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m otitis- 'heb . 1 v j lb 1 J in Regional Edition 55th Year Price 10 Cents GALL FOR Medford Tribune ACTION VOIC 16 Pages MEDFORD, OREGON, MONDAY, JANUARY 30, 1961 No. SJ fjj.1 llillieielllllllJ.liIUlllllWI.M mWUHUM it:-- SWIFT 270 I r f WilVf ,1 J Hatfield All Segments of Industry Will Attend Meeting Parley Scheduled For Salem Feb. 14 Salem-IUPD-Gov. Mark Hal field today announced he has called a "conference on the economic affairs of Oregon" for Feb. 14 here to seek ways to bolster the state's economy -particularly in the lumber field. About 50 persons, repre senting all segments of Ore gon industry, will be invited. To Correct 'Dislocations' Purpose, Hatfield said, is to correct "certain dislocations" in the economy. He identified one of the most severe as the plywood market. The conference will be in two phases. On the 14th dele gates will make preliminary suggestions for action, to. be taken. The meeting will ad journ for about two weeks to enable more data to be col lected. The group then will recon vene here to make final rec ommendations. Federal Liaison Sought One part of the program will be liaison with the Ken n e d y administration as to what part the federal govern ment could play, - Hatiield said he will con sider a fact-finding tour of the state's economically hard- hit sections if the conference deems it necessary. Hatfield reiterated his hope that the legislature will act soon on two bills that would enable International Paper Co. to begin its pulp mill at Gardiner. A 1,000 man work force at the mill means a pay roll of about $50 million to southwest Oregon, he said. Welfare Criticized Hatfield took another ver bal poke at the State Welfare commission restating that the state agency has shown "dis regard" for the intent of both the governor and the legisla ture. He quoted Commissioner Gerson Goldsmith, Portland as commenting on an issue last October and saying: "I think the legislative action is irrelevant." This Hatfield said, "typifies" the commis sion's attitude. Wasco Man May Be Named U.S. Attorney Portland (UPD Dist. Atty. Harry Hogan of Wasco county is reported under' considers lion as U. S. Attorney for Oregon. WEATHER FORECAST: Cloudy and windy with occasional rain through Tuesday. Rain moderate to heavy at times tonight and earlv Tuesday. Low tonight 43. High Tuesday 53. Temp. Highest Yesterday 35 Lowest thl Morning 30 Precin. tn 10 a.m. Today 01 Our Skies Tonight Sunset today 3:23 p.m. Sunrise tomorrow 7:37 a.m. The Moon rises 4:46 p.m. today and Is In Apogee. Full Moon Jan. 31 PROMINENT STAR Capella, hlch overhead 8:47 p.m, VISIBLE I'LANKTS Venus, low in west .. . 8:51 p.m, Mars. In the west 1:13 a.m. (all times Pacific Standard) Laotian Troops Advance Toward Royal Capital Vientiane, Laos - IVPH - Loa- tian government troops ad vanced toward the royal cap ital of Luang Prabang were reported today to be meeting stiff resistance from pro-Communist Pathct Lao rebels ef fecting an organized retreat toward the strategic plain of Jars. The rebel "Voice of Laos" radio claimed that Pathet Lao units captured among Hien, a post east of Luang Prabang. The broadcast, reported by the Communist New China News agency, said the Pathct Lao units killed or wounded 40 government soldiers and took Calls Conference RENDEZVOUS SCHEDULED WITH HIJACKED Recife. Brazil - IUPD - A U. S. admiral today arranged a rendezvous at dawn Tues day aboard the hijacked liner Santa Maria to negotiate with the ship's rebel commander for removal of the 820 captive passengers. Rear Adm. Allen Smith Jr., commander of the Navy's Caribbean Sea Frontier, will board the U. S. destroyer Gearing for the meeting with Capt. Henrique Galvao on the Santa Maria. 35 miles off the Brasilian port of Recife. The Navy's announcement indicated that the passengers might be taken off at sea by U. S. warship rather than landed in port. Four Navy destroyers were ordered to the area where the Santa Maria was circling today. Duplication of Power Facilities in State Said Salem - IUPII - The electric . power user is paying through the nose for an unhealthy du plication of power facilities in Oregon, Public Utility Com missioner Jonel C. Hill today warned the Senate Commerce and Utilities committee. He testified on a bill to re quire certificates of conveni ence and necessary for power, ,gas,,andtelephone utilities, in oroer 10 prevem luiuiei uvci- lapping of facilities. The power discussion gave a hard-hitting sendoff to the legislature's fourth week - a week during which every thing from a three-way tax tug-of-war to mothers impa tient to get their youngsters off to school promised to rock the lawmaking body. 'There is a great deal of duplication of electric facili ties in the state, over and above that necessary to serve the customers, Hill said. Power users are forced to support these extra facilities, he told the committee, and must pay for facilities that Ashland Man Dies In Auto Crash Ashland - Ashland's second traffic fatality in less than a month was recorded at 2:15 a.m. today when Sheldon Charles Wilcox, 33, of 770 Iowa st., Ashland, died from injuries suffered when his car flipped over and skidded on Highway 99 inside the north ern city limits. Ashland police said Wilcox had entered the city limits and driven under the railroad underpass on Highway 99. Tire tracks show the car went onto the shoulder of the high way, hit a ditch, then hit a rock flipping the car over, police indicated. The vehicle skidded on its top for a short distance. Wilcox was pinned in the car and his skull was crushed, police said. Wilcox' death is the second in Jackson county this year. The first occurred Jan. 7 when Elmer William Swift. Tekoa, Wash., died of injuries re ceived in a Jan. 2 one-car ac cident. Lilwiller's Funeral home, Ashland, is in charge of fun eral arrangements. 