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m 'Arriva Regional Edition 54th Year Price 10 Cents Plane Circles Tribune While Runway Crowds Cleared 14 Pages MEDFORD, OREGON, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1960 No. 284 n (sets ftOUSIIIg lira come Don MEDFORl); President Vetoes Bill To Increase ion Money House Leaders To Attempt Override Washington -(UPD- President Eisenhower today vetoed the first big bill of the election year Congress -a measure to expand federal spending to curb pollution of the nation's waterways. The vetoed bill would have raised to $900 million the present long-range ceiling of $500 million on federal grants to help local communities build sewage disposal plants, The President's rejection of the measure had been antici pated. In fact, House leaders already had scheduled floor action Thursday in an effort to override the expected veto. Liltl Chance Seen Although Democrats have little chance of overriding the veto, they believe that the President's action will supply them with a good election year political issue. Eisenhower has been trying to cut spending sharply below the existing ceiling, but Con gress for several years has continued to provide more funds for the program that he had budgeted. The President's budget this year called for only $20 mil lion for the program. Con gress in recent years allotted about $45 million a year-$5 million under the ceiling-for the program and is likely to do so again. The President has contend-1 ed that the responsibility for curbing pollution of water ways is primarily a state re sponsibility and that the fed eral government should cut back on its help. Dynamite Figured In Airliner Crash Washington -UPD- The Civil Aeronautics Board said today it has conclusive evidence a dynamite explosion figured in the crash of a National air- ner near Bolivia, N.C., Jan. The crash took 34 lives. It said the evidence showed e explosion occurred near e seat held by a neaviiy-in- ured passenger, Julian A. Frank, a New York attorney who lived in Westport, Conn. CAB Chairman : James R. Durfee said bits of steel wire and manganese dioxide, a sub stance found in dry cell bat teries, were found embedded in Frank's mangled body. Morse Dedicates Campaign Quarters; To See How Far Liberalism Can Go By A. ROBERT SMITH Mail Tribune Washington Correspondent Washington-Wayne Morse, the presidential candidate, to day dedicated his Washington campaign headquarters here here with a rousing speech that delighted a standing-room-only crowd of applaud ing enthusiasts. As an entry in the District of Columbia presidential pri mary, the Oregon senator called himself the "alderman candidate" because of his long service on the senate D. C. committee. But in an improptu press conference before he left his new headquarters in down town Washington, Morse said his intention was to "see how for a man of my liberalism Two Members of the Jackson county rural school district budget committee last night started to "trim some of the fat off the hog," as one mem ber put it.. The budget is to be com pleted at next Monday night's meeting in the county super tendent's office. A major tentative cut was elimination of the positions of assistant county school super intendent and county elemen tary supervisor and the com bining of the two positions under a new tentative title of administrative assistant. Bruce S. Hitt now holds the assistant superintendency at $7,770 year- Robert Law- Representation to Conflicting opinions on the best union representation for food clerks in this area were reported today, on the eve of the election at which the clerks will decide between the Teamsters and the AFL-CIO retail clerks union as their bargaining agency. The election, supervised by the national labor relations board, will be held tomorrow. The clerks are now members of the Teamsters. Members of the executive committee of the Jackson County Central Labor Coun cil (AFL-CIO), as individuals, and Teamsters officials, have both favored the present rep resentation. Officials of the AFL-CIO, both in the local union seek ing recognition, and on the state and national level, have favored the AFL-CIO union. No Local Connection While the local labor coun cil is an AFL-CIO affiliate, it has no local connection with either the retail clerks union seeking recognition, nor with the Teamsters. Among those supporting the Teamsters are Charles Crary, head of the Electrical Workers union here, who spoke on the Teamsters behalf at a meeting of grocery clerks Sunday; Ray Rolow, Salem, a Teamsters official but former ly a secretary of the retail clerks union; William Ear hart, administrator of the Teamsters' health and welfare program, and Robert Shaw, secretary-treasurer of the lo cal Teamsters union. (Statements made on behalf of the Teamsters by the local union leaders named above were furnished the Mail Trib une this morning, but later, at their request, were with held due to the fact that an Extradition Planned For Oregon Escapee Salem-tt!PD-Gov. Mark Hat field said that extradition pro ceedings are underway to re turn Oregon prison escapee Merriman M. Scofield, 56, from Washington state. He is being held by authori ties in Seattle after revealing his 1942 escape. can go at the convention." Does