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Kennedy Plans Another Message To Congress, D . - - : - " " - - ' HWJjl'IW.'fW'iiDfa?q f ... i pa. km: tfafo. HENrNCwY FArCIS TBST PresMeM K(m ncdy, only 11 days in office, laced hit first major test today with ne rea4 assurance he would win. The question was whethor to add throe members to the 12-man House Rules Committee roadblock which he said by a coalition of two southern Democrats and four Republican members. Rep. Howard W. Smith (D-Va.), left, led the conservative Statements Tell Value of Proposed Stadium in County ' Editor's note: The followlnc etalrmenti regarding a proposed multi-purpose itadlum in Jack aim county were prepared by John Wrlsbrod, Medford realtor, who Ig heading a group of in tereited Individuals In promot ing construction of such a iaclllty. :lt is suggested thnt a multi purpose stadium be built, using a portion of the land that was deeded to the City of Medford and Jackson coun ty for the purpose of recre ation and entertainment only. This property is known as the Jackson County Fairgrounds and the southern portion is being considered for the sta dium. Why At Thil Time? , ; Construction will start on the Freeway and the Barnett Interchanges in April of 1061. In 10 days from now, Feb. 10, the Oregon State Highways Engineer will need approval from the Jackson County Court to remove much needed material for the road. This pit, if made at the Fairgrounds, will make the base for the stadium and the slanting sides become the back wall for the scats, a terrific savings. We will have to build seats above ground, too, but they will cost four times more. There Is 43 feet of drop to Bear creek and the contractor will dig a drain ditch from the bottom of the stadium floor to Bear creek which will be tiled for the drain field. What Are the Uses? This multi-purpose stadium would have a 25,000 seating arrangement and 25,000 more can be added as the area grows. An Ideal football field and a permanent baseball field Is superimposed. The local schools and Southern OreRon college would have the isse of the stadium for major attractions such as games they could not handle at their own fields or audi toriums. Band or oratorins, held from a portable band shell would be most effective. The Hollywood Bowl is held In such a stadium. Gradu ations and many youth and religious gatherings are held in stadiums all over the coun try. The Pear Bowl game would draw larger crowds. Medford High school has no idea how large a crowd they might draw with ample scats and ample parking. Boy Scout, Girl Scout, 4H, FFA, Cub Baseball, Girls soft hall and jamborees get a great deal of value from a stadium. -Churches, lodges, grange and farm groups, veterans and fraternal orders and political parties get a real value for large gatherings such as con ventions, benefits, etc. Professional Football and Baseball .James M. Fleishman, presi dent of the Northwest League of Professional Baseball clubs has assured us that we can have a franchise for a Class B league team in Medford if we have a suitable stadium with locker rooms and proper fa cilities. Also, we were assured thnt we would get pro-season Big League baseball games High Above the in a ILLCRESTPABK t'lf - i here with such teams as the Dodgers and the Giants play ing. These are good revenue sources as they bring in gate receipts and a great deal of money is spent for food and lodging and merchandise. The ball players stationed here work on a youth program teaching ball, a big aid to the juvenile problem. We have been assured that if we get a stadium soon that we can get the Baltimore Orioles Class B team, made up of bonus ball players that are being trained for the Big Leagues. Louis G. Spadla, general manager of the San Francisco 49crs, has assured us that with a proper stadium such as the one we have planned, they will play a pre - season game here against such a team as the Green Bay Packers and anoth er game we could bet on would be the Los Angeles Rams and the Baltimore Colts. We have been given to under stand that with a little effort on our part we can get a pro fessional football team in here for two months pre-scason practice. These efforts will cause millions of dollars to be spent in our area. The pub licity and advertising couldn't be bought and should help bring in industry and people to our county. A multi-purpose stadium Is considered one of the finest industries and a real cause of growth In areas that have de veloped such facilities. A multi-purpose stadium is a judicious use of public funds, especially when the land to be used has been set aside for recreation and is owned by the people In the name of the city and county Involved. Throughout the na tion such facilities (the sta dium) provide real wholesome ente- talnnient for everyone in the