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tosses Testify in Trial of Texas Fertilizer Magnate Gold water Scores JFK's Action in Steel Price Hikes Portland - flJPD - Sen. Barry Goldwater Saturday termed President Kennedy'! attack on proposed steel price hikes "something you would expect in a police state." Goldwater said he was sorry the industry backed down and rescinded its pro posed price increases. The Arizona Republican ar rived here en route to Van denbura Air Force Base, Cali fornia, after spending Friday night visiting at Adair Air Force Base in Corvallis. Was Justified He said the steel Industry "was justified in raising the price because of increasing cosU, but the president, who doesn't understand economics, couldn't see that." Goldwater also said he con sidered former Gen. Edwin Walker's statements before a Senate investigating commit tee "unfortunate." ."It's a pity he was so In articulate - he had a real atbry to tell," Goldwater said. Nothing to Say ', Goldwater said Kennedy Is "after business all the time. Wh doesn't he go after labor, too." He said Kennedy has had nothing to say about strikes at missile bases. Sen. Wayne Morse (D-Ore.) in Corvallis Friday, said he would commend the steel in dustry for ita move. It will "help stabilize the economy" of the nation, he said. Morse said the retraction of the price increase "shows economical and industrial statesmanship on the part of the industries." He said he hoped the decision was based on "reasoned reflection" by the Industry. The increase would have "damaged hundreds of busi nessmen In the country" he said. 27 MHS Students Society Pledges John R. Dellenback. incum bent Republican candidate for state representative from Jackson county, will speak at theT orch -Honor annual initia tion ceremonies In the Med ford High school cafeteria at ft p.m., April Id. Twenty-seven pledges will be honored. Several members of the so ciety will give addresses of welcome, and explain goals of the society. These include Joel Gregory, Jill Barnes, Vtckv Enders. Marsha Wat son and John Alansky. The high school string ensemble will provide entertainment. Medford High School Prin cipal Lester D. Harris will present certificates and pins to new members. Initiates are Jamea Arthur, Leslie Van G rod on, Pat Thompsen, Linda Nelson, Sherry Koblik, Sue House, Sue Jahn, Howard Haugen, Todd Jones, Garner Haupert, Rilla Kay Den Herder, Judy Huenerrs, David Warren, Carl Farner, Heather Rode, Ron Ingram, Vlcki Toenniges, Kay Ruck, Sharon Smets, Coralee Fawcett, Rosanne Legas, Pam Miller, Martha Graham, Janet O'Sullivan, Doris Young, Lar ry Smith and Mike Whinlhan. U.S. National Shows sit Increases The Medford and North Medford branches of the U.S. National bank recorded total combined deposits of $10,248. ,187.40, according to Allan F. Perry, Medford branch man ager. Loans and discounts for the local branches totaled $23,- 133,798.74. Deposits, loans and total re sources of U.S. National Bank of Portland all registered sub alantlal gains over the past 12 months, bank officials noted. Deposits were up more than $78 million and now to tal $R7,00fl,9B compared to $797,381,18,1 recorded a year ago. Loans Increased more than $7 million and now stand at $418,473,898. A new building for the North Medford branch Is also due for completion this summer. Businessmen of Downtown Area Form Committee About 40 Medford business men met for an organizational meeting Wednesday noon to form a new group called the Downtown Merchants associa tion. Purpose of the organization will be to coordinate efforts to revitalize the downtown shopping area and to cleanup and beautify certain areas of the business district. Mrs. Phil Brainard was elected chairman of the group. A number of committees were outlined at the meeting: attendance, inter-city coordi nation, landlord coordination, parking meter, employee, pro motion, and finance. Other meetings are planned for the near future, accord ing to Mrs. Brainard. Meat With City Four representatives from the group met later in the afternoon with members of the city administration and the Medford park and recrea tion commission. Subjects