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elton Criticizes Gov. Hatfield's Reorganization Plan
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MAID OF COTTON The new Maid of Cot- Lubbock, Tex., left, and Nancy Sue Gray,
ton is Linda Joy Lackey, 19, center, of Deming, N.M., right. They were chosen at
Forest, Miss. Alternates are Joan Wienke, Memphis, Tenn., Thursday night.
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Copco PP&L Merger
Little Change Contemplated
In Personnel of Local Firm
(Continued from Page 1)
J. C. Boyle will be a vice
president and chief engineer
of the Copco division of the
1 merged company and will con
tinue in charge of the im
portant construction program
to be carried on in northern
California and southern Ore
gon.
' H. P. ilosworlh Jr., now
vice president of Copco, will
become a vice president of the
merged company and manager
of the Copco division. F. C.
Bash, also a vice president
and treasurer of Copcb, will
become vice president and as
sistant treasurer of. the merg
ed company.
The announcement said
that all of these men will con
tinuo their residence In Med
ford, and for at least a con
sidcrablc period of time, little
or no change is contemplated
which will affect the person
nel of Copco.
Will Serve 415,000
The merger would result In
a system serving 415,000 utili
ty customers, including 242,
000 in the state of Oregon and
21,000 In the adjacent north
ern California area now serv
ed by Copco.
PP&L lias annual revenues
of 583,000,000 and Copco
$25,000,000. Nearly 60 per
cent of PP&L's business is in
Oregon and the balance in
Washington, Idaho, western
Montana and Wyoming. Copco
obtains 80 per cent of its
revenues from Oregon and 20
per cent from California.
The merged company would
have 64.5 per cent of its busi
ness in Oregon, 6.5 per cent in
California and 13 per cent in
Washington, with the re
mainder in Idaho, Montana
and Wyoming.
Help Hold Line
Integration of Copco's 367.-
000 kilowatts of hydroelectric
generating capacity in south
ern Oregon and northern
California with PP&L's 779.-
000 kilowatts to the north and
east will help hold the line
on power cohIs on both sys
tems. It was slated.
Total generating capacity of
the two companies would be
increased to more than 1 V4
million kilowatts by the pend
ing development of an addi
tional 400,000 kilowatts of
hydro potential.
Important Reason
PP&L and Copco have
spent $243 million on new con
struction in the past five years
and estimate that they will be
required to do over $500 mil
lion of construction in the
Caution Urged by
Holiday Drivers
Salem -lUPli- Oregon traffic
safe.ty commissioner Vern
Hill today urged caution to
those driving over the New
Year's holiday week end.
Hill, also director of the
Oregon nlolor vehicles de
partment, noted that last year
the holiday week end lasted
30 hours and four persons
died In traffic. This year's
week end lasts 78 hours.
t Hill said that when "It
comes to driving, overindul
gence means more than one
cocktail." He added that those
who have "one lats drink for
the road may be having their
last period,"
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1081-70 period to meet the
power needs of customers.
Present gross plant invest
ment of the two companies is
approximately $570 million.
Magnitude of the capital
requirements to do this big
construction job was cited as
an important reason for look
ing toward a broader - based
utility operation.
Oregon communities served
by Copco include Medford,
Grants Pass, Roseburg, Klam
Market Gets Lift
In Early Trading
New York -IUPII- Slocks got
their long-awaited year end
lift at an early hour today.
Prices generally were firm
by the end of the' first hour
with electronics, some motors,
utilities and metals scoring
the belter gains.
In the electronics, IBM rose
more than 2 and Texas In
struments and Litton a point
or more. Richardson - Mcrrell
spurted around 2 in the drugs
and Amalgamated Sugar more
than 3 in its division.
Steels picked up small frac
tions, as did the autos.
