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1 Budget ills rv ir - 7 Iky-5 if- Regional Edition Medford 57th Year Price 10. Cents Tribune 14 PAGES MEDFORD, OREGON, TUESDAY, JANUARY 15, 1963 No. 256 Dignitaries, Wide-Eyed Children Witness Hatfield Inauguration Salem-flJPU-A impressive assemblage of dignitaries, a pair of wide-eyed youngsters, and a jazzy Hawaiian band set the stage Monday as Mark Hatfield became the . seventh second-term governor in Oregon history. The slim, elegant chief executive, wearing a dark suit, took his oath of office before some 700 state officials, leg islators and guests who crowded into the lofty, wood-paneled house chambers for the colorful ceremony. A battery of television cameras recorded the event. . Watching from seats near the rostrum were Mrs. Hatfield, wearing sapphire silk and a large white orchid, and Elizabeth, 3, and Mark Jr. 2. The Hatfield children were born during the governor's first term. "I think it's very wonderful the children can see their father inaugurated," Mrs. Hatfield said. A solemn processional to the accompaniment of organ music preceded the inauguration. Select senators and representatives escorted into the al ready packed chamber former Govs. Charles Sprague, Elmo Smith and Robert Holmes, the black-robed justices of the Supreme Court, the state's elected officials, and finally, Hatfield. Edith Fairham Gunnar led the audience in singing the national anthem. Hatfield was formally declared reelected when House speaker Clarence Barton "canvassed the vote" and announced the result. The governor looked solemn and intense as he raised his hand and took the oath of office from Chief Justice William McAllister. The audience listened quietly as Hatfield delivered his 45-minute inaugural address. The ceremony ended with the singing of "Oregon, My Oregon" and a recessional. Then a lighter note took over as the governor greeted guests in his executive offices midway between the house and senate chambers. Stay of Execution Petition May Be Filed for Freeman Salem-(UPD-A petition seek ing a stay of the Jan. 29 exe cution date of child slayer Jeannace June Freeman was to be filed in the Oregon Su preme Court about noon to day. Portland Attorney Carl Neil said he expected to file the necessary papers before 1 p.m. . Neil said the request for a stay is being filed lo allow time for preparation of an appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court. He said four attorneys were working on the U.S. Supreme Court appeal. They include William M. Holmes of Bend, Jeannace's attorney, Eugene Gressman of Washington, D.C., Philip A. Levin and Neil, both of Portland. March IS Deadline Today's action will ask the Oregon Supreme Court to stay Miss Freeman's execu tion date beyond March 15, the date by which the U.S. Supreme Court appeal must be filed. Neil said that while it had been announced the deadline for appealing to the U.S. high court was Jan. 23, by law the deadline date actually was Jan. 14. He said the appeal dead line had already been extend ed to March 15. He told United Press Inter national this morning he was still working on the Oregon Supreme Court appeal papers. "Check with the clerk of the court after the request for a stay is filed," he said, "we are still going over the details and cannot yet give you all the facts." Miss Freeman, 21, is slat ed to die in the gas chamber here Jan. 29 for the 1961 slay ing of a six-year-old boy in the Crooked River gorge in central Oregon. Missing State Hospital Man Held at Klamath Klamath Falls - (UPD - Guy Cramer, 84, who was com mitted to the Oregon State hospital after the slaying of a Klamath county welfare commissioner in 1957, was taken into custody here Mon day night. Cramer disappeared from the hospital at Salem in Au gust. Klamath County Sher iff Murray Britton, acting on a tip, arrested Cramer in a pool hall. Tax Cut Plan Assured Speed Consideration Parks Commission Discusses Budget, Park on Bear Creek The Jackson county parks and recreation commission last ' night discussed lopics ranging from Bear creek' park development to items for the new fiscal year budget. Commission Chairman Lau rance Espey noted consider able interest in the Talent Phoenix area for a park de velopment along Bear creek. Hoover Honored for Planting Program C. C. (Charlie) Hoover, Eagle Point rancher and land developer, was honored