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Cas'fra irate Suanfanamo water Firm GOP Vacancies On Rules Filled Three Opposed to Kennedy's Main Measures Listed Halleck Declines Characterization Washington - (UPII - Repub lican leaders today filled GOP vacancies on the House Rules committee with three lawmak ers with records of opposition to key measures on President Kennedy's liberal legislative program. They were Reps. Katharine St. George of New York, H. Allen Smith of California, and Elmer J. Hoffman of Illinois. ' GOP Leader Charles A. Hal leck of Indiana declined to characterize the three as con servative or liberal, saying only that "they're all good people." Halleck rejected specula tion that the three new GOP members, along with two oth ers held over from the last congress, might try to keep Kennedy's proposals from reaching a vote in the House. Committee Enlarged The House by a narrow vote decided last week to enlarge the committee from 12 to 15 members to prevent this. The action swung control of the committee from its conserva tive bloc to Speaker Sam Ray burn by enabling him to name two Democrats generally sym pathetic to Kennedy's propos als. Mrs. St. George, Hoffman and Smith all voted against final passage of last year's school aid and depressed areas bills. Earlier, GOP Whip Leslie C. Arends of Illinois assured 22 Republican members who vot ed with Rayburn in the rules fight they would not be pe nalized in their assignments. Rainfall Below Normal at Spring Medford and the Rogue val ley are well on their way to having their third dry year in a row, according to Med ford Water Superintendent Robert Lee. Lee said only 13.25 inches of rain has been recorded at the city's Big Butte springs measuring station so far dur ing the existing agricultural year, which started in Sep tember. This is 63 per cent of the normal 20.89 inches of rainfall for this period. In the 1959-60 agricultural year only 29.71 inches of rain fell at the station, which was 80.1 per cent of normal. In the 1958-59 year 25.27 inches of rain fell, or 68.2 per cent of normal. Lee pointed out that the city's water system is design ed to carry 26.4 million gal lons of water a day, even in the dryest years. This is more than enough water to serve the city, he said. Lee said "it is possible to catch up" during the spring. He noted that last year at this time, the total rainfall was only 47 per cent of normal, but a wet spring brought the year-end total up to 80 per cent of normal. PROGRESS OUTLINED Ashland - Marvin Gloege will outline progress made on a city planning study at the Tuesday noon luncheon of the Ashland Chamber of Com merce. Gloege has been mak ing land use maps and study ing city development since Oct. 1. A question and answer period will be held following his talk. Khrushchev's Agricultural Shakeup Claims One of Closest Collaborators London-iOTD-Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev's shakeup of top level officials in re prisal for Russian agricultural failures has claimed as its latest victim, one of Khrush chev's own closest collabora tors. He is Averki Aristov, a member of the powerful So viet Presidium and deputy chairman of the Party Bureau of the Russian Republic. Kru shchev is the chairman of the influential bureau. Poland Ambassador Moscow Radio said Aristov has been appointed Soviet am bassador to Poland. The ap pointment removes him from policy-making councils, even though he appears to have re GUAM GOVERNOR Bill Daniel, above, has been ap pointed governor of Guam by President John Kennedy. Daniel, a brother of Texas Gov. Price Daniel, was a mem ber of the Texas House for three terms and has been in private law practice for sev eral years. (UPI Telephoto) Teachers' Free Lunch Period Passes Senate Salem - (UPD - The Oregon Senate today passed 18-10 and sent to the House a bill guar anteeing teachers a 30-minute duty free lunch period. Passage of the measure was stalled Friday : when its spon sor, Sen. William Grenfell Jr., was unable to muster enough votes. Those voting against it this morning were Sens. Ahrens, Chapman, Flegel, Hare, Leth, Newbry, Potts, White, Yturri and Ziegler. Not Legislation Matter Leth, Salem Republican, said the matter is not one of legislation but administration. Grenfell said school regula tions t h e o r e t Ically allow teachers such a lunch period now, but "in practice" teachers are short-changfii. He said teachers in 83 per cent of the districts in Oregon are ad versely affected now. The bill had strong support from the Oregon AFL-CIO. Bill on Contribution! Grenfell introduced a bill today that would make it a misdemeanor to force, threat or intimidate an employee into contributing to a certain cause. It would also prevent employers from blacklisting or otherwise l n timidating em ployees after they refused to give to any charitable cause. Sen. Robert Straub (D-Eu- gene) tossed in his bill for compulsory liability insurance for Oregon autos. It would re peal the 1959 