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(Easts' Offers To Trade Prisoners IK.' . . For SS2 In ion Regional. Edition 57th Year Price 10 Cents Medford Tribune 18 Pages Two Sections NEW HIGHWAY Like a giant ribbon running the length of the Rogue valley, the new Interstate 5 freeway stands out clearly from the air. The picture shows part of the town of Phoenix (lower right) and the outline of the Fern valley rd. interchange system. Grading of the Medford Ashland section of the freeway is expected to be complete Paving Experiment Planned On lYledford-Ashland Route Salem "(UPD - The Oregon Highway Department said to- day it plans a concrete high- way experiment in Jackson county that should make a nine-mile strip the smoothest road in Oregon. A section of the Pacific Freeway between Medford and Ashland will not only be paved with concrete, but will have "continuous" steel rein forcement throughout. This means it shouldn't have even a tiny ripple in it. Deputy Highway Engineer G. S. Paxson said this is the first time this has been done in Oregon, although other states have experimented. Oregon now has some con crete paving, but the differ ence is the prior projects have Padgham Urged To Reconsider Position The three Jackson county Democratic candidates for the Oregon House of Representa tives want Henry Padgham Jr., who recently announced his withdrawal as a candidate for the State Senate, to recon sider. He told them he would think about it, and announce his decision soon. The House candidates are James Redden, Al Bradford and Charles Crary. They met with Padgham for breakfast this morning to discuss the possibility of his changing his mind. Padgham announced h i s withdrawal as a candidate aft er the county Democratic Central committee last week voted for a resolution against the proposed Home Rule char ter. Padgham said he felt obli gated to withdraw as he could not support such a resolution, since he is a strong charter supporter. His name will still appear on the May 18 primary elec tion ballot, whether or not he changes his mind and stays in the race. CONDEMNATION OF ISRAEL HEWSBRIffS ITIMS FROM m YJt y AROUND THI OlOM United Nations,. N.Y.-VH-Tht Security Council today unanimously approved in Anglo-American resolution which, in effect, condemned Israel for last month's fighting with Syria at the Sea of Galilee. France abstained in the 10-0 vote. FACT-FINDERS HOLD 10-MINUTE MEETING Waihington-lTI-A presidential fact-finding board held a 10-minule meeting on the 24-day-old West Coast maritime strike today, and said it would try to report to President Kennedy on strike issues Tuesday afternoon. MILITARY CONSTRUCTION AUTHORIZED Waihington-lPI-The House Armed Services Committee today approved a bill authorising $1,524,197,000 in new military construction projects for 466 Army, Navy end Air Force bases at home and oversees. DE GAULLE GETS CONFIDENCE VOTE Paris-ilPI-A massive vote of confidence from the French people cleared the way for President Charles de Gaulle to day to push through lndpendance for Algeria and other Jln to restore Franc to "grSidaur." MEDFORD, TDREGON, MONDAY, APRIL 9, chopped joints, like all routes. The department will call for bids on the nine miles this spring. Costs will be higher but. it's not known yet how much. Purpose of the experi ment is to see what this kind of route costs, and how it wears and rides. ' The route will start at the School District To Vote on Budget In edford Tuesday Medford school district pa trons will vote between 2 and 8 p.m. Tuesday, April 10, on a school budget exceeding the 6 per cent limitation by $2, 421,658.50. Polls will be open between those hours at the district's 14 elementary schools - Griffin Creek, Hoover, Howard, Jack son, Jacksonville, Jefferson, Lincoln, Lone Pine, Oak Grove, Roosevelt, Ruch, Man Found Guilty Of Manslaughter Yreka - Calvin Hecocta, 19, Beatty, Ore., faces sentencing April ie after ' a ' Siskiyou county jury last week found him guilty of involuntary manslaughter and wanton dis respect for life. Hecocta was charged in con nection with the death of Jo seph Lindy Franks of Med ford during an argument south of Yreka Feb. 4. The jury's verdict, reached after three hours of delibera tion, carries the same sen tence as voluntary manslaugh ter, one to 10 years in prison Hecocta will go before Judge J. E. Barr of Siskiyou county superior court for sentencing. The argument, involving a total of 13 persons, was said to have begun in a Yreka bar over a remark about a girl dancing the twist. APPROVED . Vi r about May 15 and the. paving contract will be let May 23, according to Don Haller, resident engineer of