITE IN ORBIT CAPE KENNEDY (UPI) - America orbited a sophisticated j new weatner satellite aaiuraay lliai quiciviy iidsiieu uativ viviu pictures of a massive cloud and ice layer around the Great Lakes and a spectacular view of the Eastern Seaboard. NEWS(t)BRIEFS rriMJ nor JOT axounb thi oiom BRITISH-RUSSIAN TALKS WELCOMED - RLT . . . LONDON (CPU Western and Communist diplomats said Saturday thry welcomed Hrilish-Russian talks at this time but that there was no substitute for direct Washington-Moscow cold war negotiations. PRESIDENT ORDERS STUDY OF ECONOMY WASHINGTON (UPI) President Johnson Saturday ordered Ihe heads of nine government departments and agencies to estab lish a high-level committee to study the Impact of changes in de fenss. spending and disarmament on Ihe nation's economy. REP. CRAMER RAPPED BY DEFENSE DEPARTMENT WASHINGTON (UPI) The State Department Saturday ac cused Rep- William C. Cramer, R-Fla., ol issuing "distortions, Inaccuracies and misleading references" about Its security divi lion and Ihe activities ol Secretary of State Dean Rusk. COMMON MARKET MINISTERS IN DRAMATIC MEET BRUSSELS (UPI) Common Market foreign ministers, In dramatic effort In save Ihe tls - munity from disintegration, agreed ' solution J to Ihrlr bitter wrangl, n 58th Year M United Prew International Full Leased Wire io,500 Permitted Through Wall BERLIN (UPI) - The hungry hearts of joyful West Berliners defeated bitter cold, snow and red tape Saturday for week end pre-Christmas reunions with loved ones on the other side of the Communist wall. The West Berlin Senate said about 7,000 West Berliners were permitted to cross the anti-refu gee barrier on this second full day of the Communist-approved yulctidc opening in the Iron Curtain. Friday was a working day and about 3,500 crossed. Communist police, stand i n g guard at the holes they chopped through the concrete, steel and barbed wire they erected 28 months ago, greeted the visitors with a cherry "good morning." Let Packages Through For the most part, they de Vietnamese War Discussed And Top Officials WASHINGTON (UPD-Plans for pushing the war against Vietnamese Communists next year dominated White House activity Saturday as President Johnson held a series of con ferences with top officials of the Defense and State Depart ments. Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara and Central Intelli gence Director John A. McCone, only a few hours after their re turn from Saigon, reported at length to the President and Sec retary of State Dean Rusk. "We reviewed in great de tail the plans of the South Viet namese and the plans of our own military advisers for oper ations during 1904," McNamara told reporters at the White House after a 75-minutc meet ing with Johnson and Rusk. "We have every reason to be lieve thev will be successful. We are determined that they shall be." The Chief Executive also met with Treasury Secretary Doug las Dillon to discuss the $11.1 billion tax cut bill and adminis- tration jans l0 seek early pas, sage o( it wh(,n congress rccon- yenes Jan. 7. 7ne chief Executive's busy Saturday represented an effort ion his part to clean up as much I business as possible. year - old European economic com early today In llnd political .er agricultural policy. EDFOED me cola trying to oniain applications lined up for applicalions in front district of West Berlin. (UPI) West Berliners clined to inspect the packages of food and gifts carried into East Berlin by those lucky enough to obtain passes. One man, Erik Zatz, a 24-year-old intern, dashed out of a West Berlin charity hospital to keep his appointment at the Invalidcn crossing point with his sister whom he had not seen for more than two years. Zatz, still wearing his hospital garb and stethoscope, tearfully embraced his sister while the usually-grim Communist guards looked on with smiles. Nearby, however, a Communist party of ficial passed out propaganda leaflets to the visiting West Berliners. Sees Grandmother A pretty young red - haired West Berlin woman fell into the By LB J Meanwhile, from Saigon came word that the South Vietna mese army inflicted heavy los ses Saturday on a Communist Viet Cong unit in what was be lieved to be the first Commu nist - style nighttime ambush staged by government troops. The Communists nave ncen the masters of the nighttime ambush in the strange and dirty little war through South Viet Nam's jungles and swamps but until Saturday American mili tary advisers had been unable to convince the South Vietna mese of the value of this stra tegy. Skiing on Ashland Delayed Few Days ASHLAND There won t be any skiing at the Ml. Ashland Ski Area (or a few more days. That was the. announcement from the Mt. Ashland Corpora tion Saturday night. "The testing of the T-bar lift equipment is still in progress," according to Alex Murphy, cor- poration manager. "Although j no official statement can be made at this time, we antici pate that