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mob Reported Communist Ch na m . a, a , i r- tv tWit, WAREHOUSE BURNS This is all that was left of the Sears warehouse in White City after the building and contents were de stroyed by fire yesterday afternoon. L. C. Lake Camp Sites Being Expanded; Other Work Done The camp ground area is being expanded at Howard Prairie lake and a winter to boggan run is almost complet ed there, according to Neil Ledward, Jackson county parks and recreation director. Thirty new camping units are planned at the lake, not all will be in this season, the parks director said this morn ing. This will bring the total camp sites available to ap proximately 105. Work on a toboggan run near the concession building is almost completed. During the winter, the concession building will be open and a man kept at the lake all win ter. By spraying and scraping 1 it may be possible to keep a rink area cleared for ice skat ing on the lake, "he said. Skat ing has been popular at the lake the last two winters. New Picnic Tables Thirty new picnic tables have been installed in the free day use area, Ledward said. County road crews are oil ing roads in Ihe Howard Prairie area. Emigrant lake has about eight camping units, the parks director said, and about 44 picnic lahlns Fiflorn more i tables are planned. There have been good week end crowds at both lakes, Led ward said. The Savage Arch ery club, Ashland, has a pub lic range at the west arm of Emigrant near the Green Springs highway, he added. Union Sued by Klamalh Firemen Portland-HTIl - A' $175,000 damage suit was filed hcre (h! Mrpi. KPITiinnPfl Monday against the Brother- UlllUICII IXCIIIIiiUCU hood of Locomotive Firemen pi and Engineers by seven Kla-jlJJ WIITI LlSSSeS math Falls firemen. The firemen charged they Youngsters in Central were suspended improperly Point, Gold Hill and Sams by the union. Valley who have registered The controv ersy stems from I for swimming classes in Med rcgulations which penalize I ford city pools were remind- any employee tor worKing more than 3.000 miles in one month. Any work beyond 3.000 miles may result in two days suspension for each 100 miles over the limit, on un ion orders. All seven men work on the Klamath Falls to Crescent Lake run. They said only eight of 18 firemen who worked over the limit on that run were suspended The complainants are E. E. Keck. C. H. Skinner Jr., James A. McClain. Ronald D. Bechlold, V. R. Dalton. Cor man Smith and B L. Whitt. 1 f AROUND THI OlOII PAN AMERICAN STRIKE BAN EXTENDED ;one sho( 8t him near his New York-ITI-Federal Judge George Roiling todey ex-ino,,,,, iast njght when he dis tended for 10 days hii ben on a flight engineeri ilrike against icovered a mBn prowling the Pan American World Airwayi. area. The Flight Engineeri International asiociation wet set , f-rom the description given, to extend its walkout against Eajtern Airlines lo Pan Amerl-1 deputies said it may be Jesse can at noon, the deadline of Ihe original restraining order Jarnes Gilmore who walked Rosling signed Saturday. ot rom work dctajl at tnc . . 7rV-Trr, Jackson county farm home MEDICAL PLAN DEFEAT PREDICTED Friday Chicago-1 Pi-Spokesmen for the American Medical ociation today predicted defeat of the administration'! lateit tactic lo obtain passage of a 'compromiie" medicare pro-1 Haircut Price Hiked gram through the amendment route. Washhgton Coun,y JURORS QUESTIONED IN ESTES TRIAL Beavcrton --ITI'- Washing- Pecoi. Tex.-IPI-The detente relumed questioning prot- ton county barbers have vot pective jurort 'ajday in e turprise trial of Billie Sol Estet ed to raise the price of hair on charges of stealing S827.S77 in fertiliier lank dealt. The ' cuts from SI .75 to $2 effec ury is expected lo be completed and Ihe taking of teitimont! tive July I. It follows a simi started today. I lar increase in Portland. 