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1 Hatff ei Confined To Inlospota Regional Edition Medford 18 Pages Kennedy Asks Scheduled 6as Tax Out Be Cancelled Increased Levies On Heavy Trucks Urged in Message Federal Highway Program in Trouble ' Washington -WPD- President Kennedy asked Congress to day to cancel a scheduled one-cent cut in gasoline taxes and raise other levies, chiefly on heavy trucks, to get the federal highway program out of financial trouble. . The President said in a special message that "our federal- pay-as-you-go highway program is in peril." He said the $41 billion superhighway program would fall five years behind its 1972 target date un less it gets $900 million more annually. "Passenger cars are paying more than their fair share" of the cost of the 41,000 -mile highway network, Kennedy said. He requested higher taxes on diesel fuel, trucks over 26,000 pounds, tires, in ner tubes and rubber used for retreading. Kennedy said Congress should continue the gasoline tax at the present level of four cents a gallon. It is scheduled by law to drop to three cents on July 1. Opposei Cutback The President declared he was "wholly opposed to either stretching out or cutting back" the highway program. He also said it should not be financed by borrowing or charging tolls, but should be kept on a pay-as-you-go basis by increasing highway "user" taxes. r v - Congress authorized the system of limited-access, multiple-lane highways in 1956. The federal government pays 90 per cent of the cost, the states 10 per cent.'' Administration officials said Kennedy was not proposing "anti-recession" measures but was merely trying to keep the highway building program on schedule. The President took critical aim at billboard advertising and raised the possibility of a federal levy on billboards if the states do not control their placement more strictly. Kennedy's message bristled with arguments in favor of his tax proposals and against al ternative financing plans which have been advanced in the past. He said $600 million a year could be provided for the highway program by Congress preventing the reduction in the gasoline tax. He calculated the value of his other tax proposals at $300 million a year. Increases Sought Kennedy proposed these in creases in existing taxes: Diesel fuel, from four to seven cents a gallon. Trucks over 26,000 pounds, annual license fee of $5 per 1,000 pounds instead of the present $1.50. Motor vehicle tires, from eight to ten cents a pound. Inner tubes, from nine to ton cents a pound. Tread rubber, from three to ten cents a pound. Excavation To Start on Wing To Ashland Theater Ashland - Excavation 1 s scheduled to start this week on the basement section of a new wing for Ashland's Shakespearean theatre. The wing is part of a long-range construction plan announced by the Festival association in 1957. Only the basement portion of the new wing will be com pleted at the present time, a festival spokesman reported. It will ' house . the costume workshop and will be decked over at ground level to pro v i d e additional rehearsal pace. Funds for the present con struction have been provided by a special grant from a Foundation. The Festival association has not been relieved of its out standing indebtedness on the existing stage structure. How- X MEDFORD, OREGON, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY t ' , !"- ' , r f f ' v . V fcSSSfWK FACT-FINDER, KASAVUBU MEET G. Mennen Williams, left, U.S. Assistant Secre tary of State for African Affairs, chats with Congolese President Joseph Kasavubu at Leopoldville. Williams is on a fact-finding trip through Africa. In an effort to crush No Need for Surplus Food Allocation in County, Miller Says "Now that we are Rearing spring ''with increased oppor- ttinlftae fnr pmnnwment L see ho need for "establishing trie surplus food allocation pro gram here at this time," Coun ty Judge Earl Miller said this morning. County Commissioner Ches ter Wonrit npreed. Miller ex plained that the surplus food allocation would be in addi tion to the money grants al lowed welfare recipients for food. According to the plan, the county court would assume responsibility for requisition ing the food from. the state.de- City Prisoner 4 Leaves Hospital Ashland city police last night apprehended a 38-year-old escaped city prisoner. Hilbert Simon Darrin, El dred, Penn., who was serving a jail sentence for being drunk in public, had been taken to Sacred Heart hos pital by Medford police. Dar rin left from the hospital about 6:30 p.m. yesterday by going down a fire escape from his third floor room, accord ing to police. He was captured four hours later in Ashland. He did not resist capture, po lice said. .Darrin was arrested in Med ford Feb. 24. While serving a two-day jail sentence, he de veloped a ruptured ulcer,' po lice said, and was taken to the hospital for treatment. Police said today that no ad ditional charge will be filed against Darrin. ever it is anticipated that these obligations will be met through the balance of unpaid pledge payments remaining from the building fund drive conducted in 1958. Ultimately the new wing structure will house, in addi tion to the basement level costume shop, all of the theater's dressing rooms, the scene shop, and a "green room" rehearsal space. These functions have been tempor arily located in the stage house where they interfere with the ' preparation and presentation of