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55th Year Price 10 Cents Subscribers EDFORD To report Improper or non delivery ot the, Mail Tribune in Med ford and Ashland, phone SP 2-6141 be tore (1:43 p.m. daily and 10:30 a.m. Sunday. If regular delivery arrives shortly after you call, please notify office, thus eliminating special messenger service. United Press International Full Leased Wire United Press International Full Leased Wire 64 Pages Section A MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, MARCH 19, 1961 No. 311 Recommended Kaele Point hai exprrienred f0W",..I",pul,tl011 roih since 1840. .Mayor Ed Puiman forj. casts a hrlsht future (or the city. However, two outside In fluences may have an important effect on this future. Read the tagle Point story on page I A of todays Mall Tribune. TWLAXT M Board Postpones Decision To Move Gospel Mission . Action Follows Public Meeting The general board of the Medford Gospel Mission has agreed to postpone a decision on moving the mission into the Esquire theater building on East Main st. from its present location on Soutli Front st. The decision followed a public meeting Thursday night in the Girls Community club with approximately 275 people from every church and community in Jackson county represented. Holder D. Christenson, chairman of the Jackson coun ty public welfare commission, and Robert Taylor, Medford Chamber of Commerce presi dent earlier had asked the mission's executive board to postpone the decision to allow an adequate investigation of the facts. The two men offer ed to help find the mission a suitable home and aid in pur chasing a new location. Please All Clarence Wilson, executive board president, told a citi zens' group that the general board meeting was to decide on the purchase of the Es quire theater building. He said he would do his best to work out the problem to please all the community's citizens if at all possible. Last week petitions were circulated protesting the pro posed move by the mission. The mission Is operated by a grnuD of businessmen 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." Endangers Children Petitioners feel that use of the theater building as a tran sient center "by persons of unknown back grounds" en dangered children using the Bear creek bridge to and from Hawthorne park. They also feel that use of the theater building by the Mission would tend to discourage family use of the park. And it would lower property values within several blocks of the Mission's proposed new location, it was explained. During the general board meeting various speakers pointed out that during its two years of existence the Mission had worked closely with and had been highly commended by Camp White domiciliary officials, by pa role officers, the welfare com mission, the Rod Cross, Sal vation Army, Police depart ment and the Jackson county sheriff's office. A total of 15,994 men had been helped by the mission, 37,012 meals were served, and the mission has provided beds for 12.384 men. The Mission has been praised by national officers of the Union of Gos pel Missions and mission su perintendents from practical ly every major city on the west coast, a speaker said. Cleaned Up Front street has been clean ed up considerably since the Mission was founded there and required police patrol has been cut from four to one man. Location of the mission in the Esquire theater build ing would be an asset rather than a liability to the area, proponents said. The executive board presi dent commended the citizens' committee for its apparent concern for the mission and said a solution could be work cd out to satisfy all parties. A motion to delay decision on purchase of the property for a "reasonable period of time to allow the executive board to work with the citi zens committee in seeking and chossing a suitable new home for the mission, was unanl mously passed by the general board. W FATHER fOnrr.T: Cnrnlflfrtht elond lnei toriav, rhanr of a little rain tnnicht. I'.irllv cloudy Mnn dav Hieh torl.iv fi to S5. Low tonic ht 35. Mich Monday S to 60. Temp. HUhut Yesterday 61 Preclp. To 5 p m. Yesterday ...0 Our Skies Tonight iinef today :21 p.m. Sunii tomorrow S:1S a.m. Moonft tnnihl 9:57 p.m. Ml planet, Inrludlns the F.arth. movp eastward around the Sun. At Unir a combination of the niovrnifiiu of the Farth