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Agriculture Officia ies sns Under Regional Edition Medford 44 Pages Three Sections McNamara Orders Shift in Federal Steel Purchases Price Hike May Impair Security Wasmngton-fflPD - Defense Secretary Robert S. McNa mara today directed that steel purchases for military uses be slimed as much as possible to steel firms which have not boosted prices. He expressed concern that the steel hike announced this week may impair "the secur ity of the United States." Second Move McNamara's purchasing or- aer was the second move made by the Kennedy admin istration in response to the $6 a ton increase announced this week by most major steel companies. Even as McNamara made his announcement, Inland Steel Co., the nation's eighth largest producer, announced it would not follow the price rise pattern set by U.S. Steel Corp. Among other producers which have not yet announced price hikes are Armco, Kaiser, Great Lakes and Colorado Fuel & Iron. President Kennedy prompt ly hailed the Inland decision as "very good" news. Other Development! There were these other de velopments on the govern ment front: The House Appropriations Committee voted peacetime record of $47.8 billion for arms spending today and warned that it may have to put up more later because of the steel hike. -A Federal Grand Jury in vetigation was in the works to determine whether the government was considering a civil antitrust suit to break up U.S. Steel. " -' -The President summoned administration leaders into extraordinary session to con sider possible other moves. Informational Picket In Front of Store The picket at Fitt's Fish and Seafood Market, West Main St., is an informational picket, according to James D. Cain, secretary - treasurer of Local 503 Meat Cutters union. It was incorrectly stated in Thursday's Mail Tribune that the store officials had receiv ed a letter from Cain. The let ter was sent by the secretary of the Jackson County Labor council at Cain's request. It asked for the store's owner to meet with the executive board of the council to discuss his reasons for not wanting to i conduct a union shop. The letter explained that if an official of the store did not appear before the council his store would be placed on the "do not patronize" list of the council in accordance with similar action which had been taken by Local 503. The picket first appeared at the store Wednesday morn ing. Coast Area Plumbers Coos Bay -tUPD- Plumbers along the Oregon coast from Florence to the California line returned to work today, ending a four week strike. Local 821 of Plumbers and Steamfitters reached a three year agreement with the Southwest Oregon Master Plumbers Association. It pro vides for wage, health, wel fare and pension increases to. taling 38 cents an hour over the three-year period. FRENCH ARMY ENCIRCLES tIFWS: .BRIEFS rtiM$ reoM fry Algiers, Algeria-IM-Tht French army encircled Oranj today whila heavily-armed security patrols ilalkad through .i i.. 1 m k.ii.n.hniua rrh n rnnl nut. Secral Army Organisation commandos. TEST BAN UNWILLINGNESS REPEATED Jhsy srs unwilling to join Russia in a nw unpolled nucl.ar teit moratorium, but tha Soviet Union claimed tha majority el lh world is on its fid. U S TO PUSH ACCESS ROUTE PLAN Wahingion-iri-Th United Stalei will puih il plan! for international control of Allied access routes to Red-j encircled West Berlin at Soviet-American meetings begin-) ning here next week. 1 MEDFORD, OREGON, FRIDAY, APRIL 13, : N .3 , T; w i' MISSING-A nationwide miss ing persons alarm is out for Anthony Strolio, alia Tony Bender, a long-time under world power on the New York-New Jersey waterfront and a former associate of the late racketeer, Albert Anas tasia. Strollo's wife reported that she had not seen her husband since April 8 when he drove away from their Fort Lee, N. J., home. (UPI) Northwest Bell Ordered To Reduce Toll Service Take Salem -UPD- Public Utility Commissioner Jonel C. Hill today ordered Pacific North west Bell Telephone Co. to cut its intake on Oregon in trastate toll service by more than $500,000 a year. The cut is effective May 2. The total reduction in rates within the state will amount to $586,000. Hill said the Bids Opened for EPSchool-Work - Eagle Point-Two Medford firms have bid successfully on construction of an addition to Eagle Point High school and new administration build ing for the Eagle Point school district. Ihe district board last night accepted the bids of Lorcn Ritchey company and Rogue Valley Construction company on the respective jobs. Loren Ritchey submitted the low bid of $235,978 on the high school addition. Oth er firms bidding were Cum mings Construction, Grants Pass, $242,713; Barnnart con struction, Medford, $247,000, and Wiley Company, Ashland, $251,000. Rogue