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Newspaper Page Textu Ml Together, Kennedy hamber Urges U.S. BANQUET SPEAKER Dr. Francis B. Nickerson, Salem, assistant to the chancellor and executive secretary of the high school-college relations committee of the Oregon state system of higher education will speak tonight at the sec ond annual high school scho lastic recognition dinner in this area. Some 27 Medford seniors from St. Mary's and Medford High school will be honored. The dinner will start at 7 o'clock at the Rogue Val ley Country club. Tickets will be available at the door. Grants Pass Man Drowns in Boating Accident Sunday Jackson county sheriff's deputies continued skin-diving operations this morning, searching for the body of Merle Harris Logeais, 39, of 1925 Southwest Greenwood St., Grants Pass, who is pre sumed to have drowned after a three-boat accident on the Rogue river near Evans creek late Sunday afternoon. Another boat operator, Lewis Melvin Morgan, 23, of 1709 West Main St., Medford, was taken to Josephine Gen eral hosiptal for treatment of bruises and cuts on his legs. The third craft, according to Oregon state police, was operated by Tom Yancey, 48, of 4270 South Pacific high way, was struck by Logcais runaway craft, which was un attended, but no one was hurt State police reported that all three boats were headed upstream when the accident occurred They said Logeais sent his boat into a sweeping turn and ran into the Morgan boat. The collision caused Logeais to be thrown out. Yancey, in attempting to aid Morgan, who was trying to get his damaged boat to shore, had his craft hit by the Logeais craft and was swamp ed. In the Morgan boat were his wife and four children. Stale police said that in all ten persons were in the water. due to the accident, a number of them children. Two Talks Planned By Judge Brand James T. Brand, retired chief justice of the Oregon Supreme Court, will speak Tuesday afternoon at Crater High school, in addition to being the principal speaker at Law day activities here to morrow. The event will be held at T20 p.m. May 1 in the audi torium at Crater High school. Present at the assembly will be Miss Mary Clare Stuart, 2650 Bcall lane. Central Point, winner of the high school student editorial con test. The editorial was on Law day, and appears on Page 4 of today's Mail Trib une. Judge Brand will speak at 9:30 a.m. in Jackson county circuit court number 1, in Law day observance. Both events are open to the public, according to A. E. Piazza and Paul Haviland. Law day chairmen. HSBRIEFS ITEMS FROM EARLY SUMMIT MEETING DISCOUNTED Walhington-ln-U.S. officialt today discounted th pot tibilily of an early lummit meeting, deipite an offer by President Kennedy and British Prime Minuter Harold Mac-1 an. who had been missing millsn to consider one if developments warrant. These of- since 2 p.m. Sunday, ficialt said the nuclear test deadlock and continued Soviet i Mrs. Claire Brown. 70. of pressure on Berlin appeared to rule out any summit con- j East Fork rd.. was reported ference in the near luture. missing by her husband at 11:04 p.m. Sunday. Brown SEARCH CONTINUES FOR FISHING VESSEL said she was at home when, Seattle-inA Coast Guard search continued today for the he left for church, but gone 107-foot fishing vessel Pelican reported overdue on voyage! when he returned. from Grays Harbor to San Jose, Calif., with one man and! The Josephine county shcr his teen-age daughter aboard. jiff's department instituted an I tall-night search. The blood-' BALLOON LAUNCHED ON ENDURANCE TRY j hounds arrived thij morning! Brawley. Calif. I Pt A three-story balloon carrying three and found the woman in i men lilted into the sky today set on breaking endurance and brush near her home shortly' distance records on a 3.000-mile flight to the East Coast. (after 11 am. I Salvation Army To Start Building Campaign A building fund campaign for the Salvation Army in Medford will start in the mid dle of May, O. D. Martin, chairman of the Salvation Army's advisory board an nounced today. A goal of $137,185 has been set. "The old Army Headquar ters at Fourth and North Bart- lett sts. has been condemned by the City of Medford as un safe for occupancy, Martin said. "If the people of Jack son county are going to be continuously served by the Army a new headquarters must be built. That's why we're organizing and conduct ing this campaign. Richard Hensley, assistant general manager of the Med ford Concrete Construction division of Concrete-Steel cor- portation, has been appointed general chairman of the fund appeal. Building Fund Appeal According to Hensley, this campaign is the first broad public appeal for building funds in the 72-year history of the Army in Jackson county. Hensley noted that the United Crusade has endorsed the building fund campaign. "The board of directors of the UC has given us written approval