Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, May 15, 1962, Image 1

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Newspaper Page Text(fiPlfi) MMulMK) WW) . ! ; ""'"Jfat ni'in,!',) i ili mVim 11, 1 1 r ""I''-W'J''''WP""1 1 pr jona! Edition Mfn) W r -f maw rr, STUDENTS' WORK This is some of the work by students of Medford High school now on display in the boys' gymnasium at Melrose and Jasper sts., Medford. All but 1 list! I 1 fe, f'n),,,...'-.-....- js -t ...a.- mini ihiiiinniiniiai win mi DESIGNS FROM NATURE This is an ex ample of art department students' work in designs from nature in which various media Students' Work Displayed at fiS Gym During Week ' y ' minK.ng by Memord H.gn school students are or. public i display this week in the new ; gymnasium for boys at the corner of Melrose and Jasper I sts., Medford. The display includes every thing from abstraction in de sign by students in the art de partment, including pieces of art which were displayed in New York City, to power tools made by shop students. The display, the first of its kind, includes the work of the art and shop departments eluding mechanical and archi tectural drawings. Purpose of the display is to show interested residents what is being done by stu dents in the department. War ren Wolf, of the high school art department, said it is not designed to be an art exhibit. The display is designed to be an expression of creative thinking by the students, not I only in the art forms, but also in designing and making prac tical, useful goods. It includes everything from fashion de signs to a speed boat. Among student work dis played are drawings, designs, sculptures, book jackets, origi nal church and house plans, power drills, tools, a scooter, ul 5 to 855: Jacksonville, TW a speed boat, various tables, n to 899, and Phoenix-Talent, bookcases, and jewelry. j KE 5 to 535. There is no The gymnasium will be change in the last four num. open until about 4 p.m. daily j erals of the numbers, through Friday, and between ' Two reminders of the pend 7:30 and 10 p.m. today and ' ing number changes will be Thursday. ' mailed to PNB's customers Organizational" Meeting Planned An organizational meeting for the Southern Oregon Searchers, a ground rescue! group, is scheduled Wednes-I day. May 16, at 8 p.m., in the Eagle Point Community build ing. ! All men and women who are interested in joining the organization are invited to at tend the meeting. ITtMS FROM barium ( t; FORMER FRENCH OFFICER. ON TRIAL Paris 'irl Under guard by armored cars and 1,000 se curity troops, former Gen. Raoul Salan went on trial for his life today on charges of treason and leading the Secret Army Organisation's insurrection to keep Algeria French. CARPENTER LAUNCH PROSPFTS DARKEN Cape Canaveral. Fla.-tPl-Technical preparatis for .laarfiiv lodav but the weather picture r theu scheduSd IITDIIIUI atOll V. O i uvmsi p - Saturday launch darkened. the motor and wheels of the scooter were made in a shop class, and all but the electric motor of the drills pictured were made by students. (Knackstedt Photo) were used to create expressions of the sub ject matter. (Knackstedt Photo) Public Library of County Gels Funds una The public Library of Mcd. ford gnd J;ckson counlv re- cejvcd an a11ocatiori ot s73,. fo,nwi,lc annrnval ... !T,Pnin hv ,hp ,arksnn by county budget committee. Phone Numbers To Change Friday Telephone numbers that look different but work the same will be introduced May 13 to Pacific Northwest Bel! customers in Medford, Central Point, Gold Hill, Jacksonville and Phoenix-Talent. "We call the new number ing system All-Number Call ing," PNB Manager Jack Creager said. Under the ANC numbering system, numerals replace the letters in the present tclc- phone numbers. For example, the Medford telephone number prefixes SP 2 and SP 3 become 772 and 773 under the new system. The same holds true for phone number prefixes in the other communities involved. These chances will be Central Point, NO 4 to 664: Gold Hill. I this week. Telephone number ! cards to be placed on tele phone dials go out in the mail today, according to Creager. Delivery of new telephone directories starts the same date. Most of them will co by mail. The directories will list the ANC numbers. COMMITTEE TO MEET Salem-Wli-The Legislative Interim Highway committee will meet here at 10 a.m. (PST) Mav 28. r 1KM AROUND THI OlOM - .. -. " . . ...... .w.. - - - 3 been promised through labor ! This is -$7,791.96 less than I the S8 1.735 requested and $10,199.04 more than the cur rent year's allocation of $63, 744. Ashland library received $7,497 allocation and Rogue j River ' library $516.20. This