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Newspaper Page Textm ul Ml'- IS Recession May Be at Bottom, Reports Hint 375,000 Drop in Non-Farm Jobs Washington - NPD-The na ' lion's job picture grew worse in February but there are some signs that the recession may have hit bottom, the La bor Department reported today. The Department reported a drop of 375,000 in the number of workers on non-farm pay rolls last month, about triple the usual decline. Non-Farm Total Down The non-farm job total fell to 51,329,000 with 70 per cent of the decrease in the hard- hit steel, auto and machinery industries. Labor Secretary Arthur J. Goldberg announced last Tuesday that total unemploy ment climbed 320,000 in Febr uary to 5,705,000, a post-war high. He said employment rose 203,000 to 64,655,000, a peak for any February. Seymour E. Wolbein, La bor Department manpower expert, noted these indications of a possible upturn: -Factory work week. The average hours worked by a factory hand held steady at 38.8 a week in February, about the same as the Novem ber figure and one hour short er than a year ago. -Steel. The decline in jobs in primary metals industries was not sizable for the first time in many months. Em ployment at these industries dropped by 3,900. -Part time work. About 1.7 million workers were working part time because of the busi ness slump unchanged from January. : -Jobless benefits. Wolbein recalled that there was a "tiny" drop of 13,500 in the number of workers receiving unemployment benefits for the week ended Feb. 25, the first decline since October. But 3,408,000 persons, or 2.4 per cent of the workers cov ered by jobless insurance, were idle. ; ; ,. , ,, , , $45,715 Damages Awarded by Jury A Jackson county circuit court jury late Monday awarded a Central Point man $45,715 for damages received in an accident during Octo ber, 1957, at White City. Plaintiff in the case was Tom Bogenoff, Perry rd., Cen tral Point. The complaint was filed against the Carolina-Pacific Plywood corporation and the White City Terminal and Utility company. Prior to the start of the trial an out-of-court settlement for $22,000 was made by the White City company, it was stated. This amount was included in the total damages awarded by the jury. Extensive medical t e s t i mony was given during the six day trial. Three witnesses for the defense included Dr. Burton Adams, Oakland, Dr. Grant Lavin and Dr. Ber nard Diamond, San Francis co and Stanford university. Dr. James Luce, Medford, was among the plaintiff's wit nesses. Others who testified were employees of both the plywood and terminal com panies. According to testimony Bo genoff, a brakeman for the White City firm, was on a rail road car brake platform when he was struck on the head by an overhanging canopy ex tending from the Carolina Pacific building. Attorneys for the plaintiff were Bernard Kelly, Medford, and M. H. Messner, Yreka, Calif. Representing the de fense were Hugh Collins and James Redden. Petitions Protest Proposed Gospel Mission to Esquire Petitions are being drcu lated today protesting a pro posed move by the Medford Gospel Mission from South Front st. to the Esquire the ater building on East Main st. The Gospel Mission, which was opened by a group of local businessmen, serves as a lodging and eating place for transient persons. The petition notes: "While in sympathy with the general purposes of the Gospel Mis sion, we believe that it should not be established in an area directly involving the recre ational and business interests of the community." The principal objection to moving the Mission to the Esquire theater site is its proximity to Hawthorne park, "with its children's plav- Rogue Valley Edition Medford 16 Pages Minority Report on Water Pollution Rejected by 17 to 14 Vote in Senate Additional Power For SSA To Be Considered Later Sen. Straub Urges Minority Approval Salem (UPD The Oregon Senate by a vote of 17-13 to day rejected a minority re port that Sen. Walter J. Pear son said would give the State Sanitary Authority a "blank check" to force cities and in dustries to cease water pol lution. This left for consideration later in the day a majority re port which would give the SSA some additional powers but not as much as the agency would like to have. The reports came out of the Senate Local Government Committee. Adoption Urged Sen. Robert Straub (D-Eu-gene) urged adoption of the minority report which he said is necessary if Oregon is go ing to clean up her rivers. Pearson, a Portland Demo crat, said the minority report would have allowed the SSA to come into a city or indus try, change standards over night, and force a city or in dustry lo make costly changes they couldn't afford. He declared that we "should go very slow in giving any public body such authority, because after you give it to them, you can't take it away." Effective Curb Seen He favors the majority re port which says the authority can proceed with abatement orders if the changes were technically practicable and economically feasible." Straub said this would ef fectively curb" abatement. The language, offered by As sociated Oregon Industries, would allow industries