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Newspaper Page TextAgriculture Department Putting Pressure on Texas Swindle Case Rogue Valley Edition Medford, 16 PAGES MEDFORD, Oregon Jobs Feel Effect Of Walkout Portland- OIPD -Striking car penters and contractors pre pared today to resume negoti ations Wednesday afternoon, while the paralysis of the two-day-old strike crept through Oregon. It already had closed down work at the $400 million John Day dam, two schools at Al bany, a number of highway projects in Oregon, the $16 million Medford viaduct job, and Portland's Hilton hotel, Standard Plaza and Post Of fice projects. The strike involves some 12.000 members of the Car penters and Joiners Union in Oregon and southwest Wash ington. They are seeking wage, benefit and transporta tion increases from contrac tor's groups in a new one-year contract. Soma Not Striking Not all of the 12,000, how ever, were striking. Some, as in the Eugene area, signed interim agreements. In south west Washington most work continued. And in some cases, the carpenters, pile - drivers and millwrights simply quit working without setting up picket lines. Federal mediator George V. Walker was to attend the ne gotiating session at 2 p.m. Wednesday in the offices of Associated General Contrac tors here. Walker arranged the resumption of talks. The strike brought fears ol a repeat of last year's sum mer construction halt, when another union, the Hoisting and Portable Engineers, walk ed out in a contract dispute. In that strike, employers responded to picketing by closing down projects. It lasted for 54 days. An employer spokes man here said it has not been de cided whether spot picketing in the current strike will be considered a strike against all employers. That has been the basis for employer shutdowns in past disputes. Street Lines Get Coat of White Paint Street center lines, cross walk and parking stall mark ers in Medford are receiving a coat of white paint. Public Works Director Ver non Thorpe said the change over from yellow paint con ,. forms with instructions re ceived from the state high way department. Yellow will still be used to indicate "No Parking'' spaces, Thorpe said, and also will be used for street center strip ing to indicate that passing is not allowed. The painting project, be gun last week, will be carried on continuously- as weather permits for the rest of the year, Thorpe said. REFUGE CONTINUED Washington -flJPD- The Sen ate Irrigation subcommittee today approved legislation to assure continued federal maintenance of the Tulelake. Upper Klamath and Lower Klamath wildfowl refuges in California and Oregon. NEWSfiBRIEFS ITIMS FROM KENNEDY PROGRAMS UNDER ATTACK Wathington-'IPI'-Republican congressional leaders attack d President Kennedy's programs today at a threat to free dom and an attempt "to spend ui lilly." MEXICANS THREATEN REVOLUTION United Nations, N.Y.-IPI--A group of 75 Mexican military and professional men today threatended to plunge Mexico into revolution in 10 dayt unlttt the United Naliont htart their complaintt againtt the Adolfo Lopei Mateot regime. PLUMBERS SET UP PICKET LINES SalfmU'l-Tht Salem local of the plumbtri and steam- fitlert union tet up tight pickttt today in Salem, Albany and Corvallit and a union spoktiman htrt laid activity hat bttn "ihui down tight." WESTERN ELECTRIC TESTIMONY SOUGHT Washington-1 PI The Senate Investigations subcommittee today summoned Wttttrn Electric ta ttitify about its S169.S million profit for 17 years of work on the Nikt antiaircraft miii.lt. li&JTRIBUNE OREGON, TUESDAY, APRIL Salem - WPB - The paralysis of the carpenters' strike spread through Oregon High way projects Monday, shutting down $2 1 million worth of jobs in Jackson county and hampering more than $4 mil lion in construction else where. Hatfield Urges . Continuous Talks Salem (11111 Gov. Mark. Hatfield issued this state ment today on th carpen ters strike: "If there is an honest and sincere desire on the part of the leaders representing the contractors and the un ion to settle this strike, they should sit down at the table and slay there until it is settled. "It will be settled sooner or later so why not now? This they owe to not only their own people but to all the people of the state of Oregon so that we can keep the economy rolling." The first big job to shut down was the $1.6 million Medford viaduct job, the Ore gon Highway department said. Pickets appeared at noon. The project will carry Pacific freeway traffic through Med ford on an overhead ramp. Pickets also shut down work on six small bridges on the Medford-Ashland section of the freeway. The total there is $562,000. Flemming Notes Need for Caring For Mentally III The nation demands that the mentally ill be placed be- hind barred windows and locked doors, and once there society acts as though it couldn't care less, according to Dr. Arthur S. Flemming. Eugene, former secretary of health, education and welfare. Dr. Flemming summarized ' the recent report of the con-1 gressional commission on i mental illness and health at! the annual meeting of the ! Jackson County Family and Guidance Clinic association Monday night He stressed the need for so- icietv to start caring about the mentally ill and stop treating them as "social outcasts." The speaker, who is presi dent of the University of Ore gon, stressed the need of vol- WEATHER FORECAST: Fair tonight. In creasing cloudiness Wednesday with a chanre of showers over the mountains late Wednes day. Low tonlfihl 38. High Wednesday IS. Temp. Highest Yesterday 76 Lowest This Morning 37 Our Skies Tonight Sunset today Sunrise tomorrow Moonrlse today Full Moon ... - fi:S5 p.m. 5:27 a.m. 4:51 p.m. April lit PRO.MlNr.NT ST. AH Vega, low In north east - :I3 P.m. VISUM, K PLANETS Venus, sets -ft p.m. Saturn, rises 2:54 a.m. Mars, between Jupiter and the Sun. MOUND THI OlOII Price 10 Cents 17, 1962 No. 23 French Troops Searching Oran For Commandos OAS Terrorists Strike in Algiers Algiers, Algeria - IUPD -French army troops, backed by gendarmes in armored half - tracks, cordoned off downtown Oran today for a house-to house search for Sec ret Army Organization (OAS) commandos and arms caches. It was the second such op eiation in this tension-ridden port city of western Algeria in the past two days. The en tire district was closed off and no one was permitted to leave or enter during the search. There was no immediate re port of resistance. In Algiers, OAS terrorists struck soon after the end of the dusk-to-dawn curfew. One Moslem was killed and an other wounded in early morn ing attacks. Dynamite Exploded The OAS exploded a strong charge of dynamite in down town Algiers at 1 p.m. Police said it damaged the office of the newspaper Journal D Algier. Police sources reported that a nine-man OAS unit disarm ed a police officers on a busy street in downtown Algiers and escaped in the morning crowds. They said the officer ar rived with several constables to investigate a shooting. While his men were speaking to witnesses the OAS group approached the officer in his jeep, ordered him out, took his weapons and then disap peared. Ex-Premier George Bid ault's reported support for the OAS was seen as a desperate effort by the terrorist under ground to rally Europeans for an all-out fight to block Al gerian independence. untecrs in the mental health picture, stating that workers are needed to lake an interest I in these patients before and ! after they have been discharg- cd from the hospital. Reviewing Report In reviewing the commis- sior,'s report. Dr. Flemming explained that there are many exceptions to the generalities given in the report, but he said the generalities are more true than not. "We read about these con ditions in the newspapers and magazines, are shocked, but take no substantial action to correct the situation," the speaker stressed. Tlie public insists that men tal hospitals have an A rating as a custodial hospital, Dr. Flemming explained, but dis regard the low medical rat ings. There are between 700,000 and 750,000 persons in mental hospitals today, he said, with between 80 and 85 per cent of them in slate mental hos pitals. What happens in these state hospitals determines what is going to happen to the majority of the nation's ! mental health patients. The commission found that one-half of the mental pa I tients received no active treat ment of any kind to improve their conditions. The mental I hospitals were being used as "dumping grounds for social outcasts," the report contin ued, and that only 20 per cent of these hospitals have in stituted therapeutic reforms researched in recent years. (Continued on page 11 A) iFire Destroys Mill In Grants Pass Grants Pass - Fire this I morning destroyed a sawmill i owned by State Senator E. D. (Debbs) Potts on Monument i dr., north of Grants Pass, j Potts said he believed the ! fire started from an explosion of a battery used to start a dicscl motor to run equipment in the mill. The mill was be ing opened this morning for the first time this year. Ten men were employed at the mill, which was used for sawing big loss. Potts also op - crates a stud mill in Grants Pass. The mill was considered I a total loss. JFK May Form Group to Check Steel Industry Less Punitive Approach Seen Washington -OTP The Ken ncdy