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S.8M Soviet Cosmonaut Ml Kerosifly Oil Three Traios Collide; 1126. Persons Homeward-Bound Celebrants in Rail Tragedy 223 Others Hurt In Nighttime Crash Tokyo -flJPD- Two passenger trains and a freight train col lided on the outskirts of Tokyo tonight, killing scores of merrymakers heading home after a holiday evening in the city. Officials of the Japan Na tional Railways Rescue Cen ter at suburban Mikawashima Station, site of the accident, said at least 126 persons were killed and 223 injured, with more victims possibly still trapped in the wreckage. The collisions started at suburban Mikiwashima sta tion when an electric passen ger train and a freight train, running on parallel tracks in the same direction, brushed together on a bridge. Coaches Derailed Three of the passenger coaches were derailed, and then a second passenger train ploughed into the wreckage. One of the derailed cars tum bled from the bridge to a road below. Screaming and moaning passengers tried to break out as an emergency force of 1,000 policemen, firemen and railway workers tried to help them. The injured were taken to nearby hospitals while rescu ers searched the wreckage for more casualties. Worst Since War The passenger trains were packed with suburban resi dents who had been in Tokyo to celebrate Constitution day. The Mikawashima accident was one of the worst railway accidents in Japan since World War II. It occurred less than five . .miles from downtown Tokyo. Farm Home Fund Discussed Today The Jackson county budget committee spent most of this morning discussing the Jack son county farm home budget. The requested budget total is $152,689, compared to the present $136,679. No official total was made before noon today after the new manager, Robert Rucker, made some revisions with committee members. The budgets for the public library of Medford and Jack son county and the juvenile department were scheduled to follow the farm home budg et discussion todap. The allocation for a part time registered nurse was re vised downward from $2,100 to S1.9C8. A full-time regis tered nurse on night call was increased $580 a year and her rent given free. A total allo cation of $9,504 was allowed for .three practical nurses, representing a $2,772 in crease. Salaries of two of the 13 nurses' aides were in creased bringing the total to $37,088, or an overall in crease of $68 for the new iis cal year. A new maintenance man has been hired, Rucker said. The committee allowed him $3,636 plus use of an apart men and utilities. Part-time nositions of housekeeper re lief and maintenance relief were eliminated. RESTRAINNG ORDER Chicago-JUPP-A U.S. District ocourt judge today issued a temporary restraining ordei againsto1 surprise engineers' strike which crippled switch in service in the world's largest railroad center. HEWS$bBRIEF$ fTIHS PROM NORTHERN CALIFORNIA CONSTRUCTION THREATENE CALIFORNIA CONSTRUCTION THREATENED Sm Frsnciicc in-Northern California' S3 billion eon- itruction industry was threatened today by a creeping strike which hti spread to freeway, airport and other heavy con-! ilruetion projects in the past three dayi. j TERRORISTS CONTINUE BLOOD BATH j aimeri. Algeria-aPVThe terroriit Secret Army Organise-! lion launched the second day of Its latest blood bath to keep Algeria French wilh a dawn attack en a social tervicei center. oiM AMERICAN. TWA DISCUSS MERGER Waihington-in-Pan American World Alrwayi end Trans ; World Airlines tii today lhey have been discuning t po. libit merger ol the netion't two international flag carriers. I Freeway Section Along Rogue River Dedication June 1 The section of the Pacific I the first freeway in Oregon Freeway that sweeps through the Rogue River valley be- tween Rogue River anel Grants Pass will be opened June 1 when Gov. Mark O. Hatfield dedicates the new link of Interstate "Tighway 5. This $10 million section is Circuit Judge Deliberates on Suit Against City Circuit Judge James M. Main this morning said he would take under advisement two suits against the city of Medford requesting that a city ordinance requiring fencing of artificial bodies of water be declared null and void. The city had requested a swimming pool and log pond be fenced to comply with the ordinance. Medford Lawyer George M. Roberts testified in his own behalf this morning in the first of the two allied non jury cases. He said he had owned the property in which a lily pond and swimming pool is situ ated for more than 33 years and that the property is sur rounded by a hedge and fencing. E. E. (Pink) McGrew, of McGrew Brothers Sawmill, Inc., at the south Medford limits, testified that fencing of the entire lumber mill prop erty would be prohibitive in costs and fencing of the log. ging pond would soon put the mill out of business. The gist of their complaint is that If they are required to fence their pool and pond then Bear creek flowing through the city of Medford and park areas should also be fenced along with various