to in definitely tie up SSA orders in court, Straub said. The Senate recessed until 3 p.m. but not Deiore voting delays in consideration of a number of other important bills. Troops Airlifted To Troubled Congo Leopoldville, The Congo - (UPD - The U.S. Air Force start ed a massive airlift of 3,000 Indian combat troops today to reinforce United Nations forces and to help restore or der in the Congo where tribes men have inflicted "indes cribable h u m i 1 i a tion" on priests and nuns and raped an American girl missionary. The airlift started when the first group of 280 combat ready Gurkha warriors left New Delhi aboard U.S. C124 Globemaster planes this morn ing. U.N. sources said they are due here at 6 p.m. (pst) Wednesday. U.N. officials said the air lift will ignore Congolese gov ernment protests. NAME CHANGE PASSES Salem - (UPD - The Oregon House today passed and sent to the Senate a bill to change the name of Mid-Columbia home a The Dalles to Colum bia State Park Hospital. ground and swimming pool." Because many children use the adjacent Bear creek bridge to and from the park, the petitioners "believe it detrimental to the best inter ests of Medford that our chil dren be obliged, even occas ionally, to travel in the vi cinity of a transient center which is frequently used by itinerant persons whose back ground is wholly unknown to the persons operating the mis sion, and whose possible ac tivities could be exceedingly harmful to the children of this community." Petitioners also feel that use of the Esquire theater building by the Mission would tend to discourage family use of Hawthorne park. "A further obieclioa it MEDFORD, ADDRESSES GATHERING President Kennedy is shown as he addressed 250 members of me Latin American Dip lomatic Corps and key members of Congress in the East Room of the White House. From left,, front row, they are Dr. Celeo Davila, ambassador of Honduras; Mrs. Lyndon EP School Budget Approved By District Group Eagle Point - A proposed budget for the Eagle Point school district totalling $833, 605.72 for the fiscal year 1961 62, was adopted recently by the district budget committee. The budget for all funds is $69,115.15 higher than for the 1960-61 fiscal year. The amount school district voters will vote on, which will be outside the six per cent limi tation, will be approximately $8,800 less than for the pres ent fiscal year budget. The amount for 1961-62 to be voted on is $369,320.42. A public hearing on the pro posed budget will be held April 3 in the Eagle Point High school library. The proposed total budget includes $722,608 in the gen eral fund; $55,393.75 in the bond interest and redemption; $44,938, school lunch fund, and $10,665.97, construction fund. Tax Levy The tax levy may decrease if state basic school support and county school funds are increased, according lo Glenn D. Hale, superintendent. The proposed budget's gen eral fund is approximately $75,000 higher than last year, Hale said. The increase is due to the addition of four new teachers, the adjustment of salary schedule, an increase in the amount for textbooks, and the addition of a curricu lum improvement fund. The transportation fund is higher due to the addition of a new bus and its driver's salary. Although plant main tenance is expected to be ap proximately $7,000 higher, capital outlay decreases by $14,000 as the purchase of buses was included in this category last year. Boston -IUPD- Mrs. Eunice Schriver, 38, sister of Presi dent Kennedy, underwent an appendectomy at St. Elizabeth Hospital today. Move By Theater based on the fact that the establishment of this mission in this location will tend to downgrade all property values within several blocks . . . as well as a main thor oughfare of Medford, which should be upgraded." The petitioners also ask I "that the mission be reestab lished in an area more suit able to its basic purpose of providing shelter and care for unfortunate transient persons who may come to our com munity, and one which is more practicable than the Esquire theater site." The petitions arc expected to be submitted to the direct ors of the Medford Gospel Mission at a meeting Thurs day night at the Girls Com muniU club. OREGON, TUESDAY, MARCH 14, 1961 Department Heads Seek Control Over Merit Pay Increases The Jackson county budget committee tangled with one ', of its toughest problems yes terday afternoon during its iirst session, Possible upward revision of employee salary scales will be considered, the budget committee told department heads during a meeting in the county court room. Some revision should be made in keeping with the in creased costs of living since the civil service merit pay scale plan became effective in 1958, a majority of the committee agreed. However, the department heads, repre sented by District Attorney Alan Holmes, received no in dication they would get what they wanted most control over merit pay -increases. Whether or not an employee would receive a merit pay in crease would be decided by department heads, according to the proposal. Less Receipts Budget Committee Member Gordon Hudson said predic tions are that the county will receive 