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guild Ul il on Regional Edition M 18 PAGES Moslems Stage Demonstration Against Settlers Algiers (LTD - Police and soldiers opened fire today on hundreds of Moslems who staged a counter-demonstration at Mostaganem against French settlers rebelling against their government's Al gerian policies. According to unofficial re ports; six persons were injur ed but none was killed. The shooting at Mostaga nem, a trading center of 60, 000 persons close by the Medi terranean between Algiers and Oran, threw a dramatic new twist into the drama be ing enacted in Algeria. It was the first time the Moslem population had come into the picture in force. And the Mostaganem demonstra tors were shouting for Presi dent Charles de Gaulle, not against him as have been the French settlers who claim De Gaulle is selling out France in Algeria. First Shooting It was the first shooting in cident in Algeria since Sun day, when 27 persons were killed and 134 injured in a clash in Algiers. What happened at Mostag anem was that several hun dred Arabs marched shouting out of the casbah - or native quarter - to protest against the activities of young French settlers, who tried to force them to close down their shops and strike. The reports of the new shooting came moments after French President Charles de Gaulle's personal representa tive in Algeria paid tribute to the "courage of despair" shown by the insurgent set tlers still defying the govern ment from behind their barri cades here. Confidence had risen among the rebellious colonists that they were winning their dan gerous gamble against De Gaulle's authority, and a holi day air settled over the street barricades in Algiers. HERE THURSDAY Sen. Wayne Morse will be in Med ford Thursday, Jan. 28. He will address a no-host lunch eon sponsored by the Jack son County Democratic Cen tral committee at Kim's res taurant at 12 noon. That eve ning he will address a dinner meeting in Grants Pass. geriah A Service Hopes Revised Bill Will Be Considered Salem-(UPD-Gov. Mark Hat field was told Tuesday by two National Park service repre sentatives that the governor's revised Oregon dunes park legislation has "no insur mountable obstacles" in it. They said the service hopes Congress will favorably con sider it. The governor was called upon by George Collins, re gional planner of the San Francisco office of the serv ice and Neil Butterfield of Portland, chief of the Colum bia river recreational plan ning office. ' Hatfield said the two men commended his Natural Re sources Committee for its work on the proposal. Sen. Richard I. Neuberger EDFORD MEDFORD, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 27, 1960 "Boy, Talk About The High Cost Of Tranquilizers" Space Chief Says He Will Ask More Funds for Projects Washington - (UPD - The na tion's civilian space chief said today he will ask Congress for "substantial additional funds" to speed up development of super rockets which may en able the United States to pass Three Buildings Burglarized Here Three buildings were en tered in the Medford area some time Tuesday night, ac cording to city police and Jackson county sheriff's dep uties. A p p r o x i m ately $40 in change was taken from the Medford Concrete Construc tion company, 1320 North Riverside ave. The burglary was exactly one week after one when burglars took near ly $300 from the company. The building, entered through a window, was thor oughly ransacked, officials said, with the money taken from different desks in the office. Also entered in Medford was the Buy-Rite Furniture and Appliance firm, 1213 North Riverside ave. The front door glass was broken, police said, to gain entrance to the building. An unknown amount of loose change was taken from the cash register, police said, and about $400 worth of ap pliances, radios, and wrist watches. The OK Rubber Welders, 1760 North Riverside ave., was also entered some time last night, according to the sheriff's office. Nothing was taken from the shop but the areawas ransacked. Entrance was made through a steel mesh screen on a win dow. The safe was unmo lested. (D-Ore.) introduced the com mittee's version in Congress after Neuberger's own bill was criticized by the Hatfield administration. Hatfield said "I am pleased that Senator Neuberger has seen fit to acknowledge Ore gon's interest in the possible establishment of a national seashore recreation area on our coast by introducing legis lation suggested by the State Natural Resources Commit tee. "It has always been my po sition, and that of the commit tee, that the seashore idea is a good one, but we have felt the interest of this state and its people must be considered at all times." m Russia in space in "four to five years." At the same time he prom ised a series