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o o o o o Regional Edition Medford 55th Year Price 10 Cents Tribune 20 Pages MEDFORD, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 11, 1961 No. 254 I-1 i B V JI- FLEE TROOPS Laotian refugees, fleeing from leftist troops, cross a bamboo bridge over a river near Tha Tom, i lonely outpost about 140 miles southwest of Vientiane, Situation in Laos 'Critical' Western Allies Seek Solution for War-Torn Country Washington - (UPI) - French Ambassador Herve Alphand said today after a conference with Secretary of State Chris tian A. Herter that the situa tion in Laos is "very critical." Alphand said the Western allies are still seeking a meth od to stabilize the war-torn country.' - Alphand told reporters that his 40-minute talk with Herter was concerned entirely with Laos, where the new govern ment of pro-American Prince Boun Oum is battling for its life against Soviet -supported and Communist-led rebels. The envoy said the United States, France and other West ern allies are united in de siring "an independent Laos with no intervention from out side" in accord with the Gen eva Conference decisions of 1954. Alphand acknowledged that the Western powers still have not agreed on what type of international solution to seek for Laos. Russia has told this govern ment that it will not recognize the new pro-American govern ment in Laos. U.S. officials said today the Soviet stand was emphasized by Russian Ambassador Mik hail Menshikov during his 40 minute conference Tuesday with Secretary of State Chris tian A. Herter. The Soviet envoy challeng ed the legality of the govern ment headed by Prince Boun Oum. Menshikov restated the Soviet contention that legal power still rests with neutral ist Premier Souvanna Phou ma, who fled to Cambodia last month when pro-Western and Communist forces became locked in battle for the cap ital city of Vientiane. Inter-State Burglary Ring Cracked By Law enforcement agencies In southern Oregon and north ern California apparently un covered the operations of an intcr-state burglary ring when they arrested four men Sun day on a charge of attempting to burglarize the Oak dale Super market. Last night, police and sher iffs deputies in Medford and Grants Pass arrested three more men on charges of burg lary. The warrants for their arrest came from the Siskiyou county sheriff's office in Cali fornia. Arrested were William Les ter Hurst, 39, of 1125 West 10th si., Medford. Jerry Le andcr Stewart, 23. of 829 West 11th St.. Medford. and David A. Holfer. 26. Grants Pass. In addition, a second charge nf burglary was brought against Vcrl LcRoy Biggens 28 of 122 Kenwood ave.. Med ford. on a Siskiyou county warrant. Biggens was one oi those arrested Sunday and charged with the attempted safe burglary of tl8 super market. Hurst and Stewart : 5a tl.r 9..iC'f4 hon; Six Local Form Corporation Six Medford - owned indus tries announced today that they have merged into one large corporation called the Concrete - Steel Corporation. Headquarters of the new firm will remain in Medford. Making the merger are the Medford Concrete Construc tion company, the Asphalt Paving company, the Tru-Mix Equipment company, the Tru Mix Construction company, the Medford Steel company, and the Medford Blowpipe company. The merger became effec tive Jan. 1, but was not an nounced until today. The new corporation, to be known as CSC, will employ the combined working forces of the six firms, a total of ap proximately 140 employees. Don Wood, secretary of CSC, said none of the employees of the six firms will lose their jobs as a result of the merger. The merging firms will be grouped into four divisions under CSC. These divisions will be known as the Medford Concrete Construction divi sion, the Asphalt Paving di vision, the Tru-Mix Concrete and Equipment division and the Medford Steel and Blow pipe division. Operations Sam The operations of each of the industries will remain the same and will be conducted in existing plants. No building or plant expansion program is planned for the near future, Wood said. The accounting and administration offices of CSC will be located in the former Medford Steel com pany offices at 228 East Mc Andrews rd. The merger is the third one announced here in recent weeks. The others were the merger of the California Ore gon Power company with the Local Arrests Grants Pass police arrested Hoffcr in that city. The ar rests were made about 8 p.m. Siskiyou County Sheriff A. B. Cottar, who was in Med ford today interrogating the suspects, said the three men arrested last night, and Big gens, are suspected of the Dec. 29 safe burglary of Ed s Clothing store in Happy Camp, Calif, ile said approxi mately $750 is missing. Cottar said extradition pro ceedings will be started imme diately if necessary, to get the four men back to California to face the charges. Hoffcr is being held in Grants Pass on S20.000 bail. The other three men are being held in Med ford on S10.000 bail each. Arrested Sunday in addition to Biggens were, Kenneth El- ston Dailey, 25, of 519 King St., Thomas Edwin Cornwall, 30, of 145 South Ivy st.. Don aid Raymond Breazeale. 