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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.
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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-
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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
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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
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; 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
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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
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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.-
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