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Asseihb Me Topples French Sovernent i AT OCf 4 o ; m 1 1962 NEW STAMP ISSUE? This "Vote Repub lican" stamp, circulated by Linn county Re publicans as a party support booster, ap peared on a letter in the space usually re served for Federal postage. The letter, with Bill Restricting Children In Fields Killed in House By YVONNE FRANKLIN Mail Tribune Washington Bureau Washington -(Special- Leg islation to restrict use of youngsters in the harvest fields - the most controversial bill before congress, judging by mail from Oregon - died in the House Thursday night. Death was attributed to slow suffocation from amend ments attached during a five hour debate. Tht bill was nev er formally voted down, but its sponsors quit trying to get it passed. "It's dead for this year," Rep. Edith Green said later. The original bill would have applied the child labor law to agriculture to outlaw em ployment of children under 14 unless they worked on a farm v.ithin 25 miles of their permanent, homes and had their parents' consent, in which case the age limit would be 12. Evokes Criticism The bill evoked criticism from hundreds of Oregonians who said it would interfere with the traditional practices of Oregon youngsters going into the bean and berry fields to help with the summer har . vests. The purpose of the bill, however, was to prevent ex ploitation of the children of migratory workers. It passed the Senate last year. A number of conservative Transfer of Liquor License to Port O' Call Approved by City The Medford city council last night approved the trans fer of a liquor dispenser's li cense .'or the Port O' Call restaurant, 236 North Front st., but two councilmen voiced strong dissent with the action. The transfer application was presented by Colony Restau rants, Inc., who have acquired Tabu Dinner House, 305 South Riverside ave., and propose to transfer the liquor license from that operation to the Pon O' Call. The application was approv ed, 5 to 2, with Councilmen .lames Dunlevy and Donald Hanson voting no. The matter will now go be fore the Oregon Liquor Con trol commission for final ac tion. Purchasing License "I have sympathy with the creditors of Port O' Call." Dunlevy said, "but this is pur chasing a license, and I do not think it is fair to other persons in the city who have tried unsuccessfully to obtain a license from the OLCC." Dunlevy said this made the second time a liquor license Iransfer had been sought in connection with the Port O' Call. The operators of the restau rant bought out a Front st. ITIMJ FROM RUSSIA EXPELS U. S. NAVAL AIDE Motcow-1! PiThe SoTiet Foreign Ministry today charged the immediate expluiion of Cmdr. Raymond Smith, U. S. iiiitanl naval attache, charging he was engaged in espionage. POSTAL BILL SENT TO WHITE HOUSE Wathingion-'IPI'-The House today patted and tent to the White Houte a bill to increaie the cott of mailing 1 letter by one cent starting next January. The Senate-approved legislation alto carried pay in createt for 1.8 million government workers. MRS. FRD'S CONDITION DETERIORATES New York-ld'-The condition of Mrt, Eleanor oRotevelt, 77, suffering from infectious lung condition, deteriorated tomewha! today, according to medical reports, from Co lumbia Presbyterian Medical Center. KENNEDY HITS CAMPAIGN Wsshington-tn-Prendent tet out today on at helping Democri asn and Minnetoti the GOP stamp duly cancelled, was deliver ed in Portland with other first class mail no questions asked and no postage due. (UPI) congressmen criticized the measure during the debate as 'an invasion of parental rights" or a threat to the American tradition of "youth learning the value of a dol lar" by working on the farm. Congresswoman Green said the bill wasn't aimed at "lov ing parents but those who ex ploit children for a few extra dollars." Mrs. Green explained that she would move to amend the bill to make clear that 12-year-old and older youngsters could go out into the fields within commuting distance of their homes, thus expanding the distance beyond 25 miles. Motion Voted Down Before she could do so, Rep. Charles Gubser (R-Calif.) from the prune-growing Santa Clara valley, moved to kill the bill by striking the enact ing clause. On a teller vote, this motion was voted down. Reps. Walter Norblad and Ed win R. Durno voted for the Gubser motion and Mrs. Green opposed it. Mrs. Green's amendment was then adopted, in modified form eliminating the age limit entirely on children working within commuting distance of home with parental consent. This effectively limited appli cation of the bill to migrants. Rep. Dave Martin (R-Neb.) also got through an amend ment saying that hazardous work banned for children bar called the Owl Club over two .years ago, and on May 19, 1960, obtained council ap proval to transfer the dispens er's license from there to the