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Newspaper Page Text(0) (0) Regional Edition 56th Year Price 10 Cents Globemaster ' Struggling lor Altitude Falls Medford Tribune 24 Pages MEDFORD, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, MAY 24, 1961 No. 0) m mim pun h. s - . l,'' - INSPECTS PLANE WRECK Lyle Logan, 18, Dark Hollow, rd., Phoenix, late yester day afternoon inspected the wreckage of the I plane in which his parents, Mr; and Mrsi. George E. (Pete) Logan had been rid- Dark Hollow Man, When Light Plane Mr. and Mrs. George (Pete) , Logan," of "Dark Hollow rd., Phoenix, received only minor injuries when their light plane stalled, and crashed into a grove of scrub oak near the Logan ranch late yesterday afternoon. Logan was treated for cuts and bruises and released from Rogue Valley hospital yester day. Mrs. Logan was reported In fair condition at Rogue Valley hospital this morning, recovering from cuts, bruises and shock. The 45-year-old nationally known rodeo announcer and his wife were flying low over their ranch to look it over when the stall indicator show ed a warning light. - Logan tried to gain air speed by gliding, but the plane did not respond, he said. The plane struck a California Ore , gon Power company line, then nosed into the grove of trees. The plane was demolish ed. ! Out of Plane ' Both Logan and his wife were out of the plane when sheriff's deputies arrived. Mrs. Logan was lying on the ground covered with a blan ket ad Logan was standing nearby. Their son, Lyle, an 18-year-old student at Phoenix High school, was at the ranch house not far away when the crash occurred, and was the first one at the scene. Logan and his wife were taken to the Construction To Start on TV Station The federal communications today gave Radio Medford Inc., notice that permission has been granted for them to construct a new television station here. , The permit became effec tive May 18, Ray Johnson, general manager of the cor poration which operates radio station KMED, said this morn ing. The notice gave approval to the FCC's initial decision March 2. The commission re quires a 50 day waiting pe riod between decisions to al low objections or comment from interested parties. Johnson said that construc tion on the new building will begin Thursday morning. The structure, adjoining the pres ent radio facilities, will be completed In time so that the station will be able to go on the air Sept. 24. The KMED-TV transmitter will be on Blackwell hill, site of the transmitter for KBES TV Channel 5, the California Television Inc., station. It will broadcast on Channel 10. hospital by Medford Ambu- lance-Service ' while - the boy stood by at the plane. The boy said his father had received his pilot's license about a year ago. His mother and afther had taken off from the Medford airport shortly Freedom Riders Go Into Mississippi Meridian, Miss. . (UPD - A racially mixed group of 11 Freedom Riders rode Into Mississippi today to test the South's strongest bastion of segregation after 10 days of violence and bloodshed in Alabama. . A 1 Trailways bus accom panied by about 20 Alabama highway patrol cars crossed the border into Mississippi. Earlier several Negroes were seen to cross the border ip other Alabama highway pa trol cars but it was not known whether these were some of the Freedom Riders. Other Riders Leave At the same moment, a sec ond group of Freedom Riders boarded another bus in Mont gomery for the trip through Alabama and Mississippi, and a third group left Atlanta, after flying south from Con necticut, for a similar trip. The first stop in Mississip pi was at Meridian, where 100 National Guardsmen cor doned the bus station. State and local police and a dozen U.S. marshals also were on duty, The Meridian bus sta tion had been cleared. There were no reports of large groups gathering. Missippi authorities said they would keep order and prevent violence but warned that Freedom Riders would be arrested if they carried out their intentions to test bus. waiting room and other Mis sissippi segregation laws. They were escorted by 16 highway patrol cars, contain ing three guardsmen and two highway patrolmen each. A national Guard plane and other small planes circled overhead as the caravan rode west. The Justice Department in Washington said the Kennedy administration had been given assurances by Mississippi of ficials that the students would not be harmed. Gov. Ross Barnctt issued an immediate appeal urging citi zens to "just let the officers handle the situation." But he said the interracial group would be arrested if it violated Mississippi segre gation laws. ing. Both Logan and his wife escaped with minor injuries. The plane stalled and went into a grove of scrub oak trees not far from the Logan ranch. Logan is a nationally known rodeo announcer. Wife Hurt