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Recommended Cotuuelilnc li a valuable part of the Jackson county Juvenlla detention home program. Four juvenile department counselors, plus welfare commission per Bonn el discuss past and present problems with children. Read about the counselling procram on Page 6 A of today's Mail Tribune. . , T 60 PAGES , Section . A: Cuban Prisoners Reveal Invasion Training Areas Government Seizes 1 75 More Invaders : Miami - (UPB-Cuban prison ers captured by the Castro government in the wake of last Monday's abortive invas ion said last night they were trained at Guatemala. Nicara gua and on the Puerto Rican island of Vieques near where the wartime US. naval base of Roosevelt Roads is located, The prisoners were interro gated before live television cameras and radio micro phones in Havana. The broad cast was heard here. - One said that he saw two U.S. . warships , accompanying the expedition. Another said he was trained by an Ameri can Instructor. The interrogation was in terrupted by a government announcement 175 more in vaders have been captured raising the total of inch pris oners to 651. Among those seized, the government said, is the son of Dr. Antonio de Varona, number two man on the Cuban exile government's revolutionary council which masterminded- the: invasion-,; Friday the government re ported the capture of Jose Miro Torras, son of the coun cil president, Dr. Jose Miro The announcement came in the midst of the'.second:eve ning of public interrogation of captured prisoners in Ha vana's sports palace. The pro ceedings are being televised and broadcast to the nation. One prisoner among the first eight interrogated this evening said their , training camp was located in Nica ragua. -i- . The Cuban government charged earlier that the Uni ted States was building up its naval forces in the Carib bean and warned: that inter continental rockets of the So viet Union were even more powerful than the fleet. The radio broadcast follow ed ah earlier one which hinted the Fidel Castro government would show no mercy toward the 500 Cubans' claimed cap tured in the ill-fated Invasion of Monday. It paraded many of - them .. before ,; television cameras in an Ihours-long tele vision broadcast. Cuban observers had re ported increased U. S. Navy maneuvers in the Caribbean and said it undoubtedly was a warning to Castro not to let his enthusiasm induce him to attack the big U. S. , naval base at Guantahamo on the eastern tip of Cuba. - The big U.S. aircraft carrier Randolph arrived in Guari tanamo Saturday with 3,000 Marines and 85 to 100 modern jet planes. Three other air craft carriers, , the Boxer, the Shangri-la and the Indepen dence were reported in the area with scores of destroyers and other vessels. t A Guantanamo . d i s patch said eight destroyers were on duty at the big base on the eastern end of Cuba including the Farragut which is equip ped with guided missiles. Three destroyer escorts were reported with them - the Rob erts, the R. O. Hale and the Peterson, There was no confirmation or denial from U. S. Navy Klamath Indians Show Cents Sense Klamath Falls - (UPD - The federal government has just paid off for more than 500,000 acres of Klamath Indian res ervation timberland in Ore gon but the tribesmen here are being anything but spend thrifts. About $68 million has been given to 1,680 Klamath In dians - an average of $43,000 per person. And most of the 300 In dians living here who receiv ed their share without any re strictions are keeping their money in banks. . Of the 1,660, about 500 re main in the county and 200 of these come under trustee ships or guardianships. Bank sources say the only spending going on is to pay off loans on homes, cars and furniture- And local law enforcement officers, elated after having no trouble as a result of ex pected celebrating,, say they are "agreeably surprised." Klamath Falls - (UPD - Klam ath county began the distribu tion of government surplus food to needy families here Monday. Medford United Press IntarnaUonal Full Leased Wire Officials Admit City Has Money Troubles; Forced To Seek More BY GREG NOKES Mail Tribune Staff Writer' V. The city of Medford has financial problems, and every one from the city manager on down will admit it. '.';.' The situation is this: The city is growing by leaps and bounds, but city revenue is growth. If the city administration is ly serve'the needs of the people, it, is going to have to have more' money with which to do it. City Manager Robert A. Duff told the Mail Tribune that the city's proposed 1961-62 budegt, which will be presented to the budget committee this week is the toughest he has ever had to deal with; More than $130,000 have had to be shaved off of already conservative department budget re quests, '' ' ;''.