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Newspaper Page TextPartia Operations ' - t . Resume nir Him zmuu uuuu Racial Warfare Looms In Southern Rhodesia Prime Minister Calls Parliament For Emergency Troops Declared Showing Strength Salisbury, Southern Rhode sia -HIPP- Federal Prime Min ister Sir Roy Welensky sum moned Parliament into emer gency session today to deal with, the constitutional crisis with! Britain that threatened racial warfare in this central African land. A 1 police . spokesman said, meanwhile, that all police leaves were canceled through out Southern Rhodesia as a "precautionary measure" as the tempers of whites and blacks grew shorter. Reports swept Lusaka, cap ital of Northern Rhodesia, that Southern Rhodesia troops were heading north to show the strength of the federal government in its constitution al battle with Britain. Paratroopers Encamped Other unconfirmed, reports said two platoons of Southern Rhodesian paratroopers were encamped outside the town of Ndola. - , But official sources in Lu saka categorically denied that any troop movements were under way. The reports, they said, were "without founda tion." Increased police patrols cir . culated through the streets of Lusaka and that city remain ed calm. Incipient trouble rests on Britain's plan to give blacks in Northern Rhodesia more governmental power. The mostly illiterate blacks out number the whites by 2.2 mil lion to about .70,000, and the white leadership -is opposed to the move, especially since Northern .Rhodesia's copper belt provides most of the wealth for the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland. Mrs. West Named Woman of the Year Mrs. D. Kirkland West, wife of the pastor of First Presbyterian church, Med ford, was named 1961 Woman of the Year by Medford Zon ta club at an annual banquet last night at the Medford hotel. . Mrs. West, at one time a medical missionary in China, was cited for her social serv ice work in First Presbyter ian church and for her "un tiring devotion to mankind." Selection of the Woman of the Year was started by Med ford Zontians in 1945.. Lumber, Plywood Trading Said Slow Portland - CUPD - Crow's Lumber Market News Service said today slow trading con tinued in both lumber and plywood this week. Crow's reported Douglas Fir plywood appeared easier to buy at the. $60 list for sanded stock this week. Pine area demand was described as moderate. Sheathing was mov ing better in some parts of the country, eliminating the extreme lows in the price spread. WEATHER FORECAST: Cloudy and show ery tonight and Saturday. Cooler Saturday. Low tonight 3S-40. High Saturday 48-50. Temp. Highest Yesterday 51 Lowest this Mornlnf . .... 32 Our Skies Tonight Sunset today v. 5:35 p.m. Sunrise tomorrow .... 6:54 a.m. Moonset tomorrow .... 3:50 a.m. Full .Moon March 2 The .Moon tonight rides hl;h in Gemini between the star, AUhena. and the planet. Mars. The .Moon is much nearer Al liens, which is ahout as bright as the North Star. Lawsuit Filed Against 'Benevolent Societies' Salem-JUPD-Atty. Gen. Rob ert Y. Thornton late Thurs day filed suit in Circuit Court here seeking injunctions against 10 corporations "pur porting to be 'benevolent so cieties'." The injunctions would put them out of business. Defendants are: Benevolent Order of Coun trymen; The Countrymen So ciety, Inc.; The Independent Countrymen, Inc.; American Countrymen Association, Inc.; Oregon Benevolent SosilJ 181 Vts- AEDENE JENSEN Wins State Contest Eagle Point Girl - Winner of Good Citizenship Event ' Eagle Point - Aedene Jen sen; a senior at Eagle Point High school, is the state win ner of the annual Good Cit izenship contest sponsored by the Daughters of the Amer ican Revolution. She was one of six district winners entering the state contest and is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Burton Jensen, Nick Young rd. Suzanna Thompson, daugh ter of Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Thompson, 711 Palm st., rep resented Medford High school in the district . contest and Joyce Stockstill, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Stockstill, 2070 Houston rd., represented Phoenix High school. Open to Girls : , i I The contest is open to sen irgirls of public high schools who "possess the qualities of dependability, service, leader ship and patriotism to an out standing degree." 'Miss Jensen has had i the highest grade point average for. the entire student body during her freshman, sopho more and junior years and has received numerous awards for outstanding school work. She recently was se lected by the Eagle Point fac ulty to represent the school for the Elks club "Most Valu able Citizenship" scholarship award. The young woman has been invited to a reception for dis trict winners which will be held in Portland March 2. The national president of the DAR will present a $100 . savings bond to Miss Jensen, as state winner, and she will enter the rtational' contest as Oregon's representative. The district prize was a $25 savings bpnd. Senator Newbry To Be In Ashland Saturday , State Sen. L. W. Newbry, Ashland, will be in Jackson county, this