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VI 2-2807, betore 6:49 p.m dnlly and 10:30 a.m Sunday If regular delivery arrive shortly after you call please notify office thus elimlnatinl special messenger service United Press International Full Leased Wir United Preii lnternallonai Full leased Wire 68 PAGES Section A MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, OCTOBER 16, I960 No. 179 M Coalition WWW" UMC Home Crusade Will Start Kickoff for the home cru sade for the United Medford Crusade will be at 9:30 a.m., Monday at the Red Cross building, according to Mrs. Margaret Rowan.-home cru sade chairman; Workers will meet at that time in the Red Cross build ing to receive their materials and information about the UMC agencies. Calls will (be made Monday and the Cru sade finished by Friday. Mrs. Rowan added that'--one', of the duties of the division; .this year, will be to thank those people who have donated already. "The home crusade 'this year will be thorough and fast in line with the policies of the general ' campaign'Tshe said. '.-- :; Assistant to Mrs. Rowan is Mi's. R. B. Thierolf. Area col onels are the Mesdames Alvin FOOTBALL SCORES COLLEGE Oregon Technical Insti tute 21. SOC 19 Oregon 21, Washington State 12 Oregon State 28. Idaho 9 Southern Cal 27, Cal 10 Washington 10, UCLA 8 San Jose St. 34, Stanford 20 Wyoming 40, Colorado St. 8 Auburn 9, Georgia Tech 7 Tennessee 20, Alabama 7 Georgia 20. Miss. St. 17 Michigan 14. Northwest ern 7 Indiana 34. Marquette 8 Iowa 28. Wisconsin 21 Purdue 24, Ohio State 21 Michigan St. 21, Notre Dame 0 Navy 35, Air Force 3 Oklahoma 13, Kansas 13 Arkansas 24, Texas 23 Maryland 19, Clemson 17 Minnesota 21, Illinois 10 Syracuse 21. Penn St. 15 Nebraska 14, Army 9 Yale 22. Cornell 6 Harvard 8, Columbia 7 mi-5m r:vl Sfe r r iofcihti , ?taiiwti"rr'- e i1 - Id tin 11 1 r mm mmm inrwi irj"ii .V.irfliiari'J KL.. FDY PhOTISTS Democratic Presidential candi dal J-.m F. Kennedy protested Friday when ponce tried o haul away an unidentified admirer who wanted to shake o- Monday Edwards, George Joyce, Paul Haviland, Ralph McKay, Fred Sears and Ray Gamier. Area captains are the mes dames Richard Pervorse, Rus sell DeForest, Robert Walker, A. E. Stoehr, Harold Hewlett, George Brennen, Ronald Hall, W. A. Scoville, Floyd Hart, Robert Root, John Dellen back, Thomas McFadden, James Dunlevy, John Snider, Robert Shepard, Netta Rector, E. R. Hoppe, Audrey Roberts, Frank Crews, Kenneth Pick ens, Don Lawrence, Dwayne Richardson, Richard Ketchum, Lucille Lowman, Ward Lamp din and'H. F. Griffiths. Ted Kennedy Plans SOC Speech Monday Ashland - Political fervor in the area is anticipated to reach new heights when Ted Kennedy, 25-year-old brother of John Kennedy, United States presidential candidate, appears at a Democratic rally in Ashland Monday, Oct. 17, at 9 a.m. His topic will be: "why students are interested in the 1960 election." The student sponsored rally will be held in the Britt cen ter ballroom on the Southern Oregon college campus and will have national publicity. According to student chair man, Bob Burrows, television cameras will be used and the film may be released in Port land that night. A Life maga zine photographer will be with the Kennedy party. Kennedy and his party will arrive in Medford at 8:30 a.m. and will depart later in the morning for other Oregon colleges and' Universities to the north. Portland - IUPI) - Lew Wal lace, 71, two-time Democratic nominee for Oregon governor, died of a heart attack at 7 p.m. Friday night in his Port land home. IUE Local Votes To End GE Strike At Schenectady Schenectady, N. Y. - (DPI) - The executive board of Local 301 of the International Un ion of Electrical Workers last night recommended that its 9,500 members return to work at the strikebound General Electric plant here. The move was foreshadow ed yesterday when Leo Jan- Bengfson Friends Plan To Petition For Court Appeal Friends of O. H. Bengtson, Medford attorney found guilty of embezzlement, are circu lating petitions and soliciting money to have Bengtson s case appealed to the Oregon supreme court, it was learned Friday. "We realize the petitions have no legal bearing, but they will indicate public sen timent," one of the petition bearers said Friday. He re fused to have his name men tioned.. . , As of late Friday afternoon 15 persons had signed a peti tion, he said. He did not know how much money was col lected. 1 The petition heading reads, "We, the undersigned, hav ing full faith in the innocence of O. H. Bengtson; not with standing the verdict of the jury, rendered on the l!th day of October, 1960, in the case of the state of Oregon versus O. H. Bengtson, do hereby donate the amount of money set opposite our re spective names, for a fund -.'i-W'JS- hA' :: preme court.''. .'