he think of himself as a contender for the No. 1 spot on the Democratic national ticket this year? "All the odds are against me," Morse replied, "but I've been to a lot of horse races where the long shot won." Morse declined to predict how many convention votes he will have going into the convention. But he said in addition to delegate votes he expects to have from the states in which he enters pri maries, Morse anticipates del egate support from a host of other states which select dele gates by the state convention method. This expectation is based, he explained, on letters he has received from Demo crats in various states who rence has the elementary sup ervisory job at $6,510 a year. Salary for the new position would be $7,200 a year for a saving of $7,080. Lawrence has been offered the principalship in a county school district at a higher sal ary than he is now receiving. He had requested of County Superintendent Alf B. Mek vold that his salary be increas ed to $7,200 if he is to remain in the county school office at his present position. He also had asked that his tenure be extended from the usual one year until the state legislature should make any changes in the county school superintendent's office. s on ioni Differ earlier bargaining agency election in Roseburg was thrown out on the technical ity that no campaigning was to be allowed during the 24 hour period previous to the election. (The statements were with held by the newspaper de spite an oral opinion from Robert Wiener, of the Port land NLRB office, that news paper quotation would have no such effect.) On the other hand, Barney Engelking, AFL-CIO organiz er and personal representa tive of the union's regional di rector, said the AFL-CIO "is 100 per cent behind the retail clerks union in their desire to represent food clerks" in this area. IU-Advised Engelking's statement con tained a veiled threat to mem bers of the executive commit tee of the local labor council, by saying "We don't know who is speaking for the coun cil, but the indications are that this is an ill-advised, uni lateral action by a dissident minority." He added, "Only an investigation can bring out the facts in this case." . Engelking arrived in Med ford Sunday night to assist the Retail Clerks Union in the election tomorrow. He said "The AFL-CIO, right up to our International headquarters in Washington, D.C., including President George Meany, will back the Retail Clerks Union, Local 265, all the way." Refers lo Release Engelking referred to a news release from members of the executive board of the Jackson County Labor Coun cil in which the Council ex pressed its sympathy with the Teamsters Union. He said, "this matter was checked into two weeks ago and at that time we received a telegram from the secretary of the council stating that the execu tive board had taken no ac tion at all." Dan K. Parker, acting sec retary of Retail Clerks Union, Local 266, AFL-CIO, said "I think we know the grocery clerks in this area pretty well and from what we have heard already, no one is going to tell these clerks what to do and what not to do and you have to respect that kind of independence." have pledged him their back ing if they are chosen as con vention delegates. He has entered the Oregon, Maryland and D.C. primaries thus far. Morse vigorously denied published reports that a deal is in the making between him self and Sen. Hubert Hum phrey, whereby Morse will stay out of Wisconsin where Humphrey is running, and Humphrey will back out of the District of Columbia pri mary where he has said he will run. "That's absolutely false," Morse declared. "Neither I nor Humphrey would ever be a party to such a deal. I've never made a political deal in my career and I don't intend to start now." Indications are that the state legislature may consider sev eral plans to eliminate or sub stitute for the present county school office. Both federal and state education officials have stated that an intermediate ad ministrative unit is necessary. The school district reorgani zation program of combining smaller districts into a few larger ones should mean less work for the county office, committee members remark ed several times. The larger districts tend to resent close supervision from the county office, it was pointed out. "We are merely trying to cut away the fat in the budget so there will be less demand Morse Not To Enter Wisconsin Primary Race Funds Necessary Said Beyond Means Washington - (UPD - Sen. Wayne Morse (D-Ore.) an nounced today he has decided not to enter the Wisconsin presidential primary because of the money, time and ener gy it would involve. Morse, formerly a Repub lican and later an Indepen dent, said in a statement that he will limit his presidential primary campaign efforts to Oregon, Maryland and the District of Columbia. Good News for Humphrey His decision not to enter the April 5 Wisconsin prefer ential primary was viewed as good news for Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey (D-Minn.), who is contesting that state's 31 con vention votes with Sen. John F. Kennedy (D-Mass.). Humphrey supporters have feared that a Morse entry in Wisconsin would severely damage the Minnesotan's chances of topping Kennedy in that primary. 