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Regional Edition 57th Year Price 10 Cents The Beauties of Scenic Oregon Tribune Medford (Oregon State Highway Commission Photo) KEEP OREGON GREEN 20 PAGES Two Sections MEDFORD, OREGON, MONDAY, JUNE 25, 1962 No. 82 FOREST FIRE: DANGER TOMORROW One of the more interesting scenic marvels of the southern coast of Oregon is the rain forest between Gold Beach and Port Orford. Rusk May Talk With Gromyko on Berlin Situation London-IUPIi - Secretary of State Dean Rusk today reach ed ' tentative understanding with British leaders for a Western meeting with Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gro myko in Geneva next month to discuss Berlin. The understanding was dis closed as the touring secretary of state completed a 24-hour policy review with top British leaders. Chief U. S. spokesman Rob ert Manning told a news con ference that Rusk had found considerable support from the Allies on his European tour that the Berlin probe be pur sued, but not "to any degree of urgency." Rusk might meet with Gro myko and other Western for eign ministers at Geneva later next month when he expects to attend the concluding stages of the Laos peace con ference, he said. British Foreign Secretary Lord Home also expects to attend the Geneva meeting. The Geneva talks are to be resumed July 2, but the min isters would go to Geneva only for the signing of the Laos accord, the U.S. spokes man said. These developments coin cided with delivery in Mos cow today of Big Three West ern notes reported to propose that the four commandants in Berlin meet to discuss how best to avoid further danger ous incidents in the divided city. Rusk, who arrived here Sunday on his European tour after talks in Paris, Bonn. Berlin and Rome, conferred at length with Prime Minister Harold Macmillan Sunday night and met this morning luith Home anH ton advisers, i In Moscow today, the Soviet Unicn threatened anew to sign an East German peace treaty without the West and warned it would protect its Communist partner "with all means." The new warning came in a joint Soviet-Romanian com munique marking the end of Premier Khrushchev's tour of Romania. ITEMS FROM NEWSCWiBRiEFS MEDICAL PROGRAM UNDER ATTACK Chicago '1TI Leaders of organized medicine opened up a bristling attack on the administration-backed medicare pro gram at the beginning session of the American Medical As sociation's House of Delegates today. OREGON TRUCKING COMPANIES ASSESSED Olympia-tTI'-The stale of Washington has assessed about $12,000 in taxes against Oregon trucking companies since it resumed its campaign June I lo collect a gasoline levy on fuel brought into the state. FORMER OAS HEAD CHARGED AGAIN Peris in-Former Secret Army Organisation leader ex Gen. Raoul Salan. who was sentenced to life imprisonment last month, has been charged for the second time with crimes tgainst the state, it was announced today. CEASE FIRE VIOLATIONS CHARGED London- IPI-The International Control Commission today accused Communist North Viet Nam of flagrant violations ol the cease lire. i . ' .1 I I I m ("vWm VA.i. .aLu --st MW ' ' Wi West Asks Russia To Stop Berlin Shooting Incidents London rtJPit The United States, Britain and France called on Russia today to halt shooting incidents by Com munist guards along the Ber lin border. They proposed a meeting of four power repre sentatives in Berlin to discuss how to avoid further clanger- Fire Burns More Than 200 Acres State forestry department fire fighters this morning were mopping up after a fire which burned between 200 and 300 acres along Modoc rd. north of Rogue river. The fire, which started Sun-1 day afternoon, swept over i grass and brush and burned pine and oak trees in some i spots, forestry officials said j today. Cause was not yet de termined this morning. The fire started along the road near its junction with Antioch rd. The state forestry depart ment had six pumpers and crews and two tractors on the blaze and Central Point rural firemen aided with four ve hicles and 12 men. The fire was brought under control last night. Patrolmen were having to fall trees today in the mop-up operation. Forestry department crews were called out yesterday al so on three other fires. The southwest district office re ported that onc-h?" acre of grass and smal' es were burned during the morning near Keeler creek five miles west of Ruch. Patrolmen and Central Point rural firemen w'cre dispatched to a one- tenth-acre blaze in debris on Avenue H in White City. A camper fire, which spread to about the same size, was put out by forestry department crewmen about noon in the Lincoln area. Rural firemen were