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Newspaper Page TextKennedy Proposes n3 n n ns mm Mca'OM program Regional Edition Medford 18 Pages Followers of Lumumba Killed in Kasai Province Mrs. Neuberger Introduces New Seashore Bill By A. ROBERT SMITH ' Mail Tribune Washington Correspondent Washington (Special) Sen. Maurine Neuberger has in troduced a new Oregon Dunes National Seashore bill which would permit all property owners in the park area to re tain their property permanently under appoved zoning codes. This new provision of the bill is one of several revisions designed to meet objections raised to earlier versions. Basic intent of the bill remains to create a federal recreation area between Florence and Reedsport embracing the huge dunes along the scenic Oregon coast and including several fresh water lakes and inland forestland. The new bill would not include the Sea Lion Caves nearby, but it provides authority for that tourist attraction to be added to the park by executive order of the president, it he snouio cnoose. Another new feature is a directive to the secretary of the Interior Department to permit "transportation and disposal of domestic and in dustrial wastes within or through the seashore in. ac cordance with standards es tablished by the state of Ore gon" - a clause designed to guarantee International Pa per Co. the privilege of pip ing waste through the park from its projected paper mill at Gardiner into the ocean. With the directive was a pro viso that such disposal' "not materially impair the scenic, scientific and .recreational features of thrIH9&r6." I Another new feature is a general advisory board com posed of five Oregon residents -two appointed by the Inter ior secretary and three by the governor. The board would "advise the secretary on any matters of policy re lating to the development of the seashore including stand . ards for regulations relating to zoning." The two board members appointed by the In terior secretary must be res idents of the counties in which the park would be located. On the controversial issue of land acquisition by the gov ernment, the bill contains the same sort of general author ity for the Interior secretary "to acquire by purchase, do nation, with donated funds or by such other means as he deems to be in the public in terest" as is common in park legislation. Mrs. Neuberger's office noted that this was sim ilar to the language in the bill which the late Sen. Rich ard L. Neuberger and Sen. Wayne Morse co-sponsored for creation of the Ft. Clatsop National Monument near As toria. (Continued on Page 2) Trading Stamp Bill Sent to Committee Salem - 1UP1) A bill to regulate trading stamps in Oregon was sent today to the house state and federal affairs committee. Chairman Norman Howard (D-Portland) promised the con troversial measure would get a "fair and just hearing." He said dates for airing the bill will be announced later. Stamp companies have as sailed the bill as meaning the end of trading stamps in Ore gon, but smaller grocers have gone on record in favor of it. The last time an Oregon legislature tried to control the stamps, protests arrived from thousands of housewives. PROGRESS REPORT Ashland The Ashland Chamber of Commerce will hear a progress report on con struction of the Ashland Com munity hospital at its Tuesday noon luncheon at the Mark Antony hotel. Robert Flynn, hospital administrator, will speak. The program is one of a series of reports on various projects currently being car ried on in the community. UPRISING QUELLED Caracas, Venezuela fUPO A dissident army group attempt ed to seize control of the mili tary academy and a radio sta tion today but President Romulo Betanconrfs govern ment announced It had defeat ed the uprising. MEDFORD, OREGON, MONDAY, FEBRUARY Scientists Will Try To Recover Capsule From Sky Vandcnberg A.F.B., Calif. -(UPD-Air Force scientists today were preparing to try to re cover one of two Discoverer satellites now chasing each other around the world every 97.8 minutes. Although Discoverer XX and XXI still are performing, most attention is focused on the next Discoverer show which may possibly come next month, - Best guess now Is that it will be a space-going monkey. Discoverer XX and XXI were launched 27 hours apart.1 Discoverer XX was fired into orbit Friday and Discoverer' XXI on Saturday. Engine Reignited Headliner of the pair was No. XXI, which, on command from the ground, reignited its still rocket engine as it zoom ed in orbit at 18,000 miles an hour. This proved United States' plans for maneuver able military satellites. Discoverer XX is supposed to climax its act Tuesday when scientists try to get it to send back to earth a 300 pound capsule after a record four days in orbit. That is equal to about 1.5 million miles through space. Flighf Engineers Continue on Strike New York - (UPD - Striking flight engineers stayed away from their jobs for the third straight day today, making it almost certain that five major airlines will begin furlough ing about 60,000 employees across the United States. JUDGMENT UPHELD Washington -(UPD- The Su preme Court upheld today a denaturalization j u d g ment against Frank Costello, once king of the underworld. Cos tello is now in prison for fed eral income tax evasion. "Listen, When I Get Through With It, It Won't Be Worth Belonging To" Deportation by Kasavubu Leads To Executions Dag, Belgium Given Blame for Violence United' Nations, N.Y.