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Mi mm The Beauties of Scenic .V An Preparations for Festival Season Start in Ashland Ashland - Preparations for the 1962 Oregon Shakespear ean Festival season started yesterday with the arrival of staff personnel and perform ers. . The 22nd season for Amer ica's first Elizabethan theater will open Saturday, July 21. The season ends Sept. 2. The festival company rep resents many parts of the United States, and is compos ed of returning actors as well as new ones, Festival officials noted. More than 100 persons are expected to make up the full company when registra tion is completed. Auditions Under'way Auditions started immedi ately after yesterday morn ing's sign-in period. They con tinued until late yesterday. Following auditions, un-cast actors offered prepared scenes from previous appear ance so members of the direct ing staff could become ac quainted with the actors. The long read-through mar athon started this morning, with each of the season four Shakespearean produc t i o n s being read. Actors will rotate through several roles during the read-throughs. Read-throughs will continue until tomorrow noon, after which directors will call back performers they want to hear again. To Meet Saturday The production staff will meet at the home of Produc ing Director Angus L. Bow- mer at 7 p.m. to cast actors in each of the four plays. Sunday morning has been ITIMS FROM IIEWSBRIEFS AIRCFRAT WARNED AS TEST NEAR Tokyo-t'PI'-The United Statu has warned aircraft to keep out of a 600-by-800-mile danger area near Christmas Island in preparation for a new nuclear test, It was reported today. CAPTAIN DRUNK: EAST GERMANS ESCAPE Berlin-aw-Eighl East German crewmen of a river ex cursion boat got their captain and engineer drunk on cham pagne, beer end schnapps early today and then oicaped to Weit Berlin with five women and a child under a hail of machine gun bullets fired by Communist guards aboard pursuing patrol craft. SAC BOMBER SETS NONSTOP RECORD Goldsboro, N.C-IP1-A BS2H bomber of the Strategic Air Command Thursday flew a record 14.400 miles nonstop with no more extra equipment than an additional copilot. The huge, eight-engine )et covered the distance in 22 hours and 38 minutes over a "doted course" ringing Green land, Alaska, California and Florida. The flight ecplipied the earlier closed circuit distance record of 10,078 miles set by a BS2G bomber in 1S60. t (Oregon State 1 . Oregon coastal sunset near Bandon. reserved for a special" direc tors' "second look" at the company balance. Final cast ing will be posted shortly before noon Sunday, and re hearsals will start at 1 p.m. Plays scheduled this year include "Comedy of Errors, ' "Henry IV, Part I," '"As You Like It, and Conolanus. A special production, "A Thieves Ballad," will open later in the season. Open House Set at Hawthorne Center An open house will be held Sunday at the new Hawthorne Convalescent and Rehabilita tion center, 625 Stevens ave., Millard Hoffman, administra tor, announced today. The public has been invited to tour the 102-bed $650,000 facility between 2 and 5 p.m. Sunday, prior to its official opening Monday. Among features of the guid ed tour is the Center's inte grated physical therapy de partment, one of the most ex tensive found in any convales cent facility, according to Hoffman. The department will func tion as both an out-patient and in-patient service and is under direction of registered physcial therapists H. L. Gil bert and R. D. Scoficld. The public also will be shown typical patient rooms the dining room and kitchen various soclai areas, medical and x-ray laboratories, and the chapel, where regular services will be scheduled by the Medford Ministerial sociation. AROUND THI OlOII Oregon Highway Commission Photo) Bids Called for Construction of:, ' SOC Dormitory Ashland Bids will be opened July 12 for construc tion of the fourth dormitory in the Cascade hall complex at Southern Oregon college Bids were called for today by the state board of higher ed ucation. The building will house 92 students and a counselor. The overall plan of tl.e complex, designed by Robert J. Kee- ney, Medford architect, in cludes five dormitory build ings, three dining rooms and a kitchen. Two of the dormitories have been completed, and a third is undor construction. When the fifth dormitory is constructed in the future, plans call for construction of the dining rooms and kitchen at the same time. The com plex faces Madrone