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Newspaper Page TextPuw.t U.RAkT 01 faSOtOUO ,d JACK50N coutmi MfOFOKD, OHEGON a) O) elgoym f Ddl to ft A7P n n n TP w Dinioiro w u rep Rogue Valley Edition Medford 20 Paget "Has There Been Any Pressure On You, Governor?" Council Approves Playground Items An agreement fur sculpture. type play-apparatus to be erected In Medford city parks was unanimously approved by the city council last night. After approval wai Riven, however, Councilman It. L. Van Sickle criticized tin city parka and recreation eomtnla a'on for "obligating'' Itself on tlia matter without authoriza tion by the council. The agreement U between the city and Charles II. For rester, Ashland. former fao ully member o( the University of Oregon school of art. Under terms of th agree nicrtl, ' FnrrMlcr ' would "rct four pieces of modernistic play apparatus in Hawthorne park at a loln'i cost of J 1.7 JO. Models on Display Models of the apparatus to he built were on display at the meeting last night. They include a set of three home like structures, a "sand pool" and a turtle. It was pointed nut llml the apparatus Is being erected at no cost to the city. The money to finance the structures comes from donations to the parks department by the T. W. Miles Estate, the Moose lodge. Medford Klwa nis club and Medford Elks club. Parks and Recreation Direc tor Robert Haworth pointed nut to the council that the play apparntils would cost the city about SO. 000 if It wcro purchased from 'companies that manufacture it. , Forrester, whose studio is In Ashland, has agreed to design and construct the apparatus at cost. Target date for com pletion of the project Is Sept. 30 After the vole was taken, Councilman Van Sickle said, "I would like to caution the park committee not to commit themselves In the future , , : It might be found, in an,. em barrassing position."' This was the first lime Hint council' acllon Was taken on the matter. The parks and re creation commission has been negotiating with Forrester for - c ,"eETSMA.tt.yFv-- SOMEBODY PUSH The morry-go-rouncl mid other play equipment at Hawthorne park Is seldom Idle these days, as members ot the younger set. find an outlet for seem ingly boundless enorjjy. Mother, mennwhllc, tan probably he found In Ihe nhade nf a nearby tree. The park, constructed right MEDFORD, OREGON, several months on the protect, and ' Forrester has started actual construction on a couplo of the items. Van Sickle added. "I could see them (commission) obli gating themselves on a proj ect and the council not agree ing, and they'd be way out In left field." Haworth pointed out that the council had once before elected to send a note of thanks In donors of the money for the play apparatus. . ,' Councilman Ed Kail said he would like to see the play ap paratus, painted when It Is completed to make II ax "smooth as possible." tic said he wanted to make sure that the apparatus would not cause the same problem as the Jack son park swimming pool. He was referring to the skinned and cut feel that children have been getting while swimming in the pool. Federal Court Session Here Is Postponed The session of federal dis trict court scheduled to begin Monday at the United States courthonse In the post office building has been cancelled. The next term of court is scheduled Oct.-3, according to district court clerk's office, Portland. Los Angels -lUPD- Opening arguments begin today In the second murder trial of Dr. R. BcVnard Finch and Carole Tregoff. WEATHER FOHHCART: (onllntifd fair and warm, how tonliht M. lit ill Kilurdiy 93. Temp. Mlchr! YfttrrHay 9 Loweil I hi j Morning J5 Our Skies Tonight fttinsrt today 7:11 p.m. Hunrlke tomorrow .... 4.55 a.m. Moon r lm tomorrow 3:0ft a.m. New Moon ..... . July 23 Tim; plannt, Juntlcr,' li now about' inn million mllm away and II dHlance li ilowly In rrraitnr Dut tonth' at 9:. A p.m., Jupiter la a sain nearly itatton . ary antoni (he atari In , Iti bachgriuinil, , after World War II, Is now in Its prime, offering cool recluse from the summer's heal. Some of the youngsters in the picture above were probably waiting lor their big brother nr sister to finish their swimming "exam" held thin morning at Hawthorne pool, 55th FRIDAY, JULY 22, 1960 Firefighting Plane Crashes; Two Men Killed By United Prass Inltrnatlonal The pilot and co-pilot were killed today when their B-25 ireflghting plane crashed near La Grande in the Wallowa-Whitman National For est. Their names were not Im mediately disclosed, pending notification of next of kin. The plane was flying out of La Grande airport, and was one of several used to dump borate on more than 200 for- Fire Potential In Area Critical; Caution Is Asked Forrnt fire potential is so critical in Jackson county that a holocaust could break out at any time, officials of the bureau of land management and the Rogue River National forest said today. The Medford station of the U. S. weather bureau report ed this is the 50th day with out measurable rain. Forestry officials here are afraid pos sible lightning storms may cause the powder-dry woods to explode into flame. If the situation becomes more criti cal, the state forester may be asked to close the woods. Both Ross Youngblood, EtLM district manager, and Carroll Brown, Rogue River National forest supervisor. said fire-fighting equipment of all timber bidders is being examined even more critically than before. "All timber operators arc required by state law to carry certain fire.