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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.
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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.
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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
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Our Skies Tonight
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Wiinrii tomorrow fJpm,
Mnonritt tomorrow . 1:1! a m.
Nw Mftnn July I
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run tonight at 10:2? p m.
It It now about AM million
miles away and itiovlnj nearer
the Karth.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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