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VI 2-2807. beioru 6:45 p,m. dully and 10:30 a m Sunday If regular delivery arrives shortly after you call please notify office thus eliminating tpecial messenger service United Presa International Full Leased Wira United Press International Full Leased Wire Section A k60 PAGES MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1960 No. 185 MedfordJ1 ' KB53SS'NJU- ' 1 "Our Prestige Was Never Higher" Pollution Progress Noted in All Areas Progress' has been made in all areas toward air pollution control in Jackson county, County Judge Earl Miller noted following Friday's prog ress report meeting. "We can either do the job voluntarily or through legisla tion," the county Judge re minded his audience of lum ber and fruit industry repre- sentatives. City Sanitary Serv ice and two paving contrac tors were not .represented, al though they had been invited. Speaking for1 the fruit in dustry, Dunbar Carpenter es timated 5;00d additional' return-stack heaters' have' 'been ordered in the valleyi' Man agers of two of the three sup ply houses In the area told him of the orders, he said. , Representing the lumber Indutry, George Flanagan, i Elk 1 Lumber '. company man ager, said all of the local lum ber industry are "cognizant of the problem" and. are work ing on it. Considerable prog ress is being made, he said.. Reports Heartening ) Speaking for the city of Medford, City Manager Rob ert Duff remarked that the progress reports are "heart ening." City officials are working on a city ordinance to regulate all burning cover in the city of Medford and the area within a six-mile ra dius. Representatives of the fruit and lumber industries and all other interested per sons affected will be invited to a series of meetings to ward formulating an ordi nance, Duff said. T. M. (Ted) Gerow Jr. of the Oregon State Sanitary author ity, reminded lumber indus try representatives that the state now has regulations to control open burning. The new law prohibits open burn ing within six miles of a city of 10,000 population or more. In reporting the fruit in Candidates' Parade (Editor'f note: These are the sixth in a series of statements by candidates for congress from the fourth district, state legislature candidates, and candidates for ; county officials. Statements are either from the candi date personally, or a representative of the candidate with the candidate's approval. (Space for the statements has been offered by the Mail Tribune following a long-standing policy of the paper. ' (Today's statements are from Ray J. Schumacher, Democratic candidate for reelection as Jackson county assessor, and Herbert Hunter. Republican candidate seeking the county assessor's seat.) sr.. . K ' J S V 1 fi A - i t AL l ' HERBERT HUNTER In these times of political discussion, two things seem to me to be of paramount interest-money spent and value received. (Continued on Pag. 3A) dustry's progress in eliminat ing the open pots, Carpenter noted that last year's pear crop was 74 per cent of the five-year average and this year's crop is about 70 per cent 6f the five-year average. This makes it more difficult for fruit growers to spend money for new heaters, he pointed out. "It's a little early to de termine what will transpire, but the industry will go ahead and make the additional 20 per cent reduction as agreed," he said. "I discussed the program with the Medford Pear Ship pers and the Jackson; County Fruit Growers' league. There is no indication that the con version won't be continued," he explained, j .. . (ConlMutesn page . 7 A) , . Fifth TV Debate Said Possibility -Washington (UPD - The political temperature was higher Saturday, even if tem pers remained calm, when the presidential rivals return ed to the campaign trail fol lowing their fourth TV-radio debate. Vice President Richard M. Nixon and Sen. John F. Ken nedy sharply disagreed Fri' day night in their "great de bate" on foreign policy and the possibility rose anew that there may be a fifth electron ic encounter. Kennedy was described as "very pleased" with his per formance in New York City, as he moved into the home country of former President Harry S. Truman in a swing through Missouri ' and Kan sas. He will stump in Wis consin today, then go to Illi nois for two days. i.j. r "i RAY SCHUMACHER : First consideration should be given to the duties of the office. Increasing demands of new laws and assessment proce (Coniinued on Pag. 3A) 1 4 i-t;'M lid Union Accepts GE Contract Offer; Long Strike Ends Rebel Local Weakens Bargaining Position New York A 20-day na tionwide strike against Gen eral Electric ended late Sat urday with the International Union of Electrical