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km edy Um s AMA To Prove Him mmg 1 : The Beauties of Scenic Oregon (Oregon State Highway Commission Photo) ... ., $ the 4.000-foot level in the Steens mountain in southeastern Oregon rises 1,000 feet above 4,000-foot Alvord valley floor. Airborne Attacks Repel Rebels in South Viet Nam Saigon, South Viet Nam -(UPI) - U.S.-assisted airborne at tacks saved one South Viet namese village from Commu nist attackers Monday and In flicted a slashing defeat pn another Red band, authorita tive sources said today. Total casualties for the day's lighting totaled 42 Com munists dcud, 12 wounded and 24 captured. Seventeen loyal troops were killed and nine wounded. Red guerrillas attacked Than Tri, about 118 miles southwest of here, early Mon day. They overran the village and attacked two nearby out posts, killing 15 defenders, but were routed by govern ment troops brought to the scene in U.S. Marine helicop ters. No Communist casualties were reported at Than Tri. , Guerrillas Surprised On the Plain of Reeds, 65 miles southwest of Saigon, helicopter-borne troops sur prised another guerrilla band. Thirty-two Reds were killed, 12 wounded and 24 captured in fierce fighting. There was no report of gov ernment casualties. In a third clash, the govern ment garrison at Cai Don, about 30 miles southwest of Saigon, drove off a guerrilla band after killing 10 Reds. Two loyal soldiers were kill ed and nine were wounded. Market Sell-Off Trims Early Gain; Tickers Catch Up Kennedy Plans News Conference Thursday Washington - !UPD - Presi dent Kennedy will hold a news conference Thursday at noon (PST), the White House said today. Press Secretary Pierre Sal inger said the session "will be open to live radio and tele vision coverage." New York-(UPI)-A midday rally in stocks ran aground today on a fourth hour sell off. Only half of an earlier gain was left standing when the selling subsided. ' Tickers, whiqji ran as much as 34 minutes behind transac tions, finally caught up and rim clear shortly before 10 a.m. (PST). The price trend at thai .moment was firm but with issues down from their best levels of the day. Easier at Opening When the market opened, prices were easier and it ap peared that a continuation of Monday's sharp decline was in the cards. But by 9 a.m., a rush of buyers was strong enough to reverse the earlier slide and produce sizable gains in both the Dow Jones industrial average and the Standard & Poor's 500-stock index. Brokers were able, to trace the market's abrupt turn around to news that Demo cratic congressional ' leaders would welcome an administra tion proposal for a cut in in come, taxes next year and a Commerce Department report showing that April business sales rose to another new record. International Business Ma chines was up around S2, Coca Cola up nearly $3, Min neapolis - Honeywell ahead $1.25, and American Tele phone, up- nearly $2 at its best, showed a gain of only 63 cents midway through the fifth hour. Treasury Secretary Douglas Dillon, in an address Monday night to the New York Fi nancial Writers Association, said President Kennedy plans to present to Congress next January a broad plan ot "top-to-bottom reduction in the ratps nf income tax." I Dillon spoke after a day which saw traders drop more than $11 billion -in paper value of stocks, continuing the downward trend of last Friday. The slump brought the stock market to a point half-way from that reached May 28, when the market posted losses almost equal to the crash year of 1929. Dillon told the financial writers the administration had made "no decisions on any of the details" of the proposed tax cuts. He also did not speci fy whether the proposal would include both corporate and individual taxes. Regional Edition Medford 57th Year Price 10 Cents Tribune 20 Pages Two Sections MEDFORD, OREGON, TUESDAY, JUNE 5, 1962 No. 65 Democratic Leaders Like Plans For Reduction in Income Taxes MEWSC&BRIEFS No Changes Noted In Primary Races The final canvass of the May primary election results did not turn any losers into victors, according to the Jack son county elections depart ment. In the close race between Robert Duncan, Medford, and Charles Porter, Eugene, for the Democratic nomination for fourth district Congress man, State House Speaker Duncan picked up 120 addi tional votes compared to ex Congressman Porter's 60 on the final Jackson county tally. The canvass gave Duncan 6,298 votes to Porter's 2,328, a majority of 3,970 votes. In the race for the Demo cratic nomination for county judge, Ex-County Commis sioner Ralph James widened his margin over Evan Ras mussen, Phoenix, by 14 votes. The canvass gives James 2, 934 to Rasmussen's 2,575. Incumbent Earl M. Miller, winner of the Republican nomination for county judge, increased his margin over Homer Conger, Medford, by 111 votes. Final tally gives Miller 4,893 votes to Conger's 4,280. The complete canvass of the primary vote will be pub lished in the Mail Tribune tomorrow. itims from AROUND THI OLOII Thant Condemns High Altitude Nuclear Testing United Nations, N.Y.