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Newspaper Page Textk Signs Medical (Care Act END OF CHASE A high-speed chase in volving police and 15-year-old David Mor ris Westby, Ashland, ended at 1:14 o'clock this morning when a car operated by West by (ailed to negotiate a curve at the corner of South Riverside ave. and Barnett rd., and crashed into the side of a service station (pictured above). Police who were chasing Westby said his car attained speeds up to 95 mileg per hour and ran four red lights Preliminary Study Of Sewer Problem Near City Planned City Manager Robert A. Duff said today that a prelim inary engineering study of the sewage problems in the "southwest district" near Med ford will begin almost immed iately. The city received petitions from this area yesterday re questing annexation to the city as a possible means of solving the area's sewage problems. These problems have become acute in recent months. There were 410 signatures on the petitions favoring an nexation, and 29 opposed. In addition, the city council two weeks ago received petitions bearing the . signatures of 244 persons from this same gen eral area that were also op posed to annexation. Necessary for Study Duff said It was necessary to have the petitions before a preliminary study of a sewer plan for this area could be started. He noted that .the city must first know 'where the sewers are wanted before It can start planning for them. Duff said the petitions will be presented to the council at Thursday night's meeting as a formality. He said probably no action would be taken by the council until the prelimin ary study is completed. It will take at least 60 days to com plete this sutdy he noted. The petitions received by the city are not formal peti tions as such, Duff said, but they are an indication of sen timent in the area toward an nexation. Boundaries Not Known The exact boundaries of the area from which the petitions were received is not yet known, Duff said, nor are there any proposed boundaries drawn up for annexation pur poses. However, most of the signatures on the petitions ap pear to come from the Lozier lane-Ross lane area and east of Clover lane. The exact boundaries of this area, if it is proposed for an nexation, probbaly will not be determined until after' the engineering study Is com pleted, he said. When it is finished, the city council probably will suggest some boundaries for this area. Eventuully an election will be called in the area to determine whether or not it desires to be annexed. Polaris Missile Experiment Fails Cape Canaveral, Fla.-tUPD-A Polaris ballistic missile fired from a nuclear subma rine cruising beneath the At lantic Ocean today veered out of control and plunged back Into the water. Survey of Effluent in Ditches Being A survev of septic tank effluent in Irrigation ditches south and west of Medford will be made soon, according to Jack Hoffbuhr, Medford Ir rigation district manager. District personnel and sher iffs deputies will check to see If residents of that area are attempting to correct t h e problem. . No statement of findings made by sheriff's deputies and irrigation district personnel will be revealed until after the MID board meeting Tues day, Oct. 4. Hoffbuhr said. District Attorney Thomas J. Reeder said this morning that he has requested the survey be made. Then if "no honest effort to find a solution" is being made by residents of the area. Reeder said he will fuggest that the Medford Irri gation district tile complaint Hurricane Donna Heads Out to Sea; At Least 143 Dead Boston, Mass. - IUPD - Tropi cal storm Donna, her winds below hurricane force for the first time in nearly two weeks, began breaking "up over the open Atlantic today after a 3,000-mile rampage which left at least 143 dead. "Donna is no longer a hur ricane and has passed out of the United States," the Bos ton weather bureau said in a bulletin on the storm, which Pennsylvania . Railroad Back In Operation Philadelphia-flJPIi-Thc giant Pennsylvania Railroad was back in operation today. Along its 10,000 miles of tracks in 13 states, passengers boarded trains they had not seen or been able to use since Sept. 1 when the strike paralyzed the railroad for the first time ln-ita 114-year, his tory. . The vanguard of 72,000 rail road employees idled by the walkout returned to ready the line for full, resumption oi service, passenger and freight, later this week. Tracks Cleared Wheels of "pilot" trains were clearing tracks of ac cumulated rust and signals were being checked late Mon day following the signing of an agreement between two un ions and the railroad which officially ended the strike. But there was a price to pay. James M. Symes, chairman of the board for the line, esti mated the total loss at $54 million with the railroad los ing $40 million in revenue and the employees $14 mil lion in wages. Both sides declared them selves satisfied with the final agreements, which puts the nation's largest railroad back in business. New Dorm To Open At Southern Oregon Ashland - The new 125-bed dormitory at Southern Ore gon college will be ready for students when Freshman Week opens Sunday, the col lege announced today. The building, named Cas cade Units, will house 62 men, 62 coeds and a dorm mother. The