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Newspaper Page Textr Recommended Phoenix citizens are starting to cleaa up the old pioneer cemetery behind the Southern Orefon auction yards. The gravestones remind a visitor of the part the settlers who lie bnried there played in the de velopment of Jackson county. Read the story on pafe 12 of today's Mail tribune. 54th Year Subscribers To report improper or non delivery of the Mail Tribune in Medford phone SP 2-6141. Ash land MU 2-1021, Yreka VI 2-4077 before 6:45 p.m. daily and 12:30 p.m. Sunday. If regular delivery arrives shortly after you call please notify office thus eliminating special messenger service. Price 10 Cents nn mEDFORD United Press International Full Leased Wire United Press International Full Leased Wire 56 PAGES MEDFORD. OREGON, SUNDAY, MAY 24, 1959 No. 55 mn rr RIBXJIE Arms for Force To Attack Castro Seized in Florida US. Customs Agents Round Up 14 Suspects . Miami - (CPD - Cuban exiles Gas Dealers Plan Station Closures As Price Protest One-Third to Act Memorial Week End "Nali, I Didn't Say Nothin, About Startin, No Rumble" WesfteirirD iPoweirs' confirmed yesterday that a plane-load of arms seized by customs agents was destined for an expeditionary force training in the Dominican Re public for an assault against the Cuban government of Fi del Castro. The raid Friday resulted in the arrest of 14 persons and may have upset the timetable of a Cuban counter-revolution. The roundup of suspects in . eluded the Dominican Repub lic's Consul in Miami, Augus to Ferrando, a Miami police man who once served as body guard for Dominican strong man Rafael Trujillo's playboy son, and a shapely woman co pilot. All 14, released on bonds ranging from $25,000 to $500, face hearings June 8 on charges of plotting to export ' arms illegally. Ferrando, who surrendered, after spending six hofcrs in'-the diplomatic security of his consulate, po liceman Joseph Liquori, 31, and . Leonard Trenton, 35, Trenton, . N.J., businessman, also were charged with of fering $1,400 in bribes to two customs agents. - ' Force Being Asembled Federal officers told news men they understood the arms were restined for' a Cu ban counter - revolutionary force being assembled in the Dominican Republic. Cuban sources i n Miami confirmed this yesterday. Two exiles reported the attack against Castro's revolutionary government had been set for two weeks hence, but now has been set back to one month. ' ' ' ' . The Cubans said, however,! that the arms seizure amount ed to onlyl a small fraction of the . weapons and ammu nition already put into the hands of the expeditionary force in Santo Domingo.-'-Million Dollars . Joseph A. Fortier, chief cus toms agent, said the two agents that were offered bribes were told that plans called for shipping a million dollars worth of arms thru Miami. The agents went along with the plot and set the trap that resulted in the raid. The raid netted 200,000 rounds of ammunition, 17 ma chine guns, 38 Garand rifles and parts for 20 carbines and the transport plane, officers said. It was staged as the plane was being loaded. Reports from both Cuban and U.S. sources here indi cated that former Cuban pres ident Fulgencio Batista was being left out of planning the counter revolution. Batista presently is. living in Ciudad Trujillo where he fled before Castro's revolutionaries Jan.l. Florida Unions Back Carpenters Cape Canaveral, Fla. (ltD AFL-CIO union leaders in the Cape Canaveral Cocoa Beach - Patrick AFB varea voted "solid support" yester day to a strike by carpenters at the Air Force missile test center. . Some 500 carpenters are on strike in a wage and con tract dispute. About 1,000 other union workers have re fused to cross their, picket lines, and it was not known what effect yesterday's action would have on other union workers. There are about 5,300 union workers at the test base and at Patrick. - A statement by the union leaders called for a "mass rally" of all union workers at Cape Canaveral and Patrick AFB early this week. WEATHER FORECAST: Generally fair to day. Variable cloudiness tonight and Monday. Cooler Monday, today 85. Low tonight 49. High Monday 75. - TEMP. Highest Saturday 82 Lowest Saturday 41 Our Skies Tonight Sunset today Sunrise tomorrow Moonrise tonicht . 734 p.m. . 