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Newspaper Page TextNl ui MLB rare. ' ti safe 11, is TREES REMOVED A number of ever greens were removed from a traffic island between North Main and Glenn sts. on High way 99 in Ashland Monday. R. L. Lammert, state highway department district superin tendent, said the trees were removed at the request of Ashland residents, because the trees blocked the view of oncoming County Health Budget Approved By Committee The Jackson county budget committee yesterday after noon tentatively approved the health department's total bud get request of $105,100. It reserved the right to alter salary requests, however. The budget total of $105,000 is $3,880 more than last year's budget of $101,220. Most of the increase is due to request ed salary raises. Next meeting of the budget committee will be Monday, and will be an open session when any of the department heads may appear to give further statements. The bud get committee is expected then to evaluate budgets ex amined so far during hearings and start cutting down some items. Request Increases At yesterday's budget hear ing, Dr. A. Erin Merkel, pub lic health officer, urged in creases for the personnel, mainly the nurses. Requested raises for nurses ranged from $360 to S600 a year. He and H. P. Jewett, chair man of the Jackson county public health board, pointed out that the nurses had profes sional and college training ranging from three to eight years. Most of them had re ceived five to eight years training. Most of the nurses also have from seven to 22V4 years ex perience in the local health department. One had 16 years of local experience and anoth er 22V4 years. Health Board Member James Dunlevy remarked, "Salaries for public health nurses are low here compared to the rest of the state. If these people didn't have other ties than salary they would leave." AGREEMENT APPROVED Salem - tUPD - Public Utility Commissioner Jonel C. Hill Tuesday approved an agency agreement naming C. D. Ma son of Myrtle Point as a joint agent in that city for Pacific Motor Trucking Co. and Rail way Express. "Too Bad We Can't Leave The Whole Darn Thing" t .r. traffic for motorists turning left onto North Main st. from the highway. The trees will be .replaced with low growing shrubs, Lam mert said. The trees removed will be re planted around the new state police build ing in Medford. Maintenance men pictured are Don Stanley, at left, and Floyd Leith. Deferral of Taxes By Elderly Given Approval in House Salem - (UPD - The Oregon House today approved a bill to make elderly citizens in the state "secure in their homes" by permitting them to defer property taxes until death.' The vote was 47 to 12. Rep. George Annala (D-Hood River) protested the bill as part of a "rash of social legis lation." Rep. Victor Atiyeh (R-Port-land) immediately criticized Annala and retorted "this bill is not a gift." He said the taxes watild be repaid with interest, and the law would apply to persons who "truly, severely need the help" in stead of to persons who would like a handout. The bill would let any Oregon resident over 65 choose to put off home taxes until death. The spouse would have the same option. There would not be any means test. The deferred taxes, at eight per cent interest, would be payable from the estate. A companion bill, not yet acted upon, would Jet coun ties issue bonds to make up the loss of revenue over the interim until the deferred taxes start coming in. After that, Rep. Clarence Barton said, the program Boardman, Income Tax Cut Cleared Salem (UPD Committees of the Oregon Legislature Mon day approved bills cinching the Boardman project and cutting state income taxes by 10 per cent. The Ways and Means Com mittee, voting unanimously, moved Gov. Mark Hatfield's bill for a $900,000 price tag on the Boardman transaction to the House floor where ac tion is expected Wednesday. HB1601, the appropriation, is expected to come up at the same time as HB1600, already at the House desk. 0 . MplP - "-mB.' -i Tiff "?. if ii .TiOatiifi'VoS.'A SW. JT. M would finance itself like any revolving fund. Barton said partial exemp tions, instead of deferrals, would fail to give the neces sary relief. In addition, he said, exemptions would break communities like LaFayette where some 70 per cent of the homeowners are elderly. Petitions Name Dr. David Boals For School Board Petitions nominating Dr. David C. Boals, 43 Glen Oak ct., Medford, as a candidate for the Medford school board have been received by Dis trict Clerk Wilson Slater. Nominating petitions must be submitted to Slater no later than March 31. One board member will be elected at the annual school meeting May 1. Board Chairman Edward Branchfield, whose term ex pires this year, said he does not wish to seek reelection. Nominating petitions re quire at least 87 names-three per cent of the total number who voted in the last school board election. Nominating petitions are available from Slater. Acceptance To Be Filed The acceptance by candi dates also has to be filed with Slater no later than March 31, he said. The Medford board will re main a five-member board until the reorganized districts are approved by the state as an administrative unit or until the state legislature takes ac tion. School officials here said it seems doubtful If either will