uninsured mo torist act. Two resolutions would create 1962 interim commit tees to study car insurance and divorces. ' Would Probe Firms The insurance committee would probe not only car in surance rates but insurance firms themselves, the merit of compulsory liability auto in surance and the problem of uninsured motorists. SB 294 would have the state board of education take the lead in furthering educa tional television and radio for Oregon public schools. It would provide $75,000 a year and allow the board to coordi nate the program with the board ' of higher education, which is conducting such pro grams now on the college level. EX-CURATOR DIES Portland - IUPII - Funeral services for Miss Anna B Crocker, 94, of Portland, the first curator of the Port Art association, were held today. mained so far a member of the ruling Presidium. The move apparently is one of a series of changes Khru shchev is carrying out in the wake of the agricultural crisis and the failure of the leading grain growing republics to to meet their production tar gets. Aristov has been replaced by G. I. Voronov. considered to be one of Khrushchev's latest proteges and an expert on agricultural development. Voronov is understood to have full power in his new post-deputy chairman of the Bureau of the Central Com mittee of the Russian Repub lic to remove unwanted officials. Compensation Bills Dissatisfy Speaker Duncan Businessmen Back Three-Way Measure Salem -tUPD- House Speaker Robert Duncan (Medford) said today he is not satisfied with either of the two major work men's compensation bills to be introduced this week, the so called two-way and three-way measures. "But I am anxious to im prove the compensation pro gram," he said, "and hope the legislature does so by strength ening the administrative de termination of claims." The three-way bill is sup ported by the most business men. It would give employers triple option in insuring their workers for accidents -through the state, private in surance companies - or self- insurance. It also would repeal the em ployers liability act and labor opposes this. Hatfield for Two-War The two-way bill is backed by Gov. Mark Hatfield. It would allow two options -through the state, or self- in surance. Oregon now has a sort of modified "one - way program, with most employers insuring through the State Industrial Accident Commission. As for three-way, Duncan said he would be "reluctant to make such a drastic change in one of the best workmen's compensation systems in the country." He noted that "in surance companies have the most to gain" by it. Duncan said he would like to see claim determination separated from the adminis tration function so that the In dustrial Accident Commission "doesn't sit as judge, jury and prosecutor" on workman's compensation squabbles. The Medford Democrat pre dicted that both bills would have to be amended before either could win legislative approval. The legislature began its fifth week today. Other legislation ready for' introduction that will gener ate heat is a four-point bill to regulate trading stamps. One of the hottest features is aboli tion of the franchise system, allowing any merchant to handle them if he wants. The legislature's busy pace of hearings continued. Among measures being aired are cre ation of a commerce depart ment - part of the reorganiza tion plan - at 3 p.m. Tuesday, and the "Little Landrum-Grlf- fin" bill, opposed by labor, at 3 p.m. Thursday. Council Committees To Be Discussed Ashland-The Ashland city council will continue discus sion of plans to reorganize council committees ' at its meeting Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. in the council chamber. At 8 p.m. a public hearing will be held on paving and curbing a portion of Scenic drive from Weimer to Man zanita sts. Bids will be accept ed for three cars and three pickup trucks for the city. A committee report will be given on regulations govern ing the fire department now that it is under civil service In other action, the council will consider a petition ask ing that Eureka st. be closed and a petition asking that Strawberry lane be made one way from Scenic dr. to Gran ite st. Russian Sputnik Remains Mystery Moscow -WPP- The status of Russia's new 7.1-ton sputnik remained a mystery to Mus covites and to the western world today amid speculation that its task was completed when it was launched. There was no official word on the satellite's whereabouts or its radio frequency since it was put into orbit Saturday, A major shift of political leaders and officials was fore shadowed by Khrushchev's sharp criticism of Soviet agri cultural strategy during last month's meeting n Moscow of the Communist I -rty's power ful Central Committee. Out for 'Scapegoat' Khruschev appeared to be out for "scapegoats" for the farm failures in the Ukraine, Kazakhstan and in other lead ing agricultural areas of the Soviet Union. Aristov's move to the sector of diplomacy is considered by experts a notable demotion