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Newspaper Page Text3.3 Per Rlllem-ATO A S3 Mar Petit Salem-OT-A 3.3 per cent salary increase ior classified tat employee! July 1, 1963, was recommended today by Melvln H. Cleveland, State Civil Service Commission di rector. Cleveland addressed the second-day opening session of the three-day legislative liscal orientation conference here for members of the 1963 Leg islature An additional 1.7 per cent Regional Edition MEDFORD 18 Pages Two Sections Rescue Workers Removing Debris To Seek Bodies Rocket Testing Chamber Caves In Tullahoma, Tenn.-IUPD- Res cue workers began removing debris from a 250-foot-deep rocket testing chamber today in an effort to locate four men believed buried when a huge mass of wet concrete and steel collapsed. "There is no sign of life at the bottom of the shaft," an Air Force spokesman said, "and four men are still un accounted for." The Air Force said the concrete, which was being poured when the form col lapsed with a deep rumble, was hardening and "we'll probably have to chip it out now. Earlier, workers had dumped quantities of sugar into the concrete in an effort to slow the hardening pro cess. Operations Deliberate Rescue operations, at first on an emergency basis, be came more deliberate as the hours passed during the night with no success. It became increasingly obvious that the missing men were not alive and the possibility of fresh collapses was taken into ac count. The disaster occurred late Monday afternoon when con crete for the top section of the testing chamber was being poured. The Air Force spokesman said concrete was being pour ed from a "bucket" on a crane to lay a top for the shaft when the accident occurred. "Two men managed to save themselves by grabbing onto the bucket," the PIO man said. "We don't know how many men were on scaffold ing on the top when it went down." f legislative Pay Increase Voted By Committee Salem - (WD - A joint Senate-House committee of the Oregon legislature has voted unanimously to recommend legislative salaries of $3,000 a year, plus $20 a day for living expenses while the legislature is in session, it was learned today. The proposal' will be sub mitted to the legislature as a whole when the 1963 session convenes here Jan. 14. At present members of the House and Senate receive S600 a year. They receive no daily living expense, but are entitled to expenses which can be attributed directly to their legislative duties. Flegel Chairman Sen. Al Flegel (D-Roseburfc) was chairman of the joint Senate-House committee. Other members were Sens. Dan Thiel (D-Astorial; Al Corbett (D-Portland) and Lynn New bry (R-Ashland) and Reps. Carl Back (Port Orford); Wil liam Gallagher (R-Portland); W. O. Kelsay (D-Roseburg) and Sidney Bazett (R-Grants Pass). Oregon voters earlier this year approved a constitution al amendment allowing legis lators to set their own salaries. . ITEMS FROM FCC TO INVESTIGATE LOUD COMMERCIALS Washington IPITht Ftdtral Communication! Commis sion announced today it would investigate "irritatingly loud commercials" over radio and television and asked broad- Cillers to slop them. PUBLISHERS, PRINTERS CONTINUING NEGOTIATIONS New York-(Pl-Feder mediators held joint session with publishers and striking printers today in an effort to settle the 1 1-day -old walkout which has caused nine New York newspapers to suspend publication. GOOSE LAKE COMMISSION IN AGREEMENT Sscumenlo-VH-The joint Oregon-California Goose Lake Commission has agreed en a compact controlling use of waters in the Goom Lake basin, It was announced today. Cent Salary Increase I lillnrv htlra la mnninmanrfnil I 14a eai1 A 070 am nl niianc I D .. i ,. , ... salary hike is recommended for July 1, 1964, Cleveland explained. The Increase in pay would cost an estimated $7,686,859. Of this $4,073,006 or S3 per cent would come from the general fund, and the balance from other sources. Cleveland explained the proposal would give 67 per cent of the classified em ployees a pay raise during 1963. MEDFORD, OREGON, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1962 Kaiser Announces Plan Designed To Eliminate Strikes Fontana, Calif.-diPD-A plan designed to eliminate strikes stemming from wage disputes and technological changes was hailed today as a significant breakhrough in labor-manage ment relations. The plan was announced Monday by a special nine- member commute of union, management and public rep resentatives at Kaiser Steel Co. Both David McDonald, pres ident of the United Steel- Loyal Senegalese Troops Believed To Be in Control Dakar, Senegal (UPC Army troops loyal to pro-Western President Leopold Senghor to day surrounded Senegal's ad ministrative building, where dissident Premier Mamadnu Dia was believed to be hiding. The situation in this West African capital remained con fused but Senghor's soldiers appeared to control Dakar. Dia appeared to be losing both the political and military con trol. Anil - Dia factions accused the prime