21. of 831 Niantic St., and Biggens The four were arrested after a city police officer on routine patrol spotted the men alleg edly attempting to remove the aif. from tl market. PolklJda; 'liar- wither in- They are being escorted by troops of Premier Prince Boun Oum. (UPI Telephoto) Firms Pacific Power and Light com pany of Portland, and the merger of the Rogue Valley State Bank with The Oregon Bank, also of Portland. CSC will differ from the other mergers, however, in that it will be a locally-owned enterprise. W, D. Thorndike, vice-president in charge of sales at CSC, and former president of the Medford Blowpipe company said the chief advantage ir the merger will be that CSC can undertake larger jobs, and provide a more complete serv ice than could the six indi vidual companies. Utilization of Equipment This can be done, Thorndike said, through a belter utiliza tion of equipment, machinery and personnel. CSC, he said, will be mainly a service in dustry, doing sub-contracting work. Wood said the merger was consummated after a "meet ing of the minds" of the own ership of all six firms. The management of CSC will be a combined management of the former six firms. Besides Wood and Thorn dike. officers of CSC include H. H. Pringle, president, the former secretary and office manager of Medford Concrete; Homer Marx, vice president, (he former manager of the pipe division and a secretary of Medford concrete; Miles Stuart, vice president, the former president of the Tru Mix Construction and Equip ment companies; Homer Bell, treasurer, the former secretary-treasurer of Tru Mix Con struction; and Bruce Braaten, accounts and collections of ficer, the former office man ager of Medford Blowpipe. The division managers will be Marx, head of the Medford Concrete Construction divi sion; Richard Hensley, head of the Asphalt Paving divi sion; Bell, head of the Tru Mix Concrete and Equipment division; and Wood, head of the Medford Steel and Blow pipe division. Record Set By SOC Enrollment Ashland - Winter term en rollments at Southern Ore gon college have set an all time record, Dr. Elmo Steven son announced today. Stevenson said 1.238 stu dents have cnrollrd so far with the close of the registra tion period set for Jan. IS. Last year's total winter en rollment of 1.225 was the pre vious high. Of the 1.238 to date, 726 are men and 512 women. WEATHER Korfrml: Variably rtniifllnf- tonight anil Ihiirarlav with rhanr-f of occasional llcht fain and tuslv wind. Patchy vally log Thursday morning. Low to night JK-m TT MPFfl XTl'RF lllchrtt Yr-Mrrday 1ft Lonrit TtlU Morning 31 Oar lki Tonight Snntft today A:S9 p.m. Siinrh tomorrow ; vj a m. MnnnrUt tomorrow a(fc New .Moon Jan. Ifi Junior attj) Saturn O'OrJow tool nar in inn to h ireti. Nt mnnth A lhl (A thfv will1 A.C. Fries Jr. Installed New Chamber Head Ashland - A. C. Fries Jr. officially took over leadership of the Ashland Chamber of Commerce Tuesday at the chamber's first 1961 noon luncheon held at the Mark Antony hotel. In assuming the chamber presidency from Clyde Vogel Fries said, "We all should be aware of the value of the chamber's work in a progres sive community." Fries pre sented a plaque to Vogel ex pressing the chamber's ap preciation for work he did during his term of office. Paul Antony was installed as chamber vice president fol lowing Fries' appointment. Vogel reported 1960 accom plishments of the chamber. He said as a community service project, the chamber initiated sponsorship of a man of the year award for men between the ages of 36 and 59. Emmett Whitham won the award. The chamber also sponsored the annual Shakespearean scholarship luncheon in June. Twenty -four new members were added during 1960 Vogel said. The publishing committee issued a six-page vacation guide and work was done on a three - color folder to be printed in 1961, he said. Other accomplishments in cluded getting city approval for courtesy parking tickets issued to out of town cars. Also, three retail promotional events were held. Vclma Jones, chamber sec retary, reported 12.000 bro chures about Ashland were issued during 1960 and about 1,000 mail inquiries were re ceived. About one - third of these were from potential residents, she said. She said the chamber oper ating budget was $4,225, which didn't