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mm O o la Regional Edition MEDFORD 24 Pages Two Sections Strong exico Debris Topples Info Streets; Four States Hit U.S. Embassy Building Damaged Mexico City -IUPD- A strong earthquake rocked Mexico City today, cracking walls, toppling debris into the streets and causing a number of casualties. One man collapsed and died of a heart attack as he fled his home, the Red Cross re ported. At least 42 persons were treated for injuries in hospitals here. Four were re ported in serious condition. The quake area covered much of southern Mexico and included at least four states as well as the Federal District here. It was believed to be the most severe quake since 1957 when 56 persons were killed in the same general area. In Washington U.S. offici als classified the Mexican quake as a "major" one after analysis of seismographic readings by the Coast and Geodetic Survey. Officials said the magni tude of the tremors which shook Mexico City was more than seven on the Richter scale which has nine as its highest magnitude. Services Hit Electric, telephone and wa ter supply services were knocked out in Acapulco where several important buildings were badly cracked by the quake. More than 100 pupils were evacuated safely from a school there when the walls suddenly cracked. Bricks and cement toppled from buildings here and vir tually all traffic on the streets came to a halt when the first earth shocks were felt about 8:15 a.m. Flee Into Streets Thousands of fear-stricken persons ran into streets of the capital as cracks appeared in the walls of several hotels and office buildings. Several electric power trans formers were knocked over by the quake. They exploded and short - circuited power lines providing electricity for the federal district. The United States embassy reported extensive damage in side including broken glass and plaster knocked from walls and ceilings. 150 Area Residents Attend Police Auction About 150 area residents turned out this morning to bid on a variety of unclaimed and abandoned items at the annual city police auction. The auction, conducted by O. J. Brenner, with the assist ance of Lt. Lyle C. Perkins, was held at the police storage building at the municipal airport. NEWS(BRIEFS itims mom m Ur V arounb thi oloii FRENCH MOVE ON TERRORIST GROUPS Algiers, Algeria - ITIi - French High Commissioner Chris tian Fouchet announced today a series of spectacular new moves io crush the Secret Army Organization,' including the expulsion from Algeria of several ot the territory's leading Dr. A. Erin Merkel, Jackson Europeans. county public health officer, and Sanitarian George Run- RUSK ASSURES NEW ZEALAND yon told the county court this Wellington, New Zealand IPI- - Secretery of State Dean 1 morning. Rusk assured New" Zealand today the United titles will! It is part o a public educa help maintain the dominion's prosperity efainst possible 1 tion campaign to inform resi fleets of the Common Market. I dents how they can control mosquitoes at home by elimi- McNAMARA SEES 'PROGKEir ! VIT Inating breeding places. Saigon, South Viet Bern - in - Dfea rHr? Bob-1 Although the female mos ert McNamar sai today he hot) amm "atkiii bub prof-) quito is the only one which rii" in American and Vietnamese aife ta IVaat tea Com-1 bites, males also must be con muniit guarrilla movement in South iat Vote, trolled. Runyon said. Polio Temblor Gitv. Manv Hurt POLIO VACCINE - With cases of sugar cubes and small paper cups sitting near a deep freeze, where the vaccine is now stored, the Jackson county health depart ment is ready for the mass polio inocula tion that begins this week end in Jackson county. Some 40,000 doses are on hand and most valley doctors and nurses will Opinion May Delay Of Multi-Purpose Stadium Here Construction of a multi purpose athletic stadium dur ing the 1962-63 fiscal year may not be considered due to a legal opinion from -District Attorney Alan B. Holmes. County Judge Earl Miller yesterday afternoon read the county budget committee Holmes' written opinion, which stated: "It is our opin ion that expenditure of coun ty funds solely for construc tion or erection of buildings at the ball park known as Cliency field for baseball or athletic endeavor is not prop erly authorized under the state statutes." In his letter to the county court. Holmes said he has written the Oregon attorney general asking that he recon sider his opinion and to further consider erection of buildings under the parks and recreation statute. Basis for Opinion Holmes had based his opin ion mainly on one written by Attorney General Robert Y. Thornton's staff for Josephone county Jan. 23, 1957. The problem there was a proposed building to be used as a pub lic library. County funds could not be used for that purpose, according to the at torney general's opinion. In his opinion, Holmes noted that his staff could not find any cases which allowed purely recreation or athletic buildings to be used solely for that purpose after being fi nanced by the county. One law empowers the Vaccine Clinics To Be MEDFORD, OREGON, FRIDAY, Rocks take part in administration of the Sabin oral vaccine. Above, County Health Officer Dr. H.' Erin Merkel and Public Health Nurse Joan Bass show how three drops of the reduced vaccine concentrate is placed on a sugar cube in a small paper cup. The vaccine is tasteless. county court to designate real