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TORNADO WRECKS HOUSE Mrs. Margaret Norris of
the Fairmont section of Waterbury, Conn., examines her
undamaged washing machine after a tornado swept through
Health Building
Site Protested by
Garden Clubs
About a dozen garden club
women representing 26 clubs
in the Siskiyou district this
morning protested the county
court's tentative decision to
locate a public health building
in an area designated for an
arboretum.'
The county court has made
no decision pending a more
thorough examination of the
area under discussion south of
the county extension building.
County Horticultural Agent
Clifford BCordy said the
extension service is not pro
testing use of the arboretum
plot. The gard.cn clubs which
are sponsoring the arboretum
development being planned by
Urban Agent John McLough
lin are protesting, he noted. .
Mrs. Edith Poe. district gar
den club director from Phoe
nix, said the county needs the
public health center building,
but there are other sites such
as one next to the detention
home which would not inter
fere with the planned arbo
retum. Add to Beauty
Mrs. Edith Eden, who
has
beep promoting beautification
of Medford. said location of
the arboretum adjacent to the
extension service would bet
ter add to the beauty of the
area.
Members of the county
court said they are not oppos
ed to the arboretum. They
said they gave the extension
service permission to develop
the plot for an arboretum, but
the possibility of constructing
a health center building arose,
and plans have to be changed.
County Commissioner Ches
ter Wendt suggested a plot ad
iacent to Maple park and
across from the entrance to
the extension building.
The location of the health
center next to the extension
building is necessary to avoid
scattering buildings on the
fair grounds property, Wendt
said.
Child Suffocates
In Crib at Baker
Baker - lUPP - Paul Clay
Bain, four months, was found
dead in his crib here Friday.
A doctor blamed it on suffo
cation. His twin brother died five
days after birth. The parents
are Mr. and Mrs. Melvin R.
Bain.
MEWSBRIEFS
ITEMS FROM
DUTCH REINFORCEMENTS ARRIVE
Hollandia. Weil New Guinea-JtM-Dutch military officials
reported today the! 156 reinforcements have arrived from
Holland and will be ruihed into the bailie agaimt Indonesian
invaders.
COST OF LIVING SETS ANOTHER RECORD
Wathinglon-iri-The cost of living climbed to a record
high in April for the third consecutive month, knocking
another penny off the buying pewer of i $10 bill. Another
increase it xjecled this month.
MARSHALL TITO MARKS 70 BIITMDAY
Belgrade, YogoeJsvie-in-Maribsl Joeip tre)i Tito, pres
ident eUYugotlavii and heed of it Ceeeeauniit party, ob
served m 70th birthday todey me (Marti? in pctr thfjn
New Dialing System
Starts in Area on
Sunday Morning
"Growth brings changes, i phone system serving the Med-
and that's what is happening
in our business in the Medford
area this spring and summer,"
Pacific Northwest Bell Man
ager J. H. Creager said today.
On May 18, a new tele
phone number system termed
All Number Calling was in
troduced with the delivery of
new telephone directories.
The next change is scheduled
Sunday, May 27, at 12:01 a.m.
From then on it will be nec
essary for PNB customers in
Medford, Phoenix, Talent,
Jacksonville, Central Point
and Gold Hill to dial all seven
digits of the listed phone num
ber when making a call.
Applies to All Calls
"This applies to all calls
our customers dial within
their own community," Creag
er said, "as well as to calls
dialed to other communities
within the local calling area."
Creager pointed out that 12
years ago there were about
10,700 telephones in the com
munities involved in the May
27 dialing change. At that
time (1950) telephone num
bers with five digits had just
been introduced, and the tele-
Japanese Pilot
Sees Coastal Area
Brookings, Ore. -IUPI1- No
buo Fujita got a view from
the ground today of the area
he flew over as an enemy
pilot in World War II.
Fujita, smiling broadiy at
the warm reception given
him and his wife and son,
Yasuyoshi, 25, was driven
here from Portland Thursday.
The 51-year-old Tokyo busi
nessman, who twice dropped
bombs on nearby forests in
September of 1942, will be
guest of honor Saturday and
Sunday at Brookings' annual
Azalea Festival.
Jaycees planned to take the
family on a tour of the Brook
ings area today, including a
visit to the Brookings Ply
wood Company.
FILES SUBPOENAED
Washington -OIPli- A Senate
subcommittee has subpoenaed
the files of a company con
trolled by former Treasury
Secretary George M. Hum
phrey in preparation for an
investigation of its govern
ment stockpile contracts.