minister of attempt ing a coup d'etat against the president. Gendarmes under Dia's orders seized the parliament building Monday and forcibly ejected National Assem b 1 y deputies preparing to vote on a motion of censure against his government. Censure Voted The deputies later met pri vately and voted censure, thus toppling the left-leaning Dia from the premiership. Persistent but unconfirmed reports said Dia, accompanied by some of his cabinet minis ters and a general of the Sengalese army, holed up on the ninth floor of the adminis trative building, under the protection of the gendarmerie, a national police force. Senghor's army troops formed a cordon outside the building today but did not immediately attempt to enter it. Informed sources said Seng hor ordered the army to watch the airport and border points to prevent Dia from slipping out of the country. The govern ment ordered censorship of all outgoing news. Eagle Point Area Contest Is Noted Eagle Point - Residents of Eagle Point and area are in vited to enter an outdoor Christmas lighting and deco rating contest being sponsor ed by the Eagle Point Lions club, Ray Ragsdale, commit tee chairman, has announced. Registrations will be open until Dec. 22 at the Olscn con fectionery. No charge is made for en tering the contest and three prizes will be offered by the club, according to Ragsdale. Judging will be done Dec. 23. VBSK f Will 1.1 v JT MOUND THI OlOtl He said 6,278 employees would get no increase, 9,896 would get a one-step increase, 2,548 would get a two-step pay raise, 23 would receive a three-step raise, and two em ployees would be raised four salary steps. A warning not to expect more than S3 million in rever sions during the 1963-65 bien nium was sounded to legistors by Kenneth N. Bragg, legisla tive fiscal ofiier. workers Union, and Edgar Kaiser, chairman of the board of Kaiser Steel, praised the plan which calls for sharing production cost savings with employees of the firm. Dr. George W. Taylor, head of the committe, emphasized while disclosing details of the program that it is not a profit sharing plan. "The plan provides for a monthly sharing with em ployees of all savings in the use of materials and supplies and from increased productiv ity of labor," he said. "The sharing takes place whether the increased pro ductivity comes about by di rect effort of employees, by the use of better equipment, newer processes, better ma terials, or through improved yields. "Formulas for sharing pro vide that about one-third of any dollar gains made under the plan will be shared by employees. The balance is shared by the company and by the public through taxes." Taylor added that "the amount of sharing is not de pendent in any way on the level of company profits." The plan is subject to rati fication by members of Local 2869 of the union here. The first of several mass meetings for employees and their fami lies was held Monday night with about 2,500 persons at tending. The proposal was ex plained tn detail and a tenta tive date of Jan. 3 was set for voting. If passed, it will go into effect immediately. A Good Job "We are enthusiastic about the plan," Kaiser said. "This is not a Kaiser plan, but one which was developed by the whole committee." "Dr. Taylor kept us at work," McDonald commented, "and made up do a job - I think a good job. I hope the steelworkers will be happy with this plan and vote for it." The program was first an nounced in Washington last week by President Kennedy. The proposal also includes a provision that any worker laid off because of technologi cal change will continue to receive his regular wages and will be put in a special em ployment pool. From there he will be reassigned to other jobs or retrained for new ones. Hanamoto Arrives To Study Park Site A member of a San Fran cisco landscape architecture firm arrived in Medford this morning to hold preliminary discussions with city officials about the possibility of draw ing up a plan for the basic development of the Barnetl park sile. Asa Hanamoto, specialist in public park planning for Roy ston, Hanamoto and Mayes, will spend the day in Med ford viewing the 78-acrc site along Bear creek and discuss ing various aspects of the pro posal, according to Park and Recreation Director Robert Haworth. The city council recently appropriated $7,500 for the basic development plan. The city purchased the site by council action last year for $73,500. SHOPPING DAYS LEFT CHRISTMAS SEALS fikt TB m. liter RESPIRATORY DISEASES Bragg voiced his cammnntv on Gov. Mark Hatfield's pro posed $405.3 million 1963-65 bienniuin budget at Monday's sessions of the conference. Bragg's view contrasts sharply with Hatfield's claim that $7 million in reversions could be expected. Hatfield proposes a $405.3 million general fund hnrWt but called for tax collections of only $398 million - $7 mil lion less than needed. The Tribune Red China Called Decade's Greatest Threat To Peace JFK Interviewed On Term in Office Washington -(UPD- President