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56th Year Price 10 Cents! Recommended State Representative and Mri John R. , Dellenback invited about 13 Jackson county bovg and girls to Salem for a "short course' on the Oregon -legislature recently. Read about this project written by Mrs. Oellen. back, secretary for her husband on Page 12 A of today's Mail Tribune. ...... , Subscribers To report Improper or non delivery of the Mall Tribune in Medf ord and Ashland, phone SP 2-6141; Montague and Yrcka phone GLobe 9 3171 before 6:45 p.m. daily and 10:30 a.m. Sunday.' If regular delivery arrives shortly after you call, plcaso notify office, thus eliminating special messenger service. United Press International Full Leased Wir United Press International Full Leased Wire 52 Pages Section A MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, APRIL 30. 1961 No. 33 "Oh, There Ought To Be A Cease-Fire Any Time Now" MedfordMTribune LAOTIAN 0 M IS; PSEIf K U.S. Picks First Astronaut; Name Not Yet Released Crucial Space-Shot Planned for Tuesday . Cape Canaveral-(UPD-An as tronaut 'has been chosen to make America's first manned rocket flight Into space next week, it was Jearned Satur day ' . .' ' :: Scientists in 'the nation's $550-milllon project Mercury Man'-into Space program pick ed their man from a "select list", of three astronauts who have undergone special train ing for the lasf three months. .: Identity of the No. 1 4as stronaut remained a secret. But reliable sources reported it was either Navy Cmdr. Alan B. Shepard or Marine Lt. Col. John H. Glenn Jr. and that Shepard was' consid ered more likely. v . No Announcement The National Aeronautics land Space administration -said only that "no announcement has been made as to selec tion." :' Two men were chosen from the 'trio of candidates one as the "prime" astronaut and the other as his "back-up," to step in at the last minute in case of a change in plans. At stake was America's first step toward manned con quest of space. This will be a 16-minute ride inside a 1 Mi ton . Mercury capsule aboard' a Redstone rocket. It is sched uled to be launched -from Cape Canaveral Tuesday, morning. : , For the U.S. spaceman this will be only a peek through; the doorway of space. He wjUT soar to an altitude of about 115 miles, high enough to view the Gulf of Mexico, the Florida peninsula, Caribbean Islands and perhaps as far north as the Carolina?. ' P?' ' Not Orbital ; ,- - .; ; It will not be- and was not' Intended to be a . . sweeping orbital trip like the global swing which carried Russia's Maj. Yuri Gagarin to a mixi mum altitude of 187 miles April 12. Bi't for the ' few minutes he will be aloft in the "sub-orbital'r flight, the American spaceman's outlook on the world should be just as dramatic. . j A full orbital flight for one of the seven astronauts who pre still in the Mercury pro gram is not expected ' for another six months to a year. r- TiifxiHnv'c flicrht njavt wppk Is a "crawl before you walk" affair,' designed to test the bell - shaped space capsule, voice communications from space and - perhaps most im portantly to find out how well a man can perform un der extremes of weightless ness and crushing pressure, f . V -',.-"' j Hatfield Criticizes ;s i Civil Defense Cut . Salem-IUPD - Gov. Mark 'Hatfield told the Legisla ture Friday its sharp slash.' in the civil defense budget -"would give aid and com 'fori to Castro and his kind." The budget was cut from ' $288,000 to $173,000. Hat field called it "fantastic", and said "the action is con trary to all urging of the president and his advisors." m&m ft- ,1 f m i. iiL & PROSPECT AIRPORT Work on the 'Prospect airport is ncaring completion. Construction started in the middle of : January. The airport include a 4,000 foot runway, with jl.OQO loot approach clearings o the north and south ends. Court Rejects Plan For Wrecking Ya rd The Jackson county court Friday denied an application to establish a wrecking yard just south of Talent on High way 99 and residents of the area are now making plans to further improve the area so as to prevent other wrecking yards from moving in. ' The county . court unani mously voted to deny the ap plication. . ;. "Our main, reason was. the tremendous opposition from the people of the area," Coun ty Judge Earl Miller explain ed. "We do not want to deny the right of wrecking yards or other business to locate in the- valley, but we thought -another - location- would be more suitable. This decision was made in the best inter ests of the people of the area Ashland Officer Aids Girl Cyclist : AshlandAAri Ashland' po liceman rushed to the aid of a maiden in distress Saturday afternoon and saved her from possible serious injury. Bruce Hoy, a member Ash land's finest, had just : stop ped a car on Indiana st. when he heard screams coming from a Southern Oregon col lege coed who was on 'a bi cycle . speeding toward the busy intersection of Siskiyou blvd. and . Indiana. . Hoy said the girl apparent ly didn't know how to stop the .foreign made bicycle which had the brakes on the handle bars. He estimated she was traveling at a 30 mile an hour clip. ' As she neared him he start ed to run along - side in an attempt to slow her down. He grabbed a basket , oh ' the handlebars and then the cycle flipped, sending Judy Berry, 18, of Lakeview, , sprawling. Miss Berry received cuts and bruises and was taken to Ashland General hospital for examination.-. : . 4" ? ,"r as expressed at last week's hearing." ' -'',.. Other businesses along the highway will also be cleaned up, according to -. promises made members of the county court when they visited. the area south of Talent last week. - The county planning com mission previously had ap proved establishment of the wrecking yard by a 4 to 2 vote. The yard was proposed for the site of the former 99 Wreckers which has not been operated for several years. The board of directors of the South Talent Property Owners' association met Fri day night to plan for, a public meeting of -all Talent-' area residents. The date ' will be announced later,' according to Mrs. Goldie Davis, secretary. --"We -will probably -p li n, aistnct zoning Dut will nave to investigate further since there are quite a few angles to consider," Mrs. Davis said, "Everyone in the area has started cleaning up their own property and nobody asked them to." , Portland Area Time Bill Passes House ' Salem-ttlPB-Measures asking voters to okay state daylight saving time next year and ap proving immediate fast time for the Portland area passed the House Friday and went to the Senate. Rep. Ken Maher, (R-Port-land) declared approval of daylight time will do away with a- "curse" of standard time that threatens to "strangle ' us economically." Neighboring states go on fast time today. Maher said it puts Oregon at an economic disad vantage. t The Portland area measure would let the county courts or commissioners elect daylight time this summer for Mult nomah, Clackamas, Washing ton, Columbia or Hood River counties. ; ,. . , - If passed by the Senate and signed, it would ' become law immediately.- . 3 , .JM f At. i k Surfaced width is 150 feet. Highway 62 Is shown below the aiport. Between, the highway curve and the airport, the Mill Creek falls are visible. - Jr Red-Led Rebels Issue Ultimatum; Step-Up Attacks Government Peace . , Delegation Ignored ' Luang Prabang, Laos - (DPI) - Communist Pathet Lao reb-J eis auacKea on xnree ironus Saturday and gave the pro western Laotian government 48 hours to come to them and sue for a cease fire. The government sent a large cease fire delegation to a battlefield site but the Com munists failed to show up and insisted talks be held in their "capital" as the right of the "victors." The crisis worsened by the hour. ' The Red rebels claimed cap ture of Muong Sai in Luang Prabang province in the ap parent drive to seize as much of the mountainous little coun try as possible. A Communist New China news agency broadcast said . most . of the government troops in the town deserted to the R e d cause. - - ;. ' . Urgent Consultations President Kennedy held ur gent consultations in Washing ton. Western allied officials met in London, Paris and Bangkok, Thailand, to consid er military intervention to save the Indo-Chinese king dom. The . State department in Washington charged the So viets stepped -up an airlift of supplies to the Pathet Lao ' by a considerable degree." U. S. roving Ambassador W. Averell Harriman arrived la .'Vientiane; the -.adralnistra- tion Laotian capital, for an on-the-spot survey of tne Kea drive.. . ' i- v-.'V,;:. Artillery Barrage ' ' Red artillery pounded royal government forces between the royal capital of Luang Pra bang and the junctions of routes 13 and 7.. On the Nam Lik river, the Reds were at tacking and two towns in the south, Tchepone and Muong Phin, were reported under rebel pressure. Attacks