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No Let-Up Forecast in Week-Long Deep Freeze In Europe; 100 Dead London - OFPD - The week end weather forecast for Eu rope promised no let-up Sat urday in the week-long deep freeze that has killed more than 400 persons. Continued cold with more snow and freezing rain kept rail, air and road traffic tied up in Britain and across the continent. There was some moderation nf temperatures, notably in Portugal and southern Italy, but generally the freeze held firm. A dense fog Friday night and early Saturday blanket ed large sections of the Brit ish midlands and the north. Occasional snow was reported In the south and temperatures below freezing in nearly all areas. Caused Deaths Britain accounted for the largest share of storm deaths, listing 137 up to Friday night. Most of the deaths throughout Europe have been on the highways, but others have been caused by drowning, freezing, fires, and other types 'of accidents. Germany was still in the grip of its coldest winter in years. Many towns in Switzer land and northern Italy were cut off from the outside New X-ray Tested On Portland Chimps Portland -(UPD- Nearly 100 monkeys at Portland Zoo have been x-rayed with a new ma chine developed at McMinn vlllc. The machine, weighing Just 45 pounds, promises to fill new needs in probing space and in combatting disease. The x-ray unit was devel oped by Dr. Walter J. Dyke, president of the Field Emis sion corporation at McMinn ville. Instead of using elab orate heating equipment, it produces x-ray electrons by using a new cathode surround ed by an intense electrical field. It can produce a radio graph far faster than conven tional machines. The machine's speed makes it valuable in photographing missile parts during testing, Bonneville Power administra tion foresees use of the port able x-ray unit in investigat ing ground rot in transmis sion poles. The Federal Avia tion agency is considering the machine for on-the-spot inves tigations of air crashes. The monkey x-rays at Port land Zoo were part of field trials before the unit goes on the market in January. Driver Cited Atter Two-Car Collision Friday, Amelia Theresa Fletcher, 855 East 10th si., Mcdford was cited for failure to yield right of way, Mcd ford police said. Her car and one driven by Mclvin Roy Mead, 167 Vilas rd.. Central Point, collided at the intersection of Riverside ave. and Manzanita st. No in juries were reported. Another non-injury two-car collision occurred at Central avc. at 10th st. Friday after noon, Medford police report ed. A car driven by Sarah Williams Campbell, Lanpclcr, I'enn., was cited for nuking mi illegal (urn from the wrong lime. The Campbell car and one driven by Linda Kay Illllman, 229 North Bartlctt .st., Medford collided when Sarah Campbell attempted to make a lett turn onto 10th st. Robert Hale Hodson, route 1, Box t)2D, Cold Hill, was slightly Injured and was cited for having defective auto brakes Friday when his car struck a telephone pole at East Main and Eastwood sts. BIG 111 Thlt li a Once-a-Year Eventl It Will Not Be Repealed (or Another Year. EXTRA PANTS IB regardless ( price . . . when ordered Kith coat and pents, suit or topcoat, or . . , 20 DISCOUNT Without Mrs Pint! CHRIS THE world, but there were no re - ports of food or fuel shortages in the isolated towns. The freezing temperatures in Germany complicated the international situation when canals connecting isolated West Berlin with West Ger- Pardoned Convict Shows Photostat Of Check to Nixon Beverly Hills, Calif. - IUPH John (Jake the Barber) Factor Friday produced a photostat of a $5,000 check he contrib utcd to the 1060 Nixon-Lodge campaign to counter ftopubli can criticism of his Christmas pardon by President Kennedy. Factor faced deportation on a mail fraud conviction on which he served a prison sen tence in 1943 until the Pres ident squashed the proceed ing when he pardoned the phi lanthropist Christmas Day. Rep. William E. Miller, of New York Republican nation al chairman, demanded Thurs day that the President give assurance the pardon was not Influenced by campaign con tribution to the Democrats. Factor and his wife, Rclla, gave political contributions totaling $22,000 to three Dem ocratic groups in 1060. Snide and Chtap Rep. Emanuel Ccllcr (D-N. Y.) chairman of the House Ju diciary committee, said in a statement Miller's accusation was "as snide as it is cheap." The check photostat Factor displayed was made out to friends of the Nixon and Lodge committee and was dated Sept. 20, 1060. It was signed by his wife. Factor said he had sent a check for $25,000 to the late Eleanor Roosevelt shortly aft er the abortive Cuban inva sion but this was returned when her project to raise a