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Trading Stamp Bill Will Be Brought Before Legislature SUB LAUNCHED The nuclear submarine Sam Houston slides down the ways and into tened by the wife of the new John B. Connolly Jr. Thursday. The crew of the new sub rode down the ways with their ship. .(UP! Tclephoto) Sheriff, Treasurer Present Views on County Government Sheriff Joe Walsh and County Treasurer Karl Jan ouch presented widely diverg ent views on county govern ment last night before the Jackson county home rule study committee. Walsh would have the tax department a separate office if it is to be separated from his office. Janouch said Ore gon is one of only three states which has not combined the tax office with the treasurer's office. He favors a financial department which would com bine the functions, of the treas urer, assessor and .tax depart ment as recommended by for mer County Clerk Bereth P. Hopkins. ' ' v' Janouch suggested that the home rule committee decide first what home rule should do, then start building an or ganization. Under a county home rule charter the county court could be given the au thority to transfer the func tions of offices. The charter should also state the qualifica tions of county officers. Fol lowing an election the county court could check those peo ple elected and disqualify those who do not meet quali fications, Janouch said. Abolish Budget Committee - The sheriff boldly suggested abolishment of the county budget committee. He said the budget committee . members are often appointed because they think like members of the county court. Committee members, although conscien tious and sincere, do not un derstand the needs and func tions of the various county of fices and do not have a chance to make on-the-spot studies to find out, he added. They merely go by the oral and written information .brought them by department heads during a series of budget meetings once a year, Walsh declared. Walsh does not think the county lacks fiscal authority. The county court has the ulti mate authority in budget con trol. There is no better author ity. He complained that coun ty officers are not told the financial condition of the county and must read about it in the Mail Tribune. Then, at budget time each depart ment must make its demands without knwi5 th nseds ni. the other departments which iak up the ?.. cowl Wrntt gysWn. Ib im'ti fhakajl ccaaty c'i wvuW be o a coonty yoltcy-awMk Walsh said county cou I members should be electe o j a party basis since they would tend to ODerate according to thmr notitical DhilosoDhics. P anyway, and the voters should know at election lime what those political philosophies are. He favored election of other officers, tou. Employees should not be changed every time a new officer is elected, but treated as career appoint ments, Walsh recommended. Janouch said the sherift. as sessor and treasurer should be appointed since the electorate generally does not know what makes a good financial officer. Janouch would have all county offices non-partisan while Walsh would not. He favored five members in the county court or board of sup ervisors. Walsh favored trf,ee, each to supervise a phase of county government. Neither one favored district representation. Both thought purchasing I I J the water after being chris secretary of the navy, Mrs. could be coordinated so all de partments buy similar types of supplies or equipment in a pool or at one time, but did not recommend a central pur chasing agent. ' Process Serving Walsh recommended either removing process serving as a sheriff's office function and give all this business to the county -constable or remove the constable and turn all pro cess serving over to the sher iff's office. Janouch said main advant ages of a county charter would be 'to provide zoning, planning, authority to create districts'to form ordinances, and establish belter sanitation and welfare programs. Coun ty government is not too bad now, he said. -', Council Approves Permit, Ordinance The' Medford city council last night approved a liquor license application and an ordinance prohibiting trailer houses from being located on individual lots in the city. Requesting the liquor li cense were Stanley L. Roberts and Keith Sherwood who said they plan to operate a .$60,000 restaurant and cocktail lounge at 510 North Riverside ave. They would operate in con junction with the Cedar Lodge motel. After the trailer ordinance is signed into law by the mayor, the only trailer houses that will be allowed in the city will be trailer houses in auto courts and trailer houses already on property that is annexed to the city. , Also, those trailer houses already on individual lots and which have obtained city per mits will be. allowed to re main. However, no new city permits will be issued. Other trailer houses, now located on individual lots in the city and which have not obtained city permits - an estimated 25 or 30 - will have a six months period in which to get out of the city. 