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Newspaper Page TextUl la VI J Ik imu A v c W5 Rogue Valley Edition Medford 24 Pages Two Sections ' HT i f r i : - xav-rru' i j - xt STRUCTURE DESTROYED Damage estimates ranged as two-story structure contained a general store, post office, high as $400,000 from a fire which destroyed the Pines bar, two restaurants, a barber shop and several second Shopping Center at Bass Lake, Calif., Tuesday night. The story offices. (UPI) Peiition Contests Nov. 6 Election of Talent Officials Talent The question of whether the Talent mayor and city council election of Nov. 6 has to be held over again may be decided on Jan. 7. That is the date set for a hearing on a petition filed Monday contesting the city election held Nov. 6. The peti tion was filed by John Tomp kins, incumbent councilman, in Jackson - county circuit court. Tompkins ran fourth In a field of four candidates run ning for three seats on the Talent city council, but there are only eleven votes separ ating him from the third and second place finishers. Principal reason for con testing tile election is the fact that 45 of the ballots were incorrectly printed. The name of Eddie Lunsford, one of the city council candidates, ap peared on those 45 ballots twice, as running for both mayor and council, while the name of Edward Switzer, one of the mayor candidates, was left out. Reelected Mayor Wayne Reichstein was de cisively reelected mayor of Talent, and observers believe that had Switzer's name not been left off the 45 incorrect ballots, Reichstein still would have won easily. The city council race was much closer, however, tinal returns, excluding the 45 con tested ballots, gave F. W. Gil breath 165 votes, Lunsford 146, Ellis Beeson 142 and Tompkins 135. With the 45 ballots added to these totals, the results have been: Gilbreath 206, Lunsford 178. Beeson 175 and Tompkins 162. At the Jan. 7 hearing Judge M. Main is expected to enter a decree either acknowledg ing that the candidates elect ed are the duly elected city officials or determining that there is a need for another election. ITIMJ PROM 2y MOUND THI OlOII BALLOON LAUNCH PLANNED THURSDAY Holloman AFB, N.M.-tPP-The Thuriday't scheduled launching of Project Siargaser balloon aicent to give man his first clear look at the Hart. If weather permits, the highest iitronomical-retearch RUSK WINS APPROVAL OP DE CAULLE Paris-'inSecretarr of State Dean Rusk won warm en dorsement from French President Charles de Gaulle today for U.S. handling of the Cuban crisis and its refusal to enter new East-West talks with the Soviets until the crisis is fully cleaned up. NIKE ROCKET INTERCEPTS MISSILE Washington-arti-A Nikt Ztus rockst today successfully InttrcspUd an Atlas InUrcontlntntal ballistic missil that had bxn firad on a 5,000 mil courts ovar tha Pacific, tht Dsfantt Dtpartmsnt announced. STUDENTS PLANNING TRIP TO CUBA Ntw York-'IPt'-A pro-Castro U.S. studtnt group Is plan ning to dsfr the govsrnmant's ban on iravtl to Cub and slip out of tht county to visit Havana over in Christmas holidays, it was Itarnad htra today. - ? ,7 MEDFORD. OREGON. Kennedy's Budget Outlay May Exceed S100 Billion Mark Washington -(UPD- As it now si. apes up, the 1964 budget President Kennedy is prepar ing to send Congress in Janu ary will project spending of nearly $100 billion. Planned outlays for the fis cal year which starts July 1 may well exceed $99 billion, topping the all-time high of $98.3 billion reached in 1945 under war financing pres sures. Spending in the current fiscal year is estimated, at a peacetime record of $037 bil lion, i - v Expenditures could easily top $100 billion In fact by the end of fiscal 1964. Qualified government sources indicated that refusal of Congress to en act administration farm leg islation might in itself send outlays above the $100 billion mark. Another Deficit Certain Another budget deficit in fiscal 1964 is certain. The 1963 deficit is estimated at $7.8 billion. With tax relief effective in 1963 the adminis tration's announced goal, the 1964 deficit could exceed the Christmas Tree Lift Planned by Moose The Medford Moose lodge will conduct its ninth annual Christmas Wee lift following the holiday season, B. J. Gil bert, governor of the lodge, has announced. Date of the lift and the Jackson county organization in need of assistance which will receive the entire pro ceeds from the project, will be announced. The dale of