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TE-MPi: RAT LKE Highest Ye.terdsy 61 Lowest Yesterday 37 No precip. yesterday to i p.m. Tribune EDFOR United Press International Full Leased Wire United Press International Full leased Wire Section A 52 Pages MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, MAY 13, 1962 Six Sections No. 45 o M Contractors Hit Back; Shut Down Building San Francisco Con- struction halted Saturday on S3. 5 billion worth of projects ! in 46 Northern California counties. Northern California build ing contractors, hit by scat tered strikes since several un ion contracts expired May 1, Friday ordered the mass shut down in retaliation. The shutdown will immedi ately idle more than 120.000 other construction workers and probably throw other thousands of men out of work in related industries such as lumber, steel and petroleum should the dispute continue. - fliPl) - Odd Fellows Slate 106th Session in Medford in May The 106lh session of the Grand Lodge of Oregon, In dependent Order of Odd Fel lows will be held in Medford May 20 thruogh May 24. Odd Fellows and Rebekahs from all over the state will begin arriving by noon Sun day, May 20. Approximately 1,200 officers and delegates will have arrived by noon, Tuesday, May 22, a spokes man for the lodge said. All branches of the Odd Fellowship are invited to church services at the First Methodist church at Main st. and Laurel st. on Sunday. Decoration of Chivalry During the four day con vention several functions will be open to the public. One of the main ones will bethe' Decoration of Chivalry to take place at the Medford Na .. .ijAional Guard Armory on Mon day, at 1 p.m. The Jacksonville lodge was to be the host lodge for this year's grand session, a spokes man explained, since u is ii . i j Urt...n..p mniriin. i tion officials felt Jackson-1 ii i m-,n in arnim. odale all the visitors. The Jacksonville lodge is cooper ating with Medford Lodge No. 83 in the convention. Jackson House will be con vention headquarters. The Lodge hall on west Sixth St., K. P. hall and the armory will be used for meetings of the various groups. Banquets will be held in various res taurants. Livingston Favors Dunes as State Park Newport, Ore. - d'PD - Re publican senate candidate Harold Livingston said in a speech here he favors de velopment of the Oregon Dunes as a state park, in stead of as a national park. He opposed plans that have been offered by Sen. Maurine Ncuhergcr (D-Orc.) and Rep. Edwin Durno (R-Ore.). Durno is one of Livingston's op ponents for the Republican nomination for the senate. "Our state park system is second to none in the coun try," Livingston said. "Coast al business development is largely tied to tourism, and state planning of coastal parks can be done in close coordi nation with individual com munity interests. This cannot very readily be done under federal regulation." ITEMS FROM KEWSOTR1EFS FRANCO FACES LABOR CRISIS Madrid - iPI - Generalissimo Francisco Franco has called off a scheduled holiday in northern Spain where a five-week-long strike has confronted his regime with the most serious labor crisis in its history, reliable sources re ported Saturday. HEAVY TROOP REINFORCEMENTS ORDERED Algiers - 1 11' The Algerian provisional executive Sat urday ordered heavy troop reinforcements into Algiers and Oran and dissolved the Oran municipal council in a new move to crush the secret atmy organization (OAS). NATIONAL DOCK STRIKE CALLED OFF London - in - The ministry of labor announced Sat urd.niqht that a national dock strike schecftled to start at midnight tomorrow has been called off. AIRLINER CH ASH KILLS Copenhagen -JPt' - ik the sea Saturday during a land capital of Godthaab, aboard. Work Contracts with laborers. carpenters, cement masons and construction teamsters ex- pired May. 1. All the unions are affiliated with the AFL CIO except for the independ ent teamsters. Unions applying the "no contract, no work" policy al ready had shut down about 20 per cent of the construc tion projects. William H. Baldwin, chair man of the employers negoti ating committee, said Friday's move came only after "long and serious deliberation." He said it was hoped that the industry's action "will re sult in some reasonable atti tudes by union officials which will conclude these negotia tions on an equitable and re alistic basis." Angry Statement Bruce Dillishaw, chief ne gotiator for the cement ma sons, immediately issued an angry statement which said: "This move by the employers will alter our demands. We are going to raise our de mands five cents an hour for every week they shut down." - The shutdown is expected to have a tremendous impact on the state. It will halt work on pub lic buildings, schools, state colleges, hospitals, bridges, highways, homes and dams, including the massive Feather River Project. Durno Calls for Foreign Aid Cuts