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57th Year Price 10 Cents The Beauties of Scenic Oregon tribune Medford (Oregon Sute Highway Commission Photo) 20 PAGES Two Sections MEDFORD, OREGON, MONDAY, MAY 28, 1962 No. 58 Go sis true Threafe Rogue Valley Edition tion Shutdown- 1 , a&'fa " lf4xi' A ' . ' A rail fence creates an interesting pattern along Market Ticker Breaks Record For Lateness New York-IUPn-The retreat on the stock market went at a rapid pace today with $9 bil lion more in paper values wiped out in selling so heavy at one point the tape was al most an hour late. Since the high speed ticker was put in service in 1930, the record for lateness had stood at 34 minutes since May, 1933. That mark was smashed near the noon hour as the tape first fell 35 minutes, then 42 and finally 52 minutes be hind, as the avalanche of sell orders continued. $40 Billion Slump By that time the slump in paper values in six straight days of selloffs was almost $40 billion. Losses were all over the list. Highly regarded issues like Norfolk & Western, Kan sas City Southern and Amer ican Telephone were down more than $6 a share. Other blue chips were off $2 to $4. The Dow Jones industrial average at 11 a.m. (PST) broke through the 600 level to 598.06, off 13.82. The 600 level was the floor predicted at year end by the most pessi mistic market forecasters in case a slump developed this year. Tunnel Crews Meet In Oregon Mountain O'Brien Construction crews at the north and south portals of the Randolph Col lier tunnel, under construc tion south of here, have met in the middle of Oregon mountain. The crews are working sev en days a week, three shifts a day. A large portion of Oregon mountain above the tunnel construction on the north por tal has begun to settle, re sulting in a crack in the road bed of the present Highway 199. Surveyors have marked the area, which, according to unofficial reports, could de velop into a slide. Public Works Crews Install Traffic Sign Public Works department crews have installed a Yield traffic sign at the junction of Sixth and Main sts., accord ing to Public Works Director Vernon Thorpe. The sign directs Sixth st. traffic entering Main st. to yield to oncoming Main st. traffic, Thorpe said. HStWiBRIEFS ITIMS FROM kjT AROUND THI OlOII 'GLACIER PRIEST' OF ALASKA DIES Santa Clara, Calif.-4TI-Th Rev. Bernard R. Hubbard, S.J., 73, renowned "Glacier Priett" of Alaska, died today of a stroke in hit room at Santa Clara University. EXPLOSION RIPS YWCA BUILDING Wichita Falls. Tex.-lPI'-A boilerroom exploiion ripped the center out of the Wichita Falls YWCA shortly before noon today. One man was injured and a young girl was missing. SPANISH COAL MINERS RETURN TO WORK Madrid-'lTt-Thousands of striking coal miners returned io work today after Generalissimo Francisco Franco dra - matically appealed to all Spaniards to make "secrificei" for the common good of the nation. U.S. Would Study Arms Reduction Geneva - IUPD - The United States offered today to take part in an immediate study of the possibility of reduction and elimination of nuclear weapons in a general disarm ament agreement. Ambassador Arthur H. Dean told the 17-nation Dis armament Conference the United States is prepared to participate in such a study be fore the disarmament process begins. He made the offer during a speech comparing the broad outlines of American and So viet drafts for a disarmament treaty. Body of Man Is Found in River Grants Pass - The body of a Grants Pass man was re covered at Savage Rapids dam Sunday afternoon, almost a month after he was drowned in a three-boat accident on the Rogue River near Evans Creek. The body of Merle Harris Logeais, 39, of 1925 South west Greenwood St., was pull ed out of the river at the dam by a state police officer from the Grants Pass office. An un identified passerby reported to the Grants Pass city police that a body was lodged against the dam. City police informed the state police. Jackson county sheriff's deputies searched for the body with skin diving equip ment for several days, but the rain-swollen and muddy water of the river made it almost Impossible to see underwater. Another boat operator, Lewis Melvin Morgan, 23, of 1709 West Main St., Medford, was injured in the same acci dent. Fast Time Blamed For Loss ot Votes Portland -IUPD-Oregon's Re publican chairman blamed fast time Sunday for Republi can Gov. Mark Hatfield's loss of seven Salem-area precincts. H i s Democratic counterpart said the Democrats may make an issue of it in the coming campaign. GOP chairman Phil Roth said the seven Salem-area pre cincts lost by Hatfield in the recent primary election were in farming areas. He admitted the farmers were unhappy over the 1961 law permitting fast time for the Portland area. He said farmers want one uniform standard of time. Democratic Chairman E. D. Spencer suggested the Demo crats will make an issue of Hatfield's failure to veto the bill. the Green Springs Highway Just down the hall from the conference room in the Palais de Nations, 28 nations joined in discussions designed to draw ground rules for the peaceful use of outer space. The United States and Russia, the only two countries to car ry out manned orbital flights around the earth, were ex pected to dominate the meet ings. Following the first U.S. orbital flight by Lt. Col. John