st. Cost of Dormitory Estimated cost of the dor mitory is S335.000 which in cludes built-in furniture. It will be four stories high with 46 study-bedrooms of 160 sciuare feet each. Other areas on the ground floor will include a recreation room, truck storage and laun dry and service areas. The counselor's suite will be on the main floor. The structure will have a total of 18,839.5 square feet, and will cost an estimated $17.57 per square foot. The building will be of reinforced concrete. Parade to Open Redmen's Meeting A downtown parade at 1:30 p.m. Saturday, will open a district . session of the Im proved Order of Rcdmen, Zone 4, and Degree of Poca hontas, District 1. The parade will assemble at the Library park. More than 100 delegates and visitors are expected to attend the sessions. Expected to attend ate Ted Meves, Red ding, great sachem of the Great Council of California, and Mrs. Robert Etzel, Comp- ton, great Pocrhontas of the California council. Mrs. Etzel will officially visit the Weatonka council of the women's lodge at 8 o'clock tonight at the Pythian build ing. Saturday's program in cludes a banquet at the Le gion hall on Walnut st. with business sessions for both lodges to follow. COLUMBIA DROPS Vancouver, Wash. -iflPT-The Columbia river here dropped below flood stage today. The stream was down seven-tenths of a foot from Thursday to 13.7. Flood stage is 18 feet. I Regional Edition Medford Two Sections 28 Pages Foreign Nations Warned Against Illegal Arms Use Violators Face Loss of Assistance Washington-WPH-The House Foreign Affairs Committee to day warned all nations receiv ing military aid that this country could no longer tol erate illegal use of arms it gives or sells them. The committee approved what would amount to a con gressional order to the ad ministration to cut off aid to any future violators. The action was a direct re sult of use of American mili tary equipment in India's in vasion of Goa and Portugal's repression of a rebellion in Angola. State Department witnesses have told the committee that both India and Portugal vio lated agreements in using U.S. arms in the two military ac tions. Rep. William S. Broomfield (R-Mich.) sponsored the amendment. Penalty Held Necessary The committee said "such penalty is necessary and will serve notice on recipient countries who may view these conditions or agreements as having little or no effect." The decision was disclosed the committee issued a formal report on its $4,667, 500,000 version of the aid bill. The Senate passed a $4,662,- 000,000 authorization Thurs day night. The Senate bill includes a provision for giving surplus food to Communist countries such as Yugoslavia and Po land. Before it passed the $4,662, 000,000 bill, the Senate toned down an amendment that would have banned assistance to Communist-dominated na tions. The action would have affected Yugoslavia and Po land. Second Lookout Is Posted by State Southwest district of the state forestry department manned its Buck Rock fire lookout station north of Trail today. Lookout is Fred Neumann. He is the second man to be posted. John Groner was placed at Tallowbox in the Applegate area yesterday. Doyle Stockton, assistant district warden, pointed to a drying trend this morning and said plans are to put up the other lookouts next week if weather continues as it is. Rogue River National for est posted Basil Craig on Squaw Peak lookout in the Applegate district yesterday. This is the third time he has manned the station this spring. He was sent up during the previous dry spells and came down when rains fell. An air -ground operation school in connection with fire fighting preparations was be ing held today at the Rogue forest warehouse on McAn drews rd. It was being attend ed by some 60 individuals of the forest service and state forestry department. Doug Finch, Rogue forest fire con trol officer, was In charge. Klamath Merchants To Go on Fast Time Klamath Falls-(UPI)-Most of the merchants here said they would go on daylight time effective Monday. Frank Bo gatay. president of the Klam ath Falls Merchants' Associa tion, said a poll conducted this week among both em- j ployers and employees brought an overwhelming re-1 sponse in favor of fast time, i Automobile dealers, con-1 tractors, and motel and hotel owners said they also would go on fast time. Banking officials indicated they would follow the lead of the majority, but said they could not make the change as early as Monday. j The Chamber of Commerce i last