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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 1, 1963)
m rani W H B Roads. Railway Tracks Blocked; Airport Closed Carson City Also Isolated PARK DESTROYED This until the Hooding Truckee Oregon Weather Wet and Sloppy; Traffic Hampered Portland - UPI) - Western Oregon's weather could be de scribed in two words today -wet and sloppy. Warm air moved in to melt the snow and ice which cov ered much of the northwest part of the state, bringing sizeable amounts of rainfall with it. The Portland area experi enced difficulties with num erous power outages reported and high water hampering traffic at many intersections. About 100 customers were without power in the Benton county area, where some 2,000 had no power Thursday. Snow On' Ground "' " The warmup in Portland was slower than elsewhere. Snow still covered the ground and some streets were icy this morning. Freezing rain fell much of the day Thurs day and many small trees bent in half from weight of the ice. The Portland zoo was with out power this morning and officials expressed concern for animals from warmer climates. Newport got 1.58 inch of rain in the 24 hours ending at 4 a.m. PST. Medford had 1.35, Astoria 1.25, Salem one inch and Portland .89. Eastern Oregon got consid erable snowfall and had un usual temperature contrasts. Baker had a low of 42. The Dalles had a high of 20 Thurs day and a low of 19 this morn ing while Pendleton had a low of 17. Redmond's low v;is 35 at 4 am. and Klamath Kails had 42. Springlike El North Bend on the coast, which got 1.21 inches of rain, had springlike high of 61 Thursday. Salem had an over night low of 40 while Port land's was 30. The rive en lice for rising stages in all streams of northwest Oregon, but there was no major iioooins as rivers wrie luw fioni the prolonged dry spell. How ever, the five day outlook called for more than normal rain in Western Oregon. The warm weather ended a mid-winter "vacation" for school children. Most schools reopened today. WARNING DOSE Washington -Hit- The fall out shower from Russian nu clear tests continued to de crease in December but raini er. Alaska, still was getting a warning level dose of radio active iodine, the Public Health Service reported. NCffdLLJDniI.ra items from KENNEDY MAY VISIT GREAT BRITAIN London in-Preiicient Kennedy may visit BriUin this sprinq for new look at the Western alliance with Prime Minister Harold Macmillan, diplomatic sourcci reported today. FILIBUSTER FIGHT GETS Wahing!on-lPt-Democralic Leader Mike Mansfield hoped today that a week end "breathing tpell" might clear the outlook for ending the Senate's anti-iilibusler rule light. FDR JR. APPOINTED BY KENNEDY Wathington-in - President Kennedy Thursday named Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr.. ton of the late preiident, Is be the No. 2 man in the Commerce Department. was a park in Reno, Nov., river dashed it to pieces this Rusk Calls for Unity in Europe; Cuba Said Concern Washington -IUPII- Secretary of State Dean Rusk called on Europe and French President Charles de Gaulle today to get on with the "great tasks confronting the West." He said these include building a multilateral nuclear force and economic unity. The secretary said these Western tasks are based on the "harsh realities" of the threat from the Soviet Union. ; He made the statement at a news conference at which he also: -Said President Kennedy Is ordering preparations for a re- sumption of underground nu clear testing in Nevada follow- Sunday Closing Proposal Planned Salem -W1MU A tough "Sun day closing law" will be intro duced in the House Monday, it was announced today by the "Save a Day of the Family Committee." Committee Chairman Dr. G. Herbert Smith, president of Wilainette university, empha sized the proposed measure would have no effect on the sale of food, beverages, drugs, gasoline, real estate or sport ing goods. Nor would it hinder the operation of restaurants, places of entertainment or sporting events. All of these, he said, would be free to con tinue as usual. "The measure has the sup port of an overwhelming ma jority of the state's retailers who have been polled on the proposal," Dr. Smith said. .Mast ,..f these, retailers are I closed now on S'jndny I would prefer to remain so, lie Portland Firm Given Jackson Caijnty P.ights Salem -4'Pll- St. Johns Mo tor Express of Portland has been authorized to operate in and out of Jackson county. Fublic Utility Commission er Joncl Hill said it assures