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telared -in Oregon Oooti tapr Fonaneia Boat Ramp Will Be Widened Beclares County Judge Earl Miller said today work will start im ; mediately on widening the present concrete boat ramp at Howard Prairie lake and basic planning is starting on . o i n e r recreation facilities . recommended by the Jackson county parks and recreation commission. Such planning includes a permanent store building and $150,000 Bonds To Be Sold by School District The Medford school board yesterday authorized sale of $150,000 worth of bonds to help finance an addition to Medford High school and for proposed classroom additions next year iV. Wilson, Jefferson and Griffin Creek if needed. The $150,000 is the re i mainder of the $750,000 bonds authorized by school district patrons last year. The high school addition,' which includes classrooms and ' a physical education plant, is under construction. Bids were opened for the addition late last month. The number of additional classrooms needed next year for elemert'ary students prob ably will be determined by the school census, which is ex pected to be completed soon. School administrators have in dicated that more classrooms . will be needed at-Wilson and Jefferson, scho'ols; but are hot sure .of the need at Griffin . Creek.' ' Authorize Cost Study The board also authorized . a cost study for a "new grand stand on the wesj.. side' .of the high school football" field. The new grandstand would. replace the old wc)den structure On ' the west side of the field. ' Members discussed; briefly the possible need for 'another high school in the 'district, but postponed any lengthy discus sion until after the school cen sus is completed so student population trends can be re studied. Dixter Kinnaird and Bar bara Reedy were elected as elementary teachers. The board also set Wednes day, Nov.; 10, as the. date to visit the remainder of the schools-Medford High school, Jefferson, , Griffin Creek, and Washington elementary chools and McLoughlin Jun ior High school. Board mem bers already have visited oth er schools. 38,130 Voters Are Registered Here Final county voter registra tion figures sho wa total of 38,130 registered voters.- The registration total rose to 38,130 from 36,083 on Sept. 28,- a county elections department official said. A gain of 2,047 registered .vot ers in eight days. Democrats lead by 1,128 registered voters, j They have a total of 1,158 registered vot ers compared! to the Repub licans' 18,030. Independents had 942 registered voters.. KIDNAPING FOILED Leopoldville, The Congo-fllPD -A gang of 20 supporters of ousted Premier Patrice Lu mumba today tried to kill or kidnap the Congolese high commissioner for finance, but he was rescued by an Ameri . can after being injured; . Washington -IIJPD- Sen. Wayne Morse (D-Ore.), a U.S. dele- gate to the United Nations, ' said Thursday "our best hope for peace" lies in summit meetings under U.N. jurisdic-tion. Thornton Describes Appling as 'Loyal Hatchet Man1 for Salem -(UPD- Attorney Gen eral Robert Y. Thornton to day described Secretary of State Howell Appling Jr., as a "good loyal hatchet man" for Gov. Mark Hatfield. . Appling charged Thornton ' was "writing the sorriest rec ord of legal incompetence in Oregon's history." The bitter exchange came about as Thornton said the sec retary of state had the duty to "diligently seek out and bring to the attention of the appropriate district attorney" violations of the election law. Appling recently (aid ht at Lake, Judge coffee shop for Howard Prairie, installation of a 25 kilowatt electric plant and wiring and initial dock and moorage facilities there. Miller said plans are being made for a drinking water system at Emigrant lake and establishing restroom facilities there. County Commissioner Ches ter Wendt repeated that the county court is committed to construction of a building at the Jackson, county fair grounds to house extension agent offices and an auditor! um. , . i Capital Improvement! . What is not spent out of the current $150,000 capital im provements fund for this con struction may be used for the requested additional county recreation facilities, Miller ex plained. Possibly the $30,000 estimated cost for the pro posed store and coffee shop building could be shaved some, he added. Overall capital ' expendi tures requested for Howard Prairie arid Emigrant recrea tion areas is $60,000. Projects recommended for Howard Prairie include a store and coffee shop build ing, $30,000; widening of boat ramp, $5,000; initial work on dock and moorage, $10,000; 25 kilowatt electric plant. $1,750; electric wiring to plant facilities, $1,200; and con tingency expenditures (includ ing architectural fees on store and : dock facilities) $5,000, sub total $52,950. i . Expenditures proposed for Emigrant include sanitary fa cilities, including two : rest- rooms, $4,000; buildings, $1,- 500; drinking water develop ment, $1,500 for a sub total of $5,250. Wednesday, County En gineer Robert Carstensen in spected and accepted as com plete the ; water system con structed at Howard Prairie by Tomrrty. barker-, Ashland con tractor. This includes a stor age tank and pipe to provide fresh water for the picnic and camping area. ; : !..':.,"! One' mile of road work is left to do on the road extend ing from the end of the pave ment to Hyatt lake junction. This will be done probably this winter, he said. ' . 