of spectacular U.S. space launchings which will be climaxed next summer with manned rocket trips and in 1961 with the first Ameri can manned satellite. This was the burden of testimony before the House Space Committee by T. Keith Glennan, director of the Na tional Aeronautics and Space Administration. Money for Saturn NASA already has asked Congress for 802 million dol lars in the fiscal year starting next July 1. Of this, the agency has earmarked 140 million for development of Saturn, a giant booster expect ed to thrust up to four tons as far as Mars or Venus. Glennan did not disclose the additional sum he will ask, but observers recalled that Dr. Wernher von Braun, in charge of Saturn develop ment, had recommended that 240 million dollars be com mitted to it in fiscal 1961. To meet this figure Congress would have to give NASA an additional 100 million. Glennan said NASA plans to speed development of Saturn's "first phase," a boost er consisting of eight cluster ed rocket engines, by "as much as one year." Develop ment of the second and third stages "will be advanced by three to nine months," he said. Russians Will Progress With new space vehicles al ready coming along, the At-las-Agena B and the Atlas Centaur, the U.S. "should be able to match" Russia's pres ent "weight-lifting capabili ties within the next 12 months," Glennan said. But the Russians will not be standing still in the mean time, he said,, and "our ex pectations of superiority will not be saustiea ior aouui iuur or five years, when the Saturn should be ready." Beton Soys He Is Considering Running Salem-ttJPD-State .Treasurer Howard C. Belton said today he is "seriously considering running for election in the May primary." ' He was appointed by Gov. Mark Hatfield earlier this month to serve out the un expired term of Sig Unander, Belton said he is finding the work "both interesting and challenging.": Salem -(UPD- Oregon GOP National Committeeman Rob ert T. Mautz, Portland, filed today as a candidate for dele gate to the Republican nation al convention. He filed for delegate from the state at large. Tribune REPiRTEB Pollution Progress Good progress is being made by the lumber and fruit indus tries in air pollution control, Jack Foster, acting spokes man for the Air Pollution and Abatement League, noted at last night's league meeting in the county courthouse. Foster drew startled looks from other league members when he remarked his organ ization was not seeking leg islation for ordinances for air pollution control. He said he did not believe it necessary, with the voluntary coopera tion of the lumber and fruit industries here, and the City Sanitary Service. Foster urg ed each citizen to do his part by burning leaves only when atomspheric conditions per mitted. Foster said the league would "use every effort to prevent burning rubber tires during another orchard heat ing season." None of the fruit industry men he had talked to advocated burning tires, he said, and Dunbar Carpenter, Medford fruit grower, con firmed that the industry was opposed to burning tires. Some Smoke Both fruit and lumber in dustry spokesmen pointed out there would be some smoke in the air from their opera tions but not as much when their smoke abatement pro grams are completed. City Sanitary Service plans a new location for its garb age dump and will probably close the Jacksonville area site in about three months, Foster said, reporting for .An thony Boitano, City Sanitary Service manager and owner. Boitano was unable to attend the meeting. Reporting for the lumber industry, George Flanagan, of Elk Lumber company, said he is "delighted with the prog ress" five mills in the im mediate vicinity of Medford have made toward eliminat ing air pollution. Elk lumber Condemnation Suit Continues in Court The state highway depart ment condemnation suit in volving the Gilman Dairy farm in the Central Point area continued in circuit court today. Attorneys hoped to complete their presenta tions this afternoon. Cap. C. Vandagrift, Med ford real estate man and ap praiser, continued his testi mony this morning for de fendant Lester Gilman. He testified removal of approxi mately 19V acres from the dairy farm for the new Paci fic highway freeway should bring $51,079.30 in damages. E. L. Bartholomew, another Medford real estate man and appraiser, testified yesterday for the defendant that the re moval of the strip of land along both sides of Bear creek is worth $53,000. Both esti mates were mased on loss of irrigation access to the creek from the farm. According to present state plans the strip of land would be removed from the farm and fenced off on both sides for the freeway. Lester and Leila Gilman, the farm own ers are seeking $40,000 in damages if the state will al low irrigation access to Bear