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MEDFORD, OREGON, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1961
No. 280
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Duncan Proposal
For Welfare To
Be Considered
Solution Designed
To Preserve Powers
Salem -0JPD- Gov. Mark Hat
field and State Welfare Ad
ministrator Jeanne Jewett
said today they would like to
take a look at House Speaker
Robert B. Duncan's proposed
"compromise" to put an end
to their welfare battle.
Duncan (D-Medford) said
hie solution was designed to
preserve the essential powers
of the Welfare Commission
while opening new lines of
communication and respon
siveness between the commis
sion and the governor's office.
Comment Reserved
Hatfield said he would re
serve comment. But, he said,
he would "look with favor"
on any proposal that would
improve the administration of
welfare and make agency op
erations more economical and
more responsive.
Hatfield has lashed the Wel
fare Commission for arro
gance, lack of cooperation,
and poor performance, and
has sought the resignations of
four commission members.
Miss - .Jewett, who denied
Hatfield's charges, said she
was interestted in seeing Dun
can's proposal and-was "open
to consideration of any pro
posal that would point toward
a sound operation:''
Would Dismiss Proposal
Duncan's, plan would ' dis
miss Hatfield's government re
organization proposal to abol
ish the commission and create
a welfare division in a new
social services department.
Instead, Duncan would
leave the commission as a policy-making
body. Social serv
ices director would serve as a
coordinator between the com
mission and the governor.
Court Decides Not
To Sign Contract
The county court this morn
ing decided against signing an
agreement with the state high
way commission on widening
the Galls creek to Seven Oaks
section of the new freeway.
It approved a recommenda
tion of County Engineer Rob
ert J. Carstensen that the
agreement not be signed. He
pointed out that the agree
ment does not mention replac
ing the Blackwell creek
bridge as an access to a coun
ty road, nor is any mention
made or implied on the map
accompanying the agreement
that the highway commission
intends to construct a crossing
over Blackwell creek on the
county road serving the area.
Under the agreement, the
highway commission will
close the county road at the
throughway right of way
when that section of the ex
isting highway is widened.
Six familise affected would
have to drive through thu
Rock Point interchange, a dis
tance of seven miles away, or
they would have to go to the
Kane creek interchange about
six miles away.
The county engineer said he
understood a new agreement
will be drawn up and the re
placement of the Blackwell
creek bridge will be included.
The county had condemned
the bridge two years ago as
unsafe.
Rep. Durno Appointed
To Interior Committee
By A. ROBERT SMITH
Mail Tribunt
Washington Correspondent
Washington -(Special)- Rep.
Edwin R. Durno, freshman
congressman from Medford,
Ore., has been assigned to
the House Interior committee.
"It offers the greatest chal
lenge to do the most good
for my district," Durno said
Thursday.
He referred to this legisla
tive committee's jurisdiction
over O&C timber, Indians,
reclamation, parks and min
ing. fi
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EX-SENATOR DIES - Former
sen. Millard E. Tydlngs, 70, a
Democrat, died at his home
near Havre de Grace, Md.,
Thursday. Tydings became one
of the nation's youngest sena
tors when he was elected to
the upper chamber in 1927 at
the age of 37. He was beaten
for reelection by John Mar
shall Butler, a Republican, in
1950. (UPI Telephoto)
Lumumba Spotted
Fleeing Prison
With Lieutenants
Elisabethville, The Congo -
ItiPD Katangancse Province
government sources said to
day deposed Premier Patrice
Lumumba, 36, escaped from
prison and had been seen from
the air as he fled by car with
two of Ms lieutenants. ., . '
The reports said a heli
copter had spotted the three
men near the town of Kasati,
40 miles from the farmhouse
prison where the government
said he overpowered i his
guards during the night and
fled in a stolen police car.
The Katanga government
announced his escape only
hours after Congo President
Joseph Kasavubu in Leopold-
ville dissolved the military re
gime which had jailed Lu
mumba. .
The government reports said
Lumumba was sighted slight
ly north of Mutshatsha, where
he had been held prisoner
with two former members of
his government. Mutshatsha is
380 miles northwest of Elisa
bethville, capital of anti-Lu
mumba Katanga Province.
Moscow Radio already was
hinting that reports of his es
cape from jail may be only a
preparation for an announce
ment he had been shot while
trying to escape. It noted
there had been rumors that he
died in prison of savage beat
ings inflicted by Congolese'
troops.
