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I43A 73rd Year No. 18 8)aUiii Phone 793-3221 REDLANDS, CALIFORNIA, WEDNESDAY. NOVEMBER 21. 1962 Month Sixteen Pages 10 Centt Personality changed in Redlands Joan Baez subject of Time cover-page story Joan Baez, foremost woman folksinger in America, owes tiie melancholy quality of her music to embittering experiences with racial segregation as a child in Redlands according to the lead article this week in Time magazine. "In Redlands, Joan found a situation that cut deeper than one old crank," Time says.

"The Mexican schoolchildren there play in separate groups from the "Observably the dominant tone of Joan's personality changed from ebullience to melancholy. "Her 13th birthday came and she said something she would re peat often: 'Mummy, I don't want to grow She lived here from 1950 to 1956 while her father was professor of physics at the University of Red- lauds, and noted for his work with the X-ray microscope. The family lived at 920 Campus. Joan would have been of the ages nine through 14 at that time. She would have been three years an elementary school student and three years in junior high.

She now lives at Carmel. Her father is a professor on leave from Harvey Mudd College as a consultant to UNESCO in Paris. The article on Miss Baez ap pears under Show Busmess, is under the subtitle of. Folk Singing, and is titled "Sibyl with Guitar. A sibyl was a prophetess of the ancient world.

"Her voice is as clear as air In the autumn, a vibrant, strong, untrained and thrilling Time says. "She wears no makeup and her long black hair hangs like drapery, pai'ted around her long almond face." Long Article The article, which is long, and laudatory of her singmg, leads up to the Redlands angle in i way. She was born on Staten Island, January 9, 1941. "But both her parents were foreign-born, her mother was English Scottish, the daughter of an Episcopal minister and professor of dramatic art who migrated to the U.S. "Her father was bom in Mexico and was also a minister's son.

He arrived in the U.S. at the age of seven when his father was sent to work with the Spanish' speaking conmiunity in New York City. After telling of their marriage, he says that his work took the family to many places. "Along the way, young Joan and her two sis ters learned some memorable lessons in bigotry," Time says. It fu-st tells of a neighbor in Buffalo, New York, then goes into the Redlands paragraph.

Parents Were Concerned "Dr. and Mrs. Baez were concerned about Joan while she was a student in Redlands," Mrs. Al Johnson of the UR faculty and a friend of the Baez family said today. "While Joan was at Redlands Junior high school she wanted to stand up for her Mexican American classmates and this caused Weather Redlands Weather Today Highest 79, Lowest 43 One Year Ago Highest 61, Lowest 45 Tomorrow's Sunrise and Sunset 6:29 a.m.

4:43 p.m. Light smog, no burning Thursday or Friday San Bernardino and vicinity: Sunny Thursday. Low tonight 36. U.S. Weather Bureau Noon Forecast Southern California agricultural areas will continue mostly sunny this afternoon and Thursday but with night and morning fog along the immediate coast.

Not much temperature change with high temperatures from 70 along the beaches through the high 70s in coastal and intermediate valleys. Mountain resort levels will be near 70 with 68 to 78 in upper desert valleys and 78 to 85 in lower desert areas. Outlook for Friday is continued sunny but with night and morning low clouds and fog along the coast and a slight cooling Temperatures and precipitation for the 24-hour period ending at 4: a.m.: High Low Precip. 38 35 Boston Chicago Denver Fairbanks Fort Worth Helena Kansas City L.A.—Long Beach Paul New York Oklahoma City Pahn Springs Sacramento Salt Lake City San Francisco Seattle Washington 46 65 10 48 58 57 72 58 42 57 78 69 49 70 54 45 45 40 0 42 36 40 52 29 36 35 46 43 55 44 43 T. .01 .46 .20 .04 .24 .04 Air Force releases reservists TIME COVER Folk Singer Joan Baez, former Redlander, is featured in this painting by Hoban on the cover of Time Magazine for November 23.

The lead article is also about her. emotional problems for her," Mrs. Johnson recalled. "Joan was equally accepted by all the students." When Joan appeared at a performance in Claremont about two years ago, some of her former Redlands Mexican American student friends attended, but left before the concert was concluded. This incident is reported to have made Joan particularly "bitter." Joan began her singing career Redlands.

