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MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, JANUARY 29, 1961
No. 269
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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
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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.
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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.
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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."
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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 '
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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.
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