4:42 a-m. J:5 pja. Venus, always the brifhest of all the stars and planets (now more than 3 times as bright as Jupiter), tonight is directly be low the Twins. In a few weeks it wiM pass to the east of Mars, tke dtsn planet above it to the left of the Twins. BERRYDALE SEWER - Work began last week on the Berrydale sanitary sewer system. Here, a pressure line is laid along Lawnsdale 1 rd. tq carry sewage from a pumping station near Bear creek east to the Camp White trunk jsewer line. Jeske Brothers Construction company, Eugene, is con tractor for the construction work.i The sewer, which will serve almost the entire Berrydale area, is expected to be completed by this fall. Committee Approves Budget for Medford The Medford budget com mittee Friday night approved a preliminary 1959-60 city budget setting general fund expenditures at $934,361 and keeping the total property tax levy $80 below the 6 per cent limitation. The committee adopted a suggestion by City Council man Don Hansen, Ward II, that it meet periodically dur ing the year to consider policy mattexs.X;ty Manager Robert AryJttfi -reKmriTenaea max such meeting be held early in October. The 1959-60 water depart ment budget was also ap proved by the committee. This budget sets water fund ex penditures, at $488,849.49, a considerable decrease from the estimated 1958-59 total of $555,633.06. . Under the 6 per cent limi tation, fixed by the state con stitution, a city's property tar levy for a given year cannot exceed that for any of three preceding years by more than 6 per cent without approval at the polls. Had the general fund expenditure figure been more than $80 higher, it would have pushed the property tax levy over this limit. In the budget as Duff orig inally submitted it, the sum for general fund expenditures was $882,065. The major in crease is a $50,000 item rep resenting two-thirds of the West Jackson st. swimming pool outlay. This item, off-set by part of the proposed $75, 000 gift from the Jackson County Housing authority, has been carried over from the 1958-59 budget. Twelve of the thirteen com mittee members present voted for the budget's approval. The thirteenth, Councilman Ed Hall, Ward I, asked that ac tion be postponed another week. Three members did not attend. ' Approval of the water de partment budget was unanim ous. , ' The discontinuance of a contract with Jackson county for health services, suggested previously as a possible econ omy move, was reported un feasible by Councilman Stan Stark, Ward TV, spokesman for a special subcommittee that investigated the matter. Stark said that if the city did not utilize medical and sanitation services provided by the county health depart ment it would incur a far greater, expense in seeking these services independently. He noted that the proposed increase in the contract fig ure from $4,000 in this year's budget to $5,000 in 1959-60 represents salary increases. Stark's subcommittee did recommend, and the commit tee approved, cutting $500 from this outlay and trans ferring it to the water depart ment budget. This sum repre sents payment for water test ing. Providing meter maids for the police department was again discussed. The commit tee generally, with the ex ception of Councilman Fred Robinson, Ward I, favored the idea. But budget restrictions prevailed, and the committee settled for a recommendation J for next year. Setting aside funds for a municipal off-street parking some length. Hall stated that downtown merchants strong ly favored such a program. However, no sinking fund was established last year to per petuate a $7,000 appropriation in the 1958-59 budget. And no money was left within the 1959-60 budget's limits for such an allotment. , ' Revised figures for the parks and recreation depart ment were found satisfactory. Included in the new outlay is $1,500 for restoration of pic nic areas atop Roxy Ann Butte. - ' v ; The committee held a brief closed session, in which it add ed to a general increase in city hall salaries a raise for City Manager Robert Duff, who had not asked it for him self in the budget, and one for the city , judge, also not included in the preliminary figures. Duff gave the committee a run-down on proposed capital improvements during 1959-60, including arterial streets, storm sewers and sanitary sewers. (See Story on Page 2) Brazilian Troops Patrol After Riots Rio De Janeiro-(UPD-Federal troops patrolled the streets of Niteroi, Rio De Janeiro state capital just across Guanabara bay yesterday following day long disturbances Friday that left a toll of, four dead and 112 injured. , , Four were killed when an gry commuters descended on the ferry station at Niteroi and set it and a ferryboat afire. Police fired into the mob, killing four. The commuters : rioted to protest a work stoppage that left them cut off from their jobs in Rio. The men who operate