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Newspaper Page Textm at Copper lorn mittee pose Salem-IUPIUThp ClnyTBrnnr'e tary of the board and also a member of the governor's committee, said the Rogue is a heavy supporter of fish and it is "fairly obvious" there is no known method of carrying fish over such a dam, which could be as high as 450 feet. The Rogue has an upstream run of 120,000 fish 80 times that of the Deschutes system, he said. Lane said the dam's "net re sult would be to cut the very heart out of the Rogue's fish resources." Gov. Mark Hatfield support ed him, saying the state should "not sacrifice one re source in order to develop another." William I. Davidson, Grants Pass businessman and chair man of the Josephine County Public Power Association which favors the dam. said he was concerned about "another resource-people." He said Josephine county is faced with a "desperate need for industry" and yet indus try cannot be induced because the area "can't offer an ad equate water supply." Unem ployment is 20 per cent, he said. He also cited "high power rates" and said a Cooper Can-ping point for timber. a people's utility district, it could buy power from the Bonneville Power Administra tion. Davidson confirmed this. Hatfield also said the Rogue River Basin in its natural set ting is "one of the most at tractive in the state" and cited its attraction to tourists. Davidson argued that the lake behind the dam would be a recreational factor and would establish a recreation al area "second to none." James Dean, Grants Pass logger, seconded Davidson's remarks and said "we can't padlock this because of the fish alone." The dam means millions of dollars to the local economy, he said. B. B. Rutledge of Agness spoke against the dam and said mills at Gold Beach, Coos Bay and other area cities need timber too. E. J. Schneider, also of Ag ness, presented a resolution approved by the Agness Com munity council opposing Cop per Canyon because it would "for all time eliminate steel head and salmon runs" in the Rogue river. The council said if a high dam must be built, the site should be at Hells Gate in the higher reaches of the Rogue. Davidson said a government hydrologist estimates Copper Canyon's power potential at 750,000 kilowatts. The Fed eral Power Commission, how ever, estimates it at 300,000. State law now prohibits hy droelectric development of tha Rogue. Hatfield said the "real ques tion" is whether the FPC might giant a license for tha dam, overriding the stale's ob jections. This happened in tha case of Pelton Dam on tha Deschutes river and the U.S. Supreme Court ruled against the state. Lane said projects are be ing investigated on the upper Rogue but "no conclusions have been reached." Advisory Committee on Na tural Resources Tuesday went unanimously on record against development of hydroelectric power on' the lower Rogue river. It endorsed an earlier re port by the Oregon Water Re sources Board which said a high dam there would not be , in the public interest. Citizens from Josephine and Curry counties appeared be fore the committee testifying for and against a proposed Copper Canyon dam on the lower Rogue. Don Lane, executive secre- yon dam would "solve our problems in one fell swoop." The dam, proposed 23 miles up the Rogue below Agness, would back water into Jose phine county and would stim ulate Grants Pass as a ship- Davidson said his group realizes the fish problem but lie said the problem of wel fare of the people is more im portant. Hatfield agreed but noted that if Josephine county forms Regional Edition 55th Year Price 10 Cents MEDFORDss Tribune No. 242 MEDFORD, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1960 14 Pages Coiwori Go by u ? CHARRED MAIL An envelope contain ing minor changes in specifications for the new wing of the Rogue Valley hospital hap pened to be aboard the United Airlines jet plane that collided with a TWA Constella tion over Brooklyn Dec. 16. Above, Hospital Administrator Charles Gustafson looks over the charred envelope and papers after they Library Receives $5,000 To Belter Service in Area The Public Library of Med ford and Jackson County has received an additional $5,000 in state and federal matching funds to use for improvement of its rural library services, according to Librarian Omar Bacon. This brings to $30,000 the total amount of money re ceived by the library for rural service improvement during the past two years. Bacon said more than half of the new money will be used to purchase books and materials, including phono graph records, pamphlets and $750 worth of books for the Prospect branch. The re mainder of the money, he said, will be used for sup plies and