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Oregon IFire Insurance l&ate Changes Announced Portland - Premium adjust whereby purchasers of large ; policies were paying too much in proportion to their total losses, while buyers of small er policies were paying too little in proportion to their I total losses. The new changes I will reestablish rates on a more equitable basis," the bu-1 reau said. The bureau said that the! adjustments would affect poli-j wait for the full three or five tistics available in the office but contributed 58.5 of the total premium. The bureau estimated that about 60 per cent of the dwelling insurance buyers (who buy policies with a face value belo-v the $10,000 level) will pay increased premiums, while about 40 per cent of the buyers (above the $10,000 protection level) would pay reduced premiums. The premium increases and decreases will vary, the bu As examples of typical dol-1 premium changes will vary Baker, Bend, Coos Bay, Grants Pass, Klamath Falls, La Grande, Oregon City, Pen dleton, Roseburg. Class 6-Ncwport. Class 7-M any residential areas in suburbs of Portland. Class 8-M any residential areas in suburbs" of Portland. Fire resistant apartments will continue at the same .rate, the bureau said, but non-fire-resistant apartments will be increased 20 per cent. The bureau also announced increases and decreases on manufacturing and commer cial rates. The new rates will range from an increase of 33 13 per cent on retail lum ber yards to a decrease of 40 per cent on certain offices." ments, both increases and de creases, for lire insurance coverage in Oregon became effective today, the Oregon Insurance Rating Bureau has announced in behalf of its member and subscriber com panies. Trre changes have been ap proved by the Oregon Insur ance Department. The bureau, which repre sents most of the fire insur ance companies doing busi ness in the state, said that the adjustments are necessary to help correct underwriting deficits and to modernize rat ing procedures to reflect changes in the economy. "Over a long period of time, inequities had developed year policy term to expire. It is estimated, the bureau said, that the adjustments would also moderately in crease the total fire insurance premium income for com panies to overcome the con sistent losses of companies of the past five years. During that time, the companies not only have not made a profit but, on the average, have paid out at least $103.02 for every $100 received in premium. Actually, the bureau said, the deficit has been even greater on dwelling insurance than on commercial fire insurance, but both have failed to show a profit. The bureau pointed out that an analysis of fire loss sta of the Oregon Insurance Com missioner, revealed that pol icies with a face value of $5, 000 or less were responsible for 31.5 per cent of the total losses, . but contributed only 9.9 per cent of the total pre mium. Policies with a face value of $10,000 or more, however, were responsible for only 28.2 per cent of the total losses, reau explained, according to the amount of insurance pro tection purchased and the amount of fire protection In the area Each area or com munity of the state is graded by the insurance business and assigned classification num bers. The lowest numbers have the best fire protection and the highest numbers the least fire protection. lar increases and decreases, w' the increases and de- the bureau said that for a csc smtaller m, the area? . . ... , o better fire protection and house with normal contents iarger in areas o lcsser pr0. insured for $5,000 in the city lection.) i of Portland, (a Class 2 city In areas of the state where which has the best fire pro-1 there is only token or no tection in the state) the in-1 fire protection whatever, ac crease woulcT be $5.24 per counting for about 10 per year; for the same house in 1 cent of the insurance buyers. Class 8 city, the increase I the increases and decreases would be $11.81 per year. are greater than those in Class 8 areas, the bureau said. Examples of fire protection classification numbers assign ed to various Oregon cities and fire districts follow: Class 2-portland. Class 3-Eugene. Class 4-Astoria, Corvallis, Medford, North Bend, Salem, The Dalles. Class 5-Albany, Ashl and, the decrease in premium for a house with normal con tents insured for $15,000 in a Class 2 city would be $5.10 and for the same house in a Class 8 city the decrease would be $7.66. (In all other protection areas or cities which carry protection classes 3 through 7, the dollar-amount