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o tap a it! of Americans Landing m Thai am Southern Oregon Gas line Permit Sought FromFPC Conversion Due To Start Soon Salem-UIPD-Gov. Mark Hat field said El Paso Natural Gas Co. would apply to the Federal Power Commission today for a $7.6 million natural gas transmission line from Eugene to Grants Pass. El Paso officials said the start of -construction depends upon early processing and ap proval of the application by the FPC, Hatfield said. The proposed pipeline would bring natural gas to a number of communities in Southern Oregon for the first time. They include Medford, Ashland, Roseburg, Grants Pass, Talent, Phoenix, Oak land, Sutherlin, Winston, Dil lard, Myrtle Creek, Riddle, Canyonville, Rogue River, Gold Hill, Central Point and Jacksonville. Conversion to Start Hatfield said he was ad vised that initial steps to con vert customer appliances and distribution systems in Ash land, Medford, Grants Pass and Roseburg will begin in about two weeks. This infor mation came from officials of California Pacific Utilities Co., which now serves the areas with liquified petroleum gas. The proposed line will be 127 miles long, some of it 16 inches in diameter and some 10 inches in diameter. Com pressor stations would be lo cated in Portland and Albany. Also, there would be six meas uring and regulation stations along the route. To complete the system, California-Pacific will build 10 and 6 inch pipelines, hook ing it on to the end of the proposed'El Paso line termin ating at Grants Pass. The Cal Pac line would run from Grants Pass to Ashland and cost $5.3 million. Bradford Expresses Feelings on Charter Al Bradford, Democratic candidate for the state legisla ture, today issued the follow ing statement with respect to his feeling about the proposed Home Rule Charter: "It has been suggested that candidates for state offices from Jackson county should take a stand on the proposed Home Rule Charter. "I have never taken a po sition opposing the Charter. But neither do I feel I should, as a candidate for a state of fice in which I would have no decisions to make in this area, take a position recommending that the voters approve the Charter. "I feel that the people should decide for themselves, after thorough study, whether or not they wish a change in their county governmental structure. "I believe the voters of Jackson county will make the decision they feel to be cor rect." Safe Taken From Ashland Auto Firm Ashland-A safe containing checks but no cash was taken from Jim Busch Ford Sales, 555 Siskiyou blvd., Ashland, last night. Burglars apparently loaded the safe into a pickup truck, which they also took from the firm, and drove off with it. The safe and truck were re ported missing at 7:30 o'clock this morning. APPLING CONFINED Salem IUPD Secretary of State Howell Appling Jr. was home today with a painful at tack of pleurisy, a respiratory ailment. He suffered the at tack Tuesday. It followed a lingering cold. NEWS(i)BRIEFS rriMS noM Cr mound thi oloii DUTCH CAPTURE ARMED INDONESIANS Hollandia, Dutch New Guinea-aW-Dutch naval units today nlurd a boatload of 20 armtd Indonesians attempting a landina mar Fak Fak in Wtlttrn New Guinea, Dutch mili tary headquarters announced. ALASKA BLIZZARD KILLS THREE t.rwi. JUmlce-m-A flash blisiard. a weather rarity for this lime of year, lashed company ol soldiers on night maneuvers on a high, bald ridge in the Chugach Mountains Tuesday. Three died and pine others were hospitalised. MINISTERS QUIT FRENCH CABINET Psri-4P!-Tht five Catholic popular Republican (MRP) ministers in the French cabinet have resigned, it was an nounced today. PHILIPPINE BILL TO GO TO FLOOR Washington-lPluThe House Foreign Affairs Committee today voted 15-4 to send new Philippines claims bill to O the House floor. Sponsors hoaxed it would heal a malor rupture between this country and the Island republic. Estes Called To Washington For Testimony Washington-fllPD-Senate investigators disclosed today that Billie Sol Estes has been subpoened to appear at congression al hearings on his shattered Texas farm empire and the possible involvement of Washington officials. A spokesman for the Senate permanent investigating subcommittee also said that many of Estes' records have been subopened and the group plans to request Agriculture Secretary OrVille L. Freeman to testify. A spokesman for the subcommittee, headed by Sen. John L. McClellan (D-Ark.), said about a dozen new investigators have been assigned to the Estes case, which Tuesday led to the firing of another administration official. He was James T. Ralph, a former assistant agriculture secretary. Freeman, meanwhile, told a Republican member of the House Agriculture Committee he "would be willing to ap pear in good time" before congressional investigators look ing into fcstes tangled financial dealings. The Senate hearings are not expected to get under way, the staff investigator told UPI, for another three or four weeks. He said Estes was served with the subpoena in Texas Sunday. No date for his appearance was set. Fire Department's Request for Shorter Week Is Supported Fire Chief