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MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, AUGUST 7, 1960
No. 119
Up From The Jungle
Council on Aging
Asks Reactivation
Of Housing Group
The Jackson County Hous
ing Authority should be reac
tivated, the Rogue Valley
Council on Aging has suggest
ed in a letter to County Judge
Earl Miller.
. Reactivation of the group
would make the county elig
ible for funds under public
housing laws. These could be
used to finance surveys to
point up the need for low-cost
housing developments and
nursing homes for the aged,
plus urban renewal projects.
Another purpose of a reac
tivated housing authority
would be to take immediate
action on completion of the
survey to provide the neces
sary housing projects for Jack
son county citizens, the coun
cil said.
"The need tor low cost
housing exists in Jackson
county," the council's letter
stated. "We, the executive
board of the Rogue Valley
Council on Aging hereby peti
tion the Jackson county court
to reactivate the now inactive
housing authority."
"Statistics made available
to this council show that ap
proximately 6,500 of Jackson
county s population are de-
pendent on social security
benefits for their existence,'
the letter explained. "The
amount the recipients are paid
is below the national average
and many are living in sub
standard housing. The Jack
son County Public Welfare
commission has many cases
of welfare recipients living in
substandard or inade q u a t e
housing at rents higher than
1 .ft dSKK:'' " ijM ,TVX ' F
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' BOMBING ANNIVERSARY A Japanese tained in the shrine. Tne bomb instantly k.ll-
' family worships before cenotaplr in Hiro- ed 78,150 perso0s, injured 37,425 and some
hima a memorial to the more than 90,000 13,000 are listed as missing and presumed
i victims of the atomic bomb dropped on the deal. Center, background, is the skeleton of
I city exactly 15 years ago Saturday. Each the five-slqry Industrial Exhibition Hall over
: vrar on the anniversary of the bombing, new which the bomb exploded.
,namel of victims are added to the list con- "IPI Telephoto)
the. alloted amount provided
per family."
During Thursday's meeting
of the Rogue Valley Council
on Aging, William Hoxie, ex
ecutive secretary of the Jack
son County Labor council and
RVCA housing committee
chairman, was instructed to
forward the request to the
court. The RVCA asked that
commission members be ap
pointed.
Prior to the decision, the
housing committee led a dis
cussion on population growth,
the large percentage o older
people in the area dependent
on social, security benefits and
the need for older people to
have housing . especially de
signed to keep them well and
able to care for themselves.
Kansas CMv - I1IPII - Robert
Kennedy Saturday night ac
cused the Republican admin
istration of coldly standing by
for seven straight years
while farm incomes grew rap
idly lower.
WEATHER
FORECAST: Fair and hot
through Monday except for pos
sible thunderstorms over the
mountains Sunday afternoon.
High today 103. Low tonight 65.
High Monday 98.
Temp.
Highest Yesterday 103
Lowest Yesterday - 55
Precipitation yesterday none.
Our Skies Tonight
Sunset today 7:24 p.m.
Sunrise tomorrow . 5:11 a.m.
Moonrise tonight 7:49 p.m.
Last Quarter Aug. 13
The planet, Venus, sets 7:40 p.m.
An evening star for the next
seven months. Venus will slow
ly grow brighter and its dis
tance from the Earth will de
crease. $1
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Russia Accused of
Hysterics Over
U2 Pilot's Trial
Washington - (UP1I -The
United States accused Russia
Saturday of waging a "hys
terical" campaign to inflame
public prejudice before the
spy trial of American U-2
pilot Francis G. Powers be
gins in Moscow Aug. 17.
The stale department also
reported the Soviet Union has
rejected a U.S. request that
American attorneys be allow
ed to help prepare Powers' de
fense. U.S. officials have been
refused permission to see
Powers since he was captur
ed May 1 when his reconnais
sance plane was brought down
1,300 miles inside Russia.
Department spokesman
David Waters bluntly charged
that the Russian propaganda
machine is trying to whip up
anti-American public opinion
before the Pound, Va., airman
is tried. He cited as evidence
a claim published in the So
viet newspaper Trud that
American exchange student
Edwin Morrcll was expelled
from Mosoow University for
spying.
