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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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said. A S'otB Flnararc Eepart
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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."
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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Mrj. im Patterson of Port-
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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.
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