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FresJiteiit "Out I in si i jwi' i i ti u i t " m - ' i Program for Coiigfes ... 1 L. nimtmtm WHITE HOUSE MEETING President Ei senhower confers with his press secretary, James Hagerty, at the White House this Ike's Message Attracts Cries Of Politics -Washington flJPD President Eisenhower's special message to Congress today drew cries of politics from the Demo cratic standard bearers. r John F. Kennedy, Demo cratic presidential nominee, aaid the Eisenhower list of legislation that should be pass ed "is not unexpected in an election year." President Challenged Kennedy challenged the President to get at least half the Republicans to support a "responsible p r o g r a m" to meet the needs he outlined. He said if that is done the Democrats would do their part. The Massachusetts senator's statement followed a charge by Kennedy's running mate, Senate Democratic Leader Lyndon B. Johnson, that the Eisenhower program was a "panicky" attempt to embrace the Democratic platform. No Comment by Nixon Vice President Richard M. Nixon, the Republican presi dential nominee, said he might have something to say about the prospects of the Presi dent's program later. But he would not comment on the message itself. , Sen. GOP Leader Everet M. Dirksen (111.) said Eisenhower "properly reminded Congress In the message of the legisla tion he recommended last January." But he would not predict the fate of the pro gram, except for the civil rights portion! He indicated (hat part of the program had little chance. Ashland Firemen Held to Fight Blaze Ashland-Twenty-lhree Ash land firemen aided state for estry crews Saturday after noon in extinguishing a 10 acre grass fire on the Ashland mine road just outside the City limits. , I Firemen sent a large pump er truck and a pickup with pumper tank to the scene at 2:53 p.m. ' Cause of the blaze, fire men said, was improper burn ing of trash. A spokesman said the fire was potentially dangerous in that it could have gotten out of control in the canyon and possibly become as serious as last August's major forest fire in the same area. WEATHER FORECAST: Fair lonieht and Tuesday except some afternoon cloudiness Tuesday. Low tonight 58. High Tuesday 100. ; Temp. Highest Yesterday 104 Lowest This Morning 59 Our Skies Tonight Sunset today ?:21 p.m. Sunrise tomorrow 5:12 a.m. Moonrise tonight 8:27 p.m. Last Quarter Aug. 13 PROMINENT STAR Antares, low In Southwest 10:55 p.m. VISIBLE PLANETS Venus, sets ':39 P-m. Jupiter, due south .... 8:34 p.m. Saturn, due south 9:56 p.m. Mars, rises 12:20 a.m. Two Fires Near Klamath; Hootowl Schedules Set By United Press International Two fires erupted in grass lands and timber near Kla math Falls over the week end as temperatures soared and the humidity dropped. The largest fire was 45 miles east of Klamath Falls Sunday. It raged over some 2,240 acres of timberland. The second fire, seven miles north of the city, was pushed into timberland by a strong wind. About 40 acres of timber were morning prior to reading his special message to Congress. The message contained a wide ranging package of legislative proposals. (UPI Telephoto) Fidel Castro Warns Catholic Church on Denouncing Regime Havana-WPD-Premier Fidel Castro's regime warned the Roman Catholic church today that it would "definitely achieve nothing" by denounc- Rogue Valley May Get Natural Gas Pipeline in 1961 "It is hoped that the Rogue Valley will have natural gas available by pipeline by De cember, 1961," M. E. Sands, vice president and division manager of California-Pacific Utilities company's southern Oregon division here, said to day. ; . The tentative dale of 17 months from now for the com pletion of the pipeline to the Rogue valley was set Satur day, following the Federal Power Commission's authori zation Friday of the importa tion of nearly 600 million cubic feet of Canadian natural gas a day for the Pacific Northwest and California. A 1,400-mile pipeline "will be constructed from Canada to northern California. Pacific Gas Transmission, a'subsidiary of Pacific Gas and Electric company, will build a 36-inch pipeline from Kingsgate, B.C., to 18 miles east of Klamath Falls. '' .' The gas in Oregon, Wash ington, and Idaho will be dis tributed by El Paso Natural Gas company. ') January Agreement Last January the California Pacific Utilities company and El Paso Natural Gas company made an agreement concern ing the construction of a natural gas pipeline to the Klamath Falls city limits from the main line (approximately 18 miles). The line, to be con structed by the El Paso com pany, will be of