fleet of tractors in exchange for the prisoners was can celed. "I never was asked for con tributions to the fund for the exchange of prisoners, but if they had asked mc 1 d have gladly given a million dol lars to free 1,100 prisoners, he suld. Corvallis Paper Hits Century Mark Corvallis - IllPil - The Cor vallis Gazette-Times Saturday became the third Oregon newspaper to reach the cen tury mark and published a special section to note its 100th birthday. Oregon newspapers older than the Gazette-Times are the Oregonian in Portland and the Statesman In Salem. Olh-1 er papers were started carli- cr than 1862, but no others survived. Thc Corvallis Gazette is the elder brother of the papers which have been combined .since 1900. It was founded In I December 18(12. exact date nil. known. The Times was estab- apple, were abroad as the Sa lished in 18118. vannali edged through Hono- The two papers were com-: billed in mld-lDO!) a few weeks alter the weekly Ga- zetle started publishing as a daily. At that time the rimes was a semi-weekly. The social section published todav included a history of the paper, a full-page cover ing highlights of the news from its 100 year career, an intensive coverage of t ho pres ent day paper, lis place in the community and lis hopes for the future. MEHGER ANNOUNCED Portland - il'l'li -. Merger of the building division of the Associated General Contract ors Willi the Portland chap ter, highway and heavy divi sion was announced Friday. DOUBLE-BARRELED i A I Em 1 53 I & t,n ('brief m Ih3 4p5 I MM l0' imported "d m "It'l a PUaturt to Take Your Mtaiu TAILOR It No. Bl.l 171 1471 1 many were frozen along the ' routes in East Germany. West German barges were forced to I take shelter in Communist ports. Austrian hotel owners said they had been hit by heavy vacation cancellations as the nation's ski areas experienced their coldest Christmas sea son, since 1940. Innsbruck re ported a lempcratureof 20 degrees below zero Friday Spain, usually mild in most regions, continued to report severe cold that has devastat ed important citrus fruit crops. Spanish Commerce Minister Alberto Ullastrcs said the frost had caused an estimated $68.5 million loss to citrus crops in the Valen cia area alone. Southern Spain reported a slight rise in temperatures and falling flood waters. The floods had been brought on by heavy rains and melting snows. Airlines cancelled many flights because of the weather, France, including the usu ally sun-bathed Riviera, shiv ered under low temperatures with deep snow still on the ground in many sections. Venus Rotates in Opposite Manner Stanford, Calif. - (UPll - The planet Venus probably rotates in a direction opposite from that of Earth, a scientist has reported. Dr. Richard M. Goldstein said that experiments made by the California Institute of Technology Jet Propulsion laboratory at the Goldstone Tracking station in the Mo jave desert indicated th; oack ward spin of the planet. Goldstein made the report to the American Physical so ciety and the American Geo physical union, meeting at Stanford university in joint session. lie said that he and R. L. Carpenter bounced radar beams of the planet between Oct. 1 and Dec. 17 when it was in close proximity to the Earth. The radar signals, which re turned to the Earth in six to eight minutes, indicated that Venus rotates slowly, perhaps once every 250 earth days, and goes in a backward di rection. "I tried every way I could to fit the data into a forward rotation," he said, "but it is consistent only with retro grade motion." Nuclear Ship Sails For Portland Visit Honolulu -HOT- The nuclear ship Savannah sailed Friday for Portland, Ore., after a six day Hawaii visit during which time more man zi.uuu persons toured the world's first nu- clear-powered merchant ves- !scl. Eight passengers, one from Portland, and 129 tons of car- go, most of it Hawaiian pine- lulu harbor at 6:30 a.m. (HSTl en route to its second visit to the Pacific Northwest. The vessel made a call at Seattle oarlirr this year. 1 he Portland passenger on board the Savannah is Mrs. C'onstaiu-e McCrrady, the home and garden edilor of the Purl land On''man Subscribers Tn report Improper nr tinn ilrhvrrv of the Mml Tnhuna In Mr. Hun) phone 771' .W1; Ah lim! fall Hi 4lfl HrWUe it, or phone 4HJ-:tmrj: Yicktt, plume Vleinrv U-amtfl hclore S pin. riHilv mw1 10.;) h in. Sunday. If u'uviljtr delivery arrive dhortly ulte- on call plr-an nottlv other tlnis eliminating ftprt-lftl nietM nf er service JANUARY SALE! SAVE! SAVE! and liqHt wtiqhti. Custom tailored to vour measuro for I a parted tit m the ityla f I your choice. A bargain at the regular price ... a M L WALK A WAY at m this special price! $.' ' ' y ' ' ' - - ' - ' - ' 4 - , ' 1 - 1" 1 ' ' 4 ' S" ' ' . jT"S ' ' ' i . V. 5 : WW 1 VACATION AT ASPEN Senator-elect Edward Kennedy (left) and his brother, At torney General Robert Kennedy look over the ski slopes Friday while spending a va- Spectacular Increase Seen In incomes of Nonwhites Washington - (UPll - Federal Housing Administrator Rob ert C. Weaver, announcing a spectacular rise" in the in comes of non-white persons, has urged removal of the ra cial barriers that prevent them from buying more expensive homes. Weaver released a special ludy made by the Housing and Home Finance agency, based on the censuses in 1959 and 19U0. He said it showed a large and growing demand for housing among midle-income, non-white urban families a demand that is not being met. In 21 metropolitan areas analyzed, non-while incomes rose sharply. The number of non-whites in those areas earn ing more than 4.000 a year increased from 59.000 in 1949 to 940,000 in 1959. Those with incomes over $6,000 rose from 12,050 to 210.156. Significant Riit The sludy said the econom ic advances of middle-income non-whites, and other status improvements, made a signif icant rise in home ownership during the decade. But, the study said, there was a great disparity in the rate of home ownership and value b'tween whites and non-whiles at comparable eco nomic levels. Racial restrictions, it said, were the "important deter rent" to non-white home own ership, the sludy said. In a forward to t lie report. Weaver said "The present study of non-white middle in come housing needs takes on added significance with the issuance by the President of an executive order on equal ! opportunity in hou.-ing. Economic Expiniion "In a society which has cho sen free competition and free enterprise as the channel for economic expansion and im provemenl of living standards, such a basic commodity as decent family housing should he readily available to every American family "Tlie extent to which we succeed ill improving the hous ing conditions of our minority families will depend upon the imaginative cooperation of the housing industry, government and the American people," Weavrr said. ' I POLICE RESIGN j Pullman - ilTI' - Half of the IB man Police Department in i this college town of 1,1. 000. submitted resignations Friday i in a dispute with Police Chief A A. (Rill) Stamper NATURAL GAS EQUIPMENT COMPANY On Dirl.'v - !! tj'sjfvi if'ctitcfi ol fij hfatinj equip- ninl in So. C't- COLEMAN Spv Hcor l'n,t Fo-ccd An LipMrw Down flow Hcnicntj) Wall Fumacfs Hoi Waiff Hratus 111 Wetl Miin f . . Page 2A MedfordJTribune MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY. DECEMBER 30, 1962 Income Increase to Cut Welfare Funds Salem IUPH Increases in the per capita income level in Oregon may cost the state up to $850,000 in federal welfare funds over the next two years, according to Public Welfare Administrator Andrew Juras. Juras made the announce ment at a meeting of the State Public Welfare commission here. The announcement was not welcome news to the Hatfield administration. The proposed public welfare budget will have to be recomputed to make up for the loss in fed eral funds, Juras explained. The department of health, education and welfare inform ed Juras of the change, and said the formula for federal assistance to Oregon had been reduced from 52.4 to 50 per cent in some grants. Klamath Falls Boy Killed in Accident Klamath Falls - iUPU - Stan Icy Reyder Hoff Jr., 13, was killed in a hunting accident near here r nday when a 14 year-old companion's shutgu discharged accidentally. State Police said Hoff and Iwo other boys had been duck hunting along the shore of Lake Kwauna and were re turning home. The boy whose gun went off told police the three were walking single file along a railroad track when he turned to say sonic thing to Hoff. He said he stumbled and his 120-gaugc shotgun dis charged. The load struck Hoff in the chest and he died in stantly. All State Offices To Be Open Monday Salem - 'I'PP - All stale of fices here will be open Mon- day -- but state government operations w ill be running at a slow pace. The final day of 19t2 will be similar to the day before Christmas. Half nf the stale's employees w ill have the day off. "! Phon. 772-2322 cation at Aspen, Colo. The Kennedy brothers are both reported to be better than average skiers. (UPI) Democratic Executive Secretary Appointed Portland - (UPll - Oregon Democratic Chairman E. D. Spencer Saturday announced the appointment of Mrs. Gene Wiley of Portland as execu tive secretary of the Oregon Democratic party. Mrs. Wiley was campaign coordinator for the Re-elect Wayne Morse committee this year. She was business man ager for the University of Or egon Theater from 1951 until 1962 except for one year working for Morse in Wash ington, DC, in 1959. Man Reports Theft; Police Arrest Him A man who reported a rob bery Friday afternoon was arrested on charges of lar ceny, Medford police said Sat urday. Jason Cordial Pierce. 