Gordon Barker and Fire Captain Vernon F. Ritchie appeared at last night's meeting of the Med ford citizens budget commit tee to support the fire depart ment's request for a 60-hour work week, reduced from the present 72-hour week. With or without annexation of the area lying to the south west of Medford, the fire de partment budget, based on the proposed 60-hour week, totals $327,864. The. total additional cost to the city of the change from a 72-hour week to a 60-hour week would be $49,622. This sum would provide for the addition of four enginemen and six firemen, A Compromise Chief Barker told the com mittee his department's re quest for the 60-hour week was actually "a compromise." The state legislature, he said, has been working for some years now with proposed leg islation which would set 56 hours as the maximum work week. The fire chief paid he fully expects the measure to pass at the next session, and. that if the Medford department had in the meantime gone to a 60-hour week, the transi tion would be less drastic. Captain Ritchie told the committee the reduced work week for firemen is "a na tional trend." A recent survey of 156 cities of comparable Hatfield Requests Engineer Funds Salem - UPr - Gov. Mark Hatfield Tuesday asked Con gress to add $700,000 to the $7.2 million 1963 Army Engi neers' budget proposed for Oregon. Ha.tfield's request was pre sented to the Senate and House Appropriations commit tees by Thomas J. Murray of Portland, a transportation con sultant. President Kennedy's recom mendation is $7,271,000 but Hatfield urged an appropria tion for investigation, plan ning and construction in the next fiscal year of $7,985,000. HAYDEN TO RUN Washington -(UPD- Sen. Carl Hayden (D-Ariz.), who has served in Congress longer than any other man, an nounced today that he has de cided to try for his seventh term. He is 84 years old. size in the United States re vealed, he said, that 149 of them had fire departments working less hours than the Medford department. Possible Expenditure In other action. City Mana ger Robert Duff told the com mittee it was the administra tion's recommendations that the sum of $109,118 in the parks and recreation depart ment budget be regarded as a possible expenditure this year, and that individual al location from the fund be made at the city council's dis cretion. Dr. Earl Johnson, member of the Medford library board, and Omar Bacon, head libra rian of the Public Library of Medford and Jackson County, addressed the committee on behalf of the library's budget requests. Dr. Johnson said the libra ry "was once a third-rate li brary and is now a second' rate library." He pointed out that the library spends the lowest amount per person in the county of any neighbor ing county with the single ex ception of Douglas county. Bacon said that additional staff had been made necessary by a IS per cent' increase in the use of the library during the last 10 months. Bacon had requested an in crease of approximately $4, 000 in the city's allocation to the library for the coming fiscal year. The administra tion, however, has recom mended the same allocation as last year $40,266. Soy Scout Council To Meet in Portland Portland - (UPD - The 52nd annual meeting of the Nation al Council, Boy Scouts of America, will be held here Thursday and Friday with some 2,500 adult Scout leaders expected to attend. Theme of the meeting is "Strengthen America - Char acter Counts." The leaders represent 529 local councils serving 5,210,294 members in 132,626 units. Goldberg To Receive Degree at Portland Portland - (UPD - Labor Sec retary Arthur Goldberg will receive an honorary doctorate of law degree from the Uni versity of Portland at gradu ation exercises May 27. Goldberg also will be the commencement speaker. Shoup Quits as State Milk Audit Supervisor Salem - UPD - The milk audit supervisor for the Ore gon Agricultural Department, D. P. Shoup of Salem, resign ed today, the department an nounced. Shoup has been chief audi tor for the state's grade A milk audit program set up in 1957. He came here from Med ford five years ago and said he expects to return to private industry. APPOINTED Salem - H'PD - The State Board of Education Tuesday confirmed the appointment of Arthur M. Gillespie as a vo cational rehabilitation coun selor in the Pendleton office of the State Education De partment's vocational rehabili tation division. Medical Care Program Given Damaging Blow Texas Democrat Tells Opposition Washington -(UPD- A damag ing, and possibly fatal, blow was delivered today to pros pects for congressional pas sage this year of President Kennedy's medical care pro gram. for the elderly. . One of the Democrats who had been tentatively counted upon to help pry some com promise version out of the House Ways and Means Com mittee disclosed that he would vote against the measure. "I don't intend to vote for it this year," Rep. Clark W. Thompson (D-Tex.) told Unit ed Press International. Doubt Raised Thompson's opposition rais ed grave doubt administration forces would be able to break the committee bottleneck that has blocked congressional ac tion for five years on bills to add