2.2 Million Boxes Of Pears Picked Total Jackson county pear harvest for the season just completed is an estimated 2,- 200,000 boxes, according to County Horticultural Agent Clifford B. Cordy today. Five year average is three million boxes. : . Harvests of al pear varieties except Bartletts were below the previous estimates, Cordy said. Final Bartlctt harvest fig ures were "right on the nose" of previous estimates - 930, 000 box total. This included about -22,000 shipped to the cannery, and 1,000 tons of low grade processed pears. Bosc produced azu.uuu boxes or approximately half of the previous estimate. Last five-year average for. Bosc is 700,000 boxes. D'Anjous produced 680,000 boxes, considerably below the five-year averagevof one mil lion boxes. Nobody has accurate figures for the Cornice harvest since this variety is put in lugs and put back in storage. However, pear growers estimated .that Cornice were considerably be low the expected harvest to tal. It would have been a good Cornice year if it hadn't been for the frost, a pear industry spokesman said. Pear crop reduction was due. to : poor pollinization, spring frost and pear tree de cline, Cordy said. had unconfirmed reports' .that not all of the 250 electors who nominated Clifford E. Nelson, Portland,- for district judge, were present at the nominat ing convention. Appling charged Thornton today with reversing himself. "Six weeks ago," he said, "when I was trying to enforce the election law in the Nelson case, Thornton tied my hands by saying that I did not have the authority to conduct an investigation. Now that it is too late to take action, he tries to get off the hook that I do. after all, have the authority." Regional Edition Medford 20 Pages FIRE DRILL. Employees in the post office and federal office building on West Sixth st. were evacuated in a fire drill this morning. The building, in which 100 people are . employed, was cleared in 98 seconds, according to building superintendent, F. G. Herdman. ; Earl Harrison, assistant Khrushchev Back In Moscow After Nonstop Flight Moscow IUPII Soviet ' Pre mier Nikita Khrushchev re turned home today from an unprecedented 35-d.ay trip to the United Nations General Assembly in New York. His - rocket-shaped TU114 airliner ' landed at Vnukova' airport to end the longest period any Kremlin chief has spent outside the country. Khrushchev : spent 25 days in New York after "a lOniay cruise : to the United States aboard the Soviet liner Bal tika with other international Communist leaders. . : Makes Nonstop Flight 1 Khrushchev s plane landed after a 10-hour and 32-minutc nonstop : flight from . New York. .. ; The plane also carried Hungarian Communist leader Janos Kadar, the Communist leaders of the Ukrainian and Byelorussian Soviet Repub lics, and Soviet Foreign Min ister Andrei Gromyko. , After his first American visit last year, Khrushchev rode immediately to the Lenin Sports Palace to make report to the nation. , . Speech Expected Today, there was no indica tion when he would make a report on his latest trip. How ever, it was considered pos s i b 1 e Khrushchev would make the speech any time from Saturday on. Before he left New York, Khrushchev proclaimed that the Soviet block in the Gen eral Assembly had won a great ' victory.":,' However, Western observers felt his outbursts in the assembly chamber merely underlined what in actuality were de feats' for the Soviet Union on every, major issue, j , Bulletin United Nations, N.Y-fUPD The United States today alerted the United Nations for possible vioUnc i the U.S. Naval Base at Guan ianamo, warning that Pre mier Fidel Castro's govern ment seemed intent on "provoking an incident" there. Hatfield Added Appling: "I ' chal lenge him to explain" to the citizens of Oregon who pay his salary, the sorry fact that he has never once been upheld by a court in legal advice he has given me" as secretary of state. : Replying to Appling, Thorn ton said the secretary of state was a "good loyal hatchet man" for Hatfield and added, "Mr. Appling made these rul ings himself in the first place and we simply concurred in his opinions. Now he is irying to crawl out." MEDFORD, OREGON, FRIDAY, Lawyer Criticized For Not Appearing At Planners Meet Medford lawyer Alan B. Holmes, municipal court judge and candidate-' for dis trict attorney, was the object of some non-partisan critic ism at last night's city plan ning meeting. : -j: j-'i . . ,. The criticism grew out -of a request from the city coun cil that the planning commis sion "reconsider" its - action in 'recommending denial of a variance to the Tru Mech company. : - - The Tru Mech company as sembles trading stamp dispen ser machines in a building at 111 North Fir st. The com pany was informed by the city that it was operating a light industrial business in a commercial zone. : Zoning Variance ' ' Tru Mech, through its at torney, Holmos, then asked I the planning commission