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Newspaper Page Textecond Device Exploded Air liver Pacific n Wind, Rain Lash Western Oregon SPEAKER Leonard J. (Leu) Casanova, University of Ore gon's head football coach, will speak at the opening of the public phase of St. Mary's En dowment Fund program at 7 o'clock tonight at the Rogue Valley Country club. The en dowment fund program has been launched to provide funds for clearing the remain ing debt on the new St. Mary's High school, and to es tablish a revolving fund to handle construction of addi tional classrooms and other needed facilities for both grade and high school. Medco Officers Are Promoted To New Positions B. L. (Bud) Nutting. R. J. (Russ) Hogue and K. E. Pick ens, all of Medford Corpora tion, were promoted to new positions in the organization at the annual board of direc tors meeting in Chicago re cently. Nutting, who has been vice president and manager of Medco since 1940. was elevat ed to senior vice president and chairman of the executive committee. He will be in charge of company real prop erty, public relations, labor relations, insurance matters and association work. Executive Vice-President Hogue has been vice presi- blew down Hurricane-Force Gusts Reported At Coastal Points Trees Downed, Power Disrupted By United Press International A blustery storm struck the Oregon coast with hurri cane force winds .Thursday night and moved inland, leav ing in its wake sunken boats, downed trees and power lines and other damge. The Coast Guard station at Newport reported a gust of wind of 110 miles per hour early today. Mt. Hebo near Tillamook reported guests to 92 mph. The Space Needle at the Se attle World's Fair was closed temporarily today when the wind gauge atop the spire was spinning at 70 miles an hour. On Highway 99 freeway north of Eugene a loaded freight truck was blown over into a ditch by gusty winds when the driver had stopped at the scene of an accident. Tillamook, where residents said the spring blow was one of the worst in a long time, reported nearly three inches of rain. Newport had 2.48 inches. Gusti in Portland The Portland area got gusts of wind to 50 miles per hour. Power and telephone lines there were knocked down by falling trees and limbs. Several areas near Tilla mook were still without pow er this morning, including Bayocean, Oceanside, Netarts and Cape Mears. Some old buildings in both the Newport and Tillamook areas were blown down. Tillamook got winds of BO miles per hour. Boat on Side At Newport the commercial fishing boat Veda M was ly ing on its side at a dock. Two small boats at Martin's Mar ina, which was extensively damaged, sank. An old barn Q i I n i State Commission I Re2.al Edition Approves Plans at MEDFORD Medford Meeting Programs Proposed By Dr. James Stewart dent and assistant manager in charge of productions and sales for the past few years. He was elected executive vice president in charge of opera tions, which includes Medco's woods operation, including ac quisition of timber, as well as operation of the lumber and plywood plants. The title of manager as known under the old system has been discontinued, corpor ation officials pointed out. Pickens, assistant secretary, has been named treasurer and assistant secretary. He is of fice manager and auditor for the firm. Other Officers Other officers elected in-1 Eastern Oregon elude George R. Birkelund, i and strong west Power lines in Lincoln county were hard hit. The glass - domed pool at Oceanlake's Surf Tides Hotel was badly damaged when glass panes were broken. Salem reported guests of wind to 47 mph with some trees down and windows broken. Power lines also were affected there. Siren Touched Off The St. Johns area in Port land had three separate pow er outages. At Hillsboro a short circuit touched off a fire department siren. The storm headed toward where rain winds were chairman of the board and director, Chicago; Alger Chancy, president and direc tor. San Francisco: James Fentress, vice president and director. ' Philadelphia; Peter B. Eriksen. secretary and as sistant treasurer. Chicago; and Aldona Brugas. assistant sec retary, Chicago. Other members of the board j include Nutting. Hogue. Cal-i vin Fentress, Chicago; Austin ! Jenner. Chicago; Paul Fen-' tress. Palm Beach, Fla.; and i James Holland. Portland. ; The executive committee includes Nutting, chairman,! Chaney. Birkelund and Hogue. j forecast. Cooler air was ex pected to ease the situation tonight but gale warnings were still up off the coast. Astoria had 1.47 inches of rain in the 24 hours ending at 4 a.m. PST. Portland had .92 and Salem .98. HOWARD J. KENNA Anniversary Speaker Local Chapter of Knights Set Event For Anniversary The Rev. Howard J. Kenna, CSC, president of University of Portland, will speak at the golden anniversary charter dinner of the Rogue River council of the Knights of Co lumbus. The event, part of a