include a promo tional budget. Other statistics included 25 people coining into the cham her office daily and 15 phone calls received each day. the secretary said. Fries sched uled a meeting of the board of directors for tonight at 7:30 o'clock in the chamber office. SF Has A San Francisco - fUPIi - A vol ley of bullets has ended the problems of the wayward whale of Pier 50 - but 11 left the city of San Francisco with a problem of Its own today. The 20 foot grey whale made a valiant show of strength during its 14-hour battle to escape from a maze of pilings below the pier into which it had strayed and of ficials warned that the whale will be even "stronger" in death unless the carcass is re moved. "We are not going to let il stay there, that's for sure," James N. Brown, superinten dent of the Society for Pre vention of Cruelty to Animals iSPCA), said. "It will be frag Objections To Ways, Means Rule Noted by Corbett Full Committee Meets First Time Salem - (UPB - Sen. Alfred Corbett (D-Portland) took is sue today with a proposed joint ways and means com mittee ruling providing that minutes be kept of subcom mittee hearings and that these minutes help in establishing legislative intent. The full committee, which held its first meeting today, agreed to take another look at the rule. Corbett said this would be "dangerous" and the commit tee, which decides how the state spends its money, "shouldn't attempt to control an agency by the use of our minutes." Co-Chairman Clarence Bar ton (D-Coquille) said idea of the rule was that in past ses sions, some have questioned legislative intent of ways and means. He cited welfare last ses sion, when it claimed ways and means intended for the department to have a new data processing machine. This was not in the minutes, Bar ton said, and no members could recall such an "under standing." Up until now, minutes have not been kept of subcommittee hearings. They will be kept this year. The proposed rule stales that legislative intent is estab lished only by bills and resolu tions and their minutes and reports. Sen. Francis Ziegler (R-Cor- vallis) said the minutes should be very helpful, especially where intent of the legislature is questioned. v Ways and means subcom mittees and their chairmen were announced. They are general government, Rep. Bon Evick (D-Madras); protection to persons and property, Cor bett; highways and natural re sources, Ziegler; education Rep. Stafford Hansell (R Athena); . and public health and welfare, Rep. George An nala (D-Hood River). Beverly Allan Said Strangled Portland-tUPD-Beverly Ann Allan was strangled, possibly with a rope or piece of cord, before her body was dumped from a car on the Sunset Highway last November, au thorities said today. Preliminary findings by Dr. William Lehman, patholo gist, indicated the 19-year-old Washington State university coed was slain soon after she was abducted from a lover's lane where her boy friend, Larry Ralph Peyton, also 19, was slabbed to death. No evidence of gunshot or knife wounds was found on the girl's body. Authorities said it was possible she had been sexually assaulted. The body, found Monday about 40 miles west of here down an embankment, was re turned to Port Townsend, the girl's home, for burial. Dr. Lehman said hemor rhaging in the voice box indi cated strangulation and exter nal bruises and burns on the neck suggested use of rope. He said death probably occurred six to 10 hours after the girl had last eaten, Cape Canaveral, Fla. A Polaris missile launched from a nuclear submarine cruising submerged off the coast of Florida was destroyed today when it veered off course. Whale Of bloody carcass may attract sharks. "They come in the bay every night - and If they get a whiff of blood, they'll be down there," he said. The 4,000 -pound mammal died slowly, and a decision about what to do with the re mains didn't appear to be coming up any faster. Every one agreed that the carcass had to be removed - but they couldn't agree on who was going to remove It. It's a whale of a problem, and it all began Monday night when the mammal entered a large opening at the front of the nier and swain deep into the maze of pilings. It was unable to turn around because of its size, so 11 nrgan smasntng oainsi inw 2k, .V v' v A vxA tV rt; vt .... r- . v3 WING STARTED A sign, "hospilal zone, quiet," would seem out of place at Rogue Valley hospital this week as giant earth moving equipment roared and snorted to rush completion on the excavation for the new wing of the building. Above, a big tractor gives assistance to a power shovel unit as it is brought out of the "hole" to Three Persons Injured in Two Tuesday Accidents Three people are in Ashland General hospital