15 per cent less re ceipts during the new fiscal year. Why shouldn't this cut be applied to county salaries, too, he wondered. County Treasurer Karl Ja- nouch replied that the $890, 000 payroll is only a small percentage of the $4V$ million total estimated budget. "You can't apply the same percent age decrease to salaries as you would the overall budg et," he pointed out. Holmes said department heads ask that the salary rang es be increased one step, but that the six-step plan be kept. This would mean a $16 in crease lo eligible employees under the merit and seniority plan, it was explained. Actually, only 179 of the employees coming under the merit service plan are listed as employees in the county budget. Approximately 141 employees of the road depart ment are not listed in salary ranges in the budget. These employees, on a hourly wage basis, are lumped together under categories of bridge and road maintenance. Increase From Interest The county treasurer point ed out this morning that the 4'2 per cent Increase in sal aries requested could be cov- crcd easily by the Interest on WEATHER FOIIKTAST: Shnwery and fool er tonight ind Wedneidav. Low (nnlrlit IS to II. Illth Wednei dy 55. Temp. Hlrhett Yeiterrfav RO Lowell thlt Mornlnc 44 Preetp. To 10 a.m. Today 05 Our Skies Tonight Sunaet todav :17 p.m. Htinrlte tomorrow 0:24 a.m. Monnrhe tomorrow ... 5:32 a.m. New Moon Marrh 10 PROMINENT CONSTKt.l.ATION Orion, In the inulh at innet, will be In the outhwet 013p.m. It hrlthteit itart are Iletelieute and Rlt el; Beteigeute la high above Rlgel. Tribune B. Johnson, Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson; Amassador Antonio Carrillo of Mexico; Dr. Guillermo Sevilla-Sacasa, ambassador of Nicaragua; Mrs. Kennedy, Fernando Bercke meyer, ambassador of Peru; Mrs. Berckemeyer; Manual G. Escalante, ambassador of Costa Rica, and Mrs. Escalante. (UPI Telephoto) county fund deposits. "We are not asking for re classification of all jobs,' Holmes said. "We merely want to raise the salary rang es one step higher. And we want to be able to tell new employees that if they work diligently they will receive certain merit raises. Now, de pending on the budget com mittee's action, department heads never know whether they can grant merited in creases." County Commissioner Ches ter Wendt said the civil ser vice plan was established so that salaries of people throughout the courthouse do ing the same type of work would be on the same general salary level. "It was merely to equalize salaries," he said. Boeing Meeting Scheduled Friday Salem-IUPD-An Oregon leg islative delegation will meet with Boeing Airplane Co. of ficials in Seattle Friday in stead of Wednesday to discuss the company's plans for de veloping Boardman Space Age Industrial Park. The company has asked to negotiate an 80 year lease for the 100,000 acre sagebrush tract. Gov. Mark Hatfield has requested the legislature to appropriate $900,000 to ac quire the property. Purpose of the trip is lo obtain first hand information on Boeing's plans for the tract, considered ideal for static mis sile and rocket testing. The trip originally was set for Wednesday, but a heavy Senate calendar caused the postponement. Gusts Do Damage In Ashland Today Ashland-Gusts of wind up to 40 miles per hour, whip ping through Ashland this morning caused a 30-minulc power outage and toppled part of the marquee of the Mark Antony hotel. A power line was ripped down on the corner of First and East Main sts. shortly aft er 10 a.m. Most of the city's electricity was off for about half an hour. Service was re stored at 10:35 a.m. Williams Warns on Road Program Delay Salem -HOT- State Highway Engineer W. C. Williams said today there should be no de lays In completion of the in terstate highway program. Williams said the $900 mil lion a year asked by the ad ministration was needed to slay on schedule and get the system completed by 1972. If it Isn t, he said, traffic condi Hons in Oregon will be "al most latoUrabla'' Uy then. 55th Year Price 10 Cents No. 307 Sheriffs Budget Slightly Lower; Asks For Raises Sheriff Joe Walsh pointed to a slightly lower overall budget -$199,390 -but asked for salary range increases for his deputies. He appeared be fore the county budget com mittee Monday afternoon. Walsh asked for re-evalua tion of his salary ranges to be more competitive with other police agencies. Under his proposal his top patrolman would be $70 a month under the top private in the Oregon state police, if state police get their requested pay range in creases. Maximum pay for deputies' lower pay range would be $469, under Walsh's proposal. Sheriff's deputies would also be slightly under the pay ranges for Medford policemen, Walsh explained. You have to offer these men Incentives. They face several problems which the ordinary jobholder does not have," Walsh said. "I tell each deputy why or why not merit increases are being given. If I tell a man he deserves a raise and he doesn't get one, you can imagine the effect upon morale," the sheriff ex plained. The sheriff is reauestina merit increases for his chief criminal deputy from $449 to lo $514 a month, for his chief civil