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Newspaper Page TextcDfirp nnffpf EAR BLAST It! M . , , . . mm I FOREST FIRE 57th Year Price 10 Cents danger tomorrow Kegional tdition The Beauties of Scenic Oregon Medford Tribune (Oregon State Highway Commlssfon Photo) KEEP OREGON GREEN 20 PAGES Two Sections MEDFORD, OREGON, FRIDAY, JULY 6, 1962 No. 92 t 4 Mirror Sewer Service Rates in Medford Be Increased With the August billing, sewer service rates in Med ford will be increased, as a result of action by the city council last night. The increase had been rec ommended by the city admin istration. Present rates, which are in cluded in a customer's water bill, are 35 cents a month. Ef fective in August, the rates will be increased to 75 cents, City Manager Robert Duff aid. Under the new schedule the cost for sewer service to the average household will be about 2' j cents per day. This is the first increase in rates since February 1949, Duff noted. The sewer charge is made to pay the costs of operating the city's sewage treatment plant, maintaining public sew er lines within the city, and retiring bonds issued for the j Camp White sewer trunk line. Carries Waste to Plant The Camp White sewer trunk line, which was con structed in 1949 at a cost of $400,000, carries wastes from the city to the treatment plant located adjacent to Rogue river. "riiirini recent voars. the city council has paid most of, the sewer system's operating expenses from general prop-1 erty taxes," Duff said. i "Because property tax rev-! enues are limited and because Ihcre is a need to place thej sewer system on a self-supporting basis." he explained, I "it has become necessary to increase service rates." Rate schedules will contin ue to be "flat-rate" for resi dential users and related to water consumption for multi-1 pic units and commercial cus-; tomcrs. Duff said. i Printed rate schedules are available on request from the! finance or water department, offices in city hall. Previous sewer service; rates were: 1935. 15 cents; 1949. 65 cents: 1954, 50 cents; and 1056, 35 cents. 62.849 AT FAIR Seattle -TM1- Attendance at the Seattle World's Fair Thursday was 62.849. bring ing to 3.527.537 the total for the first 76 days of the exposition. tlWSBRIEFS IIIMS FROM frf 1 IIZDICARE WINS FIRST ROUND Wtthington-IPT - The administraiion-tndoried medical rare lor tha aged plan lurTired it f irl leil today whan the Senate turned down a riTal Republican proposal. SHOOTING AGAIN ERUPTS IN ORAN Algiers-1 PI Shooting broke out today near the Roman CatVolic cathedral In the tenie port city of Oran, where at leil 19 Algerians and 17 Europeans wart mawacred in noon time riots Thursday. ROCKET BORNE TEST P06TfOND Honolulu-tlt-The 9nited Stalo awnounctel S4 hour poiiponemenl Thursday night in its tkir4 effort . exetloi a rocket. borne nuclear t&Tiae JotltoXttw ti'awxi if Ju Pacific. P O . : aas-s yrr ' pond at Bend is in the heart Revised City Budget Of $3,1 18,484 Is Adopted by Council A revised budget totaling $3,118,484 for 1962-63 was adopted by the Medford city council last night. The adoption came after the council cut two appropria tions and added funds to two others. As a result of the action, expenditures in the budget Plan for Viaduct Space Is Approved A plan outlining the pro posed future development of the space under the freeway viaduct adjacent to Haw thorne park was amended and approved by the Medford city council la?t night. The plan as prepared by the city public works depart ment, deals primarily with proposals to install parking spaces under the viaduct. But the council amended the plan to read "parking andor landscaping." The bureau of public roads had requested the Oregon state highway department to obtain the plan for the devel opment of the area from the city. Councilman Donald Han sen's motion, as amended by Councilman Stan Stark, car ried with it the intent that the area under the freeway will be landscaped aid de veloped as park area first. Then, if at ome time in the future it becomes advisable to install parking spaces un der the viaduct, the council will be free to do so. the councilmcn said. The plan also calls for the restoration of two parking bays, capable of accommodat ing between 65 and 70 vehi cles, in an area adjacent to the East Main st. entrance to the park. The parking bays are planned for the use of park patrons. OFFER REJECTED Cleveland. Ohio TP1- Top executives of five railway op erating unions today rejected the National Mediation Board's offer to arbitrate the current railroad work rules dispute. AROUND