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U.S. AIRFIELDS LOCATED Nikita Khrushchev warned
in a censored speech revealed today that future flights of
U.S. reconnaissance planes over Soviet territory "might
lead to war." This followed his warning earlier in the week
Group Named to
Study Facilities
For Older People
Medford's parks and recre
ation commission last night
appointed a committee to in
vestigate the possibility of se
curing more adequate meet
ing facilities for senior citi
zens. The commission had receiv
ed a request from the Rogue
Valley Council on Aging ask
ing that the city recommend
that the development board
of the shopping center finance
the construction of a small
community building for recre
ation of older citizens.
The council on aging now
meets in a city-owned build
ing adjacent to the new shop
ping center. They contend
this building is inadequate as
to space and is unattractive.
The parks and recreation
commission was inclined to
agree with them, and appoint
ed the committee to study the
matter and report back at its
next regular meeting June 8.
In other business, the com
mission granted a request
from the Earhart Park Im
provement group that the city
help to develop 1.55 acres of
land designated for park use
In the Earhart Park subdivis
ion between Fortune st. and
Siskiyou blvd., east of Wil
lamette ave.
George Bruse, 1400 Fortune
dr., who was one of three
persons representing the
group at last night's meeting,
said the group has received
commitments from various
businesses to finance the de
velopment of the park and for
donations of play apparatus.
Mrs. Tom Gerety, execu
tive secretary of the Rogue
Camp Fire Girls council, re
quested the city let the Camp
Fire girls use some 80 acres
in the northwest portion of
the 1,740-acre Roxy Ann park
for a camp.
The commission u n a n i -mously
referred the request to
the city council with the
recommendation that the re
quest be granted. Haworth
noted that any cost for de
velopment of this area would
be borne by the Camp Fira
girls, but the city would re
tain over-all control.
National Figures Plan
To Attend Local Event
Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr.
and Edward (Ted) Kennedy,
younger brother of Sen. John
F. Kennedy, will be among
guests at the 10th annual
Roosevelt Memorial dinner at
Hedrick Junior High school
Saturday evening, according
to Democratic County Chair
man Frank Christian. The
dinner, which starts at 6 p.m.,
is open to the public.
This year's dinner. Demo
cratic officials said, is expect
ed to draw the largest aggre
gation of distinguished guests
in the event's history.
Helen Gahacan Douglas,
former California congress
woman and stage and opera
star, will be guest speaker.
Among others who are ex
pected to attend are Mrs.
Maurine Neuberger', widow of
the late Sen. Richard Neu
larger: Representative
Charles O. Porter; former
Congresswoman Nan Wood
Honeyman. a life-long friend
of the Roosevelt family; and
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U.S. OVERSEAS BASES
Lower Property Tax
In City Possible
With New
Slightly lower property!
taxes for city of Medford tax
payers may be possible next
year.
Medford City Manager
Robert A. Duff told the citi
zens budget committee at
their first regular meeting
last night that there should
be a decrease in the total
millage levied on city prop
erty for 1960-61.
Duff said the county asses
sor has informed him that the
city can expect to add about
$1 million in assessed valua
tion this year. On the basis of
this estimate, he said, the
millage can be reduced from
the present 28.6 mills to 27.9
mills.
Members of the committee
received copies of the 1960
1961 preliminary budget last
night. According to the budget
total city revenue during the
coming fiscal year is esti
mated at $3,117,895 compared
to $2,522,747 in 1959-1960.
Membari Attand
Nine members of the 16
member committee showed up
for last night's meeting. The
committee elected Galen
Knox chairman, and Mrs.
Dwight Houghton secretary.
Most of the total budget is
allocated for special funds
and only an estimated $898,
501 will be available for the
general fund. This is the fund
from which the city conducts
most of its day-to-day busi
ness. The actual estimated gen
eral fund revenue will be
down from the 1959 - 1960
revenue of $934,361, Duff told
the committee.
According to state law, the
city can only increase its
Agriculture Interim
Committee To Meet
Salem - 0JPD - The Legisla
tive Interim Committee on
Agriculture will meet here
next Monday to hear testi
mony on proposed legislation
dealing with alleged unfair
marketing practices.
C. Girard Davidson, Demo
cratic National committee
man. Roosevelt will arrive in
Medford Saturday, specifical
ly to attend the dinner hon
oring the memory of his fath
er, Christian said. Guest
speakers in past years have
included Mrs. Eleanor Roose
vedt, Michigan Gov. G. Men
nen Williams and other na
tional figures.