i is in keeping with the per ! centage increase given the Medford library. County ; Commissioner Chester Wendt i said. 1 Together it means an over ' all library allocation increase iof SI 1,354, Wendt pointed I out, or a 16 per cent overall I increase. I Rogue River last year re- ceived $445 for its library i and Ashland $6,463. j Under tee miscellaneous : general county budget the committee allowed the au j ditor $2,150, a $50 increase, according to the budget fig. ures available. i The committee also ap 1 proved a civil defense alloca tion of $9,582. The capital improvements sinking fund of $150,000 for construction of a public health clinic building at the fairgrounds also was approv ed. However, a representative iof ,ne extension service was planning this morning to pro test the proposed location of the building since it would take an area planned for an arboretum. The committee approved the S120.295 allocation for school bonded indebtedness and interest, or an additional So per census child allocation for this fund. It had approved previously $240,590 or $10 per school census child allo cation as a tax offset as re , quired by law. Area Fruit Growers Seek For Harvest Season Three Area fruit growers are going all out to hire domestic ' ers already employ what they labor for the harvest season! can in the harve.t season, it ' which is three months away, j was explained. . a representative of the Rogue j Sen. Wayne Morse (Dcm. valley fruit industry said to- Ore.) has written a letter to day. i Secretary of Labor Arthur , The growers have applied for 325 Navaho Indians to try to case the urual lifoor short age in harvesting the multi million do.r pear crop, i The growers and shippers ' also plan to send recruiting trams to Texas to recruit "some of the better Tcxans" for local (iBking, it was re ported thi morning. Some 1 hi t:h schofff labor also "has I - Medford Three Sections Bids Called for Freeway Work in Jackson County Paving Scheduled To North of Ashland Bids for paving 9.45 miles of Interstate 5 freeway from 12th St., Medford, to Valley View rd., north of Ashland, will be opened by the Oregon state highway commission in Salem May 23. The project is one of three in Jackson county for which bids will be opened next week. Bids on 40 projects throughout the state have been called. Other county projects are for Installation of roadway il lumination at the Crater Lake Highway interchange on the freeway, and for construction of structures and widening another structure on Highway 99 south of Gold Hill. Paving between Medford and Ashland calls for con struction of a four-lane divid ed highway of Portland ce ment concrete pavement with paved shoulders of asphaltic concrete. Interchanges will be lo cated at Barnett rd., south of Medford, Fern Valley rd at Phoenix, Valley View rd. at Talent and Valley View rd. north of Ashland. A portion of the project is scheduled for completion this fall, and the entire project by the fall of 1963, the commis sion said. The portion be tween 12th st., Medford, and tbe Barnett rd., Interchange will be completed early to make the new freeway from Barnett rd. to Seven Oaks north of Central Point usable as early as possible, the com mission announced. Mercury vapor luminaires will illuminate . all decelera tion and merging traffic lanes on both the freeway and Cra ter Lake highway at the Cra ter Lake Interchange. . . The project three miles south of Gold Hill includes construction of one complete new structure and widening one existing structure. It will provide an overcrossing to carry traffic northbound over Southern Pacific railroad tracks, and a two-lane over crossing over two frontage roads to provide four traffic lanes. Parochial Schools May Keep Textbooks Salem - IUPII - Atty. Gen. Robert Y. Thornton said in a ruling today that while parochial schools in Oregon can't get any more free public textbooks, they don't have to turn in the ones they have now. In an opinion requested by the Oregon education depart ment, Thornton said a "status quo" situation exists despite a state supreme court ruling some months ago that the state law which for years pro vided free state textbooks to parochial schools is unconsti tutional. Thornton noted that the high court issued a stay of mandate in its decision be. cause a Catholic group indi cated it was appealing to the U. S. Supreme Court. The status quo situation on turning back of textbooks now held existed from the time the Oregon high court issued its stay of mandate. Thornton added, however, that parochial schools in his opinion can't get additional free state textbooks while the stay of mandate remains. I office