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Newspaper Page Text55th Year Price 10 Cents Recommended Three stories In today's Mall Tribune reflect the numerous activities in the Rogue River valley. A history of the Ashland hotel, now being razed, appears on Page 6A; a story and pic tures of Emigrant dam may be found on Pages 2 and 3B; and an article about the valley's rabbit Industry is on Page 4B, Subscribers ' To report Improper or non delivery ot the Mail Tribune in Medlord and Ashland, phone SP 2-6141 before 6:45 p.m. daily and 10:30 a.m. Sunday. If recular delivery arrives shortly after you call, please notilv office, thus eliminating special messenger service. Tribune EDFORD United Press International Full Leased Wire United Press International Full Leased Wlr 56 Pages Section A MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1961 No. 287 M Home Rule Group Might Request Charter Finances Committee Chairman Says Plan Tentative The Jackson county home rule committee may ask the county budget committee to finance drawing of a home rule charter for the county during the new fiscal year, Committee Chairman Mrs. Thomas Rutter said Saturday. She emphasized, however, this is a tentative plan. The committee decided at its Thursday night meeting to hold a few more interviews before voting on formulation of a charter for Hi is county. Thursday night in the Public Library of Medford and Jack son county the committee hopes to interview Arnold Bohnert, representing the county budget committee, and E. H. Singmaster, former member of the county board of equalization. To Interview Officials Later the committee plans to interview District Attorney Alan Holmes, County Clerk Marvin Madden and County Commissioner Edwin Taylor. The local committee was or ganized in August and held its first meeting in Septem ber. Jackson county is one of a small group of counties, most ly in the more populous west ern section of the state, work ing on home rule. The Mar ion county committee decided Wednesday to begin drawing up a home rule charter "em bodying changes which would streamline the ' government and give the county the right to pass ordinances." The char ter would be put to a public vote. The Marion county commit tee was appointed in October by the county court and coun ty legislative delegation,. Like the Jackson county group It was given the job of studying county government and de ciding how to make it more effective. Drawing up the charter is expected to take many months. The committee spent four months deciding whether it wanted a home rule charter and government reorganization. Sen. Frank Church Is Guest Speaker Sen. Frank F. Church, Ida ho, will be this year's guest speaker at the annual Roose velt Memorial dinner sponsor ed by the Jackson county Democrats Saturday night, April 15, according to Harper Edwards, chairman of the Jackson county Democratic Central committee. Place for the dinner has not yet been decided, Edwards said. Church was elected to the United States senate for the first time on Nov. 6, 1956. He was keynote speaker at the Democratic convention in Los Angeles, Calif. The 36-year-old senator is a graduate of Stanford univer sity and its law school. He rose from private to second lieutenant when 20 years old during World War II, was as signed to military intelligence and saw action in India, Bur ma, and China. Henry Padgham, Medford, has been named general chair man of the dinner, Edwards announced. This event, now in its 11th Vear. has had such guest speakers as President John F. Kennedy, and former First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt. Sports Bulletins Medford high defeated Crater 83-57 here last night in a Southern Oregon con ference basketball game. The Black Tornado led 43 29 at halftime. Loyal Higin botham had 25 points for Crater. Bob Quinney hit for 13 for Medford and Jim Barry got 17. Grants Pass Grants Pass High school trimmed Ash land 64-41 in a Saturday night Southern Oregon con ference basketball game. Eagle Point Eagle Point high tripped Medford St. Mary's in an overtime 49-46 here last nighl. The game was 42-42 at the end of reg ulation play. Ashland Portland State dumped Southern Oregon college in a low scoring 45 40 game in Ashland last night. SOC led at halftime 25-24. Idaho 54, OSC 47 Seattle 61, Oregon S7 50 Rebels Invade Cuba; In Worryin Havana - (UPI) - Reliable but unconfirmed reports from Or-. iente province last night said a band of anti-Castro rebels made a landing near La Plata on Cuba's southern coast, east of the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo, last Wednes day night. The rebel force was de scribed as numbering "around 50 men. Sources in close contact with anti-government groups in that extreme east ern province said the invad ers succeeded in reaching Los Parallones foothills and have headed into the approaches of the Sierra Cistal mountains. They were said to be at tempting to link up with var ious rebel groups - totalling several hundred men - oper ating in the area between Guantanamo and Baracoa. Reports also circulated that a landing of guns and mili tary supplies was made this week near the town of Imias, also on the southern Orientc coast and about 40 miles fur ther east. The landing at La, Plata, if corroborated, would be the first large-scale expeditionary force to reach Cuba since last October's ill-fated 27 -man Malaya Plans Hike In U.N. Congo Force United Nations, N.Y.