Accusation Denied
Denying the Morrell accu
sation as completely false,
Waters said: "The Soviet
press seems to be full of this
kind of fairy tale now. It is
only too apparent that the ob
jective is to inflame public
opinion in advance of the
scheduled trial of Frances
Powers.
"I doubt that these some
what hysterical efforts will
have much effect outside of
the closed societies of the
Communist bloc," he said. I
Waters said Morrell was
asked to leave Russia last
June on grounds he had fail
ed to carry out his academic
work satisfactorily. No charg
es of espionage were made
against the 31-year-old student
until Friday, he noted.
Soviet rejection of an ap
peal that American attorneys
be allowed to help Powers
was contained in an Aug. 4
note from the Russians in
which they announced that a
Moscow lawyer identified
only as "attorney Griniv" had
been assigned to defend him.
Attorneys Barred
The Soviet note said that
three attorneys named by the
Virginia Bar association to
try to aid the airman could
not be permitted to partici
pate in the case under "So
viet judicial legislation."
But the note advised that
members of Powers' family
would be allowed to confer
with his Soviet attorney when
they reach Moscow.
Visas allowing entry to
Russia have been granted the
airman's wife, Barbara Gay
Powers, and his parents, Mr.
and Mrs. Oliver Powers of
Pound, Va. They plan to reach
Moscow Aug. 16, the day be
fore the trial before a Soviet
TTJJ:'hZ
r
military tribunal gets under
way.
U.S. officials said the three
Virginia attorneys, who were
refused permission to enter
Russia to help in Powers' de
fense, now are reapplying for
visas which would simply per
mit them to accompany Pow
ers' wife io Moscow without
participating in the case.
The three named by - the
State Bar association are
Frank W. Rogers of Roanoke,
Alexander W. Parker of Rich
mond, and John C. Parker of
Franklin.
Dag Says War
Can Be Averted
By Compromise
United Nations, N.Y. - IUPD -United
Nations Secretary
General Dag Hammarskjold
returned to New York from
the Congo Saturday for an
emergency session of the Se
curity Council at which he
hinted that "war" in Africa
might be averted through a
Congo compromise.
Hammarskjold was reluc
tant to talk to newsmen who
tried to interview him as he
walked from a jet Swissair
plane to Idlewild Internation
al Airport terminal, hut he
did emphatically deny that he
had any plans to resign, de
spile recent Soviet criticism
of him.
"Why should I resign?" he
asked. "1 don't know why I
should."
The hint of a possible com
promise came in a report on
the Congo that Hammarskjold
sent to the Security Council
as he flew from l,eopoldville
to reopen the Congo crisis
before an emergency Security
Council session at 8 p.m. (edt)
Sunday.
European rep resentatives
on the council were reported
preparing a resolution by
which U.N. forces would enter
Katanga, the province that
broke away from Congo,
peaceably on condition that
Hammarskjold would sponsor
negotiations for a Congo con
federation. Wnen asked wlfal he would
recommend to the Security
Council, Hammarskjold told
newsmen at the airport, "that
you'll hear in the Security
Council."
Hammarskjold was running
into a certain diplomatic clash
between East and West and
the possibility of new Soviet
personal attacks on himself
and Dr. Ralph Bunche, the
troubleshooter whose report
on Katanga's determination to
fight led Hammarskjold to
cancel plans for U.N. forces
to enter Katanga Saturday.
Attack By Moscow
He already was under at
tack by the Moscow press and
radio for what the Russians
said was condoning "Belgian
aggression" in the Congo.
Those attacks led to hints in
the British press he and
Bunche might resign but ob
servers here seriously doubt
ed he would quit under fire.
The disgruntled Congo cen
tral government, angry at Ka
tanga's secession and angrier
still at Hammarskjold's re
fusal to dispatch U.N. forces
to fight the Katanga troops,
said Saturday the secretary
had done his best to ignore
the Security Council.
The Security Council,
which met twice before in
crisis session over the Congo,
has ordered U.N. forces to re
place Belgian troops in the
Congo. Friday Hammarskjold
ruled out the use of force and
called the council into session
Sunday night.
