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BANK ROBBER Bank robber Charles 0.
Peterson, 48, center, is escorted by officers
to the Eureka (California) Bank of America
for identification by a teller he had robbed
of $700 just minutes before. Federal Bu
reau of Investigation agent Richard Miller
(left) and Sgt. Gordon Busey (right) made
the arrest after he was followed into a
department store by two newsmen. Ex-convict
Peterson confessed to the robbery.
(UPI Telephoto)
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Communist Brass
Meets in Moscow
Moscow - (UPD - The heads
of government; and the for
eign and defense ministers of
12 Communist powers began
gathering in Moscow Satur
day for a Warsaw pact summit
meeting.
Eight members of the organization'-
the Communist
equivalent of the North At
lantic Treaty organization -plus
observers from Red
China, North Korea, North
Viet Nam and Outer Mongo
lia will meet in the Kremlin
Tuesday to review develop
ments since February, 1960,
and to adopt joint military
and political measures.
As at the previous Warsaw
pact meeting, the German and
Berlin questions will have top
priority on the agenda. Ob
servers said, however, that
these may be overshadowed
by the current Laotian crisis.
Soviet Premier Nikita S.
Khrushchev, who returned
Friday from a six-weeks tour
of agricultural areas, is ex
pected to open the conference.
Soviet Marshal Andrei Green
ko, commander of the War
saw pact armies, will preside
over the meeting of defense
ministers. ;
The summit meeting will be
the first chance for the War
saw pact nations to review
the international situation to
gether since President John
F. Kennedy'i inauguration.
Portland Elephant
Falls in Moat
Portland - (DPI) - The big
gar lhey are, lh harder
they fall.
And Belle, one of Seattle's
guest elephants spending
the winter at the Portland
too, is real big.
She fell tlx feet into the
dry moat of the elephant!
pen Saturday afternoon,
but apparently wat not
hurt.
The other elephantt, one
of whom hid nudged her
In, cried e little and put
their trunkt on her head to
comfort her.
Belle tcreamed at first,
according to a bystander,
but then got interested in
her new turroundlngt and
tettled down.
Zookeepert tried to coax
her out on a stairway im
provised of hay bales. She
tested the hay gingerly and
then backed off and waited
until a ramp of wooden
pallets wat put down.
The tookeepert tempted
her with bananat held just
out of reach. About an hour
after the fell, the icrambled
out after the bananat.
Belle it the property of
H. Morgan Berry, Seattle,
who runt a concession of
elephant ridet. Berry loan
ed hit enimals to the Port
land too when he went on
a round the world trip.
Portlander Charged
With Bomb Report
Washington - (UPD - FBI
agents arrested a Portland
business man Friday on
charges of falsely reporting
that a bomb was in a brief
case he dropped in an air
liner.
Attorney Gen. Robert F.
Kennedy announced here that
agents had picked up Junior
Ellsworth Flor, 44, of Port
land and Immediately took
him before a U.S. commis
sioner for arraignment.
If convicted of the federal
charge, he faces a maximum
sentence of one year in prison,
and $1,000 fine or both.
Court Favors PGE
Over Government
Portland - (UPD - U. S. Dis
trict Judge William G. East
has ruled in favor of Portland
General Electric company In
the firm's claim against the
federal government for return
of more than $2 million in
income taxes.
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President's Hopes
On Minimum Rate
Rest With Senate
Washington -flJPD- The Ken
nedy administration, smart
ing from its first major legis
lative defeat In the House,
pinned its hopes on the Senate
Saturday to get a stronger
federal minimum wage bill.
Prospects seemed good for
a different measure than the
restricted $1.15 an hour bill
finally adopted by the House
Friday night. Senate Demo
cratic Leader Mike Mansfield
(Mont.) told a reporter that
"chances are good of passing
a bill substantially along the
Washington - (I'PD - Re
publican Reps. Edwin Dur
no and Waller Norblad of
Oregon voted with the ma
jority at the Houte accept
ed a contervative tubitituie
for Pretident Kennedy'i
minimum wage bill, 216-203,
here Friday.
Oregon Democratic Rept.
Edith Green and Al Ullman
voted egaintt the meamie.
lines of the President's recom
mendations." But even the Senate was
not expected to go quite as far
as Keenedy would like in ex
tended coverage.
Despite administration pres.
sure, the House by a mere one
vote, rejected Kennedy's pro
posal to raise the federal
minimum wage to $1.25. Sen
ate approval of a stronger
bill would throw the Issue
into a House-Senate confer
ence committee where the
Kennedy forces would have a
substantial chance of chang
ing the House bill.
Ends Honeymoon
The administration bill was
defeated last night by a vote
of 188-185, thus ending Ken
nedy's shaky honeymoon
with the Democratic-controlled
but sharply divided House.
Ironically, Kennedy's first
defeat as President came on
the same issue that provided
his last lost battle as a Sen
ator. The Senate labor committee
Is expected to shortly begin
considering the $1.25 an hour
Kennedy bill which a subcom
mittee moved along without
change but also without form
al approval. No date had been
set, but a meeting next week
is likely.
