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Regional Edition 57th Year Price 10 Cents The Beauties of Scenic Oregon Medford TRIBUNE (Oregon State Highway Commission P'-o.oi Four Sections No. 138 KEP OREGON GREEN 36 Pages MEDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY, AUGUST 30, 1962 AFL-CIO Delegates Not To Endorse Candidate FOREST FIRE DANGER TOMORROW Skiers survey the sndNv ' Inicrmountain Area Rocked by Temblor Salt Lake City - (UPIt - AnSan Francisco earthquake at earthquake rolled through the, Intermountain area todW, knocking down bricks, dishes and plaster from buildings in three states, but no injuries were reported. The temblor was recorded at a magniture of 8.1 on seis mographs at Caltcch Seismo logical laboratory at Pasa dena, Calif., and University of California at Berkeley. Heaviest damage of the quake in Utah, Wyoming and Idaho was reported in the Cache valley of Northern Utah. Power was out in the valley, including Logan, fourth largest city in the state. A school was closed at Rich mond, near Logan, when plas ter fell. A slide was reported on Highway 89 through Logan Canyon, between Logan and Montpelier. Idaho. Most of the bricks on the roof of a meet ing house of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints at Logan fell inside the building. The earth tremor, first of any consequence in Utah since Aug. 17, 1959, when Utahans felt a quake centered near Hebgen Lake in Montana, brought hundreds of calls from homeowners. Some in Salt Lake City said their beds rolled across the floor. The shock hit at 5:35 a.m. (PST) and lasted about 10 sec onds. Buildings shook percep tibly as far south as Vernal, located in the southeast psrt of Utah. The Yellowstone quake of 1959 which took 10 lives and left 19 missing had a reading of between 7 5 and 8 and the ! WEATHER FORECAST: Fair ltti lilt If chance in temperature throuch Friday. I.nw Ionic lit 45-50. IliEh Friday $K-92. I Temp. ! HicheU Yesterday .. fi Lowest Ttm Morning 46 i Our Skies Tonight , fttint today - Sunrise tomorrow '. Monnsrt today t rir?.t Qtiarier fi;3fl p.m .V3S a m 7:2fi n.m Sept. ft I The planel. Junlter. now ries j i In thf evrntiu twtlleht and Is h littl ovfr 30 million miles from the fcarlh. the nearest It has heen since 1951. ITEMS FROM WJSfWiBRIEFS FIRE FIGHTERS MAKE STEADY PROGRESS i Salem - 1'Pli - Bright skies Loi Angelea-lPI-Two thouiand lire fighters mde iteady and temperatures up to 90 are progress today in their battle to contain two giant brush lira ; expected for the opening of which have chirred more than 17.000 acres of raluable the 97lh Oregon State Fair watershed since Tuesday afternoon. ; Friday. j Gov. Mark Hatfield will SENATE DEBATES TAX REVISION BILL I officially open the main gate Washinglon-tH-The Senate entered its fourth day of i at 10 a m. to start the nine debate today on the administration's tax revision bill with 1 day run. liberals still trying to win their first victory, Th. hherali honed to score their initial triumph by de feating an amendment proposing lax deductions for lobbying. K- BELIEVED TO FAVOR MEETING Moscow - in - Acting United Nations Secretary General n.ni irl lodav he believed tSrh.v would fevor a mectirg with President Kennedy "if :hc occasion tc:.ur. '. ' terrain in the Spout Springs northwestern Oregon. the turn of the century had a reading of 8.25. .4 Duncan Leaves for Settle Meeting Robert B. Duncan, speaker of the Oregon house and can didate for Congress for the fourth district, left for Seat tle, Wash., today where he will address the Western Con ference of Slate Governments Friday, Aug. 31. Duncan was invited as a member of the President's ad visory commission on Inter governmental Relations to speak to the conference on the work of the commission and the problems of the various levels of government in cor relating their work and func tions with each other. Duncan was appointed to the commission by President Kennedy in March this year, The commission is made up of members of the Cabinet, mem bers of the U.S. Senate and the House of Representatives, representatives of city and county governments, several private citizens, and two oth er members of stale legisla tures. Kennedy Chooses Goldberg Successor Washington - (UPI) - W. Wil lard Wirtz, 50. a tall, crewcut New Frontiersman, was select ed by President Kennedy to day as new secretary of labor. Wirtz, now undersecretary of labor, will be nominated to succeed Arthur J. Goldberg. Kennedy Wednesday an nounced Goldberg's selection as an associate Supreme Court