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1 'X V "J: x 1 RUNNING MATE? Son. Stuart Symington of Missouri, above, hna been pronilncnlly mentioned as John F. Ken nedy'! vice presidential candidate on the Democratic ticket. Kennedy was expected to announce liii choice late Ihli after noon. The vice presidential elccllon session nf the national convention was to tart at 4 p.m. (UP1 Tclephoto) Senator Scott to Arrive in Medford About 4:30 Friday Sen. 'Hugh Scott (RP). whose address will IilisHI lBlt the Republican Lunu Friday night, will be Introduced al the dinner by Stat Sen. Ed win n. Durno, Republican can didate for U. 8. represents tlve from this district. ' The Senator and Mr. Scott will arrive al the Medford airport at 4:30 p.m. tomorrow. Also arriving at the mine time will be Mate Republican Chairman Peter Gunnar and state finance chairman Carl llalvorsen. Republicans wishing 'to greet them should be al the Dr. Drummond Gets Leave of Absence The Jackson county board of health and the county court this morning granted Dr. C. I. Drummond, county health officer, a AO dnys leave of absence without pay. The action was taken at the request of Dr. Drum mond, who has been ill the past month. The leave of ab sence was granted for July, August, and September. Judce Earl Miller reported that Dr. M. L.,Vorhcls this morning accepted the county health officer position on a temporary basis. He will he In lbs office one day a week and will be piild at the rate paid previous doctors who have held the position on those terms, Miller laid. During Mho. session today the board and court stated lhat they would notify the date board of health thai the county' needs a public health officer If it Is learned later Dr. Drummond Is unable, to return to his duties. Welfare Recipients To Participate In Work Program in Jackson County A work program 'or goiv eral assistance welfare recip ients will go Into effect Im mediately, the county court decided yesterday. The decision followed ap proval of a motion to sign an agreement with llie Jackson county wolfiirB.' commission Initiating the program. James Pullman, Jackson county public-wclf are admin, istrator, siild there nre four people receiving general as sistance wh" would be eligible tinder the program this slim mer. The program would be needed more during the win tor when employment' Is scarce, he said. . 1 i The program calls for an agreement between the coun ty end the wclfnre depart ment, The county would pro f .V- aP V .Hi- 4 1 v! 4 ' 7 v a airport at 4; 15 : p.m., County Chairman Joseph Wnlsh said. Senator and Mrs. Scott are visiting this week nt the Rose- burg home of Unrrm r. Ms worth, former fourth district congressman, Because of the tropical llicme of the fund-raising event, some 2.000 orchids and 500 tl leaves are scheduled to be flown here from the Hawaiian islands, according to L. L. Sawyer, decorations chairman. Casual Apparel - Although It has an Ha waiian theme, co-chairman Mrs. Richard Kyle has point ed out that casual apparel in both island and mainland styles will be worn. A social hour from 6 to 8 p.m. will precede the dinner and pro gram, she added. Proceeds from the event will be used to finance the campaigns of Jackson county Republican candidates In the fall election, Walsh said. Friday morning Senator Scott will speak at a fund raising breakfast in Salem, and Is scheduled to be in Port land for press and radio inter views In mid-morning. He also will fly to Coos Bay for a luncheon, deliver a break fast speech In Klamath Falls Saturday, and speak . at a luncheon In Bond. Senator Scott, for 16 years a U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania and elected to the U.S. Senate in 1058, is serving on. several committees working on foreign affairs. He has written bonks on the political scene, and has held high positions In the Rcpubll can pni'ty.' ' Tickets for the dinner, to morrow night may be obtain' cd by telephoning Republican headquarters, SPring 3-7561, or at the door. vide special clothing and tools and oqulpmcnl If needed. The welfare department would provide funds for paying the men on an hourly rale. The public welfare commis sion would refer Jo thcicoun ty only those general- assist ance recipients who are able to perform lite type of work lo be done under., tho pro gram; This would currently be Improvement and mainte nance of. public, parks and recreation areas. ' To Advise County The local welfare staff will determine which of the public assistance recipients will be referred to Jackson county for work. It will advise the county on the maximum hours each will be permitted to work. A "10-hour week will be established.. Tl m e . (or wlilch each recipient is eli Rogue Valley Edition Medford 40 Pagai Two Airliners Ditch in Pacific Hearing on Cbpco Rate Increase Is Adjourned by PUC Hearings on the Califoml Oregon Power company's re quested rate increase adjourn ed Indefinitely yesterday. The adjournment followed a dis cussion of Copco's reasons for asking an increase in residen tial ra'hcr than commercial rates. The stale public utility com mission will now review the case. Further hearings can be held when the commission renders Its decision. 