AROUND THI OLOII
at off
tearing the
ford area was smaller and less
complex.
In the past 12 years, the
telephone population in the
six communities has increased
120 per cent to a total now of
almost 24,000. There have
been numerous additions to
the Medford area telephone
network, and as recently as
May 18 of this year, telephone
numbers were changed from
two letters and five numerals
to new ones with seven num
erals. Call Completed
"In the past five years since
two-letter," five-numeral tele
phone numbers were intro
duced, some telephone users
here have found they can dial
less than (he seven digits of a
number in their own town and
the call would be completed,"
Creager said.
"But this will not be pos
sible," he added, "after May
27. If the lull seven digits of
the listed number are not
dialed on calls within or be
tween these communities, the
call will not go through."
Pacific Northwest Bell has
another service change sched
uled July 15. On that date it
will introduce direct dialing
by customers of station - te
station long distance calls.
The DDD service will be avail
able in Medford, Ashland,
Central Point, Gold Hill,
Grants Pass, Jacksonville,
Rogue River, Phoenix and
Talent.
Baby Found at
School Identified
Portland -IUPII- A baby girl
found Tuesday night in a Uni
versity of Oregon Medical
School classroom was identi
fied Thursday by a Vancou
ver. Wash., woman who said
she is the baby's grandmother.
Mrs. Vivian Judd said the
blue-eyed, curly-haired child
is Ginger Buttrick, born in
March at Gold Beach to Mrs.
Judd's daughter, Mrs. Barbara
Buttrick, 22.
Mrs. Judd said she had not
seen her daughter or son-in-law,
James Buttrick. since
Tuesday, when she advised
them to put the baby in a hos
pital because it was ill.
Mrs. Judd said the couple
had been living in Vancouver
but had been talking about
going to California.
Mrs. Judd said she recog
nized the baby from a news
paper picture.
Bids Opened for
Bridge Timbers
The Jackson county court
I this morning opened bids for
i timbers for two county
' bridges, but took no action.
County Engineer Robert J.
Carstensen was instructed to
study the bids and submit his
recommendation for awarding
the contract. The timbers will
be used for county bridges
over Evans creek and Butte
creeV on the Netherlands rd.
J. H. Baxter company, Port
, land. was the apparent lre.'
, bidder with an overall total
of $10,545. Niedtrmeyer-Mar-
the area Thursday,
house. (UPI)
tin company. ej1n rf Portland,
bid $1 1.328.3 Wily two bids
weiQ submirft o
O o0
side (foreground) from the
Agreement With
City, FAA May Be
Signed in Month
To facilitate certain propos
ed improvements at the mu
nicipal airport, the city of
Medford and the Federal
Aeronautics Agency plan to
enter into a grand agreement
sometime before June 30 this
year, according to Gilbert J.
Gutjahr, airport manager.
The city originally submitt
ed an application for federal
aid in June 1961. The FAA
notified the city Jan. 31, 1962,
that it had given tentative
approval to the request and
had allocated for it in the
agency's fiscal 1962 program.
Following the signing of
the giant agreement, Gut
jahr said, work will com
mence shortly after July 1 on
construction of a wind tee,
expansion of the airport
apron, and extension of the
taxiway.
Under the agreement, the
government will pay 55.55
per cent of the total cost of
the improvements, and the
city will pay 44.45 per cent.
Complete installation of the
wind tee will cost about S15,
000, and the apron and taxi-
way projects will cost a total
of about $33,021, Gutjahr
said.
Draw Up Master Plan
As part of its application
for assistance, the city was
required to draw up a master
plan for future development
of the airport. On the plans,
sites were located for pro
posed future structures, in
cluding a freight terminal,
maintenance hangar, admin
istration office building, cen
tral fuel dump, and "T" hang
ars for storage of small air
craft. In connection with the mas
ter plan, a new analysis of
wind speeds and directions
was made. The analysis re
vealed the main runway's
orientation provides for 99.2
per cent coverage. A study of
the crossrunway showed it is
available for takesoffs and
landings 98.7 per cent of the
time.
"This is a fortunate situa
tion," Gutjahr said, "because
our projection for future use
and development of the air
port indicates a large gowth
in small aircraft traffic in
the next 10 to 15 years, as
well as a considerable expan
sion in air freight."
Decision on Mexican Labor Use
To Be Reviewed, Goldberg Says
Portland - it'PH - Labor Sec
retary Arthur Goldberg said
today the Labor Department
decision to prohibit Mexican
harvest labor north of the
California border will be re
viewed. The ruling has caused con
cern in the Rogue River val
ley where Mexicans have
been used to harvest a $16
million pear crop.