channels, but the grow- Goldberg but has not receiv ed a reply, according to a local fruit shipper. This is a result of a conference here last month between the sen ator and representatives of the labor industry. Morse conveyed the pro tests of members of the Jack son Fruit Growers League over the ruling not to let B i Mexican harvest laborers ,oorth of the California bor i MEDFORD, Freeman To Submit Senator Tells Of Funds From BillieSol Esfes Commitment of Employee Charged Washington-IUPD-Sen. Ralph Yarborough (D-Tex.) said to day Billie Sol Estes had con tributed $1,700 toward his expenses in taping programs for broadcast over Texas radio stations. Yarborough revealed the contribution as Republicans were demanding the resigna tion of Agriculture Secretary Orville L. Freeman over charges that his department had an employee committed to a mental institution because she knew too much about the Estes case. Yarborough's aides issued a statement which gave an ac counting of costs of preparing the broadcasts in the Senate recording studios since Jan. 1, 1959. The costs totaled $24,- 400. . "I have paid $20,384 on this amount and now owe the Senate studio $3,982.90," the statement said. '"Of this amount paid, Billie Sol Estes, who had contributed to sev eral of my campaigns for of fice in Texas, has contributed a total of $1,700 to this radio report, as others also have contributed, his last contribu tion being on Dec. 4, 1961." The Republican charges against Freeman revolved around Mary K. Jones, secre tary to N. Battle Hales, who kept files on Estes. Sen. John J. Williams R-Del.) told the Senate Monday that the de partment "railroaded" her into a mental institution for 12 days. The Agricultural Depart ment denied the charges. It said In a statement It "regrets that the medical problems of an employee have been made into a political controversy." Sen. Gordon Allott (R-Colo.) said Miss Jones was "dragged screaming from her office" to the hospital. He said Freeman should "step down and out" because of the burgeoning case of the Texas farm mag nate indicted on fraud charges. Republican Reps. Bob Dole (Kan.) and John B. Anderson (111.) made the same demand on the letterhead of the GOP Congressional committee. Dole charged that the Agri culture department's integrity has been impugned, and "we cannot allow a Cabinet rank department to remain under a cloud." i Allott told the Senate that the department had been "caught in clear cases of mis feasance and malfeasance" in the Estes case and "if he (Freeman) does not resign and the White House maintains its strange silence, it must be ex plained." NEWS CONFERENCE Washington-lllPI) - President Kennedy will hold a news con ference Thursday at 11:30 (PSD), the White House said today. To Hire Help Months Away der. The League members have also strongly protested the $1 an hour minimum wage set by the U.S. Depart ment of Labor. The Rogue valley Li about the only district in the Pacific Northwest that uses Mexican nationals for harvesting, it was reported. This is because ihe district is far from other migrant labor pools. If growers must pay a mini mum of a dollar an hour, then some marginal pickers wilfi have to be eliminated, it was explained. Growers protest they have always paid equal wages or better, compared with Washington and Cali fornia. 9 OREGON, TUESDAY, MAY 15, 1962 School Reorganization Plan Returned To County Salcm-(UPD-The State Board of Education got hung up today on a proposed school district re'organization plan from Jackson county. The board rejected it 2-2 and sent it back to county officials for rewriting. The plan would have made school district No. 35 at Rogue River an administrative school district. Deatherage Accused Of Double-Talk at Home Rule Debate An exasperated Ben Day , High school. It was the second last night heatedly accused William Deatherage of using .mki....,l. ...ii," double-talk and scare-talk in his attempts to defeat the proposed Home Rule Charter. The outburst came during Day's rebuttal period at last night's slam-bang debate on the Charter issue at Medford DeMarrs Answers Charge Made at Charter Debate .Ray O. DeMarrs, chairman of the citizen's committee which opposes passage of the proposed Home Rule Charter, today replied to a charge made by Medford Attorney Ben Day at last night's debate at Medford High school that "DeMarrs is not a registered voter of Juckson county." DeMarrs' answer to the charge was delivered to the Mail Tribune this morning, and is printed here: The proponents for the home rule charter attacked my personal position in that they attempted to discredit me for reason of not being a registered voter, yet .acting in opposition to the opposed charter. Consequently, a reply is in order so all persons may be familiar with the situation. 