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Newspaper Page TextRegional Edition Medford 36 Pages Two Sections Khrushchev Asks New Constitution For Coexistence Stalin Document Claimed Outdated Moscow - WPIl - Premier Ni kila Khrushchev called today for a new "peaceful coexist ence" constitution that would suit the Soviet Union's drive toward total communism. Stating that the 1936 "Stal in constitution" was outdated, Khrushchev said the Soviet Union had achieved complete socialism and now is embark ed on the all-out building of communism. He asked the Supreme So viet, Russia's parliament, to draft a new constitution that would adequately define for eign relations for "an era of peaceful coexistence." The Supreme Soviet approved his request, and named the pre mier to head the drafting com mission. Policy, Cabinet Approved The discussion of the con stitution followed the Su preme Soviet's routine ap proval of Khrushchev's for eign policy ,and new cabinet. The premier, who was re confirmed Tuesday as head of I h e government, kept his Kremlin hierarchy virtually intact. Foreign Minister An drei Gromyko, Defense Minis ter Marshal Rodion Malinkov sky and other top officials re tained their posts. Khrushchev said that changes in the Soviet Union over the past 26 years signi fied that "socialism has won a complete and final victory and the Soviet Union has en tered the period of the all-out building of communism.'.' Talk of War As reported by the news agency Tass, Khrushchev said the present constitution, which was drafted under the direction of former dictator Josef Stalin, talked only of declaring war and signing peace treaties. He said a new constitution was needed to clarify the con duct of foreign relations in the world of today. Acceptance of Khrushchev's policies by the Supreme So viet came after a number oJ deputies denounced the Unit ed States for its decision to resume nuclear weapons tests. Hatfield Appoints Coordinating Group Salem - (ITU - Gov. Mark Hatfield today appointed a coordinating council on mat--! ters of mutual concern affect ing the state Board of Educa tion and the State Board of Higher Education. The group will coordinate such things as community col leges, educational television, statistics, certification of teachers and implementation of the Ford Foundation-sponsored Oregon plan for improv ing education. Appointed were: Chancellor Roy E. Lieual len of higher education; Sup erintendent of Public Instruc tion Leon P. Minear; Higher Education Chairman William E. Walsh. Coos Bay, and Vice Chairman Charles R. Hollo- wav Jr., Portland; Education Board Chairman Francis I. Smith. Portland, and Vice Chairman S. E. Brogoitti, Helix. A seventh member of the council will be the governor or a member of his staff. ITEMS FROM 1WSM1EFS WAY CLEARED run runrit ncni nn nu Palm Beach. Fla.-lPI-President Kennedy by executive order today cleared the way for awarding the Purple Heart to members of the U.S. armed forces killed or wounded in Viet Nam. Hit executive order made no specific reference to Viet Nam, but set up a new provision applying to U. S. personnel "serving with friendly foreign forces engsged in an armed nflict against an opposing is not a belligerent party." CRISIS GREETS FRENCH GOVERNMENT Peris - 'in - The New French government of Premier Georges Pompidou moved swiftly today to cope with lit first major domestic crisis a 24-hour strike on the state operated railrotd system. ortt bij LAUNCHED FROM Cape Canaveral, r ia.-in ine revy icaay launtnea Polaris missile in secrecy from a submerged nuclear sub- marine off the coast of Florida. MEDFORD, OREGON, PRINCESS First of the 1962 Rose Festival Princesses is Mary Lee Sievers, 17, above, of Roosevelt High School in Portland. The pretty miss is 5 feel, 5'2 inches tall, weighs 123 pounds and has blue eyes and dark brown hair. (UP1) Pacific Airlines Seeks Suspension Of United Service Pacific Airlines has petition ed the Civil Aeronautics board in Washington, D.C. for suspension of United Airline's, service to Medford. The petition was filed with the CAB on March 16 by Pa cific Airline's attorneys. It also seeks the consolidation and realignment of West Coast Airline's Seattle-Portland and Portland-San Francisco-flight routes. Specifically, the petition re quests "that the Board (CAB) institute an investigation to determine whether the public convenience and necessity re quire the suspension or dele tion of the authority of Unit ed to serve Medford." Seeks Extension The petition seeks to amend an earlier application by Pa cific which called for an ex tension of its San Francisco- PortlandMedford route to Se attle. The move, together with pe titions filed recently by other airlines serving the northwest, comes as a result of a pro posed order by the CAB de leting service to six of the 16 Oregon cities authorized to receive scheduled air transpor tation. Service to one Oregon com munity, Newport, has already been deleted under the CAB's "use it or lose it" policy. The remaining