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Public Meetings
Step Taken To
Smother Seeds
Of Rebellion
Police Clash With
Demonstrators
Caracus, Venezuela UPD
President R o m u 1 o Betan
court's government today ban
ned public meetings in an
emergency move to smother
the seeds of rebellion in
Venezuela.
Police clashed with groups
of rioting demonstrators in
Caracas and Barquisimeto
Monday, resulting in injuries
to 27.
The violence followed last
weeks abortive revolt at San
Cristobal so quickly that the
government decided to take
fast action. The Interior Min
istry decreed no public meet
ings could be held for two
weeks.
Monday's demonstrations
were for widely divergent
reasons but they reflected a
common undercurrent of un
rest. In Caracas, unemployed
men began smashing store
windows and stoning cars in
the center of the city. Police
broke them up with tear gas.
Seventeen were injured.
In Garquisimeto, 215 miles
west of the capital and Venez
uela's third largest city, left
ist students stormed and
sacked the home of acting
Lara State Gov. C. Montes de
Oca, charging that memb'ers
of his Copei (Christian Dem
ocratic) Party helped the San
Cristobal revolt.
Larger Portion of
Fines Go to State
Jackson county must turn
over a larger portion of its
district court fines to the state
after July 1, County Treas
urer Karl Janouch was in-'
formed at Saturday's meeting
of the Association of Oregon
County Treasurers in Bend.
The state will take $20,000
more in district court fines
and forfeitures from Jackson
county, Janouch said. Jack
son county's share of district
court fines amounts to ap
proximately $65,000 a year
which means the county will
receive about $45,000 next
fiscal year, Janouch explain
ed. Money received from both
district court and justice of
the peace courts is generally
credited to the county gen
eral fund, the county treas
urer said. Under the new law
this money must be accredited
to the general county fund.
The general county fund now
receives $35,000 and the gen
eral road fund about $37,000
from the county's share of
fines and forfeitures.
Janouch said main reason
for increasing the state's share
is that, according to state esti
mates, the state goernment
Is in the red about $180,000 a
year for salaries paid district
court judges.
Stadium To Be
Discussed Tonight
The public was reminded
today of a meeting to be held
In the courthouse auditorium
at 8 o'clock tonight at which
the proposed multi-purpose
stadium will be discussed.
A group of persons known
as the Citizen's Stadium com
mittee has proposed that the
; structure be erected at the
: fairgrounds on the south
I edge of Medford and it be
' available to all groups and
j individuals for any type of
j outdoor gathering.
I The public is invited to at
! tend tonight's meeting.
Disc Jockey Dick Clark
Accused of Giving Payola
Washington -OTB- A House
Investigator charged today
that television star Dick Clark
or his companies shelled out
payola to disc jockeys across
the country.
Clark, disc Jockey who has
his own daily network show,
had previously been accused
of taking payola but this was
the first charge that he was
on the giving end u well,
Baseball
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Baltimore 11 12 0
Washington 10 13 0
Walker, Wilhelm (3). Es
trada (7) and Triandoi; Lee,
Abernathy (1), Hyde (4),
Washfischer (5), Patcual (8)
and Bailey. Horn runs:
Woodling and Gentile, Bal
timore; Lemon, Dobbek,
Killebrew and B a 1 1 y.
Washington.
County Democrats
Outnumber GOP
Registered Voters
The number of registered
Democrats in Jackson county
now exceed the number of
registered Republicans, Mar
vin Madden, county clerk,
said today.
He added that, as nearly as
he can determine, this is the
first time in the history of
Jackson county this is so. A
count of registrations made
before the April 19 deadline
was completed this morning.
Madden said there are 16,
389 Democrats and 16,299 Re
publicans, a difference of 90
registered voters. Miscellan
eous registrations total 680,
making a total of 33,368 regis
tered voters in the county.
Madden said the total fig
ure may fluctuate some as a
result of tabulation continues,
but he did not expect any ma
jor change in the number of
voters registered in either ma
jor political party in the coun
ty before the May 20 primary
election.
Democratic i party sources
today said Indications are that
Democrats will also outnum
ber registered Republicans for
the first time in the history
of Josephine county.
Josephine County Clerk
Ben Coutant said the latest
totals available show 6,826 Re
publicans, 6,798 Democrats
and 237 miscellaneous. At that
time, there were several hun
dred cards still to be proc
essed, he said, and indications
are that Democrats now out
number Republicans in Jose
phine county.