'Beyond My Means' - Morse said a survey of the Wisconsin political scene "sat isfies me that the funds need ed to organize and conduct a campaign there are beyond my means." He said there "is no doubt that Senators Kennedy and Humphrey are spending sub stantial sums of money in the Wisconsin primary, in fact, far more than I think should be spent." Extensive Organizations He added that it has been necessary for him to "delay for some weeks" making his final decision and that during that interval the other candi dates have been able to "set up and finance extensive or ganizations." Finally, he said that "in view of my duties in the Sen ate, and the time, energy and expense involved" he would confine his activities to the Oregon, Maryland and D. C. contests. Times, Places for Election Listed Times and places for voting "'ednesdav bv- the retail gro cery clerks have been estab lished, according to the Na tional Labor Relations board. Clerks may vote on affili ating with thp Teamsters or Retail Clerks union at the fol lowing locations and times: Ashland Back room of Ore gon Food Store, from 9:30 to 9:45 a.m.: Groceteria back room, from 10 to 10:15 a.m. Medford Big Y office, from 11 to 11:45 a.m.; Safe way Shopping center back room, from 1 to 1:30 p.m.; Groceteria office, from 1:45 to 2.45 p.m. Grants Pass Byrd's No. 1 back room, from 3:45 to 4:45 p.m.; Safeway back room, from 5 to 5:30 n.m.: and Pay N Save back room, from 5:45 to 6 p.m. Theft of Weather Instruments Probed Pehdleton-(UPD-The sheriff's office today investigated theft of valuable instruments used to record weather at an Ore gon State College feed lot near Milton-Freewater. Salem (UPD Thomas Edi son of Astoria has been ap pointed Clatsop county dis trict attorney effective March 1. Cut nmi GSyraD for eliminating the county office," a committee member remarked. The joint committee mem bers noted that Hitt probably would not want to take the cut in pay and stay in the county office. Mekvold con ferred with Hitt and Law rence today, but neither has made a decision yet. - Mekvold pointed out to the committee that it would be "almost impossible" to find a man qualified for administra tive assistant outside his pres ent staff. It's a much more difficult job than being an elementary principal, he said. Elimination of on adminis trative position would also WELCOME FOR EISENHOWER A huge "Welcome Ike" sign, featuring the President's portrait, stretches across Rio Branco ave. in Rio De Janeiro as the city dressed up Hearing on New Senior Work Law Held in Medford Persons between the ages of 45 and 65 are just as capa ble of working, if not more so, than their younger counter parts. They work as hard, as good and as steadily as persons be low 45 years of age, because they are more experienced and are ready to, or already have settled down. These are conclusions grow ing out of a hearing in the city hall this morning by Ray A. Ziegler, Portland, director of t,he senior worker division of ti e state bureau of labor. Ziegler said the hearing was held to attempt to ex plain to interested persons what the new law, passed by the 1959 session of the Oregon legislature prohibiting dis crimination in employment on the basis of age, is and why it is. The essence of the law is that it is unlawful employ ment practice for an employ er to refuse to hire or employ or to bar, discharge, dismiss, reduce, suspend or demote any individual because of his age if the individual is be tween 25 and 65 years of age. Not only is the bureau of labor attempting to explain to employers that some of the popular stereotypes of older persons (that they cost more in pension plans and insur ance, are greater safety risks, cannot work as hard) are false but also explain to "senior workers" what their rights are and how they can go about getting jobs. Besides being more experi enced and having a higher quality of production, senior workers are also more reli able in that there is a much smaller rate of turnover in in dustry, of all kinds, among persons over 45 than below 45, he said. WEATHER FORECAST: Fair tnrough Wednesday. Low tonight 22. High Wednesday 55. Temp. Highest Yesterday 50 Lowest this Morning 22 Our Skies Tonight Sunset today 5:53 p.m. Sunrise tomorrow 6:56 a.m. Moonrise tomorrow 5:24 a.m. New Moon Friday PROMINENT STAR Arcturus, rises - 9:24 p.m. VISIBLE PLANETS Jupiter, low in south east 4:37 a.m. Saturn, low in south east 5:50 a.m. Mars and Venus, near the Moon. cut down on at least part of the $1,800 travel allowance for the two former positions. According to the budget work sheet the superintendent, as sistant superintendent, and elementary supervisor were each tentatively allowed $900 for the current year. "Noting that $900 seems to be the travel allowance for many of the county person nel," the budget committee chair man, Mrs.' Jeannette Grove, Phoenix, remarked, "They must all be going in the same direction at the same time." The county school superin tend ent's secretary's and clerk stenographer's salaries Student Government Day, Medford's 75th Anniversary Slated Two events with signifi cance for both Medford's fu ture and Medford's history will take place tomorrow. One is the start of the 12th annual Student Government Day. The other is the 75th an niversary of Medford's city charter. The