were accompanied by Red radio propoganda broadcasts claiming victory and accusing the government of stalling on a cease fire. But the Reds were demanding cease fire talks only on their own terms. The government of Premier Prince Boun Oum sent a 1,600 man mission into the jungle at Vang Khi, 22 miles from the strategic town of Vang Vien seized by the rebels last week. The government appar ently presumed a Red cease fire mission would meet with it there. None showed up. The war went on. '... , COUNTRIES MERGE Accra, Ghana - (UPD-Ghana, Guinea and- Mali Saturday formed the "Union of African States", in. partial realization og ' Ghana President Kwame Nkrumah's dream, of creating a United, States of Africa. ' r - . , 4 t3' Vst v READY FOR THOUBtE Sixty. American, ,' 6,000-troops are on the various Ships'," andL British and Australian ships, including, the , both .troops and ships are reported ready to USS Coral Sea (above), are just across the,. ; embarkrtoward Laos for' the .real, thing, if South China Sea from strife-torn Laos dur- '; military actiori in the sbiitheast: Asian coum ing current SEATO war games. - A total of ; try should be ordered. ; ' (UP! Telephoto) Operation Alert Said Realistic Friday's 1 961 O p e r ation Alert civil defense .test has been declared more realistic than other such exercises that have been observed locally. More than 300,000 persons were reported killed in Ore gon in the mock attack. - ! Maj. Gen. J. H. Hicks, Jack son County Civil Defense di rector, said Saturday, that "relatively small", nuclear ex plosions were reported at Gold Hill and Grants Pass. re sulting in severe fall-out. Be cause of the absence of ade quate shelters, the major por tion of those areas would have . been' "wiped out," ac cording to General Hicks. ; Operation Alert officials noted a larger nuclear ex plosion north of Klamath Falls. ' Because ; of ; strong south-west .winds, Ashland suffered "moderate"' fall-out with a 50 per cent loss. . One-Third Loss ' - 4 s a. result of -regional bombing, the entire Rogue River valley received con siderable" fall-out coverage with a one-third loss in popu lation within Jackson county. Civil Defense estimates that over half of the population locally was lost, and the re maining population would be sick, due to radiation, for two to six months. ; A two megaton "burst" was recorded at Medford at 5:25 p.m., as well as a similar ex plosion in Looking Glass, just outside of Roseburg. The two megaton concentration was realtively small, in contrast to the ten megaton blast on Portland, according to Gen eral Hicks, v Local Civil berense person nel experienced the nation wide Operation Alert here be tween noon and 9 p.m. Fri day. Sen. Robert White Hospitalized Again Portland - (UPD - Sen. Rob ert White (R-Shlcm) has been hospitalized . again in his struggle with cancer. 1 "White, former mayor of Sa lem, was admitted to the Uni versity of. Oregon Medical hospital here Thursday. A hospital spokesman described hi condition ai "serious." Scholarship Banquet Planned for May 15 The first annual.- Scholar ship banquet, sponsored by Medford service clubs and or-i ganizations, will- be - held, at the Rogue, Valley -Country club Saturday, -May-15. . ' , Three : students from - St. Mary's High -school and' 26 students from- Medford High school will be special guests. The students represent the top 5 per cent of the graduat ing senior class. . : , ; The banquet is being spon sored by a committee made up-of representatives of ' the majority of the service ' clubs and organizations in Medford. Ex-Judge Hanna To Preside on taw Day Law's Day ceremonies' will start at 9:0 a.mi Monday 'in Jackson county circuit court. .Presiding at the bench will be -,' Retired . . Judge H. ' K. Hanna, Circuit Judges Ed ward Kelly and James, Main and District Court Judge L. L. Sawyer. , , ' . Dr. -Leonard B. Mayfield, superintendent - of, Med ford schools, will speak on ''Liber ty. Tinder Law." . ,. .j . The Jackson County Bar as sociation will, present - an award -to Gordon . Randal Clark, .Crater High- school senior, for - his editorial on American law which appear ed in the-April 5 issue of the Crater Comments, high school paper. Clark is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Fred J. Fry, 3820 Grant rd., Central Point. ., ; WEATHER FORECAST: Moitly lunny to day except for a few fcattered ahoweri In mountain!. Increas ing cloudlnexf tonictit with rain likely Monday. Illch today SS. Low tonlcht near 40. High Mon day 60 to 65. ' ' '! temp. Hlgheit Veiterday 67 Preclp. To $ p.m. .Yesterday ....u....l6 Our Skies Tonight Stimet today .. . 