125 others prisoner, including 80 South Vietnamese troops Western military sources said the 12th Loatian Infantry battalion driving north from the captured town of Muong Kassv were making very slow progress against rebel forces seeking to withdraw to the Salou Phou Khoun road junc tion. The government battalion was delayed by fallen trees land boulders placed alons the single dirt road by withdraw ing Red troops, the sources said. Later the battalion ran into stiff rearguard fire from the rebels, the source said. regon Economy LINER ON that he would takes office friend" and ship of sanctuary. doorstep early this morning in Rio, Quadros refused to confirm it and snapped: "When I have something to say about the Santa Maria I will have nothing Costly are failing to earn to capacity. Competition Loss Feared Sen. Andrew Naterlin (D- Newport), a member of the committee, countered by de claring he feared that rates would increase if competition were removed. "Do you think under a mo nopoly the rates will go down?" he asked Hill. Nater lin has sponsored a bill for permissive regulation of com petition. Hill said over the long run removal of overlapping facili ties would benefit the custom er by decreasing costs of sup plying power. The public utility commis sioner also told the committee "duplication is imminent in the Boardman industrial re serve if industry comes in." "Gentlemen's a g r e emenls have a limited value where there is a healthy, husky load involved," he said. Hill said power companies serving 84 per cent of the state's customers as well gas and telephone companies, support the bill, SB 42. Meanwhile, the income tax payer, whom everyone want ed to help, appeared in dan ger of being lost in a political tax wrangle that left an un friendly gap between the views of Gov. Mark Hatfield, the Interim Tax committee and two powerful senators Walter Pearson (D-Portland) and Boyd Overhulse (D-Mad-ras). The House Tax committee opened hearings today on a bill to revise and reduce pen sonal income taxes, and a bill for a net receipts tax, before deciding whether a three-cent-a-pack cigrattte lax is needed. Two Youths Still Hospitalized Today Larry Neuman, 18, one of three Medford High school students injured in a three car accident south of Cottage Grove Friday night, was re ported in "fairly good" condi tion at a Cottage Grove hospi tal today. A second youth, James H. Stever, 17, was transferred to Rogue Valley hospital. The third student injured in the accident, Michael Phillips, 18, student body president at Medford High school, was taken to the home of his par ents. The youths were en route to the annual "senior week end" at Oregon State college In Corvallis at the time of the accident. LUNCHEON CANCELLED Ashland There wil be no Tuesday noon luncheon of the Ashland Chamber of Commerce this week, accord ing to Velma Jones, chamber secretary. The luncheon meet ing has been cancelled due to the awards banquet lo be held Tuesday night in the Mark AnJony hotel. A junior, senior and middle aged citizen of the year will be named at life banquel. It is sponsored by the chamber, Kiwanls and Junior Chamber o f Commerce. TUESDAY In Sao Paulo, incoming Brazilian Presi dent Janio Quadros cast doubt on reports offer Galvao and the stolen ship safe haven after he is inaugurated Tues day. A Rio newspaper Sunday quoted Bra' zilian President-elect Janio Quadros, who Tuesday, described as an "old to have assured him and the But confronted with the story at his not say it in this manner. I else to say right now, First Bill for Reorganization Lands in House Salem, Ore. - IUPII - A much- attacked government reorgan ization bill that would abolish the board of control as the governing body for state in stitutions was introduced in the House of Representatives today, at the request of Gov. Mark Hatfield. The proposal already has been denounced by . the two top stale officials who sit with Hatfield on the board - Sec retary of State Howell Ap pling Jr. and Treasurer How ard Belton. Others Arrive Two other reorganization bills arrived in the House to day, one to set up a mental health division within a new cabinet department of social services, and the other to set up a veterans affairs division in the same department. Some dozen more reorgan ization bills are expected to land in the House and Senate in the next few days. The mental health division would take over supervision of Eastern Oregon Slate hos-' pital, Dammasch, Midcolum- bia home, Fairview home, and Oregon State hospital. OSC Bill in House A long - promised bill to change the name of Oregon State college at Corvallis to Oregon State university land ed in the House, along with bills to change Southern and