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Newspaper Page Text1 The Beauties of Scenic Oregon (Oregon State Highway Commission PSoto) r i r " 45j Vj it The see Strike Figures Hold Preliminary Talks in Capital Washington - n'TO - Princi-1 : n.n nsli etrib-n . by iron workers in the Pa-1 cific Northwest gathered for preliminary meetings "here today before getting together with a .special federal medi ator Wednesday. Meanwhile, in Oregon, Gov. Mark Hatfield issued another bulletin on the impact of the strike. He said the payroll loss for idled carpenters and laborers alone has been more than S2.5 million. Carpenters and laborers either are ob serving picket lines or are locked out. The first Hatfield bulletin listed five stalled school proj ects. Started May 28 The Portland local of the International Association of Bridge. Structural and Orna mental Iron Workers has been out on strike in Oregon and Southwestern W a s h i n g ton since May 28. Locals in the Seattle and Spokane, Wash., regions also have been out. Negotiating committees for Ihe two sides are scheduled to meet at 10 a.m. Wednesday at the U.S. Department of Labor building with special mediator John T. Dunlap. Chairman of Board Dunlap, chairman of the Department of Economics at Harvard, is also chairman of the National Joint Appeals Board, an agency set up by contractors and unions to set tle strikes in the construe-1 tion industry. Northwest con-1 tractors have tried to have Ihe dispute submitted to the 1 L ii. RnarH for arbitration . i v,,i thn union has relused. I The union is seeking wage I k If id increases of 33 cents an hourjecived S135.523.7fi as Jackson lor structural workers and 38 cents an hour for reinforcing workers, plus changes in tra vel pay and other items. HOLMES APPOINTED cy from fines and violations. Salem UPI ' Gov. Mark It is apportioned on basis of Hatfield Monday named for- the number of registered au mer Gov. Robert D. Holmes tomobiles in the county. Jack chairman of United Nations son county has 45.052 cars, ac Day in Oregon. cording to lflfil figures. NEWS)BRIEF! ITIM FROM FORWARD MOVE ON TEST BAN HOPED Geneva-1 ri'-The United States told the 17. nation Dil armament Conference today ing underground nuclear te.U n-.oTemeni io f'- ' v...... . .... '"'Y- i KENNEDY TO CONFER WITH APPOINTEE , Wa.hington-tPlwCleveland Mayor Anthony J. Celebrexxe j i due ai me wnne nouie Kennedy hit appointment to lion and Welfare FRENCH PRESIDENT DEFENDS PROGRAM i Pant-in-Premier George Pompidou igorouily defend-' ed France'! plant for an independent nuclear striking lorce today and defeated a National Atiembly effort to topple hit government. I nic highway through Orregon's Columbia river gorge. Soblen Says Wound Not Try at Suicide London -IIOT- Convicted So viet spy Dr. Robert Soblen. R2, disclosed in court today "c wuiinuca iiuiiseu (111 d 'plane from Israel lo London solclv to thwart his return to (he United States. He said he had not tried to kill himself. Looking pale, haggard and feeble, Sohjca , appeared be fore three justices of Britain's High Court on a habeas corpus writ in an effort to keep from being deported. In an affidavit read to the Oregon Asked for Prayer Resolution Salem -JUPD- The Oregon legislature has been asked by Louisiana to pass a resolution urging Congress to submit a U.S. con5litutional amend ment to "determine whether or not prayer shall be permit led in the public schools.'' The request came from the Louisiana legislature, in the form of a resolution by the Louisiana slate senate. The resolution cited the U.S. Supreme Court's ban on official prayers in public schools. Since the Oregon legisla ture won't be in session until January, Secretary of State Howell Applinf? Jr. filed the document, for transmittal six months from now. It also urged each state at torney general to press for a proposed amendment. Ally. Gen. Robert Y. Thornton said he just received his copy of the resolution, and hadn't yet had time to study it. $ J 35,523 Received by . , '. r- i..i.n ir I , -uu' y ior noou runa counlv ireasurpr Karl .la- , nouch said lodav he has rc county's share of the stale i highway fund. The fund consists of motor vehicle and motor carrier li- i censes and permits and mon- AROUND THI 01OII it hopei new data on detect-1 will enable "a real forward ioo.t io u..wu w..n ""'"' be Secretary ot Health, Educa court by his attorney. Soblen said he slashed his wrists and knifed himself in the abdomen about an hour after his plane left Athens en route to Lon don. "My sole object was to make it necessary for me to be landed," he said in the affidavit. "It was not a case of attempted suicide." The same document said he was bleeding so profusely from his wounds that a Brit ish