the Christmas tree burn also will be announced. Residents will be asked to place their contribution in an envelope and pin it to the tree for pick up after Christmas when members of the lodge and other organizations will participate. No expenses are involved in the lift and all do nations are given each year for charitable work. countdown begin today lor manned balloon will make the ascension in history. WEDNESDAY. DECEMBER f- T J 1 $12.4 billion peacetime record posted in 1959. ' - Partly to hold the deficit down, the administration is considering proposing to Con gress a $2 billion boost in Social Security payments as a substitute for $2 billion of general tax relief. Social Se curity payments come out of a special trust fund, not the federal budget. Some officials have argued within the administration that increasing pymehtS'tS'PetTr'ecl' persons and survivors would stimulate the economy more than giving a like amount of tax relief to the general pub lic. Would Spend Money They contend that retired persons, having little income, would spend virtually all of the extra money, whereas most taxpayers would save some. Most of the planning for the 1964 budget has been com pleted. Defense and foreign aid, usually the last major spending items decided, have been pinned down earlier than usual. Defense outlays will be more than $50 billion, and more than $51 billion if a much-discussed pay boost for servicemen is included. Still unresolved is how much to spend on space. The outlay hinges on a decision about how fast to proceed with the man - on - the moon program. Also awaiting final decisions are spending plans for the Labor, Commerce and Health, Education and Wel fare departments. Gold Hill Home Destroyed by Fire Gold Hill-Fire of undeter mined origin destroyed the one-story three-bedroom home of Mr. and Mrs. Harley Calla han and their five children Tuesday about 11:50 a.m. The Callahan home, a few feet outside the northwest city limits of Gold hill, was the former Fred Taylor resi dence. The family lost all clothing and household items, includ ing recently purchased gro cery supplies and Christmas presents the couple had for their five sons, ages 10, 6, 5, 3 and 1. The couple and youngsters are now staying at the home of Callahan's brother and sis ter-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Clar enre Callahan at Fifth ave and Fourth st. here. Those who wish to help the family may leave clothing and house hold items at the Clarence Callahan home. The city fire department re sponded to the alarm, but the house was already engulfed in flames when firemen arrived. Revolt Collapsing, British Leader Says Singapore - (C?t - British troops captured the town of Kuala Ballet in Brunei today, and the commander of British ground forces in the Far East said the revolt in the protec torate on Borneo was collaps ing. it 57th Year Price 10 Cents Tribune 12. 1962 No. 227 iwuiMniiiimxm.il 1 1 Emigrant Drops Peak Flow in Area During Flooding If Emigrant reservoir had not stored all of its inflow dur ing the heavy rainfall Dec. 2, Bear creek at Medford would have had a peak flow of 22,- 500 cubic feet per second in stead of the recorded 15,000 cubic feet per second peak. These statistics were re leased today by the bureau of reclamation office in Boise, Idaho. Flood control opera tion of Emigrant lake re duce4.the..flpw ,at MedfordUby 33 per cjbnt, It atuled. . , ' .The" reservoir, used pri marily to store irrigation wa ter, impounds water from only 22 per cent of the total Bear creek watershed. Storage Capacity The storage capacity of Emigrant lake prior to its en largement in 1961 was 8,000 acre feet. The enlarged reser voir has a useable capacity of 39,000 acre feet, and is op erated as a multiple-purpose reservoir for both irrigation and flood control. Regional Director H. T. Nel son said sufficient flood con trol space remained after the passage of the flood to give equal control had the flood been repeated, which appear ed a definite possibility based on weather forecasts at the time. Bureau engineers, dispatch ed from Boise, Idaho, to the flood area Dec. 2, estimated that the recent flood was the largest in peak discharge ex perienced in the Medford area in more than 100 years. Previous major floods on Bear creek occurred in Feb- rurary, 1861; February, 1890; February, 1927; and Decem ber, 1955. McNeil Named To National Committee Donald P. McNeil, manager of the Medford Chamber