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MEDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY, JANUARY 26, 1961
No. 267
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FLIERS RELEASED President Kennedy
announced Wednesday that two American
airman held captive by the Russians since
their RB47 reconnaissance plane was shot
down July 1, 1960, have been released and
Pirate Asked To Discharge
Liner's Captive Passengers
San Juan, Puerto Rico (UPD
The U.S. Navy disclosed today
It urged Portuguese rebel
Capt. Henrique .Galvao to
land the hijacked luxury liner
Santa Maria at any northern
South American port to dis
charge his 600 captive pas
sengers. Adm. Robert L. Dennison,
commander in chief of the At-
Ashland Man Dies
Of Crash Injuries
Yreka An Ashland man
died this morning in the Sis
kiyou County hospital, Yreka,
from injuries received three
hours earlier in an accident
on Highway 99 approximately
one mile north of the Califor
nia Agriculture Quarantine
station.
According to the California
Highway Patrol, a pickup
truck operated by Dennis
Perry McCoy, 33, of 1412 Clay
St., Ashland, struck the rear
of a Pacific Intermountain Ex
press truck about 2 o'clock
this morning.
Patrolman said that both
vehiples were northbound.
Driver of the truck was Nor
vel Jesse Ohswaldl, 52, Port
land, Ore.
McCoy was pinned in the
cab of the pickup, which was
wedged under the trailer of
the truck. He died shortly be
fore 5 o'clock.
The pickup was demolished,
officers said. The truck re
ceived minor damage.
Budget Committee
Appointments Made
The Jackson county court
yesterday made two more ap
pointments for the new year.
A. C. (Archie) Pierce, Med
ford businessman, was ap
pointed to the Jackson county
budget committee for three
years effective Feb. 11 to suc
ceed Lyndel Newbry, Talent,
who was appointed as state
senator.
Arnold Boltnert. Central
Point, was reappointed to the
budget committee for two
vcars effective Feb. 11. when
his present term expires.
Tentative Schedule Is
Set for Budget Meetings
A tentative schedule for the
county court and county bud
get committee to formulate
the 1961-1962 Jackson county
budget has been compiled by
the county court. Judge Earl
Miller said this morning.
Budget work sheets for in
dividual departments arc to
be distributed Feb. 15 and are
to be returned within two
weeks so they may be tabu
lated by March 10.
Miller said that budget com
mittee sessions have been
scheduled for Mondays and
Thursdays from 9 a.m. to noon
and 1 to 4 p.m. The dates ten
tatively announced are March
13. 16. 20 and 23 and April
3. fi. 10. 13. 1" and 20.
Snmpiimp riurins February
and early March the county
are on their way home. They are Capt.
Freeman B. Olmstead, left, of Elmira, N.Y.,
and Capt. John R. McCone, right, of Ton
ganoxie, Kan.
(UPI Telephoto)
lantic Fleet, sent the message
Wednesday. There was no in
dication of a reply today as
Galvao resolutely sailed the
seized vessel toward Africa,
constantly shadowed by Navy
patrol planes.
Seeks Neutral Port
Dennison's message said:
"Request you proceed any
port northern South America
you choose to discharge pas
sengers. Please advise port se
lected and time arrival, will
attempt to arrange conference
aboard Santa Maria as you
request."
Galvao was racing across
the South Atlantic, hoping to
find a neutral port where he
could unload the passengers
and not have the Santa Maria
interned. He said he would be
glad la confer on board his
captive ship with Americans
or anyone else except Spanish
or Portuguese officials.
In Washington, the Navy
Festival Ticket
Sales Show Increase
Ashland - William Patton,
general manager of the Ore
gon Shakespearean Festival,
reported to the board of
directors this week that ad
vance memberships and indi
vidual ticket sales are sub
stantially ahead of last year
at this time.
As of Jan. 24, he said 191
memberships worth S4.300.80
have been purchased this
year, compared to 97 member
ships worth $1,549.25 last
year at this time.
Individual ticket sales have
increased from S667.80 last
year to $2,237.05 this year.
