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Newspaper Page Text55th Year Price 10 Cents Subscribers EDFORD RIBUN To report Improper or non delivery of the Mall Tribune in Med ford and Ash land, phone SP 2-UU1 before 6:45 p.m. daily and 10:30 am. Sunday. If regular delivery arrives shortly after you call, please notifv office, thus eliminating special messenger service. United Press International Full Leased Wire United Press International Full Leased Wire 56 Pages Section A MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, MARCH 12, 1961 No. 305 Recommended The Siskiyou County Museum In Vreka Is one ot the area's most popular tourist attractions. The museum has attracted thou sands of visitors since Us be ginning in 1949. Much of the history of northern California Is recorded in its exhibits. Read about the museum and Us prog ress on Page S A ol today's Mall Tribune. M EP Zoning Rules Could Not Stop Medco Truck Road - Opinion Comes From Deputy DA Creation of an interim zone for the Eagle Point area would not affect the proposed Medford Corporation logging truck road, Chief Deputy Dis trict Attorney Thomas Owens indicated Friday in an opin ion presented the county court. The arterials committee of the Jackson county planning commission, through the coun ty court, had requested a legal opinion on whether a county interim zoning ordinance could stop proposed conver sion of the Medco logging railroad to a logging truck road from Butte Falls through Eagle Point to Medford. Eagle Point is working on a city zoning ordinance which may affect the proposed road, Ben Day, Medford attorney, representing the area's pro testing citizens, said Saturday. Form Association More than 50 property own ers from Butte Falls to Med ford formed the Jackson County Home O :rs Protec tive association at a meeting in Eagle Point Feb. 15. Mrs. Burton C. Jensen, of the Nick Young rd., Eagle Point, was elected chairman. . She said Saturday that the group is planning to present a letter to the Medco directors with a petition protesting the logging road proposal. An ac tive association membership drive is under way, Day add ed. O w e ri s recognized in his opinion that, "The greatest in herent problem is that a great many more trips are necessary (with use of logging trucks compared to the former rail road). If the volume of timber hauled does not change there would be no change in use. Makes No Changs "Neither the natural growth of business existing at the time of the enactment of the zoning ordinance nor adop tion of a more modern instru mentality (use of trucks) mak es a change in the use of the property." Use of trucks does not con stitute a change in use, Owens said in his opinion. "If the original purpose and nature of the existing right-of-way remains unchanged, the fact different transportation is used will not result in a change of use," Owens rea soned. Durno Seeks Ai For Flood Damage Washington - (UPD - Rep. Ed win Durno (R-Ore.), Saturday called on the Army engineers to take emergency steps to combat damage done by re cent floods in the Willamette river basin. Durno listed Linn and Lane counties as the two being particularly hard hit. Durno said he has asked Lt. Gen. Emerson C. Itschner, chief of the Army engineers, to report to him on the ex tent of damage done and the emergency steps which must be taken to provide revet ment and bank protection works, pending completion of authorized flood control dams. Auto Industry Plans Drastic Cutbacks Detroit - (UPI) - The auto in dustry plans its most drastic production cutback of the year next week. Faced with a million -car inventory and disappointing sales. Ford, General Motors and Chrysler will send home more than 83,000 workers at 33 plants across the country. By far the biggest layoffs will be at GM, which will fur lough 58.200 workers. Ford will idle 13.400 and Chrysler 11.500. All the layoffs arc for one week. WEATHER FORECAST: Cloud- this morn im with etntv southerly winds this afternoon. Showers Mon day mornint. Rain Monday aft ernoon. Il!h todav 54. Low to nicht 35. Illh tomorrow SS Temp. Ht(het Yeterdv M Lowest This Mornin ..... 3 Prerlp. To 5 p.m. Yesterday 32 Our Skies Tonight ftnnet today :M p.m. Siinr!e tomorrow :3T a.m. Mnonrle tomorrow ... 