hospitalization insurance to cash benefits of the Social Security program. The showdown vote is ex pected next month. Thompson spoke out just five days in advance of simul taneous rallies that will be staged by medical care sup porters in 30 big cities in an effort to whip up "grass roots" pressure on Congress. PresidentKennedy will lend his prestige to the rallies next Sunday afternoon with a na tionally televised address from New York City's Madi son Square Garden. John Day Sued Over Rescue Crash Portland -(UPD- Two widows who say their airmen hus bands were killed while try ing to rescue rancher John Day of Central Point from Mt. McKinley, Alaska, sued Day here Tuesday for $3.5 million. Mrs. Bettie M. Stevenson and Mrs. LaVern' Agusta El liott filed the complaints, tnrough an attorney, in U. S District Court here. Day and three others were stranded on the Alaska peak in 1960 when they fell while descending from the summit. The airmen were killed when their Cessna 180 ram med into the mountain and burned near where Day lay with a broken leg. The women charged that the Day party's call for help amounted to employment of their husbands and made Day responsible for the airmen. They also charged Day en dangered lives by climbing the mountain. Fire Razes Bend Department Store Bend - (UPD - Fire blazed through Bend's largest depart ment store Tuesday night, threatening other buildings in the city center before it was controlled. An unofficial estimate placed damage at $100,000. Police blocked off the downtown area at the height of the blaze, which burned for about 2'4 hours. Stock in the one-story Wet le's Department Store was descrioed as a total loss. Sec tions of the roof also caved in. Owner John Wetle said he believed insurance would cov er most of the loss. Medford District May Receive $22,855 For Participation in Oregon Project Elliott Becken, assistant su perintendent of Medford pub lic schools, last night review ed for the school board Med ford's and Southern Oregon college's participation in the Oregon Project, 2 four-year, S3. 5 million project designed to improve schools and teach er education. More than $1 million has been deposited with the state department of education to initiate the state-wide pro gram from Ford Foundation's Fund for Advancement of Education, Becken said. Tentatively, the Medford district will receive $22,855 and Southern Oregon college $26,810 for participating in the program in 1902-63. Flexible SchtduU The college' program will concern teaching teachers, and the Medford school dis trict program will be for a flexible schedule at Medford High school. Class scheduling at Medford High will be changed to devi ate from the "Carnegie Unit" Regional Edition Medford 24 Pages Two Sections MEDFORD, OREGON, NEW NUMBER -This is the new "letterless'' telephone number of the Medford Mail Tribune. It will become effec tive May 18 and be dialed exactly the same as our old number, SP 2-6141. Pacific Northwest Bell operators dis Newspapers, TV, Radio Station To Provide Coverage Two newspapers, a radio station and a television station will cooperate in a locally un precedented effort to provide fast and accurate election night coverage here Friday night. Television station KBES-TV and radio station KYJC will assist in both collection and tabulation of returns, and in their immediate broadcast. The Mail Tribune and the Ashland Tidings will collab orate in collection and tabula tion in the joint venture, the first locally in which three different news media have pooled their resources for the purpose. A combined crew of some 50 persons will be at work. Election headquarters will be established in the news room of the Mail Tribune, from which both television and radio broadcasts will orig inate. Election returns and commentary will be given by Dave Allen and other KBES- TV announcers'; by Tom Mac Leod, manager of KYJC; and by Eric W. Allen Jr., manag ing editor of the Mail Tribune. Gerald T. Latham, Mail Trib une business manager, will supervise collection and tabu lation. Both the radio and tele vision station will broadcast their regular programs during the evening, but will cut over to the Mail Tribune news room whenever new election returns are available. There will be no loss of regular programs, how ever, KBES officials explained. KYJC will go on the air with election returns as soon as they become available. The first, from the upstate metro politan area which is on day light saving time, are expected between 7:15 and 7:30 p.m. by way of a special United Press International election teletype wire. KBES-TV will join the election effort at 8:30 p.m. The Ashland Tidings role in the joint project will be the collection and tabulation of Ashland area precincts, which will be telephoned to election headquarters in Medford. of work measure, Becken noted. The Carnegie Unit in volves the student attending class 52 to 60 minutes a day, five days a week for one unit of work. The flexible scheduling sys tem will Involve the team teaching principle with stu dents attending a lecture-type session and regular - sized classroom sessions for discus sions. By deviating from the Car negie Unit of measure, some classes, such as typing, art and other non-academic sub jects, may meet less than five limes per week for a unit of work. If such is the case, some extra work is assigned for out side regular school hours, and the time gained through the change would be used for academic subjects. The teacher program will Involve both Southern Oregon college and Medford schools. Teaching Associates Under the program. 