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1M M n E9 RADAR TfSf OK Regional Edition MEDFORD 16 Pages Kennedy Advised Against Running On 'Credit Cards' Mail Rate, Gas Tax Hikes Urged Washington- IUPD - President Eisenhower willed President elect John F. Kennedy a rec ord peacetime spending budg et oi $80.9 billion for fiscal 1962 today and strongly ad vised his successor against running the government "by credit cards." In his final budget message to Congress, the outgoing Chief Executive predicted a SI. 5 billion surplus could be achieved in the fiscal year starting July 1 if postal rates are raised again, if the gaso line tax is increased, if busi ness expands smartly. He held out no hope of a general tax cut in the fore seeable future. And he called for increased private, state and local spend ing on activities which now "require a disproportionate or wasteful expenditure of fed eral funds." Will Be Revised ', Eisenhower's budget will be revised by Kennedy after the new President takes office Jan. 20. The extent of these revisions is not yet known, but Kennedy aides have been working in cooperation with the Eisenhower administra tions' Budget Bureau since No vember. The new Eisenhower spend ing program, 51.9 billion higher than the current year's estimate, contemplates: -A S1.4 billion rise in de fense spending, with increased emphasis on missiles and de fenses against missiles. This would give defense a peace time high total of $42.9 bil lion, biggest item in the budget. -A 5250 million boost for foreign aid. raising the pro gram to 53.6- billion, with greater emphasis on efforts in Africa and Latin America. Postal Rate Increase -A $195 million increase for space projects, for a total of S965 million, more than dou ble the 1960 figure, with hope of rocketing the first Ameri can into orbit this year. -An improved economy, to provide added revenues to pay the increased federal bills. -A postal rate increase of unspecified nature and a half cent a gallon boost in gaso line taxes, to help balance the budget. -Recognition of the so-called "dollar gap" in planning fnr U S. expenditures over seas. Here is how the Eisenhower budect for the government bookkeeping year that begins Julv 1 compares with esti- mated figures for the current 1961 fiscal year: 19S1 Receipts S79.o4,uuu.uuu Spending 78,945.000.000 Surplus 79,000,000 1962 Receipts 582,333,000.000 Spending 80.865.000,000 Surplus 1,468.000.000 (See Stories on Page 2) Flash Lights In California, By United Press International A flash In me sny m up wide area along the Northern California and Oregon Coast Sunday night, alarming resi dents over a wide area. Police and sheriff's officers In Oregon and California say they received hundreds of calis. At Eureka. Calif., resi- rirnu sav the flash was so hriaht it seemed like daylight for a moment. The flash oc curred about 10:20 p.m Trailing Red Mass Robert Nichols. Federal Aviation observer at McKin- levvillc airport near Eureka said he saw a white flash high in the sky to the northwest, followed by the appearance Eisenho MEDFORD, OREGON, MONDAY, JANUARY 16, 1961 wer Presents House Sustains Veto on Injured Workman Bill Southern Oregon Projects Included In Fiscal Budget By A. ROBERT SMITH . Mail Tribune Washington Correspondent Washington-The last Eisenhower budget went io Congress today with nearly 51 million for the Rogue River Basin Talent project. The budget also contained $4 18.500 for Crater Lake Na tional Park and $33,900 for Oregon Caves National Monu ment. For O&C timber management by the bureau of land man agement, the budget listed $9.2 million, an increase over the $8 million in the last budget. This money, however, is in effect returned to the government by the O&C counties out of timber receipts. This last budget request is not considered a final one for the fiscal year which starts next July 1, for it was pre pared by'a .Republican administration which is leaving office next Friday. The Kennedy administration is expected to take a careful look at this budget and probably make a number of requests for revisions when Congress holds its appropria tions hearings this winter. The request for the Talent division of the Rogue River protect amounts to $789,000 for lateral and sublateral system, the bureau of reclamation ex plained. A small amount of this will be So study drainage facilities. - -- . Another $159,000 is earmarked for rehabilitation and bettermen of existing irrigation facilites in the Talent division. The funds for Crater Lake Crater Lake Lodge building and center at a cost of $350,000, campground with additional campsites, an amphitheater and water and