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Plains
Algiers, Algeria-IUPB-An Air France Super Constellation
crashed in the Sahara today, killing all 69 persons aboard,
five Americans were among the dead.
m The plane vanished on the Fort Lamy-Marseilles leg
of a flight from Brazzaville in West Africa to Paris. The
wreckage was spotted by search pilots near an oasis and
caravan center in the desert which was the graveyard
for scores of World War II planes.
. The wreckage was sighted from the air by search planes
in we namaaa ue ilnrhert region south of Rhamades, also
known as Ghamades. This is a small desert town just across
the Algerian border in Libya.
The plane was reported carrying the family of Alan W.
Lukens, charge d'affaires of the U.S. Embassy In Brazza
ville, capital 01 tne lormer Jfrench Congo, among its 9
crew members and 60 passengers. .
; Lukens' mother, wife and three children were reported
aboard, but he apparently was not. .
i The plane was last heard from when it passed Edjele,
a radio check point in the desert about halfway between Fort
amy ana Marseilles.
Educational Service
Request Referred to
Rural School Board
A requested additional al
location of $5,000 for educa
tional services at the Jackson
county juvenile detention
home was referred to the
rural school board yesterday
by the county budget commit
tee. .
County Judge Earl Miller
summed up the attitudes of
the county budget committee
members.
"I want to be pretty cer
tain that the proper allocation
is made, and the people have
a chance to express their
opinion on this request," he
said.
Budget Committee Chair
man Arnold Bohnert said the.
youngsters in the detention
home are included in the
state's basic school fund al
location even though they
may be absent from their
schools. "So, I think that this
is a matter for the schools
and not for the budget com
mittee," he commented
Pilot Program
The school program would
be started as a pilot program,
Jii v en II e" Supervisor Kay
Crowell explained. "It was
determined that the juvenile
Court advisory council
should ask for $5,000 for a
pilot program for the next
fiscal year. The money would
be put in trust for this use
only, with the county school
superintendent to administer
the trust."
. She pointed out that $35
per census child was distribu
' ted to the districts last year
and that $10 per census child
is the amount required by
law. The advisory council
asks that after the $10 per
census child is allocated, the
next $5,000 be put in trust for
this purpose before it is de
termined how much more per
census child can be given to
the districts to relieve school
taxes.
Jerry Lausmann, member
of the advisory council, said
classes would be conducted in
the juvenile courtroom at the
detention home.
Four Days of Instruction
Mrs. Crowell said four days
of instruction and classes
throughout the summer would
be required. She admitted
that educational defects could
not be corrected during the 11
days the average youngster
spends in detention, but it
would remove some emotion
al blocks to learning, she ar
gued. Budget Committee Member
A. C. (Archie) Pierce said re
City Water Department Budget Totals
$695,433; Taken Under Consideration
A city water department
budget totaling $695,433 for
the 1961-62 fiscal year was
taken under consideration last,
night by the citizens budget
committee.
. According to the budget,
the water commission plans
to leave a balance of $59,359
for the ensuing budget year,
making total expenditures for
next year approximately
$636,073. The estimated cur
rent year's water department
budget expenditures total
$521,066.
Included in the budget are
initial expenditures for the
design and construction of a
three million gallon capacity
Dark Hollow reservoir to be
erected south of the city dur
ing the next two fiscal years
at a total cost of $279,000.
Operates Differently
The city water department
operates differently from oth
er city departments in that
the five-member city water
commission can collect and
disburse funds as it sees fit,
needing only to have Its budg
et authorized by the citizens
a
l
(tell
To
ligious services to strengthen
the morals of the detention
home inmates is needed more
than remedial instruction. "I
leave that up to the experts
who consist of the Medford
Ministerial association and
the Catholic church,", she
answered. -
Mrs. Owen Kunkel, PTA
representative, said she was
surprised to learn that the
youngsters receive no special
classes while in the detention
home. She appeared with
Mrs.- Ben Day, juvenile ad
visory council member.