10 "teaching associates" will be assigned to Medford schools- - Policy on Mexicans In Fruit Harvest In Area Said Same The Seattle office of the U.S. labor bureau said today the policy of allowing Mexi can labor to help harvest the Rogue valley fruit crop is the same as in the past. The Seattle office said that when all domestic labor sources are exhausted, only then will Mexican nationals be allowed north of the Oregon-California line. The labor bureau said it is not able to tell what the situation will be. A local fruit shipper and grower said this morning he does not know how to inter pret this statement. It could indicate a slight change in ploicy from the statement made earlier said. - this year, he Earlier, local fruit growers had learned that -theTJ.; S; TJe partment of Labor would not allow Mexican nationals into Oregon fruit growing areas this year. Following an interview with members. of the Jnckson County Fruit Growers League Lamberg Says Response Good Ray Lamberg, 3619 Ross lane, Medford, who yesterday called upon Jackson county Democrats to rally to the sup port of the Home Rule Char ter, said this morning the response has been gratifying. Lamberg said he received about 65 telephone calls yes terday from county Demo crats who not only wanted to lend their names in support of the Charter, but who wish ed to make financial contribu tions to the effort as well. 'It is now obvious that there are hundreds of Demo crats in the county who feel as I do that the Charter is a good one and who are will ing to work to see that it is passed," Lamberg said. He said he has purchased a quarter-page display adver tisement carrying names of about 58 prominent county Democrats who support the Charter. It will be carried in Thursday's edition of the Mail Tribune. eight elementary and two sec ondary-next year. The "teach ing associates" will be stu dents in their fourth college year. The following year-or the student's fifth year of cduca-tion-the student will be a "teaching intern" working to ward his master's degree. Teaching associates will re ceive $2,000 per year as sal ary, and teaching interns will receive $4,000 per year. Teaching interns will con duct classes as regular teach ers with four or five of them under the supervision of a su pervising teacher, Becken pointed out. Dr. Leonard B. Mayfield, district superintendent, said the program may cost a tew thousand dollars to start, but once it is in operation, it will cost about the same as the present program. Final approval of funds and project plans are expected from the state artment of education In the near future. WEDNESDAY, MAY 16, IT' !: playing the number arc, from left, Elaine Reisinger, Sylvia Gardner, Wanda Smith, Mury Miles, Doralce McKeo, Irene Caster, Pat Pellett and Marilyn Schempp. here in April, Sen. Wayne Morse (Dem.- Ore.) wrote a lengthy letter to Secretary of Labor Arthur J. Goldberg. dated-, April 23, asking that his staff make a thorough in vestigation and study of the picker problem in the Rogue valley as set forth in testi mony and exhibits which the League members gave Morse. "To the best of my knowl edge, Goldberg has not yet replied to that letter," a local fruit shipper and grower said. Apply for Indiani Yesterday it was revealed mat the local fruit growers have applied for 325 Navaho Indians to assure growers of a steady, dependable labor supply for the fruit harvest. which is about three months away. "We must know ahead of the harvest that a dependable labor supply will be avail able," a local grower said. "Three years ago we urgently requested Mexican nationals. ihe labor officials delayed in getting them to us." "We got three days behind on our picking. Then, a wind storm came and spread the equivalent of 250,000 boxes of pears on the ground. We esti mated over $1'4 million in wages was lost in the picking and packing and storing of that fruit," a local grower said. 878 Receive Oral Vaccine at Clinic Tomorrow will be the last Sabin oral polio vaccine clinic at the public health office in the county courthouse, Jack son county public health de partment officials said this morning. The vaccine will be admin istrated from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. tomorrow. A total of 878 people re ceived the vaccine during an all-day clinic was manned by volunteer nurses, PTA repre sentatives and health depart ment nurses. Bill Would Increase Unemployment Claims Salem - (UPD The Oregon AFL-CIO intends to sponsor a bill In the 1963 legislature that would increase the maxi mum unemployment claim In Oregon from $40 a week to $47, according to George Brown of Portland, political education director. Brown said the legislation would increase the maximum weekly benefit to one half the average weekly wage in Oregon which Is $94. Federal Help Said Needed for Schools Washington - (UPD - Educa tion officials from Michigan, Oregon and Tennessee told Congress today that the state and localities need federal help to continue improving their schools. The three officials brought to 13 the number of states whose education departments have appeared before a House Education subcommittee to mnnrtrt "npufAa n n r n a t h" -r - .