. Wednesday, Bengtson was found guilty' by unanimous vote of a Jackson xounty cir cuit court jury. Circuit Judge Orval Millard, Grants Pass, is expected to pronounce sen tence Monday. Maximum oon- alty for such a conviction is 10 years in the Oregon State penitentiary. Two Persons Killed In Yosemile Storm Yosemite National Park Calif. - (UPD - Two persons were crushed to death and one was injured Saturday un der falling trees as strong winds whipped through famed Yosemite vally. Park rangers immediately declared an emergency and began moving people out of campgrounds. They also warn ed visitors at entrance stations that wind conditions were ex pected to make outings dan gerous. Those killed were Kenneth C. Miner, 19, Fresno, Calif., and Margaret Gnall, 41, Ro- selle Park, N. J. They were killed while sleeping about 6 a.m. when a heavy gust buckled nearby trees. hands during a Kennedy parade in Grands Rapids, Mich. At Kennedy's insistence, she was later allowed to meet him. dreau, business agent of the local, walked out of a meeting of the IUE's negotiating com mittee in New York. He charged that IUE President James Carey was "showing a complete disregard for the facts" in the nationwide strike against GE. The walkout by 70,000 IUE members in 55 of GE's 166 plants began Oct. 2. The announcement by Lo cal 301 last night said the board had recommended that the strikers return to their jobs with the first shift Mon day morning. Earlier this week, the 301 membership voted at a mass meeting to give the executive board power to recommend continuation of the strike, or a return to work. Firmly Convinced , , The board said it was "firm ly convinced" that the imme diate cause of the strike in Schenectady has been tesolv ed by the latest company of fer. The company has offered to continue all terms of the old contract except a cost-of-living escalator clause if the union returned to work while negotiations continued. In New York, no negotia tions are scheduled in the strike until Monday. Federal mediators said no progress was made in a meeting Fri day. Schenectady was one of sev eral locals that originally voted against the strike. The local later voted to join the strike, an action that was re' versed last night. ' ; , ''.By United Press International ,' Pittsfield Mass. President James. B. I Carey of the International Union of Electrical Workers said last night that Local 301 had violated the IUE constitution in recom mending that 9.500 strikers return to work at the General Electric Co. . ) Manila Typhoon Lola, leaving a toll of 32 persons dead in the Philippines and more than 10 million dollars worth of property damage, moved through the South China sea and towards the Asian mainland Saturday. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch, the Milwaukee Journal and the Atlanta Constitution endorsed Sen. John F. Ken nedy tot president Saturday and the New York Herald Tribune put its support behind Vice President Richard M. Nixon. Algiers-Troops of the French Foreign Legion wiped out a band of 172 rebels taking only 25 as prisoners in the biggest single Algeria war clash of the past two years, the army command announced Saturday. Oak Ridge, Tenn. About 1,800 workers walked off their jobs here today at an atomic plant that produces Uranium 235, the principal explosive in nuclear devices. Springfield, 111 Vice President Richard M. Nixon to night called on Sen. John F. Kennedy to cease giving the world a picture of an America seriously split over whether to defend the Chinese Nationalist Islands of Quemoy and Matsu. Washington Sen. John F. Kennedy said tonight that Vice President Richard M. Nixon has "now retreated to the administration's view" that the Islands of Quemoy and Matsu should be defended only as part of the defense of Formosa and Pescadores. UPI Teleplo) I Merger Approved For Rogue Valley And Oregon Banks Bank Established at Eagle Point in 1911 Directors of the Rogue Val ley State Bank of Medford and The Oregon Bank, Port land, have voted to merge the two establishments. The announcement was made by Clarence H. Young, president of the Rogue Valley State Bank, and Charles F. Adams, president of The Ore gon Bank. The Rogue Valley State Bank was established in 1911 as the First State Bank of Eagle Point. In December, 1954, it moved to Medford and changed its name to the present one. It has two branch es, one on Court st. and the other near the Medford Shop ping Center. The Oregon Bank, which was formerly called the Port land Trust Bank, has been in business since 1887. It has the oldest trust service west of the Rockies. Directors of both banks will present the merger proposal to their respective stockhold ers for approval. Approval is also necessary from the superintendent of banks for the state and the board of governors of the Federal Reserve System, Washington, D. C. If the merger is approved no change of personnel in either bank is planned, both presidents stated. Deposits in Rogue Valley State Bank as of Oct. 3 to taled $5,972,476.54, compared to deposits totaling $5,355,- 242.92 on Oct. 6, 1959, Young said. Loans and discounts Oct. 3 this year were $2,293,- 949.23, compared to $1,802,- 247.72 on Oct. 6, 1959. 