- lighting equip ment, but we are even going beyond on minimum require ments," Youngblood said. "We arc going to hit every fire which comes with every thing we have," Brown said. "We will have to call on Montague and Lakeview for borate planes since we sent our three to Walla Walla, Wash., to help fight fires in that critical area." The Rogue River National forest recently sent 18 men to Walla Walla, and the local BLM district today sent four field foresters as supervisors of day and night fire patrols in the Lakeview area. They arc Ernest Black, Bob Carroll, Tom Rosscler and Jim Fuller. Meanwhile, local forestry officials have asked persons entering the woods to be care ful with campfircs. Brown said routine closures have been made for the area around Willow creek reservoir, Ash land watershed area and such timber operating areas as Steve's Fork in the Applcgate scction. Rccreationlsts may fish, wa ter ski and use the official campground at resorts, but foresters are cutting down on unauthorized fires around the perimeter. "Any fire which starts now has a big potential," Brown emphasized. XWSwg I Year Price 10 Cents Tribune No. 106 est fires in Eastern Oregon and Southeastern Washington. The crash occurred between 8 and 8 a.m. whciv the plane had not yet dumped Its load of borate. It was believed to have exploded when It hit the ground. Heltcopier at Scan The U. S. Forest Service sent a helicopter to the scene of the crash, and said Us in vestigation was continuing. Mtdford Pilot G o r g MUligan this morning flaw a load of lire-lighting sup plies to La Grand for us on th widespread forest and rang fires now pla guing most of Cenirsl and Eastrn Orgon. Th smoke from th many ' bleiei, he said, mad visi bility in much of th are almost nil. Th smoke can b sen plainly from as far west as Crater Lake, Milli gan reported, and could b seen from a plan directly over Medford if It were high enough. On of the difficulties en countered by firefighters is in bringing In and distribut ing sufficient food supplies to the crews on th fire lines, Milligan said. The B-2S borate bomber which crashed near - La Grand was not on of those from this ri. he re ported. Southwest district of the state department of forestry last night sent two more men to assist with lire .sup pression in th northasi district. They are John Black, a forest warden, and Howard Brock, assistant district warden. They were dispatched to Ukiah. Vic tor Van Hoy and Wesley Stenfield previously were sent to the critical area. The Intcrin. Department called the situation In the West the worst outbreak of fires on public lands In three decades. And no relief was immediately in sight. Additional men were sent In by plane and truck to help combat the flames that al ready had consumed thou sands of acres of forest and grass lands. About 120 fires were re ported in Umatilla National Forest, and more than 100 In the Wallowa-Whitman Nation al Forest, In northeastern Oregon and southeastern Washington. A blaze in the Snake river area has burned over 3,000 acres and was still reported out of control. Trappers Meet in Medford Tonight Between 75 and 100 persons arc expected to converge on Medford tonight as the Ini tial activities of the Oregon Historical Society's fourth an. nual Trappers rendezvous be gins. Scheduled July 22 to 25, festivities begin at Hawthorne park with an ice cream social and an old time car, show. Trappers will meet around a campflre at the park, accord ing to Thomas Vaughan, di rector of the Society, Port land. Meeting here also are members ot the Southern Ore gon Historical Society, and the Siskiyou Pioneer Sites Foundation. Other activities planned arc a breakfast In Jacksonville served by Ihe Eastern Star and a tour of the area by Jack Sutton of Grants Pass; a pic nic at McKcc bridge with guest Mayor John Snider, Medford; swimming and a trip to Southern Oregon college, Ashlnnd. At SOC, a dinner has been planned by Arthur Taylor, college faculty member, plus varied entertainment,' . . Trips to Klamath Falls and Crater lake have also been planned by groups of Trap pers. Unlled Nations, N. Y, -IUPH- Dlplomallc quarters today predicted quick approval of a United Stales request for a meeting of the full U.N. dis armament commission In view of Russia's scuttling of the 10- nation Geneva talks, S H 'I if . 