administration appeared today to be moving toward I creation of a special presiden tial commission to investigate steel prices and profits. There were parallel signs that congressional inquiries into the steel industry's abor tive price rise might take a less "punitive" approach than previously indicated. Reported Anxious Both President Kennedy and his brother. Atty. Gen. Robert F. Kennedy, were re ported anxious to avoid any impression that they were trying to punish steel firms that were the target of White House wrath last week. Assistant Senate Democratic . Assistant Senate Democratic leader Hubert H. Humphrey's plan for setting up a tri partite commission to take an objective look at the steel in dustry was discussed this morning by the President and congressional leaders at White House meeting. Speaker John McCormack said afterward that the Presi dent's success in reversing would strengthen the admin istration's hand in Congress. Labor Secretary Arthur J. Goldberg was reported to be behind the plan for the special presidential steel study group. He played a key role in ad ministration moves to bring pressure on the industry. Meantime, Chairman Estes Kefauver (D-Tenn), said his Senate antimonopoly subcom mittee would begin hearings in about six weeks on last week's developments. County Elections Department Will Be Open Until 8 The Jackson county elec tions department in the court house will remain open until R: o'clock tonight to handle late voter registrations. -Today is the ' last day to register to vote in the May 18 primary election. Elections department per sonnel were busy yesterday and this morning tabulating week end registrations, and hope to have some semi-final figures later today. The voter registration booth at the Crater Lions' Sportsfair resulted in a total of 192 registrations over the week end. A total of 200 vot ers registered during the day yesterday, and 100 last night as the office stayed open un til 8 p.m. Printing of election ballots also is moving along. The ab sentee judicial ballots were printed Monday, and the measures and political party ballots for absentee voters should be completed by Thursday, County Clerk Mar vin Madden said today. Pear Blossom King, Queen Are Selected Selection of the 1962 King and Queen of the ninth an- naul Pearl Blossom festival was made Sunday afternoon at the Crater Lions Sports fair. Jonni Joann Rice, 5-year- old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Rice Jr., 2690 Howard ave., Medford, sponsored by the- Associated Restaurant Supply company, was select ed queen. Phil Hilgcr, 5-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Hilgcr, Rogue River, spon sored by Larry's Walk In, was chosen king. Judges interviewed the 23 candidates previous to their appearance on the Armory stage. The king and quern for the 1961 festival were intro duced. They are Donald Em ery, son of Mr. and Mrs. Don Emery, formerly of Medford now of Crescent City, Calif., ; and Teresa Lynn Sticklcy, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Vir gil Stirkley, 509 Beatty St., Medford. Porthnders Respond To Save Belle and Baby for City Zoo Portland. Orc.-'UPP- The people of Portland, their hearts stolen by Belle and her baby elephant, moved today to save the pair from the animal dealers by buying them for the city. A drive was launched to raise $30,000 within two weeks to purchase Belle and her threc-day-old son. That is the amount of time granted to the city under an option concluded here Monday between City Commissioner Ormond Bean and Belle's owner, Morgan Berry of Seattle. The fuzzy gray baby 35 inches tall and tipping the scales at 225 pounds was born Saturday, the first elephant birth in this country in 43 years. Since then he has charmed crowds at Portland Zoo. j I Blast S Plant; 31 FIRE FOLLOWS EXPLOSION Firemen are shown fight ing une of a series 01 nres wnicn DroKe out tollowing an Chrysler Foe Turns Attack on Administration Center Line, Mich. - (DPI) -Attorney Sol A. Dann today ended his long battle with Chrysler Corp. and immedi ately announced a fight "against similar evils of cor- runtion" in the Kennedv ri. ministration. I -:5 -.