sanitary facilities Committee OK's Day's Selection as Postmaster General Washington -0JPI1- The Sen ate Post Office and Civil Service Committee today ap proved President-elect John F. Kennedy's choice for post master general. J. Edward Day, Los Angeles, is the third of Kennedy's 10 cabinet ap pointments already cleared by Senate committees. Although the formal nomi nations of Day and other cabi net members cannot be sub mitted to the Senate before Kennedy takes office Friday, the committees have been holding hearings in advance to speed the process of the new administration's take-over. Others Approved Other Senate committees al ready have approved Arthur Goldberg as secretary of la bor, and Robert F. Kennedy, the president - elect's brother, as attorney general. The rest of the cabinet is expected to be cleared for Senate confir mation before the inaugura tion. The Post Office Committee heard Day, a California insur ance executive, testify that he considered reduction of the 5850 million postal deficit a matter of "first concern." Day declined to commit himself on how he would cut the deficit, however. Up Sky Oregon of a trailing red mass that ap peared to fall into the sea. At Grants Pass, Ore., the unidentified object was de scribed as a rosy ball of fire which lit up the sky like day light. The object was reported seen flying through the sky from Roseburg and Coquille south to Grants Pass. One re port says the object may have disintegrated over the Camas Valley. Reports on the size of the object range from basket ball size up to 400 feet in di ameter. Sergeant Dick Newell of the Grants Pass city police said the object lit up the sky in two distinct flashes of five seconds duration. construction,', mostly on the park are for the acuisition of its conversion into a visitor and improvement of Mazama After a short period of ques tioning by Democrats and Re publicans the committee's ap proval . came quickly and unanimously. Chauffeur Roles Protested Other congressional news: Protest: Rep. H. R. Gross (R-Iowa) reported that he had protested to the Defense De partment about the use of military personnel to chauf feur actors Frank Sinatra and Peter L a w f o r d, Kennedy's brother-in-law, around the city in their role as producers of a Democratic fund raising show Thursday. Gross said the Pentagon told him it wouldn't happen again. Rules: House Democratic Leader John McCormack said he doubted that Speaker Sam Rayburn would be able to re duce conservative control of the Rule Committee by getting authority to add three new members. Ashland City Council To Hold Hearing Ashland - A public hearing will be held on curbing, gut tering and paving of a section of Scenic dr. from Wimcr st. to Manzanita st. at the Ash land city council meeting Tuesday night in the council chambers. The council water commit tee will report on proposed improvements to the city wa ter filtration plant in other council business. The ceme tery committee will report re sults of a study of a proposed land purchase next to the cemetery on Highway 66. Announcement will be made of setting Jan. 24 as the date for bidding on the city gaso line contract, and discussion will be opened for a reorgani zation of council committees. VERDICT SET ASIDE Washington - (Ml - The Su preme Court today set aside the conviction of Maurice E. Travis, former Denver union leader, on charges of having filed false non - Communist oaths with the National Labor Relations Board. Tribune Record ime Budget Five Democrats Join in Support Of Gov. Hatfield Action Comes on Motion to Table Salem - (DPI) - The House of Representatives today, by a tight 29-27 vole, sustained Gov. Mark Hatfield's veto on bill to allow an injured workman free choice of a doc tor. . . . The action came on a mo tion by Rep. Robert F. Smith (R- Burns) to sustain the gov ernor by tabling the measure. Five Democrats joined with 24 Republicans in support of the governor's veto. The veto' was overriden in the Senate last week by a vote of 22-7. Hatfield, however, has never been overridden by both houses. The motion to sustain Hat field came after Rep. William Bradley (D-Gresham) moved to refer the bill to the Com mittee on Labor and Indus tries. A vole was not taken on Bradley's motion since the move to table the bill took precedence. Democrts voting to sustain the governor were Reps. George Annala (Hood River), Thomas McClellan (Neotsu); Don McKinnis (Summerville), Emil Stunz (Nyssa) and Frank Weatherford (Olex). First Bill Passes The House also passed a bill today appropriating $1.25 mil lion to run the legislature during the current session and in the interim until the next