this morning at a special meeting of the public relations com mittee of the Southern Ore gon Conservation and Tree Farm association for his state wide "student tree planting." Hoover received a plaque from the Keep Oregon Green association presented by Bruce Blew, SOCTFA president, and Dale Prentice SOCTFA secretary-manager, and Keep Ore gon Green committee chairman. The plaque commended Hoover for his work with school children in making them more aware of their "forest heritage." It was sign ed by Albert Wisendanger, executive director of the Keep Oregon Green association, Salem. To date, Hoover reported, approximately 200,000 seed ling trees have been distribut ed to Oregon school children and he hopes to raise this total to 300,000 before 1963 ends. Airman Suffers Burns At Kingsley Field Klamath Falls-lUPIl-One air man . suffered first degree burns to a hand and two others received lesser burns today when an Air Force de icer truck caught ' fire at Kingslcy Field here. The blaze was quickly con trolled. It's cause was un known. Airman 22-C Gene Sellers, a helicopter mechanic, suffer ed the burned hand. HEWS(i$BRIEF$ TIMS fltOM 'li 17 MOUNO THI IOU SYRIAN ARMY UNITS REVOLT Cairo, U.A.R.-4TICairo Radio reported today that large number of Syrian army units have "revolted against the present regime." PHILADELPHIA TRANSIT LINES STRUCK Philadelphia-UPD-Employees of the Philadelphia Trent portalion Co. went on strike today, halting all but, trolley and tubwey-elevaied lines serving more than million riders daily. CONGOLESE STORM BRITISH EMBASSY Leoooldville. The Congo-lN-A mob of 800 shrieking Congolete stormed the Britiih Embassy here today, ransacked olficet, smashed windows and threw files Into the street. The demonstrators also ripped down a picture of Queen Elisabeth and trampled it in the dust. He suggested the area now being used to stockpile road building materials. All of the gravel has been removed from the site. Parks Director Neil Ledward sait". This would provide a park with 700 foot frontage to serve both towns and the re gion, Ledward said. , . . Espey recommended a pilot park project be started out side of Medford aimed at getting private property own ers to clean up their land. Some property owners are waiting for clean up of the creek and others are waiting for their neighbors to clean up, Led'.ard noted. Recommend Fishing The commission r e c o m mended year-round trout fish ing at Emigrant lake as now being considered by the Ore gon State Game commission. Ledward reported additional boat docks, a moorage area and boat ramps, plus a swim ming area are being planned next summer an ', grouped near a central point in the lake. . Approximately $600 should be allocated in the next fiscal year budget for landscaping around the Howard Prairie lake recreation building, com mission members agreed. Most of next month's meet ing will be spent on the budget, Espey said. Mrs. H a n 1 e y Heffernan, Ross lane, Robert Keeney and Espey, both of Medford, were reelected tr the commission's budget committee. County Commissioner Don ald Faber announced county budget sessions would start the last week In February and finish about March 15. In other business, it was recommended to consider county development of a sum mer recreation area at the proposed Mt. Ashland ski re sort, appointment of parks commissioners from Rogue River and Shady Cove areas, and a study of possible parks requirements for the new re vised county subdivision ordinance. GOLDWATER OFFERS LABOR BILL Waihington-'trV-Sen. Barry Goldwater (R-Arit.) Monday Introduced a bill to curb what he called "excessive labor 'union power." t Exile Consults With Togo Junta Lome, Togo -(UPD- The mili tary junta which assassinated Togolese President Sylvanius Olympio and seized power was reported today seeking to form a government under for mer Prime Minister Nicolas Grunltsky. . Grunitsky, brother-in-law of the slain president, returned from exile Monday in neigh boring Dahomey and was met at the airport by a crowd of cheering supporters. He went Immediately into consultation with members of the Junta. Antoine Meatchi, leader of the political opposition to Olympio and another possible candidate to head the new regime, also was reported in Togo. Radio Lome said Sun day that Meatchi had been named president, but Monday the radio announced the jun ta's efforts to form a