dorm was constructed at a cost of $450,000 under 30-year self-liquidating bonds. General contractor was Aus land Construction company of Grants Pass. Planned with his office charging pol lution of irrigation ditches. Such a violation could bring a maximum penalty of $1,000 fine or one year in the county jail, or both, Reeder said. Hofibuhr said the district will decide on what legal ac tion It wants to take after the board meeting. So far irri gation district personnel have merely pointed out violators to the sheriff's office. These violators went sent warning letters more than 90 days ago allowing them 90 days In which to attempt a solution of the problem. As a result'of the warnings and in awareness of the health problem to the area, a committee headed by Wal lace B. Brill, resident of the problem area, was formed to conduct in opinion poll of the area. in downtown Medford. The chase started when Westby attempted to get away from police officers who wanted to question him in regard to another incident. Westby was not injured and fled the scene of the acci dent. However, his mother brought him into the police station this morning. He was taken into protective custody and lodged in the juvenile detention home, police said. piled up millions of dollars in damage. Twenty-seven of the dead were in the United States where the storm's trail of de struction stretched from Flor ida through New England. Scores of coastal towns were shattered and thousands of workers waded into the shambles today in a gigantic cleanup job, hampered by fall en trees and power lines and flooded streets and roads. Donna's winds diminished to 50 miles per hour as she swirled past Caribou, Me., to day, considerably weaker than the 160-mile gusts which raked the Caribbean and the Atlantic coast during the past 10 days. The storm was headed in a northeasterly course after leaving Maine. Florida was hardest hit by the shrieking winds with 11 dead and damage which could exceed SI billion. Five per sons, died in New England, four each in New Jersey and New York state and three In North Carolina, -106 Dead in Puerto Rico Puerto Rico; where the storm struck Sept. 4 two days after it was spawned in the south Atlantic, counted 106 dead, and 10 others died in the Leeward island.: Donna swept across Long Island Monday, causing rec ord tides that flooded build ings and subways, and then smashed into Connecticut and New England before finally heading out to sea. Indians Integrated In Oregon Schools Salem IUPD Oregon has achieved integration of the state's Indians in the public school system. Harvey Wright, state direc tor of Indian education, made the report today to the State Board of Education. The work which began in 1947 is completed this year with integration of the Warm Springs Indians, he said. All Indian agency schools have been closed. Wright said the program ha been "very successful." Other major tribes to be taken into the public schools Include Umatilla, Klamath, Wy-ams, Piutcs and a num ber of coastal tribes. Posthole Digger Cuts Phone Cable Portland (UPD A construc tion company posthole digger cut a telephone company cable near Dunsmuir, Calif., at 8:30 a.m. today, knocking out some 1,200 lines. Officials of Pacific Telephone-Northwest here said restoration of service was un der way and that the cable was expected to be completely restored by 1 p.m. Affected were long distance circuits, press circuits, radio network circuits and the audio part of television service. Sentencing of Talent Woman Is Continued Sentenclne of Mrs. Clifford (Frances) Goodlct, Talent, for fraudulently obtaining narcot ic drugs (pcrcodon) was con tinued vesterdav in Jackson county circuit court pending rec'pt of a pre-sentencing re port. A turv Thursday unani mously found Mrs. Goodlct guilty following a day-long trial. Mrs. Goodlet was charg ed with obtaining a iuddIv of narcotics by presenting a pre scrlotion. Mrs. Goodlct is being held In co"nty jail In lieu of $2,500 bail. Nixon Respects Kennedy's Stand On Church Issue GOP Candidate -Reaches Portland. Portland - (IPI) - Vice President Richard Nixon ar rived about noon today for a busy 4!i hour campaign swing in Portland and Van couver, Wash. San Francisco - IUPD - Vice President Richard M. Nixon said today he docs not antici- pate any situation in which either he or Sen. John F. Ken nedy would have to resign the presidency because of a con flict of conscience over re ligion or any other issue. The GOP presidential can didate told a news conference launching a whirlwind second day of his western campaign that Kennedy's own offer to take such action should be accepted by everyone. Respects Statement "I respect his statement and I think it could be accepted without further question. Nixon declared. The vice president also made these points: Restricting Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev to Man hattan island during the forth coming United Nations session was necessary and taking any other course would be "irre sponsible." He said the poten tial security threat Involving Khrushchev's life involves a risk that "in a non-police state we could not afford to take." Civil Rights Speech Due He intends to make a "ma- lor civil rights speech in the next two weeks. Nixon said the address is