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Per 1 54th Year Price 10 Cents Regional Edition Medford Tribune 16 Pages MEDFORD OREGON, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 2, 1960 No. 291 SOPS DSDOETD v ' , RAIL CARS SCATTERED Cars from the wrecked pas- senger train are scattered in a farm field near Bakers- field, Calif., where they stopped after the train crashed Unwed Mothers Costing Welfare $80,000 a Month Salem -DPD- The State De partment of Finance and Ad ministration estimated today there are 562 cases of unwed mothers on dependent chil dren welfare rolls in Oregon with a monthly cost of more than $80,000 - or a million dollars per year. The statistics were released by the governor's office, ac-cording-'to a spokesman, "in response to phone call re quests." The dpeartment said the figures do ...not .include costs for illegitimate children re ceiving general assistance funds or money from foster care appropriations, which are separate accounts. 1,100 Children Involved Ten per cent of the aid to dependent children program, the Department said, is for un wed mothers and nearly 1,100 children are involved. Aver age case figures show $80,928 per month, the report said. The report followed criti cism last week of Gov. Mark Hatfield by Oregon Demo cratic Chairman Robert Straub for Hatfield's mention of the possibility of steriliza tion of unwed mothers on wel fare. Dr. Casterline on Board of Examiners Salem-Gov. Mark Hatfield reappointed Dr. Ray L. Cas terline, Medford, to the state board of medical examiners. Dr. Casterline has been on the board since January of last year when he was named to replace Dr. E. E. Durno, also of Medford. FRIDAY MEETING Ashland - The board of di rectors of the Ashland Cham ber of Commerce will meet at Omar's at noon Friday to dis cuss the budget as well as several other projects. Reorganization Plan for Reviewed by State Board Phoenix - The reorganiza tion plan for the Phoenix ad ministrative school district, now consisting of Talent and Phoenix school districts, will probably be reviewed By the state board of education on March 9, D. W. Patch, state director of school district re organization, said at a hearing in Phoenix last night. The Jackson county organi zation committee will be noti fied of the board's action the next day, Patch said. If the plan is approved, an election of school board members for the new administrative dis trict will then be called im mediately, County School Superintendent Alf B. Mek vold explained. He added that it takes at least 20 days to post and advertise the elec tion, which means it will be held probably the first of April. It would be possible to hold an election on both the school board and the annual school levy. Talent and Phoenix voters will vote on all direct fear . v-J1-"l STUDENTS SPRAYED Firemen spray water on students displaying a huge pro Castro banner as President Eisenhower ! Uruguay Police Anti-Dke Demonstrators Montevideo, Uruguay-flJPD- Police brought up fire hoses and fired tear gas today against left wing students at tempting to demonstrate against President Eisenhower. The tear gas fumes reached the President's car and he put his hands to his face and ducked his head. The incident was the only jarring note in the wildest, most enthusiastic reception he has received on his South American tour. Uruguay is the last stop of PETITIONS FILED Petitions have been filed for Sen. John F. Kennedy, Democrat, on the ballot as presidential candidate, accord ing to the elections depart ment. The petitions filed in the county elections depart ment contained 72 signatures. Hollywood -UPD- Universal International Studio settled its contract dispute with the Screen Actors Guild Tuesday night. ors representing three zones in Talent and four in Phoenix. After July 1 boundary changes are possible, but not now while the reorganization plan for the Phoenix adminis trative district is up for con sideration. Patch reported. Frank Van Dyke, Medford lawyer, announced he repre sents 119 resident property owners in the area around Barnett rd. within the Med cord city boundaries yet lo cated in the Phoenix school district. These property own ers want their area trans ferred into the Medford school district, he reiterated. The attorney sdded that he rea lized boundary changes are not possible at this time, but he was merely making his statement for the record. Patch had to prod his au dience of 55 persons into ques tions or remarks. The meet ing was in sharp contrast to the hearings held before Phoe nix and Talent districts were consolidated after two heated elections last year. into an oil truck last night. Rescue workers were still searching for bodies today. See picture on page 2. (UPI Telephoto) waves to cheering crowds as he drives past a school in Montevideo, Uruguay, today. (UPI Radiotelephoto) his four-nation trip. The President arrived by plane from Santiago, Chile, early this afternoon and was driven through the city to Weight Mile Taxes Enrich Road Fund Salem-OIPD-The public Util ity Commission said today that the state highway fund was enriched last year by $14,129,460 through collection by the PUC of weight mile taxes. Collections totaled $15,378, 916 in 