-WPII Malaya came to the aid of the faltering U. N. Congo troop operation Saturday with an offer of 800 more soldiers. But Ghana demanded that the troubled African country be put under "all African" con trol with all white officials removed. ; Malaya's' offer to bolster the U.N. troop command, rid dled by defections by nations supporting slain ex-Premier Patrice Lumumba, was grate fully accepted by Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold. Ghana's President Kwame Nkrumah proposed a seven- phase plan calling for an African U.N. command, dis arming of all Congolese arm ed factions, by force if neces sary, and removal of all for eign diplomatic missions until order was restored under African leadership. Such a proposal, Nkrumah Germany To Start Big Aid Program Washington - OJPIt - Ameri can officials Saturday express ed satisfaction over the West German promise to initiate a massive long-term foreign aid program. They said this constitutes a definite change in German policy, bringing West Ger many closer toward the U.S evaluation o the world situ ation. The German promise was disclosed in a joint communi que released here after a meet ing between President Ken nedy and West German For eign Minister Heinrich Von Brentano Friday. The communique said Ken nedy had heard "with satisfac tion" that West Germany is prepared "to carry on its pro gram for the underdeveloped countries in future years." German foreign office spokesman Karl Guenther Von Haase said later that no specific figures had been dis cussed but that the German foreign aid effort would be "in the area of $1 billion per year. Britons Protest U.S. Polaris Sub Base London - (UPD - Thousands of demonstrators, led by 88 year-old Lord Bertrand Rus sell and teen-age bearded beat niks, surged through London and Glasgow Sunday in pro test marches against the bas ing of U. S. Polaris missile submarines in Britain. In London, a throng of an estimated 4.000 persons marched to Trafalgar square and some 3,000 demonstrators, acting as pickets,' squatted on the sidewalks outside Britain's defense ministry. In Glasgow, kilted bagpip ers led an estimated 5.00(1 demonstrators through t h e streets in protest against bas ing the American nuclear guided missile submarines at Scotland's Holy Loch. surgents 0 astro group which was quickly captured. Reports of the landing came as Prime Minister Fidel Cas tro rushed to central Cuba to evaluate the worsening mili tary situation. . Insurgents in the Escambray mountains are inflicting heavy" casualties on his inexperienced militia, ac cording to a high army source. The source said Castro left Friday night for Santa Clara with his field commanders after Maj. Dermidio Escalona reported he was "gravely con cerned" because his militia men were suffering between 20 and 30 casualties daily in guerrilla fighting. Reliable sources have esti mated 2,000 guerrillas are holding out in Las Villas province against about 30,000 recently recruited militiamen. But insurgent resistance was reported stiffening. Meanwhile, the government-controlled press denied reports published by a Flori da newspaper (the Miami News) that a naval base for the Soviet Union is under con struction on the island of Key Largo, about 25 miles due south of Cuba's east -central Caribbean coast. said, would be flexible enough to keep Asian forces in the U.N. command but all whites, such as the Swedes and Irish, would have to go. Nkrumah offered to come to New York to help organize the plan. , , . Behind the scenes, U.S. Am bassador Adlai E. Stevenson won a diplomatic tug of war when the 18-nation Congo ad visory group decided to re lease a report proposing stronger U.N. action in the Congo. The report was drawn up by an 11-nation concilia tion commission to the Congo. Guinea Backs Russia Stevenson sought release of the report against Russian in sistence it be kept secret. Sources said at yesterday's two - hour session Guinea strongly backed Russia's stand. But Stevenson had his way. The advisory group agreed to make the conciliation com mission report available to all U.N. delegations with a note stating that the 1,000-word document reflected the opin ion of the conciliation com mission delegates, not neces sarily that of their home gov ernments. Medford Guard Unit Holds Open House The Medford Oregon Na tional Guard unit is holding an open house between 1 and 3 p.m. today at the armory. The open house is part of the local unit's observance of "Muster Day," a nationwide event. Theme for the sixth annual observance is "The Na tional Guard in the Cold War." Puropose of the day is to call attention to the Na tional Guard and the role it plays as a cold war deterrent. The local unit will display equipment outside ,the arm ory. Motion pictures are plan ned as part of the observance. Cedric Adams Dies Of Heart Attack Austin, Minn. -IUPD- Cedric Adams, long-time Minneapolis star and Tribune columnist and