Kennedy, who spent yester
day in Portland in behalf of
his brother's campaign, also
plans visits in Josephine,
Douglas, Klamath and Coos
counties.
Mrs. Douglas' topic will be
"World Peace." and decora
tions will carry out the Unit
ed Nations theme.
Tickets are available from
members of the committee
of which Gerald Scanncll is
chairman, and at the Medford
Labor Temple, Walt'i Station
ary, Medford: and Sidney
Aiiuworth'i oliici In Ashland.
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that the Soviet Union would strike at airfields used for
American intelligence flights over his country. The above
map show sites used by United States planes.
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Budget
property tax levy by 6 per
cent each year. Last year the
city levied $352,766 in prop
erty taxes and with the 6 per
cent increase they will levy
some $373,932 this year.
The rest of the general fund
will come from other reve
nues, including licenses and
permits, fines, forfeitures and
penalties, and "revenue from
other agencies (state and fed
eral government). Revenue
from the state and federal
government will only total an
estimated $54,335 during the
coming fiscal year compared
to this year's $124,200, which
accounts for the decrease in
general fund revenue, Duff
pointed out.
Obtain Other Revenue
He said that in order to
slay within the 6 per cent
limitation the city has at
tempted to obtain other
revenue sources to offset the
increasing cost of city govern
ment.
"People do not realize thai
the 6 per cent limitation is
not for the total budget but
only for the general fund
levy," he said. "The 6 per
cent limitation is a very arbi
trary way of limiting city
revenue and some other basis
should be worked out, per
haps on the basis of growth,"
he added.
The problem of oblaining
enough revenue for city serv
ices is getting progressively
worse each year, he noted.
When all of the city depart
ments had submitted their re
quested budgets to him, he
said, the cumulative total was
some $147,000 over the avail
able revenue. In addition to
this, the city feels a $15 $20
raise per month per employee
is warranted this year and
this added another $44,000.
Before the preliminary bud
get was prepared the admin
istration found it necessary to
lop off nearly $190,000 from
the various department bud
get requests to get within the
available revenue.
Realistic Requests
"This was very difficult,"
Duff noted, "because the de
partment heads never submit
fat budgets with the idea of
having some knocked off and
still getting more in the long
run, but they submit budget
requests which are quite real
istic, so that it was difficult
to make reductions.
"In all instances, it will
mean a slight reduction in
services from the various de
partments because of the
city's growth," he said.
The committee was briefed
on the mechanics of the bud
get by Administrative Assist
ant Gil Gutjahr. They will
hold subsequent meetings to
begin actual consideration of
the preliminary budget, prep,
aratory to approval.
The committee must be
through with the budget by
June 2 and submit it to the
city council for consideration.
On June 16, the budget will
go back to the city manager
ana ne win nave It printed In
final form.
A public hearing will be
called for July 14. After the
hearing, final approval
snouia be given and th bud
get presented to the county
assessor ana county tiertu
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Preliminary Count
Shows 24,246 in
City of Medford
The district census office In
Eugene announced today that
the preliminary census count
fixes Medford's population at
24.246.
The bureau's figure is 2,054
less than the 26,300 which was
the estimate of population last
Thomas A. Redlingshafcr,
acting diitrict director of
the bureau of census in Eu
gene, told the Mail Tribune
today that the census count
for all of Jackson county
has not yet been completed.
He said his crew directors
In the county have informed
him that the complete count
will not be finished until
the first part of next week
with population figures be
ing released several days
thereafter.
Persons in the county
who have not yet been
counted should not be too
concerned unless they think
they are being missed or
that their areas have been
overlooked.
If this is the case, he said,
then they should notify the
bureau in Eugene as soon
as possible.
July 1, but is a 40.1 per cent
increase over the 1950 census
count of 17,305.
In a letter to Mayor John W.
Snider the bureau said it be
lieves this preliminary figure
to be substantially correct, al
though it may be subject to
some slight revisions.
In remarking on the city's
overestimate of its own popu
lation, City Manager Robert
A. Duff said it is always a
tendency for cities to do this
But, in Medford's case he had
believed the 26,300 to be close
to correct.
Overestimates
Duff pointed out that other
Oregon cities have found
themselves even farther over
estimated than Medford. For
instance, he said, Portland had
itself well over the 400,000
mark but will end up far be
low that. Salem had fixed its
population at about 53,000 but
has only about 47,000 accord
ing to the census. Eugene had
fixed its own pnpuluation at
about 55.000, but is now
"fighting" to keep just a
50.000 count.