annual cies as they come up for re newal. Buyers who are en titled to lower premiums get an additional advantage un der a . new rule, recently adopted by the bureau, which permits them to apply for the new, lower rates on the an niversary date of their poli cies, rather than having to Regional Edition Two Sections 57th Year Price 10 Cents S&JTribune 20 PAGES MEDFORD, OREGON, FRIDAY, JUNE 1, 1962 No. 62 -t A XT MEDFORD The Beauties of Scenic Oregon (Oregon State Highway Commission Photo) Oregon Caves Chateau offers modern accommodations 10 visitors at Oregon Caves National Monument, southwest of Grants Pass. Legislative Reapportionment Plan Approved by Commission Salem - OJPD - After a brisk and lengthy debate., the Ore gon Constitutional Revision commission today approved a plan that would make some major changes in legislative reapportionment. Distribution of lawmaker seats, however, would still be largely along the lines of population, like the present system. The vote was 8-6. The recommendation will go before the 1963 legislature. Major items in the proposal include: -Lifting the ceiling on 60 members of the House and 30 in the Senate, allowing the membership of each house to be expanded as necessary. 2 to 1 Disparity -Requiring that the dispar ity between the amount of people each solon represents be no greater than 2-1. -The House, as now, could be no bigger than twice the size of the Senate. -Scats, as now, must be re apportioned after each 10 year Federal census, but in apply ing the formula for allocation, such factors as geography, transportation and communi cations between areas must be considered. -In setting up legislative districts, county lines can be ignored. The commissioner who made the motion, former Gov. Robert D. Holmes of Port land, said the "real teeth" of the plan is the 2-1 disparity idea. This means that the leg islator who represents the biggest constituency can't rep resent more man twice many people as the legislator who has the tiniest constitu ency. The idea is to keep dis tricts in better balance. Voting no on the package were State Sen. Thomas R. Mahonev (D - Portland), for mer Gov. Charles A. Sprague, Salem: Robert Chandler. Bend publisher: Slaie Rep. Stafford Hansell (R-Hermis-ton); William Sweetland. Klamath Falls publisher, -and Chairman George Layman (R-Nevvberg). The plan the commission adopted came to it from its legislative subcommittee, as amended. It differs from the initiative petition that' back ers of a clear population-geography method in ehoosing House. seats favor. Thoy are putting their plan on the No vember ballot as a constitu tional amendment, and it would give more guarantee of minimum representation to less populated areas.-1 SOC President to Try to Clear Up : isunderstanding Jacksonville - Dr. Elmo Stevenson, president of South ern Oregon college, said today he will give the Britt property in Jacksonville his personal attention in an effort to clear up misunderstandings about its present status and future use. Dr. Stevenson's statement came in response to charges by R. E. Lowe, Jacksonville, that the college was not co operating with efforts by Jacksonville officialsand citi zens to make part of the Britt property into a city park and maintain its gardens. j Lowe said college officials surprised that no one had yet done so. Dr. Stevenson also said that college officials had met with the city council concerning creation of a city park on part of the property and had offer-" ed to lease the necessary land for $l a year indefinitely. He acknowledge that "Keep Off" signs have been posted around the property, but ex plained that they applied only to the public and not to or ganized groups wishing to care for the gardens. . The college is yaiting for the city council to draw up agreement that can be iicm asin's Israel Quickly Executes Former Nazi Colonel Jerusalem, Israel-IUPD-Adolf Eichmann's body was cremat ed and the ashes scattered on the Mediterranean early today within hours of the moment he was hanged as history's most monstrous mass murder er still unrepentant for his role in the Nazi slaughter of 6 million Jews. A slight smile played over the lips of the former SS colonel as a prison official World reaction to ' the hanging of Adolf Eichmann in Israel Thursday appears on page 2A. Pageant Finalist lit"? faf had failed to negotiate a lease i submitted to the state bourd with the city for use of two acres of the property as a park. He also claimed that local citizens had been ignored by college officials on five dif ferent occasions when they re- of