five cities represent one-third of the cities in Oregon now receiv ing air service. If the CAB order were put into effect, an area of 48,000 square miles in the state would suffer loss of air service. United Airlines and West Coast Airlines have registered their opposition to Pacific's proposal. Discussion on SOC Building Postponed Portland-lUPI-A spokesman for the State Board of High er Education said today dis- j cussion of a new physical ed- ucation building for Southern Oregon College at Ashland has been put over until the June meeting of the board. lorce in wnicn me unueo oiaiei SUBMARINE AROUN0 " WEDNESDAY, APRIL 25, Morse Honored at Dinner; Campaign Pace Increases By United Press International Sen. Wayne Morse (D-Ore.) the man halt a dozen Repub lican candidates would like to unseat this year, was honor ed at a campaign dinner in Washington, D.C, by his sup porters Tuesday. Approximately 400 persons attended the $50 per plate dinner. Morse was praised by labor union members. Interior Secretary Stewart Udall, of ficials of the Washington, D.C, city government and others. Morse, in a brief talk, called them his "biased" friends and pledged to "follow where the facts lead." Durno Busy Back in Oregon, Rep. Ed-1 win Durno, one of the six seeking the GOP senatorial nomination, continued a busy schedule. Durno's headquarters Indi cated he may carry his cam paign through to the May 18 primary instead of returning to Washington at the end of the Easter recess. Durno had talks in Portland, at Willam ette university and at Mil- waukie today. At Beaverton, GOP Senate candidate Harold Livingston called for a Congressional lumber bloc to resolve lum ber problems through negotia tion with Canada. The Corvallis professor said Congressmen from all lumber states should ignore political lines to form a pow er bloc where lumber prob lems are concerned. Sen. Maurine Neuberger. speaking in Klamath Falls Tuesday, praised the role of the United Nations in serving this country's national Inter ests as well as- interests of humanity. She said the UN's operation in the Congo has averted both Communist pen etration of the Congo and the armed confrontation of the major powers. Youth Alternates Urged - State Rep. Carl Fisher, candidate for the fourth dis trict GOP congressional nom ination, recommended that the two major political par ties select youth alternates as chairman and vice chairman of state and county central committees. He said this would help develop interest Searchers Fail To Locate Man's Body Happy Camp The level of the Klamath river in the area where George McLane, 55, is presumed to have drowned went down three to four feet Monday, but searchers still were unable to locate either his body or the truck he was driving. Pacific Power and Light officials cooperated by reduc ing the flow of water into the river from Iron Gate and Copco Number 1 dams to the minimum allowed But despite the lower water level, sheriff s deputies still were unsuccessful In the search. The minimum flow was maintained for 30 hours, after which normal flow was re sumed. The sheriff's department now is attempting to get a large' magnet and a mine de tcctor to use in an effort to find the truck. McLane pre sumably was still at the wheel of the pickup when it went into the river about 20 miles west of Happy Camp April 8. The search is expected to , I lohnnnn Man DfS , leDOnn man U,eS In Logging Accident Lyons. Ore. -ITU- George ; Baumgardner. 53. Lebanon, 1 was crushec) by a rolling log . Tuesday on Thomas Creek southeast of here. He was bucking a log when another log above him plum meted down a hill. FACES ARRAIGNMENT Redding, Calif. - HiPIi - Mar vin F. Olsen, 32, a former Poc atcllo, Idaho, police officer faced arraignment today in uonnvrviiun wun a ciihtk o j embezzling S6.000 in Idaho i state funds. 57th Year Price 10 Cents Tribune 1962 No. 30 of youth leaders in political activity. State Sen. Robert Straub, a Democratic congressional candidate in the fourth dis trict, said in Albany Tuesday night the American Medical Association had a "long, dis mal record of opposition" to key social welfare legislation. He said it "must bear the blame" for delays in passage of President Kennedy's med icare plan. Porter Says His Time in Congress Will Help Project Charles O. Porter, who is campaigning in Josephine county today for the congres sional post in the Fourth Dis trict, left Jackson county this morning after spending two days here. During his appearance in Medford and Ashland he stressed that his four years experience as the congress man for the Fourth District will greatly increase the chances of new construction funds for the Rogue Basin project next year. Speaking at a luncheon in Ashland, the Democratic can didate said that Wayne Morse and Maurine Neuberger will probably push through the authorization this year. "Authorization is necessary. but the real fight comes when you seek appropriations," Por ter stressed. "Then is- when Jackson and Josephine coun ties will need a Democrat