for a zoning variance to permit them to operate. A public hearing was held on the request in September, but no one, not even Holmes, showed up at the meeting to speak either for or . against the request, The commission at that time unanimously recom mended denial of the request, and said it saw no reason why a variance should be grant ed and suggested that if the company wanted to operate as a light industrial business it should move to an approp riate zone. However, Holmes appeared on behalf of his clients at the next council meeting - and said he did not have a chance to present his case at the planning commission meet ing as he was not notified that a hearing was going to be held then. Referred Back The council then referred the matter back to the com mission and asked that it hear Holmes and "reconsider" its action, 1 -The matter was reconsid ered at last night's meeting, however Holmes again did not show up. Commission member Terry Green said: "I don't know if we're going to have to make an appointment for Mr. Holmes to appear but this is the second night that he hasn't." Jack Edson said: "You mean to say he wasn't con scious of it this time after all of this?" .. ... Don Walters suggested that the commission lead Holmes to the meeting "by his hand." Notified of Hearing I It was pointed out by Com mission Chairman Paul Sclby and Planning Consultant Ned Langford that Holmes was no tified of the first hearing as is everybody else. ' It was explained that no tices of public hearings are published, as specified in the city charter, through the le gal notices in the newspaper. This was done, Selby said. Selby suggested "that if we OCTOBER 14, 1960 p p Medford fire chief, is on the sidewalk watching employees leave the building. Medford Fire Marshal Truman Nelson inspected the building. The drill and inspection is part of a program carried out in all U.S. general service adminis tration buildings during National Fire Prevention Week. spend any more city money for a rehearing I suggest we notify the council where we stand on this." As Much Obligation : Although City . Attorney Joel Rocder said the commis sion would not have to rC' publish , notices, of. another hearing, Edson said:. "If we're going "to notify .'proponents, we have just as much obliga tion to notify potential op ponents." , . The commission voted to re publish the hearing and have the commission secretary no tify Holmes that the hearing would be rescheduled for the next meeting. Green suggested that "may be we could : advise Mr. Holmes that the notice is go ing to appear in the paper.". Area Landmark Destroyed by Fire The two-story home of Wil liam Bigham, chairman of the Jackson, county fair board, burned to the . ground this morning. . . The residence on Bigham rd. in the Antelope district was a southern Oregon land mark. It was approximately 100 years old.. . Rural firemen were called about 6:40 a.m. and dis patched one truck to the blaze which was outside the rural fire district. A faulty flue was the apparent cause, firemen stated. . . When the fire broke out this morning,- the Bighams were reported ready to leave to get their cattle which were in pasture on the middle fork, of Rogue river. They would have been gone a week. "Not That I Really 55th Year Price 10 Cents Tribune No. 178 Cuba Government Nationalizes 382 Business Firms Havana, Cuba-fllPD-Premler Fidel Castro's government nationalized 382 enterprises today ( including virtually all the principal businesses of the nation. The decision was announced after a cabinet session presid ed over by Castro; . The -decree, of nationaliza tion affected , all . banks in Cuba with the sole exception of Canadian banks the Royal Bank of Canada , and the Bank of Nova Scotia., ". The U.S. Embassy ' said 20 of the . firms . were either America n-owned or had American mney invested in them., . , ., . .. 26 Categories ' :'; The confiscation covered 26 categories of businesses, in cluding paint subsidiaries, an industrial and commercial packaging firm in which the W. R. Grace Co. had an in terest, and various soap, de tergent and perfume factories in which Proctor and Gamble and the Colgate companies had investments. ... The decree did not touch the remaining few big Ameri- man firms such as Sears Roebuck & Co., F. W.. Wool- worth Co:, Goodrich Rubber and Coca Cola. . The embassy estimated between. 350 and 400 American-owned ' busi nesses, ranging from' corner novelty stores to big firms, have yet to be taken over by the government. It pointed out, however, that 95 per cent of the firms involving important Ameri can money already have been taken over. Salem - UPD - The Oregon Water Resources Board will meet here the afternoon of Oct. 31, it said. Approve Of It" City Considering Experiment for Dispersing Fog Landings and takeoffs at Medford's municipal airport unhampered by even the thickest of fogs? Sounds im possible. - ' Not entirely so, according to Medford city officials. They said today that seri ous . consideration is being given to a proposal that the city experiment with a new fog dispersal technique. If successful, the technique would enable airplanes to land at the airport