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Twin Satellites
Fail To Attain
Desired Orbit
Washington - IUP1) - Twin
satellites launched from Cape
Canaversal Tuesday night
failed to separate or reach the
desired orbit, scientists said
today. But they described the
experiment as a "qualified
success."
The satellites are not only
still together but apparently
are still joined to the last
stage of the launching rocket.
Failure to separate from the
rocket would have prevented
separation of the satellites.
A single rocket sent up a
250-pound Transit IIIB satel
lite topped by a 54-pound pig
gyback sphere, named Lofti.
Dr. Richard B. Kreshner,
director of space research for
Compensation
Bill Hearing
Lively Affair
Salem-IUPD-Labor and man
agement made a battlefield
out of a Senate committee
hearing Tuesday night on the
so-called three-way workmen's
compensation bill, SB334.
About 200 persons attended.
The public meeting was
peppered with conflicting
testimony, a loud exchange be
tween a labor official and the
chairman, and even some curs
ing. . , ..."
Four, witnesses testified be
fore the Senate State and Fed
eral Affairs committee.
Attorneys Gerald Meindl of
Portland and Keith Skelton,
Eugene, spoke for the bill.
Opposing it were James T.
Marr of Portland, executive
secretary of the Oregon AFL
CIO, and Rep. Edward J.
Whelan (D-Portland),-a Mult
nomah county labor official.
Three Choice! Offered
The bill would give employ
ers three ways to insure their
employees against accidents
through the State Industrial
Accident commission, a priv
ate carrier, or self-insurance.
Meindl, counsel for Associ
ated Oregon industries, said
the commission now has a
monopoly on workmen's com
pensation and it is an "ex
pensive, inefficient and out
moded system of compensate
" ing injured workers."
He dismissed labor s claim
that benefits to workers would
be less under the three-way
system, saying they would be
"exactly the same."
He said Oregon's industrial
fatality rate is one of the
worst in the nation and this
is a product of having the
program entirely administer
ed by the state.
This, Marr later declared,
Is a "damnable lie." He said
Oregon has one of the best
fatality ratios in the nation.
Oregon Benefits Cited
Marr said that in 1958
nationally only 62 cents on
every dollar spent tot work
men's compensation insurance
was returned, to the worker
in benefits. But in Oregon
with the state running it 93
cents on every dollar went
back In the form of benefits.
"Is it any wonder that
workers are concerned about
this bill?" Marr asked.
Man- and Committe Chair
man Walter J. Pearson (D
Portland), clashed over wheth
er private insurance compa
nies now are allowed to write
workmen's compensattion in
Oregon. Pearson said no and
Marr said yes.
At one point Marr explod
ed, saying "don't browbeat
me!"
Flusing with anger, Pear
son declared that he wasn't,
and ordered Marr to "stick to
the facts."
"Let's Move
the John Hopkins Applied
Physics Laboratory, said sig
nals are being received from
both of the joined satellites.
He added that the Navy's
program for achieving an op
erational system of four navi
gation satellites by 1962 had
not been set back by this ex
periment. Advanced Model
Transit IIIB is the advanced
test model of a system of
artificial "radio stars" which
next year should provide
ocean-going vessels with a
means for highly accurate
navigation in all kinds of
weather.
Lofti was designed to study
the transmission of very low
frequency radio signals which
could be used for reliable
communications by submerg
ed submarines.
The two satellites were sent
up by a two-stage Thor-Abel-Star
booster. They were to
have gone into comparatively
tight orbits around the equa
tor, but failed to do so.
The Transit navigational
satellite already has transmit
ted messages in code which
were fed into it before the
launching, officials said at a
news conference here.
Lofti Signals Received
. Kershner said he had been
advised by the Naval Re
search Laboratory that signals
have also been received from
the piggyback Lofti satellite.
He added, however, that
many objectives set out in the
launching will not be realized.
This is because of the mal
function which prevented the
two satellites from separating.
As a result, an orbit was
produced which varies from
617 to 104 miles above the
earth instead of the 500 mile
circular orbit that had been
planned.
Farmers File
Damage Suits
Two farmers in the Table
Rock rd. area have filed two
damage suits in Jackson coun
ty circuit court as a result of
an 1,100-acre fire last Aug. 9
in the Table Rock rd. area.
