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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
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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.