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Newspaper Page TextMEDFORn MAIL TRIBUNE, IMEDFOIU), OREGON SUNDAV. DKCEMRER 22, IflM i. - -'v-- !.-,- t . . D 5 HOSTAGES GREETED President Johnson is shown greeting three of four Americans who were held hostage by Bolivian tin miners. They were greeted at the White House. Seat ed, left to right, are Michael Kristula, Cadil lac, Mich.; Bernard Rifkin, Montclair, N.J.; and Thomas Martin, Bronx, iA. Maiming are Paul Rifkin, Rifkin's son; President John son; Mrs. Rifkin; Mrs. Kristula; and in front of her, her 7-year-old daughter, Michele. (UPI) Signing of Columbia River Power Pact Seen In Month Ry MICHAEL GII.LAN I'nitod Press International OTTAWA (UPI) - External Affairs Minister Paul Martin said Friday he expects the pro tocol containing a firm price for the sale of Columbia River downstream power benefits to the United States will be signed within a month. Martin told reporters after an all-day meeting with U.S. and British Columbia officials he would expect it to he signed be fore Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson visits President John son Jan. 22. Negotiation!; Near End The final agreement appear ed to bring near to conclusion the drawn-out and difficult ne gotiations over the price Brit ish Columbia will receive from the sale of power to the United Freed Hostages Tell Of Bolivian Adventure By DONALD MAY I project to build schools for the United Press International impoverished muling commu WASHINGTON (UPl)-H was'nity. a Bolivian version of the wild The Americans had finished a west, but the cavalry didn't gal- dinner with the Dutch manager lop up in time to rescue the of one of the mines, Martin re four American hostages. They called, when trucks pulled up had to do it themselves in a ! outside. About "150 men barged I the jeep. i into the house with rifles and Three of the four cheerfully ! pistols" to arrest the Dutch- told President Johnson and ; man, he said Bolivian army was approaching labor groups wore going on to and that if there were a fight, i effect a release, everyone "might be killed." Martin said the captives lis The captors, particularly the tened to two miners' assemblies lady guards, were incensed that discuss terms for letting them the U.S. government would not I go. But the talks seemed incon- orcler tne hostages to give in to j elusive, and at one point Slates generated by dams in the West Coast province. The external affairs minister, who spoke for all parties at a nnU'c rnnfornni'a cairl Ihn throo parties gave consideration tn , heen arrested earlier on crimi newsmen Friday of their 10-day adventure while being held hos tage by Communist-led tin min ers in the mountains of Bolivia. Most of their guards were women whom they dubbed "Lady MacRcths." Instead of pistols, the ladies packed dyna mite cans and wore black der bies. But like women every where, they cried in disappoint ment when the men refused to do what they wanted plead for the release of two Commu nist miners union leaders seized by the Bolivian government. The three, who were on their way home today, are Bernard Rifkin, of Montclair, N. J., a foreign aid labor adviser; Thomas M. Martin, of New York, and Michael A. Kristula, of Cadillac, Mich., both U.S. In formation Service Officers. Remains In Bolivia A fourth, Robert Ferger strom, a Peace Corps volunteer from Honolulu, decided to re main in Bolivia with other Peace Corps members rather than return for Christmas. The men were captured by the miners in an effort to make the Rnlivian authorities release la bor leaders, Iieneo Pimental ami Federicn Escobar, who had Blind Man Finds Federal Judge Has Christmas Spirit . DETROIT (UPI) The thought of Christmas without food and warm clothing for his pregnant wife was too much for Walter R. Sain, a 42-year-old blind man. He showed Federal Judge Wade Mc Cree a tin cup Friday and said, "I tried standing on LBJ Ranch House Will Be Checked JOHNSON CITY, Tex. (UPI) Before jolly old St.. Nick will he allowed to descend the LBJ ranch house chimney, there will : press the alarm. There are four be a security check by Secret j of us, two in the bank and two street corners to get a few cents hut the police kept mov ing me on." Sain and his wife LeWanda, 19, who is six months pregnant, plotted to rob a bank. The at tempt was a crude one. They picked one of the busiest and best guarded banks in De troit. Sain and his wife walked up lo teller Stanley Mc Hale of the Detroit Bank and Trust Comp any's main office in the heart of downtown Detroit and hand ed him a scrawled note. It read in part: "This man is truly blind. We got his wife in the car. Do not Service men. The same applies to all holiday visitors at the Tex as White House. Otherwise, Christmas at the ranch will follow the custo mary pattern. There will be church services; lots of relatives, gaiety, decor ations, feasting and the inevit able politics. Cowboy-butler James Davis already has scouted the LBJ ranch for the perfect five-foot rnrlar rhrislmas tree. The President. Mrs. Johnson : desperate and their two daughters. Lucy, 16. and Lynda. 