deputy from $409 to $491 month, and for his chief in vestigator $390 lo $469. All sheriffs departments show decreases in their re quested totals except the county jail. The tax depart ment has dropped from $30, 447 to $29,075, civil depart ment from $18,422 to $16,864, and criminal division from $100,273 lo $101,820. The jail budget request has increased from $45,103 to $52,171. Chief increase In the jail budget request is due to the requested evaluation of the chief jailer's salary. The in crease would be from $4,680 year to $5,892. Walsh ex plained thai formerly the jailer and his wife lived in the courthouse so board and room was included as part of the salary. That is not now true, he said. The chief jailer is there only during working hours. Walsh also asked for an addition of a matron at $3,0116 a year to help handle the rising Jail population. Walsh said the decrease in his overall budget is possible through using county owned cars. During a year's time this has meant big decreases in car allowance and travel ex penses, he said. TREATY APPROVED Washington -(UPD- The Sen ate Foreign Relations Commit tee has approved without op position a treaty with Canoda for cooperative development ot water resources In the Co lumbia River basin. Portland - d'PD - Thomas A. Lcupp, 38, muyor of Nam- pa, Idaho, Monday was nam cd president of Cascade Col- leg tier. ) Kennedy Requests $600 Million To Battle Poverty Sum Said Needed To Curb Communism Washington -IUP1I- President Kennedy asked Congress to day for $600 million to fight poverty in Latin America and meet "a grave and imminent danger" of underprivileged peoples turning to Commu nism. The President urged the legislators in a special mes sage to appropriate immedi ately the $500 million in gen eral assistance and $100 mil lion for earthquake relief in Chile they authorized lust year. He stressed the urgency of his request and said the funds would be committed as quick ly as possible to put into oper ation a bold, 10-ycar program for raising the living stand ards of the Latin American nations. But in an apparent effort to head off any charges he was proposing "blank check" aid, Highlights of Presi dent Kennedy's Latin American a i d pro gram appear on page 2. Kennedy promised that no funds would be allocated un til there are assurances that each recipient nation will live up to the principles of self-help and domestic re form. Cites Red Threat If we are unwilling to commit our resources and en ergy to the task of social progress and economic devel opment he said, "then we face a grave and imminent danger that desperate peoples win turn to Communism or other forms of tyranny as their only hope for change." Kennedy declared that "La tin America is seething with discontent and unrest, and added: "We must act to re lieve large-scale distress im mediately if free institutions are to be given a chance to work out long-term solutions." The Chief Executive noted that the program was being initiated under the Act of Bo gota, the agreement reached last year by the American na tions to join in a massive co operative effort to strengthen democracy through economic development and social pro gress. Fight Against Poverty Asserting that "such a pro gram is long overdue," the President said that throughout Latin American millions of people "are struggling to free themselves from the bonds of poverty and hunger and ig norance." He cited the cold statistics of an area with the world's fastest growing population, where the average per capita product is only $280 one ninth of that of the United States, the life expectancy is 46 years compared to 70 in this country, illiteracy ex tends to almost half of the adults, and 80 per cent of one country's population "is hous ed in makeshift shacks and barracks." Kennedy said that the en tire amount he was requesting would be devoted to social progress In the Latin Ameri can countries-improving land usage, constructing housing, providing education and for other programs to wipe out poverty. Includes Loan Program Of the $500 million author ized for general aid, Kennedy said, $394 million would be assigned lo the Inler-Amerl-ean Development Bank to provide low-Interest loans for improving land use, housing, water supply and sanitation and similar projects. Another $100 million would be administered by the Inter national Cooperation Admin istration and applied, mainly on a grant basis, for educa tion and training, public health, and governmental eco nomic and social services. The remaining $6 million would be used to help strengthen the Organization of American Slates, and allow it to work with other Inter American agencies on studies and conferences dealing with such matters as lax reform, land use, and educational modernization. Mather Jet Bomber Crashes Near Yuba City Yuba City, Calif. -rupD- A B52 jet bomber from Mather Air Force Base crashed today about 15 miles southwest of here. Officers at Beale Air Force Base near here did not dis close If the bomber was carry ing nuclear weapons, but they ordered an ordnance disposal team to the scene as a pre iaMt innflry DiAuuce. J Congress Gets Highway Bill From President