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w (TPifo) iyjo) .1 am SOT yi UtUN i. imp WWlPTi I SNAKE APPROVED Medford's parks and recreation commission last night unanimous ly' recommended that the above concrete snake be erected as a piece of play ap paratus in Jackson park. The commissioners ' I : Gets Confidence ; 'Vole by Officials . - Medford's parks and recrea tion commission last night I gave "Snavely the Snake" a vote of confidence, and pub licly thanked the Swimming Team Parents association for its efforts in promoting, and backing the city's swimming steam. ' Snavely, a name taken from i the Pogo comic strip charac ter, is the unofficial nick name given to a piece of play 'apparatus to be , erected in Jackson park. The snake-like "apparatus will be roughly 15 feet long and four feet high at its tallest point. It will be placed in a large sand area at the park. The structure was"designed by diaries H. Forrester, -the .Ashland sculptor who also de signed the modernistic play apparatus in Hawthorne" park. Unlike two of Forresters, pre vious suggestions forva .piece "of Jackson park play .equip ment, Snavely was adceptable to the entire commission.- -.' Donation From VFW-'1', - J It will be financed with the remaining $400 of 'a $1,500 donation from the Veterans ol Foreign Wars. The ' majority, of the money went ,fpT .fje' purchase of conventional play apparatus for Jackson park. Herb Partridge, .. chairman ; of the committee's, play ap paratus committee, indicated that Snavely was also accepta ble to the VFW. The com mission's recommendation to ..build it will now go to the city council for final approval. ; Parks Director Robert Ha worth said last night that-it is hoped the entire play ap paratus area at Jackson, park ran be completed by mid June. , : In other business, .the com mission unanimously approv ed a resolution thanking the Swimming Team Parents as sociation for their "time, ef fort and energy on behalf of the swim team." Comprised of Parents The association is comprised of parents of the various members, of the swimming team, I who organized to give support to the sometimes ex pensive travels of the team to other cities in Oregon. Recently, the association sponsored a Harlem Clowns basketball game here and re portedly raised $450 for swim ming team activities. With the help of donations from the Eotary and Kiwanis clubs the association has also succeeded in acquiring necessary funds to provide the team with ap proximately 30 warm-up suits bearing the name of the team, . The team swims for the -YMCA in the winter months and for the city of Medford the rest of the year. A total of 150 youths have registered for the team which is coached Jy City Recreation Supervisor Ken Lyons. At i meet with a Eugene wim club here last week, which Medford won, more than 70 local swimmers turn ed out. The commission voted last night to change its regular monthly meeting from the sec ond Wednesday of every month to the third Wednes day of every month. Straub Announces Plan to Quit Democrat Post Salem-fllPD-Scn. Robert. W. Straub announced Wednesday night he is resigning as chair man of the Oregon Demo cratic party "by the end of the year." - ' Straub said he plans to rest Up when the legislature ends, then look at his problems at home and in his business be fore deciding exactly how inuch longer to hold the state Democratic reins. ". The 40 - year - old Eugene Democrat is a farmer and real estate developer. He was first elected state chairman in Oc immediately after a Pogo be 15 feet in feet high. Opposition to Building Code Is Expressed ' ' At least 200 people in Jack son county i do not want a county building code and said so before the county planning commission last night.' ' A noisy, vocal crowd from many parts of the rural coun- Strike of Meat Cutters Averted With Settlement A strike of meat cutters in the Medford area was averted this morning when the Amal gamated Meat Cutters ' and Butcher Workmen of North America, AFL-CIO, local 503, voted to accept a package settlement-with-the Independent Retail Meat . Dealers associa tion and chain operators. , ' The settlement was recom--mended to 125 or so members of the local by their officers, James Cain, secretary , and chairman , of the negotiating committee; Ron Mete, local president: Robert -W.