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Newspaper Page TextCost of Living Increases for Second Consecutive Monthly Record Russia Of Gromyko Claims U.S. Tests Would Necessitate Step American Test Plans Move Ahead Moscow - (UPD - The Soviet Union threatened today to test "new types" of nuclear weapons if the United States goes through with its planned tests in the Pacific. Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko made the threat in a report to the Supreme So viet on the results to date of the Geneva disarmament talks. He spoke shortly after the two houses of the Soviet par liament - the Soviet of the Union and the Soviet of Na tionalities - had unanimously reelected Nikita Khrushchev premier of the Soviet Union -to no one's surprise. Types Not Described Gromyko said that should the West resume testing, the Soviet Union "will be con fronted with the need to reply to such act'oiis ... by hold ing tests of new types of its nuclear weapons." Gromyko did not describe the "new types" of weapons But he spoke as prepara tions neared completion for resumption of American at mospheric tests in the Pacific which are expected this week since the Soviet Union has not agreed to a test ban treaty with inspection safe guards. President Kennedy has said the new U.S. tests would be carried out in the absence of such an agreement. New Weitern Obstacles Gromyko told the after noon joint session of the Su preme Soviet that the West at the 17-nation Geneva Disarm ament Conference was plac ing "ever-new obstcles" in the path of any agreement. He said the eight-nation neutral proposal to the con ference was not clear and precise on some matters, but said there was no doubt that the neutrals had preceded from the premise that nation al detection systems would be adequate to insure compli ance with any test ban ar rangement. This is a position the Unit ed States and Britain refuse to accept, maintaining that only international inspection with the right to make on-the-spot checks would be fool proof. Orchard Asparagus May Contain Poison Jackson County Horticul turist Don Berry today cau tioned the public about pick ing asparagus or other greens in valley orchards because of spray materials now being used in the orchards. For about the past month sprays containing phosphate materials have been applied and other sprays throughout the following months also will be poisonous, he ex plained. Berry also pointed out that those picking greens from orchards are trespassing, un less they have the owner's permission. He added that it is not al ways possible to determine whether an orchard has been sprayed recently, and that some sprays being used are extremely poisonous. Others are residual and can accumu late in the body over a period of time, so that effects may be delayed. In the past years, the agent said, there have been cases where people were made ill and hospitalized after eating greens picked in local orchards. HEWSC?iBRIEFS IT IMS FROM m 1 AROUND THI OlOII PERSHING MISSILE EXPLODES IN FLIGHT Caps Canaveral. Fl. IPI'-An Army Pershing ballistic missile exploded in flight today on a planned lest flight over the Atlantic Ocean. ALGERIA TERRORISTS DEFY SECURITY FORCES Algieri, Algeria-W-European extremiitt today defied security forces hunting them down with orders to shoot to kill by staging leries of terrorist attacks in Algiers, in - eluding the machinegunning of Moslem fish market workers, NEW PHASE OF BERLIN TALKS SLATED Washington - tn The United States and Rusiia have agreed to begin a new phase of Berlin talks in Washington. U.S. officials will press during the diicutiiont for an agree ment to ease tensions in the divided German city. Threatens To Test Nuclear Regional Edition Medford 18 Pages Two Sections fc'ARTH J Ranger IV JW. SPACE SHOTS America's new Ranger IV probe whizzed through space agency Tass announced that Russia had successfully launched an un- today on a collision course with the moon a "tremendous guidance sue- manned earth satellite on an orbit which will take it over the United cess that will ease the sting of a malfunction which addled the spacecraft's States. Tass identified the vehicle as "Cosmos lit", third in a series of electronic "brain." -The 730-pound package was expected to crash onto satellites intended to study weather and communications and effects of the hidden "far side" of the moon at 8:55 a.m. Thursday. The newschart radiation on man during prolonged space flights. The newsmap at right at left depicts the flight of the craft. Meanwhile, the official Soviet news illustrates the Soviet satellite orbit. (UPI) Children's Home At Reith Ranch Proposed To Bocrd Salem-IUPD-A Umatilla coun ty delegation proposing a county - operated children's farm home near Pendleton re ceived an enthusiastic recep tion" today from the State Board of Control. Umatilla County Judge D. R. (Sam) Cook said the county would like to lease an initial 20 to 30 acres for the farm home at Reith Ranch, owned by the state. The 760-acre ranch is near the town of Reith