-- uann, in remarks prepared for the annual Chrysler share- holders meeting, said he w;is making peace with the corpo ration because new Board Chairman George Love has succeeded in heading the firm "in the right direction." Criticizes Kennedy Then he turned his attack on the administration. He criticized Kennedy for U. S. policies towards Arabs ana Jews and said he would ex patriate himself to Israel un til the administration changes its tune. "I am leaving," he said, "be cause, after fighting against corruption and conflicts of in terest in private corporations, I now feel compelled to fight against similar evils of cor ruption and conflicts in Pres ident Kennedy's policy to wards Americans 'of the Jew ish faith here and in the State of Israel." In a later prepared state ment for newsmen, Dann ex plained his charges. Kennedy, he said, has failed to take steps to ensure that Americans of Jewish descent are free to travel to Arab countries in the Middle East. He added that Kennedy re fused to back legislation de signed to eliminate such dis crimination. Dann also said Kennedy ignored his campaign prom ises by failing to support a U.N. resolution calling for Arab-Israeli peace talks. AMERICAN LEAGUE Washington 2 7 0 Detroit 9 11 0 Daniels, Hannan (7), Rip ptlmeyer (7) and Relur: Bunning and Brown. HR: Kalint. Brut on. Brown, Cath, all Detroit. Norwegian Governor Visits in Medford; Discusses Problems A governor from Norway, . "I am particularly inlerest who never gives a thought to ed in Alaska," he said, "be- elections because he holds his position by virtue of a life time appointment from the king, left Medford for Seattle this morning alter concluding five-day visit Here Governor Bub--Fjermeros, 40 is in (hie eitiinl'rv as a nar. ticipant in the foreign leader program of the U.S. state de- ! partmenl. The program is de- signed to further friendly re- lations between the United States and other nations of the world by fostering ex change visits among leaders in all walks of life. The governor was accom panied on the visit to the United States by his wife, but she stayed behind on the east coast to visit relatives in Maine and New Jersey. Gov ernor Fjermeros came to Med ford from a five-day stay in San Francisco. Following a brief stop-over in Seattle, he will travel to Alaska. Klamath Without Utilities Franchise Klamath Falls-fllPD- Nearly throe years of legal maneu vering culminated late Mon day in the announcement that neither Pacific Power and Light Co. nor the Oregon Water corporation has a fran chise with the city of Klam ath Falls. Legal testing of the fran chise was launched in July, 1959, when the city filed a joint suit with the Oregon Highway department to de termine who would pay the $65,000 cost of relocating util ities to make wav for the west side bypass to Klamath Falls In the legal opinion hand ed by Circuit Judge Edward IC. Kelly in Medford the city and the highway department were absolved of the cost. Judge Kelly ruled that the PP&L franchise had expired in July of 1957 and the fran chise of the water corporation had expired more than 50 years ago, on Sept. 7, 1911. City Atty. Henry Perkins said both companies have the right to appeal to the Slate Supreme court, but if the de cision stands both comDanies will have to renegotiate newjl-ouniy nome nuie naricr 'franchises with the city. imuHiwmwBWffl tatters mpioyee early-morning explosion which injured 30 persons at the Olin Mathieson Chemical plant Brandenburg, Ky. (UPI) I cause its geographic, climatic and economic situation most nearly parallels that of my own provlce tn Norway." Governor Ficrmeros la the chief governmental adminis trator lor Nordland province (a province 'roughly corres ponds to a state in the U.S.). one of the largest and most heavily populated of the 18 provinces In Norway. He was appointed to the post in 1951 following several years of service with the jus tice department and the fed eral rebuilding administra tion. He holds a law degree from Oslo university. While in Medford, the gov ernor talked with public school officials and visited 1 several school b u 1 1 d i-n g s. Monday afternoon he met with City Manager Robert Duff and other officials to dis cuss various aspects of local government. Governor Fjermeros com mented freely on a number of subjects connected with the current state of affairs in his country. He said he personal ly felt it, was inevitable that Norway will participate in the European Common Market- Norway, with its three and a half million population, and the third largest merch ant fleet In the world, has always been interested in as much free trade as possible," he said. "Because of that," he con tinued, "Norway has always maintained very low tariff rates in order to encourage as much import and export com merce as possible." The thing he has been most j impressed with in the Unit- ed States, Governor Fjerme ros said, has been "the friend liness and hospitality of the American people." "Wherever I have been," he said, "your officials, profes sors and businessmen have welcomed me most warmly and cordially." Home Rule Subject Of Meeting Tonight I The proposed Jackson I