occur to change the board to seven members this year. Under reorganization, when a district is approved by the state as an administrative unit, the board increases to seven members. The Medford board has said that It would increase the number of members to seven as soon as possible. Vandals Damage Unoccupied House Vandals have done consid erable damage to a new, un occupied house at the cor er of Whittle ave. and Patrick st. during the past two weeks, according to Medford police. The damage was reported yes terday. Police said vandals broke two windows, Including a large picture window; dam aged or destroyed five light fixtures; broke numerous light bulbs; damaged a ther- mostate; smeared asphalt roof ing on the walls, and crushed lighted cigarettes on a hard wood floor, causing several burned spots. The owner of the residence, the Crater Land and Develop ment company, tentatively es timated damage at $250. Po lice suspect youths In their early teens are responsible for the vandalism, due to the nature of the damage that was done. One of the vandals apparently cut his hand, po lice said, as blood stains were found, on a wall in the home Regional Edition Medford 16 Pages Withdrawal of Troops Within Month Stressed Adlai Stevenson Castigates Russian United Nations, N.Y. - (VPD -Soviet Foreign Minister An drei Gromyko demanded to day the end of United Nations operations in the Congo and withdrawal of all its troops within one month. The Russian attack on the U.N. Congo role and upon Secretary General Dag Ham marskjold brought from U.S. delegate Adlai E. Stevenson a blunt rejection and a castiga tion of Gromyko for a speech in the worst and most de structive traditions of the cold war." Wants Dag Ousted Gromyko, opening the gen eral assembly debate on the Congo, reiterated the Soviet demand that Hammarskjold be removed from his post ana accused him of acting as a "field marshal" for the co lonial powers in the African republic. Gromyko also demanded the arrest and trial of Moise Tshombe and Joseph Mobutu for the assassination of Congo Premier Patrice Lumumba. Stevenson's Angriest Speech H i s speech brought from Stevenson the angriest speech since he was named to the U.N. role. When Stevenson had finished, the assembly gave him thunderous ap plause. Stevenson said Gromyko's speech was evidence that the Soviet Union does not look to the United Nations as a means of helping the Congo solve its own problems peacefully but as a means of international discord. Stevenson said the Soviet foreign minister had made a "wild and irresponsible at tack" on the secretary gen eral. Then he told the ap plauding delegates: -The United States will op pose the removal of Hammar skjold with all its strength. -The United States will op pose flatly the Soviet Union demand for the end of the United Nations operation in the Congo in one month. Aiioniihed at Speech Stevenson said he wished the Soviet Union would con tribute something to the Con go operation besides "obstruc tion and criticism." He said he was astonished at Gromyko's speech after his talks with the foreign minister aimed at keeping the U.N. session free of "calumny." "We need a fruitful period for effort In the Congo," Ste venson said. "We must stop pulling up the roots of this plant every five days to see if it is still growing. That is the way to kill the plant and I suspect that is exactly what some peo ple have in mind." Central Point Man Held for Assault Cleo Marie Atchley, 29, of route 2, box 668H, Central Point, was in good condition this morning in Sacred Heart! hospital after being cut across her left shoulder with an axe yesterday. Her father, Joseph Alexan der DeLorme, 53, of route 2, box 668II, Central Point, Is being held in the county jail on charges of assault. Sheriff's deputies reported that DeLorme arrived home late last night with his wife, and started a disturbance. When his daughter tried to calm him, he knocked her to the floor, according to sher iff's deputies. When she start ed to get up, DeLorme alleged ly seized an axe and cut her shoulder. She was taken to the hospital by a friend. LUMBERMEN MEET Portland-UPD-The 50th an nual meeting of the West Coast Lumbermen's Assoc I a lift opened bert today. MEDFORD, OLD WIMER BRIDGE The Jackson county court Wed- nesday will consider a 90-signature petition for the preser- vation of the Wimer covered bridge. The petition- was filed with the court Monday. The old covered bridge, (above) as it looked in 1951, has been closed to motor traffic for the last several years. It is now considered by Bids C a 1 1 e i w r f r e e way r W : i Three Separate Projects Planned For Start in '61 Bids on three Highway 99 freeway projects in Jackson county with an estimated value of more than $3,500,000 will be opened by the state highway commission Tuesday, April 11, the commission, an nounce today. The three projects are: 1. A 3,222-foot concrete and steel structure to carry traffic over Medford city streets and Hawthorne nark. The estimat ed cost of the structure is about $1,500,000. 2. An overcrossing for the freeway at McAndrews rd. north of Medford. 