the Oregon state highway department. The North Phoenix rd. (lower left) will not cross the freeway as it does In the picture above, but will join Fern Valley rd. on the east side of the freeway, thus eliminating an overpass. south edge of Medford and end at the North Ashland in terchange. The reason this particular section was chosen is because it is ready for im mediate paving. The smooth stretch will be jointed only by several bridges, where continuous re inforcement isn t feasible. Washington, West Side and Wilson. Total estimated expenditure for next school year is $4, 633.778.32, including the gen eral fund of $4,254,292, and a bond interest and redemption fund of $379,486.32. Total estimated receipts next year is $1,444,325.93, leaving $3,189,452.39 neces- saray to balance the budget. The net budget increase over this year's budget is $205,489.85, which amounts to about 4.8 per cent. Most of the increase is be cause of an expected increase in enrollment of about 4 per cent, resulting in a greater number of teachers, supplies and materials. Fifteen new teachers will be added to the staff next year to relieve pres ent overcrowded classrooms and handle additional stu dents. Millage Increase . , The increase in the budget represents an increase in mill age rates of an estimated 5 mills, according to budget committee members But there are three vari ables which could lower this increase, committee members pointed out. They are the amount of state and county support, and a valuation in crease greater than antici pated. Committee members point ed out that if the district re ceives both additional state and county funds as anticipat ed, there will be no increase in the millage rate. Estimated valuation of the district next year is $49,700,000, compared to a valuation of $48,957, 254.72 this year. District Superintendent Dr. Leonard B. Mayfield, during budget committee meetings. told the group the proposed budget is considered to be a minimum, "if not an austere one." WEATHER FORECAST: Partly floudr to night. lnrrNsinr timid I n e i s Tiirtay wfth a thine of ritn TuMdav evening. Coolfr tonight and Tunfliv. I.ow tonight 31-3. Hlrh Tucday 3. Temp. Highest Ynttrdiv S 1 owf it Th1 Morntnc 3? Prtclp. to 10 a.m. Today .91 Our Skies Tonight ffunit today "unrisf tomorrow . Mooni't tomorrow . f irst Quarter PROMINENT STAR :4 p.m. S 4ft am. . 13:21am. Wednesday Arrtiirm, In the fait 8:44 p.m. VlttfBLR PLANETS mu, art T :41p.m. Saturn, low tn aouthrait 4:4 m. I Man, rites .. 1:11 t m. mpner, dc ifveen saiurn ana 1962 No. 16 Two Happy Camp Men Killed in Sunday Accidents Happy Camp Tragedy struck the Happy Camp area twice Sunday, taking the lives of two men in separate acci dents. George McLane, 55, was on his way home in a pickup truck at 1 a.m. Sunday when the vehicle went off the Kla. math River rd. down an 80. foot bank and into the' river, Siskiyou county sheriff's of ficers were hunting for his body today. Sunday afternoon, ' Leon Higley, 37, was killed instant. ly when a two-ton grader motor fell on him. McLane and his wife were returning to their home 25 miles west of Happy Camp in separate vehicles when Mrs. McLane realized that the headlights of her husband's truck were no longer visible behind her. Unable to locate her husband or the truck, Mrs. McLane contacted Ever ett Collard, California High way Patrol officer at Happy Camp, who at 4 a.m. found the point where the truck went into the river about 20 miles west of Happy Camp. Sheriff's officers are assisting in the search for the body. The river is high at this time of year, making the search difficult. Officers speculated that Mc Lane might have gone to sleep at the wheel. The road pave ment is only 10 feet wide at the point where the accident occurred. In the Sunday afternoon in cident Higley was helping Ed Anderson and Tim Laughlin both of Happy Camp, move a heavy two-axle motor which the men had on a pivot. The motor became unbalanced with Highley under It, and it fell on him. Higley's survivors include his wife, Joyce and four chil dren. PORTLANDER ELECTED Indianapolis -WW- Dr. Nor man H. Rickles, Portland, Ore., was elected president of the American Academy of Oral Pathology at the group's meeting here during the week end. Mayor Snider Victim of Practical Joke; Rewards Sought for Return of Keys Medford's Mayor John W Snider has a growing reputa tion as a fast man with a quip and with a practical joke. Poetic Justice set in with a vengance last week. A victim of one of his pranks set out to get even. The first hint of the Mayor's trouble came in the form of an air mail package from Ja pan. It contained a key ring, three battered