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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
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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
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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. . . ...
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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
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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. .