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H MINIMIS) A fniAT'IUl f&.-H:., wTiiW 41 WISE Off M 111 CROWDS GATHER Demonstrators gather around a huge portrait of Patrice Lumumba, former premier of the Congo, that bears the legend "Murdered" in English, in front of Belgian embassy in Moscow. Hundreds of Afro-Asian and Trading Stamp Death in Oregon Seen Through Bill Salem IUPII A Vice presi dent of Sperry and Hutchin son Co. declared Monday that Oregon's proposed trading stamp bill. will kill, trading stamps in the state if it be comes law. Sperry and Hutchinson (S & H) is the biggest stamp dealer in Oregon. John Beinert of San Fran cisco, in a statement released here, said "while the proposal contains many damaging pro visions, the section eliminat ing exclusive franchises for merchants would make trad ing stamps a thing of the past in Oregon." ' Rep. C. R. Hoyt (R-Corval-lis), who introduced the bill, said it is a "completely new approach to protecting the con sumer and avoiding stamp company abuses." He said he sponsored the bill at the request of his con stituents in Benton county. The bill was drawn up and is being pushed by a group call ed the Oregon Business Coun cil. The council has emphasized that the bill would not pro hibit stamps but would regu late the companies which sell them to retailers. The S & H people disagree. Attorney Rupert R. Bullivant of Portland said "news stories concerning this bill, prior to its introduction, reveal that its sponsors are attempting to avoid heavy consumer protest by the claim that it regulates stamps but does not prohibit them." Hillsboro-iUPii-A man wear ing a yellow cap and a red sweater held, up the Times Cafe here Monday night and escaped with about $70, police reported. Engineer J. A. Callan. construction engineer for the Talent Irri gation project, Monday repeat ed earlier assurances that the newly rebuilt Emigrant dam is as safe as man can make it. Callan was addressing his remarks to the Medford Chamber of Commerce round-, table luncheon in the Jackson hotel. It was the same group that a week earlier heard E. M. Tucker, owner of Tucker Sno-Cat company, Medford, contend that the dam is in secure. Callan said the bureau of reclamation is "very proud of that dam,'- and added that it is the result of many years of planning and hard work. He pointed out that it was built using all the latest techniques in design and construction methoij. Located South of Ashland Emigrant dam. scheduled lor completion next month, is Engineers, Wildlife Service Report on Progress of Study Grants PassHenry Stewart, of the Army corps of engin eers,: "told the Rogue River Basin. Flood Control and. Wa ter Resources association here last night that, the corps is hopeful additional fuhds will be made availble to complete its study of the upper basin, leading to its development for multi-purpose use. He added that the corps hopes to complete its study by next spring. Bills author izing construction and financ ing basin projects may be sub mitted to Congress as early as the spring of 1962, he said. William Jess, vice president of the association's board of directors, noted that about $15,000 still is needed to com plete the engineers' study. He said Congress has appropriat ed $33,000 for the study, and S75.000 is needed. Some funds from other sources were also used for the Rogue basin study. The last request for funds was forwarded last week, and Ben Hilton, president of the association's board of direc tors, said he has not heard from Congressman Edwin R. Durno as to the outcome. Report on Studies Travis Roberts of the fish and wildlife service reported on their study of the Rogue and its tributaries. He said the Rogue basin project would be beneficial to fish and wild life if engineers meet certain recommendations of the fish and wildlife service. The serv ice and the corps are working together in preparing studies, and the overall report to follow. At a directors meeting fol lowing the association meet ing, Henry DeVoss, represent ing the Izaak Walton League, discussed proposed bills in the Reassures located south of Ashland and was started in the fall of 1958 to provide additional water for the Talent Irrigation dis trict. It is an earth-fill dam built over an older concrete dam. The concrete dam was 110 feet high. The earth-fill will raise the dam's height to 190 feet, providing for a reservoir capacity of 40,000 acrc-fcet of water. Callan said that earth -fill was chosen over concrete as the material for the dam, for several reasons. Included among these were location, foundation, the material at. hand, cost, and the fact that a concrete dam was already on the site. Callan noted that the base of the dam is 1,100 feet thick. Around the old concrete dam, he said, is a compacted clay ! core. The water content of the material makiag Utt Soviet students battled police in separate demonstrations while trying to storm the embassy. Embassy windows were broken and a porch door shattered. . (UPI Tclcphoto) stale legislature to create a department of natural re sources. The fish and game commission would be a divi sion of