Valley Construction submitted the low bid of $18, 404 for the new administra tion building. Other bids were Robert Marsh, Grants Pass, $18,965; Loren Ritchey, $18, 997; Barnhart Construction. $19,125; Cummmgs Construc tion, $19,743, and B. D. Greene, Ashland, $21,140. Lorcn Ritchey company will start work Monday and expect to take 180 days to complete the job. Rogue Val ley Construction submitted an estimate of 120 days on its job. Superintendent Glenn D. Hale announced that plans are being made to call for bids on two new 73 to 79 passenger buses needed by the district. Bids will be opened at a board meeting May 10. ROBBERY CHARGED Bend - WPD - James Russell La Spina, 25. Richmond, Va., was arrested here early today and charged with armed rob bery in connection with Thursday's $297 robbery of the Market Basket Grocery in Salem. AROUND THI 01011 ORAN Tribune Morse Urges Power Provision Be Kept In Constitution Salem UP0 Sen. Wayne Morse (D-Ore.) said in strong terms today that the public power provisions of the Ore gon Constitution mustn't i be disturbed. To remove them would feed the "monopolistic" tendencies of some private power com panies, he said. Morse, leadoff witness be fore the finance and local government subcommittee of the Oregon Constitution Re vision commission, said the commission has a "tremen dously heavy burden of proof in proposing the repeal of any constitutional provisions which were adopted by the initiative route," including the public power section. The people's utility district amendment was voted in by chief benefit to telephone cus tomers will be a 5 per cent de crease in station to station calls made to points within Oregon but more than 40 miles away. Most of the reduction will be felt by those making day station to station calls, he said. He added there also will be some decrease in tolls in the day person to person rate, but to a lesser extent. - The cut was made possible by a change In accounting procedures which i h 1 f t e d someJEacilities and expense now charged to intrastate toll operation to interstate opera tions. The change in procedures was worked out after lengthy negotiations between state and federal officials and the Bell system. Hill called it a "milestone in regulatory achievement." Hill said present rate stud ies are continuing and "every effort" is being made to se cure further adjustments in intrastate toll rates, some of which have been higher than out of state calls. Private Plane Lands on Highway Montague-The president of the Montague PTA and his Yreka companion safely made an emergency landing on Highway 99 in their private plane late Thursday. William Frost of Montague and Kenneth Cavin of Yreka were flying at a height of about 6,000 feet on their way from Montague to Sacramen to when the engine failed. The two dead-sticked the plane and landed on Highway 99 just south of Dunsmuir. Neither man was injured nor was the plane damaged. The two men continued on to Sac ramento by car. Porter Plans Visit in Medford Area Former Congressman Charles O. Porter, Eugene, a candidate for the Democratic nomination for representative from the fourth congressional district, will be in Medford Saturday and Sunday, April 14 and 15. Wilbur Gardner, Medford, Porter's Jackson county cam paign chairman, said Mr. and Mrs. Porter plan to attend the Roosevelt Memorial dinner Saturday night at McLoughlin Junior High school. On Sunday, Porter will be at an open house at the home of Mr. and Mrs. E. M. Mad f"' " iera den, 1317 Springbrook rd. Two SfOry HOOSO s ...-j, Garfield ave., was extensive - i damaged by fire about noon today. The house was occu- oppujeu u1: H,uu.i pied by Mr. and Mrs. Willard white 18 favored It. Dubley. j Proponents of the PUD be- Firemen were still at theiiieved that public power scene at press time and j would reduce electric rates in further details were n otj this area and thereby improve known. i ihe economic climate. Jose- i 57th Year Price 10 Cents 1962 No. 20 the people in 1930, and the state power development amendment in 1932. The commission, drafting a new Oregon Constitution which it wants to be as lean and austere as possible, is questioning whether the pub lic power sections could just as well be in the statutes. Morse declared that taking them out would "constitute a severe loss to the people of Oregon." Private Power State Morse also said one reason Oregon lags behind Washing ton in industrial development may be that Washington is primarily a public power state while Oregon is a private one. He urged the 1963 Oregon legislature to launch a full investigation of the electric power situation. Federal Power Commission er Howard Morgan, the see-: ond witness, seconded Morse's : remarks but said he thinks: one section is obsolete. This- is the part