sufficient size and capacity to provide the natural gas requirements of Klamath Falls, Ashland, Med ford, Grants Pass, and inter vening territory. The 18 - mile line into Klamath Falls is now awaiting EPC approval, Sands said. He added that the route" of the pipeline from Klamath Falls to the Rogue valley has not been determined. Further ac tion now awaits approval of the pipeline into Klamath Falls. Liquified petroleum gas is now brought to the Medford area by railroad. E. H. Mann Named To Advisory Council Salem - IUPD - E. H. Mann, Medford,. was named a mem ber of the State Advisory Council on Unemployment Compensation by Gov. Mark Hatfield today. He replaces E. R. Jackman, Corvallis, who resigned. destroyed before airmen from Kingsley Air Force Base and loggers controlled it. Throughout Oregon, loggers were working on a hootowl schedule starting early in morning and quitting at 1 p.m. Authorities said hootwol op erations would be in effect in parts of Clatsop, Tillamook, Yamhill, Washington, Colum bia, Polk, Linocln, Benton and Douglas counties. Close- outs were already in effect in Coos and Curry counties. ing the government as Com munist. The Castro-controlled news paper Revolucion drew the battle lines between the gov ernment and the church whose- members heard at every Sunday mass a pastoral letter signed by Cuba's cardi nal and nine bishops con demning the "increasing Com munist" tendencies of the re gime.. Coincides With Seizure The counter attack on the church coincided with the seizure hj militiamen of the nearly $1 billion worth of American-owned property that was formally expropri ated Sunday by Castro in a bitter anti-American speech. Revolucion quoted an arti cle by French Catholic writer Claude Julian who was re ported to have said that "if the church -goes against the Cuban revolution the one who will, lose will be the church." The newspaper said that this was because the Cuban people were "religious" but "revolutionary" and that"rev olutionary Catholics . . . can not be deceived with false hoods." Incidents Touched Off Revolucion said the pas toral letter was "using as a pretext the worn out theme of Communism to make the revo lution the victim of unjust at tacks." It said that the read ing of the letter touched off incidents in several churches among -worshippers loyal to Castro, and that police were called to protect priests in at least five churches around Havana. The church declaration against the regime was a vir tual battle call since Castro has said many times that anti Communism in Cuba is "counter-revolutionary." Hot Weather To Continue Here Anyone who feels -that Med ford's streak of 100-plus de gree weather is too hot for him and wants to cool off might try the South Pole. While Medford and vicinity sweltered at 104 degrees yes terday, the South Pole had a maximum of 62 degrees below zero. Its minimum was 76 be low. The Medford vicinity may have its third straight day of 100-plus weather today, the U.S. weather bureau station at the airport indicated. Fore cast for this' afternoon was for. 102 to 104 degrees. One hundred degree reading is foreseen again on Tuesday. The sizzling streak began on Saturday when the mercury rose to 103 at the airport weather station, 10 degrees above the maximum of the previous day. Medford at 104 yesterday was not the hot spot of the state or nation. Neighboring Grants Pass registered 105 decrees. Thermometers rose to 114 yesterday at Blythe, Calif., and 113 at Needles. Calif. Lowest temperature in the country was 27 at Fraser, Colo. Yesterday's 104 equaled the all-time high for Aug. 7. The temperature was that hot on the same date of 1959. Mrs. Taft Freed Of Murder Charge Pasadena, Calif. -UIPD- Mrs. Martha Ann Taft, 30, a so cialite, today was acquitted of a murder charge in the ham mer slaying of her husband, William H. Taft, a distant relatives of the late President William Howard Taft. Mammarskjold Warns on Possibility of World War Regional Edition Medford 18 Pages MEDFORD, OREGON, MONDAY, AUGUST 8, 1960 No. 120 Drownings Take Lives of Three During Week End By United Press International Drownings claimed the lives of at least three persons in Oregon during the week end. The victims have been iden tified as Linda Faye Carter, 18, Portland; Donna K. Vow ell, 8, Lyons, and Albert A. Freeman, Portland. The Carter girl drowned in the Clackamas river near the Carver bridge Sunday after noon. According to witnesses she lost her footing while wading in above five feet of water and disappeared under the water. The body was lo cated in 10 feet of water. On Family Outing The Vowell girl drowned in the water of the Little North Fork of the Santiam river Sunday afternoon. The girl's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Clint Vowell, told Marion County Sheriff's deputies that the family had been at an outing at Taylor's Grove park near Mehama. Freeman, a polio cripple, drowned in the Columbia river near Sundial beach Sat urday night after falling over board when the boat in which he was riding hit the wake of a power boat. Traffic Claims, Three Three persons also died in Oregon traffic accidents dur ing the .week end. Ronald Frederick Stark. 