3.3 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
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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
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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
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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
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nm.n l ow tonichl 35-40. High
Wrdnridjty 47-52.
Temp,
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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.