sent to a l'-3-acrc blaze in grass near the Double Dee LumDer com pany in the morning on IBIackwell Hill rd. AROUND THI OlOII ous incidents in the divided city. The Western call was made in identical notes delivered in Moscow today. The British note was released by the for eign office in London. The Big Three Western powers firmly rejected re sponsibility for recent inci dents, in Berlin and said the present difficulties are due "exclusively to the illegal and inhumane action of East Ber lin authorities." The notes were handed to the Kremlin while Secretary of State Dean Rusk continued his discussions with British government leaders to align detailed strategy on Berlin. NATO, Southeast Asia and other East-West issues. London was Rusk's fourth stop on his "fence-mending" mission to the capitals of America's Allies in Western Europe. He already has dis cussed strategy with the lead ers of France, West Germany and Italy. Of immediate concern to the West was the rash of Com m u n i s t shooting incidents along the anti-refugee wall The Western powers urged Russia "to take the necessary steps to ensure that firing by East Berlin and East German guards is halted forthwith." The notes of the three West ern powers were in reply to Soviet notes of June 7 which blamed the West for the re cent incidents in Berlin tne west rejected a num ber of specific Soviet charges concerning the Berlin inci dents. The notes said: "In a such cases the East Berlin guards fired first." Iron Workers Reject Arbitration Portland -4TH- A spokes man for striking iron work ers in Oregon and Southwest Washington said today a pro posal by contractors to sub mit the dispute to arbitration has been rejected. John O'Halloran, secretary and business representative . of Local 29 of the Internation-! al Association of Bridge.' Structural and Ornamental i Iron Workers, said the decis ion to turn down the proposal was made at the executive level of the Northwest District council. The proposal was made last Wednesday at the last negoti ating session. Gov. Mark Hat field urged the iron workers to accept the proposal, which would have brought them back to work while the board marie a binding decision. O Halloran said the decision to reject the proposal was 'made because "it is impossible to take the case to the appeals board because there already has been a work stoppage and because the contractors have I filed two unfair labor prac- ; ticc charges againrt us." RULING AFFIRMED Washington - WI' - The Su preme Court today affirmed a ruling which requires Crown Zf-llcrbach Corp to di vet itself of the St. Helens Pulp and Paper Co Dutch Military Forces Attack Indonesians Bombers Strafe Paratroopers Hollandia, Dutch New Guinea - HOT - Dutch military forces struck on the ground and in the air today against freshly landed Indonesian paratroopers in the flat grass lands 15 miles from the Aus tralian half of New Guinea. Military spokesmen report ed that Dutch air force Nep tune patrol bombers strafed the invaders who air-dropped north of Merauke in a pre dawn operation Sunday. Dutch marines and army troops moved in to engage the invaders. There was no immediate re port on casualties. In Defense Positions Reconnaissance pilots re ported an estimated 200 para troopers were air-dropped from American - built Indo nesian air force Hercules troop transports. They said the invaders were concen trated in defense positions north of Merauke, which lies on the south coast. Discarded parachutes indi cated that the new airdrop included artillery and Jeeps, the pilots reported. Merauke was the operations center in the search for New York Gov. Nelson Rockefel ler's son, Michael, who was lost off New Guinea last year. The town in which Rocke feller stayed during the un successful search is now the temporary military headquar ters. In The Hague, the Dutch government instructed Am bassador J. H. Van Royen in Washington to ask urgent ad vice from the State Depart ment on how to handle the Indonesian attack. The cabi net also debated whether to bring the situation before the UN Security Council. Man Jailed for Theft; Clerk Hurt Central Point - Central Point police jailed a Medford man Saturday n i g h I in con nection with the theft of a lawnmower from a Central Point market, and before the night was over a clerk at the market was cut on the head by an ash tray, and fixtures at the city jail were consider ably damaged. The scries of incidents be gan when Martin Gates of Thrift Market, 128 East Pine st., spotted Clarence Edward Self, 38, of 1730M; North Riv erside ave.,' Medford, in the market at 7:20 p.m. Saturday. Gates believed Self was re sponsible for taking