17, Sher wood, was fatally injured Sunday when his car and a freight train collided about one mile southeast of Six Cor ners, near Sherwood. Nina King,1 9, wapato, Wash., was killed in-the col lision of a car and heavy truck and trailer near Gresh am Saturday night. Maurine Labelle Breaker, 48, Forest Grove, was killed Sunday night when her car collided near Rickreal with one driven by James Berg, 19, Springfield. County's Share 01 0 and C Money Told Jackson county will receive an allocation of $2,549,345 for this fiscal year of Oregon and California money, it was learned today. The amount is $234,675 more than last year. The amount to be received by Jackson county will be the second largest payment to be received by a county this year. Largest payment will go to Douglas county, $4,082,529. The other two O and C counties to receive more than million dollars each are Lane, $2,508,698 and Jose phine, $1,954,281. Total amount to be distrib uted this fiscal year is $16, 258,578, an increase of nearly 1V4 million dollars. New J.-.'- :ili if o.s. c-,pitoi- i i Sanitary Asked to On Creek The slate sanitary authori ty will be asked to read and comment on the Jackson coun. ty water pollution fact find ing committee's recent study on Bear creek. The authority will be asked to refer its comments to the state water resources board, according to the resolution made this morning during the board's meeting in Medford. Board Chairman Robert Root, Medford, said the board is interested in the vecent re port since it was done on lo cal initiative. The board is also interested in similar problems affecting other areas and establishing local committees to deal with those problems, he explained. Following a summary of the report by fact finding committee chairman Russell W. DeForcst, Medford attor ney, Root asked of the com mittee's membership might be broadened in the future to take in representatives of industries affected by the re port. ' People to Serve The problem is to find peo ple willing to serve, DeForest replied. Aim was to get a "more or less disinterested membership "without an axe to grind," the chairman ex plained furthers ' , , DeForest said he knew of only one complaint made dur ing the study, which accused it of being a . "witch hunt." This complaint, voiced In a letter to the county court, said committee personnel should have personally inspected pol lution sources, and made chemical analyses. This would have been very expensive. As it was the study cost only $27," DeFor est pointed out. DeForest aid he under stood that the state sanitary authority has checked the af fect of herbicides and insecti cides on streams, but know of no such inspection of Bear creek. Enforcement Problem ; The big problem is engorce- ment of anil-stream pollu tion laws due to lack of per sonnel in the state sanitary he said. A request has been made the state legislature for two more men to cover the south western Oregon area for the sanitary authority, the board informed DeForest. . Once Bear creek is cleaned up, the public will probably be careful not to dump trash along the stream banks, the pollution fact finding commit tee chairman said. Its present unclean, untidy state, invites trash dumping, he noted. During the year-long study, Frontier 55th Year Price 10 Cents Tribune Authority Comment Study the committee invited in rep resentatives of agriculture, fruit industry, cities, gravel companies and other groups who contribute to the stream pollution. As an immediate result gravel companies did install settling basins in their operations in the stream and some abatoirs did try to col lect the animal blood before dumping their waste, the chairman pointed out. Minimum Stream Flow It's an error to state poli cy not to require a minimum stream flow for public use, but it is probably too late to correct that error now, De Forest added. A 25 cubic feet per second stream flow would help eliminate pollution, maintain a good trout fishery and allow other recreational uses, he said. Under questioning by board members, Walter