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o Kennedy Rem for Wa Restraint Pisa Voters in Oregon School Districts Decide on Budgets United Press International Voters in Oregon tuned up for the May 18 primary elec tion Monday by casting bal lots in school district elec tions throughout the state. At Beaverton, residents vot ed to recall two school board members, Albert Jensen and Dr. Vernon Hansen. The board has been in controversy with Supt. D. Herbert Arm strong, who has resigned ef fective June 30. Voters there also approved a $7.2 million school budget, $4.2 million of which is above the 6 per cent tax base. Lincoln Budget Defeated Lincoln county voters de feated a proposed S3.3 mil lion budget for the second time.. The vote was 3,190 to 1,619. '.The budget was $1.3 million above the 6 per cent limitation. Three Lane county school districts voted for budgets in excess of the 6 per cent limit. Eugent voters approved a $7 million budget, Springfield approved a $3.1 million budg et and the Bethel district agreed to a budget of $1.4 million. Coburg voters rejected a school district merger with Eugene for the third time. In the Reynolds district near Portland, voters rejected a $242,116 levy. Lake Oswego voters approved a $1.1 mil lion measure which had been defeated twice. A 1962-63 levy at Parkrose Forest Service, BLM Officials Testify At Interim Session U. S. forest service and bureau of land management officials testified Monday afternoon that they could not flatly guarantee that stock men's grazing allotments would not be cut. ' The testimony came in an all day session of the sub "committee of the legislative interim committee on natural resources, at the county ex tension auditorium here. Earlier, the Jackson county Cattlemen's association criti cized the forest service's method of range analysis. Election Called On Bond Issue White City-Voters in the White City Sanitary district will be asked to consider a $125,000 bond issue at a spe cial election June 14. The district board Monday night decided to call the bond election to construct a lagoon type sewage disposal system. The present disposal system Is inadequate and incomplete, board members said. District sewer lines originally were connected with Medford's sys tem but have since been cut off. The board also hopes to place its proposed budget on the June 14 ballot. It called a special meeting May 21 at 7:30 p.m. at the Central Point Rural Fire department sta tion in White City to draw up the budget. A budget committee com posed of the three board mem bers. Tim, Horn, Rupert Wil son and James Scott, plus three other district residents and property owners, is being formed. William Deatherage, attor ney for the district, estimated that the bonds and district budget combined would cost the owner of a $10,000 home in the neighborhood of $15 to $20 a year. TIMS WOM t!FWS.v5. BRIEFS TALKS ON BERLIN TO BE CONTINUED Waihinaton - '1PI - The Slat Department laid today that West German objection! will delav Soviet-American talki RUSSIAN PROPOSALS SAID UNACCEPTABLE Geneva - I'Pli - The United Stales today laid Soviet Rut - tia'i proposals iv verifying destruction 01 nucieer delivery vehicles in a generel disarmament lreety were "unaccept able" end would lead to "absurd results." FIRST LADY LAUNCHES POLARIS SUBMARINE Grolon, Conn. - H'PH - Mrs. Jacqueline Kennedy launched the Polaris submarine Lafayette todey. sending the 7,000 ton ship down the weyi after meshing bottle of ,fham pagne againil the bunting-draped prow. CARPENTER'S ORBITAL Cans Canaveral. Fla. - Scott Carpenter's orbital flight two days by difficulties in his ing to informed sources. of $1.6 million was approved. The Milwaukie High school district got approval of an $826,569 levy. A levy of $517, 323 at Gresham was okayed. In Nyssa voters turned down the buSget for the com ing year. At Philomath, voters decid ed 184-163 in favor of return ing classes to standard time. It will be up to the school board to decide about the hours, which were changed to fast time April 29. But rural area school vot ers at Blodgett and Kings Valley favored retention of fast time. The Umatilla County Rural school district passed a budg et of $1,056,000 by a vote of 1,796 to 1,326. Pendleton School District 16-C passed its proposed budget 719 to 665. The budget was $2,300,000 and exceeded