for the solicitation," Hensley commented. "Since the crusade provides opera tional funds for the year round work of local health, welfare and character - build ing agencies it is not able, nor designed, to help member or ganizations like the Army when it comes to providing capital fund requirements." Hensley said the entire pro gram would be completed by June 30, 1962. He plans to ap point chairmen for five soli citing divisions. No residential or door-to-door solicitation is planned. Martin, president of Voll-stedt-Kerr Lumber company, said the best current estimates of costs of building the new headquarters, including all fees and campaign costs, comes to $162,185. He said the Army plans to sell the old Methodist church property which is now its headquar ters, and any monies received will be applied to the building program Martin commented that the I X15 Rocket Plane Reaches Altitude Of 255,000 Feet Edwards AFB, Calif. - OJPIl -Test Pilot Joe Walker soared the X15 rocket ship to an alti tude of 48'j miles today to the edge of space - the high est point ever reached in a man-controlled airplane. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration first announced Walker's alti tude as 245.000 feet, or about 46 miles, but said this figure was in error because of "a foul-up in tracking data." The corrected figure of 255.000 feet was 40.000 feet higher than the previous X15 altitude mark. "We feel we accomplished WEATHER FORECAST: Increasing cloudi ness and occasional gusty winds tonic lit. Cloudy with rain Tues day morning, showers and par tial clearing Tuesday afternoon. Low tonight id. High Tuesday 58. Highest Yesterday fin Lowest This Morning 31 Our Skies Tonight Sunset today 7:10 p.m. sunrise tomorrow 5:07 a.m. Moonrlse tomorrow 4:04 a.m. New Moon Thursday night PROMINENT STAR Beteliceuse. low in west 8:55 p.m. VISIBLE PLANETS Venus, sets X:40 p.m. Jupiter, rises 3:08 a.m. Saturn, low in southeast 3:27 a.m. Mars, follows the Moon. AROUND THI 01011 in May v if. if RICHARD HENSLEY Fund Appeal Chairman Salvation Army was other wise unable to provide more money toward the new build ing campaign. "The Army uses any monies it received from the United Crusade, the Christmas Ket tles, or sales through its Thrift shop for the daily operation of its services to people throughout the year. When it comes to constructing new buildings the only place for them to turn is to the general public." Construction Plant Plans for the construction program, developed over two years, involved intensive study by local business men and the offices of the Army in Medford, Portland and San Francisco. A new building site at the corner of Bcatty and Edwards sts. has been pur chased. Local architect Wil liam H. Seibcrt, AIA, has been retained as the designer of the proposed headquarters. Commanding officer of the Medford Corps of the Salva tion Army is Sr. Capt. Wil liam Hicken. His offices are located at 30 North Holly st. The campaign headquarters for the building fund has been opened in Room 207 of the U.S. National Bank at Main and Central Sts. our mission," said a NASA spokesman after the recheck of the figures. Walker was launched from a B52 mother ship at 10:23 a.m. (PDT) and was heard to say. "I m on my way." The engine shut down came at 80,000 feet and he soared to the altitude of 245,000 feet. The highest the ship had previously flown was 41 miles -the altitude mark for man ned planes until today. Even tually, it may climb to 100 miles above the earth. Representatives of the NASA witnessed the historic flight to certify it for an of ficial world record. Walker's flight also was a breakthrough in high altitude control, re-entry and recov ery studies leading to future flights of manned space ve hicles. Walker, 41, a veteran test pilot, gunned the rocketship into a steep climb after it was dropped from under the wing of the B5'2 at 45.000 feet. He pushed the 57.000-pound thrust engine to full throttle for 81 seconds as he streaked upward, then shut it off at about 150.000 feet. The mo mentum catapulted the X15 to its peak altitude of 255.000 feet while flying 3.645 miles an hour. Bloodhounds Locate Williams Woman Williams State owned bloodhound?, flown in from Portland, this morning found a 70-year-old Williams worn- World Scientists Will Be Notified Of Nuclear Tests Brilliant Auroral Displays Expected Washington-il'Pli - Scientists throughout the world will be notified in advance of three very high-altitude U. S. nu clear tests so they can make measurements of interest to science, the Atomic Energy commission said today. The explosions are expected to cause brilliant auroral dis plays over a vast area of the Pacific and their electronic effects may be even more widespread. A Pentagon spokesman said the biggest of the three blasts will be "in the megaton yield I range" equal to a million or more tons of TNT and will be at an altitude