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Higher Mail Rates Will Be Sought by Postal Official San Fraacuco-WPU - Post master General J. Edward Day said Monday he would oress for postal increases which would raise first class mail rates to five cents an ounce and air mail rates to eight cents. He told newsmen a sub stantial increase in second and third class rates also was needed to give the department an over-all increase of $843 million a year. Day said he hoped Congress would approve the boosts this year to help offset an esti mated gap of $900 million a year between postal revenue and expenses. The postmaster general said he hoped for a construction program affecting some 2.000 facilities a year but that the automated post office was get ting a second look. The automated post office in Providence. R.I., has been a disappointment, he said, and plans for a similar one at Oakland, Calif., were under scrutiny. "Automation may be fine for making pencils," Day said. "If some are damaged you can just throw them away but you can't do that with mail." Powers' Morale Drops Sharply Norton, Va.-HIPD-The father of U2 Pilot Franca Powers revealed today that bis son expected to be released from bis Russian prison along with the two RB47 fliers and that bis morale bad slumped sharply when he learned be was not coming borne. I Oliver Powers said he and his wife receive regular let ters from their son about every two weeks, relating small happenings in bis So viet prison and generally re flecting a cheerful attitude. But the most recent letter showed a big drop In morale, Powers said. Powers did not say who led his son to hope for release from his 10-year spy sentence when Capts. Freeman Olm . stead and John McKone won their freedom last month. The two fliers, whose RB47 plane was shot down by the Rus sians over the Barents sea, are back on duty now In Kansas. Powers said his son was not putting the blame on anyone for his failure to get freedom right away. "Don't get me wrong," the elder Powers said. "I've never beard Francis express any bit terness toward America about the fix he's In. He has accept ed It much better than any of the rest of us." SEEKS SOVIET TALENT ' Moscow - (1111) - American impresario Sol Hurok, in an interview Monday with tile Soviet newspaper Izvestia predicted increased Soviet American cultural exchanges tills year. Hurok said Soviet artists and groups to appear in the United States would include violinist Igor Oistra kh, pianists Emil Cilels, composer-conductor Aram Kha chaturian, the Leningrad Bal let, and the Igor Moiseyev Folk Dunce group. ANNOUNCING This club is easy lo join. Qwneiship of a nnw Dudgn is the only reqtiuomont. Coinpdd OoilgB Lancor, or full-size Dodge Dart. Get yours and you're in. A char (er member with the keys to a lot of ecanumical molonng. Here are some you'll find in both sized Oodtjes, (Hey 1) A unitized, rust-pioofed body. (2) Optional push-button automatic transmission, (3) Economy SEE THE WAN EDWARD DAY Wints Nickel Letters Nikiia Advised To Pay Old Bill For Lend-lease Los Angeles - UP0 - Nikita Khrushchev was advised a few weeks ago by a Los An geles financier to pay off Russia's lend-lease debts if he expects to resume full-scale trade in nonstrategic materials with the United States. Dr. Armand Hammer, presi dent of Occidental Petroleum Co., disclosed today that he had a two - hour conference Feb. 17 with the Russian lead er and had a remarkably frank and forthright exchange of views. No Ax to Grind "Khrushchev was in a won derful mood," said Hammer who saw the Russian leader during an around-the-world trip. "I could say things that a diplomat could not say. I bad no ax to grind." "We would like to trade with the United States in peaceful goods," he quoted Khrushchev as saying. "We don't need your strategic goods - we have better rock ets." ,. Hammer said he told Khru shchev that Russia could not net international credits until tile Soviet lend-lease bill was settled from World War II. K.nrusnc!iev said he was willing to settle lend-lease debts if he got "the same treatment as the British.' Good Will Lacking Hammer said he also told Khrushchev that American public opinion of Russia had "worsened" since the Soviet leader's visit in 1939. "You don't have good will." Hammer told Khrushchev "There's your lack of coopera. tion in tile U.N. Let's settle all problems in the U.N. then public opinion will be better Hammer said Khrushchev replied: "We 11 see." The meeting with Kh shcliev was arranged through a mutual acquaintance Soviet Deputy Premier An aslas Mikuyan. AMERICA'S MOST ECONOMICAL KEY CLUB! STANDARD OR COMPACT YOU GET A GREAT DLOL 'tVITH DODGE WITH PARSONS MOTORS, Milder Weather In Prospect lor Midwesl Region A tornado - breeding low pressure center over the Mid west glided harmlessly into Lake Erie today, giving way to light snow and scattered showers from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico. The U S. weather bureau