DOW-JONES AVERAGES
New York-IIIM-Dow-Jones
final itock Bveragei: 30 in
dustrial! 616.19. up 0.44;
20 railroads 131.16, up 0.15;
15 utilities 100.07. up 0.69,
and 65 stocks 206.07. up
Policeman Killed;
Another Injured
Everett, Wash.-fllPD-A Wash
Ington State Patrolman was
killed and another was in
jured Thursday when llicy
were hit by a car while in
vestigating an automobile ac
ledent 16 miles north of Ev
erett. Dead was Officer Wesley
Whitenberg, 37, Marysvillc,
the father of four children.
Injured was Officer D. M
Wolsega, about 23, Sedro
Woollcy.. He was treated for
a broken leg and pelvis.
The patrolmen were direct
ing traffic around the scene
of the accident in heavy fcg
when they were struck by a
car driven by Dr. Janet M
Whitmore, 35, Mukilteo,
physician at Northern Stale
Hospital. She was not held,
Thornton Takes
Oath of Office
Salem - (UPII - Robert Y.
Thornton took the oath of of
fice for a third term as Ore
gon attorney general Thurs
day afternoon and pledged
continued efforts for crime
prevention on the state level
and creation of a consumers
protection division.
The oath was administered
by Stale Supreme Court Jus
tice Gordon Sloan.
Thornton said he also plans
to work for "Improved stand
ards and salaries" for nttnr.
neys employed by the state.
The consumers protection
division would work to pro
tect the public from fly-by-night
operators and other gyp
artists.
ath Falls and Lakeview. Cali
fornia communities include
Tulclake, Yreka, Weed, Duns
muir, Alturas and Crescent
City.
Lines of Copco and PP&L
join at a point south of Cot
tage Grove.
Merger of the companies
would require approval by
the federal power commission
as well as the regulatory com
missions of the five states
having jurisdiction.
0.46. Sales Thursday were
about 4.34 million shares
compared with 3.62 million
shares Wednesday.
Thursday
prices on selected
stneks:
Allied Chemical
Alum Co. Am
... 34 i
... 701,
... 3.1
... nr.
...107
nii
... 7 U
... R63i
... :i!M.
... 3(1 i
.11) Ja
... 38 .
... 3.1,
... 33
... m;
... 7fl
...IB74
...112
... 3-ti
... 75 H
... 70 ,
... 40',
... 54 V,
... 1 '
... 20.
... 33
... 40i
... 52
. amv,
... m
it. '1
... 74",
... 271,
... 30!!,
... 27 V,
... 74'b
... 15 V,
... 78
... 41
... 1 1 IS
... 8811
17 t
.... 3BJ,
.... 311',',
.... 3!l
.... 40
. 20 a:
AmcrU'nn Cmi
American Motors
AT&T
Annconrin Copper
Armco Steel
Hcndix Corp
uclhlchcm Steel
Boelntt Air
Caterpillar Corp
Chrysler Corp
Continental Can
Crown Zellerhnch
Curtlss WrlKlil
uow Chemical
Du Pont
Eastman Kodak
rireslnno
General Electric
General Foods
General Motors - -
GcorRla Pacific
Graham Pnisje
Greyhound
Gulf Oil
llomestake Mining
Idaho Power
I. B. M. .
int. Paper
Johns Manvillc
Kennccott Copper
Lockheed Aircraft
Montana Power (xdl -
Montgomery Ward
Natl nisrult
New York Central
Pac Gas & fclec -
Penney. J. C
I'cnn Hit
Hadin Corporation
Richfield Oil
Safeway
Scars
Shell Oil
Socouy Mobil Oil
Southern Co
Southern Pacific
Standard California ...
Standard Indiana
Standard N.J
Sun Mine
Texas Co
Texas Gulf Sulfur
Texas Pac Land Trust
Transaincrlca
Trans World Air
Trl-Continental
Union Cai-hidc
Union Pacific
United Aircraft
Nnltcd Air Lines
U. S. Ituhher
II. S. Steel
Youncstown SAT
.... 474,
.... 47 i.