Eastern Oregon colleges of education to simply Southern Oregon college and Eastern Oregon college. Other bills would prohibit discrimination in employment because of membership in an organization, permit county courts to exchange lands, in cluding forests, and shift pow ers from county school super intendents to rural school boards. "Now How About Survivors From This Other Plane That o b t & wy3J- J 1 UMKW Wf'T"- 'llTiCT"' K hithrq ft nrfft Jk : - -a-., u MOVING INTO MANOR Workmen to day started moving 12 families into the Rogue Valley Manor, new retirement apart ment on Barneburg hill. They are the first of more than 200 families who will move there during the next two months. Walter M. Higgins, executive director, said that Masked Gunman Holds Up Local Service Station A masked gunman, de scribed as "older than a teen ager," held up the all-night Regal Service station, 1006 South Central ave., early Sun day morning and fled witli $45 from the station's cash register. Walter Troy Reynolds, a part-time employee at the sta tion who was the only one on duty at the time of the rob bery, told police the gunman locked him in an oil storage room while he rifled the sta tion's till. Reynolds reported the rob bery to police at 4:30 a.m. A Medford police officer on rou tine patrol drove past the station during the robbery, but said he thought the gun man was an employee of the station and did not stop, v Reynolds told .police- l h e man had a dark wool stocking pulled down over his face. The robber had one hand in his right pocket, Reynolds said, and told him , there was a gun inside. ' ; . Medford police searched the area around the gas station, and the sheriff's office set up road blocks on the roads lead ing out of the city, but no sus pects were apprehended. Reynolds said he was get ting some oil from the storage room at the time of Ihe rob bery. He said the gunman walked up and told him to get into the storage room. He then locked the door behind Reynolds and told him to "keep quiet, or I'll kill you." Reynolds said he heard the man open the cash register and then run from the station in a northwesterly direction. No car was seen. Reynolds unlocked the storage room door with a key he had in his pocket, and then called police. The attendant described the man as about 5 feet 9 inches tall, and weighing about 155 pounds. Ho was wearing dark leather jacket and light colored panls, Reynolds said Police said the gunman took only cash from the station till, leaving the change be hind. Washington -(UPli- President Kennedy will hold a news con ference Wednesday at 7 a.m, (PST), the White House an nounced today. We Downed?" persons moving in now will occupy the first three floors. Work on the interior in the apartments of the upper floors will con tinue. Fourth and fifth floors are expected to be ready for occupancy after Feb. 9; sixth and seventh after Feb. 23, and the eighth, ninth and tenth after March 9. JFK Sees Programs Impaired if House Rules Battle Lost Washington -IUPII- President Kennedy feels that his ability to deal with Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev may be se riously impaired if his admin istration loses the fight over enlarging the House Rules committee, close associates said today. Kennedy's deep feelings about the rules fight became known as continuing surveys on Capitol Hill showed that Tuesday's crucial House vote would be extremely close. Programs Would Suffer A qualified source said there was no question that Kennedy felt his legislative program, plus his international program and his ability to deal with Khrushchev would bo serious- Gold Hill Man ' Dies in Hospital Harold Charles Burnelte, 28. of Gold Hill, died at Sacred Heart hospital Sunday from a gunshot wound in the neck. Burnetle was shot on Jan. 13 in the home of Mrs. Nellie Leona Dunwody, 37, of Gold Hill. Mrs. Dunwody admitted to holding the rifle at the lime of the shooting, which she said was an accident. How ever, Burnetle is reported to have told his physician during one of the few timos he was able to talk clearly (hat he accidentally shol himself. Ralph Litlleticld, also of Gold Hill, was a witness to the shooting. Mrs. Dunwody was taken to Rocky Bulle jail in Portland this morning by Sheriff Joe Walsh. She was sentenced to a six months jail term recently in district court, after plead ing guilty to the misdemeanor charge of pointing a gun at another person. Mrs. Dunwody received news of Burnetle's death be fore leaving for Portland this morning, sheriff's deputies said. District Attorney Alan B. Holmes said this morning he would not prosecute the case further, since Burnettc had repeatedly told his physician that he shot himself. Funeral arrangements for Burnelte will be announced by Siskiyou Funeral Service directors of Chapel in the Trees Mortuary. Juveniles Arrested For 'Car Prowls' A 14-year-old Medford boy, who was taken into custody Saturday night on a charge of being a delinquent Juvenile, later admitted to police that he is responsible for a number of "car prowls" In recent weeks. His confession implicated another 15-year-old boy, who also admitted breaking into several cars, and was taken into custody. Both youths told Medford police that they took such things as knives, flashlights and money from the