Rep. Edwin R. Durno Fri day night called for cutting foreign aid in half during a speech at the VFW hall here, declaring thai "the U. S. should help its friends and allies but cease being a mis sionary to the non - Soviet world." The fourth district congress- man who is one of six candi OHIC5 lOr U1C UUr bl'llHlt: IIUIII- '"'" ' " candidate "with even one! "V , , , live -position in uie legisla tive branch of government," and added that he had proven himself capable of drawing Democrat votes by winning in the fourth district. Insolvent Stale Durno said he was con- cerned as is Eisenhower over the growing executive power and charged Kennedy with taking over the finances and currencies of the country. As evidence of what he termed "the insolvent state of Amer ica" he noted that the coun try was spending SI million an hour more than it takes in and another SI million an hour for the national debt. He further noted that 35.000 people were losing jobs eery week by automation while 26,000 more people are com ing into the work force every week. ANNOUNCES PLANS Portland -I1IP0- The Bureau of Land Management at Port land has announced plans for an intensive management pro gram for 52,000 acres of young growth timber in Ore gon. EMPLOYMENT HIGH San Francisco IUPU Non farm employment in the five Pacific states reached a March high this year, the U. S. De parement of Labor reported Saturday. AROUND THI 010BI IS chaatered airliner crashed mlo l.ding aYlcmpt at the Green killing 15 ol the 21 persons TASK FORCE -Officials in Washington Saturday said that President Kennedy has sent a task force of the U. S. Seventh Fleet, with a battle group of 1,000 Marines aboard, into Southeast Asian waters because of the crisis in Laos. The task force was said to Rogue Basin Bill May Go to Congress Within Next Month The bill to authorize the Rogue Basin project may be introduced to Congress within the next month, it was hope fully reported Saturday by Ben Hilton, Grants Pass, pres ident of the Rogue Basin Flood Control and Water Re sources association. The 5106,000,000 project has been the objective of many local interests, starting with the floods of the winter of 1955-56, and has finally reacted to the point of con gressional action, following long studies by a variety of local, state and federal agen cies, i Revise Wording Hilton, Ben Day, Medford lawyer, Jerry Latham, Med ford, and Faye Bristol, Grants Pass, all ' directors of ' the Rogue association, met in Sa lem Friday with nine key nat ural resource and government agencies to revise the wording the initial legislation to day meeting was called by Malcolm Karr, Salem, chief engineer for the Oregon Wa ter Resources board, at Hil ton's request. The proposed bill was re worded to further insure suf ficient water supply for fish ery benefits in the basin proj ect, it was explained. This was in answer to a request rom fishing interests. The ba- sin association directors were concerned, however, that the bill not be reworded so as to Girl Dies in Fall On Oregon Coast Tillamook, Ore. -ft'PD- A 14-year-old Vancouver, Wash., girl fell to her death from Cape Kiwanda on the Oregon coast near here Saturday. Oregon state police said the victim was Gayla Beth Green wood, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Mike Greenwood of Van. couver. She fell about 75 feet and apparently died of head injuries, according to Tilla mook county sheriff's depu ties. The girl was on a picnic along with seven carloads of youngsters. Jack Potts of Port land, one of the adults in the group, worked his way down the face of the cliff and held the girl's body out of the surf until two other men picked them up in a boat. Public Invited to Police Open House Parents and their children are invited to attend the Med ford city police department's open house today from 1 to f) p m., according to Chief of Police Charles P. Champlin. Guided tours of the depart ment's facilities will begin at 1 p.m. and every 20 minutes thereafter, Champlin said, "We hope the citizens of Medford will take advantage of this opportunity to ac- quaint themselves with tnc function and activities ot their p o li ce department," Champlin said. The department is located in the basement of city hall. QUAKE ROCKS RESORT M..i niv n rii A nnw A iVinii'rfrt rrtt-'lr pH th Pari fir roiist resort of Acapulco early Saturday sending tourists and residents Iiecing into ineiyou, .wanagcr a. c nnrmo streets. have left Subic (1) in the Philippines Friday enroute to the South China Sea and the Gulf of Siam area near the landlocked Laotian kingdom. This newsmnp spots the critical areas. (UPI) put it on a longer congres sional committee route, and thus delay its consideration by Congress. Hilton was directed to transmit the jointly ap proved language to Oregon's congressional delegation for its consideration and that of the chief of engineers. Already