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Mil 0) Ira Satellite Gives Information on Big Sun Storm Washington-iUPD- An Amer ican satellite recovered from orbit brought back informa tion of "exceptional scientific Importance" about the danger ' ous radiations and particles which flood interplanetary space after giant storms on the face of the sun. This was reported to the - American Physical Society today by Dr. Herman Yagoda, research scientist of the Air Force ' Cambridge Research Laboratories at Bedford, Mass. " The satellite, third U.. S. spacecraft returned from or bit, was the 300-pound scien tific capsule carried aloft Nov. 12, I960, by the Air Force's " Discoverer XVII. " ' ; , ' , Exposed 'to Particles The satellite, launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base In California, was exposed to 'torrents of particles from a huge flare which erupted on ; the sun the day of the launch- ingv . : The particles traveled at i such high- speeds that they easily penetrated the satel i lite's metal skin to leave their ! tracks inches deep in a block ' of special photographic plates. ; When; a flare occurs, the ; sun envelopes the earth in an j Intense radiation field, Yagoda 250 Librarians : Expected at State Conference Here "Challenges of the Sixties" ' will be the theme of the Ore gon Library association con ference which opens in Med- i ford Thursday, April 27. Over 250 librarians from through- out Oregon are expected for ! the three-day conference. 1 Omar A. Bacon, librarian for the Public Library of Med ford and Jackso'tyCounty, and : Miss Cora Maspn, librarian at Ashland Public library, are : co - chairman planning" the . event.' ';.,-.'. - The meetings iwill begin with registration in the Jack son hotel lobby from 7 to 10 p.nii Thursday, Members of the executive board, headed by Mrs. Dessa Hofstetter, Ore gon. College of Education, Monmouth, will meet at 7:30 p.m. in the Public Library of Medford and Jackson County. An informal pre - conference coffee hour is scheduled for 7:30 p.m. in the library. Speakers for Friday and Saturday sessions include Medford Mayor John Snider; Richard , Travis, chairman of the board of trustees, Public Library of Medford and Jack son County; Angus L. Bow mer, director, Oregon Shake spearean Festival association; Nathan Berkham, chairman, State library trustees; and Marion A. Milczewski, direc tor of libraries, University of Washington. Four special sections of the conference will meet for ' breakfasts Saturday morning and the closing general ses sion will follow luncheon at the Jackson hotel. Perry D. Morrison wil deliver the inaugural address. - The visitors have been in vited to tour the Jacksonville museum Saturday afternoon. NAMED PRESIDENT Portland-IUPD-Attorney Wil liam H. Boland has been elected president of the Great er Portland Council of Churches. Reorganization Committee to Acton Boundary Proposal May 23 The Jackson county school district reorganization com mittee will make its recom mendation on a proposed transfer of property from the Phoenix to the Medford school district at its regular meeting on May 23, Committee Chair man Keith Hockersmith said last night. , About 46 residents from the Barnett rd. area said they would continue to petition the reorganization committee to shift their property into the Medford school district if the decision does not favor them. The request involves an area within the Medford city limits but in the Phoenix school district. Thd five sec tions of land involved are lo cated near Barneburg hill and along Barnett rd. The pro posal does not include the Rogue Valley Manor. Hockersmith explained the committee is not required by law to hold a hearing, but was holding last night's hearing in the courthouse auditorium at the request of the Barnett rd. area residents to give every- said. Fortunately . for living things on the planet, the at mosphere protects the surface of the earth from most of this radiation. Exposed To Full Fury But the Discoverer XVII, riding between 117 and 620 miles in polar orbit about the earth, "was exposed to the full fury of the solar storm," Yagoda said. Discoverer XVII was the first U.S. satellite which car ried an emulsion block to re cord the tracks of particles from the sun. - -", Study of the plates showed that carbon and oxygen, among the heavier atomic nu clei represented, "are pro duced copiously during a solar flare and have sufficient en ergy to penetrate the skin of the satellite," Yagoda report ed, "'-v. : i f. Budget Group To Finish Work on County Requests The Jackson county budget committee will meet Monday for its last session to consider the county roads, library and miscellaneous general county budgets, the county court said this morning. : i County Judge Earl Miller estimates that all budgets as presented