Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, May 18, 1961, Image 1

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Newspaper Page TextMtfiii J bgal Effect of Time Change for Fast Til The effets of local mer chant! changing to "Southern Oregon Daylight Time" prob ably will not be known until after It starts June 1. The Retail Merchants com mittee of the Medford Cham ber of Commerce yesterday voted to change clocks on an unofficial and voluntary ba sis to conform with areas of the west coast now on day light saving time. Ashland and Grants Pass merchants are also expected to make the change. Most Notable Effect Changing to "Southern Ore gon Daylight Time" will be voluntary and unofficial, since northern Oregon coun ties are the only ones which can legally observe daylight saving time. . Probably the most notable Regional Edition Medford 36 Pages MEDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY, MAY Mels On Oontrol of Crackdown on -Communists Part Of Junta's Goal Seoul, Korea-OJPD-The revo lutionary military junta today formally took control of the Republic of Korea's govern ment and." opened a nation wide crackdown on Commu nist and fellow travelers. ' The junta sealed its victory in the struggle for power when Premier John M. Chang formally resigned his cabinet this morning , and 'President Posun Yun declared his sup port for the revolution. In Disagreement ; -. ',' But sources close to the junta said army and marine officers were in disagreement on how long the military rev olutionary group should rule. The army, the sources said, in sisted the junta must remain in power a long time to wipe out "all corruption and in justices." The marines heldJ that power snouia De return ed to the civilians within the shortest possible time. The sources said the army also wanted the marines to pull out of the city and be re placed by army troops but that the marines had refused. Command Expanded To consolidate their power, leaders of the junta expanded the revolutionary .command from 5 to 32 members, in cluding top officers from all the armed services. Notably omitted, however, was Lt, Gen. Lee Han Lim, who was reported, without official confirmation, to have been relieved of his command of the 1st ROK A4 guarding the front line .against... the. North Korean Communists and placed under arrest. Lee threw his support be hind the Junta only after 43 hours of apparent indecision. "Say, Wriat If They Organize Native Guerillas Up Here To Kuock Us Off?" effect It will have In this area is in the transportation Indus try, and the concensus of many transportations repre sentatives is that it will Just ad dto the present confusion of two times on the coast. The three airlines serving Medford will continue to op erate on the local legal time, at least for the present. Local time here is Pacific Standard' time. Schedules for the three air lines now reflect daylight sav ing time in California and northern Oregon; ; A West Coast Airlines representative here said he did not know if the company would revise its schedule to conform with the new time. ' ' ' '. ' United 'Air Lines said it would maintain the schedules as set now, and Pacific Air formally Pathet Lao Speaker Attacks U.S. for Laos 'Interference' Geneva-flJPD - Secretary of State Dean Rusk left the 14 nation conference on Laos to day a few minutes before the pro-Communist Pathet Lao delegate rose ' to , attack the United States for "interfering internally" in Laos. : ' . . s . . But a U.S. delegation spokesman said Rusk's depar ture was a coincidence and that he had an appointment with Cambodian Prince Noro- don Sihanouk at that time. Rusk returned to the confer ence room after the Pathet Lao speaker had finished. Rusk left after he sat through an' hour-long speech and most of an equally long translation period in which neutralist India lined up with Students Rank High In Qualifying Tests More than 25 per cent of the class of 1962 at St. Mary's High school scored In the top decile in the recent' National Merit scholarship qualifying test. Don Pruitt and Douglas Snider, in the 97 bracket, top ped the list. Others with scores above 90 were Bill Brown, Patricia Meeker, Michael O'Neill, Su san Reavis, Patrick Stinson and James Viola. ( Average for the class was slightly above the 69 per centile this year, the first year in which all students took the test. The number making high scores is the same as last year, but the percentage rose from 20.9 to 25.7. - - ' Robert Farra, a merit final ist in 1959, is . currently at Notre Dame. Lines said the time change would not affect its operation. All three admitted that the change "would confuse the people a little bit more." Many residents are now con fused because of daylight sav lng time in other areas. Both Evergreen and Trail ways bus companies said that they would operate on the proposed Southern Oregon Daylight time. Mrs. Eleanor Poythress, Trail ways