1959, the highest since the tax was levied and a hike of 15.3 per cent over 1958. - Commissioner Jonel C. Hill said that the PUC now col lects more tax for highway use by motor carrier truck operators in one month than the department collected for the entire year of 1939. Receipts from out-of-state carriers increased 8.77 per cent in 1959, he said. Phoenix District May Be of Education on March 9 Mrs. Bertha Gammill, a Phoenix area resident who opposed the consolidation, filed suit as a result of the second election charging that it was illegal to hold an elec tion after the issue had been voted down during the first one. She has since dropped the suit, according to the dis trict attorney's office. Patch said if the state board disapproved the reorganiza tion proposal it has 60 days in which to notify the local re organization committee. Such disapproval must give clear reasons for rejecting the plan. He explained that consolida tion of the two districts has been taken care of already. The board is not concerned with that, he said. The prob lem is to change the newly created school district into an administrative district de fined as a unified district pro viding education for grades 1 through 12. A number of the audience, including Ashland Attorney B t n Lombard representing Douse showers of confetti and the cheers of crowds that ran in to hundreds of thousands. The fire hoses and tear gas were brought into play when left wing students atop the administration building of the Federal Agricultural Col lege unfurled a sign reading, "Yankee imperiali sts go home." They threw rocks at police and firemen who put ladders up to drive them off. The police measures were effective and the students were unable to stage any dis turbances worthy of the means. After easy-going ceremoni als at the airport, marked by friendliness and a marked ab sence of tommygun-carrying troops, Eisenhower zipped off on a 22-mile procession into the heart of the city and a greeting that grew in warmth and volume all the way. It reached a climax when his motorcade stopped at the obelisk for him to receive Montevideo's Medal of Honor. the Phoenix district patrons, and Attorney Van Dyke said they favor the plan and hoped the state board would approve it. Mark (Red) Norton, Phoe nix resident and owner of a Phoenix retail lumber yard, asked if the Rogue Valley Manor now being constructed in the Barnett rd. area had anything to do with the pro posal to bring that area into Medford. A year or so ago nobody wanted that area, he remarked. Keith H o c k e r -smith, reorganization commit tee chairman, said this would be discussed at the next meet ing of the reorganization com mittee. In closing ythe meeting, which lasted less than an hour, Patch said all the re organization committees in the state have done excellent jobs from the time they were organized in 1957. "These people are not paid, and I feel that this type of civic responsibility is com mendable," he concluded. Truck's Load of Diesel Oil Spews Over 11 -Car Train Tracks Reopened By Repair Crews Bakersfield, Calif. - (UPI) -The wreckage of an 11-car passenger train and a tank truck, remnants of a disas trous collision that claimed at least 14 lives and injured 60, was cleared from the tracks today. Rail traffic over the Santa Fe main line, closed since the train and truck loaded with 8,000 gallons of diesel oil oil erupted into a fiery pyre at 5:10 p.m. Tuesday, return ed to normal at 10:15 a.m. But not before 1,200 feet of rails were replaced. As other passenger trains sped past the scene, rescue crews continued to sift the debris for possible additional victims. About 35 persons still re mained in Bakersfield's three largest hospitals, a half-dozen of them in critical condition. The speeding Chicago bound Santa Fe Chief smash ed broadside into the loaded tanker at a crossing at dusk Tuesday. The truck's 8,000 gallons of fuel oil spewed flaming through the air and spread a path of fire along the right of way. All but two of the 11 pas senger cars were derailed. Some jackknifed atop each other under a rain of burning oil. Fire crews quenched the flames two hours later. Only then, with the wreckage still steaming, could rescue crews from throughout San Joaquin Valley start their grisly task. Giant cranes and acete lyne torches were used to separate the layers of steel, described by a worker as sim ilar to a crushed piece of aluminum foil. Gently they lifted small severed bits of steel or whole passenger cars in search of the charred and mangled bod ies. One man was taken out critically injured but alive from thecrash eight hours after "the accident: There were 72 passengers and 11 crewmen aboard. The forward cars suffered the the more severe damage. The last wto units remained up right on the tracks. The victims included the engineer of the train, L. A. Snyder, 67, a 42-year-veteran. Also dead were the truck driver and the train's firemen. Bruce Hitt Not To Consider County Job Bruce S. Hitt, assistant county school superintendent, stated today that he is consid ering other plans for the coming year and does not "wish to consider any posi tion in the county office for the next year." As a major step in trim ming the county