of "hun dreds of kilometers." A kilo meter is six tenths of a mile. The other two explosions, he said, will equal less than a megaton of "tens of kilomet altitudc of "tens of kilomet ers" and the other at a level "hundreds of kilometers" above the earth. All three of the shots are expected to be rocketed aloft from tiny Johnston Island, 711 miles southwest of Hon olulu. Saturday Auction Is Criticized Complaints were made this morning to the Medford Mail Tribune that persons had pur chased Blossom Bucks at the Medford Chamber of Com merce previous to Saturday's auction, at the rate of $1 per 1,000. Mike Alcsko, chairman of the Retail Merchants associ ation, said this morning that the rumor is absolutely un true. He did explain, how ever, that this was the price paid by the merchants for the bucks which they gave out with their merchandise sales. He added that it was not feasible that ' anyone would purchase "bucks' to ward buying merchandise at the auction, with the chance of not getting the bid, when they could apply the money on the purchase price. He pointed out that he be lieved there had been a mis conception by the public in that in many cases large num bers of persons pooled their "bucks" thus increasing their buying power. He said that it was up to each merchant to give out the bucks as he saw fit, the only regulation being that he not give less than a dollar "buck" for each one-dollar sale, but that he could give as many more as he wished to do. During the parade some stores threw bucks into the street for the people to pick up to dispose of leftovers. Residents Reminded Of Burning Permits Central Point Fire Chief L. C. Lisenbce issued a re minder today to patrons of the Central Point rural fire protection district that burn ing permits will be required beginning Tuesday, May 1. Persons may call in person or telephone the Central Point rural station, only, for the permits. Sites wil be inspect ed one day before burning is allowed. Also all burning barrels and incinerators must be inspected by the rural de partment before a permit will be issued. Business telephone at the Central Point rural station is NOrmandy 4-2244. Winds Topple School Roof; Child Missing Springfield, III. - UiPP -Winds springing from a tor nadic storm system collapsed the roof of an elementary school today and one child was reported missing. The missing child was iden tified as Gary Keller, 12. He was among 370 pupils in the old, three-story McLernand school when the winds struck. President's Daughter Worried by Picketing Washington-UM-Scicntist Linus C. Pauling, who had been picketing in favor of the ban-the-bomb movement, relating a remark Mrs. Jticqucline Ken nedy made to him at Sunday night's White House dinner: "Do you think it's right to picket out there where Caroline can see you?" the First Lady asked. "She asked me what has daddy done wrong now." Regional Edition Medford 20 PAGES Two Section' Den SPRINGTIME IN OREGON Thomas Jor dan and his son, Stanley, spent part of Sunday-fishing in a snowbound pool near Gov Delinquency Boosts Taxes For Other Jackson county taxpayers have been paying more money for taxes each recent year be cause of the uncollected per sonal property taxes of others. This was revealed when the current publication of un paid personal properly taxes totalled almost a half million dollars. The Aw provides that "im mediately after taxes become delinquent each year the tax collector shall proceed to collect them." Personal prop erty taxes become delinquent after Nov. 15 of each year. As a number of interested citizens inquired this week about the publication of the $481,016.25 in delinquent taxes, plus annual interest of $116,782.29, it was not clear which official or officials, if any, were negligent In allow ing this large amount of back taxes to accumulate. However, the publication of the complete list of personal property taxes due is the first such action in more than 38 years, veteran courthouse workers assured the Mail Tribune. List Published Such a list, as that which appeared in the Mail Tribune, is published for four weeks. After that, warrants and affi davits are filed with the coun ty clerk. These are put in the judgment record. "I think the publication was justified," District Attor n c y Alan Holmes said this morn ing. "All the sheriffs claim they asked the county court for publication of the delin quent personal property taxes, but the county court would not permit it. The court ap parently felt that personal service (by deputies) was more expedient, or they did not want to spend the money for publication." ' "Publication costs about three cents per person Hnd personal service about $2.50," Holmes stated. County Judge Earl Miller said, "Joe (Sheriff Joe Walsh) first brought this matter to our attention in the 1959-60 fiscal year when he asked for a deputy to collect taxes. Al though we received a state