transportation service to the new Reichhold Chemical Co. plant at White City. TIME GRANTED Portland -UTS'- Dr. Harry j Scmler Thursday was granted at least 14 days before en forcement of a revocation of his dental license ordered hy the State Board of Dental Ex aminers. AR.OUNO THI OlOII I BREATHER morning. Muddy floodwaters covered a 30-block area of downtown Reno today and the city was isolated. (UPI) ing the breakup of test ban talks with Russia. -Sought to smooth over ruffled relations with Canada, brought on by a firm State De partment statement Thursday urging Canada to go through with nuclear armament of Bo marc missiles it has already received from the United Stales. -Said the continued pres ence of 17,000 Soviet troops in Cuba is of "great concern to us." But he said he docs not believe there has been a continued Soviet military buildup there as charged by Sen. Kenneth B. Keating (R N.Y.) and others. Rusk made what he called an informal statement" on European unity and the crisis brought on by De Gaulle's veto of Britain's membership the European Common Market. To Reassess Situation He said members of the At lantic alliance are now in a period "in which governments will be reassessing the situa tion to how to get on with the great tasks confronting the West." While not belittling the problems raised by De Gaulle's stand against military and economic unification, the secretary said "I do not think that on underlying security matters, there is a split that could be exploited by the Soviet Union." Casualties High In Mid-Air Crash Anakara, Turkey -il'TO- Two .planes collided in flight to day, raining flaming wreck age on the Turkish capital's business district and causing scores sit casualties. Official estimates put the death toll at fiom 54 to 60 with at least 50 ethers in jured. The number of casualties on the ground appeared to be the largest in the history of commercial aviation. One of the ranes was a Middle East Airlines Viscount turboprop airliner with 16 persons aboard-11 passengers and five crewmen. The other was a Turkish air force C47, the military version of the American-built DC3, long-retired from must of the world's air routes. The number aboard the military plane was not known. Witnesses said both planes caught on fire after they col lided and crashed onto the roofs of the buildings in the heart of Turkey s ultramod ern capital c;ty. Wreckage was spread over an area half a mile wide. Explosion Causes ' Fire at Portland Portland - 'I PI' An cxplo ! sion in a shingle dryer at the Shakc-A-Ply Co. today result ed in a two-alarm fire and caused damage estimate at S20.000. j Four men in the building 'escaped without injury. A I company official said the I plant may be closed for more j than a month. He said a spark ' may have ignited lint in the Idryrr. Regional Edition Medford 20 Pages Two Sections School, Park Plan Endorsed by City Council Informally The Medford city council yesterday informally endorsed the school park approach to future park development in the city. Mayor James Dunlevy call ed for an expression of opin ion from the councilman at a joint luncheon meeting of the council and the city park and recreation commission. The council is expected to give formal approval to the school park development ap proach at its next regular meeting on Feb. 7. The "straw vote" came after Park and Recreation Chairman James Sullvian told the group the commission had to have ' some expression of either approval or rejection" of the school-park concept from the council before it could proceed with its future development plans. Avoids Duplication In essence, the school-park approach involves integrating city parks with school play grounds and facilities to avoid costly duplication of facili ties. A Medford example of the school-park concept is in the development stage at Jackson school, where the city has constructed a swimming pool, baseball diamond and play area, as well as considerable landscaping, adjacent to the school facilities. Under the program, the city and School District 549C would cooperate closely in an effort to ' integrate iuiuie school and park sites. Dunlevy told the group the city has had assurances from the school board that "they would cooperate in future school-park planning." Turquoise Sweater Gets Free Cleaning Because of Mistake About noon Wednesday. Monna Victoria Lubbers, route 3. box 60-A, reported to Medford police that a turquoise sweater valued at S15 had been stolen from her car while it was parked on West Main st. A