Medford had a special cen
sus in 1954 at which time the
population was officially
fixed at 19.050. In 1957 the
state estimated the population
to be 23,571 and in 1958 esti
mated it to be 24,300.
Thomas A. Redlingshafer,
acting director of the district
bureau of census In Eugene,
told the Mail Tribune today
that to his knowledge all, of
the people in Medford have
been counted. If there are any
who have been missed he said
they should fill out a were-you-counted
form and send it
to the Eugene office.
Seattle -t'Pli Building per
mit volume in the Pacific
Northwest for April totaled
$51,723,255.
Baseball
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Rockets Would
Explode on U.S.
In Early Minutes
Ike Not To Be
Welcomed by People
Moscow '1'PI'-Premier Niki
ta Khrushchev said in a slale
mcnt passed today by censors
that further American recon
naissance flights over Russia
might load to an atomic war.
tie said the pilot of a spy
plane downed by Russia
would be tried as a spy.
Newsmen asked him at an
impromptu press conference
Wednesday what would hap
pen to Francis G. Powers, 30,
Albany, da., pilot of a U2
reconnaissance jet shot down
May 1 near Sverdlovsk, 1.3(10
miles inside Russia.
"We shall try him
severely as a spy,
shchev said.
Dangerous Events
"You understand
try him
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that if
such aggressive actions con
tinue this might lead to war."
he said. He said further ag
gression against the Soviet
Union will be met "with atom
bombs in the first few min
utes." Such spy flights are "high
ly dangerous" events, he said.
There was no official ex
planation of the delay in re
leasing Khrushchev's state
ments. Many of the quotes
held up were directed against
Secretary of Stale Christian
A. Herter and his announce
ment that reconnaissance
flights would continue.
Khrushchev said such state
ments were "the kind that
would be made only by
country in a state of war with
another country.
Would Explode Rockets
If the United States has
not experienced a real war
on its territory, has not ex
perienced air raids, and if it
wishes to unleash a war, we
shall be compelled to fire
rockets which will explode on
the agressors' territory in the
very first minutes ot war,
Krushchev said.
Herter said American spy
flights over Russia were neces
sary in the interest of prevent
ing a surprise attack and indi
cated they would be continued
in the future. Khrushchev
called this "audacious and
brazen."
"Herter's statement was a
threat to peace," Khrushchev
said. "If there are any more
such aggressions we shall
strike at the aggressor."
Eisenhower Not Welcome
Khrushchev made the re
marks to newsmen at Gorki
Park Wednesday when wreck
age of a plane said to be an
American U2 reconnaissance
jet was placed on exhibition
along with an alleged confes
sion by the pilot.
At this press conference
Khrushchev indicated Presi
dent Eisenhower would not be
welcomed by the Russian peo
ple if he goes through with
his proposed June visit to Rus
sia. Only those remarks
cleared censorship Wednes
day.
Khrushchev said the Soviet
Union would take the "aggres
sive intrusion" of the plane to
the U.N. Security Council.
About the East-West summit
meeting scheduled to open in
Paris Monday, Khrushchev
said: "I like Paris and I am
going. If the others are not,
I'll be there."
In remarks passed by cen
sor, Khrushchev said he
would discuss with Eisen
hower at Paris the question of
whether Eisenhower should go
through with his Moscow visit.
Groundbreaking Set
For New Building
Representative Charles O.
Porter will turn the first
shovelful of dirt for the new
Veterans Memorial building
at the corner of Walnut and
Niantic sts.. Medford. at cere
monies at 6:30 p.m. Saturday,
May 14.
The building is being con
structed by the Medford
American Legion post.
Eugene Orr, Medford, will
be master of ceremonies, and
others attending will include
Gerald Latham, president of
the Medford Chamber of Com
merce; Medford Mayor John
Snider; and Merle Johnson,
vice commander of the Amer
ican Legion, department of
Oregon.
A no-hnst banquet will fnl
low the groundbreaking cere
monies. The banquet is sched
uled to start at 7:30 p.m. at
the Medford hotel.
Washington - flJPIl - Tight-
lipped Secretary of State
Christian A. Herter left for
the Paris summit conference
today, refusing to predict
whether progress would be
madf toward wiving East
Wit probietns.
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PLAN PICKUP Plans for the Medford
Junior Chamber of Commerce trash pickup
Friday are being made by Jaycee members,
City Sanitary Service company officials, and
city representatives. Left to right are Doug
las Peters, Jaycecs; Tony Boitano, coowner
of City Sanitary Service company; Andy
Applegate Man
Killed in Mishap
On Thompson Rd.
