Farmers Said To Face important Decisions in 1963
w - r -.-
TALKS WITH PRESIDENT - Secretary of Agriculture Or
ville Freeman talks with President Kennedy in front of the
president's vacation White House at Palm Beach, Fla., today.
They later discussed the farm situation and the European
Common Market and its affect on American trade. (UPI)
Procedures for MID
Administration Are
Considered by Board
Differences within the ad
ministration of the Medford
Irrigation district were tempo
rarily resolved yesterday with
the discussion of a possible
set of administrative pro
cedures. Jack Hoffbuhr, manager of
the district, agreed to hold
his recently-submitted letter
of resignation in abeyance,
but did not withdraw it. He
was unanimously reelected as
district manager.
The administrative proce
dure recommendation was
submitted by a special com
mittee composed of Robert
Root and H. B. Murphy, Med
ford pear shippers and or
chardists. They will work
with board members and the
district's attorney, Philip B.
Lowry, in drawing up the
final draft of procedures.
Continuation of Management
Murphy explained thai
"what we had in mind (in
proposing the administrative
procedures) is continuation of
the successful and economic
management of the district
and to clear up some items
involving a clash of personali
ties (with one of the direc
tors). There Is no intention
to offend anyone."
The final draft of the pro
posed administrative proce
dures is expected 10 be con
sidered at the board's Feb. 5
meeting. . i
Hoffbuhr submitted his let
ter of resignation about a
month ago, but agreed to con
tinue working until his fore
man returned from the hos
pital. His resignation was to
become-effective Jan. 1.
Points of Procedure
Among some of the points
of procedure discussed yester
day were a prepared agenda
for meetings; an invitation of
news media and at least two
wateruscrs to all meetings, in
cluding adjourned, special
Enrollment Ahead
At Southern Oregon
Ashland - Student registra
tion for winter term at South
ern Oregon college is running
ahead of figures for a compar
able date last year, according
to Mrs. Mabel Winston, regis
trar. Yesterday, 1,100 students
completed registration, com
pared to 1,026 on a compar
able date In 1962, Mrs. Win
ston said.
Record enrollment at South
ern Oregon college for a win
ter term was in 1962, when a
total of 1,503 students regis
tered. Mrs. Winston said registra
tion will continue through
Jan. 16.
EDITOR DIES
Aberdeen, Wash. -tlTtl- Wer
ner A. Rupp, editor and pub
lisher of the Aberdeen Daily
World, died Wednesday at the
age of 82.
ana regular meetings; prepa
ration and abiding by policies
covering management of the
district and delivery of wa
ter; and that district employ
ees be responsible only to
the manager.
Full publication of minutes
of the meeting also was dis
cussed, but board members in
dicated that this may not be
financially feasible. Board
members pointed out, how
ever, that "it should be rec
ognized that water users are
entitled to dissemination of
full information through all
news media."
In other business, the board
reelected Albert Hueners,
Jacksonville, board president;
elected J. G. Cameron, 2946
Roberts rd., Medford, vice
president; retained Knox Ac
counting as auditor; retained
Lowry as legal counsel; and
elected Mrs. Jack Peterson
as assistant secretary.
Rogue Valley Edition
12 Theft Cases
Solved With Arrest
Area law enforcement offi
cers report that about 12 cases
of thefts from cars during the
last three months were clear
ed up yesterday with the ar
rest of James Frank Noland,
30, Eagle Point.
Eagle Point police, state po
lice and Medford police coop
erated in the investigation
which led to the arrest.
Noland was lodged in Jack
son county jail on a charge
of larceny from a motor ve
hicle. When officers arrested No
land at his home yesterday,
they recovered a variety of
items which he admitted hav
ing taken from a number of
autos in the valley recently,
according to reports.
Among items recovered
were bowling balls, guns,
spotlights, miscellaneous arti
cles of clothing, radios, elec
tric razors, a hair dryer, 144
bottles of perfume, wallets
and purses.