11 Beach St., Ashland, is being held in the Jackson county jail on charges of taking ap proximately $8 ) from the cash register of Stark Vacuum fiviiniiu li-- i,ui III lIVl'IMUe li ave.. Friday. Pierce reported a man had come in and robbed the cash register while he. Pierce, was busy elsew here. When he dis covered the cash register open, Pierce said hc dashed out of the store just in time to see the man drive off. Police ques tioned Pierce and a fellow worker then arrested Pierce. Talent Residence Damaged by Blaze Talent The roof and one bedroom of the Barney Kirk ! residence on Old Highway 99 j south of Talent were dam- ; ased extensively by fire Kri- i day afternoon j Talent Rural firemen, aid- ; ed by the Ashland fire de partment, saved the rest of I the home. Cause of the fire ' was not known, although fire- I men tlicori.-cd it might have : been defective wiring. Local Woman Pleads j Innocent to Charges Lillian Lovan Zander. US). ! Grand Hotel. Medford. plead- ' ed innocent to charges of forg ery in Jackson county circuit court Friday afternoon. Circuit Judge Fdward C. Kelly said he would include her jury trial in the spring trial schedule She is accu-cd of forums a number of travelers checks In November Dairy Plans to Reduce Milk Prices Prior to Law Expiration Date m By ZAN STARK Salem - lUPI) - One dairy's plans to cut milk prices, and a dairymens' association meet ing to consider a final draft of a milk marketing law, were revealed Saturday just two days before the pres ent milk stabilization law ex pires at midnight, Dec. 31. Kenneth Sawyer, chief of the milk audit and stabiliza tion division of the State De partment of Agriculture, con firmed the price ut notice had been filed. It would reduce the price of milk nl'0 it 2-cents a quart, from the present Jj5.8fi per 100 pounds to $4.90. Sawyer said the reduction would go into effect Jan. 1, the day the present Mobiliza tion law expires. The meeting to consider a draft of a proposed new stab ilization law will be held here Jan. 7, according to Frank Rood of North Bend, president of the Oregon Dairymens' association, and chairman of an industry-wide committee which is seeking a solution to the industry's problem. Rood said an association committee "has been working for some time on the prob lem," and has drafted a pro posed marketing law. If approved it will be sub mitted to the legislature, he said. Conference Set The committee meeting will highlight a Jan. 7-9 meet ing of the association to be held here. Sawyer said the state milk audit law requires dealers to file with the state copies of their contracts with pro ducers. Man Meted Life For Escape Try Berlin - IUPH - East German refugee Harry Scidel, 24, was sentenced to life imprison ment at hard labor Saturday in East Berlin for digging a tunnel under the Communist wall in an attempt to help other refugees escape. Scidel, a former bicycle racing champion, was arrest ed Nov. 15 as he broke through a 70-yard tunnel from the American sector to a base ment in a suburb of East Ber lin. East German police, dis guised as refugees, were wait ing for him, apparently act ing on an informer's tip. He fled to the West the day the wall went up, Aug. 13. 19G1. After that, he helped others to escape, risking his life many times. The East German Supreme Court found Scidel guilty of violating the catch-all "law for the protection of peace," which covers any form of anti Communist activity. Scidel, who won several East Gcarman bicycle cham pionships before his flight, was not allowed a Western defense counsel. The court ap pointed his lawyer. The East German news agency (ADN) reported that Seidcl admitted he had taken part in seven border cross ings ''with the aim of carry ing out attacks on the border security forces, destroying frontier security installations, organizing kidnapings. and luring persons to West Ber lin" "Kidnaping" and 'luring'' arc used by the Communists to refer to refugee escapes. Runaway Juveniles Arrested in Ashland Ashland - Three lecn-agers from Vancouver, Wash., two of them girls, were appre hended by Ashland police Sat urday morning and turned over to the county detention home. The boy and one of the girls were brother and sister They told officers they had runaway from home Friday night. The mother of two of the teen-agers was expected to come down shortly and re turn all three of them to Van couver. Portland Woman Dies In Two-Car Crash By United Pren International A Portland woman became Oregon's first fatality of the long holiday week end Satur day when she was fatally in jured in a head-on crash south of Dayton Agda Jean ' Johnson. 