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Ohiiia Te Goiitiniie Soexistence i: X (UPI) SEN. WAYNE MORSE Headc Kennedy'! Panel Optimism Held for Quick End To Dock Strike By United Press International A presidential board held optimism today for a quick settlement of the Atlantic and Gulf Coast dock strike. New York and Cleveland remained without regular newspapers, and a transit strike in Phila delphia went into its fourth day. Sen. Wayne Morse (D-Ore.), head of President Kennedy's panel and a former mediator, was to meet separately today with the New York Shipping Association and the Inter national Longshoremen's As sociation. Morse said he thought there had been "considerable prog ress" in the lengthy dispute which erupted into a walkout 28 days ago. The longshore men are asking a 55 - cent wage increase and have been offered a 23-cent hourly pack age. Awaiting Word New Orleans, La., Mayor Victor Schiro said he and 11 other Gulf port mayors were awaiting word from Assist ant Secretary of Labor Daniel P. Moynihan whether to go to Washington to participate in the talks. Banana handler locals in New Orleans continued un loading ships despite attempts by union attorneys to have a federal court back - to - work order stayed. U.S. Dist. Judge Frank B. Ellis granted the injunction after the National Labor Re lations Board said the unions should be ordered to fulfill terms of an unsigned contract. Longshoremen in Port Ev erglades, Fla., put aside their strike and loaded 86S tons of ransom supplies aboard the freighter S.S. Shirley Lykes to pay Fidel Castro for the freedom of Bay of Pigs pris oners. No new negotiations were scheduled in New York be tween striking printers and the publishers of nine metro politan dailies. Talks between the two principal parties broke off Thursday in the 42-day-old strike. Negotiations continued to day at Cleveland between the American Newspaper Guild and the Press and Plain Deal er publishers. In Philadelphia, mediators hoped an "exclusively new" proposal to union and man agement would settle the strike of buses, subways and elevated employees. Innocent Plea Filed Bill To Abolish Liquor Permits Read in Senate Salem-flJPD-Bills to do away with liquor permits and to give World War I veterans a tax exemption on their homes were read today in the Oregon Senate. The resolution to replace Oregon's century-old constitu tion with a brand new one was formally introduced in the House. The senate also received a series of bills relating to for ests, while other House bills included one to make taxes on cooperatives payable soon er. New bills and organization al meetings of committees made up the bulk of activity as the first week of the 52nd legislative assembly drew to a close. Both houses adjourned this morning until Monday. Laymen Affirmed The Senate affirmed the appointment of George Lay man of Newberg to the State Board of Higher Education. Layman is former Republican state representative, and was chairman of the commission that rewrote the constitution. He succeeds Doug McKean, political editor of the Oregon Journal, who resigned in or der to' cover the legislative session where higher educa tion will be active in seeking more money. Sen. Andrew Naterlin (D- Newport), who sponsored the bill to abolish liquor permits, described the permits as an irritation to tourists. He said neighboring state do not have them, Naterlin said increased li quor purchasers by out - of staters would make up for the $300,000 lost in permit fees. The veterans' measure would give World War I vet erans a homestead tax exemp tion up to $7,500 of the true cash value of their homes, sim ilar to those given to the vet erans of earlier wars. The forest bills included a measure to let the Board of Forestry contract for fire pro tection of range and grass lands as well as forest lands. Fee Collection Included They also included a meas ure to let the state forester collect fees for the use of state roads and for easements over state lands. The House also received a bill aimed at reducing police chases of speeding cars. It would provide a maximum penalty of six months in pri son and a $2,000 fine for a driver trying to flee officers. Rep. Ed Elder (R-Eugene) re-introduced a bill to require health board supervision of patients discharged from men tal hospitals whose records in dicate "homicidal tendencies." Committee Head Receives Confidence Vote by Democrats Jean Mills, chairman of the Jackson County Democratic Central committee, was given vote of confidence Thurs day night after introduction of a motion asking for his resignation and election of a new chairman. The stormy meeting, the smallest in attendance since Mills' election as chairman, closed with Mills announcing that he would continue as chairman and serve the Democratic party to the best of his ability until the end of his term. A deep fog blanketed Med- ford Thursday night and only 2 members of the Central committee appeared for the meeting. Criticism Develops Criticism of Mills developed from a letter Mills sent to Sen. Wayne Morse reporting details of the December meet ing at which County Clerk Marvin Madden was elected as the central committee's candidate for the position of Mcdford postmaster. In Klamath