11. P. Dosworth Jr., vice president and assistant to the general manager of Copco, in direct testimony before PUC examiners, said an analysis of residential and commercial rates indicate a raise in resi dential rates would be "the most equitable choice at the present time . . ." Numbtr of Complaints "The company has for some time been subjected to i num ber of complaints that the rates for commercial service are disproportionately great in relationship to rates for residential service," Bosworth said. "The proposed rate would produce an average annuul cost to the company's residen tial customers of approximate ly 183 cenU per KWH," he said. The national average cosl of residential service, according to EF.I Electric Utility Indus try Statistics, Is 37 per cent greater than this rate, he said It would also be less than the . average cost per KWH at any time prior to the end of World War II, he said. lie said lhat as a result of studies made in 1957 and 1058, reductions hud been made in the rates of the smaller com mercial usage blocks. After this reduction It was still felt "that the differential between small commercial users and residential users was too great and that it should be further reduced, but the company could not afford any greater rate reduc tion al that time," Dosworth said. In view of this recent low ering of commercial rates, Bosworth said, the company does not feel thnt it could now ask for an increase in com mercial rates. However, when cross exam ined, he said that he did not think that Copco would lose any Industrial customers if U2 Plane Falls, Burns in Texas Del Rio, Tcx.-IUPD-A U2 re connaissance plane, the same type which the Russians claimed to have shot down over their country on a U.S spy mission, crashed and burned in rugged Southwest Texas hill country today. The pilot parachuted to safety. The U2 was based al Laugh' lin Air Force Base in Del Rio, where pilots are trained in Us operation. The base Identified the pi lot as a Maj. Raleigh B. J. Meyers, Atilandcr, N.C. gible to work Is not accumu lative from month to month. The county must Inform the public ' welfare, commis sion on type of work avail able, number of man hours available and when and where a n d i .to : whom recipients should report If a man Is able lo work and ' refuses without good cause lie shall be ineligible for general assistance funds as long as he refuses lo work, according td' regulations. A recipient may be dropped from welfare rolls If he aban dons or repeatedly absents himself from work, falls or refuses to perform work as signed In a satisfactory man' nor, Is insubordinate, falls to follow safely regulations or is guilty, of misconduct connect' ed with his work, according to the agreement MEDFORD, industrial rates were in creased. "In my opinion," he said, 'the cosl of electrical service in Industry is not a major con sideration except in electro- chemicals and light metals." After prompting by Copco's cousel, he amended his state ment to include the fact that if industrial rates were raised too high, certain lumber com panies might expand their steam generating plants to sell excess energy to other com mercial operations. But, he said in response to a question, this would probably not happen even if commer cial rates went up 10 per cent. Budget, Planning Meetings Slated ! By City Tonight Two meetings will be held in the Medford city hall to night. One is a public hear ing on the city's 1860-GI bud get. The other is the regular meeting of the city planning commission. The public hearing will start at 7:30 o'clock in the city council chambers. The planning coinmlsion meeting will Immediately follow the hearing, also in the council chambers. Those who wish to make themselves heard on the city's budget are encouraged to attend the hearing, Follow ing the hearing, the city coun cil will levy city taxes for the inflO-61 fiscal year. The 1960-61 budget pro vides for a total cash outlay of $3,253,439, Including $906, 030 in the general fund. It is within the 6 per cent proper ty tax