and one of irte other planol ramet the latter t ""em to move west ward imnnc the stars. Tonltht this I happ'nlnt; to Venus. Construction Set For New Catholic High School Here Construction is expected to I start about May 1 on a new $350,000 St- Mary's High school on Black Oak dr. south of Barnett rd., the school's building committee has an nounced. The initial unit of the school plant, which is expect ed to cost about $190,000, will be ready for classes next Sep tember, the committee said. res In New Weather Reporting System Washington - IUPII - Rep. Al Ullman (D-Ore.) said Friday the U. S. Weather Bureau has drawn up a plan for an ex panded statewide weather re porting system for Oregon. He said it would be one of the most modern in the coun try. Ullman said the plan had been prepared at his request because of complaints that weather reporting in Oregon, particularly in the Klamath Falls area, was inadequate. The plan, which would add about $125,000 a year to weather bureau costs in Ore gon, was drawn up as an al ternative to establishing a full time weather bureau at Klamath Falls. Weather reports would be sent out on a statewide tele type system available to news papers, radio stations and oth ers on a nominal rental basis, Ullman said. The system also would In clude a 24-hour "hot line" tel ephone circuit between the Medford weather station and a one-man facility to be estab lished at Klamath Fals. The Medford station thus would take over weather briefing of pilots during the periods when the man assigned to the Klam ath Falls facility was not working. Military weather informa tion from Kingsley Air Force Base, near Klamath Falls, would be supplied to the one man facility for dissemina tion. The proposal calls for the assignment of seven additional employes to weather stations in Oregon. Of these, three would be assigned to Portland, two to Corvallis, one to Med ford, and one to the Klamath Falls facility. Hal Gardner Wins JCC Service Award Hal Gardner, who served as head of the 1960 United Med ford Crusade, Friday night won the Distinguished Service award sponsored by the Med ford Junior Chamber of Com merce. He was one of eight young businessmen nominated for the honor. Gardner is an employee of the California-Oregon Power company. Others nominated were Terry D. Green, Donald W. Sweeney, William McKib ben. Jay D. Pierce, Douglas P. Philips, John Keener and John L. Hall. Gardner received the DSA placque and certificate at banquet in the Tower Broiler. Del Landing served as mas ter of ceremonies and Wallace Williams was In charge of the Jaycee DSA project. Johnnie Linn, public rela tions representative with ra dio station KDOV, was main speaker during the short ban quet program. Attorney General Leads Art Lovers Into Museum, Breaking Long Boycott Morion, Pa. - (liPli - A cru sading state attorney general led a band of art lovers into the Barnes Foundation Mu seum Saturday to break a 38- year boycott against public the no-public verdict in a pro attendance ordered by the! longed legal battle, was the founder in revenge against bad critical reviews The collection of 1.000 paintings gathered by the late Dr. Albert C. Barnes, a Philadelphia chemist who made millions with argvrol antisentic. is one of the mosti renowned yet most secluded art students, who have been I can moderns and African The Leopardrnen arc bcllov in the western world. j among the few select persons : primitives. j ed to have cannibalistic traits The collection opened for!allowrd to visit Ihe museum II is located on a 1 2-acrc j and to cat the hearts of slain all to view in 1922. but and library on passes special- tract In this Philadelphia sub-1 victims to gain strength. They Barnes quickly barred the'ily issued by the foundation's urb and. after yesterday's belong to one of the pagan public after his selections - trustees. .breakthrough, is expected top sects suppressed by the Bel- now valued at an estimated I The pickets claimed the! draw visitors from nil over gians and now reviving in the Bids for construction of eight general purpose class rooms, one science and two commercial classrooms, and administrative offices and library will be called soon. Construction will be by local contractors, the committee said Committee members said a multi-purpose unit with facil ities for speech and drama in struction, as