Police said their investiga
tion led to Noland when they
heard reports he was selling
certain articles to acquaint
ances at unusually low prices.
Tshombe Stronghold
Falls in UN Advance
Leopoldville, The Congo -(UPlt-
United Nations forces
captured Katanga President
Moise Tshombe's mining cen
ter stronghold of Jadotville
almost without opposition to
day. The UN troops, made up of
Indian armor and Ethiopian
infantry, consolidated their
positions in Jadotville and
poised for an expecte plunge
toward the last remaining Ka
tangese stronghold at Kol
wczi, 80 miles further along
the main highway to the
northwest.
Expected bitter Katangesc
resistance at Jadotville
crumpled.
NEWSdpiEFS
Medford
57th Year Price 10 Cents
Tribune
32 Pages Four Sections
MEDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY, JANUARY 3, 1963
No. 246
HANFORD REACTOR GETS FINAL APPROVAL
Waihington -tPt- The Atomic Energy Commission hat
given its final approval to a proposal by Waihington Public
Power Supply system 10 construct ana operate a auai-pur
pose reactor at the Hanford Atomic Works, Sen. Henry M.
Jackson taid Wednesday.
Kennedy Message
To Ask $8 Billion
In Tax Reforms
Reductions Will
Apply to All
Washington - d'PD - Presi
dent Kennedy will send Con
gress a tax package calling
for across-the-board reduc
tions of about $8 billion with
substantial offsetting tax re
forms, it was learned today.
In a preview of what can
be expected in Kennedy's
long-awaited tax program,
congressional sources said the
first cut in income taxes
would be scheduled for July
1. Additional reductions will
be spaced over future months.
As for reforms, prelimin
ary estimates are that Ken
nedy will seek about $3.5 bil
lion In new revenue through
'tax loophole closing revi
sions, including reduction In
the 27.5 per cent gas-oil de
pletion allowance, sources
said.
One administration source
said the tax cuts sought by
Kennedy to stimulate the
economy may be as high as
S10 billion over-all.
Apply To All
In giving the broad out
lines of the administration's
tax program. Informants said
the reductions would apply
to all individual taxpayers
from the low 20 per cent to
the high 91 per cent brack
ets.
Kennedy also will ask that
the 52 per cent corporate in
come tax be reduced.
Details of the program, such
as effective dates anl exact
rate reductions in each brack
el of personal income taxes,
must await Kennedy's tax
message to Congress later this
month.
But informed sources said
that one plan given serious
consideration is to split the
lowest bracket, making one
rate for taxable income from
zero to $1,000 for single per
sons, and another rate from
$1,000 to $2,000.
The lowest tax now is ,20
per cent on income from zero
to $2,000 for single persons.
In the case of married per
sons filing a joint return, it
is 20 per cent on the first
S4.000. ,
Represents Bulk
It is in the lower brackets
where the bulk of the tax
payers are located, and even
a small cut in the rale causes
a huge loss in revenues to
the Treasury.
For example, a reduction
from 20 to 19 per cent would
cost the Treasury $1.3 bil
lion a year.
The actual pocketbook im
pact on individual taxpayers,
however, is relatively small.
Assuming an across - the -board
tax cut of 10 per cent
in all brackets, the average
reduction in the amount of
taxes paid by a person earn
ing $5,000 or less would be
only $27 a year, or a little
more than $2 a month in low
er federal taxes.
For persons earning $5,000
to $10,000 a year, a 10 per
cent cut would mean $77.20
less taxes a year.
At the other extreme, per
sons earning $50,000 or more
would benefit from an aver
age tax savings of $3,000 a
year on an across-the-board
10 per cent reduction in the
higher brackets.
NATIONAL GUARD PLAN TO BE STUDIED
01ympia-4PI-Th Executive Committee of the National
Governors' Conference will meet Friday and Saturday In
Washington, DC to study the Pentagon plan for reorgani
sation ol the National Guard, Gov. Albert D. Rotiellini an
nounced Wednesday.
