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FnV lo) in) UUl BE 11 FT p CnanY j Regional Edition The Beauties of Scenic Oregon 57th Year , Price. 10 Cents Medford Tribune (Oregon State Highway Commibbicn Photo) 28 Pages Two Sections MEDFORD, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 8, 1962. No. 120 Unions To Appeal Judge's Verdict On Work Rules Judge Officially Signs Dismissal Chicago - fUPP. - A federal court's refusal to stop the na tion's railroads from firing It-J , 4 , Farewell Bend on the Snake river between Oregon and Trail left the river and wound into the Burnt river and Area Unemployed Remains Level; Pickers Sought Local labor has been . ad equate to fill needs of em ployers so far this summer, according to John J. Patton, manager of the Oregon State Employment office here. However, he said the next 60 days should produce short ages in many occupations. The fruit harvest in the valley is expected to begin about Aug. 20. At the present time labor recruitment is being carried on throughout Oregon and in other western states in an effort to secure a suf ficient number, of pickers. Patton stated that there ap pears to be fewer pickers available this year than last year. The state employment service will operate a separate Seasonal Farm Labor office on South Pacific highway near the armory to handle pickers during the season. Tourist travel through the area has brought about a con siderable increase in busi ness, particularly to motels, hotels, and restaurants. This may be attributed in part to the World's fair in Seattle and to the Oregon Shake spearean festival in Ashland, Patton said. The insured unemployment rate in Jackson county stood at 3.8 per cent near the end of July, the same rate as four weeks before. However, the rate was well below the 5 per cent recorded one year ago. Employment has remain ed about level during July, with approximately the same number of new hires as in July, 1981. Rain Forecast for Area This Week End Weather forecast for the Medford vicinity indicates that the spell of winter-like rains in this area will break tomorrow. Five-day forecast for west ern Oregon, however, pointed to showers Saturday or Sun day with precipitation heav ier than normal. The prediction locally is for showers tonight, but with a clearing trend Thursday morning and with fair weath er tomorrow afternoon though Friday morning. A total of .31 of an inch of rain fell from midnight up to 10 a.m. today making an over-j ied junk tires, firemen said, all total of .87 from the storm jThcy were summoned about which began Monday evening. 7:20 p.m. Rainfall for yesterday was .41 j The black smoke attracted of an inch and .15 fell before a number of Medford rcsi midnight Monday. i dents to the scene. HEWStWiBHES ITEMS FROM X15 UNDERGOES FRICTION . . ( .... Edward! . nm - m - new me aio rami imp ipreujn " "- as 480 sensors recorded tutelage 1 k. .f. during the lupertonic tett which icientittt teid wet an ex periment to gain information for flight! of "high designed tpace vehicles." RUSSIAN NUCLEAR TEST REPORTED . Dalton Wilcox of S a 1 e m . In Wshing!on-1IT - The Atomic Energy Committion n-; memory of his brother who nounced today lht Ruuia conducted another nuclear tett in was graduated in 1914 in poul the etmotphcre Tuetday. !try husbandry. iAiUiWlfriajtfif jjmi Mitel -,,t ,1 , Business Barometers Said Holding Steady State Employee Vanishes During Trip To Roseburg Reedsaort, Ore. -WPH- An Oregon Agriculture Depart- j ment employee who vanished j Saturday, leaving only his car as a puzzling clue, re mained the object of a search today. Eugene L. Shannon of Sa lem was reported missing Sat urday night, by relatives who were expecting him to arrive in Roseburg. About the same time, his empty car was found nearly submerged in the Umpnua Sherri Finkbine Awaiting Tests Stockholm-(UPH-Mi's. Sherri Finkbine's chances of getting a legal abortion in Sweden hinge on the question of whether she would suffer a nervous breakdown if denied the operation. Mrs. Finkbine, who had her first medical examination here Tuesday, will begin three days of psychiatric tests Thursday. Swedish law permits abor tion where there is danger of mental disturbance and one of the country's leading psy chiatrists will seek an answer in questioning the 30-year-old Phoenix, Ariz., mother of four. Dr. Kerslen Uhrus-Frostncr, who is also a gynecologist, gave Mrs. Finkbine a medical examination Tuesday and asked her to report back to him today for the mental tests. He has reports from two American psychiatrists who believe Mrs. Finkbine should have an immediate abortion because of morbid