-IUP1I- Acting U.N. Secretary General Thant today condemned the projected U.S. high altitude nuclear tests over the Pacific. "I feel that the projected high-altitude tests are a mani festation of a very dangerous psychosis which la in evidence today," Thant toms a news conference. "I have made clear that I am in complete agreement with the General Assembly resolutions on banning nu clear tests. The projected nu clear and thermonuclear tests in the high altitude belong in a different category and I feel they are more undesirable. Property of All "In the first instance, these tests have been objected to very vigorously by scientists all over the world and these scientists have no ax to grind. It :s conmmon knowledge that outer space is no country's territory; it is the common property of all countries." Thant also disclosed that the United Nations has receiv ed reports of foreign mercen aries returning to the break away Congo province of Ka tanaga. But he indicated that no UN military action to oust them, on the basis of these un confirmed reports, was in prospect. If current unification talks between Congolese Premier Cyrille Adoula and Katangese President Moise Tshombe fail. Thant said, he would consult his Longo Advisory Commit tee and possibly seek new in slruclions from the Security Council. Thant told his news confer ence his preference would be against seeking election for a iun iive-year term as secre tary general when his term as acting UN chief ends next April. Dillon Discloses Administration's Proposal lor '63 'Top To Bottom' Reduction Slated Washington - IliPil - Demo cratic congressional leaders told President Kennedy today they would welcome an ad ministration proposal for a cut in income taxes next year. Speaker John W. McCor mack informed newsmen of this attitude after the legisla tive leaders' weekly breakfast meeting with Kennedy at the White House. Treasury Secre tary Douglas Dillon said Mon day night that tax reductions would be proposed next year. "Congress is always recep tive to that kind of proposal," McCormack told newsmen. Told of Altitude He sajd the leaders told Kennedy of their attitude. The speakers said they were "in favor of tax cuts." Dillon spelled out, the tax cut proposal in a speech in New York. He said the ad ministration's tax reform bill to be submitted to Congress in 1963 would provide a "top-to-bottom" reduction in income tax rates. He was expected to be ques tioned in detail about the pro posal during a scheduled ap oearance today before the Senate Finance committee. Dillon did not say whether he meant corporate as well as individual taxes. There is some division of ' opinion within the Democratic party about including corporations in a tax cut, although inform ed Washington opinion be lieves it likely. Both Dillon and Kennedy have guardedly mentioned the possibility of cutting taxes, but not in the direct language the secretary used Monday night in a talk to the New York Financial Writers Asso ciation. Possibility Left Open Dillon left open the pos sibility that closing of tax loopholes would recoup ior the Treasury all of the reve nue it would lose by lowering rates. But with the economy failing to achieve the brisk rate of expansion hoped for by the Kennedy administra tion, tax reduction seemed virtually a sure thing. The treasury chief said there have been no decisions on any of the details" of the proposed tax bill, including which loopholes to close and how much to trim rates. He said general outlines of the bill would be gent to Congress this year. . : . .. v- j ij.'v ; 'j) 'CRANE' DEMONSTRATED The Sikorsky S-64 Skycrane was demonstrated publicly this noon at the Sikorsky plant in Stratford, Conn. The S-64, shown carrying an 8 by 20 foot truck trailer, is expected to have wide military and commercial applications, in cluding logging. The helicopter is expected to be tested in logging operations in south ern Oregon this fall. (UPI) Medford Pools To Open June 8; Classes Slated Renewed Terrorist Attacks Promised Against Moslems Jackson and Hawthorne Algiers r- IUP1I - The outlaw pools will open for publicly