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Newspaper Page Textnn Missile Progt'ai Reported, tmu WEATHER FORECAST: Vallcv imnkc and wmie morniut fog; otherwise variable hiRh cloud. ne.i, through Thimday tilcht. Low tonshi 18-23. liith Thursday ... . Temp. Highest Yebtrrday 48 Luwe.i ThU Morning 17 Our Skies Tonight Sunset today 5:13 p.m. KunrUe tomorrow .... 7:34 a.m. Moottrise tomorrow S:34 .m. New Moon Jan. 24 MORNING PLANETS Venus, rifctnc at 4:33 a.m. and Mark, in the we it at fi:02 a.m, are now both about S3 mil lion miles from the Larth. Goldwafer Seeks Investigation of Invasion Fiasco Washington - (UPD - Sen Barry Goldwater (R-Ariz.) in troduced a resolution today calling for a full and im partial" investigation of the Bay of Pigs Cuban invasion fiasco. - Goldwater's resolution calls for an inquiry by the Senate Armed Services Committee headed by Sen. Richard Rus dl (D-Ga.). The Arizona Republican told the Senate that such an investigation was the only means by which the Ameri can people would be fully in formed about the ill-fated in vasion attempt in April, 1961. Said Mandatory He said a congressional in vestigation became mandatory when Atty. Gen. Robert F. Kennedy recently stated that the U.S. government never planned air cover for the in vasion group seeking to top ple Fidel Castro. Goldwater suggested that Gen. Lyman L. Lemnitzer, former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and Allen W. Dulles, former head of the Central Intelligence Agency, be called to testify. Sen. Wayne Morse (D-Ore.), chairman of the Senate for eign relations subcommittee on Latin America, said that before any "partisan" speech es were made on the subject,, senators should read secret testimony taken by the For eign Relations Committee. He said statements by both Lem nitzer and Dulles were in the transcript. Held 'Inconclusive' Goldwater fetorted lie !:ad read that testimony, but that in his opinion it was "incon clusive." Morse answered he wanted a "jury of the Sen ate" to decide whether it was inconclusive. The move by Senate Repub licans to investigate the Bay of Pigs fiasco brought cries of "politics" from some Democrats. Home, Storage Shed Destroyed by Fires A home and a storage shed burned down in two separate fires repotted to Jackson county sheriff's office yester day. Last night the Earnest Oden home at route 2, box 4C, Jacksonville, was destroy ed by fire. Oden saved a pair of cover all!!, a kitchen chair and two chickens from an adjacent chicken house. A circulating heater was piven as possible cause, depu ties said. Mrs. Oden was stay ing in Mcdford at the time. Last night, deputies report ed a storage shed burned be hind the Snowy Butte Gro cery store at the corner of East Vilas rd. and Crater Lake highway. The Central Point Rural Fire department kept the flames from spreading to the store, although the rear outside wall of the. store was "Slistered. Scenic Area Created Along Oregon Coast Salem -JUPP- Oregon's fifth scenic area has been created by the State Scenic Area Com mission, it was announced to day. The newly-designated area extends along U.S. 101 jne mile south of the Highway 26 junction to Arch Cape tunnel, at Oswald West state park in Clatsop County. Joint Session Hears Review Of Constitution Adoption of Entire Document Urged Salem (UPD - The authors of a proposed new constitution for Oregon presented to the legislature Tuesday what one drafter called "a document that can serve the state well for the next 100 years." Members of the Oregon Commission on Constitutional Revision reviewed their prod uct for two hours before a joint session of the Senate and House. George Layman of New berg, chairman of the commis sion, urged the legislature to "think in terms of the whole document." Two-Thirds Needed The draft - if approved by two-thirds of the House and of the Senate - would go before the voters. If approved by the people, it would replace the present Oregon constitution, drafted in 1857, and amended 111 times over the past cen tury. Laymen urged the legisla ture to submit the document to the people in its entirety, instead of offering piecemeal amendments. Members of the commission gave an area-by-area rundown of the new document. Executive -,Sprague out lined the plan for the gover nor as the sole elected offi cial, up to 20 departments, and department heads named by the governor subject to Senate approval. He said it recognizes modern govern mental trends and "fixes re sponsibility in the executive department clearly and firmly." Legislative Former Gov. Robert Holmes said the sec tion provides for two legisla tive houses, equal-representation, a reapportionment com mission, and annual sessions. Judicial Judge Herbert M. Schwab said the section pro vides for a uniform system of state courts headed by the Supreme Court, judges ap pointed by the governor and later rat'fietl oy the oiers, a non-partisan judiciary, rule making powers for the Su preme Court, and elimination of the Justice of the Peace courts. Finance and Local Govern ment - Sen. Donald Husband reviewed sections retain i n g city and county home rule, providing for metropo 1 i t a n districts and peoples utility districts, and setting o u t ground rules for taxation and bonding. Bill of Rights -Multnomah County Dist. Atty. George