creek. The entire farm in cludes 60 acres. Plea To Be Entered In Polluting Case The case of Theodore G. Jantzer, Shady Cove, charged with polluting the west fork of Trail creek, has been' con tinued until Feb. 3 to allow him to enter a plea in district court, it was reported. N He appeared in district court earlier this week. Jant zer, an owner of the Trail Creek Lumber company, is charged with putting logs, de caying bark, lumber by-products, debris, sludge and sedi ment in the stream on Dec. 16. The complaint was signed by Ted R. Gerow, of the state sanitary authority. Price 10 Cents No. 261 Control Reported company has been using a hog for grinding up waste ma terials since Jan. 1 he noted. Elk has increased steam production and is selling elec trical energy to California Oregon Power company by using waste material for pow er development, Flanagan said. The company is also working on eliminating al most all smoke from the pow erhouse stack, he said. By April 1, smoke produced by Elk Lumber company should be down to a "tolerable min imum," Flanagan concluded. Medford Lumber corpora tion is also converting waste into electrical power, B. L. Nutting noted. It has installed a new boiler, a cinder collec tion system and controlled draft in the burners to hold smoke to a minumum. Re modeling of the refuse burn er started in 1948, he said. Expansion Program Thomas K. Oliver, general manager of Timber Products company, read aloud an ar ticle similar to the one print ed Friday in the Mail Tribune outlining the company's three quarter of a million dollar expansion program. This in cludes a research and develop ment program and general plant modernization to more fully utilize logs and cut down on smoke production. The company has just hired a woods technician, a " soil sci entist and marketing expert, he reported. Dunbar Carpenter report ed fruit growers plan to sign up at least 75 per cent of the total pear acreage for a pro gram of reducing the num ber of more smoke-producing heaters at the rate of 20 per cent a year. In signing the agreements the growers will agree not to sell the open or "bread-pan" type of heaters to any other Rogue Valley growers. Stuart V. McQueen, vice president of Kogap Lumber Industries, reported his com pany during a four year per iod has installed a log bark ing and wastewood chipper installation, a new shavings conveyor system so this ma terial could be used as boiler fuel, installed a veneer chip per and loader, and are in stalling machinery and equip ment for processing bark for two by-products, a firelog and a mulch. Local Supporters of Kennedy Plan Meet V A . Innnl Tfonnrlv fnr Pres ident organization, to support Massachusetts Sen. John Ken nedy in the Oregon primary election, will be organized here tonight. Robert A. Boyer, Medford lawyer and former state Democratic party chairman, said the organizational meet ing will be at his home this evening. Some 20 to 30 peo ple are expected. Hy Raskin, Chicago lawyer and regional representative of the Kennedy campaign committee, will attend. Ras kin has long been active in Democratic politics at the na tional level. Mothers to March Against Birth Defects, Mothers throughout Jack son county will conduct their annual march tomorrow night to receive donations for the National Foundation to help fight birth defects, arthritis and polio. They also will seek answers to questions from all house holders concerning birth de fects, and the crippling di seases. Also sought in the door-to-door visits will be in formation on how many Salk polio shots each member of the family has received. Information obtained in the questionnaires will be used by the local chapter to deter mine where assistance is need ed. ' In Medford mothers will march between 7 and 8 p.m., CHATS WITH PILOT President and Mrs. Eisenhower chat with their pilot, Col. Wil liam Draper, prior to takeoff this morning. After dropping Mrs. Eisenhower off in Den ver for a week end visit with her mother, the President will continue on to Los An Antitrust Actions Filed Against Two Tranquilizer Firms New York-(UPD-The Justice Department filed antitrust ac tions today accusing -the two leading U.S. tranquilizer man ufacturers of conspiracy to fix high prices and monoplize their field. : : i ' The civil complaint was lodged in U.S. District Court against Carter Products, Inc., makers of Miltown, and Amer ican Home Products Corp, Man Arrested on Assault Charge William Albert Richards, 40, of Seattle, Wash., was lodged in county jail Tuesday evening on a charge of aggra vating assault following an argument with his wife at the Holliday Inn motel. In critical condition at Sac red Heart hospital today is Mrs. Gloria Kappam Rich ards, also Sattle. Hospital of ficials reported her condition as "slightly improved" this