limitation. At its meeting the plan ning commission will call for public hearings on two re quests for change of zone. One of the requests Is lo change two lots at Highland dr. and Siskiyou blvd., from single-family lo limited com mercial. The other is to change the property behind the Medford Shopping cen ter from single-family to a multiple-family zone. The commission will also consider giving tentative ap proval lo a plat for the Ek- holm subdivision. The sudoi vision would provide for 106 lots and would be located in the north part of the city. Also on tonight's agenda are a proposed dedication of El Mar ave.: a request for an nexation to the city of an acre of properly at the norlh cast corner of Sunrise and Harrison aves.; and a propos' ed revision lo sign require ments in class II1A limited commercial zone. "And Now The News Africa, Asia, vrce OREGON, THURSDAY, JULY Only One Death Reported Among 88 Passengers Rescue Planes Drop Life Rafts Manila -HTD- Two crippled airliners ditched at sea early today off The Philippines coast, but 87 of 88 persons aboard both planes were swift ly rescued from the shark infested waters. Only one death was report ed and several other persons were injured. Fifty eight persons were aboard a Northwest Airlines DC7C plane lhat went down near Polillo Island, about 75 miles northeast of Manila, after It lost a propeller and an engine caught on fire. The Northwest plane was en route to Manila from New York, via Seattle, Alaska, Tokyo and Okinawa. The air craft carried 51 passengers and seven crewmen. The pilot was Capl. Dave Rail, 53, Seattle. The victim was identified by Northwest Airlines as Mrs. Guy Kcllcy, Springfield, Ohio. She apparently drowned, the airline reported. Mrs. Kellcy had boarded the plane with her husband at New York City. , Air control officials here called the crash-landing one of the outstanding ditch opera tions in airlines history. At almost the same time, a Philippine Airlines DC-3 plane developed ( n g 1 n a trouble while on an Intcr-lsland flight and ditched in shallow water near a small island off the coast of Mindanao. All 30 pas sengers and crew members waded safely to shore. The survivors were pluck ed dramatically from the shark-infested waters by U.S. Air Force Albatross air-sea rescue planes that rushed to the scene as soon as the crash alarm was sounded. The sea was relatively calm during the crash and rescue operations, the survivors said. They added they were able lo climb into the life raits dropped by the rescue planes without any trouble. There was no panic among the passengers. Testimony Continues In Damage Suit Testimony continued today in the $431,000 damage suit in Jackson County circuit court brought by Carl O. Hillcstad against the Kline Logging company, Medford. Persons testifying this morn ing were John Meyner, log ger, and Dr. Ralph Thompson, who treated Hillcstad follow ing a logging accident July" 24, 1958, . in the Elk creek area. The trial started Tuesday before Judge James M. Main. The complaint charges that the logging company was neg ligent at the lime of the acci dent.. From Moscow, Havana, Newport . . ." . , Tribune 14, 1960 UN Military Force Ordered Sent To Rebellious Congo United Nations, N.Y-fflPD- Thc Security Council early today authorized Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold to set up a United Nations military force to help put down violence in the Congo. The council voted 8-0 for a Tunisian resolution coupling the authorization with a call County Court To Name Home Rule Study Committee The county court will ap point four members of the home rule study committee on Wednesday, July 20. County judge Earl Miller said a resolution signed by the county court to consider home rule government for the county has been filed by Coun ty Clerk Marvin Madden. The county has 60 days from the filing date, or until Aug. 8, lo appoint Its four members of the ' committee. Four more must be appointed by the county's legislators. These eight appoint a ninth member.. ., The committee will make a study of home rule govern ment. It has two years In which' lo submit Its recom mendations. County court members yes terday discussed a letter from Harper Edwards, chairman of the county Democratic cen tral committee. He had sug gested that only people of high caliber be appointed to the committee and offered his as sistance and that of his party. Both County Judge Earl Miller and County Commis sioner Chester Wendt said a man's or woman's qualifica tions would be considered, and not his or her politics. County Commissioner Ralph James said he feels the same way, but feels the committee members should not be all of the same party.