personnel. Bacon said the Medford li brary applied to the Oregon State Library board for the funds. A notice that the appli cation had been approved came this week, he said. Needed Money He said he feels the money was granted the library for two reasons: one, the previous grant of $22,000 is getting results, and two, the library system needed the additional money. As an example of the in creasing effectiveness of rural library service during the past year, Bacon pointed out that book use among the sev en rural library branches has increased by 119 per cent over a five-month period. Although the allocation of money is made by the stale, approximately half of it is from federal funds. Bacon said it is called Library Serv ices Act money, and is part of a national program lo im prove rural library service throughout the nation. He said the new money will be spent between now and June 30. GETS MANAGER POST Pendleton-d'Pb-M. O. Gard ner of Forest Grove Tuesday was selected as Pendleton's new city manager. Russia To Sign Trade Pact With West Germany Berlin - fL'PD - Russia agreed today to sign a new trade agreement with West Germa ny in a move that was ex pected to ease the threat of a new blockade of Communist-encircled West Berlin. The government press of fice in Bonn said that the mat ters which had prevented an earlier signing - presumably Russian opposition to inclu cion of West Berlin in the treaty - had been resolved. The announcement was I -i ,. . ..... -- vv.t-i- - wjujiwumWjjjjfejS were returned from New York by Consult ing Architects Rogers and Butler. The pa pers were burned so badly around the edges that the contents would be impossible ty interpret. A new set of changes will be sent to the architectural firm, Gustafson said. Flemming Opposed For Presidency of Oregon University Harrisburg -IUPII- The presi dent of the Oregon Farm Bu reau Federation said Tuesday he is against Secretary of Health, Education and Wel fare Arthur S. Flemming be coming president of the Uni versity of Oregon because of the 1959 cranberry cancer scare. Gerald Detcring of Harris burg said "Flemming's ill-advised action against cranber ries brought about a tremen dous loss to Oregon growers, followed by similar attacks on Howard Prairie Fund Established The Jackson county court this morning established a Howard Prairie development fund in which to deposit all moneys received from the op eration of the Howard Prairie recreation area. Tlie county court then de posited $189.10 received from concessionaire Robert John ston into the fund. The money represents 10 per cent of the concessionaire's receipts dur ing his operation last summer. County Judge Earl Miller said the fund must be estab lished according to the lease agreement on the Howard Prairie recreation area with the bureau of reclamation. He said boat license fees would not have to be placed in this fund. Although the slate marine board has recommended that the fees be used cither for en forcement of boating regula tions or for development of boating facilities, the county court has kept the money in the general county fund. The county court also dis cussed sinking test pilings at Howard Prairie, looking to ward establishment of finger piers for boats. County En gineer Robert J. Carstensen suggested this be done as soon as possible. made after Soviet Ambassador Andrei Smirnov made an un expected 30-m'inute call on Chancellor Konrad Adenauer. Neither the Germans nor the Russians were prepared to discuss the details of this morning's confer ence. Al though the government press office would not flatly say so, it said that Smirnov's ac tion indicated that the Rus sians would be willing to in clude West Berlin in the terms of the pact. ) Hi milk and capons in what was termed the 'food of the month plan." Flemming said shortly be fore Thanksgiving in 1959 that a weed killer used on the 1958 and 1959 cranberry crops had caused cancer in some laboratory rats. Flemming has been men tioned as a possible successor to Dr. O. Meredith Wilson as president of the University of Oregon. Alienated Farmers Detering said "we feel that Flemming has alienated farm ers of Oregon and agriculture is second in importance to our economy. The president of our state university should be backed by all of our people." Chancellor John Richards of the State System of High er Education, said Flemming was not the only candidate to succeed Dr. Wilson. He indi cated there are several. Taylor Will Be Arraigned Today John R. Taylor, Salem, charged with shooting a slate police officer and stealing two cars, will be arraigned before Circuit Judge James M. Main this afternoon, District Attor ney Thomas J. Reeder said to day. Taylor, 27, has