Goldberg said following
discussions with Sen. Wayne
Morse (D-Ore.). the flcpart
mcnt will have "a further an
nouncement" on the harvest
ruling.
"We desire to help all seg
ments of the country equal
ift" he .tded.
Regional tion
Medford
28 Pages Two Sections
Carpenter Extends Apologies
For Causing Worry on Flight
TouVelle Park
Enlargement To
51 Acres Voted
Overnight Camping
Will Be Permitted
Salem - 0IPD - The Oregon
Highway Commission today
approved the purchase of a 16
acre addition to TouVelle
State Park in Jackson county.
This will enlarge it to 51
acres, and make it the first
state overnight camping area
m the immediate vicinity of
Medford.
The present park of 35 acres
is nine miles north of Med
ford on Table Rock rd. along
the Rogue river. It is a pop
ular picnic spot, but until now
has been too small for over
night camping.
In other action, the commis
sion: Approved two location
surveys, giving the go ahead
on right of way acquisition
for the Island City-Jackson rd.
section of the Wallowa Lake
Highway in Union county,
and the Oro Dell-La Grande
section of the Old Oregon
Trail Highway in Union coun
ty. Federal Jobs Approved
Approved $285,000 for
1963 federal aid secondary
jobs in Sherman, Washington,
Clackamas, Josephine and
Polk counties. This includes
an exchange of $100,000 be
tween Clackamas and Jose
phine, and a $60,000 exchange
between Polk and Washing
ton, plus new - allocations of
$125,000 for Sherman and
Washington.
Put a 3.2 mile section of
Liberty rd. in Sherman county
on the federal aid secondary
system as Route 134.
Approved $40,000 for re
modeling and enlarging the
highway department's metro
politan division office in East
Portland.
Commended the 14 years
of service here of C. C. Polk
of Salem, who is retiring next
month as district engineer for
the U.S. Bureau of Public
Roads.
ADC Investigation
Ordered in Marion
Salem -(UPD- The Oregon
Welfare Commission today or
dered an investigation into
why costs of the aid to de
pendent children of unem
ployed parents (ADC-UN) pro
gram in Marion County are so
high.
The motion was made by
Mrs. Frank Bash, Medford,
after the commission was told
Marion's caseload and costs
are second only to Multnomah
county.
ADC-UN is the new welfare
program that is under fire
from a number of county wel
fare commissions. A staff re
port of the legislative fiscal
committee has also been criti
cal of the program, which be
gan late last year as an ex
tension of the regular ADC
program.
In April, Marion bad 1,027
ADC-UN cases. Multnomah
had 1,682, and others included
Linn, 316, and Lane, 255. Dur
ing the month, Marion Coun
ty families under the program
received an average of $177.81
I versus $203.48 in Multnomah.
Goldberg said because of
improved employment the
Portland area is expected to
be transferred from a class D
category of substantial unem
ployment to an improved
class c category. He said un -
cmployment here dropped
from 6.3 per cent in March to
4 9 per cent in April.
He said there Iws been "sub
stantial improvement" in the
employment situation In Ore
gon. Goldberg said he is hopeful
a settlement will be reached
in the West Coast maritime
dispute, but if not, he maac
it clear the government will
act.
MEDFORD, OREGON, FRIDAY, MAY 25,
Pageant
Finalist
Diana Hunter
Diana Hunter, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Hunter,
409 Lynnwood dr., Medford,
is a mezzo-soprano, and will
sing an ana from LeNozze
di Fifaro" during the talent
segment of the Miss Rogue
Valley Pageant June 2. She
is 5 feet 4 inches tall and
weights 125 pounds. Miss
Hunter has studied voice for
2'. i years, and plans to at
tend Southern Oregon college.
'Ride, Shop' Plan
Made at Meeting
A proposal for a "Ride and
Shop" plan was presented by
the 'owner of Evergreen Bus
Lines at a meeting of the
Downtown Medford Mer
chants association this morn
ins at the Jackson House.
L. R. Pilcher told Ihe
group of about 50 merchants
that while other cities in the
country have successfully in
stituted such a cooperative
program, a yet no other com
munity in Oregon has tried it.
Pilcher explained that a
shopper would pay his nor
mal fare for riding a bus into
the downtown shopping area.
But upon making a irinimum
purchase at an association
store, the merchant would
present him a validated stamp
which would entitle him to
either a reduced rale or a free
ride on his return trip home.