- The county home rule pro posal was adopted by the 1957 legislature in the form of a constitutional amendment pro viding that "A county charter may provide for the exercise by the county authority over matters of county concern." Home rule allows residents lo decide what form of county government they wish. Voters can choose any of the model charters set up by the legisla tive assembly, but no county must choose. a new form .of government or adopt a charter if it is satisfied with what it has. County home rule docs not necessarily mean a county manager form of government, according to the home rule amendment. Corry Appointed To Festival Board ; Chester E. Corry, 853 Hill- view dr., Ashland, has been appointed to the board of di rectors of the Oregon Shake spearean Festival association. He will fill the vacany cre ated by the recent death of Dr. George Verne Blue,- and will occupy the post until the annual membership meeting and election of officers in Oc tobcr. .' . . i . Corry Is superintendent of Ashland's Lilhia park, and has assisted the Festival associa tion In designing and super vising landscaping of the new Festival theater. . WEATHER PORKVANT: Kslr thrmuh rrl dny. I.nw lonllhl 52, lllnh Fr. day BO. Temp. IHshrst. YfstfrUay K!) Lowed thli Motnlnt IS Our Skies Tonight Suntift today'.'......., THT p.m. Hunrlsr tomorrow .... 4:4a a.m. Mnonrlse tonlcht, 1I:3S p.m. taut Quarter July ts PROMINENT STAR Altalr, high In louih. east 10:JJ p.m. VISinl.t! PLANF.TB Jupiter, flue south ,...10:20 p.m. Saturn, due aouth ... .11:41 p.m. Marl, rtiei 1:05 a.m. O? PresSfaii Choice, 55th Year Price 10 Cents No. 99 for the withdrawal of Belgian troops from the two-week-old African republic. The United States and Rus sia voted together for the move but Britain, Nationalist China and France abstained. They comprise the five per amnent members of the 11 nation council. To Act Promptly Hammarskjold told the council he would take im mediate steps to put into ef fect a three-pronged plan he outlined at a private meeting meeting Wednesday: Tech- LtopoldvilU, The Congo UTI Severance of diplomatic relations between the Congo and Belgium was announced to the Chamber of Deputies in Brussels today by For eign Minister Pierre Wigny. nical assistance to help the Congo restore order, train its national forces and establish its economy. Reliable informants said his first move was to order transfer of 10 officers from the U.N. truce supervision organization in Palestine to get a training program under way in the Congo. He was expected to recruit an international force from French speaking African countries tl possible. Mention ed as likely auppHees-ot- man power, were the-. Federation of Mali, whose forces include the fierre Senegalese troops or World War JI, , Tunisia Morocco and Ghana. The lat ter already had offered a con tingent to the Congo. Leopoldville. The Congo iWD-Riotous mobs rampaged through the streets of Leo poldville in a new orgy of looting and shooting today. I he rioters ran through the streets of the capital, firing in all directions and looting the homes of Europeans who have fled the city, r Employees Hear Club's Purpose About 40 employees of local retail establishments heard Don McNeil, Medford Cham ber of Commerce manager, ex plain purposes of "40 million for one club," at a breakfast this morning. The club dramatizes the fact that if each tourist, were to spend an extra day in Ore gon, an additional $40 mil lion would enter state trade channels. In introducing McNeil. Ron Gandee. chairman of the chamber's tourist and conven tion comm'ttee, said that many tourist dollars are lost because of local indifference. When a tourist goes to a local resident and asks for in formation only to get a "I don't know; I just work here" answer, it makes him kind of angry, McNeil said. Local awareness of tourist attractions such as the Shake spearean Festival and the Jacksonville museum might cause the tourist to stay that extra day. An example of such aware ness, McNeil said, is the Med ford police department. "I want to compliment our police in Medford for their tourist contact," he said. Last year they carried tourist in formation on their patrol cy cles and issued only warning tickets to parking violators. 225 Insane Dead In Guatemala City Guatemala City, Guatemala ' IUP1I Fire destroyed an over crowded insane asylum In downtown Guatemala City to day, killing at least 225 per sons and Injuring 300 others. Many Asphyxiated The victims Included 175 women and SO men. Most were burned to death or as phyxiated. The asylum, a government run Institution which was part of the General Hospital of MfDFOHO ,J JAO(SON CoU MtDFRO, OfttGOfi ..I . !' 