Washington-IUPD-Presldent Kennedy sent to Congress to day a detailed bill to put into action a $40 billion, 41,000 mile super highway program which he wants completed by 1972. The bill, sent to Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson and Speaker Sam Rayburn, embraced the recommendations Ken nedy outlined in an earlier message to Congress. Emphasizing his desire for speedy action on the pay-as-you-go program, Kennedy, in a letter of transmittal, said he was convinced that "stretching out or cutting back our highway program would be unwise." Stage Set for Floor Fight on Reapportionment Salem - (UPD - The stage Is set for the Oregon legisla ture's first floor battle over the tug-of-war known as legis lative reapportionment - re shuffling of state senators and representatives. The House Elections com mittee Monday afternoon voted out "do pass" a Republi can - backed plan that makes only a few changes over the present set-up. The vote was 6-3 with Reps. Phil Lang and Ed Whelan ID Portland) and William Holm strom (D-Genrhart) dissenting. Floor action is expected late in the week. Democrats from populous areas in Western Oregon geared to kill the measure. House Elections Chairman George Annala (D Hood River) and House GOP Leader F. F. Montgomery (R- fcugenc) predicted passage. Slight Difference HB1665, a committee bill, is only slightly different from the House Republican "pre ferred plan." Eastern Oregon, despite a slower population gain would not be greatly disturbed. An nala would lose his own seat in Hood River county. In the House, 10 counties would be involved. They are Hood Klver, Wasco, Sherman, Gilliam, Morrow, Wheeler, Yamhill, Washington-Clackamas and Multnomah. Multnomah and Clackamas would get a representative, elected on a bi-county basis. Only six counties would be affected in the Senate - Co lumbia, Clatsop, Tillamook, Washington, Polk and Lin coln. Washington county would get one more senator, at the expense of Polk. Polk-Lincoln Join . Polk would go in with Lin coln for one seat. A new dis trict would be formed by Washington and Tillamook counties. Multnomah and Lane coun ties have demanded additional scats because of Increased population. Lang ht a reapportionment bill that would grant areas such as Multnomah and Lane more scats. Haupert Tractor Company Ransacked Burglars broke into the Haupert Tractor company, 3610 North Pacific highway, late last night or early this morning, but apparently took nothing, according to Medford police. Police said the burglar or burglars ransacked four desks, a filing cabinet and a vending machine, but were unrewarded in their efforts. A safe had been moved about two feet, police said, but it was otherwise undamaged. Entry to the building was made by forcing open a side door. "What's This Talk About Fireside Chats?" It would be particularly unfortunate today, when our economy needs the growth, our people need the safety, and our national defense needs the security that this program helps provide," Kennedy said. Essentially the 10-year pro gram would involve continu ance of the federal gasolino tax at four cents a gallon be yond June 30 this year. With out specific congressional ac tion one cent of this tax will expire at the end of this fiscal year. In Serious Trouble Earlier Treasury Secretary Douglas Dillon told the House Ways and Means Committee that the federal highway pro gram is in serious trouble. He said considerably mora money than originally antici pated must be raised to pay for interstate super highways if the system is to be com pleted in 1972. Joining Dillon in the plea for more money was Com merce Secretary Luther H. Hodges, who warned that fu ture highway allocations to the states "definitely" would have to be cut unless Congress acts. Mayor Is Delegate To World Session Mayor John W. Snider to day accepted an appointment to be an official U.S. delegate to the World Conference ot Local Governments to be held in Washington, D.C., during June. Mayors and representatives from cities throughout : tha free world are expected to at tend the conference which will take place in the new State Department Internation al Conference rooms in Wash ington. The appointment of Med- ford's mayor was made by Don Hummel, mayor of Tuc son, Ariz., and president of the American Municipal as sociation (AMA). The conference is being sponsored by the Internation al Union of Local Authorities, in cooperation with the AMA, the International City Mana gers association and the U.S. Conference of Mayors. It starts June 14 and continues through June 20. The purpose of the confer ence will be to make world wide comparisons of local government structure and or ganization. This will include comparisons of the function, activities and role of the coun cil; the chief executive: and execution of policy, and inter nal organization for munici pal administration. Bill To Change Name Of Coast Highway Salem -flJPD- A bill was in troduced in the Oregon Sen ate today that would change the name of the Oregon Coast Highway to "Pacific Interna tional Scenic Route. The U. S. 101 measure, SB515, was introduced by Sen. Andrew Naterlln(D-New port). It