-HSilsori, union international represent' ative:' Charles J. Mentron; Se attle; national vice president; Mrs.;Ardys Smith, Mrs. Fran ces Booth and Russell Fowl er, members, v. . ; . Representatives of the un ion and the retail dealers met with 'Charles (Chuck) Wil liams, Portland, of the federal- conciliation and medi ation service, in the Medford hotel Wednesday night. The union vote this morning was almost unanimous, Mentrin re ported. The package calls for a $5 weekly across the board in crease in all classifications, male and female, retroactive to April 2, with a $4 weekly pension contribution by the employer, effective April 1, 1962. The pension plan is to be reconfirmed by the mem bership in March, 1962. Additional increases were made in health and welfare benefits and pro-rata holidays for regular part-time employ ees. Other changes were made to strengthen the agreement. Local officers said their lo cal is the first retail group in Oregon to be covered under a pension program, although the plan- is in effect in many meat packing and jobbing plants. The settlement was a last minute decision before a threatened strike began to day, they said. Milk Price Cut Seen " Threat To Industry - Salem - (UPD - Rep. Don Mc Kinnis said "today there is agreement among processors and producers that a recent milk price cut in the Willam ette vallev might "create a serious threat" to the entire Oregon milk industry. There have beerw fears of a Drice war on milk spreading throughout the state. tober, 1959 and was reelected for a two-year term last Au gust. Straub said he feels "an ur gency to devote more time" to his family and business. He said he felt the Demo cratic party had made "real headway" in the past 18 months in showing how it dif fers with Republicans. But he said the 1961 legislature, with a Democratic majority, has not "moved as imaginatively and boldly" as needed. Straub said he has not yet decided whom to recommend as his successor. . . dubbed the snake "Snavely,". comic strip character. It will length and no more than four ty ; packed the- courthouse auditorium to express their views at a public hearing called by the commission to consider the proposed cfraft of a county building code. None- in the. audience ex pressed support of the com mission's entire proposed code, and only a small number showed support for sections of the draft. Most were op posed to all of the code. Complaints were aimed mostly . at the hardships the audience believed the code would cause individuals who were building their own homes, and who could not meet requirements such as completion dates, design and quality of material. Prepared After Study-: commission chairman C. O. Lovejoy, who presided, said; that the code had been pre-, pared by the' nine-man plan ning commission after study of other .such programs, and: that its principal, purpose is to provide "minimum stand ards to safeguard life , and limb,; health,, property , and public welfare' by Regulating all-.non - farm : building-. -: con struction.! s-tVV" -iV. He exDlained that the-code "is not' just a thing that has been drummed up," but is the result of much study by the commission. . ." Those expressing opposition to the proposal included Jerry Lausmann, as spokesman for the lumber industry. He read a statement, prepared for the hearing, which asked- for a 30 to 60-day continuation of the hearing to give the indus try time for further study and recommendations.. Lausmann's statement add ed that "We feel that to rush into a uniform building code for the county is not only un wise, but unfair to the indus try responsible for the major portion of our local economy and directly and indirectly responsible for the majority of the funds necessary to op erate the county." Lovejoy, and two. or three in the audience, showed signs of disappointment in the bel ligerence of some in the crowd. One man asked Love joy, "How'd you like a poke in the nose?" and others ex pressed distrust of county government officials. - (Continued on page 13A) DA Says Purchasing Agent Not Possible . The Jackson county "court may not delegate the power to purchase county equipment and supplies to a purchasing agent, District Attorney Alan B. Holmes stated in a written opinion submitted yesterday afternoon. .The county court had asked for the opinion on the recom mendation by the lay mem bers of the Jackson county budget committee. Purchasing of county equip ment and supplies involves judgment and discretion and cannot be delegated, Holmes wrote in his opinion. . Authority to establish purchasing agent could be one of the powers included under a proposed home rule charter for the county, it was pointed out. County officials esti mate that Jackson county buys more than $20,000 in supplies each year. County Treasurer Karl Janouch said it would be difficult to make an accurate estimate of the total supplies and equip ment purchased since such expenditures are scat tered through previous budgets under various head' ings. This year the budget com mittee is consolidating all equipment and supplies in