.... 4 lit
71,
.... 84
.... 19 It
.... 1511
.... 271,
.... 14 .
.... 38 ,
....! 18
.... 27
.... 37
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.... 4ti,
Kennedy's Plan
Said Nothing New
Salem-tUPIi-Gov. Mark Hat
field said today that President-elect
John F. Kennedy's
suggestion for an ambassador-
at-large to build goodwill for
America is not new.
Hatfield said he himself
made this suggestion in a
May, 1955 speech before the
Pendleton Rotary club. Hat
field was a state senator at
the time.
In his speech, Hatfield sug
gested Vice President Richard
M. Nixon for the special am
bassadorship. 6
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Acme Office Machines
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ftinVo;ced
To Abolition of
Board of Control
Salem - WPIl - State Treasur
er Howard C. Belton today
criticized Gov. Mark Hat
field's government reorgani
zation plan in general and
said he is specifically opposed
to abolition of the board of
control.
He was the second major
Republican state officer and
the second Hatfield appointee
in two days to do so.
Secretary of State Howell
Appling Jr. said Thursday
that while he generally ap
proves of Hatfield's reorgani
zation plan, he is against
abolition of the board of con
trol. He went so far as to say
that if the board is done away
with, he will urge abolition
of Secretary of State.
Both Reelected
All three are Republicans
and they make up the Board
of Control. Hatfield appointed
Appling Secretary in 1958 and
Belton treasurer this year.
Both men won election to
their posts in November.
Belton said he agrees with
Appling that the state insti
tutions should remain under
one authority. They now are
the b o a r d's responsibility.
Hatfield proposes that the in
stitutions be transferred to
separate new departments.
Of Hatfield's overall plan
for government reorganiza
tion, Belton said "I am for
efficiency and economy in
government and when they
can convince me of a plan to
bring this about, then I will
go along. I am not thoroughly
convinced the governor's plan
would do this."
Hatfield's proposal would
eliminate many responsibili
ties of the state treasurer.
Some functions would be
shifted to a new department
of revenue.
Belton said taken in "one
swoop, he does not tavor
Hatfield's proposed move to
ward a cabinet system.
"This is one of a great num
ber of reorganizational plans
to be presented in past years,
Belton said. "It is a legisla
tive matter and I have ex
plicit confidence in the legis
lature and it coming up with
the right answer."
Asked if Hatfield's propos
als would mean doing away
with slate treasurer or wheth
er Belton would recommend
this, Belton declined com
ment. ,
Grants Pass Firm's
Territory Changed
Salem (UPII Public Utility
Commissioner Joney C. Hill
today authorized Hasscll
Heavy Hauling, Inc., Grants
Pass, to change its operating
territory.
Hassctt originally asked to
serve Jackson, Josephine,
Polk and Yamhill counties.
The amended application ap
proved by Hill designates his
territory as Jackson, Jose
phine and Douglas counties
and the western half of Klam
ath County.
The permit does not pro
vide for local service in
Grants Pass, the firm's head
quarters. Loan Association
To Erect Building
Portland - UIP1I - Portland
Federal Savings and Loan as
sociation Thursday announced
plans to construct a modern
$2.5 million glass and alumi
num building on the site of
the historic Perkins hotel in
downtown Portland.
Guy E. Jacques, president
of the association, said con
struction of the six - story
building would begin next
year, with the target date for
completion in mid-1963.
FRIDAY &
8:30 A.M.
WINTER TERM
REGISTRATION
ROBERTSON
SCHOOL OF BUSINESS
40 North Riverside Phone SP 3-4264
Dismissal
. .
Minister
Moscow - IIIPD - Western ob
servers today interpreted the
dismissal of Agriculture Min
ister Vladimir Matskevich as
an indication of continuing
failures in Premier Nikita S.
Khrushchev's pet "virgin
lands" scheme.
The observers believed that
Matskevich was demoted be
cause of Khrushchev's disap
pointment that agricultural
production has not fulfilled
state goals. They regarded the
change as a sign of more trou
bles for Soviet farmers.