morning. According to city police, three young girls notified the department at 7:23 p.m. say ing that they had seen a man and woman fighting on the steps of one of the motel units. Police found Mrs. Richards unconscious on the bedroom floor at the motel with severe head cuts and bruises and bleeding badly. Hospital of ficials reported that she was being treated for possible skull concussions. Officers reported finding several wine and whisky bot tles and beer cans in the mo tel unit. In a signed statement Rich ards told officers that he and his wife "always have argu ments." He also admitted striking her once with his hand. Arthritis Thursday according to Mrs. Herb Col- ley, Medford chairman. Moth ers will carry the official Mothers March envelopes as a means of identification, she noted. Area captains for the Med ford march are Mrs. Gale Kimball, Hoover school area; Mrs. John McLaughlin and Mrs. N. H. Gladfelter, Roose velt; Mrs. T. A. Holliday, Oak Grove; Mrs. Sylvan Mullin, Jefferson; Mrs. Lyle Heide mann, Griffin Creek; Mrs. Fred Sears, Washington; Mrs. Arthur Hertager, Jackson; Mrs". Thomas Cox, Lincoln; Mrs. Tom Winniford, West Side; Mrs. Tom Eaton, How ard; Mrs. Glenn Schireman, Wilson; Mrs. L. E. Davis, Lone manufacturer of Equanil. . Both .companies' activities were already being investigat ed by the Senate antimonopr oly subcommittee v". studying drug prices. ... The government charged the 'two companies with con spiracy to monopolize the sale and distribution of meproba mate, sole active ingredient in their branded drugs, and with conspiracy to determine who may manufacture the drug and other combinations using it. "This conspiracy has tend ed to eliminate competition between them in the sale and distrtibution of the drug and the consuming public has been forced to pay high and non competitive prices," the com plaint said. "The dollar volume in this country in the sale of mepro bamate tranquilizing drugs for 1958 was about 40 million dollars, all sold by the de fendants," the goverment said. "Of this amount, American sold approximately two-thirds and Carter sold one-third, thereby occuping the whole market." The government charged that Carter, has misused its patent rights on the chemical compound meprobamate which is the sole active in gredient of both tranquilizing drugs. It asked the court to require Carter to offer its patent rights to other manu facturers as well as Amercian Home Products. The Justice Department ac tion was announced as Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-Tenn.) was charging that the Wallace Laboratories Division of Car ter and the Wyeth Division of American Home Products has filed bids, identical "down to a thousandth of a cent," for sales of v tranquilizers to Veterans Administration and military hospitals. Polio, Pine; Mrs. Leland Rauch, apartments, and Mrs. Carl Reicke, motels. Mrs. Colley said the count ing committee for Medford mothers will be headed by Mrs. William Schei and count ing equipment and assistance are being offered by the Med ford branch of the U.S. Na tional bank. 1 Counting will be done at the Guild hall, St. Mark's church, immediately follow ing, the march, she said. Mrs. Colley said police officers will be available to pick up contributions which are miss ed in the march. Captains who are unable to take do nations to the Guild hall may call the hall at SPring 3-3111 for transportation or pickup. geles where he will address a series of "Din ner with Ike" parties via closed circuit tele vision in his first major political speech of 1960. At left is Col. William T. Smith, base commander at Andres Air Force base, Md. (UPI Telehpoto) Informative Meeting Held by Union Officials A meeting called for the Retail Clerks union, Local j 265, was held Tuesday eye-lNorth Riverside ave., a form ning at the Medford hotel lor interested food clerks to tell what the Retail Clerks union has to offer members when they act as their bargaining agent. More than 100 Medford and Grants Pass clerks attended the meeting. It was one of the meetings held for informa tion purposes by the union since a petition for an elec tion was filed with the Na tional Labor Relations Board Jan. 19. Grocery clerks of the area will be given a chance to vote on whether they would prefer to join the Retail Clerks union or remain with the Teamsters union. Speakers Among the speakers at the meeting were Judd Stone, health and welfare consult ant; Gordon Swope, secretary of the Oregon state council of retail clerks, both Portland, and Dan Parker, Seattle, in ternational representative of the Retail Clerks union. Stone compared medical and surgical benefits under the present program the Food Clerks have as compared with the Rogue Valley Physicians Service. Also mentioned was life insurance