Memorial Lectures
Start Here Today
Seventy-five doctors from
Oregon and northern Califor
nia have registered for the
John Tomlln Memorial Cancer
lectures being held today and
Thursday at Rogue Valley
Country club, according to
Dr. Orval Eaton, president of
the Jackson county unit of the
American Cancer society.
This is the second consecu
tive year that the ACS has
brought outstanding men in
the field .of cancer diagnosis
and treatment to Medford as
part of its professional educa
tion program. Speakers are
Dr. Sydney F. Thomas, Palo
Alto, Calif.; Dr. Laurens P
White, Boston, Mass.; and Dr.
Nicholas L. Petrakis, San
Francisco.
Dr. Oscar Heyerman it
chairman of the local com
mittee, with Dr. Russell
Barnes, Dr. Robert Buck, Dr.
Laurel Case, Dr. Earl Lawson,
Dr. Thomas Rutter, Dr. Flor-
ian Shasky and' Dr. Robert
Turner as committee mem
bers. Assisting for the local ACS
unit are Mrs. Mahr Reymers,
executive secretary; Mrs. Jack
Ingrain, president of the med
ical auxiliary, and Mrs. Hey
erman, Mrs. Warren Bayliss,
Mrs. Robert Lockwood, Mrs.
Ralph Odell, Mrs. Fred Cole
man, Mrs. John Day, Mrs. E.
S. Wentjar and Mrs. E. C.
Trumbly.
'HIRE NOW .
Salem-OJPD-Gov. Mark Hat
field and Employment Com
missioner David Cameron
Tuesday announced a "hire
now" campaign urging em
ployers to take advantage of
the State Employment Serv
ice. budget committee and the city
council. The budget Is pre
pared separately from the reg
ular city budget.
The budeet anticipates a i
per cent increase In the num
ber of citv water customers
during the next year, and also
a corresponding increase in
the revenue from water sales.
Thp hudeet also assumes
that the proposed westside an
nexation will be approved pri
or to the beginning of the
buSget year which would ne
cessitate a small rate increase
to cover the losses in income
and costs of maintenance and
immediate capital expendi
tures which would be neces
sary to serve the area.
Fundi Provided
Funds are also provided for
a detailed engineering study
and a distribution system plan
for the westside area.
It is estimated that expen
ditures will exceed income by
more than $90,000 during the
next fiscal year, and that this
amount will come from un
expended cash balances from
previous yean.
m
Merchants in City
May Approve
'Summer Hours'
Would Achieve Same
Result As Fast Time
Medford ' merchants and
other area businessmen are
giving strong consideration to
a plan to adopt "summer bus
iness hours" which is not
the same as daylight saving
time but which would achieve
much the same result.
Don McNeil,, manager of
the Medford Chamber of Com
merce, said the Medford Re
tail Merchants association
will consider the plan when
it meets next week. -
Under the plan merchants
and industry would voluntar
ily open their doors an hour
early, and close them an hour
early. There would be no ad
justment of clocks, which is
the case with daylight saving
time, buLthose observing sum
mer time would have an extra
leisure hour of daylight.
Similar to Other Plant
McNeil said the plan would
probably be similar to one
adopted yesterday by cham
bers of commerce in 10 Wil-
liamette valley cities. These
cities have decided that sum
mer business hours should be
in effect from June 1 to Sept.
McNeil said Grants Pass is
also considering the plan.
The chamber manager said
the Medford Chamber of
Commerce has yet to take any
action on the matter, but he
noted that at a recent meeting
of the board of directors, a
"quick opinion poll" showed
the directors were "almost
unanimous" in favoring day
light time or some form of
business hours which would
serve the same purpose.
McNeil pointed out that a
number of industries in the
valley have been operating on
essentially the same thing as
summer business hours for
several years. He said that a
check with local industry has
revealed that many of them
who have not already adopt
ed the plan are willing; to do
so. . . : . ' . .'.