govern' ment under Grunitsky. r President Airs Situation With Party Leaders Washington - (UPD - Demo cratic congressional leaders today promised President Kennedy speedy consideration of his income tax reduction program. Kennedy discussed the tax legislative situation with House and Senate leaders of his party at their regular Tuesday breakfast meeting at the White House. Speaker John W. McCor mack said that after the Presi dent presents his speciaLlax message Jan. 24, the House Ways and Means Committee probably would proceed quickly witli hearings on Ken nedy's detailed proposals for a net $10 billion reduction in federal tax rates, phased over a three-year period. McCormack told newsmen that tax reduction was a "mat ter of urgency" in the admin istration's legislative timetable. Other congressional insid ers were willing to give odds that the administration will succeed in pushing the Presi- dents tax cut program for individual and corporations through this year's session. However, they felt that there might be some major alterations in the three-year plan outlined in general terms Monday by Kennedy. Some predicted that the Job would not be completed before October. In the meantime, Kennedy will be subjected to a continu ing barrage of criticism from conservatives for daring to propose that tax revenues be cut when Treasury spending rlready is running billions of dollars a year in excess of tax collections. American Airlines Crash Blame Fixed Washington- (UPD -The Civil Aeronautics Board today blamed the March 1, 1062, crash in New York of an American Airlines Boeing 707 on a probable short circuit in the rudder control system. All 95 aboard were killed in the crash. The accident occurred two minutes after the giant jet took off from Idlewild bound for Los Angeles. The plane climbed to 1.600 feet, then rolled over on its back and plunged into the waters of Jamaica Bay. The CAB said it deduced from a painstaking study of the plane's flight recorder and numerous flight tests on similar aircraft that "a rud der servo malfunction due to shorted wires is the most like ly abnormality to have' pro duced the accident." The servo unit is part of a uevice which automatically reduces any tendency of a Jet to roll or sideslip In a cross wind or turbulence. Oregon To Receive Public Road Grant Washington - UPD - Oregon will receive $380,000 under a Bureau of Puhlic Roads grant. announced today, allocating about $4 million to 13 states under the public works ac celeration program. TshombeWillBe Granted Amnesty To End Secession Note Sent To UN Asking Truce Talks United Nations, N.Y.-fllPD- The Central Congolese gov ernment has agreed to grant Katanga President M o i s e Tshombe the amnesty he has demanded for ending his se cession, the United Nations an nounced today. The disclosure was made soon after Tshombe sent a note to the United Nations asking for truce talks and de manding amnesty for himself and his followers. Prime Minister C y r i 1 1 e Adoula and President Joseph Kasavubu of the Central Con go government sent messeages to UN Secretary General Thant today pledging to re spect the amnesty promised by Kasavudu last November. Kolweii Surrendered Tshombe was reported to day to have surrendered his last stronghold of Kolwezi and announced the end of his secession from the Congo, but a UN spokesman said Thant was taking a cautious view of the Katanga leader's state ments in the light of his past record of broken promises. The spokesman said UN troops in Katanga were pre pared for the time when they can take over the town (Kol wezi) peacefully, they hope." Statement Welcomed Thant issued a statement to day welcoming Tshombe's statement that he would end Katanga's 'secession and grant thje United Nations full free dom of movement in his territory. iThe secretary general said thjat Belgian Ambassador to tile UN Walter Loridan had delivered a message from Tshombe Monday in which the Katanga leader indicated "a readiness to end secession, to give freedom of movement to UN personnel throughout Katanga and to undertake the full Implementation of the plan .of national reconcilia tion, j Crews Check Forest Fire in Evans Creek An out-of-season forest fire which apparently had been burning slowly for several days, was spotted in the east fork of Evans creek area yes terday. Two stale forestry depart ment men checked the fire yesterday and