Patton noted that some of
the increase in ticket sales
value is because of an increase
in prices. The significant
factor, he noted, is the great
increase in memberships.
Martial Law Set Up
For El Salvador
Guatemala City (UPH Radio
San Salvador said Wednesday
night the military junta which
seized power Wednesday in El
Salvador has proclaimed mar
tial law and imposed a seven
hour nightly curfew on the na
tion. court will accompany County
Engineer Robert Carstensen
on an inspection of the coun
ty's roads and bridges.
Judge Miller explained that
the court has set aside March
6. 7, and 9 so the court may
prepare its own budget and
establish budget policies.
Prior to March 10 County
Treasurer Karl Janouch will
submit an estimate of the
amount of cash which will be
on hand at the end of the fis
cal year and give an account
ing of anticipated receipts.
Miller said that by arrang
ing this schedule the court
hopc to complete the budqet
by May 1 in preparation for
publication and nu.9.ic he: q m
, in the early f:l?.f Jur
said the Santa Maria was
about 700 miles northeast of
the mouth of the Amazon
river and appeared to be con
tinuing on an Africa-bound
course. It said the ship's
course was 101 degrees and it
was making 18 knots. .That
course would, take it to. An
gola if continued. The ship's
position was charted by a
Navy patrol plane.
The saga of the stolen ship
took a new turn when the
first Navy pilot to contact the
Santa Maria raised the pos
sibility that Galvao may wish
to discharge his captive pas
sengers and crewmen at sea
instead of waiting until he
reaches port.
Lt. (j.g.) Daniel L. L. Krauss,
24, Sea Island, Ga., reached
the Santa Maria Wednesday
night and carried on a con
versation with a radio oper
ator on board who spoke
"fair English."
Heard Background Voice
Recounting this conversa
tion, Krauss said he heard a
voice in the background
speaking broken English and
he had the impression that
Galvao was standing alongside
the ship's operator during the
talk.
"I asked about the pas
sengers," Krauss said. "He
said he wanted to disembark
them as soon as possible. Al
though he didn't say so, I got
the impression he meant on
the high seas."
Smith Sees Morse
Defeat Big Task
Portland-H'Pli-ExGov. Elmo
Smith said Wednesday the Re
publican party faces a "Her
culean task to defeat Sen.
Wayne Morse (D-Ore.) next
year.
Smith, who lost in last
year's Senate race to Maurine
Neubergcr, addressed the Ore
gon Republican Club.
He said Gov. Mark Hatfield
would make the party's
strongest opponent against
Morse but that he accepted at
face value the governors an
nouncement he would seek re
election. He added the swiftly
changing Oregon political
scene might witness events
which would change the ob
jectives of the governor.
Smith said the campaign
should stress Morse's "barren
record of accomplishment" for
the people of Oregon.
County Opens Bids
For Oils, Gasoline
Bids were opened by the
county court Wednesday for
oils, gasoline, and greases for
the county roads department.
Apparent low bid to supply
gasoline and diesel fuel was
submitted by Union Oil com
pany for $60,147.60. It was
one of eight bids received. A
bid of S2.209 submitted by
McLaren Oil company was the
apparent low of seven re
ceived to supply furnace and
fuel oil.
Union Oil company's bid of
S3. 93 1 was the lowest to sup -
ply lubricating oils a n d
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Weather Forces
Pair To Remain
In Labrador
Kennedy To Greet
Men in Washington
By United Press International
Bad weather delayed today
the reunion of two American
fliers with their wives after
seven lonely months of im
prisonment in Russia. Presi
dent Kennedy personally will
greet the two fliers when they
reach Washington Friday.
Capt. John R. McKone, 28,
Tonganoxie, Kan., and Capt.
Freeman Bruce Olmstead, 25,
Elmira, N.Y., arrived at Goose
Bay, Labrador, this morning
en route to Andrews Air
Force Base, Md., but their
plane was ordered to remain
in Goose Bay overnight be
cause of a forecast of heavy
snow in the Maryland area.