keys, and a stamped-rnetal tag which said "One dollar reward if return ned to Mayor Snider, Med ford, Oregon." With this was a note which asked, in lieu of the dollar reward, for a contribution to a non-existent Japanese charity, the name of which should not be print ed in a family newspaper. INcxt the Mayor started re Indications Show That Medford Time To Be Standard There are indications today I states - Washington and Cali that time will not be as con-lfornia. fusing this summer as it was ! Governmental agencies in last year - at least iri the Med ford area. The question of time-standard, daylight, fast or slow-has not been discussed at any length by the Medford Retail association, according to downtown Medford merchant sources, and indications are that it may not be considered at much length. Local radio and television stations plan to stay on stand ard time, according to a sur vey. One indicated it may de pend upon what local .mer chants plan to do, however. About a month ago, local governmental units and cham bers of commerce were urged by Gov. Mark O. Hatfield to do what they could to help avoid the confusion of time which prevailed throughout the state-including Medford- last summer. Unofficial Changes Five metropolitan counties in the northern part of the state are the only ones author ized to observe daylight sav ing time, but last summer other areas observed every thing from standard time with changed working hours to un official daylight time with ex tended hours to serve those on standard time. Already this year, some areas in the state (other than the five northern counties) have indicated unofficial changes in the time to coin cide with the time in nearby UFO Sighted by Trio In Northern Nevada Unidentified flying objects (UFO) are -back in the news, this time reported in northern Nevada. Three women returning from the general conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Salt Lake City, Utah, reported sighting the object as they were traveling south from the Oregon state line towards Winncmucca late Saturday night. The women reported that the bright object, about the size of a beach ball, glowed with a yellowish-orange light and seemed to hover just above the ground. It was first sighted as it crossed the high way in front of Uie vehicle, casting a light beneath it as it traveled. Shortly after wards it appeared behind the vehicle, the women said, and followed them for about 60 miles, disappearing only when cars approached from the op posite direction. It disappear ed for the last time shortly before the trio arrived in Win- nemucca. American Soldiers Killed in Viet Nam Saigon, South Vet Nam-OIPP -A band of Communist Viet Cong guerrillas killed two American soldiers and appar ently captured two others in a surprise raid on a village in the north of South Viet Nam Sunday, U. O. officials reported today. HOME RULE GROUP A meeting of the Jackson County Citizens for Home Rule will be held in the staff room of the Public Library of Medford and Jackson County tonight at 7:30 o'clock, com mittee officials announced. The meeting had previously announced for the Phoenix Community club. ceiving telephone calls. Two sets of keys had been found in Grants Pass and reported to police, who helpfully tele typed the news to the Med ford department. A set of keys had been found near Glendale. One was found in the Ap plcgate; another stuck into the front door of the Ashland Elks club; another in the pub lic rest room in the Medford Library park; another near the Medford hotel. By Sunday afternoon the mayor, beginning to feel just a bit desperate, was wonder ing how many dollar rewards he's have to pay. The total was about 35 sets of keys at that time, and they were still coming. Aonday morning's mill this area also plan to remain on standard time. Medford Mayor John Sni der lias written to Governor Hatfield that the city of Med ford would observe Hatfield's earlier request to avoid a con fusion of time by remaining on standard time. The Jackson county court previously said it would re main on standard time in com pliance with state law. Instead of the confusion which reigned in this area last summer, there appears to be a tendency toward one time - standard - even if it is not the time desired by many of the people who have busi ness dealings with tourists, or with businessmen from areas on daylight tirwv Young Boy Drowns In Irrigation Ditch Near Home Rory Lynn Fbwler. 