lew hours later, an embarrassed delivery man from Dumas Domestic Laun dry returned the sweater -fresily cleaned and pressed - to her with hit profuse apologies. The delivery man. it teems, had been instructed to pick up a coat from a car which, as it turned out. was parked directly in front of Mrs. Lubbers' car. He mistakenly want to the wrong car. saw the sweater lying on the seal, picked it up and took It otf in his truck to be cleaned. The laundry did not charge Mn. Lubbers tor cleaning her sweater, ac cording to the police re port. V YARDS DRAINED Residents near the south city limits of Redding, Calif., dig trenches to drain their yards which MEDFORD, OREGON, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 1, WEATHER FORECAST: Intermittent rain, moderate to heavy at time;), through Saturday. Snow level near 6,000 feet. Low tonight naer 40. High Saturday near 50. Highest Yesterday 41 Lowest This Morning 39 Precip. to 10 a.m. Today 1.X3 Our Skies Tonight Sunset today 5:21 p.m. Sunrise tomorrow 7:25 a.m. Moonsel tomorrow 2:00 a.m. Full Moon Fell. 8 Highlight of the phenomena in the skies above this month will be the prominence and brll liance of the planet Mark, which now outshines all the stars but Sirus. While Retires as Head of Station Harold White retired today as superintendent of the Southern Oregon Branch Ex periment station here. He has been in government agricultural service for 47 years and was superintendent of the local station on Hanley rd. near Jacksonville for 18 years. Yesterday White turned in his final report on experi ment station work to the county court. In his report he said "It has been a pleasure to work for and with Jackson county to promote greater efficiency in the agricultural industry of tl.e area." All members of the county court praised White for his work here and unanimously passed a resolution commend ing White and regretting his retirement. White is succeeded by Tor ter Lombard, former assistant horticulturist in research al the Riverside, Calif., experi meln station. Dr. Lombard studied at Washington Slate university and Michigan Slate university. Macmillan Fiies To Italy for Talks Rome -'UPli- Prime Minister Harold Macmillan flew into Italy today for talks with leaders of one of the nations that tried to get Britain into the European Common Mar ket. Premier Aminlore Fanfani and Foreign Minister Attilio Piccior.i were at Leonardo da Vinci Airport to greet Mac mMInn and Lord Privy Seal Edward Heath, Britain's chief Common Market negotiator. It is Macmillan's first prob ing action to determine Brit ain's ultimate relationship with Europe now that France has barred it from the Com mon Market. Air Search Launched For Hermiston Men Salem-(liPI-An air search was launched early today for two Hcrmirton men feared down on a flight between Oregon and Nevada. Burley Redifer and Dale Abney took off from the White Horse ranch in the southeast corner of Orego i Tuesday lo fly to MiDennuii on the Nevada state line. REPRESENTATIVE QUITS Salem - il'PIi - J Richard Smurthwnitc Jr., Bcavcrton. retired Thursday after 27'. years as Oregon's veterans' employment representative. I Bills Designed To Protect Consumer Offered in Senate Salem (UPI Two consumer protection bills, one regulat ing retail installment sales, the other prohibiting retailers from placing a quantity limita tion on advertised merchan dise, were introduced today in the Senate. They were submitted by the Senate Committee on Finan cial Affairs. In the House a bill to per mit school districts to fur nish free textbooks to secon dary school pupils was intro duced al the request of the Oregon School Boards associ ation. At present, free textbooks are provided only through the eighth grade. Would List Charge The retail installment bill would require time purchase contracts to include a listing of the credit service charge in addition to the price of the item sold. The other measure would prohibit retail sellers from re fusing lo sell for the stated price. It also would prohibit a retail seller from advertis ing merchandise with a limi tation on quantity which any one ptirchasei may buy al the advertised price. A bill by Sen. Thomas Ma honey (D-Poriland) adds to the list of gubernatorial ap pointments subject to senate confirmation. The confirmation require ment would be extended to all members of the Public Welfare Commission, Tax Commission, Industrial Acci dent Commission, Highway Coivunision, Kacing Commis sion, Liquor Control Commis sion, Board of Agriculture, Fish