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Senate Approves State WelHfaire ConmnmBSSDOim Appropriations "You Think There'f Still Hope?' U.S. Planes Ready To Meet Threat of Panama Invaders Panama City - (UPD - Planes and troops from the United States and three Latin Ameri can nations stood by today to meet the threat of a new ' landing attempt by invaders from Cuba. Informed sources said U.S. planes based in the Canal Zone were expected to start patrolling the Panamani an coast today. Initially, it was thought their mission would be merely to observe invader position and to watch for the possible arrival of reinforcements. A highly placed source said Wednesday at least one more invasion ship was on the way. "We have it spotted," he said. "We are watching." Ecuador Sends Planes The source was unable to y whether the ship was the Cwinthia, which earlier re fowrts said had loaded about invaders in Cuba to join tfc 80-odd now holding the Jaoamanian coastal village of Itnbre de Dios. The Organization of Ameri can States assumed responsi bility for the tactical defense of Panama with the arrival Wednesday of a special five man commission to -survey the situation. The commission promptly appealed to the 21 member nations of the OAS to send planes to Panama for "peace ful observation flights over Souvenir Sacks Of Flour Planned Eagle Point-Souvenir sacks of stone-ground wheat flour will be presented tourists stopping at the Siskiyou sum mit Stockade welcome booth, according to the Eagle Point Lions auxiliary. Members of the auxiliary have volunteered to sack flour ground at the old grist mill here. It will be labeled and sacked in cellophane.: One of the Rogue valley's historical landmarks, the grist mill is owned by George Put man, who supervises the op eration. The mill dates back to 1872, and has been in op eration ever since, grinding flour and cornmeal on a set of 13 stone burrs. It is one, of the few, if not the only, grist mill in Oregon, according to Jackson County Centennial association offic ials. Putman helped his father dress stones for grinding when he was eight years old. Stones used in grist mills were shipped to this country as ballast in ships arriving from Europe. Members of the Lions aux iliary plan to install signs di recting tourists to the mill, j Speakers Available During Observance Of Conservation Week, Gribble Notes Speakers will be available for organizations wishing them during Conservation week, May 3 Ihrough 10, John Gribble, Jackson county chair man, has announced. , Conservation'week is being sponsored by the state com mittee on natural ' resources. Gov. Mark Hatfield, in des ignating the week, said "it seems particularly fitting dur ing the Centennial year to continue implement the work . of conservation and efficient u of our resources." Gribble said special atten tion during Conservation week will be given support of program for clean waters in streams and lakes; wider Panamanian territory and the nearby seas." Ecuador responded by send ing two reconnaissance planes to Albrook Field, a U.S. base in the Zone. Guatemala sent a planeload of volunteers de scribed as "experts in moun tain and jungle warfare." City Budget To Be Presented Tonight The preliminary city of Med ford 1959-60 budget will be presented to citizens and coun cilmen of the city's budget committee tonight, according to City Manager Robert A. Duff. Duff, who has screened and modified individual depart ments'- requests during the past few weeks, was putting final touches on the budget this morning. , ."Levies will be somewhat higher," he commented, "but increases in assessed valua tion should preclude any high er millage rate." The budget committee's first meeting, at 7:30 o'clock to night, is expected to be pri- m a r i 1 y organizational. A chairman and secretary are to be selected, and a schedule ar ranged for meetings. Since the preliminary budget's pre sentation this- year is behind schedule, the committee may meet more frequently than in the past, Duff said. Citizens on the committee include Howard Boyd, Tony Manno, Carl Dawson, Aubrey Loper, Galen Knox, Tom Rick ard, Mrs. Dwight Houghton and Tod Tibbutt. All eight city "councilmen are other committee members. Endurance Fliers Down in Nevada Minden, . Nev.-OIPD-Two Se attle pilots out to break the world's flight endurance rec ord were forced down at Douglas-Tahce airport here to day because of electrical trouble. -Crusaders Flight Inc., back ers of the attempt to crack the 66-day record recently set in Las Vegas, Nev., said the flight would be abandoned if repairs could not be made by noon, . Pilots Gene Tanner and Lou Becker said they doubted if the aircraft could be repaired by the deadline. Salem - (UPD - State police headquarters said Capt. Holly V. Holcomb would succeed Vayne M. Gurdane in com mand df the Milwaukie dis trict headquarters effective May 1. acceptance of approved soil and land practices; decrease in the number of man-made fires; increased public knowl edge of conservation, prob lems; and the need of fish and wildlife for improved and adequate habitat. Schools, civic groups, sportsmen's clubs, conserva tion organizations, public and private agencies and business concerns are participating in the observance, he reported. Speakers will discuss con servation in the fields of game, fish, pollution, soil, water resources, rational parks, tree farming, l..