She played the part of Titania, queen of the fairies, in "A Midsummer's Night Dream" in Redlands Bowl in 1954. Al and Bertha Johnson directed the performance and he wrote some special music for her for the part, which she sang "splendid ly." Mrs. Johnson says Joan also appeared in Little Theater productions at the University. "She used to sing folksongs and play the guitar for family and Pope John XXIII intervenes to support liberals VATICAN CITY Pope John XXIII intervened today to support "liberals" at the Ecumenical Council and halt debate on a subject that could limit the pros pects of Christian unity. The pontiff stepped in after the so-called council "liberals" failed to muster the two-thirds majority required to send the touchy theological draft on "the sources of revelation" back to committee rather than deQbate it on the council floor.

His action was interpreted as a durect move to help the "liberals" and to prevent any action that could hinder the long-range aim of the unity. Council "liberals" said the draft prepared by Alfredo Cardinal Ot taviani was simply a restatement of the 700-7ear-old principles ot the Roman Catholic Church. Ottaviani is regarded as leader of church "conservatives." The liberals said the draft, if adopted in its present form would widen the gap between Catholics and Protestants on the revelation issue. A verbal communique issued following today's session said that by the express wish of the Pope" special committee would be formed to restudy the draft. "Liberal" critics felt the draft placed too much stress on Catholic dogma and tradition, with which other Christian churches disagree, and could hurt the Council's long-range aim of Christian unity.

They sought more emphasis on scientific study ot the Bible as a source of revelation, a position accepted by the other churches. Indians to appear at World's Fair NEW YORK (UPD Native Americans have decided to par ticipate in the 1964-65 New York World's Fair. Charles White Eagle, chairman of the Indian Youth Committee of Arrow, signs an agreement today for an American Indian pa vilion. Integration leaders praise Kennedy order By United Press International Integration leaders today praised President Kennedy's order barring racial discrimination in federally assisted housing, but strong opposition to it shaped up in the South. Sen.

John Stennis, called the executive order "an audacious usurpation of power by the executive branch." "I shall do all withm my power to rally the friends of constitutional government the Congress to secure the recision of this order," Stennis said. On the other hand, the Rev. Martin Luther King longtime integration leader, said the order "carries the whole nation forward to the realization of the American dream." "This is the kind of leadership from the White House thafthe Negro community has waited for so long," the minister, who heads the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, said. These two views roughly outlined the camps of reaction. Sen.

A. Willis Robertson, attacked the order on legal, economic and political grounds. WASHINGTON Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara today authorized the release of more than 14,000 Ah- Force reservists, who were called up for the Cuban 'crisis. He.also authorized the Navy to cancel the tours of duty ordered Oct.

23 for Navy and Marine Corps personnel. A Defense a announcement said "every effort will be made to expedite the release of these men and return them to their homes as soon as possible. Approximately 15,000 Navy and 2,000 Marine Corps personnel had received orders extending their tours of duty. A total of 14,214 Air Force reservists were in eight troop car rier wing headquarters, 24 troop carrier squadrons, and 6 aerial port squadrons ordered to active duty Oct. 28.

The Air Force reservists have remained at their home bases and some flying units have engaged in training operations. It was reported that the reservists probably would not be required to show up at air bases Thursday but rather would spend Thanksgiving day with their families. On Oct. 23, the day after the crisis broke. Defense Secretary Robert S.

McNamara ordered the Navy to freeze on active duty all naval personnel and Marines whose terms otherwise would have expured before next Feb. 28. The action, which could have affected an estimated 30,000 men, was taken to insure adequate manpower for naval forces during the crisis. NASA reports X15 crash due to structural failure EDWARDS AFB, Calif. (UPD- The National Aeronautics and Space Administration reported Tuesday that a structural failure in the landing gear- apparently caused the X15 rocket ship to crash during an emergency landing Nov.

10. NASA said a preliminapf investigation of the crash indicated some part of the ship's landing gear might have collapsed after a perfect skid landing on a dry lake bed. Space agency pilot John McKay, 39, escaped with minor injuries although the Xl5 lurched sideways on its ski-like landing skids for several hundred feet on the Mud Lake emergency landing area before flipping over. The landing gear tore loose from the ship. NASA said exact cause of the mishap could not be determined until later and that a full investigation of the crash was still being made.

The Air Force, a contributor to the X15 program, said one of the ship's skids was believed to have struck a crack on the dry lake surface. Kennedy says Cuba still poses difficult problems WASHINGTON (UPD President Kennedy says Cuba still poses "difficult problems" although Russia's agreemeflt to take its jet bombers home from Cuba has removed the immediate danger of East-West hostilities. Kennedy announced at the open- mg of his news conference Tues day night that Soviet Premier Nikita Khruschev had assured him that all of the IL28 twin-jet bombers in Cuba "will be withdrawn in 30 days." On the basis of this pledge, the President said, he had ordered the U.S. arms blockade of Cuba lifted. It was imposed Oct.

