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down and rescinded its pro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
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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.
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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
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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
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