Medford Listed as
Fire Weather Post
Washington -fflPD- Sen. War
ren G. Magnuson (D-Wash.)
said today he had urged the
Senate Appropriations com
mittee to add $100,000 to the
weather bureau budget for
expansion of fire weather fore
casting. Magnuson said he had writ
ten committee chairman Carl
Hayden (D-Ariz.) to urge that
funds be provided for setting
up fire weather forecasting
stations in Spokane and in
Medford and Pendleton, Ore.,
as well as at 13 other loca
tions in the west.
A spokesman for the U.S.
Weather bureau at the Med
ford airport said today that
the expansion of fire weather
forecasting to include Med
ford would provide Informat
tion for the local forest serv
ice, telling when hazards were
high.
Information would include
humidity, temperature, wind
and thunderstorm activity,
and the bureau would also be
able to send a man into an
actual fire area to provide in
formation to those In charge
of fire fighting.
Fire weather forecasting
stations presently operate in
Portland and Redding. The
proposed increase would im
prove service in this area and
probably add at least one
staff member to the local bu
reau, the spokesman said.
The sources from which the
water commission will gain
Its revenue during the next
fiscal year are water revenue,
$475,640; service connections
and work for customers, $8,-nnn-
emilnmpnt rental. SI. 100:
connection fees, $2,400; water
district operation, $4,zzu;
rents, $240; Interest $3,000;
and estimated balance from
previous years, $202,833.
Planned Expenses
Next year's revenues will
be spent on operating ex
penses, $205,671; franchise
a r . SA.000: interest on
bonds, $49,022; capital expen
ditures, $280,130; transier to
water bond sinking fund, $30,
250; transfer to water system
construction fund. $65,000;
and balance for the next year,
$59,359.
The $65,000 that will be
nririort in the water system
construction fund during the
next fiscal year will Dring me
total amount of money In this
fund to 1305.874. Out of this
fund, such capital improve
ments as the Dark Hollow res
ervoir are financed.
Regional Edition
Medford
24 Pages
Nurses' Bargaining lill
Said Apparently Dead
Los Angeles Man
Offers To Build
Stadium in Area
Would Be Leased
To Jackson County .
A subdivlder from Los An
geles, Calif.,, has offered ten
tatively to put up the money
needed to construct an athlet
ic stadium for Jackson coun
ty, it was learned at a meet
ing of members of the Citi
zens' Stadium committee this
morning. '
David Seymour, who re
cently purchased the Barron
Parker ranch near Ashland
for subdividing the 11,000
acres, said he, and possibly
his friends, would finance the
construction if the stadium
could be leased to Jackson
county for 25 to 50 years.
"We could put up $400,000
to $600,000 cash right now if
the county would sign a gen
eral obligation lease and
would be interested in such a
venture. The return must be
commensurate with good
sound practices. The county
would repurchase the stadium
at the end of the 25 year pe
riod," Seymour explained.
Spearheads Drive
John Weisbrod, Medford
realtor spearheading the stad
ium development, said County
Judge Earl Miller told him the
county court would be unable
to meet with the stadium
group until late in June..
Weisbrod indicated he and
his committee planned to
work further on the proposal
now requested for the jack-
son county fairgrounds south
of Medford. ' ' ' .
Weisbrod said this morning
he has a firm offer from the
Baltimore Orioles to establish
a farm team here If the stad
ium is built.
The Orioles' team manager
would operate the stadium on
a sublease from the county,
and the county would have a
stadium manager to schedule
and plan events for the stad
ium, according to the weis
brod plan, The Orioles would
operate .ind maintain the
stadium, Weisbrod explained.
Bill Cramer, also from Los
Angeles and a friend of Sey
mour's, suggested that the
stadium be built for greatly
Increased usage in the future.
ture.
Check Machine Is
Demonstrated
' Sidney McMeans, Ashland,
representing the H e d m a n
company, demonstrated a
check protector-check signer
machine at a meeting of the
Medford school board last
night.