-e pro tection, and forestry. Speakers who will be avail Balanced Budget Drive Shelved By Republicans Funds for Health Top Ike's Request Washington (UPD House Republicans temporar ily shelved President Eisen hower's budget balancing campaign today. They decided not to make a party fight against increased . spending for health, education and welfare. An appropriations bill car rying $181,391,700 more than the President requested for health, education and welfare programs was slaled for House . debate amid signs it would meet no organized GOP opposition. Rep. Charles A. Halleck, (R-Ind.), leader of the out- manned Republican forces, said some items in the bill were "too high" but he added, "we have to face the fact that there isn't much we can do about it." No Stomach for Vol The fact of the matter also was that a good many Re publicans had no stomach for voting against items like in creased funds for research n cancer, heart ailments, and other diseases. The bill car ried $50 million more than the budget for these items. 4 As sent to the House floor, the bill would provide $3, 915.084.181 for the Health, Education and Welfare De partment and the Labor De partment and related agen cies in the next fiscal year. One of the biggest single increases was a hike of $50 million for research on dis eases by the National Insti tutes of Health. - New York -(UPD Sen. Rich ard L. Neuberger (D-Ore.), charged today that the Eisen hower administration had sacrificed the nation's health needs by politically inspired budget juggling. He said the government had allocated "comparative ly pitiful sums" for medical research," while "frittering away" large sums on "things of much lesser significance." "The administration's fis cal 1960 budget for medical research is a static one," Neuberger said. "It allows for the support of very few new research projects in the ma jor disease areas. It freezes the rate of growth of these programs at the current level." Shady Cove Plans Centennial Event Shady-Cove Trail-A parade, exhibits, a smorgasbord din ner, and dancirg will high light the Oregon Centennial observance in the Shady Cove Trail area Saturday. The parade will start at 11:30 a.m. from the Shady Cove school grounds with en tries scheduled to meet at 10:30 ajn. It will disband at the Veterans of Foreign Wars hall. Prizes will be awarded for the sweepstakes float, and the best floats in the adult group and single, and child group and single, according to pa rade sponsors. Booths and exhibits ' are planned by several organiza tions in the area. The smorgasbord dinner is scheduled between 4 and 8 p.m. in the VFW -hall, and dancing to the music of Larry Rock and his orchestra is scheduled between 9 p.m. and 1 a.m. Jackson County Centennial association officials said they have received word that the "Black Dog Bandits" have in vited a group of "bounty hunters" to "shoot it out" at the Shady Cove event about 2:30 p.m. able include Charlie Shep herd, Ashland; Cole Rivers, Grants Pass; Col. Paul Wei land, Medford, Clem Ault, Medford; Mrs. Hanley Heffer man, Medford; Tom Williams and Bruce Black, both of Cra ter Lake National park; Cal Smith, Medford; Curt Nesh eim, state department of for estry; Russel DeForest, Med ford attorney; Eugene Winters and Glenn Kline, extension agents; Ross Youngblood, Robert Hostetter, and Dwight Patton, all of the bureau of land management; and Carroll Brown, S. T. (Tenny) Moore, Howard Hopkins and district rangers from the Rogue River National forest. 24 PAGES Will WES 1 mu m S THAT Paris-(UPD-The four western foreign ministers wound up their Paris conference today and announced "complete agreement" on western strate gy to meet the Soviet Union. In an official communique issued at , the end of a day and a half of talks, the min isters announced they had re affirmed their determination to ensure the freedom of West Berlin. They expressed their will- Ceremonies Set Friday for Law Day Observance Law Day ceremonies will be held at-1:30 p.m. Friday in Jackson county circuit court No. 2, according to Paul Hav iland, Jackson county chair man of Law Day observance. Judge James M. Main will open ceremonies with re marks concerning Law Day, U. S. A., and Haviland will in troduce Sam Harbison, who will read the president's proc lamation. Haviland also will read an editorial which appeared in the Crater High school Com ments, school newspaper, written by Sheryl Koellner, who won honorable mention in the state Law Day high school editorial contest. She will be presented a cer tificate of merit, signed by presidents of the Oregon State Bar and the Jackson County Bar associations. Harry Skerry, Ashland, will present a resolution on behalf of the Jackson County Bar honoring Miss Nydah Neal and Miss Helen Dugan, depu ty county clerks. Miss Neal has been employed as a dep uty