today as a result of two separate acci dents in the Siskiyous Tues day. Frank Wallace Kamp, 63, temporary address 502 West Fourth St., Medford, was re ported in serious condition with head and chest injuries suffered last night when his car, pulling a two-wheel trail er, went onto tne roaa snoui der and hit a bank where the car tipped. His wife, Alma Marie Kemp, 62, same address, is in fair condition Willi a Broken upper arm and severely cut forehead, hospital officials said. Stale police said prior to hilling the bank the Kamp car struck the rear of a house- Irailer being pulled by a pick up truck driven by Theodore Richard Oaks, route 1, box J, Warren, Ore. In another accident, Wil liam James Wilson, 28, Yreka, was driver of a panel truck which slid on the pavement and plunged over a 100 foot bank off Highway 99 about 10 miles south of Ashland. Hos pital officials said Wilson is still unconseious and In "fair" condition from injuries suf fered. Power Outage In Gold Hill Vicinity Gold Hill area residents were without electrical power for between six and seven hours early today when an In sulator faulted nn each side of the Gold Hill power sub station, California Oregon Power company officials re port. Copco received tne nrsi can renorling that power was cut off at 3:55 a.m. Repairs to the power circuit for the rural area were completed at 9:53 a.m., olficials said. The cir cuit into the city was operat ing again at 11:05 a.m. Salem-IUPII-Gov. Mark Hat field announced Tuesday he will attend the Inauguration of President-elect John F. Kennedy in Washington, D.C. Jan. 20. A Problem Hayes, which was tied at the pier. When the ship was removed early Tuesday, the SPCA de cided the whale would have to be destroyed. "We saw his eyes were closed and he was bleeding from crashing against the ship and the barnacle -crusted pilings." Brown said. But efforts to put the whale out of his misery weren't too successful. Fifteen rounds of soft-nosed and armor piercing ammunition were fired into the thick skull of the whale in an effort to hit the brain, about the size of a baseball. ,0 Four hours after the firiniO ! began. Hie wnaie inrasnecl mo j bloody water for the last time, nThe wfttlc's I tic over nui cuyiaj ijig use finish the job from ground level. The new wing will be constructed as a separate build ing and when finished the buildings will be joined by simply knocking out partitions on each of the floors. Completion date is set for February, 1962. Graff and James, Med ford, are contractors for the job. Bengtson Is First Defense Witness Grants Pass O. II. Bengt-. prosecuting attorney, present son, Medford lawyer on trial cd the state's final evidence in Josephine county circuit court charged with embezzling $1,700 from the Medford Es crow company, testified in his own behalf this morning. I be stale rested its case Tuesday-, at 2:30 p.m. after five witnesses had. testified. In testimony this morning, Bengtson denied having in structcd Mrs. Rachel P. Car ter, former president of the Medford Escrow company, to write a $1,700 check on Es crow funds and depositing it in his personal account. In reply to the question by Richard Carney, Portland, one of the defense attorneys, Bengston dramatically raised his right hand and said "so help mc, no." ' He also denied having ask ed Mrs. Carter for a loan. Oilier testimony this morn ing concerned Bengtson's per sonal background and his as sociation with the Escrow company. Immediately after Paul Haviland, stale appointed Motel, Government Want Same Property The federal government, which last week announced that it is considering locating the now $2,365,000 Medford federal building between Cen tral and Riverside aves. on Tenth st., may have to vie with a motel chain for the property. As nearly as can be ascer tained locally, the proposed federal building would be erected south of Tenth st. This same properly has also been proposed as the site of a new 33-unit motel, owned by the Imperial '400' Motel chain of Los Angeles. Vandagrift, Leever and Whalln Really company con firmed today that the motel chain is "inlercstcd" In at least part of the property. They declined comment on whether the motel chain has actually taken an option or purchased the properly. Ashland Hotel Is Being Demolished Ashland - Demolition work on the historic Ashland hotel has been under way for sev eral days, according to hotel officials. Several windows in the rear of the building have been re moved and a small roof in the rear has been torn off. The hotel is being torn down to make way for a new First National Bank of Oregon Building. Hotel officials said the third floor was vacated last week. Part of the second floor is still being used. The