7:10 p.m. Simrlae tomorrow 5:07 a.m. Moonrlse today 7:16 p.m. Full Moon today 10:41 a.m. VISIHI.P. I'LANKTS Man In the weit 9:45 p.m. Jupiter and Saturn, In the loutheait 2:49 a.m. (Jupiter It Uie brighter of the two.) Venut, low In eait .... 4:11 a.m. The Rev. Carl Mai: of St, Mary's and William Ruck of Medford .High are " working with the committee on behalf of the schools. . V; r Speaker at the banquet Will be Dr. John R. Richards, chancellor of the state system of higher education. -' .. . ; Plans Formulattd : -. -! ' . Representatives of the serv ice clubs and. organizations have held several, meetings to formulate plans for the ban quet as a means of recogniz ing students who have excell ed academically in h i g h school.. Tentative plans 'would establish the banquet on- an annual' basis. - ' ' ' ; St. Mary's students who: will 1 be honored are Fred-' rick ':' Burlch, "valedictorian Thomas Depnew salutatoriah;! and Tohl Adams. - ' 1 Medford High school - stu dents on the -academic honors list are Frank Balch, Nancy Brown, ' Margaret ' Childers, Karen -Chrlstcnsen,' Stanley Dowson, Juliet Faught, Caro lyn Finch; James Frake, Mary Kay -Harris, : Roger Harris, Linda 'Hess,- Nancy Hinman, Donna Hussong,- Ralph Lob-dell,- Fred Lorish, : Rosalita Patch, Dale Peterson,' Michael Phillips, - R o b e r t - Quinney, Richard Ragsdale, Marilyn Shepherd, .Martha ISimpson, Judy Sims, DcAnne 'Taylor, Susan' Thompson., and' Jack Winchester.. . .. - '.n ,. ip i Banquet Guests ' Students 'will' be banquet guests of the committee,; and parents will have first pref erence for tickets. Committee members said parents should indicate their attendance by May; 5. Tickets are available a( -the two 'schools. ' Service clubs and organiza tions which - have been : con tacted, or will be contacted, for participation in the ban quet are the Elks, Rotary, Ki, wanis, Crater Lions, Medford Lions, Medford Chamber of Commerce, Medford Junior Chamber of Commerce, Amer ican Association of University Women, American : Legion, Business and ' Professional Women, Eagles, Active-20-30 club, Veterans of Foreign Wars, Moose lodge, and Ma sonic organizations. ' ' ' - " j President With Top Washington .- IUPD - Presi dent Kennedy met with his top advisers S a t u r d a y to weigh calling for allied mili tary action to halt art armed Communist takeover, in Laos and .repercussions, in other areas, of southeast Asia. Kennedy met with the Na tional , Security Council for two hours and then Immedi ately conferred with. a smaller group - of . advisers. He . also scheduled a meeting tomor row to deal with the situation. A White House spokesman refused to say what decisions, if any, were taken at Satur day's meetings. But they were known to have dealt at length with the Immediate crisis in Laos and the less-known but Allied Armada Set For Laos Action Singapore - (UPD - Sixty American, British and Aus tralian warships with 6,000 troops aboard maneuvered in the South China sea Saturday with plans that could turn their SEATO war games into the real thing should action be ordered in Laos. Informed sources here said the Southeast Asia Treaty Or ganization battle unltii were prepared to load live ammu nition, if the SEATO powers give the order, . . ; The vessels In "Operation Pony Express' were a com plete fighting machine, with .jet planes and helicopters, for transporting1 U.S. Marines and combat-ready soldiers. "s : I Practice landings w e r e scheduled to-be - carried - out tomorrow In North Borneo for jungle warfare training."- .The rnaneuvers are . In an area which is only a ' few hours jet flying time from .the land-locked Laos in Indo china. . ... r ' Planners for' the SEATO powers -'the United States, Britain, Australia, New Zea land, France, Thailand, the Philippines and .Pakistan -drew up stand-by .military programs at a conference in Bangkok last month as a re sult of the Communist attacks in Laos. Sources said units could be moved into northern Thailand which' borders on Laos. Girl Found Dead In Bureau Drawer ' Cawker City, Kan - (UPD - The brutally stabbed body of a 3-year-old 1 girl was found Saturday stuffed Into a bureau drawer in the bedroom of a neighborhood playmate. ' . . The girl, Cyndi Ann Miller, was stabbed 16 times in the