already written but the place at which it will be delivered has not been chosen. , He will not comment on the religious issue if at all possible because he thinks this is still the best way to keep religion out of the presi dential campaign. Nixon said he will return to California early in October and will have "at least three other visits to the state. Research Center Due af Monmouth Monmouth - IUPD - A re search center will be located on the Oregon College of Edu cation campus which will seek ways to improve general effectiveness and efficiency in teaching. Approval for the center was given in Salem today by the State Board of Higher Educa tion, The agency, known as Teaching Research, A Center for Research on Teaching, will begin operation imme diately under direction of Dr. Jack V. Edling, associate pro fessor of education and psy chology at OCE. Gifts To Voters Declared Violation Salem - HOT -i The distribu tion of any Item to an elector with the Intent to influence him In his voting is a violation of the election laws, Attorney General Robert Y. Thornton said today. This includes such things of slight value as book matches, baloons, shopping bags, pen cils, flower seeds, and so on. Clackamas County School Plan Rejected Salem - IUPD - The Stale Board of Education today re jected the Clackamas county plan for a Gladstone adminis trative school district. "By Golly, If I Had A Part In This Campaign" 11 UFOs Reported An 'unidentified flying ob ject," described as being cigar- shaped and having rows of lights along the side, was sighted over the western part of the valley at 8:31 last night, according to Medford resident E. R. Vromnn. The object first appeared in the south and traveled at high speed in a northwesterly di rection, disappearing in the general area of Gold Hill, Vroman said. A faint sound of rushing air seemed to follow the object after it had passed. The "ma chine' 'appeared to have been propelled by a jet of fire, Vro man added, but moving far more rapidly than any con ventional jet plane. It took approximately five seconds to pass from horizon to horizon, he said. When it came Into view, UN Withdraws; Congolese Troops Control Station Leopoldville, The Congo - (UPD - Congolese troops took over the Leopoldville radio station today after a sudden withdrawal of United Nations forces. It was not known imme diately whether the troops acted for Congolese President Joseph Kasavubu or Premier Patrice Lumumba. Tile move came after the United Nations announced that it had reopened all air ports in The Congo to "norm al traffic" and was permitting normal broadcasting" over the national radio station. Terror Reign' Said Over Kasavubu's Information Minister Jean Bolikango went directly to the radio station after the U.N. troops with drew and broadcast that Lu mumba's "reign of terror" was over. Bolikango announced that warrants were out for the ar rest of Lumumba and "his accomplices." But when Bolikango tried to go back to the station two hours later, soldiers blocked his path. One captain told the in formation minister: "No one will be allowed to broadcast, Bolikango admitted to news men that "we do not have the military situation entirely in hand. Lumumba talked his way out of one arrest Monday. To day, heavy troop guards sur rounded his official residence, but -Bolikango claimed Lu mumba was in hiding. A U.N. spokesman said his orders reopening the airports and radio station went into effect this morning. Oregon Said Hurt By Tax Structure Portland-IUPD - Clinton B Snyder of Hobokcn, N.J., pres ident of the Society of Indus trial Realtors, said today Ore gon's personal property tax is discouraging Industrial de velopment in the state. He told the Rotary Club that the tax placed a heavy burden on industry "and is undoubtedly one of the rea sons Oregon has not grown as fast as Its neighbors, Wash ington and California." Snyder Is making a tour of West Coast industrial centers. His organization is affiliated with the National Association of' Real Estate Boards. Industry asks for no spec ial favors or advantages but at the same time it does not want to carry a disproportion ate share of the tax load," he said. Vroman said he started in the house for his binoculars, but seeing the speed it was travel ing he knew he wouldn't have time. Guessing at the size of the object, he said it could have been anywhere from 100 to 200 feet long, or as small as 50 feet. Hilts A Yreka woman re ported today that she and sev eral other persons saw two unidentified flying objects over the Hilts area last night. One of the objects, accord ing to Mrs. Robert Earl, 552 North Oregon st., was moving so slowly it was visible for three hours but the other moved at such a rapid clip it could be seen for only a few seconds. The first object "looked like a star," Mrs. Earl said, and was "red, white and blue- Regional Edition Medford 18 Pages MEDFORD, OREGON, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1960 No. 151 i iMl la it! DELEGATION ARRIVES Representatives ot Congo President Joseph Kasavubu are shown as they arrived at New York Mon day. The. delegation la headed by Foreign Minister Justin Romboko, ; seated, center. Others are, from left, Bad Banga, Ylofa Radia and M. Fele. A rival delegation rep- To Open Monday