even though Warsaw is a rel atively important post in Rus sia'! diplomatic setup. Regional Edition Medford 18 Pages Kennedy To Slash Drive To Lure Foreign Funds Told in Message Duty Free Goods Would Be Reduced Washington - (UPII - Presi dent Kennedy called today for stern action to slash Ameri can spending abroad and a bold drive to lure foreign funds here in order to halt the overseas drain on U. S. gold reserves. One of the chief weapons Kennedy proposed in a special message to Congress was to cut from $500 to $100 the amount of duty-free goods American tourists could bring home from other countries ev ery six months. The President also asked Congress to prevent American companies from using "tax havens" abroad as a means of escaping U. S. levies. But he also said he had ordered a check on whether U. S. tax laws might be driving "undue amounts" of American capital out of this country. These were among a score of proposals Kennedy made for keeping the dollar "as good as gold" by ending the 10-year-old balance of pay ments deficit which has result ed from more American mon ey going to foreigners than has come back from them. Kennedy's program would have a wide impact on bank ers, businessmen and tourists here and abroad. It also would limit spending overseas by American servicemen and their families, although Ken nedy has revoked former Pres ident Dwight D. Eisenhower's order cutting the number of military dependents overseas. The first step, Kennedy said, is to revive the U. S. domestic economy. But be yond that, he said, much must be done with "maximum em phasis" placed on expanding U. S. exports. "Our costs and prices must therefore be kept low," he said, "and the government must play a more vigorous part in helping to enlarge for eign markets for American tourists. "A return to protectionism s not a solution," he said. Such a course would provoke retaliation; and the balance of trade, which is now substan tially in our favor, could be turned against us with disas trous effects to the dollar." (Continued on page 2) Outstanding Men Receive Honors Grants Pass-IUPH-Six Ore- gonians were honored here Saturday night as being the state's outstanding young men and outstanding farmers for 1960. R. Osburn Shaw, 35, Sweet Home; Robert I. Daughterly Lebanon, and Miles P. Engle hart, 32, Portland, were hon ored as the three outstanding young men for Oregon in 1960 by the Oregon Junior Cham ber of Commerce. Cornelius Batcson. Salem R. Norman Hukari, Hood River, and Alvin H. Meury Forest Grove, were chosen as the state's outstanding young farmers for 1960. Two Deer Killed by Two Automobiles Two deer were killed and two automobiles received mi nor damage during the week end when the vehicles and a herd of deer attempted to use Highway 99 south of Talent simultaneously. Drivers told state police that the herd came onto the highway between their ve hicles which were traveling in opposite directions. They were unable to miss the animals. Drivers were Jack Lee Esp, 19, of 889 Olympic ave., Med ford, and Richard Duane Ca vin, 21, of 101 South B st., Eagle Point. THEATER DESTROYED Rosalia, Wash. -IBPD- Fire destroyed the Family Theater here Sunday night. MEDFORD, OREGON, MONDAY, FEBRUARY St . fimk ' liUlrl fifX. Yl ink fjf zzrz! ' ! 't?p jv - . t r TIMES SQUARE NOT SO GAY Times .Square, New York s Gay White Way, is white but not so gay today. A lone policeman sianas Dy as snow removal work goes on near the Hotel Astor. Times Square took on a morgue-like Water Storage Conditions Said To Be Not Good Water storage conditions In the Medford irrigation district are not alarming, but neither are they good. The storage reading at t isii lake, one of two district reser voirs, on Jan. 3U was j,vv acre feet compared to 3,773 the same time last year. Four Mile lake showed 3,012 acre feet compared to 4,200 last year at the same time. This means that the MID has accumulated 26 per cent of its capacity so far this year. Last year at this time MID had accumulated 32 per cent of its capacity, according to district reports. This means the district is running a "good deal behind" on storage ac cumulation, it was reported. A snow reading taken Jan. 30 showed the Four Mile lake area had an average depth of 36 inches, considerably below normal. Not enough snow had accumulated at the snow course at Fish lake and Rye springs to measure, according to the district report. Talent irrigation district re ported today that as of Jan. 30 Emigrant reservoir had 10,- 412 acre feet in storage. It was dry last year while the reservoir was being expand ed. Its former storage capa city was 8,000 acre feet. Hiatt lake recorded 6,328 acre teet on Jan. 31. Howard Prairie on Feb. 2, had 11,900 acre feet of water stored. On Feb. 1 the previous year it had 7,533 acre feet. Hiatt was drained this fall to allow work on the gate. Ap proximately 428 acre feet a week is being brought from Howard Prairie lake into Em igrant through the Green Springs power plant, TID re ported. The rest