( ' 'Minimum Service'- ; . With next year's budget, Duff predicts that city hall will be able to provide "minimum service." But even this will be possible only after several budget items such as the highly successful city-county joint parks and recreation pro gram have been chopped off. ' ' Although it is expected that the city will be able to adequately get by next year, the same expectation cannot be extended to future budget years.. . ;. , ; . ii After the 1961-62 fiscal year, the city administration will be faced with one alternative either let the scope and quality of city services decline, or go' to the people and ask for an increase in the city's tax base (i. e. higher property taxes.) '; . -v ; ' Properly Burden High ' Duff will be the first to admit that property is already bearing just about all it can, but he reluctantly points out that there is no other alternative. The voters of the city will: probably be asked .to 'raise'.the !tax base; "within- the next, year or two," he said. . . -, :, ' It the voters decline to do this; and well they may it can only be said that they have made their decision. They turned down a request for a hike 'in the tax base in 1954. The city of Medford during the current year is operating on a general fund budget of $906,030. This includes revenue from a number of sources, such as property taxes, fines, busi ness license fees, services performed and federal and state assistance. ;' -... Greatest Single Sum - y. . Of this general fund total, property taxes provide the greatest single sum, which during the current year is $363, 120. Hampered by state law, the city can increase the taxes ! on its tax base by . only 6 per cerijt a year, v ' ' i .. Six per cent of $363,120 is approximately $22,000. The increase in other sources' of general fund revenue, such as fines, is generally negligible from' year to year. , Some of these other sources of income will actually be decreasing this year, most, notably: . reimbursements from engineering services performed on special assessment pro jects, .which will drop next year some $53,000 from the current year.. ; ,. ; . J. -. .,' (Continued Russia, Souvanna See Peace Moscow - (UPD - The Soviet Union and Laotian neutralist leader Prince Souvanna Phou ma said in a joint communi que Saturday that "real" con ditions exist" at present for a peaceful settlement of the Laotian conflict. The communique was is sued here as Souvanna flew to Communist China follow ing a Russian visit that in cluded talks with Soviet Pre mier Nikita Khrushchev. Sou vanna was accompanied by his half-brother, Prince Sou phanouvong, leader of the left ist Pathet Lao iorces in L,aos. The joint communique Gas Dealers Fail ; To End Price War ' A meeting of the Jackson County Gasoline Dealers as sociation Friday, designed to attempt to end the eight-week-old gasoline price war, prov ed to be "real disappointing," reports indicate. , Association spokesmen said Saturday that only 12 repre sentatives of the approximate ly 115 gasoline stations in the area attended the evening meeting at the Medford hotel. Because of this, only an "open discussion" could evolve. One Medford gasoline deal er observed that it was "hard to imagine" why more deal ers didn't show up at the meeting. He. questioned whether or not local service station dealers really wanted to stabilize gas prices. Prices have dropped as low as 2,5.9 cents for regular gasoline and 30.9 for ethyl. As of Saturday afternoon, another meeting of the JCGDA had not been sched uled. Asked about the next step, one association member said they would "let it sit until another meeting could be arranged. Gary Cooper Gefs Cheering Messages ' Hollywood -(UPD- Scores of famous persons sent cheering messages Saturday to ailing movie star Gary Cooper, 59, and one published report said President Kennedy has called him. But Cooper's wife, Rocky, refused to confirm or deny if the President had telephoned. Cooper is reported gravely jiricken with cancer. not showing a corresponding going to continue to adequate : i 1 v.