found that it had almost burned itself out. The men were checking it again today. The fire actually covered an area of 60 acres, but it burned only leaves and nee dles, and damage was believ ed to be minimal. Forestry officials theorized the fire might have started from a hunter's warming fire which was not extinguished. Recent sunny weather has partially dried out the south slopes of hilly areas, they noted. The Evans creek fire start ed on a south slope. New Winter Blast Shatters Records By United Press International A new blast of winter drove the mercury lo 50 below zero and cracked records which had stood as long as 75 years In the Middle West today. Siberian cold which had gripped most of the nation for the past week began to ease after claiming close to 100 lives in weather-related accidents and fatalities. Deep in Texas, thick clouds pre vented fresh disaster to crops along the Rio Grande Valley. But the midlands congealed in temperatures which includ ed an unofficial 50 below at Black River Falls, Wis., an of ficial 46 below at Lone Rock, Wis., and 42 below at Indian Lake, Mich. Record breakers included 24 below at Milwaukee, breaking a Jan. 14 record which had stood since 1888, 32 below in Minnesota's twin cities, and 15 below at Lan sing. Mich. ADDRESSES LEGISLATURE Gov. Mark makers to consider a net receipts tax, a O. Hatfield is shown as he delivered his in- four-cent cigarette tax and a new state con augural address to members of the Oregon stltution, among other proposals. (UPI) legislature at Salem Monday. He urged law- Weapons Increase, Manpower Cut in Military Budget Petitions Asking Election on School Plan To Be Filed An election on a proposal to consolidate Phoenix-Talent school district and District 549C will be called for in remonstrance petitions lo be filed soon by a group of Bar- nctt rd. area residents, accord ing to Frank Van Dyke, Med ford lawyer representing the group. The petitions sent out today will oppose yesterday's 3 to 2 vote of the Jackson county rural school board rejecting a petition lor consolidation. Glenn W. Smith, Medford, rural board chairman, said deadline for filing petitions is S p.m. Feb. 13 in the county scSool .superintendent's.. office. in the courthouse. a brief discussion of testimony L Defense Secretary Robert nrpnil hv hnth .in. t s- McNamara spelled out his a pubiic hearing on the .JHOTbSM Vote Against Proposal Washington -(UPD- President Kennedy's recordr new mili tary budget will boost produc tion of conventional weapons and planes but cut manpower and reduce funds for new ship construction. Continued expansion of the Minuteman and Polaris mis sile forces is provided in the defense blueprint for the year starting next July 1. Ken nedy will send it to Congress Thursday, It was learned today that the budget calls for approprl. ation of $52,181,000,000 for the armed forces. That la hike of $2,328,000,000 over the sums Congress appropriat ed for the current year. Voting against consolidation were William A. Starzinger, Rogue River, Jeannelte P Grove, Phoenix, and John Spangler, route 1, Talent, Sam B. Harbison, Medford lawyer, and Dr. Bill Sampson, Ashland, voted for consolida tion. Smith did not vote and James H. Grieve, Prospect, was absent. The chairman would have voted only to make or break a tie, it was explained. Starzinger said yesterday he was impressed with testi mony read at the hearing by Phoenix Superintendent Er nest James that in the last six years, 41 per cent of Phoe nix graduates, or 122 stu dents, had entered college, compared to an Oregon aver age of 34 per cent and a national average of 22 per cent. ' ' WEATHER FORECAST: Lata nlrht and early morntnir fot In th ! Irvi. Otherwise fatr. Low lo nleht near 2. txrvpt 2S In the Athiand area. High tomorrow nrar M. Tmp. HlKhrtt Mtrday 44 Loweit This Morning 1 Our Skies Tonight Burnet today :4 p.m. Run rite lomorrow .... 