MII1I1IIHIIIW MEDFORD, OREGON, MONDAY, APRIL 30, ts Outtotal GOP ..rations in Oregon ernment Camp after an unscasonal snow storm covered the area. They had no luck. (UP1) County Taxpayers ment of the amount of taxes due in the annual audit, we never, to my Knowledge, re ceived a certified statement from the sheriff as to the amount of personal property taxes due." County Auditor George Stacey said that during the one year that a deputy was assigned full time to collect ing taxes the total due fell to approximately $70,000. Later the deputy had to be transferred to the criminal department because of the pressure on that department. Regarding publication of delinquent taxes, the auditor said, "This way an insecure debt becomes a secure one. This publication will be made every year, but later we only will publish the current de linquent taxes. The sheriff tries to avoid publication to avoid embarrassment to the taxpayers," Stacey added. The district attorney ex plained the resulting lien from delinquent personal property taxes has no priority over mortgages or other liens. It is not certain how much if any of the past due taxes are collectible. Such a lien be comes a lien on all properly of the debtor, it was explain ed. Unless the properly on Five Persons Hurt In Sunday Crash Five people were injured and two car damaged beyond repair Sunday night on the South Pacific highway near Voorhcis crossing, according to Oregon state police. The two cars collided near ly head-on in the southbound lane of traffic, state police said. A car driven by John Wescly Rceder, 27, of Robin son hotel, Medford, struck a car driven by Richard Gale St. Arnold, 21, of 943 South Central avc., a glancing blow, and the force of the collision knocked the St. Arnold car into a large concrete post, ac cording to police reports. The Rceder car continued some distance down the highway ! before stopping. St. Arnold was taken to Sa cred Heart hospital for treat ment of cuts and bruises. Ger ald Dean St. Arnold. 15, a passenger in his car, was tak en to Rogue Valley hospital for cuts and bruises and a pos sible broken wrist. Another passenger in the St. Arnold car, Lawrence Whiteside, 17, of 1448 Thomas rd., was taken to Sacred Heart hospital for head cuts and possible frac tures. Rceder received unde termined Injuries and was taken lo Rogue Valley hos- Pltal- which the lien is filed Is worth more than the tax exemp lions it may carry, the money cannot be collected, Holmes explained. Stacey brought the matter to a head earlier this year when ho told the county court publication of the de linquent taxes must be made. The amount of outstanding taxes was too large, he said. To. show how uncollected taxes affect the local tax pic ture, one small school dis trict in the county last year allowed more than $39,000 for uncollected taxes and re bates In its budget. The re bates are given if the lax is paid by a certain date. Each school district may allow 10 per cent of its total budget for uncollected taxes, plus two per cent for tax rebates. The taxpayer picks up the tab for this when he pays his property taxes. City of Medford The city of Medford, for instance, last year allowed $105,491 for uncollected taxes and rebates. Personal property taxes are due in November and no tices of delinquency are mail ed in the spring, a spokesman for the county tax office said. This year no letters were mailed, but publication was made instead. The list was not alphabetized because there were loo many past due accounts, she noted. Oldest date on any of the uncollect ed taxes published was 1942. Tl.osc before that were writ ten off as uncollcctablc, be cause of people moving away, going out of business or dy ing. The rush expected by the tax office never materialized after the publication, but the number of back taxes being paid up has increased daily. a deputy noted. Some pay ments came from as far away as Brookings. Statements as lo who Is to blame for the large total of uncollected taxes are contra dictory. Tax office personnel say they fent an annual list ing of uncollected personal property taxes to the county court every year, but mem bers of the county court said they never received them. Former Sheriff Howard Gault said he never had enough deputies to collect the uncollected taxes. Sheriff Joe Walsh was un available for comment since he is out of town. It was stated that a deputy spends three-fourth of his time col lecting taxes. How persistent deputies arc in serving war rants for overdue taxes and what percentage is uncollcct ablc is another question. 