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The Beauties of Scenic Oregon
(Oregon State Highway Commission Photo)
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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.
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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.
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'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.