SECOND CRACK PUT IN DOCK STRIKE
Ntw York-lPI-Longshoremen in Charleston, S.C., defied
union orders and unloaded two ships today, putting their
second crack in the Maine-lo-Texas dock strike. Union head
quarters here dispatched a vice president to dismiss the
local lrom the union.
Freeman's Lawyers
Meet with Hatfield
Salem - (UPI - Attorneys for
condemned child slayer Jcan
nace June Freeman had no
comment after a one-hour
meeting with Gov. Mark Hat
field today to plead for com
mutation of Miss Freeman's
death sentence.
Attorneys William M.
Holmes and Cash R. Pcrrinc,
both of Bend, walked brisk
ly from Hatfield's office at
10:05.
"We don't think it proper
to comment at this time," was
all that Holmes would say.
Travis Cross, Hatfield's
press secretary, said "the gov
ernor will have no comment
on the attorney's presentation
for a day or two."
Cross said the discussion
was confined to the Freeman
case.
Holmes and Perrine met
with Hatfield to discuss for
mally their clients' plea for
commutation to life impris
onment. Miss Freeman is scheduled
to die in the gas chamber
Jan. 29.
Furious
Guerrillas Stage
Stiff Resistance;
3 Yanks Killed
Five Helicopters
Downed by Reds
Tan Hiep, South Viet Nam-
(UPD - One of the most furious
battles of the war against
Communist guerrillas in
South Viet Nam went into its
second day today taking a ter
rible toll in human lives.
At least three American
soldiers were dead and four
wounded, bringing to 30 the
number of Americans killed
in action in Viet Nam.
South Vietnamese military
casualties were expected to
run as high as 100 killed and
wounded.
Communist Viet Cong
casualties were unknown but
were believed to be even
higher. There also was a pos
sibility of high casualties
among the 600 to 700 persons
living in the small Mekiong
river delta hamlet where the
main fighting raged.
Reds Surprise
The guerrillas, who usually
avoid direct clashes and fade
into the jungle when attacked,
put up surprisingly stiff resis
tance although heavily out
numbered by govern ment
forces.
It was perhaps the first
fixed position fight that th
Communists had put up in the
long, usually shadowy guer
rilla war.
In addition to the human
toll, they shot down five
American-manned helicopters
and severely damaged at least
six others vith a withering
fire by automatic weapons.
Two of the American dead
were helicopter crewmen,
both Army sergeants. The
third was a captain who was
leading an assault by the
South Vietnamese army bat
talion he had been advising.
He was hit in the neck and
chest and evacuated to Tan
Hiep airfield, about 10 miles
away, where he died while
undergoing emergency medi
cal treatment.
Ferry in Troops
The helicopters ran into the
deadly Communist fire while
ferrying in troops to reinforce
government forces which had
been pinned down while mov
ing overland toward the ham
let. Ten American H21 helicop
ters responded to the call.
They were escorted by five
rocket-laden HU1B helicop
ters. Aa the 10 H21s hovered
over an open field to land
the troops the Viet Cong open
ed fire with automatic weap
ons. Two of the H21s went down
on the spot. Two others man
aged to fly about a mile be
fore crashing. One sergeant
aboard the first two H21s to
crash v. as killed and three
other American crewmen were
wounded.
Wwt Mam Wm
Taking mm mmm To
United Crusade
Reaches Its Goal
The United Crusade of Jack
son county reached its $167,
683 goal late this morning,
Robert Heffernan, campaign
chairman, announced.
This is the 10th consecutive
year that the crusade has
reached or has exceeded the
goal.
The United Crusade execu
tive committee met this noon
to review the campaign, and
compile contribution and
pledge totals. Final figures are
expected to exceed the estab
lished goal, United Crusade
officials Indicated, but the
amount more than the goal
was expected to be slight.