would total $4,057, 905.28. This is $225,000 under the $4,283,204.87 in antici pated receipts for the new fiscal year starting July' 1. However, the budget commit tee has been shaving some budget items and increasing others, the county judge noted. ' .. I ; Requested budget total for the county roads department is $1,811,563, or approximate ly $39,000 over this year's budget total. ; , County Engineer Robert -Cajstensen S8id-thejargest,in', creases in his budget are in anticipated bridge work with some carry-over projects,! and the proposed salary increases. General County Budget . i , Miscellaneous general coun ty budget request totals $241, 054.76, an increase of $27, 703.95. It includes such items as county and state trappers, rodent control, child and fam ily counseling program, agron omy station operation and em ployee life insurance. ; Yesterday afternoon the budget committee tentatively approved $68,581 for the county parks and recreation budget. Committee action transferred $12,900 from the budget request into the new miscellaneous supplies "and equipment category, added $5,000 for the eight-county development program, added $260 to a combined commis sion director and maintenance supervisor for a salary total of $8,000. The $1,750 fruit inspection budget was tentatively passed as is. However, one budget committee member objected mildly to tne county financing the frost warning service for the fruit industry at a cost of $995. Pest and blight control is also included in this budget at $755. The committee also tenta tively approved the budgets of district attorney,' county extension agent, and consta ble. The county clerk's budget had been approved tentatively at $81,161 previously. one a chance to express their opinions. . Frank VanDyke, Medford lawyer representing some 20 Barnett rd. area residents, said he would not reveal his clients' names since some of them have already lost sub stantial business - from the Phoenix school district people. Shows Photographs VanDyke showed photo graphs of the Barnett rd. area taken from atop Rogue Valley Manor. These, he said, showed the close relation of the Bar nett rd. area to Medford. He charged the Phoenix school district with wasteful duplication of facilities and pointed out the proposed lo cation of a second Phoenix district grade school in the Barnett rd. area. Estimated construction cost is $27,000, he said. He emphasized tat the Barnett rd. area residents have much stronger social and economic ties with Medford than they do with the Phoenix-Talent area. Other arguments VanDyke presented were: The transfer Farmers Given Tax Break in Vote by House Exclusive Farm Use Zoning Allowed Salem-IUPII-The House to day passed and sent to the Senate a bill to give urban and suburban farmers a tax break by allowing their land to be zoned for exclusive farm use. The vote was 38-21. Rep. Clarence Barton (D Coquille) called it a "specula tor's paradise" in the amend ed form. A motion by a fellow House Tax committee mem ber, Rep. Bill Bradley, to get it resent to committee failed 31-28. Favors Relief , ' Barton said he favors re lief for farmers caught in the crush of expansion by cities but the bill as it stands is bad. The committee by a split vote had deleted a controv ersial deferral factor meaning that when a farmer moved to sell property for other than farm use, such as at a higher price for subdivisions, he would have to pay seven years back taxes at the higher sub division tax rate. Lower Rate Possible As long as he kept his land exclusively for farming he could enjoy the lower tax rate. - The deferral angle was in tended to discourage farmer speculators waiting for sub divisions to build up around them, and then sell their land at a big profit. Rep. Douglas Heider (R Salem) said the bill without the deferral factor is need ed and major farm groups en dorse it. ; ; . i Barton declared that the bill applies only to a few counties which have county zoning Vso if you think you're helping , farmers throughout Oregon you're wrong." : Murder Trial Set for June 26 A' Jackson county circut court jury trial has been set for LeeRoy Sanford McGa huey, 43, who is charged with the murder of Rod Cameron Holt, 23-months, for 9:30 a.m., June 26. McGahuey pleaded innocent in circuit court this morning to charges of first degree murder. His attorney, Wil liam Kellington, "gave notice of proof of sanity." This means that McGahuey's at torney will try to prove that his client was insane at the time he allegedly committed the murder. ..,'-.