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Newspaper Page Texto Ml 1 K m cnac n nr mm vm Copco Rate Hike OK'd Commercial, Industry Users Also Increased Rates To Become Effective Sept. 28 Salem CUPII Public Utility Commissioner Jonel C. Hill said today that California Ore gon Power Co. has been granted an annual net increase in operating income totaling $443,077. ine company, serving Southern Oregon, originally tiled lor a gross revenue in crease of $1,013,572 based en tirely on residential rates. Hill said the rates approved by hiw will give Copco a gross increase of $1,011,000 a year. The new rates wil lbe effec tive for the billing cycle start ing with meter readings taken on and after Sept. 28. Takes Exception Hill took exception to Copco's residential proposal noting that the differential be tween certain commercial and industrial rates and those of residential customers was greater than that of other electric utilities in Oregon. On his basis, Hill said he ordered that the commercial and industrial users absorb about 25 per cent of the in- increase, by increasing rates in the intermediate and high use block and "appropriately reducing rates" in the lower use blocks of the same cus tomers. The new rates will provide a 5.51 per cent rate of return which "will be sufficient to attract capital and, ultimately, benefit the ratepayers," Hill ) d. L -nins Said Lowest The company contended its recent earnings on i.ts. common equity wersMne lowest of any comparable utility west of the Mississippi and that even if the full increase were granted, its position would remain the same. H illsaid the practice of al lowing a bonus to appliance dealers for accepting old elec tric, gas or wood ranges or water heaters for new electric appliances is an "allowable expense" in the interest of promoting electrical usage. He permanently suspended the frozen schedules for water heating and for trailer camps. Laotian Troops Engage in Fight Saigon - IUPH - Fighting broke out between Laotian government troops and a con tingent of forces acting under orders of the revolutionary committee headquarters in Savannakhet, it was reported heretoday . The clash, involving four companies of anti-government troops and an unspecified number of troops loyal to the V i e n tiane government of Prince Couvanna Phouma, was reported in a communi que by the Laotian army high command. The fighting occurred early Tuesday after the four com panies set out from Paksane, a town of 800 miles east of Vientiane, which was captur ed by the forces of Brig. Gen. Phoumi Nosavan Aug. 22 in an effort to capture the Iao tian capital. The communique, which was broadcast by Vientiane Radio, did not list any casual ties. U.S. Attorney General To Visit in Portland Salem-IIIPD-State Sen. Carl Francis, Repubican candidate for attorney general, will in troduce U. S. Attorney Gen eral William Rogers at a $100-per-plate GOP dinner In Port land Sept. 29. Rogers will speak at anoth er $100,000 GOP dinner In Eugene the same evening. Anti-Castro Fighters Step Up Shooting War Havana - IUTO - Anti-Castro guerrilla fighters were report ed today to have sharply step ped up their shooting war on a nationwide basis. The reports coincided with reports in high military '. sources that Soviet Russia has supplied Cuba with 80 -ton Stalin tanks and will deliver MIG fighter planes to the Cuban government within the month. ... Reports from the Interior said women militia units were t.kina over mens duties in ome towns to enable the gov- Regional Edition Medford 44 Pages iM ) 1 o 1 p m a 1 1 I flS; : ' : i Irrff rffj Ji Ni Wv' p S3 B rrat a. 1 i I'.-, I U . . It v if ,1 ' C 4 HW 4 iljia f Bill i !" niMi-1 DORMITORY COMPLETED .Southern Oregon college's new, 125-bed dormitory, named Cascade Units, has been completed and was opened to students as Freshman Week opened on campus this week. The $450,000 building, patterned after one at Council in Approves For Nine Streets Ashland-The Ashland city council last night approved Davina. curbing and guttering for nine of 12 streets inciuaea in a "Street improvement pro gram presented last month by City Superintendent Elmer Biegel. Nearly 50 persons attended last night's public hearing on the program. The council's small, new chambers became so crowded the meeting was moved to the old chambers in the same building. The council defeated im provements for only one street,, Hillview dr. from Sis kiyou, to Peachy lane. Action on two others, Scenic dr.