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Kennedy Victorious DSD coon African Police Seize LHIostel; Airirest 3 Many Natives Said Fleeing Settlements Gunfire Threatened To Force Evacuation Johannesburg, South Africa -fllPD-Armed troops and police backed by armored cars seiz ed an African hostel near Dur ban today and arrested about 300 natives. Officials said natives had taken control of the S. J. Smith Hostel near Lamont- ville, which houses about 4,500 Negroes, when agitators and intimidators forced white officials out Monday night. Gunfire Threatened Police surrounded the hos tel in the early morning hours today and advised those who wanted to leave to do so. The Inhabitants were warned that gunfire would be used if nec essary to force them out. But the guns were not used. Police said about 300 Afri cans were arrested and a search of the hostel turned up a large number of weap ons, including hammers, hatchets and clubs with knobbed ends. Quiet But Tense Negroes were reported flee ing Lamontville and other na tive settlements near Capt Town, some in search of food and others to seek refuge in tribal homes to avoid new beatings by club and whip wielding South African po lice. The native settlements were reported quiet but tense to day, a national holiday. Resistance Melting Heavily armed police pa trols and armored cars made an early morning sweep through Nyanga where four Africans were shot by police Tuesday night. White authorities Insisted the resistance from defiant blacks was melting and they expected little or no trouble today because it was a na tional holiday-the 308th an niversary of white settlement in the union. House Authorizes Access Road Funds The United States house of representatives today voted to authorize $5 million more for forest access roads in fiscal 1962 and $10 million more in fiscal 1963. Rep. Charles O. Porter re ported that the increases will make a total of $35 million for 1962 and $40 million for 1963. "Oregon, especially the fourth district, gets a large share of these funds annually," Porter stated. The congressman said he had requested substantial in creases in this category ear lier in testimony before the committee "as necessary to keep the long range national forest program on scneauie. The items still must come before appropriations commit tees. Salem (UPII The Legislative Interim Committee on Educa tion will meet here Friday and Saturday to discuss alternate methods of distributing state funds. Ashland Council Elects Member; Property Zoned Ashland - The Ashland city council last night elected George F. Ward to Its mem bership and passed an ordi nance rezonlng the present Junior high school property from residential to a business district. Ward, coowner of Cascade Wood Products, Inc., succeeds Walter Bosshard, who re signed earlier this year be cause of the demands o( bus iness. Ward's election was unanimous. The rezonlng ordinance, which had been approved by the city planning commission after a public hearing Monday night, will enable tne Asn- land school district to sell the DroDertv to business Interests, Junior high students in Ash land will move into a new chnol this fall. The ordinance was passed Regional Edition Medford 24 Pages Section A FULL BLOOM Pear trees in the Rogue valley are now in peak bloom, according to County Horticultural Agent C. B. Cordy. The picture above was taken lust off the MerffnrH. Jacksonville highway yesterday, and shows thick clusters of blossoms that are currently keeping honey bees working uvcmme. ii one oui or. zu rjiossoms becomes a pear it can be considered a full crop, Cordy said. Trees in Full Bloom Should Not Deceive People, Cordy Says Full blooming fruit trees should not deceive Rogue val ley residents into believing each blossom will produce fruit, Clifford B. Cordy, coun ty horticultural agent, said today. "On some large pear trees, for instance, there may be as many as 100,000 blossoms. By and large if we get one pear out of 20 blossoms we will get a full crop. If more blos soms than that set fruits they must be thinned; if less then the tree will fall short of pro ducing a full crop," Cordy explained. Cordy also explained that the tree must overcome many hazards to set a full fruit crop. Developing buds in late sum mer and fall are sensitive to conditions. All pears are de pendent on cross pollination for seed development. WEATHER FORECAST: " Generally cloudy toniRht nd Thursday with chance of showers Thursday. Low tonight 42-45. Hlh Thurs day 65-61. Temp. Highest Yesterday 17 Lowest this Mornlns 46 Our Skies Tonight Sunset today 6:43 p.m. sunrise tomorrow .... : a.m Moonset tomorrow .... 