4:25 a.m. The pUnrl. Mrrrurv, rlie he fnre ihe sun for the next two MeeM hut Mill he hard to find In the hritht mornlnf twllliht, Mrrrurv is now about 14 mil lion miles away, Work Underway On New Medford Plywood Company The Elk Lumber company announced Saturday that its new 51 million plywood plant is scheduled to be in full pro duction here in about one year. Already under construction, the plant is located adjacent to the Elk Lumber company's sawmill just north of Medford. It will employ an estimated 170 persons. George C. Flanagan, vice president and general man ager of the company, said a building that used to house the firm's studmill is being converted and expanded to handle the plywood operation. The studmill shut down in 1957. Total Investment The expanded building will be 600 feet long and 280 feet Grants Pass Man Named GOP Chief Salem -UPD- A 36-year-old former circuit judge and Grants Pass plywood execu tive, Robert G. Davis, was unanimously elected chairman of the Oregon Republican par ty here Saturday. He succeeded Peter Gun nar, Salem attorney, who has guided the Oregon GOP for the past two years. Davis was nominated by Wayne Giesy, Corvallis. There were no other nominations at the State Central committee meeting. Davis said he has no sweep ing changes in mind at pres ent but without being specific he added that increased re sponsibilities for party mem bers are in the offing. He called for "aggressive leadership" from both parties and more citizen participation in party and government af fairs. Gunnar described Davis as a "vigorous young man" with "immense ability and capac ity." ' The selection had the bless ing of Gov. Mark Hatfield, and Republican leaders in the Legislature. Senator Demands Aid for Oregon Washington - (UPD - Sen. Wayne Morse (D-Ore.) de manded Saturday that the Kennedy administration take immediate action to give eco nomic aid to Oregon. Morse told the Senate that Oregon was one of the two or three most economically de pressed states in the nation. He said the administration had done nothing to help. The senator said Oregon was discriminated against in the award of federal funds and defense contracts. He said he had protested for eight years to no avail. "I think I had reason to assume under a new Demo cratic admin istration the wrongs would be corrected," he said. Morse vowed to make fre quent speeches of "increasing length" until some action was taken to aid Oregon. He read into the congressional record a petition from the Oregon State legislature demanding immediate action to make greater use of Oregon's nat ural resources In defense work. Defense Department Denies Military Snub Washington-(l'P)-A defense department spokesman denied last night that the Joint Chiefs of Staff were bypassed on a recent major policy decision. The spokesman said the de cision one giving the Air Force virtually sole responsi bility for developing space weapons came only after de fense secretary Robert S. Mc Namara consulted with the secretaries and military chiefs of each service. The Chicago Sunday Sun Times said Saturday in a copyrighted article that Gen. Lyman L. Lemnitzer. chair man of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, protested In a memoran dum to McNamara that he and his colleagues were being edged out of crucial decisions in the Kennedy administration. wide. Other facilities, such as a S100.000 log separator cen ter, are new. Total investment in the new plant is in excess of SI million. Flanagan said the plywood plant will operate two shifts a day and will have a produc tion capacity of 75 million square feet of plywood a year. There will be little waste material in the plywood oper ation. Log bark will be turn ed into a product called "Bark Fluff," which will be market ed as a garden mulch, and the waste veneer will be chipped and sold for pulp. Cuts Shift At the same time as the ply wood plant starts operations, the sawmill will be cut from two to one working shift a day, Flanagan said. However, total employment will be in creased from 150 to 250 em ployees, with 170 persons em ployed in the plywood plant, and 80 in the lumber oper ation. Flanagan declared that the company "has no other choice" but to enter the ply wood business. He explained that fir logs, now used in the sawmill for lumber, are worth approximately $20 more per thousand feet if used for ply wood. Elk Lumber company owns its own timber, and for this reason the company had the choice of either selling its fir trees to existing plywood operations, or starting one of its own. It chose the latter course. When the plywood plant goes into operation, all of the company's fir that is suitable for plywood will go to that plant. The sawmill will then handle pine and other woods that are unsuitable for ply wood. Profitable Market Asked if the plywood mar ket is still a profitable market at this time, Flanagan replied that it is for those companies that own their own timber. Plywood operations that have to bid for government stump age are the ones that are feel ing the cost-profit squeeze, he said. The demand for plywood is continuing upward too, he said, and pointed out that the president of the Douglas Fir Plywood association recently predicted that the demand for plywood would double in the next 15 years. It has increased by 300 per cent in the last 12 years, he added. Elk Lumber company's plant will bring to nine the total number of plywood operations in Jackson county alone. This is including the new Medco plant, which Flan agan said would be roughtly twice the size of the Elk's plant. Salamander Causes White House Crisis Washington - (V PI) - There was this salamander named Shadrach presented to the President of the