Approved The corps of engineers has already approved the three projects involved on Lost creek, Elk creek and the Ap plegate river, all in Jackson and Josephine counties. All are multi-purpose projects, taking in flood control, rec reation, irrigation, fish and wildlife and water supply. After Congress approves the authorizing legislation, the next step is to get Congress to allocate funds for the final cost studies. Besides representatives of the water resources board and basin association, other groups represented at the strategy meeting were from the army corps of engineers, state fish and game commissions, feder al bureau of sports fisheries President Invited To Dedicate Dam Washington - 0JPH - Presi dent Kennedy has received a verbal invitation to dedi cate the new federally con structed John Day dam at The Dalles, Ore., on the Co lumbia River this fall. He has taken it under con sideration. The invitation was extend ed by State Sen. Al Henry of White Salmon, Wash., whose constituency includes the mid-Columbia area. Kennedy was asked to come to the Northwest in September or October to dedicate the dam which will produce 2,174, 000 kilowatts, more than Grand Coulee Dam. The state legislator was ac companied by Sen. Henry J. Jackson, (D-Wash). FARRELL ILL Dallas Metropolitan op era star Eileen Farrell be came ill Saturday night and had to cancel her perform ance in La Forza Del Destino. Fair-Bound Tourists Stopping Here; Heavy Traffic Expected in Mid-June While the anticipated flood of tourists hasn t really begun in quantity yet, area motels and hotels already report about 50 per cent of their pa trons are either headed for the Seattle World's Fair, or arc returning from it. The big rush is expected to start about the middle of June, as soon as the Califor- : nia schools close ! summer vacations. for their i An innovation this summer ; will be bus tours, carrying j upwards to 50 to 60 persons, on thcjr wav to the Fair. . others Expected , Tn Mark Anionv jn Ash- ; and rportg tnat one bus tour nag a)rcady come through i and olnprs ar( ,-..rcted. ' . Jhc Mpd(ord h()Ull anuei- 'pates eight bus tours th. month, with a total of about 1 280 scheduled between now i and Oct. 12 And I ve g"l news Inr I said with a laugh, "we ve and wildlife, Oregon Wildlife federation, and California Oregon Recreational Develop ment association. Charles Collins, executive secretary of the California Oregon Recreation Develop ment association, with offices in Medford, is also a member of the Pacific Marine Fishery Advisory commission, of the Oregon Association of County Parks and of the Bonneville regional advisory committee. He attended the meeting with Ross Brown, national vice president of the Wildlife fed eration, Albany, Ore. Morrison Seeks Write-in -Vole W. E. Morrison, Democrat' ic candidate seeking the write- in nomination for state scna- tor, today issued a challenge to Henry Padgham, also a Democratic candidate seeking the state senator nomination, to debate the Home Rule Charter proposal. Morrison said the two men would debate the issue any place or time at Padgham's selection. Morrison is a pbx installer fpr Pacific Telephone North west. Morrison declared his intentions to run a week ago as a write-in candidate. Mor rison lives in Central Point and Padgham in Medford. Morrison said his reasons for the offered debate are that Padgham stands for adoption of home rule and he stands against it as it is now pre sented for the May 18 pri mary. Galbraith To Speak At Lewis and Clark Portland -WPP- John Ken neth Galbraith, ambassador to India, has cabled his ac ceptance of an invitation to speak at Lewis and Clark College here, president John R. Howard said Saturday. Galbraith said he would fly from his post in New Del hi to address the 05th com mencement audience in Gris- wold Stadium on the topic "The Approach to Poverty." turned away almost tnai I many These bus tours are made up mostly of senior citizens, Marmo explained, people who are free to go when they want to without worrying about their children or other fami ly obligations. Some Increase All motels checked, whicji were in business this time last year, reported some increase I in occupancy over May of i last year, but nothing very pronounced as yet At least one motel, in the Talent area, has noticed a slight decline in patronage In I the last two weeks. The man ager attributed it to the had weather that Seattle has been having lately She did say. however, that the last two : weeks of April were good : and that about 50 rr cent j "I her customers were bound lor me r air. n mcunim ni'i:i. uwuk I ol its location on central ave., More U.S. Forces May Be Used II Situation Worsens Intervention in Laos Said Possible Washington - (DPI) - Presi dent Kennedy Saturday or dered land, sea and air prep aration for possible U.S. mil itary intervention in the area