Mansfield said he would
bring the bill up for Senate
debate as soon as possible af
ter the committee acts, but
not until after the Senate's
week end Easter recess.
Coalition Wins
In the House yesterday, a
coalition composed mainly of
Republicans and Southern
Democrats won adoption of its
own weaker bill by a 216 to
203 roll call vote after failure
of a move to send the entire
issue back to the House labor
committee.
The bill adopted would in
crease the federal minimum
wage for workers now cover
ed from $1 to $1.15 an hour.
It also would extend coverage
to retail establishments with
five or more locations in two
or more states and thus bring
about 1,100,000 more workers
under the law.
The newly covered work
ers, however, would be guar
anteed a minimum of only $1
an hour.
Kennedy's original bill
would have extended cover
age to more than four million
additional w o rk e r s, who
would have a beginning mini
mum of $1 an hour, advanc
ing to $1.25 an hour over four
years.
The defeated House Demo
cratic compromise called for
a two-step increase to $1.15
and $1.25 over two years. But
its extended coverage provis
ions were less broad than
those asked by the President
Senate backers of the ad
ministration proposal were
optimistic.
Sen. Paul H. Douglas (D
111.) said "we may have lost
a battle, but not a war by a
long sight." Sen. Joseph S.
Clark (D-Pa.), a labor commit
tee member, also pledged a
fight for the original Kennedy
measure.
The White House was silent
on the defeat. But Secretary
of Labor Arthur J. Goldberg
urged renewed effort in the
Senate for a stronger bill.
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Measure Would Repeal Oregon
Relative Responsibility Law
Salem -0IPD- A bill to cease
charging young people for
their parents old age assist
ance payments won strong
legislative approval Friday,
but a bill to do away with
liquor permits in Oregon met
its end in the House Alcohol
Control committee.
Meanwhile, a House com
mittee was urged to put a
stop to export of raw logs cut
from state or county lands
for processing In cheap-labor
plants outside the United
States.
Rep Clarence Barton, spon
sor of the proposal, and Wiley
Smith, of Cooshead Lumber
company told the House Com
merce and Utilities commit
tee the logs were needed in
the long run In this country
to sustain mill operations and
keep the workers employed.
No witnesses appeared to
testify against the bill.
The bill to end what Sen.
Thomas Mahoney, -Portland),
called discriminatory
requirements that children
chip in for state aid to their
needy parents won 4-1 ap
proval from the Senate Ju
diciary committee.
The measure would repeal
the controversial relative re
sponsibility law altogether.
Mahoney, a sponsor, suc
cessfully disputed the legality
of the law in Multnomah
County circuit court a few
years ago by the O'egon Su
preme Court reversed the de
cision and upheld the law.
Committee chairman Carl
Francis cast the. lone dissent
ing vote against repealing the
law.
The Senate-approved bill to
get rid of liquor permits was
tabled by the House Alcohol
Control committee.
The committee indicated,
however, it will approve the
other half of the proposal to
require identification cards
for persons 21 to 25 in order
to cut down on juvenile liq
uor purchases.
This was originally part of
the bill to abolish liquor per
mits, but the committee shift
ed it to a separate bill before
killing the Senate measure.
Other Highlighter
Explosives The House
Commerce and Utilities com
mittee set a meeting Tuesday
evening on two bills to reg
ulate explosives. The Rose
burg blast and the Portland
fireworks blowup were among
factors prompting the legisla
tion. Timber The House Tax
committee heard several more
hours of testimony on conflict
ing plans to tax trees on a
value or harvest basis. Addi
tional testimony is expected
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MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, MARCH 26, 1961
Recreation Areas Large in Northwes!
Portland - (UPD - A recrea
tion survey conducted by a
Columbia Basin Inter-Agency
committee subcommittee has
revealed that some 86 million
acres of land in the Pacific
Northwest are available or
being used as outdoor recrea
tion areas.
A total of 31.4 million acres
of recreation land is in Ore
gon with 160,770 under the
national park service; 14,879,
558 under the U.S. Forest
service; 15,601,111 under the
bureau of land management;
184,421 under the bureau of
reclamation and 52,590 under
the corps of engineers.
The total area also com
prises 52,485 acres under the
Oregon State Parks and recre
ation division; 442,929 under
the bureau of sports fisheries
and wildlife; 7,005 under 15
Oregon counties and an addi
tional 137 acres developed for
public use by private companies.
Bridge Bill Sent
To House Committee
Salem - (UPD - The Astoria
Megler bridge bill was sent to
the ways and means commit
tee here Friday after it was
approved in the House high
way committee.
The measure is a bond issue
of $24 million to finance con
struction of the span across
the Columbia river. The
bridge would fill in the final
link in U.S. Highway 101
along the Paciuc Coast.
next Friday before the com
mittee acts on any of the
measures.
Tax Bills revising and cut
ting state income -taxes by
ten per cent, and requiring
professional and Independent
businessmen to withhold tax
es,, slid by the House and
went to the Senate.
Boardman Measures to
permit Boeing Airplane Co. to
lease Boardman Industrial
Park were okayed by the Sen
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