a lawn mower., valued at $129.95, from the store 20 minutes ear lier, and he ordered his em ployees to a p p r e h e n d the man. Before Self was subdued, a clerk at the market, Clayton R. Brown, 1746 Upton rd., was struck on the head by an ash tray, which severely cut him, police said. Brown was treated at Crater Osteopathic hospital. Police arrested Self on charge of assault and battery and lodged him in the city ! jail. Later Central Point offi- ccrs said he caused consider ! able damage to jail plumbing fixtures and bedding. In addition to the assault ! and battery charge, police ' said that Gates is expected lo , sign a larceny complaint : against Self. The missing lawnmower was recovered at another Cen tral Point residence. MURDER CHARGED La Grande-'l'PIi-A charge of second degree murder was filed today against Charlie Dale Kornegay, 40, Union, in connection with the fatal shooting last Friday night at Union of Alex Ncgy, 42, also Union. Salem -HTIi- Members of the legislative Interim committee on Education expressed con cern today over the State Board of Education's new plan to require grade school teach ers to have five years of col lege instead of four. Prayers Illegal In Public Schools The Supreme Court has ruled that recita tion of a stale prayer in public schools is un constitutional because it violates the religious freedom guaranteed in the Bill of Rights. The story is on page 2A. Terror Storage 'Scorched Earth' Policy Continues Despite Talks Flames Spread To Warehouses Algiers, Algeria - IUPD -. The European Secret Army Organ ization blew up a string of fuel tanks on the Oran water front today, starting a mam moth fire that threatened the rest of the western port city. At least seven big storage tanks blew up with a roar early this evening as fires from 30 earlier OAS bomb at tacks were still raging in some places. The bombings, part of a last-ditch "scorched earth campaign of OAS sabotage in the Oran area, continued des pite reports of negotiations between the OAS command there and Algerian Nationalist representatives. Flames Spread Quickly Panic started in the Europ ean city and hundreds of per sons rushed into the streets as the storage tanks went up in bursts of flames and black smoke that belched as high as the 1,000-foot Santa Cruz Mountain dominating the city. The flames spread quickly to warehouses near the tanks, which belonged to petroleum companies exploiting Sahara oil. Dockworkers in the north east section of the port were evacuated from the scene and ships tied up in the immedi ate region scrambled to get out farther in the harbor. Earlier OAS terrorists blasted a school in Oran while in Algiers, the first plastic bomb explosions in 10 days rocked the city. Traffic Accounts For Five Deaths By United Press International Five persons were killed Oregon traffic accidents during the week end. Two 18 - year - old Central Oregon girls lost their lives in a two-car collision on U.S. Highway 126 near Prineville Sunday. The victims were Myrna G. Scott of Prineville and Car oline J. Vilhauer of Redmond. Also killed in traffic acci dents in Oregon during the week end were Steven Es selstrom, 14, Roseburg; Mi chael C. Devred, 33, Port land, and Mrs. Goldie Y. Fletcher, 63, Yuba City, Calif. ,They died in separate crashes Saturday. The bsseistrom boy was killed in a one-car accident on a U.S. Forest Service road 60 miles cast of Roseburg. Devred died in a two-car collision on State Highway 26 near Elsie and Mrs. Flet cher lost her life in a two car crash on U.S. Highway 99 near Ashland. Federal Complaint To Be Signed Today A federal complaint was scheduled to be signed in Port land this morning against a Medford man arrested here by city police Saturday for split ing $20 bills and pasting them to $1 bills. Arrested by Medford police detectives was Rodney Frank lin Davis, 23 Mistletoe st., on a charge of obtaining money under false pretenses. He is being held in the Jackson county jail pending federal action. Davis arrest climaxed an I investigation of two incidents this month involving split $20 bills pasted to a $1 bill and then attempting to pass them as twenties. Such a bill was received June 12 al the Rose Grocery, 201 West Jackson St., and a man attempted to pass such a bill the previous day at another grocery store, according to city police. MILLIONS REQUIRED Salem -1 PI- Some $87.4 million will be required for community lullcges in Ore gon by 1973. the Legislative Interim Education committee was told today in a 1983-73 I projection. ! 