school bud get Hitt's position as assistant county school superintendent was eliminated Tuesday night by the rural school board. The recommendation was made by the county school budget committee. Theb udget committee re affirmed a salary of $7,200 a year for the newly created po sition of administrative assist ant to the county school su perintendent. This, basically, will combine the functions of both former positions. The county school budget committee is expected to act later in the week in fixing the details of the "tight" budget submitted by the superintend ent's office. Two Men Arrested For Burglary Robert Gene Seguin, 22, of 1125 West 10th st., and Jerald Deeman Couch, 21, of 31 North Grape st., were jailed by city police early today on charges of burglary. The two men were taken into custody about 1:30 a.m. after police entered Boyd's Coffee warehouse, 712 South Grape st., to investigate a pos sible break and entry. Officers were called to. the warehouse by a resident near the building who reported that he heard breaking glass and saw two men cross his yard. The building owner, James A. Eliott, 715 South Holly st., unlocked the building door for police, who found the two men hiding in a closed room. They were unarmed. oPlice said entry had been made by reaching through a broken window and releasing a lock. The men told officers I they were looking for beer. Appling Picks Candidates for Primary Ballot Nelson Rockefeller Included on List Salem, Ore. (DPD The names of six Democrats, in cluding Adlai E. Stevenson, and of two Republicans, in cluding New York Gov. Nel son Rockefeller, were entered today for Oregon's May 20 presidential primary election. Sen. E s t e s Kefauver (D Tenn.) also was entered. -Rockefeller Wants Off Vice President Richard M. Nixon and Rockefeller were named as Republican candi dates although Rockefeller has sent word he was mailing an affidavit which would re move him from the ballot. Other Democrats were Sens. Hubert Humphrey of Minne sota, John Kennedy of Massa chusetts, Lyndon Johnson of Texas, and Stuart Symington of Missouri. Secretary of State Howell Appling Jr., a Republican, had the power to name the candidates under a new Ore gon law. Those picked have until 5 p.m. March 14 to re move their names from the ballot. Morse By Petition Humphrey's name already has been entered by the peti tion method. Also on the bal lot by this method is Sen. Wayne Morse (D-Ore.), mak ing seven Democrats in all. Appling said he chose Ke fauver because the Tennessee senator had appeared in near ly every poll dating back to last year. No candidates were chosen for vice president. ' (Continued on Page 2) EDWIN H. TAYLOR Seeks Commissioner Job Edwin H. Taylor Files for Post Edwin H. Taylor, 69, of Route 2, box 285, Table Rock rd., Central Point, has filed as a Democratic candidate for county commissioner. Taylor, who has lived in Jackson county his entire life, owned and operated the Tay lor Maid Pickle factory for several years. He was a member of the original non-high school coun ty board and served from 1933 through 1952. He is a past master of the Applegate Grange and is now president of the Farm Bureau. Taylor served overseas in World War I. He makes his home with his wife, Mildred. The couple have three children. He is the second Democrat to file for county commission er. Incumbent Ralph James filed for the position last month. WEATHER FORECAST: Considerable clou diness tonight and Thursday with occasional light showers or snow flurries and a few clearing periods. Low tonight 25. High Thursday 48. Highest Yesterday Lowest this Morning Prec. to 18 a.m. Today, Trace. Our Skies Tonight Sunset today . 6:03 p.m. Sunrise tomorrow S:44 a.m. Moonset tonight 11:28 pjn. First Quarter March 5 PROMINENT STARS The Pleiades, above the Moon. VISIBLE PLANETS Jupiter, low in south east 4:10 a.m. Saturn, low in south east 5:22 a.m. Mars, rises 5:48 a.m. Venus, rises 6:01 a.m. CRASH AFTERMATH Two drivers lost their lives and four passengers are hospital ized as a result of the two - car collision Tuesday night which left the tangled wreck age above. The black sedan, operated by Clarence Elston Pullen, 23, route 1 box 510, Cave Junction, left the northbound Two Killed In Traffic Accident A two-car head-on collision north of Ashland on Billings Hill took the lives of two drivers and injured four passenger about 10:45 p.m. Tuesday, state police report ed. ' Killed were Clarence Elston Pullen, 23, route 1, box 510, Cave Junction, driver of a sports sedan, and Vernon L. Ogye, 44, of 322 Wimer st., Ashland, driver and lone oc cupant of the other sedan. Miss Arlis Wella Brooks, about 17, of 532 N.W. Mid lands, Grant Pass, passenger in Pullen's car, was reported in critical condition at Rogue Valley hospital.: She received face and head injuries. ; Injured Others injured, all passen gers in Pullen's car, were Herb Dale Kennedy, 19, Cave Junction, who was transferred to Rogue Valley hospital from Ashland General hospital to day with multiple bruises and undetermined injuries; James Weaver, 18, of 1650 Fruitdale drive, Grants Pass, who un derwent surgery at the Ash land Hospital this morning for a fractured jaw; and Janet Marie Smith, 18, of 204 Palm