- McGahuey has confessed to the murder of the infant and his mother, Mrs. Loris Mae Holt. Mrs. Holt and her son were found slain in a Central Point apartment in February. Lewis County Sheriff O. R. Amondson, Chehalis, Wash., and his undersheriff, W. Al Murray, were questioning Mc Gahuey shortly after his ar rest in February regarding a 1957 murder in Lewis county, but were unable ito obtain a definite statement from the TIME VOTE FAVORED Salem-IUPt-The House com mittee on Planning and De velopment late Tuesday voted out "do pass" a bill putting the question of statewide day light having time before the voters in .1962. would eliminate expensive school transportation into the area; taxes from the manor valued at $l'2 million would more than compensation for removal of the property with an assessed valuation of $700, 000;. pupils from Barnett rd. have to travel over six miles to the grade and high school in Phoenix, and 10 miles to the junior high school In Talent; Phoenix district would have additional building costs of $90,000 if it adds a gym nasium and cafeteria at the proposed new grade school; Hoover elementary school in the Medford district would be across the street from it. Other Arguments Other arguments presented by the Barnett rd. area resi dents were much the same as those given at previous hear ings. George Fields, a subdivider in the area, claimed that home sales there have "come to a screeching halt." The city of Medford is Iosins $600,000 in property valuation while these homes are not selling, he argued. Regional Edition Medford I 20 PAGES . s. , " x'M ;V fTTf xw x s I v ' x N v x? " ,x GENERAL ALARM Fire, originating from an over-heated grill- in the ' Town House 'cafe,!il27 South 'Central ;ave., Medford,' last night attracted a large number; of spectators as a contingent of -37 firemen worked to bring the. blaze under control. No flames were visible from the outside, but smoke crept from second story windows of the Frank WEATHER Forecast: Fair through Thursday. Low-lontght 35. High Thursday 72. Temp. Highest Yesterday 66 Lowest This Morning 32 Our Skies Tonight Sunset today 7:05 p.m. Sunrise tomorrow .... 5:13 a.m. Moonsct tomorrow .... 3:54 a.m. Full Moon April 30 For 'the next few nights the three stars on a line In the west will be (from right to left) Castor, Pollux, and the planet, Mars. Mars Is now about as bright as Pollux. Municipal, Justice Courts To Be Closed No Medford municipal court session will be held Friday and Gold Hill justice court will be closed the rest of the week; it , was announced to day. ':, Medford Municipal Judge Ronald Ricketts, p r o -1 e m Judge Joe Fleigel and Judge Norman R. ' Matteson, , Gold Hill, will spend Thursday, Fri day and Saturday in Eugene attending a three-day state traffic court conference. Persons who have Friday dates in Medford municipal court are advised to attend next Monday's regular ses sion. He said he resented the slurs made against realtors in the area. However, he admit ted that some builders did not tell their buyers that they would not be in the Medford school district. Some of the Medford resi dents said Phoenix schools were good, but they resent the inconvenience of driving their youngsters to the Phoenix dis trict so thev could particloate in extra-curricular activities. Dr. Donald M. McGcary opened arguments for 've Phoenix school district as a school board member. Phoe nix district needs the aoDroxi matclv 100 pupils from the Barnett rd. area to help con tinued growth, he said. Adds Advanced Coursei Phoenix has added advance courses, has a greatly im proved education system fol lowing the consolidation of Phoenix and Talent districts, and its athletic teams, al though not doing as well as Medford's, have rjlaced near the top, Dr. McGeary de clared. ' - - Melvin L a 1 1 1 e. Phoenix MEDFORD, OREGON, Considerable Smoke Damage Occurs from Fire in Local Cafe Fire in the Town House cafe, 127 South Central ave., resulted in a general alarm here last night. City firemen reported that the blaze was confined to a limited area but that consid erable i smoke ' damage oc curred throughout the Frank lin building in which the cafe is located. . , ' ,, ' 1 The blaze' originated from a grill which had been left on, according to Fire Chief. Gor don Barker. Grease ' ignited and the fire spread to the up per floor and the wall at the vent. ' All of the ceiling of the cafe above ' the drop ceiling was involved in fire. Firemen said that fire damage was confined to this area. Smoke and heat damage, school board member and or- chardist, traced the transfer of properties from the Phoenix to Medford school district dur ing a three year period, in volving a total valuation of $496,830. This started with transfer of property for the Hoover elementary school site in 1958, he pointed out. The latest attempt to transfer property Is "the boldest one yet," he argued. The five sec tions of land, with $700,000 valuation, places the per Dupil wealth of the area at $7,000, almost double of that in Med ford or Phoenix. Would Have Grave Affect "Since our district has al ready spent considerable money for the education of these children ffrom the Bar nett rd. area) this latest pro posal would have a grave and crippling affect," he said. Laltle quoted from a letter to the state department of ed ucation stating that this pro posal Interferes with a new ly created administrative school district and detents Ihe purpose of the school district reorganization law. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 26, lin building and for a while it was difficult to ascertain : how far-the fire had progressed. The fire was contained in i the cafe area with no damage, other than smoke, to the ;; rest of the building. The picture above was taken from the second floor of the Jackson hotel.: .' : . . . ' however, resulted to nine up stairs ' of f ice occupancies and four businesses on the ground floor of the two-story struc ture were damaged by smoke. The alarm was turned in at 8:46 p.m. after . a ; cleaning woman smelled smoke then noted the fire at the head of the stairs. She was polishing floors upstairs at the time, Barker reported. Firemen re sponded with three pumper trucks and the aerial ladder truck. A total of 37 firemen answered the alarm. Owner of the cafe and build ing is Dale Franklin, 1470 Kings highway. The firemen at the scene in cluded 14 on-duty men, 15-off duty men, five volunteers and the chief, assistant chief and fire marshal. Hockersmith pointed out that, school district and city boundaries do not have to coincide, according , to law, though he added there is such a proposal before the state legislature, and this might change the picture. Didn't Lose Manor Richard Cottle, Ashland at torney representing the Pho- nix district, said Medford did not "lose the manor" for it never had It. He pointed out that not all of the 134 peti tioners from the Barnett rd. area arc resident property owners there. Additional fa cilities for Hoover school, now already overcrowded, would also be expensive, he declared Phoenix will need a new school bus this next year re gardless of whether or not" it serves the Barnett rd. area and the overall reorganization picture should be considered when such land transfers are proposed, he added. 'Both groups applauded loudly when Hockersmith sug gested that a possible solution might be to make the entire county one school district, Tribune 1961 Appling Plans To Start Paying Salem - ItlPI) - Secretary of State Howell Appling said to day he plans to pay initial legislative expense claims next week if an audit now under way shows them to be justifiable. The first two claims were filed by Sen. Boyd Overhulse (D-Madras) and Rep. Stafford Hansell (R-Hermiston). These were used in the Supreme Court test which this month found the expense resolution constitutional. . A third claim has since been filed, that.of Sen. Dwlght Hop kins (D-Imbler). ; Appling said no further leg islation relating to the ex pense measure is necessary as far as he is concerned. But he revealed his department is preparing a "guide" on an in terpretation of legislative ex penses which will be dis tributed to all. Appling said he intended to pay expenses incurred by in dividual legislators "when they are incurred pursuant to the legislative function." "If we get into any diffi culty later over whether an expense claim qualifies, the courts will be the final au thority." Meanwhile, Rep. Norman Howard said the House State and Federal Affairs Commit tee has dropped the idea of a new resolution to repeal the legislative expense measure. Court Opens Bids For Lake Concession The Jackson county court this morning opened seven bids on the operation of a con cession at Emigrant lake rec reation area, but referred the bids to the Jackson county parks and recreation commis sion for recommendation. The bids offered the county from 1 to 16 per cent share of gross receipts from the con cession operation. J. F. Eberhardt, recreation commission member from Ash land, said recommendation would be made mainly on the background and qualifications of the bidder. 56th Year Price 10 Cents No. 30 Participation in Nationwide Alert Planned in County The nationwide Civil De fense alert which starts Thurs day will do one thing for Jackson county, Maj. Gen. J. H. Hicks, county Civil Defense director, said today. "It will point out that we are totally unprepared for a nuclear; war." . He termed as "fol-de-rol activities planned in some parts of the state to meet the three-day alert. Evacuating buildings, blowing sirens and calling out the Red Cross useless training, when there is no county program for pro tection against radioactive fallout, he declared. General Hicks said the United States "is lagging in the race with Russia to con struct shelters;" when that country has a "positive pro gram which discounts home basements not reinforced and stocked with food