7 CK.'iv 1 1- 'irfltltriiiitfi Liscnbee, chief of the Central Point Rural Fire department, called it a total loss. The fire was reported at 2:54 p.m. Its cause was unknown. Sears Warehouse Destroyed by Fire White City - Fire swept "total." Sears officials could through the Sears warehouse at lath and H sts. here yester day afternoon, completely de stroying the structure and merchandise inside. Six fire trucks and numer ous firemen fought the blaze, but the flames got too much of a start and they were un able to save the building. No estimate of the damage was available this morning, but Chief L. C. Liscnbee of the Central Point Rural Fire department called the loss Magnolia Trees Damaged in CP Central Point Two of the 44 Magnolia trees that line Central Point's principal street were destroyed by van dals last week end, Central Point police reported. The trees were broken off just above ground level, Chief Edward Zander said. 547 East Pine st. The vandals 1 broke the trees despite a wire screen which surrounds the base and a steel rod which supports each tree. The 44 trees were put out mis spring as a project uiu.c v-emrai rmm iiuua t.uu. recently bloomed, something unusual for a two-year-old Magnolia, which usually does not bloom until 11 or 12 years old. The two trees destroyed did not include the blooming one, however. Value of the two trees was set at $34. Anyone with information concerning the identity of the vandals has been urged to contact Central Point police : at 664-1201 eel loaay oy ine parn ana rcc rcation department that their session will run from July 9 lo 20. Classes will be held in both Hawthorne and Jackson pools from 10 to 11 p.m. each week day, a department spokesman said. Bus transportation from the outlying communities to the city pools is being arranged by Don Miller, director of rec reation for Central Point. Interested persons may con tact Miller to determine the time and place the bus will pick them up. a 0- not be readied for comment. The Central Point rural de partment got the first re port of the fire at 2:54 p.m. from an employee at Cascade Wood products, located near the warehouse. Cause Not Known Most of the inside of the building was on fire when firemen arrived. Cause of the fire was not known. "1 doubt if we'll ever know," Chief Lis enbee said, citing the fact that the entire building burned down. Aiding three Central Point rural pumpers at the fire were trucks from Medford and Cen tral Point city fire depart ments and the Veterans Ad ministration. Complicating the situation at White City was a second fire in the same general area. A grass fire, it burned about two acres near the Whipple Wood yard at Agate rd. and A st. before being brought under control. The Whipple fire was re- Clljcf 1 iuD i( ,,(i was caused by live ashes in' '"n-'l"" s ine an area where additional necessity of further land ac wood had been dumped on c'ulsltlon lo exPand ,ne air the remains of an earlier fire. Prl' widening existing taxi There was no damage to theways' and making improve wood yard itself. ments in the lighting and Fighting the Whipple fire I fencing facilities, were three Central Point Medford municipal airport rural fire trucks and two ! is classed as a "Small Hub" from the Elk Lumber com- type facility, the designation pany. Medford Man Pleads Guilty to Charge Central Point-Clarence Ed ward Self, 38, of 1730'i Nortn Rivrrside ave., Med ford, pleaded guilty Monday to charges of assault while armed with a dangerous wea pon arising out of a scuffle at a Central Point market Satur day night. Self was arraigned in dis trict court on a complaint signed by Clayton R. Brown, 1746 Upton rd., a clerk at Thrift Market, 126 East Pine St., and was bound over to circuit court. Brown received a cut on the head when he was struck by an ash tray during an at tempt by store employees to arre.-t Self Saturday night. Martin Gates, a store official, had employees slop Self, be cause he believed the man was responsible for taking a lawn mower from the store earlier in the evening. Deputies Search Area for Prowler Jackson county sheriff's deputies this morning were searching the Dark Hollow rd. area for a man who report edly shot at an area resident. State police received a re port from Lawrence McTivia, route 4 hnx 41H. that some- FOREST FIRE DANGER TOMORROW KEEP OREGON GREEN WEATHER FORECAST: lair through Wednesday. Low tonight near SO. lllch tomorrow sg. Temn. Iligfirst Yesterday 83 Lowest Thii .Morning 52 Our Skies Tonight Sunset todav . 7:51 p.m. Sunrise tomorrow . . 