full day of anniversary activities, is scheduled for the Starlite room of the Rogue Valley Country club Saturday, April 28, at 6 p.m. His topic will be "The Use of Controversy." Father Kenna, president of the university since 1955, was appointed to an unprecedent ed third three-year term . as president by the Congrega tion of Holy Cross, which operates the university. Among the positions he held prior to arriving in Oregon, was vice president at the University of Notre Dame, a member of the Notre Dame faculty and an assistant gen eral of the holy order. Start With Mass Activities will start Satur day at 8:30 a.m. with mass at Sacred Heart Catholic church, according to Grand Knight George Holtzinger. Following the church service will be a breakfast for participants at Stanley's restaurant. Guided tours are planned to scenic and historical points in and around Medford for out of town guests, with visits to view the new St. Mary's High school and the new : Knights of Columbus building ' under construction on Black j Oak dr. During the afternoon the group will watch the annual Pear Blossom parade at 2:30 p.m. Guests at the banquet will include the Very Rev. Carl Mai. council chaplain; and pastor of Sacred Heart church; Medford Mayor John W. Sni der: the Rev. Eunon F. Buck ley. OFM, Roseburg. Oregon state chaplain; Oscar Brolin, Grants Pass, district deputy for the Southern Oregon juris diction of the Knights of Co- 32 Pages Two Sections MEDFORD, OREGON, FRIDAY, APRIL 27, 1962 57th Year Price 10 Cents U.... n L nuLiwrruncn Of Warheads jl Believed Jested Tribune No. Two plans, one for com puting a county's welfare hospitalization costs and the other to separate categories of welfare medical cases, were approved this morning by the state public welfare commission at a regional meeting here today. The proposed plans were submitted by Dr. James H. Stewart, director of the di vision of medical care of the state public welfare commis sion. The first plan would re move the present 60 per cent minimum payment for wel fare hospitalization to a figure to be computed monthly. The state allocation for this expense would be compared to the monthly hospital bill ings to obtain a base line. In dividual counties which have a higher percentage than the state average would use their figure, counties going below the state level would use their figure plus one-half of the difference between the county figure and the state's average. Slate's Allocation For example, if the state's allocation for hospitalization for one month was $66,000, and it was billed $100,000 by the hospitals, the state's base line would be 66 per cent. If one county's base figured out 44 per cent, one-half of the difference between it and the state - 11 per cent - would be added, making 55 per cent as the percentage to be paid. In the other plan, it would take into consideration the range of indivdual hospitaliza tion costs in aid to dependent children cases and old age as sistance cases. Dr. Stewart "explained that the same conversion factor is now used for all cases, while the average cost per patient per month for old age assist ance persons is S32.53, while aid-to-dependent children is only 98 cents. In other action this morn ing, individual welfare cate gory costs were discussed and a $45,904,673 budget for fis cal year 1962-63 was ap proved. Of this amount $16, 344,028 is from state funds and $7,004,576 is county funds. Dr. Ennis Keizer, North Bend, chairman, is conducting the meeting. The session will continue this afternoon. H. D. Christensen, chairman of the Jackson county welfare com mission, will preside. Confusion Time in Oregon Starts Sunday at 2 a.m. Demonstrations Express Protests WEATHER j FORECAST: Mostly cloudy wllh i orraitional showers and occa sional EUtv winds through to nlnhl. I'artly cloudy with scat tered xhriwrri Saturday morn Inc. Mostly sunny Saturday altrrnnon. Low tonight 40. High Saturday 62. Temp. Itiehest Yesterday 5 l.owesl This Murnine Illegal Switch Of Clocks Due In Many Areas Medford To Stay On Standard Time By United Press International It's confusion lime again. Part of Oregon will join other parts of the nation on daylight saving time at 2 a.m. Sunday. Legally only five counties will do so. But like last summer other areas are playing follow the leader. A check of the 25 largest Oregon cities (1960 census) indicates: Six Portland, Hillsboro, Oregon City Milwaukie, Beav crton and Lake Oswego will be on daylight time legally. Eight Eugene, Corvallis, Albany, Bend, Astoria, The Dalles, Baker and McMinn ville will be dominated by fast time. Eleven Salem, Medford, Springfield, Klamath Falls, Pendleton , Roseburg, Grants Pass, Ashand, La Grande, North Bend and Coos Bay wil be dominated by standard time. A solid front of daylight or standard time is not ex pected in the latter 19 cities. Grants Pass, for example, in dicated some merchants will observe early hours. Harvey