Matskevich, who headed a
Soviet delegation to the Unit
ed States in 1955, had been
mentioned prominently in re
cent complaints in the press
and official announcements
Oregon Native
Named to Post
Chicago - IUPI) - John D.
Bullock, former chief of oper
ations for Montgomery Ward
& Company, has been elected
senior partner in the manage
ment consulting firm of Wil
liam M. Kordsiemon and As
sociates, Kordsiemon has an
nounced. Bullock, a veteran of re
tail merchandising, is a na
tive of Portland, Ore., and
was responsible for the found
ing and operation of many of
the Ward store and warehouse
operations. He will assume his
new position here Jan. I, and
will make his office in the
firm's Chicago headquarters.
Bullock made an early re
tirement from ' Montgomery
Ward & Company to devote
time to special consulting as
signments. In his new post he
will direct activity of the spe
cial warehousing, distribution
and merchandising division.
At the time he left Ward's he
was In charge of all the com
pany's warehousing mail
order operations.
Bullock opened his first
catalogue store in Bend, Ore.
in 1933, and his last in An
chorage, Alaska, in 1956.
John D. Bullock, who has
been appointed as a senior
partner in the firm of William
M. Kordsiemon and Associates
of Chicago, is a brother-in-law
of Ed Milne, 2824 Country
Club dr., Medford. Milne is
operator of the Quality Mar
ket here.
Third Suspect in
Robbery Captured
Portland - (UPD - John P
Elmer, 42, a third suspect in
the Nov. 21 attempted armed
robbery of a Wilsonville gro
cery store, was arrested by
Portland police Thursday
night.
Donald William Farrell,
Hubbard, was fatally shot dur
ing the attempted robbery by
Terry Lowrie, 18, son of store
owner William G. Lowrie, 45.
A second suspect in the at
tempted robbery, Theodore M.
Logsdon, 24, Portland, was ar
rested the next day.
Bail for Elmer, an ex-convict,
was set at $10,000 on a
charge of assault with intent
to rob.
George Fox Opposes
LA Pacific College
Los Angeles-IUPII-A battle of
small school titans takes place
Saturday night when two col
leges with less than 200 en
rollment meet in the first an
nual "Crusader Bowl."
The game pits Los Angeles
Pacific College with a student
body of some 150 students
against George Fox of New
berg, Ore., which lists 180
students.
&ATUmAY
M & 31st
- 4: P.M.
of Russian Agricultural
Seen
over widespread farm mis
management and poor har
vesting. His demotion was an
nounced Thursday.
Communist China reported
Regional Edition
Medford,
MEDFORD, OREGON, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1960
Oil Conference
Scheduled Thursday
' Salem (UPII Attorney Gen
eral Robert Y, Thornton an
nounced today that a joint
conference of Oregon, Cali
fornia ant oil industry offi
cials will be held here next
Thursday to review legal
problems involving oil explo
ration off the Oregon coast.
Those invited include rep-
Cuba Terrorists,
Explosives Taken
Havana, Cuba - (UPD - The
Cuban Military Intelligence
Service today announced the
capture of 20 "terrorists" and
large quantities of explosives,
fuses and automatic weapons
which the government charg
ed were supplied by the
United States Embassy.
The service said that in
separate night raids in the
residential Mariano district,
agents uncovered three "bomb
factories, presumably re
sponsible for the recent wave
of bombings in downtown Ha
vana.
The latest explosion was on
the balcony of the Candido
Theater in Mariano, in which
seven persons were injured,
one seriously.
All morning newspapers
carried news of the police ac
tion under eight-column ban
ner headlines.
Revolucion, chief organ of
Premier Fidel Castro's revo
lutionary government, carried
a half-page photograph show
ing an alleged TNT container
with U.S. markings.
The newspaper reported
that the intelligence agents
seized documents, weapons
and the container, "proving
relations with Yankee impen
alism whose agents directly
aid the terrorists.