the six per cent limitation by $1,105,720. Voters in the Klamath Falls school district turned down a proposed $1,374,000 budget by a margin of 11 votes. The total vote was the larg est in the district's history for a school board election, 2,626. The vote was 1,211 to 1,200. School board officials said they may ask for a recount. At the same time, a build ing proposal of $3,100,000 was defeated 1,499 to 1,127. It would have provided for a ninth grade school and a two year junior high school. They asked that a board of qualified, impartial range specialists be appointed with the approval of the stockmen, to make the analysis and that the location of plots and tran sects for analysis purposes be qualified ana approved by the stockmen. They also asked that tim bered and browse areas be considered as grazing areas and evaluated as such. Ralph Wiese, Rogue River National Forest officer, said cooperative agreements with stockmen involved will do a great deal to benefit both sides. Under the agreements the forest service would supply range improvement materials and the stockmen would use them. This would include fences, developing of water holes, reseeding and spraying of brush. It had previously been stat ed that current -ange analysis showed that if nothing was done to improve the range, the allotments might be cut up to 64 per cent over a 10-year period. Wiese stressed that it would be the case only if nothing was done during this time. He added that the coop erative agreement would nul lify most of such a cut. He said misunderstandings between the forest service and the stockmen was due to a lack w communication. John Carnegie of BLM said its grazing program is similar to the forest service, but due to the lack of manpower the BLM did not have the analysis studies of the forest service. Harold Davis, representing the trucking committee of the Southern Oregon Tree Farm association, asked that the committee consider legislation to reduce overweight fines for logging trucks. He also sought computing highway taxes for logging trucks by a formula which would consider such things as type of highway. AROUND THI OlOII not be permitted to block or on the Berlin emu. FLIGHT POSTONI3 IPli - The timelDle lor astronaut has been pushed back at least Atlas booster rocket, accord- aiier .auncn urouv. Budget for Rural School Approved; Canvass Slated Vote Is 1,478 Yes, 731 No in County Th'e Jackson county rural school budget was approved by a vote of 1,478 to 731 yes terday, according to unofficial counts in the various school districts. An official canvass of the election results will be made Friday, according to an offi cial of the county school of fice. The vote was on the $598, 054.51 in excess of the tax base, or approximately 28 per cent of the total rural school district budget of ' $2,761, 337.40. The vote by districts on the rural school district budget was: Phoenix, 164 to 615 no votes; Ashland, 246 to 114; Central Point, 307 to 68; Eagle Point, 177 to 83; Rogue River, 86 to 9; Applegate, 38,1 to 19; Prospect, 17 to 8; Evans Valley, 40 to 45; Butte Falls, 62 to 65; and Pinehurst 19 to 1. All of the school district budgets up for vote at the annual school election passed. These included Phoenix, 208 to 119; Ashland, 259 to. 102; Central Point, 309 to 58; Eagle Point, 204 to 74; Ap plegate, 42 to 16, and 35 td 13 on a serial levy for school construction; Evans Valley; 58 to 29; Butte Falls, 66 to 56; Pinehurst, 17 to 3. Elected to the rural school board from Zone 3 (Eagle Point, Prospect and Butte Falls) was James Grieve. Elected from Zone 4 (Phoe nix, Applegate), was Jean nette Grove. Elected as mem-ber-at-large was John Span gler. School board members elected by district were Pros pect, Clarence Hedgepeth; Butte Falls, Andrew Hamstra; Central Point, C. W. Anhorn; Ashland, Robert O'Hara, four years, and Jack Williams, five years; Applegate, Vernon Fowler; Phoenix, John Span- gler; Evans Valley, Ford Pat erson; Eagle Point, Edward Learning; Medford, Mrs. Car roll Haupert; Rogue River, Harry W. Andrews; and Pine hurst, Dorothy Moore and Beverly Estes. Nurses To Assist In Sabin Clinics Approximately 50 nurses will staff the seven Sabin oral polio vaccine clinics in Jackson county May 12 and 13, according to Mrs. Jane Anders, president of district 4, Oregon State Nurses asso ciation, who is in charge