BULLETIN
Miami. Fla-aPt-The Red
Cross announced today thai
a flight scheduled lo bring
109 Cuban-Americans from
Havana to Miami has been
canceled. No reason was
given for the cancellation.
HOME DEMOLISHED - Flames and smoke pour out from
all sides of this seven-room home in San Francisco after a
gas explosion ripped through the wood frame structure.
The blast demolished the home which had been evacuated.
Seven firemen working in and around the house were in
jured, two of them "very critically." (UPI)
WEATHER
FORECAST: Valley fog tonight
and Friday wiiti oriei uiuni in
afternoon. Fair above fog rrt
dav. Low ton Ik tit 27-33. HtKh
Friday 38-43 in rug area, ia-au
A novo log.
TemD,
Highest Yesterday 41
l,ow(u this morning J7
Prec. to 10 a.m. Today 03
I Our Skies Tonight
Sunset to'jay 4:51 p.m.
Sunrise tomorrow .... 7:41 a.m.
Moonset tomorrow .. 1:47 a.m.
The Moon goei around the
Earth In about 27 dayi and 8
hours. Tonight It Ik In Perl
gee or on the point of Hi orbit
nearest the Earth.
Full Moon Jan. 9
Recipients of
Forest Timber
Windfalls Listed
Portland (DPI) A Medford
firm and two Talent business
men were named today as the
recipients of profitable U.S.
Forest Service lands In ex
changes made two years ago.
Government auditors said at
Washington, D.C. Wednesday
that Forest Service mistakes
had resulted in windfall pro
fits to private interests that
acquired lands in the Rogue
River National Forest.
The General Accounting
Office report said two ex
changes, one in January and
one in May, I960, netted an
ultimate total profit of $207.
000 to the private interests.
The report blamed faulty
Forest Service appraisals.
Land Exchanged
The Forest Service here
said the January tramaction
was with Edward G. and Ray
mond H. Taylor of Talent.
According lo the report, they
received 140 acres appraised
at $65,105 in exchange for
1.172 acres appraised at $76,
060. The 140 acres later were
sold for $225,000.
The agency said the May
transaction was with B and W
Mining Co., Medford. The re
port said It involved the ex
change of 60 acres appraised
at $20,837 for 1,120 acres at
$25,260. The private owners
sold the 80 acres for $83,500,
the report said.
Wolf Creek Man Is
Sentenced to State
Penitentiary Term
Suspects Questioned
In Portland Slaying
Portland-HTD-Police contin
ued to question suspects today
in the sex-slaying of six-year-old
Mona Rae Minyard.
"We've settled on the hot
test suspects to work on, and
we're taking them one at I
time," said Capt. Howard
Kelly of the Multnomah Coun
ty Criminal division.
"We've probably got a hun
dred and they're all likely."
Harry Warren Stumbo, 34
of Wolf Creek, the last of a
trio of men to be sentenced
on charges of setting fire to
forests, was sentenced to IB
months in the Oregon state
penitentiary this morning.
Previously the other two
men, Leo V. Thompson, 39,
Salem, was sentenced to 20
months in' the Oregon slate
penitentiary and Claude W.
Chase, 41, of Central Point,
had imposition of sentence
suspended for five years.
The three men were Indict
ed by the grand jury last
August for setting a fire in
Jackson county in July. In a
statement made by Chase and
Stumbo to officials, at least
12 known fires were set in
Josephine and Jackson, counties.
The statement was read this
morning by District Attorney
Alan B. Holmes prior to sen
tencing by Judge Edward C.
Kelly. The statement was
made by Chase and Stumbo
after Thompson pleaded guilty
to the charge. The other two
men, who first pleaded inno
cent, later changed their pleas
to guilty.
