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55th Year Price 10 Cents Recommended Subscribers To report improper or non delivery of the Mail Tribune In Medford phone SP 2-6141. in Ashland AIU 21021 and in Yreka. VI 2-2B07, beiory ti:45 p.m. dally and 10:30 a m Sunday If regular delivery arrives shortly after you call please notify office thus eliminating ipecial messenger service Centra) Point's population has more than doubled mice J94u. The population boom has heen met successfully to date. How ever, the riiy faces problems of the future. Head about what these problems are and facts of the city's growth on page 12 A of today's Mail Tribune, United Press International Full Leased Wlro United Press International Full Leased Wire 56 Pages Section A MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, JANUARY 29, 1961 No. 269 G Medford&JTribune Official Speeches Must Follow Line Of Administration Salinger Confirms : Burke Rewrote Talk Washington - (LTD - The While House acknowledged Saturday that orders have gone out to government of ficials and military chiefs that their speeches must reflect Kennedy administration polir cies. Presidential News Secretary Pierre Salinger confirmed that at the behest of the White House, Adm. Arleigh A. Burke deleted sharp criti cism of the Soviet Union in a speech this week. This confirmed an assertion by Sen. Styles Bridges (R R.N.) who charged Friday that a "gag policy" had been clamped on the Pentagon. Bridges, chairman of the Senate GOP policy committee, claimed that Burke, chief of Naval operations, had been or dered to rewrite the speech, prepared for delivery at a national business publications dinner. Eliminates References He said Burke had to elimi nate all references to hostile Soviet actions except for a re mark about "Communist am bition to dominate the world." Salinger, in explaining the Burke episode, said: "Members of the administra tion, speaking at private func tions, should represent admin istration policy." He explained further that he had referred to "private functions" to distinguish from testimony before Congression al committees, where he said military officials were, "of course, free to state their own opinions." He said speeches of adminis tration officials would be sub jected to review to see that they reflect administration policy. He called the pro cedure "strictly routine" and said it had been followed in past administrations. Sporis Bulletins Klamath Falls - Klamath Falls solidified its hold on first place in Southern Ore gon conference basketball last nighi with a 73 to 58 victory over Medford. Bob Quinney of Medford led scoring with 25 points. Bruce Brickner totaled 20 for Klamath. Central Point - Grants Pass high clipped Crater 70 lo 59 here last night in a Southern Oregon confer- nee basketball game. Loy al Higinbotham had 25 points for Crater and Clyde Murray 20 for the Cave men. Butte Falls - Medford St. Mary's whipped Butte Falls 48 to 40 here last night. The Crusaders held a 33 lo 32 1 a d going into the final quarter. Butte Falls led at halfiime 21 to 19. Oregon 75, Seattle 64 Oregon State 74, Wash ington 46 Oregon Tech 70, Oregon College 64 Eastern Oregon 64, Port land Stale 57 (o.l.) Linfield 80, Willamette 73 if TO " ii!r ,'rwV' V,rVfrv hu, r, J ARHANGES MEETING Pictured above is at sea with t the hii.ick"d rorttiguee liner The U.S. Navy has arranged PUG Head G rants1 Na,ional 0f,icers t... nr.i.: To Attend Medford Two Applications legionconvefltk)n For Logging Road Salem - Public Utility Com missioner Jonel C. Hill said Friday he has approved two applications involving the con struction and conversion of crossings required by the re alignment and conversion of the Medford Corporation rail road to a private log truck road. Mcdco's railroad, Hill noted, is scheduled to be moved at the Medford end of the line as a result of the construction of an interchange between Highway 62 and the new In terstate Highway 5. According to the state high way commission, Medco has chosen to convert the railroad to a private truck road at this time. The commission, in re locating the section of the road, had applied to the PUC for authority to build over crossings at Biddle rd., and at the interstate highway, and to convert the grade crossing at Bullock county road from a rail lo a road crossing. Pays for Section Hill noted that the highway commission is paying for the construction of this section of the private road and the two overcrossings. In