- from Maple st. to the curve south of Manzanita st. and Maple from North Main to Chestnut sts., was referred to the city street committee. Improvement! on Nine Streeti The nine streets for which Improvements were approved are Normal ave. from High way 66 to the Southern Pa cific right of way; Clark st. from Garden Way to Walker ave.; South Mountain ave. from Pleasant Way to Pros pect st.; Prospect from South Mountain to Elkader; Gres ham st. from Fairview to Iowa sts.; Auburn st. from Iowa to Gresham; Wimer st. from Scenic dr. to Chestnut st.; Rock st. from Coolidge to Maple sts., and Coolidge from Rock st, to Scenic dr. Debate on the first street, Hillview dr., continued for so long that it appeared the hear ing might last -throughout the night. But the pace quicken ed when no opposition was voiced on paving seven of the ine streets which were ap proved. Petitions were received from property owners favor ing and opposing work on Hillview dr., but the coun cil's decision not to improve the street at this time seem ed to be based largely on statements by an elderly Ash land woman who said she could not afford the expense about $3.90 per front foot. 'I'm not asking for sympa thy," she told the council. 'I'm Just asking that 1 De allowed to live." ernment to reinforce its front line troops, particularly in Central Cuba. Clashes between guerrilla and government forces were reported from central Las Villas Province to western Plnar del Rio. Guerrilla forces in the Sierra de Escambray area of Las Villas were reported be ing reinforced from the sea. The mountain range skirt the south coast of the province. Unidentified low flying planes were reported scouting .h Cuban coastline nightly. MEDFORD, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1960 Ashland Program Councilmen Don Lewis, Arthur Peters and D. S. Kerr voted in favor of Lewis mo tion that Hillview not be im proved. Councilmen Glenn Revel, George Ward and Em- mett Whitman took the other side and the resulting dead lock was short of the two- thirds majority needed to im prove the street. ' Opposition also was voiced to paving for. Scenic dr. and Maple St., thus both proposals were referred to the street committee. One Ashland man spoke against improving Wimer st. but the council unanimously approved the plan, partially because the street is in the area where the city's new hos pital will be constructed start ing within the next two weeks. Work on the streets, accord ing to Beigel, is to be com pleted over a two-year period. Cost of improving the nine streets approved last night will be about $55,000. Im provements for the three not yet approved would cost ap proximately $15,000. Leak in Landing Gear Delays Plane A leak in the hydraulic sys tem of the nose wheel landing gear of a United Air Lines plane Tuesday morning de layed Flight 381 for nearly four hours, company officials reported today. The regularly scheduled flight, carrying about 30 pas sengers, arrived here at iu:zu a.m. en route to Portland when the leak was noticed. A DC-6 arrived from Seattle to take the passengers north, leaving about 2:19 p.m. The other aircraft was re paired and left this morning, it was reported. Al Sarena Mining Claim Controversy Returns to News Who was "right" In the 19S6 election-year dispute over the Al Serena mines? The lively controversy popped back into the newt again this week, after a team of Portland newsmen published a copyrighted lory in the Portland Re porter, claiming that "not one spoonful" of mineral hat been removed from the mining daimt tince they were patented In 1954, but that milllont of board feet of timber have been cut. They alto found that the patented mining claimt have been told to a Medford lumberman, but that the tale is not a matter of rec ord it the Jackion county court home. The Reporter's copyright ed article, together with two picture! of the area, ap pears on Page 8A of today'! Mjil Tribune. the University of Oregon, will house 62 men, 62 women and a dorm mother. Its cost will be paid under 30-year self-liquidating bonds. General contractor was Ausland Construction company, Grants Pass, and architect was Robert J. Keeney, Medford. AOC Committee Suggests More County Planning More vigorous county plan ning with, stricter enforce ment was one of the recom mendations approved Tuesday by the urban affairs and home rule committee of the Associ ation of Oregon Counties in Salem. County Commissioner Ralph James, who attended the meeting, said the committee directed the association staff to prepare amendments to ex isting legislation authorizing counties to prepare and en force master plans for sewage disposal and to include