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mm TO WES rvn rvn U1JVJ l Ui lU 0 astir Harboring Vm 'Criminals' Economic, Press Attacks Against Nation Alleged Expected Reply To . Protests Not Given Havana - (UPD - Premier Fi del Castro today accused the United States of harboring "war criminals" and carrying on economic and press at tacks against his nation. But he appeared tired and the speech lacked the usual fire of past orations. Castro, in a three-hour, 10 minute television appearance that lasted well past midnight, did, not make his expected reply to American protests that his anti-American state ments are . malicious and are hurting Cuban - American re lations. ' Pamphlet Inoffensive He said he considers in offensive a pamphlet that the United States has found to be objectionable. The pamph let shows victims of last -v month's air battle over Cuba. Castro has charged the United States with permitting the raid from its airfields. He conceded that the United States has taken some steps to halt such raids, but counter-balanced this admis sion with a long series of ac cusations. k Thev included these charges: '. -The United States is fol lowing a "policy of open arms to war criminals exiled from Cuba." -The United States is carry ing on "a purposeful campaign of economic aggression' as part of conspiracy against his regime. , i Press Said Not Fair -The American press is not giving his regime fair report ing. He singled out the Miami News, the New York Journal American, the Mutual Broad casting System, Life Maga zine, and the two American wire services for criticism. During Castro's speech, both United Press Internation al and the Associated Pre3S received about 20 threatening telephone calls at their . Ha vana offices. In Abusive language, the callers con demned "inaccurate report ing" and threatened to wreck the offices. WEATHER FORECAST: Fair through Sat urday with variable high cloudiness. Low tonight IS. High Saturday SS. Temp. Highest Yesterday CI Lowest this Morning 2 Our Skies Tonight . Sunset today 4: J? p.m. Sunrise tomorrow 7:60 a.m. The Moon rises 4:19 p.m. today and sets 6:1 ajn. tomorrow. Now nearly Full, it is moving among the stars of the constellation. Aries, and is giving off about times as much light as it did at First Quarter. Opposition to Wrecking At Public Hearing Held by Ooposition to a proposed wrecking yard on the Crater Lake highway was voiced by residents of the area at a pub lic hearing held by the Jack son county court Thursday afternoon. Forty-five persons attended. Thirty-five of the group said they live within a mile of the possible site for the Crater Lake Wrecking yard, which is under Consideration by Wylie, Nelson and Lewis Baker. The Baker brothers earlier had informed the court that they had an option to j buy land on Highway 62 between Four Corners and the Desert Service station. They said the land would be used for a wrecking yard if the court in dicated approval of their li cense application with the state department of motor ve hicles. Chief objection voiced by the property owners at the hearing was that the site would be. in the midst of a residential area. Another ar gument was that the presence of one wrecking yard in the area, the Speedway Auto Parts south of the proposed site, would result in a "con- Says Rogue Valley Edition Medford 24 Pages MEDFORD, OREGON, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1959 No. 197 MM MM. GOOD CRANBERRIES! W. R. Furtick, assistant professor of farm crops at Oregon State college, left, and Rex War ren, Oregon State college farm crops spe Cranberries Are on Conference Agenda Spraying cranberries with aminotriazole was to be dis cussed this afternoon and a resolution regarding its use and the "current halt oh cran berry sales is expected, a spokesman for the Oregon Weed Conference said this morning. . This is the. second day of the conference being held in the Medford YMCA. There has been consider able informal discussion among the 153 members at tending the conference but this afternoon is the '. first formal .discussion of the prob lem. At .least half of the weed spray recommendations have included the . use of amino triazole. ' Yesterday's Session Yesterday afternoon Theq dore Sidor, of La Grande, Un ion county extension agent, was presented a gift by Ray mond Crabtree, Maupin, new ly elected conference vice president. The award was pre sented for Sidor's outstanding program in eradicating .bar berry bushes which host stem rust fungus. . Rex Warren, Oregon State