THI OLOII I 6- of the Central Oregon recreational area. were reduced a total of $15,- 112. This will be a reduction in the total property tax levy of S17.775, which will amount to a decrease of less than one half of one mill. The major item cut last night was the emergency fund. Its total was reduced from $30,478 to $10,000. The action was protested by Councilman Robert Bac cus, who argued that if the city's estimate of anticipated revenues "was off by as much as 3 to 5 per cent, we'll be in trouble." Councilman William Sing ler asked City Manager Rob ert Duff if the city had ever found it necessary during the last 10 years to spend all the money in the emergency fund. Duff replied that while there had been "plenty of op portunities," the full amount had never been spent. ''But, of course, we've nev er had a real emergency," he noted. In other budget changes, the council cut $250 from the municipal court account, re ducing it a total of $2,750. Add To Account Because the administra tion's earlier estimate had been too low. some $1,616 was added to the street light ing account. This amount is needed, Duff said, to pay for 'ghting the freeway at Crater Lake hwy. and Barnctt rd., and ad ditional residential require ments. The council also voted to add S4.000 to the assistant city manager account to en gage an administrative assist ant for the city manager at some future date. Some discussion was given to the possibility of deleting funds under the civil defense account and adding those du ties to the city manager's of fice, but a motion failed to get a majority vote. Preliminary OK Given to Zone Plan Grants Pass -A new com prehensive zoning ordinance for Grants Pass was given preliminary approval by the city council here last night. Councilmcn instructed city officials to prepare a final draft and map to be intro duced at the next meeting. July 18. The ordinance is the cul mination of eight years of work by the city planning commission. If enacted, it will replace the original city zon ing ordinance which was en acted in lf42. The ordinance updates zon ing in the city with an eye toward regulation of commer cial development. La$t night's council approval followed a series of public hranngs COACH KILLFD Fugene-TPI -Neal B fcfin haum. 2R. c ch.it MrKn..e Hit-i School east of hre. ws acctf'ally shf5. nd '!! windrd late Tiry. Sites Foundation Submits Beekman Home Expenses i The Siskiyou Pioneer Sites I Foundation has submitted a financial statement on the op ' oration of the Beekman home, the Jackson county court re ' ported today. i Under a new schedule, ex j penses for operating the home of the early day Jacksonville ' banker are estimated at $360 for a four-week month. Final Foundation approval is pend ing, according to the state ment signed by Sites Founda tion officers. Receipts collected from M;iy 21 to June 25 totaled S685.75, according to the financial re port. This includes total ad missions of S519.55 for 'he 1.221 persons who visited the home. : Basis for Expenses ) The total estimated expen , ses are based on operating the j home seven days a week, six hours a day during a four- week month. The manager, Mrs. George j W. Brewer, Jacksonville, I would receive $120 a month. An adult attendant would re ! ceive $06 for four days a week, a student attendant, I S.i4 for three days a week; S18 for a yard man, $20 for ,a cleaning woman. $11.25 lor (a telephone, $16.20 for pay ; roll costs (6 per cent). $10 for (water and lights and $14.55 for incidentals. i The report noted that vol untary help has not been con sistently available making it necessary to have paid per sonnel conduct tours through 1 the home. Medford' Junior Service League women will be asked to help during August when a larqe number of visitors are expected because of the Ash land Shakespearean Festival, the report stated. Sheriffs Reserve To Be Reorganized The Jackson county sheriff's office will sponsor a meeting at 8 p m. Monday, July 9. to recruit sheriff's reserves, ac cording to Sheriff Paul Bct tiol. Plans are now being made to reorganize the reserves to prepare recruiting and train ing projects. Bcttiol said. Re cent appointment of Deputy Buford Johnson as county civil defense coordinator has emphasized the need for civil defense work from the re serves, he said. To qualify for the reserves an applicant should be from 21 to 45 years of age. in good physical condition, with no arrest record, be available in time of emergency, and be of good moral character, the sheriff said. IN GOOD CONDITION A 0 yar old Medford boy. Gregory David Flakus. 