'M b yio Wwy V. t- 4 riiiaab KUddlH N CON Solution Would Be Sought Outside United Nations No Immediate U.S. Reply To Proposal United Nations, N.Y. - IUPI) -Continuing failure of the Unit ed Nations to solve the Congo crisis gave rise today to the possibility that Russia and the United States might seek a settlement outside the world parliament. . Soviet Ambassador Valerian A. Zorin Thursday issued a qualified invitation to Presi dent K e n e d y's administra tion to join the Kremlin in seeking such a settlement. There was no immediate U.S. reply to Zorin's proposal, but reports from Washington have indicated that Kennedy might go directly to the Rus sians with an appeal to help neutralize the situation and restore order in The Congo so that a start could be made toward political stability in the African republic. India lent its neutralist in fluence to the idea of a big power settlement. Says Agreement Necessary "It is obvious that unless the big powers can agree, no decision can be taken," In dian Ambassador C. S. Jha told the Security Council Thursday. "The big powers should agree on a minimum program without loss of time." After two sessions in its cur rent Congo debate, the 11-na-tion council adjourned Thurs day night until Tuesday to give member governments time to" appraise Secretary general Dag Hammarskjold's proposal for U.N. ' action to take all segments of the di vided Congolese national army out of the country's politics. Hammarskjold made the proposal Wednesday, declar ing that the Congolese army was the root of the trouble because of its divided loyalties to rival political leaders. The proposal caught the major powers without prepared posi tions. In issuing his invitation to the United States, Zorin did not mention Hammarskjold's proposal. Outside the meeting, U.S. Ambassador Adlai E. Steven son commented: "I regret that Mr. Zorin did not address himself to the secretary-general's proposals to take all of the Congolese armed forces out of politics. I also regret his renewed and unjustified attacks on the sec retary-general." Stevenson withheld any for mal comment on the meeting pending the outcome of the ad ministration's reappraisal of its Congo policy. Veterans' Service Officer To Resign Jerry V. Bianconi, veter ans' service officer here for the state, will resign Feb. 24 to take a position with the stale veterans service in Port land or Salem, it was an nounced today. Bianconi has been Jackson county veterans service offi cer in the county courthouse since Jan. 14, 1657. He has re ceived several commendations for the services given veter ans of this area. Sfir't, Y Um&nfeMil" n SUG GESTS TALK GO SETTLEMENT Price 10 Cents Medford 18 Pages MEDFORD, End of an Odyssey irate Granted Asylum y Brazil Government Recife, Brazil pd'PU- Rebel commander Henrique Gal vao today spurned a govern ment offer of political asy lum and threatened again io blow up the Santa Maria unless he is allowed to leave port with his small band of insurgents. Galvao disclosed he has more than 600 pounds of high explosives aboard the 20,900-ton luxury liner. Recife, Brazil-IUPD-The Bra zilian government officially granted political asylum to rebel leader Henrique Galvao today in preparation for seiz ure of the Santa Maria by the Brazilian navy. The Brazilian Foreign Min istry said the rebels had laid down their arms and would formally surrender the ship to tile navy, Offer Made Earlier President Janio Quadros had made the offer of political asylum to Galvao and his band of rebels earlier this week in hopes of getting them to unload the 607 passengers and 350 Portuguese crewmen. Self-exiled Portuguese op position leader Humberto Del- gado, in whose name Galvao seized the ship Jan. 22, left the Santa Maria today with Brazilian naval officer. He had joined his lieutenant aboard when the Santa Maria anchored at the entrance to Recife Harbor. Victim's Identify Only Tentative Law enforcement officers and the Jackson county coro ner's office today are continu ing their investigation of the Wednesday night house fire which took the life of a man. The victim is still only ten tatively identified as Owen P. Short, 46, of Carpenter Hill rd. Coroner Carlos Morris said that the v i c t i m's height, weight, and general charac teristics match those of Short, who was living at the house at the time of the fire. An autopsy was performed Thursday afternoon at the re quest of District Attorney Alan B. Holmes. Medford rural firemen were called to the- blaze at route 4, box 463, about a mile west of Phoenix shortly before 11 p.m. The body was found about two hours later in the basement. Officers were reported at the fire scene this morning. Student Government Day Set for Feb. 23 The 13th annual student government day in Jackson county has been set for Feb. 23, it was announced today by Marvin Trautman, youth activities committee chairman for Medford Elks club. Trautman said that this year's event will last only one ay, rather than two as in recent ycar.'e and will be climaxed by a banquet in Hedrick Junior High school. The Elks ciub sponsors the annual event, when students from county high schools fill offices in city and county gov ernment for the day. They will be guests at a Medford City council meeting Feb. 16 in preparation for their short terms. Mayor John Snider and County Clerk Marvin Madden will administer the oath of office to the young office hold ers. Congolese Troops Ambush UN Force Lcopoldville, The Congo -Hi'PIi - Congolese army troops ambushed a United Nations Nigerian force near Kindu in Kivu Province today. The U.N. Command an nounced that one Nigerian was killed in another attack Thursday. 