glove compartments of approximate ly a dozen cars during the past month. Ihe younger youth was taken Into custody Saturday when police, investigating a report of a family disturbance. found him fighting with his mother. He was taken Into custody at his own request. Both boyi were confined In the county juvenile detention hom0 ly impaired by an administra tion loss. The President was pictured as feeling that failure to break the conservative grip on the committee would dissipate much of the good feeling gen erated overseas by Kennedy's inaugural address. Tuesday's showdown vote in the House will be on a propos al by Speaker Sam Rayburn of Icxas to liberalize the rules group by trying to increase its membership from 12 to 15. In the past, Ihe two con servative Democratic mem bers of the 12-man group of ten have joined with the four Republican members to block legislation from going to the House floor. Southern Democrats faced the prospect of political re prisals Jio 'liiftller which way they turned lnitho rules flgnt On the hand, they were get ting numerous warnings from home of political reprisals at the polls in the next Demo cratic primary if they deserted the conservative coalition and supported Rayburn. On the other hand, they were being told that if they opposed Rayburn s plan, their i n J I u e n c e in Washington woulii drop close lo zero dur ing the Kennedy administra tion. Some of Rayburn's support ers predicted thai Democratic defectors would get no favors in committee assignments, or federal patronage. And they would have almost no chance of winning congressional ap proval of job-creating projects at military insinuations or rivers and harbor develop ments in their district. Rural School Budget Groups To Meet The Jackson county rural school budget committee to night is expected to make its final decision on the pari of the new fiscal year budget pertaining lo the county cur riculum materials center. Meeting at 8 o'clock in the county school superintend ent's office, the committee will decide on how much money lo allow this cver-ln creasing function of the county school department This section of the budget comes up first for decision since the county must make its application for matching funds under the National Ed ucation Defense Act by March 1. The budget group held organization meeting a week ago. Tentative outlines of the three budget sections, office, curriculum materials center and special education, were distributed then. The group will start formulating the new budget during a scries of reg uiar meetings. Accidental Deaths Claim In Oregon During Past Week End By United Prom International Oregon chalked up four ac cidental dcaths'ovcr the week end, a young Adrian, Ore., woman died In a Wyoming crash, and a former Clacka mas newspaperman died in a California accident. Sheldon Charles Wilcox, 33, Ashland, died when his car flipped over In Ashland,. Mrs. Ruth Williams, - 64, Portland, was Injured fatally and her husband, Asa, 62, was Injured seriously late Saturday in a one-car accident Washington - IUPII - President Kennedy declared som berly today that "the American economy Is in trouble" and the news from abroad "will be worse before it is better." In his first State of the Union Message delivered per sonally to a joint session of Congress, the 43-yoar-old chief; executive sounded a call for swift action to fhore up a receding U. S. economy, thwart Soviet-Chinese designs for world domination and thus lead America safely through the onrushing "hour of maximum danger." Kennedy painted a gloomy picture of the slate of tha union whose stewardship he took over 10 days ago. He renewed his pledges to seek liberal programs ho outlined during the election campaign and said he also would ask for a temporary increase in the duration of unemploy ment benefits and for a tax break for companies spending money to create jobs through plant expansion. The President spoke for 43 . minutes before a jam-packed audience in the House of Represen tatives chamber where he began his national political career 14 years ago. He was Interrupted 39 times by applause, mostly from Democrats. But Republicans applauded just as vigorously as the Dem ocrats Kennedy's pledge that his administration "will not distort the value of the dollar in any fashion." Democrats generally hailed the speech but some Republi cans and southern Democrats challenged some portions of it. Democrats echoed Senate Democratic Leader Mike Mansfield's comment thai the President had "laid the cards on the table" and "asked the American people and the peo ple of the world to face up to their responsibilities." But Re publicans, while applauding some of his remarks, look is sue with parts of the speech. Thev said he was placing blame for the nation's troubles on the doorstep of the prev ious administration so that ne can take credit for improving it." Kennedy bluntly confessed he was "staggered" during the first 10 days In the While House by what he had learned of "the harsh enormity of the trials through which wc must pass in the next four years, "Each day we draw nearer the hour of maximum dan ner " the President said. As ho did' iiv his Inaugural address, he warned that days of hard work and sacrifice are demanded of the Ameri can people. Says Danger