'Also, it can be pointed out thnt a very good reason for rejecting the charter when it is shown iust what arbitrary power and authority appoint ed officers have to use in denying a person their rights and privileges. 'In 1957, the question of my citizenshin was raised by the immigration department and an order of deportation was Issued; I took the matter before a special inquiry offi cer, who found from the facts that I was a derivitive citizen, thus not subject to deporta tion; the immigration depart ment thereafter anpealed that ruling to the Immigration Board of Aopcals. which made the finding that from the facts. I am a derivitive citizen of the United Slates and that the Immigration de partment had failed to show I was an alien, therefore upheld the findings of the special in quiry officer ruling. "Two years ago I filed for a certificate of citizenship, and in exercising the arbi trary oower of their appoint ed office still held that I am an alien, therefore refused me a certificate of citizenship. From this arbitrary act. I am now forced to seek relief In the courts for a proper adjuca tlon and declaration of my citizenship. "From all of this I cannot exercise mv right to vote - to be active in our government I can but do as I now do - try and be informed of matters of general concern and try to assist those who may exercise their rights to vole." Government Moves In California Strike San Francisco - HOT - The federal government made an effort today to solve a two-week-old labor dispute which has idled Northern Cali fornia's $3.5 billion construc tion industry and could spread to the $4 billion indus try in Southern Californla. Tribune er Pressure esignation time the two Medford lawyers ve debated the measure Ine.y met at Eagle Point last Friday night in a similar situ. ation. A nearly equally divided, highly partisan crowd of about 200 area residents heard Deatherage give the warning that the voters of Jackson county would be "rushing into something" it they adopted the Charter. He pointed out that Marion county has de ferred until 1964 an attempt to institute a similar Home Rule Charter. Concern Hand Bill 1 One of the several side is sues brought up last night concerned a handbill passed out by a member of the Cit izens. Group to the audience as they filed Into the audi tortum. The handbill was signed by Ray O. DeMarrs. chairman of the group. Day referred to the hand bill and said that DeMarrs was "not even a registered voter of Jackson county." He said an earlier handbill which was unsigned was "llleagl." Deatherage countered by saying he didn't know wheth er DeMarrs was a registered voter or not, that he "had never checked into it." But as for the unsigned handbill, Deatherage said, "anonymity in our form of government Is a virtue." He noted that the famous "Federalist Papers" were written anonymously. ' Printed Newspapers (The Federalist Papers were a collection of 85 letters print ed in newspapers following the Revolutionary War. The letters, which urged the adop tion of the Constitution, were signed "Publlus." They were written by James Maidson, of ten referred to as the "father of our Constitution.") During his presentation of the negative points of view, Deatherage cited Plato and Aristotle, charging that they, like the proponents of the Home Rule Charter, advocat ed putting control of govern ment in the hands of an elite few. Deatherage also said that Lenin had stripped the demo cratic concepts from Karl Marx's theory of Communism and had turned it Into a dic tatorship in actual practice His oblique allusion was that while the Charter might look good on paper, it could con ceivably deteriorate into one- man control. Visibly Aroused Day, visibly aroused by Dcathcrage's statements, threw up his hands. "Plato, Aristotle and Communism," he snorted, "what a combina tion!" "This is the reason the charter committee has had so much trouble explaining the Charter to the voter," Day said. "This sort of talk is rub bish, pure rubbish." "We have a real need for the county to be able to regu late its own affairs of govern ment." Day told the audience, "the cities and towns have the right, but the counties don't." "It Is ridiculous to have to go and bother the .tale legis lature on county matters," he addca. He pointed out that it was necessary to get a special act of the legislature to utilize the space at the rear of the courthouse as a parking lot. "You are best served," Day emphasized, "when you serve i yourselves. 