that department, he noted. , Directors elected last night are Andy H. Schmidt, Med ford; Claude Eakcr. Gold Hill; B. L. Randolph, Cave Junc tion; C. O. Nystrom, Merlin; Wally Martin. Grants Pass; and E. H. Taylor, Central Point, representing the Jack son county court. The board reelected Hilton as president and Jess as vice, president. Oregon Applies for Emergency Funds Salem -IUPU- Oregon has ap plied to Congress for a S5 to $6 million emergency public works program, Gov. Mark Hatfield said Monday. It was in response to a re quest from the Kennedy ad ministration, he said. The projects include forest protection, reforestation, ac cess roads, guard stations, towers and storage. First Swallows Are Reported in Valley The first swallows of the season were seen by two Med ford birdwatchers yesterday morning near a state game commission pond on Gregory rd. The Rev. Thomas McCamant said he and Maj. Gen. Joseph Hicks, both dedicated bird en thusiasts, believe this is the earliest date the regular spring arrivals have been seen in this area. The birds were believed to be tree swallows. Safeness of core was carefully measured he pointed out, to insure that it would mold into one homog enous mass, yet leave no excess water to form voids. Clay Core The clay core is 470 feet thick at the base. This in cludes the 24-foot thickness of the old cement dam. Ex tending out on either side of the core is another 300 feet of sand, gravel and rock. The rock material serves to .add exlra weight to the dam, and also to prevent erosion by wave-action, water or wind, i Callan pointed out that a total of l',4 million cubic yards of material have gone into the construction of the dam. ! He noted that when the ! reservoir is full, the water will still be 12 feet below the I top of the dam. To insure that I the water will not rise above this height, a 150 -foot wide Untimraii fiiUay wai located Some $250,( Would Be Repaid By Boeing Firm Salpm-fl)PI)-Gov. Mark Hat field today asked the legisla- ture for $900,000 to cover costs incident to establishing the Space Age Boardman in dustrial park. I. .... Some $250,000 of this would be repaid by Boeing Airplane Co. as the firm's share of moving the U.S. Navy's bomb ing range from Morrow coun ty to Lake county. Should Be Available Hatfield added that the re mainder of the $300,000 might not have to be spent but the money should be made avail able and "it is my conviction that even if this full amount or more is' expended it will be returned to the people of Oregon many times over in new jobs, payrolls, taxable wealth and economic growth." Hatfield's request was con tained in a 24-page special message transmitted to both houses. It included a review of the Boardman negotiations, copies of the Boeing lease and proposed legislation. Each legislator was given a copy. Breakdown Given Hatfield broke down the S900.000 this way: $400,000 for a possible difference in the fair market value of the lands to be exchanged; S400, 000 for facilities on the Wag ontire site of Lake county for moving the Navy; S100.000 for appraisals, engineering studies, other expenses and contingencies. Hatfield said completing the land exchanges and fulfilling obligations involved in mov ing the Navy calls for "legis lative direction and ratifica tion as well as an appropria tion of state funds." Emigrant a quarter-mile from the dam itself. This spillway has a capacity of 11,300 second feet of water. Also, at one side of the dam, a tunnel has been bored into the side of the mountain. This tunnel is lined with concrete and reenforced with steel and has a capacity of 700 second feet of water. In addition to these safety factors, Callan said the reser voir itself has a flood-control capacity of 10.000 acre-feet of water. He .explained that normally at this time of the year the reservoir would be three-quarters full. This would leave 10,000 acre-feet to store any excess water. Rests on Solid Rock Callan said that the dam rests on solid rock. Before the dam was built, he said, all fis sures or cracks at the dam site were scaled with concrete grout put under high pressure. The lams vu dona with tha Belgian Offices In Belgrade, Moscow Stormed Crowds Go Through Heavy Police Lines London -(UP1I- Mobs stormed the Belgian embassies in Bel grade and Moscow today in a wave of widespread violence touched off by the death of former Congolese Premier Pa trice Lumumba. The Yugoslav Tanjug news agency reported that at Bel grade a "large number" of an estimated crowd of 30.000 broke through a heavy police cordon, smashed their way into the embassy building and threw furniture into the streets. The demonstrators also set fire to an official car in front of the embassy. No Serious Damage Another crowd broke through a heavy guard around the French Embassy in Bel grade, hurling stones which broke windows. But police re ported there was no serious damage. In Moscow, thousands of African and Asian students and Russian rioters attacked the Belgian Embassy three limes. They skirmished with police, hurled bricks and ink bottles, and smashed embassy windows and a glass porch door before being