week voted to remain ! neutral In the time dispute. FORGOTTEN COMMODITY Portland -WPI)- Mrs. J. B. Parks, president of the Na tional Federation of Republi can women said today women are the "forgotten commod ity" of the Kennedy administration. Russia Issues Warnings Over Incidents in Berlin Border Gunfire Results in Notes To Three Powers Foreign Office Studies Protests Moscow - IUPD - The Soviet government officially warned Britain today that it will take "the necessary measures" if West Berlin police continue to open fire to protect East Germans fleeing into West Berlin. (In London, the Foreign Of-ice said similar notes were sent to the United States and France, which with the Soviet Union make up the four pow ers governing Berlin.) The Soviet news agency Tass said the warning came in a Soviet note handed to the three Western embassies in Moscow Thursday. Incidents Specified The note specifically pro tested incidents of May 23, 24, 26 and 27 in which West Berlin and East Berlin police exchanged fire. It singled out the incident of May 23 when West Berlin police, in an attempt to pro tect an escaping East German, rhot and killed an East Ger-1 man frontier policeman and j gravely wounded another border guard. ' Izveslia, the Soviet govern ment newspaper which also published the note today, confirmed that the Americans and French received notes "analogous" to that sent to Brirain. Notes Under Study The Foreign Office in Lon don said the note was "under study." "T h e Soviet government considers it necessary to state that it will not occupy a posi tion of passive observer and may be compelled to under take the necessary measures to fulfill its obligations in re lation to the German Demo cratic Republic allied to the U.S.S.R.," the note to Britain said. The note called the shoot ing incidents "dangerous pro vocations." "Such actions," it said, could have been impossible altogether if the British and other occupation organs in West Berlin did not encour age the provocateurs and un derstood what such , provoca tive activities are liable to bring about." Sams Valley Girl Named Dairy Princess Miss Connie McDonough, Sams Valley, has been select ed as Jackson County Dairy Princess, contest officials an nounced this afternoon. Miss McDonough, a secre tary on the Jackson County ASC office, will go to Port land June 25 and 26 to com pete against dairy princesses from 22 other counties for the title of Miss Oregon State Dairy Princess. Miss Georgia Hubbard, Eaale Point, was selected as first alternate. Losf Reminder Issued on Polio Vaccine Clinics The vaccine commit tee of the Jackson Coun ty Medical Society today issued a last reminder about the Sabin oral vaccine clinics schedul ed in seven Jackson county areas Saturday and Sunday, from noon to 6 p.m. The week end clinics will offer vaccine in the second of the three-dote stage necessary to pro vide permanent immun ity from polio. Doctors advised that persons who may have misted the first stage three weeks ago may start their program this week end and receive the first stage dote at later date. MEDFORD, OREGON, FRIDAY, w A ;w - ,"' V'Aa J 'OT'Tcfft1tv'V- VitfWiW1!! SPEAKS TO STUDENTS Gerald Frank, chairman of the Oregon state department of planning and development, told Medford High school graduating seniors last night that there appears to be little place in the Seniors Are Told Future Belongs to Trained Individual Gerald Frank, chairman of the state department of plan ning and development and vice president-of Meier and Frank company, told Afcd- ford High school graduating seniors last night that the fu ture belongs to the well train ed individual and encouraged them to seek additional cduca - tion to meet the demands of space age. He indicated that the fu ture points to ever increasing activities in outer space and increasing technology and automation at home. There ap pears to be little place in the future for the unskilled work er, he said. Frank discussed the ramifi cations of the space age and future plans of the National Aeronautics and Space admin istration in relation to an in creasing population and more automation. Receive More Training He said each individual will have to receive addition al training, either in a college or university or in a technical school, to help meet the rde mands of the future. Frank complimented the Medford school district for it educational program, which he said has become to be recognized ns an outstanding program in the state. Frank was introduced