A final count of Josephine's
registered voters will not be
available until toward the end
of the week, he said, when all
the cards are processed.
Local Democrats said there
are about eight counties of the
36 in Oregon which are now
Republican, with four or five
of them apparently changing
from Republican to Demo
cratic this year.
About 175 Attend
West Side Meeting
Approximately 175 persons
attended an informative meet
ing on proposed zoning for
the West Side area in the
West Side school last night.
Jackson county planning
commission members present
said it was the largest such
meeting they had attended.
They emphasized this was not
a public hearing, but a meet
ing called by n group of in
terested residents of the area
to learn more about the pro
posed interim zoning. No ac
tion will be taken until the
planning commission receives
petitions requesting zoning
and these petitions are veri
fied, according to Planning
Technician Jack Eaton. About
half of those attending op
posed zoning.
The area includes the area
from the Old Stage rd. at
Jacksonville, to and Includ
ing Military rd., to Scenic
ave., along Scenic ave. to the
railroad tracks, following the
tracks to Central Point, along
Hanley rd. to Bybee corner,
and along the Medford-Jack-sonville
highway to Jackson
ville city limits.
The charge was made by
Robert W. Lishman, counsel
of the subcommittee Investi
gating Clark, while he was
questioning research director
Thomas Noonan of Billboard
Magazine.
Earlier, a statistician said
that 27 per cent of the records
played on Clark's TV show
over a two-year period were
songs in which Clark may
have had financial interest.
County Budget
Group Discusses
Money for Roads
Members of the Jackson
county budget committee
spent most of the morning
considering the $1,758,896 re
quest for the county roads de
partment budget for 1960-61
fiscal year.
The total is $171,382 more
than for the current year's
budget.
The increase included a
number of minor items, most
ly for salaries, but also in
cluded increases of $11,500
for road maintenance, $58,
320 for road construction,
$16,460 for bridges, and $60,
950 for equipment.
One of the major changes is
a reduction of the weighmas
ter's staff from seven to five
men, County Engineer Rob
ert Carstensen said. This rep
resents a saving of about $10,
000. Carstensen said he has
already dropped the two men
from the weighmaster's crew.
They were designated part
time men, but worked full
time, he explained.
The county engineer noted
that the total budget for the
weighmaster's crew in 1959
60 was $30,000. The crew
equalled about half of this,
or about $15,000 in fines for
the year, Carstensen said.
Not Work Wall
"I'm inclined to believe
that it would not work out
too well to have the weigh
master's crew act as part-time
deputy sheriffs," Carstensen
said. "They wduld tend to
take on too many other du
ties." Main budget Items include:
County engineer, $8,200, no
change; assistant county en
gineer, $3,900; two engineer
draftsmen, $10,800, up $9,172;
transitman, $5,628, up $240;
two engineer aids, $9,816, up
$456; assistance per diem as
required, $4,000 credit; prin
cipal clerk, $4,452, up $216;
Clerk Stenographer II, $3,096,
up $3,096 (new help); weigh
master chief, $5,148, up $240;
weighmaster, $4,680, up $228;
three weighmasters, $13,356,
up $4,884; general superin
tendent, $6,600, up $456;
equip ment superintendent,
$5,892, up $432; bridge su
perintendent, $5,892, up $432;
crusher superintendent, $5,628
up $240; construction superin
tendent, $5,385, up $240; elec
trician, $4,908, up $228; ma
chinist, $4,908, up $228; two
mechanics, $9,480, addition of
a new mechanic to repair
pickup trucks and cars raises
item $4,800; welder, $4,908,
up $228.
Other Major Items
Other major items are: two
night servicemen, $8,064, up
$408; four construction watch
men, $16,128, up $816; three
maintenance foremen, $15,
444, up $720; principal clerk
for county shop, $4,908, up
$228; clerk typist II, $3,456,
up $160; clerk for stockroom,
$4,236, up $204; road main
tenance $360,000, up $11,500;
road construction, $458,720,
up $58,320; bridges $316,500,
up $16,460; road equipment
$96,000, up $60,950; engineer
ing and office supplies, $5,800,
up $800; radio, $7,500, up
$6,900.