fear that her unborn child has been crippled by the drug thalido mide. North Medford Fire Burns Buried Tires A fire of undetermined ori - gin back of 1600 North River - side ave. yesterday evening j spread from debris into bur- AROUND THI OlOH TEST r- -: B . k. D . l m w lit Ai ' - . "u"7""" rhinnai in vftriAUC ,..r.A ano decreet F.hrenheil 4" Idaho is the bend in the river Powder river valleys. river near here - not on the direct route from Salem to Roseburg. Police said the doors and windows of the car were clos ed, but there was no body. An expensive camera that Shannon had carried was missing A police officer said he had seen an unidentified man carrying a suitcase across a bridge at the time the car was found, but had not ."topped to investigate. State police at C o q u i 1 1 e said Shannon had cashed a check the day before for more than $300. A widower with ihrce chil dren. Shannon was traveling to Roseburg to do photogra phy work in a prune orchard, police said. He was described as six feet tall with auburn hair. Rites Held tor Marilyn Monroe West Los Angelcs-lUPO-Mar-ilyn Monroe, 36, as beautiful in death as she was in life, found the peace she sought in a hushed chapel today as 23 friends bid her final farewell Outside the chapel of the Wcstwood Village Memorial cemetery several hundred or derly spectators joined 80 po. lice officers and 100 newsmen in smoggy, mid-80s heat as the Rev. A. J. Soldan, a Luth eran minister, read a nondc- nominational service which included the 23rd Psalm. The bronze casket holding the world's most famous blonde was open, revealing the movie star, who died last Sunday morning from a mas sive overdose of drugs. While services took place, the Los Angeles Police De parment's suicide squad press ed its e f f o r t s to determine whether the actress' death was suicidal or accidental. 1 - . 1 3Wimmwg Classes ! Cancelled in Medford SwimminB .. bolh Jackson and Hawthorne pools i have been cancelled for the ; remainder ot tne week, Rob j ert Haworth, parks and recre , ation director, reported at noon today. The classes will ' resume Aug. 13, he said, and ! continue for two weeks, weather permitting. The class j es were to have started Aug. I 6. but were cancelled due to ' low attendance. j Poultry Husbandry j Scholarship Given Corvallis UP1' A new poul- try research scholarship that ,.,: ..iH i inn t "Ml inn; a h"- for the 1962-63 school year ha j been established at O r e g o n State university by the estate of a Salem man. The study grant was provid ed in the 1961 will of Artemus where the pioneer Old Oregon Unemployment I Dips Slightly; Retail Sales Up Washinglon-WPIt-The figures which will help President Kennedy decide whether to asl Congress for a tax cutj wis year generaly snow tnat the economy held its own in July. In general, there were no sharp swings in the major business barometers. ' ...... Unemployment dipped slightly. Retail sales' picked up a little. Industrial activity may have risen a little, per haps showed no significant change. Job holding improved as expected. To those who feel the eco nomic upturn has run out of steam and needs a stimulant, the figures argue for tax re ductions now. No Recession Indicated To those who favor sticking to the President's original plan for a tax bill in 1963 retroactive to Jan. 1, the fig ures confirm that the economy is not sliding into a recession, although it may not be ex panding. The betting in Washington is that lacking clearcut evi dence of a general business slump, Kennedy will hew to his plan to wait until next year to cut taxes. This impression was strengthened Tuesday by Treasury Secretary Douglas Dillon. In a closed-door ses sion with the House Ways and Means Committee, Dillon said nothing to suggest that Kennedy would seek an im mediate lax cut. Dillon has opposed such ac tion. It has been urged upon the President by several other advisers, including Budget Di rector David E. Bell, Labor Secretary Arthur J. Goldberg and Chairman Walter W. Hel ler of the Council of Economic Advisers. Citizens Warned of Appraiser Imposter An unauthorized person has been representing him self as an appraiser with the county assessor's office, Thad W. liatten, county assessor, reported today. He pointed out that all ap praisers from the office carry identification and printed business cards. He encour aged residents to demand identification from anyone claiming to be from the as sessor's office. If a resident is in doubt about the person claiming to be from the assessor's office I y j Qffers jQ Cut they should get the license;" number of his car. make of ; Inspect ion Demands vehicle, and contact