well as indoor athletic events may be includ ed in the initial unit. The building will be locat ed on a 24-acre tract owned by St. Mary's, allowing space for expansion of the class room building, construction of a gymnasium and installa tion of facilities for all out door activities. The building, which will have about 23,000 square feet of floor space, is being design ed to allow additional class rooms at a minimum cost and the best possible utilization of the original plant- A new St. Mar y's High school had been planned for some time to help relieve crowded conditions in the building. Student enrollment this year at St. Mary's school is 757, with 579 in the elemen tary school grades and 178 in high school. Enrollment at St. Mar y's has doubled for the past two decades, and by 1968-69 the enrollment in the St. Mary's system is expected to be about 1,250 students. (See story on page 4B) Roseburg Police Chief Resigns Roseburg - IUPI) - City Po lice Chief V. F. Murdock Jr. has resigned beca'use he said he could not find the cause of a $475 shortage in funds handled by the police depart ment City officials said there was no definite proof of mis appropriation but planned an investigation. H. G. Maison, stale super intendent of state police, was asked to conduct the investi gation. "I am unable to discover the cause of the shortage," Murdock said, "and I feel my only recourse Is to resign at this time." City Atty. Paul Geddes said a neutral investigator was called in because officials felt it was improper for a city a g e nc y to investigate the shortage. According to Geddes, the shortage occurred between November, 1960, and March, 1961. Murdock has requested his resignation be effective April 1. He also requested he be given two weeks vacation coming to him until that time He has been relieved by De tective Bert Eaton of Rose burg. Portland Fisherman Drowns at Depoe Bay Depoe Bay-(UPD-A 34-year-old Portland man was swept into the ocean by a huge wave and drowned Saturday while fishing from the rocks about a half mile south of here. The victim was identified as Thomas Horatio Ochiltree, Jr. His body was not recover ed. San Francisco - (UPD Agents seized $150,000 worth of marijuana and heroin Fri day in smashing a suspected narcotics ring. critics of the time as "inde- scribablc curiosities." Pennsylvania State Altor- ney General Anne X. Alpcrn. who successfully challenged I first "public" visitor to enter the two-story French Renais- sance structure, Behind her was a small, hardy band of art lovers who j waited in shivering cold to gain admittance. They were picketed by 10; FIVE-HOUR MEETING Secretary of State Dean Rusk, and U. N. Ambassador Adlai Stevenson posed for photo graphers with Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko, Algerian Rebels To Make Plans For Peace Talks Paris - (UPD - France and Al gerian rebel leaders Saturday agreed to have representatives meet in Switzerland next week to make final plans for formal peace talks. Both sides expected the talks to be long and tough, sources said. The emissaries probably will meet al Geneva Wednes day to set the time and place for the meeting and arrange security for the negotiators, the sources said. The fu'rmal peace talks have been planned to end the six year North African conflict and to make Algeria an inde pendent republic. They were expected to start Marcn z or 28 near Evian, a French resort on the Lake of Geneva which forms the Swiss-French bor der. ' ; French officials predicted the talks m.i g h t last for months. They said a planned referendum-in which the peo ples of Algeria vote on their future-may not be held until as late as next spring. Auto Crash Claims Grants Pass Man Grants Pass-fllPD-Edward W. Henson, 43, Grants Pass, was killed in a two-car, head-on collision one "nile north of here on U. S. Highway 09 Saturday. Henson was dead at the scene of the accident. His car burned after the crash, but passing motorists removed the body before it was burned. The driver of the second car, Theima Monla, Grants Pass, was taken to a Medford hospital with serious injuries. Henson was the third Ore gon person to die in the slate this weekend as a result of traffic accidents as of Satur day night. The other victims were, Ma jor William Rarey, 69, of Prineville and Curtis G. Hi att, 19, of La Grande early