dispersed.' In the Congo, Katanga Prov ince President Moise Tshombe blamed the United Nations for bringing civil war and a blood bath to that country through its intervention. In New Delhi, African stu dents burst into the Belgian Embassy while officials were out to lunch. They wrecked office furniture, overturned files and smashed a picture of King Baudouin of the Bel gians. The students, carrying ban ners reading "Down with Yan kee imperialism" moved on to Ilia TT Q FmhaBcv in Nat., nBl hi tI, ,u. nl raced to head them off. But security guards locked the em bassy while an American of ficial spoke with 10 of the students inside. They left peacefully. In Lahore, Pakistan, 20 placard-carrying, slogan-shout ing African students studying in Lahore, Lyallpur and Ra- bwah demonstrated in front of the U.S. Consulate General there to protest Lumumba's death. They handed over to Consul General Andrew Corry a memorandum addressed to President Kennedy. "We strongly condemn the United States government for the part it is playing in en gineering United Nations ac tivities in the Congo which ended in the barbaric murder" of Lumumba, the memoran dum said. "Discrimination as practic ed in the United Slates will not be allowed in Africa," it added. Assault Case Is Dismissed in Court The case against Martin Da vid Wilkinson, White City domiciliary, who was charged with assault, was dismissed in Jackson county circuit court this morning. Before the jury was seated, District Attorney Alan B. Holmes told Circuit Judge James M. Main that authori ties are still unable to locate the chief witness, John C. Logic, 57-ycar-old transient. Forrest Conrad Armstrong, White City domiciliary, the victim, is in a Portland vet erans hospital with pulmo nary tuberculosis and is un able to leave the hospital, Holmes said. Wilkinson was charged with assaulting Armstrong with a broken bottle last Nov. 14. Dam abutments at cither side of the dam, he added. The BLM engineer did say there is a sandstone area be hind the dam that might some day fall into the reservoir. He said, however, that it would do no damage when and if it did fall. Asked if the Rogue valley was considered to be a poten tial earthquake area, Callan replied in the affirmative, and said the BLM considers all of the Pacific coast area as "sub ject to shock." He added that no dam could ever be said to be completely earthquake proof. Walter Hoffbuhr, Talent Ir rigation district manager, was also at the meeting, and said that in case of high water Emigrant dam has a sufficient "cushion" so that it can re- I' lease excess water up to 24 hours after Bear creek has crested in th valley. Regional Edition Medford 16 Pages Rayburn Says Economic Situation 'Most Urgent Since Depression Willamette River Crests; Flood Threat Seen Over Body Recovered From Johnson Creek Portland-(IM) - The Willam ette river crested a foot above flood stage here early today and was back in its banks in the valley. Heavy rains which hit Wes tern Oregon off and on for the past several days had let up and forecasters were hopeful the threat of more flooding had passed. Some Docks Awash There was no serious flood ing here although some lower docks were awash. The Wil liamctte was at 16.8 in Cor vallis, 17.6 in Albany and 19.1 in Salem. It had gone over the 20-foot flood stage at the three cities earlier. North Bend had 1.24 inches of rain in the 24 hours ending early today but the fall at other stations was far under this. The body of Richard Boet tcher, 7, one of three victims of last week end's floods, was recovered from Johnson creek Monday afternoon. Police at Oregon City Mon day picking up four adventur ous youths who said they were going to shoot the Willamette river falls in a rubber life- rat- A lare crowd had gaUv ered. A slide still slowed traffic on Highway 99 south of Cot- tage ;Grove and . other slides delayed traffic -south of- Ban- don and north of Florence on Highway 101. Pollution Problem To Be Considered The problem of air and stream pollution at Gold Hill was to be considered at a meeting of the county court with public health officials this afternoon. The city council of Gold Hill passed a resolution Feb. 6 seeking the active support and cooperation of the county court in solving the problem. Chief Sanitarian One Moore said the stream pollution prob lem involves the entire valley floor and not just those com munities or people living along the Rogue river. Peo ple polluting streams In the foothills contribute just as much to the problem as those living closer to the river, ho said. Gold Hill charges that streams flowing into the Rogue river near Gold Hill are being polluted by septic tank and cess pool effluent, and garbage disposal near the banks of the Rogue river. This is endangering the domestic water supply drawn from the river, according to the city's resolution. The town also charges that the Ideal Cement company plant at the west city limits is polluting the air with dust. Friends of Library Elect Heffernan The Friends of the Library, group organized to promote library use and service, met at the Medford library last night