Van Hoomissen said the new draft offers a "strong bill of rights" that retains basic guarantees, expands some, and omits archaic sections. Elections and Amendments Rep. Stafford Hansell said these sections retain basic vot ing requirements, but include provisions giving the legisla ture new powers in writing election laws and making it harder to amend the new constitution. Durno Warns on Creeping Socialism Portland - (UFD - Former Rep. Edwin R. Durno warned Tuesday of "creeping socia ism." Durno, a Medford doctor who gave up his House seat in an unsuccessful bid for the Republican Senate nomina tion, said the Kennedy admin istration's program includes 85 requests for more money and 28 requests for increased executive power. He- told a Rotary and Ki wanis club luncheon the pro gram is "masterminded by college professors and pseudo liberals, very few of whom had ever previously descend ed from their ivory towers." Durno said the country was spending itself into bank ruptcy and socialism. teS(BRIEFS rriMi mom Oy mouno tmi oio.i TEST BAN TALKS HELD IN SECRECY Washingion-lPI-The United States, Britain and Rusiii went into the second day oi nuclear teii ban talks here today with their discussions shrouded in secrecy. TURKEY SAID LOSING JUPITER MISSILES Weihington-flPI'-Turkey Foreign Miniiter Feridun Ctmtl Erkin aid today U.S. Jupiter miiile will be withdrawn from Turkey. The State Department relused to confirm or deny it. GI INSURANCE DIVIDENDS DISTRIBUTED Wtthington-m-Tht Veterans Administration said today it has entered the final phaie of in accelerated distribution ol 5327 million in veterans' insurance dividends. Regional Edition MEDFC. 'H'i mssii o jo n 57th Year " Price 10 Cents Tribune 16 Pages MEDFORD, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 23, 1963 No. 263 LONGSHOREMEN VOTE New York members of the International Longshoremen's Association are shown cast ing their votes on the proposed settlement of the dock strike which has crippled Atlantic and Gulf Coast shipping for more than a month. (UPI) Cigarette Tax Bill Introduced In Oregon House Salem -(UPD- A lax on cig arettes of four cents per package was proposed in a bill turned into the House to day with 19 sponsors from both parties. ' . :The request is the gover nor's. It is designed to raise $18 million in the next blen nium to help finance a $405 million general fund budget. . It is the companion piece to the governor's "net receipts" income tax bill, aimed at rais ing $31 million in new revenues, which was read to day for the first time in the House. Money Requests Appear The tax bills arrived as new money requests appeared in both chambers. In the House, a bill re quested, by the State Depart ment of Education was in troduced calling for a $30 per child increase in basic school support during the 1063-65 biennium. It would cost some $33 mil lion, and bring the state's share to $150 per child. The increase is three times what Gov. Mark Hatfield has called for. Senate Gets Bills In the Senate, a bill was introduced at the request of the State Board of Education clarifying the framework for community college develop ment. The board hopes to keep community colleges growing. Another bill is expected, how ever, from the Interim Com mittee on Education, calling for a freeze on community college development for the next two years because of the stale's money problems. Highway Use Taxes The Senate also received bills to adjust highway use taxes, to require employers to provide safety equipment, to expand the workmen's com pensation filing time for ag gravated injuries, and to authorize rural facilities for mentally retarded children. Reps. Winton Hunt (R Woodburn), Norman Howard (D-Portland) and Edward Branchfield (R-Medford) spon sored a bill to increase the limits on state veterans' real pfoperty loans. Annua Reduction Of Debt Proposed Committee Plans To Study Solutions To Water Problem An investigation should be made toward formation of a possible water district either for the Westwood subdivision, south of Ross lane, or for the entire area, it was decided last night at a public meeting of area residents in .the Wcujf Side school. - ,. " . Ernest Niedermeycr, West wood subdivider, was elected chairman of a special commit tee to study possible solutions to the water problem in the area. He was to appoint his committee members later. It was suggested perhaps water could be contracted for from Medford Irrigation dis trict to overcome the area's growing shortage of pure wa ter. Last December Chief Coun ty Sanitarian Orie Moore sent a letter to the Jackson county planning commission saying the health department was withholding approval of a proposed extension of Nieder meyer's Westwood subdivision because of water well con tamination. Health depart ment approval is required for an FHA loan. Other loan agencies follow this policy. Hat Two Permits Jack Hoffbuhr, Medford Ir rigation district manager, said this morning MID has two permits from the state engi neer's office allowing it to divert water for domestic pur poses. , It would be too ex pensive to operate the district during winter months for that purpose, he said, speaking for himself, and not his board of directors. Water also would be needed for two other plan ned subdivisions near the Westwood