3:29 a.m. Full Moon April 11 PROMINENT STAR Arcturus, In the east 8:55 p.m. VISIBLE PLANETS Jupiter, rises 1:1S a.m. Saturn, low In south east .. 3:15 a.m. Mars, rises 4:40 a.i Mercury, low In east at sunrise. 5-1, with only Councilman D. S. Kerr dissenting. The council unanimously approved reappointment of William M. Briggs and Dr. Chris Haid 3 the city eco nomic development commis sion. A solution authorizing Mayr Richard t. Neill to ne gotiate with the state depart ment, of higher education in regard to hiring a profesional planner for the city was ap proved. City Superintendent Elmer Biegel was authorized to call for bids on paint for the ex terior of Ashland's new city hall. Richard Brown appeared before the council again to re quest that Granite st. be paved. It was agreed that Bie gel would work with Brown's group to Investigate the situ ation. MEDFORD, OREGON, Those which do not cross pollinize fail to develop. Blos soms on young wood are more apt to set fruit than blossoms on old and partially devital-. ized spurs, he noted. "There are three rather well defined periods when blossoms or young fruits will fall from the tree," Cordy explained. "The first is Immediately after bloom. The second is two or three weeks later and the last one in late May and early June. Application of certain hormones prior to harvest has been found satisfactory in holding the fruit on but this same hormone applied shortly after bloom has not only fail ed to hold the pears on but acts as a thinning agent on apples." Low temperatures weaken the buds and high tempera tures damage the buds, both through the temperature it self and the resulting strecs on the tree for water and nutrients. Brill House to Be Removed Ashland - Jacksonville's historic Britt house will be torn down within the next two months, Southern Oregon col lege Business Manager Don Lewis said today. Lewis met with the Jack sonville city council last night. He said today the build ing will be removed by June 1. The college will - either handle the work itself, he said, or will sell the building to a firm which will remove it. The Jacksonville city coun cil previously had informed the college by letter that the house was a safety hazard be cause of the heavy damage caused by two fires. Lewis said the college, which owns the Britt proper ty, agreed the house was un safe and should be torn down. Another point, Lewis add ed, Is that Fred Jones, care taker of Britt house, has been vlolatirg a city ordinance by living In a trailer on the prop erty. Lewis said the college was not aware of the viola tion. The council, however, agreed to let Jones continue i-1 living in the trailer until the 'June 1 deadline. ' ' ' ' - ' '' 1 ' ' 00 WEDNESDAY, APRIL 6, Mitchell Advocates Minimum Farm Wage Washington-WD-Labor Secretary James P. Mitchell ad- vocattd today a minimum wags but expressed strong doubt in an election year. Mitchell also said he would mitting ine importation of Mexican farm laborers expire unless Congress strengthens ways of supervising the pro gram and safeguarding the workers. Increased Of Public Goal in Portland Portland -fflPD- Rene J. Val entine, newly appointed union director of the Portland news paper strike, said today imme diate strategy would be aimed at arousal of a greater degree of public support. Valentine,, of Indianapolis, is an international representa tive of the International Typo graphical Union. All six unions involved in the news paper strike authorized him last week to direct joint ef forts toward a settlement. Return Main Issue He told his first news con ference that the main issue in tne ASo-aay strike -now was the return to work of the strikers. Publishers of the struck Oregon Journal and Oregonian have promised per manent jobs to workers hired since the strike started. Valentine indicated that any bargaining on other issues could not come until this issue was settled. In the meantime, he said, "we hope to enlist public support to a degree not hitherto reached, and con vince the people that Portland will not become a non-union town." He characterized the local strike as a "fight for survival" of the newspaper craft unions Phoenix Man Found Guilty by Jury Robert Carr Mix, 43, of 215 C St., Phoenix, was sentenced to eight months in the county jail yesterday afternoon after a circuit court jury convicted him of assault with a deadly weapon. The jury returned the ver