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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
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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.
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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