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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
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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.
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MEDFORD, OREGON, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1962
Said
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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.
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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
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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.