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Section A 52 Pages
MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, MAY 13, 1962
Six Sections
No. 45
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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
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