'We have about 300 per
sons a day riding our tour
buses," Pilcher said, "and
during our busiest reason,
which is just coming up, we
have between 500 and 600
riders a day."
A show of hands revealed
that the majority of the mer
chants were interested in the
proposal, although several
commented they would prefer
to study the plan further be
fore they became associated
with it.
Mrs. Phil Brainard, chair
man of the association, con
ducted the meeting.
AGREEMENT EXTENDED
Salem (UPli An extension
of a snow removal agreement
between Deschutes county and
the state involving access to
Bachelor Butte was approved
today by the Oregon Highway
Commission.
PLANT PLANNED
Portland - tUPIi - Georgia-Pacific
Corp. said today it would
build a formaldehyde plant at
its Coos Bay plant complex
adjacent to its resin plant.
It is important and Im
perative that the parties
make settlement . . . and I
urge them to do so." he said.
Three West Coast ?agoing
unions struck earlier this
year. They are now working
1 under a Taft-Hartley injunc-
tion that expires this summer.
"We of course will do
everything we have to do
and are empowered to do to
protect the national safety."
Goldberg said. He lai '. the ad
ministration ha made this
clear.
Goldljjvg jas here to open
an AFLCIO union industries
sh0' before speaking at a
Dcmocfttic dinner in Salem
tonight.
Tribune
Three-Orbit Trip
'Really a Snap
Astronaut Says
Scientists Seek
All Information
Grand Turk Island, Baha-mas-iUPli-Astronaut
Scott Car
penter, 37, chipper and smil
ing after seven hours of sleep,
said today his three-orbit trip
around earth "really was a
snap" and apologized for wor
rying everyone at the end.
The Navy lieutenant com
mander began two days of
intensive physical and psychi
atric examinations at this re
mote British island during
which space scientists seek
every scrap of information
about his trip and his reac
tions to it.
Carpenter said he was a bit
worried for a while during
reentry into the earth's atmos
phere but said "The flight
went off very well."
He said "no one knew
where I was and I didn't ei
ther."
Assumptions Wrong
Lt. Col. John Powers, as
tronaut spokesman, said there
were reasons to believe as
sumptions of trouble with the
spacecraft's stabilization and
controls system were wrong.
Carpenter said he definitely
thought he was on proper
course when he re-entered.
Powers, asked whether the
200-mile overshot of the land
ing area was more of a mys
tery today than Thursday
when it was blamed on the
stabilization controls system,
said "I would hate to see
your leads say that, but yes."
Carpenter went to bed late
Thursday night, apparently
less perturbed by his hazard
ous experience than many of
the thousands who spent an
agonizing 40 minutes Thurs
day before they learned he
had survived his capsule-
scorching return to earth.
In Good Shape
The spaceman appeared in
good shape when he arrived
here Thursday in a helicopter
which plucked him from the
Atlantic at a point more than
200 miles beyond his schedul
ed landing area.
Carpenter's immediate con
cern seemed to be what the
future held for him.
Where do I go from here?
was the first question he ask
ed as he landed here after his
trouble-plagued flight.
Of the flight itself, he seem
ed impressed by what he had
seen.
BoyI the beauty of the sun-
rises and the sunsets," Car
penter exclaimed. "They arc
more beautiful than anything
I've ever seen on this earth."
Carpenter will describe his
flight to doctors and scientists
and their findings may deter
mine whether the United
States must undertake another
three-orbit flight before at
tempting to surpass the endur
ance record of 17 orbits re
ported by the Russians.
Carpenter followed the path
in space blazed by Astronaut
John Glenn last Feb. 20 but
he was beset by troubles that
started shortly after the
mighty Atlas rocket hurled
him into orbit.
He had trouble maintaining
the temperature of his space
suit, the balloon which he re
leased to study depth and per
ception failed to inflate fully
his attitudlnal fuel almost was
depleted, and his retro-rockets
fired too late. The delayed
action by the retro-rockets
helped to throw Carpenter off
course during re-entry.
Esfes Activity in
Surplus Housing Eyed
Washington -IUPH- Congres
sional investigators are look
ing into Billie Sol Estes' in
tcrests in a surplus housing
operation which reached into
at least three states.
According to information
which Is slowly being pieced
together, the Texas million
aire shared In an enterprise
iwhich converted surplus mili
tary buildings ayito homing
unig The Estes firm0is be
lieved to have been active in
Tja, Arkansas and Washing
ton state.
57th Year Price 10 Cents
1962
No. 56
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JAMES E. KLAHRE
Elected President
Hood River Man
Named President
Of Pear Bureau
Portland - IUPI1 - James E.