and elected Robert Hef fernan, Medford attorney, as their chairman. The group was recently or ganized and is open to any interested person. Twerity three members attended last night's meeting. Other officers elected last night were Mrs. Harry Daniel son, vicechairman, and Mrs. Curtis Nesheim, secretary treasurer. The group also elected a 14-membcr board of directors which includes representation from all parts of the county. The Friends of the Library started work on two special projects. One of these is to ob tain an overhead projector for bed-ridden patients, and the other is to provide library service to nursing homes. Preliminary arrangements were also made to promote National Library week, April 22 to 27, and the State Li brary convention to be held in Medford April 27 to 29. 5 s MEDFORD, OREGON, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1961 RUSSIA RECOGNIZE Moscow-IUPII-Tht Soviet Union said today it no longer will recognize Secretary-general Dag Hammankjold "as an official of the United Nations." Tha decision was disclosed in a statement issued here. Tht Soviets also demanded Hammarskjold'i removal, an end to the U.N. operation in the Congo in a month, recognition of the "legitimate government" of the Congo head by Antoine Giienga, condemnation of Belgium and the arrest of Katanga Province President Moise Tshombe and Congolese army strongman Maj. Gen. Joseph Mobutu for the slaying of former Premier Patrice Lumumba. The Russians demanded in the statement that the "io called United Nations operation in the Congo be completed and all foreign troops withdrawn from the country in a month." The statement added that this would give the Congo people time "to settle their domestic affairs themselves," Sections of Budget For County Schools Approved The total for the overall budget for the Jackson county school superintendent's office will probably be decided March 6, County School Su- pertendent Alf B. Mckvold said today. Then the rural school budget committee will have worked out the details of, and budget outline for, the proposed able and gifted child program. This is now being drawn up by a special committee of Jackson county, educators. Essentially it is a program to provide ad ditional education for students who work beyond their grade levels- Last night the budget com mittee approved all sections of the county school superin tendent's overall budget pre sented; except salaries and travel allowances, ' and the proposed speech correction program. Extensive Revision Following extensive revi sion by the county school of fice, the committee approved the budget total of $71,530.83 for the curriculum materials center, exclusive of salaries. The new total is $21,028.83 Four Youths Held For Vagrancy Four youths, who appar ently thought it would be fun to follow a police car for change, were arrested by Medford police last night on a charge of vagrancy. One of the youths was additionally charged with resisting arrest. Arrested wore Charles Bry- son LaCasse, 18, of 424 Oak dale St., Central Point; Floyd Dean Patee, 21, North Bend; Donald Arland Langston, 20, of 508 Vi Edwards St., Med ford and a 17-year-old youth. The minor was lodged in the county juvenile detention home. The other three youths entered pleas of Innocent in municipal court this morning to the vagrancy charges. A trial date was set for Feb. 20. All three youths are being held in the city jail in lieu of $10 bail. La Cassc entered a plea of guilty to the charge of resist ing arrest and was sentenced to two days in the city jail. The arrests came after a Medford police officer on rou tine patrol this morning about 1 o'clock allegedly spotted a car containing the youths following his patrol car in the west Medford area. The officer stopped the youths and took them to the police station where they were arrested. Police said La Cassc refused to be placed in jail and he had to be forcibly lodged. WEATHER FORECAST Cloudy inil mild with occasional rain tonight. Showers with pirlodl of par tial rlrarlns Wfflnpday. Kx pertrd low tonight 40. High to morrow 48 to 50. Temp. IlKhtit Yulerday al Lowest this Morning -II Tree, to 10 a.m. Today, Trace Our Skies Tonight Sunset today 5:1? p.m. Sunrise tomorrow 7:08 a.m. New Moon tomorrow 12:11 a.m. The total erllpse of the Sun at this New Moon will he vlslhle over some of the larger cities of Kurope. Among them will V? STsrc&ux, Pita, t'lomuf, Genoa, Budapest and Stalingrad. NOT TO DAG by Group more than the previous year's comparable budget total. Be fore the revisions the propos ed total was $80,760.78. Possibly the largest cut in the materials center budget was the $4,000 cut in film pur chases. This means the center will lease all film instead of buying part of it. Total origin al budget for Ellms was $7,500 Several cuts were made, and some items eliminated entire ly, In the categories of print ing, supplies and equipment. These items had come under neavy lire by the budget com mittee at the previous meet ing. It was then James Me- - Donald, curriculum materials center director, was asked reexamine and revise down ward his whole budget. Request