ferries for Carreteiro Ferry Co. struck for back wages. Pentagon Washington-flJPD - The de fense department yesterday disavowed an Army attack on the Senate Armed Services committee and the Air Force and disclosed it is investigat ing the origin of the outburst. The Army publicly accused the Senate committee of en danging national defense by proposing a drastic cut in the Nike-Hercules anti - aircraft missile program. It also as sailed the Air Force's Bomarc missile, which appeared to have been favored in the Sen ate committee. Top defense officials hinted the Army had come close to insubordination! "The Army press statement was issued without any consultation . in the department of defense," as sistant defense secretary Mur ray Snyder told newsmen. The Army uncorked the at tack late Friday. Snyder, who is in charge of defense information, said Portland-flJPD - More than 1.0Q0 Oregon gasoline dealers plan to close their service sta tions during the Memorial Day weekend to protest pricing policies of the major oil com panies, J. S. Baker, business manager of the Oregon Gaso line Dealers association, said yesterday. Baker said the scheduled closure was "voluntary" by both association and non-as sociation dealers. There are about 3,000 stations in Oregon, he said, and one out of three plan to close in the protest move from Friday midnight to Sunday midnight. Action Touched Off The action was touched off by the closing two weeks ago of some 60 stations in protest what the distrbutors called inequities of suppliers' prices to retailers. Baker said the sentiment for shutting down was "spreading" and he had had calls .from Weshington and California dealers. He said tat the association has merely asked the major oil companies to "adopt a wholesale price, and stick with it." He said the price-cutting among dealers was started be cause the oil companies "gave rebates, kickbacks, subsidies, free rent, and discounts" to various retail outlets. Fair Profit Baker said a fair profit would require a margin of 6 cents a gallon with regular gas priced at 33.9 cents a gal lon. Rabbit Book Burning Urged Montgomery, Ala. - (UPD-A segregationist has called for the burning of a pre-school children's book because it is about a white girl rabbit marrying a black boy rabbit. The book is "The Rabbit's Wedding" by Carth Williams. "This book should be taken off the shelves and burned," State. Sen. 'E O. Eddins said Friday. "There are many other books of the same nature and others that are communistic which should be burned as well." The book was taken from open shelves in Alabama pub lic libraries after the Mont gomery Home News, a weekly newsnaner expressing the sentiment of -the Alabama Citizens Council and the Ku Klux Klan, objected to it. Emily Wheelock Reed, direct or of the Alabama Public Li brary Service division, denied the book was banned. She said it was placed on reserve shelves and was available on request. No End in Sight To Oregon Strike Portland -(UPD- The strike of Portland Pile Drivers yes terday was affecting work in far eastern and far western Oregon. There was no end in sight to the dispute. A picket appeared Friday at the site of twin bridges be ing constructed across the Snake river at Ontario, halt ing work there. Replies to Army Blast that it was "not a closed is sue." He revealed he had con ferred by telephone with de fense secretary Neil H. Mc Elroy, who is in Geneva, Swit zerland, attending the Big Four foreign ministers con ference, and acting secretary Thomas S. Gates Jr. He also said he planned to talk with Army Secretary Wilber M. Brucker. At issue is not only a public attack on a congressional com mittee on which the defense department must rely heavily, but the department's control over a subordinate department -the Army-and the handling of a public pronouncement. The Army -acted in an ap parently desperate move to save its Nike-Hercules pro gram after the Armed Ser vices committee on May 14 proposed that $17,322,000 be cut from an Army request for $22,413,000, for missile sites. The committee also proposed School Budget Me For Medford Called The Medford school board Friday afterndon approved a budget totaling $3,771,866.29, and called for an election Tuesday, " June 9, on the amount outside the 6 per cent limitation. The total is more than pro posed in the - original pre liminary budget. But because of revenue increases which were not known' when the pre liminary budget was drawn up, the amount to be raised by property taxes is $107,669.25 less than what was proposed originally, according to Frank Bash, , chairman