18 months, son of Mr. and Mrs. Rex Fowler, 1702 Corona ave., Medford, was found dead this morning in an irrigation ditch near his home. Medford city police were notified shortly after 10 o'clock that the child was missing. He had been seen playing in a field near the Fowler home earlier this morning with three other pre school children. A construction worker, Lee Bumgarden, 801 Biddle rd., was working at some new homesites in the area when he saw Mrs. Fowler searching for the boy. He found the body of the child about one- quarter of a mile from the house in the ditch, caught on a branch. Attempts by police to re vive the child failed. The irri gation ditch is located behind the Fowler property near Mc Andrews rd. and Corona ave. and is five and six feet deep and contains between two and three feet of water. In the area where the child disap peared the water is reported to have a swift current. Police were still investigat ing the incident. Psychologist To Speak on Retirement Dr. Frank Strange, Port land, clinical psychologist for the Oregon state department of health, will speak in Med ford Tuesday evening at the Red Cross building, 60 Haw thorne ave. Dr. Strange will speak at 7:30 p.m. on "How to avoid retirement shock." His talk will be the third in a series under way in Medford spon sored by the social and eco nomics issues committee of the Medford branch, Ameri can Association of University Women and the Rogue Valley Council on Aging. The scries is on "Prepara tion for Retirement" and the weekly sessions are open to the public. Part of each pro gram is discussion, and ques tions will be invited from the audience. The location of this pro gram had to be changed due to the activities during Na tional Library week in the Public Library of Medford and Jackson county. brought the total to about 65 sets of keys. They came from the Myrtle Creek police de partment, Canyonvillc, Rose- burg, La Grande, and two from Portland from the Park Hcathman and Benson hotels. There was one report from a source which may know that the prankster had dis tributed 104 sets of keys, ranging from Japan to who knows where The mayor thinks he knows who the Jokester is, and gets a far-away look while ploU ting his own revenge. Mean while he is telling the find ers to throw the keys away and he will donate $1 to a charity in their name. As someone remarked to day. ,Mayor Snider Is I key man'.in the community. Premier To Meet Representatives To Work Out Deal 30-Year Prison Terms Alternative By United Press International Fidel Castro, in a move ap parently aimed at rescuing Cuba s decaying economy wants $62 million in Amen can dollars for the release of 1,180 captured Cuban invad ers. The Cuban premier will meet Tuesday In Havana with a four-man delegation repre senting families of the prison ers in hopes of obtaining from $25,000 to $500,000 for individual members of the in vasion force. The government ruled Sunday if Castro's price is not met the men would have to spend 30 years at hard labor for their part in last April's abortive invasion. The announcement was made in Sunday editions of govern ment-controlled newspapers. To See Castro The public trial of the prisoners, for whom the death penalty had been asked of the five-man court, ended last Tuesday with no announce ment of a verdict. The "Cuban Families Com mittee for Liberation of Pris oners of War" cabled Castro Sunday it was prepared to "definitely settle negotiations and liberate all prisoners." The group said it would be able to offer "products or articles" valued at $28 million and Castro agreed to meet with the four-man delegation. The committee's cable, sign ed by Chairman Alvaro San chez Jr., said the "firm offer . . . does not refer to tractors In a speech last May 17 Castro made his "tractors for prison ers" offer, asking that the captives be exchanged for 800 tractors worth about $2 mil lion. He later said he wanted heavy duty tractors which would cost considerably more. Castro's Demands Increase All attempts to make the exchange failed and the Cu ban dictator subsequently in creased his demands until a $28 'million price tag was placed on the prisoners. Sun day Castro more than doubled this. In Washington, the admin istration had no official com ment on Castro's latest man ipulation with human beings. It appeared the United States, which the court-martial board at the prisoners' trial charged with financing and backing the invasion, would take no official part in the negotia tions. Budget Committee Resumes Studies The Jackson county budget committee resumes its studies of the new fiscal year budget starting tomorrow at 9:30 a.m. County Judge Earl Miller estimated that the' committee has reached the half-way point in its deliberations. Four more meetings are sched. u I e d including tomorrow's. The public hearing on the budget is scheduled for June 8. Ben