discussed Included the possibility ot straighten ing a section of the channel ot Bear creek, and filling In an area under the freeway viaduct In order to. provide about 133 parking spaces. The park and recreation commission scheduled a spe cial meeting for next week at which time It will consider what if any recommendations it wishes to make in connec tion with the proposed proj ects. Deposi I it I ft . SURPRISE VISIT Astronaut and Mrs. at the center looking over house plans, The John H. Glenn paid a surprise visit to the Glenns are looking for ideas for a home they National Housing Center in Washington, plan to build in Houston, Tex. (UPI) D.C., Friday, Glenn is shown In the library UPI Chairman Says Events In Latin America Will Have Effect on All of Our Lives Seattle, Wash. - (UPJ - Cur rent events in Latin America may have a profound effect upon the lives of all Ameri cans, Frank H. Bartholomew, chairman of the Board of United Press International, said Saturday. Addressing editors of news papers served by UPI In Ore gon and Washington on "The View From the Rio Grande," Bartholomew said editors of North America should main tain their alert to dispatches from Latin America. Bartholomew outlined op posing schools of political thought in the United States. One, he said, was exemplified by President Kennedy's $10 bi i 1 lion Alliance for Progress program, dedicated to easing tensions and blocking Com munism In South and Central America by raising the stand ard of living of the underpriv ileged, who art in the cast majority. , For the opposition view he Winter Pear Growers To Elect Representative Winter pear growers in the Medford district will elect representatives to the Winter Pear Control committee In Medford April 20. The committee, whose head quarters are In Portland, an nounced that elections for grower members and alter nates of the committee from the Medford district will be held at 1:30 p.m. In the office of the Fruit Growers League, 76R South Grape at., Medford. The control committee ad- Donahoo to Attend Portland Meeting Elmer W. Donahoo, Jackson county veterans' service offi cer, will attend the semi-annual Oregon county service officers' conference In Port land this week. Purpose of the conference sponsored by the Oregon As sociation of County Veterans' Service officers, is to bring veterans' counsellors up to date on all phases of federal state and local veterans' bene, fits. Officials of the Veterans Ad ministration regional office In Tortland will detail changes In prndecdures occurring as a result of the VA's transition In automatic data processing nf benefit payments In dis abled veterans and war widows. Annual Y Auction Scheduled May 5 The lith annual Medford YMCA auction will be held Saltirriay, May ,1, starting at 1 pm. at the 4 II auction building at the fairgrounds south of Medford. Money from the auction will provide recreation equip ment fnr Medford children. Residents having donations are akrd to take them to the YMCA or If it is too large. telephone SPrlng 2-5322. and YMCA officials will make ar rangements to have it picked up. Persons planning to donate pets are aked to keep them until t nr day of the auction and deliver them to the auc tion grounds. quoted a recent speech by U.S. Sen. Margaret Chase Smith, Republican of Maine. She said she had found in Latin America a "deep cyni cism and lack nf respect" for the United Slates. She said she also found a view of the Pres ident's vast alliance program as an effort by a "flaccid, tlm- Id Uncle Sam to buy back what he won't fight for" and a "desperate effort to get them (Latin American na tions) to save us from Castro Ism." Bartholomew said that the new, surging unrest felt throughout Latin America in the wake ot the upset of dic tatorships is receiving increas ed attention of t h e United Press International. Conclud ing with a review of key news events in South and Central America, Bartholomew said: "Americans have a tremen dous story on their southern doorstep. We will do our part to report it objectively and in depth. We can and will pro duce continuously more dis patches from Latin America. I earnestly hope