college farm crops specialist, and conference secretary, told of Sidor's- unique program of organizing various groups and service . clubs of his area in digging up the weed and ap plying further controls. Through complete elimination of the bush, the fungus will centra tion of " wrecking yards." -Demonstrates Protests Bud Hoover, a sub-divider and rancher in the Highway 62-White City area, demon strated his protests with an example of residential plan ning he said is prescribed by the county planning commis sion, r Hoover showed a drawing of two houses, some distance apart, and explained the im portance of what was located between, declaring that the land must be1 protected. The planning ; commission last month wrote the court that the Ideation "does not in terfere with our tentative county zoning plans." Warren Bayliss, another home .owner near the site, said the area was entirely a residential region and should be kept as such and devel oped into more subdivisions. He spoke against light indus trial businesses there.,, ..The only support for the proposed site expressed at the hearings was from William Duhaime, attorney for ' the Baker brothers, who declared that the area is not entirely residential. Such businesses cialist, both take big bites of cranberries from their salads served last night at the eighth annual Oregon weed conference here. no longer be a problem in the area, Warren noted. ; Special mention was given also to four other county ex tension"agents: Thbrrias" TV: Thompson, Moro, for control ling wild morning glory through plot demonstrations and field work; John Frizzell, The Dalles, for an educational program to control sagebrush by spraying; Amos Bierly, Madras, for contributing to the" county's annual "weed holiday"; and William K. Far rell, Canyon City, for his "out standing job" in controlling puncture vine along county and state highways. : Officers elected yesterday were Phil Beilke, Brooks, president; Raymond Crabtree, Maupin, vice president; Earl Meekers, The Dalles, director for eastern Oregon; and Kent Peterson, Junction City, di rector for western Oregon. The secretary and treasurer will be named this afternoon. Local men on the program yesterday were Don Berry, county agent, speaking on "Herbicide Use in Tree Fruit Farming"; and Otto Bohnert, Central Point farmer, speak ing on "How I Control Weeds on My Farm." Ray Hubbell, Medford, Jackson county weed control supervisor, and ex-president of the confer ence, was chairman for yes terday morning's program. John W. , Snider,' Medford mayor, welcomed conference members. Yard Voiced County Court "must be some place," he said. The location of another wrecking yard already in the area was another poinf; in fa vor of the Bakers' license, according to Duhaime. Property Values A number of residents charged that the value of their property goes down when commercial establish ments come into the area. Some said they were await irfg the outcome of the hear ing before continuing with improvement of their prop erty. Attorney A. E. Piazza, rep resenting the Gutches and Moodys, asked why a wreck ing yard should be on High way 62, when there is no sell ing at the site and when the county's aim is to beautify the highway to Crater Lake. ,C. C. Hoover, who with his sons is subdividing some of the land in question, told the court that he was not fighting the planning commission. "Al though," he said, "I think they made a mistake." Court members said a deci sion on whether they would approve a license application. will be made within a week or 10 days. States Price 10 Cents Tribune Klamath Man Is Bound Over to Grand Jury Donald M. Thompson, 36, of Klamath ' Falls. ' was' " bound! over to the grand jury this morning in district court on a charge of armed robbery. ; District Judge Roy Bashaw continued bail at $15,000. Johri Franklin Barger, one of the managers at the Safe way store in the Medford Shopping Center, was the only witness called this morn ing during Thompson's pre liminary hearing. Barger identified Thomp son as the man who entered the Safeway store Sept. 7 and escaped with money he had ordered Barger to get from the store safe. Asks About Vine The witness explained how Thompson had asked him about some wine, then dog food at the store, before showing him a newspaper clipping telling of a holdup. Barger retold how the man showed him a revolver tucked in his trousers and. told Bar ger to put money in a brown paper sack." The defense made no state ment following the conclusion of the state's