by Dr. Leonard B. Mayflcld, su perintendent. Otto Ewaldsen, chairman of the school board, presented diplomas to 444 seniors at the Medford High school sta dium. One minor mix - up in diplomas occurred early in the presentation, but it was straightened out without a major disruption In the pro cedure. Cordy Returns From California Meeting Jackson County Horticul tural Agent Clifford B. Cordy returned yesterday from Sac ramento, Calif., where he at tended a three-day conference on pear decline. Dr. Cordy reported on the Medford situation, and toured experimental plots. Researchers In California said they should be able to determine by the end of this year whether a major cause of pear decline is psylla toxin or a virus, Dr. Cordy said. The California conference showed there are no conclu sions on decline yet, he added. It has been known for some time that psylla generally weaken pear trees. Percentage-wise, the Med 1 ford pear district has more trees in decline than Call ' lornia. Lots of new trees here , are showing decline, he said. Tribune JUNE 8, 1962 future for the unskilled worker. He is shown above speaking to seniors at com mencement, which was held in Medford High school stadium. (Knackstcdt photo) Question of Creek Bank Restoration Settled by What Is 't'o'be'done with the Bear creek bank adjacent to Hawthorne park, which has been hanging fire for several months now, was settled at last night's meeting of the Medford city council. On a motion of Councllinan R. L. Van Sickle, the council voted to inform the freeway contractor that the city "has l no objection" to his proposals to restore the creek bank un der the freeway viaduct which borders on the park. The contractor had propos ed to restore the area to the level of the park out to the New Bank Branch To Open July 6 New quarters for U. S. National Bank's North Med ford branch will be opened for business July 6, Dwight Houghton, branch manager, reported this week. Opening activities h a v e been planned, including a rib bon cutting ceremony, refresh ments, and a display of rare coins, Houghton said. The $123,000 structure is located on the corner of Ohio and Court sts. Since September last year, the branch has been operat ing from temporary quarters in a specially designed house trailer adjacent to the con struction site. The new building features all modern banking facilities, including off -street parking, drive-up teller window and 24-hour night depository. Con cordia stone, native wood and plate glass set in aluminum highlight the contemporary design of the structure. Wiley company, Ashland, is the. contractor. Robert J. Kccncy, Medford, is the archi tect, with interior design the selection of Lila Colwcll Portland. Oregon Penitentiary Escapee Captured Salem - UPf - State police said that Everett Earl Elliott, 36, Elma, Wash., who escap ed from the Oregon peniten tiary here Thursday, was picked up by sheriff's officers near Montcsano, Wash., this morning. WEATHER PORFXAST: Fair end irm llirniiifh Sxturiliiv. Some clou dlnfti ovr mountain! Silur dv tft'rnnnn. Northwpattrly vailry nrrfzr In nftrrnnnn. I.nw tonllhl 45-S0. Hlh Rallir ay SJ. Temp. llllUKt YeitfriUy SI Lowest Thlt Morning 44 Our Skies Tonight Suntet today 1:4 p.m. Sunrlte tomorrow .. . 4:34 a.m. Moontet tomorrow .. 12:24 a.m. Flrat quarter .... June I PROMINF.NT STARS Arrturui. hlh In south . SMS p.m. Antares, due south 11:27 p.m. Resuliis. leads the Moon. Vena, hlih overhead. 1:40 a.m. 57th Year Price 10 Cents No. 68 Council east columns ot the viaduct, and then to slope the bank down to the ' edge of the creek. 1 This work, whicfi"wlll be done at no expense to the city, will effect a slight straightening of the creek bank in that area. Will Provide Space The restored bank will pro vide space under the viaduct which could be utilized for between 35 and 70 parking spaces if the city so desired at some future date. Present plans, however, call only for the area to be planted with grass, work which will be performed by the city park and recreation department. Funds have al ready been budgeted for the project. An amendment by Council man Donald Hansen, which would have provided for straightening the creek chan nel, restoring the stream banks and ripraping them, at an estimated cost to the city of between $17,000 and $18,- 000, was defeated. The vote on the Van Sickle motion was unanimous. Information Booth in Ashland Now Open Ashland - An information booth financed by the Ash land Chamber of Commerce has