of the board. The school board added $32,700 to the proposed bud- Racial Tensions' Flare in London - London - (UPD - Extra po licemen were rushed to the tense Notting Hill district yesterday because of fears that racial violence might break over the weekend. Scotland Yard transferred 30 uniformed men into the area where West Indian Negro Kelso Cochrane was killed by a gang of white youths a week ago. The woman who saw the slaying from her window and reported it to police was giv en police protection. The woman, Mrs, Joy Okine, said she was the victim of a "whis pering campaign" because she went to the police. The White Defense league and the National Labor Party (no relation to the labor party in Parliament) Friday night plastered -the Notting Hill area with pamphlets that said the nation was being "mon- grelized" by the immigration of colored people. To add to the tension in the area, many colored people de manded formation of "vigi lante" committees to protect blacks from the whites who live side by side' with them. But officials of African or ganizations and the West In dian commissioner's office Friday night came out against formation of such committees on grounds they would "only lead to further trouble." repeal of previous authority for the Army to put 50 Her cules batteries around 25 Strategic Air Command bases in the United States and eight in Hawaii. The Nike-Hercules has a range of 75 to 100 miles and an atomic warhead. The Air Force's Bomarc has a range of 200 to 400 miles, depending on the model, and is schedul ed to go into service late this year. The Bomarc also has an atomic warhead. 1 The Defense Department said in a separate statement yesterday that the nation's de fenses require both the Her cules and the Bomarc. "The master plan for num bers and location for both systems is being reviewed in an expedited manner,", it said. It added that the plan "will be submitted to congress by the Secreteary of Defense as promptly as possible." get. Most items added were those which school officials had deleted from the earlier budget. The $3,771,866.29 budget includes the general fund, $3, 428,070.60, and the sinking fund and bond interest, $343, 795.69. Estimated total receipts have increased $134,500 to $1,326,766 for the general fund, leaving $2,445,100.29 necessary to balance the bud get. To the latter total is added an estimated $142,658.93 which will not be collected, including both taxes and re bates on taxes. This leaves' a total "of $2,587,759.22 to be raised by tax levies next fis cal year. Less Than; Original Because of increased reve nues, the $2,587,759.22 is $107,669.25 less than the orig inal estimated tax levy of $2,691,849.71, Bash noted. This reduces the anticipated millage for next fiscal year by 2.3 mills, from 59.8 to 57,5 based on an assessed valu ation of $45 million. . The millage represents an increase of 10.7 mills in the Medford district, instead of a 13-mill increase as previously indicated. Compared with'the consolidated district millage, which was figured at 49.5 for the 1958-59 year, the increase instead of the original 20.8 per cent increase. District patrons will vote on $1,699,051.07 outside the 6 per cent limitation instead of the $1,803,141.56 as out lined in the original prelim inary budget. Polling Places The election will be held between 2 and 8 p.m: at Hed rick Junior High, McLoughlin Junior High, Jacksonville High school. Griffin C.rerir school, Ruch, Lone Pine and Howard schools. The largest increase in revenue is $103,500 from the county school funds. The county budget committee re cently authorized increasing the amount per census child from $10 to $20 to help re lieve local property taxes. Another $1,000 in addition al revenue is expected from the state as reimbursement for the driver training pro gram, and $30,000 was added to the next cash balance from outlying districts. The latter figure was not available from districts which recently con solidated with Medford when the preliminary budget was drawn up. Additional expenditures in the budget approved by the board total $32,700, compar ed to added revenue amount ing to $134,500, Bash noted. Largest Increase Largest increase in outlays was $6,000 for renovation, re pair and maintenance of dis trict buildings. Some of the money will be used in dis tricts which recently-consolidated with Medford, since some of the work on those ! buildings had been planned by that district. Another major expenditure added to the budget was $5,700 for an additional high school teacher and teacher fa cilities, Bash said. Other ad