7:3 a.m. MoonrUc toniiht 11 7 p m. l.st jnirir Jan. 17 RRKillTKHT STAR fttrlut, in ihr inuih at moon Mm. VIKIHLE Pl.AMTft Jupllcr. In ftouthwcit. p.m. Mar, rlt't P i"- Vrnui, tn the louihtakt i.i a.m. Pickup Recovered From Klamath River Happy Camp - A pickup truck which carried an Au burn, Calif., attorney and at least one of his two sons to their deaths two weeks ago was recovered from the Klam ath river about 11:45 a.m., Monday. But when members of the Siskiyou county sheriff's de partment rescue unit got the truck out of the river, they found no sign of the body of the man's younger son. The bodies of Floyd H. Pcttit and his 10-year-old son, Carl, were found on the bank of the river three miles west of here Jan. 1. A wheel of the truck wai noticed by Arlcn Ellis Jones of Happy Camp at 12:30 p.m. Sunday, and sheriff's officers hoped the body of Pcttit's other missing son, David, 8, might be In the vehicle. A reward was offered by Pcttit's grandfather, Floyd St. John of Happy Camp, for re covery of the truck and body of the younger boy. The re ward was $230 for each. A search for the boy's body Is still under way. Man Ordered To Pay Back Highway Taxes Salem-WD Vern R. Packcn bush of Florence has been or dered to pay f 1 6,709 In back highway use taxes. Interest and penalties, the State Pub lic Utility Commission said today. Kermit Gordon. The letter, which has not been made pub lic, was dated Jan. 4. Expenditures Increased Actual expenditures in the new fiscal year, as distinct from appropriations, will amount to about $51 billion. As has been disclosed previ ously, spending will rise be tween $2 billion and $3 bil lion over this year's estimated military outlay of $48.3 billion. There Is a difference be tween appropriations and ex penditures because not all funds voted are spent In a given year. Appropriations are funds to be spent in the current and future years, and thus Indicate the future shape Jury Selected for Klamath falls Trial Klamath Falls -(UPD-A Jury of eight women and four men was selected Monday to hear the first degree murder trial of Mrs. Zelmo Ochiho, 34. Mrs. Ochiho is charged with the gunshot death of former boxer Bruce Miller, 38, here Nov. 14. LOANS GRANTED Salem The Oregon De partment of Veterans' Affairs granted farm and home loans to 3,058 veterans last year in the amount of $41,283,250, H. C. Saalafeld, director, re ported today. of the forces. Expenditures cover the current and prior years' orders and are the significant figures in determ ining whether the over-all budget is balanced. Since . McNamara wants more money appropriated than he will be spending, the trend in future defense out lays still is apparently up.. inougn nuge sums conlinue to be needed for the big de fense expansion Kennedy started in early 1B81, it has Been decided to reduce slight. ty tne number of men in uni form - one of the major cost Items in the budget, And any large-scale attack on the problem of obsoles cence appears to have been deferred. The Navy will ask for $600 million less than last year for shipbuilding. Army Expands Program The Army, however, will heavily expand its program for stocking up on modern conventional weapons. It is asking close to $700 million more than last year for guns, tunks, missiles and small planes. The Air Force, while ask ing somewhat less for missiles because much of its expen sive development work Is done, is going in for a big Increase for transport and fighter aircraft. McNamara told Gordon that military manpower will drop from 2,703,344 on June 30, 1B63, to 2,605,000 on June 30, 1964. The Army and Air Force are big loser, the Navy a gainer. These are the manpower changes: Army, down from 980,000 to 975,000; Navy, up from 644,413 to 670,000; Marines, unchanged at 100, 000; Air Force, down from 868,931 to 860,000. Area College, Agriculture Fund Requests Listed Civil Defense Seeking $158,105 Salem-(U?D-Thirty-one budg et bills were introduced In . the House today as the day- old Oregon legislature conven ed briefly and then adjourn ed for a day-long orientation conference. The budget bills, the first batch out of an expected even tual total of around 100, in cluded a measure to approprl- ' ate $850,000 for community college construction and a measure to appropriate $2.8 million for the State Depart ment of Agriculture. Others Included appropria- ' Hons for state Institutions. numerous boards and councils. ana $158,105 for the state Civil Defense agency. A bill to set . legislators' salaries failed to appear. It was being circulated In an effort to obtain as many spon sors as possible before intro duction. School Money Asked Rep. C. R. Hoyt (R-Corval-lis) introduced a bill to in crease the state's share of school costs by $20 to $140 per child by 1964. The House upheld Gov. Mark Hatfield's veto of a 1961 bill that would have required tne nignway department to pay irrigation districts for land taken for highway use. The House tabled the bill. The orientation sessions were to teach new House and Senate members how Ore- ' gon's legislative process works, and to help veteran lawmaKers brush up on procedures. It was the second such meet ing. The first, held two yean " ago, was so successful that the sponsoring Legislative Counsel committee expanded tne program for today's ses sions. ( Steps Outlined , .