Crashes before the crash occurred. -Theseats and safety "belts probably saved the couple, state police said after inspect ing the crash. Logan told deputies that he thinks the carburetor may have frozen. ; ' v, More than 250 National Guardsmen and highway pa trolmen ringed the Montgom ery bus terminal to protect the students while they board ed the bus. Only a few by standers watched from across the street. There was no evi dence of the mob that merci lessly beat several of the students when they arrived here Saturday. About a dozen. U. S. mar shals were reported to have arrived at Meridian during the night to augment local forces. The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., leader of the inte gration movement in the South, followed the group In a car. Kennedy To Speak on Urgent National Needs Washington -(UPD- President Kennedy will go before a joint session . of Congress Thursday morning with a special message on "urgent national needs," the White House said today. Medco Manager Comments in Organizations in the Eagle Point 'area which expressed opposition to the possible conversion of a private rail road into a private log truck route received letters Tues day from the Medford Corpor ation commenting on the "present situation." B. L. Nutting, Medco vice president and general man ager, wrote to Mrs. Burton C. Jensen, president of the Jackson County Home Own ers Protective association, and sent copies of the letter to the Eagle Point city council, May or Ed Putman, Ben Day, at torney for the association, and Mrs. Darrell Stanley, presi dent of the Parent-Teacher as sociatlon. Others who had written to the corporation protesting the possible change included the city planning commission, the Junior Chamber of Commerce Hatfield Urged To Veto Anti-Farm Governor Said To Be Undecided Salem - (UPD - Religious and labor leaders and an attorney pleaded with Gov. Mark Hat field today to veto an anti farm picketing bill they said "throws out the interests of the farm worker altogether." Hatfield replied the bill in its present form is unfortu nate, but it marks an effort to deal with the "special prob lems ' of protecting perishable crops that can be lost during a sudden, brief strike. Hatfield Undecided "I have not made up my mind," Hatfield said. "It is a question of human rights, jus tice, and possible alterna tives." The bill would prohibit farm picketing during peak harvest periods except by workers employed at the farm in question at least three days. ' Farmers urged it to protect them from total crop loss be cause of a sudden strike. Portland Attorney Don Willner told Hatfield he con sidered the bill "grossly dis criminatory against the group least able to protect itself." Takes Away Leadership He said it would remove Oregon from a position of leadership in migrant worker legislation to the other end of the scale. Chester C. Dusten of the AFL-CIO called it an "anti- collective bargaining bill." He said "without picketing there is no true collective bargain ing." Dusten said the AFL-CIO has no plans at all to organize farm workers in- Oregon in the next two years. The bill would expire at that time. Memorial Day Programs Planned Two programs In observ ance of Memorial day will be held in this area Tuesday, May 30. All veterans organi zations are expected to par ticipate in a program at 10 a.m. in the Library park, Med ford, and also to take part in ceremonies at 1:30 p.m. in the Veterans Administration cem etery near Eagle Point. George Rode, Medford law yer, will be principal speaker at the morning program. No parade is scheduled, and the park program will ' end not later than 11:45 a.m., accord ing to Patrick Graham, who is in charge. a He announced that music for the service will be fitted to the centennial observance of the beginning of the Civil War, for whose dead the day was originally proclaimed. Officials at the Veterans Ad- ministratlon domiciliary, White City, will cooperate In the Eagle Point observance. Several local organizations have announced plans for spe cial grave decorations, flag raisings and other activities for Memorial day. Leaders of veterans organi zations have been asked to contact Graham at 175 Jean ette st., or telephone SPring 2-4192 after 2 p.m. weekdays or during the week end to co ordinate their plans. and the Parent-Teachcr-Stu dent association. Have Studied Letter Nutting explained that of ficers and directors of the corporation, whose headquar ters are in Chicago, "have re ceived and carefully studied your letter." "We have tried several times to answer these com munications individually, but after several tries of that method, we finally concluded It was useless to answer them separately. We are therefore writing to you to answer the problem they all present . . ." "For a good many months now," the letters states, "It has