1 f v! affiles! i J f $ i ill l tiM ,F !' JTi iff, 1 III 11 P 1 1 j J fs v I Kill L ;L ft i f Prw -WW k-i I A A 1 v i " J 4 t ' '-r I h i fVn, ;1 - ' T" ,"f 'C v. I: ' K , , ' ft I r, vi " t i ' EXCITED PREMIER Congo Premier Patrice Lumumba gestures with his hand during a press conference In his office at the former Belgian Governor House in Leopold ville. Lumumba said today he had withdrawn his call for Education Interim Committee To Meet in Medford The State Legislative Inter im committee on education will hold a public hearing for interested groups and citi zens when it. meets in Med ford Aug. 5 and 6, Represent ative Mrs. Evelyn Nye, Med ford, chairman of the commit tee's subcommittee on quality of education, has announced. The two-day meeting will be held at Hedrick Junior High school, and will include reports on various studies the committee has made. Among reports will be one on the qualifications of teach ers and administrative person. ncl in Oregon school districts, Mrs. Nye said. These studies are. part ot a comprehensive survey of 'Oregon education being .conducted .under (,h di rection of Mrs.'Nye'i subaom mittec. ' ' The studies are being co ordinated by the bureau of educational research of the University of Oregon under contract with the interim committee. Other reports which will be made here include the results of studies of school district reorganization and the coun ty school superintendent's of fice, Mrs. Nye said. , The full committee, of which Senator Ward H. Cook of Portland is chairman, will continue its discussion of whether the increasing cost of education should be financed from state aid or local prop erty taxes. A decision of the commit tee's recommendations to the next legislature on the distri bution of state aid to local dis tricts probably will be made, Mrs. Nye said. Those wishing to appear and testify before the Inter im committee should contact Representative Nye. Other members of the com mittee who are expected to attend are Senators Jean Lewis, Dwight Hopkins and Robert F. White; Representa tives Nancy Kirkpatrick, Al Flegcl, John Kerbow and Tom Monaghan; and William Bade, Stuart Compton, John Hounscll and James C. Yeo mans.' South Koreans To Tour Water Systems Three South Koreans will arrive in Medford tomorrow to spend four days louring the Rogue valley, and inspecting the water supply systems in Medford and Ashland. t The visitors are I, J. Chung, water works engineer for the city of Seoul, Korea; B. C. Lee, water works engineer for the' city of Chun Chon, Korea, and C. H. Park, ministry of home affairs, bureau of Kor can public works. Medford City Water Super intendent Robert Lee said the main purpose of the visit will be to inspect city water facil ities. Lee said they have been in the U.S., and Httendlng Ore. gon Stale college for the past several months under the aus pices of the International Co operation administration. Lee said arrangements have been made for the trio to at tend a city employees picnic Saturday, spend Saturday night and part of Sunday at Crater lake, tour the Medford water supply system Monday the Ashland water supply sys. tern Tuesday and attend the Oregon Shakespearean Festl' val Tuesday night, f Steps in Creating Low-Cost Housing for Elderly The first step In providing public-owned low-rent hous ing for senior citizens in Jack son county would be to re activate the Jackson County Housing authority. Robert Campbell, execu tive - director of the Lane County Housing Authority, made this suggestion during a meeting called by the Rogue Valley Council on Aging to discuss low cost housing at the Red Cross building Thursday afternoon. Present at the meeting were approximately 25 persons in cluding the entire county New Indictment Issued in Escrow, Firm Case Here The indictment against O. H. Bengston, Medford lawyer, and Rachel Peterson Carter, Jacksonville, in the Medford Escrow company case, has been dropped and new indict ment issued, according to Deputy District Attorney Gerald Scannell. The district attorney's of fice joined in the motion to dismiss the previous indict ment and have, the case re submitted to the grand jury which was empaneled for the term beginning Monday, July 18. "One of the grand jurors considering the matter had a pecuniary interest in Medford Escrow company, Inc., and while the state is morally cer tain there was no influence or bias, it would be in the in terests of justice to dismiss the indictment," the deputy district attorney's motion read. - Return Indictment The new ' grand jury re turned an indictment against Bengtson charging he took $3,701.14. illegally from the company funds on or about Oct. 21, 1951 and in another indictment charged he took $1,700 on . or about Feb. 2, 1960. The grand jury also re turned an indictment that Ra chel Peterson Carter took $224.81 on or about May 14 1958 from company funds. Scanncl said the grand jury has recessed and will be in session again Aug. 3 to fur ther consider the case. . Medford Council Approves Limousine Service Licenses to Two Firms; Debate Lasts Hour The Medford city council a proved airport limousine service licenses for two com panies