21 Cuban Escapees Seek Asylum in U.S. ,Key West, Fla. - IUPD -Twenty-one Cuban men. in cluding 15 escapees from Ha vana's Morro Castle prison, crossed the Florida straits in a small motorboat Saturday to seek political freedom in the United States. They ran out of fuel right in the middle of a U. S. Navy DomDing ana rocket range near Marquesas Key, 60 miles west of here. The Coast Guard managed to get a call through to the Navy just in time to hall a scheduled rocket firing prac tice on the range. A Coast Guard vessel then towed the drifting refugees to safety. WEATHER KOflKCAST: Fitr tnrf viR through Monday. High today and Monday near 10. Low to night nrar 1. ' Temp. Hi eh rU Vetterday ...QL1 I.fiweit Thli .Morning ......?zik Precipitation none. Our Skies Tonight Sun let today ...5:2lt p.m. Sunrlie tomorrow 6:26 a.m. Moonrhe tomorrow .. 3:22 a.m. Thr Great tlquar of ppgaiu It hleh In the touth at 9:39 p.m. The hrlKhtrst liar of the square li Alphralx In the uoner left- Kjhand rorner; the upper rlfht- 'jiand star li Hrheat. 2 AMERICANS RECEIVE CUBAN DEATH PENALTY iMMm mmM n Invasion Try c-4 m?fcmA . ..--I m i in mmmi m i PLANTS TREE President Eisenhower is commissioners. The tree was planted on the shown throwing the first few shovelfuls' oi '.south grbunds.of the White :Hdusoi Part of 'dirt around the roots of a 20-foot red oak a crowd of some 5,700 persons, who were tree -that was presented to him on his 70th admitted to the grounds to sec the ceremony, birthday Friday by District of Columbia are shown looking on. (UPI Telephoto) County To Study Recreation Pad For Willow Creek The Jackson county court was expected to take under further advisement a contract with the city of Medford for county operation of the recre ation area at the Willow creek reservoir near Butte Falls. Before taking any action the county court wanted to discuss the contract the pres ent concessionaire at the lake has with the city. It met with Lloyd Morris, concessionaire at the reservoir and also Fish lake, this morning, Morris told the court that "it just isn't in the cards" to pav more than 1 per cent, ne said that is what he pays now to the Forest Service at Fish lake. He said he couldn't af ford to pay 8 to 10 per cent of his Eross receipts. How ever, City-County Recreation and Parks Director Kooert Haworth said this morning the National Park Service re ceives from 2'j to 20 per cent of gross receipts for con cession leases under their jurisdiction. Medford Water Supt. Robert Lee told the court any ar rangements made with Morris was up to the county. County Judge Earl Miller said the court would consider Morris's suggestion that the county take over existing facilities, add others and lease them to him. Willow creek reservoir Could be an even better recre ation area than what the county now has, he said. A golf course could be built near it, sailboats could be used on the reservoir and a road built around it would provide more area. Morris opposed, and the county court agreed, that not more than one concessionaire h o u 1 d operate there, and that water skiing should be prohibited. Sports Bulletin Klamath Falls - Oregon Technical Institute touch downed with 4'i minutes remaining here last night to nose out the Soulhwn Oregon college team 2lVo e3bwls are n un Jbeaten leaders of the Ore )n Cojftaisle conference. I , Drainage Problems Will Be Discussed District Attorney Thomas J. Recder said Friday, he will confer with a representative of the area south and west of Medford before taking steps -to prosecute those peo ple with illegal septic tanks and drain fields. Reeder said he also plans to confer with Medford Irri gation district officials. Septic tank effluent this summer was found draining into the MID system canals and latrals. The district attorney said 11 people found in violation have responded to letters sent by his office by making im provents. Sheriff's deputies found that 23 had not. A few of the violators listed live in other districts. Main problem, however, seems to be in the area southwest of Medford. "I intend to have a confer ence with Wally Brill, chair man of a citizens' committee, to ascertain whether his com mittee has made substantial progress in seeking a solution to the sewage problem in the area," Recder said. "Most of the violators seem to live on Lozicr lane." "I anticipate that I'm going to confer with MID officials and will advise them that they may sign complaints against those who have done nothing to correct the problem," Reed er said. A spokesman for the irriga tion district personnel refuse to clean out ditches contain ing effluent. "It's been so bad W2 havo even found toilet paper with raw excrement," the spokesman said." Local health officials have been worried also about the possible spread of disease epidemics'. On Sept. 11, Recder an nounced that he had called for 0relimlnary investigations which might lead to I if pros ecution of residents whose septic tanks drain into the irrigation system. He said then that over 90 days ago he had issued warnings. This summer a committee hcadod by Brill was formed to conduct