that the United States public will be kept so well Informed that fu ture events will find this na tion able to arrive at intelli gent conclusions in the Inter ests of all Americas, and for that matter of all the Western World." , Northwest YMCA Official Confers With Local Board Charles Kujawa, associate executive of the Pacific North west Council of the YMCA, has been holding consultations in Medford for two days. He met with the YMCA board in Medford which is making a study In depth as Dr. Ferguson Named r'8' teleg To Area Association Dr. H. M Ferguson, Shady Cove, w as elected president of the Southern Oregon Osteo pathic association last week. Other officers elected are Dr. A. A. Griffin, Jackson ville, vice president; Dr. A. E. Bock, Central Point, sec retary and treasurer; Dr. Max Flowers, Central Point, trus tee. All new nffiiers will he Installed at the May meeting Dr. Flower, presented a film entitled "The Role of the Osteopathic Physician In In dustrial Medicine." ministers the winter pear marketing order covering Ore gon, Washington and Califor nia. The committee establishes each year the minimum grade, size and quality standards un der which winter pears are marketed from the Pacific Coast stales. Any person who grows win ter pears is eligible to par ticipate in the meeting, pro viding he does not participate in the handler election meet ing to be held April 19. The grower position which is to be filled at the April 20 meeting Is now held by Don ald G. Root, member; Paul Culbcrtson, first alternate; Howard Busch, second alter nate. All growers of D'Anjou, Rosr, or other varieties of win ter pears are eligible to at tend and participate In the nomination meeting. Names of those elected will be sub mitted to the secretary of ag riculture fnr official appoint ment to the committee, and will serve fnr a one-year term. Morse Telegraph Club Set Portland Event Pnrtland The Oregon chap ter of the Morse Telegraph club will hold Its 21st annual banquet Saturday. April 28, at 8:30 p m. at the Mallory hotel In Portland. The meeting commemorates the 171st birthday of Samuel Morse, Inventor of the graph. April 2,1 Is the deadline for registrations, according to L. L. Rudd, secretary-treasurer. Two Men Appear in Circuit Court Here Two men appeared in Jack son county circuit court Thursday afternoon before Judge James M. Main, Frederick Michael Wool- dridge, 20, of 19 Stewart ave waived the right to a grand Jury hearing and was arraign- ed on district attorney's in formation. Ben Day was ap pointed as his lawyer. Wooldridae is being held on $1,900 bail on a charge of obtaining properly by false pretenses. Imposition of sentence was suspended for five years for Harry Richard Bostwick, 24, of Jacksonville, on a charge of obtaining property by false pretenses. He is charged with writing six cheeks totaling $120 in Medford and Jacksonville. Estes Accused of Juggling Serial Numbers on Tanks Pecos, Tex. (UPD Witnesses testified Saturday that aerial numbers on mortgaged anhy drous ammonia tanks were frantically juggled when a representative of a big fi nance company visited Pecos to check up on indicted fer tilizer king Billie Sol Estes. Twelve finance companies hold mortgages totalling at least $22 million on anhy drous ammonia tanks in west Texas. The tanks are involved in Estes' financial manipula tions to build up a fertilizer and grain storage empire. The witnesses testified about the tanks at a court of inquiry in Pecos. As Texas Atty. Gen. Will Wilson ques tioned witnesses in Pecos, the FBI in Washington investigat ed Estes dealings with feder al farm officials. Jacobs Resigns Emery E. Jacobs, deputy administrator of the agricul ture stabilization and conser vation service, handed in his resignation to Secretary of Agriculture Orville Freeman Friday because of an accusa tion that Estes bought him $1,433.20 worth of clothes from a Pallas store. Glenn Blake, who quit a week ago as an employee of Estes', the Farmers Company to the needs of the community as related to the YMCA. One evening board mem bers and guests met at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Jack Petterson where