Good Will Gesiure
The two men, released five
days after Kennedy's inaugur
ation in an obvious Kremlin
good will gesture, had been
scheduled to arrive at the An
drews base this afternoon and
go to nearby Washington Fri
day for a visit with Kennedy
at the White House. Their
wives flew in from Kansas to
day and may be housed at the
base pending the airmen's ar
rival. McKone and Olmstead
crossed the Atlantic this
morning.
They had been held since
their RB47 reconnaissance
plane was shot down over the
Barents Sea by Soviet aircraft
last July 1.
Kennedy Tells News
President Kennedy made
the dramatic announcement at
his news conference in Wash
ington Wednesday nignt an
hour after the two airmen had
actually taken off from the
Moscow airport.
U.S. Ambassador Llewellyn
E. Thompson, who had been
unsuccessful in effecting the
release of the airmen during
the Eisenhower administra
tion, suddenly found the door
open in talks with Soviet of
ficials in Moscow during the
week end.
News Telephoned
President Kennedy person
ally phoned the elating news
to the wives and families of
the two men in Topeka, Kan.
"I'm just numb, very
numb," said the 26-year-old
Mrs. Connie McKone. "It's
like Thanksgiving and Christ
mas rolled into one."
"My feeling was o com
plete joy, relief and thankful
ness," said Mrs. Gaile Olm
stead, 25.
Await Husbands' Arrival .
The two women were sped
to Washington by Air Force
plane to be on hand for their
husbands arrival.
For four other women, the
news deepened their grief in
a way. They are the widows
of the four men who were fly
ing with McKone and Olm
stead, and were killed when
the plane was downed.
MATS Passenger
Plane Vanishes
Washington - IUPIi - A Mili
tary Air Transport Service
passenger plane with 23 per
sons on board vanished near
Argentina, Newfoundland, to
day after a trans - Atlantic
flight.
Its fate was still unknown
this afternoon.
The Air Force here report
ed that a Navy radar picket
plane saw an explosion In the
air 27 miles northeast of Ar-
gentia at 2:14 a.m. (PST.
That was 30 minutes after the
CI 18 transport was due to
land at Argentia.
The plane was cn route
from Port Lyautcy, Morocco,
to Norfolk. Va., Naval Air
Force Station with a 10-meni-ber
Navy crew and 13 pas
sengers, the Air Force said.
PROCEDURES PROPOSED
Salem-H'PK - House Speaker
Robert Duncan of Medford
proposed new procedures
Wednesday that would make
legislative records more acces
sible to attorneys and others
seeking to determine "legis
lative intent" on a particular
issue.
GIRL RELEASED
Portland-HTIi-A 16-ycar-old
girl was released to the cus-
today of her mother Wednes-
1 day after admitting In a Fed
j er;i Court hearing she forged
"na casnea some ",uuu worm
of nney orders.
School District
Reorganization
Target of Bill
Salem-tlPi!-A bill calling for
direct repeal of the 1957 Ore
gon school district reorganiza
tion law will be introduced
in the Senate in a few days,
Sen. Ben Musa D-The Dalles),
said today.
Musa said the bill would
stop any further reorganiza
tion under the 1957 law, but
would leave already reorgan
ized administrative school dis
tricts alone.
Musa said he hoped to mus-
Public Meeting on
Future of Indian
Land Is Scheduled
Future organization and
management of the Klamath
Indian Forest lands will be
discussed at a public meeting
in the Jackson county court
house at 2 p.m. Wednesday,
Feb. 1.
Conducting the meeting,
one of three scheduled
southern Oregon, will be J.
Herbert Stone, Portland, re
gional forester for the forest
service, and members of his
staff.
Under terms of the Klamath
Indian Forest Termination act,
525,700 acres of Klamath In
dian land will become nation
al forest April 1, 1961. The
forest service has been study
ing possible ways in which
to fit the lands into its system
of multiple-use management
of all national forest lands, the
forest service said.
Two proposals have been
under consideration, one to
divide the Indian forest land
among existing national for
ests, and two, to form a new
national forest with headquar
ters in Klamath Falls. The
second proposal has the sup
port of Klamath Falls in
terests. The public meetings, Stone
said, will afford the regional
forester an opportunity to re
view the study with residents
of the area. Stone will for
ward his recommendations to
Dr. Richard E. McArdle, for
est service chief.