of Laos. A 7th fleet task force already was on the move. Decisions were taken at two White House strategy sessions Saturday to throw more Amcrican military power into , the Western Pacific area to; be ready for any eventuality if the Laotian situation con tinues to deteriorate. Striking Distance The 7th Fleet Tack Force, including 1,000 combat-ready Marines, left Subic Bay in the Philippines Friday for the Gulf of Siam. These waters arc within easy striking dis tance of the landlocked king dom where Communist-led forces scored heavy gains this week in the country's north. Officials would not rule out intervention in Laos it self if the situation continues to fall apart. But they indi cated a more likely move would be to throw a protec tive force into neighboring Thailand. The first military step was taken Friday when the 7th Fleet Task Force got under-1 way. Stronger Position There was no immediate information to suggest that Kennedy was planning to send U.S. troops into action in Laos itself. Rather, the move was interpreted as a maneuver to give non-Corn trongcr munist Laotians position at the bargaining ta ble during negotiations lor a coalition government. Disclosure of the 7th Fleet's action came as Kennedy and his top military and diploma tic officials held a one hour and 90 minute meeting at the White House to discuss devel opments in the rapidly deter iorating Laouan situation. Indications were that the Marine battle group might be destined for Thailand, where Royal Laotian troops have taken refuge after be ing routed by Communist forces in northern Laos. Salinger Meets With Premier Khrushchev Moscow - WPP - Presiden tial Secretary Pierre Salin ger spent a day in the country with Premier Nikita S. Khru shchev Saturday and indica ted afterwards a Soviet visit by President Kennedy was not likely this year. Salinger declined to divulge details of his talks with Khru shchev, held over seven hours at a government dacha (coun- try house) Moscow. 20 miles out of is gelling a surprising amoui of trade from people who arc returning from the Fair. Well Pleased "They are mostly Califor nians," the manager SHid, "and they nil seem quite hap- I py and well pleased with the i fair." One other Medford motel manager said that among his customers about 50 to 60 per cent arc headed for the Fair, and that he is getting a like number stopping with him on their return trip. , It's early yet. but a trickle of tourist traffic has begun most of it headed north to Seattle. From all indica- lions. Medford is going to t benefit from it, not once but j twice - coming and going. And when the svalanchc of Fair bound tourists really starts in earnest - as soon a. school is out - it Is going to be "terrific, predicted. one manager JFK Defends Basic!Laos Government Federal Programs n EVlilwaukee Ta Milwaukee, Wis. - HTI -President Kennedy said Sat urday night there is no "soft and easy" existence in sight for America in a time of bur densome, international peril but he is confident of the na tion's ability to stand the tests of the 1960s. More than 5,000 $100-a-plate diners and So-a-hcod spectators crowded into the cavernous Milwaukee arena to listen to the President's eff- the-cuff sneech. First Major Victory It was a sentimental visit Medford Lawyers Schedule Debate On Charter Issue Medford Lawyers Ben Day and William Deathcrage will hold the second of two de bates on the proposed Jackson County Home Rule Charter at 8 p.m. Monday in the Med ford High school auditorium. The lawyers debated on the proposal at the Eagle Point Grange Friday night when about 100 .people filled the hall. Cliff Moore served as moderator Friday, and Wil liam Jess, Eagle Point, pre sented tactual Information about the proposal. Friday's debate was arrang cd by the legislative commit tee of the Eagle Point Grange. Bacon To Moderate Tomorrow night's debate, which will be moderated by ,:, ,u Public Library of Medford sponsored bv two orBaniza- sponsored by two organiza- i.nrl .--!-. Pniindi kn nil They are the Citizens Com mittee, of which Ray O. De Marrs is chairman, and the Citizens for Home Rule Char ter Committee, of which R. E. Collins is chairman. Day will take the affirmative, and Deathcrage will take the neg ative. The meeting is open to any interested person whether fa voring, opposing or undecid ed on the proposal. Whether Jackson county adopts the proposed charter will be de cided at an election Friday. Following the debate, a question period is scheduled. Questions will be directed to the moderator for answers to be given by debaters. Officers Leave to Get Oswego Youth Portland, Ore. - (UPfl - Ore gon authorities left here Sat urrinv fnr T.itlln Rnr-lr A rlr to relurn 20-ycar-old youth who has admitted the beating of four Lake Oswego chil dren. Lake Oswego Police Chief Russell Thorn and Clackamas county sheriff's deputy Charles Thomas left