Robert Williamson Bowels,
54, of route 1, box 19, Apple
gate, was killed Wednesday
afternoon when his car missed
a curve on Thompson Creek
rd. and went down a 20-foot
bank.
According to Jackson coun
ty sheriff's deputies. Bowels
was en route to his home
from Medford when his ve
hicle failed to make a slight
left curve about 4'2 miles
from Applegate. The auto
mobile turned completely
over throwing the operator
out.
The overturned automobile
was noticed shortly after 3
p.m. by a neighbor who noti
fied Mrs. Bowels. In the ve
hicle were a number of baby
chicks, it was reported. They
were later picked up by the
neighbor.
The fatality is the eighth
traffic death in Jackson coun
ty this year, the same number
as this time last year.
Koch Appears in
District Court
A third complaint, charg
ing drawing a check with in
sufficient funds in bank to
pay same in full, was filed
against Raymond Richard
Koch, 43, Wednesday after
noon. Koch, operator of the For
est Green Detective and Pa
trol agencies, 220 South Cen
tral ave., was arrested by city
police Tuesday on two other
charges concerning checks.
He was arraigned in district
court this morning on the felo
ny charge, and was bound
over to the grand jury by
Judge Roy Bashaw. Bail was
set at $1,500. The charge con
cerned a $76.87 check written
by Koch.
Koch also appeared this
morning on other charges
They were making a false
statement in writing to pro
cure benefit and issuing a
bank check in payment of
labor with insufficient funds
in the bank. Bail on these two
charges totaled $1,250.
This morning in district
court he waived the right to
an attorney and preliminary
hearing.
Washington - (DPI) - Con
gress today approved and sent
to President Eisenhower a
compromise $4,086,300,000
foreign a 1 d authorisation
bill trimmed only $88,800,
000 below the President
original request.
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Anderson, city of Medford; Terry Green,
Jaycee cleanup chairman; Merlin Farns
worth, and Capt. Vernon F. Ritchie, city
fire department. City Sanitary Service and
the city will provide trucks for the pickup.
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Report Waited on
Rigid Testing of
Electra Prop-Jets
Burhank, Calif. (UPHT h e
Electra prop-Jects their re
port card today results of an
urgent six-week multimillion
dollar test program to find out
why three of the passengcr
ladened airliners have
crashed.
Lockheed Aircraft called a
meeting with representatives
from airlines now flying 136
Electras at reduced speeds
the Airline Pilots association,
federal aviation agencies and
their own technical people.
Formal Announcement
At the session, the test re
sults, any modifications and
modification costs will be dis
cussed. Although a closed
meeting, Lockheed said it
would have a formal an
nouncement on the $2'A mil
lion lest program later In the
day, probably early this after
noon. Lockheed Chairman Robert
Gross indicated there would
he modifications when he said
Wednesday the "Improvement
program" would cost not more
than $25 million.
One of the chief detectives
in the mystery crashes of the
League Sponsored
Event Is Tonight
Miss Inez Holcomb, Demo
cratic candidate for state rep
resentative fr jm Jackson
county, will je unable to at
tend tonight's League of
Women Voters - sponsored
public meeting in the Red
Cross building because of
prior committments, accords
ing lo her campaign secre
tary, Mrs. Virginia Card.
Miss Holcomb has been
asked to act as hostess on the
hospitality committee for Mrs.
Helen G. Douglas at the I960
conference on world peace In
Portland. She will return in
time for the Roosevelt me
morial dinner Saturday night,
Mrs. Card said.
Most of the other candi
dates, both Republicans and
Democratic, for state repre
sentative from Jackson coun
ty and for county surveyor
and county commissioner,
plan to attend tonight's meet
ing, which gets under way at
8 p.m.
Candidates will discuss cur
rent issues in state and coun
ty government at the meeting
and a brief explanation of the
Issues which will be on the
primary ballot will be pre
sented. There l no charge for at
tending the polnic.-al dMCvs-
Price 10 Cents
RIBUNE
12, 1960
No. 45
$5 million plane has been Her
man (Fish) Salmon, Lockheed
chief engineering test pilot
who is a former airplane race
winner and long-time research
flyer.
Ashland Residents
Voting on Budget
Ashland-Polls will be open
until 8 o'clock tonight for
Ashland school district pa
trons to vote on a proposal
to exceed the 6 per cent limita
tion by $550,868.98 for the
1960-61 fiscal year budget.
Two polling places are in
the Ashland Junior High
school gymnasium.