higher education for signa tures, Dr. Stevenson said. Give Personal Attention Commenting on the ap parent misunderstanding over tne properly, he said he would posted. Dr. Stevenson said today, however, that the Jackson ville Garden club and city officials were given written permission some time ago to go on the land to maintain the gardens. He said he was quested permission to go on ! give the matter his- personal the property and care for the attention and hoped to get it oarrinns. The Dronertv is ! cleared up within, 30 days. uuwe sniu mere was some question as to whether the deed and title to the property had ever been transferred to the college. According to Frank J. Van Dyke, lawyer who handled the estate, however, the prop erty went into the college's hands by a decree of final distribution and did not re quire a transfer of title or deed. Commenting on the disposi tion of the contents of the house. Dr. Stevenson said that everything of value had been given to the Jacksonville mu- U.S. TO TEST HIGH ALTITUDE WEAPON seum for an indefinite period Wajhington-4Tf-The United State, plans to explode a of time. rocket-borne nuclear device about 30 miles over a remote Pacific island tonight, the first of a series of high-altitude ; Government Initiates W'Th.n,Atomlc En.ray Commission .aid the near-pace .hot ' Sf eP Against CommeS would be held over John.ton I.land about midnight. announced "ready" and the trap door was sprung. He was pronounced dead at two min utes before midnight Thurs day (1:50 p.m., PST). Shallow Victory For Israel it was a shallow victory that could not possibly balance a carriage so bestial that the Israeli supreme court said no punishment could be severe enough. To the end Eichmann re mained defiant. He claimed in his trial he was only a little cog in the Nazi machine. In his final appeal for mercy he blamed the slaughter on other Nazi "leaders" whom he did not identify. Walks To Gallows As he walked his last steps to the gallows at Ramie prison outside Tel Aviv he told Dr. Robert Hull, a Canadian Protestant missionary: "I'm taking it calmly with peace in my heart which is to me proof that I was correct." Just before he died he pro claimed: "I tried to obey the laws of war and my flag." The Rev. Dr. Hull, who had many talks with Eichmann the last few weeks of his life, pleaded with Eichmann on the last walk to "return to Jesus." Refused Bible Eichmann seemed to ignore him. He refused a Bible. But among his last words were: "I live believing in God, and believing in God I die." Four and a half hours later the body of the 56-year-old Nazi race exterminator was removed from the fortress prison and cremated. The ash es were spread over the sea from an Israeli police boat. The state' of Israel wasted no time in snuffing out Eich mann's life after the supreme court turned down his legal appeal on Tuesday. President Itzhak Ben-Zvi speedily rejected the clemency appeal, closing the last avenue of hope, and the orders went out for the first execution in Israel's 14-year history. WS(f iBRiEFS ITIMS FROM JUSr y AROUND THI GLOsI Washington-!?!' - The gov ernment has taken the first steps aimed at indicting lower level U.S. Communist party members for failing to reg ister. The Justice Department asked the Subversive Activi- WOULD EXCLUDE CORPORATIONS : tie? Control Board to desig- Wahington-iri--Tking issue tith hi. chief assistant, nate six persons from New Senate Democratic Leeder Mike Men.iield .aid today corpora-; York City and four from the lion, .hou'.d be excluded from eny tax cut. approved by j West Coast as members of Congre.. to help bol.ter the economy. the party. WILDERNESS DEATH TRY CHARGED Wahington-lPI-"Democratic member, of the House In terior Committee were accu.ed today of trying to kill an idmini.tration-backed plan to preserve million, of acre, of public land In .late of natural wildernc... Medford Downtown Stores Open Tonight A majority of the stores in the downtow.n Medford busi ness district will remain open until 9 o'clock tonight, accord ing to a spokesman for the Downtown Medford Mer chants association. Few stores were open last Monday, because the shift from Monday to Friday eve ning shopping hours started. Residents will be able to view the sister-ship of Free dom 7 space capsule tonight at the corner of Main st. and Central ave. The capsule, which is mounted on a truck, will be available for viewing from 5 to 9 o'clock tonight. The space capsule is on tour o( the United States in con nection with the U.S. savings bond drive. The capsule was made available by the Mc