Killina X i . .. v 1 u Klamath Falls -UTPH- Jerry i arc causeu oy imiuijuh. Faulty Heater Cause Of Business Fire A Dec. 29 fire which heav ily damaged a building hous ing four Big Y businesses has been attributed to a faulty electric heater, Fire Chief Gordon Barker has reported. He said the heater under a desk in the Big Y Cleaners was found in the "on" position and that connection wires were fused from an electric Richard Haines pleaded inno cent today to a first degree murder charge. The 24-year-old Haines is accused in the gunshot death of his wife, Christine, Dec. 17. Mrs. Haines, who was expecting twins in about three months, died in a Klamath Falls hospital about four hours after the shooting. Medford Fire Marshal Tru man Nelson, Medford Police, the state police arson squad and the state fire marshal's of fice participated in the inves tigation of the fire. Other businesses housed in the building were the Big Y Laundromat, Frank Boone Barber shop and Big Y Beau ty salon. tl7S((?jCniCFS itims from iy M0UNB ' t0M LAND FRAUD INVESTIGATION HINTED w.ihinaton-ftPli-Sen. Pat McNamara (D-Mich.) laid to. rlav there mav be a full-scale Senate investigation into land frauds that he said have fleeced elderly people of millions of dollars. DEMOCRATS EXPECT SI MILLION Washington-WP-Democrais expect to gross about (1 mil lion from tonight's second anniversary celebration of Presi dent Kennedy's inauguration. TTt.E EXPECTED OVER BUDGET whinaion-LPIi-Reoublican attacks on President Ken nedy's record budget pointed today io i session-long battle that could figure heavily in hopes for a substantial tax cut. n VIOLENCE EXPECTED AT CLEMSON Clemson, S.C-in-Studen! leaders said Thursday they expect no violence if Negro Harvey Ganti Is admitted to the all-white Clemson College later this month by federal court order. WEATHER FORECAST: Partly cloudy with fog patchet tonicht and tomor row morning. Fair Saturday but continued cool. Low tonight 18 33. High Saturday 35-40. Temp. Illchcit Yesterday - Lowest This Morning 23 Preclp. To 10 a-m. Today Trace Our Skies Tonight 8unset today 3:07 p.m. Sunrise tomorrow 7:37 p.m. Moonrlse tomorrow .. 2:03 a.m. New Moon Jan. 23 PROMINENT STARS Aldebaran, high in south, 8:54 p.m. Capeila, well above Alde baran. VISIBLE PLANETS Mars, rises 7:13 p.m. Jupiter, low In west. S:3S p.m. Venus, In southeast 3:37 a.m. Mark Norton, Phoenix, was first to accuse Mills of error in sending the senator any thing more than the name selected. He expressed con cern that the letter had not been seen by members of the executive committee. . -; Dr. Thomas Rutter, coming to the defense of the county chairman, said the letter was merely a transmittal of facts. Mrs. Marvin Madden asked Mills what had happened to the wire he told the Maddens he would send to Senator Morse. ' Mills replied that he tele phoned the senator's Portland office and was informed by Charlie Brooks that he, Sen ator Morse's administrative assistant in Oregon, would convey the message to Wash ington. Mills said Brooks asked him to write a letter stating the action, which he did. Several committeemen ac cused Mills of failure to main tain accord in the party and insisted that work for the benefit of the party had not been accomplished. Things Being Done Dunbar Carpenter, describ ing himself as a newcomer to the central committee, said he thought controversy was an indication that things were being done in a democratic manner. He commented, how ever, that there was no mo tion on the floor and advised the committee to seek some manner of achieving order and unified effort. K. C. (Swede) Wernmark responded by moving that a new chairman be elected at the next meeting and that the chairman be advised to set the machinery in motion to win the next election. The motion was challenged by Mrs. Ted Phillips and Norton emphasized that he did not want the chairman to resign but to run things more democratically. The chairman ruled the motion valid and called for the vote, which approved the chairman's ruling 11 to 6. The other 10 committee members present abstained from vot ing. Youth Sentenced to Write Long Essay Jackson County District Court Judge L. L. Sawyer this morning ordered a 17 year-old Medford youth to write a S,000 word essay on the problem of drinking after he suspended the youth's drivers license for 30 days. The youth appeared on charge of being drunk in pub lic. He pleaded guilty to the charges. He was apprehended by police at a basketball game here last week end. Judge Sawyer said this was his usual sentence for such a charge unless the youth is close to 21 yearn " Designs for New Traffic Signal Are Being Prepared Designs for a proposed traf fic signal at the intersection of Barnett rd. and South Riv erside ave. are being drawn by the state highway depart ment. City Engineer Vernon Thorpe said the state hopes to have the signal installed and in operation by the July op ening of Interstate 5 south of Barnett rd. The signal, to cost an esti mated $12,000, will be paid for half by the state and half by the city with the city as suming the costs of mainte nance and power. Directional Signs Thorpe said that highway department officials who were in Medford this week, also discussed the placement of