Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, April 24, 1961, Image 1

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Newspaper Page Text1 n L..&WiMr ' " "" "MnMlllMlnim 1 ui.l FRENCH TANKS READY Heavy tanks are lined up along an avenue leading to Les InValides (background) to- day after President Charles de Gaulle assumed dictatorial powers to crush -the rightwing Algerian mutineers; The Regional Edition 18 Pages Recent Rains Aid Present Demands But Not Storage Recent fains and snow have been beneficial to agriculture, but have had little effect on accumulated water ' storage for Medford and Rogue River Valley irrigation districts, dis trict offices reported today. MID i Manager Jack Hoff buhr said the recent rain and snow has taken care of im mediate demands for pasture and" garden irrigations - The precipitation was shattow",:'but eliminated the necessity for the district to buy water. "Storage - wise Fish End Four. Mile lakes are still, in bad shape,": Hoffbuhr com mented. "We have had 50 per cent less rain this year com pared with the same period last Tear. The first of the month is the period when the snow melts and the runoff should pick up." ; The Rogue River Valley ir rigation district gets its wa . ter from the Medford district. Better Shape Talent irrigation district of ficials figure their district is in better shape than any other Oregon irrigation district. Recordings this morning showed Howard Prairie lake has .25,812 acre feet of use able storage water, a gain of 912 feet for the past week and Emigrant has 29,048 acre feet of active storage. Runoff from melting snow is contin uing with the south collection canal carrying 36.1 second feet and ' Dead Indian 19.5 second feet. This compares to 17.8 second feet from Dead Indian for the same date last year and 25.3 second feet for the south fork. MEDFORDrRIBUNE City Police Car Wrecked During High Two cars, including a Med ford police patrol car, were wrecked, and a 19-year-old Ashland woman was injured as the result of a high-speed auto chase . which wound through . three Rogue valley communities early this morn ing. . Injured was Mrs. Sharon Laree Holsapple, 487 Rock st., Ashland. She is reported to be in fair condition at Rogue Valley hospital where she is being treated for a compound fracture of the leg. Mrs. Holsapple was a pas senger in a car operated by Paul Leon Jacks, 26, Gold Hill. Medford police said the Jacks vehicle failed to nego tiate a curve while being chased by police on Highway 99 near the Gold Hill over pass and crashed into a row of trees. Both Jacks and the woman were thrown from the car, police said, but only the woman was injured. A Medford police car, oper ated by Patrolman Richard S. Hamilton, failed to nego tiate the same curve and crashed into a ditch in front of the Dardanelles Trailer court. Although his patrol car was wrecked, Hamilton suf fered only minor' cuts to his face and hands. tmm '-ummm MEDFORD, OREGON, MONDAY, APRIL 24, 1961 Reach Agreement On Laos Cease Fire London - (UPD - The British government announced today that ' an agreement has been reached with the Soviet Union for a cease fire in Laos. The announcement was made in the House of Com mons by J. B.Godber, under secretary of state for foreign 'sto-. 7,,., , v ... .. . Godber- said Foreign, Secre tary Lorcf Home had 'reached agreement with' the Russians on preliminary arrangements for a cease fire and a confer ence on the war - ruptured Asian kingdom. Budget Group Plans Tuesday Meeting The Jackson county budget committee will meet at 8 a.m. tomorrow, and may possibly hold one more meeting after that to complete the budget study for 1961-62, County Judge Earl Miller said today. Final approval is expected on the proposed $90,110 coun ty clerk's budget. The commit tee will also spend much of its tfme considering the mis cellaneous county budget and the Jackson county parks and recreation budget. Proposed overall total for the county parks and recrea tion budget is $90,901. This is expected to hold regardless of whether or not the city and county will still have a co operative arrangement, City County Parks and Recreation Director Robert Haworth said. Speed Chase Both cars were estimated to have been going about 70 miles per hour at the time of the crash. The chase started about 3:25 a.m., when Medford Patrol man Dennis Perkins spotted the Jacks vehicle allegedly speeding at the Medford city limits on Highway 99. Perkins gave chase and followed the vehicle through Central Point and bt;k through Jackson ville by vv.'y of Hanley rd., Ross lane and the Jackson ville highway. In the meantime he radioed for assistance and Hamilton joined the chase near Jack sonville on North Stage rd. The brakes on Perkins car then began