Justice. Wirtz, former Chicago law associate of Adlai E. Steven son, has been Goldberg's right hand man during Goldberg's 19 months in the cabinet. CITY MANAGER Bend - HTIi - Hal Puddy. known in Oregon sports cir cles, will become the new citv manager of Bend. AROUNO THI OlOII Soviet Premier Nikita S. Khru - snow sports area PRESENTED AWARD Medford Mayor John W. Snider is presented with an Ameri can Municipal Association award In Phila Snider Receives AMA Award Medford Mayor John W. Snider was presented with an award in Philadelphia, Pa, Tuesday in recognition of his work in the sister city pro gram. The presentation was made by Gordon S. Clinton, presi dent of the American Munici pal association, at a luncheon meeting of about 1.400 Peo-plc-to-People program repre sentatives from throughout the United States. DAY Adjutant Visits In Medford Region David W. Lloyd, adjutant for the Department of Ore gon, Disabled American Vet eran?, conferred with J. P. Graham, local service officer, here Tuesday and Wednesday. Gerald S. Kclscy accompa nied Lloyd to Medford. He conferred with county Vet erans' service officer Elmer Donahoo. Lloyd succeded Kclsey in his position as department ad jutant. He was transferred from the Veterans Affairs Re gional office in Seattle, Wash to Portland, and is now in charge of the Portland office. Kelscy ir now employed by the Oregon Department of Veterans Affairs. Blue Skies Expected i For Opening of fair PUD ON BALLOT Salem - 'I'PI - A petition to place the formation of a pro posed Josephine County peo ple's, utility district on the 1 November ballot has been lurned into the slate I '' offi: For Oregon Salem - HOT - Delegates to the Oregon AFL-CIO conven tion voted against the recom mendation of their executive board today and decided 225 57 not to endorse a candidate for governor. The executive board had en dorsed incumbent GOP Gov. Mark Hatfield. The motion not to make any endorsements came from Joe P. Hargraves, a delegate from the Portland stcamfitters, who argued that the convention should not spend its time fighting over the endorsing of Hatfield and "should get down to the business at hand." George Brown, state AFL CIO political director, ex plained that the executive board has a pojicy of endors ing incumbents who have done a good job. He said Hatfield would fit into that category. Objection to the resolution calling for the hands off policy came from Charles Westergard of the Salem Building Trades Council. Joe Willis, representing the Slate Building Trades Coun cil, said he was supporting the motion not to endorse "with great reluctance." He said it should not be taken as a reflection against Anthony J. Celebrceze, for-! mcr mayor of Cleveland, 1l.i .r,ll., nnnklnl I snrrelarv r h-allh eriiwution and welfare by President ! Kennedy, was the main speak er at the luncheon. One of Four Snider was one of four per sons in the United States to receive the top award of the association. The aware certificate said: "This Is to certify that Mayor John W. Snider has, by virtue of extreme diligence, vastly furthered the cause of international peace and un derstanding through dedicat ed participation in the town Medford Man Arrested By Sheriff's Officers Byron Irvin Peffly, 27, of 2171 Meals dr., Medford, was lodged in Jackson county jail after his arrest yesterday on a charge of contributing to the dclinnuencv nf a minor, ac- I I'nrrtinn In llio .tarlrEon cmin. ty sheriff's office. He was ex pected to be arraigned later today. Deputies also lodged a 18-year-old Phoenix girl in the juvenile detention home in connection with the incident. The youth had been reported missing since early Tuesday afternoon. 34 Firms Listed as Identical Bidders Salem HOT Atty. Gen. Robert Y. Thornton said to- l day 34 firms doing business I in Oregon are listed in a fed icial report as having submit j ted identical bids in compeli- live bidding i The list included lumber. ; asphalt, paper, oil, woolens, j school supplies, chemicals, glas and service firms. EOUIPMENT DAMAGED Portland - 0.PI) - Fire broke out on a barge here Wednes day night and caused an esti mated $6,000 damage to car 30 handling equipment. "our great governor. But Willis argued that Hat field would be campaigning for Sig Unandcr, the general election foe of Sen. Wayne Morse, and for opponents of other Democrats who have labor support. "We cannot carry water on both shoulders," he said. Hatfield's Democratic op ponent is Atty. Gen. Robert Y. Thornton, to whom labor has been cool. Early in the week-long con vention a