-IUPD-Six followers of slain Patrice Lumumba were executed after their deportation by Congo President Joseph Kas avubu into the Congo's viol ently anti - L u m u m b i s t Kasai Province, ,: . Secretary general Dag Hammarskjold told the Security Council to day. Soviet Ambassador Valerian A. Zorin charged that the Kasavubu government "is car rying out a campaign of sys tematic extermination of the national leaders of the Con go." " . -Arrest Demanded He put full blame on Ham marskjold and Beligum sup port of the Congo regime of Kasavubu, secessionist leader Moise Tshombe -: and army strongman . Maj. Gen. Joseph D. Mobutu. Zorin demanded the' arrest of Tshombe and Mobutu. The council adjourned al most at once after hearing Hammarskjold's a n n o u n ce ment --shock.; It' agreed to: Li berian' Ambassador George A. Padmdre's request" for ad journment until 3' p.m.. (est), to permit him to consult other African delegates. . U. S. Ambassador "Adlal E. Stevenson said he was in structed to "express our shock revulsion and indigna tion" at ' the latest "example of barbarity." . ... Delays Said Costly Zorin seized upon the an nouncement as the basis for a comprehensive speech. He recalled that he had opposed the .council's week end ad journment) last Friday and said "every day's, postpone ment is untying the hands of the terrorist regime which is now raging In Leopoldville and Katanga." "We are convinced," Zorin said, "that if the United Na tions continues its passive at titude in the adoption of de cisive measures against the Belgian aggressors and their stooges, we will have further victims and will bo faced with a complete catastrophe . . ." OH Students Hurt In Auto Collision . Klamath Falls - (UPD - Six persons were injured, includ ing starting Oregon Tech bas ketball forward Norman Johns, in a two-car collision here early Sunday. Johns suffered severe face and head cuts. Also injured were James D. Coffee and L. T. Tennerson, members of the OTI football team last fall, and Johns' wife, Joyce. Merlin Ives, also a student at OTI, and Fred Townsend, were in jured in the second car. 55th Tribune 20, 1961 WEATHER FORECAST: Considerable mid dle and hifh cloudiness tonight. Chinee of a little Hfht rain Tueiday. Low tonight 36-38. High Tuesday near CO. Temp. Highest Yesterday 53 Lowest this Morning 38 Our Skies Tonight Sunset today 3:50 p.m. Sunrise tomorrow 7:00 a.m. Moonset tomorrow ......12:13 a.m. First Quarter Feb. 22 Venus, high In southwest at sunset, sets tonight at 9:11 p.m. Now at the peak of Its brilliance for this year, Venus Is also the brightest It has been since 1939. Sheriff Makes Plans To Handle Disturbances Jackson County Sheriff. Joe Walsh is making plans now to handle any possible - disturb ances, should an agricultural union organizing committee become active here during this summer s pear harvest, he said today Walsh said he will protect the rights and property of both sides His first step . will be to s t u d y existing labor laws which would affect any organ izational attempts among the migrant workers. He also plans to hold special classes for deputies and members of the Sheriff's Reserves. Instruc tion will cover Interpretation of the existing labor laws af fecting strikes, and how to handle ' violence and threats of violence. ' A county budget allocation lor a greatly expanded deputy force will not be. needed in the new fiscal year budget. Walsh said. Money can be taken from the county emer gency fund when, and if, the need arises,. State Authorities The sheriff also stated he will contact state authorities to see what steps are neces sary to obtain state police help in case of disturbances accompanying a labor dispute. The. governor's permission must be obtained by local au thorities before the state po lice can be called in, Walsh said he understood. . A group of pear growers met with the sheriff last week to find out what he planned to do to protect lives and property in local orchards in case violence accompanies attempts to organize migrant pickers here. The pear growers explained that a Mail Tribune farm col umn published in Tuesday's paper prompted the meeting. The column noted the strike violence which occurred re cently when lettuce fields were picketed in the Imperial valley in California. Four peo ple were injured in labor vio lence there and those charged with causing the violence were jailed by sheriff's depu ties. The newspaper column questioned whether Walsh had sufficient deputies to meet such labor trouble in local orchards. The sheriff pointed out to day that a much smaller num ber of pickers work in t h e Rogue valley pear harvest than those required in the Cal ifornia lettuce picking. Parking On Ashland Council's Agenda Ashland-The Ashland City council will hear a report from the street and finance committees on extension of center street parking strip on Highway 99 at its meeting Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. in the council chambers. The proposed extension would run from the intersec tion of Highways 99 and 66 to Normal ave. About $20,000 trom the city would be need ed for the project. The council cemetery com mittee will report on a pro posal that the city take over the Hagadine cemetery. Harry Skerry, city attor ney, will report on legal as pects of giving Clyde Caton an extension of a building permit. Skerry will also pre sent a zoning variance ordi nance to allow Liningcr Sand and Gravel company to take rock from Bear creek. Year Price 10 Cents No. 288 Legislature Has Three Hot Items Set for Hearings Session Starts On Seventh Week Salem - (UPD - The 1961 Oregon legislature began its seventh week today with three hot items set for night hear ings and one major subject government reorganization -ready for its first floor consid eration. , What the schedule showed, however, as the lawmakers moved within a week of their halfway target date for a 100 day session, was that little major legislation had proceed ed very far. Bills Nearly Ready Two bills appeared nearly ready for the governor's desk - measures to let the State Land Board grant lake and coast easements for industry, particularly for a proposed pulp mill near Gardiner. They would be the first ma jor legislation to be sent to the governor in the 43 days the body has been in session. A relatively non-controver sial reorganization bill to es tablish a department of com merce was ready for Senate action, but 19 companion measures were still sitting in the House and Senate State and Federal Affairs commit tees. Afternoon Hearing Set - The House Tax committee. which has not yet passed out any important bills, was slated to take testimony this after noon on an interim committee measure to repeal the tax on business inventories. A controversial bill to let employers carry state insur- ance, self-insurance, or private insurance for injured work men is up for hearing Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. before the State and Federal Affairs commit tee: ' Chances were if the Senate passed the three - way bill, which Senate President Harry Boivin helped to draft, labor interests would wage a heavy campaign to block it in the House. Hearing Wednesday The Senate Commerce and Utilities committee set a hear ing Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. on a bill to empower the pub lic utilities commissioner to prevent further duplication of utilities in Oregon. On Thursday at 7:30 p.m. the House Judiciary commit tee will hold a hearing on a constitutional amendment to abolish the death penalty ex cept in cases of treason or murder by prisoners serving a life sentence. A bill to do away with liq uor permits in Oregon will be up for hearing before the House Alcoholic Control com mittee Friday at 1 p.m. Rogue River Post Office Plans Called Plans for the construction of a post office building in Rogue River to be leased to the post office department, will be received by the Seattle regional office of the depart ment until March 21. It was announced that the site option on the east side of Depot St., now held by the government, would be pur chased by the successful bid der. The building would contain 2,224 square feet with 4,900 square feet for parking area. The department would enter into a 10-year lease agreement with two five-year renewal options, it was stated. Property Recovered After Youth's Arrest City police arested a 16- ycar-old Medford boy Satur day night on a charge of pet ty larceny, after the youth ad mitted being responsible for eight car prowling incidents in recent weeks, including two behind the Payless Drug store at the Medford Shop- pin" Center Friday night. The youth told police that six of the car incidents took place In Central Point. He also admitted to taking two hubcaps from a car that was parked at a local bowling al ley about three weeks ago. Police recovered a large quantity of stolen properly from the boy, including a blanket, knives and miscel laneous tools. The youth was lodged in the county juvenile detention home. LEADERS CONFER President Kennedy Ington today. Continental defense and con and Canadian Prime Minister John Diefen- trol of nuclear weapons on Canadian soil baker are shown prior to a meeting in Wash- are among the chief topics for discussion. (UPI Telephoto) Huge O&C Program For Recreational Development Told Portland - UPD - A multi-. million aouar program oi recreational resource develop ment for- Oregon was an nounced today by the Associa tion of O & C Counties, fea turing better roads to recrea tion areas and improved fa cilities in the Cascades, Sis kiyous and along the coast. Darrell Jones, president of the association, told a news conference a number of fed eral, state and local agencies had been invited to participate in a cooperative effort to strengthen the tourist indus try, Oregon s third largest. Leadership Pledged The O&C counties pledged both "leadership, and money as earnings from controverted timber sales allow" to the pro gram. Jones said one part of the proposed program was even tual completion of a network of high standard roads link ing outstanding recreational resources in the Cascades from Mt. Hood to Crater Lake, Arguments Being Held in Chambers Arguments on the reply of the Public Utilities commis sioner to a suit by the city of Medford were heard in Cir cuit Judge James