of soliciting the services of the group. Mrs. Anders said county public health nurses also have volunteered to assist in the program. Ashland nurses, comprising a subdistrict of the association, will staff the clinic there. . Members of the Medford Jaycees will serve as couriers between the central vaccine mixing center in the court house and the clinics. The vaccine remains frozen in dry ice until ready for mixing and initial distribu tion to the clinics will be made on a basis of estimated demand. Surpluses or short ages will be remedied by ex change between the clinics by the couriers. The couriers are being directed by H. E. Hay dal and the vaccine will be mixed by a registered phar macist. Meanwhile, Eugene Garner, chairman of the county chap ter of the National Founda tion, said an additional 10,0uu coupons have been printed to meet demands for the vaccine. The coupons are on sale throughout the county for $1 for the series of three doses or a maximum of $5 for a family. District 6 Voters Approve New Budget Central Point - School dis trict 6 patrons yesterday ap proved 30 9to 58 a 1962-63 budget totaling $1,443,545. I The amount outside the 6 per I cent limitation was $777 '978.24. By precincts, the vote was ! Gold Hill, 96 yes. J3 no: Sams Valley, 23 yj, 11 no; Central Point. 190 yes, 34 no. C. W. (Bill) Anhorn was re elected to the school board by 14 votes over Mrs. Elizabeth!, ' rarnisn. nnnurn receivea kvo votes. and Mrs. Parrish had 181 o Cape Canaveral, Fla. - (UPT -An attempt to send a revolu tionary Hew Centaur rocket : on its maiden flight ended in a tier explosion 60 seconds Regional Edition Medford 14 Pages Two Shattered Laotian Units Thought Trapped by Communist Rebel Forces b"u' w,. wtb -a . : " 3 ! DRIVE-UP CLINIC - Seven thousand persons received Sabin oral polio vaccine at a drive-up clinic at the Douglas county fairgrounds in Roseburg Sunday. The rate equaled Bellevue, Wash., Man Takes Plane, Flies To Region A 36 -year -old Bellevue, Wash., man who reportedly stole a plane from Boeing field in Seattle and buzzed two Oregon communities with it before finally landing for fuel, was arraigned before U.S. Commissioner Frank Van Dyke in Klamath Falls yes terday. , The accused, Homer Ken neth Wolfsen, waived prelimi nary hearing, pleaded guilty and was lodged in Klamath county jail to await the U.S. marshal. Wolfsen, in company with two other men who were not charged, allegedly stole a Cessna 180 about 5:10 p.m. Saturday and took off from Boeing field without authori zation from the field tower. Flew to Lakeview Apparently without realiz ing in what direction he was flying, Wolfsen flew the plane into southeastern Oregon. He buzzed the community of Lakeview, flying so low that he ripped down some high wires with the plane's under carriage. The Bellevue man then flew the craft to Klamath Falls, where he buzzed Kingsley field, a U.S. Ar Force fighter interceptor base. Wolfsen landed there for fuel and was immediately arrested by Ore gon state police on a charge of being drunk in public. Federal Aeronautics Agen cy Inspector Bud Martineau, who is stationed in Medford, flew to Klamath Falls Sunday and determined the plane was the one stolen from Seattle. Monday, Martineau, accom panied by Van Dyke and a Medford FBI agent, flew to Klamath Falls, where Wolfsen was arraigned on a charge of interstate transportation of stolen aircraft. An aerial camera, valued at $18,000, aboard the plane was found intact, FBI agents said. Josephine County School Funds Approved Grants Pass-Voters in the Josephine County School dis trict approved the proposed district budget, which exceed ed the 6 per cent limitation, by a vote of 584 to 404 Mon day. Mrs. Joan Millemann of Murphy was elected to the dis trict board. Running without opposition, she received 674 votes. County Budget Committee Considers Funds for Public Library, Indications were this morn ing that the Jackson county 1 bniry budget. Medford has budget committee would not j yet to make a decision on the finish its budget studies today i $36,636 requested of it. as planned, and possibly noil Snider saie) he was speaking this week. Inr all the Incorporated cities The budget work slowed ( in the county in asking the this morning as the committee 'county to allocate some of its heard proposals Irom Medford ! road improvement funds to Mayor John Snider and Med City Manager Robert Duff relating to the budget request?of the Public Library I of Medford and Jackson coun-1 heavily traveled thorough ly and from the Jackson ! (ares which particularly need j County Empl'Qees associa- I attention. Duff pointed out. tion on requp.