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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
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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.
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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.