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Newspaper Page TextMEDFORDfett&ss Recommended Subscribers Tribune To report improper or non delivery of the Mall Tribune in Medford phone SP 2-6141. in Ashland MU 2-1021. and In Yreka. VI 2-2807. beiore 6:43 pjn. daily and 10:30 a m Sunday If regular delivery arrives shortly after you call please notify office thus eliminating ipecial messenger service. A three tribal boundary site near Copco, Calif., was discov ered and explored this summer by archeotoclsts. The find is said to have Importance. Read about the discovery on pace 6A of today'g Mail Tribune. United Pres. International Full Leased Wire Section A 52 PAGES MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1960 No. 191 United Pres. International rull Leased Wire ' Court Hears Debate On Poison Proposal The Jackson county court heard more than two hours of arguments and explanations of the proposed Compound 1080 coyote poisoning pro- gram Friday night, but made no decision. County Judge Earl Miller Indicated this would be made later. Riley Patterson, Roseburg, U.S. fish and wildlife service, said he proposed to set out at least eight, and not more than 12, coyote poison stations roughly in the Lake Creek area toward the head of Salt Creek. These would be well advertised, posted and care fully controlled, he said.. Of about 50 people attend ing the public meeting in the courthouse auditorium, .only two men, John Walsh, Lake Creek, and John Niedermey er, Medford, argued for the poison bait. -. Many Oppose Program A number of others, led by Mr. and Mrs. Harry Marshall, opposed the program. Mrs. Marshall presented the coun ty court with 18 petitions with 849, signatures of Jackson county property owners or registered voters, opposing the program. " After a volley of. accusa tion by Marshall,' Patterson said he was not talking about pure poison when he said a child could not eat enough to kill it. He explained he was referring . to the . poisoned meat. ... v;- "' ' " ' .-, "We figure 1 610 ounces in a carcass to kill a coyote," the predatory animal and rodent control man said. "It is toxic. Compound 1080 is particular ly effective on, the canine fam ily. If birds get enough of it It will kill them. However, laboratory experiments did not have much success In kill ing birds. The victim can be poisonous to another animal if it has enough of the poison In it," he added.- V 'Not Democratic' Marshall said, "It Is riot democratic to put out the poi son bait stations when less than 300 ranchers and farm ers want the program. The remaining 73,000 some peo ple in Jackson county do not," he argued. A sharp interchange follow ed between. Marshall and County Commissioner Ches ter Wendt when the commis sioner asked, "Have you any basis for the statement that the other 73,000 citizens do not want the poison bait pro gram?" . Miller said the meeting was called to inform the people of the poison bait station pro gram. "I resent Mr. Marshall's statement that the county court is not informed on what we're doing!" "I have not denied some ranchers have a coyote prob lem," Marshall said. "I be lieve we could get 5,000 sig natures on petitions to put WEATHER FORECAST: Fair and mild through Monday. Hlfh today 67. Low tonight near 45. High Monday 60. Temp. Highest Yesterday 67 Lowest This Morning .. 45 precipitation none. Our Skies Tonight Sunset today -....5:07 p.m. Sunrise tomorrow 6:44 a.m. Moonset tomorrow . 3:36 a.m. Orfon. the constellation of brighter stars, now arises be fore midnight. In the southeast at 12:48 a.m. Orion will be high In the south at moonset. LJT Lit r- s SHIP TIPS A 7,500-ton freighter tipped accident occurred while the drydock was at a 45 degree angle while in drydock at being pumped out. No one was injured. Baltimore, Md., and did extensive damage . , . to the drydock and pier installations. The (UPI Telephoto) V two more trappers in here in lieu of the poison program. (Kirby Tant, Brownsville, is the only government trapper in the county now.) We could get three trappers if needed," he said. Waving a telegram in his fist, Marshall said it . was from the physicians' consult ing service of the department University of Oregon of toxi cology, medical school, stating that 1080 in acutely poison ous,, and has caused some ac cidental deaths. ... (Continued on Page A2) St. Mary's Girl Wins Top Window Painting Prize Winners were announced Saturday in the Halloween window painting contest for Medford children sponsored by the city of Medford parks and recreation department. Shawn Caperna, 11, of St. Mary's school was awarded the first grand prize in the contest which ended Satur day. Shawn was awarded a Schwinn bicycle for her paint ing appearing in the window of Leon's,' Medford women's clothing store at 21 Central ave. Second grand prize went to Rheanna McCormack, 12, of Hedrick Junior High school, for her painting in the window of Weisfield's jewel ry store at 122 Main. She won a three-speed record player. Division Winners First, second and third place winners in the 11-year-old and under division were the following: f Richard Dickson. 