indicated to the district attorney that he wishes to waive his right lo a grand jury hearing. He may do that this afternoon, Reeder said. He may also change his mind and request an attorney represent him. Taylor is being held in the Jackson county jail in lieu of $25,000 bail on the charge of assault with intent to kill and $2,500 bail for each of the grand larceny charges. Taylor is charged with fir ing three .22 caliber bullets into the leg of State Police man Donald Cain Tuesday night, Dec. 20, when Cain stopped him as he was hitch hiking near the intersection of Highways 99 and 66 near Ashland. He is also charged with stealing two cars during his escape to Dufur, in The Dalles area, where he was captured the following day. Pilot Certification Examinations Slated Portland - d!P - The Fed eral Aviation Agency said to day operations inspectors will be at various Oregon airports during the first three months of 1961 to conduct written exams leading to pilot certifi cation. The first exams will be given Jan. 18 at Baker. k Kennedy Selects Ex-AEC Man for Air Force Post Palm Beach, Fla. - (UPB -President-elect John F. Ken nedy moved rapidly today to ward completion of the De fense Department's upper structure by naming Eugene Zuckert, former atomic en ergy commissioner, as secre tary of the Air Force. John B. Connally Jr., Fort Worth, Tex., lawyer and close political associate of Vice President - elect Lyndon B. Johnson, was named Navy secretary in the hew adminis tration Tuesday night. Ap pointment of an Army secre tary was expected shortly. Zuckert, assistant Air Force secretary when Sen. Stuart Symington (D-Mo.) was civil ian head of the Air Force in the Truman administration, was named to succeed James H. Douglas. Connally will take over the post currently occupied by Navy Secretary William B. Franke. Kennedy's head quarters here announced that Sen, J. William . Fulbright (D-Ark), chairman of the Senate For eign Relations committee, was flying to Palm Beach tonight for a meeting Thursday with the President-elect. , The incoming Chief Execu tive also arranged a confer ence at his seaside villa Fri day with Franklin D. Roose velt Jr., a former congress man from New York and cur rently a foreign automobile distributor. Roosevelt worked in the Kennedy campaign and had been mentioned for the Navy post that went to Con nally. Mullen To Join Legal Firm Here Medford Attorney Brian B. Mullen will join the law prac tice of Collins and Redden, 107 East Main St., Medford, effective Jan. 1, it was an nounced today. Present partners in the firm are Hugh B. Collins and James A. Redden Jr., both Medford. Mullen is originally from Kentucky, and received his legal education at the Uni versity of Missouri, He is a member of both the Missouri and Oregon bar, and has served two years in the armed forces. He has practiced law in Medford since October, 1957, and became deputy district attorney in 1958. Mr. and Mrs. Mullen live on Campbell rd., Medford. A Cloud No Bigger Than A Couple Of Hands ' BURGLARS LIFT $400,000 FRO ARMORED VAULT Tampa, Fla.-IUPli-Burglars car service valut but left $600,000 behind, officials disclosed today. The FBI said the burglary, executed with split-second precision, apparently was an "inside job." E. A. Rasdale, preseident of the firm, said the burglary was "definitely" the work of an employee of the Rasdale Armored Car Service Inc. or "a former employee." Rasdale said that from two to four men were involved in the burglary which occurred about 12:30 a.m. Tuesday. Rasdale, who cited his company's 25-ycar record without thefts, blamed the burglary on negligence of the part ol a private protection service which he said was late in sound ing the alarm He said the men entered the building by key and went through the security routine required by the protection company. A man using the name and code number of a fired em ployee, Rasdale said, tele phoned the protection service on entering the building. Rasdale said the protection service had been notified the man had been ured ana should have called the police immediately, but he said the call was not made until nine minutes later, giving the burglars time lo make off with 19 sacks. Another Truck Due Rasdale said they would have undoubtedly taken more but that they knew that another armored truck was due to arrive at the building within minutes. It did, at 12:15. Whoever look the money, Rasdale said, knew the com bination of the vault. And when the person closed the vault, he set the time lock at its maximum period, 72 hours. Rasdale said the time lock had not been set when the burglars entered because the final truck had not delivered its load to the vault. The vault contained