dict following less than an hour's deliberation with 10 of the 12 jurors voting guilty. District Attorney Thomas J. Reeder prosecuted the case and Alan Holmes acted as Mix's attorney. The verdict and sentencing followed a two-day trial in Circuit Judge James M Main's court. v "Dear, I don't Want To Seem Like A Square, But" ' " Price 10 Cents Tribune 1960 No. 14 for all hired farm workers Congress will pass such a bill prefer to see the law per Support Union's not only in Portland but else where in the nation. He said efforts to achieve a settlement would be pursued indefinitely and that there was no time limit on his own participation. Chlorinafor Test Set (or Pipeline Starting today and continu ing through Monday, April 11, a chlorinator will be in operation on the city of Med- ford's No. 2 water pipeline from Big Butte springs None of the homes within the city will have any chlorine in their water because the city's water supply comes from the No. 1 pipeline, ac cording to Robert Lee, city water superintendent. However, a few residents living along the route of pipe line No. 2 outside of the city will receive chlorine, Lee said. The No. 2 pipeline runs along Foothills rd., he added. The city has two chlorina- tors, one at the springs end of each of the 30-mile pipe lines. They are maintained as emergency standby equipment for the purpose of sterilizing the water should it suddenly become polluted, Lee point ed out. Once each year, however, one of the two cniorinaiors is turned on for a few days for two reasons, he said, which are, one, to make sure the equipment is ready for service if needed and two, to flush out the pipelines so that they will not lose any of their maxilium water capacity. Water from the No. 2 pipe line is discharged into one of the Capital Hill reservoirs and frofn there it goes into the ovr-flow and into Bear creek so that none of the water gels into the city's wa ter distribution system, he pointed out. The chlorinator on the No. 1 pipeline will not be tested until next year, he said. ' ' ' ' - ' - Wisconsin lie If - eHtr H f (,Xs' D, 7 '' (o-: Vv-W t 4 " sL far F Rjiit...ijAA.;,JA.!yflMMM " .. M m innSllilalMsssI KENNEDY WINS Sen. Hubert Humphrey (D-Minn.) (background) seems to be giving Sen. John Kennedy the eye as Kennedy is Public Hearing on Welfare Subjects Concludes in City The legislative Interim com mittee on welfare concluded public hearing yesterday afternoon in the Jackson county courthouse, after dis cussions on prosecution of non-support cases and need for additional foster home allow ances here. Most of the hearing yester day consisted of testimony by Klamath county representa tives on need for a closer liaison between doctors and the " welfare department and deficit in medical program funds. Grace Olivier Peck, Port land, Democratic representa tive, appointed Dr. Ennis Keizer, North Bend physi cian, to head a subcommittee to meet with Klamath county welfare personnel and doctors and solve the problem. Amount Collected Jackson County Welfare Administrator James Pullman said only $364 has been col lected during an 18 months period from fathers charged with non-support. Asked by Robert Duncan, Medford, if he was satisfied with prosecution of non-support cases by the Jackson county district at torney's office, Pullman said, "There seems to be a differ ence of opinion on who should and who should not be prose cuted. This may be an honest difference of opinion." Gerald Scannel, chief depu ty district attorney, disputed Pullman's figures. He said his office collected a large por tion of payments from non support cases, but kept no record of them. He added that his office had a good record in successful prosecutions of such cases. Mrs. Eldred Charley testi fied that $50 a month in board payments is not enough for each teen-ager they have in the foster home even though they operate a small farm in the Central Point area. 2Vz Hours Medford police went to the aid of a 49-year-old transient Monday night who was found suffering from convulsions on a downtown street, but it took nearly 21. hours for them to find someone who would give him adequate medical care. Police found the man, who gave his address as Camp White, lying in a gutter on South Front St., between Main and Eighth sis., at 9:26 p.m. He was having heavy convul sions, they said. The Medford Ambulance service was summoned and took the patient to Sacred Heart hospital. Police went along to help keep the man j under control. At the hospital he was placed on the floor of