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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"
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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-
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MEDFORD, OREGON, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY
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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.
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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,
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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.
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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.
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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.
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