GOP Headquarters
Moved fo Hotel
Republi can headquarters
will be located in the lobby of
the Medford hotel effective
tomorrow, Joseph D. Walsh,
Jackson County Republican
Central committee chairman,
has announced.
The office will be staffed
from 10 a.m. until noon, and
from 1 p.m. until 5 p.m., Mon
day through Friday, he said.
Washington - IliPIl - Allen
W. Dulles, director of the Cen
tral Intelligence agency Satur
day was named winner of t?
1960 Bernard Baruch award
of the Veterans of Foreign
Wars for "outstanding con
tributions to the cause of
American security, unity and
world peace."
Administration
To Push for Clew Civil
Bulletin
Havanna-UIPD-Ailing Fidel
Castro this morning decreed
the expropriation of $800
million worth of American
owned properties-virtually
all United States Invest-,
ments in Cuba.
Fidel made th jtartling
announcement to a wildly
cheering, dancing crowd of
about 40.000 persons galh
ered in the Havana base
ball itadium for the closing
sesson of the Red-lining
Latin American Youth Con
gress. !
Fulfilling hu montl).old.
promise to "leave Americans-
with nothing but the
nails in their shoes," Castro
invoked the July 61h cabi."
net law authorizing him to
arbitrarily nationalize any,
or all American properties
"in the national interest."
- In a restingly hoarse and
barely audible voice which
had forced him io withdraw
temporarily from the micro
phone earlier, Fidel an
nounced the expropriation
of:
-The Cuban Electric com
pany, valued at $300 million
and owned by the Ameri
can Light and Foreign Pow
er Co,
; -The Cuban Telephone
company, valued at $150
million, a subsidiary of the
International Telephone and
Telegraph Co.
-All 28 American-owned
sugar mills and all other
American - owned sugar
properties with a total val
uation of about $350 mil
lion. -The Esso Standard Oil
company's $75 million re
finery and properties; and
the Texas company's $350
million refinery and prop
erties; and the Sinclair Oil
company's $3 million mar
keting operation facilities
in Cuba.
Hoffbuhr Resigns
From Committee
Jack Hoffbuhr, Medford,
has resigned from the Jackson
County Reorganization com
mittee, County School Super
intendent Aif B. Mekyold said
Friday.
In his letter of resignation
accepted by the committee,
Hoffbuhr, committee v i c e
chairman, wrote that much of
the committee s work has
been completed, and pressures
of his worl' as Medford Irri-
cation district manager re
quire more of his time.
According to law, Cecil
Kec, Shady Cove, third com
mittee alternate, was appoint
ed to fill the vacancy. The
first alternate, Dr. Leo. Mol-
lish, Medford, was appointed
when Archie Fries Jr., Ash
land, resigned. The second
alternate. Dr. Robert Tolle,
has moved from the Apple
In other business, the com
mittee elected Otto Bohncrt
vice- chairman Thursday
night.
The reorganization commit
tee also decided to recommend
a change In electing school
hoard members for newly or-
sanized administrative: dis
tricts.
LOCAL RKSIDENTS ATTEND MEETING OF
Inclusion of 0 and C Funds
En Equalized Flat Grant
System Discussed at Meeting
The first skirmish in what,
could prove to be a prolonged
fight over the Inclusion of
I O and C revenues in the Equal-
ized Flat Grant system of
school fund distribution took
place Saturday In Medford.
' Speaking before the Inter
im Committee on Education,
Al Flegel (D-Roseburg), vice
chairman of the interim com
mittee, moved that the O and
C funds 'now scheduled to bo
distributed . by the proposal
be lowered from 25 per cent
to 12V2 per cent.
Flegel said" that 'unless this
Health Officers
To Be Provided
Members of the Jackson
County Medical Society will
provide acting county public
health officers for the clinic
al the courlhouse, the Jack
son county board of health
announced Friday. .
The clinic is held each Tues
day and Friday from 9 to 11
a.m. during August. This is a
temporary arrangement be
cause of the illness of Dr. C.
I. Drummond, Jackson county
public health officer. Coordi
nator of the rotation plan will
be Dr. Brandt Bartels, mem
ber of the Oregon state board
of health and the Jackson
county board of health.
Jackson county has been
without an active health offi
cer since June 1 when Dr.