The meeting here will be
sponsored by the Jackson
county court. Judge Earl
Miller said all interested per
sons are invited to the dis
cussion. Stone will meet with inter
ested citizens in the Lakoview
area at the Lakeview Cham
ber of Commerce building at
7:30 p.m. Monday, Jan. 30,
and in the Klamath Falls
Chamber of Commerce build
ing at 2 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 31.
Picard Trial To
Start Tomorrow
The jury trial of Roy R.
Picard, owner of Picard's of
Medford Jewelers, 129 South
Central ave., who is charged
with failure to file a registra
tion, will get under way to
morrow at 9:30 a.m. in Mcd-
ford's municipal court.
Picard is accused by the
city of selling electrical prod
ucts at his store without first
obtaining a city permit. Pi
card pleaded innocent Jan. 8,
and requested a Jury trial.
A six member jury was
selected Tuesday. It will be
the first municipal court jury
trial in Medford this year, and
will also be the first to be
presided over by Municipal
Judge Ronald Rickctts.
Maximum penalty upon
conviction of the failure to
file a registration charge is a
SI 00 fine and a 50 day jail
sentence.
City Attorney Joel Rirdcr
will represent the city of Med
ford, and Lawyer Robert
Dames will represent Picard.
Two witnesses have been sub
poenaed by the city to testify
tomorrow.
Reapportionment May
Be Put Up To Appling
Salem - IUPII - Rep. George
Annala, chairman of the
House Elections and Reappor
tionment Committee, said to
day if it appeared that re
mapping Oregon's legislative
districts would prolong the
1901 legislature, he would just
as soon turn thp issue over
to Secretary of Slate Howell
ter enough support for
sage of the bill, at least
pas-
modified form.
Musa, a member of the Sen
ate Education committee, said
there is considerable feeling
that the 19o7 law "has disrupt
ed a great deal the tax impact
on many small, less populous
dislricts. Increasing their
hardships."
Unfair Tax Burden
me law has taken away
the rights of minorities," Musa
said. He said sparsely settled
areas were being "sucked into
reorganized districts" and
forced to assume an unfair
proportion of the tax burden.
Musa said his bill would re
store voluntary consolidation
of, school districts to avoid
lengthy fights and involved
election procedures in order
to resist reorganization, The
Legislative Counsel is now
drafting the bill, Musa said.
Difficulty Predicted
Sen. Thomas Mahoncy CD
Portland), told the Senate he
predicted some difficulty for
a proposal by House Speaker
Robert Duncan of Medford to
switch Oregon's primary elec
tion from May to September.
Such a change would do away
with presidential primaries
and election of delegates to
national conventions.
Meanwhile the 3-cents-a-oaek
cigarette tax bill had its first
public hearing here Wednes
day and the legislature was
warned that the measure most
certainly would be referred to
the voters in 1B62 should it
pass.
Robert Bradley of Portland,
secretary of the Oregon To
bacco Distributors Associa
tion, described the proposed
tax as "discriminatory." The
price of cigarettes in Oregon
is cheaper than any other
state in the union and the
tobacco industry likes it this
way, he said.
Improves Business
Bradley said an undeter
mined amount, of cigarettes
are purchased in Oregon by
Washington state residents
seeking to escape the 6-cenl
cigarette tax in their state
and this makes tobacco an
even bigger business in Ore
gon, he said.
Any Oregon cigarette levy
would be referred to the vot
ers, he said. The people have
expressed themselves six
times on this issue and defeat
ed the proposed tax each
time.
City Meets With
Limousine Officials
Owners of Medford's limou
sine and taxi cab companies
heard a thorough explanation
of the city's laws governing
their operation when they met
with city officials yesterday.
The meeting had been called
by the city council, which has
placed the city's two limousine
companies on six-months pro
bation for alleged violations
of the city code.