to fail and Hamil ton took over the chase. According to Perkins' re port, both his patrol car and the Jacks vehicle reached speed of up to 100 miles per hour at several times during the chase. A third Medford patrol car, along with cars from the sher iffs office and Oregon state police department, joined the pursuit. Jacks was lodged in the county jail on charges of reck less driving and failure to heed a police siren and red light. Information Ministry or France said that the "resolution" shown by the population of Paris united behind de Gaulle had forestalled a planned paratroop invasion of Algeria, - ' - (UP! Radiotelephoto) 56th , Russia The same announcement was made in Moscow by the Soviet government. '.. In New Delhi it was an nounced that April 28 'was suggested by India as the date for reconvening the Interna tional Control Commission on Laos as part of the cease fire agreement. The commission,. made up of India, Poland and Canada, would verify the cease fire. . ' In Washington, a State De partment spokesman said the United States will not attend the 14-nation conference on Laos until it is assured that an actual cease fire is in effect. ' The agreement came after weeks of consultation be tween Britain and the Soviet Union, both acting in their capacities as co-chairmen of the 1954 Geneva Conference that settled the war in Indo china. Godber said the agreement included three "communica tions" which will be publish ed Tuesday. They are: -A call for a cease fire in Laos. -A call to India to convene the three-power International Supervisory Commission. -A call for a 14-nation in ternational conference May 12 in Geneva. Boat Owners Need To Renew Licenses Sheriff Joe Walsh said a deputy was on boat patrol Saturday and Sunday at How ard Prairie lake despite the cold weather. Deputies reported 75 to 100 boats on the lake Saturday and more than that Sunday. Fishermen were" making good catches, Walsh noted. v Walsh reminded all those who took out boat licenses last year that the expiration date was March 1. He estimat ed that Jackson county issued 1,400 licenses last year and only 200 boat owners have re. newed them. Renewals cannot be made through the sheriff's office but the check and re newal application should be mailed directly to the state marine board in Salem, the sheriff directed. "We will continue to issue temporary permits for new licenses, however," Walsh ad ded. "Proof of renewal until the license arrives from Sal em can be a check stub, or money-order recepit." After Jan. 1, 1962 a dry chemical fire extinguisher will be required in every boat, Walsh said. TUESDAY SPEAKERS Ashland-Dr. Alvin Fellers, director of student affairs at Southern Oregon college, and Don Lewis. SOC business manager, will discuss educa tion aids at the noon luncheon of the Ashland Chamber of Commerce Tuesday. Fells will explain the National Defense Education act and Lewis will describe the Southern Oregon College Foundation, i ' Year Price 1 0 Cents No. 28 Hatfield To Block Chance of Appling Resigning Office Salem-dJPD-Gov. Mark Hat field said today he will "dis courage in every way possi ble" the chance of Secretary of State Howell Appling Jr. resigning his job. Appling, appointed by Hat field In 1959 and elected to a full term last fall, last week hinted he may quit if Hat field's Board of Control rec ommendation.si pass the legis lature.1"" r ':i--v: Vj ' Hatfield's government "reor ganization plan envisions the elimination of the three-man board which includes Hat field, Appling and State Treas urer Howard Belton. Falling Out Denied There was a talk of a fall ing out between the two top Republicans but both deny it, writing it off as a "difference of opinion." . Hatfield said it would be "very unfortunate" to lose Appling. "His implied action give the Democratic opposi tion an opportunity to retire a very attractive Republican personality, Hatfield said. Man Bound Over on Charge of Assault Raymond Lee Parks, Okla homa City, Okla., was bound over to the grand jury on charges of assault after ap pearing in district court this morning. He waived the right to an attorney and. preliminary hearing and is being held in the county jail in lieu of $1,500 bail. " Parks was recently1 return ed from Oklahoma City by the Jacksbn county sheriff's deputies. He is charged with striking and stabbing a wom an "about the neck and throat" with a pocket knife on Nov. 22, 1960. Stephen Allen Love, route 1, box 16, Rogue River, re quested a preliminary hear ing when he appeared in dis trict court this morning on charges of attempted rape. The hearing has been set for 1:30 p.m., tomorrow. Two Injured in One Vehicle Accident Ashland-Two persons were injured in a one car accident in Ashland Sunday morning. Injured were