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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.
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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
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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.
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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.