Albert Straus and Frank
Straus and the Grange Mu
tual Insurance company are
seeking $79,339.10 in one suit,
and Mr. and Mrs. Albert
Straus . and Mr. and Mrs.
Frank Straus and the insur
ance, company are seeking
$48,058 in the second suit.
Both are filed against Er
nest King and Louis Thelion
through the state highway
commission . which employs
the two men.
The suits arise from the
fire which the state forest
patrolmen attributed to a
spark from a state highway
department tractor. They said
the equipment was crushing
rock in a ditch along the high
way. Burned on the Albert and
Frank Straus ranch were a
large machine shed, a hay and
bedding barn for cattle, and
several smaller - structures.
Also destroyed were a hay
barn on the Charles Hutchin
son place and a storage shed
full of hay, and a former hog
house on the C. Virgil Strang
Duel ranch. The Strauses had
hay stored in the Hutchinson
barn.
The Straus brothers and the
insurance company charge
that King and Thelien were
careless, reckless and negli
gent in allowing the tractor to
be operated without equip
ping it with spark arresters,
in failing to extinguish or con
trol the fire, failing to provide
means of protection from or
to prevent starting fires by
friction.
It, Buster"
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WRECK VICTIM ASSISTED One of the 43 passengers
injured in the derailment of the Northern Pacific Main
streeter passenger train near Buffalo, N.D., is assisted from
Escaped Mental
Patient Sought
In Glide Area
Roseburg - (UPD - Patrols
were posted on roads in the
Glide area east of here today
in a search for an escaped
mental patient , wanted for
wounding a man Tuesday, i
Object of the search was
Steve Solovich, about 50,
World War II Army guerrilla
f ightcr-who has walked away
from the Veterans hospital
here three times in the past
five years. , . ' ,
Watson Taclott of Glide,
who had been deputized to
help search for Solovich, was
wounded in the shoulder
Tuesday by a shot fired as a
posse closed in on an area
where Solovich' was believed
to be. Talcott was in good
condition.
Has Been Congenial
Solovich had not been re
garded as dangerous until af
ter his last escape in Decem
ber of 1959. He was described
as congenial and had talked
at times to log truck drivers
and other persons in the area.
The case recalled that of
George Baker Dunkin, 67,
who was the object of a long
search in Southern Oregon
forest country for shooting
state policeman Phil Lowd in
1952. Dunkin was arrested in
September of that year by
Russell E. Maw, who had
tracked him through hills in
northern Jackson county, into
Josephine county and even
into California.
Dunkin was sent to state
prison for life that Septem
ber. He is still in prison.
Wrong Address Noted
In Mail Tribune Story
Jack L. Moad, 1401 West
Main st., Medford, was one of
the two men fined in district
court on charges of illegal gar
bage dumping earlier this
month.
Yesterday's story in the Mail
Tribune incorrectly printed
Moad's address as Sterling
Creek rd. The Mail Tribune
regrets any embarrassment
caused a resident of Sterling
Creek rd. with a similar name.
Herons Herald Spring for
Hornbrook; A Kite Is Seen
By KATHERINE CHAPMAN
Mail Tribune
Hornbrook - Cspistrano
- and Medford - may have
their swallows to herald the
return of spring, but Horn
brook'i harbingers are of a
much more spectacular va
riety. They are the great
blue herons.
For many years now these
ungainly, yet majestically
beautiful, birds have re
turned each spring to the
very tops of the tall pines
in the cemetery. Here a
great colony of them nest
and raise their families.
Since the arrival of the
foreruner, this year on Jan.
30, about 12 have returned
to date: They are busy re
lining their crude nests of
twigs, built several genera
tions ago by their ancestors.
MEDFORD, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1961
PS
Students To Work
With Government
Officials in Area
Students from seven area Point, Crater High, and Butte
high schools will work with i Falls High schools will be
Medford and Jackson county I Jworn m for county offices in
officials tomorrow in the Med
ford Elks sponsored Student
Government Day.