3. And 9.45 miles of grading and some of the structures on the section from 12th St., Medford to the North Ashland interchange at Valley View rd. The estimated cost of this project is about $2 million, construction of Medford's four-lane bridge at Fourth st. across Bear creek. The bridge will be just south of the pres ent Jackson St. bridge. Cost is estimated at $75,000, and will be paid for by the city. The slate highway commis sion has estimated that it wll take 1 '4 years to complete the overpass structure through Medford. It is planned that construction of the section will start this summer. The first segment of the freeway In this area is expect ed to be opened later this year with completion of the Seven Oaks -Crater Lake highway section. Peter Kiewlt Sons was awarded a $3,032,472 con tract for 2.29 miles of grading 6.78 miles of paving and nine structures along the Seven Oaks-Jackson st. section in January this year. Other major construction projects on the freeway are planned in the near future. One Is construction of the Mistletoe railroad separation in Ashland, bids for which arc expected to be called this year; another Is surfacing and more structures on the 12th st.-North Ashland interchange section (estimated to cost about $34 million) and the remainder of the work from North Ashland interchange to Mistletoe In Ashland (estimat ed cost about $8 million). OREGON, TUESDAY, MARCH 21, 1961 out Public Hearing Set April 6 on Budget For School District Central Point-A public hear ing on a proposed $1,250,701. 50 budget for school district 6 for the 1981-62 school year will be held at 2 p.m. April 6 in the Central Point Junior High school cafeteria, Super intendent Charles A. Meyer has announced. The proposed budget is $70,127.43 more than this year's, he noted, but is $64,815 less than was originally pro posed for next year. Total estimated expendi tures for the district, which includes Central Point, Gold Hill and Sams Valley, Include $1,133,409 In the general fund, and $112,772.73 In the bond interest and redemption fund. Budget committee members said the new budget allows for 6V4 additional teachers, and includes money for two new school buses. Estimated Receipts Total estimated receipts and available cash balance Is $470,414, leaving $770,707.73 as the amount necessary to balance the budget. Added to this Is the estimated amount which will not he collected in taxes, $35,000 for a total esti mated tax levy of $805,767.73. Of the latter total, $127,810.- 15 is within the 6 per cent limitation, and $112,772.73 Is not subject to the limitation leaving $565,184.85 outside the 6 per cent limitation. The tax levy outside the 6 per cent limitation In the present budget Is $508,967.64, the budget committee noted. The general fund budget In crease, budget committee members said, Is due to salary adjustments, additional teach ers, maintenance and operat ing costs, and new state text book adoptions. Some of the increase, it noted, is due to principal and Interest pay ments on last year's bond Is sue. Difficult To Determine Budget committee members pointed out that the estimated mlllage is difficult to deter mine at this time. District 6 Is being reassessed, additional state basic aid support, growth and the rural school levy will help to control the amount of the ifallaiie, members said. Tribune county officials to be unsafe for pedestrian traffic. The county has proposed to construct a foot bridge nearby and raze the covered bridge. At a hearing attended by the county court and county engineer in Wimer March 14, residents asked that the covered . bride be restored with donations of labor and materials offered. $3.5 Hion The budget committee feels that district 6's budget is in line with other districts in the county. An election on expenditures totaling $565,184.85, the amount outside the 6 per cent limitation, will be held Mon day, May 1, at the three polling places in the district. At the same election, one school board member will be elected. Members of the district 6 budget committee arc Don Morrow, Gold Hill, chairman; Lester James, Sams Valley, secretary: Bill Askwith, W. C. Higinbotham, Bill Anhorn, Dr. Bruce Turner, H. S. Deuel, Wilton White, Paul Molloy and Jerry Fitzgerald. 107 Measures Sent To Executive Desk Salem-(UPB-The governor's office noted today that as of Monday, the legislature's 71st day, the lawmakers sent 107 bills to the executive desk. This compares to 151 bills In 1959. Recreation Facilities at Two Lakes To Be Ready for Howard Prairie lake and Willow lake recreation facili ties will be ready for the open ing of fishing season April 22, County Judge Earl Miller said today. Miller said he had been as sured by County Engineer Robert J. Carstensen that the boat ramp extension at How ard Prairie would be ready for launching fishing boats. The access road at Willow lake, southeast of Butte Falls, is scheduled for widening to carry heavy auto traffic on opening day, Carstensen said" he would start work on the boat ramp as soon as weather permits. The area Is now covered with 16 inches of snow, County City Recreation Director Rob ert L. Haworth said. Muddy terrain would also make work on the ramp now "extremely dlfjfult," Uic county engineer 55th Year Price 10 Cents No. 313 ork WEATHER FORECAST; Incritailnir cloudi ness tonlpht with rain lute tonight or enrly Wedneiday morning:, A few ihowitri and partial c lea ring- Wedneiday. Low tonight 40 to 42. High to morrow 53 to 57. Temp, Highest Yesterday 55 Lowest, this Monti it ir 37 Tree, to 10 a.m. Today 01 Our Skies Tonight Sunset today 8:25 p.m. Sunrise tomorrow .... 