property as a recreation area if it is located within a city's boundaries and after permis sion has been granted by the city council. Another statute empowers the county court to provide, establish, maintain and regu late the use of public parks and recreation areas. The words "park" and "public" would not seem to exclude a ball park, however, the dis trict attorney said. Duncan Schedules County Campaign Speaker Robert B. Duncan, Democratic candidate for fourth district congressman, will return to Jackson coun ty late today to campaign Sat urday and Monday in this area. Saturday, he will campaign around Medford, Central Point and Eagle Point as well as several outlying rural areas, and fill interview and conference engagements at his headquarters, 311 East Eighth St. Monday Duncan will tour the White City Veterans Ad ministration Domiciliary and later campaign through sev eral outlying areas. He will leave early Tuesday for Jose phine and Douglas counties, returning for a television ap pearance in Medford Tuesday evening, after which he will continue campaigning in Lane, Linn and Coos counties. Mosquito Control Leaflets Distributed The Jackson county health department will distribute 11,500 leaflets on mosquito control for Jackson county school children to take home, Tribune MAY 11, 1962 Building "It would appear under this statute that the Cheney Studs' ball park can be reactivated and the buildings constructed at county expense," District Attorney Alan Holmes wrote. The county judge said the county court and budget com mittee still has to meet with representatives of various stadium plans to determine which one would be the most feasible. The next meeting, and pos sibly the final one, for the budget committee will be Tuesday. Vaccine Clinics Located at Seven County Centers Sabin oral polio vaccine will be administered at even centers in Jackson county from noon to 6 p.rrs. Saturday and Sunday. Complete immunizai i o n requires three doses. The second will be given in June and the third in the fall. Coupon books priced at SI for the three doses, are on sale at all drug stores in the county and will be available at the clinics. Clinics will be located at the Ashland High school. Phoenix grade school, Mc Loughlin Junior High school and Hedrick Junior High school in Medford, Crater High ichool in Cen tral Point, Shady Cove school and the Rogue River ichool. Dr. Dunlop Congratulates Members for Dr. Betty Lou Dunlap, pro fessor of education at South ern Oregon college, congratu lated 285 school patrol mem bers on their trustworthiness, initiative, independence and industry at the 15th annual school patrol banquet at Hed rick Junior High school last night. Dr. Dunlop told the patrol members that without the four qualities they would not have been on the school pa trol, and reminded them that it is tl ase four qualities which make future citizens of this country. 0 O 57th Year Price 10 Cents' No. 44 City Committee Recommends OK 01 County Charier Council Asked To Adopt Resolution A committee of three Med ford city councilmen has pre sented a report to Mayor John W. Snider advising the coun cil to recommend passage of the Home Rule Charter to the citizens of Medford. The committee was formed to review the proposed Home Rule Charter and to deter mine what, if any, recom mendations it might make. While the committee ac knowledged that passage of the charter could conceivably create problems" for the city administration, the re port recommended that the council pass a resolution en dorsing the proposed Charter. The council will not meet in time to adopt such a rec ommendation before the elec tion, however. Studies Proposal The report stated, in part: "Your committee after hav ing given study to the pro posed Charter, and although it believes that the provisions of the Charter regarding 2. The furnishing of 'city like' services within two miles of the boundary of the city of Medford, and 2. The county's tax power for special improvements could create problems for the city of Medford, and although the adoption of the Charter may retard reasonably neces sary annexations to the city of Medford, your committee nevertheless recommends the proposed Home Rule Charter to the Medford city council and recommends to the coun cil that it, by resolution, rec ommend the Charter to the citizens of Medford, pointing out that relief from the pos sible problems foreseen could be sought in the future." The report was signed by Councilmen James Dunlevy, Robert Baccus and Donald Hansen. McDonald To Resign From Audio Center James McDonald, director of the Jackson county curri culum materials center, has reported he will submit his resignation to the rural board at its meeting Monday night. McDonald has been full- time director of the center for three years and worked in the county school office part-time while attending Southern Oregon College from 1956 to 1959. He was instrumental in developing the center for dis tribution of films, recording tapes and various educational materials to assist in class room teaching in all of the county's schools. The center was one of the few selected for national rec ognition last year and has been visited by educators from all over the United States. McDonald has given two weeks' notice that he will ac cept a job in Eugene to estab lish a curriculum center for the schools there. His salary there will be $8,500. Here it is $8,200. McDonald was in Eugene today to attend a meeting of the Oregon Audio Visual association of which he is president. Their Initiative Industry More than 400 people, in cluding school patrol mem bers, attended the banquet. Pen and pencil sets were pre sented to all patrol members, and representatives accepted for each school an award from Medford Mayor John Snider. Appreciation was expressed to organizations and groups participating in the banquet, and the 15 school coordinators who supervise patrols at each school. Rudy Tetrcault. district manager of the Oregon State Motor association, nresented three pcrl awards from the Day, Deatherage To Debate Home Rule Proposal Eagle Point Grange Event Set Tonight Medford lawyers Ben Day and William Deatherage will debate the question "Why Jackson County voters should adopt the Home Rule Char ter" at the Eagle Point Grange hall starting at 8 o'clock tonight. A second debate on the same subject between the two attorneys is scheduled at 0 p.m. Monday in the Medford High school auditorium. The Eagle Point program was arranged by James Wil son, Central Point lawyer and chairman of the legislative committee of the Eagle Point Grange, and Charlie Hoover, a member of the Eagle Point Grange. Prior to the debate tonight, a factual presentation will be given by William L. Jess, Eagle Point member of the Home Rule Charter Study committee. Omar A. Bacon, librarian of the Public Library of Medford and Jackson County, will serve as moderator for the de bates. The Monday night debate is being sponsored by the Citi zens committee headed by Ray O. DeMarrs, chairman: and the Citizens for Home Rule Charter committee, headed by R. E. Collins. Day will take the affirma tive and Deatherage will ar gue the negative both times. The debates are open to all voters favoring, opposing and undecided on the proposed charter. There will be no ad mission charge, no political introductions, and no solicita tions, sponsors of the Monday debate said. Klamath Hospital Deadline Ordered Salem -IUP1I- Stale Fire Mar shal Walter Korlann said to day he has decided to reaf firm his April order to Hills dale Hospital, Klamath Falls, to put in a sprinkler system by October. Failure to comply would shut the hospital down. Cost of the system is esti mated at about $15,000. Hos pital officials have not indi cated what they will do. At the same time, Korlann said he is extending the dead line on a similar order given to another Klamath Falls hos-pital-Klamath Valley Gen eral. He extended the compli ance date from October to Jan. 1, 1963. Estimated cost of sprinklers there is $20,000. In addition, a $15,000 aux iliary power system involving both hospitals is required if both comply. Local UF Group . On Tour ot Centers Portland -IUPII- A group of 20 Medford community work ers and leaders in the United Crusade Fund ended a two day tour of UCF - supported child care and other welfare agencies today. The busy schedule saw them visit at least seven agencies that the statewide United Crusade program helps to support. Larry Horton, Med ford, vice president of UCF there, said the group would be here through today wind ing up their schedule at the University of Oregon medical school. Portland - UPI) - Oregon's private school textbook case will be appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court before June 11, attorney Leo Smith said Thursday. School Patrol American Automobile associa tion for the time individuals spent in encouraging safety by school students, and re viewing with students the safest way to and from in dividual schools. Receiving the awards were Martin F. Holmes. Salem, Oregon state school safety patrol representative with the state traffic department; Wil liam C. Rice Jr., Jackson county sheriff's deputy, and Capt. Clyde Fitchner, Medford police (parfment, and presi dent of the Medford Safety Council, sponsors of the an- I quel Saturday and Sunday YOUTH CONFESSES - Oswego, Ore., right, is shown shortly after he appeared in court at Little Rock, Ark., where he was charged with assault with intent to kill in the beat ing of four young children at Lake Oswego. (UPI) Tentative Total of County's Proposed Budget: 34,366,044 A tentative overall total of $4,336,044 for the proposed Jackson county budget was reached by the budget com mittee yesterday after an all day session. It is within the estimated available funds and receipts, County Judge Earl Miller noted. Most of the county budget is supported by timber receipts from the O and C and the national forest lands. The rest comes from miscellaneous receipts as the county's share of various slate taxes. The committee hopes to meet for a final Tuesday aft- ernoon session next week, when it will consider the budget proposals for the Pub lic Library of Medford and Jackson County,, the capital improvements fund, school bond and interest fund, and minor detail in the county court budget. Passes Budget Yesterday, the committee passed the farm home budget with a revised total of $107,- 805, up $2,117 from the cur rent year; the juvenile depart ment budget of $45,839, down $989 from the current year; and the four departments of the sheriff's budget: criminal, $110,572, civil, $21,430, tax, $29,092, and jail, $39,230. The $150,000 in capitnl im provements is to cover future construction of the county public health clinic building which Is proposed for a site just south of the new exten