doctor declined to allow him to continue on to New York. The court wound up with a short 45-minute session dur ing which Soblen's a,.orney, Elwyn Jones, summed up his plea and termed the whole ac tion by authorities in the case "in fact an illegal one." The court then adjourned until Wednesday. Before the recess. Soblen had petitioned the court to allow him to "live quietly" in England or "go to a coun try of my choice''" rather than face life imprisonment in the United States. Icebergs Off Coast Said Hoax Tillamook -0IPD- Throe ice bergs reported off the Oregon coast Monday turned out to be a joke that snowballed. The Coast Guard learned of the hoax after dispatching a boat , to track down the ice bergs. The Coast Guard also considered flying a plane down from Alaska. The Coast Guard called off its search after two linemen for the Tillamook public util ity dislrict admilted their lale .., . j im ik u r i u n k trived and had gotten out of hand. They said they had been joking among themselves, when an office worker heard the report, thought it was true, and passed it on to of ficial sourcts. Expense Account Crackdown Whittled Washington - (I'PIi - The Sen ate Finance committee today sharply whittled back Presi dent Kennedy's plan to crack down on expense account spending as it rushed to com plete work on the embattled tax revision bill. The action slashed millions of dollars of revenue from the House passed bill. It amounted to a sharp reversal on several key features of the adminis tration mrasurc. Bv an 8-6 vote, the Senate p vo(cd (Q a'ow dcduc. (lonJ for busmcss expenses and travel if "incurred by a prudent man." This tentative- f kno(.yc(S out lc House language which woud dcny such deductions unless direct- i ly related to active conduct 1 of trade or business. , London IW-Sir Winston j Churchill. 87. today took his first steps since he broke hi; left thich in fall 20 days ago- Motion To Table Program Passes By Vote of 52-48 All 100 Senators Vote on Showdown Washington -ITU- The Sen ate Tuesday killed President Kennedy's compromise old age health care plan. The vote was 52-48. The administration defeat came on adoption of a motion to table the bipartisan hospital-nursing care program fi nanced through higher social security taxes. All 100 senators voted on the crucial showdown. On the vote that put the bill to death for the session. 21 Democrats teamed up with 31 Republicans to deal another legislative defeat to Kennedy. Voting to keep the bill alive were 43 Democrats and S Re publicans. Galleries Overflow The public galleries in the Senate were overflowing for the crucial moment. Specta tors sat on the steps and lined the doorways. It was the larg est crowd seen this year in the Senate. A number of House members also went to the Senate to watch the pro ceedings. Democratic Leader Mike Mansfield had set the tone in advance by saying this that few votes could atfect the quality of American life more than this one. Mansfield earlier had pre dicted the administration would eke out a hairline vic tory. His prediction came after a Democratic leadership conference with the President. Both Sides Maneuver The Montana Democrat is sued the forecast only a few hours before the showdown on the stormy election - year issue. With time ticking away, both sides maneuvered behind the scenes for votes. Regardless of the defeat, it will figure heavily in next fall's battle for control of Congress. Democrats said the defeat reinforced Kennedy's claim that he needs a bigger congressional majority to write his programs into law. The Senate proposal would have financed basic health benefits such as hospitaliza tion and nursing care for an estimated 18 million aging Americans through higher so cial security taxes on workers and their employees. It would not pay doctors' fees. Counties Gain in Highway Revenues Salem - dMI - Oregon's 36 counties gained $2.9 million in state highway revenues for a three month period that ended June 30, Secretary of State Howell Appling Jr. said today. The apportionment lo coun ties is based on 19 per cent of state motor vehicle regis trations, fuels taxes, motor carrier fees and fines. Multnomah county, with 276.178 vehicles, drew the big gest share of S814.516. Lane county was second with $281,219, and Marion county was third at $190,137. Other counties apportioned $100,000 or more were Clack amas. $180,163; Washington, S147.777; Jackson, $135,523: Douglas, $111,921), and Linn, i $100,684. Gilliam county, with 2.22 1 ! vehicles, received the smallest ! slice, $6,559. i McGinty, Reservists Receive Big Welcome Portland "UPli Bands, dig nitaries, wives and children massed at tic harbor wall here today to welcome the USS McGinty and her 180 Oregon Naval rcscrv ists home from nine months ai sea. The crowd even included a few babies never seen by their falhers They were born after the McGinty put out to sea last fall as nart of the na tion's military biulrl-up. Sugar Marketing Quota for 1962 Sef Washinlgon - W- The Agri culture Department Monday set the domestic sugar mar keting quota for 1962 at an annual rate of 5.810.000 tons. more than 10 per cent above j the previously announced quota of 5.185 000 tons. The calendar year quota for the domestic areas: do mestic beet sugar, 2 850,000 Ions, mainland cane sugar, 1 895,000 tons: Hawaii, 1.1 10,-! 