24. The Navy, in announcing the removal of the blockade ships, revealed the strength of the force for the first time today. It said 63 ships and 25,000 men were deployed. The blockade force exceeded the number of ships in the powerful U.S. 6th Fleet in the Mediterranean.

In agreeing to pull out the bombers, Khrushchev also said ships carrying the planes back to Russia could be checked for compliance. The Navy said these checks would be carried out by Atlantic Fleet antisubmarine forces, chiefly with P2V patrol planes equipped mth cameras. The tension-easing bomber removal pledge and the halting ot the U.S. blockade was followed today by a Russian announcement that military preparedness measures it took at the peak of the Cuban crisis bad been called off. Missiles Were Ready Moscow disclosed that one of these measures, not previously announced, was to place intercontinental ballistic missiles in a state of "combat readiness." The announcement also indicated some submarines had been sent to battle stations.

Among the build-up actions previously announced and canceled today was holdover of rocket forces and other key Russian forces scheduled for discharge. The U.S. Navy said some of the Cuban blockade ships already mjght have arrived back at their home ports and chances were many of the 25,000 men assigned to the force would be back on land for Thanksgiving day. Defense officials indicated that a few destroyers would be kept in the general area of Cuba to carry out the inspection of the bomber removal of outward bound Soviet ships. They said the inspection would be made at agreed upon rendezvous points.

Because ot their superior speed, the destroyers might be able to leave from East Coast ports to make rendezvous after the Soviet ships have left Cuba. Formal orders embodying the President's blockade liftmg decision were sent the ships in the quarantine zone from Fleet Headquarters in Norfolk, Va. Kennedy's announcement that the fuse had been removed from the explosive Cuban crisis came just four weeks and a day after his disclosure that Soviet medium-range missiles were poised on the island, aimed at the United States, and that the bombers were being uncrated. Shifts Pressure The President shifted his major pressure from Khrushchev to Cuban Premier Fidel Castro, who still refuses to permit international inspection to prove that his.is­ land no longer contains a nuclear threat. U.S.

aerial and other surveillance will contmue, Kennedy said, until he is satisfied that Cuba no longer is an offensive threat and that offensive weapons such as long-range missiles and bombers will not be slipped back to the island. Kennedy described the prefsent times as "climactic." He said a peaceful solution of the Cuban question "might well open the door" to Soviet-American progress on Berlin and other critical cold war issues. Administration officials said pressure on Castro to permit Inspection would include: close U.S. surveillance of the island by air and other methods. to get the Russians to force the Cuban leader into line on the issue of verification.

-Intensification ot work through the Organization oi American States (OAS) to isolate Cuba even more completely in economic and diplomatic matters. "There is much for which we can be grateful as we look back to where we stood only four weeks ago," Kennedy said. Khrushchev, he said, told him the bombers would be removed and could be "obsei-ved and counted as they leave." "Inasmuch as this goes a long way towards reducing the danger which faced this hemisphere four weeks ago, I have this afternoon instructed the secretary of defense to lift our naval quarantine." Indicates Confidence The lifting of the blockade before the bombers actually had been removed indicated Kennedy's confidence in Khrushchev's intentions. The Pentagon said later that Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara had ordered Atlantic Fleet headquarters at Norfolk, to end the blockade "forthwith" and return the ships to their normal duties.

The blockade has been in force since Oct. 24, with the exception of two days when it was suspended for negotiations in Cuba between Castro and United Nationl Actmg Secretary General Thant. Chinese Reds drive defenders back to Assam Kennedy family headed for Hyannis Port WASHINGTON (UPD President Kennedy and his family leave the nation's capital this afternoon to spend the Thanksgiving weekend at Hyannis Port, Mass. The President, his wife and two children will join other members of the sizable Kennedy family for their traditional gathering. Kennedy plans to remain on Cape Cod for the fuU four-day weekend.

Kennedy told his news conference Tuesday that he intends to spend Christmas in Palm Beach, Fla. The President also took time during his news conference to note that "in this week ot Thanksgiving, there is much for which we can be grateful as we look back to where we stood only four weeks unity of this hemisphere, the support of our allies, and the cahn determination of the American people." NEW DELHI (UPD- Communist Chinese forces drove Indian defenders back to within a few miles of the teagrowing Plains of Assam in the hours before a cease-fire the Reds had set for today. But as the deadline passed, there was no word from the mountain front on whether the fighting had stopped. (Communist China claimed in a Peking Radio broadcast heard in London that it had cleared Indian forces out of all strong points they held "in Chinese territory" in western sectors near the Smo- Indian border.) The United States and Britain continued to bolster India's defenses with a flow of military supplies. Britain sent a political- military mission to India and began airlifting 150 tons of supplies this morning.