-- . ; on. Pag 2) . :, .V-,' :: - . . '! in Laos blamed the United States and its SEATO allies for the "pres ent serious situation" in Laos. It said, however, that both Prince ; Souvanna and the So viet gpvernment "are of the opinion that at present real conditions exist to normalize the situation in Laos, in ac cord with the national interest of the Laotian people and the interests of peace! The communique listed three "prime measures" to be taken toward a Laotian peace': -Calling of an international conference as suggested by Cambodian Chief of State Prince Norodom Sihanouk.- -A cease-fire between op posing forces in Laos. .': " -Re-activiation of the three national international super visory commission in Laos. Same Steps The three steps are the same proposed by Britain for set tling the Laotian crisis. But. the British, with the support of the United States, insist that a cease-fire must come first, and the interna tional commission, composed of Canada, Poland and India, then be called in to verify that fighting has halted. Yesterday's com m u nique did not indicate any time or der for the three proposed peace steps. : , - It failed also to make any mention of the Anglo-Soviet discussions.' on ' Laos which were reported earlier to have resulted in agreement' on terms of a cease-fire appeal. Hearing on Transfer of Barnett Rd. Area Into Medford District Slated Tuesday A public hearing on the proposed' transfer of another section of the Barnett rd. area into the Medford school dis trict will be held at 8 p.m. Tuesday, April 25, in the Jackson county courthouse au ditorium. Previously, the Jackson county -school district reor ganization committee met with representatives of t h e Medford and Phoenix school districts and agreed to wait until it learns of the outcome of pending state legislation affecting school district reor ganization before making its recommendation to the school district boundary board. : The bill seeking repeal of the school district reorganiza tion law leemi to have been Algerian Revolt Spreads; Large Port City Falls . De Gaulle Declares State of Emergency ram -iunj- irench army generals revolting against resident Charles de Gaulle in Algeria last night took over the port city of Oran in a spreading insurrection trig gered by paratroop seizure of Algiers at dawn. Led by four generals and several thousand foreign le gion paratroopers the right ists who oppose De Gaulle's police of Algerian indepen dence demanded surrender of Constantine, Algeria's third largest city,- where officers have remained loyal to the government, t ' - Autnormes m Paris . con firmed the claim that Oran, second largest city in Algeria, had been taken by the rebels. They said the loyal command er fled to a command post at Tlemcen, 75 miles away; af ter previously rejecting a sur render ultimatum. , Mobilises Forcis . , ".. De Gaulle declared a stale 6f national emergency and be gan mobilizing armed forces with, a vow to smash the chal lenge to his Fifth Republic and bring the ringleaders to trial, Sources reported 100 anti-Gaullists arrested in po lice raids . in metropolitan France. A broadcast from the insur gent radio Algiers declared 14 hours after . foreign legion paratroopers had ringed Al giers, the capital, that the sec ond largest city of Oran had been taken over; There were no- reports of violence- or bloodshed in either place. Eu ropeans in the cities who op pose De Gaulle's plans for independence in Algeria, erupted with joy and shouts of "Algeria is French." Reports reaching Oran from the blacked-out Algerian capital said the rightwing army units were passing out arms to civilian recruits and armed Civilians were manning barricades in thestfeets in defiance of De Gaulle. The The Gaullist delegate taeneral and Algerian supreme, mili tary commander were seized and placed in house arrest, ! .France was shocked. The icoup came just as hopes soar ed for peace in Algeria, - ' U.S. Space Plans Under Review , i Washlnglon-IUPD - The Na tional Space council has been ordered to submit a rapid-fire review of the nation's space program to President Ken nedy next week, it was learn