the second application, Medco had applied for author ity to convert the existing crossing of Highway 99 to a private road crossing. In its application, Medco ork Is Scheduled On Lake Facilities Ice - s k a t i n g on Howard Prairie lake has halted tem porarily and work is continu ing in preparation for the spring and summer recreation seasons, City-County Parks and Recreation Director Bob Haworth said Saturday. The Jackson county court Friday decided to extend the boat ramp at the lake an ad ditional 650 feet. This 30-foot wide extension will carry the ramp into the water even dur ing the height of irrigation season when the lake will be lower than usual, Haworth ex plained Saturday. "Based on present water supply forecasts the shore line will extend 500 feet from the present ramp length if we get normal moisture from here on into spring," Haworth said. "Extension of the ramp will put the boats in a foot of wa ter, based on present esti mates." Estimated Cost Base rock and perhaps a fine gravel cover will com prise the ramp extension which has an estimated cost of SI. 000, Haworth said he was told by the county engineer's office. This October, an addition was put on the concrete ramp widening it by 60 feet. This was of base rock and cinder covering. Haworth did not know when the extension would be added, possibly as soon as weather permits. Meanwhile there will be no skating permitted officially on the lake, he said. A six to eight foot river of water now it t Santa Maria, cuss removal a rendezvoiu O agreed to reimburse the stale highway commission for all special and unusual mainte nance costs brought about by the passage of its log trucks, as well as for the conversion of the crossing, Hill noted. Conversions of the highway at the crossing will require strengthening a section 30 feet wide to carry the 120,000 pound loads imposed by the off-the-road type logging rigs used by Medco. Warning Lights Part of the cost of conver sion covers the installation of flashing advance warning lights and flashing traffic control lights which will be activated by the log trucks, Hill added. Hill said engineering studies submitted by the highway de partment indicated that the designated traffic control sys tem would create the least disturbance to the flow of traffic on Highway 99. The "demand type" traffic lights only operate when a truck approaches the crossing, and will only slop traffic for a maximum of 24 seconds, with a minimum ejapsed lime between stops of 50 seconds. Since most all of the truck traffic will use the crossing during daylight hours, the crossing will generally be un used at night, Hill noted. separates the five-inch thick ice from shore. If freezing weather should occur in the future skating may be official ly authorized again, he said. Haworth said he understood that Howard lake will be used as reserve water for Emigrant which must be filled for the next season. Hiatt lake was lowered earlier and must be filled, also. This further com plicates the problem of having a ramp which will lake the boats directly into the water. Clearing Brush Welfare work crews under county direction have been clearing brusli at Howard Prairie lake for the last two or three weeks, Haworth said. The men have been cutting wood, also, to be used for fire wood during the camping and picnic season. The welfare crews already have constructed 20 picnic ta bles in the county shops. Most of these will be placed at Emi grant lake and Hooper springs for picnickers and perhaps also at Howard Prairie. Haworth hopes to get work started at Howard Prairie May 5 for final preparations for the summer season. A dock system must be constructed, additional reslruom facilities and possibly, a headquarters building. Haworth noled thai the county court has not ycl committed itself to construct ing the building which would house a restaurant, store and caretaker's quarters. i r . hp ves-cl. presumably to dis- ? passengers. -(UPI Telepholo) 3,000 Legionnaires Expected for Meet Several national officers of the American Legion and its auxiliary are scheduled tenta tively to speak here during the Oregon convention sched uled for June 22, 23 and 24 in Medford, according lo Eu gene Orr, convention chair man. "We also expect to have 3,000 Legionnaires and auxil iary members in town all that week," Orr said. "Including events scheduled for the Le gion and its subsidiaries, such as the 40 and 8 and the wom en's 8 and 20, convention week will feature 12 break