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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.
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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,
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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.
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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.