55th Year OREGON, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1961 No. 274 The Brazilian navy had sent 50 marines aboard the Santa Maria after the passengers and crew went ashore, leaving only Galvao and his rebels aboard. The Brazilian government said the future of the liner would be decided by the courts. The Portuguese owner, the Colonial Navigation Co., Gardiner Paper Plant Discussed At Salem Meeting Salem OIPU About 20 leg' islators and officials of Inter national Paper Co. met here late Thursday to discuss two bills up for hearing today that would enable the company to build a $30 million plant at Gardiner in Southwest Ore gon. The measures, House bills 1316 and 1317, would allow the firm to run a pipeline un der the beach and raise waters of Tahkenitch and Siltcocs lakes. These factors are neces- sary for the plant's operation, lo employ joo Harlan D. Shope of Mobile, nail J, UOLfV Ul JUUUUC) Ala., engineer for Intcrnation- al Paper, said the plant at first will manufacture brown craft paper, fibcrboard and some pulp. It would initially cm ploy about 300 persons, with Ashland-Talenf Fund Officers Elected Ashland - Officers for the Ashland - Talent United Fund were elected at a meeting Wednesday. Dom Provost Jr. was elected president and Paul Antony was elected treasurer at the annual meeting of fund mem bers. Thelma Tabor was re elected secretary. Board members named were Stanley Jobe, the Rev. James St. Clair, Carroll Smith, Jay Dent, Clinton Lorber and Duane Ross. Dr. John Brad shaw was named honorary board member. Final figures for the 1959 ATUF activities wore pre sented. Total collected money was 819,275.19 and $16,611.89 was disbursed lo participating agencies. Pledges totaling $1,- 253.96 could not be collected. The report for the 1960 cam paign showed $23,065.69 in contributions and pledges col lected. Men and Women Favor Retirement Income New York - (UPD - Men and women have different ideas on many different subjects but when it comes to invest ment objectives, they're clos er than usual. According to a National As sociation of Investment com panies poll, more than one out of three of both men and women indicated "future re tirement income" as their favored investment goal. "A better return on savings" was cited by one in four of both male and female shareholders. ARTS COMMISSION Salem -(UPD- A bill has been introduced in the Senate that would create a State Fine Arts Commission. CLERK APPOINTED Salem -fl'PD- The State Land Board has appointed Gordon Bernard of Salem to succeed Edgar Pierce as clerk effective Sept. 15. CONFERENCE SET Washington -' IUPI) - Dean Rusk will hold his first news conference as secretary of state Monday t 8 a.m. (PST). Regional Edition Tribune was standing by with a court order to reclaim it. Colonial was arranging to send the 620 passengers-overjoyed at their release from captivity at sea-to their orig inal destinations at the com pany's expense. Some of the passengers were without funds. (See story on Page 2) a payroll of better than $1.5 million a year. Company officials said the operation could be expected to double in the near future but indicated Gov. Mark Hat field's estimate of 1,000 jobs might be a bit high. They con ceded that spurts in the econ omy could make the operation mat big. Question Raised Sen. Vernon Cook (D-Trout- dale) raised the question of whether the plant's operation might be inside boundaries of the proposed Oregon Dunes National Seashore Park. He wondered if the plant might foreclose Oregon getting the I , 1 . ... Maurine Neubergor (D-Ore) had been asked to look into this. Rep. Clarence Barton (D Coquille) said he doubted if the plant would have "any adverse effect" on the pro posed park. Electrical Shock Hospitalizes Woman Ashland - Ashland police received a call Thursday at 6:34 p.m. which they thought indicated someone had been shot. They sped to 1480 East Main st. and discovered what they had thought was a "shot" was really "shocked." State police assisted by Ash land police revived Mrs. Anita Jackson who was suffering from shock and minor burns. The woman was in the bath tub when a floor lamp toppled over. She reached to grab the lamp while still in the tub and was severely shocked. Mrs. Dorothy Stevenson, a neigh bor, was called to the Jackson house and immediately pulled the lamp plug. She summoned Ashland police who called stale police. The woman was taken lo Ashland General hospital. She was reported in good condi tion today. Gradual Decline In Lumber Prices Portland -(UPD- Crow's Lum ber Market News Services said today lumber prices showed a gradual decline dur ing the last two weeks. The plywood market re mained at the I960 level al though mills wore taking only the most desirable orders at that price. CHAINS NECESSARY Salem-IUPD-The State High way Department reported to day that heavy snow made chains a must at Mcacham, be tween La Grande and Pendle ton. WEATHER FORECAST: MoMlv cloudy lo nl(ht and Saturday. A few showers tonleht. Patrhy Tallry trig Saturday morning. Haiti late Saturday, Low toni(ht 42. High Saturday 55. Temp. Highest Yesterday 59 Lowest this MornJnr 42 Prec. to 10 a.m. Today . .02 Our Skies Tonight Sunset today ... 