appeared clear to all of us in Mcdco's management that with the present competi tive price of public timber, the increase in our labor costs and the rising cost of our tup plies and material!, we could . BIG BOMBER FALLS Smoke still rises from part of the wreckage of an Air Force C124 Globemaster which crash ed near Tacoma, Wash., today after taking off from Mc- Korea Military Junta Leader To Call on Kennedy Seoul, Korea-(UPD-The lead er of the republic of Korea's ruling military junta caught American officials by surprise today with an announcement that he is going to the United States to see President Ken nedy. Neither the U.S. Embassy nor the United Nations Com mand headed by Gen. Carter Washington i- (DPI) - The State Department today said a visit here by the leader of the Korean military junta would not be "practical or feasible, at this time" be cause of President Ken nedy's crowded schedule. B. Magruder knew of the plan until it was announced by ROK army chief of staff Gen. Chang Do Yung, head of the Revolutionary Committee which seized power last week. In Washington, officials said the United States did not In vite Gen. Chang but that he probably would be extended the usual courtesies accorded a prime minister if he showed up. The United States has con tinued formal diplomatic re lations with South Korea through President Posun Yun. Governor To Have Fallout Shelter Salem (UPD Construction of a radiation fallout shelter in the home of Gov. and Mrs. Mark Hatfield is scheduled for completion Thursday. TWO APPOINTED Salem - (UPD - Gov. Mark Hatfield today named former Gov. Robert D. Holmes and RSjdie Wllhelm Jr. of Port land to the Commission for Constitutional Revision. WEATHER Forecast! Flr throufh Thuri day. Low tonight 38. High Thursday 80. TEMPERATURE Hlghtlt Vmtrday 85 Lowest This Morning 33 Our Skies Tonight Sunset today 7:35 p.m. Sunrise tomorrow .4:41 a.m. Moonset tomorrow .... .2:24 a.m. Foil Moon Monday night PROMINENT STAR Vega, high overhead at moonset VISIBLE PLANETS Mercury, sets S:S1 P.m. Mars, In the west ...9:20 p.m. Jupiter and Saturn, In the southeast 1:17 a.m. Venus, rises 3:14 a.m. sell our product at a competl tive price, and thus stay In business, only if we could (1) better utilize the timber we own or buy, and (2) improve our operations to reduce costs wherever possible." Describes Situation The manager described the situation as a "damned if you do and damned if don't." "Suppose we abandoned our railroad right-of-way now, and then lost the right to haul logs over it by truck. Then because of public pressure, legislative actions or regula tions, It would become uneco nomic and at certain times of the year impossible for our operation to haul logs on the public highways . . . When our log supply was exhausted our 500 employees, their fam ilies and the people of Jack son county as a whole would not thank us, we believe for the decision we had made to Instruction Takes Half of 549 Budget More than half of the gen eral fund expenditures in the proposed Medford school dis trict budget will go for in structional purposes. The general fund budget totals $4,047,728, and the esti mated expenditures for teach ers salaries, teaching supplies, textbooks library books, periodicals and audio visual materials totals $2,843,416. An election on the amount of the budget exceeding the 6 per cent limitation - $2,070, 805;95 - will be held between 2 and 8 p.m. tomorrow (May 25). in the district's 14 ele mentary schools. Resi dents will vote in the elementary school service area in which they live., I Estimated Expenditure! Estimated " expenditures for instructional purposes totals 70.3 per cent of the operation budget, school officials noted. The remainder of the general fund budget - $1,204,312 - is divided between operation of plant, fixed charges, mainte nance of plant, capital outlay, administration, pupil trans portation, auxiliary agencies and other expenses and emer gency fund. The amounts, and the per centage of the total general fund budget for each, are: ; Operation of plant, $339, 126, 8.4 per cent; fixed charges, $223,890, 5.8 per cent; maintenance of plant, $254,444, 6.3 per cent; capital outlay, $119,992, 3.0 per cent; administration, $66,021, 1.6 per cent; pupil transportation, $122,671, 3.0 per cent; auxil iary agencies and other ex penses. $58,172, 1.4 per cent; and emergency fund, $20,000, 0.5 per cent. The proposed general fund budget represents an increase of about 4 per cent over the present year's expenditures. The increase is $154,160.01. The general fund is one of three funds in the total bud get of the district. . Other funds are the bond Interest and redemption fund, which totals $380,560.47, and the school lunch fund, , which totals $271,394.29. A tax levy of $318,082.42 for the bond interest and re demption fund is not subject to