Glenn, Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev accepted Presi dent Kennedy's proposal to discuss possible joint explora tions of space. Must Retain Balance Dean stressed again that the present military balance must be retained as world armaments are progressively reduced. He criticized the So viet plan for failing to do this. Canada's Gen. E. L. . M. Burns supported American proposals for step by step re duction of nuclear armaments rather than the sweeping abo lition proposed by t h e So viets. He also took the Rus sians to task for not explain ing how their proposed veri fication of the destruction of nuclear wepons and delivery vehicles would be carried out. Residents Praised On New Dialing Jack Creager, manager of Pacific Northwest Bell, com plimented residents this I".0" " their dialing of the 77 prefix Sunday in tele phoning in the area. Creager said that so far no problems have been report ed. He added that due to the switching action of the equip ment at the telephone build ing here, officials could tell that the seven digits were being dialed properly. The local manager suggest ed that for easier remember ing of the seven digit tele phone numbers, residents break them into two groups of three and four numbers. The seven digit dialing of telephone numbers here went into effect Saturday at mid night. Motorists Warned I About Freeway Although the Pacific free way between Rogue River and Grants Pass will not be offi cially opened to traffic until Friday, June 1, motorists have been reported as using that section of the freeway. Oregon state highway de partment officials in Grants Pass this morning warned motorists that driving this section before the opening could be dangerous, since painting crews are working along the freeway. He said that equipment and vehicles may be parked in the road way, and would be extremely hazardous if motorists travel on it at high speeds. Department officials added that vehicles might also be splattered with white paint, if they travel this section, since the guard railings are being painted with spray equipment. mm I NATIONAL Milwaukee ...... 1 4 0 l Chicago 2 4 1 ! Spehn and Crandalli Hob- . bie and Barragan. east of Ashland. GOP Criticizes Kennedy for Business Declines Washington - (UTD Re publican congressional lead ers, citing business, stock mar ket and farm declines, charg ed today that many of Pres ident Kennedy's campaign promises have "vanished into thin air." House GOP Leader Charles A. Halleck, Ind., told a news conference that when factors like the "severely declining stock market" and others are considered, it can only be con cluded that "Mr. Kennedy promises better than he per forms." Halleck made his statement as selling on the New York Stock Exchange continued at rapid fire pace during the day. The tape ran almost an hour late at one point and $9 billion more in paper values were wiped out in the sixth day of heavy activity. On the over-all picture, Senate Leader Everett M. Dirksen, 111., said that despite top-heavy Democratic majori ties in both houses, Kennedy "hasn't delivered on his pledges." Halleck said he is begin ning to believe that many of tne Kennedy proposals are "confidence killers." He added: "The average rate of unemployment under Eisenhower m 1960 was 5.6 per cent. Under Kennedy it has averaged above 6 per cent since he took office. Business failures increased 11 per cent in 1961 under Kennedy, while mortgage foreclosures were up 40 per cent, the biggest one-year increase since the de pression year 1932." Bulletin Gresham - (DPD - An ex plosion leveled a home here Monday afternoon and at least one person was in jured. Sheriff's deputies said the blast, believed caused by gas, completely destroyed a home listed as thai of the Rev. Lyle Wilson in Gresh am. One person was hospitalised. Continuous Strip Paving Due for Medford-Ashland Continuous strip concrete paving will be utilized for the first time in Oregon on a sec tion of interstate freeway from Medford to Ashland. The project, which has been under consideration for some time, became official with awarding of the paving con tract to Fred H. Slate com pany and E. C. Hall company, Portland. Cost of the 9.45 mile, four-lane stretch of high way will be $2,462,110. Under the continuous strip method, standard joints arc BEGINNING OF PROJECT X . j( INTERCHANGE N. ASHLAND . - -":----.. y valley view rd' nterchange w PHOENIX ' TALENT Series of Pictures Ot Oregon Starts Today in Mail Tribune The Mail Tribune today starts publication of a series of pictures of scenic views of Oregon. Purpose of the series, which will continue throughout the remainder of the summer, is two-fold: (1) to acquaint readers with all of Oregon, and (2) to in terest tourists in visiting and enjoying the beauty of the state. Pictures in the series were provided by the Ore gon stale highway depart ment's tourist division. Laotian Rebels Halt Offensive; Outpost Captured Vientiane, Laos - ("PD - Pro-Communist Laotian reb els, possibly aided by North Vietnamese troops, were re ported today to have broken off a new offensive after cap turing a royal government out post near Houei Sai. Radio messages received from American military ad visers in the Mekong river border village said the rebel drive stopped just before dark Sunday. They said there had been no further contact since the rebels captured the govern ment outpost about nine miles from the village on the road leading to Nam Tha. 