the as-1 Geneva - HOT - The United sessnr s office at the county ; c, in .nftenina of its i courthouse immediately Bulletin Wathington-lPI-The Sen ! ate today patted bill to give the Pacific Northwett ! firtt call on power produced at federal projects in the I region. thousands of workers today ' left it up to President Ken nedy to head off a threatened strike by five operating unions. "I cannot see that the pro posed rule change is illegal . . .," Judge Joseph Sam Perry told the unions Tuesday after hearing oral arguments. Perry made his ruling of ficial today by signing an or der dismissing the union's pe tition for an injunction. The unions had asked the judge to bar the railroads from putting "a n t i featherbedding" work rules changes into effect Aug. 16. Perry said the unions had failed "to state a claim upon which relief can be given." Appeal Indicated The unions indicated they would appeal the decision to the Circuit Court of Appeals. On July 17 the railroads served notice they would uni laterally invoke work rules changes recommended by a presidential railroad commis sion. Among the changes was a provision for dismissal of 12,000 firemen in freight and yard service during the next year. Another 28,000 fire men's jobs would be elimi nated over a 10-year period. Monday the railroads took an even tougher stand, an nouncing they would revert to their original 1959 work rules revision plan, which would permit discharging 41, 000 firemen Immediately. "Management can make such demands in the process of collective bargaining as it sees fit," Perry said in a response lo a union claim that the proposed rules were a violation of the collective bar gaining obligation. laDor nseii made some pretty strong demand s," Perry said. Strike Threatened The unions have announced they will strike if the revised work rules are put into effect. However, J. E. Wolfe, chief negotiator for the railroads, has said the lines have re ceived assurances that the White House will not permit a nation-wide rail strike. Appointment of an emer gency board by the President under the Railway Labor Act would delay a strike for at least 60 days. Time Extended For Soblen Return London-lUPll-Britain today gave the Israeli El Al Air lines another 48 hours to re turn convicted Soviet spy Dr. Robert A. Soblen, 61, to the United States. The home office announced extension of the deadline set for the airlines to comply with the order to return the bail-jumping fugitive to Amer ican justice from midnight to night to midnight Friday. EI AI's next scheduled flight to New York is on Fri day. It was the second such ex tension since British courts last week rejected Soblen's appeals for political asylum in Britain or permission to seek refuge in another coun try. CP Police To Use Radar Equipment Central Point-This city will soon start using radar equip ment to clock the speed of autos using city streets. Police Chief Edward Zan der announced this morning that police officers are cur rently undergoing training in the use of radar equipment. Signs stating "Speed Check ed by Radar" will be posted in the near future. Effective date of the use of radar to apprehend violators of the basic rule will be announced later. Speeding motorists may be j stopped now, however, Zan I dcr said. I earlier inspection demands, offered today to cut by more ! than half the number of con trol posts tor policing a nu- clear test ban. I American Ambassador Ar l thur H. Dean told the 17-na-i linn disarmament conference ; the United States is preparad ; to accept "around 80" control posts instead of the 180 it had i demanded earlier. UIM ELIZABETH DUNCAN Outwardly Calm Mrs. Duncan, Cohorts Executed At San Quentin San Quentin, Calif. - (UPD - Motherly Mrs. Elizabeth Ann Duncan, 58, died in the San Quentin gas chamber today, followed three hours later by the two men she hired to murder her daughter-in-law, Olga, 30. Luis Moya, 23, and Augus- ine Baldonado, 28, went lo death together shortly after 1 p.m. (PST). Mrs. Duncan had hired the two farm laborers to lure her daughter-in-law away from her home to kill her. Outwardly Calm . Mrs. Duncan was outward ly calm as she entered Ihe death cell after protesting her innocence. Only five minutes before she entered the eight-sided, steel and glass death cell, Judge Walter L. Pope of the U.S. Court of Appeals in San Francisco turned down a final appeal from her son, Frank, who had described her as "the best mother a boy ever had." Mrs. Duncan maintained her composure as she was led into the gas chamber by two male guards. The plump, grey-haired woman was wear ing a pink prison dress. At no lime did