back there who knows his way around." Porter pointed out that the Rogue Basin project was in active when he entered Con gress in 1957 and that he made the Corps of Engineers stop diverting allocated funds. Community Support "I pressed for complete studies and for wide commu nity support," he said. "The result was a favorable recom mendation by the Engineers and the prospect, at long last, of flood control, vast new acres of reclaimed land, addi tional power and tremendous recreational benefits. In Medford he stressed the need for a complete soil sur vey of Jackson county, stating that less than 20 per cent of the county's arable lands have been properly classified. "Irrigation and drainage plans depend on the availabil ity and accuracy of such in formation," he explained. Porter talked to people on the streets and in stores in Rogue River, Gold Hill, Jack sonville and Central Point in addition to Medford and Ash land. He plans to return to Jack son county for more cam paigning May 2, according to Wilbur Gardner, his Jackson county campaign chairman. WEATHER FORECAST: Fair through Thursday afternoon. Low to nlght 30. High Thursday TO. Temp. HIcrtFit Yesterday 62 Lowest Thli Morning 35 Our Skies Tonight Sunsrt today 7:04 p.m. Sunrise tomorrow .... 5:14 a.m. Moonrhe tomorrow 12:41 A.m. Last Quarter April 27 EVENING STAB Venus, brighter than any other planet (or star) ( now moving into the constellation. Taurus and sets tonight at . S:2 p.m. Scholastic Recognition Dinner Planned April 30; Speaker To Be Dr. Nickerson Dr. Francis B. Nickerson Salem, assistant to the chan cellor and executive secretary of the high school-college re lations committee of the Ore gon state system of higher ed ucation, will speak Monday, April 30, at the second schol astic recognition dinner. Some 27 Medford students will be honored for academic achievement at the event at the Rogue Valley Country club. Students who will receive recognition are: Marilyn Guld- an, Susan Reavis, Katie Fitz U. S. Rejects New Pleas To Halt Nuclear Testing Indian Envoy Renews Appeal Geneva - (IIPR - The United States rejected new pleas by India and the Communist bloc in the Disarmament Confer ence today to halt nuclear testing in the Pacific. Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Valerian Zorin ac cused the United Statse and Britain of "attempting to wash their hands before the peoples of the world and shrug off their responsibility." Instructed To Appeal Indian Ambassador Arthur Lall told the 17-nation con ference that he had been in structed by his government to make another appeal to the great powers to "withhold from testing for a short peri od, perhaps for a few weeks," while another attempt was made to break the deadlock on a test ban. But American Ambassador Arthur H. Dean replied that the United States, once lulled by Soviet acceptance of a test ing moratorium which it then broke without warning last fall, intends to renounce test ing this time only when there is an effective treaty agree ment. Then, turning towards Lall, Dean said: With the greatest respect, but with the greatest regret, I must say that my govern ment cannot undertake anoth er unpoliced, uninspected mor atorium. But the United States wants and will continue its efforts to reach an effective test ban agreement. Most of today s meeting was devoted to a lengthy dis cussion of various parts of the preliminary wording of an eventual disarmament treaty. Two Seriously Hurt In California Crash Happy Camp - Two Happy Camp men were seriously in jured Tuesday morning In a one-oar accident about - eight miles east of here on the Klamath River rd. near Thompson creek. Taken to Siskiyou General hospital, Yreka, by Happy Camp ambulance and priv ate car were Harold Peters and Raymond Conrad. Conrad was reported in ser ious condition this morning and there was a possibility , he might be transferred to a Medford hospital for further treatment of head injuries. Peters suffered a shoulder injury and was reported to be doing fairly well. The accident is still under investigation. California Highway Patrolman Everett Collord reported that the cause of the mishap is un known, as neither man has been in condition to tell what happened. Salem Plumbers Reject Offer Salem - fUPD - The Salem lo cal of the Plumbers and Steamfitters Union today re jected a "final" offer by em ployers as a strike in Albany, Corvallis, Lebanon, Salem and Newport continued in its sec ond week. The u n i o n's negotiating committee turned down a three-pronged offer from the Willamette Assoc i a t i o n of Plumbing and Heating Con tractors. An employer spokes man said earlier this week that this was the final offer. A regular meeting of the union's membership is to be held here at 8 p.m. Friday and Reed said the employer offer might or might not come up at that time. Key issues tn the dispute In clude higher wages and status of an apprenticeship fund In to which employers pay. patrick and Douglas Snider from St. Mary's High school and Sandra