events will be jointly Powered Section Planned for Pear Blossom Parade The Pear Blossom Festival planning committee this morn ing decided to include a pow ered section in the Festival's parade scheduled here April 23. Previously, only non-powered groups have been allowed. Entry blanks with regulations governing eritry will be made available in the near future, the committee said. They will be mailed to service clubs in the area, and will be available for distribution to students and at the Medford Chamber of Commerce office. A report on recommenda tions for changes in the king and queen contest for the Fes tival will be made by Bob Boyer and John Watkins, co chairmen, at the next meeting. Special Activities The planning committee voted to allow the Ashland Band boosters to conduct spec ial activities during the pa rade to enlist support to send the Ashland High school band to the Rose parade in Port land this year. A representative of the planning committee will meet with officials of the Siskiyou Pioneer Sites Foundations and the Southern Oregon Philhar monic Society to discuss the possibility of a "Pops Concert" to be staged Sunday, April 24, in conjunction with the Pear Blossom Days in the valley. The planning committee will meet at 7 a.m. Tuesday, March 8, at the Jackson hotel. The committee said interested persons and representatives of area clubs and organizations are invited. . Mt. Angel, Ore. (UPD In itial operations have begun at the new Mt. Angel wool mill. remain the same at $4,236 and $3,630, respectively. Both women had requested no change be made, since under the normal increment, it would not pay because of re sulting taxes. One budget committee mem ber considered this so unusual he offered to buy both women a five pound box of choco lates. The current $1,850 for ex tra help-clerical was tentative ly cut to $1,600. . The social security and retirement fund of $4,300 will be cut consider ably, due probably to the com bining of the two present ad ministrative positions. The committee granted School for Eisenhower's arrival Wednesday. The flags of Brazil, left, and the United States flank the sign. The President arrived in Brasilia today to a tremendous welcome. (UPI Radiotelephoto) recognized at a Student Gov ernment Day banquet in the Elks Temple at 8 o'clock Wednesday evening at which Thomas Vaughn, director of the Oregon Historical society and a member of last year's centennial commission, will be the principal speaker. Vaughn will speak both on the significance of Student Government Day and on the historical aspects of the Med' ford city charter which was given the city on Feb. 24, 1885. Events Interrelated Mayor John Snider thinks it appropriate that the events be interrelated at the ban quet because people will get a chance to hear about the past 75 years and at the same time look into the future with the next generation of com munity leaders. Student Government Day, which is sponsored by the Elks club with the coopera tion of the city and Jackson county will start Wednesday afternoon with a registration period in the Elks temple, and climax with a student-run city council meeting in the council chambers Thursday evening at 7:30 o'clock. All day Thursday students from Medford area high schools will take over both the city and county adminis tration, working in conjunc tion with city and county of ficials, for the purpose of giv ing them the opportunity to experience local government in action. The approximately 85 stu dents who will take part, in cluding Medford's student Mayor Pat McLaughlin, were elected and appointed by the student bodies of their respec tive high schools. Briefing on AF's Command Slated An Air Force team from the 5th Bomb Wing, Travis Air Force base, Calif., will conduct a briefing on the Strategic Air Command at a meeting on local Air Force reservists in the Hoover school auditorium at 7:45 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 25. The session will include briefing as to the command's purpose, operation and place in the overall defense strate gy. Mekvold a $500 raise, from $9,000 to $9,500 in keeping with salaries received in simi lar positions in the state, they explained. Mekvold said he would rather see the money applied to other staff raises. His request was denied. In spite of criticism of the existence of the county cur riculum materials center, the committee made no major cuts in its budget. This bud get is considered separate from the office budget as is the county's medical educa tion budget. The committee did cut the travel pay for the film tech nician insisting his time could be spent better in the curricu McDonald Denies Part in Portland Truck Dynamiting Portland-flJPD-Levi McDon ald, 51, striking sterotyper in dicted last week in the dyna miting of H new spaper trucks, Monday made his first public statement since his ar rest. He denied the charges and said he planned to file contempt proceedings today against Sheriff Francis Lam bert and the Oregonian Pub lishing company. 