and is con sidered part of Eastern Ore gon State Hospital. Judge Cook said the pro posed home would be for "pre-delinquent" children, in cluding those from broken homes. To start with, the home would have 12 to 15 boys and girls, with the boys living in a dormitory and the girls living in another resi dence facility. The home would operate on a minimum security basis. The Judge said there are 10 structures on the Reith Ranch now vacant that could be used for the farm home. Umatilla county ranchers have offered to donate cattle, sheep, hogs and chickens to get the home going. Judge Cook said there is a lack of foster home type fa cilities in Oregon. He said that 16 boys sent to MacLaren School in Woodburn were foster home candidates and wouldn't have had to be com mitted to MacLaren if such a farm home were operating in Eastern Oregon. Plumbing Contractors Make Final Offer Salem-WPU-The Willamette Association of Plumbing and Heating Contractors late Mon day made what it said was its final offer in the eight-day plumbers strike affecting five Western Oregon cities. shortly after it was launched Weapons in GQGX5GQ OP 2 Women At Chiloquin; Man Klamath Falls lUPP-Two women were shot and killed at Chiloquin north of here Monday night. The husband of one of the victims was arrest ed and charged with first de gree murder. Dead are Betty Lou Mit Money for Classes At Detention Home Runs Into Stalemate The proposal for classroom i long run since children start instruction at the juvenile de- ed back toward rehabilitation . ,. . ., t,i do not become dependency tent.on home ran into a stale-cages evefy chjld mm mate before the Jackson to a scnool program, result county budget committee this jng inerease(j costs 0f operat morning. jng the home are necessary to Lay members of the budget ; keep up with the problems committee and the county brought by increasing popu- court continued to insist that this is a budgetary item, S7, 000, which belongs in either the rural school district budg et or that of the several school districts of the county. However. County School I Superintendent Alf B. Mek void said the rural school board and the school adminis trators of the county feel "this should be part of the juve nile detention home budget." "This has been on the agen da of the rural school board and the Jackson county school administrators' associ a t i o n several times." Mekvold said. "We will provide the supervi sion. We have a top man com ing here from Los Angeles to assume charge of our spe-! . cial education programs. He could work with committee to provide an informal educa- tion program at the juvenile I detention home." r eiii A compromise solution by' Budget uommmee iviemDcr A. C. (Archie) Pierce failed. He suggested that the county provide the $20,000 to $30.- 000 for construction of a classroom at the detention i me way oi creating an ure home, with the schools to f i-j gon social services depart nance the teacher. j ment favored by Hatfield. Even if the juvenile deten- Durno is back in Oregon tion home population should; for Easter vacation and has double, only one part-time ! begun to campaign for the teacher would have to be I GOP nomination for U.S. sen added to the fulltimc teacher, ator. Ben Day. Medford lawyer, ad vised. He appeared with the juvenile advisory council of which his wife is a member. Both Circuit Judge James Main nj the n Mclvin Dixon ot Sl Luke's Method- ist church, Medford. empha- ! sljed that many 0f the deten- . tjon nome inmates are failures ! m school. This underlying 1 problem can be solved at least partially by intensive educa tional work while the child is in detention, they pointed out. General arguments for the classroom instruction were: It saves the county in the MEDFORD, OREGON, TUESDAY, APRIL 24, 1962 X Found Murdered chell, 26, and Cassie B. Para- zoo, 47. Held on a charge of first degree murder was Ben F. Mitchell, 31. Both women were shot once through the head. Mrs. Mitchell's body was found at the entrance of the Kiddie lation, the public would want instruction in the home if it became aware it does not ex ist and that proper training and education are basic to re habilitation of a child. Arguments against the edu cational program are: It is a matter for the schools, the county court is now entire ly divorced from education programs and should not be forced Into one, the line against steadily increasing budgets must be held some where and that the county court is not equipped to super-1 mon- Doth of Douglas, told vise the expenditure of funds I Ashland police someone en for educational p u r p o s e s tcred their motel room while while the schools are. they were asleep and made off nrnn u-.X.-.IJ j D'lSCUSS Measures Sa)em m R Edwin I . ... uurno re mel w,,n v- Mark HnlfielH MnnHav Amone other things, thev discussed a trio of bills Dur - no has introduced in Con - gress. The three are designed to remove federal blocks in WEATHER FORECAST: rinudv with occa sional ihower tonight and U (In pudgy morning. Ptrtly cloudy Wdndav afternoon. Ion tonight 3i. High tomor row 85. Tmp. Highest Yfitprday ... tZ Low tit Thii Morntni, ... 