case. Salem-njPD-Gov. Mark Hat field said today he has turned the problem of whether or not to hold hearings on the cur rent cranberry hassle over to State Agriculture Director Frank McKennon. t - Rx: A Drop 'A Day rum Vaccine Clinics Slated Tomorrow By Area Jaycees Eight Locations Set for Shots Salk polio vaccine clinics will be held in Jackson coun ty tomorrow under the spon sorship of Junior Chambers of Commerce in this area. It will be. the first in a se ries of clinics at eight loca tions in an effort to help pre vent a polio epidemic in the state, according to Larry Al len, Medford Jaycee- presi dent, and general chairman. The Jackson county clinics are part of a state-wide Jay cee program, in which the full series of four vaccinations are being offered. Clinics - are scheduled at health department office in the county courthouse, at the American Red Cross building, 60 Hawthorne ave., Medford, and at Crater High school cafeteria, Central Point, be tween 2 and 6 p.m. Saturday. Other Clinics Clinics scheduled between 3 and 5 p.m. will be at the music building, Jacksonville school; Talent city hall; the kindergarten building, Rogue River; Shady Cove grade school gym and Eagle Point grade school gym. ' Jaycee groups cooperating are Medford, Eagle Point and Central Point. The Jackson County Medical society will provide a physician at each clinic to administer shots, and two nurses will be available at each location, Allen said. All age groups have been urged to take advantage of the clinic, and children' at tending without their parents or guardian must have a signed consent slip. Follow-up clinics will be scheduled, the first one Dec. 12 at which the second in the series of shots will be admin istered. Individual shots will cost $1, and shots for the entire family-will cost $3,"Allen saldf He noted that no per son. will be turned away for lack of funds. Aging Conference Scheduled Saturday Representatives from Cur ry, Josephine, Jackson , and Klamath counties' are, expect ed to participate in the South ern Oregon Regional Confer ence on Aging at the Medford First Methodist church to morrow. The conference, the second being held in the state, is one of a series during which prob lems of older citizens are dis cussed and recommendations made for a state conference. At the state conference, which will be held in 1960, suggestions will be compiled for a White House Conference on Aging in 1961. L , The local conference will start at 9:30 a.m. with Frank J. Glonning, conference chair man, presiding. Miss Jeanne Jewett, administrator of the Oregon public welfare com mission, Portland, will give the keynote address on "Cur rent Trends and Major Neds j in the Fields of Agin;." ( ine tev. wesiey u. xvicn- imi IW. rn Pviitnr Pueinaiat M Si. LMl FwMUweicfe Embassy Denies Porter Challenged To Debate Congressman Sticks To Story Despite Statement Challenge Said To Follow Dispute Tokyo-(UPD-Sources close to the U.S. embassy denied Thursday that Ambassador Douglas A. MacArthur II had challenged Rep. Charles Por ter (D-Ore.) to an unprece: dented public debate on U.S. policies ' toward Communist China. "The ambassador did not issue a challenge on this thing," a source told United Press International. "He told Representative Porter that he would be will ing to debate the merits of American policy on Commu nist China with him at any time. But he meant privately, not publicly." - x Porter, stuck by his story that MacArthur had angrily challenged him to an open, public debate on the China issue. Porter advocates U.S. recognition of the Communist government in Peiping. Dispute at Lunch , "Why, he even offered to come into Oregon and debate me in my home district," he said. "I told him J was not sure I would . be in Oregon in January but that I kaew I could arrange a nationally televised debate. I feel I could show him up badly." The dispute between the ambassador and the congress man developed Wednesday at the embassy. MacArthur and his wife, daughter of the late vice president Alben D. Bark ley, had invited Porter there for lunch. ' i Porter said a disagreement developed over" the issue of recognition of Red China. . Porter is in the Far East to conduct a survey of U.S. government civilian employ ees abroad. M Olson, Eugene, chairman of the state council on aging, will give the welcome ad dress, and ' Medford Mayor John Snider will greet dele gates. . 