Kennedy said Monday night that Red China, not Russia, is this decade's greatest threat to world peace. The President said "We would be far worse off the world would be if the Chi nese dominated the Commu nist movement." Kennedy made the state ment in an unusual radio and television interview covering his first two years as Presi dent, which he said had given him "great satisfaction." The interview ranged over a wide number of subjects, both domestic and internation al, but Kennedy's emphasis showed his concern with world affairs. Kennedy said "I don't think there is a need" for a meeting between him and Soviet Pre mier Nikita Khrushchev now, and "I think he probably feels the same way." Because of Cuba, "it is going to be some time before it is possible for us to come to any real under standings with Mr. Khrush chev." Bolster Freedom's Causa Without minimizing the danger of Russia's goal of world communism, Kennedy said "we are better off with the Khrushchev view than we are with the Chinese Commu nist view, quite obviously." "But Mr. Khrushchev does not wish us well, unfortunate ly," he added. Rather than trying to widen the rift between Moscow and Peking, the President said, at tention should be given to bolstering the cause of free dom by helping suffering areas of the world. "I think that anybody who looks at the fatality lists on atomic weapons and realizes that the Communists have a completely twisted view of the United States, and that we don't comprehend them, that is what makes life in the six ties hazardous," he said. If it were not for Commu nist expansion policies, there could be a "long period of peace," Kennedy said. Must Bear Responsibility But as long as Russia and China threaten the world, he declared, the United States and its allies must bear the responsibility of opposing them. He continued, "We can't lay it down and I don't see how we're going to lay it down in this century." "There is no real reason why the United States and the Soviet Union, separated by so many thousands of miles of land and water, both rich countries, both with very en ergetic people, should not be able to live in peace," Kenne dy said. "But it is . . . constant de termination which the Chi nese show in the most mili tant form, and which the So viets have also shown, that they will not settle for that kind of a peaceful world, but must settle for a Communist world that is what makes the real danger; the combina tion of these two systems In conflict around the world In a nuclear age is what makes the sixties so dangerous." Dangers Still Exist Kennedy said that while the showdown over Cuba taught the Communists something of U. S. determination, great dangers still exist. "One mistake can make this , whole thing blow up," he said. The President discounted any real chance in the fore seeable future for an interna tional inspection system to enforce a nuclear test ban or general disarmament. For the time being, he said, the aerial camera "is actually going to be our best inspector." The missile defenses of both the United States and Russia have reached the point of being able to hit "a bullet with a bullet," he said. Urged for Classified State Employees H governor reasoned that the $7 million would be made up through savings in various de partments of state govern ment. In other words, more mon ey would be budgeted than was available. This budget-it-even-though- you - haven't - got it proposal was what spurred State Rep. Richard Eymann (D-Mohawk), chairman of the House Taxa tion Committee, to y charge 57th Year Price 10 Cents No. 232 To Tackle .- ;-'r V ' ' A V ' K m -li I : V..':ir57 r I K Ji k f . ) GREETINGS President Kennedy, left, is greeted by Britain's Prime Minister Harold Macmillan, right, and Foreign Secretary Lord Home on arrival in Nassau, Ba Republicans Get 18 First Choices For Committees Salem-OIPH- House Speaker designate Clarence Barton (D Coquille) said today the 29 Republicans in the House have been given 18 of their first choice committee assign ments. He said "according to our feeling at the present time," the minority party also is likely to receive at least one House committee chairman ship. Barton, designated speaker by the House's 31 Democrats, spoke in reply to a call for a "bi-partisan approach" b y GOP Minority Leader F. F. Montgomery (R-Eugenc). Weight To Request "There was no attempt . . . to punish anyone" in making committee assignments, he said. "We attempted to give weight to the individual's re quest. The committees have not yet been announced, but Bar ton said they were mapped out at a meeting of the com mittee on committees Mon day. Barton said the assignments were based on questionnaires asking House members to des ignate their first and subse quent committee choices. They also were asked to give background, that would show where their skills would be put to use. Barton said in addition to 18 first choices, Republicans uprp tnvpn 1R Npr-nml fhoierx and a "substantial" number of subsequent choices. PAY