one section of the budget feimdy Urges S Tax Moris Itat Higher Dividend Taxes, Expense Curb Suggested Seven-Point Plan Presented Congress Washington -(WD- President Kennedy asked Congress to day to curb "expense account living," raise taxes on divi dends and take other steps toward sweeping tax reform next year. In a special message pre senting his seven-point tax program Kennedy said Con gress also should enact this year proposed tax cuts for businesses which invest in plant and equipment. Budget Not Affected The President estimated this investment would cost the Treasury $1.7 billion a year, but create 500,000 jobs. He said the revenue would be recovered through his oth er proposals, so that the fed eral budget would not be affected. Kennedy's program would not increase taxes paid by taxpayers with income only from wages or a salary. Affects Millions But millions of Americans with stocks, savings accounts and mutual fund shares would be affected by his proposal for a 20 per cent withholding rate-effective Jan. 1-on divi dends and ' interest and his request that Congress repeal two provisions of the 1994 tax law which lowered taxes on dividends. , . To keep tax cheating from spreading, the President urg ed Congress to grant his re- auesfc for funds to hire more Treasury agents to check tax returns and for authority to give each taxpayer a number. Kennedy also said he had directed the Internal Revenue Service and the Justice De partment to make "a maxi mum effort" to crack down on tax evasion by gangsters - the method used to put the late Al Capone in jail. Requests Extension The President renewed an earlier request for extension of excise and corporate taxes due to decline or expire-June 30. These included levies on whiskey, beer, wine, cigar ettes, automobiles, auto parts, passenger travel and tele phone service. Charging that "widespread abuses have developed through the use of the ex pense account," Kennedy de clared too many firms and individuals have devised means of deducting too many personal . living expenses , as business expenses." "Indeed, expense account living has become a byword in the American scene,", the Chief Executive lamented. The slogan - 'It's deductible' -should pass from our scene." Would Restrict Deductions He said Congress should disallow deductions for the cost of entertainment facili ties, such as yachts and hunt ing lodges. It also should re strict deductions for gifts, business trips combined with vacations and "excessive per sonal living expenses incurred on business travel away from home," he added. The President asked for re peal of the exclusion from taxation of the first $50 of dividends received by a tax payer each year and of the 4 per cent credit on dividends above $50. He said they cost the government $450 million a year. Mrs. Gebhard on Study Committee ' Mrs. Edwin. Gebhard, Cen tral Point, has been appointed by the Jackson county court to the home rule study com mittee, County Commissioner Edwin Taylor announced to day. Mrs. Gebhard, wife of a Central Point area fruit grow er, will' replace Eugene K Ricker, Medford, who recent ly resigned. - The home rule committee is scheduled to meet at 7:30 o'clock tonight in the Public Library of Medford and Jack son County to study further possible powers under county home rule. The public is -invited to meet With the committee. Regional Edition Medford 38 Pages MEETS WITH LEADERS Former Vice President Richard : Nixon makes his first major Washington appearance since . President Kennedy's inauguration as he meets with GOP:: leaders at the Capitol. From left, they are Rep; Charles Halleck, , House minority . leader; Nixon, GOP' National i A- t;;;tv4if,..j;.:tti;,!:,iJ:-:jpi.f. Budget Is , tentatively OK'd; The Jackson County budget committee this, morning tenta tively approved the requested budget for the criminal divi sion of the sheriff s depart ment. ;i The tentative budget totals $75,800, with an additional $26,020 added to - the miscel laneous general county fund for supples and equipment. The total is approximately $5,000 less than this year. Much of today s discussion concerned salary raises re quested by Sheriff Joe Walsh. Raises were asked for two and three steps above the one step cost-of-living increase which had previously been approved for all county em ployees.. ' Asks for Basis Budget Committee Member A. C. Pierce asked Walsh the basis for his requests since the . raises are the "most marked increase" for any county department. Walsh ex plained that his department has not received salary in creases in recent years, and he. was attempting to get the pay scale for the sheriff's of fice in line with city and state law enforcement agencies. He