Workers accepting - a three-year con tract basically the same as the one they had rejected before the start of the walkout. The union blamed the de fection of 9,000 members of the Schenectady, N.Y., local for weakening its position in the bargaining talks. The local returned to work last Mon day. During the walkout, which began Oct. 2, sporadic vio lence broke out at GE plants as strikers - and non-strikers clashed on the picket lines. The union had ordered its 70, 000 members at 55 GE plants to go on strike. A settlement also was spurred when other IUE offi cers signed a pact in Pitts burgh Friday with Westing house Electric - corporation, GE's principal competitor, about equal in provisions to what GE offered four weeks ago. Workers Return Monday An IUE spokesman said af ter the GE settlement was an nounced here that workers were expected to report back to their lobs for the early Monday shifts. The new pact provides an immediate wage hike of 3 per cent. The pact signed this after noon is binding without rati fication. Union chief James B. Carey was empowered by the union's conference board early this week to conclude : an agreement on his own author ity. . Under the agreement reach ed yesterday; the union will have 30 days to select one of three wage . and benefit . op tions which the- company of fered during the pre-stirike negotiations. -m ' The first option' provides an other wage increase of 3 per cent in April, 1962, , and an eighth paid holiday and fourth week of vacation after 25 years of service. : i i The second option provides for a 4 per cent pay boost in April, 1962, without the new holiday and vacation benefits. Wage Reopener The third option provides for a wage reopener at that time. : , .-. Federal mediators who had been in on the negotiating since the start of the nation wide strike against 55 GE plants across the nation an nounced settlement of the strike shortly before 6:30 p.m. EDT here. Ashland-Talent UF Award Banquet Set Ashland -A victory award banquet sponsored by the Ashland-Talent United Fund will be held in the Mark Antony Motor hotel at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 27. Awards will be presented to several Ashland and Talent firms for participation In the fund, which concluded recent ly after receiving its goal. Entertainment will be pro vided by students from South ern Oregon college. Persons interested in attending should make reservations through the Ashland - Talent , United Fund, post office box 361, Ashland. Hatfield Speaks at Republican Gov. Mark Hatfield, speak ing from the Jackson county courthouse steps, Saturday night urged some 500 specta tors to "put aside party labels and prejudices and put Amer ica first" when they go to the polls Nov. 8. The Oregon governor spoke during a county Republican rally amidst a backdrop of flickering oil torches, and par tial costume of the .gaslight era of politics. Speaking vigorously and gesturing emphatically the young political aspirant pounded home the need to vote for candidates who would "hold the tax dollar line" yet push for steady progress of the county, state and nation. Indicating a continuing need for peace, the Republic an governor recognized that Sen. John Kennedy, Demo cratic presidential candidate, and running may Lyndon Johnson, "are both tincerelw for peace. We must bear Bfl iiuiimu,t m wmu xmtmmmf nminiimii mil mw uwwi,MMiipffs : - ' f t f" --- GIFTS READIED A number of articles, ranging from a picture album of the Medford area to coin samples and library books, all donated by Medford school children, are now on their way to Alba, Italy as gifts to school children there. Looking over some of the material, above, are, left to right, Cynthia Bradford, Washington school; Gregory New Areas to Get Irrigation Water By Next Season ' Water will be . available during 1961 irrigation season for new lands adjacent to the east of the Ashland and Tal ent canals in the Talent Irri gation district, the bureau of reclamation has announced. The bureau notified TID that water would be available for new lands recently. New lands along the canals which have not been in the district previously will receive the additional water. i Water will not be available for new lands adjacent to the west canal and extension, which includes the new land In the Dark Hollow and Grif fin Creek areas, the bureau of reclamation said.