JUDGESHIPS ASKED
Washington -(UPIi- President
Kennedy asked Congress to
day to create 59 new federal
judgeships "to relieve serious
congestion and delays in many
federal courts."
WEATHER
FORECAST: Rain, heavy at
times, tonight. Showers and
occasional sunshine Saturday.
Cooler. Low tonight 38. High
Saturday 48.
. . . Temp.
Highest Yesterday 55
Lowest this Morning 4!)
Prec. To 10 a.m. Today .50
Our Skies Tonight
Sunset today 5:37 p.m.
Sunrise tomorrow .... 7:14 a.m.
Moonrise tomorrow 3:53 a.m.
New Moon Feb. 15
At this New Moon there will
he a total eclipse ot the Sun
that will be visible over some
of (he largrr cities of France,
Italy, Jugoslavia, Bulgaria, Ro
mania and Russia.
Durno listed the following
matters of concern to him:
1. Helping the O&C coun
ties get into the recreation
field in Western Oregon with
timber revenue.
2. Promote access road con
struction and other measures
beneficial to the timber econ
omy. 3. "To see how far the In
terior Department will go
into developing recreation"
a reference to the proposed
Oregon Dunes Seashore bill
and development of other new
parks and wilderness areas of
which Durno is generally dubious.
Heavy
Cause
Roads
By United Press International
Heavy rains caused slides
and road closures throughout
Western Oregon today. More
than 3.5 inches fell at North
Bend and Newport while
Salem had 2.87 and Portland
1.72 in 24 hours.
Roads were blocked by
slides and high water in the
Portland area, several Marion
county roads were closed due
to high water and slides were
reported as far south as the
Grants Pass area.
Highway 101 Closed
Rain caused slides on South
west Canyon rd. near Sylvan,
highway 43 south of Lake
Oswego, the Estacada high
way near Carver and North
Greeley road in Portland.
Highway 101 was reported
closed near Coquille because
of a washout.
The Marion county road de
partment reported that high
water closed the old Silverton
road between Silverton and
Chemawa. Other Marion coun
ty roads that were closed in
cluded several in the Lake
Labish area, several in the
Jefferson - Independence area,
and the Turner-Marion rd.
Water Over Road '
Water jyas: reported" over
the road on routes, bath south
and east of ' SaldrtV although
cars are getting through.
'fancies - were : reported on
Highway 126 between Vida
and the McKenzie bridge in
Lane county.
The Eddy ville-Blodgett sec
ondary highway was closed
Mrs. Carter Case
To Be 'Closed'
The case against Mrs Ra
chel Peterson Carter, former
employee of the Medford Ec
crow company, will be "ter
minated" through court action
in approximately two weeks,
accordng to Paul Haviland,
Medford attorney and special
prosecutor.
Haviland, who is also spe
cial prosecutor of the case in
volving O. H. Bengtson, in
volving the escrow company,
said Mrs. Carter is charged
with embezzling $200 from
the company. He did not indi
cate whether the case will be
brought to trial, or whether
he expects Mrs. Carter to
plead guilty.
Bengtson, Medford lawyer,
formerly associated with the
escrow company has been con
victed on two separate charges
of embezzlement. Notices of
appeal on both cases have
been filed. Disbarment pro
ceedings against Bengtson are
under way this week before
a trial committee of the Ore
gon State Bar association.
District Attorney Alan
Holmes earlier had excused
himself from prosecution of
the Bengtson case since his
former law partner, Robert
Boyer, is one of the attorneys
representing Bengtson.
Holmes has also been ex
empted from prosecution of
the case against Mrs. Carter.
Holmes said today he had
thought he was eligible to
prosecute the Carter case since
it would be considered sepa
rate from Bcngtson's case and
was anxious to get started.
Later he discovered he would
also be ineligible to prosecute
the case against Mrs. Carter,
Tunnel Approach
Contract Awarded
Sacramento -(UPI)- The Cali
fornia Department of Public
Works has awarded a contract
for $2,186,789 for construction
ot approaches to the Oregon
Mountain Tunnel in recession
hit Del Norte county.
The contract was awarded
Thursday to Morrison-Knud-sen
Co., of Seattle. The proj
ect calls for grading and pav
ing of 4.6 miles on U.S. high
way 199 just south of the Ore
gon state line.
A $3,432,009 contract for
construction of the tunnel has
already been awarded.
V.
Rains
Slides;
Closed
one-half mile east of Nashville
due to slides and high water.
The Hood River secondary
highway was reported closed
at milepost six due to a slide.