manager, told the Mail Tribune that she set her clock ahead last Monday. Go On Officially It was Incorrectly stated in Wednesdays' Mail Tribune that she was opposed to the hange. It should have said mat wunoui meaiora on day light time a breakfast stop is eliminated ' here, causing a 56th Year Price 10 Cents Tribune 18, 1961 1 No. 49 Korea the West in rejecting Soviet demands for veto power over operations to police the peace in Laos. ' , Indian Defense Minister V. K. Krishna Menon told the delegates ' to-' the ' - 14-nation parley that "we must have no veto arrangement. "At the same time, Krishna Menon turned down Rusk's suggestion- that the eontrol commission in Laos be enlarg ed and given greatly increased power. He said the present three-nation commission, - of which India is chairman, is big enough and has plenty of power as it stands. The other two commission members are Canada and Communist Pol and. '' 1 '. Court Interviews Washington Man The: Jackson county court and members of the county parks and recreation commis sion this morning interviewed James Schollmeyer, Bremer ton, Wash., regarding his qualifications to - operate the concession at Emigrant lake. Schollmeyer, one of six per sons who bid on the conces sion last month, was the one recommended by the parks and recreation commission. During the interview, Schollmeyer said that he had about 10 years experience -as marina operator in the Bremerton area. eH hag a de gree from an Oregon univer sity jn personnel manage ment, accounting and engi neering. He added that he had very little experience in food, concession, but ex plained that he has. been do ing considerable research in this area. Schollmeyer s h o w ed rough sketch of what he thought the marina operation should include, stating that he felt what was most urgently needed was floating docks. Engineers To Inspect Natural Gas Line Medford . City Water Su perintendent Robert Lee will go to Chemult, Ore., tomor row to visit the construction site of a natural gas line which will eventually extend from Canada to California. The tour hat been arranged by the Professional Engineers of Oregon, of which Lee is a member, and Its purpose is In formational only. WEATHER PORFCART: ralr and warm through Friday. Low tonight 45. High Friday 12. Temp. HUhMt VMtarday . 87 Lowett Thlt Morning 41 Our Skies Tonight Sunirt today . . lat p.m. ftanrtie tomorrow 4:4? a.m. Moons rt tonttht IMS p.m. Flrit Quarter May 22 PROMINENT STARS Th Twlnt, above tht Moon. VI ft IB LB PLANRT8 Man, In the wrtt .... 9:2S p.an Jutiltcr and Saturn. In the tin th tact 1:4 a.m. Vena, low In east - 2:19 a.m $10,000 ' loss - for the five month period.' Mrs. Poythress added that the city would have to go of ficially on the daylight time before the Trailways com pany would return the meal stop to Medford. An, Evergreen spokesman said that the bus schedule would be changed to the day light time to faciliate valley workers. The summer schedule for Greyhound Lines through Medford has already been printed, the local manager said. The changes were made when Washington and Cali fornia started on daylight saving time. , He said that the company's schedules are printed in the official, time for each state. He added that the bus runs 3 s. l-W -fc it J AFTERMATH OF RIOT ;. JJnJyerslty famous patrplman JUL y t? r - A- I 1 1 I 1 i Ir , v- -.'!- I mQmmmmmJ$ f ii-'y.ntjLJiiiiiiiDTiiiuo.iiiuiMgwtmriS nnmm mnimin iiwni n to direct trairic ' tnia morning aiwr UBU iiuaenu over-; Diefenbaker, Kennedy Join in CommunismStand Ottawa-illWl-Canada's Prime Minister John Diefenbaker joined with President Kenne dy today la a warning that any Western Hemisphere alignment with foreign com munism - obviously referring to Cuba-threatens "peaceful and democratic evolution" In Latin America. Diefenbaker, whose govern ment maintain diplomatic and trade relations with Cuba, agreed with Kennedy "Wat the alignment of a regime in the Western Hemisphere with Communist leadership abroad was a matter for serious con cern." Among Major Subjects - The matter of forcing a n m m o n hemisDhere front against Communist incursions was believed to be one of the major subjects during the two leaders' talks here. Kennedy and his wife, Jacqueline, left suburban Up lands Airport this morning for Andrews Air Force Base, Md., hear Washington, arriving there at 9:12 a.h. (PST). The President had several meet ings with State Department officials on his afternoon agenda. The Joint communique wind ins nn the President's 42-hour visit to Canada also included a call for . reinforcing the strength and unity of the Western alliance so that a strong defense can be main tained against the threat of communism abroad. TAKES OWN LIFE Boston (UFI) Jail-breaker Edgar W. Cook, 47, scarfaced killed of two law officers, shot himself to death Wednes day night as police smashed down the door of his hideout bulletin fU.diport - (WD - A Jet plane was reported