week end,' and will be available to speak with area residents all day tomor row. ' : He may be reached at his office in- Ashland, or by tele phoning MUrdock 5-6761 all day Saturday, he said. POWER IN CUBA Havana -IUPD- Premier Fidel Castro granted Maj. Ernesto (Che) Guevara the powers of an industrial czar today in a shakeup ithat may prove the prelude to complete Commu nist-style socialization of Cu ba. FIRE KILLS FOUR ' La Plata, Argentina - IUPD -Explosion and fire aboard the government-owned Argentine oil tanker Florentino Ame- ghino in the harbor here kill ed at least four and injured eight of the fourteen persons aboard, it was reported today Inc.; Western Benefit Society Western Mutual Benefit Asso ciation; Western States Serv ices, Inc.; Order of the Gold en Cross, and the United Benevolent Society. Thornton charges that the groups are In violation of the law by engaging in the insur ance business without quali fying as insurance companies under Oregon statutes. As the result of a previous complaint, the companies for the past year have been "mon itored'' by Marion County Cir tuit Court. Thornlnn laid. Med Nations Patrol Heading For Luluabourg Loya! Lumumba Troops Said Active Leopoldville, The Congo -IUPD - A United Nations pa trol, with orders to shoot if necessary, headed toward Lu luabourg today to investigate reports that Lumumbist forces had moved on the capital of Kasai Province.' U. N. ctfficials said troops still loyal to former Premier Patrice Lumumba were re ported near Luluabourg, ap parently after an overland march of nearly 500 miles from the Lumumbist strong hold of Stanleyville. The U. N. said it had no in formation on the size or strength of the Lumumbist force or its intentions.. But a U.N. Ghanian patrol was dispatched with orders to prevent clashes between rival Congolese factions, us ing force only if necessary. The Security Council re cently empowered U. N. Secretary-general Dag Hammar skjold to use force when need ed. The patrol was sent in re sponse to an appeal from the anti-Lumumba commander of Luluabourg, Col. Mbjoko, the U. N. said. At the same time, the U.N. reported that troops com manded by Maj. Gen. Joseph Mobutu ' swept through the town of Lisala in Equtorial Province Thursday, pillaging and molesting women. It said the outraged population be gan a march on the Mobutu camp but fell back when his troops returned with their booty and some women. Republican State Chairman List Cut Corvallis -IUPD- The com mittee picked to choose a nominee for Republican state chairman cut the list from 12 to five Thursday night, and said it hopes to announce its recommendation next week. The names were not re leased. The Republicans are look ing for a successor to Peter Gunnar, Salem attorney who resigned two weeks ago. " The committees choice will be considered by the GOP State Central Commit tee. Gregory Rd. House Damaged by Blaze Central Point Fire early this morning gutted the three bedroom home of Mr. and Mrs. George Scarborough on East Gregory rd., Central Point rural firemen reported. They said that the house was in flames when they ar rived after being summoned at 2:25 a.m. Cause has not yet been determined, but the blaze appeared to have start ed somewhere in the front room, firemen stated. . Scarborough, they reported, heard an explosion. He awak ened his wife and daughter and they escaped just in time through a bedroom window. A son was baby-sitting in Medford at the time. A car was damaged by the fire before Scarborough moved it from the garage. Sixteen firemen responded to the alarm and three fire fighting vehicles were taken to the scene. Labor To Protest Use of Mexicans Miami Beach-flJPD-AFL-CIO President George Meany said today labor planned a protest to the federal government on the "use and abuse of Mexi can farm labor in the rich California truck farming areas. Meany said the entire mat ter would be taken up with Labor Secretary Arthur J Goldberg when the cabinet of ficer visits here this weekend Meany disclosed that de spite bitter strikes labor has not been too successful in organizing California farm workers, many of whom are itinerants. Bulletin Portland -IPO- Arthur S. Fleming, former itcrttary of health, education and welfare, today was named new preiident of the Uni 25-Year Sentence Suggested in Lieu Of Death Penalty Certainty Effective, Dellenback Declares Salem-IUPU-A former legisla tor predicted Thursday night voters would do away with the death penalty in Oregon if there were a mandatory 25-year prison term for first degree murderers as "assur ance" they wouldn't be re leased to repeat their crimes. Murderers serving a life sentence in Oregon now can be considered for parole after seven years. People want to know a mur derer "is going to be put away for a long time," Fred Meek of Portland told the House Judiciary Committee. "If you're going to exchange a man's life for life imprison ment," he added, it should mean a long term. Warden Opposes Death Warden Clarence Gladden said he thought a 15-year man datory term for first degree murderers would be suffici ent. He said he opposed the death penalty. He