The Clackamas river water
shed was hit by the heaviest
ram for a 24-hour period in
its history. A total of 4.9
inches was measured as com
pared with a previous high of
4.2 inches.
The weather bureau's river
forecast center said most Wil
lamette river tributaries
would crest above flood stage
today or Saturday. The main
stem of the Willamette is ex
pected to reach flood stage at
most points in the next 1 to 2
days.
The "Umpqua highway was
reduced to one-way traffic at
milepost 9.3 in Douglas coun
ty. Heavy snow was reported
on Mt. Hood and at Santiam
pass.
Welfare Project
Men To Work in
Prescott Park
The city of Medford will use
men from the county welfare
work project to improve and
renovate park - facilities at
Prescott park ( Roxy; Ann
park) starting Tuesday. !-.
Under an . informal agree
ment with the county, the ciy
will use the men at the park
for as long as they are avail
able. City Parks Director Rob
ert Haworth called the
amount of work needing to be
done at the park "an unend
ing project."
The welfare work project is
a program undertaken by the
welfare department and the
county to provide work for
persons who are on welfare.
Haworth said there are an av
erage of 11 men available for
work projects at any one time.
Cooperate in Project
Haworth believes this is the
first time here that the city
and county have cooperated in
a project where welfare help
used. He noted that the
county has helped with the
maintenance-of the 1,740-acre
Prescott park in the past.
Haworth said the welfare
help will be used to dig up an
old 2'$!-mile water line in an
attempt to locate a break in
the line. The water line will
then be repaired, he said.
The men also will install
log railings along the park
road and around the two park
picnic areas - Roxy Ann pic
nic area and Madrone Ledge
picnic area.
When those projects are
completed, he said, the men
will engage in a general park
clean-up.
"None Of You Fellows
Strong Enough To Swing It?"
Authorities Say
Soviet President
Not Endangered
Russia Rejects
Explanations
Paris -0IP1I- France said to-
day that Soviet President Leo
nid Brezhnev was not en.
dangered when French jet
fighters fired across the path
of the airliner carrying him to
Rabat, Morocco, Thursday.
A French communique said
the warning shots were fired
because the Soviet plane was
insiae a aanger zone over
the Mediterranean.
The communique said an in
quiry had established that
"several irregularities and in
fractions by the (Soviet) crew
had made interception neces
sary.
it said that for "some un
known reason" Brezhnev's
plane was "far to the south
of its announced itinerary of
about 85 miles, north of Al
giers.
Francs Cites Treaty .
. France claims a "zone of re
sponsibility" in the air over
Algeria and part of the Medi
terranean under a 1944 con
vention giving each state the
right to restrict or ban flights
over her territory for military
or pudiic security reasons,
trench sources said the
regulations were sent to Mos
cow through diplomatic chan
nels. These sources said the
soviet plane was . actuallv
about 25 miles Inside the zone
when three French jet fighters
were sent up to intercept it.
The communique said the
French pilots "took the view
that the aircraft should have
entered into radio contact
as regulations provide."
The aircraft then would
have received advice on the
route it should follow. It was
to draw the attention to its
position and its irregular be
havior that one of the fighters
received orders to fire warn
ing shots in such a position
that the shots should not en
danger the aircraft," the com
munique said, '
Soviet Rejects Explanation
Russia, in a statement dis
tributed by the official news
agency Tass, rejected France's
explanation of the incident.
Another Tass dispatch from
Rabat where Brezhnev's plane
landed, said the pilot of the
Soviet liner rejected French
explanations as a "complete
fiction."
The plane's commander in
sisted that radio contact had
been established with Algiers
before the incident and said
the French jet buzzed his
plane three times and fired at
it twice.
CLUB PLANNED
Plans for a $170,000 tennis
club project, to be called the
Medford Racquet Club, were
announced at a meeting of the
Medford planning commission
last night. The project is to in
clude four tennis courts, a
club house and two swimming
pools.
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SLIDE STOPS TRAIN An cast-bound Union Pacific mail
passonger train with more than 100 people aboard was
struck by a rock and mud slide In the Columbia River
Hock Slide Plunges
Info Columbia River
Six European
Nations Confer
On United Front
Paris-IUPD-Six European na
tions opened a "little summit"
conference here today in an
attempt to develop a united
economic and political front
in their relations with the
United States and the rest of
the world. .
President Charles de Gaulle
of France and Chancellor
Konrad Adenauer of West
Germany, who fail to see' eye
to eye ' on many problems,
dominated the meeting.