Students from Medford and
St. Mary's High ' schools will
be sworn in for city offices at
8:30 a.m., and students from
Prospect, Phoenix, E a g l e
Death Being Probed
By Coos Authorities
George G. Long,
North Bend, died in
hospital Tuesday.'
65, of
a local
He was admitted to the
hospital last week after he
was found injured at a par
ticle board plant at Weyer
haeuser mill in North Bend
Feb. 12.
A fellow workman found
him bleeding badly about the
head, according to reports
from North Bond. Police and
company officials said they
found no indication of foul
play, but police authorities in
Coos county are continuing
an investigation into the cause
of Long's fatal injuries.
Long was flown here from
North Bend by a Mercy
Flights, Inc., plane.
Hatfield To Speak
At Jaycee Banquet
Gov. Mark O. Hatfield will
speak at the Medford Junior.
Chamber of Commerce dis
tinguished citizens award ban
quet to be held March 18, at
7:30 p.m., in the Pioneer room
of the Jackson hotel.
Jaycee President Del Land
ing said the purpose ot tne
banquet will be to present the
award for the outstanding
young citizen of Medford.
Nominations for this award
are now being received, Land
ing said, Wally. Williams is
banquet chairman for the
Jaycees.
Correspondent
and simply remodeled and
rearranged each year to suit
their fancy.
Last year, the colony
numbered 32 of the adult
birds.
Following soon after the
herons, a flock of tiny yel
low finches paused here
temporarily on their way to
- who knows where? And
the sunny mornings last
week brought out a flock of
fat robins all singing like
crazy and joining with the
meadowlarks in an ode to
spring. The freshly-plowed
and newly-seeded fields are
showing a faint shadow of
green. i
And last week a white
kite flew In the blue, with a
small boy on the other end.
Ah, spring!
55th
Tribune
the doorway of a wrecked car. Eleven of the 13 cars left
the tracks and toppled into a ditch. Cause of the accident
was not immediately known, (UPI Telcphoto)
nigiiiigiiting the day s ac
tivities will be a banquet at
Hedrick Junior High school
cafeteria at which Dr. Ken
neth Baker, vice president of
California-Oregon Television,
will speak. " ; ,
This Is the 13th year the
Medford Elks have sponsored
the program in cooperation
with the Medford city govern
ment, and the eighth year
with the county government.
Schools participating are In
the Elks club jurisdictional
area.
Study of Government
Student Government Day Is
scheduled to coincide with the
study of government in the
participating schools, and
gives students practical ex
perience in nominating, cam
paigning and electing officers
for county and city offices.
General chairman of the
program is Marvin Trautman
of the Medford Elks lodge. Co
ordinating the program, arc
Medford Mayor John Snider,
County Judge Earl Miller,
County School Superintendent
Alf B. Mckvold, and Elliott
Becken, assistant superintend
ent of Medford schools.
Among the major student
office holders are Dan Camp
bell, Medford mayor; Dixie
McConochie, county judge,
Butte Falls; Gary Barber,
county commissioner, Crater
High; Bill Pleifer, county
commissioner, Eagle Point
High; and Mike Palm, Phoe
nix, and Dennis Fisher, Cra
ter High, circuit court judges.
Student observers this year
are Jill DuCroz and Hisayuki
(Don) Kondo, foreign students
attending Medford High
school.
Some Offices Closed
For Holiday Today
County, stale, and federal
offices were closed today in
observance of George Wash
ington's birthday. Although
city offices were open, it was
a holiday for parking meters
in the city. '
No mail delivery was made
since the day is a legal holi
day, but school students
throughout the county attend
ed classes as usual.
The majority of Medford's
stores observed the day by
having special Washington
Day sales.
WEATHER
Forcrast: Partly cloudy through
Thursday. Co1nr tonight, Low
tonight 32. ItlRh Thursday 50.
TKMPKRATURE
Ilfhcit Vestf-rdiy 51
Loweit this Morning 35
PRECIPITATION
To 10 a.m. Today 12
Our Skies Tonight
Runjfft today S:52 p.m.
Sunrise tomorrow 6:57 a.m.
Moonsft tomorrow .... 2:09 a.m.
Full mnon March 2
PROMINENT STAR
Aldeharan, nr-ar the Moon.
VISIHUK PLANETS
Venus, low tn writ ... 8:11 p.m.