United Slates Saturday, and the question is what does he do with it? He can't just throw it back in the attorney gener al's swimming pool where it came fro:n, because a wriggling s.'ilamander is a very personal thing in tho life of a sevan-year-old boy who had jusi offared it os a gift. It was particularly true In this case because the gift bsarer was Robert Ken nedy Jr., President Ken nedy's nephew and one of the seven children of At torney General Robert F. Kennedy, So, with lh air of a man trying to convince himself, Ihe President said, "Wasn't it nice of him to bring this present?" an Finds, Returns Los Angeles - HOT - Douglas William Johnson left his house Friday looking for a job, and ended up with $240,000. He didn't keep the money. Saturday he got a job offer - from the Brinks Armored Car company that had lost the money on a downtown street Friday. And, officials told Los An geles' No. 1 citizen, they would give his oldest son a four-year college scholarship. . The 50-year-old Negro fa ther of three found the money - all in unmarked bills - lying in the middle of the street. Ho Decision Expected Soon on Proposed County Ski Areas Mr. Ashland Among Evaluated Sites A decision on proposed winter sports areas in Jack son county is expected from Washington, D.C., "in a week or two," according to Ralph Wiese, recreation officer for the Rogue River National for est. Wiese said local forest serv ice personnel evaluated Mt. Ashland, Brown mountain, Pelican butte and Mt. Mc Louglin. The Washington, D.C., headquarters will make a decision on which area to develop, -based on the report. "We studied the terrain, snow conditions, the economic aspects, community interest, benefits to the community and really covered the areas thoroughly both summer and winter. We were especially interested in snow conditions during Christmas vacation be cause that is the most profit able season for ski area op erators," Wiese said. Approve Development The Association of O and C counties has tentatively ap proved development of an im proved road into the proposed Mt. Ashland ski resort. Tho association's resolution was passed on condition that Thomas Parker, Ashland con tractor, and his associates fol low through on their proposed $165,000 winter sports de velopment. County Commissioner Ches ter Wendt had stated prevl ed. Jackson county's portion of the overall 14-mile road will be included in the county road plan now being develop ed. Jackson's county portion covers three miles. No paving work could be done until spring. Paving, Snow Removal According to earlier re ports, paving of the road and a plan for snow removal apparently is all that stands in the way of early develop ment of the ski resort 15 miles from Ashland. The Ashland contractors have indicated they are ready to install facilities including lifts and a ski lodge as soon as the road is paved. Wiese said, also, that the forest service would spend much of the summer develop ing recreational site plans for Jackson county. Development of a 40-arce recreational site about a half mile west of Mc Kee bridge has priority, he said. Picnic tables and bench es and other facilities for a picnic and swimming area on the Applegate river will be established. "We also plan to develop a historial display of old mining equipment since this is the site of Chinese mining in the early days," Wiese said. Oregon Growth Rate One of Highest Washington-IUPD-Oregon is one of the 10 fastest growing states in the nation, according to figures released Saturday by the census bureau. Oregon has recorded a 327 per cent increase since 1900 and stands seventh among all' states in growth. I Washington has recorded a 451 per cent increase and stands fifth. Arizona and Cali-i fornia are the fastest growing states with 958 per cent. Portland Union Seis Strike Date Portland - (UPD - A strike against the Portland Associa tion of Plumbing and Heating contractors appears set for Monday. The strike was sanctioned Friday night by Plumbers Lo cal 51 and Steamfiltcrs Local 235 here. Approximately 1,500 AKL-CIO union members are involved. promptly turned it over to tho Federal Bureau of Investiga tion. A self-employed mainten ance worker who said he makes an average salary of about S85 a week, Johnson was driving with his wife, Helen, when they sighted the white ranvas bag. He slopped and put the bag In the back of his station wagon without considering what was inside. The bag full of money had tumbled through the open door of a Brink's armored car minutes after it was picked up at the United California $ -rV :"A iM t.i -1 1 Ji fV KM, FIGHT AT PANMUNJON A U. S. mill- or American soldier. In the top picture, lary policeman, Capt. William C. Lyons the Korean major can be seen pushing and a North Korean army major got In a Lyons. In the bottom picture, Lyons is fist fight at Panmunjon, Korea, Friday, shown hitting the major in the face. North when Lyons came to investigate a report Korean newsmen watched the battle, which