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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 12, 1961)
$ k1 PHOENIX BANK OPENED Ribbon cutting ceremonies Mayor Faye Carver; and Emmett Whitham, bank manager, officially opened the Phoenix branch of the First National Some 600 persons attended the ribbon-cutting ceremonies. Bank of Oregon Friday when an i expected 4,000 local A "key-to-the-vault" contest, a foreign coin sale, and re residents explored the new building. Shown (left to right) freshments were offered the day's visitors. The new bank are Ralph J. Voss, First National Bank president; Phoenix is the fourth First National branch in Jackson county. (Whitland Locke Photo) Medford Tribune SECTION D MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1961 PAGES 1 to 8 The Week in California Unemployment Highest Since World War II, Brown Claims By United Press International Gov. Edmund G. Brown said that unemployment in Cali fornia is the highest since the close of World War II. The governor pointed out at his news conference that the Los Angeles -Long Beach re gion had been designated by President Kennedy as an area of substantial unemployment. "But they tell me that we . probably cannot expect fed eral help for the unemployed until May," he said. Brown urged that the Sen ate move immediately to ap prove a bill authored by Sen. Stanford C. Shaw (D-Ontario) to extend unemployment ben efits by 13 weeks. Tighten Belts The governor said one sen ator had been quoted as say ing the unemployed should tighten their belts. Brown said that statement showed a "shocking" lack of under standing of unemploy ment benefits. Meanwhile, In Palm Springs, former President Eisenhower settled down to a lengthy vacation at the El Dorado Country club. Whether Eisenhower and Mrs. Mamie Eisenhower plan to make Palm Springs their permanent winter home re mained a subject of specula tion. But Eisenhower gave signs he wants to familiarize himself with the area, and to "know who my neighbors are. He made the reference to neighbors immediately after arriving at Palm Springs; His interest in. local happenings apparently caused an aide to inquire about obtaining local newspapers. Principal Recreation Golf remained Eisenhower's principal recreation. He play ed a few rounds at El Dorado, and a spokesman indicated he was considering visiting other courses later. ,. Mrs. Eisenhower busied her self with completing arrange ments for their cottage on the Eldorado course. She also visited with such friends as Mrs. George E. Allen and Mrs. John McCone, wife of the former chairman of the Atomic Energy commission. Helen Detweiler, a golfing adviser for the former Presi dent on several previous visits, gave him some more pointers on the driving range. "He hit the ball very well," she said. But she declined to go into great detail. Elsewhere, there were these developments: Twins: A San Mateo doctor disclosed that a patient had given birth to twin girls 22 days apart. Mrs. Beulah VETERANS IF YOU HAVE APPLIED FOR A G.I. LOAN BE SURE TO GET YOUR TITLE REPORTS FROM THE . . . JACKSON COUNTY TITLE GO YOUR LOCALLY OWNED TITLE COMPANY 121 East Sixth Street Phone SP 3-4551 TITLE INSURANCE ESCROWS , Jackson County's Oldest and Most Reliable Title Company Established 1885 Swift, 40, wife of a Belmont manufacturer, first entered a San Mateo hospital Jan. 9 and gave birth to a tiny girl who died two days later. The girl was three months premature. Doctors knew that Mrs. Swift was carrying a second child, but they decided it would have a better chance if the mother carried it longer. The second child, also a girl, was born Jan. 31. She weighed 30 ounces and has been kept in a specially-equipped incubator since that time. Railroads: An Inter state Commerce Commission hear ing on conflicting applications by Southern Pacific and Santa Fe railroads to acquire con trol of Western Pacific Rail road is expected to open next month. Attorneys for the three railroads who attended a pre hearing conference in Wash ington, D.C., appeared gener ally agreed that San Francisco would be a suitable site for hearings. It was also sug gested that hearings might be held in Seattle, Portland, Los Angeles, Salt Lake City and Reno. Fire: Fire claimed the lives of four small Los Angeles chil dren when they became trap ped in their home while their mother was taking two other youngsters to school. Mrs. Anna Marie Morales, 26, said she had a premonition that something had happened to the children and returned to find the two -story frame house in flames. The bodies of Glenn Morales, 1; Annette, 2; Guy, 4 months, and a step sister, Beatrice, 4, were found by firemen after the blaze was controlled. Feet: The chief of Cali fornia's department of motor vehicles declared that the state's car owners were pay ing "excessive" penalties for late payment of their motor vehicle fees. Robert McCarthy noted that car owners pay 100 per cent penalty for late re newal on registration fees and 50 per cent on vehicle license fees. By contrast McCarthy said, late payments