plan ning for domestic water sup ply and distribution system. The proposed amendments would strengthen the bonding authority of existing special districts. They would author ize district bond issues to car ry the general obligation of the county. The latter action would make district bonds more marketable and would lower interest rates, James said. General county revenues would be used only in case of default by the districts. Other Subjects Other subjects James re ported receiving favorable committee action were propo sals to authorize counties to license business in unincorpo rated areas and to provide that county commissioners in Clackamas and Lane counties be elected to specific num bered positions instead of the present system whereby the two candidates receiving the highest number of votes are declared elected. The committee also voted to poll counties on a proposed measure to permit any county to adopt a county board of commissioners form of organi zation. The poll would be made of counties in which county judges have no judicial juris diction. 'I've Got Sort Of A Domestic Problem Myself!' Price 10 Cents Tribune No. 158 Ike Will Meet Foreign Leaders Following Speech Khrushchev Not On Calling List Washington - IUPD - The White House said today that President Eisenhower will confer with some foreign lead ers Thursday after his United Nations speech but stressed that Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev is not on his call ing list. Earlier, Eisenhower snub bed Cuban leader Fidel Castro by omitting him from a guest list for a luncheon the Presi dent will hold for representa tives of 18 Latin American nations while in New York. The Dominican Republic was also excluded from the invi tation list. Names Not Disclosed The names of the leaders Eisenhower will see Thursday afternoon were not disclosed in the announcement of the President's intentions by his press secretary, James C. Hagerty. But Hagcrty said there is no thought of Eisen hower seeing Khrushchev. There have been indications that the chief executive would confer with leaders of African states newly admitted to the United Nations and perhaps also see Yugoslavian Presi dent Marshal Tito. Number Unknown Hagerty told newsmen he does not know yet how many foreign officials would meet with the chief executive " irt his hotel suite at the Waldorf Astoria. But the President will stay overnight in New York City to allow time for the discus sions, Hagcrty said. , It was learned that the President would not see Presi dent Gamel Abdel Nasser of the United Arab Republic Thursday. But officials did not rule out the possibility of a meeting with Nasser in New York City next Monday when Eisenhower goes there to speak to a Catholic charities dinner that night. Bright Object Seen by Residents A bright object was seen by several local residents short ly after 8 p.m. yesterday, ac cording to reports this morn ing. James A. Roger, Medford, said he and Ernest A. Wolff, Coker Butte rd., Medford, saw the object traveling east, rather rapidly, about 30 de grees above the northern hori zon. Roger said it was "quite close" and larger than a star or the Echo I satellite. The object's tail, he said, varied in length. Its color was a "white hot" appearance. Reports of a bright object traveling east were tele phoned into the Federal Avi ation agency control tower at the Medford airport, by . a woman, and into radio station KMED by a man about the same time, reports indicated. r fx 1" n i t if . .J? v. U . .1 t -v '-nI 4 , ? o . x ' f i , - h , . ' . ; . , . I ? t V ' . v . ' . I iir ii i i nil "'i iM -iieMn.niiln'.iiii jjiiiiMiiiiiiiiitiihittiBiiiiliiirinliilitiiiii Tinhr" LEAVES GENERAL ASSEMBLY Soviet Gestapo agents" disguised as press photo Premier Nikita Khrushchev, followed by graphers, were going to make a bid to aides, rides an escalator at the United Na- assassinate him witli a gun hidden in a tions building after leaving the morning , camera. But for the first time he appeared session of the General Assembly. He beam- grim and angry as he returned to his Park cd and smiled at the session even after re- ave. headquarters. . ports by Soviet security police that "former (UPI Tclephoto) County Court to Study $60,000 Program for Lakes . The county parks' and re creation commission proposal for spending $00,000 for add cd recreational facilities al Howard Prairie and Emi grant lakes will be studied by the Jackson county court, County Judge Earl Miller said today. The decision is pending consultation with County Commissioner Ralph James, who returned