session convenes. It was the first bill to win final approval in the House. Eleven education bills were introduced in the House, along with nine measures con cerning elections and 14 by the Committee on Highways. Among the education meas ures was one to increase the membership of the State Board of Education from sev en to nine and to bring the state superintendent of public instruction more directly un der the board's control. The proposal was made by the Interim committee on Ed ucation. Another would set a maxi mum five - year probationary period for teachers before ac quiring permanent status, and would permit transfer of teachers without hearing: The measure also would in clude provisions for hearings in teacher dismissal cases. "Us Collidge Kids Got To Have More Pep Rallies" 55th Year Price 10 Cents No. 258 Negro Students Accompanied to Georgia Classes Silent Stares Met by Couple Athens, Ga.-(UPl)-Two Negro students, whose court-ordered presence on the University of Georgia campus sparked stu dent riots last week, returned for classes today under escort of state detectives and were silently accepted. The reception of Charlayne Hunter, 18, and Hamilton Holmes, 19, first Negroes to attend the school in its 175 year history, was calm, almost detached. Where scattered catcalling had followed them last week only silent starts from small groups of curious students fol lowed them today. Students had been warned by the campus administration that an outburst of any sort could mean suspension or ex pulsion. Every faculty mem ber was empowered to pick up the identity card of any of fending student. Agents of the Georgia Bu reau of Investigation accom panied the two to their classes, and, in several instances, pushed aside newsmen and photographers who got in the way. . j Athens police detained a white man found driving on a campus street in a car con taining a Confederate flag and segregation stickers. He was released after questioning. Meanwhile, the Clarke County Grand Jury met in Athens to begin an investiga tion of last week's rioting. Man Hurt When Rifle Discharged Jacksonville Mack Grif fin, 50, was taken to Rogue Valley hospital this morning after he apparently accident ally shot himself while clean ing a gun in his home here. Jackson county sheriff's deputies said Griffin, who re sides at 611 East California st., was apparently sitting on the edge of his bed, cleaning a .30 caliber rifle, when It dis charged. A doctor, the first to arrive at the Griffin home about 9:20 a.m., said the bullet apparent ly entered the man's chest, near his heart. Hospital at tendants said this morning the extent of Griffin's wounds had not yet been determined. Sheriff's deputies said that after Griffin shot himself, he apparently crawled to a tele phone in the next room and called the doctor. Deputies are continuing their investigation into the incident. 11 .,Si ft . ..... -ss dtf;v. tar- y v.. iip-A., v. tim f MAv ' sf. t"-.. u TOWER DISAPPEARS An Air Force, radar tower, similar to the one shown above, "disappeared" in the storm-tossed Atlantic Ocean about 85 miles southwest of New Baseball Officials To Arrive Here To Speak for Stadium Three prominent Pacific Northwest baseball officials will arrive here tonight to confer with backers of a mul ti-purpose stadium proposed; for the county fairgrounds' property south of Medford. : -The t h r e e menJajjjes Fleishman, Northwest Base ball league president; Hub Kittle, general manager of the Yakima Bears' baseball team; and Al Liglitner, gener al manager of the Salem Dodgers baseball team and sports editor of the Oregon Statesman, have scheduled a number of talks Tuesday and Wednesday favoring the sta dium proposal. Tuesday noon the trio will speak at the Medford Rotary club luncheon meeting. Tues day at 7 p.m. the three men will talk over KBES-TV. Wednesday night they will ad dress a private session at Kim's restaurant here. John Weisbrod, Medford realtor and chief stadium pro moter, said he has invited 175 'key people, in the county to attend the social hour and din ner and hear the three base ball men explain the advan tages of having a stadium in this county. Those invited in clude school officials, indus trial and political leaders. . In his letter to Weisbrod telling of the visit, Lightner said Salem's minor league baseball team is the equiva lent of a $100.000-a-ycar busi ness in the city. This includes players' salaries and those of other employees connected with baseball, the spending of visiting clubs, and the buying and selling of accessories at the stadium. Local Man Arrested For Siskiyou County Medford city police Satur day arrested