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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
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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.
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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
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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,
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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,
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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.
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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
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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
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