that lets a PUD levy a property tax to back stop bonds, he said, adding: that this has never been done and probably never will be done. Never Exercised The public power section al lows the state to create a state power agency and al though this has never been exercised, Morgan said, just the presence of it in the con. stitution gives the tieonle an alternative if private rates be come "unbearable." Morgan said electric rates have a "suspicious tendency to rest at the level of what the traffic will bear." He cited the Klamath Falls area, served by .private power, as . a "high price area. , California has the best utili ty code in the nation and much of the code is in the California Constitution, Mor gan said. No Appointments Nade to Give Blood No appointments have been received so far by the Red Cross for the Monday and Tuesday visits of the Bloomo bile, Mrs. J. W. Burba, blood program chairman, reported today. The quota of 350 pints for which 400 donors are needed has been set for the visit next week. Monday the Bloodmo bile will be at the Red Cross chapter house from 3 to 5 p.m. and Tuesday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Appointments may be made by teiepiioning the Red Cross building, SPring 3-3813. WEATHER FORECAST: Fif with wUfcte hljth cloudiness Through Satur day. Low tonight 3?, iff(h S&t urday Temp. tlifhest Yesterday S3 Loweit This Morntaf 39 Our Skies Tonight Sunset today :S0 p.m. Sunrise tomorrow .... 3:33 a.m. Moomet tomorrow .. 3:tS a.m. The pfanet, Mars, lik the Earth, orbits around the Sun, but at (create varying dis tances. It is now about I2 mil lion miles from the Sua; last May die dtacance was more than ISO million miles. Three Days of Hearings On Josephine PUD End Wilderville - Three days of hearings on a proposed Pub- j lie Utilities District in a por-j tion of Josephine county; wound up at the Wilderville Methodist church Thursday with both sides summarizing arguments. The Wilderville hearing was attended primariiy by Pacific Power and Light of ficials and many protests were registered against the proposed PUD. Among those in opposition to the plan were State Sen. Dcbbs Potts Aside from the officials of the Josephine County Public Power association, only one other person spoke in favor 1 of creating a PUD. According j to he register, 24 persons at- , ! ymrQf- ' tgy T- j -- - n i i n i H r i f"-f - r lift ii LL WORK RESUMED Maritime Thursday under a Taft-Hartley order asked by President Kennedy. Here longshoremen in San Francisco hoist cargo Stale, Democratic! Party Officials To Attend Dinner Several state and Demo-; cratic party officials as well: as Democratic candidates plan to attend the 12th annual Roosevelt Memorial dinner at 8:30 p.m. Saturday at Mc Loughlin Junior High school, Medford. Sen. Eugene J. McCarthy will sneak. He will be intro- duced by Sen. Wayne Morse and Robert B. Duncan, Med ford, speaker of the Oregon house of representatives, will be master of ceremonies. ' Among those planning to at tend are Attorney General Robert Y. Thornton and State Senator Walter J. Pearson, both candidates for governor; Labor Commissioner Norman Nilsen, seeking reelection; Charles O. Porter, Robert Straub and Patrick Flynn, all of Lane county and all can didates, along with Duncan, for fourth district congres-: sional representative. Democratic National Com mitteeman C. Girard David son, and Democratic stale Chairman E. D. Spencer also plan to attend. Nan Wood Honeyman, former congress woman and later Oregon col lector of customs aiso will at tend the event. Other delegations plan to attend from Coos Bay, Jose phine county, Klamath Falis and Roseburg, according to George A. Loftin, Democratic party county chairman. Following the dinner, the Democratic Social club will preside at a reception honor ing Senators McCarthy and Morse. Sunday morning, the Elea nor Rooscveit L,cague wui hold a no-host breakfast for visiting guests who remain ov ernight, it will be held in the Rogue room of the Medford hotel at 8 a.m. WINS FOURTH PLACE Salem - flJPB - An Ontario high school girl, Charli Ann Harland, has placed fourth in the national employ the han dicapped essay contest, it was announced today. phine county is designated ss a deprpssed area. Opponents argue ihat a PUD would have to levy taxes: to support Hrelf and would thereby cost county residents just an much as current dec trio hills cost them. PUD proponents were aid ed at Wednesday's hearing in Grants Pass, however, by the annearance of Forest A, Al bright, president of the Ore gon Peoples Utilities District drector association. He rited the record of rate redtirtions , emabiished by the four PUDs i now in existence in Orcein StRte Engineer l,ewi Stan ley, who conducted ihe three hearinss, will next Issue a re nort on the feasibility