41 Prer. to S p.m. .l-i .lay . . Prec. to 1 a m. Today .. .11 Our Skies Tonight fluniPt today 7:03 p.m. sunrhr- tomorrow .. S:1S a.m. Thr Moon rliM 11:48 p.m. tontght and rldea low. Can Quarter April 27 Juplttr, th largest planet, r tomorrow at 1:1 m. and It now moving attward among thi start of the con tllallon, Aquarius. 'New Retaliation Tribune Qgmffj) ftUSSltt ft' Arrested Kone Drive-In, operated by her husband. ' The body of Mrs. Parazoo, aunt of Mrs. Mitchell, was found in the kitchen of the Mitchell home near the drive in. ' Mitchell was arrested at a roadblock shortly after the slayings occurred, police said. Police said records of the Klamath County Clerk's of fice show that Mrs. Mitchell fifed for a divorce about April 1. Police said they received word of the shootings within minutes after they occurred about 7 p.m. Monday and set up roadblocks. Mitchell was apprehended in his pickup truck driving toward Klamath Falls. His 3-year-old daughter. Vera, was with him. Police said a pistol and a rifle were found in the truck. Klamath County Dist. Atty. Dale Crabtrce said Mitchell would be bound over to the county grand jury immediately- Burglars Take $670 From Motel Room , Ashland Burglars stole $670 in cash and traveler's checks from two visitors from Douglas, Ariz., when they en tered an unlocked motel room Monday night. H. H. Jones and Jay Har with the money. The two had been staying at the moicl since Saturday. I ELEPHANT NAMED Portland - 0JPH - The 10-day -u uu.. i -i i i at the Portland zoo has been i named ''Packy-' i , - , ! A Report From the Oregon's By EARL H. ADAMS Mail Tribune City Editor Seatlle-From the products of the European common mar ket to the refreshing cool mountain air of Oregon, the Seattle World's fair offers Just about everything for everyone. It has scientific displays and demonstrations for everyone -from a year old up. It has hand-carved products from Hongkong to the assembly-line productions of nations In the common market, in cluding exhibits of America's future-minded industries. It has entertainment for from the very young In the gayway with its futuristic carnival rides, to water-skiing demonstrations, to name en tertainers 'from throughout the country, to show street, which for the most part is Type' 57th Year Price 10 Cents No. 29 CDStlOSIII Ranger Rocket Malfunctions; Will Hit Moon . Cape Canaveral-ttlPH-Amer- ica's new Rangcr-lV probe whizzed through space today on a collision course with the moon-a "tremendous guidance success" that will ease the ..sting of a malfunction which addled the spacecrafts elec- tronfc "brain." The 730-paund package of scientific instruments, launch' ed aboard a 10-story Atlas Agona rocket here Monday, was expected to crash onto the hidden "far side of the moon at 8:55 a.m. (EST) Thurs day. As a machine for scientific exploration, Rangcr-IV was virtually a multi-million-dollar bust. The trouble that left the command center of its complex brain senseless at the start of the flight apparently ruined plans to get close-up television pictures of the moon or to safely land a pack age of instruments on the visible lunar surface. But scoring a direct hit on the moon after nearly four years and 11 tries will repre sent "a tremendous guidance success," said scientists of Jet Propulsion Laboratories, which built Ranger-IV. The feat Involves firing the Ranger-IV as a sort of "bullet" at seven miles per second from earth, and aiming it at a point 230,000 miles away to intercept the moon-a tar get traveling at 18 miles per second-some 65 hours later. Russia has hit the moon once, with Lunik-2 launched Sept. 12, 1059. Lunik-2, how ever, was able to relay scien tific information en route, whereas Rangcr-IV early to day was unable either to send out data or to respond to commands from earth sta tions. . Fair Exhibit Offers Rest and Information obviously limited to "adult c n t c rtainmont." Nationally known entertainers are sched uled throughout the six-month Century 21 fair. The fair offers a look into the future automobile, travel, fashions, communications and industry and commerce. The 74 acres which consti tute the site of America's first world's fair in 22 years, is im pressive with its fine arts building, the U.S. science ex hibit pavilion attracting at tention by five open arches and the space needle in which it seems everyone wants to "get out of this world." Crowds Monday lined up to get in all the major attrac-tlons-the space needle, the U.S. exhibits "spacearlum," and (he "world of tomorrow" in the Washington State coli Duncan Backs Smaller Dunes Park Proposal Rcedsport-WPB-House Speak er Robert B. Duncan (D-Med-ford) today came out for the Oregon Dunes National park proposal of Sen. Maurine Neu berger (D-Ore.), but with a major modification in her bill. Duncan, candidate for the Democratic nomination for Congress in the Fourth dis trict, said the boundaries set out in Mrs. Neuberger's bill should be trimmed, limiting