Donnell Aircraft corporation. St. Louis, which constructed it. Marty Wyatt Among the 11 finalists to compete in the Miss Rogue Valley Pageant is Marty Lou ise Wyatt. She is 5 feet 7 inches tall and weighs 116 pounds. Her hobbies are danc ing, skiing and skindiving. She is a student at Southern Ore gon college and plans to con tinue her education there. She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Floyd C. Wyatt, Jacksonville. Miss Rogue Valley Will Be Selected At Saturday Event Miss Rogue Valley will be selected from 11 finalists to morrow night to represent this area in the Miss Oregon Pageant at Seaside next month. Sponsored bv the Medford Junior Chamber of Com merce, the local pageant will start at 8 p.m. Saturday in the Oregon Shakespearean Festi val theater in Ashland. Contestants will appear three times in the program in evening gown competition, talent competition and swim- suit competition. Judges will select five contest finalists, and each will be required to answer two unrehearsed ques tions before Miss Rogue Val ley is selected. Judges for the contest are Edward Barnett, Medford; Francis Willett, Medford; Os car Bjorlie, Ashland; Mrs. Lenore Zapell, Medford; and Paul Gandt, Medford. Also on the program are musical selections by the Pop ulates, a Southern Oregon college group, and John Lusk, Medford. Judges who selected the 11 semi-finalists were James Grigsby Jr., Allen Hooker, Mrs. Marjorie Roethler and Mrs. Marjorie Green, all of Medford. Winner of the pageant will receive a $200 scholarship from the Peosi Cola Scholar ship Foundation, and will represent this area at the Miss Oregon Pageant July 19, 20 and 21 in Seaside. Larry Haller, executive di rector of the Miss Oregon event, said the state pageant has the largest number of con testants it has ever had, and awards have reached an all time high. Winner of the Miss Oregon Pageant will compete in the Miss America contest in At lantic City, N.J., in September. Governor Hatfield Dedicates Pacific Freeway Strip Gov. Mark O. Hatfield, in formally dedicating a new nine-mile section of freeway between Grants Pass and Rogue River today, called for new traffic legislation to make Oregon's highways safer. The governor, flanked on the speaker's platform by about 20 state, county and city officials, said the state's highway accident- record is not good. "We need to give further emphasis to traffic law en forcement," Hatfield said, and he called upon the citizens of the state to support new legislation to reduce the ac cident rate.- Long Drive Recalled He was introduced by Glenn Jackson, chairman of the state highway commission, who said he could remember when it was a "dawn to dark" drive from Medford to Port land. Now, by means of Oregon's new freeway system, Jackson said, the trip can be made in about four and a half hours. This new section of free way, Jackson pointed out, is just a part of a total $90 mil lion highway project in the region, -which, he predicted, will be a vitally important factor in the economic life of southern Oregon. Mayor of Grants Pass, Charles V. Gill, speaking for mayors of cities in Jackson and Josephine counties, said the new freeway "will bring us all closer together." Will Enhance Appeal Murray Gardiner, president of Medford Chamber of Com merce, stated the new high way will enhance the appeal of the area for tourists. A contingent of Grants Pass Cavemen, and an audience of about 250 watched Governor Hatfield cut the green ribbon, officially opening the new freeway, about 11:30 o'clock this morning. The governor's car then led a motorcade into Rogue Riv er, where Mayor Larry Shee han presented Hatfield with a key to the city. A no - host luncheon in Grants Pass, to which the pub lic was invited, concluded the dedication program. 1 nttw Boivin To Appoint Pay Study Group Salem fLTI1 Senate Presi dent Harry Boivin (D-Kla-math Falls, said today he is going to appoint an advisory committee to study legislative pay and recommend a pay increase that the 1963 legisla ture should vote Itself. He said there appears to be "differences of opinion among members of the legislature on the subject of adequate legis lative pay." Thompson Appears In California Court Donald Martin Thompson, 39, of Klamath Falls, who was found innocent of armed rob bery in a Jackson county cir cuit court trial in February, has been arraigned in Marti nez, Calif, municipal court on three counts of armed rob bery. According to United Press International, Thompson was held for superior court trial on charges of armed robbery of supermarket stores