two days receipts from Tampa's dog racing track and Christ mas rush receipts from a num ber of department stores. Milk Production in Oregon Shows Decline Corvallis -IlIPD- November milk production In Oregon dropped below that of the pre ceding month for the first time in a year and a half, Stephen C. Marks, extension agricultural economist at Ore gon State College, said today. Oregon dairy farmers pro duced nme million pounds less than in October and one mil lion pounds less than a year earlier. took $400,000 from an armored Chiang Says Red Chinese Troops in Northern Burma Taipei, Formosa lUI'B - Na- tionalist Chinese Pros! dent Chiang Kai-shok said today Communist Chinese troops have entered neutral northern Burma in a move related to the "present situation in Laos" and which "poses a threat lo Thailand." Chiang said the troops ap parently had moved in with the consent of the Burmese government. In Washington, a Stale De partment official said no re ports of Chinese Communist military movements Inside Burma had been received from other sources. He said Chinese Communist members of a mixed Burmese-Chinese commission are demarcating the long unsettled northern border of Burma, and Chinese Communist authorities pre sumably have moved into a small slice of territory in northeast Burma given up in the border settlement. These activities might be the basis of Chiang's information, he said. In an exclusive interview with United Press Internation al, Chiang volunteered the in formation about Burma. Bids To Be Opened On Lateral Work Bids on the west lateral en largement and extension, part of the Talent division of the Rogue river basin project, will be opened Feb. 16, ac cording to the bureau of rccla- mation office here. A call for bids will be issued at the end of the month. The project calls for earth work and structures for re habilitating about 12.5 miles of unlined lateral, with not lorn width varying from five feet to four feet, and earth work and structures for about nine miles of lateral with bot tom width varying from four feet to two feet. Work will include approxi mately 210,000 cubic yards of excavation for the lateral, 2,000 cubic yards excavation from borrow, considerable hauling, compacting 1,500 cu bic yards of embankment, 28, 000 cubic yards of excavation for structures, 1,100 cubic yards of concrete in struc tures, 5,000 linear feet of 15 inch to 42-inch diameter pre cast concrete pipe, and 5,500 linear feet of 8-inch to 18-uich diameter asbestos-cement Pipe- Completion lime 13 400 days. BLIND WORKER BURIED Bclhesda, Md.-iUPli-Funcral services were held today for J. Hiram Chappcll, 62, well known In Oregon and nation ally for his work in rehabili tation of the blind. hA'lMiwLtiiNM turn A 1, WASHINGTON BOUND Congressman-elect and Mrs. Edwin I R. Durno, above, left Medford Tuesday, traveling by bus 1 to Klamath Falls to hoard n ttlnne for the past. Thi rnnnln win visit tor a tew days in ington, D.C., which will be their home for the next Iwo years. Dr. Durno will begin his term congressional district Jan. 3. sional hotel in Washington iook lor a permanent residence there. Goldfine Taken Into Custody After Help Given by Son Boston (UPri Industrialist Bernard Goldfine, 67, refused lo admit U.S. marshals into his hotel room for nearly 20 minutes today before they en listed his son's aid and took him into custody on orders of a judge. Goldfine, gift-giving friend of former Presidential Aide Sherman Adams, balked at opening the door of his 11th floor hotel room when the marshals knocked to carry out the orders of Federal Judge George C. Sweeney. Custody Ordered The judge two hours earlier had ordered Goldfine taken into immediate custody and hold pending a hearing Jan 10 on his competence to stand trial on income tax evasion charges. After pleading with Gold fine to admit them, the mar shals contacted his son, Solo- mon, in whose care Goldfine had been placed since his dis charge from a Washington, D.C., menial hospital Satur day. When Solomon Goldfine ar rived with the keys, he said, "I'll show you how to do it." He opened the door. Talent Home Burns, Family Escapes Talcnt-A mother and her three children escape from a flaming wood frame house last night near Talent and saw their home burn to the ground with all their belong ings. Mrs. Theodore Thomas Noonchester and her three children, ages 1, 2 and 4 years, awoke to find their home on Yankee Gulch rd. In flames. Through quick think ing, the mother was able to get the family out of the 40- year-old house without harm. A neighbor, John Morse, saw the names, and called the Talent fire department. The fire department was un able to save the home. The father was notified at Rogue