fasts, luncheons and ban quets." The national president of the auxiliary and two past national auxiliary presidents will be in Medford for the convention, Orr said. Tenta tively scheduled lo speak here are the National Commander William Burke, Calif., and Gov. Mark Hatfield. Opens Thursday The convention opens Thurs day morning, June 22, with registration in the convention headquarters, the Medford hotel. A banquet will be held Thursday night at the country club. Two parades are scheduled, one on Wednesday for the 40 and 8 and the women's group and another on Friday after noon for all the Legionnaires. An American Legion drum and bugle corps contest is slated for 8 p.m. at the Med ford high school field Friday. The convention office will be at Weeks and Orr furniture store at 630 North Central ave. and the convention pro gramming and publicity office will be at 630 North Central ave. in the office of Jennings Pierce and Associates. Newspaper Story Said Misleading A news story in Friday's Mail Tribune, reporting the recommended denial of s zoning variance by the Med ford planning commission was criticized Saturday as containing a "half-truth," but a member of the commission upheld the story as being "quite accurate. Clarence L. Miller, whose request for a variance to op erate a kindergarten at the Congregational church, 300 Oakwood ave., was denied by the commission, said: "The re port in question is inaccurate and it is detrimental to the best interests of many of the kindergartens (in the city) Miller said: "Referring lo my comments the article stat es, 'He contended that the ex isting kindergartens in the city are not aimed at prepar ing the child for school.' Your reporter failed to add that this remark referred in words to kindergartens that arc operat ed in connection with danc ing." . . Pre-School Training He added: "Medford has some kindergartens which arc operated expressly for the pur- nose of giving the children prc-school training." Regarding the slory in Fri day s paper, a planning com mission member said he feels it was quite accurate and, "used his (Miller's) almost ex act words." He said he also interpreted Miller's comments about kin dergartens as being directed lo all kindergartens in the citv. and thai Miller's state ment about dancing school kindergartens was merely used as an example. Man Jailed After Fight Over $5 Debt Robert Lee Thomas. 21, 843 Diamond ave., Medford, was lodged in the Jackson county jail Saturday night on charges of assault Hnd battery, Medford police said Thomas is accused of beating John Middleton Permenter, 21, of 802 East Jackson si. The al legrd beating was the result of a dispute over a two-year-old S5 debt Permenter alleged ly owed Thomas' wife, police said. Permenter is in Ashland General hospital with Irai turerl jaw and nose and mul tiple bruises of the chest. The incident was reported at 5:30 pja. Friday. fee ' k . v v 4 v a t f i ICE-COVERED Chicago firemen, working in 5-dcgree vehicle toward the smoking ruins of two big storage build weather, are shown spraying water from an ice-covered ings Saturday. At least eight firemen perished in the blaze. -KUPI Telephoto) Jetliner Crash Kills Six Men Riverhcad, N.Y.-HIPII-A huge S5 million American Airlines Boeing 707 Jetliner nosedived into the Atlantic surf off a lonely windswept Long Island beach Saturday while per forming training flight man euvers. All six crewmen ap parently were killed. One of the four Jet engines was ripped from a swept-back wing as the plane fell. The plane exploded about a quart er mile offshore. The Coast Guard said one body had been recovered. Two others were sighted but had not been brought to shore. The other three bodies were missing. The crash in sunny weather came just three days after American Airlines completed two years of domestic Jet op erations without the loss of a single passenger. Third NY Crash It was the third Jet crash in the New York area In six weeks and the sixth disaster involving a commercial Jet airliner in the United Stales. The U. S. Coast Guard re ported that the 248,000-pound aircraft, capable of carrying up to 170 passengers, "explod ed in the air." The wreckage fell on a wide, dune-edged strip of snow-coaled sand near the spot where would-be Ger man saboteurs slipped ashore from a Nazi submarine during World War II. The crash occurred at 12:55 p.m. EST during a training flight out of the Grumman Aviation company airfield on Long Island. American Air lines uses