Commission, Came Com mission, Board of Parole and Probation, supcrintendei.t of stale police, public utility commissioner, corporation commissioner, superintendent of banks, and real estate com missioner. Bill Permits Zoning A bill by Rep. Gerald Dct ering (R-Harrisburg) would permit zoning of land exclu sively for farm use. Such land California Man Arraigned Today Philip Dcuti rtunklc, 33, of Del Paso Heights, Calif., was arraigned before U. S. Com missioner Frank J. Van Dyke this morning on a charge of transporting a stolen car i across slate lines. Runkle waived the right to i a preliminary hearing and bail was set at $2,500. He was j taken to Portland this morn ing by tne U. a. marshal. Runkle was stopped by Ore gon state police Thursday dur ing a routine check. He did not have an operator's license and after further questioning indicated that the car had I been stolen in Fontana, Caiif. flooded during a heavy rainstorm Thursday. Many creeks and rivers in the area have gone over their banks. (UPI) 57th Year Price 10 Cents Tribune 1963 ,No. 271 would be assessed as farm land and not at the value of other potential use. A bill to create a depart ment of natural resources, as urged by Gov. Mark Hatifeld, was submitted by Rep. F. F Montgomery (R-Eugene).'- A bill submitted by Rep W. O. Kelsay (D-Roseburg) would raise resident hunting license fees from S4 to S5 and from S4 to S6 the fishing license fee. Queen Welcome Guest of Vancouver Vancouver, B.C. - WPD - A smiling but exhausted Queen Elizabeth, her flight lo the sunny Fiji Islands twice in terrupted by bad weather, to day was the unexpected but welcome guest of Vancouver. The Queen and her hus band, Prince Philip, appeared in good spirits when they ar rived at Vancouver Interna tional Airport at 9:55 p.m. Thursday despite the fact that their travel hazards had most of the British Commonwealth on tenterhooks. The royal couple's British Overseas Airway Corp. Boe ing 707 jetliner was about 800 miles over the Pacific Thurs day night when the pilot de cided to turn back because of high winds at Honolulu. ihe Queen was Scheduled to -stop briefly in Honolulu be fore proceeding to Australia, .New 7-alanH and the Fijt In lands. The turn - around was the second time the plane made an unscheduled landing in Canada. Petition Filed For Larry Shipley Portland 'L'PP A spokes man for the American Civil Liberties Union said today a petition has been tiled with he U.S. Supreme Court seek ing a review of the conviction of condemned slaver Larry West Shipley, 21. Shipley is scheduled to die in the gas chamber at Salem Feb. 28 for the slaying of Linda Jean Stevens, 16, Wil lamina. Charles Davis, Oregon ACLU chairman. ;ajH gtrtr. ncys also would probably seek a stay of execution, as it was doubtful the court would act nn the petition before the execution date. Alusa Names Four To Legislative Committee Salem-OT-Senate President Ben Musa (D-Thc Dalles) has named lour Senate members of the Legislative Counsel Committee. They arc Sens. Donald Hus band (R-Eugpncl, Thomas Ma honey (D Portland), Harry Boivm (D-Klamath Falls) and Robert Elfstrom (R-Salem). i ian Creek Rd. Landslide Blocks Happy Camp Area A storm which left consid erable amounts of rain in northern California caused a slide in the Happy Camp area, caused a power outage in the Murphy area and left 1.19 inches of rain in Medford yes terday. A slide across Indian Creek rd. north of Happy Camp, Calif., left as much as one- third of the population of the town cut off from places of employment, schools and stores today. The slide began gradually last night, after the area had been soaked by nearly con- slant rain since Monday. First one lane was blocked. By mid night last night the road was barely passable. This morning it was completely blocked. At the outer edge of the road is an abrupt 75-foot drop into Indian creek. An estimated 150 children were unable to attend school because of the slide, about a third of the enrollment of Happy Camp's schools. About 250 families live north of the slide. There are no stores in the area. Indian Creek road even tually comes out at O'Brien, Ore., on Highway 109, but portion of the road between the isolated families and O'Brien are blocked by snow, it was pointed out. Tree Blown Down A pine tree was blown across Highway 238 south of Murphy about 5 p.m. yester day, halting vehicle traffic be tween Grants Pass and the Williams-Provolt area. The tree fell about one hour after heavy winds started in much of Josephine county about 4 p.m. Electric