River where he was working. The Noonchester family has moved into Mrs. Noonchesler's mother's home In Phoenix,' Jackson county sheriff's officers said. Detroit before going on to Wash as representative of the fourth They will stay at the Congres for a month or so, while they The Goldfine case has been front page news for more than two years. He was sent lo the federal prison at Dan bry, Conn., for 90 days on a contempt charge last summer for failure to promptly sur render business records to In ternal Revenue agents in De cember, 1958. Newbry Resigns From County Positions kynaei wewbry, newly ap pointed state senator from Jackson county, has submit ted letters of resignation from the county budget committee and board of equalization. The county court has ap pointed Arnold Bohnert to re place him as a budget com mittee member on the board of equalization. County Com missioner Chester Wendt said today the county court has not yet appointed Newbr'y's successor to the budget com mittee. WEATHER FORECAST: I'atrhy vl1ry fog t.inixht and Thursdny morning. I'arllal clearing Thursday aft- ernnon. low loniglil Z6-Z8, High Thursday near 46. Temp, HlfChfNt Y-stcrday 35 Lowest This Morn In ., 26 I'rec. la lo a.m. Today, Truce. Our Skies Tonight Stinsrt today 4:4$ p.m. Sunrise tomorrow .... 7:40 a.m. Monns't tomorrow .... 4:31 a.m. Full Moon Jan. 1 PROMINENT STARS HIrcI. In (he southeast 8:17 p.m. Capvlla, hieh over head 10:54 p.m. V1SIMI.E PLANETS Venus, in the louth- west 6:18 p.m. Mars, In the eat 8:36 p.m. Army Cancels Contract For Unmanned Airplane Washington - (UPD - The Army today canceled a con tract, under which $34 mil lion has already been spent, for development of an un manned target-spotting plane. Republic Aviation Corp., Farmingdale, N.Y., had been working on the project for the past 2Vt years. The pro posed aircraft was to be a ground controlled drone, equipped with radar Rnd infra red detection dovica cameras t Embassy Plane In Sale Landing On One Engine Apparently No ' Injuries Suffered Vientiane, Laos (UTD - A Sovlcl-made Ilyushin-14 plana dropping military supplies to leftist Loatian rebel forces at tacked and machine - gunned an unarmed American plane watching the operation, tha U. S. embassy reported today. There apparently were no casualties on the American plane, though this was not confirmed immediately. Lands Safely The American piano was crippled by the shooting but was able to make it back safe ly to Vientiane on one en gine. The incident occurred Tuesday afternoon over tha Vang Vieng area north o Vientiane. It was not known if the Ilyushin was manned by Russians or Communist bloa fliers. Officials of the U. S. em bassy here said the American plane was assigned to Ihe U.S. air attache in Saigon, South Viet Nam. It was on loan to the embassy here to replace the aircraft regularly assign ed to the air attache in Vien tiane which was damaged in the recent fighting. for this capital city. Three Men on Board The Air Force said Ilia American plane was a C47 Skytrain and carried a crew of three men. The crew members wera identified as: Maj. Armand E. Reider, 37, Arlington, Va., whose wife and four children are living in Saigon. ' Capt. William G. Von Plat en, 40, San Diego, whose wlfa and three children are in Sai gon. S. Sgt. Rex B. Percival, 38, Knobnaster, Mo., a bachelor who was aboard the plane as radio operator. The officials said the U. S. plane was observing the So viet air supply operation at the request of the Laotian government when it was at tacked. In recent days, planes from Vientiane frequently have made flights to observe Russian Air drops of supplies to Communist and other leftist rebels in the Laotian jungles. Machine Gun Bullets Embassy officials said tha American plane was hit by bullets from a machine gun apparently fired from a win dow of the Ilyushin. They said the Soviet-mada plane dived at the American plane after firing at It, and then flew away in the direc tion of Communist North Viet Nam. "It yas an unprovoked at tack on an unarmed American plane," one embassy official said. "Bullets knocked out ona engine and tore several holes in the fuselage." CUBA BLAMES U.S. - Havana - (UPD - The Castra government today blamed tha United States for the wave oj sabotage sweeping the nation. The official press and radio demanded death for sabo teurs. for reconnaissance flights near a battle front. Such, flights arc now assigned to manned aircraft. The Army said cancellation of the project "resulted from an Army re-evaluation of the increasing costs of this sys tem." It added that "progress in other aerial surveillance pro grams was another factor." The drone was to have been known as tha SD4 Swallow. . i e