-. t The : bureau pointed out that's o m e of .thenew land will not be ready for water by next Irrigation season, so charges will be made on an acreage basis only on the new land that is ready to receive a full water supply, and on an acre foot basis for new land that is not ready for a full supply. Payment will be made at the district office in Talent. Laterals to serve new land lying some distance from the existing distribution system will be constructed as soon as possible, but probably will not all be completed by the start of the 1961 season, de pending on location, the bu reau said. Howard Prairie lake con tains about 13,000 acre feet of available storage with Emi grant and Hyatt lakes dry because of -construction the bureau noted. On Nov. 1 water will be delivered through Green Springs power plant at the rate of 420 acre feet per week, and storage started in the new enlarged Emigrant lake for next year's irrigation season. Sports Bulletin: Grants Past high ilretch-' ed its Southern Oregon con ference football record to 3-0 her. last night by de feating the Crater Cornels 26 to 7, The Cavemen led Just 6 to 0 at th. half and 13 to 0 after three quarters. Crater it 0-2 in. the loop. mind which team is best quali fied from standpoints of ex perience, background and judgment to keep the peace." "Vice President Nixon has traveled in 55 nations. Henry Cabot Lodge (U.S. delegate to the United Nations) has never lost a vote in the U.N., Hat field emphasized. Hatfield opened his speech with a summary of what he considered Oregon progress. His first repsonsibility in en tering office was to develop job opportunities, diversify Oregon's economy and make the state industrially mature. "Now, after being governor for 20 months, Oregon's per capita income is above the national average," he said. "It increased 7 per cent lor the first time since 1953. Na tionally, per capita income for the same period increased 6 per cent. The 12 per cent in crease in Oregon retail sues shows this prosperity has re sulted in greater buying pow- er, June employment was Nine Persons Die In Ship Collision Empire, La. - (UPD - An Italian cargo liner steaming up the Mississippi river veered suddenly Saturday and tore a 135-foot furrow through a row of staterooms in a passing American vessel, killing nine persons in their berths. More than a dozen others were injured, some seriously. Most of the dead were badly mangled. The Italian ship, the 6,100- ton Lorenzo Marcello out of Venice with cargo and 12 passengers, plowed into the side of the Alcoa Corsair. The Corsair, an 8,840-ton cargo passehger ship with a swim ming pool, was bound with 51 .passengers and' cargo to San- Juan, P.R. on what was to have been us last voyage, i ' Alcoa Steamship company, owner of the Corsair, said four crewmen were dead, four passengers were known dead and one was missing and pre sumed dead. Members of Cruise ' Four of the five dead pas sengers were members of a cruise sponsored by the Pasa dena, Calif., chamber of com merce, ' . . The Lorenzo Marcello smashed into the Corsair at 5:23 a.m. (e.s.t.), while it was News Briefs Unitd Press International Havana Fidel Castro't government hat rejected as "malevolent and false"' a United State not. charging that Cuban warplanet were painted with U.S. iniignia and hat ut.d th. not. to raise n.w f.art of a Yankee invasion, it was disclosed Saturday. . Denver Th. Denv.r Post, largest daily newspaper in lh. Rocky Mountain wast, endorsed S.n. John F. K.n n.dy for prssident in its Sunday edition. It was lh. first time the Post, an Independent newtpap.r, had endorsed the Democratic presidential candidat. tince Woodrow Wil ton wat elected. . ' San Francisco A temporary stay of deportation for William A. Macki. and Hamish Scott Mackay, both of Portland wat granted her. Saturday by Senior Circuit Judg. Richard Chambers of th. Ninth U. S. Court of Ap peals. Macki. wat to b. deport.d to Finland today and Mackay io Canada tomorrow. Boston Richard Bowditch Wiggleiworth, 69, United Stat.t ambattador to Canada and a form.r '16-t.rnv con-., grettman from Massachusetts, di.d Saturday at Peter Bent Brigham hospital. ; highest of previous years and August even higher." "At the same time, Oregon has the lowest per capita tax of all the Pacific states," the governor noted. "We must hold the tax line and increase our prosperity. We need a co operative legislature to do this. It should not be necessary for the people to petition to repudiate a Democratic tax program as they had to do in 1959. We now have $30 mil lion in excess monies to carry into the next binnium. "We also need the coopera tion of the legislative team in Washington. I was utterly amazed to read in the press whSe the fourth district con gressman (Charles Porter) wants to get rid of China's Chiang Kai Shek, a U.S. ally in World War II. It was Mao Tse Tung (Chinese Communist leader) who is responsible for 30,000 U.S. lives being lost in Korea and he wants to recog nize him!" Hatfield urged election Miller, Roosevelt, and