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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
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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."