000 tons: Puerto Rico. 1.140.-; 000 tons, and Virgin Islands. I 15.000 tons. FOREST FIRE DANGER TOMORROW KEEP OREGON GREEN 13 Fires Believed Work of Arsonist Around Grants Pass Grants Pass-Thirteen fires, believed to be the work of an arsonist, broke out in the area north and east of Grants Pass in about two hours yes terday afternoon. Twelve of the fires were small and quickly extinguish ed, but one burned 250 acres in the Granite hill area one mile north of Grants Pass be fore it was controlled this morning. Elsewhere in the state, about 65 firefighters con- Gloomy Shadow Cast Over Geneva As Meeting Nears Moscow -IUPII- The Soviet Union's latest note on Berlin and Premier Nikita Khrush chev's renewed demand for the ouster of Western Allied forces from the divided city cast a gloomy shadow today over the forthcoming foreign ministers talks in Geneva. "There seems to be some movement in the Soviet stand on disarmament side issues, but there is certainly none detectable yet on Berlin," a Western diplomat said here. Stand Reiterated The Soviet leader, current ly on his first known tour to the far northern cities of Murmansk and Marchangcl reiterated the Soviet stand on Berlin in an interview with 12 American newspaper edi tors, publiphed Monday. In the interview, Khrush chev called Western argu ments for retention of Allied troops in West Berlin "unten able." He also renewed his threat to sign a separate peace treaty with Communist East Germany, although he set no deadline. Rusk. Gromyko lo Meet Some new indication of Russia's intentions might re sult from the meeting be tween Soviet Foreign Minis ter Andrei Gromyko and Sec retary of State Dean Rusk, expected sometime later this week in Geneva where both arc to attend the final session of the 14-nation Laos confer ence. Or it might come from a speech by Khrushchev some where on his Far Eastern trip. Diplomats- here, however. viewed the premier's trip as simply another grass-roots look at all sections of his gi ant nation. Jackson St. To Be Closed This Week Parts of Jackson st. will be closed the rest of this week and possibly part of next wcck lo permit contractor's crews to work on a widening and paving project, according to Venipn Thorpe, Medford public works director. Jackson si. will be closed from Crater Lake avc. to Marie St., Thorpe said, be tween 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. Traf fic will be rerouted on side streets. Crews from M. C. Liningcr and Sons arc expected to com plete the project next week, Thorpe said. DEVICE DETONATED Washington -ITU- A low yield nuclear devic e was deto nated above ground at the Nevada test silc today in sup port of an Army exercise which also involved the fir ing of conventional weapons. WEATHER mnK(AT: Partly ?nurlv to ntihl and Hr1iif odav. Aflfr nnon Kindt nnrthwrtteilv 15 milf per hour. Low tnnlf ht 41. Mich tomorrow 14 to fix. Low tomorrow night about 50. Temp. IHfhMt Ypt.Mi1r LoeL Thli Morning SI Our Skies Tonight Kunift Intlav 1:4 p.rrt: Mintrl tomorrow .... 4 Ml a m. MoonrHt todav .t p.m. lull Moon today 1:41 am. A prnumnral rnf of ihr Moon ormr at thh fnU .'limn, inn imr tnr inrrr of H Rfrtr. H U InvMhlr. I Another prnnmbral rrllptc of thr Moon, nf a diftrrrnt r rir. will tW plat nf xt monlh. Regional Edition Medford 16 Pages tinued to fight spot fires in the Hunters Creek area near Gold Beach. More than 1.5 million board feet of logs be longing to the Evans Products company burned late yester day. The first of the Grants Pass area fires was reported in the Sunny Valley area north of Ml. Sexton about 1:45 p.m. The others followed in a pat tern along Highway 99 toward Grants Pass, on Foothill blvd. east of the city and in the Evans creek area. There were six fires north of Grants Pass, including the big one, four along Foothill blvd. and three along Evans creek toward Wimer. The 13th fire was reported about 4 p.m. Because of the number of fires and the pattern in which they broke out, Curt Nesheim, state forestry department dis trict warden, said "We have a strong suspicion thai they were the result of arson." Nesheim said he had not heard of a case