ir rigation ditches. The city contends this is an ordinance which must be en forced. In his trial memorandum, Roberts stated it would be "practically impossible for any child to get within the confines of the yard in which the swimming pool and lily pond are situated. Children Beaten At Lake Oswego Lake Oswego, Ore. -IUPI)-Po-lice today hunted a slender youth who savagely beat four children in a wooded area not far from their home. Two of the children were listed in critical condition in a Portland hospital. The youth took one of the children to a doctor's office himself. Police Chief RusSel A. Thorn said the children ap parently were beaten with a club or iron bar. He said there was no indication of sexual assault. Listed in critical condition at St. Vincent hospital were Marsha Foley, 12, and her Urother, Shaun, 3. Their sis ter, Catherine, was in fair condition. Marsha suffered a fractured skull. Also injured was Kathy Burke. 13. She was treated for a wound which required 12 stitches to close, oand re leased, e Police said the attacker, after beating the children, grabbed the older Foley girl and took her to a doctor's of fice where the receptionist said the youth told her "I'll be back with two more." Meanwhile, the others found help. AROUND THI 01011 highway history to have a continuous strip of, concrete paving 24 feet wide with no break" between the two 12- foot wide parallel lanes going in the same direc.ion. This unusually-wide paving is completed. The contractor, Peter Kiewit Sons' company, still has finishing touches. such as guardrails and sign ing, to complete prior to the opening. Less Driving Time The new freeway section is 9.82 miles long, or 2.15 miles shorter than the old Pacific highway that winds its way between Grants Pass and Rogue River. The biggest dif ference is in time required to cover the distance. The old route required 20 minutes of travel time; the new one avoids congested develop ments between the two cities and requires only 9 minutes of travel. The ribbon-cutting dedica tion ceremonies will take place near the North Grants Pass interchange at il a.m. (PST). Glenn L. Jackson, Med ford, chairman of the Oregon State Highway commission, will preside over the ceremo nies which will be climaxed by Governor Hatfield's offi cial dedication of the new sec tion. Present will be city and county officials, representa tives ef chambers of com merce and the state highway department, including For rest Cooper, state highway engineer. Third Longest Freeway Other sections of the Paci fic Freeway are already com pleted on both ends of the Grants Pass-Evans Creek sec tion. The new link will con nect these and provide an un interrupted freeway . 24.23 miles long, making this the third longest single stretch of freeway in the state. The longest continuous sec tion of freeway is the 108 miles between Portland and Eugene, followed by the 33 miles between Portland and Bonneville on Interstate 80N (U.S. 30). The new freeway is along the Rogue river much of its route, providing a view not possible from the old Pacific highway located much lower along the bank of the river. Traffic going south will over look Grants Pass and w 11 have panoramic view of the mountain uis terrain. Southbound motorists will enter the new freeway at the foot of Sexton mountain near Jumpoff Joe creek north of Grants Pass. Traffic will re turn to the two-lane highway at Rock Point near Gold Hill. The section between Rock Point and Seven Oaks, north of Central Point, is now being widened to four-lane freeway standards. Car-Train Crash Injures Talent Man A Talent man escaped wilh only minor injuries this morn ing when the car he was driv ing was struck by a Southern Pacific freight train at the Main st. crossing in Talent. According to Talent Police Chief Bill Young, the accident occurred about 7 a.m. Driver nf tha n tvnhi In u,-ia Mnluin oti, shjltSi 27i o route j box 485, Talent. The car was de molished. Shi Us was taken to Rogue Valley hospital by Medford Ambulance where he was treated and released. B"th Shilts and Orcn D. Mci?fillan, Eugene, engineer, said the whistle sounded prior to the locomotive reaching the crossing, Young noted. There are no signalling de vices or stop signs at the inter section. WEATHER FORECAST: Partly cloudy with Ihowers tilt! evrnlnr. tonight and Frtdiy. Cnolrr tonight with lox IS. Him Friday O Temp. Hlcrifsl tfraty ... iz Lowett This Morning .... Q . 16 Our Skiet Tonight j Sunirt today 7:11pm., Sunrite tomorrow 1:01 a.m. i Nw Moon tonirht S:25p.m. PROMINr.NT STAR i Antarei, low In iv.'h- rait U . 10:22 p.m. VIMRLE PLANETS I Vrnui. sell . 