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.
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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"
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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