'Concentrated Attack' Reports from the same sources Sunday told of "concentrated attack" by the rebels, the first reported in nearly three weeks. The re ports said the rebel force ap peared to include troops from Communist North Viet Nam. It was from Houei Sai that royal government forces fled across the Mekong into Thai land earlier this month. The rebels had driven them out of Nam Tha, capital of Laos' northwestern province, but unaccountably did not at tempt to occupy Houei Sai. Since then government troops, aided by American military advisers, have re established their positions in Houei Sai. WEATHER FORECAST: Mostly cloudy to night and Tuesday. A few lunny periods Tueiday afternoon. Low tonight 40-45. High Tuesday near 70. , Temp. Highest Yesterday 76 Lowest Thin Morning 45 Preclp. to 10 a.m. Today.... Trace Our Skies Tonight Sunset today 7:38 p.m. Sunrise tomorrow 4:39 a.m. The Moon rises 2:3 a.m. tomorrow and is In Perigee. New Moon June 2 VISIBLE PLANETS Venus, sets 8:34 p..m Jupiter, rises 1:29 a.m. Saturn, low In southeast 1:39 a.m. Mars, rises 3:24 a.m. eliminated by use of heavier reinforcing steel, which holds the concrete and causes tiny cracks at more frequent inter vals. To the motorist, these cracks are unnoticeable and virtually invisible. Joints will be installed only at the seven bridges called for in the project. A spokesman for the Ce ment Industry of Oregon pointed out that the continu ous strip process dates as far back as 1938, although it has not been used to any extent until recent years, primarily BARNETT RD. iKJTfPf-HANGE FERN VALLEY RD. Pageant Finalist fy .. r 'frit Myda McCabe Myda McCabe, daughter of Mrs. Jean Jaeger, 145 North Ivy st, Medford, .is another of the 11 Miss Rogue Valley finalists chosen to compete June 2 at the Oregon Shake spearean Festival theater. She has completed one year at Southern Oregon college. Miss McCabe is 5 feet 4 inch es tall and weighs 121 pounds, Her chief hobby is reading and her favorite sport is wa ter skiing. Newbry Campaign Expenses Reported Salem - IUPD - "Neighbors For Newbry," the committee that helped get State Sen. L. W. Newbry (R-Talent) nomi nated in Jackson county, spent $3,062 in the primary election campaign, according to a report filed with the state elections division today. The campaign expense re port of Newbry's opponent, Donald Stathos of Medford, isn't available yet. Newbry and Stathos waged a vigorous fight for the Republican nomi nation for state senator. The committee that got State Rep. John Dellenback (R - Medford) rcnoml n a t e d spent $565. Earlier, Edward Branchfleld of Medford, GOP hopeful for the Oregon house, listed $585 in expenses. Pacific Landing Next for Spaceman Cape Canaveral - IUPD - The flight of Scott Carpenter, who found space travel ' as easy as a bus ride," almost cer tainly set the stage for Amer ica s next Mercury launch to be a seven-orbit adventure with a landing in the Pacific instead of the Atlantic. Space officials said today that on the strength of Car penter's successful three or bits of earth last Thursday they expected the ambitious new space voyage to be sched uled for next fall. The trip would take more than 10 hours and the astronaut would be recovered near Midway Island. in Illinois, New Jersey and Texas. According to available in formation, the Medford-Ashland freeway link will be the longest single stretch of con tinuous strip concrete paving in tlie country. Paving will start by early summer, with a small portion linking the near-complete Medford bypass to Barnett rd. interchange due for comple tion late this fall. Estimated completion date for the entire project is late fall of 1963. Continuous strip is one of Iron Workers Fail To Appear; Talks Break Down Union Demanding Two-Year Contract Portland (UPD Another heavy construction shutdown was threatened in Oregon to day when iron workers failed to show up for work in the first day of a new strike. Some 700 members of Lo cal 29 of the International As sociation of Bridge, Structural and Ornamental Iron Workers As far as could be deter mined this morning, the Iron Workers strike in Ore gon has not affected any Jackson county construction jobs. Officials with the Peter Kiewit Son's company said that no iron workers are now employed on the freeway structure through Medford. but that they would be needed next week. are involved in a dispute in Oregon and southern Wash ington with five employer groups. John J. O'Halloran, secre tary and business representa tive of the local, said the work halt was called follow ing a breakdown in negotia tions Saturday with the Asso ciated General Contractors for a new contract. Wants Two-Year Pact He said the union wanted a two-year contract calling for a wage increase of 75 cents an hour for rodmen and 68 cents an hour for structural Iron workers. He said the local had been without a contract since April 20 and had informed employ ers they were not furnishing men without an agreement. O'Halloran said the local re jected an AGC offer of a three-year contract calling for a wage increase of 16 cents each year. The union will not picket construction projects unless workers are brought in to do iron workers' jobs, he added. AGC Meets Tuesday Jack Cullinan, chairman of the employers' negotiating