she cry, or look at the 45 witnesses. Drug Influence Claimed "A most barbaric thing," muttered a grimfaced Frank Duncan as he left the court house after being turned down by Judge Pope. His ap peal had been based on a claim that Mrs. Duncan had been under the influence of drugs during her Ventura county trial. Warden Fred Dickson said that just before Mrs. Duncan entered the gas chamber she told him "I'm innocent" and expressed the wish she could see her son again. She saw him for Ihe last time for an hour late Tuesday night. Moments before she enter ed the gas chamber, the Cali fornia Supreme Court reject ed a bid by the attorney for Moya and Baldonado for a stay of execution. Shaggy Dog Case Is Filed In Dunsmuir Dunsmuir Selection of a jury to ponder a shaggy dog case is scheduled to get un der way here tomorrow morn ing. Some 50 prospective jurors have been ordered to appear In Dunsmuir justice court at 8:45 a.m. The case is sort of a pa tcrnity suit involving Bonbon, a shaggy dog belonging to George Adams, and Boots, a fox terrier owned by Adams next door neighbor Jay &mitn. Smith has signed a com plaint charging that Bonbon Invaded his property and co habited with Boots. Smith be lieves this incident is subject to misdemeanor charges un der a cily dog ordinance. Both men have reportedly refused to consider an out-of-court settlement. How the dogs feel about the case has not been announced. WEATHER rnRKCAflT: Shower tontttil and rlrirln irmt Thuodsv mrtrnlnr Fair Ihitradnv afttr nnnn thromh Friday mnrnhtjr. low tonight neir 55. High Thursday 75. Temp. lllirhMt Yffttirdar 7 I. owe t Thlt Mornlnt M I'rfc. to 10 a.m. Today 32 Our Skies Tonight Sunset today 7:23 p.m. Run rlne tomorrow ... 5 .11 a.m. Moomet tonight 11:41 p.m. Full Moon (and Penumbra) Frlfpe of the Moon) ... Aug. 15 VISUM. F. PL A MKTS nu, low In wal 8:39 p.m. Saturn, low (n outh ral :!? p.m. Mar. rlftM . 1:20 a m. Jupiter. In southweit at lunrtie. Agate Dam Construction Gets House Group Okay Project Located On Dry Creek To Cost $1.8 Million Reservoir To Hold 4,600 Acre-Feet The House Interior commit tee today approved a bill to authorize construction of Agate dam and reservoir on Dry creek in Jackson county, according to the United Press International. The bill, introduced by Rep. Edwin R. Durno (R-Ore), calls for an addition to the Talent division of the Rogue River Basin Reclamation project. The addition is esti mated to cost $1.8 million. The reservoir will have a capacity of 4,600 acre-feet, which will provide supple mental water for the 4,820 acres of land presently irri gated in the Rogue River Val ley Irrigation district plus 1,810 acres of new land. Wa ter from the reservoir will be released into Dry creek and diverted in Hopkins canal about one-half mile below the dain. Earihfill Dam Agate dam will be located about 11 Vii miles northeast of Medford. The enrthflll dam will be 73 feet high and 3,670 feet long including the wing dike. ' , . Construction of the rescr- voir will necessitate acquisi tion of 737 acres of private land, according to the bureau of reclamation. . The project will also in clude the construction of a 1 o w rockfill diversion dam and feeder canal about 700 and the Agate Feeder canal which will be about three- Quarters of a mile in lenKlh. Fish passage provisions and screens from Antelope creek lo the Hopkins canal and minimum basic recrea tional facilities are also pro vided in the bill. Pool Sale Offered To City of Ashland Ashland - Sale of the Twin Plunges to the city of Ashland has again been proposed. Mrs. Lydia F. Dobson, own er of the pools, and her son Leslie C. Dobson, who man ages them, last night offered the establishment to the Ash land City council for $70,000. The council took the matter under submission and will dis cuss it further. The Twin Plunges, First and A sts., was offered to the city In 1953, but the city's voters, acting at a special elec tion, turned the proposal down decisively. Later in 1053, the owners, Owen and Lillian Gragg, sold the pools to Mrs. Dobson. At last night's council meet ing, Dobson went into detal as to the benefits of a municipal ly owned pool. The Twin Plunges has approximately three - and - a - half acres of ground, for recreation area. The two pools have a com bined water surface of 7,500 square feet, he explained. Rynning Resigns As County Coordinator Paul B. Rynning, who has been serving as county co ordlnator for Improving con dilions along Bear creek out side of Medford, has resigned The letter of resignation dated Aug. 7, was presented to the county court this morn ing by Judge Earl Miller. The court accepted the resigna