and water." In southern Oregon, he warned,, there are no public shelters, practically no pri vate shelters, no program for shelter inspection, and no pro gram for adding shelters to new buildings, especially schools. Aggressor Could Survive An aggressor country could survive, with an adequate sneiter program, while "we would suffer terrific person nel losses," he said. Jackson county ' Civil De fense participants, such as stale police, city police and Rod Cross, "will play the game," he said, and he will open six sealed envelopes at noon Thursday. The letters, , from Civil Defense Mobiliza tion headquarters, B a t t 1 e Creek, Mich., will give details of . the presumed ..situation. ,ia be faced. ueneral Hicks , said some residents in the cpunty feel this area would be free from fallout, because .winds from expected f. target areas blow away from southern Oregon. He countered such optimism by declaring that guidance ap paratus on i present missiles could not guarantee accuracy, and "a high proportion could land any place."- . i Jackson, county is just as vulnerable as anywhere in the country, especially so if bombs were to land west of the val ley," he said. Despite the lack of pre paredness, the county will open Civil Defense headquar ters In the communications control center in the court house basement, and various police agencies throughout a six-county area will be alert ed. The rest of Jackson county will operate on a "business as usual" schedule. Pioneer Rd. To Be vv ; Closed Three Days Pioneer rd. near Griffin creek will be closed Thurs day, Friday , and Saturday while workers for ' Pacific Concrete company install a culvert, according to the coun ty roads department. Motor ists are advised to use Griffin Creek or Dark Hollow rds. instead. ; The culvert will carry Irri gation water under the road. "You Can't Say We're Denying Your Right to Vote" De Gaulle Plans To Move Swiftly Against Leaders President To Show No 'Pity or Mercy' Paris' -WTO -''Gen'. Maurice Challe, 55,, the man who led the four-day Algerian rebel lion crushed by President Charles de Gaulle, was flown back to Paris under arrest to day to face a military court and possibly a firing squad. Challe returned ingnoml- niously In a French air forco plane that landed at Vula- coublay Airport outside Paris. He was hustled off to prison as de Gaulle prepared to bring the "full powers of French law to bear, against him and his fellow mutineers. , - i De Gaulle, armed with the dictatorial powers he assumed Sunday to;,cope with- the re bellion, . promised to move swiftly against Challe and his companions . , Promises Stern Measures The president pledged through: aides to take every measure .necessary to wioe France and, Algeria clean of any and all disloyal elements . and said he would do so with out "pity or mercy." . ', As Algeria . Itself . was re stored -to. complete military and civil control of the French government the victorious but grave de Gaulle met with his cabinet and set in motion a swift series of actions. . All other, ringleaders of the revolt that-failed also, were reported in government quar ters- to nave been arrested in Algeria. These quarters said they understood the others, Gens. Raoul Salan, Andre Zeller and Edmond Jouhaud, had been arrested at the Zoralda, a For eign Legion base 19 miles from Algiers. "They were believed to have gone t!)ere this morning by truck Ifilpng with some of their , paratrooper ' supporters. But precise -details on their pres- Ai..'Ut..Lw..ii j .1:11 ertf-wfiereabouts and fate still were lacking. ' - TaWft-l. toPrison y Challe; serious of face, was taken immediately by car from" -the 1 air "force "base at" Villacoublay, 20 miles outside Paris, to the capital's grim Sante ; Prison, ' an " ordinary criminal jail. :. Less than 18. hours earlier, Challe and .his fellow Insur rectionists still , were, issuing defiant ;-messages in Algiers against the French : govern ment and de Gaulle's plan for a negotiated peace with the Algerian Moslem rebels. It was a shameful homecom ing for the man who had been commander of NATO forces in Central Europe. He was on the honorary retired list when he suddenly-emerged in Al giers last Saturday as a leader of the revolt. Paris began to return to normal today,' although clus ters of police and security guards still appeared at key government' buildings and massive tanks stood a now less deadly vigil, 1 Three Boys Arrested For Tavern Burglary Ashland-Three lyear-old Ashland beys,' suspected In, the burglarizing of an Ash land tavern last Oct. 29, were arrested by Ashland police last night. About $15 In cash, three cases of beer, cigarettes and cigars were taken. . Two of the youths are being held in the Jackson county juvenile detention home. A third is being referred to juve nlle authorities, police said. 5 t