-ted increases in i fringe benefits. I No decision was made on Ohe SR1.73.S reqnrsted the t MEDFORD, I " tj. "i u n) : I - I! V.I V F a . ""AT M mit - J ? a -W Job Activity in County Stays High, Manager Reports Job activity in Jackson county last month remained high, with new hiring picking up considerably compared to the previous month, according to John J. Patton, manager of the Medford office of the state employment service. In recent months, he said, some decline in jobs and pay roll has been experienced in the lumber industry, but these losses have been largely offset by increases in service and trade jobs which are becoming more numerous. Job placements, represent ing new hires, increased al most 40 per cent over March and for the 10th consecutive month were higher than in the same month a year previous. Dropping Rapidly Patton noted that unemploy ment is now dropping rapidly, and said "we appear to have considerably less of it than might be considered our share in proportion to our popula tion." At the end of April, the per- ccnlage of insured unemploy- Wafer Supply for Area Changes Little Prospects for water supplies in the Medford and Klamath Falls areas have changed lit tle from last month, according to the May 1 water supply forecast by the weather bu reau, Most of April was warm and dry, the weather bureau noted, and the storm of April 27 and 28, which brought heavy rain to the Willamette valley and rain and snow to the upper Umpqua basin, missed most o fthis area, the weather bureau said. Water year forecasts for this area remain about the same as last month. However, because of warm tempera tures, April runoff was some what above average. Conse quently, residual forecasts are generally lower than indicat ed last month, the weather bureau noted. Stream flow on the Rogue river below south fork be tween May and September is forecast at 540,000 acre feet, or 92 per cent of average. Upper Klamath lake net in flow is forecast at 331,000 acre feet ,or 77 per cent of average, and the Williamson river below Sprague is fore cast at 760.000 acre feet or 87 oer cent of average. - i county for its share in the li - the cities for improvements for their streets and roads. llillcrest, Harnett, and Val- Sey View rds. are among thC The road to the White City garbage dump maintained by the city of Medford must be closed or repaired More ronn- OREGON, TUESDAY, MAY b " i ? about one dose of Type 1 vaccine administered every 12 seconds during the day. The scene above shows motorists going through the outdoor clinic. (UPI) ment in Jackson county was 7.1 per cent, compared to 9.3 per cent at the end of March and 9.5 per cent in April, 1961. Job orders currently being received are mainly for skilled or experienced semi - skilled workers, or office occupations, Patton said. There are rela tively few unskilled jobs and these are usually of short dur ation. The little demand in agri culture is not expected to change for several weeks, Pat ton noted. Number of Applicant! Patton said the office ex pects a large number of appli- cants from among high school I students in about a month ' when school is out. Some of them will seek summer work only, but there will be a sub stantial number who complete high school and are not plan ning to continue to college. Patton said this provides "n point that forward-looking em ployers will want to think about." This labor force, he said, will be available to fill some of the loss already being felt in occupations where skilled workers are at a pre mium. "Making ready now to fill those expected gaps in the work force is a prudent move, and hiring young workers is the only way, when you get down to it, to insure this con tinuity of skills," Patton noted. XI 5 Withstands Temperature Test Edwards AFB, Calif. - IUPI1 -Maj. Bob Rushworth, 37, piloted the X15 rocket ship through a heat test today and safely withstood a tempera ture of 1,250 degrees Fahren heit that could burn a man to a crisp. The Air Force test pilot went faster than planned in the pre -flight schedule. He was