io have crashed In the Clear lake ret near her I i this morning. Two parachutes were said to have been seen In the sky Rtediport police and sheriff's officers are checking the report. - Not usually originate in eSattle or San Francisco and Los An geles so. the local schedules would not be affected. What effect the change would have on Pacific Telephone-Northwest's operations here is not yet known. Jack Creager, local manager, said the company probably would "wait and see" what the ma jority of people do. .If there is enough demand, he said, the company may voluntarily set its clocks ahead to conform with the majority. In any event, "night rates" for long distance calls will start at 6 p.m. and end at 4:30 p.m. "by the clock." Moore Hamilton, Medford postmaster, said mail win dows at the post office will open an hour earlier to facili tate those observing the new Wayne Brooks, Oregon State had o stand in the street U die -zzszzi I Hr,lr -: v.Hi x:A OSU Students Riot; Seven Arrested for Disorderly Corvallls, Ore. - IUPD-Stu dents, variously estimated at 300 to 1,500, rioted at Oregon State University here Wednes day night, ' damaging two buildings. . Seven arrests were made after . city and state police came to the aid of campus of ficers. Six of the youths were ar rested off campus as a result of water fights. They posted bond of $25 each. Another was arrested on campus and charged with disorderly con duct. Started as Water Fight The riots started as a water balloon fight along fraternity row, according to Dean of Men Dr. Dan Poling. He said about 300 students were in volved. Some witnesses and students said the number was 1,500. Economy Seminar Slated in Ashland Salem - Max Kossoris, re gional director of the bureau of labor statistics, San Fran cisco, will highlight a day-long seminar In Ashland, June 16, concerning - the economy of southwest Oregon. The seminar. Jointly spon sored by the Oregon depart m e n t of employment and Southern Oregon college, was announced today by David H Cameron, department of em' ployment commissioner. Other headline speakers at the seminar In Brltt Student union will Include Lou Pritch ard, Portland, assistant vice president in charge of market ing and research, First Nation al Bank of Oregon; Fayette I. Bristol, Grants Pass busi nessman: State Sen. Lyn New bry; Eldon Cone, director of the Oregon state employment service, and Mark Astrup, iu perintendent, Oregon state narks. Participating In the seminar will be chambers of com merce at Ashland, Medford, Grants Pass. Klamath Falls, Roseburg, Gold Beach and Brookings. Yet Fully Knovim time, but regular mail sched ules in and out of Medford will not change. ' The mall windows will not close an hour earlier In the afternoon, he said. ' Broadcasters of the Rogue valley - radio stations and KBES-TV - decided yesterday afternoon to set clocks ahead June . 1, and announce the time as "Southern Oregon Daylight Time."' The stations will cooperate, a' representative of the broad casters said, to effect as trou ble free a transition as pos sible in the change. All Med ford radio stations and the television station and one Ashland station were repre sented at yesterday's meeting. Jerry Poulos, station man ager at KBES-TV, said the . v-turned hU traffic guard station during a riot on the campus .Wednesday night. . . ... f.v : v- Conduct The students fought their way Into a girls dormitory causing some damage to books and personnel belongings. The distubances lasted about an hour. One student said the dis turbance started when Corval lls police cars "came roaring up" to halt the water fights. One policeman was accident ally struck with a water-filled balloon, the student said. Revolvers Said Pulled The student, unidentified, said the officer pulled his re volver "and fired a shot into the air. That's what really started the riot." Police Sgt. Charles Down ing said four cars were sent to the campus. He said he doubted that an officer fired a shot. 'After the police arrived, the throng toppled two guard houses at the campus entrance and kicked the glass windows out Congress Congress may be able to act on the Rogue River basin project a year from now. Henry Stewart, of the Port. land office of the U.S. Corps of Engineers, made this esti mate before about 100 people at a meeting of the Rogue River Water Resources and Flood Control association last night In Grants Pass. Stewart said representatives of agencies working on the basin study and report would have complete project data In August. A public hearing prob ably will be held In Septem ber, and the report sent In November to corps headquar ters in Washington, D.C., where officials have offered to review the report In order to speed its processing. . Travis Roberts, of the U.S. fish and wildlife service, Portr land, said the agency is "a long way along" on Its studies, which look encouraging for fishery benefits from the pro posed