the emergency room and two nurses attempted to diagnose the ailment without success for nearly an hour, police said. At the end ot an hour, a doctor was summoned and he said the man was a spastic, giving him an Injection of phenobarbital. Continued to Suffer Handing by, tud th Injection - - - - - .' - interviewed regarding Tuesday's president ial primary election in Wisconsin. Kennedy defeated Humphrey. (UPI Telephoto) Budgets for County Juvenile Operation Considered Today The Jackson county budget committee this morning con sidered budget proposals for the Jackson county juvenile department of circuit court, and for juvenile detention home operation and mainten ance. Requested budget total for juvenile department of circuit court is $48,777, an Increase ot $7,263.10, and $30,131 lor juvenile detention home op eration and maintenance, an Illlied&C VL CiU,iat.d1i ailS:in nn,,nl. K..Jr.t nn-n- .1 ft- ... II,. ' " juvcuuc court function. County Commissioner Che- ter Wendt pointed to what he called "something startling. The juvenile department-cir- Plan To Be Aired At Parks Meeting The city-county cooperative operational plan will be dis cussed tonight at the meet ing of the Medford parks and recreation commission In the city council chambers. The plan would include hir ing Robert L. Haworth, city parks and recreation director, by the Jackson county parks and recreation commission on a part-time basis. Herb Partridge, commission member, announced that he will report on playground equipment for use in the city parks. He explained that the Kl- wanis club was "seriously considering" donating sculp ture type play apparatus. He said that the donation would be a continuation of the Ki wanis' aid to-city parks. The club was instrumental in the building of Maple st. park and donated most of the play ground equipment at Haw thorne park. Spent Finding Medical Care standign by, said the Injection did not quiet the man and he continued to suffer from fre quent convulsions. The doctor asked police If the man was under arrest a-d they told him no. The doctor then said the man should be hospitalized for the night and police assumed the man was to stay in the Sacred Heart hospital. According to police, one of the nurses then made a com ment to the effect that the man wa a "liability" to the hospital, indicating he had been there before -without paying his bills. The nurses and the doctor went into the hall where they apparently carried on a conversation which the policeman did not hear. No Longer Mamber Shortly afterwards they came back Into the room and said the man should probably go to the Camp White hospi tal. A policeman called the Camp White hospital and doctor on duty there Informed him that the man was no long er a member of Camp White but bad been transferred to a "' - "'.' - ... - U- .' cult court budget has risen from $17,262.93 in 1956-57 to $48,777 in the 1960-61 budget request now being made. The juvenile detention home op eration and maintenance has risen from $12,677 in 1957-58 to the $30,131 requested lor the 1960-61 fiscal year. Discus Foster Car Considerable discussion fhlftl morning centered on the $5, 000 requested for foster care of court wards. Gordon Hud- " rausn-uiuiuinic Jackson county public health department has requested the county contribute $2,000 of, $8,000 for hiring: a family counselor to work with the existing child guidance clinic. This is supposed to prevent delinquency, too, he noted. We figure we are primari ly saving children not dollars," Circuit Judge James M. Main said. It was also pointed out that it would be no saving to cut the county's allocation to the welfare department desig nated for delinquent children cases. The welfare department receives matching funds, Mrs. Kay Crowell, juvenile depart ment director, said. Some main proposed budget expenditures include: juvenile officer, $6,720, $552 increase; secretary $3,456; steno-typist, $2,928, up $156; travel $5,000, up $500; office supplies $3, 000; deputy probation officer $4,908, up $228; girls' coun selor, $4,452; boys' counselor $4,680, up $228; boys coun selor $4,452, up $216; and foster care for court wards, $5',C00. Some main budget expendi tures for juvenile detention home operation and mainten ance include: superintendent and matron $6,504, up $1,572; gas $1,800; electricity $1,000; extra help $3,600, up $54.34; dairy products $1,800; gro ceries and sundries $1,J00; and meat $1,300. Portland VA center a short time ago. The doctor to whom tne po liceman talked at the domicil