Saturday. Hiatt was killed in a one-car accident on highway 30 in La Grande and Itarey died in a Prineville hospital from Inju ries received in a one-vehicle accident Friday night. public "was destroying educational facility and our not building our culture." I Aflcr.three unsuccessful ! taxpayer's suits, the trustees finally agreed in an out-of-court settlement with Miss Alpern to open Ihe museum on a highly limited basis - to j a maximum 201) persons lor a maximum two days a week The gallery included an un rivaled selection of French moderns and also features a wealth of old masters, Ameri - U.S. Demands Russia Cease Laos Washington-(UPD-The United States demanded Saturday that the Soviet Union stop airlifting war materials to the rebels in Laos lest it ignite war in southeast Asia. This was the highlight of a marathon conference between Secretary of State Dean Rusk and Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko. The two issued a joint state ment at the end of a five-hour meeting voicing hope their dis cussion would "lead to a bet ter mutual understanding of On Industry Park Salem - (UPD - Son. Wayne Morse warned Gov- Mark Hat field Friday night not to risk leasing Boardman industrial park in northeastern Oregon to Boeing Airplane company without assurances it would be a "job - producing and wealth-creating" transaction. At the same time, the Ore gon Democrat disclosed he has asked President Kennedy to consider Tongue Point Naval Base at Astoria "as a West Coast base for the peace corps." Morse said he considered "the odds are against us" for maintaining Togue Point as a naval station. Morse said that "there is doubt" about outright purchase of the 100, 000 acre Boardman site In Morrow instead of the land swap proposed by Hatfield. "I don't think that it's go ing to be expedited by the time your legislature ends un less you stay all summer," Morse said. The outright purchase has been advocated by Lake coun ty cattlemen, whoso land would be traded. Morse also cast a damper on the completion of the deal by saying there was "no basis" for believing land ap praisals would be completed by July. Morse spoke at a $5-a-plale dinner here. It was attended by an overflow crowd of some 400. Morse said he was "not pes slniistic" over keeping the Northwest regional post office headquarters in Portland- lie said this feeling followed talks with President Kennedy. Congo Leopardrnen Threaten All Whites Leopoldville, The Congo -tt'PIl - A strong U.N. patrol Saturday fanned out Into the Kivu province jungle to drive away a band nf "Leopardrnen" terrorizing the countryside with threats to kill all whites as enemies of their pagan re ligious sect. The fanatic tribesmen, wear- ing leopard skins around their heads, have been operating In the area of Kasnngo, where Lumumbist troops earlier beat priests and assaulted Belgian !nuns, prior to a Rusk-Gromyko meeting Saturday which lasted for more than five hours. im the positions and attitudes of both governments." Shortly after Gromyko left, Rusk called the British and French ambassadors to a con ference, presumably to brief them on what happened in the long meeting. A reliable source said Rusk and Gromyko "went around and around on their well known positions on Laos with out really getting anywhere." But the spokesman said both men spoke of the neces sity of finding a political set tlement before the small con flict in Laos exploded into war engulfing southeast Asia, or perhaps the world. Rusk, informed sources said, told Gromyko that if the Rus sians would end their med dling in Laos and persuade the comniunist-led rebels to work with the central govern ment in hammering out a for mula for neutrality and inde pendence, the United Stales would consider a mulli-nation conference favored by (he So viet Union to deal with the situation. Relay Views Gromyko, It was reported, promised Rusk he would re lay his views to Soviet Pre mier Nikita Khrushchev. He did not appear to have author ity to accept or reject Rusk s proposals. Gromyko was understood to have restated Russia's demand that the United Stales end its support of the royal Laotian government, which the Com munists claim is illegal, and agree to let a multi-nation con ference work out a political settlement. Before such a conference, the United States wants Rus sia to persuade Ihe rebels to agree