last night, during one of the most "heated" meet ings the council has had for many months. Last night's action should bring to an end the almost continuous limousine contro versy that has Involved the council since December. Although' Councilman Don ald Hanson was true to his word in opposing the limou sine license for the Yellow Cab company, the council ap proved It by a vote of 6-1. A license for the Medford Airport Limousine Service was unanimously approved. Long Debai : During debale on the mat ter which 'lasted for more than an hour, Ben Day, at torney for the Medford Air port Limousine service, did his utmost lo prevent council Issuance of the Yellow Cab's limousine license. Soviet military aid in the Congo. He now is en route from Leopoldville to New York to confer with United Nations leaders. - (UPI Tclephoto) court, Medford Chamber of Commerce officials and wel fare department representa tives. Campbell outlined the steps to be taken in providing pub lic housing for senior citizens. He spoke with first hand knowledge because the Lane County Housing Authority is now In the process of erecting 150 low-rent housing units in the cit yof Springfield. He pointed out that the fed eral government will provide funds for studies to determine the need for low rent housing but these funds would be given only to a duly consti tuted authority, - such as a county housing authority. Contrary to popular opin ion, the Jackson County Hous ing Authority has not really been abolished, he said, but merely' inaclUaled.? Once these housing authorities have been created they can never be abolished. All the county court would have to do would be to reappoint commission members to serve on the hous ing authority' and it would be in business. Authority Deactivated (The Jackson county hous ing authority was created dur ing WWII to administer war time housing in Jackson coun ty. It was deactivated some years ago when it turned over the last of its property and revenues to the city of Med ford to finance the Jackson park swimming pool.) Once the housing authority is reactivated it should then apply to the Public Housing Authority of the federal gov ernment for funds to make a study to determine whether or not public housing is needed. The study should be made by trained enumerators, hired by the authority. It should try and determine two things, he said, the age of people needing housing and their in comes. . If the study indicates that housing is needed for senior citizens the authority should then draw up a plan for the housing and apply for federal funds to finance it. The Public Housing Au thority will then conduct its own ! independent ' study to verify the need, he said. Financing can take one of two courses, he said. One it can be borrowed from the federal government for 4.25 per cent interest or two, it can be borrow from private con Day said that Councilman R. L. Van Sickle's remark at the previous meeting, when Hanson said he would vote to deny the Yellow Cab com pany a license to operate, that 'I'm not going to vote to put any one out of business,' would work lo the opposite effect if Yellow Cab's applica tion for a license is approved. Day said: "Gentlemen,' if you vote to Issue more than one permit, you are doing Just that, and doing it in the worst possible way . , . forcing him (Medford Airport Limousine Service) lo die by Inches." Putting Them Back There is only room for one limousine service at the air port, Day said, since there is not enough business for the two companies to profitably compete, By rejecting Yellow Cab's applicdtlon, the council would nol be putting them out ot business, he said, but "merely putting them back where they were when (he decision was Outlined cerns for lower interest. The Lane County Housing authori ty chose this latter course, he said, and was able to obtain just a 2.19 per cent interest rate. This low rate for private capital is possible, he said, because the federal housing authority will underwrite the bonds and ensure the investors that the housing authority will never default on them. He emphasized the point that the federal government will continue to underwrite the bonds for as long as the housing authority uses the de velopment for Its originally intended purpose. That is, low rent housing for low income groups. . . . (Continued on Pag $ A) Sanitary Service ; Company To Start Land Fill Method ' The City Sanitary Service company will soon start ex perimenting with the sanitary land fill method of garbage disposal, according to terms of a lease approved by t h e Medford city council last night. Under the lease, the city agreed to rent some land just north of the existing White City garbage dump area to the City Sanitary service for about four years. The service agreed to pay the city $250 a year in rent, and to conduct the sanitary land fill method of garbage disposal on the property. Sanitary land fill is a meth od of garbage disposal where by the garbage is dumped into depressions