skiing can probably begin the day alter Christmas." Sports Bulletins EUGENE The Moelford Rlarb Tnrnailfi. hnal Uill:im. etle High School of Eugene 6S- 4! here Salurriav. Larrv Vnwell nut appareniiy was nni injuica of Medford led the scoring with , seriously, officers said 18, Bill Envart of Medford had; slalR police reported it was IS. and TeiVv Slahel of Willam-llhe 12lh fatality this year in rite led hi( icammales with n. ! Josephine county. Eight (alall Medford led al each quarler. : n!la hrm reported at this 18-11 at the end of the first. tlmP ln l2- 38-21 at Ihe half, and 59-37 al Ihe . . .. r end of the third quarter. BaSkClball SCOS LEBANON Crater High of Central Point defeated Lebanon here Saturday night 49-38. Cra- tcr led at the half 19-12 and at one point held a 17-2 advantage.! Mike Turner got is poinls and Bob Stroh 13 for the Comets. LAKEVIEW Winnemurca beat Lakeview 19-11 Saturday night to win the Winnemurca-lo-lheSea Tournament here. Ea gle Point was hralrn hy Brook ings 52-13 in the first game. High point man for Eagle Point uarj Lonnie Mrslnh wilh 18, and Rnh MrNeelv was high for Rrook-. 1 Ia(s with IS points. for passes. Here, thousands of a school in the Tempelhof arms of a frail elderly woman and sobbed, "Oma, oma, oma. (Grandmother, grand mother, grandmother.) You haven't changed in two years." Henry Vergin, a ,18-ycar-old East Berliner, did a little dance in the snow as he waited for his young married niece to ar rive. "Look, look," he shouted, waving a telegram from t h e niece saying she had been granted a pass and was on the way to see him. "Oberbaum Bridge early to morrow," the wire said. It was signed, "Love, Little Truday and Children." "I've never seen the chil dren," Vergin told fellow East Berliners waiting with him. "I didn't even know Truday had tnem." More than 25,000 West Berlin ers stood in long, seemingly endless lines wailing In apply to East German postal officials for the hoped-for passes. Some Turned Awny More than 250 queued up at Ihe Tiergarten School were (old over loudspeakers to "go home, go home because BOO appli cants were already inside the building and that no more could be processed. Those standing in line refused to leave. West Berlin police rushed in a 20-man detail to keep order when tempers grew strained. They formed a human barrier between the crowd and the school, and those in line finally did go home in disap pointment. California Boy Dies of Injuries A 2'i-year-olrt hny died of head injuries at Rogue Valley Hospital Friday night, eight hours after a one-car accident in which he was injured on U. S. 1!W near Kcrby. The boy, Brian Hanson, was thrown from a car driven by Ronald D. Hanson, Fortuna, Calif., when it went out of con trol on a curve on U.S. 109, and struck a bank, according to state police. The child was thrown from the car and struck a vehicle which had pulled off the road to avoid the accident the Grants Pass stale police office re ported. Hanson, a school teacher, was on Christmas vacation with his wife, Gloria, and infant son. They were scheduled to fly hack to Fortuna Saturday morning. The father, who was driving, als0 was thrown out of the car Saturday College Games Oregon Stale 5fi Indiana 52 Vanderbilt 91 Louisville 82 Tulsa 86 Florida 82 Alaska at S a n t a Barbara cancelled Utah 79 Rice 72 Weber State 112 Chico State 62 Utah State 64 Arizona 60 Colorado State 96 WSC 90 Idaho Stale 77 New Mexico Slate 68 Colorado 80 Wvoming 74 Humboldt St. 70, OTI 65 Saturday Prrp Scores Phoenix 47 Myrtle Creek 44 St. Mary's 70 St. Francis 6.1 MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, itter Deadlock Stalls Scranlon Says He May Run For Presidency Idea Being Given 'Deeper Thought' HARRISBURG, Pa. (UPI) -Pennsylvania Gov. William W. Scranton todav announced that he was giving "deeper thought" to running for the GOP nomina tion (or President. His statement came at the end of a 30-day bipartisan moratorium on poli tics occasioned by the assassi nation of President Kennedy. acranton s announcement ap peared likely to touch off a spirited rrce for the 19G4 Re- publican nomination among New York Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller, an a 1 r e a d y-an- nounced aspirant. Sen. Barry G o 1 d w a t e r, (R-Ariz.), Gov. and perhaps Henry Cabot Lodge, George Romncy of Michigan, currrently Ambassador to South Viet Nam, and former Vice President Richard M. Nixon. Ike Urged Him Scranton said that former President Dwight D. Eisenhow er had urged him at a meeting here Dec. 15 to consider run ning for the GOP nomination. He (Eisenhower) said the national scone, now was such that he felt that a number of persons thought that 1 should be the candidate, and he thought that I ought to give a good deal of thought to this matter," the governor said. Eisenhower recently brought up Lodge as a possibility to head the GOP ticket next year against President Lyndon B. Johnson. Lodge was non-com