the proposed park from U.S. 101 to the ocean. Mrs. Neuber- gcr would have the park boundaries cross U.S. 101, tak ing in some lakes and private property. Duncan said this would eliminate most of the objec tions to the Neuberger bill. Hatfield Position Flayed At the same time, Duncan flayed Gov. Mark Hatfield's position on Dunes legislation, saying Hatfield has "furnished no leadership." Rep. Edwin Durno (R-Ore.) has a bill, conflicting with Mrs. Neuberger's, for a Dunes seashore under the U.S. For est Service. Duncan said Dur no has been "uncompromis ing" and "it is time for new approach." Mrs. Neuberger has con scientiously tried to compro mise," Duncan said, but to secure passage of her bill, the boundaries must be al tered. Addressing a community forum here, Duncan rejected tlie idea that a National park in the dunes is dead and he called for an end to "political jockeying and emotionalism so that the wounds can heal and we can get on with the development." Duncan said his stand has come after "trying to get at the facts and to define the problem before stating my views." Hatfield has not flatly en dorsed either the Neuberger or Durno bills but he has stat ed repeatedly he favors na tional development of the dunes area for recreation. Hatfield has insisted that cer tain rights of the state - be spelled out in the Neuberger bill, but Duncan labeled these as "details." ... "Details such as reservation of minerals to the state, use of underground water, etc. should not pose great difficul ty," Duncan said. Duncan also favored con tinuance by Lane, Douglas and Coos counties of their Area's Carpenters Return To Work AH construction workers and carpenters on three val ley projects who were affect ed by the Carpenters union strike, returned to their jobs on Monday. Approximately 80 men had been idled be cause of the strike. Peter Kiewit Sons offices reported 20 of their men had been affected and had return ed Monday, building the free way viaduct through Medford. Work also has resumed on the freeway structures be tween Medford and Ashland, for which Lllllbo Construction company, Reedsport, is the contractor. Other work resum ed Is on the Riverside ave., widening project. Ausland Construction company is the subcontractor. Argentine President Voids Elections Buenos Aires (UPD Presi dent Jose M. Guido issued de crees today voiding all provin cial and municipal elections since December, 1961, and es tablishing federal con trol over Argentina's 22 provinces. seum. (Attendance up to 7 p.m. Monday was tallied at 36.495, the best day so far of the fair, which opened offici ally Saturday.) The grounds themselves arc attractive, the streets spotted with concession and souvenir stands under brightly colored umbrellas and futuristic de signed buildings housing American companies' exhibits and plans for a coming age. But amid all this look into the future is a touch of the present, a touch which is bound to receive as much more favorable comment as it has already, a touch which is welcome for tired muscles and dusty falrgoers. Tucked among shops and exhibits along the Boulevards' of the World and the state land use study and zoning pro grams in the dunes to pre vent development of "park slums which presently do not exist." Straub Urges Competitive Rail Rate lor Lumber Springfield - DPP - A good way to help the lumber in dustry in western Oregon would be to re-establish a "competitive transcontinental rail rate," State Sen. Robert W. Straub of Eugene said here Monday night. "Everybody talks about the Jones Act as being of far reaching inportance to the lumber economy, but rail. road rates are of far broader significance and importance because 95 per cent of our lumber Is shipped by rail," Straub said. Speaking to a local of the International Woodworkers of America, Straub, Democratic hopeful for Congress in the Fourth District, said other prime factors for helping him ber are plant modernization and increasing the demand for forest products. Straub also took a verbal jab at the Fourth District's present congressman, Rep. Ed win Durno (R-Ore.). "It is most unfortunate for everybody in the Fourth Dis trict, but especially for work e r s currently unemployed, that the congressional district which produces more lumber than any other district in the United States is currently rep resented oy a doctor who has fought every major piece of federal legislation which would be a boost to the econo my of western Oregon," Straub said. Apportionment Petition Available ST'r.0!., call for a vote this fait on i constitutional amendment- to provide a new plan of legisla tive apportionment are now available at the Medford Chamber of Commerce office, Manager Don McNeil report ed today. The chambers legislative committee last week went on record as favoring the plan. which is being sponsored by a state-wide committee. The plan was drawn up aft er the legislative apportion ment plan of last year was nullified by the Oregon Su preme Court, and another one, drawn up by Secretary of State Howell Appling