group, said the AGC's mem bers would vote on the local's demands on Tuesday. He said the groups could not act with out a vote because of the fi nancial burden involved in the contract. Federal Mediator George Walker said no further talks were scheduled. Cullinan said employers would attempt to keep con struction projects going "as long as practicably possible." The employer's groups involv ed are the Associated General Contractors' heavy and build ing divisions, the Willamette General Contractors Associa tion of Salem, the Steel and Wire Fabricators Association and the Eugene Contractors Association. a number of methods present ly used in concrete highway construction. Eight inches of reinforced concrete, with joints every 66 feet, has been the rule for concrete laid on Oregon's interstate system since 1058. A bumplcss surface has been successfully achieved on these highways through the dowel joint or sawed joint processes, both of which al low for the natural contrac tion of concrete as it cures. Oregon's pioneer concrete roads, however, were built in I : ' " 1 ft I ".'-M EXAMINES SAFE Detective safe in Payless Drugstore at which burglars broke into sometime Sunday night. This is the sixth burglary in Medford in recent weeks in which an identical method of operation has been followed, police of ficers said. Thieves gained entrance to the store by prying open a door on the roof of the building. An estimated $1,000 in change was removed from the safe, it was reported by store employees. The theft occurred sometime between 7:30 p.m. Sunday and 8:10 today, open the store discovered the Unmanned Russian Satellite in Orbit Moscow-IUPD-The Soviet Un- ion launched another unman ned earth satellite today in its current scries of tests aimed at putting a man on the moon, the Soviet Tass news agency said. Tass said the new satellite, called Cosmos V, was circl ing the earth every 102.75 ! minutes at heights ranging from 126 miles to about 993 miles at its highest, with "all systems functioning normal ly." -1 ..... . Cosmos V's maximum dis tance from the earth is great' Shady Cove Man Jailed After Crash A Shady Cove man was be ing held in the Jackson coun ty jail today on charges of hit and run driving after a colli sion on the Dodge bridge on Sams Valley highway Satur day night. Gerald LaGrave, 20, of Shady Cove, was being chased by the Eagle Point police from the Eagle Point city 'limits when the accident occurred. LaGrave was driving on the Sams Valley highway trying to outrun the Eagle Point po lice car, state police said. The LaGrave car struck the rear of a car operated by John A. Drager, 54, of 225 Nevada St., Ashland. Drager was reported in good condition at Rogue Val ley hospital this morning while being treated for cuts on his forehead and bruises. A passenger in the Drager car, Audrey McNickl, Orange st., Medford, was injured and reported in critical condition at Rogue Valley hospital to day. Drager was reported In good condition at the same hospital. 15-foot slabs or sections. This is why most of these older highways have developed "thumps" over many years of use. . In Washington, a "dummy" joint has been used extensive ly as part of concrete high way construction. This is a crack which goes down only two or three Inches in the surface, then is filled with scaler material. Slip form concrete construc tion has been popular in Cali fornia. Multl-laned concrete freeways can be rolled out at OF Lt. Lyle C. Perkins examines the Medford Shopping center, when employees preparing to burglary. er by some 24 miles than any of the previous shots. Describing Cosmos V as "a routine artlfical earth satel lite," Tass said the new Sput nik's oruit of inclination to the equator is 49 degrees, 4 minutes. I Of 21 satellites known to have been orbited by the So viet Union, five are known to be circling the earth. The United States has fired 70 known shots of which 32 are still in orbit. There has been, one joint Anglo - American launch. Cosmos I was launched last March 16 as the first in a scries to explore conditions for a prolonged space flight by man by obtaining informa tion on the earth's radiation belts, cosmic rays and long range radio communications. Two similar satellites were launched within the next month. A fourth, Soviet of ficials said on April 29, was recovered after it had orbited the earth more than 72 hours. The weights of none of the Sputniks has been announced. Medford Stores To Open Friday Nights Stores in the downtown Medford business district will remain closed tonight, and following Monday nights, but will institute a general Fri day night opening this week instead, according to a spokes man for the Downtown Med ford Merchants association. The Friday night opening was agreed to by about 50 members of the association at a meeting about three weeks ago. Most stores will remain open Friday until 9 p.m., it was stated. Freeway a rapid pace by this method without the necessity of side forms. The automatic equip ment associated with slip-form paving has cut construction time and reduced Initial high way costs, the Cement Indus try said. Cement treated sub-grade, combined with eight or nine inches of non-reinforced con crete surface, has been used primarily In areas with good road building conditions. This process brings about adequate base stabilizations. END PROJECT e e