Aluminum in The Dalles said it would run on standard time. Baker plans to stay on standard time until school is out. Newport first said It would stay standard then changed its mind. Oregon and Oregon Stale universities will keep clocks the same but classes start an hour earlier. State agencies will operate on the time prevailing stand ard in Salem, daylight in Port land. Most U.S. government operations in Foriiana go along with ' daylight time. Grcvhound Lines said buses would be quoted as leaving from and arriving at Portland on daylight time. Political Fireworks The daylight time contro versy was brought about by the legislative act permitting Multnomah, Washington, Clackamas, Columbia and Hood River counties to adopt fast time. It has brought about Sabin Oral Polio Vaccine Clinic Slated in County A Sabin oral polio vaccine clinic will be held in Jackson county May 12 and 13. Washington -lUPli- The Unit ed States detonated an air borne nuclear device over tha mid-Pacific today for the sec ond time in 48 hours. There was speculation the present shots were being used to lest the nuclear punch of missile warheads with the aim of packing more power into a smaller space. As in the Wednesday test, the device exploded today was dropped by an airplane and was of intermediate pow- er. British-controlled Christ mas Island again was the test site. Same Description A spokesman for the Atom ic Energy Commission said the device had an explosive power of less than one mil lion tons of TNT (one mega ton) but more than 20,000 tons (20 kilolons). This was the same description given of Wednesday's blast. The second test of the cur rent U.S. series came as anti bomb demonstrations were conducted by leftist Japanese students before the U.S. Em bassy in Tokyo. Communist and pacifist ban - the - bomb groups staged milder protests in other countries. Most Reaction Mild Reaction from most neutral nations was mild in tone and the Free World Allies in Eu rope strongly backed the U.S. decision to resume atmo spheric testing. The shot today was the 187lh nuclear device exploded by the United States, with 64 of them detonated in the Pa- Icific. The test series, dubbed "op- Indications were this morn-1 county contributes more than leralion Dominic," is being ing that the Jackson county I the $10 per census child as (carried out by a huge Navy budget committee will vote required by law. task force under the joint di- Vroman Budget Committee May Vote Against Teacher Allocation nn tho romipHlnrt 7.000 Present plans call for clinics i ailnn,ln - ,-hnr nl the to be set up in Ashland, Med- juvemle dctention homc. Cord, Central Point, Shady u wln be dlscussed further Cove and Rogue R i v e r by the ,uU budgcl commiUce, SCnoOia. I Mamhflp. nf Ilia nnnntv rnlirt Compton Takes Job At National Office Judson W. Compton. execu tive of the Crater Lake Boy Scout Council, has accepted a position on the staff of the national council in New Brunswick, N.J. Compton. who has been poljtu.a hassles this year and Scout executive here for 5 ! I .. ;i iticloiiiro years, will become assistant director of the public rela tions service of the national organization. N. H. Gladfelter, president of the Crater Lake Council, has appointed a selections committee to review records of professional Scouting men available to replace Compton. Compton has been in pro fessional Scouting since 1943. Before moving to Medford. he calls for a special legislative session. Gov. Mark Hatfield said he believed Oregonians "would rather live with another sum mer of hectic time than face the consequences of a special session which got out of hand and raised taxes because of reckless spending. The gov- lumbus; Raymond J. Martin, Koseourg. siaic acpuiy, ana served in Eugcne, 0re Ka Joseph Blissenbach. ineispen Mont and Richand, uancs. past stale acpuiy. Wash. Longtime mcmDers ot me local council also will be hon ored. Charter members plan ning to attend are Guy Con ner, Portland, and Jens Jen sen. Medlord, along with 25- Rogue Valley Problems Subject of Hearing Salem 'UPD-The Legislative; Interim Committee on Natur-. al Resources will air forest and stream problems of the Rogue River valley at a pub lic hearing here May 7. itcc. io io a.m. Today 2 j VPar members Judce Edward Our Skies Tonight ! C. Kelly. Fred Farenhurst and james ivicuowan. Type one vaccine will be aci- ministercd at the clinic, witn others planned to administer types two and three vaccine. The clinic will be for persons of all ages and the series of three doses will be administer ed for $1 per person with a maximum charge of $5' for a family. Books of three coupons will be available at pharmacies in the area and each ticket will entitle the holder to one dose of the vaccine. No one will be refused the vaccine because he cannot afford to purchase the coupons, it was pointed out. Explained On Program The clinic and the oral vac cine will be explained