that a Communist guard had slapped anoth- was quickly broken up. (UPI Telephoto) CP Cycle Accident Kills Local Woman Central Point - A 30-year- old Ashland woman was f tally injured in a motorcycle accident Friday about 3:30 p.m., on U. S. Highway 99 north, between Maple and Ha zel sts. Killed was Mrs. Nancy Claire D a 1 1 o n, 267 North Eighth St., Ashland. She was taken to Sacred Heart hospi tal by Medford Ambulance service, and died at 5:40 a.m. Saturday. According to Central Point Police Chief Wallace Bowen, the motorcycle which she was operating apparently slid out from under her. The vehicle swerved into other lanes of traffic before flipping over. Chief Bowen said weather or road conditions presumably were not at fault. Mrs. Dalton was with a group of 15 to 20 cyclists en route to Portland. She had re cently joined the "Motor Maids," a club for motor cy clists, and was to be Initiated in Portland. Her husband, Elmer C. Dal ton, was not with the group at the time of the accident. He is the owner of the Oregon Auto Body shop, Ashland. She is also survived by two chil dren. Portland - H'PD - Swedish Ambassador Gunnar Jarring was scheduled to begin a two' day visit in Oregon today. 5240,000 bank. The bills, which a bank spokesman said were not serialized or traceable, were to be transferred to the Fed eral Reserve bank in San Francisco. "I never thought about keeping it," said Johnson when asked if he had been tempted not to tell anyone about his find. "I'm no richer now than when I started out that morn ing," he added. Local Brink's officials de clined to comment on how the door of the armored car hap pened to open. 1 ' ttKvJ-y ft i V4 1 Merit Pay Backed by Heads of various county de partments and District Attor ney Alan B. Holmes will meet with the county court Monday afternoon to urge continua tion of of the merit pay in crease plan, County Assessor Ray Shumacher said Friday. "We think thai salary in creases within the pay range established for each job clas sification should be continued as a means by which the ad ministrators can reward meri torious efforts of employees," the county assessor said. "The county paid good money to conduct a job sur vey in 1958, but never carried through on the merit pay in crease schedule established," he said. Employees with comparative ly short terms of service and in lower positions received increases under the plan, but those with several years In county service and in super visory positions did not, coun ty officials said. The 1958 survey report rec ommends that, "seniority and meritorious performance be considered as a unit should increases be applied." Surveys Own Department Surveying his own depart ment, Schumacher pointed out that property appraiser I could receive a lop pay of $429 a month, according to the rceommonded scale. How ever, property appraiser II under the county budget com mittee's recommendation was not shifted Into the next sal ary range but held on the same level as property ap praiser I. Under the recommended scale, properly appraiser II would he in the $429 to $449 salary range, and placed on the appropriate step in this range according to experience and quality of work. Schumacher also pointed out that his supervisory class of appraisers can receive no more than $449 a month un der the current system. Top salary is $514 a month in the recommended range Schumacher said this dis crepancy between the recom t" 8Ty W Increase Officials mended ranges and actual practice Is serious In his de partment. He has lost two su pervisors so far this year to better paying Jobs, and is about to lose another to a government job paying a start ing annual pay of $8,500. The same man can make only $5, 388 in the assessor's office un der existing pay schedules, re gardless of experience and merit, the assessor said. "We're not seeking an over all ' increase in the salary ranges. We are merely seek ing permission to allow the increases that are merited un der this plan," Schumacher explained. Medford Attorney Plans Long Cruise Richard W. Courlright, a local attorney, is scheduled to leave here Tuesday morning by plane for Sausallto, Calif., prior to a three-month cruise In Latin America. At the port near San Fran cisco he will join a six-man crew of a 68 - foot schooner that is to accompany the schooner "Fairweather" on its much - publicized ten year voyage as far us Panama They will leave March 15. Courlright said Saturday that he expected to visit points of Interest In Mexico as well as places In the cen tral American countries. The crew's destination is Antigua in the British West Indies. Although not on any lime schedule, the Medford lawyer expected to be gone about three months. He Is associated with the law firm of Day and Courtrlght, Medford. He hopes to record much of the trip on film. Sports Bulletin Oregon 63, OSC 57 Wash.' 79. WSU 6S American-Born Soldier Asks for Speedy Death Havana - d!PD - American- born Major William A. Mor gan. 34-year-old soldier