M. Main's chambers this morning. Testimony presented in a judge's chambers is consider ed confidential. The city is asking that part of a PUC order on the pro posed Barnett rd. railroad crossing be declared void. Today s hearing is the first court test of a case that start ed in September, 1959, when the city petitioned the PUC for a railroad crossing at Bar nett rd. The city had pro posed to extend Barnett rd. across the tracks to connect with Melrose ave. City Attorney Joel Rceder contended that the crossing was urgently needed to facili tate traffic movement in this part of the city. The Southern Pacific railroad opposed the crossing as unnecessary. In August, 1960, PUC Com missioner Jonel C. Hill hand ed down an order granting the city its request, but stipu lating that in exchange the city should vacate its 11th st. crossing. Municipal Court Trial Set Friday The trial of Jack Maurice Shoemaker, 18, of 2070 Ridge Way, on a charge of assault and battery will be held In Medford s municipal court Friday. Shoemaker entered a plea of Innocent to the charge last Friday. A second charge against Shoemaker, disorderly con duct, was dropped Friday at the recommendation of City Attorney Joel Rceder. The charge of assault and battery was brought against Shoemak er by Doris Marie Benasco. a waitress at a local cafe, fol lowing an alleged incident at the cafe a week ago. LEADING DRIVE Havana (UPIJ Raul Castro, armed forces chief and broth er of the premier, today was reported personally leading the drive against a fresh band of anti-Castro invaders In east ern Cuba, nil IhA'TiilirNwt ' umiT'M.I across the Siskiyou and Coast ranges, and up the coast from the California line lo Tilla mook. The program also calls for "simultaneous development of additional public recreation facilities, and improvement of some existing facilities, in co operation with all interested agencies of government." The participation of private Invest ment in "first rate facilities" also was encouraged. Jones said money to be In vested by the 18 O & C coun ties would come from a por tion of earnings from so-called "controverted" O&C timber lands managed by the Forest service and regular O&C lands administered by the Bureau of Land Management. Money Reinvested By law 75 per cent of earn ings from all O & C lands eo to the counties and 25 per cent to the federal govern- ment. Since the 1953 fiscal year, the counties have vol untarily reinvested close to one-third of their share In ac cess roads, reforestation, and recently in recreational de velopment. Nearly $45 million has been reinvested this way, Jones said. Work in the program is ex pected to include creation of a road to the Ashland ski area and rehabilitation of Timber line. Enthusiastic Response Jones will represent the O&C group on a steering committee being established to guide the project. He said the plans had been discussed with local, state and federal officials and that the response nas Deen "enthusiastic." Those who have been in vited to serve on the steer ing committee include Glenn L. Jackson, Medford, state highway commission: and Wil liam Dawkins, Ashland, public relations representative, O and C counties and cx-officio member of the committee, Deputies Get to Scene Before Fight Prompt action by sheriff's deputies Sunday dispersed two large groups of Medford and Jacksonville juveniles In the Jacksonville cemetery be fore any disturbance resulted, it was reported today. Sheriffs deputies received reports that a large number of juveniles were gathering in the cemetery and a "gang fight" threatened. Two dep uties told the juveniles to go home before any trouble de veloped. - A deputy said today he un derstood the quarrel was be tween two boys and not be tween the two groups. Bill To Prohibit Export of Logs Salem - (UPD - Three repre sentatives today introduced a bill to prohibit export of Ore Bon logs to foreign countries. The measure would apply to all timber sold by the state or Its political subdivisions. Sponsors said export of Oregon timber had "evil ef fects on Oregon's economy." The bill, they said, was aim ed at keeping timber manu facturing and processing with in the state. The measure was introduc ed by Reps. Clarence Barton (D-Coquille), W. O. Kclsay (D-Roseburg), and Sidney Lei ken (D-Roseburg). Measure Would Ban Moonlighting By All Employees Salem-OIPD-A bill to ban moonlighting for all public employees in Oregon was in troduced in the Oregon Senate today by the Committee on State and Federal Affairs. It would affect all state, county and city workers and employees of other political subdivisions. Moonlighting is holding two jobs at once. This is done now in many parts of the state but is expressly forbidden for em ployees of Multnoamh county Sen. Thomas R. Mahoney (D-Portland), a committee member, said he wants to see either the restriction removed on Multnoamh county i em- ployees, or perhaps limited moonlighting for public em ployees. Education Bill In The Senate Education corn- mittee put in a bill that would Droaaen powers or tne ure- gon Scholarship Commission The commission would award scholarships directly, instead of the Board of Higher Edu cation. Rep. Ed Benedict (D-Port- land), and others put in a bill allocating $2.4 million to