Ashland-Ashland's new mil lion dollar junior high school is expected to be open for classes Monday, School Super intendent Stanley Jobe said today. Jobe said transformers al ready are installed and the permanent sewer pump is ex pected to be delivered Thurs day. An auxiliary pump is in use at present. The Ashland school board, Jobe continued, plans to ad vertise this week for bids for leveling and excavation work on the athletic and playground areas at the new school. Bids will be opened Oct. 10. At a special board meeting last night, a contract for fuel oil was awarded to Western Oil and Burner company, Ashland. Western bid .00428 cents per gallon for PS-300 oil and .0888 cents per gallon for PS-400 oil. Other bidders were Jayhawk Petroleum company, Klamath Falls, and McLaren Oil company, Medford. Four teacher s1 contracts were approved. Wayne R. Paulsen will teach ninth grade English at the Junior high, Robert L. Sanderson will teach business education at the high school, Myrna L. Dean will teach economics at the junior high, and Sclma McAlester will teach English and journalism at the high school. Nikita Protests Travel Restriction New York-fUPO-Nlklta Khru shchev formally protested to the United States today against State, Department or ders quarantining him to Man hattan Island next week. Simultaneously the roster of his anti-American "rump sum mit" conference apparently was completed with the an nouncement that Cuba's Fidel Castro will Join Communist and neutralist leaders at the U.N. assembly. Condemning the U.S. order restricting him to Manhattan, Khrushchev first told a Lon don newspaper It was "unrea sonable and unjustifiable." Late today Soviet Ambassa dor Michael Meruhikov de livered a similar condemna tion of the quarantine to Sec retary of State Christian A. Horter. in City, green in color. The second looked like "a flashing red light" which blinked about once each second during its fast trip across the skies. Mrs. Earl said six other per sons saw the first object. With her were her husband, her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Tom Shuck; her brother, Tommy Shuck, and Weldon Snook and his son, Wendell. All but Mr. and Mrs. Earl are residents of Hilts. The first object was spotted about 9 p.m., Mrs. Earl said, and members of the group took , turns observing it through two telescopes and a pair of binoculars. She said it was west of Hills, bearing about 70 degrees. The second object appeared about 10:30, she continued, and headed northwest toward Mt. Ashland. It was traveline Congo.. ... . Security May Dispatch Own Probers To Congo United Nations, N.Y. - IUPD - Security Council members to day considered sending their own subcommittee to The Congo to try to make sense out of the constitutional tan gle caused by the feud be tween rival factions in the African country. Quick Call Posiible The council was not sched uled to meet today but there was a possibility a session might be called on short no tice for this afternoon or this evening to hear rival dele gates sent by Congo Premier Patrice Lumumba and Presi dent Joseph Kasavubu. The nine -nation African group of U.N. members, ser iously worried about the anarchy and bloodshed that Independence brought to The Congo, scheduled a session to discuss the plan for a subcom mittee Investigation at the scene. Lack nf instructions from the foreign offices of one or Tour Scheduled at Howard Prairie An inspection will be made of completed recreation facili ties at Howard Prairie reser voir in the Talent project Fri day. James Callan, bureau of reclamation project engineer here, and the county court will leave the courthouse at 9 a.m. Friday to tour the area, Thomas Parker and Associ ates, of Ashland, announced work has been completed on facilities on the west side of the reservoir, which Include a boat ramp, parking area, out door toilets and showers, ac cess road, overnight parking area and installation of fire places, picnic tables and garb age disposal cans. The water supply system Is under a separate contract to Bryant and Lowe of Ashland and Is not finished, Allan said. This includes a pumphouse, water tank and lines to sup ply the recreation area. Parker and Associates had a prior completion deadline last month, but the completion date was extended to this month since materials did not arrive In time, Hilts very low, she sajd, and was bearing about 45 degrees. Mrs. Earl said all mem bers of the group but Snook and his son were present when the second object ap peared. After the second object ap peared, Mrs. Earl notified the Civil Air Patrol office In Med ford. She and the rest of the group then continued to ob serve the first object until about midnight. By then, she said, it had grown very dim and moved out of range be hind the mountains. Last night's sighting recal led a report last week from Mr. and Mrs. Fred Dengler of Rogue River. The Denglers said they observed a "dull, red, flashing" object over the Rogue River area Thursday night. Price 10 Cents Tribune presenting Premier Patrice Lumumba also Is en route to the United Nations. When the Security Council reconvenes It will have to decide which pt the opposing delegations represents the legal government ot The . , . .. (UPI Telephoto) Council more of the major