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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (April 18, 1961)
fo) VI m LAJ light To Choose Fast Time Beaten in House J? mm Moves To Make Daylight Saving Uniform Defeated . Increase in Liquor ' Prices Proposed ' "" ' Sslem - (liPU - Legislation inviting oil firms to hunt ' (or oil off the Oregon shore without harming scenic re sources won overwhelming 61-8 approval in the Oregon .House today. - .- Salem (UPD The Oregon House today killed, 35 to 24, a bill to let cities and counties choose summer daylight sav ing time, but supporters an nounced a fight to revive' it. j-n Defeat for the bill came after the House voted' down moves to make fast time uni form in the state and send it 5to the voters. A similar pro posal lost last November. . ( Rep. Ken Maher (R-Port-land) opposed a referral and said "time is of the essence" 'in. initiating fast time in Ore gon if the state is to compete with neighboring states where clocks are moved ahead each summer. ... Oppoents said the bill in its present optional form 'Would ."balkanize" the state with islands of fast time. Move To Reconsider Maher moved to reconsider. He said probably the only counties that would choose daylight time would be Clat sop, . Columbia, Clack amas and Multnomah. The bill would become effective the end of April. . - House Minority Leader F. Fi Montgomery proposed a liquor price increase up to ten cents a bottle to raise $2 mil lion for counties' share of medicare, mental health clin ics, and food surplus distribu tion programs. - In a , letter to Ways and Means Cochairmen Clarence Barton, Montgomery said sup port from liquor; .revenues would relieve loCa'F property taxpayers In taking on" .these new programs; ' - ' - The House took up legisla tion designed to let oil firms seek and develop oil deposits off the Oregon coast without harming scenic values. Appro val was expected. Business Licenses Fail In . the Senate, a bill to al low counties to license busi nesses failed 15-11, but Sen. Walter Pearson (D-Portland) changed his vote and an nounced he will file for recon sideration. Sens. William Grenfell (D Portland) and Pearson got into a tangle over Pearson's motion to refer a house-approved workmen's compensa tion bill to Pearson's commit tee, on state and federal af fairs. - The measure, HB1018, would declare heart and lung diseases as occupational with firemen. Grenfell, a fireman, said there was no reason for referral, but Pearson said the bill needed some study. The motion to refer won, 16-11. Straub Resignation ' Rumors 'Unfounded' Salem-IUPD - Persistant re ports that Sen. Robert W. Straub of Eugene will resign soon as Oregon Democratic .chairman were labeled as "un founded" today by Straub. . But Straub added: "I don't look on the chairmanship as a lifetime job." Report on Annexation Proposal Being Readied Medford City Manager Rob ert A. Duff said today that he hopes to have a report on the proposed annexation to the city of an area south and west of Medford ready for the plan n i n g commission's consider ation by its May 11 meeting. Duff said various city de partments are currently pre paring reports on how the an nexation would affect them individually, both in cost and in manpower. This is to deter mine whether it would be to the city's advantage to annex the area, he said. Street Maintenance The reports will deal with "such things as needed street maintenance and i m prove ments, cost of fire and police protection, water supply prob lems and the conditions of buildings in the area. A tenta tive sewer plan for the area has already been prepared by the public works department. Proposed boundaries have been prepared for the area ;onsidering annexation, Duff laid, but he declined to reveal , e "4 tf 1,13 FINDS JUG Harold E. Wallace, 1965 Sunset dr., is shown holding an ancient Chinese jug which he found yesterday on the beach at Ponsler Memorial Wayside just north of the Sea Lion caves. .The jug is one of several that have been found along the Oregon coast recently. ; , . , : Med ford Man Finds Chinese Jug Along Coast Near Florence Maybe- ;' ' ''' (. Somewhere in the- Pacific ocean, about the time Chri topher Columbus was discov ering America, a Chinese sail ing vessel carrying a cargo of olive oil or wine and bound for ports unknown foundered in heavy seas and sank. This is pure guesswofk, but evidence that something of the sort must have happened has been washing up on Ore gon beaches lately. The evi dence: large air-tight jugs that once