the plays. Since the Festival season has been lengthened over 30 per cent in the last two years, it has become imperative that the work space be increased in order to meet the earlier opening, the spokesman said. r Lumumbaist troops threalcnting to conquer two-thirds of the Congo, leaders of the Cen tral Congo, Katanga and South Kasai gov ernments have signed a treaty uniting their forces. (UPI Radiotelephoto) partment of finance and ad ministration. The county court would be responsible for pack aging," re-distribution, refrig eration and storage of the fOOd.: " . The Jackson county public welfare commission staff would certify people eligible to receive the food, Public Welfare Administrator James Pullman said today. "This program would affect 3,000 individuals now on pub lic welfare, or three of every 75 persons in-, this county," Pullman noted.. "This alloca tion, according to law, cannot be used to substitute for the minimum subsistence food al location now allowed." The list of surplus foods under.the federal program in cludes dried milk, flour, corn mean, rice, lard, butter, dried eggs, pork and gravy, pea-, beans and peanut butter, Pull man said. Pullman explained that the current welfare allocation for food provides 65 to 80 per cent of the minimum diet con sidered necessary for the av erage person. "This makes it pretty difficult for people to buy meat and fresh milk," he admitted. Under the current welfare program, a single person liv ing by himself , is allowed $6.30 a week for food. A fam ily of two adults and three children from three to five years old would receive $16 to $18 a week. Pullman ex plained the current food al location is based on the num ber of persons in a family and their ages. "Traffic Control Center" Tribune 28, 1961 Gold Hill Woman Dies in Traffic Accident on 99 ,' Verda Mae Connell, 43, of route 1, box 487, Gold Hill, died', from injuries received in a one-car accident yester day evening just north of Gold Hill , on Highway 99, state police said. Her husband, driver of the car in which she was riding, Fairman Connell, was taken to Josephine County General hospital where he is being treated for cuts and possibly a broken arm. He is in fair condition. Mrs. . Connell was dead' on arrival at the hos pital, state police said. Mrs. Connell was thrown out of the car by the impact. Officers said Connell appar ently lost control of the car by the Rock Point bridge. It went onto the right shoulder, and went across the highway and rolled over. Police received a call from a service station at 6:19 p.m. yesterday that the car was upside down by the bridge. WEATHER FORECAST: Thlckcnlnp; cloudi ness tonight with chances of occasional rain Wednesday. Low tomorrow morning 38. High tomorrow 55 ' Temp. Hi Bli est Yesterday 54 Lowest this Morning 32 Our Skies Tonight Sunset today 6:00 p.m. Sunrise tomorrow .... 6:48 a.m. The Moon rises 4:31 p.m. today and sets 6:22 a.m. tomorrow. The star seen near it tonight Is ilcgulus. Full Moon Thursday a.m. Note: The Moon will pass In front of Refjulus several times this year, and next. 55th Year Price 10 Cents No. 295 Appling Denies Extravagances at State Hospitals Wasteful Practice Charges Answered Salem (UPII Secretary of State Howell Appling today denied cnarges mat wastetui extravagances wen; involved regarding tubs, hogs, a bak ery and a bedspread at state hospitals. Annlinc wrote Rod. Nor man Howard, chairman of the House State and Federal Af fairs Committee, that the fol lowing nharees were made at the committee's Feb. 15 meet ing when Appling criticized abolition of the Board of Control: Found Unneeded 1. Costly hydrotherapy tnhs were installed at Dam- masch State hospital and it was later found they were unneeded. 2. Eastern Oreeon State hospital has a wasteful prac tice of sending its hogs raised at Pendleton to Baker for slaughter. the hams to La Grande for curing and then returning the meat to Pendleton for consumption. S Tiammasch has an expen- sive bakery that may never be used. 4 The hoard authorized a $50 bedspread for the private residence of the Mid-Colum bia Home superintendent be cause it matched the drapes Tn Us Tubs Tn the first item. Appling said professionals agree with thp wisdom of installing the tubs even though hydro therapy is on the decline. He pointed out that the tubs also can be used for regular bathing. The hog process is carried out. at. no extra cost to the state, Appling said, and has resulted in a greater return because of more and better meat. As for the bakerv at Dam masch. ADDline said it is dif ficult to predict in advance the "ultimate scoDe of it's pro duction." He pointed out Dammasch doesn't open until Friday. Like Criticizing Ford This complaint is "some what like criticizing Henrv Ford for inventing the auto mobile because It made bug gies obsolete, Appling said. Sneaking of the bedspread. Annline admitted it was Dur- chased but said the matching spread "relieved the state of the necessity of supplying romnlete furnishings" for the quarters and therefore was a "very inexpensive alterna tive. Sleeping in Cars Brings Sentences Transients are going to have to find overnight accommoda tions other than in cars park ed on downtown Medford parking lots. Two transients found sleeping in parked cars during the past two nights have received stiff jail sen tences. One of the transients, Mel- vin Horace Murch, 51, was found sleeping in a car Sun day night by the car's