5 Between 11 a.m.and 12:25 p.m. interest groups willhold panel discussions on recrea tion', and education, and em ployment and income. Moder ating the .panels will be Elli ott Cohen, New York City, assistant to ' the director, di vision of recreation for the ill and handicapped, National Recreation association; and C. L. Williams, Ashland, repre sentative of the National As sociation of "Retired Civil Service employees. Cohen and Dr. Arthur C. Jones, Portland, director of the Rehabilitation Institute of Oregon, will speak at a lunch eon starting at 12:30 p.m. Mrs. Helen Zollinger, chair man of the state conference on aging, Eugene, will pre side, at the luncheon with greeting extended by Jackson County Judge Earl M. Miller. A panel discussion on whether the health needs of older citizens are being met will be held following the luncheon, and the closing session will start at 3:30 p.m. with talks on "what can the community do?" in prepara tion for the state conference on aging by Mrs. Zollinger, and "The community and the White House conference'' by Donald C. Sutcliffe, White House" conference regional representative, department of health, education' and wel fare, San Francisco. (See story on page 6) Temperature Dips To Record Low Temperature-at the Med ford station of the U. S. weather bureau dipped to 20 degrees this morning, the coldest' since Jan. 30, 1957, when the reading was 13 de grees. ' The 20 degrees was also the coldest on record for Nov. 13 at the local station. Previous minimum for the date was 22 degrees in 1916. The mercury at the airport station is expected to drop still farther tonight. A mini mum of 18 is forecast. Planners ' v , a Problem Mortuary Here The question of whether a mortuary is a necessary part of conducting cemetery busi ness was debated, argued and discussed at a meeting of the Medford planning commission last night. Prompting the question was the request by the Siski you Memorial park associa tion to operate a mortuary at the park, a request denied by the city building inspector. ' The planning commission upheld the inspector's decis ion. ' '" The mortuary was con structed by the Siskiyou Me morial Park association after a building permit was granted by the city building supervis or, O. R. McNeel, last June. The building represents to its owners upwards of a $30,000 investment and was complet ed before the operators were informed that it would not be permissible in the area. Misinterpretation' The entire issue apparently stemmed from a misinterpre tation of the original mortu ary plans that had been filed with the building department for approval. McNeel, who gave his con sent to the plans as originally filed,- later denied the use of the mortuary on the grounds that the original plans had made no mention of the word "mortuary" but had instead been titled "chapel'." ' The plans were reported to give no., indication that the build ing would be used as a mortu ary Under an ordinance to es tablish a variance passed in 1957, it ruled that all future construction on the cemetery grounds must be in accord ance with the business of run ning a cemetery. Manville H. Heisel,i attor ney for the Siskiyou Memor ial park, Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Hoskk", Mr. and Mrs. L. G. Miles, and Dr. and Mrs. R. P. Mortensen, contended that the original granting of a per mit by the city building sup ervisor was still valid and could not be revoked. McNeel 111 McNeel, who was ill, could not attend the meeting. Some 20 or more residences of the area, most of them property owners adjacent to the Siskiyou park, were at the meeting protesting the in clusion of the mortuary in the park.. . , They objected to it on the grounds that it would lower property values, cause traffic problems, create an undesir able psychological effect, and change the zoning of the area from residential to commer cial. . In commenting on the plans filed with the building department, Heisel stressed that there had been no intent to mislead or deceive the city. He pointed out that some of the features of the original ;'jm 1 1 i mmmmmimmmcm viz i i - t ' . BLACK HILLS COVERED Most motorists and residents of Rapid City, S.D., pre ferred to remain indoors during the snow storm that hit the Black Hills area Thurs- Air of -Mew plans were clearly indicative of its use as a mortuary. " He also contended that as the ; building was inspected from time to time during its construction by city inspec tors and approved by them in its phases of development that it was further assured y the builders that the city knew what it was going to be and approved of it. Legal questions and defini tions