21. died in the crash Police said her car swerved into the path of an on-coming car. Two young women in the other car, Judy M. Powell of Yam hill and Viola Hodnry of Carl ton, were criottly injured. Sawyer refused to identify the dealer. He said only that it was not a Portland or Salem firm, but "an average size Willamette Valley deal er." Sawyer said he expected Spurned Daughter 01 Writer Upset Over Will Change London -IUPH- Lady John Hope, the spurned daughter of writer Somerset Maugham, said Saturday she still loves her millionaire father and can not understand why he wants to disinherit her. "I love him dearly . . . We have never had a row, not even a cross word," Lady John was quoted as saying. Maugham took out court papers in a Nice, France, court adopting Alan Searle, 52, his secretary, as his son. At the same time he started court action to disinherit his daugh ter Elizabeth, now Lady John hope, and get her to return several hundred thousand dol lars worth of gifts he has given her. Married Writer Maugham, 88, said he al ways had considered Eliza beth his daughter but that she actually was the daughter of Henry Wellcome, the hus band of Maugham's wife, Sy- rie Barnardo, before she mar ried the famed writer. Elizabeth, 47, and married to former Works Minister Lord John Hope, said the whole episode has left her "very sad" and surprised. "I can't understand what my father has said about mc," she said at her home near London. "It is quite absurd for him to say that I do not care about him at all." Maugham said Elizabeth did not care "a rap" about him. Lady John Hope filed a suit earlier this year against Maugham claiming that $630,- 000 of $1.5 million realized from a sale of Maugham's art collection belonged to her. ::M SAVE V-'!j i ;:rU.S.-Treasury DipirtrneuT1 j .i jjj, --"JaterjijLRevenue Service 'Lr.-. j Announcing.. JT"' L rt v ish. at i income tax plete rcioid of rtery cent you spent for drugs and drug luiiiluils tlunucjioul ihc year and how miuh of it was legally deductible!' That kind of a record could ac uiu nioncv. And that kind of a rciord (an now be joins, ociv year, abso lutely free of chaise. This new service is called III ugTax. IVc arc making it asailalilc lo all of our customers immediately, ficc of chaise, as another way of say ing "thank you" for ihcir i.nii)iiasc. nu would be suipiiscd at (he number cil cling and ini'diial supplies that can be or a deductible nature items such as antiseptics, aspirin, cough and cold picjia i.iliniis. and liundicils nf others. Indeed, (lie American laspascr lias been losing mil lions of dollars annually because lie hasn't been awaic of how mans chug items arc legally deductible. Ilul you iniisi U able to oiler proof of puidiasc ill older cn claim such iirms in preparing sour Icdcial income lax lcluni. And when sou buy mm us, sou get that pimif in ihc foim of an annual moid, mailed in I chtuarv. ("inc in tndas and let us tell sou nunc about Hi iig l ax. And from now on, bus all of sour chug and medical supplies ftom the sloic dial gises sou ihc ficc Ding Tax moid. DRUG CENTRE 8 North Cintrel pnont 772.7)13 WE GIVE THRIFTY GREEN STAMPS more such price cuts "during January." The announcement whipped up more concern in the already-worried dairy industry. Producers hopefully plead ed against price cuts. Distributors indicated they wanted to hold the line, but would slash prices if forced to do so. Grocers were unsure what they should do. A spokesman for the Port land Dairy Co-op said "No drop in price at present is warranted. "If any major distributor cuts the price, we all will have to do the same," ho added. Getting Worried Another distributor said "The grocers are getting wor ried, they don't kn,ow what to do. They don't know what to expect." Hugh Gallighcr, manager of the Carnation company in Portland and a member of the Legislative Committee of the Oregon Dairy Industries, admitted he was curious "about rumors of pending price cuts." "I don't see how the in dustry will be any different next week than it is this week," he commented. He said his firm had no plans to cut prices. Gordon Hofstctter of Cur ley's Dairy in Salem said his firm has no plans to cut the price of milk. He charged Sawyer was "trying to stir up a stink, trying to causa turmoil so the legislature will pass another stabilization law. "Sawyer is trying to per petuate himself into a job. This law has hurt us all. Milk; is being brought in from out of state because of it." ONE DAY SERVICE KODACOLOR And EKTACHROME In by 10 back at 5 tame day. Alio 6 hr. black & white service. ANDERS pshh0otp0 232 E. Main 772-5646 IRVICt TO TAXPAYERS nine, that miu had a com i
