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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-
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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!'
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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.
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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-
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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. ' .