"Wait For Your
III W V A P "-e. t
85th Congress
Disappointment,
Morse Declares
Senator Would
Be Vice President
Portland-OIPD - Sen. Wayne
Morse (D-Ore.) said Monday
night he was a genuine candi
date for the Democratic nom
ination for President.
Morse, in the first speech
of an Oregon primary stump
ing tour at the Steamfitters
Hall here, said the 86th Con
gress was a "great disappoint
ment" so far as the welfare
of working men and women
is concerned.
In his speech, he took a
couple of swipes at Sen. John
Kennedy (D-Mass.), mostly on
foreign issues.
Committed Working
. Morse said he had commit
tees working for him in every
convention state north of the
Mason-Dixon line and expect
ed to go into the Democratic
convention with more than
100 votes.
"I predict the convention
will be deadlocked for at least
10 votes and in such a dead
lock anything can happen,"
Morse said.
He added: "I am the only
candidate who has given a
forthright answer to the ques
tion as to whether or not I
would accept the vice presi
dency. The answer is yes."
Confident in Oregon
Morse told reporters that he
was confident he would win
primaries in Oregon and the
District of Columbia but "as
of now, not in Maryland."
The senior Oregon senator
accused Kennedy of with
drawing in favor of every
favorite son candidate except
in Oregon's wide open pri
mary. Returning to his remarks on
the 86th congress, Morse said:
"This is the same Congress,
elected in the Democratic
sweep of 1958, which was
widely heralded as the most
liberal since the New Deal
Unfortunately, it was quickly
tamed by the nostrum that
Congress should not go be
yond what the Eisenhower ad
ministration would approve."
Bill Said Defeat for Labor
One of the worst defeats
labor suffered in Congress,
Morse said, was enactment of
the "Kennedy-Landrum-Grif-fin"
labor law, which severely
cripples organizing and bar
gaining rights of unions.
Referring to the Portland
newspaper strike, Morse said
it was very evident from the
Portland situation that the
systematic use of strike in
surance and imported strike
breakers is a threat to indus
trial peace.
Massachusetts
Vote Interest Lags
Bostan-IUPD-The only ques
tion in the Massachusetts
presidential primary today is
how large the victory mar
gins will be for Democratic
native son Sen. John F. Ken
nedy and Republican Vice
President Richard M. Nixon.
The at-largc, or state-wide,
slates of candidates for dele
gate to the national nominat
ing conventions are unop
posed. The Democrats are all
pledged to Kennedy, the Re
publicans all to Nixon.
There are five Democratic
contests, and four Republican
(ights, for delegate seats at
the district level. These have
apparently stirred only scat
tered voter interest.
Leaders Dammit"
Regional Edition
Medford
18 Pages
Education Is Principal
Of Expansion, Hatfield
ADDRESSES GROUP Governor Hatfield
is shown as he addressed a gathering of
some 900 delegates of the 47th annual con
vention of the Oregon Congress of Parents
and Teachers at Hedrick Junior High school
GOVERNOR ARRIVE Gov.
above upon his arrival at Medford airport this morning.
With him is Everett A. Fabcr, Central Point, one of many
greeters that were on hand to welcome him.
Post-Mortem Held
On Cranberry Scare
Washington-OJPD-Agrlculturel the plan were expected to be
r r r v Erra T. Benson
went through a cross-fire of
questioning by two senators
today in a post mortem of last
fall's cranberry-cancer scare.
Chairman Richard Russell
(D-Ga.) of the Senate agricul
t u r e appropriations subcom
mittee and Sen. George D.
Aiken (R-VU, both told Ben
son they could not understand
why there wasn't closer co
operation between fe d e r a 1
agencies.
'Fine Relationship'
Benson said there was now
a "fine relationship" between
the agriculture and health,
education and welfare depart
ments and hoped there would
not be a repetition of the 1959
cranberry crisis.
Russell also objected to the
agriculture department plan
to pay cranberry growers who
didn't use the chemical about
$10 million because it might
set precedent.
Plans Move Ahead
Meanwhile, the agriculture
department went ahead with
plans to pay the cranberry
growers whose traditional
holiday market was badly
hurt by the furor. Details el
MEDFORD, OREGON, TUESDAY, APRIL 26, 1960
" Vri
ff
Mark O. Hatfield
announcea next wcck
The proposed payments, an
nounced by the White House
March 30. would come from a
special fund to protect farm
ers' purchasing power.- The
fund has not been used in 17
years.