entire area at least some time during the year. Should a stadium be built that would serve the overall needs of the county it would be available to the school sys tems as they needed it. This would relieve these districts of building their own major stadiums, which should save duplication and hold down taxation. If a school district wanted to spend money after they had ample other school plant, for their own stadium that would be up to the local school board. One large sta dium should save tax dollars from duplication of construc tion and maintenance. The average football stadium is only needed for four or five games a year. Scheduling of high school games could be for Friday afternoon and Fri day night and Saturday after noon and night, including col lege use. The professional games are played on Sunday. Practice would be on home fields. Baseball would work the same way, always work ing in other uses and coordi nating for the majority good. A five, seven or nine man stadium commission should be appointed by the Jackson County Court to coordinate. quiet non-residential Wf. W . ' ' !( XS ft fareas opposing tbs chaage. Veteran SptraJt or Sara Kaybura, right, proponed tha mem borship incraana an an "easy way" to break a Rules Committee roadblock which ha s aid threatcnod Ktaiady measures. A vote, scheduled today, will decide the issue, and by Kennedy's own estimate, his prestige at home and abroad is at stake. (UPI Telephoto) formulate and design plans for the stadium and its neces sary facilities. Its further duties would be to regulate, schedule and promote the use of the stadium to its fullest potential. This commission should work with, but inde pendent of "all other commit tees, commissions and govern ing bodies, accountable only to the Jackson County Court. The members snould be chosen so that the total area is fairly represented by quali fied members. How Would It Be Financed? Once the County Court figured that the multi-purpose stadium was a judicious use of the land that was so dedi cated it would be turned over to the Jackson County Budget Committee to figure how it could be financed. After it is built, all funds from leases, rentals, and parking charges, along with profits from exhi bitions, etc., will be paid into the general fund. The schools would have the use under the same terms now used by them so they would suffer no losses under the plan. Future Developments The parking and lighting system should be so arranged that a future Civic Auditor ium would not have the ex pense of these necessities. Fu ture tennis courts, picnic grounds and parks would all be part of the master plan. An Example: Traverse Cily, Mich., is in an area somewhat like our own. It needed schools and church, but Ihcy built a multi - purpose facility first and the profits built their school and then its church. They are all free and clear now and still the profits roll in. Can you see the tax sav ings? There are many more such communities. Let's join them and grow! Long Island, N.Y., is about 118 miles in length and about 23 miles at its point of great est width. AUTHORESS DIES - Ameri can authoress and newspaper woman Dorothy Thompson, above, died In Lisbon Monday. Miss Thompson, former wife of the late Sinclair Lewis. was believed to have died of a heart attack. She was fitt. (UPI Telephoto) Valk) area I o o 4ttnl KaKnedy will uend Gang-new s spactai huoaega Thins day -On bis Tetommemtathias tat "acoriomre rocovary a a d growth," Democratic congres sional leaders disclosed toriai. Ha will send a second mes sage to Congress Dans Monday ojo be ba lanes of payments problem and tba drain cri gold from the United States to for eign countries. Starts Busy Day Tha first Items on th Ken nedy timetable of legislative recommendations ware report ed by Speaker Sam Rayburn after House and Senate Dem ocratic leaders held the second of their weekly legislative conferences with the Presi dent at the White House. The meeting with the House and Senate leaders started off a busy day. After conferring with them, Kennedy met with a task force studying the na tion's farm problem. Follow ing this was a meeting with Ogden Rcid, former U, S. am bassador to Israel, to review American relations with the small Middle Eastern country. Goes Over Subjects Rayburn said Kennedy went over the subjects to be covered in the messages - In eluding federal aid for school construction and depressed areas, housing legislation and agriculture. The speaker said he expected the messages to be moving to Congress at the rate of one a week or possibly more often. Asked what administration proposals would get priority attention, Rayburn said the Senate leaders indicated that aid for depressed areas would get early attention. He said that he personally thought it was necessary to get a new farm program soon