Jr. was substituted. The proposed plan is a compromise between the pure population basis of legislative apportion m e n t, and the "federal plan," which gives legislative representa tion for area as well as popu lation. It would provide that the state senate continue to be apportioned on population, and the house also for the most part, but adds a feature which allows a certain mini mum -of representation for large areas which would be deprived of any effective rep resentation at all under the pure population plan. Some 2,500 signatures on the petitions are being sought in Jackson county. MATLACK RESIGNS Portland - fUPD - Jack Mat lack resigned Monday as ex ecutive secretary of the Port land Zoological Society effec tive April 30. flag plaza is this present day refreshment of O r e g o n's mountain air. Bob Bosworth and Armin Rlchtcr, both of Medford, did a beautiful Job in appealing to the weary walker. They have created a rest ful atmosphere equal to Ore gon's mountain regions in the heart of a bustling commu nity. It ht-s the smell and coolness of a fresh mountain stream created by water run ning from fern beds. It has the subdued light found in a place like the camping and picnic areas around Union Creek. Operated by the Oregon de partment of planning and de velopment, the booth offers only two things-rest and in formation on Oregon points Another Boost Believed Likely For This Month Medical Care, Clothing Blamed Washington - (UPD - Living costs crept to the second con secutive monthly record in March and another increase is likely for April, the govern ment reported today. The Labor Department blamed the March rise of 0.2 per cent chiefly on mark-ups in the cost of medical care and spring clothing styles for women and girls. The rise amounted to two cents per $10 of spending for goods and services. It lifted the consumer price index to a new high of 105. This meant it took $10.50 to buy goods and services which would have cost $10 in 1957-59. The report meant that about 67,000 workers whose -wages are linked to the index would get pay boosts. The de partment said 30,000 Doug las Aircraft employees would get two cents an hour boosts. About 37,000 workers in chemicals and manufacturing firms, and Milwaukee transit Workers will get increases ot one cent an hour. Arnold Chase, the depart ment's price chief, said the 1.1 per cent rise in the index since March, 1961, "would be within the range of reasonable price stability." He said the fact that the wholesale price index in March was a shade lower than in March, 1961, shows that there are no general inflation ary forces at work in the economy. Chase anticipated further rises in the cost of services, especially medical care and ' rent, and seasonal mark-ups for fresh fruits and vegetables. He said this will mean an other small increase in the index in April was likely. The index, which measure changes in prices of more than 300 goods and services I bought by middle-Income city families, rose 0.3 per cent in February after six months of virtual stability. The department also report ed .that lengthening of the average factory work week" last month boosted factory I workers' pay. The average . fanln. um-l... ...UU a- PnenU. took home $85 a week last month. Roy Neal Heeled UN Chapter Head Roy Neal, Ashland, was . elected president of the Jack son county chapter, Oregon United Nations association, at meeting last night. Retiring , president is Mrs. H. P. Bos- . worth Jr. Other business in cluded changing the unit name from Medford to Jack- -. son county since the member. -ship is county-wide. Elected as directors were Mrs. Bosworth and Bert Harr, Applegate; Mrs. C. Rease Bra- - ley, , Mrs. Henry Padgham, Miss Clara Hlnze and Omar . Bacon, all Medford. Henry Padgham and Mrs. Bosworth are state board members. The . OAUN state meeting is set for-. May 4-5. The chapter met at the for mer site of the Jackson . County Federal Savings and -' Loan association, which was ' open during Holy week as a Peace center, and voted to keep the center open through " Friday, April 27. The associa- tion has donated use of the -building. The retiring president -pointed out that due to the resumption of nuclear test-' ing by this country within a ' short time, there is need for citizens to have both pro and con information, and that it is available at the Peace cen-, ter, 126 East Main st. . of Interest. And it has offered these two things to people from all parts of the country and world so tar. Robert Dragcr, Industrial field representative of the de- partment, said the booth has " attracted nothing but compli- -ments, and many of the visi- -tors have indicated-some of them pretty dcfinlte-thcy plan Oregon vacations. People ' attending the fair'' appear to be in the fair spirit -they ire tired from walking, ' amazed at many of the scien tific accomplishments when brought into demonstration ' form they can comprehend, and enthusiastic about what ' is ahead in the future In forms , of travel, communications and ' other everyday forms of living.