that field for its practice flights, which are made over the Atlantic or sparsley settled areas. Edward R. Murrow Named USIA Chief Washinglon-'UPII - President Kennedy Saturday named vet eran broadcaster Edward R. Murrow to head the United Stales Information agency. He also appointed a foreign aid director and announnced a string of other selections for his new administration team. His choice of Murrow and of Henry Richardson La Bouispc as director of the in ternational cooperation admin istration had been anticipated. The other nominations made public Saturday will fill out key positions at the United Nations and In the federal housing administration. The selections were an nounced as Kennedy confer red with a group of his top larcign policy and defense ad visers in what the White House called "a continuation of the policy review which wai initiated last week." 1 Rayburn Plans Fight For House Control Washington-HJPII - Speaker Sam Rayburn Saturday chal lenged a southern Democratic Republican coalition to a win- ner-lake-all-fight for control of the House legislative ma chinery. The veteran Texan spurned any compromise in the fight over the make-up of the rules committee which conlols the flow of bills to the House floor. Rayburn told a news con- Salary of School Boss Legal Issue The Jackson county court was playing a legal game of "money, money, who's got the money" Friday afternoon as it and the district attorney's office tried to determine who should pay the remainder of County School Supt. Alf Mck vold's salary. Previously, the county paid about half of the school super intendent's salary and the rural school board the other half. That was when Mekvold was recognized as an elected county officer under state law. However, now under state law Mekvold is an appointive officer, appointed by Ihe county rural school board The 1957 school district re organization lav provided that when the county school .superintendents' terms of of fice expire Ihcy may be ap pointed by the rural board Mekvold's lenn expired J.in. 1 Now the court must deter mine if it can legally trans fer the $5,500 remaining sal orly due Mekvold for the next six months lo the rural school board. Then the rural board would pay the money the county had paid previously Due to an oversight the county court had not consider ed this change of legal status for Mekvold when the current fiscal year budget was mnde out. Mekvold s total annual salary is $9,222 91. Agreement Reached On Astoria Bridge Portland, Ore. - tUPI) - An informal agreement for about a 60-40 per cent split in the cost of (he proposed $24 mil lion Astoria, Ore. Megler, Wash., bridge was reached here Saturday by Oregon and Washington legislators. i The decisii,'. with Oregon I bearing the larger share of the com. came it an exploratory i mretliiof the two i'iIci Sen j at and House Interim High I way committee. t , ference thai the Issue will be settled in a House floor fight next Tuesday, as scheduled He indicated his belief that the outcome will determine what success President Ken ncdy can expect In pushing his legislative program through this Congress. Close Vote . - Rayburn forecast a close vote but said he believed he would win. Should the- con servative coalition of Repub licans and southern Democrats triumph, he said he would interpret it as a "blow" lo Kennedy's program. The question to be nut be fore the House is approval of Raybrun's plan to liberalize the rules committee by en larging it lo 15 members. The vote will delerminc whether Rayburn or rules chairman Howard W. Smith, D-Va. will dominate the com mittee. In the past when the com mittee membership consisted of 12 House members, a coali tion of four Republicans and two southern Democrats were able to block consideration of leadership backed legislation If the committee Is expand cd to 15 members, Rayburn would be able lo name two Democrats favorable to Ken ncdy programs and thus break the deadlock. Compromise talks initiated by southern Democrats col lapsed Friday after Smith re fused to give Rayburn assur ances that if the conservative coalition were left in control no legislation favored by Ken nedy and Rayburn would be pigeonholed. "I Enjoy Censoring The Movie So Much, One Of These Days I'd Like To Censor The Book" k .sis tefPjPSg3 ' o -in 'It i Nine Firemen Die In Chicago Blaze Chicago - IIIPII - A deadly spectacular fire claimed heavy toll of city , firemen early Saturday when the walls of two. warehouses collapsed on the firefighters. ,' . At- Ieast nine- firemen died in Die ruins of the buildings, located on the fringe of Chi cago s famed loop, while 15 others were injured.. ' Fire Commissioner Robert Quinn said at least one other fireman was missing. Earlier, Quinn said all hope had been given up for the missing. They were buried under tons and tons. of debris which cascaded down on the firefighters with the collapse of three-walls of a six-story bakery storage building.