6:12 a.m. Monmet tonight 11:59 p.m. First Quarter March 23 I'llOMINKNT STAR Aldeharan, cloie to tht Moon. V1S111LE PLANETS Venui, let! 8:40 p.m. Man, In the weit ....10:47 p.m. Jupiter and Saturn, rlie 4:02 a. Jupiter and Saturn, rise 4:02 a.m. Reflectoriied License Plafe Plan Studied Sftlem - (UPD - The Oregon House Tuesday sent the bill calling for reflectorlzed state license plates to the ways and means committee to study fiscal implications. The bill would add $1 to cost of issuing the plates. They now cost $10. If approved, the new-type plates would probably go into effect In 1964. BAN REMOVED Washington - fUPD - The Treasury department Monday ended a 10-year ban on Soviet canned crabmcat In a move to help better relations with Russia. Opening of Fishing Season said Carstensen said ho did not plan to extend the ramp any further than to tho water's edge. Original plans called for extending the base-rocked and cinder surfaced ramp another 650 feet. This was to carry the boat-trailers Into the water as the lake receded. James Callan, project engi neer for the bureau of recla mation, said two dry seasons would make the ramp exten sion feasible. This would carry the ramp across the mud flat now covered with water. Haworth said pushing base rock off Into the water as the lake level receded did not prove feasible last summer. Boat trailers would go off the ramp edge and stick in the mud. "If we do not have an ade quate boat ramp this year, It mcanA peoplt will launch Russia Warned To Equal Moves If Treaty Reached Delegate Ordered To Produce Results Geneva - (UPD - The United States today announced con cessions to meet Soviet de mands "more than halfway" but warned that the Russians must make equal moves if a nuclear test ban treaty is to be reached. The U.S. move was put be fore the 247th session of the three-power nuclear test ban talks this afternoon by chief U.S. delegate Arthur H. De.m. Dean, who came here for resumption of the negotiations with instructions to bring tho conference to a rapid con clusion, said the Soviet Union specifically must abandon its Insistence on self-inspection if it wants- progress. Semyon Tsarapkin, Russia's chief delegate, who was chair man of the session, countered by warning "in a serious way of the negative effects ... on the outcome of these Geneva talks" if France continues to test its own nuclear weapons. French Continue Tests Britain, represented by Da vid Ormsby-Gore, is the third power at the current talks. France is not represented, since it joined the nuclear club after the test ban treaty conference started two and a half years ago. But the French have continued to develop and test nuclear devices on their own, refusing to sit down hero until their program is com pleted and until certain con ditions are met. The United States and Bri tain' suspended nuclear tests Oct. .31, 1958, when these talks started. Russia says it also has suspended tests. Today s meeting was tho first since the conference ad journed last December to per mit the new administration ot President Kennedy to review the entire nuclear arms field and to develop its policies. The session was the first In which the Kennedy adminis tration has come face to face with the Soviet Union on the question of a nuclear test ban. As It started Soviet Premier Nlklta Khrushchev said In a speech in Central Asia that he would agree to any controls the West might, propose pro vided the West accepts his previously rejected disarma ment plan. This calls for scrapping all nuclear weapons and the means for delivering them within an 18 -month period. Kennody Wants Action Dean brought with him a letter from Kennedy telling Dean to make certain the talks bear fruit In a reason ably short time. The letter, addressed to Dean rather than to the con ference, was written primar ily for the benefit of the Rus sians. It contains a thinly veil ed hint that Kennedy's pa tience may rapidly wear thin If the Russians continue their refusal to accept cheat-proof control and Inspection of a nuclear test ban. Ward Cook Named To Sfafe Legislature Portland -rfllPD-The Multno mah County Commission to day appointed Ward Cook, a former legislator, as state sen atom to succeed Sen.' Jean Lewis who will become Cir cuit Court judge for domestic relations here. The appoint ment is effective March 30. AUTHORITY GRANTED Snlem OIPD The Oregon Highway department has been granted authority to build an overcrossing in re alignment of U.S. 101 north of Bay City. their boats at scattered loca tions around tho lake. And this means a fire control and garbage collection problem," the recreation director said, "Otherwise the traffic would tend to concentrate In the de veloped recreation area at tho ramp." The recreation commission had requested a contractor bo allowed to do the boat ramp work If the county engineer's crews were too busy, Wclfara work crews had been work ing at the lake for six weeks during January and February. Work Is proceeding on float ing docks for Howard Prairie and Emigrant lakes to bo ready for the fishing season, Haworth said. Construction of a service building will not be done this year, but funds for It will be included In the capi tal Improvements allocation in the new fiscal year bQiget.