the 8 per cent limitation. Levies to repay bonds and the interest on them are approved when district voters approve the bond issues. The school lunch fund is Letter on bandon our railway right-of- way. A "For this reason we are not willing to make any such de cision at this time," Nutting said. He explained that the cor poration will build a private truck route this summer from the Medford plant to Vilas road, or possibly to Antelope road "for convenience In bringing our trucks to the Desert storage pond and on to the plants." The letter also declared that "this present situation is not one Medco created," be cause the new Highway 99 Freeway has "forced our hand." It also gave assurances to the community that, al though, "we can't say now, of course, which method we would use to keep dust to a minimum ... at least In the areas you are worried about, Medco certainly would not be Chord Field. Eighteen men were killed. The plane was returning to Fort Sill, Okla., after taking part in Army exercises in central Washington. (UPI Telephoto) offset by receipts and avail able cash in the fund, and no tax levy is needed for the lunch fund. Polling places for tomor row's election are at Griffin Creek, Hoover, Howard, Jack son, Jacksonville, Jefferson, Lincoln, Lone Fine, Oak Grove, Roosevelt, Ruch, Washington, West Side artd Wilson elementary schools. Residents who are not sure at which school they should vote may contact the school administration office, 500 Mortroe St., Medford. (See story on page IB) Voters 1$ Purged Approximately 8 per cent of Jackson county s registered voters, or 2,911 of the 38,064 persons registered before the November, 1960 general elec tion, failed to vote. . These wer the figures re leased by County Clerk Mar vin Madden today after the county elections department purged the registrations of those who failed to vote at the last elections, as they are re quired to do by state law. The Democrats, who still lead the county In voter regis trations, had the largest num ber of non-voters-1,601 of the former registration total of 19,111, or 8 per cent. A total of 1,255 Republicans failed to vote of the former total of 17,990, or 6 per cent. Fifty- five of the 963 Independents failed to vote, or 5 per cent. The Democrats still lead the Republicans by 799, compared to 1,121 prior to the Nov. 8, 1960 count. New totals are 16,660 for the Republicans, 17,459 for the Democrats, 930 for the Independents, and a total registration of 35,049. FACES MURDER CHARGE Klamath Falls - (UPD Owen Charles Riddle Jr., 23, Bon anza, was arraigned In Dis trict Court today on a mur der charge in connection with the death of Ivan B, Jackson, 35, Klamath Falls. LOAN APPROVED Salem - (UPD - A $350,000 loan to Multnomah college in Portland was approved Tues day by the State Land Board. Log Road so callous as many people fear." He asked that the commun ity and the corporation work together in finding solutions to the problems "confronting your people and ourselves If there appears no practical alternative but to convert our railroad right-of-way to a truck road." DBy expressed the apprecia tion of the Home Owners as sociation for "Medco's recog nition of the fact that people In the area have a legitimate Interest In the proposal." He charged that the "issue re mains the same; 'Shoud Med co be given an economic ad vantage over all other lum ber mills at the expense of many small property owners and the public In general?" Eagle Point city officials commented that the letter was well written and "worth while for everyone to read." Ji- Committee Voles Against Transfer Oi Barnett Area The Jackson county school district reorganization com mittee last night voted 4 to 2 against transfering a section of the Barnett rd. area fo the Medford school district from the Phoenix district. il The committee approved a resolution stating that the proposed boundary ' change would conflict with school district reorganization plans and would be undesirable. Frank Van Dyke, represent ing the residents of the Bat; inett rd. area, said this morn' ing that further - petitions would be filed to transfer the area to .the Medford dis trict. . ' ., : - The area in question in volves land south of Barnett rd. within Medford city lim its, and a small area north and northwest of Barneburg hill. It contains most of five sections . extending east ' to Eagle Point district. It omits the Rogue Valley Manor. j New Figures Presented After the motion had been made and seconded opposing the transfer, County School Superintendent Alf B. Mek vold presented new figures on valuation of the property involved, and the number of youngsters who are and will attend the Phoenix school dis trict from the area. He set the assessed valua tion of the property outside the Rogue Valley Manor at $476,470, compared to an ear lier estimate of $700,000 Van Dyke estimated 98 pu pils attend the Phoenix schools from the area, and 138 will be, according to school census children figures. Otto Bohnert, Central Point, and Dr. F. Lee Mellish, Medford, voted for the trans fer, D. H. . Barber, Trail, R. C. Gail, route 1, Gold Hill, Glenn W. Smith, Applegate, and Cecil Kee, Shady Cove, opposed the transfer. Chair man i Hockersmith did not vote. William H. Prentice. committee member from Medford, and Carroll W smitn, Asniand, both were Rogue River Sets New Budget Hearing Rogue River - Rogue RiV' er voters will have another crack at the city budget June 23 if present plans are fol lowed, according to Mrs. Orva Jean Cruise, city recorder. The budget was defeated 81 to 31 In Monday's election. A special city council meeting was held last night to consid er budget changes. The coun cil set June 22 as the date for public hearing. The proposed budget totals $12,071, an Increase of $170 over last year. Voters were considering exceeding the 6 per cent limitation by $6, 091.87, $94.39 under last year's figure. At last night's meeting, council members Indicated proposed annexation of prop erty on Highway 99 may have had something to do with the budget defeat. In addition $200 Included In the city li brary fund last year had beer cut from the budget, This wai restored at last night's meet Wreckage Strewn Over Wide Area Tacoma, Wash. - (UPD - A giant C124 Globemaster strug gling for altitude crashed shortly after takeoff from Mc- Chord Field this morning, killing 18 of the 22 men aboard. Four others aboard the plane were listed in critical condition at Madigan General - Hospital. An Air Force spokesman said normal communications were maintained during take off at the base about 10 miles south of here at 6:22 a.m. (PST). However, the plane had traveled only about five miles and. was about 500 feet up when it plunged to earth shearing the tops of trees and scattering wreckage over a wide area. , "Air Force personnel were still digging for bodies in the hot rubble when I arrived," said Harold Garb, UPI picture manager at Seattle. "There wasn't much left but several fair-sized chunks and lots of bits and pieces smoking and . covered with white ash." Lt. William Luther, Oak land, Calif., landed' a hell- copter in a small clearing in an early morning fog. He was accompanied by Lt. Robert Michelsen, Kent, Wash., and M.Sgt. Lawrence Seckley and M.Sgt. Samuel Mehling. "The flames were still pret ty bad when we set down," Luther said. "After I landed the other three jumped out and ran into the fire. They brought out two men on stretchers. One of them was still conscious." The helicopter flew the two men to Madigan and three more were taken to the hos pital by ambulance. One of those, was dead on arrival at the.Jiospital. .j.TJui plane carried a crew 6fj seven and 15 Army en listed men. returning to Fort Sill,. Okla.,' after taking part In the Army Exercise Lava Plains at the Yakima, Wash., Firing Center.,, .,, , The plane ,was attached to the 63rd Troop Carrier wing of Donaldson Air Force Base. S.C., and carried an eight-ton truck and two smaller trailers In addition to the 22 men. , , No names were released pending notification ol next oi kin. . .. , ' , Report Expected On Experiment Airport Manager Gil Gut- jahr said Tuesday he should have a report . ready before next winter on the success or failure of last winter's fog dis persal experiment at the mu nicipal airport. Gutjahr declined to say yes terday , whether the " experi m e n t was " successful ' and whether it would be recom mended that it be undertaken again during the next fog sea son. He said these points will be covered in his report. The airport manager did say that the experiment indi cated lt Is "possible" to dis perse certain kinds of fog with dry ice under certain conditions. Gutjahr said the total cost to the city of the experiment was under $250. He declined to reveal the number of times that the experiment was tried. The experiment was based on the theory that dry ice sus pended in or passed through a super-cooled fog bank would dissipate the fog. Super-cooled fog is fog having a tempera ture of below 32 degrees. The experiment was per formed by suspending dry ice from a helium-filled balloon and then pulling the balloon behind a vehicle along the length of the airport runway. It was hoped that this would disperse the fog enough to permit airplanes to land. Medford was declared to be a pioneer in this kind of ex periment at the time it was first introduced last fall. BILL APPROVED Washington -(UPD-The House Education Committee today approved a $3.3 billion bill to carry out President Kennedy's public school aid plan. ; Bulletin Cape Canaveral, Fla.-fWD The United State today launched four-itage rack et In an attempt to orbit bsby earth satellite with six radio voices.