Representatives also were
present from Italy, Belgium,
Holland and Luxembourg.
Every Action Watched
If it were true that the la
dies who do not attend the
Thursday afternoon bridge
club are the ones who get
talked about, then that is pret
ty much the position of Presi
dent Kennedy, British Prime
Minister Harold Macmillan
and Soviet Premier Nikita
Khrushchev.
It is particularly true of
Kennedy. His every action is
watched in Europe these days
and his words studied closely.
The basic difference be
tween the French and West
German viewpoints here is
this: The French favor a con
federation of the six nations
with each keeping its own
striking force inside the
NATO alliance; Adenauer fa
vors a real unity of the six
a United Europe -with some
sort of supernational author
ity in control.
20 Appointments
Made for Blood
Only 20 appointments have
been made so far for the Tues
day, Feb. 14, visit In Medford
of the Red Cross Bloodmobile,
Red Cross officials reported
today.
A total of 350 donors is
needed to obtain the 200
pints, the quota for the visit.
The Bloodmobile will be at
the Red Cross chapter house,
60 Hawthorne ave., from 1 to
6 p.m. Tuesday.
The following day, it will
be in Ashland at the Elks
club. Quota is 200 pints, for
which 250 donors are needed.
The Bloodmobile will be there
from 1 to 6 p.m. Wednesday.
Appointments for the Med
ford visit may be made by
telephoning SPring 3-3813; for
the Ashland visit by telephon-
ng the Elks club, MUrdock
9-6011.
Red Cross officials stressed
that local donations have av
eraged only 30 per cent of
quota in recent years. Resi
dents may use this opportuni
ty to donate blood to replace
that used by friends and rela
tives. Estimated 600 Attend
Bank Opening Today
Phoenix An estimated 600
or more people attended rib
bon cutting ceremonies this
morning at the new Phoenix
branch of the First National
Bank of Oregon.
Bank officials said area
residents stood in line to get
into the building after its
opening at 10 o'clock. Open
house will continue until 6
o'clock this evening.
Objections Voiced
To Zone Variance
For Trucking Firm
Several residents of an area
near a Crater Lake ave. truck
ing firm objected last night to
the firm's request for a zoning
variance, and the city plan
ning commission . postponed
action' on the request for one
month
Austin King, owner of Aus
tin :King 'Trucking company
1ZUU crater Lake ave,
seeking commission approval
Sanitarians Get
Gold Hill Problem
The problem of air and
stream pollution affecting the
city of Gold Hill will be re
ferred to County Sanitarian
Orie Moore and T. M. (Ted)
Gerow Jr., of the Oregon state
sanitary authority, C o u n t y
Judge Earl Miller said this
morning. .
The city council-of Gold
Hill passed a resolution Feb.
6 seeking the aative support
and cooperation of the county
court in solving the problem.
Gold Hill charges that the
Ideal Cement company at the
west city limits is polluting
the air with dust. Streams
flowing Into Rogue river near
Gold Hill are being polluted
by septic tank and cess pool
effluent; and garbage disposal
near the banks of the river
is endangering the domestic
water supply drawn from the
river, according to the reso
lution. . ,
Moore . said the Jackson
county health department is
campaigning for towns and in
dividuals along the river to
clean up their sewage disposal
operations.
The county . judge said he
would ask that both Gerow
and Moore investigate the
problem.
Bids Opened on
Gas, Oil Supply
Bids to serve the city with
gasoline and oil during the
next year were opened in the
Medford city hall yesterday.
City Purchasing Agent
Norman Croy said Richfield
Oil company submitted the ap
parent low bid of $15,970 for
78,500 gallons of gasoline,
3,500 gallons of dlcsel oil and
1,500 gallons of kerosene.
Croy said Union Oil com
pany submitted the apparent
low bid of $726 for 1,080
pounds of grease and 950 gal
lons of oil. Croy said the bids
will be awarded at the next
council meeting.
He said there were a total
of 15 bidders on the two con
tracts. CRASH FATAL
Klamath Falls-OT-Thomas
Freeman, 35, a former Prine
ville resident now living at
Chemult was killed early to
day when the pickup truck
he was driving and a freight
truck collided 30 miles north
of here.
Washington-flJPD-Postmastcr
General J. Edward Day is
studying the possibility of re
suming twlce-a-day mail delivery.
Gorge east of Portland today.
seen laying on their sides in
injured. There were no fatalities.
to erect a carport-type struc
ture at the rear of his build
ing. King's property is al
ready a non-conforming use
in a limited commercial zone
King told the commission
that the structure does not
represent an addition to his
business, as such. (Structural
additions to a non-conforming
business have to be approved
ay tne commission.)