directional signs through out the valley showing routes to the freeway. The highway department and city officials are contin uing to check the timing of the traffic signals at the in tersection of Riverside ave. and Stewart ave. Complaints were received regarding it after the opening of Interstate 5. . A new detector on Stewart ave. east of Riverside ave. was installed yesterday, it was staled, and Monday a new controller unit was in stalled. The electronic control unit at the intersection is acti vated by the amount of traffic. The signals are maintained by the state highway depart ment. ' - Hilton Commends Oregon Group Ben Hilton, Grants Pass, president of the Rogue River Flood Control and Water Re sources association, Thursday afternoon commended the Oregon congressional delega tion for its work in promoting the Rogue Basin project. The President's 1964 budg et includes $100,000 for plan ning advance engineering and design work for the Lost Creek reservoir. Hilton said, "The Rogue River Flood Control and Water Resources association is extremely pleased that an appropriation for engineering and design funds is included in the presidents fiscal 1964 budget. . 'Senators Wayne Morse, Maurine Neuberger and Con gressman Robert Duncan are trying to secure a 1963 ap propriation of $200,000 for engineering and design. If they are successful it would be reasonable to expect that the fiscal 1964 appropriation would be increased over the budgetary figure. The fact that engineering and design funds for the Rogue Basin project are included in the Presidents budget so soon after authorization of the project, speaks well for the Oregon congressional delega tion as well as for the great merit of the project itself." Fight Delegate Booed Loudly During Congress Speech Khrushchev's Appeal For Truce Rejected Berlin - IUPD - Communist Chinese delegate Wu Hsiu chuan, his voice drowned out by a riotous chorus of boos and catcalls, said today that Peking will continue its fight against Moscow's policy of co existence with the West. In a speech to the sixth East German Communist party congress he said Red China's battle will continue against "modern revisionists," a move that rejected Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev's appeal for a truce in the Moscow Peking ideological war. He launched into such a violent attack against the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia that the East German chair man, Paul Verner, ordered him to stop. Words Lost Angrily ringing his bell, Verner warned he would not tolerate insults to invited guests. Wu ignored the chairman and continued talking. But the official interpreters did not translate his speech at this point and his words were lost. The scene was similar to those at recent meetings of the Italian, Hungarian and Bulgarian party coingresses at which members of the pro Soviet European Communist bloc lined up with Moscow against Peking. Criticises Remarks In trying to stop Wu, Ver ner said his remarks "did not correspond to the norms of relations between Marxist- Leninist parties." East German Communist Politburo member Hermann Matern hit back at Wu with an appeal for Communist unity, which he declared is "a vital necesssity." "The party can only hear with regret words directed against unity," he said. "Let us make an end once and for all with the dangerous words 'minority,' 'majority and 'division.' "It is not right, here and now, to quarrel over them."... Heierring to the Chinese, without actually naming tnem, Matern said: "What is the party that has begun polemics against the other because it only wants to deepen, the quarrels? It is known to all the world who began this." Indian Invasion Cited ' He added that the Chinese Indian border conflict had harmed the Communist world movement. East German Deputy For eign Minister Otto Winzer backed Khrushchev's policy of coexistence with the West. A spokesman for the Soviet Embassy In East Berlin re fused to comment directly on Wu's speech. He predicted that the Moscow-Peking con- inct ultimately will be "liqui dated," although he said it is not clear at the moment how this will be achieved. Lee Rice Is County Jail Supervisor Sgt. Lee Rice is county jail supervisor and not Sgt. Glenn Wright as reported yesterday, Sheriff DeArmond Leigh not-1 ed this morning. Rice, formerly acting ser geant, has been promoted to regular sergeant, and will supervise the jail besides his duties as records and identi fication man. Sgt. Glenn Wright will re main in charge of the patrols, the sheriff said. Robert Lowe, formerly relief Jailer, is act ing chief jailer, Leigh said. 90 Refugees flee Cuba on Cargo Plane Havana - (TO - Ninety U.S. citizens fleeing Cuba left to day for Miami on a chartered Red Cross cargo plane which earlier had flown in five tons - "nsom supplies. West Coast Plane Located on Island Salt Lake City - IUPD - The Highway Patrol said today wreckage believed a missing F27 propjet West Coast air liner was reported sighted off the northwest tip of Antelope Island in Great Salt Lake. The patrol said there were no reports of survivors. Three men were aboard. The plane disappeared while on a checkout flight for a veteran airlines pilot. It also carried an instructor and a federal aviation agency in spector. The three men were identi fied as Capt. Elmer Cook of Boise, the pilot In training; Capt. Bill Lockwood, of Yaki ma, his instructor, and B. Z. Davis, 43, of Seattle, FAA flight inspector. Snow Grains Cover Medford Area Today The thin blanket of while which covered the Medford area this morning was made up of snow grains, the local station of the U.S. weather bureau reported. The white specks, in reality, are frozen fog, the weather men pointed out,' Snow grains are produced when fog falls below 32 de grees in temperature and a circulation of wind occurs. ASTORIA MAN KILLED Clatskanie, Ore.