David Lee Beck, 6, and Darlene Kay Beck, 12, of Talent. They were passengers in a car driv en by Ruth Ann Olson, of Route 1, box 30, Talent. Po lice said that the Olson vehi cle was turning left from Sis kiyou blvd. onto Mountain ave. when the car went out of control end struck a utility pole. The Beck children were treated for bruises at Ashland General hospital and released. No citation was issued. TO BE SPEAKER La Grande-flJPIl-Gov. Mark Hatfield will deliver the Eas tern Oregon College com mencement address June 9. Hatfield Asks Solution To Milk Price Cut Salem-fflPD-Gov. Mark Hat field said today he does not favor government price con trols but he has ordered the State Agriculture Department to come up with a recom mendation for a solution to the milk price cut problems. i Hatfield said he has not studied a bill which would impose a modified milk price control system in Oregon. But he added he is "reluctant to see government step in ' and "control the economy" even though there are sometimes "exceptions" in some com modities. Nearly Million Pared From State Education Budget Salem - (BPII - Cuts totalling nearly a million dollars in the state higher education sys tem budget, including some 30 new faculty positions, were approved today by the Ways and Meahs Education subcom mittee. The biggest slice from the $92 million budget is $449,166 that would have been used for new college and university teachers. Other chunks lopped off in clude $40,000 in out-of-state and in-state travel, $134,456 in general research, $100,000 from general extension teach ing, and $40,000 from the Portland School of Social Work. ' TB Hospital Fund Cut The committee also deleted more than $155,000 that had been planned for tuberculosis hospital conversion and onera tion in Salem and at the Port land Medical school. Along with the cuts "came an admonition from Ways and Means Co-Chairman Clarence Barton for higher education officials to stop applying the cuts in popular areas '! where they can get some squawks." 'Monkeyshines' Hit .T "They can cut out some of these monkeyshines ... like advertising for a course in Japanese flower arranging," Barton said. ' The net reduction totals some $865,000, with capital construction and faculty sal ary sections of the budget awaiting action. The full Ways and Means committee must approve the whole thing. Student Loans Added Actually, subcommittee slashes totaled more than $1 million, but the committee has added $150,000 for student loans, which will bring in more than $1 million in fed eral matching funds, and an additional $85,000 for state scholarships. To raise these sums, the subcommittee proposed a $45 a year hike in out-of-state stu dent fees, expected to bring in about $250,000. Kennedy Welcomes India's Sukarno Washington - (UPD - Presi dent Kennedy pulled out all the ceremonial stops today to welcome and meet with Indo nesia's President Sukarno, a key judge of U. S. influence in neutral countries and Asia. Kennedy greeted Sukarno at the airport. There was a red carpet, a 21-gun salute and an honor guard, followed by an hour and a half meeting at the White House and a stag lunch. Sukarno, who said on his arrival that he had come to "see one of the centers of ac tion of the world," may pro vide Kennedy with indica tions of how the anti-Castro revolt in Cuba affected U. S. prestige. Joseohine Surplus Food Distributed Grants Pass -UPD Distribu tion of federal surplus food to welfare recipients and oth ers eligible for it began here today. Officials said they were not swamped but there were as many as six or seven persons in line at different times dur ing the morning. Prior to today 140 non-wel fare persons were certified along with 805 on welfare. Eligibility is on the basis of an applicant's income. For example one person must have an income of $102 or less per month and a family of four an income of $223 or less per month. The Oregon milk industry is jittery because of a recent two cent per quart slash in prices. The governor said the drawn-out gasoline price war is a great dilemma and his staff is working on a solution to that too. . i Hatfield told his weekly news conference that log ex porting regulations are "pri marily" a federal repsonsi- bility since international trade is involved. Comment ing on a state log export ban bill in the legislature, the governor said he has asked the Kennedy administration to study the problem. " Hatifeld said he is "sorry" the legislature has hot moved more rapidly on pay increases in higher education. He condemned a Ways and Means subcommittee for de feating a $48,000 Hatifeld re quest . for . remodeling of the State Tuberculosis hospital in Portland. ' He said the new work could mean "millions" in re search grants and break throughs in crippling diseases. Takes Dim View Hatfield took a dim view of the possibility of speeding construction of a new campus for Oregon Technical Instl tue at Klamath Falls if it meant putting over other pri orities he has recommended. Oregon's new state GOP chairman, Robert G. Davis, attended the conference, and a newsman asked if Hatfield would care to predict the chances of a Republican-controlled legislature in 1963. , Hatifeld said the chances are "excellent. 