8unrle tomorrow Moonrlse tonight .. Last Quarter The planet, Man, 5:Z7 p.m. .... 7:33 a.m. , S;34 p.m. Feb. 8 Is now sU conUellfttlon. ttonary In the Gemini, Next week Mars will begin an eastward movement among th stars that will con tinue until i)rr, 17, 1962. Key Part Would End Franchising By Companies Stamps Would Be Redeemable in Cash Salem (UPll A controversial bill to regulate trading stamps in Oregon will be introduced in the legislature within two weeks, a spokesman said to day. Measures lo flatly outlaw trading stamps in the state died in the 1957 and 1959 leg islatures. The pressure from housewives was too much. Bill Four-Fold The 1961 bill is four-fold, according to Ralph W. Em mons of Salem, executive sec retary of the Oregon Business Council which is sponsoring the bill. The measure would require that: 1. Trading stamps show their cash value. 2. They be redeemable for a penny each in either cash or merchandise. 3. Stamp companies be li censed and bonded by the slate and required to file fi nancial reports annually. 4. Stamp firms must allow any merchant to har.dle them, instead of the present fran chise system. Companies Opposed Key to this year's effort is the part about abolishing fran chises. Stamp companies pro test that this, if enacted, would put them out of busi ness. Emmons Indicated the coun cil feels this bill will have a better chance because it is regulatory, not prohibitory. He noted, however, that on Jan. 16, the Wyoming Su preme Court reaffirmed its ruling that Wyoming s law banning the stamp altogether is constitutional. Sen. Ben Musa (D-T h e Dalles) said he shuddered at the thought of another trading stamp fight. When he was the chairman of the 1957 Senate Committee on State and Fed' eral Affairs, he received 5,000 letter! from housewives pro testing , the bill that would have made the stamps illegal General Funds ToPayMekvold The Jackson county court has ordered that $5,577.89 be transferred from the Jackson county general fund to the rural school fund. County Judge Earl Miller said today. This money will pay Jack son County school superin tendent Alf Mekvold his sal ary for the next six months, it was explained. Previously, the county paid about half of the school su perintendent's salary and the rural school board the other half. That was whon Mekvold was recognized as an elected county officer under state law. However, now under state aw, Mekvold is an otticer appointed by the county rural school board. The 1957 school district reorganization law provided that when the coun ty school superintendents' terms of office expire they may be appointed by the rural board. Mekvold's term ex pired Jan. 1. The district attorney s of fice ruled that the court could legally transfer the remaining salary due Mekvold to the county rural school fund. Now the rural board will pay the money the county naa paia previously. The district attorney s office ruled that since all schools in Medford are in the rural school district it is proper for the salary to be paid from the general fund. Industrial Area Planned at Corvallis Corvallis - IUPH - The City Council has voted lo include an industrial area in South Corvallis in annexation plans for an area 1 'i miles south of here. Courier for Curriculum Center Is Recommended The Jackson County School Boards association last night requested that the Jackson county rural school board in augurate a courier service for the county curriculum materi als center. During the meeting with the representatives of the rural school board, the association and school administrators also requested that the total alloca tion of the service, some $7,400 be assumed as part of the rural board budget rather than prorated to the individ ual districts as suggested orig inally. If the rural board should decline, then the association asked that the budget item be referred back to It lor further constdeiation. lei' AW t if fa: TRAFFIC SNARLED Morning rush-hour traffic was at a standstill on the Northwest Expressway near Chicago's Loop today as an overnight snowfall of six inches made driving conditions hazardous. Traffic jams occurred when cars be came stalled on exit ramps. The new onslaught of winter battered the midwest and east and a United Press Interna, tional count showed at least 16 persons dead as a result of the storms. The mercury plunged to 24 below zero at Watertown, N.Y., and schools were closed from the Missouri river to the Carolinas. (UPI Telephoto) Snowstorms Batter Midwest and East With Deep Drifts By United Press International Two huge snowstorms, pow ered by howling winds that piled drifts up to 10 feet deep, battered the winter-weary Midwest and East today. The new onslaught of win ter piled deep snows on Chi cago and St. Louis, tangled