The State Department in Washington announced that the United States is sending 12 C130 jet-prop transport planes with American crews to India. Earlier, President Kennedy disclosed he was sending a special mission to New Delhi headed by W. Averell Harriman. The Defense Ministry disclosed that the Chinese attackers had broken through Indian defense lines to within a few miles of the Assam Plains on the northeast frontier. There was an exchange of fire in the Chusul area of Ladakh in the northwest, but Indian forces there held firm to their positions.

A defense spokesman said Indian troops had fallen back 80 miles along the Lohit River south west from the town of Walong near the Burma border, a route that led to the Digboi oilfields in eastern Assam. This was a withdrawal of 64 miles since Tuesday. Admits Chinese Gains The spokesman said that in the western sector of the North East Frontier Agency (NEFA), the Chinese Communists had made "some breakthrough toward the foothills," indicating the attackers were nearing the Assam Plams in this area, too. He reinforced this view by saying that "sporadic fighting is in progress in the mountains some miles south of Bomdila," the vital pass in the Himalayas that gives access to the main road to Tezpur, headquarters of Indian army forces in the northeast. Only a few hours before the deadline for the cease-fire which the Chinese Reds said they would put into effect, an official spokesman here refused to say whether the Indians would end hostilities.

He pointed out that no formal communication had been received in New Delhi from Peking up to that time about the cease-fire. Rejection Is Possible But he pointed out that Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru told Parliament later in the day that "he.would consider the question of the cease-fire" as soon as he was handed the Chinese proposal. Nehru indicated he might reject Red China's cease-fire bid. Nehru told an angry Parliament that India does "not propose to negotiate" with Communist China until its troops- are pulled back to positions they held last Sept. 8.

But he refused to reject the offer flatly until he saw an official text of the note from Peking. In a surprise move, the Chinese Communists had announced that they would put the cease-fire into effect today, but the continued to roll forward as the deadline neared. Indian troops were reported Tuesday holding defensive sitions only 14 miles south of Walong. Since then, they have retreated 64 miles in one day. The spokespian refused to pinpoint the breakthrough, but this was the first mention by the Indians of the foothills area just north of the Assam border.

It meant that the Chinse had cut ruthlessly through the High Himalayas and were on the point of breaking free into the Plains of Assam and possibly into the heart of northeastern India. From the foothills the Chinese would be within a few miles of the Assam Plains with their rice paddies, great tea plantations and the Digboi oilfields. The Communists also would be within easy reach of Tezpur, headquarters for the military forces defending the NEFA, which is only 30 miles away by road. Twin announcements of a massive withdrawal in the eastern NEFA and the breakthrough in the western NEFA meant that the Communist Chinese had now driven more than 100 miles into Indian territory in two sectors. A week ago, the deepest penetration had been only 16 miles south of the McMahon Line, the disputed border Between Indian and Red China.

President lifts voluntary censorship on news Ship's crew suddenly discovers Tlianksgiving LONG BEACH (UPD-The thurty-two crewmen a a the Greek freighter, the Hera, will undergo a true cram course Thursday in, a subject a number of Uiem have wondered about Thanksgiving Day. The crewmen ihave been aboard their ship smce she was seized for debts. They face not one, but two complete Thanksgiving Day dinners. The Hera is to be sold at auction Monday. She has liens for more than $140,000 against her.

The ship was seized Sept. 30, and the men have gone without pay since August. A story telling ot their plight appeared in the Long Beach Independent Press-Telegram. The paper quoted one young seaman who said wistfully, "I would like to know about Thanksgiving, but I guess that isn't to be hoped for now." The response was overwhelming. Families wanted to invite the seamen into their homes.

Los Alamitos Naval Air Station and several restaurants extended invitations for Thanksgiving Dinner. It became apparent that the Hera's 32 crew members were not enough to go around. A compromise was struck. The crewmen will be brought to Long Beach Thursday for church services followed by Thanksgiving dinner at the Greek Orthodox Church. After that the crewmen will be treated to a movie and then a ham Thanksgiving dinner as guests of a restaurant.