Allen J. Brydon, 28, of 1208 Stevens St., on a charge of burglary. A warrant was Issued for his arrest from the Siskiyou county sheriff's office in California. Brydon is the eighth person lo be arrested on burglary charges in southern Oregon In the past week. Police said Bry don is apparently "implicat ed" with the others. Brydon was arrested al his home by police Saturday morning. He was confined in the county jail with bail set at $5,000. WEATHER ! KOfiKCAST: Cloudy tonight and Tuesday morning wtift Itltl drl..le. Partly :lmidy Tueidny afternoon and evening, I.tiW to night 38. High Tuesday . Temp. High fit Yrsttrday 4S l.owMt Thii Morning J To 10 t.m. Today Trace Our Skies Tonight sunfl todav 3:M p.m. SunM (omorrow t:1J a m. New Moon today 1:30 p.m. PnOMINKNT hi prorvnn, low In eat .... :1fl p.m and hfch In toulh , 13:0 a m Thi( It one of the nearest of th hrtfht trs, helng only 11 light veart from ine r.ann. York City Sunday and the Coast Guard said it apparently collapsed. Officials said 27 men were aboard the tover at the time. (UPI Telephoto) County Lawyers Are Praised for By Former Jackson county lawyers were praised today by former District Attorney Thomas J. Reeder. for their, efforts as court appointed counsel. In a letter to Circuit Judges James. M. Main and Edward C. Kelly, Boeder slated, "It is with considerable pride that f-wisrrto- arlvise you that the individual lawyers who have been appointed as counsel for indigent persons have been . i : i ; . .. j : tiotis in fulfilling their respon sibilities.",- He explained that the duties are neither popular nor profit able to represent these people, and in many cases almost al ways a personal and a pecu niary sacrifice to the lawyers. I am pleased to note, Reeder continued, "that in practically every such case I handled during my four years as district attorney these indi gent defendants were given the best efforts of their court appointed counsel." Reeder concluded that this healthy situation" speaks well for the lawyers that make up the Jackson County Bar association. "This is a public Woman, 105, Dies In Ashland Hospital Ashland - Mrs. Amanda Co- wen, 105, a full-blooded Klam ath Indian, of Chiloquin, Ore., who was the subject of a fea ture in Friday s Mail Tribune, died this morning at the Ash land hospital. She was born In 1855 on what is now . the Klamath Indian reservation near Beatty, Ore. She was visiting a grand daughter, Mrs. Edna Boyd, 105 Bush St., Ashland, prior to her recent illness. Survivors include two chil dren, William McKinley Co wen, Klamath reservation, and Ranson Cowcn, Clilloquin; two grandchildren, Mrs. Boyd and Hugh Cowcn, Yreka, nine great grandchildren, and three great great grandchildren. Funeral arrangements will be announced by LitwiHcr's Funeral home, Ashland, Glance at Ike's -Fiscal Budget Washlnclon-fliro-Tric fiscal 1062 budget at a glance: Taxes: Hold income and ex eise taxes at present levels. Raise postal rates by more than $800 million a year, in crease Rasollne tax half-cent a gallon. Spending: $80.0 billion, up $1.9 billion from this year. Most of the increase goes into defense. Revenues: $82.3 billion, If economy prospers as forecast. Anticipated revenues would leaves $1.5 billion budget sur plus. Key Fact: This budget re flects President Eisenhower's views. It is subject to consid erable revision by incoming President Kennedy, and by Congress. A v 1 Work DA service of the highest form that it serves, as well as strengthens, our fundamental concept of justice," he said. Oregon law stipulates that persons charged with a felony who are without funds, may have counsel appointed for thorn by the court after they have appeared m circuit court, Lawyers are appointed on rotation basis by the Judges! Woman's Case fs Continued by Court The ease of Mrs. Nellie Neoma Dunwody, 37, of Gold Hill, was continued this morn ing in district court to allow her to obtain an attorney. Mrs. Dunwody is being hold In the Jackson county jail in lieu of $500 bail on charges of pointing a firearm at anoth er involving the shooting of a Gold Hill man Friday. The victim, Howard Charles Bur- nette Jr., 28, was reported still in critical- condition in Sacred Heart hospital this morning with a bullet wound in his neck. The Jackson county sher iffs office is continuing its investigation of the shooting in Mrs. Dunwody's home near Gold Hill. Also being ques tioned besides Mrs, Dunwody, Ralph Liltleficld, 55. also of Gold Hill. Ho is being held on a charge of being drunk in public, sheriff s deputies said. Preliminary investigat 1 o n has indicated the three were examining a rifle being held by Mrs. Dunwody when