Drummond became ill.- He
has been given a leave of ab
sence until Oct. 1 when the
local health board hopes he
will be able to resume his
duties. Pending expiration of
his leave of absence the board
has done nothing toward se
curing a permanent health of
ficer, it was reported.
'The local medical society
has always been helpful in
these emergencies and the
Jackson county health depart
ment sincerely appreciates Its
generous cooperation," Miss
Frances Clink, nursing super
visor, said.
Medford Woman
Killed in Crash
Portland-IUPU-A train crash
ed into a stalled car here Sat
urday morning, killing a 78-year-old
Medford woman and
badly Injuring her son.
Mrs. Flora Cardoza was
thrown 75 feet to her death
when the train plowed Into
the car at a railroad crossing
at Tacoma st. and S.E. 26th
place.
Her son, Richard L. Car
doza, 37, Portland, received
multiple fractures of both
legs and severe head and face
cuts.
A third passenger, Mrs. Iris
I. Rotter, 87, Portland, left the
car just before the train
struck, and was not injured.
to Hold
INTERIM COMMITTEE ON
is done, the resulting baltlollhe opinion that the commil-
could be as bad as the one in
1957 over the Key District
formula. ...
Nothing would expedite the!
passage of the proposal than!
to have the county lobbyists
either neutral or working for
the proposal, Flegel said. This
would happen, he promised, If
the amount of O and C monies
was cut to 12'i per cent
But, he said, nothing could
be worse than to have these
same county, lobbyists oppos
ing the proposal because the
25 per cent figure.
Action Delayed
Action on the motion was
delayed until 'a special meet
ing to be held in two weeks
in Salem, but Rep. Stuart
Compton seemed to be will
ing to1 concede to Flegel.'
Compton said that he might
be willing to go along with
Flegel because the amount of
O and C money provided
would not be large enough to
risk endangering the whole
program.
He said that the O and C
funds would constitute only
about 1 per cent of the total
program or about $2 per
child or less.
Sen. Ward. Cook,' chairman
of the committee, was also of
Linn Named Rogue River's
Man of Year; Dan Smoot
Speaks at Annual Event
Rogue River Mayor John
Linn was named Man of the
Year Saturday -night at the
Man of the Year banquet held
at the Rogue River High
school.
Presentation of the award
was made by Dan Smoot, po
litical commentator who de
scribed himself as an "arch-
conserative."
Smoot said thai he thought
freedom in America ts dying
but that It can be revived.
. Individual freedoms are be
ing infringed upon . by the
federal government, he said
The old patriotic attitude
was one of deep suspicion
and distrust of government,
he said. These patriots knew
that only threat to a man's
life, liberty and property was
the government that he lives
under, he added
Today's liberals no longer
believe thae men can govern
themselves, he said. These
leaders, he continued, believe
that governments Bhould have
unlimited power to do to and
for the people what the gov
ernment thinks is good for
them. -
' This theory is based on the
false assumption that "po
litical power makes men
wise," he said.
Smoot said that he wanted
the restoration of constitu
tional government by consti
tutional means. Unless this Is
done, Smoot said, then some
Back On
Rights
EDUCATION
I tee might have to go along
with Flcgcl.
I This might result, he said.
it there are not enough voles
to pass the proposal with the
25 per cent provision. .
Only Justification .. .
Speaking of Flegel. Cook
said, "but this is the only- ius
Ufication that he .can -give.
'In a Statement before the
committee, Flegel said, "With
the exception of the O and C
penalty,' the committee's. pro
posed distribution formula is
generally, acceptable.. :
tne basic formula is a
marked improvement over the
existing formula and, I be
lieve, will meet the general
approval of the public, educa
tors and other public officials.
That portion of the propos
ed formula providing for the
division of O and C funds does
violence to the basic concept
of fairness and, indeed, the in
clusion in the proposed for
mula of the O and C contro
versy will have, I believe, dis
astrous effects not only in
the O and C counties but in
many other counties in the
stales where various federal
funds are provided."