today from an Association of Oregon Coun ties' committee meeting in Salem Tuesday. Members of the county parks 'and recreation commis sion appeared before the county- court yesterday after noon to make the recommen dations following a special Monday . night commission meeting. The county Judge told the commission it might be pos sible to use part of the $150, 000 In the county capital im provement fund. Construc tion of a proposed building to house county extension serv ice offices and an auditorium at the fair grounds might not take all the money, Miller ex plained. Commission members are anxious to get done what out door work has to be done be fore snow starts in about a month, they said. Meanwhile, preliminary plans will be drawn. The county court will fol low the commission's recom mendation not to finance rc moviii of snags around Hyatt lake, the county judge said this morning. However, com mission members did not mention the recommendation at yesterday afternoon's meeting. The commission said Monday night that it had nei ther the money nor the au thority for the snag removal. City-County Parks and Re creation Director Robert L. Haworth pointed out Monday night that the Talent Irriga tion district which operates Hyatt lake for Irrigation pur poses, has $10,000 In a re serve fund. TID Manager Walter Hoffbuhr explained this is an emergency fund from money received from timber cutting. The $750 a year received from Hyatt lake concessionaires, Mr. and Mn. John D, Bowman, has already been expended for improvement in the confes sion area, Hoffbuhr ex plained. Recently, the TID execut ed a quit claim deed to the United Slates government for all except 20 acres around the Hyatt lake dam. Radio Contact With Blue Scout Rocket" Lost in Minutes " Cape Canaveral, Fla.' -rlUPII-The Air Force today fired its first Blue Scout rocket an estimated 17,000 miles Into space, but lost radio coniaci with its payload within min- ulcs after the launching. The four-stage solid pro pcllant rocket, which may clear tests and early flights herald new high altitude nu by models of earth orbiting gliders, blasted into the sky at 6:02 a.m. PDT. The Air Force said all four stages fired normally, and that "there is no reason to be lieve" that the rocket did not reach its planned peak alti tude. But radio contact was lost eight seconds before the final stage engines burned out. Report Erroneous Authorities said an earlier Air Force report that tele metry signals had been re ceived from the payload "was erroneous." The Air Force said the pri mary objective, testing of the new rocket officially known as Blue Scout Jr. was success ful, and that the pay load ex periments were "of a second ary nature," It was America's 1 third space shot since Soviet Pre mier Nikita Khrushchev ar rived in New York City for the United Nations session. Mrl 'HlI !nrnCne an Atlas missile 9,000 miles, and the Navy sent a radiation package 1,200 miles above (he Pacific, This was the first of 12 shots, Including two attempts to orbit earth satellites, plan ned for Blue Scout within the next year. The rocket, cost ing "considerably less" than $500,000, is based on the fed eral space agency's Scout test ed July 1 at Wallops Island, Va. Authorities said Blue Scout could "conceivably" pay Its way by locatin ga "safe area" for high altitude testing of nuclear explosions, and in de veloping a system of detect- WEATHER FORECAST: ralr and wirm through Thuridiy. Low lo nlihl II. Illiti Friday to. Temp. Illrhrnt Yitfrday 71 Lowell This Mornlni 36 Our Skies Tonight Bunirl today t:ll p.m. HunrUe tomorrow .... S:S9 a.m. Moomet tonlghl t:49 p.m. Flrit Ouarlfr Sept. 21 I'lltlMINF.NT STAR Antarea, low In south- WfU 1:02 p.m. VIHIIII.F. PLANKTS Vmus, ifts :4t p.m. Saturn, duet otilh . .. t:5R p.m. Jupller, low In louth- wnt t:0S p.m. Mara, rlis .11:01 p.m. ing similar tests by other, na tions. Round-Trip Flight ' Today's Blue Scout debut was planned as a round-trip j flight for a 32.8 pound pay- load of radintion - measuring devices and missile test equip ment. If all went well, the In struments would reach peak altltutdc of 17,000 miles In about three and one half hours. The trip would send the rocket into both of the high energy Van Allen radiation belts surrounding the earth. - Air Force authorities said the payload would take anoth er three and one-half hours to return to earth, and probably would burn up on re-entry Into the atmosphere about 7;000 miles southeast of Cape Canaveral, near Ascension Island off the west coast of Africa. No efforts were scheduled to attempt