Bill Alwood, a student at Wilson. The articles were included in the Friendship pouch sent recently by Mayor John Snider to Mcdford's sister city. Other items above include a checker game; over 150 per sonal letters; two copies of the Mail Tribune; various school supplies; and two Viewmasters and assorted reels. still dark. It. happened 77 miles south of New Orleans near the mouth of the Missis sippi river. An officer of the Corsair said, "We blew for a right turn and they blew for a right. We turned right but they turned left." The Corsair, bloody bedding trailing from the gash in her side, reeled back from the im pact and began taking on water. With three holds flood ed, her -master ordered his ship run around to avoid sink ing. .. . , . : Llmpt Into Port . , I ; ; The Lorenzo limped Into port after dusk in New Or leans and-dozens, of lawyers, agents and Coast Guard in snectors flocked aboard to look over the 60-foot hole in her bow which exposed steel girders torn like paper. Scores of newsmen and curiosity seekers were' kept off the ship and attorneys for ship's agents said it would be two days at least before the cause of the accident would be made known. A Coast Guard investigation was to begin. No injuries aboard the Lor enzo were reported. Rally Here Howell Appling as secretary of slate and Howard Bolton as state treasurer, both in cumbent Republican candi dates. He shouted for the election of Carl Francis to fill the need for "competent legal counsel" as attorney general. The gov ernor pointed to a number of Attorney General Robert Y. Thornton's decisions which the supreme court had revers ed. "He (Thornton) spent $200,- 000 in tax money to go to Portland to point out corrup tion and crime there. Then of 100 indictments, he was able to make only one con viction and that was against the Multnomah county Demo cratic district attorney," the governor charged. Other candidates speaking were John Dellenback and Mrs. Stephen G. (Eve) Kve, candidates for state represent ative for fourth district con City Developing Sewer Plan for Southwest Area Medford's Public Works de partment is in the process of preparing a preliminary sani tary sewer plan for an area southwest of Medford that might annex to the city as a means of solving sewer prob lems. . i . : , Petitions irom this area seeking annexation were re ceived by the city council two months ago. There were 408 signatures favoring annexa tion. Another set of petitions bore the signatures of 277 persons opposed to annexa tion." ,'. Since the . petitions .have been received, the city has plotted all the residences in the area on a large map. Those residents whose, occupants signed petitions favoring an nexation are marked in one color and. those opposed an other. A good number of per sons' did not sign either set of petitions. , ( Boundaries Noted ' Public Works Director Ver non Thorpe said Friday that "roughly" the area from which the petitions were re ceived is bounded by Clover lane on the north; Stevart ave. of the south; Ross lane on the north; and the city limits on the east. Thorpe said some signatures were also received from the area south of Stew art ave., between Columbus ave. and Peach st. The preliminary sanitary sewer plan will show the feasibility of providing sew ers to this area and the direc tion of the sewer flow, Thorpe said. It will be design ed for the entire area, includ ing those homes that signed petitions . opposing . annexa tion. He emphasized that the plan is merely preliminary. City Manager Robert A. Duff said that the next step after the. sewer plan will be to draw up boundaries for the area as it would be proposed for annexation-. He said that the city council of the per sons in the area Itself could do this.' Thorpe said it will be from two to four weeks before the preliminary sewer plan Is completed. ' 7,' IT? f ? fl L MILLION-DOLLAR FIRE Fire destroyed and caused more than $2 million damage to Plant No. 1 of the General American Transportation corporation complex at Ma tury, Ohio, Saturday. The building housed t ' Stolen Dynamite Located; Police Arrest 3 Youths Three Medford boys werei arrested by area law enforce ment officers Saturday night and some 400 pounds of stolen dynamite and two cases of electric dynamite caps were recovered. The boys, two 16 and one 15 years of age, were lodged the detention . home. A fourth is still being sought in connection with the thefts. The case has been under investigation by Medford city police, Oregon state police and the Jackson county sheriff s oficers since a large amount of dynamite and caps were reported stolen last week end from bunkers near White City. Two incidents lead police to the boys. Medford