Shugart, Carl Washburn, Joel Gregory, Jill Barnes, Richard Knights, Nick Gier, Julie Latham, Vicki En ders, Susan Elder, Marsha Watson, Carol Wiegand, Den nis Caster, Jim Albright, El len Montgomery, Jon Jensen, JoAnn Johnson, Mike Hig gins, Hannah Booth, Frank Graham, Wallace Huffman, John Alansky, Nola Shurtleff, and Norma Jcnks, from Med- - iford High school. Ml AM(mv?!UclK Western Europe Defends Decision On Nuclear Tests Japan Expresses 'Disappointment' By United Press International Western Europe today gen erally defended the U.S. deci sion to resume nuclear testing but Japan expressed "deep disappointment" and Russians put on a show of outrage. A snake-dancing mob of about 100 leftist Zengakuran students staged a protest demonstration in front of the U.S. Embassy in Japan, scuf fling with 500 police. Japan Can't Agree A Japanese Foreign Office statement expressed "deep re grets" and said the govern ment "cannot agree with the American plans to resume tests for whatever reasons." The Times of London sug gested that the Russians might privately be welcom ing the U.S. decision "as an excuse for a further round of their own." The first outright govern ment support came from Na tionalist China where the Foreign Ministry called it the only way for America to maintain its nuclear lead over the Soviet Union. Welfare Group Criticizes Request The Jackson county public welfare commission has sharp ly criticized the requested budget allocation for a teach er at the Juvenile detention home.- , ... In a letter, reported by County Judge Earl Miller to- day, the commission stated, He was referring to m "We cannot join in the rec-1 creased library service which ommendation for approval of Is needed to meet increased $7,000 allocation for educa tional program at the deten tion home." It was addressed to the county court, and copies sent to the county budget committee, the juve nile detention home, and Cir cuit Court Judges James M. Main and Edward C. Kelly. 'We believe the problem of educating children in the detention home falls more ac curately with various school districts of Jackson county," the commission wrote. It suggested a cooperative plan be worked out with the school districts. It was signed by H. D. Christensen, Mrs. Henry Padgham, Mrs. Robert Kee- ney, and Mrs. Edward Bolt. The county court also has received letters urging the county budget committee to approve the education pro gram allocation They were sent by the Ashland Human Rights Council, the Crater High School Parents-Teachers- Students association, Howard school PTA, Oak Grove PTA and the Ashland branch, American Association of Uni versity Women. Land Board Meeting Dates May Be Changed Salem-lUPII - The Legislative Interim Committee on Natural Resources said Tuesday it is preparing legislation to do away with that part of the law which says the Oregon Land Board has to meet on the second and fourth Tuesdays of every month. The board can meet any other time it chooses but by law it must convene on those two Tuesdays. The legislation would re quire the land board to meet at least once a month, but on any day the board chooses. The banquet will start at j 6:30 p.m. with a reception for 'parents and students. Dinner will begin at 7 p.m. Dr. Ray McNair is chairman of the event. Sponsors of the banquet are several Medford service clubs. The Invocation and ben ediction will be given by Dr. George G. Roseberry and music will be furnished by John Lusk. Tickets for the banquet are on sale at Swem's, Barker's or at the banquet. - r- - - - : A J ab $r ANNIVERSARY OF FIRE Today is the 27th anniversary of the fire which ruined the Oregon state cupitol building in Salem on April 25, 1935. The photo above, from the Oregon State Archives, shows the building at the height of the fire. The story is on page 13 A. (UPI) Budget Increases Sought by Library, Health Department 'You can't get It with box tops!" Richard Travis, a mem ber of the board of the Pub lic Library of Medford and Jackson . county, told the Jackson county budget com- .,, , , ,. mittce yesterday afternoon. public library use and popu lation growth. Librarian Omar Bacon said the library svstpm netted 2.100 new us- system netted 2,100 new us ers in the last nine months. The library representatives are asking for an overall total increase of $21,184 or a new fiscal year total of $139,711. Of this total, Jackson coun ty is being asked to contri bute $81,735, for an increase in its share of $17,091. The rest of the requested budget consists of $36,666 from the Medford transfer, $7,760 from the Medford tax levy, $6,500 from library fees, $1,850 from the county curriculum materials center, $1,000 from the Ashland Public library and $4,000 from the Josephine county library. Salary Requests Over half of the requested increase of $21,184, or $13,- 176, consists of salaries. The remaincr is $2,831 for com pensation, retirement, social security, insurance; $4,472 for operation and mainten ance, and $705 for capital improvements. The budget committee