during a television program, "Ad ventures in Medicine," over station KBES-TV at 3:30 p.m. Sunday. Three drops of vaccine are placed on an ordinary cube of sugar which the recipient dis solves in his mouth. The clinic was originated for the county by the Jackson County Medical Society with the cooperation of the county health department, Parent- Teacher associations, Junior Chamber of Commerce, Jack son counly cnapter oi me were holding a brief agenda session while the lay mem bers of the budget committee discussed the request. The lay members again stated that the committee is not running an educational program and the county court could not properly supervise an education program for tiic juvenile detention home since education is not one of its functions. Suggest Earmarking They indicated they may suggest $7,000 be earmarked in the county's contribution to school support funds for a de tention home teacher, If the Committee members also irection of the Defense Depart- felt that the Jackson county 1 welfare commission "knows what it Is talking about" when it wrote In a letter to the budget committee that "educating children in the de tention home falls more accu rately with various school dis tricts of Jackson counly." The committee also Indicat- a 30-vear-old Burbunk. ea uus morning mat u wouia calif., man is being ques approvc the public health of- Honed in Salem by Medford ficer's request for an expand- police officers today in con ed mental health program and ncction with the theft of near- ment and the Atomic Energy Commission. Man Questioned In 51,300 Theft crnor is powerless to confine i Oregon State Nurses associa a special session to the time issue. Ballot measures in Novem ber should straighten out the situation next summer. It all ends Sept. 30. lion, Jackson county chapter of the National Foundation and pharmacists of the coun ty. Dr. William J. Miller is gen eral chairman. McAllister Gives Three Points of Advice To Student Government Participants Sunset today . . 7:fl(t Sunme tomorrow 5:1 2 a.m. MnonrKe tomorrow . 2:11 a.m. i Nrw Moon . May 1 PRO MINKNT STAB j t'apftla, low In north past p.m. VISIHI.R PLANETS 1 Venus. In the went at sunset. , Saturn. leads the Moon. Jupiter, rises 3:7ft a.m. Mars, follows Juptter. HEWSBRIEFS ITIMS OM ' MOUND THI OlOII CARPENTER TO BE NEXT ASTRONAUT Pittsburgh-lPI-Navy Lt. Cmdr. Scott Carpenter has been selected as the astronaut who will pilot United Statu spacecraft on n orbital flight next month. STEEL PRODUCERS TO ENTER PLEAS New York-IPt-Four of the nation's largest iteel producers will enter pleas May 10 on government charges they fixed prices end rigged bids end tales on federal contract!, U.S. Atty. Robert Morgenthau announced today. TRAIN DERAILED IN PENNSYLVANIA Paoli. P.-tPt-Twenty-three earl of 77 cr Pennsylvania. Railroad freight train were wrecked early today when lhe train wet dereiled jut eeit of the Peoli station. No one wis njurtd. Fire Closure Near ' Willow Lake Official; Official fire closure for the Willow lake area has been Mgned by Gov. Mark Hat field. It became effective last night. According to the order, no open fires can be built except in designated and posted campgrounds The area is be ing posted with signs Person nel of the Butte Fall? district of the Rogue River National forest will patrol the area which is 10 miles southeast of Butte Falls jnd one mile off the Fish Lake id The' area is being managed under a regulated state of Oregon forest closure Life is a reward-responsi- I bility relationship," William McAllister Jr.. 1952 Student ! Government Day mayor, told ' the 1962 Student Government ' Day participants at the dinner last night. j McAllister spoke at the clos ing event of the day in which some 80 students from county high schools took over the i reins of city and county gov i ernment. Also attending the dinner at Hedrick Junior High school were city and county officials, parents, and members of the Medford Elks lodge, sponsors of Student Government Day. Topic of Talk The speaker's topic was Ten Years After " Since he was student mayor he has and plan ahead before mar riage. McAllister urged the stu dent to conform to rules and regulations, to get along with third in the state competition. other students, but to be in tclligent followers and think about the consequences before making mistakes. Be individu alistic to get ahead, he urged. Students have more oppor tunities for rewards since they I are younger, he continued. ' They should remember it is i harder to get Into college now ! than ever before and competi : tion is much keener. McAllister complim e n t e d schools, saying that the basic education received here is equal to that anywhere.'' He . expressed pleasure at the fact tnat Student Government ACCIDENT FATAL Langloi IPI- Gus Schroe der. 78. Broadbent. was killed in a one-car accident on U. S. Highwav 1 1 1 near here Thtirs-dp graduated from Harvard