accumulated from recent storms. Bloodmobile To Visit City Feb. 14 The Red Cross Bloodmobile will visit Medford Tuesday, Feb. 14, Red Cross officials announced today. The Blood mobile will be at the local chapter house, 60 Hawthorne ave., from 1 to 6 p.m. Quota for the visit is 350 donors to obtain the 290 pints of blood needed. Mrs. J. W. Burba, blood program chairman, reminded r e 1 1- dents that local donations have averaged only 30 per cent of quota in recent years Appointments may be made with the Red Cross office at SPrlng 3-3813. Calls for Spending Public Transportation Hit Hard in Big Eastera Cities New York (UPII Public transportation struggled un der its heaviest burden since the World War II gasoline shortage today as millions of easterners straggled back to work through snowdrifts from the week end storm, the worst since 1947. Operation cleanup was ex pected to delay business as usual until Wednesday in cit ies like New York with 17.4 inches of snow; Boston, 14.4; Hartford, Conn., 14; Syracuse, N.Y., 30; Philadelphia, 10.3, and Newark, N.J., 22.6. The deepest snow accumulation in the East was 42 inches at Wor cester, Mass. New Storm Predicted Adding to New York's head ache was a weather bureau prediction of possible new snow Tuesday afternoon. Private vehicles were banned in some cities, includ ing New York, and traffic elsewhere was seriously ham pered by ice and drifts up to 10 feet. Workers left cars in garages and swarmed onto trains and buses, creating a loading problem that slowed down already curtailed trans portation schedules. Heavy Rail Traffic The Long Island railroad reported the heaviest commu ter jam in 20 years. More than 200,000 Long Islanders squeezed into the morning trains that normally carry 85,000 persons. Delays of up to 40 minutes were reported. A ban on use of private ve hicles was lifted in Boston this morning but the snow cleanup was far from com plete. Parked cars blocking snow operations were tagged with S50 fines. In New York, owners of abandoned cars were being charged $10 for towing and SI a day for stor age. Air travel was resumed af ter a lapse of 48 hours during which more than 5,000 major airlines flights were canceled The first plane to land at Phil adnlphia s International air WEATHER FORECAST: Partly cloudy to night. Valley ing late tonight and early Tuesday. Partly cloudy Tueidav afternonn. how ton I flit 35. High Tut id ay 5J-.S5. Temp. Htfheit Yeiierdiy 53 l.oweit thli Morninf . 47 preclp. to 10 a.m. Today Og Our Skies Tonight Sunset today 5:32 p.m. Sunrlie tomorrow 7:19 a.m. Mnonrlse tontrht 11:37 n.m. Lat Quarter ....Feb. S MORNING IT A NETS Jupiter and Saturn. rUe :30 a Jupiter li moving toward Saturn and the two planets are the Tiexreit they have been to each other sine 1941. 55th Tribune 6, 1961 Action atmosphere as Mayor Robert senlial motor traffic while the the snowstorm that has belted the northeast. See picture on page -2. port was, a p p r o p rialciy enough, an Alaskan' Airlines plane. An operations supervi sor at New York s interna tional airport described the rescheduling operation this way: "We re going crazy! Oh, my gosh, we're going crazy!" Many main roads in rural New York and New Jersey were closed except to buses, ambulances and police cars. Electrical repairmen on Cape Cod had to get to trouble spots by snowshoes and skis. From every section came Six Electrical Companies Fined For Violations Philadelphia -IUPII- A fed eral Judge fined six electrical manufacturers, including Gen eral Electric and Westing- house, a total of $150,000 to day for antitrust violations and blamed their officials for 'mocking" the capitalistic system in its hour of crisis. Chief Judge J. Cullcn Ganey of the U.S. District Court fined General Electric and Wcstinghousc $40,000 each on conviction of sub mitting rigged bids on heavy electric equipment over the last five years. Other com panies fined for the same vio lation were Allis - Chalmers Electric Co., $25,000; McG raw- Edison Co.. $20,000; Moloney Electric Co.. $15,000; and Wagner Electric Corp. $10, 000. Sentenced o Prison Ganey fined J. H. Childs Jr., Sharon, Pa., a Westing house vice president, $2,000 and sentenced him to 30 days in nrison. W. S. Ginn. General Elec tric vice president, was fined $5,000 and sentenced to 30 days in prison. R. N. McCollom, Westing house, was fined $2,000 and received a 30-day suspended sentence and was placed on probation for five years. J. W. McMullen, Allls Chalmers vice president, was fined $3,000 and given a 30 day suspended sentence with five years probation. Ganey ordered those sen tenced to prison to begin their sentences Monday. The companies were indict ed under the Sherman Anti trust Act in connection with the sale of $1.4 billion worth of heavy equipment. A total Year Price 10 Cents No. 276 Wagner banned all non-cs- city continued to dig out of (UPI Telephoto) stories of hardship." Nearly 100,000 persons had to boil their water in Manchester, N.H.,: when frost snapped a