4:.16 a.m. Mnunrlse tomorrow 1:15 a.m. New Moon July 1 I'ltOMlSKNT STAH The Twins, set In Ihe northwest 11:59 p.m. Keeolus. In the west 9:0? n.m. (Venus, the hrUhtest planet. is now seen annul nairwav be tween the Twins and Keculus.) Passenger Traffic At Airport Might Double in 5 Years The number of air passen gers served at the Medford municipal airport will more than double by 1967, accord ing to the 1962 National Air port Plan, recently released by the Federal Aeronautics agency. Present annual air passen ger service at the airport, ac cording to the report, is about 57,000, which is expect ed to rise to about 120,000 in the next five years. Because of the expected in crease in use, the report sug gests several improvements at the airport in its recommend ed airport development five year plan. Runway Extension The runway, taxiway and apron at the airport will all have to be extended, accord ing to the report. The longest runway at the airport now is 5,419 feet. This will have to be lengthened to about 6,100 feet to make it capable of ac commodating the largest air craft expected to be using it by 1987, the Boeing 727, a I four -engined, turbofan air- I -iall given to those communities which originate from one- twicntieth of one per cent to one-four of one per cent of the nation's air passengers. Pendleton was also classed a small hub, while Port land was designated as a me dium hub in the report. 16 Acres Burned In Grass Fires More than 16 acres were burned in four separate grass and brush fires in Jackson and Josephine counties, the state forestry department re ported today. Biggest loss was in a fire in Avery gulch, 2'i miles west of Merlin, where 15 acres burned. The fire, reported about 3 p.m., was blamed on a careless smoker. One acre burned on the is land in the middle of Howard Prairie lake. Forestry depart ment men borrowed a boat to get to the fire. It also was blamed on a careless smoker, and broke out about noon. Half an acre between In trrstaic Highway 5 a n d the railroad tracks east of the city of Rogue River burned, also about noon. The fire was blamed on sparks from a nearby mill burner. A tenth of an i .re burned near Selma early yesterday afternoon. Cause of the fire was undetermined. Arraignment Due For Medford Man Portland -CTIi- A Medford man accused of practicing an unorthodox way of doubling his money was scheduled to be arraigned here today. Rodney F. Davis. 23. is ac cused of manufacturing bogus bills by splitting $1 and $20 notes and attaching the face of one to the ba"k of the oth er, and vice versa, thus ob taining $40 on a $21 invest ment. Portland Secret Service agent Frank Kiiiry said Da vis was arrested by Central Point police after a grocery clerk refused one of the bills and called police, q Regional Edition 16 PAGES y"3a ipiJ.u,VH"1 mil pxiiiiMfiii in ( ,mmm , n n i linn JS'-r .jl?, A . - 4 e U o ,-v, t'1 ill' rf -it l, ; DEDICATED A Pacific Power and Light company power plant on the Klamath river near Klamath Falls was dedicat ed yesterday in honor of John C. Boyle, PP&L vice presi dent and director. Shown above is Miss Sue Ann Ruther ford, granddaughter of Boyle, unveiling a bronze plaque Angry Protests Launched Against Supreme Court's Decision on Prayers Washington-lUPIl - The Su-, called for fast House action preme Court's ruling against ; to approve it. officially prescribed prayers Sen. J. Glenn Beall (R-Md) in public schools touched off i announced that he was inlro a barrage of congressional I ducing in the Senate a con protest today and constitu-1 situtional amendment that tional amendments were of-1 would affirm the right of fered to overturn the dcci - sion. Rep. Roy A. Taylor (D-N.C.) told the House he had drop- ped in the hopper an amend- ment specifically to legalize prayer and Bible reading in public schools. Rep. Frank J. Becker (R-N.Y.) said he was' schools violated a constitu drawing up a similar consti-j tional ban against establish tutional amendment, and he'rn.cnt of a religion. Last Service Held In Gospel Mission The Medford Gospel Mis sion, Us present duuciing soon to be razed to make room for a Park and Shop lot. and with no new site available, closed its doors - perhaps for the last time, Sunday night. Al Wiens, superintendent of the mission, said he hopes the closure will be temporary, but there are no present pros