agreed with committee member John Dellenback (R-Medford) that "the certainty of punishment is more effective than its na ture" as a deterrent to crime. The testimony came on a proposed constitutional amendment to ask the voters again to abolish capital pun ishment. A companion bill would retain the death sen tence only in cases of treason, or murder by a prisoner serv ing a life sentence. All witnesses who attended the hearing spoke in favor of repealing the death penalty. Oregon has executed 57 prisoners since 1903. None have been executed since 1953, but six sentences have been commuted. Property Transfer Approved by Board The transfer of a piece of property from the Medford school district to the Central Point school district was ap proved Thursday by the coun ty school boundary board. The property, near Roberts rd., involves no children, it was e x p 1 a i n e d. . It will straighten the school district's boundary. A second petition and a counter proposal to transfer property from the Butte Falls district to, the Eagle Point dis trict was continued, pending the boundary board obtaining more, information regarding the counter proposal. The original request was opposed by William B. Hunt er, Butte Falls school superin tendent, and members of the school board. The counter proposal would involve more than the one child, which is concerned in the original re quest, since it would straight en the district boundary line closer to Eagle Point. Brookings, Portland Projects Approved Portland - IUPD - The North west Rivers and Harbors Con gress has approved navigation projects for Portland and Brookings. Portland wants approval to deepen the Columbia River channel from 35 to 40 feet and widening it from 500 to 750 feet. Brookings wants funds for jetty construction, small boat basin enlargement, channel deepening and maintenance and construction of a barge turning basin. "Thi. Little Kid' Got 33fMv rt IfJpJf) Regional Edition Medford 20 Pages Kennedy Proposes Legislation To Help Curb U.S. Gold Drain Measure Would Cut Amount of Duty-Free Goods Bills Offered On Health Program Washington -IUPD- President Kennedy today sent Congress proposed legislation to cut from $500 to $100 the amount of duty-free goods American travelers can bring home from abroad every six months. The proposal is a key part of his program to hall the overseas drain on U.S. gold. Would Exempt Banks Kennedy also sent a pro posed bill to exempt foreign central banks from U.S. taxes on interest they receive from holding U.S. government obli gations on) a non-commercial basis. This, too, was part of his drive to stop the flow of dollars and gold from this country. The President at the same time transmitted two proposed bills to implement his health program proposals for increas ing training opportunities for physicians and dentists and providing more and belter medical facilities. Health Bills i The health program bills would provide federal schol arships for medica.1 and dental students and would set up con struction grants for teaching and research facilities. The ; measures also would authorize federal grants for building nursing homes and expanding and improving community fa cilities and services to care for the aged and other per sons. The bills would carry out proposals Kennedy made in special messages to Congress earlier. Hodges To Push Depressed Area Aid Washington - IUPD - Com merce Secretary Luther H. Hodges answering congres sional critisism, said today he would give his personal at tention to a proposed program to aid depressed areas. Hodges made the statement to a House subcommittee in support of an administration bill proposing a $389 million loan and grant program to create job opportunities in areas suffering from chronic unemployment. His support of the depress ed plan has been questioned by some Democratic liberals who feci he is not as enthu siastic about it as they would like. Fort that reason, they oppose a feature of the bill which would give the Com merce Department the respon sibility of .administering the program. EIGHT FEARED DROWNED Vancouver, B. C.-(UP1)-Eight men were missing and feared drowned today in the Georgia Strait some 375 miles north of here after the wreckage of their vessel was found. A Big Guy With Him" MEDFORD, OREGON, FRIDAY, IRATE HOUSEWIVES Rep. John Kane (D-Thornton, Colo.) is cornered by a trio of irate housewives after a bill he spon sored was given at public hearing at Denver. The bill would impose a $6,000 annual fee on stores giving trading stamps. Both Kane Investigation Info Deaths Continued By Local Officials Jackson county sheriff's deputies and Oregon state po- lino niin.,H fhi Wn.tioa. ., , , . ., , r. tion today of the murder in Central Point of Mrs. Loris Mae Holt, 32, and- her son. Tod Cameron. Hblt, 21 months; Rod McGahuey,' 43, of 415 South Front st Central Point, who was questioned about the murder yesterday, Is expected to be arraigned in .district court this afternoon on a bad check charge. He was arrest ed Thursday morning. Men from the Oregon bur eau of identification in Salem are reported still checking the apartment, in Central