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(Oregon State Highway Commlssfon Photo)
KEEP OREGON GREEN
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Two Sections
MEDFORD, OREGON, FRIDAY, JULY 6, 1962
No. 92
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.