owner, Kenneth Raymond Williams, Jackson hotel. Murch entered a plea of guilty in municipal court to a charge of vagrancy (sleeping in an unauthorized place), and was sentenced to 20 days in the county jail. Williams had earlier report ed to police that transients sleeping in his car In recent weeks had made a consider able mess of the interior of the car. Last night, city police ar rested Bernard Harold Bom mel. 54, who was also found sleeping in a parked car. Bom mel, too, pleaded guilty to a vagrancy charge and was sentenced to 50 days in the county jail. More Rain Falls on Flooded Southland By United Press International Rains dripped across the floodlands of the Deep South today and a new snowstorm left Ohioans and Indiana resi dents wading around in a blanket of slush. Authorities in the South estimated that about 37,000 families had been displaced from their homes during the 10-day siege of floods that had brimmed the Pearl river in Mississippi, the Chattahoochee in Georgia, and the Alabama. Federal aid was given to the hardest-hit counties, J Living Costs in January Slight Decline Washington-(UPl)-Living costs fell by one-tenth of 1 per cent in January for the first decline in a year, the govern ment reported today. Lower prices for clothes, new and used cars and food were responsible for the decrease. Despite the decrease from December to January the Labor Department said its consumer price index was set at 127.4 per cent of 1947-49 prices or 1.6 per cent above a year ago. This figure means that it cost the average consumer $12.74 to buy the same goods and services today that cost $10 in the 1947-49 era. The decline means that nearly one million workers in the automobile and farm equipment Industries will not get wage increases next month. Their wages are geared to the rise and fall of the index and it did not climb enough since last October to justify a wage hike. McGahuey Goes To Court; Bound Over To Jury LecRoy Sanford McGahuey, 43-year-old Central Point man and confessed murderer of a Central Point mother and her infant son, was arraigned in district court yesterday after noon, and was bound over to the grand jury on a first de gree murder charge. McGahuey was arraigned on district attorney's informa tion charging him with the murder of 23-month-old Rod Camcon Holt, son . of Mrs. Loris Mae Holt. Mrs. Holt and her son were found slain in a Central Point apartment last Wednesday. He waived right to a pre liminary hearing, but request ed that an attorney be ap pointed to represent him. He is being held in Jackson coun ty jail without bail. District Attorney Alan B. Holmes said he will call the grand jury to consider the evidence against McGahuey early next week. A circuit court hearing will follow. Lewis County Sheriff O. R. Amondson, Chehalis, Wash., said he and his undersheriff, W. Al Murray, will return home today without obtaining a definite statement from Mo Gahuey regarding, a 1957 murder in Lewis county. . "He said he was not in the area at the time of the murder and could not remember it," Amondson said this morning. "However, he would not deny the possibility of committing it and blacking out.". $3,1 15 Collected In Heart Drive A total of $3,115 was col lected during the house-to-house Heart Sunday solicita tion which covered 6,792 homes Sunday. Mrs. Earl John son, chairman, has reported. The total does not include mail-in contributions, she not ed. Solicitors left pre-ad-dressed envelopes if volun teers found no one at home. Mrs. Johnson encouraged per sons who have envelopes to mail them with their contri bution. In commending the 640 vol unteers, Mrs. Johnson noted that the largest amount turned in by a single blockworker was $35.55 collected by Mrs. Edd Rountree, Ashland, and the highest total recorded by a captain was $231.59 received from Mrs. Paul Antony and a team of 15 Ashland volun teers. " ft STORM DAMAGE A Montreal, Que., street lined with blown-down trees is typical of damage caused when snow, ice and sleet wrecked communications throughout Mont- Record But the department said about 61,000 workers, includ ing those at Caterpillar Trac tor Corp. plants, will receive penny-an-hour pay increases based on a different formula from other auto workers. The take-home pay of fac tory workers - earnings after federal taxes - held steady from December to January. The average factory worker with three dependents had spendable earnings of $79.97 a week and the buying power oi tnese earnings also were virtually unchanged from De cember to January. Buying Power Reduced But the department said that take-home pay of fac tory workers has declined about 2.5 per cent since Jan uary, 1960, because of shorter hours. The lower wages, com bined with the impact of high er prices, has reduced buying power of the factory employee by about 4 per cent over the year. The buying power of the average consumer's $10 bill increased by one cent last month. The Labor Deoart- ment said the value of the dollar compared to 1947-49 prices was .785 cents. Ashland Planners Deny Zone Request Ashland - The Ashland planning commission denied a request for rczoning 40 acres of land on Bear creek near Oak' st. from residential to industrial last nighti ine commission vote was 3-2 against the rezoning re quest submitted by Earl Lin inger. Llnlnger had proposed establishing a gravel pit and rock crushing plant on t h e land. The commission approv ed the request earlier this