tion "with regrets." It Is effec tive Immediately. Rynning had been serving as the project coordinator vol untarily and had done some preliminary work pending slate action on the situation. In his letter, Rynning said, "After careful consideration following some Inspections and studio In the matter along with some parties who should be interested, I feel that it would be of mutual benefit to myself and the pub lic U I would step down and make room for someone else." m -n- J - 4i A . A ARRIVES IN ITALY Followed by a phalanx of police, Mrs. Jacqueline Kennedy, holding the hand of her daughter, Caroline, follows her sister, Princess Lee Radziwlll, left, up a narrow street in Ravello, Italy. The First Lady and her daughter will stay in a 900-year-old villa during a two-week, vacation as guests of the princess. (UPD Italian Crowds Cheer Arrival of Jacqueline Kennedy Ravelio, Italy -IUPII- Cheer-1 Villa Sangro. His present, an ing crowds and "Welcome Jac- ancient Roman vase found in queline" signs greeted Jacque-1 the sea, already had been de line Kennedy and her daugh-1 livercd to the villa. ' : ter, Caroline. 4, when they Manz) had . brief sDeech arrived today in this ancient hilltop village for a two-week sun-and-sea vacation on the Mediterranean coast.' Cries of "Viva Jackie" came from the crowds as the Kennedys' car pulled Into the town. America's first lady and her daughter flew to Rome aboard commercial airliner, then on to Salerno. Waiting for them at Salerno was Mrs. Kennedy s sister, Princess Lee Radziwlll, who had driven down from Ravel lo in a black limousine. The Kennedys will be the guests of the princess at her rented villa here. ' The weather was clear and sunny. As the shouts of "Viva Jackie" rang out, Mrs.. Ken nedy responded with a daz zling smile. Walks Along Street President Kennedy s wife. wearing a white dress, then left the automobile to walk the length of the street which fronts on the 900-year-old vil la where she will stay. The street Is named St. John of the Bull. She was surrounded by a phalanx of plainclothesmen and uniformed police. Mrs. Kennedy paused brief ly to glance at a shop that sells ceramics, one of the main tourist Industries of the Am- alfi Coast. Plastered on a wall of the shop was a "Welcome Jacqueline" sign. During her brief excursion, the crowd almost broke through the police lines scv. eral times In an effort to get closer to her. Mayor Lorenzo Manzi was waiting at the door of the Red Cross Bloodmobile To Visit Medford Aug. 13-14 The Red Cross in Oregon has been "desperately short" of blood throughout the sum mer, local Red Cross officials reminded residents this week. "This is why it is Impor tant that Medford obtain Its quota of 350 pints of blood during the Bloodmoblle's visit here Monday and Tuesday," Mrs. J, W. Burba explained. Due lo the short supply of bloodi hospitals have called an unusually high number of "walking" donors, she stated. These donors are persons who go directly to the hospital to give blood. The Bloodmobile will be here Monday from 2 to 6 p.m. I 1 4 i v I fi in prepared and was said to have spent the entire morning prac ticing It at the town hall. Speech of Welcome Speaking in Italian, he told Mrs. Kennedy; , "I am certain the uncom mon beauty of the place, the sense of peace that you will breathe, the courtesy and cor dial hospitality of the people. will make your stay pleasur able and that you will carry back to your great homeland pleasant memory. Mrs. Kennedy responded with a ' (thank 'Grazie, molto gentile you, you are very to the mayor's wcl- kind)" come. Biff Reported Out To Aid Lumbermen Washington - WPP - The Senate Commerce committee Tuesday reported for floor action a bill aimed at aiding the U.S. lumber industry by earmarking 50 per cent of lumber tariffs for research and market development. The bill Is one of a series of proposals to bolster the ail ing Northwest lumber indus try against competition from Canada. . AMERICAN (First game) Baltimore i 6 0 New York .. . ....... 3 S 1 Pappai and Land r 1 1 h, Lau (8): Stafford, Bridget (9) and Howard. and Tuesday from 10 a.m. to MMfl 2 p.m. A total of 400 donors are needed to obtain the quota, Mrs. Burba said. The Bloodmobile will be at the Red Cross building, 60 Hawthorne ave., both Aug. 13 and 14, Persons may make ap pointments by calling the of fice 773-3813. In addition to the regular drawing, some 28 pints of blood will be donated Tues day between 11:30 and 12:30 p.m. for open heart surgery in Portland, Mrs. Burba said that the blood, all of type A negative, will be flown to Portland I m m e diately by John Gregory of the Civil Air Patrol. I