7, , of Washington school, Safeway food store Window; David McEachron and Stanley Hor tbn, " both 11, of Roosevelt school, Dempster's furniture window; and Jon Fappas and Roger Butterfield,, both 7, of Roosevelt school, Colorama paint store window. The first three winners in the 12-14 - year - old division were as follows: Kathy LaTour, 8, of Roose velt school, and Richard La Tour, 12, of Hedrick Junior High school, Western Thrift window; Jane Zier, 14, Shar- leen Geise, 13, and Patsy Rit- terspach, 14, all of Hedrick Junior High school, New berry's window; Susan Caper na, 13, of St. Mary s school, Barker's window. Tax Money Allocated To School Districts County Treasurer Karl Jan- ouch said Friday he has dis tributed the first installment in property taxes to Jackson county school districts. Total is $170,971.77. This is the money received from the new property, taxes, Janouch explained. Districts and amounts allo cated are $88,977.36 for Medford school district; $13,- 586.97 for Phoenix; $18,- 818.18 for Ashland; $24,082 for District 6C, $12,990.03 for Eagle Point, $4,367.54 for Rogue River, $1,379.04 . for; Applegate, $1,364.18 for Ev ans Valley, $1,568.73 for Ea gle Point, and $251,78 for Pinehurst. mtt-J. a I C of C Requests City Acceptance Of State Offers Freeway Construction Hinges on Settlement The Medford Chamber of Commerce board of directors at a special meeting Friday endorsed a report . from its highway committee to stimu late a settlement between the city and the state highway commission concerning the Highway 99 freeway through Medford. The highway committee noted that the city and state highway commission have dif fcred on two proposals con- cerning the freeway. The board directed a resolution to Medford Mayor John W. Sni der and the city council en couraging action. The suggestions by the chamber committee are: 1. To accept the $15,000 offered by the state for fill dirt and gravel to come' from a small ridge near the airport with the contractors to sign an agreement to level the area and leave it in a smooth, good looking condition. This, the committee believed, would ac tually improve the property. Possible Park Value The city council at their last meeting elected to further consider the proposal to de termine whether or not the airport property might have some value as a park site and if so to claim possible dam ages from the state for use of the property. 2. To accept the state high way commission's offer of ap proximately $160,000 for the right of way from Jackson St., through to 12th St., so design ing of the bridge by the com mission might proceed imme diately. .... The city-owned property be tween Jackson and 12th st, needed for the freeway, con sists mainly of 4.6 acres of Hawthorne park property. The city and state have been negotiating a price on this property for months. Worked Hard .. . .. -The committee said it has worked hard with the high way commission to step-up the starting date of construction of the freeway through Med ford, thus hastening its com pletion by an estimated two years. If the city is not able to work out these problems with the commission by Nov. 1, the committee said, this area stands to lose the two-year advantage the committee has secured. Another reason for reach ing its conclusion, the com mittee said, is from the stand point of the valley economy. The committee feels every ad vantage should' be taken now to secure these large construc tion projects at the earliest possible time. Many people will be employed and the funds allocated would be a boon to the economy during the winter of 1960-61. Contractor Announces Stewart Ave. Closure W. H. Conrad, Medford con tractor,- announced Friday that Stewart ave. between Riverside ave. and its Inter section with Barnett rd. at the Jackson county shops will be closed to all traffic Mon day, Tuesday and Wednesday. Conrad is contractor for in stalling a sewer in the area, and Stewart ave will be closed the three days because of sewer installation. Many lis OLD DAM GONE Construction crews of the R. A. Heintz Construction company, Portland, are-shown above as they near the top of the old Emigrant dam. The con crete dam, which serves as a core for the new earth-fill Marchers Protest Church Voting Ban In Puerto Rico ' San Juan, Puerto Rico - (UPI) - Four hundred demonstra tors, carrying- black flags, Saturday marched in silence past San Juan cathedral to protest a ban by the Island's Roman Catholic bishops against voting for the Popu lar Democratic- party. In two pastoral letters, the bishops have prohibited mem bers of their dioceses Jrom supporting Gov. Luis Munoz Marin and the other Popular Democrats. Msgr. Victor M. Nazario, chancellor of the Ponce dio cese,: reinforced the letters