in which so many fires occurred in suc cession for some time. "Incen diary fires used to be common in this area, but not any more, he explained. Under Investigation Yesterday's fires are under investigation by the state for estry department and state police. A crew of 70 men was used to fight the Granite hill fire which was not controlled un til this morning. Nesheim said the blaze might actually have been two fires since it burned on both sides of Highway 99. Priscilla Averill, Mail Trib une Grants Pass correspon dent, reported that motorists were using headlights while it was still daylight because of the thick smoke in the fire area around Highway 99. The smoke spread over Ihe city it- sell, virtually hiding the sun set from view. Two Buildings Burned In addition lo the 250 acres of brush and timber that were burned, the fire also destroy ed two buildings, a house and a guest house near it. They were believed to have been unoccupied. The Evans Products com pany fire near Gold Beach broke out Monday afternoon in 6.5 million board feet of logs slacked four lo five stor ies high in places. Cause of the fire wan not immediately known. Fire crews spent the ninht pulling smoking logs from the Burning decks and dumping them into ponds. A spokesman for the Coos Forest Protective association said the firefighters were hav ing trouble controlling spot fires on a 50-acrc grass and brush field because of winds up to 30-35 miles per hour. For a lime Moncay night several homes in the area were considered in danger, but firemen this morning said ihe hcimro were safe. The entire cold deck of the Evans company was destroy ed, the spokesman said. Plea of Innocent Filed in Homicide Keith Edward Schroeder, 30, of route 3, box 195, Med ford, pleaded innocent yester day afternoon In Jackson county circuit court to charges of negligent homicide involv ing the death of a woman. Trial was set Oct. 8. The case Involves an acci dent In which a car operated by Schroeder collided with one driven by Annie Matilda Innes, 68. of 3B28 South Paci fic highway, April B. resulting in injuries fatal to Mrs. Innes. The accident occurred on Highway 99 In front of Bear Creek Orchards packing plant. Snider Chairman Of Aeronautics Board Salem John W. Sni der, Medford mayor, today wa elected chairman of the State Hoard of Aeronautics, lie succeeded William Mad dron, Eugene. Snider stepped up from vice chairman. The new vice chairman is Roger Locnnig of Haines. t MEDFORD, OREGON, r SEASIDE BOUND Miss Martha Wyatt, Jacksonville, Miss Rogue Valley for 1962, is shown above getting a good luck kiss from her father,, Floyd C. Wyatt, before leaving this morning for Seaside, Ore., and the Miss Oregon contest. Her mother (dark blouse) and Mrs. Reedy Berg, left, were also on hand to bid her goodbye. Marjorie Green, XI 5 Rocket Ship Sets Altitude Mark Edward AFB, Calif. - (UPD Air Force Maj. Bob White be came America's first "winged astronaut" today by flying the X15 rocket ship more than 58 miles into space for a new world airplane altitude rec ord. First semiofficial compula tions, subject to revision later, showed that White went 310, 000 feet, or approximately 58.7 miles high. It was the highest any man ever has ventured above the earth in a pilot-controlled craft and the first of an X15 test flight, "double-header scheduled for today. The suc cessful flight came on While's lucky seventh attempt. Six earlier attempts had been scrubbed. American and Russian spacemen. In orbital and sub orbital flights have soared higher-100 miles or moro-but only with very limited person al command of their ships. While's historic feal of rocketing above the 50-mile mark won him the honor of being the fifth man to qualify for the Space Award Medal and to wear America's covet Truck Spills Load Of 50-Foot Pipes A Consolidated Freight- ways truck accidently dump ed a load of 50-foot steel pipes it was carrying yesterday morning at the intersection of Grape and Eighth sts., ac cording to city police. The truck, which was trans porting about 20 sections of pipe, stopped for a traffic sig nal at the Intersection, caus ing the load lo shift and spill. No damage or injury was reported in the mishap. A crane from Moore Steil com pany was brought to the scene to reload the truck. A police car was escorting the truck through the city at the time of the accident. Driv er of the truck was William Lee Benson, 20, Ashland. Pilot Welfare Program Analyzed Salcm-Wli Federal and re llonal officials were here to lay for a second analysis of pilot welfare programs in ackson and Multnomah counties. The program, begun last tanuary, calls for rcclassifica ion of welfare cases, with the selection of certain cases ir Intensive work designed lo get the recipients off the welfare rolls. All caseloads In Multno mh'i peninsula district and in ackson county have been nalvzcd. and special case loads have been set up. The state plans to extend the plan throughout Oregon, md other counties will be ,AA,i4 Inln in (.nnlrnilii.r a a..... .