ed Saturday. ; Sources close to the council told United Press Internation al the review, ordered by the President to study steps for overtaking Russia in the space race, is to be completed "sometime next week." ' . One source also said the council's staff was consider ing "some really big" policy changes in both the organiza tion and budget of the Na tional Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). Friday, Kennedy Indicated at his news conference that a nuclear rocket program might enable American astronauts to be first on Venus and Mars even though the Russians beat them to the moon. Kennedy ' said ' "that the "question is whether the nu clear . rocket or other kinds of chemidal rockets offer us a better hope of making' a Jump forward." He said that a top-level review of these possibilities had been launch ed, f tabled in the state legislature. However, during the March 9 meeting with the two school districts, the committee agreed that everyone involved in the proposed transfer has a right to be heard. The transfer proposed by residents of the area covers the land northwest of Barne burg hill near Barnett rd. and adjacent to Ellendale rd., ex cluding the Rogue Valley Manor. It includes the land now within Medford city lim its, but in the Phoenix school district, and extends eastward past the North Phoenix-Hlll-crest rd. to the Eagle Point school district boundary line. According to Phoenix school district figures, the area con tains 87 School children now MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, JFK Uv rx ' Jt ' ' ,, v ' x l! 4 xit iii.' , . SNOW BOATS The opening day of fishing season at Howard prairie reservoir was not exactly the way the concession owners would have liked to picture it, for, witn the untimely spring snow keeping all but the hardiest of r - 1 1 i. ' e MJmf M or I . AMI P I 1 -ma-.-? I I 14 " END OF LINE Anglers who planned to get an early start on. the fishing at Howard Prairie reservoir by driving up Friday even ing found they couldn't get through. Due to 'heavy snows the road was impassable until about midnight, when the county was able Dellenback Selected For Freshman Honor Salem '' (UPD - Rep. John Dellenback (R-Medford) said Saturday he feels "very hon ored" to Tiave' been selected the most promising freshman legislator in a poll of the legis lative press corps. Dellenback received nine votes.' Rep, Edward radeiey (D-Eugene) received three and Reps. George - Flitcraft (R Klamath Falls, and Fritzl ChUinard (R-Portland) were also mentioned. DAYLIGHT TIME Salem -(UPD Another try to win voter approval next year for uniform daylight saving time in Oregon was approved Friday by' a House committee. attending Phoenix schools, 75 elementary school children and 22 high school pupils. Phoenix school board mem bers have asked that the dis trict be allowed to remain as it; is. It is a newly created administrative school district (Phoenix and Talent districts were joined recently), and needs a chance to develop an improved educational pro gram. The assessed valuation of S700.000 is not the only thing involvsd. Removal of the 97 school children will make it difficult to proceed with a full-rounded educational pro gram, the Phoenix representa tives pointed out. Medford school board rep resentatives said the board is remaining neutraL . APRIL 23, 1961 IMWffWWllftt'MMIIMtl ( Idwafer In Greatest Danger Phoenix, Ariz. - (UPD - Sen Barry Goldwater, saying "The American people are getting sick and tired of being pushed around by Russia," Saturday called for U. S. military in-' terventlon in Cuba if all else' fails. "This country is In greater danger than it has ever been," said the Arizona senator yes terday on a speaking tour of his home state. ''We can over night become a second rate world power. !;. : r "We can within a very few years come under a foreign philosophy," added Goldwa-: tcr, who met with President Kennedy yesterday for a briefing on -the Cuban' crisis.; Can't Permit It ' The United Stales cannot permit a Communist country so close to Its shores, said Goldwater, adding, "Our mis take Is not being tough." ; "This is not Jack Kenne dy's fault," said Goldwater, "I'm opposite to him politi cally, but not as an American. When he's right I'm with him. WEATHER FORECAST: Conilderablc cloud iness and scattered showers this mornlnr. Partly cloudy this afternoon. Intermittent rain to night and Monaay. Hlxh today 51. Low tonlfht 10. Hlsh Mon day 91. Temp.l Hlthest Yesterday Hi . , Precln, To S p.m. Yesterday jm Our Skies Tonight ' Sunset today .r....'