AMBASSADOR DIES
Three Rivers, Que.-IUPII-Dr.
Phillip Panneton, 65, Cana
dian ambassador to Portugal
and an author who was a
founding member of the
French -Canadian academy,
died Thursday in Lisbon.
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Tni UniM Stilt! Nillesil tint ! Porlli.J .
To Indicate Failure
similar farm problems Thurs
day. The Peiping regime said
more than half of its cultivat
ed land had been hit during
the last year by serious
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Tribune
resentatives of the Oregon
Land Board, California State
Lands commission, Oregon
Department of Geology and
Mineral Industries and the
Western Oil and Gas associa
tion.
To Seek Information
Purpose of the meeting is to
obtain information from Call
fornia experts on the oil and
gas industry covering offshore
oil exploration, drilling, leas
ing and bidding, Thornton
said.
. Thornton is working on
legislation to submit to the
1961 Oregon legislature to en
able Oregon to negotiate a
lease for such exploration.
Shell Oil Co. approached
the Oregon Land Board sev
eral months ago, inquiring
about the possibility of such
a lease. Thornton advised the
board present Oregon law
not adequate to permit the
state entering into a lease for
oil exploration on the state's
600,000 area offshore lands.
One purpose of the new
law would be to protect Ore
gon's economic, scenic and re
creational resources and also
prevent beach pollution, in
jury or damage to ocean fish,
game and marine lite.
Baby Abandoned
By Escapee's Wife
Portland - (UPII - The wife
of a man who escaped from
the state hospital in Salem
apparently has left her baby
to be with her husband, de
tectives said Thursday.
Chester Hedrick, a suspect
in assaults on women here,
escaped from the hospital
Monday with Vernon W
Street.
Police said Hedrick s young
wife, Joan, disappeared Mon
day after visiting her husband
at the hospital. She left their
2-month-old son with friends
in the apartment building
where she lived and left
note asking that the baby be
cared for.
The baby has been made a
ward of the court and placed
in a nursery.
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VimUr fij.nl OiMlft InuniKt CareentiM
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drought, floods, typnoons, in
sects and other such disas-
ters. The report lends cred
ence to previous indications of
drastic food shortage on the
Chinese mainland.
While Matskevich was
stripped of the authority and
prestige of the top agricultur
al post, he apparently retain
ed some trust of Kremlin
leaders. He was made chair
man of a newly formed dis
trict in the "virgin lands
area of the central Asian re
public of Kazakhastan, a key
region in fremier .inikuh o.
Khrushchev's plan for vast
agricultural advances.
Matskevich, 50, was repiac-
Churches Seek End
To Discrimination
Portland - (UPII - The Great
Portland Council of
Churches has opened an un
usual pledge-in-advance drive
against racial discrimination
in the Portland area.
Some 35 churches partici
pating in the drive have asked
members to sign agreements
promising willingness "to wel
come into my neighborhood
residents of good character,
regardless of race, creed or
national origin."
Dr. William B. Cate, execu
tive secretary of the council
said the 35 churches launch
ing the drive would seek from
1,000 to 2,000 signatures be
fore asking additional church
es to join in January. -
In February, he said, news
paper advertisements would
call on all residents of t h e
area to join church members
in signing the "covenants.
Calling
All Gals!
ADULT EDUCATION
CLASSES
HOME MAKING
Classes Begin Week ot January 3
TAILORING: Monday and Wednesday, 7:00-10:00 p.m.
$6.00 tuition. McLoughlin Jr. High. Rm. 8. Ruth Osborn
BISHOP CLOTHING I: Thurs., 7:00-10:00 p.m. $6.00
tuition. Medford Sr. High. Rm. 207. Joanne Weather
ford. BISHOP CLOTHING II: Tues., 7:00-10:00 p.m. $6.00
tuition. Medlord Sr. High, Rm. 207. Joanne Weather
ford. MILLINERY: Tues., 7:00-10:00 p.m. $6.00 tuition.