By that time, presumably, they will have had all the Thanksgiving a seaman can stand in one day. However, another dinner, this one a traditional Greek feast, will be served them Sunday. The seamen have been so bored during their stay that one said the highlight of theur time here was when a U.S. served the attachment papers on the ship them to play checkers. So their activity schedule was also changed.

They were guests of an amusement park Tuesday night and have invitations to attend Knott's Berry farm and other attractions before the week is out. By the time their forced stay here ends they may have a much better imderstanding of American Thanksgiving. When they first arrived it was all Greek to them. WASHINGTON (UPD President Kennedy Tuesday lifted the voluntary censorship placed on military information during the Cuban crisis. He said his recent information policies might have prevented a disaster.

Much of the President's news conference Tuesday night was devoted to the government's handling of information during the Cuban crisis, and new information policies in the State and Defense Departments. Kennedy said it would have been "possibly disastrous" if news of the Russian buildup in Cuba had "dribbled out" prema turely. And during the days following the announcement of the missile threat, he said, restraints on information were necessary to have the government "speak with one voice." Lifts Press Order He said the 12 points "that we made to the press in regard to voluntary restraints on the movement of troops and so on" would be lifted immediately. Kennedy also said "there will be a change, I think, in the State Department policy directive" requiring all officials to make reports on then: conversations with newsmen. He indicated no chmige in a similar directive at the Defense Department.

"The need" at the State Department, he said, "is somewhat different from what it is in the Defense Department." The Defense Department, he said, deals with "very sensitive mtelligence and the methods by which that intelligence is received." He said his only interest in establishing such policies was to prevent release of military information "extremely inimical" to the national interest. He indicated he was mainly concerned with the possible leakage of intelligence information. Favors Talks As for areas not involved with intelligence, Kennedy said, "I would be delighted" to talk with Assistant Defense Secretary Arthur Sylvester, who issued the order, "and with representatives of the press and see if we can get this straightened out so that there is a free flow of news to which the press is entitled." On other subjects, Kennedy said: and his family will spend Christmas in Florida this year if the situation permits. In a reference to the Cuban crisis that provoked hearty laughter, he said "I hope it will not be too dangerous Florida this year." Democrats i better than expected in the congressional elections, but he. is afraid the situation in the Hoiise may be about the same as it was in the 87th Congress in other words, hard going for much of his legislative program.

is no indication now that the apparent difficulty between Red Chma and Russia "is helpful or harmful" to us. A better appraisal might be made ing the next month, he said. United States "is interested" in Brazil's proposal that nuclear arms and vehicles to deliver them be banned in all of South Soviets cancel their military preparedness plan MOSCOW (UPD The Soviet Union today canceled the military preparedness measures it took last month at the height of the Cuban crisis. It said President Kennedy's lifting the Cuban blockade made the relaxation possible. The orders to the Soviet armed forces disclosed for the first time that intercontinental ballistic missiles had been in a state of "combat readiness" and indicated that some submarines had been sent to battle stations.

The announcement came shortly after Moscow Radio told the Soviet people of the President's decision to end the blockade. But the broadcast did not mention the fact that U.S. aerial surveillance of the island will continue. Later, Moscow Radio broke its silence on the Chmese Communist cease-fire in the Indian border war. It broadcast a four-minute summary of the Chinese decision, without comment.

The military measures included a holdover of rocket forces and other key forces scheduled for discharge and an increase in the general state of combat readiness of all the armed forces. Other Orders Rescinded The official announcement, broadcast by Moscow Radio, said that similar readiness orders given to the Warsaw Pact forces of Russia's East European allies also were bemg rescinded. It said the decision was made "in connection with the orders issued by President Kennedy on the lifting of the quarantine (blockade) of Cuba." The orders were given to the forces, it said, "in connection with the possibility that has appeared for liquidating the aftermath of the dangerous crisis that has taken place in the Caribbean Sea." U.S. denies bombing of Cuban ship WASHINGTON (UPD The United States denied Tuesday that a U.S. warplane bombed a Cuban freighter in international waters near Burmuda Monday.

A Defense Department spokesman said "there is no basis for this report," first aired by Havana Radio. Takes Fenfana pesf FONTANA (UPI)-John M. R. Hope, 37, Tuesday was named to the post of city administrator for Fontana. Hope, a father of six, was appointed to fill a vacancy that has existed smce January, 1860.

Hope comes to Fontana from Los Altos, where lie was chief city administrator. HOLIDAY NOTICE The Facts won't be published tomorrow, November 22, Thanksgiving Day..