612 J st.. was reported in good condition in Sacred Heart hos pital today He was injured about 1130 a m. yesterday when the h ycle he was rid " t "t ru . Medford mcitor;' V Tat Oakdalf ave at: lite, Soblen Requests A sylum in Explosion Cuts 300-Foot Crater In Desert Floor Huge, Dirty Cloud Soars Into Sky Nevada Test Site, Nev. -IWD- The mightiest nuclear blast ever in the United States rocked the southern Nevada desert today in the first known detonation of an H- bomb type device in this coun try. Today's explosion, deep be neath the sandy floor of the test center, shot a towering spiral of dirt and sand high into the sky. It came with a deep-throated rumble at 9:00 a.m. (PST) and had a yield of 100 kilo- tons or more (A kiloton Is the equal of 1,000 tons of TNT). Big Crater Opened A gigantic, open-faced cra ter - measuring roughly 300 feet deep and nearly a third of a mile in diameter - was chewed in the rocky, sandy soil by the atomic force. The shot at this center, 65 miles northwest of the resort city of Las Vegas, was dubbed "Project Sedan." It came as another step in the Plowshare program, designed to deter mine whether atomic explo sions can be used to dig har bors, canals and other useful excavations. 600 Feet Deep The powerful device was set off 600 feet deep. When it exploded in a cloud of rocks and dirt, it first opened a hole equally as deep. But it was quickly filled to the 300 foot mark with the falling desert debris Witnesses on surrounding mountain tops said they felt no concussion. But veteran atom bomb watchers were im pressed by the size of the huge, dirty cloud in the clear, 100-degree temperature sky. It had the shape of a stem less mushroom. As it rose higher it looked like a stack of immense, inflated rubber tubes-piled one on top of the other. Mushroom Formed Newsmen said a "flash of light" preceded the spray of dirt and rock which they esti mated shot 7,000 feet high. I The mushroom effect was ' then formed with the cloud drifting up to 30,000 feet. There it apparently vaporized 'and turned white, turning I away from the site in a north- . erly direction. I Forty-five minutes after the blast the cloud was visible in Las Vegas. ' The blast was recorded 300 miles distant at seismographs I of the California Institute of ' Technology at Pasadena, Calif., and farther up the coast at the University of Cal ifornia at Berkeley and in San Diego. Seismologist Dr. Charles Richtcr said the re ! cording was weak but restric tion of the AEC did not per mit further explanation. Bulletin Washington - HTIi -The United Statei today advised Runia it is lifting ill travel ban (or Soviet touritti and exchange viiiiori, thus per mitting Ihem to travel any where they like in this country. WEATHER roMKCART: Filr thrniifh Kal- I i urrtitv. A IMMf warmer JUinr day. l ow lnnlht near 4ft. High j '. Kalurday TIC MP. llirhftt Ytrrriav 2 I.onral Thlt Morning I Our Skies Tonight StinM lodav ( Siinrlif tmnrrnw Hrt UnMT , I'KOMIMNT TR i Vera, hlrh overhead ! IMIILK Pl.ANKTfl ; Venn. ieli ; Haiti rn. riin jLopiier. rlei tari, rte 4 11 10 54 p m Ju y 9 14 1 11 1 p m p m. p m a m. ' """"IS Hi m turn WILLIAM FAUKNER Arts World Shocked Prize-Winning William Faulkner Taken by Death Oxford, Miss. -IUPII- Author William Faulkner, one of America's great literary tal cnts of the 20th Century, died of a heart attack in this little Mississippi town he made fa mous in a series of novels spanning three decades. The 64-year-old Nobel prize winning author died at mid night with his second wife, Estelle, at his bedside. Faulkner's death followed by just a little more than a year the passing of another of America's great writers-Ern est Hemingway. Hemingway died in Idaho July 2, 1961. The bourbon-sipping Faulk ner, who never varied from the role of the Southern gen tleman, fell from a horse in the woods near his home here about three weeks ago and had been in poor health since. Arts World Shocked But his sudden death shocked the world of arts and letters. Bennett Cerf, who heads Random House, Faulkner's publisher, said he saw Faulk ner only a couple of weeks ago and "he was bursting with health and happier than he had seemed to be in many years. British novelist Sir Charles Snow, or C. P. Snow, also ex pressed his sorrow. "He was one of the great writers of our time, difficult, but very American, very much in the great American line. "Mr. Faulkner was enor mously admired all over the world. Possibly he was more admired than read," Snow said. Kennedy Praise President Kennedy eulo gized Faulkner as one of the "great creators of this age" whose work will long endure. Faulkner's works Included such well-known books as "The Sound and the Fury," "Sanctuary," "The Unvan quished," and "Basalom, Ab salom," one of his acknowl edged masterpieces His latest novel, "The Reiv ers," was published this year and won wide critical acclaim. Faulkner was known almost jas much as a wit as his liter ary talent. A story is told that Cerf once admonished him for not answering his mail, and Faulkner is said to have re plied: "Mr. Cerf, when I get a let ter from you, I open it and shake It and if a check doesn't fall out I tend to forget about it." Faulkner was nwarded the Nobel Prize In 1949 for a se ries of novels In which he cre ated his own "Yochnapataw pha County" In North Missis sippi. He used these surround ings for the settings for his gothic saga of decadent aophis ticates, greedy landlords and shrewd and brutal tenant farmers He won a Pulitzer Prize for his literary efforts in 1954 and was awarded the National Book Gold Medal in 191)0 for his volume, "Collected Stories of William Faulkner " Great Britain Mediator Seeks Talks in Strike Of Iron Workers Goldberg Refuses To Enter Dispute Portland - HOT - A federal mediator strove today to set 'new talks between striking Iron Workers and contractors, while a Labor Department spokesman indicated Secre tary Arthur Goldberg would stay out of the dispute for the time being. As construction paralysis from the six-weck-old north west strike spread, mediator George Walker said he hoped another negotiating session could be arranged for Mon day. Meanwhile, John Leslie, in formation director for the U.S. Labor Department, said Goldberg would turn down a request by employers to in tervene. Leslie said Goldberg considers the Federal Medi ation and Conciliation Serv ice the proper agency to han dle the dispute. Leslie said a written state ment to this effect would be sent to employers. Dissappointed Jack Cullinan, chairman of the employers' negotiating committee, said "to say that we are disappointed in Sec retary Goldberg's action is putting it very mildly. His statement that intercession by him would constitute inter ference is most difficult to un derstand In view of the fact that he has seen fit to Inter cede In strikes elsewhere in the nation." Cullinan said employers "repeat our offer to submit the dispute to the National Joint Appeals Board and urge Secretary Goldberg to use 'he influence of his office to per suade the Iron Workers to agree to this procedure." Sabin Vaccine Make-Up Clinic Set A makeup clinic for type 1 Sabin oral polio vaccine will be held at the Jackson coun ty health department in the courthouse from 8 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, July 11. Those who missed receiv ing the type 1 vaccine at the county-wide clinic in May, or those who have since decided to start the Sabin program of three doses, may receive the first one at the makeup clinic. Type 3 vaccine, which was distributed throughout the county In June, will be offer ed at another makeup clinic August, Dr. A. Erin Mer- kel, county health officer, said. Type 2 vaccine will be offered on a county-wide ba sis In September. Coupons entitling the hold er to the three doses of vac cine will be available at the makeup clinic. The cost is $1 for the three doses, or $5 for a family with five or more persons. September Draft To Call 5,000 Men Washington -HIPH- The De fense Department today Is sued a call for 5,000 draftees to be Inducted Into the Army during September. The same monthly quota previously was cstabl'ahed for July and August. The September Inductions will bring the total draft since the start of the Berlin build up to 150,000 men for 12 months. Pianist Oscar Levant Rushed To Hospital Hollywood -ITIi- Pianist-humorist Oscar Levant, 55, whose barbed wit made him a national celebrity on radio's "Information Please" in the lH30s, was rushed to Mt. Sinai Hospital Thursday night with Bn undisclosed ailn;ent. PoSitical jr;' !r mmi9 U um i mn ii,.. JAMES J. DUNLEVY Announces Candidacy Dunlevy Tells Candidacy for Medford Mayor James J. Dunlevy, 408 Ard more ave., a member of the Medford city council for six years, today announced his candidacy for mayor of Med ford He is the first candidate to announce for city office this year. Medford Mayor John W Snider has indicated he would not seek reelection. A resident of the Rogue val- ley for 20 years, Dunlevy first moved to the area as an en listed man attached to en gineers unit at Camp White. He was born in Akron, Ohio, where prior to enter