Recognition Is Sought by Group The Jackson county court Thursday was asked to recog nize a citizens stadium com mittee to smooth out planning for a multi-purpose stadium at the fairgrounds site here. . . John Wcisbrod, chairman of the committee, told the court that official recognition is nec essary to enable the commit lee to gather more facts and figures regarding construction of the stadium, ft was stated that such recognition would not. necessarily put the stamp of approval of the court on the stadium plans. . , Wcisbrod, stating that com mittee members had spent as much out-of-pocket money as they can afford; asked that $5,000 be provided for re search and architcctual plan ning to enable the committee arrive at an accurate esti mate of construction costs. He pointed out that providing the money would not bind the court to construction of the stadium but would make ac curate study and planning possible. '', - C o m m 1 s s 1 o ner Chester Wendt stressed that the court has not decided to construct the stadium, but said the com mittee's requests would be taken under advisement. Woman Arrested After Argument Medford police Thursday were called to Investigate a family argument at 404 North Riverside ave., during which a 44-year-old man was stabbed twice with a butcher knife. William Howell Frost, cab in No. 16, 404 North Riverside ave., was taken to Sacred Heart hospital where he was treated for stab wounds In his left shoulder and arm and re leased. Police arrested Mrs. Mae Hazel Fisher, 51, same ad dress, on a charge of disor derly conduct. Mrs. Fisher told police she is Frost's ex-mother-in-law. She entered a plea of guilty to the charge in district court this morning and disposition of sentence was postponed for six months. All those attending the meeting favored inauguration of the service to speed distri bution of educational materi als from the courthouse cen ter. The districts' representa tives also felt that the most equitable method of financing was for the rural board to as sume cost of the courier serv ice operation as part of the operating budget of the coun ty school superintendent's of fice since ail districts are using the center. The center supplies mate rial to 47 public schools In Jackson County and over 800 teachers, administrators and supervisory personnel, James McDonald, curriculum materi als director, pointed out. l LlWMr ' i a 'V WW! wMtt j traffic and closed schools from the Missouri river to the Car olinas and raised heavy snow warnings along the Eastern seaboard. The twin storms, one shov ing eastward across the lower Great Lakes region and the other exploding northward out of a Dixie ice storm, took a mounting toll of lives. IS Deaths Recorded A United Press Internation al count showed at least 16 persons were killed on ioy highways or died of overexer tion or other causes attributed to the violent weather since the storm boiled up in Iowa Thursday. The snow heaped new suf fering -on the Northeast, where 16 days of bitter cold snapped 1 80-year-old records and had old timers reminisc ing about the rugged winter o 1881. : . . - v - ' The mercury plummeted to 24 below zero at Watertown, N.Y., and 19 below at Mont- peiler, Vt., and New York City's 7-above reading gave the. metropolis its 16th consec utive day of freezing.tempera- turcs. . v Fifty mile an hour winds piled snow 8 to 10 feet deep in mountainous areas of south western Pennsylvania, closing virtually all secondary roads in Fayette county. ' Federal government offices in Washington told workers they could go home four hours early as the storm began pil ing an expected four inches on the nation's capital and spread northeastward toward New York. . r . . , Snow Snarls Traffic A surprise six-inch fall crip pled traffic in Chicago. St. Louis was slugged by an eight-inch snow and nine-inch falls were measured at Alton, 111.,, and Ottumwa and Bur lington, Iowa. , Sleet and freezing rain spread a treacherous glaze of ice 'across Georgia ana tne Carolinas, and warnings ' of gales and high tides were hoisted along long stretches of the Atlantic Coast. Police Investigate Four Burglaries Medford police today ars investigating four burglaries that were reported late last night and early this morning three of them at doctor's clin ics and the fourth at a lumber yard. " Reported taken was $46 In cash from a money box at the East Main Dental Clinic, 1117 Fast Main St. Entry was gain ed by forcing open a door and breaking a window, police said. Nothing was taken nor even disturbed in the other three buildings that were burglar ized last night, police said. They are, the Price and Black stone Dental offices, 801 East Main st.; the Hawthorne Os teopathic Clinic, 41 Haw thorne ave.; and the Lambert Voegtly Lumber company, 147 North Holly st. . Police said the burglaries are apparently related. State Land Board Probe To Be Sought Salem-WPt-State Sen. Ver non Cook (D-Troutdale) said today he is drafting a reso lution calling for a wide-scale probe of the Oregon Land Board in 1962. But he empha sized it would not preclude action In the 1961 legislature to allow Oregon to lease her offshore lands for oil exploration. rt-