subdivision, he said. Ten of 28 houses sampled for water supply recently showed contaminated wells, County Sanitarian George Runyan reported last night. There were 56 houses in the subdivision. "This contamination keeps cropping up in the subdivi sion." Runyan told last night's audience. "You might get by 100 years without serious ef fects and you might not. Once contamination becomes wide spread it becomes difficult to clean it up." Possible Solutions State Sanitary Engineer Ted Gcrow said a municipal wnlnr riictrinf np a nnn.nrnfil Washington -(UPI)- Sen. Carl rtitriM i j' fPmrf , i. turns iK-weo.) toaay pro-1 the arca coud annex to Mcd. pusea a pay-as-you-go consti tutional amendment which would require at least $500 million annual reduction in the national debt. WOMAN INJURED Maurine Avice Pechner, 52, Butte Falls, was reported in good condition at Sacred Heart hospital today follow ing a one-car accident Tues day on the Butte Falls high way. The Pechner car failed to negotiate a curve about three-fourths of a mile from the Crowfoot rd. and ran into b"'"!'. nniirr std. I ford. The city of Medford an nounced some time ago that it could not issue any further water supply contracts with outlying areas, he said. Loan agencies prefer dis tricts be set up for assuring water supply rather than an individual home -owner's at tempt to solve the problem, Gerow said. The sanitarian explained that loose soil on top of clay has created the problem of a septic tank feeding into the water table. When the West wood subdivision was new and a few houses far apart, the problem was not as notice able. However, Gcrow pointed out that the West Side school two years ago was served by water by water tank trucks until it installed huge water tanks. in Its .baswenw.. .,-,, Other facts brought but in eluded the fact that wells in the subdivision are 35 to 40 feet deep, some transient con tamination does occur, and in dividual chloriators are ex pensive and must be used con sistently to be effective. Officers Attend Course on Seizure More than 50 law enforce ment officers from Jackson, Josephine and Kamath coun ties are in Medford today for the second of two sessions of a school which concerns mat ters of searth and seizure. In Medford for the school is Special Agent John H. Mac- Lean, who is with the Port land office of the federal bureau of investigation. The other instructor is Jackson County District Attorney Alan B. Holmes. The school is being held through the efforts of the Medford police depart men! and the district attorney's of fice. The purpose of the school is a training session to discuss new court opinion regarding the legal aspects of search and seizure. MacLean is one of several FBI agents who had recently received such instruc tion in Washington, D.C. In addition to local law en forcement officers attending arc representatives of the Oregon state police and Crater Lake park rangers. Portland Firm Is Awarded Contract For Testing Soil The Pittfburg Testing Labo ratory, Portland, has been awarded the contract for soil exploration on the approved site for construction of Med- ford's proposed post office and federal building, Robert J. Kceney and Wilmson, Endi- cott and Unthank, architects, announced today. The architects received three bids for the investiga tion and awarded the contract to the low bidder for $3,001. Other bidders were North west Testing Laboratory, Port land, and Cornell, Howland, Hayes and Merrificld, Cor- vallis. . The Pittsburgh Testing Lab oratory is now authorized to proceed with the work, which will include boring five ma jor holes, 40 to 100 feet deep, on the two plots, the block bounded by Eighth and Ninth sts. on the north and south and Holly and Ivy sb. on the east and west; and the addi tional 75 feet south of the block. As the contractors bore, they sample the soil and re port on the various strata and water conditions, Kceney explained. The architects are requiring moisture density tests, con solidation tests, direct shear terts, grain size tests, limits tests, Tri Axial compression tests and relative density tests. These tests enable the architects to determine the type of footings to design for the building. House Passes First Bill of Session Salem - (UPI) - The House passed the first bill of the 1963 Oregon Legislature to day, but the performance was too easy to augur things to come. The bill returns appraisal of Eastern Oregon timber lands to the county assessors, who have been sharing the work with the State Tax Com mission. The bill went to the Sen ate. Until today, only resolu tions had passed cither house. Rep. Clinton Haight ID Baker) carried the bill - not much of a task since it passed unanimously.' "It gives me great pleasure to lead off with the first bill," he told the House. Motor Freight Rate Increase Approved Salem -WO- A 12 per cent increase In motor freight charges in areas of northwest Oregon will become effective Feb. 4, the Public Utility Commission said today. Business Degree Program at SOC Given Approval 89 Additional Hours Also Are Granted Ashland The state board of higher education this week approved a four-year bachelor of science degree program in business at Southern Oregon college. The board also granted 89 additional course hour offer ings at SOC. Notification of the new courses