of Commerce, has been appoint ed to the membership com mittee of the American Cham ber of Commerce executives, Albert C. Boyd of Lansing, Mich., president of the na tional association, announced today. In making the announce ment, Boyd said, "McNeil has distinguished himself in the field of chamber administra tion, and we are pleased to call upon his knowledge and experience in furthering the work of our organization." The executive group is the national management associ ation of about 2,400 chamber executives. It is the national spokesman for chamber of commerce management and is dedicated to the principle of the development and en forcement of ethical stand ards of practice and the main tenance of high educational standards. Number of Employed Declines in Oregon Salem - (UPt - The number of employed people In Ore gon declined by 12.900 from October to 680.7000 In mid November. David H. Camer on, commissioner of the Ore gon Department of Employ mcnt, said today. Weather-Caused Death Toll Soars Past 100 Mark Water Lines Burst In Columbus, Ohio By United Press International Aching cold from the Ca nadian border to the Gulf Coast choked off the water supply in Columbus, Ohio, froze Florida, and sent the week's toll of weather-caused deaths climbing past 100 today. Below zero temperature records were commonplace from the Midwest prairies to the Atlantic Seaboard. It was 23 below zero at Mt. Pishah, N.C., 19 below at Mt. Mit chell, N.C., and below zero for the first. time in recent memory at every reporting station in Illinois. 32 Dead in Ohio At least 104 deaths were blamed on the series of win try storms and Arctic chills which have punished the na tion's eastern half since late Wednesday. They included 32 in Ohio, 22 in Michigan, 10 in New England, 7 each in New York State and Indi ana, 6 each in Pennsylvania and Kentucky, 4 in Tennes see, 3 each in West Virginia and Illinois, and 2 each in Missouri and Kansas. The cold wave burst the frozen water lines in Colum bus, cutting off supplies to the business section of the city for six hours. Water Pressure Low Service was restored at midmorning, but Mayor Ral ston Westlake maintained a state of emergency in Ohio's capitol city because water pressure in the area was dan gerously low in case of fire. The water famine forced most downtown Columbus stores and businesses to close. Water was cut off to hotel rooms. The water system at the Ohio Penitentiary was also frozen and 4,500 inmates had no water or heat. Cold in Florida Elsewhere, the weather was warmer in Anchorage, Alas ka with 42 degrees than at Pensacola, Fla. with a rec- .Lcdtbreajan2.alMveAll.ui.. one tnna or eiorma s nufle tomato crop had been dam aged by frost and heavy loss es of snap beans and sweet corn were reported as far south as Okeechobee. A hard chill settled on the state's lu crative resort industry. Elections Staled In Talent Area Two elections are sched uled in Talent, one Jan. IS for the South Talent Sanitary district, and one Jan. IB for the Talent Rural Fire district, the county court reported to day. The sanitary district elec tion will be held at the Res More Motel In Talent, and the fire district election in the office of the old agronomy station on Colver rd., Talent. Area residents attending two recent public hearings on formation of the districts voiced overwhelming support. Earlier, Consulting E n g i neer James K. Hooey said the proposed area had been en larged to include the property from the present Highway 99 to Bear creek. Overall estimated cost for serving the entire area with a sewer system would be $161,- 485, without the city of Tal ent. The proposed sewage dis posal plant would be a lagoon type with five-acre pond to serve 500 people. The general district would be assessed for the main sewer trunk and the residents for laterals serving their homes, it was explained. Both sanitary and fire dis tricts will elect boards of directors. Generally, the proposed rural fire district would cover the Talent and Phoenix rural areas, according to John Tompkins, Talent, who Is spear heading the district formation. IO BAYS LEFT J CHRISTMAS SEALS tlkt Tl l ittir IESFIRATOIT DISEASES illlffi Nikita Policy Averted War Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev said today that Russia's policy of peace ful coexistence averted a nuclear war over Cuba. He also warned the belligerent Chinese Communists that the American "paper tiger" has atomic teeth. He said that Moscow will honor agreements on Cuba so long as the United States honors them. The story is on page 2A. laiBHlBllfflllllWtttlttl WEATHER FOItllCAST: A titllr rain to nl tlit. Mostly cloudy with a few showers Thursday. Low to night, 40-44. inch 'IhurtUay 40-JO. Temp. Highest Yesterday 36 Loweta This Morning 31 Our Skies Tonight Sunset today 4:30 p.m. Sunrise tomorrow .... 