chest. A preliminary exami nation revealed she had been raped. -' Authorities arrested a 13- year-old boy, who lived across the. street from the girl in this north-central Kansas com. munity. , ... ' The youth;' an eighth grade student, is a son of a Cawker City farm Implements dealer, Robert Bowles. ' v. : The girl's body was discov ered by the boys father, who had gone to his son s bedroom and r became suspicious ..at finding it in a state of dis arrangement. Two Persons Perish In Oregon Mishap Warm Sprlngs-(UPD-The bod ies of a mother and her daugh ter were recovered from their smashed car in the Deschutes river about a mile, south of here Saturday. ' " The victims were identified as Dorothy E. Smith, 43, and her daughther, Lou Ann,' 14, of the Warm Springs, Indian Reservation. - State police said the car plunged off a reservation road into i about 25 feet of .water either late Friday night or early yesterday. The car . was discovered about five hours before a skin diver could recover the bodies, Mrs. Smith and her daughter were last seen laU last night Confers Advisers equally dangerous Communist activity in South Vietnam. ' While officials kept a tight lid on any decisions on Laos itself, it was made clear Ken nedy and , his advisers do not view the ominous develop ments there as a crisis which can be "separated" from the rest of southeast Asia. : Thus the meeting also- cov ered the. broader question of . protecting all of southeast Asia from Communist subver sion and attack. ' . !--The State department called attention to what it termed very heavy Laotian- Commu nist military activity at Tche pone and Muong Phin, - two towns in the Ions arm n Laos i -that stretches south toward South Vietnam. Terror Campaign . . - ...Communist guerrillas hau waged a terror campaign in South Vietnam ' since t h e French and the Cnmmimisi divided the - country in an agreement at Cieneva in July, 1954. The number of rebels in South Vietnam has been increasing steadily. unicials here feared Lao tian Communist progress misht DrOvide COVPr fnr mnra infiltration Into South Viet nam and even lead to ah out- ngnt communist attack on tnat country. ; Administration sources said there was a feeling that the time for anneals nnri wnmina to the Communists; to accept a cease : jute. In Laos had run out and firmer action- was needed. . . . . ; Tan Reports . ' " ' ' This feeling appeared to - be supported by reports from the Soviet News Agency Tass.' In a dispatch from Xleng Khou ang in North Central Laos, Tass said hones fnr nn 4df1v cease fire "have been dash-' ed." r - --. 1 - -It blamed the Laotian ernment and U.S. "n.. tions." ; The Cnmmnnlof Pnthof Ton- ignored effort hv th Laotian governtaent to '".ar range a 'cease fire.1 Instead it ffav& the Dro-WPstorn rfnifOrn. ment 48 hours to go to rebel headquarters at Xleng Khou- ang to hear the red peace demands. .' The leaders of Communist China were reported meeting in me East enma city of Hanachow. Observpra in Tn. kyo said they might be laying a oasis lor direct intervention. Pelping has opposed a cease fire as long as the Pathet I nn were winning. v , snsion Poilpontd The mornlne spaclnn nt thm International Control commis sion for Laos was postponed temporarily wnen an "Import ant messaee" wai rarelvcH h the Canadian delegation from Its government. The nature ot the message was not revealed. Washineton sources a n I rl that if a decision is made that military action is necessary, several days would elapse be fore forces would be commit ted. They said unilateral American Intervention- has heen rtllorl nut. Armrnvnl fli-of would have to be won from the Southeast Asian Treaty organization (SEATO) allies, they said. There was some speculation the allies might Seek United Nations action. Queen Elizabeth II Bears Gift of Rain ; Cagllarl, Sardinia fOPB -Queen Elizabeth II brought a British rain, to this drought parched Mediterranean island ' Saturday and the Inhabitant loved her for it. " As the queen and Prince Philip flew in to start an 11- day Italian tour, the sky open ed 'iip ' with the first rain in three months. By the time they drove to. this port city it was pouring. But the , downpour ceased for a few minutes at the air port and a spectacular rain bow appeared In the skies. ' "Oh Bella - Bellisslma', shrieked the dark-eyed Sar dinian girls as'-the smiling queen and her husband rode by. Weather-beaten shepherds and peasants waved in greeting.- . ,