powers was understood to be a . faction delaying council action. As far as could be deter mined, no delegation had come up yet with a proposed resolution on what direction the Security Council should take next. The council met for only 16 minutes late Monday. U.S. Ambassador James J. Wads- worth Immediately proposed adjournment on the ground the council could do nothing with the situation so con fused. Rogue'Project Receives Funds Washington - (UPD - The Corps of Engineers announc ed today It had allocated $8,038,000 to 268 individual flood control, navigation and beach erosion studies. The money was appropri ated by Congress In a lump sum for examinations and studies. It Is in addition to funds voted for the Corps' construction and planning projects. The projects as announced by the corps Included: Oregon: Portland Vancou ver (Oregon and Washington) $31,900; Port Orford, $9,000: Tillamook bay, $1,000; Ump qua river, $11,300; Coquille river, $10,000; Grande Rondo river, $16,700; Rogue river, $30,000; Umpqua river (flood control), $25,000. 100th Anniversary of Pershing's Birth Marked Washington -(UPD- A solemn President Elsenhower today placed a wreath on a simple white headstone marking the grave of General of the Armies John J. Pershing on the 100th anniversary of the birth of the famous "Black Jack." , , '. i Eisenhower, who led Amer ican forces In Europe during World War II as Pershing did In World War I, bowed his head In prayer. The brief and simple cere monies were part of "Cen Federal Grants To States Will Start Oct. I . Relatively Small Portion To Benefit Washington - (UPD - Presi dent Eisenhower today signed a new law designed to im prove medical care for aged, needy persons. It offers feder al grants to states, starting Oct. 1, to induce them to make the improvements. The federal aid - estimated to cost the treasury about $200 million in the first year -will be limited to helping states pay for medical eara of needy persons over 65. A relatively small portion of the 16 million persons In this ace group will benefit. Question Unresolved Enactment of the new pro gram leaves unresolved the controversial question of whether the government ulti mately will provide some pro gram of medical care for the average elderly person. Both presidential candi dates favor broader benefits than that provided by t h a new program. Congress re jected their proposals. The Democratic candidate. Sen. John F. Kennedy, is cam paigning for the presidency on a pledge to enact legisla tion adding medical care to cash benefits received by tha elderly under the Social Se curity "-program. This would be financed by higher Social Security taxes on workers and their employers. It is opposed by-the GOP candidate, Vica President Richard M. Nixon. Liberalizing Changes In addition to its medical care provisions, the new law makes some liberalizing changes in the social security program but no across-the- board change In benefits. It adds about 700,000 per sons to the benefit rolls. It liberalizes the $1,200 annual ''earnings test" for retired workers drawing full bene- ills- it permits permanently and totally disabled workers to. flraw. .benefits, lor them selves and . dependents with out waiting until age B0. ., - Most states on their own already provide some type p medical care under the public assistance program. Under this program 2,400,000 needy- persons over 65 are on state- operated relic rolls and the federal government is payimr about $2 billion of the annual cost. Additional Money Under the new program tha fcdcrul government will: Give additional money to states which provide medical care for relief recipients over 65. Tnc llrst-year cost of this new program is estimated at $142 lor the federal govern ment and $5 million for par ticipating state governments. Offer additional grants to states which extend free medi cal care to persons who ara not so destitute that they qualify under state standards for relief checks to pay for food, housing or clothing, but still can't pay for medical treatment. First -year costs are estimated at $60 million for. the federal government and $56 million for he states. Calif or nian Killed North of Eugene Eugene - IUPD - A man tenta tively Identified as Jim Bo- shell, about 25, Paramount, Calif., was killed Monday night in a one-car accident north of here on Highway 99.' WEATHER FORECAST: rlr through Wednesday. Low tonight 48; high tomorrow SO. Temp. Highest Yesterday ....... 73 Loweit Thli Morning 47 Our Skies Tonight Sunset today 't:2S p.m. Sunrise tomorrow .... 5:50 a.m. The Moon rises 11:47 p.m. tonight and rides high. New Moon Sept, 20 PROMINKNT STAR Capella, low In north east 10:45 p.m. VISIHLK PLANKTS Venus, low In west 8:85 p.m. Saturn, due south .... 7:30 p.m. Jupiter, low In south west 9:3Z p.m. Mars, shove the Moon. tennial for a Soldier" which also included a huge parada of troops, veterans and patri otic groups along Constitution ave. In Laclede, Mo., the boy hood home of the only Ameri can ever to hold the rank of general of the armies wai dedicated as I national shrine. At the grave, the President was accompaneld by F, War ren Pershing, the general's son and only family survivor of a 1915 San Francisco fire In which the general's wife' , end three daughters perished.