took no action on the library budget pending further study and discussion. The Jackson county budget committee is expected to make a decision Friday on re quested matching funds for a $91,432 public health clinic building and increased men tal health service. According to the request by Dr. A. Erin Merkel, Jackson county public health officer, federal Hill - B u r t o n funds would provide one-third of the clinic building costs or ap proximately $30,144. He is also requesting $19,- 098 to meet the 50 per cent state grants-in aid funds for the county mental health pro gram. Total budget for the new fiscal year's Increased mental health service would be $38,178, an increase of $13,018. This would include a Family and Child Guidance clinic, which the county has now, plus expansion in alco holic education and rehabili tation, continuation of treat ment of patients reluming from state mental hospitals, and other mental health serv ices recommended by the state department of mental health. , A tentative budget for the county's mental health serv ice and application form tor the state matching funds must be sent to Salem by May 1, Dr. Merkel told the budget committee. Although there is-no dead- line for application, for HiU - Burton funds for the request - ed clinic building, the Family and Child Guidance clinic is crowded in its present quar ters on the second floor of the courthouse annex. -' It would be impossible for the expanded mental health serv ice, provided by matching funds, to operate in the pres- ent quariers, Dr. Merkel said. Roseburg Payment Document Signed Portland - HIPH - An order to pay $1,195,000 to claimants suffering damage in the 1959 Roseburg blast was signed here Tuesday by Federal Judge John F. Kilkenny. ; It approves the reports of special masters David Sande- berg and Barnett H. Gold stein, named by the court to evaluate the death, injury and property damage claims. The money Is to be disburs ed over five years. The explosives truck explo sion resulted in 14 deaths and leveled the heart of the city. Form Equipment, Hay, Burn in Morning Fire Miscellaneous farm equip ment and three tons of hay were ilestroyed about 1:20 a.m. today in a barn fire at the James Nuncs farm, 169 Glenwood rd. Firemen said that the barn was totally Involved in fire when they arrived. Cause was not known. A log truck and tractor were towed out of the barn "Would You Want Your Daughter To Marry A Russian?" V 4''' Explosion Marks Start of Pacific Testing Series Device Dropped From Airplane Washington - (UPI) - A high flying airplane dropped a nu clear bomb in the vicinity of Christmas Island today to kick off America's eighth and perhaps most critical Pacific test series. The explosion came almost 18 hours after President Ken nedy gave the Atomic Energy Commission and Defense De partment final authority to trigger the vital new test pro gram. In a brief announcement the A EC said: "A nuclear test detonation took place at about 7:45 a.m. (PST) today in the vicinity of Christmas Island. The detona tion was in the intermediate yield range. The device was dropped from an airplane. The test was the first detona tion in Operation Dominic, now under way In the Pa cific." Under Megaton A commission spokesman said the device was equal in power to something under a megaton (one million tons) of TNT and something over 20 kilotons (20,000 tons). In the past, "intermediate" has usually meant a blast in the 100 kiloton range. The spokesman went on to say that the new test series would produce considerably less radioactive fallout than the 1061 Soviet test series be- 1 cause the total energy release of the American shots will be less than the' Russian total. 1 -. Christmas Island, borrowed 1 irom tne British for Opera- tlon Dominic, is about 140 miles above the equator and 1,300 miles south of Honolulu. Little Fallout Seen Other shots, probably mis sile detonations high in space, will be held at Johnston Is land, a U.S. possession 800 miles west and southwest of Honolulu. n-i, a kit i , i, , a iic naa niaae ii clear all atmospheric tests in the , Dominic series will be ex ploded so high that they will deposit little fallout in the test areas. , It said 9B to 99 per cent of the radioactive debris will be - dispersed high above the earth's equatorial regions. It said "these diluted bands of low level radio-activity" will gradually descend to earth over a period of years." Lumber Unions To Reooen Contracts Portland -(UPD- Two major Northwest lumber unions have notified employers about reopening of contracts for wages, an employer spokes man said today. Contracts between employ ers and the International Woodworkers of America (IWA) and the Lumber and Sawmill Workers (LSW) open June 1 for wages only. The spokesman said letter. from the Western States Re gional Council of the IWA had been sent to members of Timber Operators Council (TOO requesting employer representatives to be present at a meeting here next Mon day. No meeting has been re quested by the LSW, he said.