-.. ... ...... , - I spokesman said, Tribune TUESDAY, JULY 17, 1962 V v ed astronaut wings. He now joins ranks with his space craft counterparts - John Glenn, Alan B. Shepard, Gus Grisson and Scott Carpenter White and three other X15 pilots will receive aviation's highest honor, the Robert J Collier trophy, from President Kennedy at a White . House ceremony Wednesday. The award is for courageous sci entific flying of the rocket ship. Klamath Forest Fire Under Control Today Yrcka - The Klamath river forest fire near Horse creek was controlled this morning after it had burned 480 acres, destroying 2 million board feet of timber valued at $20, 000. Officials at Klamath Na tional forest headquarters in Yrcka said 283 men are at the sceno mopping up. Suppres sion forces yesterday in addi tion to the men included five bulldozers, two ground tank ers, two rcconnaisancc planes, two helicopters and seven borate tankers, i The fire did not make much headway during the past 24 hours, officials said. It burned about a mile east from the point where it started, on the north side of the Klamath riv er near its Juncture with the Scott river, about 27 miles west of Highway 99. Four Small Fires Reported on Railroad Yrcka - Four small fires, believed to have been started by sparks from a passing train, were reported along the Southern Pacific right-of-way cast of Yreka yesterday after noon. All of the fires were quick ly extinguished. Combined they burned about half an acre, officials at Klamath Na tional forest headquarters here said. TelstarWHI Relay Kennedy Conference Waihinglon-lrn-President Kennedy will hold a newt conference at 11 a.m. (PST) Monday and part of it will ba relayed lo Europe by Ihe new American Telephone com. munlcationi satellite. While House Press Secretary Pierre Salinger announced the President's news conference. He said pari ot the session with reporters would be carried "live" across the Atlantic via Telitar. Salinger said the Kennody section of Ihe broadcast "would come in at the beginning." But he was unable to say how many minutes the chief executive would be on the Interna tional television program. The press aide said the program was arranged for July 23 because the satellite then will be In proper position ior beaming pictures to countries abroad. He said Franca and Britain are set up for Telstar broad casts and that other European nations could pick li up via Euroviiion. Euroviiion it a continental television system which ex tendi throughout Europe. Including Russia. France or Britain would relay Kennedy's news conference lo other nations de siring to show il. There was no Immediate indication which countries might carry the program, I 57th Year Price 10 Cents No. 101 Miss Wyatt's rhaperonc, is shown behind th wheel of the Ford Galaxie 500 Sunliner that was loaned to them for the trip by Crater Lake Motors, Medford. Three full days o( activities, followed by an award luncheon Sunday, lie ahead for the Seaside contestants. Body of Medford Man Recovered At Howard Lake Jackson county sheriffl deputies this morning recover ed the body of R. J. McClarey, about 70, ot' 40. Quince St., Medford, from Howard Prair ie lake where he drowned last night. Trie drowning1 occurred about 8 p.m. yesterday when McClarey stood up in a light aluminum boat, according to Allen Pleas McCIanahan. 2715 East McAndrews rd., Medford, who also was in the boat. The craft capsized and toss ed both men into the water, deputies said. McClarey could not hang on to the boat, Mc CIanahan told sheriff's depu ties. McCIanahan became hung up on a fishing pole holder on the side of the boat, hold ing him to the boat. It prob ably saved hi; life, deputies noted. State Fire Warden Bruce Craig Matheny, stationed at Howard Prairie, rescued Mc CIanahan. McClarey has no relatives in this area, deputies noted. The body was taken to Con ger Morris funeral home in Medford pending funeral ar rangements. New Home Broken Into, Items Taken Unknown persons entered a newly constructed dwelling at 2125 Harrison st. sometime Sunday or Monday and re moved Items with a total value of about $250, accord ing to Medford police. W. Benton Smith, contract or, told police that entry was gained through a window. A copper, pull-down lamp. a hot water heater, and a rug were taken, Smith reported. Indications were that the thieves backed a vchicln Into a garage connected t the dwelling and loaded the item! into it to transport them away.