sion building on the county fairgrounds. The departmental budget for parks and recreation, which includes equipment and capital improvements, was set at $71,358, for an overall budget section total of $104, 270. Revisions made in the crim- Mrs. Todd Objects To Book Burning Mrs. Ann Todd, Eagle Point, appeared In Jackson county court this morning to protest the burning of obsolete law books from the courthouse law library. Mrs. Todd, who has used the books in a series of cases against the Eagle Point Irri gation district and some of its officials, said there had never been any objection to her tak ing the discarded books and pamphlets home with her. She added that she had found- some books which should not have been discard ed and promptly returned them to the law library. Alter listening to her pro tests for almost an hour, County Commissioner Chester Wendt interrupted to say that he would refer her protests to the law library committee composed of local attorneys and the two circuit court judges He explained that II. Dewey Wilson as chairman of the law library supervisory committee had recommended the burning. St. Louis, Mo. itJPIt Louis Shouders, a former police lieutenant who won fame and then disgrace in the Bobby Greenlease kidnap case, died today of an apparent heart Stack. Hugh Dan Hanna, 20, of Lake talking with Sgt. H. E. McGill inal division budget of the sheriff's office were: $9,132 provided for two deputies for boating law enforcement, plus $700 for equipment (to come from the county's share of boating license fees now at $10,000; and $37,476 for seven deputies Instead of the $41, 174 requested. The tax and civil divisions budgets were accepted presented. The jail division budget re vision was that the chief jail ers salary be kept at $5,388, the same as last year. An ex- tra man in the jail division was eliminated, Burglary Suspects Arrested in City - - Two men, regarded as prime burglary suspects, were arrested early this morning by Medford police after offl cers tailed them several hours as they drove around the city, admittedly looking for places to break into. Arrested on a charge of va grancy were Harold Granville McBee, 42, of Atascadero, Calif., and Paul Davis Jr., 31, of Klamath Falls. McBee has served a prison term for rob bery, and Davis may be want ed in Walla Walla, Wash., on four counts of petty larceny, police reported. When the pair was arrested about 3:30 o'clock this morn ing, officers found burglar tools and a loaded .22 pistol n the car. A heavy metal slingshot and a quuntity of bolts and marbles also were found. Of ficers speculate there may be a tie-in with reports of broken windows in several Medford businesses last night. McBee and Davis had been staying for the last two days In a local motel. A Klamath Falls police officer drove to Medford today to assist in in terrogation of the two men. Empty Saddle College Student Questioned by Arkansas Police Statement Signed; Extradition Waived Little Rock, Ark (UPB A young Oregon man gave Lit tle Rock police a statement today in which he admitted beating four children with a tire tool near Portland May 2, Police Capt. A. M. Haynie said. Hugh Dan Hanna, 20, of Lake Oswego, Ore., signed the statement in the presence of Haynie and Sgt. II. E. Mc Gill following an extradition hearing in Little Rock Munic ipal court. Hanna, who was arrested Thursday night, waived ex tradition to Clackamas coun ty. Ore., to face a charge of assault with a deadly weapon. The youth wept as officers questioned him today. In Serious Condition One of the children, Mar sha Foley, 12, remained in serious condition at a Port land hospital. The children were beaten while walking on a wooded path near their Lake Oswego home May 2. "He admits beating tha children with a tire tool and carrying one of them to a doc tor's office, the one he thought was hurt worse," Haynie said. "Then he said he went back to get the others to take them to the doctor, but they wera all gone when he got back. "He said he doesn't know why he did it," Haynie ad ded. "He said he didn't have any conversation with the girls and didn't know them. He said he Just saw them walking up a path and then he wag beating them with what he thought was a tire tool." The police captain said Hanna told officers that after all the children were on the ground, he realized they may have been badly hurt. Detective W. J. Harris made the arrest after Hanna telegraphed a relative, in Ore gon asking that money be sent to him at the Little Rock airport. Hanna said he had planned to return to Oregon. College Student Local authorities were ad vised by Oregon State police to look lor Hanna here. Hanna was a student at Clark Junior college at Van couver, Wash. Marsha Foley's brother, Shaun, 3, and sister, Cather ine, 21 months, have been re leased from the hospital. A warrant for Hanna s ar rest was Issued after the fourth beating victim, Kathy Burke, 13, identified his pic ture. WEATHER FORECAST: Partly eoludy to night and Saturday. Low to niiht 36. Hlh Saturday near JO. Temp. HlfhMt Yesterday 1 l.oweit Thla Morning 45 Prec. to io a.m. Today -.07 Our Skies Tonight Sunaet today 7:22 p.m. Sunrlie tomorrow .... 4:53 a.m. Mooniet tomorrow .. 1:53 a.m. Full Moon May 19 Tonight the Moon panief In front of the ilar, fleguhis, end ing a aerlei of occulutloni that began In 1961. These le rlev occur about every 19 yearl. In the Old Corral o o Q9 Q