-IUPD-Dale Lee Fox, about 40, Astoria, was killed Thursday after noon when his loaded earth carrier went out of control on a downhill grade near here. H Regional Edition Medford 57th Year Price 10 Cert's Tribune 16 Pages MEDFORD, OREGON, FRIDAY, JANUARY 18, 1963 No. 259 Labor Leaders Outline Legislative Program Compensation, Unemployment Insurance Listed Minimum Wage Law Also on Agenda Salem - IUPD - Labor's leg islative program was outlined here Thursday afternoon be fore some 200 labor leaders from around Oregon. It includes measures on workmen's compensation and unemployment insurance, a minimum wage law, an "anti-strikebreaker" law, and re peal of the labor manage ment law passed two years ago. Conducted by Veterans The meeting was conducted by organized labor's veteran corps of spokesmen at the Oregon Legislature - J. D. Mc Donald, James Marr, George Brown, and Thomas Scanlon of the Oregon AFL-CIO. Marr said labor is support ing "two and one-half way" workmen's compensation pro gram advocated in a report to Gov. Mark Hatfield by a special advisory committee of labor and management spokesmen. But he said labor s final stand will depend on whether the bill to be drafted by the governor follows the report. Labor fought a holding ac tion two years ago to defeat a "three-way" bill that would have opened the workmen's compensation field to private Insurance firms. The new bill Would' only expand the role of private firms in writing re-insurance, The wage-hour bill would set a minimum wage of $1.25 and also would cover agricUI tural workers. The delegates were told the 1061 state labor-management law has been abused. The law was passed as a procedure for union elections. Labor said it has been used, con trary to legislative Intent, in an effort to "bust up exist ing contracts." The strikebreakers bill would prohibit the use of pro fessional strikebreakers in la bor disputes. Probation Terms of Mrs. Todd Modified Jackson County Circuit Judge James M. Main this morning modified the terms of Mrs. Ann Todd's probation to allow her to attend Eagle Point Irrigation district meet ings but did not allow her to participate in the meetings. If Mrs. Todd should speak In the meetings District At torney Alan B. Holmes will have to decide whether the incident should be presented to the judge as a possible probation violation, it was ex plained. The district attorney this morning said he would agree to the probation modification if Mrs. Todd would agree to go to the meetings and re main silent. She could write a letter to the irrigation dis trict board after the meet ings expressing her objec tions, It was suggested. About a year ago Mrs. Todd was found guilty by both dis trict and circuit court juries of disturbing a public meet ing of the Eagle Point Irri gation district, was placed on probation and ordered not to attend the district meet ings. Then it was suggested How ard Todd, Mrs. Todd's hus band, could attend. However, William Sloan, Grants Pass attorney, representing Mrs. Todd and her associates, wrote ronucstlng Mrs. Todd be allowed to attend the meet ings since her husband has a heart condition and cannot attend. He asked that Mrs. Todd be allowed to speak at the meetings if required to defend herself. H fj V ft , ; U RATE HIKE PROTESTED Some Oregon scheduled for next fall. About 50 of some State University students held a public dem-' 3,000 students living in the dormitories onstratlon at Corvallis Thursday in protest took part in the demonstration. (UPI) of the proposed Increase in dormitory rates - . Inadvertant Veto Overriden by Vote Of Medford Council An Inadvertanv veto by for-. measure, Snider sent a note mer Mayor John W, Snider along with It stating his re JEANNACE JOYFUL Salem -WU)- A happy Jean nace June Freeman said "joy, Joy" this morning after re ceiving official notification that her Jan. 29 date with the Oregon gas chamber had been stayed. was overriden by the Medford city council last night as it voted to reinstate a grade and gravel project for Whittle ave. The action came after Med' ford Attorney Robert Dick ey, counsel for property own ers on Whittle ave. favoring the improvement, called Snl' der's action "a technical, un intentional veto." ; The attorney reminded the council that they had prev iously passed the measure by 7 to 1 vote at their . last meeting in December. Dickey urged the council not to "retry the case." The people have a right to rely on the actions of the council, he said. After your passage of the measure in December, he said, "my clients and I thought we had an agree ment." 1 Supports Policy The difficulty arose last month when Snider, in at tempting to support the ad ministration's policy of rec ommending against sub-standard improvements in the city, returned the ordinance to the council unsigned. Snider stated at that time that he did not wish to veto the measure, since the council had passed It with such a strong majority. He said It was his understanding that if he did not sign the bill, it would automatically go Into effect within. 