because "agriculture is in pretty bad shape throughout the country." Vice President Lyndon B, Johnson, who also attended the breakfast meeting, told re porters he believed that "you will see cooperation to the fullest extent between the leg islative and executive branch es." Leaders Mora Talkativ The leaders, who told news men last week that any ac count of their meetings with Kennedy would be released by White House Press Secre tary Pierre Salinger, were less close mouthed today. The President's session with congressional leaders came just hours before the sched uled House showdown on Ray- burn's plan to increase the size of the Rules Committee to break a GOP -southern Democratic coalition which threatens Kennedy's legisla tive program. Kennedy will hold his sec ond televised news conference at 10 a.m. Wednesday. Press Secretary Pierre Salinger said the President also probably would name some ambassa dors In the next few days. FLU HITS BRITAIN London-tUPll-The influenza epidemic in the British Mid lands industrial area has mad- cuts of 10 to 15 per cent in the work forces of some places. Government officials said illness claims were more than four times normal. NOW YOU KNOW United Prtti International Tha heaviest recorded now fall in a 24-hour period was 76 inches, oc curing at Silver Laka, Colo., on April 14-15. 1921. High est for a 12-month period was 83.36 faet at Paradise ranger station, Rainier Na tional Park. Wash., in 1955-1956. SWEATER SALE! tale regular price price S8 9.95 $8 10.95 J8 11.95 S8 12.95 J10 13.95 $10 14.91 $10 S 1J9 $19 0 U.9f S19 ' 17.95 14 18.95 $14 19.95 $14 2.95 $14 23.95 $20 39-95 O 0 BARKER'S Oregon (Food Progra fealatt a - OtO sa Vel- JcM otfrMo Mm Inis Cnrnrfillufoi eo fjierta Ma J Me era I attain Uta Woo.? tMt Orefiob is ttOTisv timmd lie federal giprphw fan, jorot grtm. Marion county bu grti to bv that filrol count?, aft said. A S'otB Flnararc Eepart ment epo&esman estimated it might ba passible) t get tha 75 Cubans Given Emergency Entry New York-IUPD-At least 75 Cubans won emergency entry on a "last-chance" ship into the United States today as political refugees from Fidel Castro's government. . Several of the Cubans, who asked for asylum Monday in a surprise move after their Spanish-bound ship "Cova donga" docked in New Yok, said they planned to go to Florida immediately to join anti-Castro elements training to ovethrow the Cuban leader Immigration officials cleared the Cubans to land in Manhattan on an indefinite parole status after eight hours of tape cutting. The parolees remained on the vessel over night because of customs com plications and were to debark today Joseph Miranda, president the Spanish-American Com mittee for Latin American Re lations which first got word of the Cubans' hopes to live in the United States, credited President Kennedy and Secre tary of State Dean Rusk with clearing the way for the emer gency entry permits. Miranda said he contacted Angier Biddle Duke, head of the In ternational Rescue Commit tee, who contacted Kennedy and Rusk. But P. A. Esperdy, head of the Immigration Service for the New York District, said that "as far as I know the de cision to permit the Cubans parole status here did not in volve them (Kennedy and Rusk)." He acknowledged he checked with Washington im migration officials Esperdy said early today the 75 Cubans included wom en and cnnaren, ana aaaea that "there may be a few loose-end cases to clear up later." No one who entered a re- Grants Pass Man Hurt in Accident A Grants Pass man was re ported in fair condition today by Rogue Valley nospital at tendants following an acci dent Sunday morning. Paul Richard Powell, 48, of 1632 Green Creek rd., Grants Pass, driver of one of the cars, is being treated for chest in Juries, hospital attendants said. The driver of the other car, Richmond Havniear, 24, of 2054 North Pacific highway, Medford. was treated for minor cuts and released. A passenger in the Havniear car, Lila Rose Adams, 21, of 526 West 10th st., Medford, is un der observation for brusies, it was reported. The cars driven by Powell and Havniear collided on Highway 99 at Blackwcll hill, state police said. KIDS OF ALL AGES T.nnHon-UIP)-A store adver tising in a London newspajer today offered a "balloon" to every customer spending $14 or more "regardless of age." Said G 4) first sjiip9int ia tcure M it-rrhrhrplrrft.. Fajojoe De-part-att. . sfiat. lb nunlta taexa ,M aaal tat CDrcgnft Wctfare Cona-atiawrm arwft ott & still btHtta Ctrxfm tat tawft -one of mif tight states) rj. struct tbftt jaortajytatt. Appearing at a crowded rnoru htarvn, ahe declin ed to "point tha finger" at nyona involved - the Welfare quest has been refused politi cal asylum, he said. Regional Edition Medford. MEDFORD, OREGON, TUESDAY, JANUARY 31. 