Secret Army Organization Medford Man Ordered STOCK EXCHANGE PLANS INVESTIGATION 10 Mate Hospital New York-Jlfli-The New York Stock Exchange will open Jackson County Circuit n investigation into exactly who did the buying and selling Judge Edward C. Kelly order- during the 34 million share upheaval on the first three trad- cd Joseph Ross Ryland, 30, of ing days of last week, it was announced today. BODIES RECOVERED IN VENEZUELA REVOLT Puerto Cabfllo. Veneiuela-UM'-Authorilies announced to day that the bodies of 204 persons killed in the abortive week end marine revolt against President Romulo Betancourt have been recovered. They said the final death toll may reach 400. DETROIT TEAMSTER OFFICIAL INDICTED Delroit-'IPI'-The federal government today indicted Pontile, Mich., teamsters official on charges of embettlement and false bookkeeping of union records. A federal grend jury here accused Floyd B. Harmon, 47, secretary-treasurer of Local 614, Pontiac, ot 12 counts of emhtttlcment and 12 counts of false entry of books and records. NO PROGRESS IN MEDIATION EFFORTS Olymple-rn-GoT. Albert D. Rosellini said Monday he "couldn't report any progress" in his eflortt to mediate the construction industry strike against Atsocietend General Contractors. 2489 Corona ave., Medford, to the state hospital for ex amination after he wrestled with courtroom per o nncl yesterday and refused to be arraigned on assault charges. Ryland is charged with as saulting his neighbor, Earl Fiehtner. with a dangerous weapon May 2. He is charged with firing a rifle in his direc Hon. The bullet went through Fichtner's home on Corona ave., according to reports WOMAN SOUGHT Newport, Ore.-HTD-Lincoln County Dist. Atty. A. R. Mc- Mullen said today authorities are seeking whereabouts of Lucile Grenz, 41, missing from her home at nearby To ledo since March 30. Stale Asked to Reconsider Decision A letter is being sent to the state board of education ask ing it to reconsider its de cision of mid-Mav not to recognize Rogue River as an administrative school district. ine Jackson county reor ganization board had recom mended that Rogue River be recognized as a separate ad ministrative unit since two elections to join Rogue River and Evans Valley failed to gain approval from a majority oi me tvans Valley patrons. The rural school board will take over the functions of th reorganization committee here July 1, according to state law The reorganization commit tee has submitted a compre hensive plan as required which covers its suggestions for reorganization. It suggests the eventual joining of Butte Falls and Eagle Point, Pine hurst and Ashland, the Apple gate with cither Medford or the Josephine county unit, and Evans Valley with Rogue River. Second Sabin Oral Clinic Scheduled The second of three Sabin oral polio vaccine clinics will be held in Jackson county Saturday and Sunday, June 9 and 10. Clinics will be open from noon to 6 p.m. eacn oay ai Ashland high school, Phoenix grade school, McLoughlin and Hedrick Junior High schools in Medford, Crater High school in Central Point, Shady Cove school and the cafeteria at Rogue River school. The Jackson County Med ical Society, sponsors of the clinics, said type 3 vaccine will be administered at the clinics. Type 1 was given at the clinics three weeks ago. The medical society said that from two to four weeks must pass between doses of the vaccine to assure effective ness. The third clinic, at which type 2 vaccine will be ad ministered, will be held in September. The society emphasized that the vaccine to be given next week end is not a booster dose to that given three weeks ago, but provides permanent immunity from a separate polio virus. There are three known viruses which cause polio, doctors said, and each dose of Sabin vaccine pro vides immunity to a separate virus. swimming June 8 from 1 to 9 p.m' according to ,Robert L. Haworth, Medford parks and recreation director. Both pools will be reserved for family swimming from 5:30 to 7 p.m. each day except Saturday and Sunday. During that hour and a half, Haworth said, no children under 15 years old will be admitted to the pools unless accompanied by their parents. Season tickets to the pools , may be purchased at the parks and recreation department in the city hall this week. After Friday, June 8, tickets also may be purchased at either of the two pools, Haworth said. Season ticket rates are: for children (under 11 years) $4; students (12-18 years inclu sive) $5.50; adults (over 18 years) $7.50; and families (re gardless of size) $17.50. Dajly rates are children is cents, students 