radio personality, died of a heart attack here last night. He was 58. Adams had stayed over night at the Red Cedar Inn here, where he had come for a week ends rest. He was ad mitted to the hospital after complaining that he did not feel well and died about 10: 30 p. m. WEATHER FORECAST: Partly cloudy! through Monday. Hi Eh today SO. I Low tonight 40. High tomorrow! Temp. Highest Yesterday 49 Precip, to i p.m. Yesterday 0. Our Skies Tonight Sunset today 5:43 p.m. Sunrise tomorrow 7:02 a.m. .Moonset tonight 11:11 p.m. Jupiler goes around the Sun In 12 years; Saturn does the same in 29 .. years. The combination of their movements on their orbits causes Jupiter to pass to the east of Saturn every 20 years, as tt did in 1911, Is now doing; and will afaln about 1981. UAR Arrests U.S. Attache in Cairo; Ignores Immunity Incident Accentuates Worsening Relations Cairo - (UPD - Police arrest ed .the press attache of the U. S. embassy here Saturday and held him for 11 hours of questioning on charges of "dis tributing imperialist propa ganda leaflets." The attache, Zygmunt Na gorski, denied the charges and said police "roughed me up" before his release last night. The U. S. embassy indicated it was preparing an immedi ate protest to the United Arab Republic government. Nagorski's detention by po lice, . who ignored his diplo matic immunity, accentuated the worsening relations be tween the United States and the UAR over the Congo in the wake of Patrice Lumum ba's death. Earlier this week the U. S. embassy was stoned by mobs of students protesting Lum umba's slaying. The semi - official Middle East news agency (Mcna) quot ed police as saying Nagorski was distributing the leaflets from his car in front of a hotel "without authorization." Authorities charged that the leaflets expressed "imperial ist" views on the Congo situa tion and also attacked those nations - of which the UAR is one - that back Lumumbist forces in that former Belgian territory. Nagorski denied the charges and was released after his 11-hour interrogation, Mena said police had kept Nagorski "under surveillance" since Friday because similar leaflets were found in other sections of the city. Police said Nagorski's -car was in those areas at the time. The Arab news agency quot ed police as saying Nagorski told them that a gust of wind blew the leaflets out of his automobile as he was driving by. , ,.; Medford Speakers Win Sweepstakes McMinnville-Medford High school won the grand sweep stakes first place in the Lin field College Invitational For ensic speech tournament held here Saturday. Medford high school and junior high school students competed with 900 students of other Oregon schools. The 62 member Medford delegation was the largest ever attending the tournament. In addition to winning the grand sweepstakes event for the first time, Medford won first place in the junior sweepstakes. Ashland High school won first place in sen ior sweepstakes. Suzy Thompson and Judy Sims won first place in senior women's debate. Sue Jahn and Sherry Koblick placed first in junior women's debate. The junior men's debate team of Angus Duncan and Steve Blackhurst, of Hedrick Jun ior High school, placed first. Sandra Gannon was first in junior women's oratory. Medford students also scor ed points in after dinner speaking, impromptu speak ing, salesmanship and inter view. Mrs. DeVere Taylor is senior high school speech coach. "We Must Join To Avenge Our Dear Friend, Lumumba" walkout EUROPEAN SOLDIERS This picture, handed out by the Katanga government in Elisabethville, reportedly shows a group of unidentified Europeans, their faces blacked commando-style, taking part in military operations with Medford Officials Asked To Submit Budget Requests ' The first step in the city of Medford's budget preparations for the 1961-62 fiscal year was taken last week when various city department heads were asked to estimate their respec tive budget heeds for the com ing year. These estimates are due back in City Manager Robert A. Duff s office March 1, and will serve as a guide to prep aration of the city s prelimi nary budget. Duff said he expects that the department heads will sub mit realistic budget requests. They do not follow the prac tice of department heads in some cities, he said, who sub mit "fat budgets" with the ex pectation that some will be trimmed off. ' Always Greater But, the city manager noted that the requests, while being realistic, are almost always greater than the city can af ford. Following preparation of the preliminary budget it will be submitted to the citizens budget committee which starts a series of budget meetings in April. After the budget has been approved, and revised, if necessary, the final budget will be submitted to the city council and a public hearing will be called. Following the hearing, any necessary changes' are made, and the final budget is approved. Deadline for approval of budget is July 15. During the existing fiscal year the city had a general fund budget of $906,030, of which $363,120 came from the properly tax levy. Under state law, the city will be allowed an increase of 6 per cent in its tax levy. New Stop 'N' Start Rocket Carries U.S. Satellite