'All you have to do," he said, "is look at the record of the legislature." Hoovers Receive 5,100 Letters : : Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Hoover, Gregory ' rd., have received some 5,100 letters, thanking them for the tree planting program conducted by them and the Eagle Point Grange. Hoover said that the letters have been received from adults and children through out the Rogue valley. The Grange committee has distrib uted 48,000 trees. They said that those who still want trees should make their own com munity distribution arrange ments. Last week Hoover noted that Medford schools received 1,000 trees and Southern Ore gon college, Ashland, a like number. Five hundred trees were given the Phoenix beau tification committee and Cen tral Point will receive 500. So far every city and town in Jackson county has receiv ed the trees, which the Hoov ers obtained at their own ex pense from various nurseries throughout the country and have donated without charge. The long list of varieties distributed include several kinds of spruce, arbor vitae, red maple, Russian mulberry, elm, poplar, mountain ash, honey locust, golden weeping willow, live oak, Douglas fir, lodge pole, ponderosa and Austrian pine, Port Orford cedar, incense cedar, and black locust. Reserve Officers Hold Meeting Here Navy Lt. Cdr. Francis M. Reagan, Portland attorney, was named president of the Oregon Reserve Officers asso ciation which concluded its two-day : annual convention here with a dinner Saturday night at Mon Desir. Maj. William H. Naylor, Central Point, was named vice president for Army affairs. Other vice presidents select ed were Capt. Richard Welch, Portland, for Navy affairs, and Capt. George Richey, Portland, for Air Force af fairs. Other officers chosen were Maj. Adelbert Closterman, Portland, judge advocate, Col Laurie Lind, Portland, sur geon, and Lt. Col. Percy Blen kinsop, Portland, chaplain. Richey, Lind and Blenkinsop were reelected. Main speaker Saturday night was Maj. Gen. Eugene Cushing, who commands the 104th Infantry Training divi sion. He U a superior court judge at Vancouver, Wash. An estimated 90 reserve of ficers from throughout Ore gon attended the conclave. : 'J: m t..!.W.Wtf itssS1t 'Will i I r I Jijit'WlllMi1IWli ,:. i''i4' ASSUMES FULL POWERS Gaulle is shown as he addressed a national radio-television audience Sunday, De Gaulle announced he is assuming full powers to rule France by decree as a result of the army insurrection in Algeria. . Castro Turns Down Pleas of For Rebel Miaml-IUPD - Premier Fidel Castro, brushing aside the pleas of five Latin American presidents, was expected to day to unleash the biggest fir. Ing-squad bloodbath yet in "socialist" Cuba. ' : The bearded Cuban also was expected to build up his government's defense against what he called probable new invasions staged by the United States. - In a 4-hour-and-33-mlnute telethon Sunday, Castro said such attacks would sound the death knell of the United States. '. He sneered at U.S. leaders, calling Sen. Harry Goldwa ter (R-Ariz.) a "moron," and saying President Kennedy re mined him of Adolf Hitler. He threatened blows at the "very heart of the Yankee empire" - presumably mean ing retaliation , by Russian rockets. Castro said Allen W. Dulles, whose Central Intelligence Agency has been ' denounced Violent Winds Leave Death, Injury By United Press International Violent winds that cut a week end path of death and injury today lashed the lower Great Lakes and fanned two forest fires in the Black Hills. The winds, moving behind cold, low pressure band from Lake Erie to the Rio Grande, set off thundershow ers from Texas to the southern Appalachians and accompan ied snow flurries and rain from the Rockies to upper Michigan. Midwestern weather turbu lence was blamed in at least two deaths and dozens of in juries. A 51-year-old Garri son, Iowa, man was killed and six other persons were Injured when gusts toppled a chim ney and hurled bricks through church window Sunday at Peotone, 111. A parachutist making practice jumps for club membership was electro cuted as winds blew his chute against power lines. Tornadoes and near - torna does destroyed or damaged scores of buildings at Symer- ton, Wilton Center and Lor enzo, 111., parts of eastern