In the statement, Stumbo
admitted to setting the first
fire in Josephine county, with
the other fires set by Thomp
son. It had been stated that
Chase knew that the fires
were being set, but did noth
ing to prevent them from be
ing started.
Eight incendiary devices
were recovered by officers,
Holmes stated. The devices
were of thread and cigar
ettes. Holmes said the thread
from a partly burned device
recovered from the site of
the Starvation Heights fire
north of Rogue River was
analyzed by the state crime
laboratory in Salem. The
thread matched that found in
an apron at a Rogue River
home where the three men
spent part of the day.
Holmes explained that the
maximum penalty for this fel
ony was two years in the
Oregon state penitentiary. He
said Thompson had requested
the penitentiary sentence in
preference to a county Jail
sentence since his family lived
in the Salem area.
In Stumbo'f case the dis
trict altorncy recommended
he be sent to the state peni
tentiary where work and re
habilitation programs are
available.
Prior to sentencing, Judge
Kelly said it was difficult for
him to comprehend how Stum
bo, who had grown up in the
woods and whu, with his fam-
II y, had made their living
from the forests, could set
fires during such dry weather.
The judge said if anyone
should appreciate the beauty
of the forests, and understand
the importance of the forests
to the economy of the area,
it should be Stumbo.
He encouraged Stumbo to
stop "trying to live on your
family reputation, and' start
building for yourself." The
judge concluded that during
the 18 months in the state
penitentiary he would have
"time to take stock of himself."
U. S. Troops Travel
In East Germany
Berlin IUPD A U.S. Army
convoy beginning a week
long troop movement through
Communist East Germany
was cleared by the Russians
"in record time" today but
was delayed three hours by
14-degree cold.
The first convoy of 103
men in 27 vehicles went
through Soviet checkpoints
on both ends of the 110-mile
highway across East Germany
without delay. But a scries of
stops caused by frozen fuel
lines and slow driving over
the Icy roads delayed its ar
rival here from noon to 3 p.m.
The troop movements, de
signed to stress Western
rights of access to Berlin as
well as rotate units of the
Berlin garrison, brought the
1st Battle Group, 13th Infan
try Regiment to Berlin.
Two Near Death,
Five Olbers Hurt
In J. F. Explosion
San Francisco - (UPD - Two
firemen were barely clinging
to life today and five others
were hospitalized following a
gas explosion which leveled a
two-story house and sent part
of the structure crashing atop
the firefighters.
The presence of escaping
gas caused Disaster Corps of
ficials to move residents out
of a five-block area In tiie
southern section of the city
Wednesday night.
Battalion Chief Frank
Lamey had a heart attack
while helping to fight the fire
and was dead on arrival at a
hospital. The two critically in
jured firemen, Lt. Clarence
McGrath and Anthony Mare;
lich, received serious burns.
Gas Fumes Ignited
The explosion packed
enough force to drive a broom
handle through a wall. Fire
Chief William Murray said
the pilot light of the seven
room house ignited gas
fumes, setting off the blast.
Residents of the home had
been removed earlier.
The firemen had been call
ed out to control a gas main
leak. They were standing in
front of the house when the
explosion occurred, blowing
the four walls of the home
apart and collapsing one end
of the structure atop them.
Repair crews shut off the
ruptured gas main Wednesday
night.
Agriculture
Secretary Meets
With Kennedy
Wheat Referendum
Claimed Important
Palm Beach, Fla. - (IW -Agriculture
Secretary Orville
L. Freeman reported to Presi
dent Kennedy today that
American farmers face "make
or break" decisions in 1963.
One of these critical de
cisions, according to the secre
tary will be the wheat refer
endum this year to determine
whether acreage controls and
production quotas are con
tinued. A negative result in
the referendum, Freeman told
Kennedy, could result in
wheat prices plummeting to
$1 a bushel in 1964.