(See additional story on
page 2.)
day the ' people will rise up
and revolt to retake the liber
ties that have now been taken
from them
Congo Charges
Dag Ignored It
.. Leopoldville-UIPU-The Con
go government charged Satur
day that United Nations Sec
retary General - Dag Ham
marskjold had "done his best"
to ignore it in making his de
cisions to fly back to New
York and call off the entry
of U.N. troops into Katanga
Province. .
The Central government of
Premier. Patrice Lumumba
charged also that Hammarsk
jold had taken a line favor
able to the secessionist Katan
ga regime of Premier Moise
Tshombe.
, In a declaration issued by
Vice Premier Antoine Gizen-
ga after a cabinet meeting, the
Congolese government insist
ed anew on full movement
of U.N. troops' Into Katanga
Province.
' The government statement
was Issued shortly after U.N,
spokesmen here said cancel
lation of the order to move
troops into Katanga had not
changed anything in the U.N
resolution. '
"Belgian troops must with
draw and the U.N. troops will
go . Into the Katanga,"
U.N. spokesman said.
Plans
Laws
Idea Abandoned
As Not Being
Politically Wise
Nixon-Rogers Plans
Have Been Revised
Washington -IUPB-' The ' El
senhower administration has
abandoned as politically un
wise plans to pressure for new
and stronger civil rights leg-'
islation in the session of Con
gress beginning Monday, it
was revealed Saturday.
High officials said they be
lieved that in view of the par
tisan racial rights squabble"
expected to break out in both.
Senate and House, such a
move might be construed as a
cynical attempt to embarrass
the Democrats.
The justice department ear
lier had planned to make a
renewed plea for some of its
old civil rights proposals and
to offer new ones. But sources,
said that this strategy, work
ed out by Vice President Rich
ard M. Nixon and his close
adviser. Attorney General
William P. Rogers, has been
revised since Nixon was nam
ed the GOP presidential nom-
inee.
Put Demos on Spot
Some Republican members
of Congress already have, an
nounced they will introduce
civil rights legislation em
bodying Democratic platform
pledges in a lranK attempt to
put the Democrats on th
spot. .''
Planning this tack is Rep.
William Miner w-w.xo.
cnairman 01 me Kepuoncan
congreisnai committee wno
- ulB "lui"m 'VB 111
Democrats a chance to "stand
up and be counted oyer
iAhorhi thov .rjiiiNv innnii
their own platform."
The- administration ' is 1 re
luctant to become embroiled
in such a situation. , It ' has
steadfastly claimed that.it has
posted a strong non-partisan
civil rights record for which
it has not been given full
credit. '..;'.
Meet With Executives
This was underscored Sat
urday by Nixon's disclosure
that Rogers has been meeting
with the executives of chain
stores with southern outlets to
try and convince them. they
should end discrimination
against Negroes.
The administration s views
came to ngnt as rtogers re
ceived a report from Assistant
Attorney General Harold R.
Tyler Jr., who heads the jus
tice department s civil rignts
decision. . .,
Tvler reoorted on the status
of voting cases brought under
the legislation passed both in
1957 and earlier this year.
He noted that voting cases
are now pending in Georgia,
Alabama and Louisiana. whil
another case in Tennessee was
successfully complete di,
April. : ' : '
"Significantly, the. act 01
1957 and I960. have been.ulti
mately upheld in everycourt
test of these statutes. to date,",
justice department state
ment said. , . : i . '
Democrats Move
To New Location
Democratic head quarters
has been moved to its ,nev,
location in the Medford Hotel
building and will officially
open tomorrow,. Harper Ed-S
wards, Jackson County, Demo- -cratic
C e n t r a 1 committee
chairman, announced recent-,
ly.
The office will be staffed
from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m., Mon
day through Saturday until
the November elections. Those
wishing to volunteer their
services have been asked to
telephone the headquarters at
SPring 3-4777. ;
Edwards also said the next
meeting of the Central com
mittee would be Wednesday,
Aug. 10 at the Labor temple,
24V4 South Grape st. at 8 p.m.
A candidate for the office o
state representative - will be
nominated to fill the vacancy
caused by the recent resigna
tion of Inez Holcomb. ,
Helsinki - IUPD - Scientists
from 60 nations Saturday ap
proved an "upper mantle
project" proposed by the So
viet Union to study the earth's
insides. .. . ,