of for tune who once was hailed as hero of the Castro revolu tion, last night was executed by a firing squad on charges of betraying the bearded pre mier. Morgan, who helped Fidel Castro's rebel army to victory nd then foil out of favor, had sked to die immediately after learning earlier last night that the automatic appeal from his death sentence had been re jected. Executions normally are held at dawn. In apparent re sponse to his wish for a peedy death, Morgan, of To ledo, Ohio, was shot shortly after 10 p.m. (est). He strode calmly to a flood lighted wall at grim La Ca bana prison fortress. Noises Merge The noise of merrymakers celebrating Cuba's carnival drifted across the fortress Congolese Chiefs Merge Territories Info Loose Union Tananarive, Malagasy Re public - IUP1I - Rival Congolese leaders last night announced agreement at a Congo summit conference here to organize! their strife-torn nation into a loose union of virtually inde- pendent slates with Leopold- ville as capital The proposed name of the Congo was: "Confederation of Central African States." The proposal was virtually certain to be rejected by the man who wasn't here - Soviet- backed Antoine Gizenga, who set up a rival Congo govern ment in Stanleyville, Oriental Province, on the death of ex- Premier Patrice Lumumba, Kasavubu Announces Congo President Joseph Kasavubu of The Congo and President Moise Tshombe of The Congo's secessionist Ka tanga Province announced their agreement for a confed eration at the close of their summit parley, which Gizen ga boycotted. Under the agreement Kasa vubu would remain as titular president of the new federa tion of The Congo. Kasavubu and Tshombe, who always has demanded in dependence for mineral-rich Katanga, jointly said there was agreement on the politi cal structure of the future Congo government. Presumably, Albert Kalon- jl, the Baluba tribal leader who set up his "independent mining state" In South Kasal Province agreed. Confederation Tshombe said the new name for The Congo will be the Confederation of Central African States. But Kasavubu and his pre mier, Joseph Ileo, said no for mal decision had been reach ed on a name at the week long conference. It appeared the Congolese were having trouble deciding whether to call it a confeder ation or - another Tshombe suggestion - a "community." "Here, Little Boy, Pull The Nice Horsie In With You" walls and merged with tha volley of the firing squad that ended Morgan's life. Major Jesus Carrera, Mor gan's former military aide, went to the wall with tha former American who for feited his U.S. citizenship by fighting in the Castro revolu tion. In a last gesture to the one time rebel hero, prison author ities permitted Morgan to sea his infant children. They wero brought to his death cell by Coralia Rodriguez, his Cuban sister-in-law. Morgan also was allowed to have confessions with two American priests. Held Prisoner The executions were car ried out in grim La Cabana Fortress prison where Morgan, had been held a prisoner sinco his arrest last October on charges of helping Castro's enemies. Morgan was the fourth American to die before a Cas tro firing squad since last Sep tember. Morgan and Carrera, com panions in arms during the revolution, faced the firing squad with the same calm that characterized Morgan's behavoir throughout his trial last Thursday and Friday. Morgan had asked to talk with Castro before going to his death but the Cuban lead er was a scheduled guest at a reception given by the Chi nese Communist embassy here. I Asks Phone Call He also made requests to be permitted to talk with his mother in Toledo by long dis tance phone and with his pret ty Cuban wife, Olga, by phone. She Is a political ref ugea In the Brazilian embassy here. But these requests apparent ly were not granted. : Other prisoners In the fort ress broke out into applause and cheers as the former hero of the revolution walked past their cells to the firing squad. The military court in grim La Cabana fortress Friday night found Morgan guilty of helping rebels in the Escam- bray mountains. He maintain ed his innocence. Revoked Cltiionshlp The U.S. government, which revoked Morgan's citizenship for fighting In a foreign army and which has broken rela tions with Cuba, sent to Swiss Ambassador Gaston Jacquard n appeal from Morgan 3 mother In Toledo. It was ig nored. Morgan had been a hero in 1959 when he served as a double agent for Castro and tricked anti-Castro rebels from the Dominican Republic Into landing at Trinidad in central Cuba with a plane load of men and arms. Morgan fought with the Castro army and earned the rank of major. Ho frequently was seen strutting through Havana with his pretly Cuban wife. He lived in a plush sub urb and opened a frog farm In the outskirts of the city. He lived well. But he began to criticize communists in tha government. At his trial he said he was loyal to the Castro revolution regardless of what happened. 'They can only shoot ma once, ne saia.