losing floor fight was staged to get the conven tion to invite Thornton to ad Strike Ties Up idwest Chicago - IIOT - The nation's biggest rail strike in 16 years shut down the 10,565-mile Chicago and North Western Railway today and there was little hope of an early settle ment. The iron wheels on the North Western's nine-state Midwest network stopped rolling as last-ditch efforts by Labor Secretary Arthur J. delphia, Pa., Tuesday by AMA President Gordon S. Clinton (right), mayor of Seattle, Wash. (UPI) affiliation program of the President's People -to - People PIHIH. I oui.uuy nun, ailllicr BO dressed a gathering of the as sociation members and out lined Oregon's approach to the sister city program, The state, Snider noted, has a higher sis ter city representation per capita than any olher state in the union. The conference extended from Saturday until Wednes day. Three governors and about 700 mayors participated in the meeting. Traffic Counters To Be Installed at Lakes Traffic counters will be in stalled at Howard Prairie and Emigrant lakes tomorrow, ac cording to Nell Ledward, Jackson county parks and re creation director. Ledward said the counters will be placed at the two re creational areas on a perma nent basis to provide a day-by-day count of the number of cars that pass the Iwo points. 'Tiger in the By A. ROBERT SMITH Mail Tribune Washington Correspondent As the Chinese elders told us months ago, this is the Year of the Tiger and Ore gonians will have special rea son to observe this between now and Nov. 8. when the Tiger in the Senate comes up for another confrontation with j The tiger, of course, is Sen. . Wayne Morse, so-called by 'many of his Senate colleagues and appropriately memorial ized in the title of the sena tor's unauthorized biography, "The Tiger in The Senate," by (his correspondent. The name seems destined to stick, not because the senator specially likes lis. but because neither side in the forthcom ing Oregon Senate campaign is unhappy with it. r overnor dress the convention. Hatfield made the opening address but was invited as governor, not as a candidate, labor officials said. This is the first time the convention itself has made the recommendations. In the past, the executive board has made all political choices. This year, the nearness of the election to the convention date was the reason for choosing the candi dates in open session. The convention also was to start grinding through 122 resolutions that have been presented this week. Railroad Goldberg failed to head off the walkout of 1,000 tele graphers at 4 a.m. (PSV). Another 16,500 North West ern employees refused to cross picket lines and the railroad went through with plans to cease operations. Talks were scheduled to resume today but National Mediator Fran cis O'Neill, who took over the negotiations after Goldberg gave up, said the railroad and the striking AFL-CIO Order of Railroad Telegraphers were still far apart on the basic is sue of job security. The strike cut off transpor tation to one-third of Chi cago's army of suburban rail road commuters and threaten ed economic hardship across the Midwest and the Great Plains. The walkout came when the nation's 180 railroads were threatened with a nation-wide rail strike over the thorny issue of featherbed ding. Five operating rail brother hoods representing 210,000 employees have threatened to call such a strike if the rail roads go through with plans to put sweeping work rules changes into effect. The work rules arc designed to elim inate featherbedding - the railroads terms for unneed ed workers and work pro cedures. If the rules go into effect, they will result in the elimination of at least 65, 000 jobs on the railroads. Oregon Traffic Toll Reaches 67 By Uniiod Preii International Portland was cited for traf fic safety today in the wake of three more traffic deaths in Oregon that sent the month ly toll to a new record of 67. The National Safety Coun cil said for July Portland had the third lowest traffic death rate of cities in the 350,000 to 500,000 population bracket. A one-car accident north of Dallas Wednesday night killed Willy Arthur Russell, 45, Auinsvillc. Near Grcsham, a car -log truck crash at an intersection killed two elderly Portland women, Marie Mlchels, 78, and Alma Gutowsky. The Slate Traffic Safety office said the official toll this month eclipsed the previous record month of November, 1957. HOME PLANNED Portland - HOT - Plans for a 21-story, $6 million retire ment home on the University of Portland campus have been