1, f ' ' WASTES NO TIME Sen. John F. Kennedy, the Democrats' presidential candidate, above, wasted no time today in get ting his campaign under way. He consulted, with old proa and defeated rivals this morning on his selection of a vica presidential candidate, which he was expected to announce late this afternoon. (UPI Telephoto) Democrats' Nominee Holds Consultations With Old f arty Pros Los Angeles OTt - Demo- cratic nominee John T- Ken - nedy said today ha expects to announc. by midaitcrnoon his choice for running mate in his campaign for the pres idency.' , ;The early: favorite appear ed to be Sen. Stuart Syming ton of Missouri, one of the defeated candidates In Wed nesday night's balloting ' at Several Items on County's Agenda Several Hems will be con sidered by the county court Friday, Judge Earl Miller re ported today. To be considered will be the writing of a letter to the bureau of municipal research to arrange for a planning con sultant., Miller explained that S2.000 was budgeted for this service in this year's budget. .Further consideration will be given the study of bids sub mitted for the employees' life insurance program, and two agreements with the city of Medford will be reviewed. They are the joint agreement for duties of Bob Haworth, parks and' recreation director, and the contract between the two for lodging prisoners under sentence from munici pal court in the county jail. A public hearing date will also be set by the court for the vacation of 15 feet along the cast side of Foothills rd. from Hillcrest rd. for two blocks south. The vacation, approved by the court and county plan ning commission, has been re quested by the Golf Holding company and the Rogue Val ley Country club. Judge Mill er explained that the right of way in this area is 80 feet wide and In no place will the right of way width be less than 60 feet after the vacation of the strip. Washington-lUPIt-Missile and aircraft workers for Boeing Aircraft will vote on the com pany's latest contract - offer July 23. Asylum Inmates Known Guatemala City, had 1.600 mental patients. Its director, Jose A. Campos, had been complaining for some time that It was badly overcrowd ed. Candle Possible Cause The blaze broke out about 1 a.m. It was believed to have have started In a sewing room where one of the less seriously ill patients may have left a burning candle, The'fire spread rapidly and the Democratic National eon lvcnUon. v - But,' before making bit de cision known, Kennedy con sulted with old pros of his) party and two of his rival for. the nomination. Senate) . Democratic . Leader Lyndon B. Johnson and Adiai E. Ste venson. . : :'! c '. Kennedy did; not- let i (he) business of making a vice presidential choice delay the) start of his campaign lo run the Republicans out of the White House,' He called this 'the most important election in the history of our country" and said "we shall win." Kennedy scheduled 'meet? ings with Gov. David L. Law rence of Pennsylvania and Mayor Richard Daley of Chi cago, Gov. Michael V. DiSalle) of Ohio, Johnson, and Steven son, In that order. -, The Republicans, m e a n- while, were as prompt as Kennedy to kick off the 1960 campaign. I n Washington, Republican National Chair man Thruston B. Morton charged that . Kennedy had ' won the Democratic nomina tion with "trades . . . prom ises . , . deals." -Morton said "the only thing that remain? h to dis tribute the payola in the form of more promises, m o r t deals." Democrats will choose their vice presidential candidate in a convention session which was to start at 4 p.m. (p.s.t.) today. v (Continued on Page 2) Japanese Premier Stabbed by Assailant. Tokyo-OIPD-Premier Nobusu ke Kishi was stabbed in the leg and seriously wounded to day shortly after a obnvention of his ruling Liberal-Democratic Party phose Hayatn Ikeda to succeed him in of fice. .'' Police arrested Taisuke Ara maki, 63, apparently a mem ber of Kishi's party, as the assailant. He refused- to say why he did 11. ; Klshl was rushed to Maeda Hospital in Azabu where it was said he had lost a con siderable amount of blood. Holocaust Meed from one to another of the seven big wards in the 40-year-old brick and cement building with a wooden roof. It was put out about two hours after It started. . Doctors Aid Rescue Only the night shift was on duty when the fire was din covered about 30 minutes after 11 started. ; Nurses, doc tors and nuns promptly went Into, action to rescue their charges. . ? t t t .! 1 ! ' I : i - Vi : 1:1 I? 0