at Chicago said there were "no storm systems m sight'' to du plicate Monday's twisters and hurricane-force winds that ac counted for four deaths and widespread property damage in Indiana, Illinois and Ten nessee. Colder weather rolled into the Ohio valley and lower Great Lakes behind the low pressure center. Warm air and scattered showers remained in the south, where warmth broke temperature records" Monday in Virginia, Georgia and Florida. Two weather patterns of north-central snows and mid western winds belted the na tion's interior Monday. Seven children were hospitalized and IS others were bruised when a school buy carrying 43 students tipped on its side on a rain-slick highway near Bay City, Mich. Deadly winds killed three persons including an 8-months-old baby at F "edonia, in west Tennessee. A 80-year-old woman died in her caved in Kokomo, Ind.. home. Southern authorities report ed most flood emergencies from last month's river fury under control, although the cleanup job will take months. The Upper Santee in South Carolina crested at TYx feet over its banks during the week end and a Lower Santee crest at a foot over bankful was imminent. Floodwaters poured generally into swamps along the Lower Santee. Mild temperatures covered most of the nation Monday. Record high readings for the day were set at Richmond and Norfolk, Va., both with 84 degrees; Macon, Ga., 86; Jack sonville, Fla., 88, and Tampa, Fla., 86. California, the Southwest, eastern New York and Penn sylvania enjoyed springlike weather in the 50s and 60s with prospects of more to come. Man Attempts To Get Into Vehicle A woman told Medford po ace Monday afternoon that a man tried to get in her car with her 5-year-old daughter while the girl was alone in the car which was parked in front of a South Riverside ave. tavern. The man apparently did not say anything to the girl, po lice said, but tried to open the car door. The little girl, however, locked the door be fore the man could open it. When the mother got buck to the car. she said the man was still standing by the cur. He turned and walked away with out saying anything, she said She described the man as about 30 to 35 years old. heavy set, neatly dressed and clean shaven. He appeared to be intoxicated, she said. Police searched several tav erns in the area but were un able to find anyone answering the description given by the woman. Sl.nit-6 siijjtne. 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William Holmstrom (D-Gearhart) and Philip Lang Coast Residents Face Job Losses Oyer Lack of Fish Salem-iUPD - The legislature was warned Monday after noon that if more money is not forthcoming for fish rear ing, 4,100 coastal residents may be added to the welfare rolls over the next four years. The Oregon Coast Associa tion asked a Ways and Means subcommittee for $1.6 million more for stream clearance and pond rearing on the coast over the next two years. Problem 'Very Simple' Tom Becker, head of the association's fish committee said the 4,100 are those whose livelihood is directly tied with Silver and Chinook salm on. They include commercial fishermer, charter sport boat ers, motel and lodge oper ators, and moorage operators. Becker told the committee the problem is very simple: "No fish." Becker, manager of radio station KNPT in Newport, said unemployment is running 30 per cent now in Lincoln county the highest in Oregon and among the highest in the nation. Association Manager Vern Ayers seconded Becker's re marks, adding that Oregon is "no longer the salmon capital of the world." Commercial fishermen are calling the Pacific salmon a "dodo" and turning to tuna and other species, ha said. Ayers said the Columbia system is "recognized as not doing the job" and the state should turn to coastal streams for salmon propagation. Coos County Judge James W. Harrison said logging methods are partly to blame for clogging of streams. The association president said counties are trying to clear the streams but the job is "tremendous" and state help is needed. Salem Has Chance at All-America Award Salem -UIPD- Salem may be one of the It winners of the Ail-American City award this year, according to Salem Area Chamber of Commerce Presi dent Willard Marshall. The awards will be official ly announced March 15. Mar shall said that Salem's entry into the 1961 All-America competition was based on a massive cooperation program aimed at uniting five local governments into area service operations. (D-Portland) voted against the Cannon proposal. It would make only a handful of changes in legislative repre sentation from northwestern Oregon and one change from north central Oregon. Lang accused the commit- Elizabeth Taylor Said Past Crisis London - WD - Elizabeth Taylor appeared to have pass ed the crisis in her battle with pneumonia today, and her doc tor pronounced her "definite ly improved but still in seri ous condition." New drugs were being ad ministered to the beautiful actress. "Miss Taylor