.....7:02 p.m. sunrise tomorrow S:17 a.m. Moonset tomorrow 2:23 a.m. Full Moon April 30 The planet, Venus, Is maklnc a rapid reappearance as a morn lnr star. Rlsins at 4:32 a.m. Venus is now about 20 million miles from the Earth. 56th RIBUNE United Press International Full Leased Wire Mire is i ! fishermen at home, a number of boats lay idle ... at least i during the. early . morning hours when the picture was taken; All was not lost, however, as their soft snowy shapes i made rather an interesting study in light and shadow.' 4 , .-. ; to get a new plow to the lake and back again.- The road block, manned by state police and sheriff's -deputies, was set up at the junction of highway 66 and Dead Indian rd. About one foot of snow fell at the. lake during the unusal storm, . Says U.S. I think he's right Goldwater said he had rec ommended an aerial and sur face blockade of Cuba. If that failed, he-said, the United States should turn to the Or ganization of American States for action. , . "If the OAS failed," he add ed, "we should take, action ourselves." . ' ! Asked 'if that meant mili tary, intervention, Goldwater said: '.; ; ' "Yes, but I hope it wouldn't be necessary. However, if all else failed, I would support it." , . I Hornbrook Accident Hospitalizes Four Hornbrook Four persons were injured late Friday aft ernoon when their car plung ed over an embankment a mile south of Hornbrook on Highway 99, .' ' ..- '"' In serious condition at Sis kiyou County General hospi tal are the driver, John Peterl, his wife, Hertha Peters, and Peter Jacob Funk. A fourth passenger, Susan Funk, is in fair condition. All four are from Abbotsford, British Col umbia. ' , '" According to the California highway patrol, a rear tire blew, sending the car out of control. It : careened off the highway and rolled ovor sev eral times, finally stopping 30 feet below the road level. All occupants were thrown from the vehicle, the highway pa trol said. The accident oc curred, at 4:40 p.m. Year Price 10 Cents On Variable Clouds Follow In Wake Of Snow Storm Cool temperatures and vari- able cloudiness are expected to dominate the weather pic- ture today in the wake of Friday night's wintery cover oi southern .Oregon. V. .- Showers still are forecast for the mountain areas todav. uiuiuiium ulcus luauj, -ft - - ads into some of the 1 tne ten8e internntipnal 'situa fishing lakes may:be-Ulon- . ' rv .r;;;f and roads area's come rough. Friday's storm caused many valley fishermen to cancel overnight trips to mountain lakes foi the opening of fish ing season Saturday morning... some iisnermen went to the lakes earlier in the day., be- for travel became hazardous. '.. For a. While Friday night, state police stopped travel into, Howard Prairie lake un til the road could be plowed. Melts' by Noon Snowfall ranged up to 14 Inches at Fish lake, and about 12 Inches at Howard Prairie. where 1.34 Inches of precipi: tation was recorded. ;f J'-j A deer j was teen early.; Saturday morning . in the -Kenwood av. area in west Medford. Mrs. Arthur R. Dv!s. 12 Kenwood av., reported It ing a "fair !" do in the neighborhood, and Lorenss N. Younger, 113 Kenwood ave said he saw deer tracks in the snow in his back yard. Snow fell in Medford for several hours Friday night and the ground was white Saturday morning. By noon most of It had melted. . i Prospect area residents 're ported about 5 inches of snow, which had melted by noon Saturday, and areas near Ash land reported snowfall rang ing from 4 to 12 Inches. Most of the snow which fell early In the storm melted upon reaching the ground. i , Telephone . communication to Crater, Lake National park was out Saturday, and com munication to Bu(te . Falls, Prospect and other areas was interrupted for several hours. Operate Into Night , ; Highway passes over the Green Springs and the Slski yous had up to 12 inches of snow, and plows operated well Into the night, according to state police. , , j Light orchard heating was reported in some areas south west of Medford Saturday morning when the skies clear cd, and some heating was ex pected In the valley early this morning. The coldest spots were expected to drop ;to about 29 degrees. ; j Weather bureau personnel said Saturday It Is not unusual to record snow In the valley this late in the spring. On April 7, 1653, four inches' of snow fell in Medford, and snow has been reported as lnte as May on several occa sions, v i r - Despite snowy weather, the Jackson county sheriff's office Saturday said about 75 to 100 boats were on Howard Prairie lake most of the day, and the department had its lake pa trol operating, ..