Hoffbuhr, Talent Irrigation district man ager, indicated that purchase of the required annual amount toensure the mini mum stream flow needed, would be the only guaran teed way. The 25 cubic feet per second feet would cost $27,000 for a 90 day period he said. .. Board-.:, members compli mented DeForest and his committee on . the "compre- ihensive report;" , , Other Business ; During other business the water resources board unani mously approved a motion re fusing an application and preliminary permit by Con sumers Power Inc. to estab lish a project on North San tian river, following a recom mendation by board member LaSelle E. Coles, Prineville. A hear on application of Portland General Electric company for a license to op erate the Round Butte proj ect on the Deschutes river will be held Sept. 9 in the Portland state office build ing. , David C. Hendrix, Jackson county watermaster, said he has no present problems in administering water rights in the Rogue river basin. How ever, as more use permits are granted by the state engi neer domestic water users' rights may have to be cut back to allow required Irri gation and power use of the Rogue river. Van Dyke at WOE Meeting in Seattle Frank J. Van Dyke, Med ford, past chairman of ' the Western Interstate Commis sion for Higher Education, is attending the annual meeting of the commission now under way in Seattle. Other Oregon commissioner attending the session is Mrs. Edna Scales, Sandy. . The Western Interstate com mission was set up by 13 Western states to promote In terstate cooperation in higher education, particularly in graduate, professional, and technical fields and in the health professions. During the two day meet ing the commissioners will hear 'program reviews on the commission's program in the health sciences and plan for the coming year. Speakers will include Rob ert C. Anderson, director, Southern Regional Education board, Atlanta, Ga., and Rob ert H. Kroepsch, director, New England Board of Higher edu cation. The 1959 annual meeting was held In Medford. Hayward,,Wis. -HIPI1- Jubiel Wlckhelm, a "bull of the woods" from Sooke, B. C, Sunday won his fourth na tional log rolling champion ship In five years, defeating Richard Moore, Lewiston, I Idaho, in the finals. Belgian Troops Musi Withdraw, Council Told UN Secretary Outlines Views United Nations, N. Y. -UPH- Secretary General Dag Ham marskjold warned today that world war might erupt unless Belgian troops withdraw com pletely from the Congo as speedily as possible. , Hammarskjold told a crisis session of the United Nations Security Council that the immediate solution of the Congolese problem is a ques- lon of peace or war and added: I do not limit my perspec tive to the Congo." Cooperation Lacking Hammarskjold, who return ed Saturday night from per sonal supervision of the U.N. opera tion at Leopoldville, criticized Belgium, the Con golese central government, authorities in dissident Ka tanga province, and "other quarters" for not cooperating wun tne world organization in its effort to avert a major con flict in Africa. Wants No Interference Although he did not men tion Russia by name, he said the U.N. effort could not be helped by a threat by "one or more powers to take matters into their own hands and pursue a separate course." Hammarskjold said Belgium J IIIU. 1- 1 possible withdrawal" of its troops to permit the Congolese people "to choose freely their T ,. " " i"s'i .'" ." . orientation in the world of to- Latin America' urgently requested before the Economic Con day" without Interference erence .o American Republics meeting Sept. Z, at Bogota, from any quarter - East or Columbia. - . West. Committee Fells Exchange Plans Tentative plans lo exchange a person from Medford for a resident of Alba, Italy, were made today by the People to People committee. Members of the committee also prepared the first friend ship pouch of letters to Alba for mailing. It was not decided whether a high school student, college student or adult will be ex changed. Preliminary steps to have a student from Alba come to Medford have already been made independently by the Medford Rotary club., Much of the planning for the exchange cannot be done until the committee deter mines how the project will be financed. Purpose of the sister city project - is to encourage a better understanding between the residents of the two cities. Salem - IUPII - Office appoint ments, will take up most of Gov. Mark Hatfield's time this week. fil .? f ' f . r y' im MAN OF YEAR John B. H. Leycn, (right) known political commentator, was the guest mayor of Rogue River, received the Man