mittal about Eisenhower s en couragement to run but left the door open for the possibility of a draft. Has Idea Annul Lodge In announcing that he would consider Eisenhower's sugges tion to campaign for the nomi nation, Scranton said that he thought Lodge would make a "good" secretary of stale. Gnldwalcr has said that he would announce definitely whether he is a candidate early next year. Nixon, bealen narrowly hy President Kennedy in I960, has said that he is not a candidate for the nomination next year. Romney has followed the same course. Scranlon made his comments on his possible candidacy at a news conference earlier this week. The announcemenl was held up because of the 30-day period of mourning for Kennedy that expires today. Court Appearance Set for Three Men Three young men charged with extortion will appear in Jackson County District Court Monday, District Attorney Alan Holmes said. The trio, who will determine whether or not they want a pre liminary hearing at that time, includes Steven Joseph Para- diso, 17. of 3354 W. Second St., Medford; Waller Dale Balla, I9,l Hotel Grand, Medford. and Rob ert Gray, 19, of 616 W. lllh St., Medford. They were charged with ex tortion afler making a telephone call to Allan F. Perry, manager of Ihe Medford branch of the U. S. National Bank of Portland, demanding $5,000. The caller claimed Mrs. Perry was being held as a hostage. Mrs. Perry was under police protection until the three men were arrested. SHOPPING DAYS LEFT CHRISTMAS SEALS fight TB and Other RESPIRATORY DISEASES DECEMBER 22, 1963 Plan , i v .7; v -fin I f -"irML .... I :m lV V I ; rv m.n i IILV&tt SATURDAY NIGHT BLAZE Firemen fight a blaze at the Buildings Materials, Inc. cab inet shop at M4 S. Central Ave. in Medford. The fire was noticed shortly before p.m. South Talent Area Residents To Meet District Attorney TALENT A delegation from the South Talent area will meet with District Allorney Alan B. Holmes at 11:30 a.m. Monday to discuss the legality of the forthcoming election on zoning for the area. A group of residents who fa vor zoning met at Ihe Richard Klimek residence Friday night In discuss how to get out the vote for the Jan. 24 zoning elec tion and what could be done to campaign for zoning. The group, known as the South Talent Improvement Association, questions the effectiveness of permanent zoning without com pletion of a comprehensive land use study by Ihe Jackson Coun ty Planning Commission. Would Be nn Zoning The district attorney said Fri day the January election would be to decide on permanent zon ing, not continuation of the pres ent interim zoning until ils nor mal expiration date Nov. 1, 1964. Holmes said that an attorney I general s opinion 01 tne new law " "" "' " - i hensive land use study need not be completed bclore an election on permanent zoning is held. If zoning is approved at the election it would mean a con tinuation of Ihe present zoning At Least 43 Persons Trains Are Derailed Two Union Pacific sleamliners derailed i crack Iowa and Wyoming Saturday, tying up rail lines jammed with Christmas holiday travelers, and injuring al least 43 persons. Nineteen of the injured were hospitalized. Oddly, three trains went off the rails in scattered sections of Iowa. In addition to the U-P passenger train which jumped i the track at Coon City, Iowa, a I North Western Railway freight ! train was derailed at Jefferson, I and a Itork Island freight at Holland. Skidding cars at Jefferson ; damaged three fuel tanks, crea I ling a stale of emergency In the I (own. Residents of a 12-15 block I area threatened by danger nf exji'-sion nf leaking propane G Tribune llnllfd Pr International Full Lf!d Wlr For Adjournme plan, Holmes said. Without completed land use study this could result in spot zoning. If the election had been scheduled closer to expiration date of the present interim zoning ordi nance, the planning commission might have had time to com plete the land use study, he added. Bank Plans Branch In Jacksonville JACKSONVILLE - The II. S. National Rank of Portland is interested in establishing a branch in one of the historic buildings in Jacksonville, it was learned Saturday. Dwight Houghton, manager ol the bank's North Medford branch, said negotiations for a site are now in progress. The organization has obtained a permit from the controller of the currency to establish a branch here. "We're definitely going into Jacksonville," Houghton said "We're anxious to get into operation by spring or sum mer." The branch would he de signed lo fit In wilh the historic atmosphere of the community. gas tanks had to lurn off pilot ' lights and leave their homes. oilier Ireignt trains were de railed at Hock Springs, Wyo., Campbell, Tex., and at Bowling Green, Ky., where a crew mem ber was injured. Twenty - five persons were injured in the derailment at Coon Rapids, Inwa, when the Union Pacific-Milwaukee Road's streamliner "City of Los Angel es" jumped