Great "I sneak today In an hour of national peril and national opportunity," Kennedy de clared at the outset of his speech. "Before my term has ended, we shall have to test anew whether a nation organ ize dand governed such as ours can endure. The outcome is by no mcons certain. The answers are by no means clear." Kennedy spoke on the birth day of the late President Franklin D. Roosevelt. He quoted from Roosevelt, saying: "In the words of a great president In closing his final state of the union speech 16 years ago: 'We pray that we may be worthy of the unlim ited opportunities that God has given us'." "Each day we draw nearer the hour of maximum dan ger," Kennedy said. He reported "The American economy Is in trouble," and that crises produced by tense relations with Russia and Communist China multiply daily, with solutions increas ingly difficult. He warned that life in 1961 "will not be easy" and "there will be fur ther set-bucks before the tide is turned." "But lurn it we must," he said in a prepared 4,600-word address, disclosing in rapid fire order a series of execu tive actions he has taken, plus recommended legislation he wants promptly from the House and Senate. While his message bore a clear stamp of concern over the bleak foreign picture, Kennedy turned first to the state of the national economy and what he intended to do about the continuing slump. Refusing "to stand helpless ly by" while the situation worsens, Kennedy Informed Congress of an omnibus anti recession program to bo sub on Highway 199 about 60 miles southwest of Grants Puss. Richard Barnelt, 14, Bend, was killed Saturday when the tnbaggan he was riding struck a tree about 12 miles west of Bend. Richard Falsi, 2, Canby, died Friday night after falling off a car scat and striking his head on the floorboard. Day Churchman, 38. a for mer employee of the Oregon City Enterprise Courier, was killed near Lake Tahoe 1 n mitted within two weeks. He said he would ask for larger and longer unemploy ment compensation benefits, more food for the unemployed and their families, a new hous ing program under a new housing and urban affairs de- . partment, a higher minimum wage and a tax break for companies spending money on sound plant expansion. The President welcomed open, peaceful competition with Russia and Red China, but warned Americans against being "lulled into believing that cither power has yielded its ambition for world domi nation." Counseling the free world to remain so strong that ag gression by any nation would be "clearly futile," Kennedy said his administration still ' planned "to explore promptly all possible areas of coopera tion with the Soviet Union." He specifically invited Rus sia, with other nations, to join the United States in pre paring for space ventures to Mars and Vonus and in mu tual development of satellites for weather forecasting and communications. "Both nations would help themselves as well as other nations removing these en deavors from the bitter and wasteful competition of the cold war," he said. To lead America through deepening world tension, Ken nedy disclosed he had ordered Defense Secretary Robert. S. McNnmara "to reappraise our entire defense strategy." Ha directed McNnmara to submit preliminary conclusions by the end of February with a view to quick budgetary, leg islative and eecutive action. Kennedy directed three im mediate steps in the defenso area. He ordered a quicis build-up of airlift capacity so America's conventional mili tary forces could "respond, with discrimination and speed, to any problem at any spot on the globe at any moment 3 notice." He ordered the Polaris sub marine construction program stepped up at once by using the unobligated shipbuilding funds now instead of waiting for the next fiscnl year which does not begin until July 1. He said this would advance the Polaris program by nlna months. The President also directed prompt acceleration of the en tire U.S. missile program Pending completion of tho McNamara study, he said Ihcre would have to be better organization and decision making to cut down on waste ful duplication and time-lag "that have handicapped tha whole family of missiles." Kennedy tackled interna-. 1 1 o n a 1 economic problems from two directions, foreign aid and Ihe dollar gap. Ha wanted congressional author ity to overhaul the entire for eign aid program with mora flexibility for "short run emergencies" and the right to make commitments for long term development projects overseas. Ho also said greater empha sis should be given to the rola of recipient nations to assura greater social justice, broader distribution of the American aid and on the local level, bet ter public administration and tax systems. This added up to belief that governments on the receiving end should not regard American aid as a one way street. (Continued on Page 2) Four Lives California Saturday along with Basil D. Benedict, 47, Fair Oaks, Calif., when their car skidded on Ice and col lided with a bus. Churchman and Benedict, were employees of Ihe Sacramento Union. Mrs. Peggy Hunter, 18, Adrian, was killed Sunday in a collision between a sports car and a truck five miles west of Rock Springs, Wyo., on Highway 30. Her husband Jerry, 19, and their 7-month-old daughter, Janet, suffered minor injuries. o