contained wine or olive oil.. ' - ' ' Nearly half a dozen of these jugs have been, found along the Oregon coast during the. past few . months. The latest discovery was that of a Med ford. man; Hatold E. .Wallace, 1965:.Sunset dr.,. who, with his Wife, found the largest jug yet; lying in . the sand at Ponsler Memorial. , wayside, just north of the Sea Lions caves. - , Looking for Agates Wallace told the Mail Trib une this morning that he spotted the jug while looking for , agates along . the beach Monday afternoon. It had ap apparently been washed up on shore several hours earlier by a high tide. "The jug stands approximate ly three feet high and two feet wide. Made of glass, it appears to have an exterior 'Knight of the Road' Finds It Hard To Find Sleeping Room Here ' Where does a "knight of ; the road" get to sleep these days? - Not in parked automo biles. Medford city police put a halt to this practice a few months ago, when they haled some sleepers-in-cars off to the city pokey, charged with vagrancy. , And not in railroad ca booses, any more, either. Officers last night raided a couple of the train-end cars, found their occupants there without permission, and look them off to jail as vagrants, loo. , them pending receipt of the reports from the various city departments. These reports may necessitate some changes in the boundaries, he said. Prepared by Citizens ... . The boundaries were pre pared by the West and South west Medford Annexation committee, a body of five citi zens who were appointed by Mayor John Snider to work on the proposed annexation in conjunction with city officials. Duff said the committee met three times. The area being proposed for annexation is located in the Lozier lane, Clover lane, Jack sonville highway area. Esti mates of the number of people living there range from one to two thousand ' ' When the planning commis sion receives the report, it will be asked to submit a recom mendation on the proposal to the city council. An annexa tion could not be consum mated without first having an election in the area proposed for annexation. ''i Hi t - as! 3t 1 1. t coating of a straw-like mate rial. ' The ancient- container , is still sealed and when shaken some kind of liquid can be heard sloshing inside. It is covered with barnacles and other species of sea life, but numerous Chinese inscriptions are still visible. Wallace, a night watchman for Jackson county who .was on vacation at the time - of the find, said he was told at' Florence, Ore.,- that the jug could be anywhere from 4.00, to 1,000 years old, and that it originally contained olive oil or wine.; i . . . j ... . . , Four or five similar .jugs have been found along - the Coast recently, but Wallace be- lieves his to be the"' biggest yet. ,"'''. '' ' Speculation' has it that all of the jugs were from the same ship.-It is thought , that the ship sank somewhere near the Japanese current off the coast of Asia several centuries ago, and the jugs have only recently broken away from the-wreckage, and been car ried by the currents toward the Oregon shore. Wallace .said he plans to take the jug to Southern Ore gon college in hopes that some of the professors there can shed more light on the origin and content of the jug. ' It might have been of some consolation to the owners of that ill-fated trading vessel in centuries past to know that what once had been intended to adorn the banquet tables of Oriental princes, were to become historical oddities in that far off place called Ore- Son. Group Discusses Clerk's Budget The Jackson county budget committee held a preliminary discussion of the county clerk and elections department budget yesterday afternoon. . Preliminary total for the county clerk's office is $90,- 110, and $29,185 for the elec tions department. - , County Clerk Marvin Mad den said he understood the budget committee may make some revisions in his payroll figures which show an in crease of $4,704. Average in crement is $1,700. The addi tion of a new cashier to the county clerk's office at $3,012 annual salary comprises most of the $4,704 proposed . in crease. Madden said the new cash ier is necessary to replace one of his staff who is now -doing much needed work on old circuit court probate files. The county clerk noted that printing cost estimates are up $350 over the current year, and photographic supplies are up $500. Of the new $2,500 photo supply total, $1,800 covers work for the assessor's office, he explained. Fewer typwritcrs and less general office equipment is planned- for