during pe riods of heavy fog. Airport Manager Gil Gut jahr said it is hoped that the experiment can be started this winter. Actually, the experiment would apply only to "super cooled" fog, or fog having a temperature of 32 degrees and under. But a large per centage of Medford area win ter fogs are super-cooled. The proposal was made by United Air Lines, which point ed out that approximately 60 flights were cancelled at Med ford's airport during last De cember alone because of super-cooled fog. Suspended From Balloon ' Under the experiment, dry ice would be suspended from weather balloon and the balloon be attached to a car or truck. The vehicle would then pull the balloon the length of the runway. The airlines said that the balloon should be from 100-200 feet off the ground- for best re sults. A chemical reaction, caused by the dry ice meeting the fog, would then temporarily disperse the fog above the runway long enough for planes to land. The length of time for which the fog would be dispersed would depend on weather and wind condi tions. Gutjahr said the Medford airport would be the first air port in the country to experi ment with-this -technique to his knowledge. Already Demonstrated . The airlines said tiiat it has already been demonstrated that such a technique is effec tive. They said, however, that no one has yet attempted to apply the experiment on regular basis because they felt the incidence of super cooled fog in the U.S. was too low to warrant the cost. United disagrees, however, and said the incidence of this fog at some Pacific Northwest cities, Medford included, is such that it has had a consid erable impact on scheduled air operations in mid-winter. United originally proposed that airports at four cities Medford, Pendleton, Boise and Spokane - undertake the experiment. None of the other cities has yet tried it, Gutjahr said. i ' Gutjahr said that super cooled fog constitutes an aver- Ted Kennedy to Visit SOC Campus Ashland - Ted Kennedy, younger brother of Presiden tial Candidate Sen. John F. Kennedy, will attend a Demo cratic party rally on the South ern Oregon college campus Monday, Oct. 17. The younger Kennedy will speak on the subject of why students are Interested in the 1960 election." The rally will start at 9 a.m., and will be held in the Britt Cen ter ballroom. A Life magazine photogra pher is scheduled to be with the Kennedy party at SOC. The public is invited to attend. Bids Called For National Park Work Bids for widening and re surfacing sections of the An nie Springs and park head quarters roads in Crater Lake National park will be opened at 3 p.m. Nov. 3 by the bureau of public roads, Portland. The section to be Improved starts at Annie Springs camp nd extends toward park headquarters . for 6.25 miles. The project will follow the existing road alignment. 1 WEATHER FOKKCAST: Pair tonlfht nd Saturday. Low tonight near 32. Hlfh Saturday 88-70. Temp. 11 1 the it Yesterday 62 Lowflit Thli Morning ,... 11 Our Skies Tonight Moonrlie tomorrow 1:22 a.m. New Moon - Oet. 20 Tha planet. Man, hlih In the louth at 5:22 a.m.. la directly above Rlrlui, the brlfhteit star. Lata In Decem ber Man will be nearly aa brlfht aa Slrlua. age of only 7 per cent of all fog at the airport. But in some months, particularly in the winter, the amount of su per-cooled fog is much great er than in others, he added. He pointed out that of the 260 hours of fog at the airport last December, 237 hours or 91 per cent, was super-cooled fog. He said this was an ex ceptional month, but it is in dicative of what can happen. An equitable distribution of the costs of this experiment is all that remains to be worked out before an agreement will be presented to the city coun cil for approval, Gutjahr said. Cost of operating the ex periment would be approxi mately $1,500 a year. Candidates Keep Quemoy-Ma.su Issue Boiling Washington-IUPD-Vice Presi dent Richard M. Nixon and Sen. John F. Kennedy kept their Quemoy-Matsu dispute boiling ; today along with a new argument over whether their farm programs would cost more tax money or raise food prices. In Thursday night's third chapter of their scheduled four debates,. Kennedy and Nixon remained as far apart as they were a week ago about the defense of the Que moy and Matsu islands. Like the previous two de bates, the third was carried by all three television and four radio networks. Nixon spoke from Los Angeles and Kennedy from New York, The candidates were question ed by a panel of four news men in Los Angeles-in a sepa rate studio trom Nixon. Nixon Seen Winner Nixon, said ,the.'la1csF"8h' counter! Vrtii ''good and fast- moving, a good clash." Repub llcan Natl o n a I Chairman Thruston B. Morton declared mat Nixon again was the ciear winner. Kennedy mere ly said it was "an interesting evening but Pierre Salinger, his press secretary, said the Democratic nominee and his staff were "highly pleased and feel that this was his best performance of the three de bates." Minutes after the program ended, the , rival 'Candidates tangled In a dispute ' over whether Kennedy had follow ed the ground, rules for the debate. Nixon charged that Kennedy had violated an agreement by using