The board, In recent months,
has discussed the possibility
of using a check machine not
only as a safety precaution
but also to save time.
McMeans pointed out that
forgery is virtually eliminat
ed by use of the machine.
Only two board members
were present, and no official
action was taken for lack of
quorum. Chairman Ed
Branchfield was ill, and mem
b e r s William Barker and
Frank Bash were out of town.
Commission Awards
Grading Contract
' A $2,408,331 Highway com
mission contract for 9.45
miles of grading and struc
tures from 12th St., Medford,
to the North Ashland inter
change has been awarded
R. A. Heintz Construction
company and Rogers Con
struction, Inc., Portland.
Bids were opened April 11
for the project, which is part
of the Highway 99 construc
tion south of Medford. There
were seven higher bidders, ac
cording to the commission-
With start of work on the
nroiect. construction will be
underway on the new free-
wav or Interchange Number S
from north of Central Point
to north of Ashland.
t
MEDFORD, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, MAY,
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GREETS NEWSMEN Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gro
myko waves to newsmen after his arrival at Geneva today
from Moscow for the Laos peace conference. The 14-nation
conference Is scheduled to open Friday but the United
States and Britain have said they will not participate with
out proof of an effective cease fire in the Southeast Asian
kingdom.
News
Washington -0IPD- A U.S.
submarine was within
watching distance when
Cuban rebels launched
their ill-fated invaiion of
Cuba, it was reported to
day. The Navy said it had
no comment.
New Orleans - (IIPD - A
seismographic survey ship
caught fire in the Gulf of
Mexico today and her crew
of 10 men hastily abandon
ed ship lest explosives in
the hold blow up.
Salem (BPD The Oregon
Supreme Court today up
held the 10 -year prison
term meted Levi S. McDon
ald in connection with the
Jan. 21, 1960, dynamiting
of trucks used to haul paper
for the struck Oregon Jour
nal and the Oregonian.
The incident grew out of
the siereotypers' strike
against the. two Portland
dailies.
WEATHER
PonECAST: ncrailonal shown
and brief clearing period! le
nient, flradtial elearlns and
widely scattered ihoweri Thtira
dav. low tonlfht J. llllh
Thuridar si.
Temp.
lllcheH Vetlerday SO
Lowest this Mornlnc 41
Prerlp. Ut 9 p.m. Yesterday .17
To U a.m. Today 11
bur Skies Tonight
Sunset today Ml p.m.
Sunrise tomorrow .... 4:S4 a.m.
The Moon rises 1:11 a.m.
tomorrow. The very brliht
"list" just to the left of the
Moon It the planet, Venus,
which Is now about It million
miles from tha Earth.
Ntw Moon May II
1 '
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(UPI Radiotelephoto)
Briefs
Leopoldvllle, The Congo
- (DPI) - The Leopoldviile
government today charged
19 aides of Katanga Presi
dent Moise Tshombe with
treason.
Salem - Oiril - The Senate
today gave unanimous ap
proval to the milk price
control bill and shipped It
back to the House for con-
Gold Hill Voters
Reject Proposal
Gold Hill - Gold Hill voters
yesterday rejected, a proposal
to authorize the city council
to issue $120,000 In general
obligation bonds for construc
tion of a water filtration plant.
Votes against the proposal
totaled 196; 32 voters support
ed it. The city council de
clared the results official at a
'9 o'clock meeting last night.
Public rejection of the pro
posal climaxes a two year con
troversy. Small Animal Group
To Meet With Court
The small animal commit
tee will meet with the county
court at 8 p.m. Thursday, May
11, In the county court room
to report Its findings and sub
mit recommendations.
The committee was ap
pointed by the court recently
after petitions with more than
1,000 signatures were filed re
questing the county to partici
pate in controling stray, un
wanted or diseased cats.
56th
Tribune
10, 1961
Measure Sent
To Committee;
No Meeting Set
Senate Passage
Appeared Doubtful
Salem -dPIUA labor elec
tions bill, the key piece of
labor legislation to pats this
session, cleared its last leg
islative hurdle today and
went to the governor.