Attending the meeting were
Carl Kellenberger, owner of
both the Yellow Cab Taxi
company, and the Yellow Cab
Limousine service, Clarence
E. Jones, owner of the Med
ford Airport Limousine serv
ice, and John Hill, owner of
the Courtesy Cab company.
City Manager Robert A. Duff,
City Attorney Joel Reeder.
and Airport Manager Gil
Gutjahr, also attended.
Duff said today that all
facets of the city's regulations
governing the operation of
taxi cabs and limousines were
discussed, and that there
should no longer be any mis
understanding as to their in
tent or meaning.
Special Meeting of
Commission Tonight
A special meeting of Med
ford's city planning commis
sion has been (ailed for 7:30
o'clock tonight in the city hall
lo hear a request for a vari
ance to operate a kindergarten
In a single-family zone.
The request is being made
by Mr. and Mrs. Clarence
Miller who want to operate
a kindergarten at the Congre
gational church, 300 Oakwood
dr. A special meeting was
called by the commission to
aecdmmodate the Millers, who
said they needed to know at
the earliest opportunity it
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FIRST NEWS CONFERENCE These pic
tures show President Kennedy during his
first formal press conference since taking
Kennedy
Thaw, Press Meeting Told
Washington. -(UPI)- President
Kennedy today looked for
ward to a cold war thaw fol
lowing Russia's release of two
American airmen who had
been held for almost seven
months.
The two airmen, now cn
route home, are Capts. Free
man B. Olmstead, 24, of El
mira, N.Y.', and John R. Mc
Kone, 38, 'of Tonganoxie,
Kan. They were the survivors
of the six-man crew of a plane
shot down by the Russians
over the Barents Sea July 1.
The President personally
announced the Russian action
at a nationally televised news
conference Wednesday night.
He said it "removes a serious
obstacle to improvement of
Soviet-Ariieriean relations."
At the same time, Kennedy
disclosed that he had prom
ised Soviet Premier Nikila
Khrushchev that American
U2 spy plane flights over Rus
sia would not be resumed.
Bank at Drain
Robbed of $2,000
Drain -OTU- A search was
under way today for a man
who robbed the Drain branch
of the U.S. National bank of
$2,000 Wednesday afternoon.
The bandit, ' described as
about 40 years old, weighing
165 to 170 pounds and about
5 feet 10 inches tall, pointed a
revolver at teller Kermit
Miller and demanded money.
He look the contents of a
cash drawer and ran out of
the bank. Police said he ap
parently got away in a ear
driven by another man. The
car later was found, about
10 miles west of here. Au
thorities said another car ap
parently was used in the get
away.
Hawthorne Trees
To Be Transplanted
The Medford parks and
recreation department has
plans to save a number of
trees In Hawthorne park that
will have to be removed when
the new freeway is construct
ed. City Recreation Director
Robert Haworlh said this
morning that 12 flowering
trees will be transplanted in
Jackson park. These include
cherry, plum and other dec
orative trees, he said.
lt has not yet been deter
mined just how the trees will
be moved, Haworth said, but
added that it will be done
sometime next week.
The trees will be planted in
the east area of Jackson park,
according to a park plan pre
pared by the city several
months ago. Jackson park is
being developed by the city.
Tax Legislation
Not in Hatfield Plan
Salem - iUPH - The Hatfield
administration docs not plan
to Introduce tax legislation
In the 1961 legislature because
the tax "package" proposed
by the Interim Tax Committee
could be amended to suit its
needs. '
Tins was revealed by Gov.
Mark Hatfield late Wednesday.
office. The news conference, held at tha
new State Department auditorium, was lelfr
vised live for the first time. (UPI Telephoto)
Looks for
The dramatic disclosures of
simultaneous tension - easing
concessions in Moscow and
Washington came at Ken
nedy's first formal meeting
with Washington newsmen
since taking office. In addi
tion lo being televised, the
conference was broadcast to
radio listeners around the
world.
Kennedy covered a wide
range of foreign and domestic
problems. He diseussed Cuba,
The Congo, Laos, the Chinese
famine, reciprocal trade, the
dollar gap and the seized
cruise ship Santa Maria.