purchase for the new fiscal year starting July 1, Madden said. DISLIKES BILL Salem (UPD Gov. Mark Hatfield said Monday he dis likes a bill to ban shipment of raw logs from Oregon- Regional Edition Medford 16 Pages General Electric Employee Tells Of Price Fixing ; ' Meetings To Set Prices Described , Washington - (UPD - A Gen eral Electric Co. employee tes tified today that salesmen for the nation's three manufac turers of large turbines had met regularly from 1951 to 1959 to set prices on sealed bids to electric utilities. John Peters, 42, a market ing specialist and GE em ployee since 1941, told Senate investigators he was ashamed of the illegal attempts to rig prices. The way the GE company has been damaged, the way my associates have been de stroyed, the way my family has been suffering - if I see a competitor on one side of the street I'll go on the other," he said. Peters testified before the Senate antitrust and monopoly subcommittee. The panel is trying to find out how far price riggers infiltrated the heirarchy of America's giant electrical manufacturing com panies. . Meetings Broken Off Peters said he attended his first meeting with representa tives of Westinghouse and Allis-Chalmers in 195? when he was training to become a salesman of large turbines. Thereafter, he testified, he at tended six or seven meetings a year until 1959 when he and his boss decided to break them off. . . , -The witness said salesmen agreed in advance on what their comiSanies would bid in about 10 per cent of all jobs. Peters said that if GE was to be ''in position" - in other words, the low bidder - he wpuld write down the price to be quoted ini the secret sealed bid. "Vety. very frequently even though we quoted a high price we were successful in obtain ing the contract," he testified. Building Code To Be Presented To Public Tomorrow Public presentation of a proposed building code for Jackson county will be made at 8 p.m. Wednesday, April 19, in the court house audi torium. The hearing will be before the Jackson county planning commission. Its recommenda tion to the county court for approval or rejection of the code will come after the meet ing. The principal purpose of the proposed code is to pro vide, "minimum standards to safeguard life and limb, health, property and public welfare" by regulating all non - farm, building construc tion. The code does not include buildings used for grazing, ag riculture, horti culture or growing timber. , Regular Inspection Building permits and regu lar inspection of the construc tion are provided if the con struction . or remodeling is valued at $100 or more out side the incorporated cities of the county. The proposed code also pro vides for building inspection, established as a department under, the jurisdiction of the planning commission." The in 'spector would be in charge of enforcement and administra tion of the code. Fees set up in the proposed code are designed to make the building inspector's depart ment self-supporting, planning commission members said. All new structures will re quire permits. Work valued at less than $100, unless it is a new struc ture, will be exempt from a fee or construction permit. The fee for work valued at $100 to and including $1,000 will be $5, and each additional $1,000 will be $2. Plumbing and moving building fees also are established in the pro posed code. - - - Tf MEDFORD, OREGON, TUESDAY, APRIL Russia U, S. in Invasion ' , fit , . , f . - ' 4F?:Y . ytf-' I -.a., h ,1 I-,. ,.'- .? .. j,m-, i ',.-? iv- ,naw t i , INVASION PROTESTED ' young Muscovites demonstrate violently in : front of the United States Embassy in Mos : cow,, The rioters hurled eggs, ink bottles and rocks at the Embassy in protest against Cou nty Court May Consider Assessor Job on Wednesday The Jackson county court is expected to consider appoint ment of a new county assessor tomorrow during its regular agenda meeting. The court must make an in terim appointment to the of fice while it awaits the rec ommendations of the Jackson County Democratic Central committee on a regular ap pointment, District Attorney Alan Holmes said today. - The law specifies that a man of the same party as the former office holder must be given the appointment, in this case a Democrat. However, the county court is not bound by the recommendations of the Democratic Central com mittee. The law states that the chief clerk can automatically assume temporary charge of the offices of sheriff, county clerk, and county treasurer. But this does not apply to the assessor's