is expected from the chancellor's office later this week, SOC officials said. With the additional 53 hours granted to fulfill the courses necessary to round out the business degree curricul um, SOC gained 142 hours. Some hours were dropped in order to eliminate courses no longer necessary. Dr. Loy Prlckett, chairman of the business department, commented that the new de gree is "a sound degree and one which is badly needed by the college in order to con tinue serving southern Oregon as a truly regional institution of higher education." On Small Business "In our program," he con tinued, "the emphasis will be on small business a direct result of several years of plan ning by faculty members and consultations with local busi nessmen." "In 1955, the SOC advisory committee, composed of cit izens in the area, suggested that the regional college func tion would be better met by instituting such a degree, and in 1957 the College Education al Policies committee approv ed the function, clearing the way for its presentation to the board." he noted. For the first two years, the courses taken will be pre dominately those of a general educational nature with the next two years concentrated in the major arca of business administration. ' ' One and two-year terminal business programs will be continued, it was explained, with the emphasis on the shorter, non-degree courses placed largely on secretarial science and merchandising. Course hours added to other departments and divisions in cluded home economics, 3 hours; education and psy chology, 3; health and physi cal eduation, 5; humanities, 25; library, 3; music, 6; science-mathematics, 29: speech and theater arts, 3; and social sciences, 18. 7 LA I JERALD J. McGREW' Campaign Chairman Jerald McGrew Is Named Chairman Of UC Campaign Jerald J. McGrew was unan imously elected by the United Crusade board of directors as campaign chairman for the 1063-64 campaign at a meet ing this week. McGrew is sales manager for McGrew Brothers sawmill and is one of the officers of the company. He served in the United Crusade campaign last year as assistant campaign chairman, and is a member of the board of directors. McGrew was in the service and attended the University of Oregon and Southern Ore gon college. He is vice president of the Southern Oregon Conserva tion and Tree Farm associa tion, and is on the board of trustees of both the West Coast Lumberman's associa tion and the Keep Oregon Green association. McGrew lives in Medford with his wife, Nancy, and their three children, Curtis, ' Kelly, and Kent. Douglas F. Gordenlcr, Unit ed Crusade president, said McGrew Is now seeking lead ership for the various divi sions tor the fall campaign Campaign success is, besed pn Warning System Satellite Said In Difficulties $400 Million Spent On Project So Far Washington-JUPD-The costly MIDAS satellite warning sys tem, designed to detect hos tile missile firings aimed at the United States, was re ported today to have been cancelled. The Air Force would con firm only that one installation connected with the system, at Ottumwa, Iowa, was being abandoned. "The research and develop ment program on the weap ons system referred to is con tinuing, but a review indi cates that the Ottumwa facil ity is not now needed," the Air Force said. Informed sources said, how ever, that the MIDAS project had run into difficulties. They estimated that $400 million has been spent' on it so far. Search for Substitute This would be even more than the $350 million spent the bomber-lauched Skv- bolt missile before the admin istration cancelled it. The "research and develop ment" which is continuing in MIDAS is in the nature of a search for a substitute, some sources indicated. They said there is now no plan to so ahead with MIDAS "as an operational system." Rep. John Kyi (R-Iowa) also . has said that the Air Force pparcntly had scrapped MIDAS. The MIDAS was a system Intended to detect missila fir ings by use of infra-red sen sors which could "feel'' the. heat; of rocket engines. In theory the MIDAS could fly over the Soviet Union and warn the United States of possible attack. Petition on Killing Doe Given Governor Tentative Dates Set For 1963-64 Budget The new fiscal year county budget will be first published May 9 and a public hearing will be held at 8 p.m. Friday, June 14, according to a ten tative county budget schedule announced by County Judge Earl Miller this morning. All department heads will meet with the county court at 9 a.m. Friday to discuss special employee forms cover ing classification, salary rang es and any changes In em ployee status. A new mailing system and problems in the county's printing department also will be discussed, the county judge said. A budget committee orien tation session will be held at 10 a.m. March 5. Regular budget study sessions will be held every Tuesday and Thursday from March 7 to April 4, providing welfare commission meetings do not interfere. Miller said. - Lay budget committee members are Gordon Hudson, Medford, A. C. (Archie) Pierce. Medford, and Arnold Bohncrt, Central Point. CITIZEN HONORED Portland -lUPIi - Truman W. Collins, Portland lumberman and philanthropist, was hon ored at a banquet Tuesday night as the city's first cit izen for lfl2. Central Point - A petition bearing the signatures