Medford Sr. High. Rm. 207. Lucille Collins.
MILLINERY: Tues., 9:00 a.m.- 2:00. $6.00 tuition.
National Guard Armory. Lucille Collins.
CAKE DECORATION: Tues., 7:00-10:00 P.M. $6 tuition.
Medford Senior H.S. Room 17. Barbara Vinsel.
CAKE DECORATION: Fri., 9:00 A.M.- 2:00. $6 tuition.
National Guard Armory. Barbara Vinsel.
KNITTING: Wed., 7:00-9:30 P.M. $8 tuition.
Medford Sr. High. Room 208. June Milestone.
UPHOLSTERY: Mon. & Thurs., 710 P.M. $10 tuition.
917 West McAndrews Rd. Heini Bertram.
COMMERCIAL
Classes Begin Week of January 3
BRIEFHAND: Mon., 7:30-9:30 P.M. $10 tuition.
Medford Senior H.S. Room 229. Gerald Eurich.
BEGINNING TYPING Tues., 7:30-9:30 p.m. $10 tuition.
Medford Senior H.S. Room 225. Janet Goodrich.
INTERMEDIATE TYPING: Thurs., 7:30-9:30 P.M. $10.00
tuition.
McLoughlin Jr. H.S. Room 23. Margarete Black.
INTERMED. TYPING (Electric): Wed., 7:30 - 9:30 P.M.,
$10 00 tuition.
Medford Senior H.S. Room 227. Louis Mahar.
BEGINNING SHORTHAND: Mon. & Thurs, 7-30-9:30
P.M. $20.00 tuition.
Medford Senior H.S. Room 232. Juanita Mayer
REFRESHER SHORTHAND: Tues., 7:30-9:30 P.M. $10.00
tuition.
Medford Sr. H.S. Room 232: Juanita Mayer.
BEGINNING BOOKKEEPING: Tues., 7:30-9:30 P.M.
$10.00 tuition.
Medford Sr. H.S. Room 229. Juanita Mayer.
INTERMEDIATE BOOKKEEPING: Thurs., 7:30-:30 P.M.
$10.00 tuition.
Medford Sr. H.S. Room 229. Gerald Eurich.
BUSINESS MACHINES: Mon., 7:30-9:30 P.M., $10.00
tuition.
Medford Sr. H.S. Room 226. Gertrude Frederkkson.
This Ad Courtesy of . . ,
INDUSTRY COUNCIL
of SOUTHERN OREGON
ed as agriculturel minister by
Mikhail Olshansky, vice pres
ident of the Soviet Academy
of Agricultural Science.
Olshanky is relatively un
known in the top ecneions,
and his appointment led to
speculation that the farm ad
ministration was unuei suing
reorganization in an attempt
to boost efficiency. Tha
changes, observers said, might
mean a reduction in the agri
culture minister's authority.
Arthur Hemming
Visits in State
Portland - (UPD - Arthur S.
Flemming, secretary of health,
education and welfare, was in
the state today amid reports
that he might be the next
president of the University of
Oregon.
Flemming and his wife ar
rived here Thursday night and
went to Eugene today with
Henry F. Cabell, president of
the State Board of Higher
Education.
He planned to meet there
with other board members
and look over the campui..
Flemming said recently ha
was impressed with the uni
versity's reputation but had
received no offers. Cabell
said after the meeting, held
in Chicago, that officials wera
"interested" in Flemming.
The cabinet official came
under fire this week from
Gerald Detering, Harrisburg,
president of the Oregon Farm
Bureau Federation. Detering
criticized Flemming for tha
1959 cranberry cancer scare.
Elmer McClure, master of the
Oregon State Grange, came to
Flemming's defense.
Don't misj this oppor
tunity. Plan to register
for a homemaking or
commercial class. Just
look at this exciting list
of offerings. Register at
the first class meeting.
For further information
phone SP 3-7220.