Poinl where the bodies of the two victims were found late Wednesday. . District Attorney Alan B. Holmes said that he hopes, the autopsy reports would be available today, and would indicate the date that Mrs. Holt and her son died. A man who was moving into the apartment house where the victims lived dis covered the bludgeoned bod ies in a closet in their apart ment. A bloodstained hammer was found in the room. A meeting of investigating law enforcement officers han dling the case was held in Sheriff Joe Walsh's office this morning. Grocers' Group Likes Stamp Bill Salcm-IUPD-The Oregon In dependent Grocers Associa tion said today it not only is in favor of the bill to regulate trading stamps, it will fight vigorously for it. Eugene Lowe, association president, said the decision was made Thursday night at a meeting with officers of the Oregon Business Council, sponsors of HB1569. The bill, now in the House State and Federal Affairs Committee, would make stamps redeemable in cither cash or merchandise and force stamp companies to let any merchant handle them. Rep. Norman Howard (D Portland) said his committee will have a public hearing March 22 on the bill to regu late trading stamps. The meeting will be at t a.m. and the public is invited to give its views, he said. Biddle Appointed U.S. Ambassador To Spain Washington -IUPD- Presi dent Kennedy today named Anthony J. Drexcl Biddle, veteran diplomat, as U. S. Am bassador to Spain. Biddle now is adjutant general of Penn sylvariia. Washington -WPD- The Unit ed States today challenged Fidel Castro to give his peo ple "freedom of choice" and implied this might be a con dition for settling U.S.-Cuban differences. 55th FEBRUARY 24, 1961 imWiy'h ftS& 1 and the women did agree that the bill would mean the end of trading stamps in Colorado. The women are, from left, Mrs. Carl Fulkerson, Mrs. Phillip Russell . and Mrs, Conrad Eckstein. (UPI Tclephoto) Home Rule Group To Vote on Drawing Up Charter for County Members of the Jackson county home rule study com- mittce will vote March 16 on I whether to draw up a pro posed home rule charter. ' Mrs. Tnomas Rutter, com mittee chairman,.; last night asked members who will not be present to submit absentee ballots. If a charter Is formulated, It must be voted on by the county s registered voters. Whether this would be pre sented during a general or special election remains un decided. Proposed state Icgis- lnl on would allow counties to hold a special charter election. People favoring a cnarter feel it would allow Jackson county government to per form functions it can best per form for itself without work ing through the slate legisla ture, ... They also feel a home rule charter would provide for a more efficient county govern ment, since county administra tion could be reorganized to meet local needs, except in areas where such reorganiza tion would conflict with state functions. ... Favors Charter Arnold Bohnert, Central Point area farmer and county budget committee member, told the committee last night he favors a home rule charter. E. H. (Ed) Singmaster, former county board of equalization member, opposes a charter. Bohnert said "things go too slow" when the county has to go to the state legislature for its needs. He thought a charter might help establish tighter centralized control and super vision over all county depart ments. He suggested this coun ty's government should be pat terned after that of another county with a charter if this county adopts home rule. "Matters of local concern Apathy, Disinterest Will Democracy, Apathy and disinterest In one's government "is the rot at the core of the pillars" that will bring down Democracy unless they are corrected. This- is according to Dr. Kenneth Baker, local televi sion executive, who was the main speaker at last night's Student Government Day ban quet at Hcdrick Junior High school and attended by an es timated 300 persons. The banquet climaxed the 13th annual Student Govern ment Day, sponsored by the Medford Elks lodge. Noting that the students participating in the govern ment day events have had a peck at what "makes local government tick," Dr. Baker said it Is up to them to help correct what they have seen that is not quite right with the government. He declared that, "we too larenot entirely satisfied with Year Price 10 Cents Tribune No. 292 are pretty well handled through state legislation,' Singmaster declared. "We are a part of the state and should not divorce ourselves from what is beneficial for the whole state if not always for our county. If the abuse is bad enough and the problem great enough it will be corrected through state legislation." Bohnert named zoning and sanitation chief county prob lems caused by expanding population outside incorpor ated city boundaries. He ap proved Bancroft bonding to establish sewer lirtcs in unin corporated . areas, a- power similar to that of the cities. Problems do not always come with "bigness," Sing master said. Jackson county expansion is "rather minute" when compared with other counties in this and. other states, he insisted. Astronauts in Final Period of Training