-: The roof of an adjoining glass company also fell in. . i. The death count rose slowly is firemen searched through the rubble for their colleagues and removed their bodies to the morgue. WEATHER FftRKCAST: Mostly rlnudy Bnn rtay ami Mondny Willi urriislonnl prriotli of II relit r-ilit. HIrIi today .Ml. ,ow tonight 35. High Mon day An, Trmp. Iflchcht Ymtirdiiy 55 I'rctlp l i p.m. Vcilerday 0. Our Skies Tonight Smiirl today 5:21 p.m. Sunrise tomorrow 7:28 a.m. Mmnrt tomorrow .... 6:36 a.m. PltOMINKNT HTAHS I'rocyon, htgh In lonth 1 1:11 p.m. Sphn, rltpi 12:03 a.m. YISIIil.K IM.,NhTS V1 mi f, low in west .... X:M pin, Mars, hlRlt In in u III .... I):,16 p.m. Rendezvous Will Take Place Off Brazilian Coast Removal of Captives Topic of Discussion Recife, Brazil - (TJPO - Tha commander of the N.S. Navy Caribbean sea frontier last night arranged a rendezvous at sea with the hijacked Por tuguese liner Santa Maria, presumably to discuss removal of passengers. A. U.S. Navy spokesman at Recife, a northern Brazilian port, said the meeting would take place 50 miles at sea. Although the Brazilian gov ernment rescinded an order grounding U.S. Navy planes that had been tracking the ship, the Navy's Caribbean sea frontier headquarters in San Juan, P.R., announced that all American planes were to be pulled out of Recife and Belem by this morning. Adm. 'Allen Smith Jr., the commander,-.! flew to Belem, the other major Brazilian northern port, yesterday and planned to board the destroyer WUson. To Transport Admiral The Wilson, now steaming at full speed for Belem, was to take the admiral to the rendezvous, the spokesman said. Should the Navy be called. upon lo remove the B20 cap tive passengers, including 42 Americans, the Navy said three more destroyers were en route to the area and could be used for that purpose. Cmdr. William Webster, Navy spokesman at Recife, said the U.S. Navy's sole in terest was in' protecting the Jives of the passengers,, now entering their second week of buccanering aboard the Portu guese luxury ship. The American Navy "only wants to spare human lives," Webster said. Throats End Chances i Throats that Brazil would impound the vessel and turn It over lo Portugal If Its rebel commander went ahead with plans to dock at Brazil blew up chances of a quick and easy ending to the week-long saga of the 20,906-ton Santa Maria upon the Spanish Main, Admiral Robert L. Donni- son, conmmander-ln-chiof ol the Atlantic fleet at Norflok, Va., said a rendezvous at sea-' with a U.S. Navy destroyer on Monday was one of several plans "under consideration." Dennlson has been In con tact with Henrique Galvno, the swashbuckling Porlugeso rebel who seized the ship with 70 Spaniards and Portugese desperadoes last Sunday morn ing. The fleet commander said he still was negotiating with Galvao by radio. Ship Slowed Down There were reports tha Santa Maria was slowed down by engine trouble but lis course was still toward tha coast of Brazil most prob ably the port of Recife. Reports said the Navy con sidered sending a destroyer to meet the Santa Maria 50 miles offshore. The destroyer Wilson was en route lo Belem. the other major north Brazilian port. It could easily be diverted. The U. S. atomic submarlna Seawolf was trailing tha Santa Maria. A covey of U.S. Navy weather tracking planes also were keeping an eye on it, mainly Interested In tho protection of the 42 Americans aboard. 1 SOC Construction In College Program Salem - llll'll - The Housa Tax committee Friday approv ed a $10 million Oregon col lege building program for tha next two years. The committee voted out "do puss" HB 1101, which would hike the state system of higher education's bonding limit from $24 million to $34 million. The bill originally provid ed for $32 million but John Richards, chancellor of tha system, ashed for mother $2 million and Us was ek-a.yet. Included n ft W program for Southwl t.egon college are(ji student healfti service building, athletic fa cilities andQin addition to a resident hall. 3