Salem -(IIPD- A nurses' col
lective bargaining bill with
Little Landrum-Griffin as a
rider was referred to a Senate
Committee late Tuesday, and
Senate President Harry Bol
vin admitted the purpose was
because passage of the pack
age appeared doubtful.
Boivin, a strong supporter
of SB206 - the "Little Lan
drum Griffin bill" being
fought by labor - said because
of lateness of the session
chances of the nurses bill ap
peared dim.
The combined bill went to
the State and Federal Affairs
Committee and Sen. Walter J.
Pearson (D-Portland) said no
meetings are scheduled.
Part of Arrangement
House sources said apparent
death of the Little Landrum-
Griffin bill was part of an ar
rangement to win final pas
sage of a weaker labor elec
tions bill which has been stall
ed in a conference committee.
Even If the nurses' bill Is
lost, many , of Its provisions
are contained in the labor
elections bill.
Bill Amended
The House had passed the
nurses' bill, HBlseo, and
Pearson's .committee attached
Little Landrum-Griffin to It as
an amendment. The idea was
that upon passage in the Sen
ate the combination would so
directly to trie House floor
rather than to the .House La
bor Committee which is cool
to the Little Landrum-Griffin.
But the package got into
trouble on the Senate floor as
Sen. Richard Groener attempt
ed to strike the Senate amend
ment and get the bill into the
Senate Labor Committee.
Groener said the nurses'
bill should "stand on Its own
merits." , -
Motion Beaten
Groener's motion was beat
en, but a motion by Sen. Al
Flegel sending the bill back
to State and Federal Affairs
passed 23-6.
The weaker labor elections
bill, which would provide
state-run machinery for select
ing bargaining agents, passed
both houses, but the two
chambers .refused to agree on
a house amendment excluding
building trades.
Members of the conference
committee said building trades
will be restored as part of the
overall agreement on the
labor measures.
Legion Convention
Plans Progressing
The first in a series of
meetings to plan the coming
state convention of the Ameri
can Legion in Medford was
held Tuesaay morning by the
local coordinating commis
sion. The three-day conven
tion will begin in Medford
June 22.
Progress reports concerning
nousing, transportation, en
tetalnment and other conven
tion activities will be made
at the weekly planning ses
sions. This year's convention,
the first in Medford since
1928, Is expected to be the
largest In Oregon Legion his
tory, according to those In
charge-
Appointment of New
Assessor Is Postponed
Appointment of a county
assessor will not be made
until after the board of
equalization concludes its cur
rent hearings, County Judge
Earl Miller said today.
Mrs. Elva Jennings, a chief
deputy in the assessor's office,
was appointed as acting as
sessor earlier. The regular
appointment would fill the
position vacated by the death
of Ray J. Schumacher last
month.
Year Price 10 Cents
No. 42
William Tugman
Veteran Oregon
Newsman. Dies
Heart Attack
Fatal To Editor
North Bend, Ore. - (UPD -Funeral
services were pending
today for William M. Tugman,
67, veteran Oregon newspaper
editor who died Tuesday
night.
Tugman, for 28 years editor
of the Eugene Register-Guard,
was admitted to the hospital
early Saturday after suffering
a heart attack at his home in
Gardiner. He had suffered
two previous severe heart at
tacks. :
Tugman took over the week
ly Port Umpqua Courier in
Reedsport after his service on
the Register-Guard. He recent
ly sold that newspaper and
was serving as a field repre
sentative for Rep. Edwin Dur
no (R-Ore.) at the time of
his death. He also was on an
advisory committee to the
Oregon State Parks System.
Tugman received an award
from the University of Ore
gon in 1954 - the year he left
the Eugene newspaper - for
distinguished service to the
state. He also received in the
same year the Amos Voorhles
plaque from the Oregon News
paper Publishers association.
He did part time work on
the University of Oregon Jour
nalism faculty while at Eu
gene.
