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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-
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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