on setting up a neutral three - nation commission to work out a truce' in the pro longed fighting. Duncan To Preside Over Demo Banquet House Speaker Robert B. Duncan will be master of ceremonies for the eleventh annual Roosevelt Memorial dinner at McLoughlin Junior high school Saturday eve ning, April 15, according to Henry Patlgham, general chairman for Ihe dinner. Sen. Frank F. Church, Ida ho, keynoter of the 1960 Democratic convention and a member of the Senate foreign relations committee will be guest speaker. Church is the youngest member of the U.S. Senate and is serving his sec ond term- He will fly to Med ford from Washington, D.C to attend the dinner. A meeting of committee chairmen for the dinner Is scheduled for B p.m. Tuesday at 000 West Fourth St., Med ford, Padgham announced. Reports from chairmen and plans for Ihe dinner will be reviewed and ticket sales checked, he said. GE Executive Resigns Over Price-Fixing Cleveland, Ohio -1'PII -George E. Burens, 55, one of three General F.electrlc Co. execu tives who served a Jail term on price-fixing charges, said Saturday he had resigned and would seek n new career ln unrelated Industries, (UPI Telephoto) Flaws in Space Shot May Delay U.S. Astronauts wasmngloiv-dlPll-A man-in- space capsule was fired aloft and violently separated from its rocket Saturday but there were performance flaws which may delay the forth coming attempt to launch an astronaut. Project Mercury Director Robert R. Gilruth said a man "apparently" could have sur vived tne night, which was designed to test tne escape mechanism' under the most rugged conditions possible. The capsule, which had been sceduled to carry a man fired late next month, was 35,000 feet up over the At lantic by a "Little Joe" rocket launched from the - civilian space agency s testing range at Wallops Island, Va. One hour and 11 minutes later, a Navy lug picked up the bell-shaped capsule 20 miles out at sea. It was dent ed and some of ' the . outer shingles were loose as a result of its violent separation and parachute descent into the water. The capsule was almost identical to the one which transported Ham the Chimp on his flight from Capo Can averal. It is similar to the one which will carry an astronaut on his down-range flight from the cape. Officials had planned to make the lest the final one before Ihe atlempl to send an slronaut on a non-orbital flight. However, the projects di rector, Gilruth, told a news conference that evidence of the flight would have to be studied before any decision is made on whether the mal functions will delay the first manned shot. President Kennedy has said that no man will be sent aloft until his survival is certain. Although the actual man ned flight Is scheduled for late In April, another test shot similar to yesterday s could push the manned flight over into late May. "Now, About Conflicts Of Interest r-Uh, Let's See, Where Was I? " JlL iiif Terr. r2Wr " ' KF Captures State basketball Crown n 68-64 Black Tornado Stages Winning Basket Made By DICK JEWETT Mail Tribune Sports Editor McArthur Court, University of Oregon, Eugene - A shot under the basket by Gary Palzke with five seconds to play gave Klamath Union High school a 66-64 victory Maii-Maii Style Terrorists Slay ites in Angola Llsbon-dlPD-Civilian vigil ante posses Saturday chased a horde of Mau-Mau style ter rorists who fled to dense for est near the Congo border after butchering whites and blacks with machetes and wiping out at least one white community in Portuguese An gola. , Dispatches from Luanda, gleaming white capital of the Portuguese territory on the Atlantic coast of Africa, said planeloads of wounded and homeless men, women and children were being flown in from the remote reaches of ii,. o.. ci- .i t, ;"urr;". B Do Zombo districts. Tr beret' casualties was not known In the 36 hour bloodletting that began' Wednesday at dawn in raids on farms along a 300-mlle arc near the Congo frontier. jjisoon press aispaicnes re- ported 28 whites slaughtered mi una uuii o.u... At least one town, Nambuan - Congo, was evacuaiea. The while community ol ln the fmal haU and the lead Mbridge, also bad (been tear- switched, hands three times, ed wiped out by the raiders Kamat was on top 49 to 48 wielding razor-sharp . jungle f th. ,h(w u.i. machetes, some-made awords, ' """ , But dispatche from the