10 days. However, In returning the Bons for not 'signing It. City Attorney William Mansfield later Informed the council that in stating his objections,, Snider, had, In effect, ac cording to wording in the City charter, ; actually vetoed the improvement project, ' I Councilman Robert BaccuB was the only member to- vote against the measure at ' the meeting last night, I admit to an error in judgment in voting for pass age the first time this matter came up," he said, "but after gaining more information on the subject, I feel it is wrong to grade and gravel Whittle ave. Two wrongs don't make a right." Councilman Terry Green said he was hot in favor of the project but he felt in fair ness to those Involved he had to support the previous coun cil action. City Manager Robert Duff Indicated to the council that bids will be called for on the improvement at the next council meeting. Illness Affecting Gaitskell's Heart London - IUPD - Doctors used an artificial kindey to drain poisons from Labor party leader Hugh Gaitskell today but reported that his grave illness is beginning to affect his heart. Gaitskell, 86, suffered a coronary thrombosis 18 years ago. Architecture Aide t .!'!,.--. f ' ' Plan Reviewed As Convention Opens ' The new Architectural Aide Plan " was presented here In detail at the opening of the 28th annual convention of the- Oregon Council of Regis tered Painting and Decorat-. 'log Contractors of America, which is: expected to draw a record attendance to Medford from. Oregon and Southwest Washington. - The convention will con tinue through Saturday. There were 140 delegates and wives here the first day. A number of Medford archi tects were guests at the din- - ner meeting at the Rogue Valley Country club, where the plan was presented. Three Purposes ' Initiated in Oregon last may, Architectural Aide Plan designed with three pur poses in mind: 1. To assure that the cus tomer gets his full dollar val ue in painting and otner crafts. 2. To assist the architect in preparing specifications in a vastly changing and highly technical painting market of today. 3. To assist the painting contractor to expedite h i a work while maintaining the highest standards. The basic intent of the program is to hire local men with painting technical ex perience to go to the archi tect's office, prior to the let ting of bids, to assist him, If he desires, In writing the specifications, It was empha sized at the meeting. Downtown Parking District Is Discussed by Property Owners A group of downtown prop erty owners, motivated by what Medford Chamber of Commerce President Bill Wil liams called the spirit of "self-help," met yesterday afternoon to discuss forma tion of Mcdford's first park ing district. The meeting also was at tended by Mayor James Dun levy, members of the city council, administration offici al j, and other Interested per sons. After nearly two hours of discussion, the group voted to urge Dunlevy to appoint a permanent committee to fos ter and guide the rejuvena tion of downtown Medford. Speak lor Owners Medford Attorney Otto Frohnmayer, speaking for the property owners, traced the history of past activities de signed to improve the off street parking situation in the core area. But we have concluded that parking alone won't solve the problems of downtown Medford," Frohnmayer said. "Many other steps have to be taken as well to revitalize our business district." He recalled that In times past, downtown merchants and property owners have been at loggerheads with city officials about who should take the Initiative in improv ing core area conditions. "We've come to the conclu sion now," he said, "that it Is a joint problem, and we must all share In the effort." Now Passing the Ball Dunlevy replied that he was "gratified that we've now quit passing the buck, and that now we're passing the ball in a team effort." . "These problems can't be solved by an individual or by a single group. We must all work together," he said. City Attorney William Mansfield outlined the sub stance of the ordinance rec ently passed by the city coun cil which sets up machinery for creation of an off-street . parking assessment district. Anyone Can File , "Anyone can now form a district; a petition can now be filed by any group," he said. "The next move is yours by filing a petition with the city council." A map of the core area was displayed which showed the tentative outlines of a pro- . posed parking assessment dis trict. The district was bound ed by Fourth and 10th sts. and by Fir st. and Bear creek. Sentiment of the group favor ed formation of one parking district, rather than several smaller ones. As part of the program, Medford Architect Jack Edson and City Planner Ned Lang ford showed a series of color ed slides depleting the de velopment of Eugene's civic center. t