- Morning and afternoon meetings were held in the capltol building, and a lunch eon session took place at the Salem YWCA building. Steps in the passage of a bill were outlined by Legisla tive Counsel Sam Haley. Ha ley told legislators he hoped the conference would "stlmu. late your thinking." It is after today's orienta tion session that the House and Senate will benin the routine of handling the more than 1,000 bills expected to be introduced this session. Tax Office Drawing Up List of Tax Warrants The Jackson county tax of fice is drawing up the list of delinquent personal prop erty tax warrants for publica tion, Sheriff DeArmand Leigh reported today. ' Anyone wishing lo keep his name off the delinquent list has been advised by the sher iff's office to pay his taxes before Feb. 1. Dollar Stamp Books Still Are Popular The $1 stamp books are "still going like wildfire" at the Medford post office, J. A, Eidswick, acting postmaster. reported this morning. Eidswick said he ordered a two month's supply of the stamp books and It was gone in 10 days. Envelopes bearing five-cent postage are still unavailable at the Medford post office, Eidswick said. Other supplies necessitated by the postage increase have been received. The Increase in the volume of mail at the Medford post office between the first of the year and Jan. 7, when the postal Increase became effec tive, was as outstanding when measured in pieces of mall as It was In receipts. It increased from 649,358 In 1962 to 690, 269 for the same dates in 1963. Mail volume for the year of 1962 was up 5.4 per cent over 1961 during the Christ mas period and all pieces of mail climbed from a total of 4,433,870 to 4,568,121, he said. Religious Organizations Urged To Fight Racial Discrimination Chicago- (UPD -Churches and synagogues were challenged today to take an active part in helping Negro families buy homes in all-white residential neighborhoods. They also were urged to use their purchasing power as a weapon for racial justice by demanding pledges against Job discrimination In all contracts for construction or supplies. These were some of the spe cific suggestions thrown out as delegates from 70 Protes tant, Jewish and Catholic or ganizations got down to brass tacks at a National Confer ence on Religion and Race. The conference is the first of Its kind in U.S. history. It convened under the Joint sponsorship of all three major faiths. Its announced purpose is to galvanize America's religious bodies In "courageous and ct- fectlvc action" against segre gation, discrimination and prejudice in all areas of life. Dr. Franklin H. Llttcll of Chicago Theological Semin ary told the delegates it Is time for organized religion to display its concern for racial Justice in deeds rather than words. "We do not need any more resolutions," he said. "What we need Is disciplined con duct." The Rev. Will D. Campbell, associate director of the De partment of Racial and Cul tural Relations, National Council of Churches, said President Kennedy's recent executive order banning raci al discrimination in federally financed housing "offers every church and synagogue an opportunity to Involve it self in appropriate direct action." 'The. housing order. If en forced and supported, will do far more to change the racial picture In America' than did the Supreme Court decision on public school education In in 1054," he said. "Whereas the school deseg regation crisis has affected but a few southern communi ties, the housing order has far reaching Implications for all parts of the nation." He said local congregations can back up the presidential order by "securing open occu pancy pledges, putting buyer In touch with seller and fol lowing up the situation as long as needed." The Rev. Mr. Campbell, a white southern Baptist, Is a former chaplain at the Uni versity of Mississippi. He said rcligoui organizations alio should become active In Ne gro voter registration drives, 1