'Trial by Newspaper' McDonald said he had been subjected to a "trial by news paper" through publication in the combined Oregonian-Ore- gon Journal of confessions made by men who said he hired them to blow up the trucks. The statements were made available to the press by Lambert. McDonald was implicated by four others arrested and indicted in connection with the Jan. 31 dynamitings of four newspaper trucks here and six in Oregon City. The others included Charles, Ed ward and William Snyder, brothers, and Gerald Couzens. Publisher Replies McDonald, who was a mem ber of his union's negotiating team in the newspaper strike here, said he had been silent so far because he didn't want to be tried in the newspaper before his case came to trial. M. J. Frey, publisher of the Oregonian, said "proposed ac tion by Levi S. McDonald against the Oregon Publishing company for performing its duty responsibility to the reading public of this area is ludicrous." 100 Appointments Made To Give Blood Only 100 appointments to donate blood had been made by this morning, the Jackson county American Red Cross chapter said. The Bloodmobile will be at the chapter house, 60 Haw thorne ave., Medford, until 6 o'clock tonight, and the quota is 290 pints. A total of 350 donors is needed to assure col lection of 290 pints, Red Cross officials said. Walk-in donors are wel come, and officials urged res idents to donate whether or not they have an appoint ment. lum materials center. The dis tricts can pick up their own materials, it was decided. This trimmed the travel al lowance for the center to $900 a year. Currently, $600 over the $900 is needed to meet the expenses for the rest of the year, Mekvold explained. All four travel proposals for the curriculum materials center were eliminated. These included outright purchase of a Volkswagen Micro-Bus for delivery purposes, installment purchase, lease purchase and paying the director of the cen ter to furnish the vehicle at a flat rate, or pay to operate the center's own package de livery service. Genera! Discussion Of Relations Slated Brasilia, Brazil (UPD A wildly enthusiastic crowd surged against police lines and attempted to embrace Presi dent Eisenhower today at the Brazilian start of his "good partner" tour of Latin Amer ica. His airplane circled the air port at this boomtown future capital for 15 minutes while police sought to clear the en thusiastic crowd from the runaway. Met By President Eisenhower finally landed and was met by President Juscelino Kubitschek with whom he joined in issuing a second "Declaration of Bra silia" which pledged inter American economic aid and a common front against Com munist inroads on the South American continent. The crowd of more than 5,000 braved a rain that had been falling for 24 hours. The downpour turned the citys streets into mud-filled pot holes. The airport ceremonies were confined to protocol and the presentation of a key to , the city to Eisenhower. There were no formal speeches. Comparison With Kansas But in a speech prepared for delivery to workers at a monument in this uncomplet ed ultra-modern city, Eisen hower compared the "boom" spirit here to that which per vaded the frontier communi ties of the West, such as his boyhood town of Abilene, Kan. Eisenhower's jet set down here following a five hour and 38-minute flight from Ramey Air Force Base, Puerto Rico. Talk Scheduled Reading of the new declar ation was placed in the hands of Secretary of State Chris tian A. Herter and Brazil'i Foreign Minister Horacio La ter at the site of a monument commemorating Eisenhower's visit. Eisenhower and Kubitschek scheduled a two-hour talk this afternoon for a general dis cussion of Brazilian-American relations with a view toward setting up a formal agenda for formal conversations later between Herter and Lafer. In that connection, it had been consistently reported that Brazil hoped Eisenhower brought with him some con crete proposals to deal with current hemisphere problems. Senate Committee Approves Funds Talent A Senate commit tee on interior and insular af fairs today approved an ad ditional allocation for con struction work by Talent Irri gation district personnel, ac cording to a telegram from Sen. Richard L. Neuberger (D-Ore.) This is part of the work being done to improve district facilities so it can receive ad ditional water from the Tal ent project during the 1961 irrigation season, a district of ficial explained. The district now has a $180,000 contract for its per sonnel to work on the east canal. The balance of $200, 000 already allocated for cur rent work has been used in various small district rehabili tation projects. The new allocation, if passed by Congress, would provide enlargement of work in the east canal area of the TID outside of larger struc tures. Sub-laterals are being enlarged throughout the dist rict, the officals explained. Salem - (UPD - State Sen. An thony Yturri (R-Ontario) has filed for reelection. He repre-" sents the 21st district. The committee made no cuts in the center's salaries. Tentatively approved were the salaries of the director, from $5,800 to $6,100; clerk stenographer, $2,928 to $3,200; and the technician from $4,750 to $5,000. Kary Hayes, director-teacher for special education class es for the mentally retarded was raised from $6,510 to $6,910. The committee is to review the budget in more detail next Monday night, plus other items it was not able to con sider during its three-hour meeting last night. The budg et is expected to be adopted next week.