speaker for the presentation ceremonies, of the Year award Saturday night In Rogue Five persons were nominated for the award River from Maxwell Thayer, originator of this year, the trophy. Dan Smoot, (center) nationally UIVII Klgl - Proposals Listed For Legislation Washinglon-IUPIl-President day to act on a big legislative session, including additional , . The President outlined his recommendations in a special message read to the Senate, which reconvened today. The politically touchy civil rights proposals were among 22 recommendations laid down by the President for action by the Democratic-controlled Congress in advance of the presidential election. In presenting his "must" list of legisation, the President urged Congress to "stay on the job" until it is passed.-' Help for Aged Gets High Priority ' "Certainly we cannot adjourn the public interest," he said in a pointed reference to the fact that this is an election year., Eisenhower gave high priority to a request for "assistance to older people to meet serious illnesses." But the Chief Executive warned he would not hesitate to use his full powers a veto to block "reckless spending schemes" that would fuel the fires of inflation or throw the federal budget out of balance. - He reported that he had ordered development of a much longer range version of the Polaris missile but would need no additional defense funds. He promised a prompt request for additional funds if he should find them to be necessary. Power To Be Kept Second To None "Once again I assure the Congress that this nation's mill-' lary power is second to none and will be kept that way," Eisenhower said in a back-handed comment on what looms as one of the biggest political issues of the 1960 campaign. In detailing his recommendations, the President said that only one major bill dealing with civil rights had been passed in the area of domestic affairs before Congress re cessed for the national political conventions. He said even that bill omitted two major provisions which he advocated and that he hoped those provisions "will now be restored in keeping with the bipartisan support evidenced for these items last month." This referred to the 1960 platforms adopted by the Demo cratic and Republican national conventions last month. The two provisions Eisenhower had in mind were propo. sals to provide federal grants to school districts to help in racial desegregation efforts and his recommendations to make the Committee on Government Contracts a permanent agency. This committee, now headed by Vice President Rich ard M. Nixon, seeks to end racial discrimination in hiring workers by companies working on government contracts. Money for Foreign Aid Requested Other Eisenhower legislative'recommendalions: The full $4,175,000,000 B utuu. nwnuuae nas voiea oniy $d,oau,uuu,uuu J5JSE&L T52JKffi? J'T , . Federal aid for construction of facilities for public schools and colleges and universities. ' ' ' ' ' -i : ' ' A program to help the aged meet the cost of serious illness. ,.;'-. , . "A moderate upward adjustment" of the minimum wage. now $1, and expanded coverage of the law.- .- i A program to help economically depressed areas "Constructive measures to meet exlstine farm nmh. lems." '' Authorizing 40 new federal judgeships. " Seek Federal Gas Tax Increase 1 Financing to avoid delays in the interstate highway program, meaning a renewal of the President's request fora one-half cent increase in the federal gasoline tax. Increasing the aviation fuel tax to provide more funds for airway modernization. Removal of the interest rate ceiling on long-term government bonds. ' A postal rale Increase "to avoid saddling the next ad ministration and taxpayers generally, wholly unjustifiably, with a postal deficit nearing a billion dollars a year." , Liberalization of immigration laws. Continued government reorganization power for the President. ' ... Senate ratification of the Antarctica treaty. Chamber of Commerce Ashland - The Ashland Chamber of Commerce - is sponsoring guided tours of scenic Lithia park each Mon day and Friday throughout the Shakespearean FestivaL season. Chamber Secretary , Mrs. Velma Jones today termed the tours "very successful" Hi 1 nts in Eisenhower asked Coneress to program, at its post-convention, civil rights legislation. which he requested for the for- - . Sponsors Guided Tours and said an average of about 15 persons, including local residents as well as Festival visitors, have been taking the tours daily. Those interested in the tours should meet at the chamber office on the Plaza at 10 a.m. either of the two days. There is no charge.