Washington-IUPI) - President
Elsenhower told Republican
House and Senate leaders to
day he soon will send Con
gress a special message call
ing for action on unfinished
items in his I960 legislative
program.
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Is shown
this morning. Also pictured is Mrs. Leigh
Gustison, Medford, president of the Oregon
Congress of Parents and Teachers, who
presided at the morning meeting.
Earthquake Toll
I iee Than kAavArl
IXJJ I Hull tCUIGUf
Authorities Say
Tehran, Iran-IUPD - Iranian
aircraft today ferried injured
survivors out of the blistering
100-dcgree heat of the earth
quake-shattered city of Lar.
Officials of the Red Lion
and Sun, Iran's equivalent of
the Red Cross, said fresh re
ports from the isolated town
500 miles south of Tehran in
dicated the casualty toll was
less than feared.
They said latest information
placed the death toll at about
400 with about 450 injured,
50 of them seriously.
Might Reach 500
Red Lion President Dr. Hus
sein Khatibi said it was pos
sible the final death toll might
reach 500 when all the bodies
are found.
Officials attributed Mon
day's unofficial death toll re
ports, which ranged up to 1,
500, to the confusion and ex
citment of persons at the
scene and to the shaky com
munications with Lar.
Tents Erected
Iranian troops, which moved
into the shattered town Mon
day night, helped survivors
set up tent villages on the
surrounding sun-banked des
ert today.
The troops had to move in
by foot since only light planes
can make landings at the
town's small field.
Medical supplies, food and
blankets to help the homeless
withstand the night cold were
dropped by parachute.
NLRB Sets Date
In Paper Strike
Portland -(UP- The National
Labor Relations Board today
scheduled a hearing for May
10 on complaint of the Oregon
Journal and the Oregonian
against the Stcreotypcrs'
Union.
The complaint charges un
fair labor practices, and was
filed by the two newspapers
against Portland Stereotypei-s'
and Elcctro-typcrs Union No.
48 and International Stcreo
typcrs and Electrotypers'
Union of North America.
The complaint in part
charges that the union started
a strike last Nov. 10 and en
couraged other union mem
bers to strike against the
newspapers in an effort to
force them to accept certain
conditions as part of a new
contract.
Salem IUPD - The Oregon
Capital Planning commission
has voted to request $1,300,
000 from the 1961 Legislature
for i parking facility In the
Capitol Mall area.
Price 10 Cents
Tribune
No. 31
Point
Says
Oregon Congress
Opens Convention
In Medford Today
Oregon's record in the field
of education is one of the
principal selling points for In
dustrial expansion.
This was stressed by Gov.
Mark O. Hatfield this morn
ing, speaking before more
than 900 delegates to the 47th
convention of the Oregon
Congress of Parents and
Teachers here.
Hatfield said many people
have a narrow view of educa
tion, thinking of it only in
the terms of teachers and
schoolroom. He said that in
dustrial leaders are impressed
by the state's average of 10.9
years of schooling, nearly a
year above the nation's aver
age.
Right to Be Proud
The governor called par
ents the "undergirding force
of education," and stressed
that they have a right to be
proud of Oregon's education
accomplishments. But he re
minded them that they should
never be satisfied with the
present.
I Presiding at the convention
Is Mrs. Leigh Gustison, Med-
ford, president. She Intro.
duced 10 persons who repre
sented education and civic
groups who extended greet
ings to the delegates.
"Return to your commun.
ities and wake the sleeping
giant of complacency which is
the only obstacle In the way
of fulfilling our potentials"
was the admonition which
Mrs. Leon S. Price, Dallas,
Tex., gave delegates in her
keynote address this morning.
Mrs. Price, publicity chair
man for the national con
gress of Parents and Teach
ers, told delegates they could
be proud of the National Con
gress, said it is growing in
strength and scope, and will
never cease to work for the
education and welfare of chil
dren. Must Accept Challenge
Mrs. Price said the PTA
must accept the challenge of
change, the challenge to see
that all children receive a
good education - of the head,
heart and hand - and the
challenge to see that the
homes of America remain
strong because the "home is
the source of the nation's
greatest strength."
She also stressed the chal
lenge of realizing that there
'are just people and not clas
ses of people," and the im
portance of the individual.