1:32 a.m. The Moon rises 6:19 p.m. tonight and rides high. Last Quarter .. Dec. 18 The planet.Venus, rises 4:4.3 a.m. and Is now 35 million miles from the Earth. Mam, high in south as Venus rises. Is now S5 million miles from the Earth. U.S. Watching Aga inst Return Of Cuba Weapons Washington -IUPD- President Kennedy said today the United States is taking every step necessary to see that of fensive Soviet weapons are not brought back to Cuba, At his news conference, Kennedy also said he was hopeful that U.S.-Russian ne gotiations to clear up the Cuban situation will be suc cessful but stood on his prev iously announced position. He expressed his views in response to a question about a statement by Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev today that the Russians were holding the United States to a pledge against any invasion of Cuba. Position Unchanged Kennedy said he had not yet had a chance to analyze Khrushchev's major policy speech with the care needed but. said his. position was he same '&' that e"nuiiciated at his last news conference two weeks ago. At that time, the President said that on-the-spot inspection in Cuba would have to be made before any formal "no invasion" pledge could be made by the United States. He said today that in the meantime the United States taking every step neces sary" to see that Russian rockets and other offensive weapons are not brought back to Cuba. Surveillance Conducted He said that surveillance of the island to check on this is being conducted daily. Kennedy noted that UN Ambassador Adlai E. Steven son and his chief Cuban ne gotiator, John J. McCloy, are continuing discussions with Soviet spokesmen ' in New York on the situation. 'I'm hopeful that the ne gotiations in New York will come to a successful conclu sion," the President said. Agate Project Land To Be Designated Lands to be irrigated under the recently authorized Agate project will be designated by Dec. 21, according to Harold Sexton, Rogue Rivr Valley Irrigation district manager. Area residents with ques tions or those wishing to re view the list of lands propos ed for inclusion should visit the RRVID district office be fore Dec. 21, Sexton said. Land classification maps and the list of acreages proposed for Inclusion are available, he said. Sexton said Verne Law rence, of the Salem office of the bureau of reclammation, is working with the district on the proposed land Inclu sion list which will be fin ished tomorrow. Approximately 1,810 acres of land will be brought un der Irrigation for the first time under the row Agate dam project. Sexton said. It will furnish supplementary Irriga tion to 4.820 acres. Higher Education To Fight for Own Budget Portland - WW - The State Board of Higher Education pledged Tuesday to battle for its own bigger budget, and said the legislature's verdict will set the level of Oregon education for a decade to come. Board members voted to ask the legislature to ap prove the board's own budget for the 1963-65 blcnnliim In stead of Gov. Mark Hatfield's reduced spending plan. Claims Allowable Rogue Increases 58.6 Million Feet The annual allowable cut on Rogue River National for est has been increased 58.6 million board feet. Forest Su pervisor C. E. Brown has an nounced. The increase from 135 to 176.4 million board feet is part of a 124.6 million board foot increase for the Facuic Northwest region announced recently by Regional Forester Herbert Stone in Portland. Brown pointed out that the increase is the result of new forest inventories and increas ingly better utilization of in dividual trees by the forest industry. The new inventory on Rogue River National for est was completed In 1980, he said, and showed higher vol umes of standing timber and better growth rates than the original inventories indicated in the 1930s. Mora Timber Harvested Because of this, he said. more timber can be harvest ed each year in perpetuity without danger of depleting the resource. The better utili zation by the forest indus try of material which was once left in the woods also contributes to the increased cut, since more material is now recovered from each acre of forest land, Brown noted. New assigned cuts In tne districts are APPlegate, 22 mil' lion board feet harvest cut. B million board feet restrict ed area cut: Ashland. 