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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
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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.
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