Uod As Gatag
King said the carport will
merely be used as a garage
where his trucks could.
worked on. He said he would
be taking the trucks off of the
front of his property and put
ting them at the rear of . the
property which would im
prove the , appearance of his
place.
Several residents of the
area protested the appearance
of King s property and the
noise that the trucks create in
the morning. They also ex
pressed a fear that King will
be expanding his operations.
King said he now has 36
logging trucks, two van
trucks and five plywood
trucks. King said he primar
ily hauls logs for the Medford
Corporation, and denied that
he would be expanding his
operations on this property. 1
Mrs. Alice Myers, who said
she lives near King's proper,
ty, called the business "a very
undesirable site even for Cra
ter Lake ave." Mrs. C. W.
Coffmah, 1084 Woodrow lane,
said King's firm has adversely
affected property values in
the area.
Suggeit Restrictions ' '
Commission Member Walter
Higgins suggested there be
some restrictions placed on
the size of the addition .that
King is requesting. King in
dicated that he would not ob
ject to this. 1 ''
Higgins pointed out that
King is obviously going to
continue in business and that
he can legally park as many
trucks on the non-conforming
property as it will physically
hold. . ,
Commission President Jack
Edson noted that the commis
sion's problem in this case is
two-fold. He said the commis
sion has. to understand the
problems ot the businessman
and also to keep in mind its
bligatipn to the residents of
the area.
The commission voted to
postpone action on the request
pending additional study.
Legislature Hears Plea
To Increase
Salem -(UPD- Automobiles in
the hands of teen-agers 16 to
18 years old were described
to the House Highways .com
mittee Thursday as the con
tributing factor in an "appal
ling overall picture" of poor
scholarship, bad habits, moral
laxity and juvenile delin
quency. Rep. Ken Maher (R-Port-land)
appealed to the legisla
ture to eliminate many of
these problems by boosting
the driving age from 16 to 18,
and raising the age of a
learner from 15 to 17.
The two locomotives can be
water. Four persons were
(UPI Telephoto)
wo Locomotives
Go Into Water;
4 Persons Hurt
Portland-IUPn-An eastbound -
Union Pacific mall-passenger
train carrying more than 100
youths to a church meeting
was struck by a rockslide in
the Columbia River gorge to
day, , but no fatalities were
repoT.tedii .
Four persons were Injured.
knocked into a trackside lake,
about 2U miles east ot here.
Thomas Marshall, 42, Port
land, , electrician' aboard lha
nine-car train, was taken to
a Gresham hospital with abra
sions about the face and a pos
sible arm injury. Ho was re
ported In good condition., -
Thra Others Hurt. , i
Three other persons, fire
man Charles Wilson, engineer
Cecil Key, and Judith Page,
were brought to a Portland
hospital. .
Deputies said some of tho
rocks were as "big as cars."
The front part of the train
was struck.
The slide area covered the
length of three railroad cars.
Track both ' in front and be
hind the train was torn out.
A sheriff's officer who went
to the scene said tons of rock
and mud fell off the bluff al
most at the same time as the
train was passing. One of the
locomotives was filling with
water and the other was
sitting upright atop the slide
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the lake. Two baggage cars
also were derailed.
. The officers said the cars did
not come uncoupled.
Carried Methodist Youths
Union Pacific officials said
the train carried 118 members
of the Methodist Youth Fel
lowship from Portland. They
were heading for a meeting
in Pendleton.
Buses were sent' to return
the youths to Portland.
The slide occurred on the
south side of Highway 30. The
Columbia river is on the north
side of the highway.
The accident occurred near
Rooster Rock in the Colum
bia River Gorge.
The railroad said the train
was struck by the landslide
as it passed the site about
7:50 a.m.
BILL PASSED '
Salem lUPB The Senate to
day unanimously passed and
sent to the House a bill that
would make It a misdemeaner
to place a long distance phone
call and charge it to someone
else's number. 1
Driving Age
Maher said in addition, to
high accident rates, studies
show young drivers have
poorer grades and! worse rec
ords of trouble t and delin
quency than their friends who
do not drive. ,
But, he said, the temptation
to drive, and pressures from
friends who have a car, are
so great that parents will not
prohibit driving and the prob
lem will not be solved unless
the legislature acts. His bill
would offer special permits
for young people driving to
school or work.
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