city police received a tip Friday after noon that a boy nad Been seen witli dynamite caps rec ently. Police attempted to con tact the 16-year-old youth and discovered that he had been involved in an automobile ac cident Friday at 8:10 p.m. and was a patient at a local hospital. Democratic Rally Planned Monday Harold O. (Hal) Edwards, treasurer for the Western States Wheat Growers' asso ciation, will be among dis tinguished guests in Medford for the Kennedy-Johnson ral ly and reception to be held Monday in the Crater . room o the Medford hotel. ; Guest sneakers at the event, which Is open to the public, will be Governor G. Mcnnen Williams of Micnigan and O r e g o n's , Congresswoman Edith Green of Portland, who heads' the Kennedy r Johnson campaign in Oregon. The ral ly will start at 1:45 p.m. ,' , Williams and Mrs. ureen, who will arrive by plane at 10:07 a.m. Monday,; will be guests at the formal opening of the combined Democratic and . Citizens, for Kennedy headquarters in 'Ashland at 11 a.m. With House speaKer Robert B. Duncan and Mr. Edwards, they will appear on television from 4 to 4:15 p.m., following the reception. , Ent.rtainm.nt Provided Special : entertainment for the Medford hotel reception will be furnished by Mrs. R. A. Schuchard. Mrs. Marie Ulrich is in charge of table decorations. Co-sponsors of the event will be the Demo cratic Social club, Citizens for Kennedy and Farmers for Kennedy committees. Pour ing will be Mrs. Hugh Friel, Mrs. Harper Edwards, Mrs. Moore Hamilton, and Mrs. Lqwis Ulrich, ... . Williams and Mrs. Green will leave by plane for Port land at, 5:25 ,with Williams scheduled as speaker at a Kennedy-Johnson rally there at 8 o'clock. George Loftin, chairman of the Jackson County Farmers for Kennedy committee, has scheduled a no-host luncheon honoring Hal Edwards at noon Tuesday at the Medford hotel. All Interested are in vited to attend, Loftin said. mtm f t W iff Si wot Oregon state police investi gated the accident near Four Corners which involved a car stolen from Nelson Motors. Two of the three boys in the car ran from the scene, it was reported, but were implicated in the crime later. : The dynamite was located in a tree house behind tho West Main st. home of one ot the boys. Some 300 dynamite caps were discovered behind a shed at a neighbor's house. Officers said that the tree house was about 20 feet off the ground. Following his release from the hospital Saturday morn ing and the arrest of the other two boys, all three admitted to police that they had stolen the dynamite and caps last week. They also stated that they had stolen cars recently from a number of Medford used car lots. They explained that they would remove tho keys from the cars during the daytime, returning at night to drive the vehicle. The boys told officers that when they took the dynamita and caps they originally thought about blowing up the old covered McKee bridge, but later changed their minds. The ,. dynamite and caps were removed from the scene by employees of the county engineer's office and Cal-Ore Machinery company. The dy namite 'was reported taken in the Cal-Ore vehicle and they are storing1 it for officials. The caps are being held by the county: ' Law' enforcement officials stressed that at the present time there is no connection, with the dynamite thefts' and the recent bomb threat! in th . county. A .V-sj, FOOTBALL SCORES COLLEGE '' Washington 30, OSU 29 - i Oregon 21, Cal 0 SOC 32, OCE 13 UCLA 26; Stanford 8 : . Minnesota 10, Michigan 8 Illinois 10, P.nn St. 8 ... ' Northwestern 7, Notts 1 " Dam. .6 v -iv r-:r '. -i Michigan St. 35, Indiana 0 Mittouri 34, Oklahoma' SI. I Ohio St. 34, Wisconsin 7 Iowa 21, Purdu. 14 ; Wyoming 15, Air Fore. 0- TCU 7, Pittsburgh: 7 (ii.) Oklahoma 49, Kantat St. 7 Baylor 14, T.xat AJiM 0 c Duk. 21, Cl.mton '; Georgia T.ch 14, Tulant 8 Auburn 20, Miami 7 V" Princeton 21, COrn.U 18 v navy st, i.nn u . Syracut. 45, W.tt-Va.iO F Army 54, Villanova 0 WEATHER FORECAST: Mostly cloudy, to day with occasional light ruin. Variable cloudlnesi Monday and cooler. High today near 68. lltRh Monday 58 to 80. Low to night near 45. -. i ., . - Temp flintiest Yesterday ..,.1..U...7 Lowcit This Morning u.a.m.42 Precipitation none. . Our Skies Tonight , ; Sunset today ....;....5tl7 pm.. Sunrise tomorrow -,..6:35 a.m, Moonset tonight ....8:06 p.m. The planet, Venus, Is now mov ing Into the constellation, Scor pio, Next month at this ' time Venus will, be seen between the planets, Jupiter and Saturn. In the constellation, Sagittarius. : ) paint and rcdnlshing sections and was filled with 100 tank cars. About 600 employees were thrown out of work by the blaze, j 'i t ' CUPI Telephoto) gressman, 1