the tracks in 14 below temperatures. The train apparently struck a broken rail, Milwaukee Road officials said. Eight of the injured three passengers and live crew mem bers were hospitalized, but none was listed in serious con dition. The westbound stream liner carried 160 passengers, many enrnute In spend Christ h with relatives. Price 10 Cents In Gongre It had gotten head start, however, and the building was engulfed in flame when firemen arrived. The cause was not Immediately determined. ' ' ' Cabinet Shop Gulfed by Fire The Building Materials, Inc. cabinet shop at 944 S. Central Ave. was gutted by (ire Satur day night. The fire was reported shortly before 6 p.m., hut firemen said it evidently had started earlier in Ihe day and was not noticed until flames came through the roof and windows. When the fire trucks arrived, the building was completely en gulfed in flames. Four vehicles including the aerial ladder truck were used hy the fire depart ment. About 30 men fought the blaze. The fire was adjacent lo the distribution center of the Mobil Gas Co. bulk plant. Firemen trained their hoses on the flam mable tanks In prevent possible, damage. The four large tanks nn the Mobil property were not threatened, however. It was necessary In halt one Southern Pacific train south of Stewart Avenue In keep it from danger. The fire was confined by 8:30 p.m., but a standby fire crew was still nn duty al 10.00 p.m. FLOODS KILL 13 RABAT, Morocco (UPI) Seasonal floods have killed at least 13 persons and isolated about 20 villages in the North Moroccan area where 50 ncr-: sons drowned in floods last year It was reported today. Injured As Crack In Iowa, Montana COON RAPIDSlQ NEB Y yOmaha coirifBw" s Lim-of'i !iO JUMPS TRACKS The Union Pacific-Milwaukee Road railroad streamliner "City of Los Angeles" Jumped the trncks at Coon Rapids, la. (circled cross mark on map). Sixteen of the 19 cars juirjied Ihe tracks. More than a score were injuredf.(UPI) Subscribers To report improper or non delivery to the Mail Tribune in Medford. phone 772-6141: Ash land call at -116 B rids a St. or phone 482-3002; Yreka, phono Victory 2-2R38 before 6:45 p.m. daily and 10:30 a m. Sunday. If regular delivery arrives shortly after you call please notify office, thua eliminating ipecial messenger service. No. 236 Tempers Fly as Foreign Aid Bill Reaches Impasse GOP Accused of 'Sit Down Strike' WASHINGTON (UPI) - Thn 88th Congress in a shouting mad temper scuttled plans to adjourn for the year Saturday night and ordered sessions next week in an effort to end a bit. ter deadlock over the foreign aid spending bill. A While House source and a top Dcmocralic House leader ac cused Republicans of waging a legislative "sit down strike against the $3 billion aid appro priation. Recess For Week End . After waiting all dav on a stand by basis, the Senate sig nalled the official end of at tempts to adjourn hy recessing until Tuesday. At 6:20 p.m. EST, the. House followed suit hy re cessing until noon Monday. An undoubtedly fighting mad President Johnson put off his scheduled departure today to spend the Christmas holidays at his Texas ranch. House Democratic. Leader Carl Albert, Oklahoma, and House Republican Leader Charles A. Hallcck, Indiana, en gaged 10 a.shouting match over the situation- before the House called it quits for the week end. It was Albert who had up braided Halleck and the Repub licans lor waging what he call ed a legislative "sit down strike." Albert based his accu sation on the fact that the Housa Rules Committee could not of ficially meet to clear the com promise aid bill to the floor be cause of a boycott by needed Re publican members. A White House official alsn used the phrase sit-down-strike. At the heart 0 the controversy was an amendment which wnnirf curtail President Johnson's pow ers to extend credit in sales nf wheat and other commodities lo Russia. The House had twice attached the amendment to the foreign aid legislation and the Senate had twice rejected it. Reject Amendment The House, hy a narrow parti san vote early Saturday morn ing, had rejected a compromise amendment which would have voiced Congressional dislike of such a credit extension hut al lowed the President to do so in the name of national interest. Halleck stressed that t h a House already had twice reject ed any softening of the wheat credit ban. "You lost In a clean fight," he told the Democrats. "You come hack today and want lo do it all over again." Medford Police Car, Another Auto Collide A vehicle driven !v Betty Louise Bross, 2.1, 512 S. Holly St,, collided with a police ve hicle driven by Barry F..Bnhm, 28 , 3005 Delta Waters Road, at B p m. Saturday at Main and Front Streets, police said. Thn police vehicle was en route to a fire on South Central Avenue. Miss Bross was taken to Rogue Valley Memorial Hospital hy ambulance tor observation. She was reported in good condi- tmn. Des Moines 11 f-Y iV ' "V5r.JoOp' olw