SCALE PROPOSED Beaverton H"PI) The pres ent range of salaries which would pay District 48 teach ers more than teachers In Port land was proposed by the Beaverton Education aocia tion at a school board meeting here Monday night. Dec. 7, "for the first time In history a governor has ask ed the legislature to deliber ately run the state into the red and violate the state con stitution." Bragg is hired by the legis lature to research monetary matters, and is more critical of budget proposals than are members of the Finance and Administration Depart ment who work for Hatfield's ad ministration. Bragg cautioned "it would appear prudent not to count on more than $3 million of reversions. "In case revenues collected in 1963-65 are less than esti mated or enrollments in schools higher than estimated, a planned $7 million reversion could leave the state in a ay, Prisons Director Studies Alcatraz In Wake of Escape San Francisco -IUPII- Federal Prisons Director James V. Bennett toured Alcatraz today to "check security and mo rale" at the island prison In wake of the second multiple escape in six months. Bennett flew from Washing ton San Francisco Monday, less than 24 hours after a Ken tucky bank robber became the first known cscaper to survive the treacherous water which surround "The Rock" In San Francisco Bay.. The convict, John Paul Scott, 35, was taken Into cus tody on the rocks under the south end of Golden Gate bridge about three miles from the prison, less than three hours after he and a compan ion made their escape. Scott was nude and numb with cold from his ordeal In the rain swept waters. His companion, bank rob ber D. Lee Parker, 31, made it only as far as Little Alca traz, an outcropping of rock about 100 yards from the main island. He was back In cus tody In 28 minutes. Scott and Parker cut through a barred window In the prison basement, went 30 feet across the yard and climb ed over a 14-foot fence top ped with barbed wire to reach the water. Scotls' feat In reaching the mainland touched off specula tion that he may not have ;heen the first convict to do so Five convicts known to have escaped from the island van ished without a trace and were presumed drowned. Among Uiuse were bank robber John and Clarence An glln and Frank Lee Morris, who vanished last June 12. Two others, Oklahoma bank robbers Ralph Roe and Rich ard Cole, disappeared 2 years critical financial position. Bragg pointed out that since 1951 reversions have been in the $3 million range, except for the four years, 1959 through 1963. He said the un usually high reversions result ed from "special circumstanc es," including $3 million from the medicare program and the salary adjustment fund. He also reminded legisla tors "the free ride is over." He said that during the past six years the state had used some $50 million of reserves, $32 million during the past two years alone. "The reserves are now gone," he said. "Clearly," Bragg continued, "the proposals for govern mental services are outstrip ping the tax base. lissile Policy I ; . .. I hamas, for talks aimed at easing Anglo-American differ ences over the nuclear missile policy. (UPI) ago to the day of the Scott Parker attempt. Bennett, who was accompa nied from Washington by Noah L. Alldredge, adminis trator of corrective services with the Federal Prison serv ice, said he would take a close look and possibly decide whe ther to close down the prison sooner than now planned. Present plans call for clos ing Alcatraz by next June 30, tlie end of the current fiscal year. Prisoners arc being transferred from the Island to other federal facilities as part of a gradual phasing out of the prison. Stop Signs Placed On Barneff Road Two stop signs are being Installed at the intersection of Stewart ave. and Burnett rd. and will become effective at 8 a.m. Wednesday, accord ing to Roy Norton, resident bridge engineer for the slate highway department. The stop signs were erected to stop Barnett rd. traffic go ing both ways In order to ex pedite traffic coming off the south-bound freeway offramp and moving onto Stewart ave. WEATHER FOIIFCANT: Vilify lot nr Inw rlourllnpti latt tonight and Wrdnrkday mnrnltif , Variant rloudlnna Udnfkday aflM nm.n l ow tonichl 35-40. High Wrdnridjty 47-52. Temp, tilth' t Ytnlerdav . Jl l,owtt Thia Morning ,, 41 Our Skies Tonight ftuntft today 4:4ft p m, ftunrtt tomorrow . The Moon, at Latt Qiiartrr i.t a.m. .12:21 a.m. PROMINENT UTAH KMuhif, rhra 10:01 p.m. VINIHI.R PLANETS Man, rl(ht ahovi Rffulli. ft i urn, low In aouih- wrl 0:12 p.m. Jupiter, In oiithwMt 7:1 p m. Vtnut, In toiithrai! 