25 cents, ana adults 40 cents. The recreation department will again this summer otter American Red Cross swim ming instruction with four 10 day sessions for children (must be of school age) and adults. The first session of swim ming Instruction in beginning, intermediate, and advanced swimming, and junior and sen ior life saving will commence June 18. Registration for the classes will take place on the Wednes day, Thursday, Friday and Saturday preceding tne open ing date of each session. Reg istrations will be taken at the pool where the lessons will be given. The fee for these class es is $2, or a season swim pass. Other sessions are set for July 9 to 20, July 23 to Aug. 3, and from Aug. 6 to 17. Additional information about the summer swimming program may be obtained at the Medford park ana recrea- tion department 773-7355. or the department office on the main floor of city hall. the Moslems today and Al geria braced for a new round of terrorism. lem Algerian National Liber ation Front (FLN). It sought guarantees to continue political force after Algeria becomes independent. Observers believed the The European extremists OAS failed to get what it called off their four-day lull wanted from either the FLN in terrorism at midnight, or the provisional executive, Early this morning two Mos lems were killed in Algiers. Guarantees Sought The OAS proclaimed the truce last week in hopes of contacting leaders of the Mos- Meeting Set for Area Land Owners Land owners in the Med ford division of the Rogue ba sin project may sign up for soil classification at a meeting at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, June 7 in the Central Point Grange hall. Land-owners should pro vide legal properly descrip tions. The Medford district In cludes land south of Rogue River, west of the Eagle Point Irrigation district, north of Medford and east of the Mili tary rd., including Willow creek and Tolo areas. Persons interested in fu ture irrigation should attend Thursday's meeting, V e r n Gebhard, chairrnan of the or ganizational group, said. How ard Hcinkel of the bureau of reclamation will be at the meeting to answer questions on the soil classification pro cedures. Other members of Gob hard's committee are Mrs. Ka thcrine Heffernan and Wil liam Foley. It is necessary for land owners to sign up land for soil classification to expedite planning of the irrigation de velopment from the proposed Rogue basin project, accord ing to Ben Hilton, Grants Pass, president of the Rogue Basin Flood Control and Wat er Resources association. which is ruling Algeria until the territory achieves full in dependence. In a pirate broadcast an nouncing the end of the truce Monday night, an OAS an nouncer said the terrorist or ganization would continue its "scorched earth" policy un less the FLN c o m e s to an agreement on the future. The OAS opposes Algerian independence under domina tion of the Moslems, who out number the Europeans nine to one. It has been conducting a campaign of terrorism to sabotage the peuce accords which ended the seven-and-a-half year Algerian war. Algeria voles July 1 in a self- determination referen dum which is expected to re sult In overwhelming approv al oi independence. Caustic Letter Sent To Head of Medical Group Chief Executive Continues Battle Washington -Ult- President Kennedy today challenged the American Medical Association to prove that he was wrong when he said the organization opposed the basic principles of social security. The chief executive sent a caustically worded letter to Dr. Leonard W. Larson, AMA president, thereby firing another round in his battle with the AMA over the ad ministration's plan tor medi cal care for the aged financed through the social security system. "If your organization did not oppose social security before its enactment o n 1 y afterwards I will be glad to point out this unique distinc tion at my next press confer ence," the President told Larson. Kennedy, in his public statements, has linked the AMA with the charge heard in the 1930s that the social security system was a "cruel hoax. Larson wrote the President May 25 to deny that the AMA was an enemy of social secur ity. The White House said the President did not receive Lar son s letter until two days after it appeared in the news papers. It said Kennedy noted ' this in his letter to Larson. Objects To Statement "Your letter objects to my news conference statement that the AMA was among the opponents of the original so cial security system," the President wrote Larson. 