about 35 years, and Miss Dugan about 30 years. The resolution will be pre sented in behalf of the Bar association's appreciation for their cooperation with law yers, long service, and the im portant part they play in le gal procedures. Also on the program are remarks by George M. Rob erts, local attorney. The public is invited to Law Day ceremonies, Haviland said. Ex-Local Man Found Guilty in San Juan San Juan, Puerto Rico - (UPD -Donald Leroy Chamberlain, 32, formerly of Medford, Ore., Wednesday night was convict ed of attempted robbery, car rying arms illegally and il legal possession of weapons, but he said today he would appeal the conviction. Sentencing was set for next Monday. Sentences on the three charges could be one to 14 years for attempted robbery, one to five years for carrying arms illegally and six. months to two years for illegal pos session of weapons. WEATHER FORECAST: Periods of partial clearing and cooler tonight. Partly cloudy with a few light showers over mountains on Fri day. Airport low tonight 38. High Friday 67. Highest Yesterday 76 Lowest this Morning ; 49 Prec. a.m. Today .07 Our Skies Tonight Sunset today 7:09 p.m. Sunrise tomorrow 5:08 a.m. Moonrise tomorrow 2:07 a.m. New Moon May 7 Venus, well up In the western sky, is now the first "star" to be seen after sunset and Jupiter, well down in the southwest, will be the last "star" to fade out in the morning twilight. 54th Year. -tvtf ATT MEDFORD, ingness to engage in negotia tions with the Soviets "to en sure a just peace in Europe." Despite an official cloak of secrecy oh details, responsible sources said the foreign min isters of Britain, France, the United States and West Ger many had agreed to seek uni fication of East and West Ber lin under four power guaran tees. It could set the pattern for all-German reunification. This would be an answer to the Soviet demand that West Berlin be made a "free city." If the Soviets did not accept it, then the West would call for maintenance of its existing rights in West Berlin under agreement with the So viet Union, and with a U.N. observer stationed in Berlin. The conference started Wed nesday. Originally it had been expected to last three full days. A spokesman said the four reached "complete agree ment" on policy, strategy and tactics for the meeting with the Russians planned for May 11 at Geneva. But they de cided to maintain complete secrecy about their plans, he said. The conference spokesman said no more formal western meetings were planned before the meeting with the Russians, although the foreign ministers1 will arrive in Geneva May 10 -one day early-and can meet then if necessary. Bids Called for Two Bunkhouses The Rogue River National Forest has called for bids for construction of two combina tion 10-man bunkhouses and bathhouses at Union Creek Ranger station, according to Forest Supervisor Carroll E. Brown. A tour of the site will be conducted for interested bid ders at 12:30 p.m. Monday, May 4. Copies of plans and specifications are on file at the office of the forest super visor, Medford. E. J. Fordyce and associates has been awarded a contract to construct a residence at Star Ranger station, and will commence operations in the near future. The same firm is completing construction of the new Prospect Ranger station, which provides for four resi dences, an office, gas and oil house, sewage disposal facili ties, and water system. Rogue Valley Construction company is building an addi tion on the forest service of fice at Butte Falls and erect ing an equipment storage building. McAndrews Rd. Is Closed in Daytime McAndrews rd. between Biddle rd. and Crater Lake ave. is closed to traffic today and tomorrow during con struction of sewer connec tions, Ray Vaughan, acting Medford public works direct or, said today. Vaughan said the street would be open at night. The connections are part of the Kenwood-Grandview sanitary sewer project. A detour at Crater Lake ave. and Grand ave., involv ing a short by-pass across pri vate property, has also been required by the sewer con struction, Vaughan reported. He said that work on widen ing and paving of East Jack son st. between Bear creek and Genessee st., is expected to get under way in the near future. City crews this week were making sewer repairs along these sections. ddi House SEosttaoDis Mo of M EG" TIH6 OREGON, THURSDAY, YOUNG SCIENTIST - Wade Thomas, 12-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Thomas, Medford, demonstrates how ammonia is freed in a special apparatus he built for the science fair being held at The device has a time delay off the electricity when the was awarded first place for his project. The science fair, which includes 23 experiments and collections by inter mediate students, will be open again to the public during school hours tomorrow, according to Mrs. Dona DeKorte, science club advisor. C o u n ty Ap p roves $28,608 for Rural Operating The county budget commit tee Wednesday approved $28,- 608.14 towards the operat ing budget of the rural school district and the county school superintendent's office. The total is "about $19,000 less than "what the county con tributed last year. The request for money of the county was made by a sub committee of the rural school budget committee. Members explained that the operating budget is derived from a tax levy unless, covered from other sources. It has been the policy of the rural school budget com mittee to ask the county court for money, if the county has an excess of funds. Committee members explained that since both' the rural school district and the county are taxing units and it is the feeling of the rural school budget com mittee that if the county has any excess funds they should help assist the board in cov ering a porportion of their budget from such funds. Operating Budget The total operating budget for the rural school district is $146,624 . of which $55,784 is salaries and $26,850 will be reimbursed by the federal government for the special education program. The re maining $63,989.55 is the amount for which the sub committee of the rural school budget, committee asked as sistance of the county. The operating budget is a part of the proposed equalized rural school levy of $2,206, 606.35. During the May 4 school elections, all . school districts will vote on the amount that exceeds the base. The tax base of the rural school district is $1,700,120.93. The amount to be voted on in excess of the base is $436, 485.42. Since the operating budget is required by law to be drawn up by March 12, the rural school budget commit tee does not know if the county will contribute any funds. If county funds are made available, the certified levy required would be auto matically reduced between the date of the election and the submitting of the levy to the county assessor prior . to July 15. First Hems Charged Members of the subcommit tee of the rural school budget committee explained that the Tribune APRIL 30, 1959 Oak Grove school this week. relay that automatically shuts experiment is -finished. Wade Funds operating budget for the rural school district and county superintendent's office are the first item charged against receipts from the rural levy, Since 80.2 per cent of the requireH levy is in the tax base, members stated that if the amount in excess of the base is rejected by voters Monday, only 80.2 per cent of the total estimated equaliz ed levy could be apportioned to the districts. During the county budget committee discussion of the request Wednesday, commit tee members expressed dis approval of assuming respon sibility for the entire $63, 989.55 since it is within a budget over which the county budget committee has no direct control. Damage Suit Trial Starts in Court A trial to recover $403.25 for damages done to a hay crop by irrigation water from the Eagle Point Irrigation dis trict entered its second day in district court this morning. The suit, brought by Paul D. and Mary G. Conrad, Butte Falls Star route, box 74, Eagle Point, concerns inci dents which occurred during June, 1958. The plaintiff charges that the defendant was negligent and careless in the operation, control and maintenance of two ditches near the Conrad property. The jury trial is expected to continue through today. Following jury selection Wed nesday the jury members and court officials traveled to the areas where the damage was reported to have occurred. Conrad is represented by William Deatherage, Medford attorney. Testimony is still be ing presented by the plaintiff, it was reported at press time today. The irrigation district is represented by the law firm of Farrell and Blackhurst. Diamond Lake Road Reopens to Traffic Highway 230, the Diamond Lake highway, was opened to two-way traffic at 8 o'clock this morning, the state high way department announced. The highway was closed by an earth slide last Saturday morning about 8V2 miles north of the Highway 62 junction. Price 10 Cents No. 35 Roll Call Count Four Votes Short Of Overriding Four Democrats Join To Sustain President Washington-flJPD-The House, by a four-vote margin, today sustained President Eisenhow er's veto of the Rural Electri fication Administration bill. The action kept intact Eis enhower's record of never having a law enacted over his veto. The House roll call vote was 280-146 in favor of overrid ing, but this was four votes short of the required two thirds. The Senate Tuesday voted to override the veto 60 27, two votes more than the minimum required. It takes a two-thirds vote of both the House and Senate to override a veto. Four Democrats joined 142 Republicans to sustain the President. Six Republicans voted with 274 Democrats to override the veto. A major factor in determin ing the outcome was the fact that of the 16 Republicans who originally voted for the bill April 15, only five voted to sustain the veto and two were absent. Mad Into Party Isiu In contrast, four of the five Democrats who broke party lines to oppose the bill April 15 voted today to sustain the veto. The vetoed bill would have stripped Agriculture Secre tary Ezra T. Benson of his power over lending policies of the Rural Electrification Ad ministration. ' The agency loans money at 2 per cent interest to rural co-ops to