ing the Army he worked for Goodrich Rubber company in the engineering department. Accepts Position Following his discharge. Dunlevy accepted a man agerial position with KMED radio station, where, among his other duties, he announced the "Friendship Circle" pro gram. In 1050, he went to radio station KYJC as general man ager, a position he held until 11157, when he accepted the general managership of the Rogue Valley Country club. Dunlevy has served on sev eral boards and has held of fices in a variety of civic clubs and organizations. He Is a member of the board of directors of Rogue Valley hospital and Oregon Non-Proflt Organizations. He is past president of the Med ford Rotary club and of the Jackson - Josephine county chapter of the Oregon Res taurant and Beverage associa tion. He has served as a board member and vice president of the Medford Chamber of Com merce and also has been a member of the Salvation Army advisory board. He also holds membership in the Elks club glon and the American Lc- Rural Fire Area Petitions Submitted The Jackson county court today received petitions for formation of a Talent rural fire district. The petitions signed by more than 200 residents seek creation of a rural fire dis trict for the area surrounding Phoenix and Talent. The petitions were circu lated by residents of the Tal ent area who have become concerned over the serious fires In the rural areas and lack of adequate fire protection. Brazilians Riot Over Food Prices Rio de Janeiro-ilTlv-Crowds rioted and looted storai for the second day in a row In suburban Caxiaa today. Troops rushed to the area to quell the disorders after the police chief said the mobs were out ol control. Au thorities said the mobs began attacking stores In protest against high prices and food shortages. Elmo Craga Miranda, police chief of Sao Joao do Marity township, said that at least 500 persons wert hospitalised and mors than $2 million damage was done In the riots. i Convicted Spy Removed From London Hospital Habeas Corpus Writ Obtained London-IUPD-Cop.victed So viet spy Dr. Robert A. Sob len asked for political asylum in Britain today to escape life imprisonment in the United States. A short time later, he was taken from a hospital where he was recovering from wounds inflicted in a suicide attempt. Informed sources said they believed Soblen was being taken to Brixton Prison to await the outcome of his re quest for asylum and a hear ing on a habeas corpus writ obtained by his lawyers earli er In the day. Soblen shielded his face with his hands from photo graphers as he was carried on stretcher from Hillingdon Hospital, 17 miles outside London, and put in an am bulance. Wrists Bandaged Soblen was dressed in pa jamas. His wrists were band aged from the knife wounds he inflicted on himself while flying in an Israeli airliner that was to have taken him to New York last Sunday. ' In asking for political asyl um, Soblen, who also stabbed himself in the abdomen In the suicide attempt, was mak ing another move In his ef fort to stay In England. A Home Office spokesman said the request is being "con sidered." Earlier today lawyers or the fugitive spy went to a judge's home in another sur prise move and obtained writ of habeas corpus. The effect of that move was to block Soblen's return for at least 11 days. Johnston Clarifies Contract Conditions Because of recent public discussions concerning the op eration and potential of the Howard Prairie recreati on rea, Robert Johnston, who holds the concession to oper ate the area, today Issued a statement reviewing and clar ifying his contract, and the manner in which the area ii operated. Ha strongly defended the contract tinder which he oper ates, pointing out that it was approved by all responsible agencies before it was signed by all members of the county court, and that it "was nego tiated in a complete spirit of cooperation and understand ing." Johnston believes that such recreational nrpat ns Howard j Prnirie con become a great in. dustry for Jackson county, and he said he seeks the sup port and cooperation of its citizens to help it become so. The text of his statement appears on Page A-5 of today's Mail Tribune. Distance Swimmer Abandons Attempt New York -TOPB-Britt Sulli van, 27, a former Wave at tempted to swim 100 milei fro mSouthhampton, N.Y., to Coney Island, gave up today and was pulled from the wa ter in a state of near collapse. The Coast Guard said Miss Sullivan was removed from the water off Long Beach, about 25 miles from her goal. She had been In the water since Tuesday morning.