6 ist Bonos Level TTETMTT 1 V I at I' r r-. . m ' 1 . R ' ; ' 'S3 C U"iJI l"l'".tRlir 1VU.JI -r r'Afc-iS? '"1 W'.W 'I!'".! ' beta 1 s -mr.iJtr t sjTrsia -.w hOMES DAMAGED A tornado raxed a suDdivision of new homes in suburban Oak Forest near Chicago, 111., damaging 50 homes and injuring two persons. The twister, described as a "baby tornado" by the weather bureau, struck without warning. Residents of the area are shown County Tractor Contract Objected To By Low Bidder A tractor for Jackson coun ty is expected to be delivered today by Crater Lake Machin- cry, according to County En gineer Robert Carstensen. Crater Lake Machinery had been awarded the contract by the county court, although the firm's bid was not the lowest received. It was explained that time of delivery was the chief fac tor in awarding the contract since the lowest bidder, Haup- ert Tractor, did not promise delivery in five days as re quired in the county's bid specifications, C a r s I e n - sen said. Crater Lake Machinery's net bid was for $45,500 and the Haupert bid was $42,625. Earlier, the Haupert com pany, represented by Medford Lawyer Brian Mullen, had In dicated that they might con test the bid transaction. They had charged that Carstensen used operation cost figures on which to base the tractor con tract and that the figures cit ed were not for the particular model in question. County officials noted to day that the Haupert firm bid called for a 24-inch track shoe, while the county s specifica tions asked for a 22-inch shoe. Steel Executives Said Probe Targets New York -0JPD- A top sc cret investigation has been launched by the Justice de partment into expense ac counts of executives of four major steel companies, t h e New York World Telegram and Sun said today. The Scripps-Howard news paper said the probe is one of the most far-reaching in fed eral history. Government sources would not comment, the newspaper said, but spokesmen for U. S. Steel and the Wheeling Steel corporation acknowledged cer tain company records had been subpoenaed. The spokes man said the records dealt with expense accounts of key officers. The newspaper said the oth er two firms involved in the investigation are Bethlehem Steel, second only to U. S. Steel in size, and Jones and Lauglilin. WEATHER FOKhLAAT: partly rlniidy with a threat v( ihowrri tonight and Tiir'iiiJiiv. Vartahlt wind, or raimnallv ftnty to 2n mile per hmr. Low Untight nrar JO. Huh Tiirtday an.ftV Tmp. MUtltnt YfMtenlay . .. 92 UwmI Thl Morning ... . SO Our Skies Tonight Sunt tnrlav . 7:53 p.m. Wiinrii tomorrow fJpm, Mnonritt tomorrow . 1:1! a m. Nw Mftnn July I ftaturn. the ringed planet, run tonight at 10:2? p m. It It now about AM million miles away and itiovlnj nearer the Karth. ft s Thunderstorms, Floods, Lightning Hit Most of Nation By United Press International i Violent thunderstorms Sun- day and during the night touched off flash floods, kill- cr ' lightning and tornado scares in areas from the Rock ies to the Atlantic. A heat wave gripped the Northwest. A woman was killed when struck by lightning in New York and an 18-year-old boy died in his flooded basement Hearing on County Budget Is Tuesday A public hearing on the' proposed Jackson county bud get of $4,366,044 will be held in the courthouse auditorium at 8 p.m. tomorrow. The proposed budget as set at the end of the budget ses sions May 11 is .within the total estimated receipts of $4,- 635,385 for the new fiscal year, according to the coun ty treasurer's figures. During the public hearing $9,840 may have to be added to the new fiscal year bud get to cover the anticipated deficit in the dog control op erations. Two of the largest budget items are $150,000 for esti mated capital improvements and $104,270 for parks and recreation. Capital improvement fund includes construction of a public health clinic building on the fairgrounds near the county extension office. Summer School Has Drop in Enrollment Ashland Enrollment In summer session al Southern Oregon college is slightly be hind that of last year, accord ing to Mrs. Mabel W. Winston, registrar. A total of 664 students have enrolled so far this year, she said. Of these, 396 are women and 2H8 arc men. On a com parable date last ye"ar, a total of 673 were enrolled, 305 of which were women and 278 men. Today is the last day of relgstration for this year's summer session, Mrs. Winston said. Austerity Program Launched in Canada Ottawa - WP - Canada was launched on a new austerity program today combining higher tariffs and interest rates with large-scale finan cial support from foreign sources. A five-point program, an nounced late Sunday by Prime Minister John Diefen bakcr, was designed to case pressure on the Canadian dol lar, reduce the nation's chronic international pay ments deficit and cut the