office, although the county court, could ap point the chief clerk during the interim period, Holmes said. Awaiting Official Word Harper Edwards, Democrat ic Central committee chair man, this morning said he is awaiting official word from the county court before call ing a meeting of the commit Officially Accuses ' f flu ,V " " (- ,Vl f - i , . I . ') t I 1 A group of tee to make a recommenda tion. "We have a great abund ance of talent in our party, so probably 50 per cent of the registered Democrats in this county would be eligible. We are Interested in getting the most highly qualified man we can for this position for the best Interests of the people of Jackson county." Edwards said he is not a candidate for the position va cated by the late assessor, Ray Schumacher, who died early Friday morning. His name had been mentioned. Others who have been men tioned for the position are Thad Hatten, Stanley Zapcll, Andrew Hawver, ex - county commissioner Ralph James and Frank Christian. Surplus Food Shipped To Josephine County Salem - (UPI) - The State Fi nance department announced its first surplus food shipment Monday - a 40,000 pound truckload for Josephine coun ty. Included in the shipment are dry milk, lard, cornmeal, rice, flour, butter, and pea beans. Tribune 18, 1961 the rebel invasion of Cuba. For more than four hours an estimated 25,000 to 50,000 demonstrators paraded by the Embassy building where earlier a mob of 2,000 broke windows and battled police. (UPI Telephoto) Police Investigate Gold Hill Burglary State police today are inves tigating a burglary at the Bristol Silica plant at Gold Hill which occurred some time between 11 a.m. Satur day and 8:30 a.m. Monday, officers said. Apparently no money was taken, but a number of items are missing. These included a washbowl, automatic coffee pot, modernistic lamp, yellow leather davenport and chair, revolver and clock and some odds and ends, police said. North Bend Minister Withholds Part Of Income Tax To Protest Arms Race North Bend, Ore.-(UPl)-The minister of the First Method ist Church here and his wife said today they had refused to pay 55 per cent of their I960 federal income tax in protest over the arms race. The Rev. William O. Walk er and his wife, Carol, filed a completed return April 15 but enclosed a check for only 45 per cent of the lax. The other 55 per cent Is what they estimate would be used for fu ture or past wars. They sent a contribution In the amount of 55 per cent of their tax to the United Na tions Children's Federation "in hopes that life, not death, may be brought to some." The Internal Revenue Bu reau indicated it could collect V 56th Year Price 10 Cents No. 23 Soviet Students Storm Embassy in Demonstration United Nations ' Study Demanded Moscow-IUPD-The Soviet Un ion , officially accused the United States today of prepar ing and starting the invasion of Cuba. It warned of possible Russian aid to Fidel Castro's regime "should armed inter vention not cease." ! The official Soviet govern. ment statement . was broad cast over Moscow Radio. In the middle of the announce ment another Moscow station broke into a newscast to an nounce that the invasion of Cuba had taken place "with help of, and under cover from, U.S. warships." March on Embassy Simultaneously, a group of students marched toward the U.S. Embassy from Friend ship University, apparently for another demonstration such as the one staged after the death of Congolese Pre mier Patrice Lumumba earli er., this .year, ...,:.. The statement was the first official reaction by the Soviet government on the invasion of Cuba by the anti-Castro forces. , . , . , 1 It . called on : the United States government "at this crucial moment to take meas ures to halt the aggression against Cuba."- . r ; s It also demanded that the United Nations "examine the question immediately.", Situation Discussed ' The United Nations already is discussing the Cuban situa tion. 1 . ; . , The Soviet government branded the invasion "an open challenge to all freedom- loving peoples" and said the Soviet Union "reserves ,the right, should armed interven tion not cease, to render all necessary aid to the Republic of Cuba." ' There was no mention of the nature of the aid. Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev last year had warned that the Soviet Union possessed rock ets it could bring into use to help uastro if necessary. (See Story on Page 2) WEATHER FOHKCAST: Cool and ihowery through Wednesday. Snow I levpl near 2,000 feet. Low to night 32. High Wednesday SR. ! Temp. Highest Yesterday- 68 Lowest This Morning 34 Prec, to 10 a.m. Today ... .02 Our Skies Tonight Sunset today .;. m 6:56 p.m. Sunrise tomorrow 5:25 a.m. Moonset tonight 10:43 p.m. First Quarter April 22 PROMINENT STAR Bctelgeuse. low in west 9:42 p.m. Marx, in the west 9:58 p.m. Haturn, rises 2:15 a.m Jupiter, rises 2:31 a.m. the rest of the tax through "regular channels." "This Is no crusade," the Rev. Mr. Walker said. "I am not the crusading type. We Just wondered what we could do to end this terrible arms race. We talked it over for months and decided this was the way to protest." He sent copies of his letter to his bishop, the Rev. Ray mond Grant, Portland, and to his district superintendent, the Rev. E. A. Ashenbrenner, Eugene. Neither was avail able for comment today. In Portland, A. G. Erick son, district director of In ternal revenue, said he had not seen the Walker's April 15 letter but added, "we are required to collect any In of Cuba Planes and Tanks Jets Pose Major Threat To Supplies By FRANCIS L. McCARTHV UPI Correspondent Premier Fidel Castro hurl ed Communist-built MIG jet planes and tanks at invading rebel troops today in an all out attempt to drive them, back into the sea from their widening beachhad, rebel . sources reported. -, A spokesman for the Invad ing forces in southern Cuba said they were "under ex- ' tremely heavy attack" by tha MIGs and tanks at midday. The report was received " shortly after rebel headquart ers announced that ah airlift had been established into tha . invasion area. This was now in danger. Bombers Said Downed In Moscow, Cuban Ambas- sador Faure Chomon told a Russian television audienca tonight that five rebel bomb- . ers, including an American plane, were shot down over Cuba. He said they were bringing reinforcement for the Invaders" when they wera destroyed. - , The exile source said ha could not tell. exactly how many MIGs were involved, but said that "at least seven separate MIG aircraft have been identified." MIG fighters had never be- fore been reported operating so close to American shores although their presence in Cuba ; has . been frequently rumored. The ! spokesman added that many Soviet-type tanks also were in the attack,, although. tie had no immediate word as to their number. Both the ' planes and the tanks are So viet types believed supplied by Czechoslovakia, , The rebel exile spokesman- said earlier that the invaders had seized an air strip and were flying in and out of tha ' beachhead area in Cochinos Bayj' Major Threat ' ; , ! The , rebels had only prc-peller-driven aircraft, and the appearance of the Communist LMIGs.. posed a .major threat to their supply efforts. ' Foreign intelligence sources previously estimated that Cas tro had from seven to 12 MIG , jets at secret . airfields. He also long has been reported to , have - Soviet-designed tanks, Including the monster Josef ' Stalin 80-ton giants. ; - Light Healing Noted In Valley Orchards Light and general orchard heating occurred early this morning i when temperatures . hit a low of 27 to 28 degrees in the coldest spots. , Meteorologist William Rog-.v ers predicted some firing to night, when temperatures era expected to drop to 27 de grees in the coldest places. Some cloudiness and a mod erate high ceiling are fore cast. ,' . Some observers feel tonight may be the worst fruit frost period yet this season, since snow . has been observed in the foothills near Ashland and Griffin Creek. ' Heating started between 3 and 4 o'clock this morning, and lasted two to three hours, according to County Agent David Passon. . : ', Cease Fire Ordered : -On Borders in Congo' Leopoldville, The Congo-IUPD-A cease fire has been or dered along the border be-, tween Oriental and Equator provinces in an apparent move to bring the leftist Stanleyville, regime into the camp of the central Congolese government, it was reported i today. come tax' due and we shall try to do so in this case." He said notices would be sent the tax must be paid and that if It Was hot a field agent would be sent to talk to them. Erickson said if they re fused to pay the government could collect though seizure of property or wages. : "We wouldn't put the man, lit Jail," he said. William O. Walker, North Bend minister who has re fused to pay 55 per cent of his income tax because he esti mates that is the amount tha government will use In the arms race, is a son of Mr. and Mrs. A. O. Walker, 2241 Jacksonville hwy. - He is a 1950 graduate of. Medford high school. owned lands' outside the coun try.