8-47 p m. ' Saturn, low In touth I at 3-1 a m. Man. rlQf5 4 17 a.m. i Jupiter, between latum and j Mara. Regional Edition Medford 36 Pages Four Section? MEDFOJD, OREGON, THURSDAY, MAY 3, The City comes from .Assessments, Bonds end Other Bavenua Current Services Airport is used for Airport Streets and Sewers DIVIDED DOLLAR This diagram, pre pared by the Medford city administration, shows how the city government dollar is divided. The top figure shows where the city's revenue comes from, and the bottom figure explains the city's expenditures. The Alternate Presented Two alternate ' balanced budgets for Medford's 1962-63 fiscal year - one in the event of the west side annexation, and one without It - were dis tributed by the city adminis tration yesterday to Mayor John W. Snider, members of the Medford city council, and the citizen's budget commit tee. The proposed administra tive budget without annex ation totals $3,070,1 13, an in crease over last year's budget of $155,318. Should annex ation take place, the budget would total $3,145,545, an in crease over last year of $230, 750. Without annexation, this represents a 7 per cent in crease over last year's to tal. With annexation, it rep resents an increase of 12 per cent. Major Increase ' Major source of increased revenue will be from proper ty taxes. The present millage rate is 26.5. Because of the increased cost of city govern ment, it is likely the millage rate may have to be raised, according to City Manager Robert Duff. Due to the 6 per cent liml- lation in the state tion, and the 12 millage max imum increase provision In the city charter, the maxi mum possible increase avail able to the city is to 33 mills. Items accounting for in creased expenditures include provisions for servicing of Puncan Goes Campaigns in Robert B. Duncan, candi date for the Democratic nom ination for Congress from the Fourth District, interrupted his campaign today for a tle-day meeting in Wash ington, DC. He is a member of the President's Advisory commit tee on intergovernmental re lation. He will resume his campaign at Myrtle Point, Cons Bay and Roseburg on Sunday. Duncan is the only Oregon member of the commission. It was created by act of con gress to give continuing study to relationships among the federal and various state and local governments. In talks earlier today - one in Ashland and the other in Myrtle Creek - Duncan spoke on budgeting problems at the federal level and the commu nity health clinic program Government Dollar I SsCi.b AT Subventions and Qrante 'Fines .Interest and. Debt Service) 0.1 Health Services Balanced Budgets to Medford Officials the west side area if it is an nexed, salary adjustments for city employees in most occu pational groupings, proposals for reducing the work week of firemen from 72 hours to 60 hours and funds to provide for an expanded community wide civil defense program. Added To Costi If the west side area is an nexed, $75,432 would be add ed to the city's costs. Most of this expenditure would be consumed by the addition of one police beat, one fire com pany and various engineering technicians and inspectors. In a budget message to the mayor and members of the city council and citizen's Budget committee, Duff said: "I must bring your- attention to the very urgent need of finding new sources of rev enue for the city. The annual tasks of balancing day-to-day operating expense with avail able revenue is becoming in creasingly difficult and is achieved largely by deferring expenditure items that are or dinarily necessary for effici ent operations. Deterioration of Service "A continuation of such re constitu-ajstrlctions can only result ir a deterioration of public ser vice and the general effect tlveness of city government," Duff warned. A bright spot In the budget was provided by enabling leg islation of the last state leg islature which permits the to Washington Meeting; Ashland, Mytfle Creek which he assisted through the last session of the state legis lature. Duncan emphasized the im portance of reducing the na tional debt without imperil ing the security and economy of the nation. He explained that frequently congressmen must select the least undesir able of the alternatives, where it is a question of national de fense or survival - financial indebtedness is far prefer able to military or political domination by the Commu nists. In commenting on the com munity health clinic program, he explained that only a small amount of money was appro priated for this purpose, but that a start had been made that would bring savings to the taxpayer by eliminating the need for additional men tal hospitals. Tribune Property and Franchise Taxee -Castl Reserves Licensee and Permits and Penalties Rent General Government Culture and Recreation Protection of Persons and Property diagram is included in the bound city bud get which was distributed to the mayor and members of the city council and citizen's budget committee yesterday. Copies of the budget are available to the public and may be obtained upon request in city hall. city to compute property tax es in the fire and park funds based on assessment ratios in effect when the levies were originally voted. . This will have the effect of bringing the city about $220,000 in added revenue. As a result, general fund contributions to the fire fund have been practically elimin ated, and park fund contribu tions have been