19. will help dec orate it with "dime store" bulb and tinsels. . . "like every body's elses, just the usual as sortment of colored lights, bulbs and icicles." Davis said. Four stockings will be hung on the are outside the bank." The note demanded $50. Mc Hale, however, pressed the alarm and the guard took the couple into custody. The Federal Bureau of Investigation said apparently no one else was involved in the holdup attempt. The couple was questioned ex tensively by the FBI and taken before Mc Cree for arraignment. Sain told the judge. "I was Our wedding rings draft documents prepared since they met a week ago in the Ca nadian capital. These documents were de signed to facilitate the arrange ments for the sale of Canadian downstream benefits and for fi nancing the development of the Columbia," he said. 'We will not be engaged in revising these documents, which are necessarily voluminous be cause they deal with a compli cated problem. These will he submitted to our governments at an early date." No details of the areas of agreement reached Friday were revealed, but further meet ings were scheduled for next week apparently to draft the necessary documents. The three parties will then meet in Wash ington about Jan. 9. Careful Of Words Martin guarded his phrases when asked if the latest meeting meant the Columbia develop ment project was finally to get under way. "It means these documents will be submitted to our gov ernments at an early date and that these have been the most successful negotiations since the visit of the prime minister to Hyannis Port," he said. Pearson discussed the Colum bia with the late President Ken nedy last May. The external affairs minister also withheld detailed comment on reports a group of U.S. Pa cific Northwest power utilities are gathering the money B.C. Premier W. A. C. Bennett is demanding to develop the river. "These stories bear little re lation in their context to real ity," he said. $10 Million Sum The reports have said the erouo had offered more than nal charges. The adventure began. Martin said, on Dec. 6, after the four had gone to the area of the Ca tavi and Siglo-Veinte mines, 150 miles south o; La Paz, on a Companions Seized Martin said one of the armed men recognized him as a U.S. official and began "shouting" to this effect, and in a moment Martin and his companions also were seized. Seventeen other hostages Bo livians and other nationals were also taken prisoner. Martin said the Americans were taken tn the library of the union hall at the Sigln-Veinte mine. The library had a "fair collection of books," Martin said, but there were many large photographs "of life in Russia and Czechoslovakia." A short time later. Martin said, a Bolivian senator named Arturo Crespo, who is also the boss of the nearby Catavi mine, arrived "in a rather intoxicated state." Dramaticly, Crespo an nounced that if the miners were going to kill the Americans they would have to kill him too. "Rifkin replied, 'who's talking about killing people,' " Martin said. He said Sen. Crespo conti nued alleged efforts in behalf of the Americans hut it appeared what he really wanted "was for us to he his captives down at Catavi." During their 10 days in cap tivity, the hostages said, they were guarded by a group of women led by the wives of Pi mental and Escobar. The hostages said they were threatened only indirectly. Statements were made that the Drug Firm Accused Of Keeping Some Evidence Secret cent suffer from silicosis or tu berculosis. Even under gov ernment operation the mines are a losing business. The hostages said only a small corps of mine leaders were Communists. They said urging the release of Pimental! of confinement. Rifkin simplv j by town of Oruro. 'nine-tenths of the mine union and tscobar. announced, "That's enough of! Rifkin told newsmen that the i membership voted to set them At one point. Martin said, "the! uiis. ' s got om oi nere. people in tnis area ot Bolivia free, but the "handful of Corn- All put on their coats and '1 very poorly. The miners' munists" were able to maneu- marched out behind Rifkin. No I take-home pay is less than five ver the situation so that they the people cheered us," Martin said. The guards apparently felt it was too late to intervene. Then came what Martin called "sort of like a wild west" ride in a caravan of jeeps and demands for statements ! Monday, Dec. 16, after 10 days ! other vehicles toward the near- uiay MacBetns cried on my shoulder, asking how the U.S. government could be so cruel." one stopped them Meanwhile, diplomatic efforts The guards had told them by the U.S. government, other i they were "protecting" them countries, the Red