pects for re-opening. The mission staff, wiens said, will be disbanded, and all furniture, equipment and supplies will be placed in storage. Wiens said he intends to remain in the area for a time, and will continue to seek ways to keep the mission in existence. Plant Fall Through Plans to construct a new mission building at a location on North Front st. have ap parently fallen through. Wiens said there is only about $1,000 in the building fund. "Promises of support and financial assistance In help Iron Worker Strike Topic of Meetings Portland 'UPII Such mam moth projects as the John Day dam and the Hilton hotel here were among those closed down today as a result of the dispute between the construc tion industry and the Iron Workers union. There were several devel opments Monday which could eventually lead to a solution of the strike which started five weeks ago. Federal Mediator George Walker met with contractors and union representatives sep- , arately here, and the employ, ers followed wiih a meeting : later in the day. Walker said he hoped to be able to an I nuunce resumption of ncgotia- tions soon. j Portland Food Prices ' Reach All-Time High San Francisco - Wl' - Re i tail food prices in Portland i went up 1.3 per cent to an all-1 time high in May, the U.S. I Labor Department's Bureau j of Labor Statistics said today. I ' SON BORN j ; Ivor. England - !? The : i Duchess of Kent. 29. gave i birth today to a son who be i comes 10th in line to the. British throne. i MEDFORD, OREGON, TUESDAY. JUNE 26, 1962 1 schools to make available to i students periods for prayer or religious observance. In the House, member after i member rose to denounce the i court's ruling, which held : that reading of an official prayer in New York public acquire a new building have, for the most part, not been kept," Wiens stated. During the three and a quarter years that the mission has been in operation, over 60,000 persons have attended services at the location at 33 South Front st. On an average, about 800 men a month have received some kind of aid from the mission's operation. Some 1.691 meals have been fur nished free of charge, and a night's lodging has been ex tended to about 500 persons. Every month, an average of 525 articles of clothing have been donated to the needy. These and other services have been supplied, Wiens said, at a monthly operating cost of about $800. The mission, during the en tire period of its operation, had no fixed source of income and was completely depen dent on contributions and do nations. ge- Sh The Beauties of Scenic Oregon (Oregon State Highway Commission Photo) -' & '- 4 "' M ' ' y .1 it., i ! ': ...-. v " - . I .. - -, ,Aw. .r ' '''' .. - ." ' i C during dedication ceremonies. On the stand at right are Bovle, Mrs. Boyle, the Rev. Laing Sibbet. Klamath Falls. Glenn Jackson and Donald R. McClung, PP&L president who gave the main address. Rep. Thomas G. Aberenthy (D-Miss.) said the decision was further evidence that the high court has power to de stroy the country. He called it shocking to the Free World and pleasing only to "a few atheists" and world commu- i nisin Wants Court Curbed "If there remains any doubt in anybody's mind that the court should be trimmed down in power Monday's decision should have removed it," Ab- l crnethy said. Rep. Francis E. Walter (D Ta.) said the decision was in i line with others handed down I by the court recently, and said It was Congress' own fault that nothing had been done about it. In the Senalc, Sen. Herman E. Talmadge (D-Ga.) said the ruling was "an outrageous edict which has numbed the conscience and shocked the highest sensibilities of the nation," Talmadge said "the Su preme Court violated every tenet of American law and every principle of the spirit uality of man. "It has dealt a blow to the faith of every believer in a Supreme Being," Talmadge said, "and It has given aid and comfort to the disciples of atheism by whatever name they call themselves." Ruling Changes America In a bitter attack on the Su preme Court, Talmadge said the justices have sought to change the American form of government by reeding alien meanings into the Constitu tion. "But never in the wildest of their excesses," he said, "have they gone as far as they did on Monday . . ." The reaction of religious -, ; 1 . j- '. .. 