on income and r.operty taxes are penalized only 6 per cent. Claims: A total of $5,381,- 250 in claims against the state have been filed alleging negli gence in the Oct. 29 plane crash that killed 16 football Student Takes Part In Heritage Fund Stanford, Calif. - Diana R. Getchcll, a senior majoring in vocal music, has been named one of 42 students at Stanford university participating in the 1961 Heritage Fund campaign, according to school officials. She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Bayard M. "Getchell, 28 Ashland ave., Medford. The student was graduated from Medford High school in 1957. The Stanford seniors are seeking a goal of $22,680 to finance 18 full scholarships for deserving SU freshmen and sophomores. The students will make personal calls on 80 San Francisco and peninsula businessmen to gain funds for full tuition scholarships for students of ". . . limited fi nancial means whose personal qualities indicated they will be future business and pro fessional leaders." The Heritage Fund is the annual gift of the senior class to the university. The program started in 1955 when seniors of that class, dissatisfied with traditional gifts, decided on a Medford Youth Held in Jail on Forgery Charge Gerald Lee Donaldson," 18, if 408 Benson St.. Medford, is being held in the county jail on charges oi forgery, the Jackson county sheriff's office said Saturday. Donaldson was arrested by a sheriff's deputy Friday on charges of issuing forged cheeks in Medford. The checks totalled S320, a deputy said. scholarship program which would achieve more long range benefits. X15 Program Moves Into Final Phase Edwards AFB, Calif. - 0IPD -The XI 5 experimental rocket ship program Friday moved into ils final phase prepara tory to an assault on the fringe of space 100 miles up at speeds of 4,000 miles an hour. The signal for the start of a scries of high speed flights above 2,500 miles an hour loading to the all-out test came Friday when North American Aviation turned over the speedy 50-foot craft to the Air Force and the Na tional Aeronautics and Space administration. The No. 2 model of the X15 that was given to the govern ment is equipped with a 57,-000-pound thrust engine, the most powerful engine ever mounted in a manned craft. A pilot for either the Air Force or NASA will be the one eventually to fly the X15 on Its full-throttle assault. No date for the big flight has been announced. Milton Mayer Will Speak at College Hall Friday Ashland - Milton Mayer, American and European news paper writer, will speak be fore the Southern Oregon col lege faculty and student body Feb. 17 at 1 p.m. in Churchill auditorium. His topic will be "Hang Separately The Man and the State." Mayer attended the Univer sity of Chicago and later be came an assistant professor of adult education and tutor for the committee of social thought there. He has served as director of a nation-wide leader training program for the Great Books Foundation and as a visiting chapel and convocation speak er and guest speaker at many colleges, universities, ana churches. He has also lectured for the American Friends Service committee, fellowship of reconciliation, and the Jew ish Peace Fellowship. In 1952 he returned from a year in Germany on faculty of Institute for Social Research, at Frankfurt university " and from travel throughout Eu rope as director of the Voice of Europe radio program of the National Association-'6f Educational Broadcasters un der a grant from the Ford Foundation. Mayer taught at Switzer land's Ecole d'Humanite and lectured extensively in Europe and preached in Protestant churches behind the Iron Cur tain. Traveling - extensively and intensively . in the Com munist countries, he repre sented the AFSC at the Chris tian Peace Conference i n Prague, Czechoslovakia. Mayer's articles appear in many prominent magazines and publications. He is also the author of the book "They Thought They Were Free" and co-author of "The Revolution In Education" with Mortimer Adler. Townspeople are invited to attend. CAP Promotions in Medford Are Listed Several new appointments for the Medford squadron of the Civil Air Patrol have been received from National Head quarters in Texas and from Oregon Wing Commander Col. Charles Chick. Both John W. Keener and Bette Miller have been com missioned captains, and John L. Hall and Mary L. Hall, were named second lieuten ants. Promoted to warrant oficers were David Housel, Eunice Roberts, and Bill Rob erts. - players of the San Luis Obispo Cal Poly team. The state board of control announced that 25 claims have been filed so far. BUSINESS MEN! MANUFACTURERS! . . . VIEW ANY AREA ON YOUR PREMISES RIGHT FROM YOUR DESK or department you can now have instant or round-the-clock visual con tact with any location or person in your building or grounds. It's easy and inexpensive with . , . DIRECTWIRE TELEVISION LOW COST Equipment for a complete camera- to-reeciver system as low as $865.00. NO OBLIGATION, of course, for a demonstration tff. 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