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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 '
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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
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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
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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 "
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