notes. Kennedy denied he had used notes and said he had referred only to. two documents, - in cluding a letter written, by President Eisenhower, to be sure he was quoting them accurately, - i " , : Cites Opposition Officiali On the Quemoy-Matsu is sue, Kennedy again cited au thorities in or formerly in the Elsenhower administration to support his argument that the Chinese Nationalist held is lands were indefensible. The vice president replied that K e n n a d y'l ' program would lead not to peace but to war because any conces sion to the Communists would lead only to new demands. Kennedy said the Nixon farm plan would cost $1.5 to $2 billion more than the pres ent program and that his would, cost $1 billion less. Nixon said Kennedy's farm program would result In a 25 per cent increase in food prices which would be part of the cost of the program. Basic Training School For Officers A six-day x basic trainlngton and Richard Hurner. All school for area policemen will be held in Medford starting Monday, according to Med ford Police Chief Charles P. Champlin, host chief for the school. Police officers from Med ford, Grants Pass, Klamath Falls and the Jackson county sheriff's office are expected to attend the sessions. Second in Series The school in Medford .is the second in a series of seven to be conducted throughout the state this fall. They are sponsored by the Oregon As sociation of City Police Offi cer! and the Oregon State Sheriffs' association. - Four officers . from Med lord's police department will attend the school. They are Patrolmen James Peart, Mel vin Rennick, Richard Hamll- lax Reduction nay pe rossime, ftatomonf four Governor Lauds Salem - (UPD - Oregon is In . such good shape financially that a tax reduction may even be possible, a statement filed , with the secretary of state by the State Finance Department and the State Tax Commis sion said today. the general election. Gov. Mark Hatfield said It prudent management of the state's business and the healthy state of our econ omy." The report lists total expen- Hitnrps fnr thp pnrrpnt hienni - um, which ends June 30, 1961, ' as $308,963,394. . , .- Big Surplus Expected ' The statement says that ex- , penditures are running $3, 203,874 below that author ized by the 1959 legislature, that a stirnlns of .C34.0R3.141 is expected and that the . re sources are enough to allow look at possible cuts in , taxes. . "The fact that this state- mcnt rannrd arloiiimtri ' voi sources for our 1961-63 needs Is a mninr r.hanea from thu uncertainties of two years ago," Hatfield said. "That our ' resources are sufficient to permit consideration of taxi reduction is the most wel come fact to be found in the statement." Under present laws, gener al fund resources for tha 1961-63 biennium, Including IVia otinliie bto Acttmotnri at $355,498,000. The report said the figures are subject to ad justment. :' j"- i .The expenditure program now being planned for 1961 63 is guided by the following policy decisions," the report said: . ' - Limit Expn 1. That total expenditures be limited to the amount available under existing v 2. That existing state serv ices be continued at the qual ity level authorized by 195B- 61 appropriations.-. s ' 3. That improvements in auality or expansion of exist ing programs be recommend ed only where need is clear and urgent. ' ' r 4. That critically needed new programs be given care- -ful consideration. 5. That funds be provided for needed adjustments in tha salaries of state employees, 6. That fundi be provided for a pay-as-we-go building program that is adequate to the needs of 1961-63. 7. That any . balance re- mainlno aflpr mpptlntf thp.na state requirements should be reflected - in tax - reduction. Since state basic school sup port reduces the- local prop erty tax, an increase In state support would provide the possibility oi further property tax r relief. Increased basle school support, therefore, should have first priority in considering methods of re ducing Oregon taxes for .the 1961-63 biennium, the report concluded , TRY SAID FAILURE ' Los Angeles UPD Dr. Wil liam Pickering, director of the California Institute of Tech nology's space laboratory, said Thursday there were in dications Russia planned to put a man in space earlier this month and failed. Washington 0IP1 President Eisenhower attended a ce lebrity studded performance Thursday night of the Royal Danish Ballet with King Fred erik and Queen. Ingrid of Denmark.- ,: V ;': ... .'.,' Planned four men have been with tha department less than a year. All other officers have attend- ' ed the course before, Champ lin said. FBI Instructs - ' ; Instructors will be provid ed by the FBI, the Oregon state police, and the Medford, Eugene, Springfield and Bend police departments. Lt. Orlo McGee, Medford, will assist in teaching a class on the me chanics of arrest, basic use ot sldearms and defensive tac tics. Sgt. Thomas Eaton of the state police, Medford, will teach a class on traffic. ' Other subjects to be taught during the course are laws ot arrest, search and seizure; re port writing and patrol tech niques; laws of evidence and Identification and preserva tion of evidence. 4 ft ;