will be discussed at a meeting of the Insurance Women of Jackson county at 8 o'clock tonight at Kim's Restaurant. The dinner will start at 6:30 o'clock tonight, members of the organization said. Be cause of the interest in the home rule proposal the meet ing is open to the public. Richard Courlright will speak on behalf of the charter, and William Deatherage will i speak in opposition to it. A i question and answer period is scheduled after the pres jenlations. I Reservations for the dinner may be made by contacting I Mrs. Glrotid Davidson at ISPring 3-7343. Clie . . m Pilots Consider Kennedy's Plea For Arbitration Washington - (UPO - Airline pilots, with a new strike dead line at midnight, today con sidered President Kennedy's appeal to submit their dis pute with Pan American World Airways to arbitra tion. Ten pilots and . the airHne scheduled an 11:15 a.rn. EST meeting at the Labor Depart ment and Labor Secretary Arthur J. Goldberg said he expected to get the pilots' de- cloion then Kennedy issued his appeal to both the Airline Pilots As sociation and Pan American Monday night two hours be fore the pilots' scheduled mid night strike. Pan American, the nation's largest International carrier, accepted the proposal and tolJ Kennedy In a telegram it would be willing to submit (he one unsettled issue to a three-man arbitration board. The pilots postponed the strike deadline for 24 hours and Goldberg, who read Ken nedy's request to both sides, said the union had "taken it under advisement." The unsolved issue Involves Pan Am's reductlo of jet flight-deck crews from four to three men. The company and the union have agreed to arbitrate all other issues. Salem Woman Killed In California Crash Dorris, Calif. Mrs. Duane Wolcott, 63, of Salem, was killed about 11:30 a.m. today Highway 97 three miles south of Dorris when the car in which she was a passenger struck the rear end of a truck, according to the Cali fornia highway patrol. Wolcott, 67, driver of the car, was taken to Klamath Valley hospital. He is report ed in critical condition. "Perhaps You'd Like To See Something Lest Expensive " Story Page 2A lies! s Hurt Damage Figured In Millions; Fire Follows Explosion Half of Plant's Buildings Smashed Brandenburg, Ky. - OIPD -An explosion heard more than 30 miles away shattered the Doe Run plant of the Olin Malhieson Chemical Corp., early today, causing damage estimated at several million dollars and injuring at least 30 employes. A hospital at Elizabethtown, Ky., admitted 14 victims of the blast for treatment of in juries, and others were treat ed elsewheie. Three of the in jured were reported in serious condition, Including one man who was first listed as miss ing but later was found in the wreckage. Highly Volatile The first explosion occurred at 4:10 a.m. (CST) in a storage of ethylene oxide, a highly volatile chemical. Other smaller blasts followed. Fires burned in the area until after 8 a.m. "It is a miracle that it was nothing worse," said Joe Street, personnel manager of the 100-acre plant. The explosions shattered buildings in about half the plant area, and blew out win dows In homes and stores in Brandenburg, two to three miles away. A cloud of smoke could be seen from at least 25 miles away and the first blast awoke residents of Louisville, Ky., more than 30 miles to the northeast, ; . The first report from the Meade . county -sheriff's office said 15 persona had been kill ed, but all of the supposed victims eventually were lound alive .- . ... . : . The plant employs 500 per sons,, about 60 of them on the night shift. It was built in 1851, making a small boom town out of. this previously quiet - little village on the banks of the Ohio River below Louisville, near Fort Knox. Condemnation Suit Starts in Court The Oregon state highway commission is seeking con demnation of 13.65 acres along Bear creek extending to Ellcndale rd.. for right-of- way for the Seven Oaks-Neil Creek section of the new freeway, according to open ing statements this morning Jackson county circuit court. The state has offered $22,- 380 for the three pieces of property owned by Mr. and Mrs. Tom Spatz, Mrs. Clarice Spatz, Martha Spatz, George W. and Marjory Field and the Rogue Valley Land company. Property owners claim that the actual property taken and the damage caused to their holdings by taking the separated three pieces of land is worth $147,500. In their opening statements this morning to the jury. At torneys George Roberta and : William Kellington. repre senting the property owners, said they would attempt to prove the value of the land taken is $57,000 and the dam age caused by the taking it worth $90,000.