it discharged, sending the bullet into Burnettc s neck. American Travel To Cuba Restricted "Washington-OJPH-The United States announced today U will hmft American travel to Cuba, The State Department said U.S. citizens no longer will be able to travel to Cuba unless they have passports endorsed for such travel. Lake Is Visited By 1,700 Persons During Week End The second week end of ice skating at Howard Prairie lake was even more successful than the first, City-County Parks and Recreation Director Robert iiaworth said today. A total of approximately 1,700 persons, not ail of them Ice skaters, showed up at the lake Saturday and Sunday. This exceeded by more than 500 the crowd that showed up the first week end. Of last week end's crowd 1500 showed up Saturday, and 1,200 came on Sunday, Iiaworth said, however, that unless the weather turns "much colder", this week, the department will probably have to recommend against ice skating next week end. He said the ice is already show ing signs of melting. In contrast to the previous A Device Collapses In Ocean During Savage Storm Tapping Noises Heard on Sonar New York -flifii-The Coast Guard reported today that rescue vessels apparently hava established contact with sur vivors trapped in the wreck age of a sunken raoar tower which collopsed Sunday night during an Atlantic storm. Tventy seven airmen and construction workers were on the $21 million Texas Tower No. 4 when it disappeared in the savage sea. Message Received The Coast Guard said the following message was re ceived from the aircraft car rier Wasp at the scene of the collapse in JBO feet of water 65 miles off Barnegat, N J.: "At 10:34 this morning tea McCaffrey at Texas tower heard tapping noises on sonar They exchanged tapping sig nals. Now has heard what may be a human voice over sonar. Definite possibility survi vors trapped in tower struc ture. Am attempting scuba (skin- diving) dive . . structure is entirely below the surface. Depth not known. Request all possible sal vage assistance earliest." Helicopter En Route Water temperature in the area was 48 degrees, the Coast Guard said. At least one skin diver was at the scene and a helicopter was en route to tha Wasp with four more. One body, a shattered small boat and drifting debris were recovered early today about 18 miles from the lower site. The Air Force said the off shore station, one of three guarding approaches to tha heavily - populated Eastern Seaboard, "presumably col lapsed" in 180 feet of water. Officials confirmation oj the collapse was withheld only because, o severe weath er conditions-50 m.p.h. winds. 30-foot waves, rain, sleet and fog-that, limited visibility. Skeleton Force Ti?&&(fairiSit aboard tha piaor,AnQWt(:Tas Texas Towe',3?6'44n the Early Warning Radar Defense net work, included 15 civilian workmen and: 12 Air Force men. They represented a skeleton force, left aboard after it was discovered Nov. 23 that tha metal pilings which comenled the triangular platform to tha ocean floor had been weaken ed by the battering it toolt from Hurricane Donna. Tha workmen had been attempt ing ! to repair the damaga while the airmen, kept tha vital defense post operative. Portland Woman Freed, Rearrested Portland-fliPil-Former Texas socialite Mrs. Constance Gar rett, 32, today was acquitted of a first degree murdet charge but after she was re leased from custody another warrant charging her with murder was filed. Circuit Judge Alan Davis granted the acquittal verdict on a defense motion and or dered the jury to find her innocent.- Less than two hours later, Mrs. Garrett-was taken into custody again on another war rant issued by Deputy District Attorney Oscar Howlett. This charged her in the death of a daughter, Angela, 3. Tha first charge, for which she was acquitted, accused her irt the death of another daughter, Gaye, 5 months. The charge resulted from a fire last Oct. 8 at Mrs. Gar rett's home In which three oi her daughters and a governess died. week end, the county recrea tion department was ready fof the crowd. A portable snack; bar was set up at the lake, two warming huts where skat ers could change their skates were set on the ice, and im proved parking accommoda tions were provided. Haworth said his office re ceived no complaints from anyone during the week end. Only four cars had to be as sisted away from the lake area. Haworth said cars were not allowed to park at the lake edge. The temperature rose to 45 degrees Saturday and 40 de grees Sunday, Haworth said, causing the ice to start melt ing around the lake's edges. "Some real cold nights" ara needed to get the Ice back into skating shape, he said. i t