On the domestic seerie, hi
talked about the House rules
fight, civil rights, New York
politics, aid to the unem
ployed, freedom of informa
tioiii the budget and electoral
reform.
Kennedy, while cautiously
optimistic about an era of
better relations with Russia,
sidestepped the question of a
summit conference and de
clined to commit himself to
a meeting with Khrushchev if
the Soviet leader returns to
the United Nations in New
York this spring.
The President said "It
would be more appropriate to
wait until we had some indi
cation whether Mr. Khru
shchev is planning to come to
the United Nations." i
Kennedy said the release of
the two RB47 fliers was nego
tiated by U.S.- Ambassador
Llewelyn E. Thompson In
"friendly" talks with Khru
shchev and other Soviet offi
cials. The President said the
conversations took place in
an "atmosphere of civility."
The President said the
Soviet Union, in the talks
with Thompson, still con
tended that it knew nothing
of 1 1 airmen still unaccounted
for from the 17-man crew of
a CI 30 shot down in Septem
ber 1958 over Soviet Armenia.
The Russians returned the
bodies of six other crew mem
bers. Kennedy s a I d Thompson
did not discuss with the Rus
sians the case of Capt. Francis
Signals Installed
At Intersections
Traffic signals are now be
ing installed at the Intersec
tions of 10th st. and Central
ave., and 10th st. and River
side ave., to facilitate the
movement of traffic over the
new 10th st. bridge.
Trowbridge and Flynn Elec
tric company Is doing the
work under contract to the
state highway department.
The city will reimburse the
state for lis share of the cost
of the signals.
Charles Wakefield, manager
of the project for Trowbridge
and Flynn, said they expect to
have the signals in operation
by the second week In Febru
ary. The signal poles at both
intersections were installed
this week, he said.
NEW PORT OPENS
Gold Beach -fOPD A new
Pacific Coast port opened to
day. The Sauso Brothers Tug
Go - Getter was scheduled
to leave the Rogue river with
two barges loaded with 3 mil
lion board feet of lumber.
Cold Wa
Gary Powers because it was
in a different category.
Powers is serving a 10-year
sentence in Russia for espion
age. The crash ol ms oa deep
the heart of Russia last
May 1 led td the collapse of
the Paris summit conference.
Former President Eisenhower
took the blame and suspend
ed all such flights-a ban Ken
nedy has promised to con
tinue. . ;. " ":
Tension 'Quit High
At his news conference,
Kennedy appeared to lean
over backward to avoid any
inflammatory references to
matters involving the Soviet
Union. But he acknowledged
that "in some areas" where
American and Russian inter
ests clash "tension . .'. is quits
high."
On other international sub
jects, he said: '
Cuba: "We have no plan at
present to resume diplomatic
relations with Cuba" because
the revolution there has been
seized by aliens for their
purposes. ' The united states
welcomes national movements
in Latin America but fs con
cerned when they "are seized
by external forces and direct
ed not to improving the wel
fare of the people involved
but towards Imposing an
ideology which Is alien to this
hemisphere. 1
Congo! The United States
will "increase substantially
ils food shipments to reiieva
famine in the turbulent area
and also will step up the flow
of .hospital supplies.
Nuclear Test Ban: The Uni
ted States has asked that ne
gotiations with Britain and
Russia, scheduled to resume
Feb. 7, be postponed until late
n March to give Kennedys
administration time to "pre
pare a clear American posi
tion." China: He is "not anxious to
offer food" to famine-stricken
China "if it is regarded mere
ly as a propaganda effort by
the United States." Anyway,
China Is still exporting ries
and has given no sign that aid
from the United States would
be welcomed.
Laos: The United States "is
using its influence" to try to
foster the establishment of an
"independent country, peace
ful country." There has been
no Soviet reply to a British
proposal lo re-establist a
three-nation control commis
sion to try lo end the civil
war there.
Gold and Dollar Gap: He
plans to send Congress recom
mendations on how to meet
the deficit In U.S. Internation
al balances but docs not be
lieve that exchange rcsfric
tians will bo needed.
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Moontet tomorrow 4itft a.m.
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