Hilton, president of the Rogue Flood Control and Wa ter Resources association, is scheduled to meet with the committee tomorrow morning regarding association promo tional funds. A discussion of the pro posed multi-purpose stadium for the county also will be discussed. Representatives of various groups proposing var ious stadium and ball field plans have been Invited to appear before the committee. Various other county de partment heads may be called for interviews tomorrow. Mil ler said. A personal interview with representatives of the Public Library of Medford and Jackson County will be held on April 4, Miller added. Forest Industries Reelects Local Man San Francisco-iuPO - Three Oregon men were reelected of ficers of the Western Forest Industries Association at its convention here Saturday. Returning to office were Fred Sohn of Roseburg, presi dent, Leo Richard of Cottage Grove, vice president, and Paul Doe of Medford, secre tary treasurer. GRANT RECEIVED Salem - OJPIl - Willamette University has been given an $8700 grant from the Nation alcience Foundation. ft? xv y - tew t,l: v.-v-'! fi I fr3 fW! A NEWCOMER The whooping cranes at Audubon Park Zoo in New Orleans have managed to hatch one of the two rare eggs they have been incubating for more than a month. Above, Josephine feeds while the baby Is barely visible be tween her leg and her bill. Inset is a closeup of the little fellow, hatched at 2:37 p.m. Sunday. (UPD Whooping Crane Hatches; Another Due Momentarily New Orleans-(UPIl-The only mated pair of rare Whooping Cranes in captivity today ex pected another visit from the stork and you would think Audubon Park Zoo Director George Douglass was the ex pectant father. Josephine and Crip Sunday hatched a fuzzy brown chick from one of two eggs Jose phine laid more than a month ago. The Audubon Park Zoo has doubled a round-the-clock watch on the other egg. A movie cameraman string ing wire several years ago ex cited Josephine so that she slopped on and broke a pre cious egg, about the size ot a baseball. Sunday's arrival, ' still far from assured survival, made a total of 38 Whoopers known in existence. Whooping Cranes once flourished in America but naturalists fear they may become extinct: 1 Josephine has laid a total of 17 eggs at Audubon Park. But she and Crip managed to raise One Candidate Files For School Board Mrs. G. T. (Carroll) Hau pert, 222 Valley View dr., Medford, is the only candidate for a five-year term on the Medford school board. Deadline for filing as a can didate was 5 p.mT Friday. Otto Ewaldsen, chairman whose term expires this year, said previously he would not seek reelection. He has served on the board two terms. Mrs. Haupert was appoint ed to the school district budg et committee this year, and served as secretary during the committee's consideration and discussion of the proposed budget for the coming year. She has been active in par ent teacher associations in the Medford schools as well as various civic organizations and church activities. School board members are elected at the school's annual election May 7. "Strom, Are You Coming Or Are You Going To Stay?" Ips ova 1 : "trvfc) only four of their offspring to maturity. The only other Whooper in captivity is at a zoo in San Antonio, Tex. Premeditation Is Point oi Appeal ' Salem -WPIl- An attorney for condemned slayer Lee . Roy Sanford McGahuey, 44, asked the Oregon Supreme Court for a new trial today, contending that Ihe state hadn't proved that ihe claw hammer : slaying of a 23-month-old boy was premedi tated. Attorney G. W. Kelllngton, Medford, whose client has been sentenced to die in the Oregon gas chamber, said that hole In the slate's case called for another trial. But. Jackson County Dis trict Attorney Alan B. Holmes told the high court that Mc Gahuey had an "eminently fair trial." The verdict should be upheld, he said. The victim was young Rod Cameron Holt. McGahuey, an unemployed forest laborer at the time of the Feb. 13, 1061 slaying, was not in the courtroom as his appeal was presented. He is on death row at the Oregon Penitentiary. McGahuey also confessed killing the boy's mother, Loris Mae Holt, in her Cen tral Point apartment. Mc Gahuey was convicted of first degree murder in the boy'a slaying and was not prosecut ed for the woman's death. Mrs. Holt, with whom Mc Gahuey had been living, was struck on the head with a claw hammer, stabbed with a butcher knife and shot with a pistol. Then the infant was killed with the hammer as he slept. Kelllngton said McGahuey was in such a state of mind after slaying the mother that he couldn't possibly have killed the Infant moments later with any premeditation.