opened at the corner of First and C st?. here. Tho Elizabethan style build ing will be open dally throughout the summer to provide information for tour ists about the Ashland and Rogue valley areas as well as information about the Seattle World's Fair. Oregon Youth Given Medal for Heroism Washington - OIPli - Presi dent Kennedy presented "Young American Medals" for bravery and service today to three youths whom he de scribed as "our best national product in a sense." He gave bravery medals to Gerald Lee Davis, 12, of On tario, Ore., and Gordon Bern ard Kilmer, 16, of Reed City, Mich., and a service medal to Mary Ann Kingry, 18, of Saginaw, Mich. The acts which earned the medals for the youths occur red in 1960. Pleasant Ceremony Atty. Gen. Robert F. Ken nedy and FBI Director J. Ed gar Hoover attended the cere mony. "With so much emphasis on our difficult problems, there is no ceremony more pleasant than to pay recognition to our young men and women," Pres $48.4 Billion Bill Voted by Senate Group Guard, Reserve Funds Included Washington OTPH The Sen ate Appropriations Commit tee today approved a record peacetime $48.8 billion de fense spending bill including the full $491 million sought by the Air Force for the con troversial RS70 warplane. The Senate committee add ed S590 million to the $47.8 billion previously voted by the House, with $267 million of the increase going for the RS70. President Kennedy origi nally requested $47.9 billion, including $171 million for the RS70. The full committee approve ed almost intact the recom mendations of its military ap propriations subcomm i 1 1 e e. The Senate Is expected to take up the measure Tuesday. Goes Along With House The senate group went along with the House by vot ing funds to maintain the Army National Guard at 400, 000 men and the Army Re serve at 300,000. The administration had pro posed dropping the strength levels to 367,000 and 275,000 in the year beginning July 1. The bill carried $11,616, 067,000 for the Army, $15, 171,434,000 for the Navy, $19, 592,934,000 for the Air Force, and $2,048,780,000 for various other defense activi ties. It was nearly $2 billion more than Congress voted the defense establishment for the current fiscal year. Building Language In fixing the 700.000 man power figure', for the National Guard and Reserves, the com mittee wrote in language de signed to make this binding on the administration. The group added $4.17 million for the Naval Reserve and $8.7 million forv, tWe. Air. Force Re serve. . .uiAr.-. The Defense Department had asked' the Senate group to restore $350 million o the House cuts but did not ask for the RS70 money. The extra money is to push ahead with the RS70 as a co-ordinated weapons system for strike pur poses rather than as an ex perimental aircraft DrototvDe which the administration pro posed. Conference Sought During League Event Charles Collins, executive secretary and vice president of California Oregon Recrea tional Development associa tion, has asked the Izaak Wal ton League of America to set up a conference with the new head of the Bureau of Out door Recreation. The conference would be held during the 40th annual convention and conservation conference of the Izaak Wal ton League of America in Portland June 20-23. 'We will ask Dr. Edward C. Crafts, director of the Bu reau of Outdoor Recreation, to consider the need for Im provement money for recrea tion areas already planned and established," Collins said. "Various bills before Con gress now provide mostly for planning funds for recreation areas. By the time those funds are available recreational planning in the Oregon-California areas will be pretty much accomplished." Collins also plans .to ask Crafts what the policy of the new bureau will be regarding local recreational areas and overall development. ident Kennedy said. "I hope other boys and girls will be encouraged by their example." Young Davis, one of seven children of Mr. and Mrs. Loren G. Davis, was honored for dashing through flames to rescue his 2-year-old brother, Mark, from a second story bedroom during a fire which engulfed their home Dec. 12, 1960. Gerald suffered serious burns. Friend Sired Young Kilmer was cited for saving a 15-year-old friend, Mark D. Seath, from drown ing. The service medal for Miss Kingry was the first of tts type awarded since 1955. She won it for outstanding work on behalf of the Junior Red Cross while maintaining an excellent academic record and taking part in numerous other activities.