hamstrung, the commis sion in making its decision, and its rejection of the use of the mortuary was based in part on the fact that they could, not effectively deter mine what was or was not in cidental to the business of running a cemetery. Hosick Statement Joe Hosick told the Mail Tribune today that Miles and he proceeded in good faith under the authority of the. city of. Medford and pur suant to all ordinances of the city in. the construction of the mortuary. - "I sincerely feel that this is progress in the funeral ser vice industry for Medford," Hosick said, "due to' the fact that it relieves the city of traffic problems involved in funeral processions and also the parking problem." . Washington -(UPD- Congress may be asked to come to the. aid of harassed cranberry growers who fear they will be turned away from the na tion's Thanksgiving dinner table this year. Meetings on Planning Problems Suggested Two meetings on mutual planning problems may be sponsored by the Jackson county planning commission in the near future, according to discussions at the commis sion meeting last night at the courthouse. Commisioner Robert Boy er, Medford lawyer, said he had spoken recently before the Ashland planning com mission and learned they would be willing to send rep resentatives to meet with Jack Eaton, planning techni cian, to discuss mutual plan ning problems. Eaton said he has learned that a southern Oregon plan ning conference could , be held to discuss mutual prob lems. This, he said, might in clude Josephine, Jackson and Douglas counties. xThis way each county in the area would know what the o)her is doing, Eaton explained. Commissioner Gerald Lath am said he attended a meet ing in Medford Monday noon with members of the county court to discuss planning co ordination. ' .A professional planning firm from Portland presented a preliminary talk on the sub- Crust on Snow Prevents Cattle C - iium ruiaye Rescuers Seek Trapped Hunters Helena, Mont.-DPD-A bitter cold wave hit Montana today on the heels of a blizzard and temperatures plummeted as low as 34 degrees below zero. The numbing cold froze a hard crust on the two foot layer of snow, threatening starvation for 10,000 to 15, 000 head of cattle and sheep unable to break the crust to forage. A rescue party set out at dawn into the cold and waist deep snow drifts in search- of two Montana State Universi ty students trapped high in the Rocky Mountains while elk hunting. . ine snemis office at Mis soula said chances were "very slim" they would find Bob Amick Jr.,, of Billings, and Richard Maxwell, of Warm Spring, alive unless the youths had found a mountain cabin with , a stove. "We'll find them, but we don't ' know in what direc tion," a deputy sheriff said grimly. Amick and Maxwell were the only two hunters still un accounted for. Other hunters stumbled down from the mountains last night after a frightening battle through the worst blizzard in Montana history. . iThe cold wave dropped Montana temperatures to 34 degrees below zero at Drum mond, 33 below at Butte and 30 below at West Yellow- owud x iic ouabc a uigu tem perature at dawn was a frigid six above at Glasgow. Montana ranchers, caught with a 15 per cent surplus in livestock due to slow markets, began, a desperate battle to reach their trapped herds and flocks. The ranchers said' the "fa tality rate for strays would probably be severe," but said past experience had taught them to be prepared by laying in plenty of feed. . jet i. juauiam suggested co ordinate planning- meetings be held with school officials and officials of Rogue Valley towns so planning of each would be coordinated. The county planning com mission subcommittee, chair manned by Dave Lowry, met with state highway depart ment officials last week to dis cuss the problem of excavat ing for fill dirt along the new Pacific highway freeway. The subcommittee said the planning commission has Z 4. T XI - comprehensive plan toward solution of the problem. High way . construction program has been delayed due to lack of financing, the subcommit tee reported. Eaton said Lloyd Anderson, of the bureau of municipal research, University of Ore gon, Eugene, will meet with Medford city officials soon on planning problems. It was suggested the county court and county planning commis sion meet with Anderson to discuss .the possibility of a regular county-wide zoning regulation compared to inter im zoning. . day. Here two men prepare to dig a car out of the snow. Over six inches of snow blanketed the area. -(UPI Telephoto)