st., who was reported in fair condition at Rogue Valley hospital. She suffered a brok en leg. Police said the accident oc curred when Pullen's north Registration Rally Scheduled Thursday A pre-primary registration rally will be held Thursday, March 3, at 8 p.m. at the Eagle Point grade school gym nasium by the Democratic party. County residents may at tend the rally to find out. if they are registered correctly so they may vote in the May 20 primary. Deadline for reg istering is April 19 at 5 p.m. W. E. Davies, Eagle Point, announced that the precinct lists of registered voters for the county's 113 precincts will be available. Several persons will speak at the rally including Robert B. Duncan, Medford, speaker of the house of representa tives. It was reported that only 65 per cent of Jackson coun ty's potential of 45,745 vot ers are registered. Brown Asks End Of Death Penalty Sacramento, Calif. - (UPD -Gov. Edmund G. Brown ask ed a reluctant legislature to day to abolish the death pen alty in California. The governor in a 1,500 word special message to the lawmakers made no mention of Caryl Chessman, the com vict - author-, sex criminal whose long-delayed execution has touched off a world-wide debate over capital punish ment. But responsible legal au thorities in the capitol said that if the legislature adopted Brown's proposal, the courts undoubtedly would spare the life of Chessman and 20 oth er men on San Quentin pri on's death row plus one wom an, Mrs. Elizabeth Duncan, convicted murderess. lane of traffic on Highway 99 north of Ash land and collided in the outside southbound lane with the light colored sedan driven by. Vernon L. Ogle, 44, of 322 Wimer st., Ash land. Ogle and Pullen were killed outright. State police, sheriff's deputies and Ashland city police were (Photo by Jackson bound car crossed the center stripe on Highway 99 and traveled into the outside south-bound lane of traffic, striking the left front end of Ogle's car. The mishap was the second double fatality collision in Jackson county within fi-re days. It brought to five the number of traffic fatalities in the county in 1960. At this time last year, the death toll was seven. Litwiller's Funeral home, Ashland, will announce funer al services for Ogle. Request Heard By County Group During its first meeting yesterday the county budget committee spent most of the time in organizing for this year's sessions. The budget committee dis cussed the district attorney's budget and tentatively ap proved the total figure of $20, 890 compared to the current year's budget total of $20,910. Reeder was able to reduce the allotment of $1,000 for part time secretarial help to $350 because of the adoption of the uniform traffic code by the last state legislature. This goes into effect in July. He' increased telephone and office supplies each by $200. Travel was slightly decreased. The budget committee visit ed the county jail after lunch and plans to check the Jack son county juvenile detention home and the county farm home later. Field trips will be made also to the various road department facilities. The county clerk's budget is to be considered further dur ing the Friday meeting. Other department budgets to be con sidered then will be the plan ning commission, district court, county assessor and the library board. Between budget sessions the county court will inspect roads. called to the scene. County Sheriffs Deputies) Hospital Plans Okayed; Bowling Alley Discussed Ashland Tentative plans for a new $350,000 hospital were approved by the Ash land city council last night and are now subject to final approval by state and federal agencies. Construction of the 34-bed hospital is expected to start in late spring or early summer. The plans were approved by the city hospital board Mon day night. The council also passed a resolution calling for bids for hospital construction and in structed City Attorney Harry Skerry to pick up options on the necessary properties. Plans to establish a fund, possibly to be called the hos pital option fund, were dis cussed. A proposal to build a $250, 000 bowling alley on Highway 99 between Faith ave. and Park st. was presented to the council, but the key problem still is the legality of offstreet parking in a residentially zoned area. Skerry, however, was in structed by the coun.il to draft an ordinance changing the maximum allowable high way frontage from 150 to 200 feet and to allow a 250-foot perimeter. Possible zoning ordinance changes were discussed and it was moved that City Super intendent Elmer Biegel be in structed to limit building per mits to single-unit dwellings in residential zones effective immediately, pending a hear ing on an ordinance incorpor ating zoning restrictions in the city. Regarding a proposed fare increase by a bus line operat ing through Ashland, the council adopted a proposal to write a letter of appeal to the firm. The letter will cite the position of elderly Ashland residents who use the buses frequently and are opposed to the increase. City Recorder W. E. Bartelt reported that a representative of the state highway depart ment will be here next week to discuss an a cess road to the proposed highway which would bypass the city. ...