31 MBF 'harvest cut,. ! MBF restricted cut; Butte Falls, 30 MBF har vest, 2 MBIT reatriciea out; Prospect, 38 MBF harvest, 1 MBF restricted cut: ana un ion Creek, 46.4 MBF harvest cut, and 1 MBF restricted cut. The thhn ns cut in all dis tricts will be 200,000 board feet. Timb.r Managamant Additional cut oblectlves in the forest include mortality 237 Pints of Blood Donated A total of 237 pints of blood was donated In Medford dur ing the Bloodmobilei visit Monday and Tuesday to the local Red Cross chapter house. The Bloodmobile will be In Ashland at the Elks club from 1 until 6 o'clock this after noon. Thursday it will move to Grants Pass wnere it win be at the Veterans of Foreign Wars hall from 2 to 7 p.m. and Friday in Cave Junction at the American Legion hall from 3 to 7 p.m. Mrs. J. W. Burba, blood program chairman, said there were 22 rejects for various health reasons. She said 40 pints of blood were donated in the name of John Bratton, route 4, box 316. Medford logger who was injured in s logging accident last month in northern California. Mrs. Burba said some per- sons who had been unable to attend the Medford drawing reported they would be In Ashland today. Jackson coun ty needs 839 pints of blood to replace what has Deen usea here so far this year. Voters in Three Areas Approve Bonds By Unitad Press International Voters in Salem, OBk Grove and Tlaard Monday approved chool financing bonds but similar proposals were turn ed down by voters In Beaver ton and Oregon City. Three bonds totaling 12.2 million were rejected by Bea verton School District voters. The key proposal, a 11.9 mil lion issue for construction of the city's third Junior high school, was rejected 3,063 to 1,995. PROPOSAL ENDORSED Salem d'PtT h Oregon Purebred Sheep Breeders As sociation has endorsed a pro posal for i sales tax to be used for education only. It would be accompanied by property tax reductions. Peace Cut in salvage, which amounts to 2 million board feet in all but the Applegate district, where the cut will be 1 million board feet, and lodgepole pine cut of 220, 360 and 1.820 million board feet in Butte Falls, Prospect and Union Creek. Brown said the harvest cut will be made in areas desig nated as primarily important for timber management pur poses. Restricted area cuts will come from areas impor tant for forest recreation and is made up of dead, dying and dangerous trees whose remov al will make the area safer and more attractive for rec reational purposes. The thinning cut, he said, will come from stands under 70 years old and will be small material which would die be fore the stand reaches maturi ty, trees of poor form, or trees removed to promote better growth on the leave trees. Brown said the mortality salvage will be dead and down material cut from areas not scheduled for cutting dur ing this 10-year planning pe riod. Lodgepole pine will be sold it markets develop, he added. Three Arrested on Jury Indictment Grants Pass - Two 'WoWl London let it be known Creek, men and a Rogue Rlv er woman were arrested Tues day after a secret grand jury Indictment was returned against them a few hours ear lier in connection with a charge of taking fish out of the fish ladder at Savage Rapids dam. Arrested on a charge of per jury were Harry Warren Stumbo, 34, and Franklin Ed ward Pickett, 35, . both of Wolf Creek, Arrested on a charge of false swearing was Delia May Hatch, 27, of Rogue River. The grand Jury also Indict ed Leo Vincent Thompson, 39, of Rogue River on a charge of false swearing. Thompson, however, is al ready serving a 'sentence tn the state penitentiary on a charge of setting fire to for est lands, following convic tion in Jackson county. Stumbo, Pickett and Miss Hatch were freed on $500 bail each Tuesday night. They face arraignment in . Josephine county circuit court Monday. All four persons were or iginally tried in Grants Pass Justice court June 26 on charges of taking fish out of the fish ladder at Savage Rapids dam. At that time all four pleaded not guilty, but were convicted by the Jury. An appeal of the convic tion was made to the circuit court, but when it came up Nov. 8, Stumbo and Pickett changed their pleas to guil ty. Renaming