gov ernment s spending imbalance by as much as $450 million. , Kit W HI : , ''HV'-' waiKing tnrougn deDris-coverea streets. The twister wal part of a storm front which brought thunderstorms, flash floods and lightning from the Rocky Mountains to.tha Atlantic Coast. (UP1) in Brooklyn. The young wife of an airman was killed and another woman hurl when struck by lightning on a beach near Biloxi, Miss. A man was electrocuted at Hartford, N.Y., when he picked up a live wire knocked down storm. by Tornadoes touched down at Pacific and Old Monroe, Mo., and Dupo, III., but apparently failed to cause damage. A Chicago suburb and sec tions of centra" Wisconsin mopped up Saturday night tornado damage estimated at up to $1 million. Central Nebraska totalled $500,000 crop damage from a week end hail storm. The heaviest rain In 64 years fell Sunday In sections of Philadelphia and at Cam den, N. J., bringing flash flooding. Philadelphia had 2.83 inches of rtiin in an hour and 37 minutes. The heat wave sent the temperature soaring to 98 de grees at Boise, Idaho. Walla Walla, Wash., had a 97-dcgree reading. It was 96 degrees at Pendleton, Ore., and Salt Lake City, Utah. Goldberg Schedules Mediation Efforts Washington - IUPD - Labor Secretary Arthur J. Gold berg set up a meeting with union and management rep resentatives today in an ef fort to end an Eastern Air lines strike which grounded or inconvenienced thousands of travelers. The cabinet official, using the personal approach which has proved successful in pre vious labor disputes, huddled earlier with leaders of the flight engineers and Pan American executives in an ef fort to block any renewal of a brief walkout against that airline. One union source said no progress was made in the two hours before the Pan Amer ican talks broke up for lunch. They were to resume later. Friday. North Umpqua Highway Paved Except for 11 Miles All but 11 miles of the North Umpqua highway from Roseburg to Diamond lake has been paved, according to Al H. May, Douglas county engineer. Of the 85 miles from Hose burg to the south end of Dia mond lake, 74 miles are com pleted, 7 miles will have the grading and drainage com pleted by November, and 4 miles will be under contract for paving this full. The entire highway is ex pected lo be paved by 1064, May explained. The completed highway Is in two sections: one from Roseburg east 88 miles to Boulder creek and the other E. v r ' V 'i vt Public Hearing on On Development Pattern June 21 Central Point - A public hearing on the development pattern for tVie North Central Point area' now an interim zoned area, will be held Wed nodsday, June 27, at 8 p.m. in uie urater. High school gym nasium, v ' The hearing is the next step under Oregon law In the pro cess of an area, which Is inter im zoned, becominc Derma. nentiy zoned. The development pattern was developed by the Jackson . county planning staff and can not be adopted by them until" public hearing has been- held.- Prior to the Sept. 22 exnl- ration date of the Interim zon-: ing ordinance, the planning commission must submit to the county court a draft of a. zoning ordinance for the North Central Point area' which carries out the develop ment pattern. If the ordinance is approved by the court, it will be in effect for a period not to exceed three years. During this three year period the county court must hold a public hearing on the ordinance, and may adopt permanent zoning for the area or call for an election if one is not petitioned for by 15 per cent of the legal voters in the area. C. O. Lovcjoy, president of the county planning commis sion, stressed the importance of residents within the zoned area attending the public hearing Wednesday which will be for the purpose of re viewing the development pat tern. Sanitary District Hearing Set Friday A public hearing on the proposed South Talent Sani tary district will be held at the courthouse at 2 p.m. Fri day, County Judge Earl Mil ler said today. Earlier he had reported erroneously the hearing would be held Tuesday. The official notice says Friday, Miller noted. from the south end of Dia mond lake north and wes 16 miles to Stump lake. The seven-mile section from Stump lake west is under con struction by the Hamcr Cor poration. The clearing is com pleted with drainage struc tures 25 per cent completed and grading 20 per cent com peted. The contract is sched uled for completion by Nov. 15, 1962. The paving contract is expected to be opened for bid In 1963 and should be completed the following year. The remaining four miles east from Boulder creek will be under contract for paving this fall, May said, and should be completed In 1963. I