in the ground, compacted with sand or simi lar material and covered daily. It involves no burning. Four Years Left The service is still operat ing under a 10-year non exclu sive contract which has about four years left to run. The lease on the White City prop erty will expire when the franchise does. - , The company has apparent ly dropped its request for a 10-year exclusive garbage dis posal franchise after Mayor John Snider vetoed a coun cil ordinance to that effect last month. made to drive us out of bus iness." This was an obvious infer ence that Day and his clients feci the Yellow Cab company is trying to force them out of business. Hanson was In complete ac cordance with Day's views, but he was the only one. Hanson said the Medford Airport Limousine Service "saw an opportunity to render a new service (limousine) to the airport and have done the job and done It well," About to Parish Yellow Cab started operat ing Its limousine at the air port following the Issuance of a permit to the Medford Airport Limousine service early last srlng. Prior to that they had been serving the air port with cabs only. Hanson said that because of the extensive competition at the airport, "one Is about to perish." : Van Sickle said he respect-M Security Council Tells Forces To : Leave 'Speedily' ( U.S., Russia Trade , Warnings on Congo United Nations, N.Y. - lUPD -The Security Council unani mously called on Belgium to ' day to withdraw Us forces "speedily" from the Congo and then turned to its next cold war crisis Involving the U.S. RB-47 shot down by ' Russia. . United Nations, N.YJUPb Russia declared today that ' th United Slates has been "caught red-handed" In -sending over Soviet terri torial water an RB47 recon naissance plane shot down ' July 1 by Russian fighters. Soviet Deputy Foreign " Minister Vasily V. Kusnel sov said dispatch of the! RB47 was "an act of ag gression, an act of fore" for which th United Statat stood responsible. The United States and Rus sia, who gave the debate) ' ominous overtones by warn ing each other to stay out of the Congo, voted together with the other nine members of the council for a compro mise resolution put forth by Tunisia and Ceylon. Russia, insisting it was not frightened by the U.S. warning, declined to press to . vote its own resolution which would - have labeled Belgium an aggressor and . given it a three-day time limit to withdraw from the Congo. The council started its de bate Thursday without wait- ' ing for Congolese Premier Pa- : trice Lumumba, who had asked that it be delayed until he could get here. The vote came after midnight. Premier Heads for N.Y. Lumumba took off from Leopoldville: for New York today in a plane furnished by Premier' Kwame Nkrumah of Ghanar He planned a three- day, layover at Accra to talk . wth,. Nkrumah.. His arrival time" in' New York was not ' ' U.N.- Secretary-general -Da Hammarskjold postponed hia doparturo for - Leopoldville, which has been scheduled for early Sunday. He now planned to take off Tuesday on an Airican irip mai win carry him to Leopoldville and then to talks to Pretoria on South Africa's racial segrega tion policy. The Tunisian-Ceylon reso lution which won final ap proval called on the Belgian ' government to "Implement . speedily the Security Council resolution of July 14, on the withdrawal of their, troops and authorizes the secretary general to take all necessary action to this effect." : Before the vote, Soviet . Deputy Foreign Minister Vas ily V. Kuznetsov replied to Ambassador Henry Cabot ' Lodge's warning of Wednes- day . that the United States and other U.N. members, would "do everything that may De necessary uj Keep. Soviet troops out of the Congo. "If he expects to frighten ; us, he is vastly mistaken," Kuznetsov said. "The Soviet Union will answer all re quests to provide assistance to peoples struggling for libera tion." This drew from Lodge a retort that his original state-' ment "stands and Mr. Kuznet-, sov might as well realize It."", Thomas Kansa, the Congo's 31-year-old Delegate-designate to the United Nations and one of the few college graduates in his country, thanked the ; council for its vote. ! ed Hanson's opinion but said, . "we (the council) ace wander-' ing into the affairs of private business." Hanson and Van Sickle ' were involved in several heated verbal exchanges dur ing the course of the debate.: Mayor John Snider and Councilman Jimmy Dunlevy were not present at the meet ing. , I Bolh companies were bound : by terms'of the license to op-; crate over fixed routes be-i tween the downtown area, hotels and motels and the air port, Approved charges by both companies Is $1 per pass-' engc-r. . i r ine Mectiora Airport Lim-: ousine Service had asked for permission to operate-. Into residential areas, but the coun cil was forced to deny the re; quest because In that case it would be Impossible to submit a map of scheduled routes to the city as required In the limousine ordinance recently approved by the council.