Cape Canaveral-IUPD-Amer-ica's three human astronauts bored into the final period of training today for a flight into space where dogs, rats, fleas and- chimpanzees' have gone and survived. v John H. Glenn Jr.' and Alan B. Shepard Jr., encouraged by their first look at a Project Mercury capsule which flew 1,425 miles over the Atlantic this week, made dry-run re hearsals on the ground for a flight one may take aboard a Redstone rocket in April. Much of America's informa tion on how a living creature might be expected to react in space has been gleaned from animals, Including the famed flight of Astro-chimp Ham, who rode 156 miles up on a Redstone Jan. 31. Baker Tells Area Students the way we do things," adding that only 65 per cent of the registered voters of the coun try turned out at the last elec tion. And this was the highest percentage in history, he said. The chief remedy to apathy and disinterest, according to Baker, is a well-informed elec torate. It is the function of the mass media-press, radio and telcvision-to provide the information, he pointed out, but much of the information they do provide does not get to its Intended audience, sim ply because the audience does not have time for it. However, if the people re main uninformed, he declared, "we surrender our sovereignty to those who- say they know . . ." And, he added, they are glnd to take it. The television executive list ed three preventive steps to the extermination of self-gov-ernroent. They are: for the lights Expected o Be 50 Per Cent Of Normal Today Western Refuses To Join Agreement New York-UPl)-Six of ths irlines affected by the worst irlines strike In history got their flight operations back to an average of more than 50 per cent normal today on the heels of a strike settle ment that sent thousands of laid-off employees back to their jobs. Only one airline, Pan Amer ican World Airways, was able to restore full service within the first day after President Kennedy announced the end of the strike, which cost the commercial airline and tourist industries an estimated $63 million. Normal by Saturday The other passenger lines involved, TWA, American, Eastern and National, expect ed to operate 40 to 50 per cent of normal out of New York area airports, restoring service gradually across the nation. The Flying Tigers Lino which handles freight only, also worked toward restora tion of full service. Industry spokesmen esti mated domestic flight sched ules would be completely nor mal Saturday and all interna tional flights would be in tha air by Tuesday. Almost all the 80,000 work ers furloughed because of tho six-day flight engineers walk out were notified to report to work today. Western Holding Out Western Airlines, tha seventh involved in the dis pute, refused to join an agree ment to refrain from reprisals against the strikers and call off lawsuits. There appeared little chance Western could re store normal service soon un less' It reversed its position that It has fired its 130 strik- The three-man commission hamed by President Kennedy to seek a long-range solution to the dispute planned today to start out by riding in air plane cockpits to see- lor themselves what the flight en gineers' duties entail. The engineers began ;thelf walkout last Friday night against Pan American, ignor- inS a Presidential fact-finding commission set up to delay the strike. The walkout turned wildcat and spread in protest of a Feb. 6 National Mediation Board ruling that pilots and engineers of United Air Lines should vote to form a single union. Grants Pass Youth Held in Beating Grants Pass -IUPD - Robert Harold LaCombe, 18, a former champion wrestler at Grants Pass High School, was being held today on a charge of as sault and battery in connec tion with the beating of his 4V4-month-old daughter. The little girl was reported in critical condition at Med ford's Sacred Heart Hospital with a skull fracture. . Police said the girl had been struck over the head with a book. Government To Resume Housinq Construction Washington (UPD The gov ernment moved today to re sume construction of 24 mili tary housing projects that haye stood idle., since last May. SERVICEMEN RESPOND Washington -IUPD- The De fense Department said today that U.S. servicemen overseas have responded to pleas to stop the dollar drain by buy ing more American compact cars Instead of foreign models. Bring Down people to concern themselves with government; for the peo ple to hold their elected offi cials to "strict accountability"; and for the people to take part in Democratic functions, such as, the functions of de bate, discussion, petition and vote. Almost all Medford and Jackson county officials at tended the banquet, including Mayor John W. Snider and County Judge Earl Miller. Both men lauded the valua of Student Government day, and Jud"JC Miller called it, "one of the finest things we have had in Medford and Jackson county." Exalted Elks Ruler Joa Hosick commented prior to Baker's talk that such activi ties as Student Government Day prove that Khrushchev is wrong when he tells the Unit ed States that "your children will live under Communism."