principal water main. Farm ers-in Urange and Dutch ess county, N.Y., dumped milk in the snow because Ihey could not deliver it to dis tributors and had run out of storage space. It was a school holiday for hundreds of thousands of chil dren in New York, Massachu setts, Pennsylvania and Con-j nccticut. Many colleges also were closed. Office and fac tory absenteeism was heavy. of 48 individuals and 32 cor porations pleaded either guilty or no defense to the violations, which Ganey said involved virtually every largo manu facturer of electrical menl in the nation. equip- Bids Called for School Addition Bids will be received until Tuesday, Feb. 14, for construc tion of a classroom addition to Wilson school at Grand ave, and Corona st. The bids will be opened at the 7:30 p.m. meeting of the Medford school board. The plans are for two classrooms, but an alternate plan includes an additional room. The addition will be fi nanced by a bond issue ap proved by the voters for class room construction. Week End Mishaps Take Five Lives in By United Press International A little boy drowned, a man was killed by a tractor and three persons died in auto mobile accidents in Oregon during the week end. Dennis Mardis, 4, son of Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Mar dis of La Grande, drowned in an irrigation ditch in the northwest part of the city Sunday. Larry Hoylc, 22, Oakland, was killed Saturday about 10 miles west of Sutherlin when a tractor skidded over, an em Kennedy Rapped For Pledge To Assist Exiles Nationalization of Schools Threatened Havana, Cuba-fllTft-The Cas tro regime put further strain on its relations with the Unit ed States during the week end by seizing the water company that supplies the big U. S. Guantanamo naval base and by attacking the Kennedy ad- tnislration. Premier Castro's govern ment "intervened'1 Sunday in the Caimanera Aqueduct Co., which is the main source of fresh water. Although there was no attempt to shut the water pipes, the Navy made it clear that water would be brought in by tanker if neces sary. aper' Formality The take-over of the Caima nera company was strictly a paper formality since the source of the water supply and the pumping station which carries it to the base have been under Cuban military guard for several months. In a speech in Havana, resident Osvnldo Dorticos strongly criticized President Kennedy s pledge to aid Cu ban exiles in the United States and said the aid offer "de stroys the first hope" of better understanding between the two countries. Dorticcs accused Cuban pa rochial schools of plotting counter - revolution" with Kennedy. schools Threatened He threatened to nationalize parochial schools because Catholic students had sched- led an anti -government strike. Dorticos said In a speech to high school teachers that there was a "clear and significant coincidence" between tho threatened strike and Ken nedy's pledge of aid to Cuban exiles. The school strike, called by the Catholic "Student Directo rate," would commemorate the first anniversary of the outburst when students tried to tear down the Soviet flag at the opening of the 1900 Soviet Exposition in Havana, Invesfigafion Medford city police today are investigating what they call a "strong possibility" that the same man may be respon sible for two service station robberies here during the past week. The lutesl robbery occurred Saturday night when a man, armed with a knife and wear ing a paper sack over his head, robbed the Cash and Save Oil company, 3602 North Pacific highway, of $180. The robber fled on foot. Po lice and sheriff's deputies fol lowed the man's tracks through a field In back of the station, but the trail ended at Mace rd., where the robber apparently got into a car. Police found a paper sack in the field, believed to be the one used by the robber. Dclmer Leroy Hackworth, who was working at the sta tion at the time of tho rob bery, told police the man came up behind him as he was clos ing the station and threatened him with a knife. The man forced Hackworth Into the station office, where he then made him open the cash reg ister. Hackworth's wife, Leona, was also at the station during the robbery. Neither o them were harmed. The other robbery occurred a week ago last night when a man robbed the Regal Serv ice station, 1006 South Central ave., of $45. High-Level Pollution At Portland Predicted Portland - tUPD - The chief of the State Board of Health's air pollution section said to day that high level air pollu tion comparable to southern California's smog may come to the Portland area in three to four years. Oregon bankment and landed on top of him after he had Jumped from its cab. Mrs. Maggie Watt, 75, Pas co, Wash., was killed In Port land when struck by a car Saturday night. John Unruh, 74, Salem, was killed there Friday night when struck by a car. David G. Robertson, 13, Portland, was injured fatally Sunday when the car in which he was riding went over a bank on Logie rd. In Mult nomah county. .1