ditions were for items which were deleted from the origin al budget, most of them from non-academic subjects. , Up to ' Hoseimlhoweir Aid Boost Support By ike Held Crucial Washington -(UPD Sen. " J. William Fulbright said yester day yie fate of his proposal to expand the development loan fund for economic aid to under-developed countries "depends entirely on the pres ident.'; ' The Arkansas Democrat, chairman of the Senate For eign Relations committee, in effect has challenged Presi Eisenhower to get behind the proposal in light of what Ful bright regards as at least a partial endorsement of the plan at a recent White House press conference. . However, Fulbright told a reporter he did not know what stand Eisenhower would take officially. Fulbright Friday asked the State Department to present the President's views to the committee Monday, when Un dersecretary of State C. Doug las Dillon will testify on the economic aid program.. . Eisenhower asked for $700 million to continue the loan fund for another year, as part of his .$3.9 billion overall for eign aid request. ; ' j Fulbright's plan co-sponsored by Sens. Hubert H Humphrey (D-Minn.), and John F. Kennedy, (D-Mass.), calls for $1.5. billion a year for five years and correspon ding de-emphasis on military aid. It also would remove the loan fund from year-to-year Child Killed By Dog Pack St. Louis - (UPD - A savage pack of stray dogs viciously attacked and killed a 2V&-year-old boy yesterday in su burban Hazelwood, dragging him into a field about 75 yards behind his home. Hours after the attack, po lice reported a search party of 100 to 150 persons, armed with shot guns, riot guns, pistols and clubs, had killed 15 dogs, and wounded and captured three. The torn body of Mark D. Draper was found after the attack by a neighbor, Mel vern Jones, who fought off the snarling, blood - thirsty pack. The dog hunt also extend ed into nearby Lambert-St. Louis airport, from where four heliocopters were press ed into service to aid in the hunt. Two dogs were killed at the airport as they ran with a pack wildly about the run ways, forcing a halt in air traffic for about 15 minutes. Police Chief Albert J. Tal ley vowed death for unleash ed dogs -found running in the area. "From here on in, I'm declaring death on any dogs running loose," Talley said in reminding residents of the community's leash law. "This will never happen again while I'm here." Flu-Like Illness Decline Reported The figure for influenza like illness in Jackson county declined considerably last week, according to Dr. A. Erin Merkel, public health physician. A total of 333 cases were reported for the week ending May 22, he said, compared to 735 the week before. Three weeks ago, a total of 588 cases of flu-like illnesses were re ported. Of last week's total, 114 were reported in Medford, 61 in Central Point, and 53 in Ashland. Phoenix reported 23 cases, Shady Cove 20, Rogue River 17; Jacksonville 14, Camp White 11, Ruch, 8, and Applegate and Butte Falls 6 each. appropriations control by congress by authorizing the long-range operation. Although they have sup ported the president's one year request in testifying on the aid program, State Depart ment and foreign aid officials have made it clear they want ed a bigger, longer-range loan fund but were, in effect, ov erruled by the budget bureau. The Fulbright-Humphrey-Kennedy proposal has picked up considerable support from private organizations. But Fulbright conceded its chan ces for getting through con gress are 'not too good unless the president throws his weight behind it. Durno Named To Tax Group Salem -(UPD- Senate Presi dent Walter Pearson (D-Port-land) yesterday announced ap pointments to nine legislative interim committees; Pearson also created a 10th committee to re-evaluate the program for the new correc tional institution near here. He had called the institution a "glorified jaiy at a board of control meeting. ; House Speaker Robert Dun can (D-Medf ord) said he would announce his appointments within a few days. Gov. Mark Hatfield must appoint public members on the committees. The major taxation commit tee will have as Senate mem bers Harry Boivin (D-Klam-ath Falls), Ward Cook, (D Portland), Ben Musa (D-The Dalles), Dr. Edwin Durno (D Medford) and Donald Hus band, (R-Eugene). All these men advocate a sales tax to decrease the burden on prop erty taxpayers. ; The new correctional insti tution committee is composed of Sens. Robert White (R-Sa-lenv), Jean Lewis (D-Portland) and Pearson. Film Black List' By U5IA Revealed Washington-(UPD-The United States Information