Mar, hiffh In foitth 1:07 p.m.
Jupiter and Saturn,
rU S:3 a.m.
Year Price 10 Cents
No. 290
Bills Calling for
Pay Increases
Land in House
Salem - (UPD - The Oregon
House today received bills
calling for $16 million in sal
ary increases for state em
ployees, and passed a resolu
tion for repeal of the section
of the slate constitution deal
ing with the militia.
The House agreed lo a
change in the proposed con
stitutional amendment to re
tain safeguards for conscien
tious objectors.
Rep. Edward Fadeloy (D-
Eugene) who protested the
measure, in its earlier form,
said he was satisfied the
change would protect relig
ious objectors from bearing
arms during peacetime.
The bills lo raise salaries o
slate employees, higher educa
tion faculty members, and law
enforcement officers were In
troduced in the House by the
Joint Ways and Means Com
mittees.
Amounts Given
The bills Include nearly $8
million for classified em
ployees, $1.8 million for merit
and benefit Increases, $5.8
million for higher education
employees, and $829,000 for
state police.
The Ways and Means Com
mittees also introduced a bill
to appropriate $100,000 for
planning for slate buildings.
GOING OUR WAY? This group of new stewardesses have
Just graduated from American Airlines Stewardess College
at Fort Worth, Tex. They have their new wings, have been
assigned to their new bases and arc ready to start flying.
But there li one problem, Due to the flight engineers'
Men Working
On Construction
Victims of Fire
Newsmen Shut Out
Of Refinery Area
Borger, Tex. - (UPI) - A vio
lent explosion shook the Phil
lips Petroleum Co. refinery
today and the company an
nounced that the fire which
followed the blast killed nine
workers and injured another
worker.
Phillips officials shut news
men out of the refinery
grounds, four miles from Bor
ger. The company's headquar
ters at Barllesville, Okla.,
finally Issued the following
statement:
"The Phillips Petroleum Co.
verified today that at 9:10 a.m.
an explosion and fire occur
red at a fractionating unit in
the company's Borger, Tex.,
refinery.
Names Withheld
"Nine construction e m -ployees
working at the unit
were fatally burned and one
construction employee was in
jured. No Phillips employees
were injured. The names of
those dead are being withheld
by the construction company
pending notification of the
next of kin.
"The fire was under control
within minutes after its oc
currence. The cause of the
explosion at this time is un
known. The extent of damage
to the equipment has not yet
been determined."
The dead and the Injured
man all worked for the Bow
man-Chase Construction Co.
of Eorger.
Morgue in Hospital
Sheriff Hugh Anderson set
up a morgue in the basement
of North Plains hospital. He
called in dentists to help iden
tify the victims because they
were so badly burned.
Borger is in the Texas Pan
handle. 50 miles northeast of
Amarillo.
People in town heard
the, explosion," Borger Police
Tlrlf Sat Mnv r.nllin,- aaM
"Thev thoueht at first It was
a sonic boom.'
Portland Firm Low
Bidder on Building
James S. Hlckey company
of Portland submitted an ap
parent low bid of $117,959
Tuesday for construction of a
new addition to the Medford
offices of the Pacific Tele
phone Northwest company.
Jack Crcager, local mana
ger of the company, said con
struction is planned to start
In mid-March, and should be
completed later this year,
Included will be a base
ment, first floor and second
floor addition to the compa
ny's existing -. building on
North Central ave.. The new
addition will match the exist
ing structure in appearance,
Creagcr said.
Other bidders on the proj
ect were the Ausland Con
struction company of Grants
Pass, $123,890; the Vic Con
struction company of Eugene,
$128,478; and the H. Barn
hart Construction company of
Medford, $133,425.
ty VAV-'.b'-.r;-'-,
More Political;':-;.
Prisoners Said
Slain in Congo
United Nations, N.Y.-lDI'lSecretary General Dag Ham
marskjold summoned his advisory committee on the Congo
back tor another meeting today to decide how to use the
broad new powers voted him by the Security Council.
Highly placed sources outside the committee said they
doubted Hammarskjold would move too rapidly on his
authoriiiaion to use force if necessary to restore Congo peace.