Port O' Call, which they open ed a short time later. The Port O' Call remained Medford Man Hurt In Altercation A 55-year-old Medford man was knifed as a result of a quarrel on Front st. last night, according to city police reports. The victim, Lester Joseph Broker, 55. of-823 North Cen tral ave.. was treated at Sa cred Heart hospital for sev eral knife' wounds in his body and released. Police arrested Merritt Eu gene Martin, 64, who gave his address as a downtown hotel. He was lodged in Jackson county jail on a charge of as sault with a dangerous weapon. According to police. Brok er and a 38-ycar-old Medford woman were drinking in a Front st. tavern. When they left about 9:20 p.m. they en countered Mariin on the side walk outside. Some remarks were exchanged, and the al tercation followed. (BRIEFS AROUND THI OLOII TRAIL Kennedy, despite 1 head cold. a Int. paced, week end ef politicking aimed icratic candidates In Kentucky, Ohio, Michi- t. under 16 would be defined as work in connection with pow er machinery or dangerous substances. The amendment that killed further action was attached by Rep. L. H. Fountain (D N.C.) providing that federal law on the subject would ap ply only in states which did not have laws on the subject. Rep. Carl Albert (D-Okla.) urged the House to vote down the Fountain rider because it "went way beyond the pur pose of this bill." Others claimed it would affect the entire fair labor standars act and have the effect of a con troversial pending bill, H.R. 3, which gives state law pref erence over federal laws on the same subject. On a teller vote, the Foun tain amendment was retained 124 to 98. Sponsors Gave Up Rep. Gubser then moved to exempt from the bill all chil dren working with parental consent - not just those re siding in the area. This would have exempted youngsters of migratory labor whom the bill was intended to protect. At this point, the sponsors gave up and decided to wait until next, year for another try. They concluded that it would be impossible to secure House - Senate agreement on this controversial subject be fore adjournment. open about three months. The restaurant was closed, in part due to attachments from cred itors, in November, 1960. It has remained closed until the present time. Mayor John W. Snider said he wished to clarify his posi tion with respect to the appli cation. At the previous meet ing, he had accused the appli cants of using "steamroller tactics." "My only objection was to the speed of the application," he said. He reminded the coun cil that the application itself was in order. Not Up to Council Councilman R. L. Van Sic kle said he did not feel it was up to the council to pass on the ethics of the applica tion. "If we're going to talk about morality," he asked wryly, "who would be able to lead the discussion?" Councilman Donald Hanson moved that a letter from the council be sent to the OLCC, setting out three points: That the city council had no objection to the location of the operation sought by the applicant. That the city council had no objection to the back ground of the applicants on the basis of a police investiga tion. That the city council did not pass on the matter of whether the license was "pur chased." The first two points in his motion were unanimously ap- j proved by the council, but the third point was stricken by a 6 to I vote. First Freezing Reading Recorded Medford station of the U.S. weather bureau recorded its first freezing temperature of the fall this morning. . The mercury dropped to 31 degrees. This was the lowest tem perature since last April 30 when 31 degrees also was re corded. The 31 reading also was one degree higher than the All time low on recc Tor Oct. 5. Thirty deg ecorded on this date record heyJ recs win1 n 1913 Regional Edition Medfoed iO PAGES Two Sections Shipping Laws Main Cause of Imports, Dollar Devaluation Said Involved Factors Restrictions Said Unwise Washington - (UPD - A U.S. lumberman told the Tariff Commission today that Amer ican shipping laws, not Cana dian competition, were prob ably the main cause of the softwood lumber industry's distress. But he said the Jones Act was "a piece of dirty wash we have to clean ourselves." Corydon Wagner, vice pres ident of the R. D. Merrill Co. of Seattle, a holding company with interests in both the United States and Canada un derwent cross-examination for all but a few minutes of the morning session of today's tariff commission hearings. Canadians Scheduled Canadian lumber witnesses had been scheduled to take the stand during the morning session. But it was devoted al most entirely to questioning Wagner on his , testimony Thursday that import restric tions would be "undesirable, unwarranted and unwise." Wagner agreed that Cana dian imports and that the de valuation of the Canadian dol lar were factors affecting U.S. lumber sales, and he said that U.S. mills "probably" could have produced tha four billion board feet of softwood lum ber imported last year. But he denied that Canadi an imports were the major cause and he stuck by his as sertion that a list of 105 mills said to have closed was "dis credited" because 11 of them are operating today. Wagner said however, the Jones act, which forces U.S. lumbermen to ship to the East Coast in high cost U.S. vessels was the most impor tant single factor. "The ability of American mills to compete now with Canadians is as good as it has been in the past if you will remove that difficult or im possible barrier," Wagner said. Wagner's testimony Thurs day amounted to the opening gun in the campaign against import restrictions. Dedication of Camp Baker Set A bronze plaque will be dedicated Saturday. Oct. 6, on Camp Baker rd. in recogni tion of the establishing of Camp Baker in 1855. Participating in the cere mony, which will be held at 4 p.m., will be the Jackson County Historical Society and Boy Scout Troop 9 of the First Christian church under the direction of Dr. William H. Roberts, scoutmaster. The bronze plaque will be mounteo on a stone monu ment of Jacksonville granite, located approximately one quarter mile east of Coleman Creek rd. Camp Baker was first estab lished as a fort by settlers dur ing the Rogue River Indian war. A block house, manned by 15 men, withstood Indian sieges. It was reactivated in 1862 with the beginning of the Civil war as a training base and was garrisoned by 80 men of the Baker Guards of the First Oregon Infantry. It was named in honor of Col. Edwin DicKinson Baker, who was killed In the Battle of Ball's Bluff In 1861. Colonel Baker was elected U. S. Senator from Oregon In 1860. Saturday members of Troop 9 will be recruited Into First Oregon Infantry at the Jack sonville Museum at 10 a.m. and will hike to the dedica tion site. Following the dedi cation they will camp on the Dan Calhoun property, return ing home Sunday. SAILOR INDICTED New York-iUPT - A federal grand Jury today indicted a Navy sailor. Yeoman lc Nel son Drummond, for passing national defense tecrets to two Russian delegates to tne unit- ed Nations. GANGWAY1 A guard, right, at the bleacher gate at Candlestick Park in San Francisco tries hard to get out of the way before he is run down by eager fans bursting Saturday Is Last Day To Register To Vote Nov. 6 Saturday, Oct. 6, is the final day for voter registration for November's general election. County Clerk Marvin Madden reminded residents today. The elections department of the county clerk's office will be open from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. Saturday, Madden said. Regis trars are available, also, at other locations throughout the county. A registration booth will be established at the Mark Anthony hotel in Ashland from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. Satur day, and there will be a regis trar available at the Pioneer Shooping Center in Ashland from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Other Registration Places Democratic headquarters at 414 East Main St., Medford, will have registrars on duty between 8 a.m. and 8 p.m. Republican headquarters at 237 East Main st., Medford, will have a registrar avail able between 10 a.m. and 8 p.m. Saturday. Other registrars will be on duty at Newberry's. Medford Shopping Center, from 9:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.; at the Thun dcrbird Market, from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m., and at Mitchell! Thrifty Market, from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. Registrations to date are Democrats 18,945, Republi cans 17,884, miscellaneous 953, for a total of 37,782. Mrs. Clarice Anderson, elections department deputy, said 210 absentee ballots have been mailed out in Jackson county. Deadline for their re turn to the elections depart ment is Nov. 1. In emergency cases ballots may be turned in from Nov. 2 through elec tion day. An application must be made before an absentee ballot is distributed, she noted. Disappearance of Motorist Probed Roscburg -ITIi- An investi- j gallon was under way by state police today in the dis appearance of a 6H-year-old California motorist. Foul play I was suspected. A car belonging to Herbert Warden of Santa Barbara was found on a logging road 50 miles northeast of here. Warden left Santa Barbara Sept. 28 to meet his wife in Portland after she returned from a trip to the East. He was reported to have had $300 in cash when he left Santa Barbara. The car, a 1962 model, was found stuck crossway on the road. Police said the car was In jood condition. They said varaen t tuiicase was missing ! 'rom the vehicle. x " - ' MEDFORD, OREGON, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1962 Said Lumber ,) : ' i, Si S, f , -til? 