finance building of electric and telephone systems, Democrats generally were unhappy over the outcome. Some of them felt, however, that they had developed a good political issue for the farm belt, even though they had failed to spoil Eisenhow er's perfect veto record. Benson complained in ad vance of the vote that it was "largely a political move to embarrass me and the Presi dent." Special Run Set For Pony Express The Ashland Sage Riders will participate in a special pony express mail run be tween Portland and Ashland tomorrow. The run starts at 7 a.m. in Portland and riders will trav el Highway 99 east and west, meeting at Junction City. The Grants Pass riding club will provide riders through Josephine county to Savage Rapids dam, and the Sage Riders will carry mail to Ash land, where it will be can celled and transferred to regu lar mail, according to Centen nial association officials. Feeder lines from other ma jor highways connecting with Highway 99 will bring mail for the pony express run from other areas. When the Stockade wel come booth on Siskiyou sum mit is completed and open, the pony express run will end there, officials said. Flood Victims Saved in Northwest Washington Everett. Wash. - (UPD - A Coast Guard helicopter was dispatched shortly before noon today to evacuate four families trapped by the flood ing Snohomish river between Snohomish and Monroe in northwestern Washington. The four families were in the same general area where mother and her four chil dren were snatched to safety just before the deluge broke up their house a few hours earlier. Meanwhile, rain - swollen riverj throughout western Showdown Over Tax Programs Coming Soon $91,166,265 Voted For Use of Welfare Salem (UPD The Oregon Senate, gearing itself for a showdown battle over a tax program, approved appropri ations for the State Welfare Commission Wednesday. Earlier in the day the up per chamber defeated a move by Sen. Monroe Sweetland (D-Milwaukie) who sought to have the tax program approv ed bythe Senate Tax commit tee killed. The program, among other things, calls for a vote of the people on a sales tax in 1960. Complete Revision The Senate program is a complete revision of the one passed last Saturday by the House. It would leave present law unchanged except for a drop in personal exemptions and dependency credits from $600 to $500. Should the people pass' a sales tax personal ex emptions would go from $500 to $1500 on the next Jan. 1. But today the House pass ed a motion to recall from the Senate the 3-cent-per-pack cigarette tax, which had been amended by the Senate Tax committee to include the three per cent sales tax. The action might kill chances for either a cigarette or a sales tax bill to pass this session. , The tax program, if approv ed by the Senate, may wind up in a conference commit tee. Durno Uncertain The Welfare Commission budget approved Wednesday totaled $91,166,265. Of this about $40 million will come in federal grants, counties will contribute $13,247,342, miscellaneous receipts will bring in about $1.3 million and the rest will come from the general fund. Sen. Edwin Durno (R-Med-ford) said the Joint Ways and Means' committee was not cer tain that the sum would be enough but after many hours of work the committee felt it was the best it could do. Sweetland Voles No Sweetland, one of few who voted no on the welfare bill, said he believed the appropri ation was too low. The Senate also passed a bill giving the Welfare com mission an additional $200, 000 deficiency appropriation to help in carrying the wel fare program through until July 1, 1959, making the to tal deficiency appropriation $1,400,000. rMontyr Serious After Conference Moscow (DPD- Field Mar shal Viscount Montgomery had another conference with Nikita Khrushchev teday and emerged from the hour-long session looking serious. The British war hero refus ed to tell newsmen whether the session, only half as long as the first meeting Wednes day, had been cut short. He headed back to the Brit ish Embassy for lunch with Soviet Chief of Staff Marshal Vasily Sokolovsky and De fense Minister Rodion Malin ovski, but told British news men he would meet' with them later. "Montgomery Speaks, a radio program featuring Field Marshal Viscount Montgom ery of El Alamein talking with Edward R. Murrow, will be rebroadcast by radio sta tion KYJC tonight. The program will be heard from 8:05 to 9 p.m. It was this program's first airing which created considerable comment as to Montgomery's outspoken views recently. Salem -(UPD- The Senate to day passed a resolution call ing for a $40 million bond issue for state buildings. If it is approved by the House vot ers would decide it in 1960. Washington were spilling over their banks. An Indian village at Mari etta was evacuated when high tides and the swollen Nook sack river combined to in undate the area. Saved from the flood this morning . were Mrs. Louis Bailey and her three children, Lucille, 11, Ellsworth, 9, and Brian, 3. They were plucked from a house on the Old Monroe-Snohomish Highway by Snohomish policemen in a skiff powered by an outboard motor.