- Subscribers : To report? Improper or non delivery of the Mail Tribune In Medford and Ashland, phone SP 2-6141; Montague and Yreka phone GLobe 9 3171 before 0:45 p.m. dally and 10:30 a.m. Sunday. If regular delivery arrives shortly after you call, please notify office, thus eliminating special' messenger service. No. 27 . Ex-President Had Urged Kennedy To Back Invasion Two Leaders Meet - At Camp David, Md. Camp David, Md.-fflPD-PresI-dent. Kennedy won renewed support from former Presi dent Dwight'D. Eisenhower on the Cuban crisis Saturday after .briefing his White House predecssor on the tense situa tion.. .... . f " Shorty after -Kennedy and Eisenhower, concluded their Camp David meeting,1 it was learned fin - Washington that Eisenhower strongly recom mened to Kennedy before his inauguration that the United States allow plans for the Cu ban invasion to proceed. ' in another of the series of rapid-fire developments, the state department, speaking on behalf of Kennedy, retorted to "an angry message from So viet) Premier Nikita Khrush chev on Cuba. : No Public Debate The department announced that Kennedy - has 1 decided "not- to be drawn into an ex tended public debate? , with the Soviet ruler on details of the Cuban controversy. But on Kennedy's, behalf, the de partment pledged an "endless struggle" for attainment of "fundamental rights - and the "popular will" in Cuba and elsewhere.: ;.: :. :::::.. . Kennedy met with Eisen- hower In this mountain re- , weai in an eiiori io line up I bipartisan, support for action the bristling Cuban crisis. lne .meeting,. foaeu - nower caueq ior: u- amen- cans to support Kennedy in Authoritative "sources 'mean- While said that bef ore Ken- - hower strongly recommend ed to the incoming president ' that the United States allow plans for the; Cuban invasion to proceed. Officials also said! that former " Vice. President . Richard. Nixon backed tha Plan, as did the ioint chiefs . of staff under Eisenhower. Not Organised (They also said that at ona point the assault was sched uled to take place last fall, but the rebels could not get organized in time. The one. hour and 29 min ute meeting took place amid crackling activity on widely scattered fronts relating to the Cuban crisis. Kennedy said-he had invit ed Eisenhower to the lunch- eon meeting "in order to bring him up to date on recent events and also to get the benefits of his thoughts and experience." , The briefing apparently In- eluded a report on a message in which Soviet Premier Ni- . klta S. Khrushchev claimed he had proof the United States . backed the invasion of Cuba. Supporting Man Elsenhower told newsmen: I say I am all in favor of the United States supporting the.man who has to carrvi tha "responsibility for our foreign affairs.- -.; .;; rWi Before he left Washington. Kennedy met with the nation. al security council on the Cu ban. 8ltuatlon..:i.. -..,.:,. -..v Both Kennedy and Eisen hower were smiling as they emerged from the conference. 6 Die In Oregon Auto Accidents By United Press International ' Six Oregon persons died in traffic accidents In the state Friday, four in a, two-car crash near Klamath Falls. ; j ,. Killed In the two-car colli sion were James F. Garner, 27; his wife, Phyllis Marporie, 27; their 8-month-old daugh ter, , Sandra, all of Klamath Falls, and Mrs. Shirley Wil son, about 40, Chemult, The other victims were Rus sell Glenn Bowen, 21, Milton Freewater, and Wilma Eileen Berry, 21, Molalla. Both died In separate one-car accidents. "'; The Garners' son, Scott Ed ward,' 2V4, and Mrs. Wilson's .-, husband, Lawrence, 50, were .,. hospitalized at Klamath Falls - with serious Injuries. The . accident occurred on snow-slick U. S. Highway 97 about 45 miles north of Klam ath Falls. State police said tha Garner vehicle slid into, the Wilson car broadside. - i If