'i J 5500,000 Plant at White City Planned By Chemical Firm White City-Plans for con struction of a $500,000 plant in the White City Industrial area which will employ up to 50 person was announced to day. The plant will be built by Reiclihold Chemicals Inc., to manufacture plywood glue Court Considers Zoning Proposal The Jackson county court considered a proposed Interim zoning ordinance for the Wag ner Creek area this morning. but took no action pending further study. Planning Consultant George Brenner explained that sev eral people of the area and the Jackson county planning commission recommended the zone be established pending public hearings and a vote. A development pattern for the area zoning would be com pleted possibly by spring, he said. The proposed zone covers Wagner, Anderson creeks and Yank gulch areas, approxi mately 25 square miles. It lies between the proposed south west Phoenix zone and the South Talent zone, Brenner said. The zoning regulations for the proposed residential farm district are not as stringent as in previous interim ordi nances, Brenner said, me zone would permit single fam ily dwellings, accessory build ings, farm uses, except ani mals fed garbage, refuse or offal; farm dwellings "appur tenant to a permitted farm use," including camps, accom modations or areas for tran sient labor; buildings for farm slaughter, storage, road-side i stands not to exceed 400 squi re feet of floor area and public parks and public rec reation areas and facilities. A number of conditional uses also are provided. WEATHER FORECAST: Home hth cloud! tit tt tonight. Karly mornint fK and inrrir cloudlneii during diy Miurdiv. t.nw tonight 3i 40. Htgh Xaturday 0-i. Tfmp. HlghfM YMtrrilay 3 l.nwftt Thii Morning . 31 Our Skies Tonight Nnnirt today flunrlfp tonnirfnw Monnirl tonight .1:47 p.m. a m, lft:17 p.m. Saturday l:(t p.m. FlrU Uuarlrr PROMINENT UTAH AMalr. high In touth VIM1II.E PLANET Vnui, ftt -fupltrr, dur south ifftiturn, low in south' H:l p.m. I 38 p.m. wit Man. high In rait p.m. a m. Tribune Pro through the gate as it was opened today for the second game of the World Series between the San Francisco Gainls and New York Yankees. (UPI) and other industrial chemi cals. The White City Realty com pany announced the purchase by the firm of slightly more than five acres of property between Eighth and Ninth sts. on Antelope rd. The firm also holds an option on an ad joining eight acres. Company officials said the initial plant will include 15, 000 square feel with initial operations getting under way about mid December. The plant will employ about 20 persons at opening, with the number Increasing to 50. This is the first plant to be constructed by the firm in Oregon and the fifth on the west coast. It was located in southern Oregon in what company officials described as the "heart of the plywood" country. The new firm will be In the vicinity of six plywood plants In the White City area. Company officials pointed out that the manufacture of this type of glue does not give off an offensive odor. Ernest Skytta, Tacoma, Wash., vice president in charge of west coast opera tions, and H. O. Warner, plant manager, will be In the valley Tuesduy morning for the groundbreaking ceremo nies. Construction will begin immediately. The most recent addition to the White City industrial area was the Rogue Valley Plywood plant which is west of the proposed chemical company. Rogue Valley Ply wood Is currently building an addition to the plant. State Brings Down Last Fire Lookout Southwest district of the state forestry department brought down its last fire lookout yesterday when John Groncr was brought in from Tallowbox station in the A p. plegatc area. Whether lookouts are re turned to their stations de pends on the weather, accord ing to Doyle Stockton, assist ant district warden. He Indi cated that If the weather stays dry, fomc lookouts will be returned to stations. If the forest areas stay wet. the lookout stations will be closed. The district this season has maintained six lookouts In Jackjon county and ,ix in Josephine county. ! HOTEL MAN DIES ' Seaside -WPH- Portland ho itrl operator Harry Heathman Sied at his home here Wednes day night. He was 5R. '57th Year Price 10 Cents I No. 169 istress Interim Zone Area Billboard Will Be Moved by Firm A representative of the Na. tional Advertising company i notified the Jackson county planning office Thursday thai an illcagal billboard in south Talent will be . removed by Oct. 12. ' , The billboard in question was erected In the South Tal ent Interim zoned area with out the required variance re quest and public hearing. Residents protested the instal lation to the board of adjust ment of the Jackson county planning commission which earlier this week recommend ed that the billboard be re moved. Hearing Held The company was repre sented by Glen Exom, Van couver, Wash., during the hearing held by the board, and A. J. Hamilton, San Fran