costs. Swope stressed that Retail Clerk union members run their own local unions and their health and welfare pro grams. Hearings will be held by the NLRB in Grants Pass, Medford, Ashland, and Klam ath Falls before the election, it was previously reported. Holdup Attempt Brings Prison Term Fred Gordon Carter, 35, Medford, was sentenced this morning by' Circuit Judge James M. Main to 7V years in the Oregon state peniten tiary for the robbery attempt of Hawkins Nite Garage in Medford early Sunday, Jan. 11. Carter had pleaded guilty to charges of attempting to rob, by putting in fear of force and violence while not armed with a dangerous wea pon. Carter had attempted to hold up the garage with a toy gun. Willard G. Fish, 33, of Shreveport, La., pleaded guilty this morning to district attorney's information charg ing obtaining money under false pretense. His case was continued for receipt of an FBI report. William Wendell Bateman, 28, Medford, pleaded guilty this morning to contributing to delinquency of a minor. A pre-sentencing report was ordered. Structure Would Cost $2,365,1 GSA Estimates Plan Reported by Porter's Office Construction of a big new federal office building in Medford came a step nearer today. The general services ad ministration today recom mended to the public works committees of the house and senate that such a building be built here. Jack Billings, administra tive assistant to Congressman Charles O. Porter, told the Mail Tribune the plan is be ing presented under the pub lic buildings act of 1959. It is as yet uncertain what fur- t h e r procedures regarding congressional authorization or appropriation will be re quired. Cost of the building includ ing site, design and construc tion, is estimated at $2,365,- 000 by the GSA, Billings said. It would contain 81,700 square feet of gross floor area. No site has yet been chosen. Provide Housing The GSA proposed that it house the Medford post of fice, and also provide space for activities of the depart ment of agriculture (includ ing the forest service), de fense, health, education and welfare; justice, labor and treasury, the civil service commission, the housing and home finance agency (FHA), selective service, and veterans administration. No mention was made of in terior department agencies, including the national park service and bureau of land management. The park serv ice office is now in the old post office building, and the BLM is now housed in rented space on South Riverside ave. The GSA said the building would replace the present federal office building at 33 er auto agency and USO building, which was acquired, in 1947 for federal use. It was termed ''inadequate" for fed eral purposes in the GSA rec ommendation. No Mention Made The old federal building would be disposed of on com pletion of the new structure, the GSA said, but no mention was made of the present post office building, Billings re ported. If and when the congres- s i o n a 1 committees approve the project, the GSA said it would, proceed with the ac quisition of a site and the preparation of plans for the proposed building, "as soon as funds are available." Billings was planning to check into the source of such funds, to see whether presently-avail able funds can be used, or whether it would require a separate appropriation. Congressman Porter two years ago introduced legis lation calling for construction of such' a building, and the measure is still in the con gressional committees. Bill ings explained that the GSA's plan is a "parallel" action, on the administrative rather than the legislative level. No Official Word Postmaster Moore Hamil ton said this morning he has received no official word of these plans as yet, but he re ported that about a year ago a team of post office inspec tors surveyed this area with a view toward the construc tion of a new post office build ing. He said he assumes their findings were turned over to the GSA. Since ' no site has been picked, location of the pro posed new building remains a matter of speculation. It was recalled today that an old "master plan" for Medford's development c o n t e mplated eventual creation of a civic center, including city, county, state and federal office build ings, surrounding the two park blocks bounded by Eighth and Main sts., Oakdale ave., and Holly st. WEATHER FORECAST: Considerable cloudiness and a few showers tonight and Thursday. Patch-,-fog Thursday morning. Low tonight 30. High Thursday 50. temp! Highest Yesterday 53 Lowest this Morning 33 Prec. to It a.m. Today .17 Our Skies Tonight Sunset today 5:17 p.m. 7:30 a.m. Sunrise tomorrow New Moon tonight 10:16 p.m, Mars Is soon to pass to the east of slower moving Saturn. And next month Venus, which is now moving away from Ju piter, will overtake first Sat urn and then Mars.