iary said they could not pick the patient up, but if he was brought to the V A nospuai they would then take care of him. Police records did not show whether or not Rogue Valley hospital had been con tacted. The doctor at Sacred Heart then asked the policeman if he would take the man to the police station in his car, but is against city police policy to transfer ill subjects in pa trol cars except In case of an emergency, and he could not do it. Refuses Traniportation The Medford Ambulance service driver had been stand ing by at Sacred Heart during this period of time, and he re fused to take the man to Camp White because, as he told the policeman, It would take too much time, which would cost him money, and if he did it for one person he would eventually have to do It for others. It bad apparently been es '''t i A -' . - . . Massachusetts Senator Wins on Big City Votes Nixon Runs Third In Vote Percentage Milwaukee, Wis. -4JPD- Sen. John F. Kennedy today rode a tide of big city votes to vic tory in Wisconsin's weather vane primary election. The engaging Massachusetts senator gained momentum in his drive for the Democratic presidential nomination by capturing 6 out of 10 congres sional districts, a big major ity of the state's convention delegates and a fat plurality of a record popular vote. Gains 39 Per Cent Kennedy's edge in the popu lar vote was about 100,000 over Sen. Hubert H. Hum phrey (D-Minn.). He took about 39 per cent of the total vote cast, while Humphrey got an estimated 31 and Vice President Richard M. Nixon 30. The part Wisconsin's laree Catholic population played in Kennedy's victory is likely never to be known for certain. The Catholic vote was heavy for Kennedy but wasn't the sole reason for his victory over Humphrey, a Protestant. Nixon unopposed Humphrey gained early strength from rural areas as the vote count began. But Kennedy forged into the lead on the strength of big majori ties in the larger cities, includ ing Milwaukee and Kenosha. With 3,420 of Wisconsin's 3,455 precincts reporting, Kennedy had 467,389 votes, Humphrey 364,175 and Nixon 336,575. Equally as Important as the popularity contest was the race for Wisconsin's 31 con vention delegates. Kennedy won 20 delegate votes and Humphrey 10. Ona Vote Split One vote was assigned to the Btate'a Democratic nation I al committeeman and commit- I teewoman. It was split be tween Kennedy and Hum , phrey. So the linal score was. Kennedy, 20V.J Humphrey 10V4. : . . - Th most expensively and intensively waged Wisconsin primary campaign in history had drawn a record vote. breaking the old mark of 1,018,000. ' Humphrey said he was sat isfied by the outcome and de led he had been beaten at all. He said his conquest of four of the state's 10 congressional districts was actually a Hum phrey victory. Taking aim on his second primary clash with Kennedy May 10 in West Virginia, Humphrey said, "I don't feel injured at all." Kennedy, shepherding his r i k i n g - appearing wife through the election night crowus, just smiled and said. am pleased to win. My v;lfe and I came as stranger;: and we did well." Sheriff to Discuss Murder With Officials Jackson County Sheriff Joe Walsh and Deputy Paul Bet tiol plan to leave here tomor row for Salem to discuss the Mrs. Lester Hamilton murder case with state authorities. Officials of the Oregon State Bureau of Criminal Identifi- ion and Investigation will compare results of the poly graph examinations conducted by the bureau in connection with the March 15 murder of the well-known Ashland wom an. tablished at this time that the man could not stay at Sacred Heart, even though he was still suffering from convul sions. At the doctor's request the Medford Ambulance driv er did agree to transport the patient to the police station and he was taken there and placed in a back room of the station on a stretcher. Accompanies Man The doctor who went with the patient to the police sta tion again called Camp White, and according to police, the doctor on duty there said they would still not pick him up, but repeated that if he was brought there they would take care of him. On the orders of the police captain on duty at the station that evening, the man was then placed in a patrol car and taken to Camp White by a city policeman. He was left in the care of the doctor at the VA center. The policeman said the man was accepted at Camp While at 11:50 p.m., nearly 2b hours after he was origi nally found on the street suf fering irom convulsions. ......k , 4 rff-A-rtX- JS""A4'. 0 .JkJw
