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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
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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.
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