"The PTA must work to see
that teachers have the status
to which they are entitled,"
she declared, and added that
the teaching profession de
serves the same prestige as
that accorded to those in the
legal,, medical and religious
fields .
Mrs. Price also stressed the
challenge of faith and said
"faith Is the foundation stone
of this country and It cannot
be bought.
"The PTA has come a long
way, It Is here to stay and it
has a long way to go," the
keynoter declared and closed
by saying "We travel toward
a bright horizon."
Uneasy Calm
In Mississippi
Bi'.oxl, Miss. -(1IPB- Tough
police action brought an un
easy quiet today to this
coastal resort city where 15
persona were injured in two
days of racial violence.
"I think we can handle
this," Police Chief Herbert
McDonnell said.
Started Sunday
The fighting - a running
series of widely separate at
tacks Including shotguns fired
from ambush - started Sun
day when 100 Negroes led by
a bespectacled Negro physi
cian tried to use the public
beach on the Mississippi
sound here.
Demonstrators
Demand President
Quit Promptly
U.S. Pressures for
Swift Reorganization
Seoul. Korea -IUPD- One nf
history's greatest unarmed
revolutions today swept Pres
ident Syngman Rhee close to
an end of his 12-year-old Iron
rule over South Knri Hi
resignation appeared Immi
nent. Thousands on March
Hundreds of thousands of
South Koreans, frustrated by
years of steam roller tactics
by Rhee's Liberal party, rose
up against the combined
might of the ROK army and
Rhee s police forces and won
a conditional offer from Rhee
to step down "if the people
desire it."
The demonstrators demand
ed more: Immediate resigna
tion.
Police opened up with rifles
and machine guns but the
demonstrations swelled until
perhaps half a million were
on the march througout Ko
rea. At least 158 persons died
and more than 1,000 were in
jured in the seven days of
sporadic uprising but the dem
onstrations only grew in vol
ume. U. S. Askt Changes
Charges of corrupt elections
and police brutality brought
pressure from the United
States itself for a swift reor
ganization of Rhee's one-man
rule.
Police killed at least 23
more persons and wounded
160 others in the last 24 hours
of rioting. Still the student
led demonstrators pressed
their demands for Rhee's un
conditional resignation, taunt
ed the police themselves and
used their own blood to write
slogans of "Liberty or Death.".
The National Assembly
Monday passed a resolution
demanding that Rhee resign
immediately and that new
elections be held. Even mem
bers of Rhee's ruling Liberal
party Joined in the condem
nation. ; -
Crowds Shout With Joy '
Announcement of Rhee's
conditional offer to quit came
I soon afterwards and the
crowds in the street shouted
with Joy. The wild cheers
turned to shouts of rage when
they realized he was still
hanging on and a mob of hun
dreds of thousands laid siege
to his presidential palace.
Anti - Rhee demonstrations
broke out today in half a
dozen Korean cities and
towns. The largest of these
was at the southern port of
Pusan where rioters burned
Rhee's party headquarters and
occupied provincial govern
ment headquarters.
Central Point Man
Burned in Blast
Central Point - Shirley
Wayne Davis, 37, Central
Point, was in fair condition
today at Rogue Valley hos
pital where he was treated
for first and second degree
burns suffered in an explos
ion and fire here late yester
day.
Central Point police and
firemen said Davis was in an
8 by 12 office building at the
Cheney Studs mill here when
the explosion occurred, knock
ing him to the floor. Davis
told police that before he
could get to his feet, there
was another explosion.
The interior of the building,
firemen said was gutted, de
stroying office equipment.
Police said they learned
that a small jar of black pow
der used for splitting logs
was stored in the building.
Davis is an employee of the
Mt. Pitt company, which con
tracts with Cheney Studs for
certain work. He was taken
to the hospital by Medford
Ambulance service.
Prevails
Violence
An equal number of white
men and youths attacked the
Negro swimmers who fled.
But the tense atmosphere led
to dozens of incidents in
which at least 15 persons
were injured.
Police Roam City
A force of about 50 police
roamed the city Monday night
to arrest anyone wandering
the streets who "appeared to
be looking for trouble." A
total of 23 persons were con
victed during the day and
Monday night. Eleven Ju
veniles were released but will
appear for trial in Juvenile
Court.