col-; Days arc still being held, giv lege. spent three years in the j ing the students an oppor I Navy, and is now a senior al j tunity "lo participate in city Willamette Law school, Sa- j and county government." i lem. i Winners Presented He stressed three points of Prior to the talk the 1062 i advice lor the young people Llks scholarship and leader present-education is a tre mendous challenge: look upon serving in the armed services I or at a job as a challenge I nd an opportunity to exeeil. ship winners were presented with their awards. For leader ship. Stephen Geren, Eagle Point, won the district level, an. Janice Rntrman. Crater. Two Floors of Wing Being Used The first two floors of the new Sl'i million Rogue Val ley hospital wing are now full with patients, Charles I. Gus tafson, hospital administrator, reported today. The second floor was oc cupied April 18 and the first floor April 24, he said. The third floor will open next week. A total of 114 adult patients and 18 babies were reported at the hospital. Although this! is not the highest number of. patients the hospital has hand led at one time, it was ac complished easier with the ad ditional space, Gustafson said. I Before, additional beds had lo ! be placed in the wards and I corridor. j On Monday, remodeling will start In the existing build i ing on the third floor, in the surgery, intensive care areas land recovery room. The en 'tire existing building will be i air-conditioned. The remodel ! Ing, which also will add an burn, Medford. was district aaamonai iu neas io me nos winner and fifth in the state. ! P'tl' capacity, will take six They were presented by , "i"n,hs George Bruce, Elks youth at-! The highest number of pa tivities oroi-ram chairman. i Hot. the hospital has handled Others who spoke were Leonard Carlson, exalted rul-' er of the Elks lodge; Medford Mayor John W. Snider and ; Student Mayor Doug Robert- son; Counly Judge Earl Miller : and Student Counly Judge Terry Hanson. Miller stated that this was the 14th Student Government Day in which he had partici pated. He stressed lhe Impor tance of youth taking an in terest in city and counly gov ernment so that in lhe future they may strive to keep America strong Mayor Snider presented two keys to the city to Mrs Justin Smith, "mother" of Student Government Day. and to Mc-Allieter. new public heullh clinic build ing. Wait at Clinic Arnold Bohncrt, committee chairman, noted that patients wait three lo four months for the Family and Child Guid ance clinic. Additional person nel is needed lo handle the increased caseload, he noted. This would mean an in crease of $4,289 in the coun ty's shure of the expanded mental health service cost, Bohncrt noted. He reminded the committee that the appli cation for stale matching funds must be in to Salem by May 1. Proposed site for the new health clinic building Is the fairgrounds south of Medford. Committee Member Gordon Hudson repeatedly pointed out that "building costs won't be any cheaper by waiting a year. It was recommended the building be constructed so it could receive additions for other counly offices Removal of the public health offices from the first floor of the courthouse main building will relieve conges tion in other offices, It was noted. ly $1,300 from a Medford' dentist's office Wednesday. Being interrogated by Lt. Lyle C. Perkins and Officer Milt Hanson is John Henry Earle, who was apprehended by Salem police last night. Earle Is suspected of being implicated with recent simi lar thefts from doctors' of fices in Chico, Calif., Rose burg, Eugene and Grants Pass. According to police reports, a man answering banes de scription entered a dentist'i office in the Mall building on East Main st. between 10:? S and 11:15 a.m. Wednesday. He engaged the receptionist in conversation, distracting , her momentarily by asking her to check a fictitious res- ervation. Shortly alter the man left, the receptionist discovered ; the bank money sack con-s tainlng several days' receipts in cash and checks was miss ing from her desk. The receptionist accompa-, nied officers to Salem to at-' tempt an identification ot Earle. Word received by city; police this morning indicates that she has made positive identification of Earle. was state winner and third nationally. Introduced was Jo Ann Johnson, Medford, run ner-up in the district, who was "If Theah's Anythin' Ah Like, It's A Good Joke" '5 For scholarship, Ellen Mont gomery, Medford, was the lo cal winner and Carl Wash- in the past was and 22 babies. 117 adults Trailer House Fire Damages Interior The interior and contents of B trailer house were damaged considerably by fire this morning in the 800 block cm Taylor St., Medford, firemen reported. They said the trailer whi being used as an office by James and Stritzkc construc tion firm of Roseburg. Cause is as yet undetermined. Firemen were summoned about 7:30 a.m. by a resident o'JJhc neighborhood