an opinion poll ofekin increase in basic school the area. Six petitions favoiS'support of about $10 million ing annexation of the area to just because there are more r . . - J Medford were turned Into the Medford administration Sept. 12. Th,e petitions were under stood to contain signatures of several hundred persons liv ing in the Ross and Lozier lane areas. Brill said almost all of the signatures were drawn from the area Immediately adjacent to west Medford and east of diver lane. Petitions bearing the signa tures of 244 persons opposing annexation of the area were turned over to the city earlier in September. However, not all of the opposing signatures were of residents of the af fected area. Some were from other areas, It was noted. Duncan Cautions Against Possibility of The report of the state's financial condition filed by the department of finance makes excellent pre-election reading," Robert Duncan, Democratic candidate seeking reelection as state represent ative, said Saturday, "but I would caution against becom ing jubilant over any possi bility of state tax cuts." -. All of the figures are esti mates and are subject to re vision between now and the end of the two year period, he said. .,..,- "There is nothing ' unusual about expenditures running about $3 million below t h e budget. In the 1949-51 bien nium reversion was almost $5 million and it ran over $3 million in each biennium since," Duncan said. "There may have some economics which I applaud," he said, "but it is impossible to budget to the dollar 2Vi years before the budget pe riod ends. "I have no doubt that the governor's requesledjbudgct will be substantially larger than the present one. Infla tion can account for a con servative 4 per cent or at least $12.5 million. There is a built Court Turns Down Last-Minute Appeal Havana - (UPI) - Two Ameri cans were sentenced to death by firing squad last night by Cuban military court on charges of taking part in an invasion of Cuba. The execu tion was set for early morn ing. An appeals court quickly approved the trial court sen tence and set the execution for 4:30 a.m. EDT at the San Juan Valley, where another American was executed by a Castro firing squad Thursday, Allen Dale Thompson, 36", of Queen City,' Tex., and Moonngsport, La., and Robert Otis Fuller, 25, of Miami, were convicted of taking part in last week's invasion of Oriente Province. They were the second and third Americans to receive the death-sentence in a Cas tro court in the past week. ; . Part of Force Premier, Fidel Castro's stale prosecutor charged that the two men were part of the same 27-man. invasion force that included Anthony Zar ba, , 28-year-old , Somervllle. Mass;, .man 'who became the first American executed by . me Castro regime last Thurs day. ' v " ft ; Two Cubans who faced the,,, ,s same court. at Santiago wUh,..tf Fuller and Thompson escaped ' , the death; sentence and were . given terms of 30 years in C prison. i ,.. . ' ' , The mother o Cuban-born' Fuller was in the courtroom when sentence was passed. S U.S. embassy observer lso--'' were present. !.-'..' In the case of Zarbe, the Cuban government Ignored appeals by the U.S. embassy for a stay(of execution. .The Americans' defense at torney,: who once defended Castro Un the early days of his revolution, pleaded with the court that neither of hli clients had hurt anyone in Cuba because they had not fired their weapons. -Refused to Testify Thompson refused, to testi fy. , Fuller took the witness stand during the three -hour, trial and said he believed Thompson had . been "de ceived" by Cubans in the in vasion force. He said he believed Thomp son, whom he described as a Florida fisherman, was not aware he was landing the group in a foreign country. : Fuller spoke Spanish and described himself as a Cuban,; although he was born of American parents and spent -most of his adult life in the United States. Tax Cuts students. This is without granting an Increase in the amount allowed per child," the speaker of the house said. The interim education com mittee will recommend an in crease in basic school support per child, Duncan pointed out. The governor has never taken a stand on increased basis school support so nobody knows what he will recom-. mend, he said. "Assuming a satisfactory distribution - formula, however,- an Increase is in order,' Duncan noted. How much re lief real property taxpayer can expect will depend on to what extent this is done. Re lieving this burden on real property will mean switching the burden elsewhere, he not ed. "It will not be possible for the governor to do this and reduce state income taxes, too," Duncan said. "There are some state pro grams that I have and will work to reduce," Duncsn em phasized. "There are others which the state must expand. I wonder what the governor plans to do about the backlog of about 120 mentally retard ed patients who need care, and the need for outpatient facilities for the mentally ill to which he is committed, plui other needs in state govern ment." . - r