Into Orbit Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif. - (UPD - A new Discoverer satellite bolted into orbit Saturday in the first successful test of a stop 'n' start rocket to be used to power and control the United States' first maneuver- able ..military space vehicle. The reigniting of the Ageha B rocket powering the 25 foot-long Discovered XXI cap ped a highly productive two days in the program and opened a new era. in,, satellite control. . ' . ... ' The Discoverer blasted off the launch pad at 2:58 pjii. PST. ' Four hours later, the Air Force announced it had suc cessfully restarted the rocket engine while in orbit. The Air Force announced time for one circuit of the earth before the engine was restarted was 93.8 minutes. After the addi tional burst of power from the satellite's engine, the time for each pass was 07.8 min utes. The satellite was boosted into space atop a Thor me- Auio Crash Kills Jacksonville Man William Richard' LaBarge, 78, of 210 West California st., Jacksonville, was killed early Saturday morning when his car missed a curve on the Jacksonville highway and went over a 25 foot bank, ac cording to state police. His wife, Mrs. Leno Maud LaBarge, 80, a passenger in the car, was apparently not In jured. The accident occurred about 1 Vi miles east of Forrest Creek rd., when the car round ed a curve and went out of control. Police said it traveled 160 feet along the shoulder of the highway and then went over the bank. Moderate damage resulted to the right front side and top of the car. LaBargc's body was taken to the Conger-Morris Funeral home ponding further ar rangements. Hatfield To Appear On Television Here Gov. Mark Hatfield will ap pear on KBES-TV from 4:30 to 5 o'clock this afternoon to answer any questions tele phoned to the station by Jack son county citizens, according to the governor's office Satur day. Governor Hatfield will be in Medford Just long enough to appear on the local tele vision broadcast, his spokes man explained. This is one of a series of such "Ask Your Governor" programs and the first one held in Medford, Others have been held in Coos Bay, Eu gene, Roscburg and other Ore gon cities. Katanga forces in the Congo. offensive Saturday to drive men from the town of Luena. dium-range missile. The two separated and the satellite engine - cut In for approxi- mately zva minutes betore stopping, was. in. i one e the satellite stable orbit. But when the engine restarted, the- speed of the satellite was increased, , which in turn made the orbit path longer. On a signal from the ground, the satellite's stilled rocket engine restarted as the vehicle crossed high oven Alaska at 18,000 miles an hour. That came on the first pass, after the new satellite was hurled Into orbit r- the nrnnrf snrn'pssfiil Discoverer orbit in as many days. It was the first time, the Air Force said, the Agcnn B had ever been rcignitcd while in orbit. The Agena B is scheduled to power the Midas, X Samos and Saint Sky Spy military system. Came of Age "The Discoverer program really came of age today with the successful restart test," said one Air Force officer. "And appropriately enough it came' on No. 21." Maj. Gen, O. J. Ritland, commander of the Air Force Ballistic Missile division, said Saturday's restart was only to -test the mechanism. "It is another successful ex periment to perfect the sys tem for satellite stabilization and control In orbit," Ritland said. . The latest Discoverer, un like its brother satellite fired into orbit Friday, carried no recoverable capsule. Discov erer XX launched Friday is supposed to k c e p an instru ment capsule in orbit four days before scientists attempt to retrieve it. Willamette Valley Has Pear Advantage Salem - IUPII - A horticul ture expert has told Willam ette valley pcaf growers that it is possible for them to com pete successfully with other parts of Oregon,, in growing pears. i , ,. '.. . Henry Harlmsn, speaking to about 150 growers hero, said that the Willamette val ley has two advantages over the Medford area. He listed the advantages as the lack of a fire blight problem and the presence of facilities for fruit processing. Hartman is a retired profes sor of horticulture at Oregon Slate college. Vf urn" Soys He May Run Against Morse Salem -(UPD- Sen. Anthony Yturri, R-Ontario, said Friday he may run for the U. S. Sen ate in 1D62 against Sen. Wayne Morse, D-Ore. . "It is a possibility," the Ore gon Senate Minority Leader said. The troops launched a heavy pro - Lumumba Baluba tribes- (UPI Tclcphoto) Week End Traffic Accidents Claim 4 Lives in Oregon At least four persons had died in traffic accidents In Oregon this week end by Sat- urday night. The victims were Mrs. 'Tilda Mae Crow, 35, Joseph; Wil- liam Tt. LeBarge, .78, Jack sonville; Gordon S. Hamilton, 09, Klamath Falls', and Ed ward L. Winslow, 24, Glen dale. . i , Mrs. Crow was killed In a collision on state Highway 82 about 55 miles north of -La Grande Saturday night.: she was a. passenger in . a ear which struck the back of nlckim truck, wh ch' La,. r,n n, ehni,iHn parked on the shoulder of the highway.