announced here by Senior Citizens, Inc., a non-profit organization. Senate' Name The Republicans, as a mat ter of fact, like it so well that Morse s challenger, Sig Unan dcr, is Issuing wallet-sized cards showing a tiger skin nailed to the wall. In bold black tvpc across the top the card says: TIGER HUNTING LICENSE. The "license" certifies that the bearer "has contributed to the purchase of ammunition and is entitled to help hunt the tiger on Nov. 6, 1962." Anyone can purchase a tiger hunting permit by making a financial contribution to Unander's campaign. Morse forces apparently have done nothing to spread the tiger image of their favor ite, but he has done all any one might expect In that re spect during the recent satel lite filibuster when he was flashing out in the fiercest tilt '--'xsMJ!h ! '"SiiJ f muti aim H lam mwdfl' iilUMim nnlUuTiii--' --,, APARTMENT DAMAGED Smoke arises from the Walker building, 4 1 9 ' East Mum St., where an apartment was damaged by fire yesterday evening. Firemen said that the blaze occurred when a gasoline can Central Point Man Suffers Burns in Fire in Medford Charles Johnson Jr., 29, route 2, box 526, Central Point, was hospitalized yester day evening when he suffered burns from a fire which caus ed considerable smoke and heal damage to Apartment 2 the Walker building, 419Vi East Main St., Medford. Fire department and Sacred Heart hospital reports said that Johnson suffered burns on his hands and on his left leg and fo,ot. His condition at the hospital was described as good. Firemen said Johnson told them he had put gasoline in a car from a can and had car ried the can to the apartment. iWhcn he lit a cigarette, the can ignited and he attempted to put the fire out in the bath room. The fire was spread in that way to a bed, to a rug to a clonics ciosci and to a pain- room, according to firemen. The firemen, called at 6:05 p.m., look tne aerial laaaer truck to the scene. They said that occupants of the apart ment vcre Mrs. Eleanor Parr and Mrs. Mergic Offord. Voodoo Jets Plan Flyover at Event A squadron of four super sonic F-101 Voodoo Jets from Klngsley Air Force base, Klamath Falls, will "buzz" the city Saturday afternoon as part of Medford s Alba Day activities, city officials said today. Confirmation of the flyover was received today by Mayor John D. Snider from Col. Ed win J. Witzcnbcrger, com mander of Kingslcy field. Permission for the flight was received by the base com mander from Washington, D.C. The flyover is scheduled for 2 p.m., the time that dedica tion ceremonies will begin at Maple Grove park, Stewart ave. and Barnctt rd. The park will be renamed "Parco d'Alba," June Robinson Loses In Golf Tournament Mrs. Helen Davics, Mcd ford, spilled Miss June Rob inson, Albany, the defending women's champ, 2 and 1 this morning in the opening round of the Southern Oregon Golf championships at Rogue Val ley Country club here. Mrs. Shirley Mitchell, Chlco, Calif., the medalist beat Mrs. S. A. Peters, Med ford, 5 and 4. for Wayne Morse Liked by Both Parties gerish fashion. And when Meier & franks downtown Portland store dec orated an entire window re cently with a huge orange ti ger, surrounded by an abund ant number of copies of the Morse biography, one of the senator's strategists said frankly they loved it. So if both the Morse lovers and the Morse haters can at least agree on the suitability of his nickname, this is a mark of progress in Oregon's passionate political combat. This seems to have been un derlined by some unsolicited comments offered during a se ries of autograph parties in Oregon book stores which the author of the book participat ed In recently. Friends and foes of Wayne Morse showed up to buy a book, or to get an autograph on a copy pur ignited as a cigarette was being lighted. Charles Johnson Jr., 29, of route 2, box 526, suffered burns on his hands and a leg and foot. He was taken to Sacred Heart hospital. (Knackstcdt photo). Representatives of Rogue Basin Group May Testify in D.C. Representatives of the Rogue Basin Flood Control and Water Resources associa tion expect to be called to Washington, D.C, soon to test ify before Congress on the proposed Rogue basin project. Ben Hilton, president, and Ben Day, a director of the as sociation, are ready to make the trip, perhaps this week end. The roadblock to consid eration of the omnibus rivers and harbors bill has been cleared with passage of the Festival Season To Close Sunday Ashland - The 10625" Ore gon Shakespearean Festival season will close cpt, 2. Following the final per