'If your letter endorses the social security concept on de- half of the AMA, if it stgnt. - ties a willingness on the part of the AMA to include doc tors under its coverage then I am certain that your'letter - will be enthusiastically wel comed by the great majority of the American people." . Kennedy told Larson that If the AMA 'never opposed So cial Security, the public de served an explanation of cer tain AMA statements. Among, these, he said, was a 1919 statement by Dr. Mor ris Fishbein, editor of the AMA Journal, that all forms of compulsory security would lead to removal of individual responsibility, weakening of national caliber, and "a defi nite step toward either com munism or totalitarianism." Kennedy also cited a 1840 resolution of the AMA House of Delegates saying in part " I that social security was "in fact a compulsory socialistic tax" and a 1953 reference by the group to Its record of "disapproval of the princi ple" involved in social security. Jeannace Freeman, Shipley Appeals Due Salem - lUPli - The Oregon Supreme Court Wednesday will hear the automatic ap peals from death sentences of Jeannace June Freeman and Larry West Shipley. Miss Freeman was convict ed in the Central Oregon slaying last year of a child who was thrown from the Crooked river bridge. Ship Icy was convicted of shooting a teen-age girl near the coast. Defense Spending Measure Approved Washington fUPI The Sen ate military appropriations subcommittee today approved big defense money bill which would provide the full $491 million requested by the Air Force for the supersonic RS70 plane. . The Defense Department proposed a $171 million out lay for the RS70 and the House voted $223.9 million. But the Senate subcommittee went along with Gen. Curtis LeMay and other Air Force spokesmen who urged the Ijrger outlay. . The full appropriation com mittee scheduled a session on the bill Friday. LIBERACE TO APPEAR Salem - (UPB - Libcracc s hand is okay and he will be able to fulfill his concert date here June 16, concert director Howard Maple said today. WEATHER FORECAST: Filr and wrmrr through Wednesday. Low lo night it to 42. High tomorrow 73 to It. Temp. Mich fit YMtrrday (17 Lowest Thlt Morning 34 Our Skies Tonight timet today ... 7:44 p.m. Hun me tomorrow .... 4:35 a.m. Moonset tonight 10:3ft p.m. First Quarter . . June I PRI.MINEN'T STARR fhe Twins, north of the Moon. VIMRLF. PLANETS Venus, helow the Twins. Saturn, rises 11:41 p.m. Jupiter, rite 12:5 a m. Mars, rWea . 1:M a.m. New Music Building Set for Grants Pass Grants Pas- Construction of a new music building at Grants Pass High school is expected to get under way shortly, following acceptance of a $54,188 bid by the Clyde Hamilton Construction com pany Monday. Members of tne board of Grants Pass City School dis trict picked the Hamilton bid over six others that were sub milted. The board alro looked over plans for a new shop build ing at the high school. Plans by architect Robert Fisher were tentatively a p p r o V ed and bids are expected to be called for about June 13. Heavy Agenda Awaits State Education Board Salem-IM-The State Board of Education will have before it here Monday and Tuesday a heavy agenda including fin al approval for creating com munity college programs in Clatsop county, Central Ore gon, the Blue Mountain dis trict and the Treasure Valley district. Study couiae aiso will be considered. The Clatsop district takes in all of Clatsop county. The Central Oregon district in-, eludes Deschutes, Jefferson and Crook counties, northern Klamath and northern Lake counties and that part of Was co county that includes the Warm Springs Indian reservation. The Blue Mountain district is composed of Umatilla and Morrow counties and the Treasure Valley district Is made up of a number of school districts in Malheur county plus Huntington district in Baker county. The board also, will con. I aider: -Plans and bids for remod eling the Clatsop community college in Astoria. -Establishment of an educa tion center in Oreonn Citv. school district No. 62, -A school district reorgani zation plan from Lake county that would divide the county into two administrative school districts. -A program for teacher In ternship offered by Portland State college, and teacher edu cation programs at Pacific university, Forest Grove, and Cascade college, Portland. -Changes in teacher certifi cation. The changes were de veloped by the State Certifi cation Review committee last fall. -A 1963 legislative pro gram. ' -Applications from various colleges and local schools to iake part in the Oregon pro gram for Improvement of education. -Plana for an Oregon Pro gram workshop to be held thin summer.