and telephone fa cilities were interrupted pe riodically throughout the night in the Williams area. A portion of the West Fork rd. residences were without utili ties tills iliuiYiiiiK. High water was reported receding In Williams creek near the Williams store and elementary school this morn ing. The school grounds were flooded and most irrigation ditches overflowed last night. Rainfall in Medford totalled 1.19 inches yesterday. Be tween midnight and 10 o'clock this morning, .18 of an inch ieli. Cave Junction reported a fall of 4.45 inches in a 36 hour period ending thii morn ing. Crater Lake national park had 2.65 inches of precipita tion in the 24 hours ending at 8 o'clock this morning. Tne weather bureau fore cast moderate to heavy pre cipitation falling intermittent ly through Saturday for the area. Resumption of Nevada Nuclear Tests Ordered Washington-ITU - President Kennedy is ordering prepara tions for a resumption of un derground nuclear testing in Nevada following the break up of lt bun talks with Rus sia. Secretary of Slate Dean Rusk announced today. Kennedy temporarily sus pended Nevada test prepara tions last Saturday to facili tate U.S.-British-Soviet nu clear test ban talks. By United Press International Flood waters from a mas sive Pacific-bred storm poured through the streets of tha gambling city of Reno today and more floods, snows and torrential rains battered much of the West. The storm, an import from Hawaii, cut off Reno and Car son City, Nev., with flood wa ters. Southeast Idaho was threatened with its worst flood in History and hundreds of persons fled their homes slnni northern California rivers. 30-Block Area Flooded The swollen Truckee river surged out of its sand-bagged banks today at Reno, whera more than 30 square blocks were under water anrt tha muddy river ran three feet aecp past tne city hall, "Parking meters are slick ing out of Ihe water like a bunch of submarine periscopes coming out of a lake," one Reno resident said. Heavy rain drenched the up-stream watershed of tha eastern slope of t h e Sierra Nevada as the Truckee con tinued to rise. Officials said a crest was not in sight. Nearly two inches of rain fell at Reno. A Civil Defense spokesman oftimated the flood will bo more severe than the $4 mil lion 1955 flood which sent water swirling five feet deep around the gambling city's luxury hotels. It s just hopeless, said a city engineer. "We can't con tain it. Reno Virtually Isolated Reno was virtually isolat ed. Highways and railway tracks were blocked, the air port was closed and phono lines were restricted to emer gency calls, which took from two to four hours to complete. Carson City, Nev., was also ctit off by the flood. Hundreds of families were evacuated in Northern Cali fornia when swollen rivers menaced homes. At Alviso, Calif., waler was eight feet deep al poinls. A high tide on nearby San Francisco Bay threatened to increase the waler level. More than 200 persons were evacuated from the winc-riclt community of Napa, Calif., when the Napa river swept over its banks. Twenty-three major U.S. and California highways weio closed by snow slides and floods. All major roads lead ing from California to Nevada were closed. Negro Plans Suit To Enter School Jackson, Miss. -d'PU- Negro Dewey Greene Jr. said Thurs day night he would go into federal court iu an attempt to join James H. Meredith el the Urivcrj-ly cf Mis; sippi. Greene, 22-ycar-old former Navy weatherman, was turn ed down by Ole Miss" regis trar Robert Ellis Tiiursdni' about the same time Meredith, me scnool s lirsl Negro stu dent, went through the proc ess of registering for his sec ond semester. frrence here that he would appeal the university s JCtion to U.S. Distrclf Judge Sidney Mize, the Jurist who issued the order admitting Meredith under the instructions from the U.S. Supreme Court. Disorderly Conduct Charge Dismissed A charge of disorderly con duct against Rodney Franklin Davis, 23, Talent, was di.o. missed in Medford municipal court this morning by Judgo Justin Smith Jr. The complaint against Davis had been filed by Edward J. Bcrgcson, 32, of 251 Hcatty si., as a result of an alterca tion between the two men at a West 10th st. residence last Dec. 22. But Russia suddenly ended the three-power talks In New York Thursday. Negotiations will resume at the 18-nation Disarmament Conference jn Geneva Feb. 12. Rusk told a news confer ence today that the Soviet move apparently over tho same old issue of inspection, came as a surprise to tho United SUte.