coordinated project of Elk creek and Lost creek dams. Latest proposal being con station will attempt to go back on a regular schedule -or the one used before day light saving time became ef fective in other parts of the country. Although no official state ment could be made about the Oregon Shakespearean Festi val in case Ashland adopts daylight time, it was believed that it would remain on stan dard time. It was explained that all tickets and other printed material which has been distributed lists curtain time as standard time. A check of some of the Medford churches show that the question of daylight or standard time will be discuss ed by their official boards. Check Home Offices Managers of the three Med ford banks' said today that : -..5..v;. .v tun aejepnoio; Gulf Oil Ms Permit To Test On Oregon Coast Salem-IUPD-A second major oil company, Gulf Oil, has ap plied for a permit to explore for oil off the Oregon coast, Application for the permit was filed late Wednesday with the State Land Board. The Gulf request, along with an earlier application fro mShell Oil Co., will be placed on the agenda when the and board meets here Tuesday. The permits would allow geological and seismic surveys on Oregon's 600,000 acre off shore lands. The Shell appli cation Is for one year, while the Gulf application Is for two years. The applications grew out of legislation authorizing the Issuance of exploratory per mits. A companion measure au thorized actual leasing of off shore blocks of land, by the State Land Board, for offshore oil exploration and drilling. May Act on sidered by engineers Is a 340- foot high dam at Lost creek on the Rogue river, . , Studies made so far indicate that a 60-degree temperature and a 2,000-cublc-fcet-per-sec- ond flow In mid-river would be desirable. "We are aiming at 2,000 cubic feet per second and re lease temperatures of SO de grees to hold the temperature downstream for the fish, but those are not absolute figures, only something to aim at," Roberts said. Stewart said the. Lost creek reservoir would never be drawn more than 40 per cent The proposed Lost creek and Elk creek storage would pro vide approximately 500,000 acre feet of storage, about dou ble the storage estimated in the 1959 plan for the two dams and considerably more than the original plan. A large minimum pool at the Lost creek site would ensure rec reation benefits, Stewart pointed out. William P 1 1 n e y. Oregon state game commission, Port they had checked with their home offices In Portland and expect to know later this week regarding the daylight schedule locally.- Schools will generally re main on standard time until summer vacation, and it is believed that the city and county, and other units of government, will have to ad here to standard time. Some of the valley's Indus tries have observed "fast" time for many summers. How ever, Instead of resetting clocks an hour ahead, em- ployees report to work an hour earlier in the morning, and leave an hour earlier in the afternoon. In most cases this arrangement has been set up on a voluntary basis. Public Hearing On Merger Set in Medford Monday Salem - The public hear ing on the proposed merger of Pacific Power and Light company, Portland, and Cali fornia - Oregon Power com pany, Medford, will get under way at 0:30 a.m. in the Fed eral courtroom at the post office building in Medford May 22, according to Jonel C. Hill, Public Utility commis sioner. Hill said Jack D. Stevens and Roger L. Conkling, Se attle; Wash., utility engineer ing consultants widely known for their work In public power, would testify in be half of the states ratepayers at the hearing, Hill said he had retained the engineers as "expert out side witnesses," who would be Impartial in their findings, immediately after the two utility companies filed their formal application to merge last March, In the application, Pacific said the merger will result in a larger ' and financially stronger company that will be In a better position to finance future construction require ments In the rapidly growing Oregon area, and will take advantage of a fully Inte grated operation that will eliminate the duplication of facilitles, functions and activi- ties. Under the terms of the mer- ger agreement, Pacific will succeed to all rights and prop erties held by Copco and will assume responsibility for $74,000,000 in First Mortgage Bonds and $9,000,000 in un secured promissory notes. The agreement also calls for a one to one exchange of preferred stock and a 1.2 shares of PP&L common stock for each share of Copto common stock. Copco, operating in south ern Oregon since 1920, does 79 per cent of its business in this state. It owns and oper ates 21 hydroelectric plants having a total installed ca pacity of 367,263 kilowatts. Besides serving their own cus tomers, Copco sells electricity to another utility, one munici pality and an REA coopera tive for resale. Electricity is