a recoverey of the pieces. Spawn-Taking Operations Start Portland - IUPD - Fall Chi nook salmon spawn - taking operations have been started at the Bureau of Sports Fish eries and Wildlife Spring Creek Hatchery. Within a few days the opcr k1" "o "nder way In all federal hatcheries on the lower Columbia river, the de partment said. Romulo To Speak In Portland Oct. 5 Portland -flIPIl- Gen. Carlos P. HoAiulo, Philippine ambas sador to the United States, and former president of the United Nations General As sembly, Is scheduled to speak here Oct. J at the first win. ter dinner meeting of the Knife and Fork Club. Dag Threatens Use Of Congo Police Force United Nations, N.Y. - (UPI) - Secretary General Dag Ham marskjold has threatened to use the United Nations Congo peace force to stop massacres of civilian villagers by troops of secessionist Katanga Prov ince, It was announced today, Hammarskjold, In a cable to Katanga Presldmt Molso Tshombe, warned bluntly that "it is the duty of the United Nations force to protect the civilian population and this Gun Concealed In Camera Said To Be Weapon Premier Misses Afternoon Session United Nations, N. Y.-flirD-Soviet Premier Nikita Khru shchev stayed away from the U.N. General Assembly after noon meeting today following two reported plots against his life, and told reporters he felt as If he were under house arrest. The Russians reported they had received word of a plot to assassinate Khru shchev with a gun concealed in a camera and authorita tive sources said New York police aso arc checking re ports Hungarian refugees planned to fire-bomb the Russian Embassy. A high New York City Po lice Department spokesman said Russian reports of the camera gun plot by "Gestapo agents appeared to be "part of the Russians continuing propagnda battle" but it was understood they were check- ng out both reports. Stands on Balcony Despite the reported threats Khrushchev appeared on the balcony of the red brick Russlon Embassy on Park ave. and carried on a shouted interview with re porters clustered on the street below while unusually heavy police reinforcements stood by. Asked if he intended to go to the United Nations Thurs- day he said it depended on who is speaking. Asked if ha wanted to hear President Ei senhower who delivers a ma. jor address Thursday he said, that depends on Eisen hower." He expressed views on al- m o s t everything including the heavy police guard and at one point told reporters: "I eel, I am-under house arrest. I am hot getting to see America.'.'" But Rerouted ' The latest' report said a. group of anti-Communist .Hungarians planned, to throw a tire doitid irom a crossiown bus into the Russians' red brick townhouse at the cor ner of 68th st. and Park ave.; where Khrushchev is staying. Police rerouted the cross town bus and stationed a fire truck and a fire chief's car around the corner. Khru shchev was reported to be in the building at the time. Khrushchev ignored the earlier report and drove in a heavily guarded police motor cade from his headquarters to the United Nations to main tain his perfect attendance record at the 15th annual General Assembly. A first report by the Soviet trading corporation, Amtorg, said the attempt would be made in front of the Russian headquarters as he left for the U.N. session. A later report said the attempt could come "any place at any time-wherever there are cameras." Police Edgy New York police, strained by the most formidable secu rity task in their history guarding 16 visiting heads of state-were edgy. Police issued a general alert to be on guard wherever Khrushchev went. There was no clue where the Russian tip came from ex cept that Amtorg first called Russian security agents and they passed the Information along to New York police who have been feuding with the security agents over how best to guard Khrushchev. True or not, the Soviet re port swept the spotlight from a scries of Soviet diplomatic defeats in the United Nations and in the Congo and put the heat on New York City to de fend Khrushchev in a city the Russians have criticized as hostile. Baseball AMERICAN LEAGUE Washington 3 9 4 New York 10 6 2 Ramot, Clevenger (6) and Batleyi Ford, Maat (6) and Berra. duty Is no way restricted by the rule of U.N. noninterven tion in domestic conflicts." VAny repetition , , ... will therefore be resisted by the United Nations force . ; .," the cable read. The U.N. chief said that "according to confirmed re ports" Katanga gendarmerie have carried out "brutal re pressive operations" against civilian crowds in the Luemt vicinity. ' .