of 2,000 Rogue , valley area persons leeklne an end to the lesal- early organiaztion," he stated, ized killing of doe deer was Gordenier added that the presented to Gov. Mark Hat- United Crusade directors have field in Salem Monday. Red China Loses Soviet Nuclear Aid London-(UPH - Red China's progress toward Dccoming a nuclear power has been con siderably slowed down by the withdrawal of all Soviet help, authoritative sources said to day. Until the ideological con flict developed between the two giants of communism, Russia was aiding Communist China in nuclear research for peaceful if not military purposes. Now, even this small as sistance has stopped. All Soviet-supplied nuclear reactors have remained, how ever, and it is largely, if not exclusively with their help, that Red China apparently has been producing sufficient uranium to date to work up some nuclear device nearing the experimental stage. GOP Congressional Candidate Is Winner Santa Rosa, Calif.-lUPIi-GOP congressional candidate Don ald Clausen, defeated by a dead man, Rep. Clem Miller, last November, won election Tuesday over Democrat Wil liam Grader In a spcdal elec tion. Cluascn, a Del Norte county supcrvifor, defeated Grader, who had been Miller's admin istrative assistant. Final totals from all of the 1st District's 539 precincts gave Clausen 79.340 votes and Grader 65.317. Clausen car ried all six of the district's counties, including Grader's home county of Mendocino. SALEM TRIP PLANTED Medford City Manager Rob ert A. Duff and City Attorney William Mansfield will be in Salem Thursday to attend a legislative committee meeting of the League of Oregon Chic. A every, confidence mat Mc Grew will conduct the cani paign with vigor and cfflclen cy, and they expect that it will be the 11th successful United Crusade campaign Flood Control Group May Be Organized Eaglo Point - A meeting will be held in the Eagle Point grade school gymnasium at 8 p.m. Monday, Jan. 28 to or ganize a group Interested in flood control on Little- Butte creek. The meeting Is an out growth' of the flood protec tion meeting held here in De cember at which a committee of three was appointed to start such an organization. According to the commit tee, a set of by-laws will be presented for the group's ap proval Monday. Bill Jesse will be chairman of the meeting. Donald Bicbcrstcdt has been chairman of the three man committee, other members of which arc John Oustcrhout and George McDonald. Commissions To Meet Tomorrow Night A Joint dinner meeting of the Jackson county and Med ford planning commissions will be held at 7 p.m. Wednes day at North's Chuck Wagon. Members of the Jackson county court also will attend. County Judge Earl Miller said today. The group will discuss the proposed civic center develop ment and development of the county fairgrounds property. Chauncey Florey, past pres ident of the Central Point Sportsman's club and chair man of its anti-killing of does petition project, made the presentation to the governor. According to Florey, the petition seeks the governor's aid "In closing of the hunting season on doe deer and also closing the extended deer sea son in order that the deer population could have A chance to recover from its present very . low numbers. caurcd by the very heavy kill of doe deer." "The governor expressed sympathy for the hunters' po sition," Florey said, "but ask ed for more proof of a short age of deer, as the state same commission had supplied him with proof that the deer had not declined but were on the increase.'' Bowling Alleys May Have To Be Licensed County licensing may be re quired of all Jackson county's bowling alleys, County Judge Earl Miller said this morning. The question of the $50 an nual fee was referred to the district attorney's office. County Treasurer Karl Jan- ouch said he brought the ques tion to the county court after he learned at a recent meeting of the Oregon Association ot County Treasurers the law covers such licensing. Marlon county collects this fee, Jan ouch said. Janouch said the matter also came up during district county treasurers' meeting last summer in Grants Pass. Items in School Budget Get Tentative Approval The budget committee of School District 549C last night reviewed and tentative ly approved several items In the 1063-64 proposed budget. Items tentatively approved were in administration, at tendance services, health serv ices, pupil transportation, food services, community services and payments to other school districts. Consideration of other items will continue at later meet ings until the budget Is com pleted. The greatest Increase among items tentatively approved was in salaries tor bus driv ers resulting from the addi tion of one driver and exten sion of bus routes. A total of $51,255 was tentatively ap proved, an Increase of $3,852 over this year's budget. The budget for replacement of equipment in the 17 schools In the district was reduced $10,226 from f 15,209 to $4,083. Other Items considered were increased slightly, remained the same as this year, or were reduced where reductions could be made without Jeopar dizing services offered. The major Item In the budg et,' salaries for certificated and non-certificated person nel, is under consideration. Teachers salaries make up about 70 per cent of the budget.