also exchanged with the Bon neville Power administrator. Pacific has been serving areas In Oregon, Washington, Wyoming, Montana and Idaho since 1910. About 58 per cent of its customers are In Ore gon, accounting for approxi mately 64 per cent of total energy sales. . Basin Project in '62 land, noted that much of the temperature data and fish travel time gathered by the commission is being used in the basin studies. "We have reported what quantity and quality of water Is needed to enhance and pre serve the fishery. The corps of engineers must determine if they can embrace these needs. We must protect the spawning resources down stream and upstream. We are optimistic that some develop ment can be achieved to cor rect deficiencies," he said. Ben Hilton, association pres ident from Grants Pass, em phasized that Gov. Mark Hat field Ii "definitely for It (the project)." He said represenU' tlves of the association board plan to go to the Boise, Idaho, bureau of reclamation region al office to get plans started on Irrigation development! to be coordinated with the dam proposals. ' "The Rogue association does not oppose the Merlin and Sucker creek projects," Hilton ublic Offices Must Remain on Standard Hours No Quick Way Out Of Confusion Seen Salem-OJPD-Gov. Mark Hat field, urged to speed up the state's clocks to keep time with Portland, said today lt seems clear to him that official state business in Salem must conducted on standard time. , ' ; . .' i . , The governor added, "frank- I do not feel public of ficials would have any legal grounds at all" for officially advancing clocks to daylight hours outside of the Portland area. - Hatfield said the problem hinged on the duties of many public offices to perform cer tain services at certain times. He said he felt "any cit izen could seek an injunction if public actions involving the time of day" were placed i fast time schedule in most of the state. Legislative Counsel Sam Haley expressed similar views. Portland Gets Daylight The legislature: gave the Portland metropolitan - area summer daylight saving time, but-left the rest of the state on standard time. Business groups and cham bers of commerce alio ver the state have hustled to move their clocks, or Working hours, ahead. City and county officials have been in a quan dary and have sought legal opinions., on whether they follow suit. Mass confustion has reigned in many communities which suddenly have found them selves on several Informal sets of time. -. The Salem Chamber of Commerce set a meeting with Hatfield for Friday morning to seek fast time for state offices. Hatfield said as far as he is concerned "I have no ques tion. We cannot shift to other than the legally established time,- and It is a matter of standard time in this area. nvany iiate, county ana lo cal offices, ho remarked, are required by law to remain open at specified hours to serve tna public, - on a time standard also set by law. No Criminal Penalties I Haley, the legislature's le- al exoert said the law iv- lag Portland fast time and leaving the rest of the state on standard time carries "no specifically applicable crimi nal penalties." But, Haley said, "where a duty is imposed on a public officer to do certain acts with in a certain period of time, failure to conform to the time specified by law might result In his being civilly responsi ble, or even in forfeiture of office." Haley said the problem hangs on the duties of the public official, and the rights of the citizen. Hatfield said he saw no quick way out of the con fusion as long as local groups continue their informal ef forts to advance clocks. "The real key to this Is uni. formlty," the governor said. "If businesses pursue their in formal actions they are going to continue to add to the con fusion." . Scheduled Speed Run Of XI 5 Cancelled Edwards AFB, Calif. - (UPD 4 A scheduled speed run of the X15 aimed for 3,400 miles an hour was cancelled today be cause of difficulty in pilot Joe Walker's' space suit. told Grants Pass and Illinois Valley representatives. "We will do everything we can to help them, but it would delay the basin project four years if we should include them now. We had hoped to Include Merlin, Agate and Rogue projects in one pack age so three or four Rogue basin bills would not have to . be coming before Congress year after year for approprla. tions," he said. - Hilton said he and Ben Day learned during their recent Washington, D.C., trip that the Merlin bill would be Intro, duced soon, according to Con gressman Edwin Durno (R Ore.). Faye Bristol, former state representative from Grants area, urged the cities of Rogue River, Grants Pass and Gold Hill to get letters of Intent to the corps of engineers re questing use of the water for industrial purposes. Bristol explained that al though state law forbids the use of Rogue river water for direct industrial purpose t, cities can draw from lt and use it tor Industry. .