Kennedy and Freeman met
at the President' oceanfront
villa to discuss the 1963 legis
lative program for agricul
ture. During the conference
the secretary submitted a
memorandum topped by three
critical needs to be met this
year. In addition to a favor
able vote in the wheat refer
endum. Freeman listed:
-Securing fair competitive
arrangements with the Euro
pean Common Market on key
agricultural products, particu
larly for wheat and flour, feed
grains, rice and poultry.
-New legislation on feed
grains, cotton and dairy prod
ucts to avoid further increases -in
surpluses.
Other news developments
at Palm Beach White House
today:
- The Amateur Athletic
Union accepted the Presi
dent's proposal to have Gen.
Douglas MacArthur mediate
Us dispute with the National
Collegiate Athletic Associa
tion over selection of the 1964
U.S. Olympic track and field
teams.
-A message from French
President Charles de Gaulle
to the Kennedy offer of
American-made Polaris mis
siles was received in Wash
ington and being transmitted
to the chief executive here to
day. The De Gaulle message
was in response to the Presi
dent's offer made during his
recent Nassau meeting with.
British Prime Minister Harold
MacmlUan, From parts, a gov
ernment spokesman said
France was not turntnif down
the offer, but would pwsait-r-"'
with development of Her own
nuclear effort.;
Dunfevy Expected To
Make Appointments
Mayor James Dunlevy is
expected to announce his ap
pointments to various city
boards and commissions at a
meeting of the Medford city
council tonight.
Included in the appoint
ments will be a new city coun
cilman from Ward 4 to fill the
seat vacated by Dunlevy when
he was elected mayor .in last
fall's election..
City Manager Robert Duff
is scheduled to report to the
council on the result of his
negotiations with Rogue Fly
ing Service for payment of
more than $8,000 in back rent '
owed to the city.
Also on the agenda is a re
port from a special committee
headed by Councilman Rich
ard Travis on a request by the
Cellar club for reinstatement
of Its dance license, which
Duff revoked last month after
city police reported a number
of disturbances at the res
taurant. .
Bird in Engine Forces
UAL Jet Plane Beck
Portland-TOTO-A United Air
Lines DC-8 Jetliner returned
to the Portland International
airport today after a large
bird went into one of its engines.
The huge plane, which was
carrying 92 passengers, took
off from the airport at 8:19
a.m. and returned at 8:49 a.m.
after the bird went into its
No. 3 engine.
Russian Peasants Push Into
U.S. Embassy Seeking Refuge
Moscow-flJPIl-A group of 32
peasant men, women and chil
dren who had traveled 2,000
miles from Siberia, pushed
past Soviet guards into the
U.S. Embassy today seeking
asylum from "religious per
secution.'' Many Weeping .
The embassy turned them
over to Soviet officials who
took the peasants away In a
bus. Many of them were weep
ing and protesting that they
would be shot for their reli
gious beliefs.
Embassy policy In Moscow
is to refuse refuge to Soviet
citizens, presumably because
of the political problems
which would arise as well as
the lack of facilities for hous-
r
ing them In the embassy
building.
Although seeking refuge in
the embassy, the group did
not ask for political asylum,
an embassy spokesman said.
Embassy officials explained
to the peasants that they could
not leave Russia without per
mission from Soviet authori
ties and that an embassy
could not make such arrange
ments. This argument finally
persuaded them to start board
ing the bus.
Claim Equality
Members of the group re
ferred to themselves ci "Evan
gelical Christians" who do not
recognize any form of organ
ized religion but merely are
persons who claim equality
among themselves arid pray
to uod.
The, peasants complained
they had not been allowed to
observe religious holidays and
had been barred from con
tact with their children in
some instances.
Soviet Foreign Ministry of
ficlals were heard assuring
the members of the group thst
"nothing will happen to you."
No Formal Guarantee
But it did not appear that
any formal guarantee had
been given.
Embassy sources said the
peasants had been given a
meal of eggs, toast and coffee
In the embassy lunchroom be
fore they were taken away
by Soviet authorities.