- : - f In Critical Condition The victim's husband, -Victor Crow, the driver of the car, was taken to a hospital at Enterprise and was report ed in critical condition. The other three victims died as a result of traffic acci dents Friday night, - - Hamilton died at a Hermis lon hospital from Injuries re ceived earlier in the day when his pickup truck collided with a car driven by Glen A. Hold en, 33, Lake Oswego, on High way 30 near Boardman. Winslow was killed when his failed to make a turn about 50 miles south of Rose-, burg and smashed into a tree. The accident occurred on a county road one' mile west of Olcndalc. ' ' ' ' Government Boosts Home Loan Funds Washington -ItlPII- The gov ernment moved Saturday to strengthen home building by adding more than $1 billion to the supply of money avail able for mortgage loans. The steps taken are expect ed to lower interest rates and cut some cash clown payments on houses costing more than $18,000. The action was taken as the commerce department report ed a 12 per cent increase of housing starts in January. The department said the end of the downward slide was partly brought about by starts that had . been delayed by bad weather in December, Belgian Premier To Stay in Office Brussels-IUPD-Premier Gas ton Eyskens vowed Saturday he will keep his government In office despite the resigna tion of Its seven Liberal mem bers Friday night. His statement appeared to rule out the possibility of a major cabinet crisis before the national elections sched uled next month. The Liberals resigned from Eyskens' coalition jn protest against alleged foot-dragging by the premier's Social Chris tian party on a move to In crease the size of the lower house of Parliament. Flight Engineers Defy President, Courts and Union Strike Affects Seven Airlines New York-(UPD - Flight en gineers grounded a major seg ment of the nation's passenger airline fleet Saturday in a "wildcat" strike in defiance of their union, their employ ers and President Kennedy. The walkout, affecting sev en of the largest airlines, be gan at 7:30 p.m. EST Friday, two hours after Kennedy or dered a fact-finding board to move in on the dispute and avert the strike. The stoppage continued through yesterday despite or ders of union leaders for the men to return to work and court actions in several key cities. Sy Korn, spokesman for off-the-job engineers in New York, said he did not believe the court orders would bring the men back to work. 'Militant Group' "These engineers are a mili tant group, and I think they are going to hold tight," he said. - : Flight engineers continued to call In "sick" or simply fail An airlines spokesman at the Modford airport said last night thai the strike has not affected any of the three airlines serving Medford ' Pacific, West Coast and United. to report for duty. The tele- phones 'of many went unan swered when their employers tried to-reach them. A ,, union spokesman In Washington said that labor secretary Arthur P. Goldberg telephoned Ron Brown,' presi dent of the engineers union, from New York and urged him to get the strikers back ' work. 1 he spokesman said ,,rwn Ja,ter , ,0Ja. C'dberg Lt,1B' effortt to get the men . m juu jwunui oeen successful. Pan, American World Air ways and Eastern Airlines led a parade to court and obtained orders forbidding continuance of the strike. American Air lines obtained a federal court order for a hearing Monday on an injunction plea. Picketing Continued But picketing continued. The only planes operated by Pan Am were flights carrying supervisory personnel as en gineers. Operation of twin -engine airplanes was not affected by the walkout because that type of plane need not carry engi neers ..under federal regula tioh. But all of the big U.S. four -engine propeller driven and jot aircraft must include engineers In their crews. ; Officials of Eastern Airlines expressed the hope that a court order obtained In Miami would ' bring its engineers back. Pan American reported six hours after it obtained a restraining order at noon that its flight engineers still were "unavailable." Plans Disrupted "The plans of thousands of travelers have been disrupted by this illegal and irresponsi ble action," a Pan Am spokes man said. "We trust the flight engineers will live up to their obligations as law abiding citi zens and that Pan American soon will bo able to restore normal service." Pan Am's normal schedule calls for 17 flights out of New York on Saturday. It sent one flight to Bermuda and ar ranged for supervisory engi neers to go out on two other flights last night - one to Lon don, the other to Paris. Pan Am cancelled all six of its overseas flights from Miami. Eastern Airlines said it had cancelled- at least 50 flights from Miami, some because of bad weather in the northeast ern states but mostly because of the strike. Supervisory Personnel Nine Eastern planes flew out of Miami with supervisory personnel In engineer's seats. National Airlines cancelled one flight because of the engi neers walkout. Other flights were washed out by rain In the northeast. Most of American's huge fleet of airlines had been grounded by the strike. An airline spokesman said almost the only four -engine flights operating were those return ing engineers to their home I base.