The amount exceeding the
6 per cent limitation in the
proposed budget is $73,338.08
less than the amount exceed
ing the limitation in the pres
ent budget, according to Stan
ley C. Jobe, superintendent.
Estimated expenditures for
the 1960-61 year total $1,969,
903.46, of which $1,106,189 is
in the general fund.
Jobe noted that the district
will receive a total of $119,
910 from the county school
support fund, an increase of
about $82,000 more than what
the district received this fiscal
year.
School officials said the
millage rate in the Ashland
district is expected to decrease
next year to an estimated 53
mills from the present 64.4
mills.
Vern Hill to
Safety Patrol
Vern Hill, Salem, director
of the Oregon state depart
ment of motor vehicles, will
be the featured speaker at the
annual Medford Safety Council-sponsored
School Patrol
banquet Friday evening.
More than 375 persons are
expected to attend the affair
t 6:30 p.m. in the Hedrick
Junior High school cafeteria,
according to Banquet Chair
man Elliott Becken.
About 210 students from 14
elementary schools In school
district 54!)C and St. Mary's
school, will receive patrol
badges and pen and pencil
sets. Becken said.
The patrol badges will de
note the rank of each school
patrol member and have been
contributed by the Oregon
State Motor association
through the cooperation of
Rud. Tetreault, manager of
the Medford office of the
OSMA.
ThpeCand tcil leti ire
T Would Have
To Withdraw
Invitation
Time Couid Be
Utilized Elsewhere
Washington -HOT- President
Eisenhower told a group of
Republican congressmen to
day he will not cancel his
plans to go to Russia in June
unless Premier Nikita Khru
shchev withdraws his invita
tion. The President said, how
ever, that if Khrushchev
wants to follow up his highly
critical remarks made in Mos
cow Wednesday by withdraw
ing his invitation, it will be
all right with Eisenhower and
the time can be easily utilized
elsewhere.
The President's comment
on Khrushchev s remarks
were made to 17 GOP con
gressmen attending another in
a scries of White House break
fasts. The congressmen reported
that the President said that
Khrushchev will have to with
draw his invitation in a face
to face meeting at the summit
in Paris next week before Ei
senhower cancels his plans to
go to Moscow.
Still Hopes for Progress
According to the breakfast
guests, two subjects dominat
ed the conversation this morn
ing. They were Eisenhower's
continued hopes for some de
gree of progress toward peace
at the summit meeting and the
remarks Wednesday ot the So
viet Premier who told report
ers in Moscow he would be
"mad" if he asked the Rus
sian people to welcome a man
who had sent espionage planes
over the Soviet Union.
Khrushchev's remarks were
made after the President's
stern defense of intelligence
tactics as reflected in the
American U2 plane downed
by the Russians May 1.
Conference To Go On
The congressmen said the
President saw no prospect of
the summit meeting being
called off because of Khrush
chev's angry reaction on the
plane incident and Eisenhow
er's insistence that this type of
intelligence activity was nec
essary to guard against "an
other Pearl Harbor."
Even before the breakfast
remarks were made public, it
had been understood that Ei
senhower probably would
wait until he sees Khrushchev
at the summit next week be
fore deciding to go through
with his Russian yisit.
WEATHER
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and mol with orrasional ihow
rn tonight nd Friday. Low to
night J. High Friday 62.
Temp.
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Our Skies Tonight
Hunnet today 7:24 p.m.
8iinrlt tomorrow 4:52 .m.
The Moon rises 9:1 p.m.
tonight and Is In Perigee.
!,ait Quarter May 17
IMIOMINKNT STAR
Drnrb, low In north
east 10:14 p.m.
V1S1HLK PI.ANKTS
Saturn, rlc 11:56 p.m.
Jupiter, due south .... 2:5B a.m.
Mars, low in east .... 3:3 a.m.
Speak at
Banquet
being presented through the
courtesy of a number of civic
clubs. They are the Medford
Rotary, Medford Lions, Med
ford Klwanis, Crater Lions,
Elks, Medford Junior Cham
ber of Commerce, Medford
20-30 club, Zonta Internation
al and the Business and Pro
fessional Women's club.
Parent-teachers groups and
Mother's clubs from the vari
ous schools are defraying the
cost of banquet tickets for
school patrol members from
their respective schools.
Ralph Matthews, president
of the Medford Safety Coun
cil, pointed out that the ban
quet and the accompanying
recognition for school patrol
members is the one time of
the year when the community
can pay homage to the young
people who devote countless
hours to making the streets in
the vicinity of schools safer
for all of their classmates.
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