reduced by 75 per cent. The citizen's budget com mittee is scheduled to meet next week to discuss the budget and to begin to draw up the recommendations they will make to the city council with respect to 11. Smolcey Bear Available For Local Appearances Rogue River National forest supervisor's office here has announced that Smokey the Bear will be available to make talks in this area during the 1962 fire season. The forest service's symbol nf fire prevention and caution is expected to make a number of appearances here. Groups wishing to have him appear before their organizations may makcarrangements with I .1 w . , me supervisor b omce. CIVILIAN AIDE Portland - IUPH - Portland hotel owner Flavel W, Temple has been appointed civilian aide to the Secretary of the Army for Oregon, It was an nounced today. In answering a question re garding his position on the Dunes park, Duncan explain ed his compromise plan to make park out of the Dunes area which exists in the area between the ocean and the highway and place it under the national park service. Duncan explained that this would devote to recreation all of the Dunes area in ques tion, which is the principal objective of the recreational ists, while leaving the tree farm and most of the private property in private owner ship, and saving the expe sive relocation of the high way. In addition to his non-partisan talk to the Myrtle Creek Lions club, he spoke to the Myrtle Creek High school and to the Young Democrats in Roseburg. 57th Year Price 10 Cents 196,2 No. 37 Nilsen Rejects Newbry's Request To Recall Book Talent Senator In Strong Rebuttal Portland -IUPIU Oregon La bor Commissioner Norman O. Nilsen toflay formally reject ed the request of State Sen. Lynn Newbry (R-Talent for withdrawal of certain state labor bureau publications from circulation. Newbry demanded with drawal of books on migrant workers co-authored by Mark M. Infante, a controversial figure in Oregon when he was migrant labor inspector for Nilsen in 1957-60. Infante's work was biased, Newbry said. ReDlvinc. Nilsen said New bry's request for withdrawal was based "on poor advice." "Despite general, unsub stantiated denials from the agricultural industry," In fante's reporting has been de termined as sound, Nilsen said. Strong Rebuttal Nilsen's comments drew strong rebuttal from Newbry in Ashland. Newbry repeated his re quest that the report be with drawn, terming it a "conglom eration of truths and un truths." "That Nilsen would rather rely on a fraud and confi dence man for the true situa tion rather than the word of honored Oregon farmers is surprising," he said. He said he would welcome a complete investigation by an' unbiased person, but .ad ded, "I do not want a white wash Investigation by a per son so biased ... as Nilsen." "My. Information that the labor bureau's report is dis torted has been documented many times," Newbry de clared. Division Heads For Campaign Named Frank J. Van Dyke, Med ford lawyer, and James W. Warlnner, of the First Nation al Bank of Oregon, Medford branch, have been appointed to head two divisions of the Salvation Army bulling fund campaign. Van Dyke will be chairman of the advance gifts division, and Warlnner will assume the leadership of the special gifts group. The announcement was made by Richard Hensley, general chairman of the ap peal. Other appointments an nounced include the Rev. Mel vin Dixon, president of the Medford Ministerial associ ation and minister of St. Luke's Methodist church, as chairman of the church par ticipation committee, and Allan Sterton, audits and re ports committee. OIAC Announces Increase in Rates Salem-fllPD-The Oregon In dustrial Accident commission announced today it has in creased rates paid by employ ers by 14.5 per cent for the 1062-63 fiscal year which be gins July 1. Some 40,000 em ployers are affected. money Lewis, commission chairman, said the 14.J p cent increase contrasts with the rate employers are paying In the current fiscal year. The new increase will amount to pennies to some employers and dollars to oth ers. There is one exception, Lewis said - Western Vregon log operators. These employ ers will get a reduction in their rates. Their rates In the upcoming fiscal year will be $9.36 per $100 payroll compared to the current $9.82. Reasons for the necessity of the Increase Include a rise in medical costs of nearly 10 per cent, about a 30 per cent boost In hospital service and a rise in stale salaries of 10 per cent granted by the IR!l' I legislature. Other factors In- j elude operating costs such a rent and postage, Lewis said.i Pie Bureau Planner To Meet With Planning Group Preliminary Steps . To Be Considered A planner from the bureau of municipal research will meet with representatives of tile revamped regional pljin- ning advisory1 committee in pproximately 10 days toj:on- sider preliminary steps in de velopment of overall county planning. The announcement was made at yesterday's meet ing of the planning group's steering committee. The committee was