0:10 a.m. "The financial pinch, which has been delayed because we used surpluses, will be with us for some time to come," he warned. He outlined for the legisla tors present that during the current biennlum the state is taking in $14.4 million less than whe anticipated. He said personal income taxes are down $21.7 million, and the carry-over balance from 1959-61 is $2.5 million less than expected. He warned, "there are some indications that the expansion of the tax base is not keeping pace with goals." He said new manufacturing jobs "are being created at about half the rate needed." Bragg warned "The legisla ture may find that a larger Men Wanted in Baker Held Here Five men wanted by Baker county authorities on larceny charges were arrested here by state police last night and are being held in the Jackson county Jail. They arc being held on $1,000 bail each on charges of taking five chain sawa, a tent and some oil from a trce-thin-nlng operation here Hcve ford. Being held are Robert Alme Clcmans, 33, of 3410 North Pacific highway, Med ford; Billy Joe Fulton, 31, Tu lare, Calif.; Arthur Lester Welch, 35, of Dead Indian rd., Ashland; Doss Raye Terrcl, 18, of 12B High St., Ashland; and Lawrence Wayne John son, 18, of 314 North Central ave., Medford. Vandenberg AFB, Calif.-(UPli-An Atlas intercontinental ballistic missile blew up shortly after it was launched today on a test flight, the Air Force reported. Man 'Stone-Cold Dead' Now Wants To Go Home Milwaukee, Wis. -(UPD- A 77-year-old man who was "stone-cold dead" one wtck ago was trying today to get out of the hospital In time to go home for Christmas. George Skorganc, Mequon, stumped authorities at Lake view Hospital here when he responded to a cardiac stim ulant after collapsing at his home. Rescue squad members who brought him to the hos pital said he was "stone dead." Dr. Robert Merwick, 27, a medical resident from Chi cago, discovered Skorganlc's heart was beating about once every IS or 20 seconds. "I gave him a cardiac stim ulant then pumped In glucose with a drug to raise the blood pressure," Merwick said. "We gave him oxyiien and general ly he showed Improvement, appropriation is needed than is Included in the governor' budget, if the present level of welfare services is to be main tained." He also told legislators they would have to face "a number of key decisions regarding the higher education capital con struction program. "Should the higher educa tion board's $47.8 million re quest or the governor's $21.5 million recommendation be accepted as a point of depar ture in reviewing the higher education capital budget?" he asked. Not including the capital expenditure program, educa tion accounts for $240 9 mil lion 59.4 per cent of Hatfield's proposed $405.3 mil lion general fund budget. Subject To Be irst on Agenda n Bahamas Talk First Meeting Scheduled Today Nassau, Bahamas-flJPD-Pres- Ident Kennedy arrived today for talks with Prime Minister Harold Macmillan and the Anglo-American leaders de cided to open immediately their conference on differ ences over nuclear missile policy and other pressing Is sues. Kennedy, greeted -with ef fusive cordiality by Macmil lan in sparkling semitroplcal weather, had not been sched uled to begin talks with the British prime minister until Wednesday. , Shortly, after the Presi dent's arrival, it was an nounced they would meet "In formally" at 1:45 p.m. (PST) today. Macmillan, who arrived Monday night, was at the air port when Kennedy's plane from Washington landed here under almost cloudless skies. The prime minister said he hoped this conference with Kennedy - their sixth - would be all "the more fruitful" because of the delightful sur roundings In which it was be ing held. Kennedy replied that "it Is fair to say that we do much better In warmer climates." Macmillan and Kennedy hook hands varmly when the President disembarked. nd chatted animatedly for few minutes at the bottom of the plane ramp. Then they went through the welcoming ceremonies at Windsor Airport about three miles west of Nassau. Since both Macmillan and Kennedy had flown in from areas of cold and fog, they were openly delighted with the weather. Both men appeared In high spirits. The watmth of their greeting gave no Indication of the thorny problems they must work out here or of the recent differences between their countries. Kennedy left the airport first in a limousine with Ba hamas Gov. Sir Robert Sta pledon, and Macmillan fol lowed about a minute later. In addition to seeking a solution to the problem of the future of the U.S. Skybolt missile, the two leaders plan a survey of global items. They will assess the possibility of new allied diplomatic moves In the wake of Soviet Pre- micr Nikita Khrushchev's mil itary backdown In Cuba. although he was In a coma for three days." The "dead" man was walk ing around the hospital Mon day night wondering if he would be out before Christ mas, i "We'll probably let him go In a couple of days If noth ing else turns up," Merwick said. Merwick cited the case as "very unusual" since Skor ganc suffered no apparent brain damage. This indicates that some oxygen was being fed to the brain although the rescue squad could feel no heart beat, Merwick said. Merwick said the brain can not go more than five or six minutes without oxygen be fore permanent damage or death occurs. Skorganlc could not recall what happened Just hpfnr he roUnonrd.