57th Year Price 10 Cents Tribune 1962 No. 34 Spread Widest In History for Primary Election Salem - ll'PH - Democrats eligible to vote in Oregon's May primary election out numbered Republicans by 73, 971, the Slate Elections said today. This is nearly 2,000 down from November, 1900, but dampened GOP claims that the Democratic voter regis tration edge would be cut deeply this year For the May 18 election. Democrats have a statewide registration total of 457,224 while the Republicans have 383,253. There were 13,625 in the "others" category, for grand total of 854,102. The 854,102 is up from the May, 1980 total registration of 797,038, and above the May, 1958 totul of 829,270. Widest in History In May of 1980 the Demo- crats held a 55,581 edge over the Republicans so this year's spread is the widest in Ore gon history for a primary. While the Democrats were gaining nearly 57,000 this May over their May, 1960 reg istration, the GOP gained less than 18.000. In big Multnomah county, the Democrats improved on their May, 1960 edge of 35,- 635, moving this May to 41 374 over the GOP. The Demo crats still easily dominate reg istration totals In Oregon's - 2nd, 3rd and 4lli Congression ai districts, and allhouoh the Republicans hold onto their edge In the 1st district,, it is barely more than 4,000. By district the totals arc: Ist-D 121,260; R 125',428. 2nd -D 64,838; R 51,575. 3rd- D 155,374; R 114,000. 4th - D 115.224; R 92,250. May, 1962 rcgislrations by county: Baker-D 4,910; It 2,940. Benton - D 6,963; R 9,829; Clackamas-D 30,287; R 26, 284. Clatsop-D 7,427; R 6,- 395. Columbla-D 7,075; R 4,- 085. Coos-D 15,613; R 8,463. Crook - D 2,425; R 1,534. Curry D 3,377; R 2,371. Des chutes - D 6,229; R 4,964. Douglas-D 18,262; R 12,057. Gilliam-D 773; R 698. Grant D 1,740; R 1,773. Harney-D 1,719; R J .201. Hood Rivcr-D 3,022; R 2,697. Jackson-D 18.400; R 17.421. Jefferson -D 1,680; R 1,352. Josephine-D 7,320; R 7,143; Klamaih-D 11.771; R 7.956. Lake - D 1,685; R 1,622. Lane-D 40,606; R 33,374. Lln- coln-D 6,712; R 51,076. Linn D 14,254; R 11.421; Malheur D 4,412; R 4,674. Marion-D 23,634; R 30,803. Morrow-D 1,074; R 1,110. Multnomah- D 155,374; R 114,000. Polk D 5,797; R 6,666. Sherman D 609; R 803. Tillamook - D 4.731; R 3,787. Umatilla - D 10,006; R 8,953. Union - D 4,965; R 3,315. Wallowa-D 2,053; R 1,272. Wasco - D 5,088; R 4,286. Washlngton-D 21,403; R 24, 586. Whecler-D 716; R 627. Yamhill-D 7,178; R 8,117. President Defends Administration Against Charges Speech Receives Cool Reception Washington - HIPI - Presi dent Kennedy told the U. S. Chamber of Commerce today the time has come for busi ness and government to stop throwing stones at each other and pull together for a more prosperous America. In a 23-minute adrcss to the opening session of the cham ber's 50th anniversary con vention, Kennedy strongly de fended h I s administration against charges of being in- tibusincss. He said there was a need for all segments of the econ omy labor, business and government to "avoid in flation, modernize our indus try and Improve the Ameri can position in world mar kets." In a reference to his success in forestalling a steel price In crease earlier this month, tht chief executive said that with proper cooperation by all con cerned, he hoped such events would not be necessary in the future. Time To Gather Stones He cited a Biblical admoni tion that there is a "time to cast away stones and a lime to gather stones." "It is time for us all to gather stones together to build this country as it must be built in the coming years," Kennedy told his capacity au dience in Constitution Hall. Pleading for "assumption of responsibility by all of us," Kennedy said the government does not want "the added bur den of determining individual prices for individual prod ucts." . Delegate reaction to the ad dress was somewhat reserved. The most common response heard was that it was up to lne admlnlstratlon lo pul prcs. 5Ur. nn ,Hhor. hold de wage demands and up to the ' unions themselves to be re strained. , There was some feeling Kennedy had done a good job of explaining the administra tion's point of view but that he was not wholly persuasive. Some doubted a single speech could overcome what one delegate described as a his toric antagonism between business and Democratic ad ministrations. - Lack of Applause The observations by dele gates Jibed with ' the lack of applause during the speech One delegate recalled how cn thusiastically the chamber used to greet former President Dwlght D. Elsenhower and his remark that he liked to ad dress the chamber because it agreed with him. Kennedy laid great empha sis on the theme that there is a broad area of common interest between business and government rather than any natural conflict. Noting that businessmen are concerned about protecting their profit margins, he added. We in the national government have a large stake in your profits." This reference to taxes drew a laugh and the only applause given by the cham ber delegates during Ken nedys speech. ELEPHANTS ATTRACT Portland -UIPIl- Attendance at the Portland Zoo, where Belle the elephant and her baby Packy are the main at tractions, was 13,885 Sunday. The Saturday crowd was 8, 429.