of es tabli'hing ( PUD In Josephine county. Regardless of his findines, however, proponents of ihe proposal may place it on the November ballot by circulat ing petitions. unions went back to work Budget Committee Discusses Request For Pay Increases The Jackson county budget committee yesterday after-: noon discussed pay increases County Assessor Thad Hatten requested for his employees. Hatten had requested in creases for 27 of 29 employees ranging from $188 to $408 a I year. '1 feel they are worth more money than they are bemgilhTg does not' refer to mini paid," the county assessor lorn rne commutes, ''u j didn't think they had earned the money I wouldn't aslf for it." Sportshlr Opens Today at Armory the tftree-day Crater Lions club sponsored Sportsfsir will open at 5 o clock thss after noon at the Medford armory with a variety of activities de signed to be of Interest to all members of the family. Scheduled today is a Judo i exhibition at fl p.m., s demon stration by Gunfighters, Inc., at 8:30 p.m., dancing exhibi-; tions and ihe first yo-yo elimi-: nation contest, A style show; is scheduled on the Armory : stage each hour on th ehour. Similar exhibition? and demonstrations are scheduled starting at noon tomorrow i and Sunday. Aiso being featured at the: Soortsfair are helicopter : rides, two parachute jumps per day, motorcycle demon-: strations, and sialic displays of model homes, sports cars, antique cars, hobbies sni crafts, and other recreational ideas. The Soortsfair queen will be selected Sunday evening from among 11 candidates se lected from high schools throuehout Jackson county. Candidates for queen will model clothes from Burel son's during the fashion shows. Other highlights of the Sportsfair wifl be ihe firrt public showing of Arthur Dubs record sized polar bear. and the selection of the kin and Queen for the Pear Blos som Festival. Hemming lo Speak A! Annual Dinner Arthur S. Fiemming, presi dent of the University of Ore gon, will speak at the annual dinner meeting of the Jack son County Family end Child Guidance Clinic at 7 p.m. Monday, April i8, at Hoover school, Medford, Fiemming will discuss "the report of the Joint commis sion on mental illness and health; a call to action," The Medford High school Madrigal Singers will provide entertainment. The buffet din ner is being catered by North's Chuck Wagon. Dinner committee repre sentatives said reservations for the dinner should be made as soon as possible by tele phoning the guidance clinic in the Jackson county court house, SPring 3-8211. aboard the S. S. Mariposa, a Matson cargo-liner which is scheduled to sail tor Los Angeles and the South Pacific Saturday. iUPl) ; The committee decided to ask for a legal opinion as to whether the appraisers had to be paid on a Blate scale. Hat- ten read the state law to the committee wfaich stated that, In no event shall salaries paid (county appraisers be less than that of state person nel of similar classifications.' S munv salaries, Hatten said. Conducting Stat Projrm - Hatten also explained thai the county assessor's office is conducting a state appraisal program in the county as re quired by law. To keep quali fied personnel they have to be paid fair salaries, Hatten said. Hslten remarked that ap-i parerstiy his understanding of i merit nay increases is rfiffw - ent than the -budget commit' tee's. If any employee is earn ing a raise in pay he should receive it, Hatten said. The committee said only the top personnel should receive raises, "I'm trying lo keep the em ployees satisfied so they will do a good job. To rate some good employees higher than others would create friction," Hatten said. The committee decided to consider ail proposed salary : increases for the elected coun- ty officials at one time. The committee approved I the county engineer's budget with some revisions. Interviews will be held with the Jackson county juvenile department at 9 a.m., and the Public Library of Medford and Jackson county at i;30 p.m. April 24, the committee decided. Foul Weather Hits Midwest States By United Press International Foul weather slapped the nation s midsection today and covered many a crocus with snow. it was wet and wintry through the Northern states with temperatures near the freezing point. La Crosse, Wis., got 3.1 inches of snow, bringing the "seasonal" total to 78.7 Inch es for a new record. In Min-ncspolis-St. Paul, the opening game of the Minnesota Twins was canceled. Two and a half inches of snow accumulated at Berlin, N.H. and up to 7 inches was expected for the While Moun tains in that state. There was hazardous driving throughout Maine. Snow pSows were brought out in Wisconsin to open come side roads., Dense fog closed Los An geles International Airport and disrupted shipping ac tivity in the harbor. Salem -fflPl- The Oregon Welfare Commission today urged the public to give lis views on the welfare program when the commission meets in Medford April 27. The first of the regional 1062 meetings was held in Eu gene in January. Others are boing set up later at Astoria, Pendleton, Hood fliver and Klamath Fails. Record Arms Spending Voted By House Group Washingtoa - ffl - The House Appropriations Com- mfoa tm4a. imiaA n 1 . .1 . . . l lfl.l..