Friday night with a warning that "every Catholic . . . who supports publicly the Popular Democratic platform or its contents not only commits a mortal sin but could be ex communicated, according to Catholic canon law." The march of silence was led by two university profes sors. It went off without inci dent, moving swiftly in two files through the old, narrow streets around the cathedral. A loudspeaker car stressed that the march was "non political." San Juan's woman mayor, Dona Felisa Rincon de Gau- tier, declaring she is a devout Catholic, said yesterday that the bishops action had plung ed the church "completely into politics." . . Oregonians Among Plane Crash Victims Missoula, Mont. - (UPI) - Twelve persons were kllled tncluding two Oregonians and thref former Oregon residents - Friday when a Northwest Airlines DC-4 spiraled out of control and crashed "belly- up" into a mountainside 22 miles northwest of here. Killed In the crash were Jo seph D. Denton, 57, Portland, and Robert E. Leonard, 37, Salem. Former Oregonians killed in the crash were Mrs. Betty Hurl, and her son, John 15, formerly of McMinnvllle, and one-time Newport resi dent Ethel Marie De Freese. Miss De Freese was the stewardess of the plane which was en route to Minneapolis. The four-engined plane orig inated from Portland and was 23 minutes out of Missoula before it crashed. . Washington - (UPD - Fidel Castro's government has is sued an order banning flights within 30 miles of the north coast of Cuba's westernmost province of Pinad Del Rio and warned It may force down any plane crossing the "for bidden zone," Ma rines Ta ke Leave uantanamo Base Havana - (UPD - U.S. Ma-: rines, 1,450 strong, landed at Guantanamo Saturday for a weekend of shore leave, Shortly afterwards Fidel Cas tro charged that because of the "vile ambitions" of the U.S.. presidential candidates Cuba was in imminent danger of invasion. He denounced Vice Presi dent Richard M. Nixon and Sen. John F. Kennedy as "two dopes." , A fresh wave of anti-American feeling swept the island as the Castro-controlled press accused the United States of taking "the first step to arm ed invasion" by. letting the marines spend a week end at the U. S. Naval base in east ern Cuba. Castro himself did not refer to the marines. Neither did Castro mention the Cuban "Q" Airways plane which was flying from, Ha vana to the Isle of Pines yes terday when the passengers jumped Cuban guards and forced the pilot to fly to Key West, Fla. At Santiago, possessions of expelled American Texas Oil company officials were seized and passed out to peasants. Ike Plans Another Television Speech . Washington (UPI) Presi dent Eisenhower, hoping to capitalize on what the White House said was a "very good" reaction to Friday night's TV appeal for the Republicans, prepared another -campaign appearance for next week. The President made a tele vision tape recording for a broadcast to be given (on CBS at 8 p.m. e.s.t.) Tuesday on behalf of Vice President Rich ard M. Nixon. Eisenhower will introduce Treasury Sec retary Robert B. Anderson, who will give the main ad dress. ' Press Secretary James C. Hagerty said the reaction to Eisenhower's speech Friday night at Philadelphia - in which the President sharply attacked Democratic nominee John F. Kennedy - has been "very good" so far. Leopoldville, The Congo -(UPD - United Nations officials put Associated Press Corres pondent Michael Goldsmith under Its protection Saturday after Congolese military po lice tried to force him out of his hotel and out of The Con go on orders of strongman Col. Joseph Mobutu. Portland, Ore. - (UPD -James E. Dicey, 55, vice president of the international Wood workers of America, AFL CIO, died in his sleep here early Saturday morning. lir Ohio Plane Ctash dam, is now completely covered. A bureau of reclamation project, the aam will increase tne size of Emigrant lake for irrigation and recreation purposes. . (Whitland Locke Photo) The leftward drift contin ued with disclosure by in formed sources that four big Communist Czech airliners had arrived to start a Havana- Prague air service. . : The marines, taking a break after i Caribbean maneuvers on Vieques island off Puerto Rico, landed at Guantanamo without incident from the for mer aircraft carrier. Boxer. , Cuban newspapers were filled with reports of the ma rine arrival, ignoring the fact the leathernecks were to de part again tomorrow and in any event were confined to the limits of Guantanamo base. County To Raise Dog License Fees The county court plans to sign an order this week rais ing the dog license fees, Coun ty Judge Earl Miller said Sat urday. . Fees for males and spayed females will be raised from $1.50 to $2, effective Jan. 1, Miller explained. No change will be made in the $3 fee for unspayed females, he added, since this is the limit set by state law. A 25' cent fee will be charged for lost dog tags. Chris Hagler, Jackson coun ty dog