the State Welfare commission to operate the federal surplus food program in Oregon through 1963. Of this, $400, 000 would operate the pro gram between now and June 31. To Establish Clinics Oilier bills would appropri ate $100,000 to establish out patient mental health clinics in counties, providing for fed eral matching funds, and raise the salary of the director of Oregon s Geology and Mineral Industries Department from a maximum of $9,500 to $12,360 year. , Caucus Approves Reapportionment Salem - (UPII - A reappor tionment plan drafted by a 12-mcmber statewide citizens committee won unanimous ap proval from a house Republi can caucus today. Only changes the plan would make in the state senate would be In northwest Ore gon, where Polk county would lose one-half senatr and Washingtn cunty would gain one-half senator. In the house, Hood River and Wasco counties would lose their representatives, join ing with Morrow, Gilliam Wheeler and Sherman coun ties in sharing one lawmaker. One of the two representa tives would go to Clackamas county, and Washington and Yamhill counties would each gain one-half representative. Young Prineville Boy Loses Fight With Cancer Prineville - UPII - Larry Cooper, 10-year-old Prineville boy whose battle with bone cancer attracted world-wide recognition, died Sunday in a local hospital. Larry had received thou sands of cards and letters dur ing the past few weeks encour aging him in his struggle with the disease. The boy, son of Mr. and Mrs. Vcster Cooper, had a leg amputated In September of 959. He went back to school in the fifth grade last Septem ber but had to leave in mid-December, ongress Hears President's Plan or Grants, Loans Housing Program Would Be Extended Washington -(UPII- President Kennedy sent Congress today controversy-laden education program which would auth orize $5.6 billion In federal grants and loans to build pub lic schools, boost teachers salaries and increase college opportunities. Key provisions of the Presi dent's special message would: -Authorize federal grants o 2.3 billion for public school construction and teachers' sal aries for the next three years, with each state deciding how much of the money would go for each function. The money would equal a minimum of $15' for every public school student "in average daily at tendance." -Establish a five-year pro gram of state - administered scholarships for up to 212.500 "talented and needy" collcgo students at an over-all federal cost of $577.5 million. The average scholarship would ba $700; the maximum would ba $1,000. Colleges and universi ties would get $350 a year ad ditional for teaching each fed eral scholarship student. States would have to pass out the scholarships competitively without regard to sex, race, creed or color." Extend the college housinC loan program for five years at $250 million annually, and provide $300 million a year In loans for five years to help build college classrooms, lab oratories, libraries and related academic facilities. Kennedy, the first Roman Catholic to serve in the Whito House, made a special point of noting that parochial and private elementary and sec ondary schools would be ex cluded frorn the program. (Continued on Page 2) Police Lieutenant Named instructor Lt. Orlo McGee of the Med ford Police department has been selected as one. of six law enforcement officers - to conduct a state-wide advanced police training school during March. McGee will give classroom instruction in the use of po lice firearms. During March he and the other five instruc tors will hold classes in 15 Oregon cities, from Astoria lo Ontario. Lieutenant McGee has been with the Medford police de partment since 1953. Police Chief Charles P. Champlln said McGee is especially well suited for this job since he was an instructor in the use of firearms in the' Air Force dur ing World War II. In addition to McGee, other instructors will be provided by the FBI, Oregon state po lice, the Portland Police de partment and the Eugena Police department. McGee was picked as an in structor by the Oregon Asso ciation of City Police officers which is sponsoring the classes in cooperation with the Oregon State Sheriffs as sociation, the FBI, state pollco and the Bureau of Municipal Research. U.S. Recognition of Red China Opposed Washington -(UPD- A major ity of the members of Con gress - has endorsed a state ment opposing U, S. recogni tion of Red China or admis- . slon of the Chinese Commu nists to the United Nations at the General Assembly meeting this year. AUCTION HELD. The annual television auc tion held by Crater Lions club grossed more than $5,560 Sun day, club officials reported to day. Once expenses hava been paid the net amount re ceived will be donaled to tha Sacred Heart hospital build ing fund. He was hospitalized again about two weekB ago. It was through efforts of hii oldest brother, Norman, 21, that word of his battle first got out. Norman was station ed with the Army Signal Corps in Europe and goodwill messages .were, sent .tp. Larry from Army posts all over the world. Nornian is now station, ed at Fort Lawton, near Se attle, and is home on emer gency furlough. Larry also received an au tographed football from tha San Francisco 49ers. The Coopers have five other children.