Klahre. since 1939 general
manager of the Apple Grow
ers Association of Hood River,
Thursday was elected presi
dent of the Oregon-Washing-ton-California
Pear Bureau.
Klahre succeeds William J
Naumcs of Medford.
Other officers named at the I
bureau's 31st annual conven
tion here included: J. A. Ho
dapp, Placervillc, Calif., first
vice president; Dayld B, Low
ry, Medford, second vice presi
dent; Ray Forman, Yakima
third vice president, and Rob
ert W. Prince, Wenatchee,
fourth vice president.
Richard Patterson, Port
land, was renamed secretary-
treasurer and general man
ager for the 16th year. .
Executive Committee
fijew executive committee
members include Naumes and
Howell B. Murphy, Medford;
Joe Smullin, Klahre and E. R.
Pooley, Hood River; Gerry
Crossland and Winlon Brady,
Wenatchee; Frank Freshwa
ter, John Bloxom and George
Joseph, Yakima, and Hodapp
and Lee W, Veerkamp, Plac
ervillc. The bureau represents some
3,000 winter pear growers on
the coast.
Patterson said the three-
state area produced 3,786,785
standard boxes of winter
pears of all varieties com
pared with 3,758,862 the pre
vious year.
Morse, Neuberger
Vote for Amendment
Washington - (UPI) - S e n s.
Wayne Morse and Maurine
Neuberger (D-Ore.) voted
Thursday for an amendment
to insert President Kennedy s
feed grain control program
into the omnibus farm bill.
The amendment was passed
by the Senate 46-37.
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"I'm Fine, Of Course, Every Once In A While
I Go Like This "
Vessels Said To
Be Outside of
Restricted Zone
No Action Planned,
Pentagon Declares
Washington-iUPP-Three Rus
sian ships loaded with elec
tronic gear are spying in the
U.S. nuclear test area of the
Pacific and are gathering
valuable military information,
the Defense Department said
today.
But a Pentagon spokesman
said the vessels are outside
the restricted zone surround
ing Christmas Island, and are
within their rights. No action
is planned except to warn
them of possible danger from
them of possible danger from
the explosions, he said.
The ships are only 10 to 15
miles outside the restricted
area about 400 miles west of
Christmas Island, he said, and
have ignored efforts by Amer
ican vessels to warn them of
danger.
Not Concerned
Recalling that the Russians
complained of fallout danger
to one of its vessels in the
1958 Pacific tests, the spokes
man said they apparently are
not concerned about such dan
ger now.
The largest of the Russian
vessels was identified as the
3,600 - ton hydro - meteorologl
cal ship Shokal 'Skiy. It was
said to have a great variety
of electronic devices, 16 labo
ratories and a pad for launch
ing rockets capable of reach
ing ionisphere.
It is accompanied by two
smaller ships, which are con
verted trawlers equipped to
obtain auxiliary electronic
data.
Can Get Information
The Pentagon spokesman
said the ships can obtain in
formation on weapons design
through "radio - chemical"
analysis. They can measure
the size of the nuclear test
explosions as well as deter
mining their exact time and
position.
To reach their present posi
tions, the Soviet ships crossed
the restricted area around
Johnston Island, the spokes
man said..
In answer to a question, he
said that even within the re
stricted area the United States
has no power except to warn
ships of danger.
United States Conducts
13th Test in Pacific
Washington -flPli- The Unit
ed States exploded another
nuclear weapons test in the
Pacific today-the 13th an
nounced since the series began
April 25.
The announcement by the
Atomic Energy Commission
and the Defense Department
described the test as being in
'the low-yield range. It oc
curred In the vicinity of
Christmas Island and the de
vice was dropped from an air
plane, the announcement said.
WEATHER
FORECAST: Generally cloudy
with ihoweri through Satur
day. Occasional brief rlearlnc
periodi. Continued cool. Low
tonight near 45. High Saturday
near 65.
Temp.
Highest Yesterday S
Lowest This Morning 48
Prec. to 10 a.m. Today, Trace
Our Skies Tonight
Sunset today 7:36 p.m.
Sunrise tomorrow .... 4:41 a.m.
Moonrlse tomorrow ..12:54 a.m.
Last Quarter Saturday
PROMINENT STARS
The Big Hipper, In the north
west at midnight.
VISIBLE PLANETS
Venus, lets u 9:30 p.m.
Jupiter, rises 1:40 a.m.
Saturn, low In south
east - 1:51 a.m.
Mars, rlsea 3:30 a.m.
ever in the independent comi
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