colony, relayed by the Poi-tu- euese Lusitania News Agency, said an air transport crew naa sighted Mbridge and lliatj whites and blacks were .walk- ing around in it, apparently unharmed. Tne news agency saiu uie raiders, accused of having foreign" backing by tne Portuguese government, had fled into a dense forest near the frontier of the chaotic Congo where local whites and loval Africans organized Into posses were harassing them. Utah Wins Regional NCAA Tournament Portland -(UP1I- Utah battled Into the semi-finals of the NCAA basketball tournament for the first time since It won the national title In 1944 by whipping Arizona State's fighting Sun Devils 88-80 last night. Bill (The Hill) McGlll, the towering Utah center, was the big difference. He scored 31 points, dominated the back boards and passed off beauti fully to his fast-breaking team mates. Earlier L o y o 1 a's Lions fought off a late Southern Cal ifornia rally to upset tha 'iro jans, 68-647, and win consola tion honors In the playoff. Thrille Stirring Comeback; With 5 Seconds Left over Medford and the Oregon Class A-l high school basket, ball championship here last night. Klamath Falls, the cham pion from District 6, defeated the number two team in the conference for the title. The victory came after Medford had staged a stirring come back. The Pelicans led 58 to 50 with 5:10 left to play. Medford caught up at 62-62 on a basket by Jim Barry with 2:33 left on the clock. But Kent Hunsaker put tha Pels back on top with 72 sec onds remaining. At the 57 second mark Medford's Bob Quinney tied it at 64-all with a jumper from the side. With 15 seconds remaining Dick Ragsdale of Medford and Patzke tied up the ball and Jumped it at the Medford circle. Patzke controlled the tip to Hunsaker, then slipped behind the Medford defense and took a pass from Hun saker for the winning points. Time Out Medford called time out with four seconds left. Quin ney missed a long shot from the left side at the buzzer. The Pelicans downed the defending champions and gained their third state title with the tnumt triumnh. Bruca $ had 11 and Wally Palmberg 10. For Medford Quinney had 21, Ragsdale 18 and Scott Eaton 15. v,..lk ij , , ,, the lrst quarter 14 to 10. Medford nulled ahead 2R to I 28 at the end oI the lirsl hali. Th- wa tled tlme. aranl Topl wi,,on Earlier In the evening. Grflnt defea(ed lta portland r,...h.,.. t... -. i wii.o s hi Medtord's Black Tornado paced Quinney and Ragsdale (he .ii.stat- t(,arn se. I lectcd by tournament coaches. Others on the quintet were Brickner of Klamath Falls, Jim Smith of Wilson and Jim Jarvis of Roseburg. Klamath's champions had two men on the six-man second team. They were Patzke and Palmberg. Rounding out the crew were Bo Blair of South Eugene, Ed Tollefson of Grant, Mike Brundage of Roseburg and Terry DcSylvia of David Douglas. Dog Fight The Pelicans in the title game were in front through most of the early going. Med ford caught up at 22-all and it was a dog fight the rest of the way, In the final period, Klam ath Falls forged ahead 55 to 48. Quinrfey got Medford's first points of the quarter with a driving layup, but Brickner connected from the circle and Palmberg got a free shot to open a 58 to 50 span. Rags dale, Quinney, Eaton and Bar ry spurred the comeback to tie the game again. Capitol Addition Liked by Hatfield Salem -(UPD- Sen. Walter J. Pearson (D-Portland) Saturday won Gov. Mark Hatfield's ap proval for a 4-story addition to the state capllol building1 that would make the building H-shapcd. Pearson said his proposal would be in lieu of the gover nor's plan for a smaller addi tion on the south side which would have made the capitol T-shaped. The building is now rectangular. The addition Pearson pro poses would provide space for legislators, including offices for them. He estimated cost at about $1 million and express ed hope that the addition . could be built prior to the 19B3 legislature. Pearson said the new bill, which Is being drafted, docs away with the need of his bill to kick the Secretary ot State and State Treasurer out of tho capitol building. The new ad dition would provide enough . room for everybody, he said. Pearson said the governor agreed to his proposal after the architect of the capitol building, Francis Keally, I okayed it. 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