Elisabethville, Katanga The
Congo-IUPB - The United Na
tions command said today it
had reports that 16 political
prisoners were shot in Stan
leyville Monday in reprisal
for the slayings of former
Premier Patrice Lumumba
and several followers.
Report Unconfirmed
But a UN spokesman said
that while he was "fearful for
the fate" of the prisoners, he
could not confirm the reports
that they had been killed by
Lumumblsts at Stanleyville's
Camp Kctele.
The reporls said the vic
tims included 10 parliamen
tarians and six army officers,
allegedly liquidated in re
prisal for the execution of
seven Lumumba supporters on
Ashland Hospital
Construction About
One-Third Complete
Ashland - Construction of
the new Ashland Community
hospital is about one -third
completed, according to Rob
ert Flynn, hospital administra
tor. Flynn spoke at the Tues
day noon luncheon of the Ash
land Chamber of Commerce.
Total cost of the ' hospital
will be $514,124 when com
pleted, Flynn said. This in
cludes a $375,898 bid for con
struction and Installation of
some equipment. New equip
ment will cost $61,796, Flynn
said. "We are fortunate - In
bem8 ame to lake over some
oasic equipment trom me
present hospital," Flynn Indl-
land and miscellaneous items
was $76,000, he said.
Money for the hospital u
coming from a $350,000 city
bond issue, $137,153 from th
federal ' government and
$10,000 gift from a private
estate, Flynn said. There will
be a $3,000 increment, he
commented.
The hospital will have 125
rooms and 20,845 square feet
of floor space, Flynn said,
Flynn said the hospital will
operate with about 34 or 35
beds. "We could operate at
100 beds If we needed to," he
pointed out, i
A shortage of funds has
made changes necessary,
Flynn said, Originally two
surgery rooms were planned
with one recovery room. This
has been cut down to one sur
gery room and no recovery
room, he commented. The
planned additional surgery
room has been turned into a
storeroom, as has the recovery
room, according to Flynn.
"We just don't have the
money to equip the rooms at
the present time," he said. It
will be possible to convert the
strike, the girls have no transportation lo their new jobs.
They will have to stay at the college on a no paycheck
basis until the strike is settled and they can start their new
careers. .-
(UPI Telephoto)
the order of South Kasal
tribal chiefs.
Katangesc President Moise
Tshombe said meanwhile that
his troops will not attack UN
forces, but he warned people
in his "independent" province
to be "prepared for all even
tualities." No Special Action
The UN spokesman said the
organization had not taken
any special action following
Tshombe's proclamation of a
general mobilization Tuesday.
Tshombe appeared to hava
moderated his position consid
erably since Tuesday, when ha
denounced the Security Coun
cil's latest Congo resolution
as a "declaration of war" on
Katanga and ordered "general
mobilization."
rooms at a later date, he In
dicated. ; ;
Flynn said cost of equip
ment has Increased between 3
and 4 per cent In the last 30
days, and construction costs
have Increased 13 per cent in
the last two years.
Flynn was asked If he
thought the hospital could
operate Without a deficit. Ha
said any hospital could oper
ate without a deficit if patient
care was sacrificed. Most hos
pitals have 1.9 employees for
each patient, he said. This
could be cut to 1.3, but quality
of patient care would be sac
rificed, he said.
Based on experience ol
nospitais wnicn are tne same
1 size- as the Ashland hospital,
H will be' difficult to operate
without - a 1 deficit, Flynn
statedi ' i .. , ....... . ..
"If we're going to have tha
hospital accredited we will
have to spend money for mora
facilities," according to Flynn,
Major Canal Work in
TID Nearly Completed
Talent - Three of the four
major canals In the Talent
Irrigation District distribution
system should be finished by
April 15, according to Walter
Hoffbuhr. TlD secretary-man-
agcr..-- v.- :;...''.'
Bids for the. fourth canal in
the system will be opened .
March 7, Hoffbuhr said. This
west canal will be enlarged
and extended, bringing irriga
tion to about 800 additional
acres of land in the Dark Hol
low -Griffin Creek area, ha
id. ....
Portland - IUPII - Jack B.
Lively, Springfield, Tuesday
was reelected president of
Oregon United Appeal.