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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;." (
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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
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and residents of Rapid City, S.D., pre
ferred to remain indoors during the snow
storm that hit the Black Hills area Thurs-
Air
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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 -
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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
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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)