in San Pablo, El Cerrito and Con cord, Calif. He was arraigned May 2'. before Municipal Judge Wilson Locke with bail ret at $50,000. It is believed that he was out on bail. - Thompson had been tried in Jackson county in Decem ber, 1959, for the Labor Day, 1959, armed robbery of the Medford Shopping Center Safeway store. He was sen tenced to life imprisonment, but successfully appealed his care to the Oregon supreme court. He was found innocent of the charge in the second trial here, but was arrested shortly afterward by Califor nia authorities for armed rob bery in that rtate in 1959. Date of Thompson's trial in California has not been scheduled. IS -V -A ...7 ' V, 1 it'" WINNER This tempera watercolor by Tom art talent contest for high school seniors.' Semple, 17, son of Mr. and Mrs. James Semple will receive a $600 scholarship from Semple, 626 South Holly St., Medford, was Hallmark cards, sponsor of the educational named third prize winner in the 1962 Gen- project since it started in 1053. eral Federation of Women's clubs' national Medford Hiqh Senior Awarded ational Art Contest I m An untitled tempera water color painting of a stand of pine trees against a blue sky by Tom Semple, 17, of Med ford, has been named third place winner in the 1S62 Gen eral Federation of Women's clubs' national art contest for high school students. Semple, a senior at Med ford High school, is the son of Mr. and Mrs. James Sem ple, 626 South Hoiiy st. He will receive a $600 scholar ship from Hallmark Cards, which has sponsored the edu cational project since its in ception nine years ago. First place went to Sharon Whittaker, 17, of Ravenna, Ohio, and second place to Sharon Ann Jones, 17, of Ida ho Falls, Idaho. Semple blended dark, for- i est-like color tones in a paint I ing which captures the majes j ty and ruggedness of the Ore ! gon woods. "I feel the painting reflects something of the spirit of the northwest," young Semple WEATHER FORECAST: Variable high rlmidhirss thiongh Saturday. Low tunight 42. High Saturday ts. Temp. Highest Yesterday 76 Lowest This Morning 39 Our Skies Tonight Sunset today 7:41 p.m. Sunrise tomorrow . 4:37 a.m. New Moon tomorrow 6:27 a.m. .lime is the month of the long est days and shortest nigts and the "summer triangle" of Vega, lleneb and Altalr will be high er in Ihe east earh evening. Vega is the brightest of these 3 stars. said In commenting on his painting. Semple's entry was spon sored by the Medford Travel Study Group. He received most of his artistic training under the direction of War ren Wolf, art director at Med ford High. Semple plans to at tend the Los Angeles Art Cen ter school next fall. His painting was one of several entries from 49 states, according to Mrs. Douglas I. McCrum, Kansas City, nation al art chairman of the Gen eral Federation of Women's clubs. ' TALKS TO RESUME Portland (UPD Negotiations between two big lumber un ions and employers are sched uled to resume here next week. GOLDWATER TO SPEAK Portland - UPD - Sen. Barry , Goldwater (R-Ariz.) will ad-; dress a $100-a-plate Republi can fund raising dinner here j June 29. I British Envoy Exposed to Mumps By Governor Hatfield's Daughter Salem-UPD-A 6aving factor Thursday when the 3-year-old daughter of Gov. Mark Hatfield exposed British Ambassador David Ormsby-Gore to the mumps here was that none ef the ambassador's children were with him, a Hatfield aide pointed out today with a wtak smile. Sir David and his wife who also had lunch with the Hatfield family at the governor's home have five children. Both Ormsby-Gorcs were unwittingly exposed to the mumps by Elizabeth Hatfield, eldest of the governor's two children. And the worst part the Hatfield aide admitted was that when the am bassador and his wife left here late Thursday and returned to Seattle, they were to officially greet Prince Philip today in the Century 21 city. This is wnat Happened: After lunch, the ambassador romped in fatherly fashion with little Elizabeth, a name of which the ambassador is particularly tond. The second Hatfield child, 2-year-old Mark Jr., Joined the frolic too. It was lots of fun. Sir David and his wife left in the afternoon. Thursday evening, to the stunned governor and first lady, came word from the family doctor that Elizabeth has the mumps. He added that both Ormsby Gores were thoroughly exposed. Hatfield's press secretary, Travis Cross, was still making frantic phone calls to Seattle when the sun went down here Thursday and he never was able to get through to Sir David. "International incidents," he moaned, "have been built on less."