57th Year Price 10 Cents No. 47 The initial version of the plan, submitted last year, would have merged Rogue River with School District No. 62, Evans Valley, just to the north. The board approv ed this and it went to the voters but was rejected twice by Evans Valley voters while approved at the same time by Rogue River voters. Then the Jackson County School District Reorganiza tion committee submitted the new plan, excluding Evans Valley. The split on the board to- day came when two members felt some provision should be made for Evans Valley. In sending the plan back to the county committee, the board called for this to be done. Appeal Made for Charter Support An appeal was made today by Ray Lamberg, 3619 Ross lane, for Jackson county Democrats, to rally to the sup port of the proposed Home Rule Charter.' Lamberg, a retired Air Force officer, said today he reels the Democratic Central committee, which a few weeks ago came out against the Charter, "represents a minority of Democrats in the valley." Lamberg said he was moved to take this action soliciting support of the Charter after attending last night's debate on the issue at Medford High school. 'I am worried that the op ponents of the Charter are so vocal they will succeed in de feating the proposal," Lam berg said. He Invited all Jackson county Democrats who are in favor of the Charter to con tact him at his home by call ing SPring 2-7821 and offer their support. Lamberg said he met this morning with the Democratic candidates for the state legis lature from Jackson county -Al Bradford, James Redden and Charles Crary - to urge them to take a public stand on the Charter Issue. They declined to do so, Lamberg said. "The Democratic Central commtitee docs not speak for all the Democrats in the val ley," Lamberg stated, "and we need to hear from all those who favor the Charter to do what we can to help get the measure passed for the good of Jackson county." Minuet First Group To Reach Bangkok On Wednesday Kennedy Says Threat Of 'Grave Concern' Washington -(UPH- President Kennedy today ordered 5,000 U. S. fighting men to take up stations in Thailand to help protect that Southeast Asian nation from the threat of Communist forces in neigh- ooring Laos. The first contingent of rein forcements, a Marine combat group, will land at Bangkok Wednesday. Kennedy said in a special statement that "a threat to Thailand is of grave concern to the United States." He said the military move was being taken as a defensive act which is "wholly consistent with the United Nations charter." Rusk Schadulat Visit A short time later, Secre tary of State Dean Rusk scheduled an afternoon meet ing with Soviet Ambassador Anatoly F. Dobrynin amid in dications from high U. S. of ficials that Russia was willing to seek a political settlement of the Laos crisis. Officials said that the U.S. ambassador to the S it Union, Llewellyn E. Thomp son, received the impression from Soviet Premier Khru shchev when they met last week that the Russians want ed a political settlement of the Laotian problem. i Cease-Flre Violated These officials said they ex- Pected Dobryntn would have raore specmc reaction 10 u.o. and British protests over the violation 10 days ago of the cease fire by Communist-led Pathet Lao rebels. In elaborating on the White House announcement, the De fense Department said an eventual force of 5,000 Army, Marine and Air Force troops will be established in Thai land. This Includes 1,000 U. S. soldiers already there. Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara announced the creation of a new "United States Military : Assistance Command-, Thailand.". it will be under Army Gen. Paul D; Harkins, .who also heads the U. S. Military Assistance Com mand in South Viet Nam, Sawmill Workers Tell Wage Demands Portland, Ore. (UPD The) Lumber and Sawmill Work ers Union, AFL-CIO, told em ployers Monday it will seek substantial wage Increases this year. The union made the an nouncement at a meeting with members of the Timber Op erators Council, representing some 200 employers from Alaska to California. It came on the heels of a similar de mand by the region's second major timber union, the In ternational Woodworkers ot America, AFL-CIO. WEATHER ' FOHKCA8T: Mostly cloudy to night and Wednesday tnorntnf. Sunny and warmer Wedneiday afternoon. Low tonight 38. llllli Wednesday 65. Temp. Illthrnt Yesterday 59 Lowest This Morning 41 Our Skies. Tonight Sunset today T:2t p.m. Bunrtsft tomorrow .... 4:49 a.m. Moon net tomorrow .... 3:43 a.m. Full Moon May 19 The star, Splca, li due south tonight a . 9:59 P.m. and the Moon Is to the rliht and a little above thlr star. To morrow night the Moon will be to the left of Splca.