shielded from fiery death by the craft's ingeniously de signed cockpit, armored with protective insulation and cool ed with liquid oxygen. His pressurized flight suit of silver nylon also created a "live able" atmosphere for him. The XI 5 reached a top speed of 3,51 1 miles an hour -more than three times the speed of sound - after It was launched from a B52 mother ship. Top altitude was 72,000 feet. The powered part of the flight lasted 99 seconds. Employees ty than city residents use the dump, Duff said Ralph Fitzgerald, president of the employee's association, and six other members of the executive committee, asked the county pay a full portion to the employees' insurance benefits rather than one half of the premiums. The association also request ed that the committee allow the employees to use part of their sick leave time for cmer gency leave when deaths oc cur in the immediate family. This and sick leave time is now being deducted from the employees' vacation time in some cases, it was reported, to O Tribune 8, 1962 Organizations Have Opposition To Home Rule Two county organizations this week announced they have adopted resolutions op posing the proposed Jackson County Home Rule Charter, Residents of the county will vote on whether or not the county will adopt the charter at an election May 18. The Jackson County Cen tral Labor Council, in a reso lution adopted at its last meet ing, went on record against the proposal because It "will remove tne touowing ottices from the vote of the people: sheriff, county clerk, treasur er, surveyor, and assessor. The Labor Council asked voters to "join hands in the defeat" of the charter. Opposes Charter The Taxpayers' League said today the board of governors of the league opposes the pro posed charter because It de- stroys the two-party system, takes away the freedom of the people to choose their repre sentatives in elective offices, and It does nothing to prevent the administrator or chair man of the board of commis sioners from bringing in peo ple from outside the county and state to fill county of fices. Tom Williams, Central Point, a spokesman for the Taxpayers' League, said "the board of governors voted 100 per cent in opposition to the Home Rule charter." Williams said "we have quite a few members, but it is not our policy to divulge the number." Previously, the Southern Oregon Peace Officers associa tion went on record opposing the proposed Home Rule Charter. Hatfield Reveals New Gardiner Mill Salem - IUPD - Gov. Mark Hatfield announced today that International Paper Co. has made a final determination on a $35 million pulp, paper and sawmill operation and is lo cating it at Gardiner. Site of the plant 'had been in doubt. International Paper was considering four sites in the Northwest - three in Ore gon and one in Washington. Company officials said at a news conference here that construction at Gardiner should begin in about six weeks. Gardiner Is near Reedsporl in Douglas county on the Oregon coast. Hatfield said the operation will employ 650 workers dur ing the construction, peaking out to 1,000. When the con struction Is completed in 1964 the average number of new jobs created will be 850. WEATHER rKPCAT; ihoWfri thrnuch Wer1nt.t1i9 , Chaftctt of Ihun dentormi ft inMnlr , over ..the mountain.. low XonfM 44 to 45. Hlfh WMLhffdy near 15. ' ' Tump. Hlthrit VflrtUy 71 l.ownt ThU MnrtHnf . .... 41 Prfr, to ( p.m. YnUrdaf . .03 I'rrc. to 10 a.m. -Today .01 Ou I0 Skies Tonight flunt't today . .. p.m. ft ii n Mir tomorrow ... 4:51 a.m. Moontet tontihl 11:59 p.m. Flnt quarter May II PHOMINKNT UTAH Aldfhiran, ' 1:17 p.m. KVrNIM, I'l.AN KT S Mrrrury, north of Aldeoaran and a bit hrlghttr. Venui, above Aldfharan and ' miirh brighter. 