agency has reluctantly provided Congress with a list of 82 Hollywood movies "black-listed" against showing in several countries overseas, it was learned yes terday. The government counter- propaganda agency made the list available to a House Ap propriations subcommittee af ter its chairman, Rep. John J. Rooney (D-N.Y.), issued a veil ed warning that' failure to do so would result in less money 'for the department. The list included "All the King's Men," "All Quiet on the Western Front," "The James Dean Story," "Some body Up There Likes Me," 'The Strange One," and "The Sweet Smell of Success." The first two won a c a d em y awards. USIA disapproval means that film companies cannot take advantage of a govern ment program which permits them to convert blocked for eign currency into American dollars for display of their films. Spoils Bulletins Lot Angeles (CPD Sad Sam Jones, tightening up in the clutches with the skill of a veteran Saturday pitch ed the San Francisco Giants lo a .4-2 triumph over the Los Angeles Dodgers. A paid crowd of 37.168, watched the Giants tie their series with the Dodgers. Portland, Ore. -(UPD- Van couver clipped Portland 7-1 in the second game of a Pacific Coast league series here Saturday night when Mounlie Catcher Jim Pag liaonore blasted a 2nd in ning three-run homer. Geneva Progress, Atmosphere Seen Bases for Verdict Soviets Issue Protest Against Nuclear Arms Geneva (UPD President Eisenhower decides for the west wether sufficient nro- gress has been made at the ueneva Foreign Ministers' conference to iustifv a sum. mit meeting, authoritative conference sources disclosed yesterday. They said the final Hprisinn would be based on a twin yardstick: 1. The actual material pro gress achipvoH Hir Via d; . j w.v. J& Four Foreign Ministers; 2. The "atmnsnhe" of wind-up of the current talks. xne secona lactor may be the more decisive, it was said. If the Geneva negotiations erupt into a bout of East West charges and counter charges, a summit meeting WOUld ho hicrM-o- -,:wi rm O J wmiactj. U they remain friendly, chances a sumrnii get-together would be far greater. Meanwhile, the West al ready obviouslv V " vm j vi Russian stalling tactics and mere were rumors the U.S. might even move to break off the talks if no progress is shown, by-the end of this week. . ' .. Asked nhmil- ..ms ituuuift, U. S. Assistant Secretary of omie Anorew ti, Berding, the official U. S. spokesman, re fused to confirm them but said: Let's wait until th onA of next week." As the Foreign Minister An drei Gromvkn as bour and a half with West t-rerman t oreign minister Hen rich Von Brentano at the lat ter's villa. The meeting was at Gromyko's request, and a communique issued by the West Oprmanc Info. i4 tu ,uu uiejr had a "frank" discussion of proDiems wnich form the basis Of the mnfprenpa Other Developments U.S. Secretary of State Chrisitan A. Herter met for two hours at his villa beside Lake Geneva txrifh tt c tw fense Secrettary Neil McElroy Importance was lent to the Herter-McElroy meeting b y the fact that they were ac companied by two top aides assistant Secretary of State Gerald O. Smith, an expert on policy planning and Assist ant Defense Secretary John N. Irwin, whose specialty is internal security. The Soviet government de livered a new protest note against the nuclear arming of the NATO countries, partic ularly West Germany, to the United Staes. A similar note went to the West German gov ernment. The Soviets charged that such actions were hardly Compatible with the tnr. of the Foreign Ministers to re- Ml... 4.1 .14. 1 - . . . me inormest interna tional rjrobJpme Stalling Tactic The official Soviet News Agency Tass said that Russia virm.U J . ... uuiu aemana in the very nevt days' that the Foreign Ministers of Poland and Czechoslovakia be admitted to the conference as full par ticipants. It was a now .!n ing tactic by the Russian on a uemana aireaay rejected by the West. The Berlin Communist or gan Neues TlpiifcpVilan - . 0UU, the German Communists would oppose secret sessions at Geneva fmm wViiK 4Vio; representatives were exclud- 3 eu. The French and West Ger mans, who all along have been less enthusiastic and more skeptical than the U.S. and Britain about whether a summit meeting is worth while at all, were said to be willing to follow the U.S. lead on th( strpnsrth of TT R nH British assurances there would be no sell-out to the Kussian on Berlin. Havana (UPD The official revolutionary newpaper Rev olucion yesterday quoted pre mier Fidel Castro as warning organized workers to stop agi tating for wagt increases.