m 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
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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
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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
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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. .
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e