- time record $47.8 billion tori. . me ana m next year's arms spending and! warned that it may have toi ' .oss a puouc serv put up more later as a result! " iut lake under such con-. of the hike In steel prices. i"""w.u :eei mere ss coottsei The -committee aom-ovediesurse-" ' . - virtually intact '. President! - 1 Kenned5,"s '"creased defense spending plans for . the months starting July I. - It- also pressed on hlsn ad ditional funds to speed work on the bomber? tlw Dyna-Soar space glider, and a new Mark 46 anti-submarine torpedo. Money also was pro- vtsea to biocx the Presijfeni s planned cutbacks in the. Army reserves ana Use National Guard. 1 Sam Questioned ! At a closed-door session JnTf rST y Z members questioned whether jfZS i 1 , les the recommended sum would j teJr?22 ,sorsge of Com be enough in light of the steel modity Credit Corp. gran." rise. Hep. George H. fttahon. L 3ato returned to Wesh&s-(D-Tex.! promised a report by!li5i Thursday night from an Tuesday on how hard the m-S crease might hit the armed forces. Mahon, chairman of a sub committee which drafted Use biggest defense money bill since the Korean War. told newsmen the committee ; would press the military to: economise m every way pos-: sible in an effort to absorb: the extra outlays. But he said : supplemental appropriation : might be necessary later to; offset the increases. j The committee bill included : a planned sharp acceleration: in research on chemical and biological warfare with spe cial emphasis on new "inca pacitating agents which would render enemy forces temporarily helpless. PLEADS COILTY Santa Monica, Calif, The wife of academy award winning scior James Dunn Thursday pleaded guilty to misdemeanor drunken driv ing charges and was placed en two years probation. Handwriting Court of Inquiry ' Told of Clothing Gifts Received Fertiliser Mag note Oedared Involved Dallas -OTit- A Mgh V, 5. Department of Agriculture official in Washington re signed today within 24 haur after a court of inquiry in Dallas disclosed tnat indicted Texas fertilizer magnate Billy Sol Estes took him shopping ; for S245 suits Bnd $85 slacks, i The official is Emery 32. ! Jacobs, deputy administrater of the Agriculture Stabiliza tion and Conservation Serv ice. Texas Atty. Gen. Will Wil son tried to establish Thurs day in a court of inquiry in Dallas that Estes, 37, outfitted Jacobs -with $1,433.20 worth of clothing from the exclusive Nseman - Marcus Co. mens store last Oct. 8. Wilson also sought to es tablish that another unidenti fied Agriculture Department man accepted a $245 suit and shoes from Estes at Neiman- Marcus last Sept. ? or 8. Held Government Grain Esles, indicted on federal ' fraud charges, controlled sa interlocking empire of anhy drous ammonia fertilizer sales and jrain elevators that coa tained an estimated S46 mil lion worth of government grass?. Wilson sought to prove that he got the grain stored sn ms elevators through favors to agriculture department of ficials. Jacobs resigned to Secre tary of Agriculture Orville L, Freeman in the following letter: "I am submitting to you my itHugnsuQB xrom the Depart ment oi Agriculture effective today. In view of the Bccusa- . .. . , "".T, OI my Ion !eil 85 iioh, a Democratic candj. 5 governor, said in San 12 Antonio that he still wants to iqaestton Jacobs in Texas. Set Cesiant "We are not contest with isst his resignation," Wilson said. "In my opinion, he It guilty, but It he is not, we re new our offer to him to come to Dallas and testify is detail Bfuu.t &f i J- "We want him to testily to J sJi his relationships with Blf- fS"cuimral conference at ! ne comerrea lor xwo noun wiiii Horace uomrey, administrator of tne ASC and submitted his resignation. . Store Shipped Clothing Testimony at the Dallas court of inquiry was that Nel-man-Marcus salesmen shipped the Mowing to Mrs, Margaret S. Campbell, Jacobs secre tary. . ' Mrs, Campbell returned to Washington today from a fu neral in Oregon. She recalled two packages with Neimen Marcus return addresses sent to her address. Jacobs maintains living quarters in Arlington, Va., but Agriculture Department off;, cials said his family Hves in Oklahoma City, ROSES PLANTED Salem - flffS - Three dozen "Gov, Mark Hatfield" roses have been planted on the Ore gon capitoi grounds, the sec retary of state's office said to day. On The WIi