control officer, said that the added fees should bring in $4,000 revenue which will be used to meet current expenses. "Now we're spend ing more than we are taking in," he added. Two months ago Herbert Bus Lane and Dennis Hagler were hired as full time as sistants to the dog control of ficer. Before that Hagler had one part-time and one full time man helping him. , FOOTBALL SCORES COLLEGE SOC 47. Eastern Oregon 0 California 14, OSU 8 Washington 7, Oregon 8 USC 21. Stanford 6 Colorado 7, Oklahoma 0 Wyoming 17, Utah 7 Montana 26, Colorado St, 14 Rica 30, Texas Tech 8 Texas If, SMU 7 TCU 14. Baylor 8 Iowa 21, Kansas 7 Northwestern 21, Indiana 3 Ohio St. 21. Mich. St. 10 Illionit 14, Purdue 12 Minnesota 48, Kansas St, 7 Wiiconsin .16, Michigan 13 Army 30, Miami (Ohio) 7 Pittsburgh 10. Syracuse 0 Navy 14, Notre Dame 7 Mississippi B. LSU 8 (tie) Duke 6. Georgia Tech 0 Auburn 10. Florida 7 Mitiourl 28, Nebraska 0 UCLA 7, No. Carolina St. 0 Cuban Passengers Hijack Airliner; Seek U.S. Asylum Key West, Fla - (UPD - Eight passengers and the co-pilot on a Cuban- airliner bound for the Isle of Pines killed an army guard in an aerial gun battle Saturday and forced the wounded pilot to fly them to political asylum here. The guard, one of those the Fidel Castro regime has sta tioned aboard all Cuban air liners to prevent such hijack ing, was killed by a burst from his own tommygun. The pilot, co-pilot and a 14-year-old boy passenger were wounded. There were 38 persons aboard the twin-engine, DCS, three crew members, the guard, and 34 passengers when it took off from Havana. Lands Safely The pilot, Candclario Dcl gado, his right arm shattered by a bullet just above the el bow, landed the plane safely. It bounced drunkenly down the runway and ran off the end of the airstrip but remain ed upright and undamaged. Edward P. Ahrens, District U.S. Immigration supervisor at Miami, said . only nine aboard including co-pilot Ga briel Carasco, were Involved in the hijack. He said these nine requested political asy lum. "Two who were not Involv ed but are glad to be here also want to stay," he said. Ahrens said the remain der, 28 persons, planned to return with the airplane to Cuba. , ... Russia Charges U.S. With 'Provocation' Moscow - (UPD - The Soviet newspaper Izvestla Saturday charged that the arrest in New York, on espionage charges of a Soviet U.N. of ficial was a "provocation." Observers expected the Rus sians to retaliate. Igor Y. Molckh, chief of the Russian language section at the U.N. office of conference services nid one of the high est - ranking Soviet members of the U.N. 1 n t e r national staff, was arrested Thursday on charges of attempting to get aerial photographs of Chi cago. Previous arrests or expul sions of Soviet diplomats from the United States have led to reprisals against Amer ican embassy staff members here. U.S. Air Attache Col. Edwin Kirton and Economics Attachee George Winters were expelled recently after the ouster of Soviet diplomaUOverbatlm recording of the de- by tha U.S. government. Members of Football Team Are Among Dead Toledo, Ohio - (UPD - A char tered airliner carrying the California Polytechnic college football team of San Luis Obispo, Calif., crashed as it lifted off the runway here last night. An undetermined number of persons were kill ed. The Ohio highway patrol first reported that 30 persons were killed and 17 were in jured. A deputy sheriff at the scene radioed that 17 per sons were killed. A newsman at the airport put the number at 20. The plane carried a party of 44 persons and three crew members when it left Santa Maria, Calif. Thursday to fly for a game with Bowling Green State university. An County To Start A Record Survey On Timber Cuts A survey of records on al lowable timber cuts in Rogue River, Siskiyou and Umpqua National forests will be start ed soon, according to County Commissioner Chester Wendt. Wendt is chairman of a committee from five south western Oregon counties au thorizing and financing the survey. Members are Fred W. Flynn, Curry county; Elmer R. Metz- ger, Douglas county; B. E, Davidson, Josephine county; Wendt, Jackson county; and E. W, Gowen, Klamath coun ty.. ' ..-r . Deadline Sat :; Wendt said the committee plans to meet with forestry consultants Mason, Bruce and Girard, Portland, Nov. 14. The survey will be completed not later than May 1, 1961, the county commissioner said. Request for the survey was made by Western Forest In dustries association to which a number of local lumber com panies belong. '(Purpose of the survey is to determine if all ripe timber is being cut under the present allowable cut p r o g r a m," Wendt said. ''If It Is not, the committee can merely recom mend that a larger cut be made." Wendt explained that the forestry consultants were se lected after interviewing nine firms which replied to the dozen letters mailed'' follow ing a series of meetings. Wendt said there is no. way to estimate the