57th Year Price 10 Cents No. 41 Royal Battalions Seek To Regroup South of Nam Tha Supplies Being Dropped From Air Vientiane, Laos - IUPD - Two Royal Laotian army battalions may have been trapped when Communist rebel forces over ran the provincial capital town of Nam Tha, a senior American military adviser said today. The Americans identified the battalions as the 28th and 30th. Shattered elements of t h e Laotian forces attempted to regroup about 40 miles south west of Nam Tha. Regrouped to South Pilots flying reconnaissance missions and supply drops over the Nam Tha area Mon day reported that only 1,000 to 3,000 members of the 5,000 man government garrison there had been regrouped to the south. Incoming stragglers were expected to increase the size of this force, but by Just how much still was unclear. The Reds drove the Royal Army forces out of Nam Tha, near the Communist Chinese border and about 225 miles northwest of the administra tive capital of Vientiane, fol lowing a thunderous artillery barrage Sunday. Billet Blow The fall of Nam Tha, which with Luang Prabani and Houel Sel, formed the apex of a government defense triangle near the Red Chinese border, was a bitter blow to the Royal Government headed by Prince Boun Oum. It followed the fall of the city of Muong Sing earlier last week and marked what the United States and Britain considered a gross violation of the year-old cease fire which had prevailed in Laos. When the Reds attacked, the Royal Laotian government maintained that the force in cluded Communist Chinese. However, U. S. spokesmen have said they found no evi dence to support this posi tion. Lightning Causes Area Power Outage A general power outage at 10:17 a.m. today, which lasted for about 2'4 minutes, was due to a lightning strike on a main transmission line east of the Cascades, according to Pacific Power & Light Co. of. fficlals. The strike occurred while the line was being cut over from 120 KV to 230 KV oper ation and caused the outage, which otherwise would not have happened, they ex plained. The power outage was gen eral throughout the county, PP&L officials Indicated, and may have extended Into Klamath county. La UAW Delegates Cheer President At Convention Public Interest Consideration Urged Atlantic City, N.J. - IUPD -President Kennedy told the United Auto Workers conven tion today his administration will not fix prices or wages but wants organized labor and management to show "respon sible" restraint. , The chief executive was cheered by an estimated 10, 000 delegates and guests when he entered the huge conven tion hall, which was decor ated with a banner saying: "UAW - all the way with JFK." Kennedy declared that unions must consider the pub lic interest in shaping wage demands to avoid inflationary settlements. Renewed Plea "What good is it to get n increase in wages if it is taken away , by an increase in prices?" he asked in a re newed plea for limiting wage price advances to increases in productivity. The President hailed the UAW for what he termed its historic, policy of seeking pay boosts out of increased output per man-hour. : Walter P. Rcuther, UAW president, who has called for wage gains greater than pro ductivity increases for the short-range future, told the convention that the union would back Kennedy's effort to keep prices stable. n ,i n : . , Praising Reuther as a dis tinguished labor leader, the President added: "He and I do not always agree. He is . happy to say it and I am not reluctant to say it. But he recognizes that I must meet ' my responsibilities as he meets his." The UAW delegates, who waved signs and placards to demonstrate their support for ' Kennedy, cheered loudest j when the President predicted imaaagc mis- year UL Ills IIU- posal to proVide medical care for the-aged under social security. They were silent, however, when the President told them, to negotiate a "noninflation- . ary and peaceful settlement" In this year's bargaining with aircraft and missile firms. The UAW has called for "catch-up" pay raises in this industry. W. Kennedy responded to . two-minute ovation with trus "r comment:- "After speaking to the Chamber ,of Commerce and the leaders of the American Medical association last week. I wondered how I got elected. Now I remember." Land Board Grants Onshore Oil Leases Sale m IUPII The Oregon Land Board today granted 10 year oil leases to four firms covering 5,637 acres In West ern Oregon.' The leases went to Super ior, Humble and Gulf Oil companies of California, and Farnham Chemical Co., Port land. They are the first state oil leases granted here under new onshore oil lease applica tion. In addition. Shell Oil Co., which holds an Oregon off shore oil exploration permit, was authorized to detonate 70 charges ranging from 100 to 300 pounds of explosives of the coast. The request Indi cated that Shell is tuning up or another summer of off shore mapping on Oregon'! 600,000 acre tidelands. Peste fttt fcirstM-eieneJui psWT 1 4 O