recre- ated Feb. 21 to enable the county to come under the new federal 701 program. This provides federal matching funds for comprehensive piaiv nine development. Such de velopment covers population trends and density, a trans portation study, and general economic development. The planning committee will coordinate the activities of the various town and city planning commissions throughout Jackson county, County Judge Earl Miller ex plained. It also includes the new Rural Area Development committee's work. Bill Williams, of Bear Creek Orchards and a mem ber of the state RAD commit tee, explained that this pro gram is aimed at rural area economic development and is administered through the ex tension service. Both the coun ty and state RAD committee pass on various requests for government loans under the RAD program and make rec ommendations to the proper agencies, he said. Feasibility Questioned . S. V. (Duke) McQueen, a newly appointed member of the committee and representa tive of the forest industries, questioned the need for "an other planning committee or commission. It's just another committee to do another job and to use federal money, from what I have heard," Mc Queen commented. "It seems to be a planning committee on top of a planning commission (the county planning commis sion.)" . . The county Judge. explained that the committee includes representatives from all po litical subdivisions and econ omic activities in the county. Jack Hoffbuhr, Medford Ir- rlgation district manager, said irrigation districts have felt for sometime that subdivision developments too often do not consider, irrigation and water drainage In their plans. Highway 97 Closed Due To Construction Salem - (DPI) - Trie Oregon Highway Department an nounced today that U.S. 97 will be closed to traffic from Biggs Junction to Wasco Fri day due to construction. The closure will be in effect, perhaps through Saturday, while a contractor puts a bind er course on new roadbed ust south of Biggs Junction. Traffic will be detoured over the Fulton Canyon sec oyiary route from Wasco to Milepost 100.3 on the Colum bia River Highway. "Cap'n, You Keep Chasing After That Great White Whale, We're All Gonna End Up In Trouble" Russian Embassy Declines Cape anaveral Visit Glenn Gives Short Course in History Washington fUPD President Kennedy welcomed joviet cosmonaut Gherman Titov to the nation's capital today and voiced his admiration for thu Red army major's 17-orbit flight around the earth. Titov was taken to the White House by U.S. astro naut John Glenn, who previ ously gave the Russian a short course in U.S. history and showed him some of this country's pioneer space equip ment. Canaveral Visit Declined The State Department dis closed, meanwhile, that it had suggested that Titov visit Cape Canaveral and three other U.S. space age facilities but that the Russian Embassy had declined. U.S. officials said they as sumed this meant the Soviets wanted to avoid a precedent which would oblige them to open their rocket and missile launching facilities to visits . by Glenn or other American astronauts. The State Depart ment said, however, that it did not ask for "reciprocity." At the White House, Ken nedy chatted with Titov for about five minutes and then escorted him and Glenn to the porch just outside the ex ecutive office overlooking the White House grounds. Pose for Photographs While they posed for photo graphs, the President said, "I want to say that Mr. Titov is very' welcome to the United States.'.' Turning directly to the cosmonaut, he added "I admire what you did." Titov, beaming constantly, answered through an inter preter, "Thank you very much, it has been a great pleasure." . Glenn and Titov met today for the first time just before; they began a tour of historical monuments and other tourist attractions in the nation's cap ital. - Titov's interest seemed to pick up most near the end of the tour when he and Glenn arrived at the Smithsonian In stitution's, display of rockets and space vehicles. They first Inspected the original Wright Brothers plane. ' ;The Russian cosmo n a u t chuckled when Glenn noted that "the control stick . is a little 'different" than the one handled by Titov during his orbital flight. When they came to Charles A. Lindberg's "Spirit of St. Louis," Glenn told Titov the first Trans-Atlantic solo flight took 33 hours. Long Ocean Flight "He was all alone," Glenn said. "He had no automatic pilot, nothing like that. It was a lone flight." Titov perked up visibly when the group walked along a display of U.S. rockets and the space capsule in which Alan B. Shepard made this country's first sub orbital flight. When they came to the At las rockef which boosted Glenn into orbit, the U.S. astronaut said: "next, ot course, is the Atlas which is the type that I was on." Other rockets on display in cluded the Juplter-C which put the Explorer I satellite into orbit, the Vanguard which boosted this country's earliest satellites into space, and a Polaris missile. 1 '4 O