cited a problem of re cruiting and keeping deputies with the present salary range. The overall budget request is lower than the present fis cal year since three vehicles will be traded in this year on the purchase of three new ones. Last year $13,000 was budgeted to purchase, new cars. Also included In the re quest is $1,500 to send a man to the federal bureau of in vestigation academy. Also awaiting tentative ap proval is the assessor'! budget. ; Reapportionment Measure Voted SalemftlPD-A resolution ask ing the voters to enlarge the legislature and freeze into the constitution - guarantees of minimum representation, for Eastern Oregon passed the House 32-38 today. Rep. George Van Hoomis sen (D-Portland) changed his vote to yes in order to be able to make another try to defeat the measure. The resolution, which would go before the voters in 1962 if the Senate approved it, would increase ' the House from 60 to 65 and the Senate from 30 to 33. MEDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY, APRIL 20, 1961 Truck Tax Bill Passed by Senate Despite Veto Th rea t Salem -(UPD- The Seriate de cided to butt heads with Gov. Mark ' Hatfield' over a pro posed- $1 million- a year tax break for heavy truckers and repassed the bill 19-9 despite a veto threat. Amendments limit duration of the tax relief to two years. SB32 went to. the House. If the House concurs, the bill will head . back to Hatfield who dislikes it even with the two-year limitation. , Override Try Hinted - Sen! Anthony Yturri (R-On- tario) said he did not know 'precisely", what Hatfield would do with the amended version. But Yturri has indi- Directors Discuss New Federal Site Members of the board of the Medford Chamber of Com merce will meet at 7:30 a.m. Friday at Rogue Valley Coun try club to continue - discus sion of the planned new fed eral building in Medford. The General Services ad ministration announced in January that a federal build ing would be acquired at a reasonable cost. Last . week ... the Medford planning commission strongly urged the federal government to erect its new $2Vi million building in the city's proposed civic center in the county courthouse public library area. : At a chamber board meet ing this morning, members heard the views of President Robert Taylor and Gerald T Latham, past president, in support of the city center lo cation.' Postmaster Moore Hamilton and businessman Tony Manno expressed sup port of' the 10th st. proposal. The board hopes to hear from the Medford city man ager, city engineer and plan ning commission at tomor row's meeting before it goes on record for either location. OSC Students Defeat Compulsory ROTC . Corvallis - (UPD - Oregon State students Wednesday ex pressed sentiment , against compulsory ROTC military tralningat their student body lcction. Votes for compulsory ROTC totaled 1,053 while voluntary ROTC got 1,924. weepnim Tribune : Chairman Thruston Morton, - I (Mass.), Senate leader Everett Bridges (N.H.), and Rep, Leslie Arends (111.). See story on .page 2A. , . : ., ; ' (UPI Telephoto) cated an attempt to override a veto. This would require a two-thirds 'majority in both houses. Hatfield has never been overridden,- ( Yturri said if there is no referendum, the , tax relief would begin Jan; 1, 1962, for a two-year period. He said if the Illinois Road tests mean while show that "a mistake has been made," the 1963 leg islature can restore the tax. Trucks that would benefit are those 44,000 pounds and over. But Richard Groener (D-Milwaukie) said "80 per cent of the benefit" will - go to trucks 75,000 pounds or more. He urged defeat of the measure, which first went to Hatfield with no limitations but was taken back when he threatened to veto it. Commission Opposed Yturri declared he would rather cure "an equity" now Instead of letting the State Highway Commission accumu late money and "dictate to this legislature.'! The com mission opposes the reduction in revenue. . Yturri said the truck tax is five cents in Washington state, four cents in California but seven cents in Oregon-"high-est in the entire nation." Those voting against the bill were Sens. Ward Cook, Alice Corbett, Francis, Goode, Groener, Husband, Musa, Straub and Ziegler. Sens, Vern Cook and Alfred Corbett were excused. Work To Resume on Tunnel Construction O'Brien - Work on the out side portal structure of the Oregon Mountain tunnel proj ect on Highway 199 is ex pected to resume with short crews Monday. ' Project Engineer Ted Kadel said it will be about a month before three full shifts will resume work on the projeot to Improve the route from Grants Pass to Crescent City. Construction at the tunnel was halted last Friday for about three hours when