formance of the season, a spe cial closing ceremony en titled, "The Players' Last Goodnight," is scheduled. The closing rites consist of the entire company appear ing on stage equipped with lighted tapers, and rimming the audience area. Veteran actor and past Ore gon Shakespearean Festival company member Richard Graham will deliver Pros- pcro s haunting 'Our revels now arc ended" speech, and the 1902 company will sing a special version of "Green- sleeves." Good renting still remains for the September 2nd per formance of "Cor.olanus" and the annual closing night cere mony. Ticket information may still be obtained at the central box office, or at one of the branch box offices in Southern Oregon. 10 Acres of Brush Burn Near Roxy Ann Three pumper truck crews of the state department of for estry and one from the Med ford fire department fought a 10-acre blaze which burned through grass and brush and an old pear orchard about 6:30 p. m. yesterday. The blaze was about one fourth mile cast of the old civilian conservation corps camp at the foot of Roxy Ann and the state department of forestry listed it as possibly smoker caused. City firemen put out a grass fire about 12:25 p.m. yester day along Hillcrest .d. cast of Lyman ave. chased earlier. One gentleman, who makes no pretense about admiring Tiger Morse, said he had al ready bought 10 copies and given them away to make certain the story of their con tentious senator is known by as many Orcgonians as pos sible. He bought an 11th copy for himself - and at $4.95 per book, an author can only ad mire that champion of enlight enment. One lady who had already read the book brought it in for an autograph and a word of assurance that she was "for the senator all the way, and I could tell on every page that you admire the senator." On her heels came two sturdy chaps who said they were engaged in discrediting the senator in his reelection campaign. Said one of them: "I 2wIM&tAUlleame $900 million public works bill, Hilton said Wednesday. , A telephone conversation with Rep. Edith Green (D Ore ), revealed that U.S. Corps of Army Engineers officials testified Wednesday before the Senate public works com mittee, Mrs. Green also had contacted the bureau of the budget and learned It had no opposition to the bill, and would give it clearance in the next few days. Ona of Many Projects ' Since the Rogue, basin pro ject is one of many projects Included in the omnibus bill, Hilton said he -would contact the entire Oregon delegation today to request their influ ence in getting priority con sideration for the project. Thf omnibus bill is expected for study next by the House sub committee on rivers and har bors under the public works committee. There are two bills, both containing the Rogue basin project. They were Introduced into the House and Senate al most simultaneously to save time. Hilton's report Wednesday afternoon is much more opti mistic than the one presented the basin association's direc tors' meeting in Gold Hill Monday night. Then it ap peared the omnibus bill would be delayed for some time until the public works appropria tion bill cleared the House. Four Medford Men File for City Posts With the approach of filing deadline at 5 p.m. tomorrow. four Medford men today an nounced their Intention to run for seats on the city council in the November election. Filing today were Richard K. (Die) Walsh, 32, of 2580 Springbrook rd., Ward I: Wil liam H. McKinley, 47, of 124 Newtown St., Ward 2; Joe R. Hosick, 39, of 1516 Jasper St., Ward 2; and Edgar B. Van Horn, 49, of 605 Franquette St., Ward 4. This raises the total to nine of those who have filed for the four council vacancies. So far, only Robert Baccus, present councilman from Ward 3, is unopposed. ASSISTANT CHIEF Salem - HOT - Promotion ot Harold J. Foster to an assis tant chief of the State De partment of Agriculture wai announced Wednesday, keep that book under my bed at night; it makes me sleep well." Later came an elderly man, a retired railroad worker, who had already plowed through much of the book and was at pains to assure me that, "I'm for Wayne Morsd because he's for the little guy." So It went with the readers of "The Tiger In The Senate," and so it will go In the fall campaign ahead. Undoubtedly there are exceptions to this state of agreement - such as one of the senator's aides who thinks it should have been "the lion In the Senate" and one volatile reader who told me It should have been "the polecat In the Senate." But It wouldn't be Oregon without a few vigorous dusenters. M u