57th Year Price 10 Cents Tribune nr j leaders to the ruling ranged from approbation to shock and dismay. The president of the American Jewish commit tee, A. M. Sonnabend of Bos ton, welcomed the ruling as a blow in behalf of "the basic constitutional prin ciple of separation of church and state." The Roman Catholic arch bishop of New York, Francis Cardinal Spellman, said he was "shocked and frightened by a decision that "strikes at the very heart of the Godly tradition in which America's children have for so long been raised. Pro and Con Protestants lined up on both sides of the question. In Washington. Dr. C. Emanuel Carlson, executive director of the Baptist Joint Committee on Public A f t a i r s , said he was not disturbed by the elim ination of "required prayers" from schools because he has never felt that rote recital of such prayers has any real re ligious value for children. But the Rev. Dr. Harold R, Albert, president of the Pitts burgh a r e a Council of Churches, said any court de cision which has the effect of "subtracting religious expres sion" from American life Is a step in "a disastrous direc tion." The high court's 6-1 ruling was handed down Monday. It dealt specifically with a 22 w o r d non-sectarian prayer, known as "The Regents' Prayer," which has been offi cially prescribed for use in New York state schools. The prayer says: "Almighty God, we acknow ledge our dependence upon Thee, and we beg Thy bless ings upon us, our parents, our teachers and our country." Offshore Islands Shelled, Defense Ministry Asserts Concern Voiced By Washington Hong Kong - WPP - Commu nist China was reported mobi lizing workers today in Can ton, where angry peasants i rioted this month, ostensibly to meet any Nationalist Chi i ncse attack on the mainland. Canton Radio said ev..-ry worker in the city was being placed on a "voluntary mobi lization" footing pending or ders to go into action against a possible Nationalist in vasion. The Defense Ministry at Taipei reported that Commu nist artillery on the mainland shelled the Nationalist off shore islands and Quemoy and Matsu with 178 rounds Mon day. Eighth Tim There was no indication whether the fire was returned. It marked the eighth time this month that Quemoy has been bombarded and the fourth time for Matsu. Officials in Washington and London have expressed con cern at intelligence reports which depict a military build up in Red China's Fukien Province, across Formosa Strait from the Nationalist island. The Cantonese announcer claimed there had been "ex tremely good response" among the workers to anti American and anti-Nationalist rallies held in the city the past two days. Communist China has been grinding out a massive propa ganda campaign recently ac cusing Nationalist China of preparing for an invasion with U.S. help. Some Western diplomats have viewed this as an effort by Pciping to turn both in ternal and external attention from Communist China's farm and Industrial failures. Many Turned Back Most of the thousands oJ refugees who flooded into Hong Kong last month came from the Canton area. The British, . unable to handle them,-- turned many back across the border. Canton is in Kwangtung Province, 335 miles south west of the National offshore Island of Quemoy. Last June 2 Chinese peasants rioted at Canton's railroad station when Communist authorities refused to let them travel to towns near Hong Kong. The peasants beat up a number of policemen and were dispersed only when Communist troops were call ed in, reports said. Subse quently word leaked out that the Reds were policing their own troops in Canton with armed patrols. Grand Jury To Get Withycomhe Testimony Oregon City (UPIf William Schumaker, Clackamas coun ty district attorney, said today information uncovered In the investigation of $6,000 worth of misping property at Camp Withycombe would ultimate ly be presented to a grand Jury. Schumaker indicated that an investigation under Capt. Lyle Harrell of the state po lice had located most of the property.- ST. r'ffiAT . etA.l T pip, PU Saddle mountain in the Oregon Coast range towerf over Saddle Mountain State park eight miles northeast of Nccanicum junction. f. f- 1 ' t I