Iowa, ' eastern Kansas and western Missouri and Altus, Okla. - ( Milk Price Bill Sent to Committee Salem - (UPD - An emergency bill for milk price controls whipped through Introduction procedures In the House today and was sent to the Food and Dairying committee for . fast action. The House suspended its rules to allow, first and second readings on the bill on the same day. Normal procedure would have taken several days. French President Charles de (UFI Radiotelephoto) Clemency Invaders by the Castroite press and radio as the brains behind the attack, should have been fired and "shipped along with the Invaders. ', He also ridiculed President riennedy's "White Paper" on Cuba, and-said reports In U.S. newspapers ;. and magazines kept him up to date on rebel planning. - -.'.v. -.v "We are not afraid of the Marines," Castro said. ' "We will give them a 7 grand re ception. If they destroy us, It will mean the destruction of the Yankee empire. "The day they invade us will be the day the Yankee empire disappears from the face of the earth." He said the entire ' U.S. Army would be needed to pro tect American ambassadors to Latin American nations if U.S. forces Invaded Cuba. Denies Clemency Despite pleas for clemency from the presidents of Argen tina, Colombia, Costa Rica, Mexio and Venezuela, Castro indicated he would deal mer cilessly with 700 prisoners he said were taken in last week's fighting. ,. Don't ask for clemency, because we aren't going to give it to them," he said. "Ask them for clemency for the children killed i In the bomb ings." Castro also confined indi rectly that there was a mass roundup of Cubans after the April 10 invasion, affecting perhaps as ' many as 50,000 persons. He said it was neces sary to arrest "all suspicious persons," but added that those proved innocent would be re leased. "It's So Good To Get Like Algeria Invasion Alarm Cancelled; Nation Tense Citizens Assemble For Local Defense Paris-IUPD-President Charles de Gaulle began bolstering the defense of France with special army reserves today in the face of the spreading military revolt in Algeria. De Gaulle, invested with dictatorial powers, started mobilizing the reserve after the country had gone through a six-hour invasion alert. The alarm was cancelled early -this morning but France re mained tense though outward ly normal. Police Patrol Streets Special police and gen darmes patrolled Paris streets, and city buses wera parked in side streets ready to be used as makeshift barri cades in emergency. In many suburbs, citizens assembled to form vigilante defense groups for: local defense., t Despite strong warnings from the government, how- ( ever, most residents In warm, , sunny. Paris did not appear alarmed at the situation. In formed sources said the gov- , eminent was concerned about ; public apathy. Invasion Threat Denied An unidentified speaker over the rebel-controlled' Al- giers Radio denied that insur gent French military forces in Algiers had ordered an in vasion of France. Earlier, Gen. Maurice Challe, one of the rebel leaders, said on the radio that: none of the insur gents had any political or per- . ' sonal ambitions. He said their sole purpose was to save Al geria from the Moslem rebel lion that has raged for mora than seven years. In announcing the call-up of the army reserves, the cabinet appealed for support from the French people and warned "a grave . threat weighs upon France and the republic." Cabinet Summoned De Gaulle summoned a cab inet meeting on the crisis for Tuesday. Parliament was due I to reconvene Tuesday , after noon for the first-time since December. It will be the start of the spring session. A message from President Kennedy lauded De Gaulle for "the line you have chosen to, solve the tragic problem of Algeria." The message was presented to the general by U.S. Ambassador . James K. Gavin. . Kennedy told De Gaulle that "in this grave hour for France, I assure you of my constant friendship and solid arity, as well as that of the American people." In Algeria, the rebel gen erals who proclaimed their re volt Saturday, appeared to be extending their power with out bloodshed. They claimed complete con trol of Algiers, Constantine and Oran - the three key mill- -tary centers in Algeria. WEATHER FORECAST: Considerable cloud iness but occasional clearing periods tonight. Sunny and warmer Tuesday. Low tonight 33 High Tuesday 68. Temp. Highest Yesterday 54 Lowest This Morning 44 Preclp. to 10 fc.m. Today ..., .01 Our Skies Tonight Sunset today 7:03 p.m. Sunrise tomorrow ...... 5:15 a.m. Moonset tomorrow ...... 2:54 a.m. Full Moon April 30 PROMINENT STARS Regulus. near the Moon. Slrlus. In the southwest at sunset, will set . 9:17 p.m. riniares, rises ..10:41 p.m. Away From The World This" 4.