is too ill to manufacture the antitoxin necessary to fight the poison in her system." Dr. Carl H. Goldman said. "We have to ptimp it into her ready-made." Dr. Goldman is one of the six doctors who have been at Miss Taylor's bedside in her struggle with the pneumonia that struck her down last Friday. wf'iiii itiTitiiitiTtii---itmii)Tifiiiia efwTT'rriw-ii ni TAKES OATH Associate Supreme Court Justice Tom Clark is shown swearing in his son, Ramsey Clark, left, as assistant at torney general, lands division, and Herbert Industrial Shares Feel Force of Profit Taking; Market Down New York - WPI) - Profit taking buffeted industrial shares, driving the stack mar ket lower today. The brunt of the selling ap peared to be taken by such pivotal groups as autos. steels and chemicals. Chrysler lost H, Ford ln, U. S. Steel Vt. Jones & Laughlm. Republic and Lukens I'-a, Du Pont a point and Eastman Kodak 1V4. Oils were easier with Sin- clair off a point. En drugs Home Products shed 2 and Smith Kline Sc French ll-4 while Lehn & Fink, selling ex-dividend, added 21-2. Elec- trical equipment shares were iidtiuwiji iniAcu dim m o 3 C rails fractions easier. DOW-JONES AVEHAGES Nw York - 11PII - Dow Janes final stock averages: 30 industrials 674.46, up 2.39; 20 railroads M4.77. off 0.07; 15 utilities 108.70. off 0.04, and 63 stocki 225.53, up 0.51. Salsa Monday wert about 5.62 million shares compared with 3.53 million shares Friday. LEI J SEE AND HEAR FRANK STITT Noted Popular Organist K3SS-TV 7:13 P.M. March 7th Lush Music Co. All Day March 3th Special Concert, Hadrtck Jr. High, 3 p.m., March 8th Hear Frank on the Baldwin Organ. Far More Information Call LUSK MUSIC CO. 333 S. Riverside Ave. SP 2-8635 tee of handling the measure in a "high handed manner," and promised if nobody else took it to the Oregon Supreme Court for a test, he would do so himself. He predicted the measure would pass through a Republican-Eastern Oregon Demo crat coalition. "I've never been so ashamed of a committee in my life as this committee in railroading this bill through," Holmstrom said. Reps. Edward Whelan (D - Portland) and Katherine Musa (D-The Dalles) were ab sent. Although committee mem bers said the plan obeyed the constitutional .man date by recognizing population shifts in Oregon in the past decade, the plan would not give any additional legislators to cities like Portland and Eugene. In the senate, only change the new plan would make Regional Edition Medford MEDFORD, OREGON, TUESDAY, MARCH 7, 1961 Monday's priceii a it selected i itucks: Allied Chemical ... Alum Co. Am American Can American Molars . AT&T American Tobacco Amicomla Cupper Arnico Steel Bendix Corp Bethlehem Steel .. Boeinn Air .. 3H ..li.i 73 'ii 33 rW as-, 44 '1, I Chrysler Corp i .Suu Cm i Crown Zellerbnch . Schem! du Pint .. . ! Ko1"k..: 1 Fini ! g?! fSTc .:: j cnral Motors'""!! j p'J,"1 ""' ..21 '.! .. 3!t .. 711 '1 1 drnynuuna Gulf Oil Hinnust;il(e Mining Idaho Power I. B. M tnt Pnper Johns Manville Ken n ecu it Copoer Liii'Klieuit Aircnut ..... Merck Montana Power Montgomery W;ird Nnt'l Biscuit New YirK Centrol Northern Pficiiic Pfic Gas Elec Penney .1. C Penn nil PhiHhMi Proctor and Gambia ..tfliR ... :i3i 87 M 35' from present representation would be a switch of one-halt senator from Polk county to Washington County. In the House, Clackamas county would pick up one r e p r e sentative obtained by grouping Hood River county with Wasco, Gilliam, Sher man. Morrow and Wheeler counties. Also in the House, one-half representative would move from Yamhill county to Wash ington county. Cannon said he considered the plan would continue to give the best possible repre sentation to all the people of Oregon. NOW YOU KNOW United Press International Attorney William Henry Upjohn, arguin9 in an in dustrial case in Britain in 19 IS. made a speech to the court lasting 45 days. Page 2A Tribune J. Miller Jr., as assistant attorney general, criminal division, at Washington, D C. Look ing on, third from left, is Attorney General Robert F. 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GREEN STAMPS Central 5 to 2 Vote i Considerable opposition to the Cannon plan was expected from spokesmen for metro - Quotes From the News BY UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL London Elizabeth Taylor, gravely ill with staphylococcus pneumonia, quoted by a friend in a note she wrote to her husband Eddie Fisher: "Huj and kisses for the children. How am I doing?" Hollywood Boris Karloff, criticizing present-day horror movies: "There's to much neediest violence, horror picture have become ludicrous. Audiences are amused Instead of frightened." Milford, Mich. Acting Postmaster Robert H. Gorsline, a Republican, disclosing he has no luck trying to resign so a Democrat can have his job: "I'm not mad at anyone. Make that clear, I'm not mad. But I'm not going to stay on and have them hand me my hat whenever they feel like it." 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