Procedure On Meeting Agenda The procedure for renam lng county roads will be dis cussed at a meeting of the Jackson county planning commission at 8 o'clock to night tn the courthouse audi torium. Also on the agenda is a dis cussion of the public building plan. New Timber Hard at Lake Taxpayers Salem-IDTO-Taxpayers in the Silver Lake School District of Lake county face a $28.29 per $1,000 assessed valuation In crease In properly taxes for the 1962-63 tax year as a re sult of the Eastern Oregon timber tax law. Tht same law, adopted by the 1961 legislature, result ed In a $22.70 decrease per $1,000 of assessed valuation In Lake county's Vernon School District. A study of effects of the new law was released today by the State Tax Commission. The report refers to tht 17 Eastern Oregon counties con Skybolt Missile Project Plans Irritate British Threat To Use of British Bases Seen Washington - (UPD - Anglo American relations were chill ed to the near-freezing point today by U.S. threats to kill the Skybolt missile on which Britain has staked Its nuclear future. Rescuing the rocket project from oblivion will be at the top of Prime Minister Harold Macmillan's agenda when he goes to Nassau for conference with President Kennedy start ing a week from today. By London accounts, De fense Secretary Robert S. Mc Namara was subjected to as icy a reception as an Ameri can has had in Britain's capi tal in many a year when he stubbornly expressed his con viction Tuesday that the mis sile was no longer needed. Counted on Skybolt A British spokesman said that Defense Minister Peter Thorneycroft left McNamara ' under no illusions whatever to the consequences of American cancellation of the missile. Britain has counted on the Skybolt as Its chief deterrent weapon from the mld-60s into the 1970's. Britain's decision to arm Its Vulcan bombers with the 1,000-mile range ballistic mis siles grew out of the 1960 Camp David, Md., conference between former Presi dent Dwight D. Eisenhower and Macmillan. When questions were raised in the House of Commons in 1961 as to whether America would carry out the weapon's development, the then Brit ish Defense Minister Harold Watkinson said: "The sugges- , tion that the United States would repudiate agreements It had made with us on this matter will be treated with the contempt' it deserves In London and Washington." - 1 Tuesday that if the United States dropped the Skybolt project there would be an "agonizing reappraisal" of the n II If i u - niueiii'tfu auiainc This was viewed as a threat to the future of America's bomb er and nuclear submarine bases in the British Isles. Five Failures The Skybolt has had five failures in five attempted tests, but technical difficul ties were not considered to be the chief reason that McNa mara has left new funds for the missile out of his tentative budget for next year. The London conference Tuesday and reports about the Skybolt's dark future which preceded it have raised two key questions here to which answers are not yet available: -Does the United States . want Britain to get out of the strategic nuclear deterrent business? Britain's spokesman said Tuesday "It is our inten tion to stay In the independ ent deterrent business. -Is a new strategic shift In the making in the United States, with emphasis almost entirely on intercontinental missiles and Polaris subma rines, with manned bombers making a hastier exit than previously planned? The U. S. Air Force fears It, and a warm controversy can be expected In Congress where the ending of B52 bomber production and the administration's re sistance to pushing the RS70 warplane were bitterly pro tested this year. Hatfield Says Labor Study 'Waste of Time' Salem-OIFD-Gov. Mark Hat field today termed an "assin Ine waste of time" a Board of Control staff study which in dicated replacing of prison and state ward labor could cost more than $18.2 million a blennlum. Tax Law Hits taining 131 elementary or uni fied school districts. The Eastern Oregon law provides for a 5 per cent sev erance tax on timber at the time it is harvested, In lieu of the ad vadorem tax on standing timber. The legislature adopted the law on a conservation measure and to stabllze the timber in dustry. Lake County was hard hit by the tax. Lake County As sessor Harold Langslet said the new law resulted in a tax loss of $133,870 to the county. Deschutes and Jefferson counties were also hard hit by the new timber tax law.