Kujawa ex plained a plan and method of self study. The 27 elected directors of the Medford YMCA must de termine their own course of action and program for the local YMCA since each unit Is autonomous and self-governing, he said. Sound Program Guides and principles for sound program and adminis tration are developed in na tional and area council meet ings. The Medford YMCA re cently had five board mem bers attending the area coun cil meeting in Salem. Kujawa urged board mem bers to consider the changing social needs of persons plan ning for a 10 year program, Smaller purposeful groups with carefully trained leader ship have supplanted mass activities in most YMCA op erations. Concern for the needs of youth with particu lar emphasis on helping to establish a sound set of val ues was the major focus of two-day conferences, YMCA officials said. A self study program will he voted on by the directors Tuesday. Program on Cancer Scheduled Today Viewers are invited to par ticipate in the "Adventures in Medicine" program on cancer over station KBES-TV at 4 o'clock this afternoon. Questions on cancer may be telephoned to the station, SPring 3-4381, beginning at 4 p.m. They will be received by members of the American Cancer Society and relayed to a panel of physicians for dis cussion and answering when the program goes on the air at 4:30 p.m. Calls from viewers also will be received during the show, according to Mrs. C. Ivan Burton, program moderator. Dr. E. V. Meyerding, gen eral surgeon, Dr. Richard H. Saul, radiologist, Dr. M. Don ald McGcary, general prac tioner, and Dr. Robert H. Buck, pathologist, will make up the medical panel on gen eral cancer information. The program will begin with a brief discussion of the areas of the body most vul nerable to cancer in both men and women, how the physi cian detects cancer, and the methods of treatment present ly employed. Most of the half hour will be devoted to an swering the viewers' ques tions, however, Mrs. Burton said. in Pecos, testified Saturday that a man named "Olbln" of CIT Finance Corp. visited Es tes in Pecos. He said that two men changed the aerial numbers on anhydrous ammonia tanks on one side of a field while Olbin checked the numbers on the other. One Stay Ahead "So you would say you were one step ahead of him," Wilson, i Democratic candi date for governor of Texas, asked. "Yes," Blake said. Adams Garcia, a middle aged yard foreman for Estes, also testified that he changed serial numbers. What Wilson was trying to show was that Estef, 37, tried to make a few tanks look like many by juggling serial num bers. All anhydrous ammonia tanks look alike. The only means of identifying them is by serial number. C. M. Wesson, head of The Farmers company, said Estes bought so much anhydrous ammonia - 30 to 40 carloads at one time - that he had to drop the price from 8-7 cents a pound to one cent to get rid of It. But he said farmers had to buy $10 worth of insecti cides when they bought fer tilizer. Wants ie Appear Jacobs denied Friday in Washington that Estes bought clothing for him. He said he paid for the clothing himself and wants to appear at a hearing in Texas to clear his name. Wilson extended him an open invitation. No time was set for Jacobs to appear. "In my opinion, he (Jacobs) is guilty," Wilson said. "We want him to testify to all his relationships with Billie Sol Estes, especially as to how Billie Sol Estes managed to secure the storage of U.S. (Commodity Credit Corp.) grain," Wilson said. Continue Checking A USDA spokesman in Washington said it had turned Information over to the FBI that was developed in a de partmental probe. The spokes man said the FBI will con tinue" eheckina. A aovernment department does not normal ly refer information to the FBI unless it is believed there is possible grounds for prose cution. Wilson called 11 witnesses to testify at Saturday's hear ing. He did not call Estes be cause to force him to testify would mean promise of im munity from prosecution. Estes and three associates are already under federal indict ment on 17 counts of fraud and conspiracy involving his multi-million dollar fertilizer