by plane in the afternoon. They were scheduled to reach Little Rock Saturday night. The youth, Hugh Dan Han na, was arrested at Little Rock Thursday night. Clackamas County Dist. Ally. William Schmakcr said he was not certain when Ilunria would be brought back to the stale. Iliinna Is charged with assault with a deadly weapon. Record Rocket Motor Successfully Fired Redlands, Calif - UPH - Lock heed propulsion Co. Saturday successfully fired "the world's largest solid rocket motor" forsvi burning time of 130 sec ond and at a thrust of 400, 000 pounds. The firing of the motor, measuring 10 feet in diameter, was so powerful it touched off a minor brush fire at the compants Potrero test facil ity 20 miles southeast of here. The tin was guidtly extin guished. e for the Chief Executive to the state where he won his first ! major victory en route to the! White House his April, j 1960, Democratic primary j win over Sen. Hubert H.j Humphrey of Minnesota. Kenncdy attacked oppon-; cuts of his basic administra tion programs. "I sometimes read in the newspapers, the President is all right, but I don't know about his program why doesn't the government leave us alone?" Kennedy sai I. This, Kennedy said was an old argument used In every decade particularly de cades of Democrats in power in Washington. Too Advanced He asked whether it was "too advanced" to want re training legislation for un employment, construction ol college academic buildings and dormitories and medical care for the aged linked to social security. The largest burst of inter ruptive applause came with his mention of the medical care program. Thousands Throng To Poo Clinics A total ot 17,137 Sabln oral polio vaccine doses was giv en out at seven Jackson coun ty clinics during the first day of a two-day vaccination pro gram here. According to Dr. William Miller, general chairman of ""'. ver administered in a two- vacclnation progI.am ln I liillUS HIV JIUIIIUUT Ul UUSCO the county. Dr. Miller said all persons connected with the campaign were highly pleased with the turnout. "And there was less than a five-minute waiting pe riod at the clinics we visited," the doctor added. The clinic at McLoughlin Junior High In Medford serv ed the most people: 5,551. Breakdown at the othor clin ics was Hcdrick Junior High school, 3,714; Crater High in Central Point, 2,812; Ashland High 2,170; Phoenix Grade school, 1,196; Shady Cove school, 1,074, and Rogue Riv er school, 621). The clinics will be open at the same locations again to day from noon to 6 p.m. Coupon books priced al $1 for the three doses of vaccine required are available al the clinics. An estimated 28.000 coupons were sold at drug stores throughout the county prior to this week end, Dr. Miller said. "I Underslnncl You Plan o Proclaims State Of Emergency Last Sfronghold In Northuact Fnllc Vientiane, Laos -U?P Tha commander in chief of the royal Laotian army fled to Thailand Saturday with 2,000 troops and seven U. S. mili- tary advisers as pro-Commu nist rebels completed the con quest of northwestern Laos. The government proclaimed a slate of emergency through out the country. The village of Houei Sai, last royal stronghold in the northwest, fell to the onrush ing rebels without a struggle, giving the "neutralist" rebels and the pro-Communist Pathet Lao control of all of Laos north of the royal capital of Luang Prabang. Luag Pra bang itself was threatened. Crossed Mekong River American military sources said Maj. Gen. Bounleut Sani- cha". 2;?, roya.1 troops crossed the Mekong river into Thailand and were disarmed and interned in a 300-yard-long pasture on the Thai side of the river. Interned with them was Brig. Gen. La Pa. thamavong, commander of the fallen Nam Tha garrison. The situation in Southeast Asia was so serious that Lao tian strongman' Gen. Phouml Nosavan flew to Bangkok for conferences with Burmese strongman Gen. Ne Win. The border of Burma where it meets Red China Is only 30 miles from the captured royal government , stronghold Mu ong Sing. , Thailand reacted with alarm to the approach of pro- Communist forces to its bor der. Interior Minister Gen. frapas Cnarusatien warned , "'"Tt' our last breath against the Communist danger . . . we I - e"- will fight on every inch of land." Thai Premier Sarit Thana- rat prepared for a personal inspection of Thailand's de fences along its northern bor der with Laos. Laos had been expected by the United States to serve as buffer state between Com munist China and North Vict Nam and free South Viet nam, Thailand, Burma and Cambodia. Saturday the Com munists held well over half of Laos and were reported still on the move. Sports Bulletin SATURDAY NIGHT BASEBALL National League: : San Francisco II, Hous ton 0 St. Louis 6, Los Ange les 5 American League: Chicago 7, Los Angeles 6 Pacific Coast League: San Diego 3, Portland 0 To Sit Oul This Dilemma" o i o o o o o
