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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
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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.
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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.
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