cisco, notified the planning office that the billboard will be removed. Under the zoning ordinance, billboards are not allowed. Present billboards may be maintained, but not altered. The company had sought an opinion about moving the sign to the site of another bill board across the highway, but the resulting sign would be larger than is now located there. This request was drop ped Thursday. The board of adjusment will report on the matter at the monthly meeting of the plan ning commission Wednesday, Oct. 10, In the courthouse. FORMER MAYOR DIES Salem John F. Stcclham mcr. 90, who was mayor of Woodburn from 1B15 to 1918, died here Wednesday. bably Board Plans to Consider Petitions From District The Jackson county rural school board will consider pe titions for joining the Phoe nix district with Medford school district under the school district reorganization law Monday night, according to County School Superin tendent Alf B. Mekvold. Mekvold said he received a letter from the attorney gen eral's office Thursday saying the petitions for Joining the two districts could be filed under the reorganization law. The petitions contain more than the 10 signatures of legal voters within the territory affected, the superintendent said. " The rural board has drawn up a plan for reorganization already. The board is cxpect rjk to set a time tor a Joint utiblic hearing on the pro- posal. De Gaulle Still In Office Despite Angry Deputies Rebuff Comes on Censure Motion Paris turn The French Na tional Assembly, haunted by the ghost of Napoleon 111, re volted against the growing power of President Charles de Gaulle today and toppled the government of Premier Georges Pompidou by a crush ing vole. De Gaulle himself remained in office by virtue of the con stitution despite the angry deputies arrayed against him. The ribuff came on a cen sure motion over De Gaulle's plan to bypass parliament and ask the people to make a con stitutional change on the method of electing future pres idents. The vote was 280 in favor of the motion 39 more than needed to get it through the 4110-member house. All parties from the Communists to the extreme right joined forces against the deputies of the Gaullist Union tor the New Republi,- (UNR). Expect Resignation Soon Pompidou, as required by law, is expected to submit the resignation of his government to De Gaulle today or Satur day. He will be asked to remain on in caretaker status until an acceptable compromise candi date is found to form a new government pending the new national elections. The debate brought out bit ter words and illustrated classic French fear of too much "personal power" being invested in one man. The constitutional change De Gaulle seeks would pro vide lor direct presidential elections by popular vote rather than by a college o some 50,000 "grand electors" as at present. Appealed To Voters Instead of asking parlia ment to make the change, De Gaulle appealed directly to the na'.ion's voters to do so in a national referendum to be held Oct. 28. The censure motion brand ed De Gaulle a "violator of the constitution" and warned that the direct popular vote method of electing French presidents would open the road to "adventurers" and de struction of the republic. Pickers Sough! For Pear Crop Domestic fruit pickers arc being sought in this area lor week end work in the valley's orchards, Glen Hasty, farm labor representative of the state employment service, said today. He said pickers are needed for the heavy pear crop. There are openings for about 500 pickers. He encouraged man-wife combinations and men more than 16 years old who can handle ladders and picking buckets to pick pears Satur day and Sunday. The farm labor office at 1831 South' Pacific highway, Medford, can arrange for transportation be- . twecn 6 and 8 a.m. both days for those who do not have transportation. Hasty said that because of the picker shortage, packing houses are not operating at full capacity. He pointed out that each ladder and picking bucket not being used means a financial loss to the com munity as well as the grower. Some pears may become over ripe on the trees, he said, unless pickers can be recruited soon. Following the hearing, the plan will be submitted to the state board of education in time for consideration at the Nov. 1 meeting. "We are trying to move this procedure as rapidly as we can since we know these actions are holding up pro posed bond issues In the dis tricts," Mekvold said. When the plan is returned to Jackson county, the state board of education holds joint hearing with the rural board. Then, the rural board makes its decision on the reorganiza tion. Then a remonstrance can be filed by either side. If a remonstrance petition Is filed, an election is held in both districts. To carry the reorganization plan, a major ity vote is required In each of the two district, Medford and Phoenix.