-vy- r t - -a school a I d legislation b9 Chairmnn Cleveland M. Bai- ley (D-W.Vl.l. 57th Year Price 10 Cents Tribune 1962 No. 48 Former French General Admits Paris - (UPD - Former Gen. Raoul Salan admitted to the court trying him for treason today that he was completely responsible for the actions of the terrorist Secret Army Or ganization. .-. " He said In a lengthy life-or- death speech that he was the head of the OAS and "as such, my responsibility is com plete." Salan's 30 - minute speech! was expected to be his one and only major statement at his trial in a heavily guarded courtroom of the Palais de Justice. , -He is being tried before a special French high tribunal for his part in the so-called generals' revolt of Arjril. 1961,. in Algiers and for his leadership of the OAS for nearly a year until his cap ture last month. On the effect of his snceeh could depend whether I ranee s most-decorated living soldier lives or dies "I am the head of the OAS," Salan began his state ment. "As such, my respon sibility Is complete. I accept full responsibility since I do not intend to step out of a nne or conauct winch was mine during 42 years of com mand. "I am not the leader of an armed band, but a French general representing a vic torious and not a defeated army. With those words. Salan followed a principle common to all armies: The commander is ultimately responsible for the actions of his subordinates, and accepts the rewards or punishments as they fall due. Mysterious Objects Said Flakes of fee Edwards AFB. Calif.-HTD- Thc National Aeronautics and Space Administration disclos ed Tuesday that the "mysteri ous objects" filmed by the X15 rocket plane during its world record altitude flight two weeks ago were actually flakes of ice. "Eh? What Say?" ' tCr THE WORD CO FORTH : -v " pV ' , :'' ...TO Ffd( AMP Ftie : .- AUfce, TMAT THE TOROt I'S i MAS Beert PAssepTO A - I OSlJBKATIOU... SB "Sfrl ; ' ' 1 1 -KtaYirtMviaM Fighter Planes Bolster Defense; Marines on Hand SEATO Nations Will Send Help Bangkok, Thailand - (UPD -United States fighter and transport planes landed in Thailand today as the van guard of an American military buildup to bolster this coun try's defense against Commu nism. Headed for Bangkok Har bor was a force of 1,800 com- , bat-ready Marines, scheduled to be landed within hours and to be swiftly deployed to tac-. tically important points near ; the border with Communist- threatened Laos. Landings Begin Today A U.S. Embassy spokesman -said only that the Marines would be landed within the -: "next 24 to 36 hours" but the ' White House in Washington said the landing would begin at 2 p.m. (PST) today, The Marines will join a 1,000-man Army force already in Thailand, the soldiers hav ing been kept there for a fa miliarization period following their p a r t i c ip atlon in a SEATO maneuver last month. Others To Help The United States plans to follow up the Marines and -soldiers with other reinforce ments in the near future to , bring its force here up to an . estimated 5,000 troops. Other SEATO nations are expected to send at least token forces . to help. As the Marines moved up the Gulf of Siam aboard units of a 7th Fleet task force to wards Bangkok Harbor, there were strong indications the Communists had brought their otfensive In neighboring Laos to a halt. Russians Renew Cease Fire Pledge washington-IUPD-Hope for a diplomatic settlement of the Laos crisis rose slightly here today with Russia 8 renewed pledge to support, a cease fire and creation of an independ ent, neutral government In the strife-torn Southeast Asian Kinidnm. Top. officials, however. warned against any undue op timism. They pointed out that Pnmmimlcf lnl.nl!... i 11- area still were far from clear. Officials said Soviet Am-' bassador Anatoly F. Dobry nln'a reaffirmation, in a con ference Tuesday with Secre tary of State Dean Rusk of ' Russia's year-old pledge to support a cease fire and crea tion of an independent gov ernment in Laos was hearten ing as far as it went. The real test will come, they said, on the ground in Laos where the Communist led Pathet Lao rebels appear to be holding their fire after wresting the northwest part : of the country from pro-Western royal government forces. WEATHER FORECAST: Fair tonight with warmer daytime temperatures through Thursday. Low to night 35. High Thursday 65-70. Temp. Highest Yesterday SI Lowest This Morning 32 Prcc. to 10 a.m. Today 04 Our Skies Tonight Sunset today 7:27 p.m. Sunrise tomorrow .... 4:48 a.m. Mounset tomorrow .. 4:11 a.m. Full Moon j. May II VIHIHI.E PLANETS Mercury, seta . 1:48 p.m. Venus, seta 9:18 p.m. Saturn, rises .. 1:03 a.m. Mars, rises 3:50 a.m. Jupiter, In the southeast at sunrise. 0 I