cost, but a budget of $8,000 has been set up for the program. Police Nab Suspect In Vancouver Hotel Vancouver - IUPD - Interna tional fugitive Joseph Corbett Jr. surrendered without a fight in a hotel room here Sat urday when a policeman push ed a pistol Into his face after Corbett had opened the door a few Inches to see who had knocked. The convicted killer and prison escape artist, long sought in the kidnap slaying of millionaire Colorado brew er Adolph Coors III, got out of bed to answer the door, leaving a luger pistol near his bed. Local police and FBI agents were waiting for him. Colorado authorities' have charged Corbett with kidnap and murder In the slaying of Coors, prominent Golden, Colo., Industrialist-who was abducted and shot in the back In the Rocky Mountains last winter. Corbett was on the Royal Canadian Mounted Po lice and FBI most wanted lists. He had been sought since he escaped from jail in Chino, Calif., In 1955. Porter-Durno Debate To fie Heard Here Robert Van Leer, Eugene, campaign manager for Con gressman Charles O. Porter, said Saturday a tape record ing of the Porter-Dr. Edwin R. Durno debate over the Eu gene television station last week will be broadcast over radio station KMED, Medfqrd. The debate is scheduled for broadcast between .7:30 and 8 p.m. Monday, Oct. 31, he said. Van Leer said the tape is 1 bate. assistant Bowling Green coach who watched the team board the plane said two la dies also boarded. , Blinding Flash The control tower at tha Toledo express airport said the plane had just lifted from the runway at 10:25 p.m. when suddenly there was a blinding flash and the plana hit the ground. It broke In half. The front part of the plane was mangled. The rear section was intact. A dense fog slowed rescua workers trying to reach tha airport 20 miles southwest of the city. Curiosity seekers jammed the highways. Mercy hospital reported that Wayne Roger Sorsenson, Los Angeles, a football play er, was dead upon arrival at the hospital. . The coaches were taken to Mercy hospital. They wera Leroy Hughes, 54, and his as sistant, Howard O'Daniel. 52. 26 Survivors A list compiled by United Press -International from tha Mercy, Maumee Valley and Toledo - hospitals showed 28 survivors. Mercy hospital said eight or nine persons had been admitted, Maumee hospital said it- had admitted 15, and Toledo hospital admitted three.; i, A description of the crash was given by backfield coach Walt Williams. "I was sitting on the plana next to the team physician, Dr. (Arthur) James," Williams said. "We started to take oft and aroiind 100 feet off tha runway; the plane started ta veer off.1 The tall felt heavy and then the left wing hit, Then everything went." C "We pulled the head coach (Leroy Hughes). out," Williams said. "The plane was burning but it did not burn up." ,i Herbert, an assistant bas ketball coach at Rnwllntf Green State,1 said two women probably boarded the plane. The control tower said tha flight plan showed 43 persons plus a crew of five were list ed on the flight plan filed 30 minutes before departure. Pilot Makes Decision . , Airway traffic specialist Ar thur Campbell at the control tower said that the decision to take off in the fog was made by the pilot. The California team had lost 50-6 to Bowling Green, rated No. 2 nationally among the nation's small college football- teams by the United Press International board of coach es. Coach Hughes, who had been with the team for ten years, is known as the Silver Fox. His teams have scored in a'l but two games In his ten years at the school and have a record of 87 wins, 29 losses and one tie. He was graduated from the Polytech nic High school in San Fran cisco- wnere he lettered in football and swimming. Ha attended San Mateo, Calif., Junior college, winning hon ors in football, basketball and swimming. He later attended ' the University of Oregon from which he was graduated. Chances for Fifth TV Debate Are Dim Washington - (UPD - Nego tiations for another nation wide TV debate between tha presidential candidates col lapsed Saturday. Vice Presi dent Richard M. Nixon de manded that rival John F. Kennedy apologize for "bad faith" charges, and the sen ator bluntly refused to do so. Each candidate accused the other of being unwilling to go before the television publio for a fifth exchange on cam paign issues. Fred Scribner Jr., Nixon's debate negotiator, called an official halt to the talks in a telegram to J. Leonard Reinsch, his counterpart in the Kennedy organization. "There can be no further ne gotiations unless Sen. Kenne dy apologizes for the charge of bad faith which has been made and withdraws his ill advised ultimatum," he said. Kennedy, who had demand ed that Nixon give him a final answer on debate arrange ments by Saturday night, gava this reply from the campaign platform In Pennsylvania: "Mr. Nixon can debate or not debate - I'm not going; to drag him up in front of tha microphone."