Approved The requested allocation of $43,388.48 for the classes for mentally retarded was approv ed. William A. Starzinger, committee member from Rogue River, said he had ob served the classes and was "very favorably Impressed." This total includes $30,050 for salaries for five teachers for this program. The committee tabled for this year the speech correction program allocation. Dcalous Cox, county administrative as sistant, recommended tabling the allocation. State rcem burscmcnt for this new pro gram would not be available until six months until after the school year ends, he point ed out. The committee also approv ed, following some minor re visions, a total of $7,199.85 for the county superintend ent's office. This does not in clude travel and salary allo cations. Bill Would Abolish Board of Eugenics SaIem-IUPJ)-A bill to abolish a state board which has order ed sterilization of 2,293 per sons since 1917 was intro duced today in the Oregon House. Co-sponsors of the measure to do away with the board of eugenics were two Portland Democrats, Rep. George Van Hoomisscn, and Sen. Jean Lewis. Both said legal evidence in dicated the board's power to order sterilization was uncon stitutional. The board, composed of heads of state institutions, can order sterilization if hearings indicate children of persons in question would have an in herited "tendency toward" sicknesses and problems rang ing from epilepsy to "de generacy." Since the board was created 43 years ago, 1416 women and 877 men have been sterilized. Medford Youth Agrees To Return Paper Boxes A 16-year-old Medford boy Monday agreed to personally return to their owners a num ber of newspaper boxes which he had earlier stolen. Mcaford police found six newspaper' boxes under the youth's home. The boy admit ted that he stole them, and, at the suggestion of police, he agreed to return them. 55th Year Price 10 Cents Tribune No. 283 Kennedy, Leaders Review Proposals For Recovery Congress To Aove Ahead on Programs Washington - IUPD - Speaker Sain Rayburn said today after a White House conference that the nation's economic situ ation is at its "most urgent since the great depression" of the early 1930s. Rayburn gave his views af ter President Kennedy, the cabinet and the Democratic congressional leaders held a general discussion of the ad ministration's anti - recession proposals. The speaker said Congress would "move ahead on these programs as fast as we can now that our committees are organized." He said no new proposals were made at today's break fast meeting which lasted less than an hour, but the situation was reviewed by cabinet mem bers, particularly Labor Secre tary Arthur J. Goldberg. Found Conditions Bad The speaker said Goldberg, reporting on his Friday through Sunday tour of un employment-plagued areas ot five major industrial states. told the leaders "it was as bad or worse than he expected to find it." .. Rayburn said thai a' state ment which Kennedy plans to make at his televised news conference Wednesday c v e -ning will "be along the lines" of what the administration has . proposed as a recovery tolgency ot'it and so lor(n. program, stressing "the . ur- "1 think it's the most urgent sines the great depression . , . since the late '20s and early '30s," Rayburn said. , He emphasized that he was speaking for himself and, when asked whether he was reflecting the administration's view, he replied "The Presi dent will have to answer that." Asked, however, whether the major emphasis of today's session was on the economic situation, he quickly replied, sure." (See story on page 2) Klamath Man Admits Burglaries A 23-ycar-old Klamath Falls man admitted to Medford po lice Monday that he is respon sible for eight recent burgla ries here, including one last week at the Century Sporting Goods store, 36 South River side avc. Wendell Floyd Long was ar rested in Klamath Falls Sun day night on a charge of pos sessing stolen property after he was caught trying to sell three .22 caliber pistols that were stolen Thursday from the Medford sporting goods store. At first Long denied tha burglary but yesterday two Medford police detectives went to Klamath Falls, and ho admitted the crime to them. He also admitted to seven other burglaries here during the past three months. Included among the crimes admitted by Long are four church burglaries the Zion Evangelical Lutheran church, the First Christian church, Sa cred Heart Catholic church and St. Marks Episcopal church. The only thing taken in any of the church burgla ries, Long said, was S4 from a cash box at St. Marks. Long also admitted bur glaries at the Koln-O-Matlk laundry in Phoenix, Bea s Westinghouse Laundromat in Medford, and a Valley Fuel company ice machine in Med ford. He said he look $50 from the Phoenix laundromat. Police said Long has also admitted to several burglaries of a similar nature in Klam ath Falls. He is charged with burglary not in a dwelling and is confined in the city jail. APPLICATIONS HALTED Washington-am - Interior Secretary Stewart L. Udahh today halted all new nonmin eral applications for publitt lands for 18 months.