Cross, the I from the people outside. "Rut Roman Catholic Church, and when we went through the door, Animal-To-Man Transplant May Have Succeeded DENVER (UPI) - A 40-year-old patient at Colorado General Hospital had hopes Saturday of becoming the second man in medical history to survive the transplant of an animal's kid neys to his body. The unusual operation was performed Friday and the man, who was not identified, was re pnrled in "satisfactory" condi tion Saturday. The kidneys of a baboon wore inserted in his body lo replace his own diseased kidneys. The operation came three days after announcement at New Or leans of the successful trans plant of a chimpanzee's kidneys to a man. That operation was performed Nov. 5 but not re vealed until Tuesday. Doctors at Charity Hospital in New Orleans said their patient had recovered sufficiently to go home for Christmas. In the only oilier known animal-to-human transplant, a woman received the kidneys of a rhesus monkey Oct. ft but they ceased to function and had to be removed. She died two days later. Development of this tech nique, called a hoterograft, is significant because if animal or gans ran be used for trans plants, the problem of finding suitable donors for such opera tions will be removed. Colorado General declined tn reveal much about Friday's op eration and said it would not do so for several days. A spokesman said the team of surgeons who performed the op eration wanted the publicity on it to he "conservative." WASHINGTON (UPI) One of the nation's oldest major drug firms was accused by a federal grand jury Friday of keeping secret laboratory evi-l dence that a new drug may have caused serious damage to research animals. A 12-count indictment was re turned here against the. William S. Merre.ll Co., a division of Richardson-Mcrrcll Inc. of New York. It charged that when the company asked for government approval of the drug "Mer-20," it failed to include damaging results from tests on animals. The indictment said false re ports about damage to the eyes, ovaries and bloodstreams of monkeys, rats and dogs used in Micro-Film Reader OK'd lor Library testing the drug were given lo the Food & Drug Administra tion (FDA). It said the firm concealed the fact that several rats died before experiments were completed. The drug was on the market for 22 months and had been prescribed by doctors for about 400,000 heart patients. It was withdrawn from sale by the company in April, 1062 under strong pressure from the FDA. Harmful Effects During the last three months, suits totaling more than $2! million have been brought against the firm alleging that the drug, also known as tripar nol, had resulted in various harmful side effects. R.H. Marschalk, president of the parent firm, commenting on the indictment, denied any in tent lo deceive the government and said he was confident a "fair appraisal" would vindi cate the company. the Merrell division, founded dollars a month. Some 70 per ' remained hostages. LAST MINUTE SHOPPING Put One of These Around Your Tree! 1901 SERENITY SALE-RENT OR LEASE Tlio price of this very well constructed home hat been reduced lo $15,900. It tiai 3BR, Hi bjlh, w w carpotinq, drapes, every thing you want tn a home. For more information call us. A custom built 3 bedroom, 2 bath home. Many comfortable features such as wall-to-wall car pets, family room and built-in kitchen and the location in BROOKHURST is tops. 3496 HOLLYWOOD PIONEER SUBDIVISION An excellent family home in a real good area. ' Has 3 bedrooms, 2 baths, 2 fireplaces and a 1 wonderful patio and yard for your summer enjoyment. 2030 MELODY LANE A real buy for the bargain hunter. 3 bedrooms, 2 baths, entry hall, built-in kitchen. Priced over $1,000 under appraisal. You can't miss on this , one. Local REAL ESTATE nd International Traders Club MULTIPLE LISTING SERVICE We Buy, Build, Sell and Trade The Public Library of Med- tni-A nnrt t,lrcnn Pnnnlu will soon he able to offer the public wa,s a prime distributor back files of newspapers, in cluding the Medford Mail Trib une and the New York Times, in condensed micro - film edi tions. A microfilm reader for the library was approved for pur- are in layaway and so is a coat for LeWanda. She also needs more winter clothes and we're almost out of food. "I didn't have a gun and all , between Ottawa and British Co- $400 million in a lump sum forcnase ny me lioarn oi iru-iees the downstream benefits. at the December meeting. Under the original treaty, rat- At present only limited years ified by the U.S. Senate but not : of these newspapers arc avail- hv Canada heoause aereement ! aoie I asked for was not more than $50," Sain said. Sain, who has been blind mantle' of the roaring ' since he was IB, said he re ceived only $103 a month from the Aid to the Blind Association and had been turned down for welfare. He said he paid $00 a month rent. Authorities said he