loose earth above the entrance was declared unsafe. An inspector for the Call fornia Division of Industrial Safety declared the site un safe, and ordered cessation of tunnel operations until the slide threat was removed. An entrance approximately 95 feet long and six feet square had been completed by that I time. : Year 56th Year Price 10 Cents No. 25 x teWU1 '' " ' i J Sen. Leverett Saltonstall M. Dirksen (111.), Sen. Styles Caslro Proclaims Destruction of Invasion Force By United Press International : Fidel Castro proclaimed triumphantly today the . de struction of a Cuban invasion force and capture of its equip m e n t including American- made Sherman tanks; He fol lowed this with a- new wave of executions to tighten" his grip on the country. Havana Radio announced that seven persons including an American - the third in two days - were executed by firing squads at dawn in Ha vana today. It named the American as Diaz Bencom and said he let a plot to kill Cas tro. His home was not given. 'Tragic Losses' Admitted : ' A communique read over Havana Radio early today said . Castro's regular , army and militiamen overran the. invaders' last position at Glron Beach on the Bay of Pigs at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday. But he admitted his men suf fered ."tragic losses" : along with the Invaders. Exile groups in the United States insisted the move to oust Castro was far from over. They said there would be new landings and new supplies sent to the guerrilla forces in the mountains where Castro himself battled against Ful- genclo Batista. "That. The Story Of My Life" Restraint on Intervention Not 'Inexhaustible Cuba Must Not Be Abandoned Washington (UPD Presi dent Kennedy warned today that American restraint in in tervening in Cuba "is not in exhaustible." - Kennedy said that, should the inter-American doctrine . of noninterference fail to guard against outside Commu nist penetration, this country would not hestitate "in meet ing its primary obligations which aire to the security of our own nation." ' Speaking out publicly for the first time on the current Cuban crisis, Kennedy said that If the time came when the United. States had-to act alone; to protect its own se curity, we do' not intend to -be lectured on Intervention by , those whose character was stamped for -all time on . the' bloody, streets of Buda-' pest." . - . . Kenned -spoke before thai annual meeting of the Ameri-' can Society of Newspaper Edi- t tors, i ..: ; '::; '.-' . Broadcast to Nation ,1 ' The speech, , delivered be fore an audience of 500 lead ing ..newspaper editors, wa9 televised and broadcast to the nation;. '.I '.'.. . , 'Cuba must . not be aban doned to. the - Communists," Kennedy said. "And we do . not Intend to abandon it ei ther." " ' . : ! ; ' He flatly rejected the at- tempts'of Fidel Castro to blame 'the current situation on the United States saying the battle was "a struggle ot Cuban patriots against a Cu ban dictator.!'. ' J Kennedy' cited the histor ical record of no unilateral U. S.' intervention in the af fairs of other nations in tha absence of external attack upon -itself or any. ally. "But let the record show I that -. oiir , restraint is not Inexhaustible?' ' Kennedy warnedix"Should it ever aP pear that the inter-American doctrine "' - ol onlnterlerenoa merely conceals or, excuses a policy . of nonaction if the nations ' of this hemisphere should fall to'meet their com mitments against o u t s 1 d a Communist penetration- then I want it clearly under stood .'that this government will not hesitate- in meeting primary obligations which are to the security of our own nation.'! . Comparison with Hungary Besides rejecting the idea that U.S. - intervention in Cuba, if it becomes necessary, could be compared with tha Russian treatment of , Hun gary.' Kennedy said the Unit ed States would not expect or accept a Hungary-type result in Cuba. : .' . Cuba is not an island unto itself,".- he said, "and our concern is not ended by mere expressions of non intervention and regret. This is not the first time in either ancient or recent history that small band of freedom fighters :' has . engaged the armor of totalitarianism." , WEATHER FORECAST: Cloudy tonlfht and Friday.- Occasional rain tonight. A few shower! Friday. Low to nlfht IS. Hlh Friday 52. . . Temp. Hlrheit YMterday . 56 Lowest Thli Mornlns ... 40 Free, to 10 a.m. Today, Trace Our Skies Tonight Suniet -today '...I.;...... 8:38 p.m. Sunrise tomorrow 5:22 a.m. The Moon rldei hlsh tonltht and will set at 12:25 a.m. First Quarter April 22 PROMINENT STAR Arctums, high in southeast 11:02 p.m. VISIBLE PLANETS Mars, sets .. I2:5T a.m. Jupiter and Saturn, In the southeast 3:25 " r