operation. Estes' crumbling frame em pire, once estimated to ba worth a gross of $150 million, has been put into the hands of a receiver. Estes admits he is $20 million in debt. Page 2A Medford, Tribune MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, APRIL 15, 1962 MAR YOUR APPEARANCE WITH BIFOCAL SHADOW! Youthful NOUS BLEND-VUE lenses eliminate the objectionable tattle-tale age line caused by old fash ioned line bifocals. No age linel They can be fitted Into any fashion frame you desirel e Complete lye Examination e No Appointment Needed e Convenient Credit e We give 39f Green Stomp COLUMBIAN OPTICAL CO. MEDFORD SHOPPING CENTER Phono SP 2-9990 casual shopping with convenient parking On. Onur i. N'olei tn4 WtUUm T. Hodion Bids Called For Access Road Bids are now being accept ed by the bureau of public roads in Portland for construc tion of the East Fork of Evans Creek Access rd. They will be accepted until 2 p.m. April 26. The project is located in the Trail unit of the Medford district of the bureau of land management. The project includes con struction of 6.5 miles of road. It is located on the east fork of Evans creek about 27 miles north of Medford. An estimated volume of 1, 795,000 board feel of timber appraised at $46,314.20 is lo cated on the right-of-way across the BLM lands. The contractor will be required to enter into a timber sale con tract with the BLM for pur chase of the right-of-way tim ber. Plans and specifications may be examined at the Med ford district office, 1133 South Riverside ave., Medford. BRILL 1 METAL WORKS Csmmtrcial Induitriil Knidtnliil Shot Mitil Wtrtt StainOu, Galvantitd and Cappar Fabrication 2287 West Main HONI SP 2-4440 LITTLE DUTCH LAUNDERETTES HAMMOND DRYCLEANERS (A name to remember) 212 Pine St., Centrl Point 10 lbs. $2.00-30 Minutes Open 9 to 9 7 days a weekl Attendant at all times Ut FREE PRESSING! Put pleats in skirts, put I create in pants, make drapes look like new, Adjuit-a-form for Jackets & Coats. BENDIX Pre-Rinse Washers 8-10 lb. Wash 15c Dry 161b. Double Load 25 SI Laundry Locations: CENTRAL POINT 212 Pine Street MEDFORD 710 North Riverside Open 14 Moun 7 days a week WE ENDORSE HOME RULE We, the undersigned citizens of Jackson County, with membership in both political parties, have carefully studied the Home Rule Charter and urge its adoption. ' The Home Rule Charter was written by human beings. Therefore it is not perfect. It is, however, a first essential step toward modernizing an out-dated gov ernment so that we may meet the challenges of the future. We endorse it because it allows us to settle many of our problems at home, rather than through ac tion of the entire State Legislature. We like it because it allows county departments to be reorganized, and work coordinated, for effi cient operation. We approve it because it allows the business of the county to be conducted on a business-like rather than on a partisan political basis. Finally, we heartily recommend 'rt because if it fails to function in any of its many parts, we, the people of the county, can easily amend and change it without State or Federal approval. In other words, we endorse it because under the charter, we can truly run our own affairs, demo cratically. J. I. Collins Medford Dr. Elmo N. Stevenson Ashland Arnold I. Jenny Medford Otto J. Frohnmoyer Modford Dr. and Mri. Wm. M. Sammont Gene Williams Medford Ashland Mr ond Mrl )rvjng lor() Ashland William Dawkin. Ashland MrJ $t,ph,n Ny, Medf8fd Edward Kron Rogue River 0gd,n Ke,)Bg God Hi Alfred S. V. Carpenter Medford e.orgt W. Goodman Central Point Richard W. Courtright Medford A. E. "Ben" Graham Medford " Day M,dford Mr. and Mrs. Dunbar Carpenter Robert D. Heffernan, Jr. Medford Medford Win Marks Medford William L Jess Eagle Point Jennings Pierce Medford Beroth P. Hopkins Medford John R. Porto, M.D. Medford George Joyce Medford Edd E. Rountree Ashland Henry F. Padgham, Jr. Medford Mr. and Mrs. Johr Weisbrod Medford Robertson E. Collins Medford Mitt Gladys Durand Medford Gerald T. lathom Medford Mr. and Mn. Reneld Aell Trail Dr. M. E. Weedell Ashland tM AHv C(miv C'f'Tp Nr e,.t rh.rtr S'Hm I. Ceii'm C"" , r O. I? 130 MiiH, Ot.