fireplace, labelled "Lynda, "Lucy," "Mother," and "Fath er." Lady Bird Johnson, as usual ...ill ,.,"in n fnA .Inlh arniinrl the nose of a mounted deer naa no snoes, oniy uvei snues, head in the hall and the musty when arrested, old trophy will become "Ru-I "Can I depend on you both to dolph" for the holidays. ! be bah?re m- 15 ,for, c!,m- On Christmas Eve. when mation?" Mc Cree asked. After manv uncles, aunts, cousins and they agreed to set personal old friends gather, the presents! bond at $1,000 and released will be opened of the controversial drug thali- aomicle - suspected or causing deformities in babies when used by expectant mothers. An V DA spokesman said 1962 law passed after the lhali domide scare could have pre vented the Mer-2!) episode. He said the FDA now has a closer check on clinical investigations of drugs under the new law. Developed Cataracts Dr. John O. Nestor, an FDA investigator, recommended in November, 1001, that Mcr-29 he banned after four patients do veloped cataracts. The FDA did not act immcdiatclv he- Thousands of news papers. lumbia was lacking, half the magazines, books, documents downstream power h e n e f i t s and other records are available would be returned to British Co- on micro-film, the library board lumbia. I pointed out. The ownership of a But Hcnnetl warns tne power ; reader win mane pussimc a ...... , caus (npre Wf)s nn ,, pvi sold in the United States and gram of purchasing micro-film j j.--- t h.t ,jm h , copies of newspapers ami pe-, werc druR.in(uc(,d A p 7. 11 di(. however, require Ihe will be he micro-f.lm ed, on (irm t jssu . , of the Medford Mail Tribune rinr.nr ,pMino , ?,, for the United Stales to pay enough money to cover cost of dams and other construction necessary to harness the Colum bia in his province. Milwaukie Council Fires Patrolman Cub Scouts Present Tree to Local Home tlinn, en (tinu rni,lrl "on hnmn j UIC111 3" mij fe ......... for Christmas." Mc Cree asked Sain what i moved him to the holdup at i tempt. "What can a man do when I everyone says 'no' tn him?" Cain ovnlnnprl ! ' . .. . J;- .... f.... 4U nr.lmn An. There are otner solutions ana ; "'" f".c ... MILWAUKIE (ITU The Milwaukie City Council dismiss ed patrolman Richard A. Car ret from the police force here Friday night. He was allowed to remain as wim i mul-i"-. Slde (fccl3 sucn as cataracts University of Oregon. ! hajr ,oss am) h h The micro-filming process isThe , rf f tne Miming oi papers uc-: nU)cr (our amj onp hn,f monhs tion in sye which .often he Mor cnouRh pvi(pncc was rauu n . ...... "" " " " found to justify its withdrawal process enables libraries which T. . .., , ... are pressed for space, as the local library is. lo expand serv ices which would otherwise be impossible. 5 'Olson-Lawyer High Bidder for Timber Frnest Ilinkle. leader of Cub Scout Pack 8. Medford. present-j we'u taii about them when you partment until Feb. 1. when his ed a seven-foot Christmas tree. romc back." Mc Cree said. "In employment will be terminated. many presents and candies ana thc meantime here's a little Dismissal was recommended j Medford fruits to the Jackson County Ju- something to tide you oyer by City Manager Max Thomp-' h ' h' J,,a' .lst' ttwk venile Detention Home last Cnristmas at least." son following his investigation . bo(m (ppl of Natjona week, according to Lawrence, The judge handed the couple into charges of insubordination trnrpsl timber in the Hop Creek Tweedy, juvenile supervisor. an envelope containing $H5 made against Carrett by Police Sppp, arpa prnSperl Ranger cavil u. uir .k, , nnrn nafj peen runt-civi ....... ..iv. rinim m luiii'ini... their presentations in person. me jurge anr his staff. i "A fine example of communi- There were tears, then, from . . tv service was displayed by Cub cm and his wife. Mc Cree GeorqO-Pacif IC Thc indictment charged the firm plotted tn deceive federal investigators who aked about reports of injuries to test animals. Iticnardsnn-Merrell also was named in the indictment along with three scientists who worked for the Merrell divi sion: Harold W. Werner, Wil liam M. King, and F.vert F. Van Maanen. I District, i Forest . Rogue River National Pack R and a special mention crjedj too should be eiven to Ernest Hin- i kle. the pack leader, and to the den leaders, Mrs. Ernest Hinkle. Mrs. Rav Huson. Mrs. Ray Hooper, and Mrs. Janet C.riffeth for their thoughtfulness and in genuity, "Tweedy commented. MrKAY IMPROVING SALT LAKE CITY (I'PI) -Doctors reported Saturday that President David O. McKay of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-dav Saints is rapidly re gaining full health and expects to return to his office soon. Indian Office Opens In Woshngfon Sfafe HOQL'IAM (UPI) - The Bu reau of Indian Affairs has open ed an office here to provide so cial welfare services and cm ployment assistance for Indians. 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