1961 Stocks Bog Down In Early Dealings New York - (UPD - S t o c k s failed to make much head way in first hour dealings today. Industrials, led by alrerafts, showed mostly small fraction al improvement along with utilities. Rails, were slightly easier although such leaders as New York Central, Penn sylvania and C&O managed minor fractional gains. In motors Chrysler and Ford slipped and 'A respective ly, while American Motors added Vs. Leading steels were 14 to 4 higher, aside from Youngstown, which lost 4. DOW-JONES AVERAGES New York -0IPII- Dow Jones final slock averages: 30 industrials 650.64, up 7. 05; 20 railroads 141.40 up 0.96; 15 utilities 105.97. up 0.93. and 65 stocks 218.84, up 2.01. Sales Monday ware about 5.19 million' shares compared with 4.51- million shares Friday. Monday's prices on selected stocks : Allied Chemical Alum Co. Am American Can American Motors AT&T ... Anaconda Coppor Armco Steel 56 ',' 74 ' i Pit E X IS ii ll'r is.- I . -UM. ' tt. Jr M -A-- IB". -,'!.: -Till- CTC works both directions, guiding trains either way. By the automated signals and sw itches of CTC opojatioa, traffic is guided across the West. 'I?ains moving along the great MtSdvcs of track under Centralized Traffic Control, go more swiftly and surely. 0 o Whenever you ship or travel on Union Pacific, you have the benefits of over 2,000 miles of CTC. Trains move more cfti citntly. Goods arrive more dependably. Vour travel L easier, smoother, more relaxing. oo .. Ac , M WW a aiionVis? Pilot ccwes rrucQ nuve pn iune warm la ll She aaid the commission mxda "very thorough study of the program and noted that up to now, none of Oregon i 38 - counties were Interested. Ttut commission has been charged with discouraging counties from applying for the food because of alleged high cost of administration. Chairman Waller Pearson (D'Portland) disputed claims that the costs are high. He read a letter from Rep. Edith Green (D-Ore.) citing figures in other states allowing maxi mum costs at 25 nor cent . of coat of tha food itself. Pear eon said this sounded pretty cheap to him. Page 2A Tribune Bendfx Corp 71 Bethlehem Steel 45 BoelnR Air SS Chrysler Corp 38 Crown Zellerbacb 54 Curtlss Wright 18'b Dow Chemical 74 l'a Du Pont 8084 Eastman Kodak 112'i Firestone - 38 l General Electric 70i'4 General Foods 74 sj, General Motors 44 GeorKia Pacific 57 '.a Graham Paige - 2 Greyhound - - - 21 'i Gulf Oil 38 Idaho Power 57 2 I. B. M 847 Int. Paper 34 3B Johns Manvllle fili Kennecott Copper Btti Lockheed' Aircraft 291!, Montana Power 31 sg Montgomery Ward 21 Natl Biscuit 78?i New York Central 18 Pac Gas & Eiec 79; Penney. J. C 42 Penn RR 13 Radio Corporation 58 Richfield Oil 94 Safeway 40 Sears 55 Shell Oil 43 Socony Mobil Oil 45 Southern Co 4fi Southern Pacific 22 Standard California 49 Standard Indiana 50 Standard N. J 45 Sun Mines 8 Texas Co 92 Texas Gulf Sulfur 21 Texas Pac Land Trust 17 Transamerica .30 Trans World Air 16 Tri-Continental 39 Union Carbide 128 Union Pacific 30 United Aircraft 42 United Air Lines 39 U. S. Rubber 52 U. S Steel 81 i t - 1. l 'T,t V him $ms: Surplus foods av suable now Include cirts meal. (lour, lard, rice, dried milk; ai d butter. Canned pork and fiwy and dried eggs are scheduled to be added In March. Miss Jewett estimated that about 88,000 Oregon citizens were eligible to receive the surplus food last month. Mrs. Green's announcement two weeks ago about Oregon's non-participation sparked com plaints against the commis sion, including general criti cism of the commission's policies by Gov. Mark Hatfield MlWSfor Oregon Drivers! STATE FARM offers New Savings on Car Insurance Sfats Farm rates are now even lower on collision and orfur coverages. Our present Oregon policyholders alone will save over $100,000; And State Farm's new rating plan gives you tailor-made rate . . . based on such things as where you live, how much vou drive, and what you use vour car for. What's more, the special rates (or most two-car families and smafl-car owners now mean even greater savings. And farmers get a spe cial 30 discount! So find out how YOU stand! Contact your State Farm "Family Insurance Man" today. STATE FARM INSURANCE Ur , ' ' V ") K i .'.-1 swift and sure ? ii b Svfltwrts T County Mrj. im Patterson of Port- land, one of four welfare com taiMwrvtri whom Hatfield iid ha wiiAt-r would resign, ap peared with Mist Jewett and said welfare is the "whipping boy" of state forerrunent. . She added that the com mission intends to work "with" Hatfield, but not "for" him. Acme Office Machine! 194 W. Main . SP 3-7944 John A. Carter 133 South Central Medford SP 3-6695 STATE FARM Kil Home Offices: Bloomington, Illinois v C4 -1? , -r. "Tl "Wi j- j) Whenever you ship or travel.., be specific o l. J. 2in IJP1 W Gpn. T'A'. Agl. M"0'd SB3-Vvj North Phoenix Rcid MAIN AT CENTRAL MtO'ORD ORIGON Phono SP 3-6162 or SP 2-71 11 1