month. However, the city council referred the matter back to the commision at its Feb. 21 meeting. In denying Lininger's pro posal, the planners indicated they weren't against his estab lishing the rock crushing plant. They said they were afraid that if the area was zoned industrial, it might open it up for a variety of other industrial operations. They indicated there Is a possibility some other method could be used in allowing Lin inger to use the land. The feasibility of making it an agricultural zone will be In vestigated. Minimum Wage Raise Gets Subcommittee OK Washington - IUPD- A House labor subcommittee today ap proved a stepped-up version of President Kennedy's pro posal to boost the federal minimum wage from $1 to I $1.25 an hour. I i ; GOV. MARK HATFIELD Spent Good Night Proposals Heard For Stimulation Of State Economy Salem - (UPII - Delegates to the second phase of a gover nor's economy conference poured out . proposals this morning to stimulate Oregon's economy both on a short term and long range basis. Among the recommenda tions were release of highway funds and higher bonding limits, tax reform, stabiliza tion of farm labor, and a stepped-up campaign to start Ore gon consumers on a buying spree. Gerald Frank, chairman of Gov. Mark Hatfield's advisory committee on planning and development, presided over the meeting in place of Hat field, who was hospitalized Monday with fatigue. Industrial State Eyed Fred Brunncr, a Eugene businessman, said most of the proposals concerned long- range efforts to push Oregon nearer the ranks of foremost industrial states. . But to alleviate the imme diate slump, he proposed a full scale campaign to en courage Oregonians to go out and buy something - both to take advantage' of lower prices, and to carry out their "patriotic duty. "Nothing will get the ball rolling any faster," he said. Don Ellis of Tektronix, Inc., said Oregon's economic cli mate for new businesses would be improved if unem ployment compensation levies on employers were reduced, and if the personal property tax were repealed. He joined with a spokesman of Oinark Industries in mak ing another proposal: in creased emphasis and avail ability of advanced study and degrees in Oregon, they said, would serve as a gravitating point for research industries. Pressure for Contracts Other proposals included: -Pressure to win more gov ernment contracts; -A shift in highway bond limits to true cash value, which Verne Ayres, Oregon Coast association, said would make an additional $100 mil lion available for Oregon road projects; .. : -Lower interest rates, to enr courage housing and thus boost the lumber Industry. . -Efforts to end the Portland newspaper strike, urged by labor spokesmen. ; -Expanded marketing ; re search to improve the selling situation for farmers. ; real Island, loft thousands without light and heat and closed , most schools. ' (UPI Telephoto) Governor Said To Be Suffering From 'Fatigue' Diagnosis Said To Be Continuing Portland - fUPD - Gov. Mark Hatfield's doctor said today the governor is suffering from fatigue more than anything else" and is recuperating sat isfaclorily in the University of Oregon Medical School hos pital. The 38-year-old Republican chief executive was admitted shortly after 7p.m. Monday shortly after 7 p.m. Monday rest and observation. Release Dalo Undetermined Dr. Ralph Purvine said Hat field could be released lata this week but this has not yet been determined. He said a diagnosis of the governor's condition is still continuing. Purvine told newsmen in Salem Hatfield had a good night, slept well, and ate a good breakfast this morning. "He feels very good today," he said. i Travis Cross, news secre- t tary, said Hatfield's appoint- ments have been cancelled ! through Friday. Purvine said the governor's temperature, pulse and blood i pressure were normal. Ho added that this is about the i time for Hatfield's annual physical checkup anyway and most of this is being done now. Presides at Conference Gerald W. Frank, Salem business executive and head of the Governor's Advisory Committee on Planning and Development, presided over Hatfield's economic confer ence today. Frank, a close personal friend of Hatfield's, told the conference that the governor is suffering from a "good casa of exhaustion." . A ceremony for signing ol higher education bonding bills this afternoon was to be held and Cross said it was hoped Mrs. Hatfield would preside. The governor was to sign tha bills at his hospital bed. t 1 Assured 'Complete Resi'j. Purvino said there was no particular reason to hospital ize the governor in Portland rather than Salem except that having him In Portland away from the capitol will assure him of "complete rest." Cross said Hatfield was hos pitalized as a "precautionary" measure after he complained of dizziness. It was thought he had a severe case of flu. 549 Dog Licenses Sold from Office A tolal of 540 doe licenses were sold from the county clerk's office yesterday, it was reported. Tomorrow is the deadline fnr hnvine licenses without paying a penalty or additional charge. , . Personnel in the county clerk's office said they took in $1,150 in license fees, most of the money came from the sale of $2 licenses for males and spayed females. A few $3 licenses for unspayed females were sold. rMii-ic Hmrlpr. cnuntv doir control ! officer, told the clerk's office this morning that snlra In outlvlne areas also are holding up well. 1-