Tugman was born in Cincin
nati and attended Harvard
university. He worked on
newspapers in Springfield,
Mass.; New Bedford, Conn.,
and on the Cleveland Plain-
Dealer before coming to Ore
gon. . I
Civic Worker
During his years In Eugene
he was well known for his
work In striving lor civic Im
provements such as better
roads, new airports, better
Mnnation ana improved
lice and fire protection.
t . . . ,
Survivors include the wid
ow and five children, William
Jr., Walla Walla: Marie
Thompson, Bend; Janet Stone,
Salem: Thomas,
Phoenix,
Ariz., and Peter, s
reporter
for the 'Oregonian.
Application from
Haworfh Received
The Jackson county court
received an application from
present City-County Parks
and Recreation Director Rob
ert L. Haworth for the county
parks administrative position
this morning but took no ac
tion on it.
Haworth said he is making
the formal application with
the knowledge of Medford
City Manager Robert Duff.
Haworth Is dividing his
time between the Medford
and county parks and recrea
tion programs. Duff had re
quested earlier that Haworth
devote full time to the city
job.
Haworth requested a salary
of $9,000, $1,000 more than
what the county budget com
mittee has allocated for the
job. Haworth said the addi
tional money is needed so he
could pay for fringe benefits
which he now receives in his
city job.
"Let's See, Now How'. This
Supposed To Work?"
Safeguard of
Berlin Freedom
Again Pledged '
Negotiation With
Soviets Offered
Oslo, Norway - (DPI - The
Atlantic allies today an
nounced their determination
to block the Communist drive
for global expansion and
pledged again they would safe
guard the freedom of Berlin.
An official communique at
the end of a three - day con
ference of foreign ministers
of the North Atlantic Treaty
urganizauon said the re
sources of the Western powers
can meet the Communist chal
lenge. NATO Is made up of 15 Eu
ropean and North American
nations.
"The NATO alliance is de
termined to defend the rleht
of their people to live in free--
dom," the communique said.!
in support of this, the
United States Tuesday pledged
Polaris nuclear missile sub
marines to beef up NATO's de
fenses. ,
Offer to Negotiate
The NATO powers offered
to negotiate "just and equit
able solution of outstanding
political problems" with the
Soviet bloc.
At the same time they in
structed their political and
military experts to strengthen
tne deterrent and defensive
power of the alliance.
The ministers said the
'menace" which drew the al
lies together "is now not only
military, but also has world
wide political, economic, sci
entific and psychological aspects."
The communique made .
these other points:
The allies are ready to
make their contribution to an
equitable and just settlement
of outstanding . political is
sues. It emphasized that any
separate peace treaty between
Russia ajid East Germany
would ,; not ; affect Western
rights In'.Bcxlln. '
Seek CbqlteUed Disarmament
-Controlled disarmament is
one of the principal objectives
of the allies. The United States
was given the go ahead to
arrange with Russia proce
dures for a new international
Po - disarmament conference
th -nd rrf Julv,
i uus b m avs e .
- 1 ..... ..! s.it.i-
. Z",'."'?"""?
. -th. n.n,n.. r.,mi'
.houId review NATO', de-
feme strategy with the view
"to Improving its deterrent
and defensive strength."
- U.S. forces will remain In
Europe and their convention
al armaments will be strength
ened.
Ho Decision Yet
On Concessionaire
No decision will be made
on a concessionaire for Emi
grant lake until the county
court has interviewed the
Bremerton, Wash., man who
was recommended by the
Jackson county parks and
recreation commission, Coun
ty Judge Earl Miller said this
morning.
James Schollmeyer, Brem
erton, had submitted a bid of
per cent of the gross con
cession receipts. However, Joe
Brooks, Medford, had submit
ted a bid at 16 per cent, and
objected to an out of state
man being considered for the
concession.
Brooks said he planned to
hire Sidney Sieger, owner of
Sid's Marina at Savage Rapids
dam to operate the marine facility.
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