office and store buildings on the new bank site will be occu pied until Ja. 31. Salem - H'Pli - Gov. Mark Hatfield aid Tuesday he -v hoped cfiorts to "accelerate the thinking" of reluctant islntors woiQd lead to pass- gic of most of htt government Tuesday afternoon. Carnev moved for a judgment of ac- quittal. The defense charged that! evidence presented by thel state was insufficient to sup-1 port charges as set forth in iiiv iiiuiukiuuiiv, r-unus stresses, were the lack of evidence in connecting Bengtson with the crime charged, failure to prove that funds paid Bengtson were not due him failure to show that the money was paid with .the intent to defraud the company. Arguments on the motion continued for more than one hour. Judge Orville Millard ruled that testimony present ed constituted a case. Witnesses Called Witnesses called Friday af ternoon by the state Included Pete Ruef, Medford, an em ployee of the First National Bank of Oregon, Medford branch; Lcland Knox, Med ford, a certified public ac countant, and Hugh Collins, Medford lawyer. The entire testimony given by Knox regarding business contacts he had had with Bengtson was ruled "irrele vant and immaterial" by the court. . Collins testified regarding a deposition taken at hts law office June 7, 1960, from Bengtson. The deposition was regarding a suit against Med ford Escrow company brought by Mr. and Mrs. Earl Rogers, Medford. ' Collins quoted Bengtson as saying that during the first two or three years that he had the Medford Escrow com pany he received some In come, but since that time had not been entitled to any sal ary as the company's Income did not pay overhead costs. The trial started Thursday In Grants Pass on a change of venue. The defense Is expected to conclude its testimony Thurs day. "Sir, Several More Defected To 3-Cenf-Per-Pack Cigarette Tax Is Among Proposals Basic School Bill Also Filed Today Salem-IUPD - Controversial tax bills including a 3-cenl a pack cigarette tax were intro duced in the House today ai the 1961 Oregon legislating buckled down to its heavy workload. Only one bill and one reso lution were introduced in tho Senate's morning session. The bill, sponsored by Sen. Francis Ziegler, RCorvallis, would increase basic school support by about $25 million or to $130 per census child. This is more than Gov. , Mark Hatfield and the interim committee on education ree ommends. Ziegler indicated the hike he proposes would be used only for off-selling local property taxes. Bill In House Rep. C. R. Hoyt, R-Corval- lis, will sponsor the bill In tha House. The tobacco ta. is one oj 11 House bills recommended by the legislative interim tax committee. All 11 were refer red to the House tax commit tee headed by Rep. Richard Eymann, D-Mohawk, who as secretary of the interim com mittee helped write them. Another is repeal of tha personal property tax on busi ness inventories, to be replac ed by a 1.5 per cent net in come tax. Legislative tax ex perls say Ihis would mako Oregon stronger than many states in attracting new in dustry. Third Proposal A third proposal is a new 1 personal' income tax plan fea- t vunng eiimtnaiion-oi personal I deductions and calling for an, I average tax cut of 10 per cent, Lost revenue would be mado up through the cigarette tax. 'Others include new ways to zone and tax farm land. Dron- erty tax exemption for senior citizens and bringing domestic1 insurance' companies undef the corporate excise tax. The Interim commutes 'package" also includes two bills and four resolutions to be introduced in the Senate. Both houses were adjourn ed Tuesday as legislators were busy taking part in a one-day orientation conference on pro cedures, first of its kind. Expemss Favored Gov. Mark Hatfield and Secretary of Stale Howell Ap pling Jr. gave their blessing a Senate-House resolution giving legislators year-around expense money out Appling said he would pay the expense money only if he was sure it was constitutional. Legislators now get no expenses. House Speaker Robert Dun can, D-Mcdford, commented that "if there was anything illegal about it, we wouldn't be supporting it." Sen. Jean Lewis, D-Port-land, who helped draft tha proposal, said there should be a court test as soon as pos sible to settle It once and for all. Kennedy Works on Inaugural Address Palm Beach, Fla.-(l'PI)-Presl-dent-elect John F. Kennedy completed organization of tha top command of his State De partment today and settled down for intensive work on his Inaugural address. Of Our Men Have The Enemy" """a .m -Ma wSlaii I (flkinmr e)o" t''T O Thfj rxm.t$tfa a mt Qogr rev0 U Q A O rant by morning." I Brown also warned that the $tf,8M imgFto gsfc$ 1 hull ofihe voepi iJr,j9cpi igin tig9ii.lon plan f5l 9
